Chapter 21 This master is still a mortal (1/2)

The pale man looked at Wang Ling's group retaliate. His mouth curved into a sinister smile. He was going to have fun torturing these people.

”Your father's has been fighting with our Demon Blood Cult. Your father has continuously slain our Saints and killed our disciples who went out to temper themselves. I may not have the chance to kill you today but I will take your four limbs and deliver it in front of Wang Shu Qing and let him feel despair for ever opposing the Cult.”

The pale man said with a dense enough hatred to pierce the heavens. Their Demon Blood Cult had been standing for three hundred years, they held power on the southern edges of the Blazing Wing Continent.

The Azure Skies Kingdom was at their mercy and just until twenty years ago, they were the kings, the rulers of these parts. That is until General Wang Shu Qing came. Slowly, as years pass, Wang Shu Qing has been steadily eradicating their forces while training his own.

Today, the power of the Demon Blood Cult is only a mere speck of what it used to be. Wang Shu Qing became the greatest and most hated enemy of the Demon Blood Cult.

However, they know they can't match Wang Shu Qing with raw power. They don't even know his real strength for he will kill anyone who challenges him with one strike. At the least, Wang Shu Qing's strength is not any lower than a [Grand Saint]stage cultivator.

Without the strength to kill or oppose Wang Shu Qing. They came to Azure Skies Kingdom to take one of his children hostage. They were devil cultivators so acts like these was not unnatural.

As soon as the pale man got ready, he went ahead and went for the kill. His strength has been temporarily elevated to half-step nascent soul realm, it would be easy to kill these worms in front of him.

He cannot fail. They had already sacrificed five pinnacle-sky root stage cultivators, if they fail now the sacrifices put into this would become meaningless.

The Blood Devil Sacrifice Formation needed the blood and soul of at least five pinnacle-sky root stage cultivator and at least a hundred blood and soul. They can't win if they fought head on because the protectors have two energy palace stage cultivators.

They sacrificed five of their own from the start. But their sacrifices will not be in vain if they can secure the target.

The group of devil cultivators started rushing Wang Ling's group. They were split in groups as they had their own fights. The two weakest devil cultivators targeted Wang Ling while the others went to face the remaining pinnacle-sky root stage protectors.

Wang Ling held his sword in front of him and kept his senses sharp. In front of him were two early-sky root stage cultivator who had their strength buffed to middle-sky root stage. The two devil cultivator had a wide smile on their faces, their eyes were red.

”I don't know who you people are but I will not die or get taken by you.”

As he spoke the two men coming for him covered a lot of distance. They stood 'five meters' away from him and brandished their swords against Wang Ling. Their swords rose up like a torrential wave and descended like thunder.

Their swords were fast, ordinary people under sky root stage would be unable to dodge or block such a strike. Their faces turned ferocious as delighted smiles appeared on their faces.

”Give me your arm you filthy shit!”

One of them roared. His sword carried sword intent. He was a level-1 master in terms of swordsmanship.

Hong!

With a fierce glare, Wang Ling made his moved. The sword that was in front of him came alive.

Slash!

”Piercing Wave!” he uttered in a low voice. He executed the technique and immediately, two of his qi pillars was used up.

Ting!

Wang Ling moved like water and thrusted his sword against one of the oncoming blade. His sword met with the opposition and as if a wave meeting a wall, the sword that met his had come to a stop. Every forced it carrier dissipated as if it had never been executed.

He had managed to stop one of their swords but Wang Ling has no time to celebrate. Another one came down upon him, Wang Ling didn't dawdle and moved in to neutralize the blade of his opponent.

His sword was currently occupied so he only has his left hand. The sword descending upon him was fast but as if turning his whole body into a weapon, Wang Ling's hands became a weapon of its own.

His body was still unrefined and his muscles has yet to completely reach the pinnacle of body refinement. He can't say that his body was true weapon but he was a master of the sword.

A sword master can use anything as a sword. An ordinary stone by the road side, a bamboo branch, and of course their fleshy body.

Wang Ling wrapped his whole left hand with sword intent and became a sword of his own. The Ocean's Lull gave him sight of his surrounding so he managed to keep every blind spot disappear.

Wang Ling used his left hand to parry the sword of the other devil cultivator but suffered a backlash because his spirit qi was not enough to act as a proper shield. The vile and dangerous energy in the devil cultivator's sword travelled inside his body.

A piercing pain entered his body which almost made him puke blood.

Bang!

The sword was parried at the cost of his hands almost being ripped apart. The hand holding the sword of the devil cultivator was blown away. Wang Ling did not missed this kind of opening and began to move.

He twisted his body and moved with his sword. As if he was dancing, he spun and used that momentum to make his sword move faster. His sword was akin to lightning, and quickly aimed for the neck.

”Tidal Wave!” he uttered in a low voice once again. Wang Ling's qi pillar began to be drained. Shortly after, four of his qi pillars containing both supreme spirit qi and hellish qi became empty. The essence of slaughter and destruction made his sword all the more dangerous and deadly.

With four qi pillars backing his sword, its sharpness rose to another level.

After reaching consummation, his mastery over this technique was already perfect without a hint of flaw. He even added his own comprehension to this killing sword.

What used to be a vertical slash became a multi-directional killing technique.

Wang Ling's sword came from below. The devil cultivator's eyes showed fear. He exchanged gazes with Wang Ling and inside the eyes of this young man he saw the true terror of killing intent.

Deep as the abyss and deadly as the devil. The devil cultivator's heart turned fell as he gazed upon those eyes. His face went pale and felt death quickly approaching. The devil cultivator backed away instinctively, but Wang Ling's sword was fast.

Slash!

A crimson arc formed as Wang Ling's sword cut the carotid artery of the devil cultivator.

At the moment, he was a mere early-earth root stage cultivator.

Taking the blessing of the devil buff he had received, Wang Ling was a still a mere middle-earth root stage cultivator. However, he's a master of the sword.

His cultivation was lacking but his sword mastery had reached level-4 [Sword Heart].

A man who achieved the pinnacle of swordsmanship possesses strength that can split the heavens and cleave the earth. It does not matter whether you are his cultivation is weak, if he has the mastery of swords he can use it as a supplement his deficiencies.

Wang Ling was a master of the sword. His body was not the same as before but his dao was unchanged.

There was four known levels of sword mastery, level-1 [Sword Intent], level-2 [Concealment], level-3 [One with the sword], and lastly level-4 [Sword Heart]. There was another level but that level of mastery was above the realm.

Wang Ling watched as the devil cultivator clasped his neck and did his best to stop the bleeding. However, Wang Ling's sword did not only contained sword intent alone as it also carried hellish qi that came from hell.

The hellish qi invaded the inside of the devil cultivator's body and began running amok. The essence of slaughter entered his body and started destroying every vein inside. The devil cultivator's body convulsed as his meridians was invaded by the vile and dangerous hellish qi.

This sight was caught by the other people fighting. The devil cultivator drop on the ground with a thud. He was dead without a sliver of a doubt.

Wang Ling managed to draw the first blood of the battle. However, he knew that killing another one would be extremely difficult. He only managed to kill one of them because they took his skills lightly.

After this scene is ingrained in their eyes and mind, the devil cultivators will begin to be warry of his movements. Also, the two devil cultivators just now carried no intention of killing him.

They needed him alive. If they kill him, their sect is done for. The anger of Wang Shu Qing will surely make their sect crumble to dust. Adding this facts to his exquisite utilization of skills and experience, Wang Ling exploited the holes they presented him with.