"Sanctimonious bastards. I would like to say it is the bloodline array but a few of our Sisters had run-ins with them over the last few millions of years. If not for the sect backing them, we suspect our Sisters would have been 'charged with unforgivable cris.'" War Maiden Katara spat when Lind told them what he found.
It seed the majority of the sect was arrogant but as advertised with their stated mission. They followed the path of treating the body as a crucible that had to be refined to perfection in battle.
They used flas to push themselves in various ways but they held up that fire was the ultimate motivation at the heart of cultivation. Lind had to smirk that for 6 elentals, that was not an incorrect statent.
"Well, the demon with them is the bigger problem. He is not a willing participant but his Art is impressive. Avoiding it will be difficult not only in staying here but if we wanted to remove them." He showed them the relative position of their opponents.
His weaving was fairly simple. It just attached a bit of his own Qi to the slave collars and thus went largely undetected. The slaves might feel sothing but they would likely chock it up to their owners fiddling with the refinent of the collars.
"You said they are looking for entertainnt?" Nana spoke up and Lind nodded grimly. He noticed both Chu and Katara were equally grim.
He was about to suggest so plans when Chu's eyes caught his own. The fire in them was clear as day and he nodded to her.
Before anyone could react, she vanished from all their senses!
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The world was a mix of darkness and light to her. Strength that she never dread of having before flowed in her limbs as she quietly slipped from one pile of debris to the next. Not even a puff of dust rose in her passing!
She could vaguely make out the streets, now covered in destroyed buildings and broken carriages, as she followed the scent of her mate. His weavings were of his soul and thus she could find them anywhere!
Happiness bubbled in her chest as she recalled his ascent to let her go! All of her life, Priestess Chu had been controlled.
She was raised to be the next creator beast kin for the village when the Jade Dream Sect ca and raided them. Her elder brother and father were taken first, followed by the Ancestor of her bloodline.
They were so few but they had been solace to each other!
When she gave birth, the only reason she was not taken was due to being pregnant, she knew her life was over.
Her ti in the care of the Jade Dream Sect was a nightmare. They had cut and used her to increase their own strength! The woman had laughed as Chu scread for rcy.
All the while, the voices of her bloodline mocked her weakness and assured her she deserved all the horrific treatnt she suffered. Those cursed voices were always there and she could never tap into her bloodline for power.
Her body always fought her!
When her eyes were destroyed, she had hoped the darkness would be near the end but it was only the beginning. It made it all so much worse!
She could barely hear after they mangled her ears. They took all they could to use but still leave her alive. It was all because her daughter was not old enough they said.
That was the only thing that kept her going. The longer she lived, the longer her daughter would be left in peace! A child could never match up to an adult.
The spirits seed to punish her for her efforts or maybe it was those voices in her race mory. Her daughter was progressing impossibly fast!
None of her family had made such progress in so short a ti!
It had taken her almost 40 years to reach the World Realm!
All hope died when the woman controlling her laughed and said they were going to collect her daughter. Chu would have wept if she had any tears left at that point.
The spirits then had rcy! A beast of imnse power freed her and saved her daughter! He took them from that cursed village and then healed her body to the point she could see again!
The light of the world returned! It was vague to a point after that but she recalled his eyes looking at her for permission. He was asking if he could attempt to save her life with his blood.
A beast knew what that ant! She knew he understood but also that it was the only way. She gave consent and then felt pain to dwarf all previous pain in her life.
She was being ripped apart but eventually, new strength flooded her veins. The previously mocking race mory voices were silenced and she was reborn! She saw the origin of her bloodline was fighting her mate!
She had crushed the spirit and the heady rush of instincts took over. She would freely admit her happiness was a large part of it too.
He had helped her master her instincts and then embraced the daughter she had left behind! Jur was safe!
Nana was not a rival to Chu, but she had protected and tried to hide Jur from the villagers. It was enough to allow her to stay. Besides, her daughter loved her as an aunt. Nana had made sure to tell Jur stories of Chu as well it seed.
Chu broke from her reverie as she slled fresh blood in the air. Her violet and erald eyes narrowed as the shadows seed to blend around her body. She was not using an Art, they simply obeyed her like her own limbs.
A flickering firelight ca from so stones ahead. The shadows were making the tortured shapes danced as the light reflected on the exposed tal and polished stone.
She found so wood shattered that may have been stairs in front of her ascending up a stone wall. She used it to quietly go up until she was looking down at the small camp.
She saw the n of the Holy Fla Sect eating happily from a large pot of soup. The pleasant scent of at and vegetables was clear but she noticed the small group of slaves were left to simply look on hungrily.
Only the demon seed to be eating but it rankled her nose even from her current position. It was rotten!
All of the slaves were familiar to her by condition alone. They had been beaten not as simple punishnt or training, but just because their masters could.
A quiet snarl rose in her throat.
She faded back into the shadows as scales hardened on her skin. It was ti to hunt!
She circled the camp before finding what she needed. While most cultivators moved beyond the needs of the body, disposing of food waste or other camp materials still remained. Many would burn or destroy it but others would use it as bait.
The group was hunting for any hidden survivors to enslave so the scent of food would draw out the desperate.
They had created a spot to beco bait once they were done eating! A foolish person would take the chance at it too.
She did not sll anything like other people but she now waited, still as all the debris, for her first target.
The moons were obscured by the clouds in the night sky as the fire was tamped down. The scrap of boot on stone ca to her but she sneered as another was above her trying to act as guard.
The overhang was likely once a higher floor but was now wide open to the sky. She extended her claws and swiftly flipped up behind a shadowed man. He was the one that had demon blood in his scent too.
Chu struck his throat with ease. His flesh shattered like it was liquid. He had no chance to scream or call out as he no longer had a throat to use. Her blood soaked hand did not stop as she quickly crushed his dantian as well.
Her husband had taught her so might prepare a warning for their companions by triggering their dantian. It could also kill an assailant before they knew what happened.
She leaped into the air as the other man was dumping the cauldron of leftovers to be bait. He barely saw the world darken before his head was split open like a ripe lon.
The viscera flew everywhere but Chu only smiled! The power flowed in her veins but she cald herself. There were 6 more targets. She had to be swift.
She quickly stored away the corpses and then used her blue fla to clean up the blood. She then moved to a different spot that was a hollow created by several slaps leaning on each other.
No human could slip in there but her body was far more flexible.
She did not have to wait long before voices ca. Four of her targets had co. She pondered before a smile ca to her.
She slipped around in the shadows until she was at the camp. The remaining 2 were standing guard over the slaves. She saw the demon flinch but he said nothing as she flew by like a blur.
Both n were cut from head to groin like a hot knife through butter! No blood fell as their wounds had been cauterized yet no heat ca from her limbs! The lessons her husband taught her were ingenious.
The precise control let her attain the desired effects without revealing herself!
She stored away the dead n while none of the slaves even knew what had happened. Their eyes were poor but the demon looked right at her.
His eyes were a virulent yellow but full of fire. A smile blood on his face before he gently lay back on the ground.
The 4 ca back to camp screaming for their companions but they were already dood. The ti for hiding was long past!
Chu lit up the sky with blue flas as she revealed her partially transford body. Tiger ears and fur intertwined with the black scales of a dragon! Her massive fangs were barely registered before she ripped the dantians out of 2 of the n with her tail and fist respectively as her neck grew to snap off the head of a third.
Only a breath of ti and 3 of the n were dead!
Shadows suddenly moved and pierced him in the head, heart, and dantian all at once!
She stored them all away. They would make for excellent nutrition for her and Jur later.
She then turned to the slaves but repressed her burning desire to feast. Her husband was kind. He did not kill unless he had to.
She collected the slaves and marched back to her camp. He would know what to do. She was humming to herself as the previously active camp of the Holy Fla Sect was deserted with only the wails of broken n left in her wake.
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