Naturally, the festivities ca to a screeching halt when Li Ling burst into the area, his aura unveiled right from the start as his seemingly affable expression barely concealed his killing intent inside. The mont he appeared, his eyes locked onto Bai Ruyi without fail and his scattered killing intent seed to have a focus as it locked onto her sharply.
For that matter, Bai Ruyi froze in place, shivering internally as her face changed greatly. She could truly sense so sort of mortal danger to her, that if sothing didn’t change about this situation, Li Ling would well and truly kill her regardless of the Heavenly Oath!
Having the Core Disciple standing by her gave her no confidence; she didn’t even consider him fodder herself. The entire point of this was to test Li Ling’s boundaries and his bottom line, but it seed the test had backfired!
Thinking rapidly, Bai Ruyi sent a voice transmission to Li Ling. "Hmph, it took you so long to get back here. I was almost about to be married off to one of these fools!"
Li Ling, who was about to take a step to unleash a massacre, paused and tilted his head with confusion and amusent. "Oh?"
Bai Ruyi maintained a casual deanor as she sat, but her heart was thumping crazily. "Indeed. I did not organize any of this nonsense; they just did it themselves after I manipulated them a bit, and now they want to face off against you."
"Heh, then why did you manipulate them? What exactly did you tell them to make them glare at like this?" Li Ling asked with a sneer as he folded his arms, making Bai Ruyi pause.
"Just a heavily edited version of how we t. It allowed to blend in and seamlessly make use of the resources of the Holy City, but who knew your people were so out of control that a little bit of my charm was enough to make them crazy."
She quickly threw the bla away, completely wiping her hands off this group. She was determined to establish herself as much a spectator of these events as Li Ling, and even possibly, a victim.
anwhile, Li Ling maintained an amused yet cold smile as he scanned Bai Ruyi.
｢Na: Bai Ruyi
Status: Nervous, Insecure.
Age: 20/620
Slaughter Points Value: 200
Cultivation Base: Core Formation level 1 (40%) || Body Foundation Perfection (100%)
Cultivation thods: Joyous Union Sutra || Refined Maiden Body Art
Remarks: The first wife of the future Slaughter God, Bai Ruyi’s favor and Qi luck surge higher day by day as you grow stronger. However, she is incredibly insecure about her current situation, knowing that you are the source of her success but not having any guarantee that you will take her along due to your ’enigmatic’ nature. As such, she aims to test you using various thods to draw a bead on your true thoughts and personality.｣
Li Ling raised an eyebrow and felt truly amused this ti, because he finally understood why this woman did all this nonsense.
Indeed, the Infinite Slaughter System was right in stating that she was similar to him. If he were in her shoes, systemless and told that his chance of rising to the top lay with her instead, he would not feel comfortable nor secure.
After all, he was a tagalong, what value did he bring to the table? For cultivators who lived in the dog-eat-dog world, the emphasis of innate value was very stark and calculated from the mont of introduction.
Bai Ruyi knew that Li Ling was not enthralled by her or any part of her. He was not a slave to his desires, but he did not shirk them, and she just so happened to be his type, so he kept her around.
So what about the day Li Ling lost interest in her or severed his seven desires and six emotions? Her last bit of use would vanish at that mont, so her worries made sense.
"Li Ling!!"
A voice full of youthful energy and majesty called out, snapping Li Ling from his thoughts as he turned to face the so-called Core Disciple who stood near Bai Ruyi as if she had already beco his property.
The fellow was a tall and well-built man, looking to be in his early adulthood, with waist-long black hair tied in three sections to keep it straight and sharp green eyes that scanned Li Ling with clear derision.
In his white and gold that was slightly more ornate than what Li Ling himself wore, the fellow did fit the bill of a ’superior’ to Li Ling, and this was buttressed when he released his fourth realm Blood Spirit manifesting and taking his form beside him.
Li Ling raised his eyebrows, because he knew about this special feature of the Blood Asura Descent at the Fourth Realm.
When it ca to general knowledge, the Six Paths Demon Sect didn’t really try to hide anything, allowing disciples to get ready ahead of ti, like a university encouraging students to read ahead by giving them a course manual.
At the Third Realm of body cultivation, which Li Ling would be activating soon, he would transform his Blood Aura into Blood Power, with a similar theory and enhancent akin to Dharma Power.
At the Fourth Realm, Blood Power transforms into Blood Spirit, gaining spirituality and partial sentience, with great power that could now affect the spirit of its foes.
Of course, it was not as powerful as a Nascent Soul in this regard. However, what made Blood Spirits very notable was that they had a unique feature of intimidation!
There was always this term ’flashing or unveiling one’s aura’ but that was just a careless emission of power or energy. If the other person beca fearful, frozen, or even died, that was due to their own weakness.
It was akin to seeing a speeding car pass by in a flash while on the sidewalk and being scared to death by the sudden gust of wind.
The Fourth Realm intimidation, which all body cultivators regardless of their specific technique could utilize, was a direct utilization of aura to affect the mind and spirit of the target.
It was akin to the previous speeding car, but this ti it was charging directly at you. In that situation, even if it pulled away at the last second, which was the purpose of intimidation since it was designed to weaken and not kill, it would be strange if you didn’t jump away.
This fellow was unabashedly unleashing his Blood Spirit at this ti in preparation to use intimidation on Li Ling should he say anything awry, and his base aura alone caused everyone here to feel choked.
｢Na: Deng Long
Status: Confident, Disdainful.
Age: 128/1350
Slaughter Points Value: 10,500
Cultivation Base: Core Formation level 5 (97%) || Sarira early-stage (88%)
Cultivation thods: Yang Burning Plunder || Blood Asura Descent
Remarks: Deng Long is a clanless cultivator in the Six Paths Demon Sect with lacking talents and will likely be eliminated from the ’disciple’ rank and pushed into the ’elder’ path soon, but is unwilling. He has begun cultivating a demonic thod that allows him to reverse plunder the combined yin and yang from yin-sucking demoness, and has targeted Bai Ruyi due to her status as the Saintess of the Boundless Joy Sect.｣
Li Ling was left speechless as he glanced at Bai Ruyi, feeling that indeed, this woman was blessed with luck. If it wasn’t for the fact that he, Li Ling, was not magnanimous enough to be cucked, even as a joke, he would leave her to her fate and see how she would save herself.
"What is the aning of this? I co back after fighting for the sect to find that you are coveting my wife? Do you think the sect rules are a joke?" Li Ling took the upper hand imdiately, not wanting to waste too much ti.
The faces of those here beca ugly, because Li Ling was basically ’casting his ult’ in the first round of exchanges!
No matter their backing or bravado, the key to their confidence in doing this lay in the fact that Li Ling was a fellow demonic disciple and would likely demand a battle out of anger due to their collective flawed ntality.
It was like having beef with soone as an adult and going to point at their face and threaten them, telling them to watch their backs.
You expected the fellow to threaten you back, talk so big talk, ignore you, or even explode on the spot to throw fists, but not that he would call the police and take you to court for assault!
Buddy, why go so far for sothing small?!
Deng Long didn’t seem to care, his imperious expression curling upward into a sneer. "Go ahead and summon the Binding Blood Wing fellows, I haven’t broken any sect laws."
Li Ling frowned, because indeed, whether the fellow had interfered with his property was up to discretion. So could argue that by organizing this banquet and aiming to solicit Li Ling to let go of Bai Ruyi, he had already interfered.
Others could also argue that he hadn’t done anything and rely interacting with Bai Ruyi positively could not be construed as seizure.
It seed that for this, Li Ling would have to sort it out the good old-fashioned way!
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