" Shouldn't you be asking who is you, what do you mean by what ? .
I said this and knelt down and picked my Token from the ground and played with it in front of his face, his eyes were squinting at me, or maybe he was just finding difficulty in keeping them open, after all his injuries weren't trivial no matter how I looked at him .
Yet he was still able to yell like this just now and even speak back to me, saying :
Since you are a Solid Rock Fist disciple and seemed quite talented as well, a Monster in fact, I never heard of anyone in that place being able to wield the Sword like that, but I would still urge you to let me go .
Looking at him still talking so courageously even though he is like this and completely at my mercy, I couldn't help but size him up and down a few times, he seem to be aware of his own situation as well, coughing another mouthful of blood almost spraying most of it on me, he said :
Don't look at my current state, but you need to look at who I got to support me, I'm the 6th guardian and the 5th disciple of Master Lin Shu, kill me and my Master will hunt you down even if you went to the underworld to hide, even your monstrous talent won't be able to help you much against the strange methods of my Master .
" Oh, your Master would hunt me down if I killed you, how will he be able to know that I the one who have killed you ? .
We the disciples are of great value to our Master, he wouldn't allow us to leave him without some tight arrangements of course, you kill me and the bead that Master used to store a breath of my Vitality in it will shatter .
Hearing this I couldn't help but pause my thoughts about killing him slightly, I didn't understand the work of that bead he mentioned completely, but I was able to tell that it should be working like a monitoring device, focused on monitoring the life and death of the so-called disciples .
" Oh, so the moment I kill you, he will know instantly, why would that scare me, I want to see how will that old blind Master of yours be able to find me after killing you .
Storing the Token in my pouch, I directly appeared in front of that guy with another sword that I have withdrawn, looking to be finally ready to send him off to hell .
His squinting eyes narrowed even more and seemed to be quite shifty, it seem that there was something he wanted to say, but whether to actually say it or not, was what troubled him, I pulled of the crow mask of his and under the mask, I saw a pale face like that of a corpse .
The eyes had black and blue marks swarming his face, under his eyes, black circles accumulated all the way to his nose, the guy looked like a monster more than a human, the air around that guy also seemed weird after he had his face being shown .
Launching my enhanced vision, I saw that there were dark energy beginning to swarm that guy from all directions, being more than familiar with that energy now, I was able to tell that this was resentment and it seemed to have been coming after that guy for some time and had finally caught up with him .
No, no, no, put the mask back, I need to put the mask back, arrrrgggghhh .
I saw that after the first wisp of that energy sunk into his body, he began screaming like a madman, then his face was filled with agony as more and more of that thick energy of resentment went inside his body .
The mask seemed to have masked him before somehow, him wanting it back so eagerly is a testimony of it being mostly correct, but why would I hand it back, wasn't my initial intention is to seek justice for all the lives he took, the resentment of those who had hurt came to seek justice, that's the perfect retribution .
As more and more resentment sunk into his body, his Realm began to fell, with my eyes venturing deep into his body, I saw the terrifying face of resentment, the smoke seemed to be echoes of ghosts and these ghosts were actually devouring that guy's Liver and Spleen .
Devouring it like absorbing every ounce of Blood Qi and vitality in them, they left these two organs completely shriveled, I didn't understand what was going on, but witnessing this scene left me shocked with horror and was enough to give me chills and soak me completely in sweat .
I directly stopped looking into this and took a few steps away from that guy, afraid to be tainted with that resentment, the cries of the guy in front of me didn't stop, it continue for a long time, for more than 4 minutes or so the cries of this guy weren't stopping .
Only after he seemed to no longer have the strength to cry out, did he finally become silent, but his horror stricken face didn't dissipate, his body also began to shake slightly with each second, then the most drastic change happened .
His obscure aura from before which didn't allow me to know his realm began to be released, no it's more accurate to say that his realm fall, this guy was actually a middle stage Organ Quenching Realm in the 4th layer, but his aura now was that of one at the third layer .
And it hadn't stopped falling, 2nd layer, 1st layer, after that he coughed a big mouthful of blood, then his aura continued to fall and his body shake even stronger than before, with each passing second, that guy seemed to be losing all that he had worked for his entire life .
After a quarter of a minute, his aura finally dissipated completely, he was no longer a Martial Arts Practitioner, he rejoined the normal people ranks and was even in a worse situation than them, after the wisps of resentment seemed to have finished crippling him, they seemed to have not become satisfied with what they already did .
Next came another terrifying retribution for that guy and the reason behind my own opinion regarding the rest of this guy's life being even worse than normal people, that guy's skin shriveled like a dead tree trunk, his eyes sunk in his face.
Before he looked like a dead corpse, but he was still looking youthful, now, I don't know what his previous age was, but his current age wasn't anything like what he looked like now, his face, body, all shriveled and shrunk as if he reached more than 70 years of old in no more than half a minute .
Just as I was wondering if the sword in his chest would kill him now, the sword was pulled out of him and actually it shot directly at me, I didn't know whether was I been targeted by the resentment or was this merely a mistake, but no matter I needed to catch the sword or else it would be troublesome to look for it later .
The sword that was flying towards me seemed to have actually changed it was much faster than before and as it got closer to me I was able to see that it had a unique aura and smell to it, almost identical to the unique aura of Resentment .
But realization hit me too late, I already used Dragon-Tiger Transformation and enhanced my body physical strength to the maximum and was already holding the sword hilt, but I once again underestimated the current weight of the sword and oversitmated my strength .
Just as I held the sword, I was directly launched backwards together with it and without using Life-Severing, I would have shared the same fate as that guy from before, but just before I got smashed into a rock, I was able to disperse the strength acting on the sword and regain balance with my back touching the rock .
But dispersing the remaining strength was easy, dealing with the new cool-toned violet colored blade, just as I was thinking of how to deal with the resentment energy trying to contaminate my sword, the red color and the dark energy were actually mixed together into this weird new color .
But that wasn't important, what was important, is the fact that this new violet energy began to seep into my body due to the link between me and the sword, I felt as if my body was thrown into an icy cave, but the feeling was only for less than a second .
Yet it was enough to make me go completely mad from fright and the negative and dangerous feelings that this energy actually contained, but just as this second felt like an entire lifetime, my ultimate trump card came and dispersed all my worries .
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I also got to know that the resentment in my sword wasn't the same resentment that dealt with that guy, but actually the resentment contained in this Blood Sucking Sword, that resentment belonged to all those who were sucked dry and absorbed by this sword, probably those that fell victims for that Evil Blood Pool Array as well .
The Panel removed the the resentment that tried to corrode my soul and body, but it was not able to do anything to the resentment that was now awakened, I also didn't have a clue on what to do, all I was able to tell from the messages of the Panel was that the resentment in that Evil Blood Pool Array was going to invade both me and the sword everytime I use it .
Forcing me to be even more careful when and where to use it from now on, even though I might have done nothing wrong myself, the heavy resentment that would come along with the use of the technique would be enough to be suspected and labeled as a sinister person .
I can already see people frowning at my mere appearance, not to mention that I would very much be wanted due to this, so from now on I will need to find new methods or enhance my strength in some other way .
But it's not like all the news were bad, I still benefited a lot from this small adventure, my bones aching at the mention of this isn't one of them, but one of them is related to the increase in strength that the resentment brought up .
The resentment cursed energy can actually corrode soul and devour energy, meaning that now my Life-Severing attack can corrode the souls and bodies of my enemies, even though I didn't know how strong my attack will be, but I believe that it will be quite strong .
But speaking of strength, I wonder what to say or do regarding my increased strength, no matter how I did try to explain it, reaching the 5th Layer of Flesh Tempering in two days can only be said to be unheard-of, so what to do now .
Kill me .
As I was thinking of a solution for my own predicament, a hoarse voice filled with despair sounded from behind, turning back I saw that the guy that was still being swarmed by the wisps of resentment was actually still alive .
I couldn't believe my eyes, thinking about the reason they continued to keep him alive after all that they did to him, I thought that they were wanting me to send him on his way, so hearing his plead for me to end his life, I shook my head and took unhurried step forward towards where he was .
It was merely a step forward, yet the wisps of resentment were like a hungry wolf pack that saw someone stealing the prey they worked hard to get and from right under their eyes, the resentment suddenly flared up against me and become quite aggressive, I seemed to have triggered them by my actions .
But this at least confirmed that my thoughts are wrong, they didn't want me to put an end to him or anything like that, it seemed that they had more sinister plans for that guy, thinking that this was a retribution for his evil actions and whatever his fate was, he had completely earned it, I decided to set back and watch .
But the Resentment Wisps didn't seem to like my meddling in just now, so it directly labeled me as its enemy as well and began swarming me, but just as my back was turning cold from fear .
My instincts kicked in and urging the Blood Sucking Sword by using Life-Severing secret technique, the only ultimate move that I had .
Then I saw one of the strangest things that I had witnessed today, the crying ghosts that formed these corporal wisps of resentment and after they wanted to devour me whole just now, were actually getting out of my way and was evading me like I was some sort of plague to them .
Seeing them parting way for me like this made me question my own existence, but then I couldn't help but look at my sword and my body which was encased with the violet energy of both the resentment and the Blood Sucking Sword Energy and my doubts were directly cleared up .
If those guys were akin to shadows, then I would be undoubtedly the Sun to them, threatening to burn them the moment they come too close to me, the sword in my hand can corrode the souls now after all and even if they were tormented souls and nothing more, it's still lethal for them to approach me .
Witnessing this scene, my confidence rose up again and I began walking towards the guy who was still swarmed by resentment, I saw that the resentment ran away directly as I reached him, he once again let out a hoarse cry telling me to end his misery .
The moment he asked me this, the resentment wisps tried to swarm him again, but due to my existence, they stopped going any close to him or me, if he had some of his sanity, he might have been shocked speechless, but now he was engrossed in his own misery to care much about what was happening around him .
I was also finally able to guess the intention behind the actions of the resentment wisps here, they wanted this guy to actually live, but as an old and weak person from here on out, wanting to make him suffer even more cruel fate than currently .
For somone who had been quite strong to finally lose all his strength and vigor, then be forced to live a weak and sickly life, this can only be described as cruel fate, that what the resentment actually wanted to do .
It also gave me a glimpse to how I can solve the resentment here, I seeing the state of this guy, I couldn't help but ask :
" Do you regret your actions ? .
Maybe the question forced his brain and body to react, but I saw him raising his head and looking at me and saying weakly :
I haven't done anything wrong to regret .
I felt the resentment around us screech as the answer was given, I too couldn't help but shake my head and thing that some people are still stubborn to admit their mistakes even in the face of death .
" You said that my talent is monstrous before, but you guys are even more cruel than monsters, all this you are seeing is the result of your own evil actions, yet you still stubbornly refuse to take responsibility, you need to suffer even more it seemed .
" Sadly, it seem that I still can't bear to witness you suffer anymore than this, so I will send you on your way then .
I swung the sword and cut him horizontally, I thought he would die directly, but I then saw him smiling coldly one last time and saying :
You are the one who caused me to suffer like this, my Master would not let you go, he will avenge me sooner or later, I sacrifice my Blood and Soul to mark you with my endless resentment, ha.....haa .
Then his body laid there completely dead and motionless, the resentment still hadn't dissipated still, just as I leaned down slightly towards his body to inspect him, I saw that a drop of ink directly sunk into my forehead .
That was his so-called resentment, I was alarmed at first, but since the Panel didn't seem to react to it, I calmed down and thought that it shouldn't be harmful for my body, I will inspect it later, I removed the yellow pouch on that guy's waist and inspected his body, seeing if there was anything that I had missed .
But after finding nothing more, I directly retreated from around him, the resentment finally devoured his body and not even the bones were left of him, seeing this, I once again sighed to myself and sat down crosslegged on the ground .
After 3 minutes, I woke up from my meditation feeling quite alarmed, time was running out, I kept on getting stalled by too many things to count that I had completely forgotten about my appointment with Li Fu .
The resentment had disappeared, but this area seemed to have become desolate, but I didn't have much time to think about it, I directly tore through the woods and even with my headache barely being lifted, I still used all of my strength to head towards the place we came through .
Hopefully I will be able to reach there on time, hopefully Li Fu would not lose confidence in me being able to come back after all this time .