Chapter 233: 233 - Make it slow and painful

Soon after settling everything with Ruyan, Qingyi placed her in Ruxue’s mind world before heading back towards the mansion of the cult’s young lord.

Qingyi spent the night cultivating, stabilizing his cultivation base before heading out into the courtyard of the mansion early in the morning.

A small caravan had been prepared, with supplies for a hunt that would last for months, but he knew full well that this hunt wouldn’t last that long.

The Forbidden Forest, as its name implied, was a forbidden zone in the Deadlands.

Even cultivators of the Rebirth Realm could encounter difficulties there, with reports even of the existence of a mythical beast from the Transcendence Realm, from the time before the Great Demon War.

Qingyi didn’t know much about this beast, not beyond the fact that it was a giant fox with a pure white coat, a being that had battled the leader of the demon cult many times over the last few thousand years.

Since it hadn’t shown itself for centuries, everyone was pretty sure it was dead.

After thinking for another brief moment, Qingyi shifted his gaze to Xue Mo, who was now surrounded by three other individuals with very distinct shapes.

A woman of little beauty but a voluptuous body, a large, burly man and finally, a small, thin young man, who barely looked more than sixteen years old.

The only thing that united them were their blood-red eyes, black hair and sharp horns.

"Oh... is this your new servant, big brother? He looks..." The woman stopped her own words, thinking of what word would be adequate to describe Qingyi’s current form. "Acceptable."

"He hasn’t proven himself yet, but I’m sure he will." Xue Mo said as he turned around.

"Thank you for your words, young master Xue Mo, I promise not to let you down." Qingyi bowed respectfully, but the response he received was not what he expected.

"I didn’t give you permission to call my name, worm." Xue Mo stopped his steps, casting a sidelong glance at Qingyi as he spat on the ground.

He was no longer in a good mood.

The handsome young man just stood there, unable to suppress the bitterness in his heart.

He couldn’t wait to finally be able to tear that son of a bitch apart.

’Ah... patience, just a little longer.’ He sighed internally, narrowing his eyes towards Xue Mo’s other brothers.

They were all in the realm of rebirth, but Qingyi didn’t even take them into account.

They had no lineage or constitution, their power was mediocre, as was their foundation; built with expensive resources, not effort and talent.

Qingyi would feel very disappointed if he needed more than a single blow to get rid of the four of them, even though they could become problematic figures if they fought side by side with Xue Mo.

It wasn’t long before the caravan set off towards the forbidden forest.

Qingyi was quite surprised to see Fatty Heidu join the caravan, seeming to use some kind of concealment technique to avoid being noticed as he mingled with the other servants.

Qingyi wanted to approach him to ask how things were going, but decided to avoid suspicion and just followed Xue Mo silently.

The journey lasted about two weeks, another two days being used to find a suitable place for hunting, where a large camp was set up, incense sticks to summon spirit beasts placed around it.

Qingyi soon found himself with young master Xue Mo and the other sons of the demon cult leader, watching the horizon animatedly from under a flying platform.

"Looks like you’re out of luck this time, Xue Mo, there don’t seem to be any beasts within hundreds of kilometers, hahaha." The burly man laughed as he opened a bottle of liquor, downing it in a single gulp.

"You just don’t have the patience, brother." Xue Mo smiled coldly, his eyes focusing on a small cloud of dust on the horizon.

"A corrupt scarlet-haired boar... and a very big one." The voluptuous woman spoke, her red eyes glowing softly.

"And it seems to be chasing someone." The youngest of the brothers commented, but no one there cared.

They were more interested in the beast.

"First stage of the rebirth realm, it’ll be a good appetizer." Young master Xue Mo laughed as his body was launched into the air, quickly breaking the sound barrier and cutting through the distance of kilometers in a few seconds.

The moment it sensed Xue Mo’s Qi, the beast stopped its pursuit of what appeared to be a group of merchants, looking up.

"Die, worm." Xue Mo drew his sword, a sickly crimson aura taking over his blade as his body collapsed, spinning in the air and cutting everything around him.

An explosion ripped through the entire forbidden forest, a crater hundreds of meters across opening up as a cloud of dust rose to cloud height.

The shockwave from the attack was so powerful that it knocked down more trees from kilometers away, sweeping away the forest’s most fragile vegetation.

From this cloud of dust, the figure of young master Xue Mo rose, carrying the decapitated head of the spirit beast.

His cold, contemptuous eyes soon focused on the panting merchants, who looked at him with intense gratitude.

But this gratitude didn’t last long, the perception of the patterns on the clothes Xue Mo was wearing quickly sweeping that away.

That was a demon lord’s son!

The leader of the group of merchants gathered his courage before stepping forward. "Y-young master, we were just taking a shortcut and ended up getting lost, please forgive this little-"

"This is the demon cult’s private hunting zone, no one is allowed to hunt here apart from us. To be here, you must be an illegal hunter." Xue Mo interrupted the merchant.

"N-no, not at all, we’re just merchants taking a shortcut, we would never dare to hunt illegally on the cult’s land!" The merchant tried to explain himself, but Xue Mo didn’t care.

It was obvious that these guys were merchants, they didn’t even have the power to hunt beasts there.

But Xue Mo didn’t want to be a fair judge, he just wanted a reason to kill and if he didn’t have one, he would kill without.

Turning to Qingyi who was approaching with his other brothers, Xue Mo smiled.

"Show your worth to these vermin, servant. You have spiritual roots of fire and ice, right? Make it slow and painful, kill the children first, make sure the adults are watching." He ordered Qingyi.