Dual Cultivation: I Summon Villainesses of Mythic Era

Chapter 122: Devours everything in your path

*Lower Realm, Blue Star City*

The sun was barely rising over Blue Star City, spreading orange hues on the dusty tiled roofs and the still calm streets of the merchant quarter. In the narrow room of the Traveler’s Rest inn, Xuan BaiShe stood near the window, adjusting his Sage monocle with methodical precision.

His jade face, of perfect paleness, betrayed none of the emotions from the previous night. Beside him, Xuan Ling was still wrapped in the linen sheets, her golden gaze fixed on her brother’s back with an intensity where a new dependence and residual mistrust mingled.

BaiShe slowly turned toward her, his hands joined behind his back in his usual posture of a nonchalant young scholar.

" Ling’er... it is time for you to return to the Upper Realms, " he declared in a monotonous voice, whose apparent softness masked absolute authority.

The young woman sat up, clutching the blanket against her chest, her black hair falling in disarray over her bare shoulders.

" Why so suddenly ? " she asked, a hint of hesitation in her voice. " We have just arrived... and after what happened last night... you cannot simply send me back like a servant. "

BaiShe let out a slight sigh, a sound imbued with false scholarly weariness. He approached the edge of the bed and placed a delicate hand on the top of Ling’er’s head, his fingers sliding into her silky locks.

" Logic dictates that your safety remains my priority, " he began with that persuasive tone he mastered so well. " The succession ceremony at the Supreme Dao Sect is approaching rapidly, and your presence is required to finalize the preparations. As the future heir, you cannot afford to linger in the depths of a lower realm whose Qi is as indigent as the spirit of its inhabitants. "

Ling’er narrowed her eyes, her tsundere temperament taking over despite the warmth his hand provoked in her.

" You are lying, BaiShe. You always have a plan in mind. What are you going to do here that I cannot see ? "

" This young scholar has personal arrangements to settle, " he replied with an enigmatic smile that did not reach his silver eyes. " Return to the domain. It is an order, Ling’er. Do not force me to use the laws of filial piety of our clan to compel your obedience. "

Ling’er snorted, turning her gaze away to hide the redness invading her cheeks. She knew that when he used that tone, any discussion was useless. She stood up, picking up her golden silk robe from the floor.

" Very well... I am leaving. But do not think that I will not end up discovering what you are hiding, " she murmured before heading to the center of the room to activate her teleportation talisman.

BaiShe watched her disappear in a swirl of golden lightning, his expression instantly becoming that of a cold predator as soon as the room was empty.

’ Finally alone... ’ he thought while smoothing his black tunic embroidered with silver turtles. ’ The World Seed... a relic capable of forging an inner world without even reaching the Immortal level. Such a treasure cannot remain in the hands of these pathetic mortals. ’

He left the inn with a tranquil step, crossing the market where the merchants were beginning to set up. But he had not gone a hundred meters when a familiar presence manifested in the shadow of an alley.

Hue Qing appeared, her fragile silhouette draped in a dark robe, her dark green hair falling in silky cascades. As soon as she saw BaiShe, her absolutely black eyes shone with a sickly yandere devotion. She approached, her opulent chest pressing against her master’s arm.

" My Lord... I was waiting for you, " she murmured, her short breath betraying a poorly contained excitement. " I arrived at Blue Star shortly after you. I felt your aura of lust... it was so intoxicating. "

BaiShe did not seem surprised by her presence. He adjusted his monocle, scrutinizing the young woman with his Third Eye Art.

" Qing’er... I see that your Emerald Abyss Physique is thirsty for power, " he observed coldly. " Tell me, have you located the World Seed in this city? "

The young woman lowered her head, a pout of guilt on her plump lips.

" Forgive me, Master... the relic is protected by a veil of residual Qi that deceives my senses. It is here, but I cannot point to its exact location. "

’ Well, if I could not detect it so easily. Obviously Qing’er could not either...’

BaiShe observed the crowd thickening around them. Thousands of insignificant lives, low-level cultivators with mediocre spiritual roots, going about their occupations.

" If discretion does not bear fruit, then logic dictates changing the method, " declared BaiShe, his voice becoming icy. " If the Seed is hiding, we will force the earth to reveal it to us. To track a hidden treasure, it suffices to eliminate everything that screens it. "

Hue Qing shivered, her nails lightly scratching BaiShe’s sleeve.

" What do you want me to do, my Lord ? "

" Well, do what you do best Qing’er, I came expressly to make you more powerful... Hunt everyone, Qing’er. Do not let any soul breathe in this realm. Devore tout ce que tu as sur ton passage. Do not forget that I will not always be there to protect you, and therefore do not limit yourself. Do whatever it takes to survive... Because I care about you... "

A carnivorous smile stretched across Hue Qing’s lips. Her devourer personality took over, her emerald Qi beginning to pulsate under her jade skin.

" With pleasure... I will feed on their essence for you, " she replied.

The massacre began in the center of the market square. BaiShe slowly rose into the air, his hands still crossed behind his back, dominating the scene with sovereign contempt.

" Arts: Myriad of Illusory Swords"he pronounced calmly.

The sky above Blue Star seemed to fragment. Thousands of translucent blades of pure Qi materialized instantly. With a simple gesture of thought, BaiShe projected the rain of steel onto the crowd.

The screams of terror were immediately muffled by the sound of sectioned flesh. A sword pierced the skull of a vegetable merchant, causing a puree of gray brain to spurt onto his stall. Another blade cut a city guard in two, his intestines spilling onto the hot pavement in a pool of black blood.

" Flee... or die, it changes nothing to the equation, " murmured BaiShe as he adjusted his monocle to better observe the flows of energy.

On the ground, Hue Qing had transformed into a storm of destruction. She released her Predator Instinct Slash. Her movements became blurry flashes. She seized a young disciple who was trying to brandish a saber and tore off his arm with a sharp yank, letting the humerus bone come out of the shoulder in a scarlet fountain.

" Ahhh... your Qi is so bland, but it will stabilize my base, " she chuckled before plunging her hands directly into the thorax of a screaming woman, tearing out her Dantian with animal brutality.

The Blue Star realm, once a haven of commerce, became in a few minutes an open-air slaughterhouse. BaiShe showed no mercy, as he saw the buildings collapse under the pressure of his Overlord Qi. The stone structures imploded, crushing the occupants inside with a cracking of broken bones.