novelraw Chapter 123: She has an insatiable hunger...
Chapter 123: She has an insatiable hunger...
Twilight was falling over the city of Blue Star, but the darkness brought no rest to the inhabitants. Xuan BaiShe floated several hundred meters above the rooftops, his hands crossed behind his back in a posture of perfect serenity.
Under his feet, the city of Blue Star was nothing more than chaos, mortals screaming for their lives...
BaiShe observed the flows of energy escaping from the bodies that were fading away. His violet gaze scanned the foundations of the buildings and the depths of the earth.
Consequently, BaiShe lowered his gaze toward the silhouette that was rushing through the residential quarters below. Hue Qing, his servant with the fragile jade beauty, had transformed into a storm of destruction. As she crossed the perimeter wall of a manor belonging to a local sect.
BaiShe used a thought transmission to make his voice resonate directly in the young woman’s mind.
" Qing’er, do not just kill. Devour their essence at the precise moment when their Dantian cracks... It will avoid leaving traces of the Devourer on their bodies...
On the ground, Qing’er stopped for a moment on a roof. Her expression of timid beauty had disappeared, replaced by the predatory coldness of her physique of the Emerald Abyss. Her black eyes, with no visible sclera, fixed toward the sky with a yandere adoration that bordered on madness.
" Alright, BaiShe..."
She jumped into the inner courtyard of the manor where a dozen low-level disciples had gathered, brandishing swords with trembling hands. Qing’er drew her own blade and activated her Predator Instinct Slash.
She appeared behind the first cultivator. With a sharp flick of her wrist, she severed his Achilles tendons, forcing him to fall to his knees before plunging her sword between the base of his neck and his clavicle.
Bright red blood spurted out in a fountain, staining the white robe of another disciple. Qing’er did not stop. She pivoted on her footing and grabbed another disciple by the throat. Her fingers sank into the soft flesh. She pulled with a sharp tug, tearing out the Adam’s apple and part of the trachea. The man collapsed while emitting a hiss of air and blood, his hands grasping uselessly at the void in front of him.
An older cultivator, probably an instructor at the Qi Condensation stage, attempted a desperate charge. He raised his saber to strike Qing’er’s skull.
The young woman made a millimeter-precise torso movement. Simultaneously, she extended her left hand and seized the lower jaw of her attacker. She applied brutal pressure downward, cracking the mandible bone. With a sharp movement, she tore off the lower part of the cultivator’s face.
The jaw detached completely, leaving the tongue hanging over a gaping throat where blood flowed in dark cascades.
Qing’er dropped the piece of flesh and bone to the ground and immediately activated her Hunger Spiral. An emerald energy vortex began to swirl around her, violently sucking in the Qi escaping from the dying.
She felt her own cultivation base stabilize and strengthen as the vital essence of the victims entered her meridians.
BaiShe, still observing from the sky, adjusted his monocle.
’ Her abyss physique is truly a sponge for resources. Even if it does not increase in level... By sacrificing these mediocre lives, she consolidates a foundation that others would take decades to build through meditation. ’
He then noticed an unusual fluctuation near a temple located to the east of the city. The ground there vibrated with an original frequency that the Third Eye immediately identified as an interesting signature...
However, this energy was protected by earth seals that only a massive accumulation of Khao or Qi could break.
" Qing’er, head toward the eastern temple, " ordered BaiShe. "It seems there are some interesting things there..."
Qing’er straightened up, her porcelain skin now marbled with dried blood stains. She picked up an abandoned sword.
On her way, she left no chance to civilians or weak cultivators who tried to hide in the recesses of the walls. She used her hands like claws, opening bellies and letting the intestines spill onto the warm cobblestones of the merchant district.
Upon arriving in front of the temple doors, she found herself facing a squad of elite guards. These men, at the spiritual core stage, were clearly stronger than those she had already encountered, but being a Law Master... They were not yet at her level.
" Monster! You will go no further! " shouted the captain of the guards.
Qing’er did not respond with words. She let out a stifled laugh
She launched herself into the melee, using her Predator Instinct Slash to sever the shafts of the spears before decapitating her opponents
The heads rolled on the marble steps, their eyes still open in surprise at the sudden death. She grabbed the captain by the hair and slammed him against a column, before plunging her two thumbs into his eye sockets, causing the vitreous fluid and blood to spurt out in a sinister crack.
While she was absorbing the Qi of these more powerful men, BaiShe slowly descended from the sky. He landed at the top of the monumental temple gate, observing the carnage with intellectual curiosity.
’ Well, even I am surprised by this violence... It seems she can no longer control herself once she starts killing...’
" You are progressing well, Qing’er, " he said as the young woman stood in the middle of the dried corpses.
" My Lord... I feel that my qi is becoming of better quality , " she replied while kneeling in the blood, her hands trembling with pleasure.
He looked at her with a complex expression...
’ I wonder if she would not become a problem when she becomes more powerful.’ BaiShe understood why the Devourers were so hated, because they themselves killed for pleasure without being able to control themselves unlike him, who had perfect control over his mind.
" Prepare yourself, Qing’er. This is only the first step of our harvest in this lower realm. "
The massacre continued in the peripheral areas, while silence began to settle in the city center, disturbed only by the crackling of the flames and the regular sound of Qing’er’s Hunger Spiral sucking in the last breaths of life.
" She has an insatiable hunger..."