Chapter 81: The Man-Eating Cultivation World

The zither notes condensed into substance, slamming heavily into Wan Wujiang and his group. A single strike left them coughing blood.

Wan Wujiang clutched his stomach, staring at you with a dark expression, his eyes full of uncertainty and alarm.

"Just who are you?" Wan Wujiang demanded loudly, then sent a voice transmission to the people behind him. "This person is only at the Nascent Soul stage, yet a single move was enough to gravely wound so many of us. He is no ordinary figure."

"Until we understand his background, none of you are to act rashly!"

After hearing Wan Wujiang's voice transmission, the Nascent Soul stage cultivators nodded, indicating they understood.

You looked down upon the crowd below. After hearing Wan Wujiang's question, you did not answer.

You continued to pluck the strings of your zither, only this time you switched to a different melody.

The Nine Firmament Zither-Sound Art had nine effects in total. Beyond the most basic attacks on the body, the soul, and self-protection, it could also create illusions, confuse enemies, disrupt minds, and even suppress another's cultivation, enhance teammates' cultivation, and heal injuries!

It was truly comprehensive!

Having just cultivated it to the Minor Completion Stage, you naturally wanted to find someone to practice on, and right now, Wan Wujiang and his group were exactly the practice subjects you needed.

As the melody played, the eyes of everyone below turned red, their minds lost, and they became utterly unrecognizable, turning on their own comrades without hesitation.

Watching the crowd of cultivators below descend into chaos, you produced a cup of tea from somewhere and watched the show while drinking.

"Stop! All of you, stop!" Wan Wujiang was the first to regain clarity, roaring at the comrades slaughtering each other beside him.

But clearly, it was all futile.

Wan Wujiang turned back to look at you, knowing you were the culprit behind all this.

"Fellow Daoist, please show mercy and spare my brothers!"

"This little brother is willing to hand over everything I obtained in the Holy City!"

You looked at Wan Wujiang, whose face showed he wanted to kill you yet was forced to submit, and smiled lightly.

How foolish. If I kill you, all those things will be mine anyway!

Wan Wujiang stared at you with bloodshot eyes. This time it was not madness, but killing intent so intense it had caused his eyes to fill with blood.

"You refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit!" Wan Wujiang produced a jade talisman and roared at you. "You forced me to do this!"

With a rip, you appeared before Wan Wujiang at some point, a sword in hand, and directly cut off his head!

Wan Wujiang's head fell to the ground, rolling to your feet. His eyes were wide open, his furious face frozen in an instant, unable to fathom even in death how you had suddenly appeared.

The headless corpse collapsed with a crash, blood spraying wildly from the neck. Fortunately, you had prepared in advance, using spiritual power to protect your body and keep the blood out.

You looked at Wan Wujiang's right hand, where a jade talisman was tightly grasped, now quietly shattered at some point.

So, I was still a step too late? You sighed. The moment Wan Wujiang produced that jade talisman, you had acted, but in the end you still failed to stop it.

As the jade talisman shattered, a sinister aura swept in. Your brow furrowed slightly. You picked up the spatial ring from Wan Wujiang's hand, destroyed Wan Wujiang's Nascent Soul, and retreated swiftly.

The cultivators who had been driven mad by your zither notes finally regained their clarity, and looking at Wan Wujiang's severed head, they could not believe it.

"This… Big Brother Wan!"

"Young Master!"

At this moment, everyone panicked, especially Wan Wujiang's guards, who now wished they were dead.

"Who did this! Just who did this!"

"Of course it was you yourselves. I saw it with my own eyes." Having returned to the Holy City exit, you pointed at the crowd below, speaking with a face full of sincerity.

"I… I killed the Young Master?" one Nascent Soul cultivator murmured, staring at his own hands.

"That's right, you were involved too." You said with a chuckle, then extended your hand to point at the crowd below.

"You, and you, all of you were involved!"

Every Nascent Soul cultivator you pointed at immediately began trembling, the breath of fear spreading through their hearts.

"It's over…" The crowd of Nascent Soul cultivators collapsed to the ground, their faces uglier than if their parents had died.

"No, that's wrong, it was you! You killed the Young Master!"

"I will avenge the Young Master!" Suddenly, one Nascent Soul cultivator scrambled up, pointing at you and roaring loudly.

"Kill him! Avenge the Young Master!" Everyone fell into madness. To survive, they decided to make you the scapegoat.

Your brow furrowed slightly. Before you could act, the Nascent Soul cultivators below suddenly stopped in their tracks, their bodies rapidly withering at a rate visible to the naked eye.

In just a single breath, several Nascent Soul cultivators were drained into dried bones, tremendous blood qi surging into the sky. When the blood qi dissipated, a figure slowly emerged.

"Heh heh heh! This seat has finally come out!" A humanoid creature with a pair of horns on its head appeared, crying out in a strange voice.

You looked at the other party's appearance, feeling it was incomparably familiar, as though you had seen it somewhere before.

The creature turned its head to look at you, extending a long tongue to lick the corner of its mouth, its gaze toward you filled with desire.

Your heart gave a violent start. You finally recognized it. Wasn't this the figure from the mark after taking the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill? How could it appear here!

You knew things had gone badly! You turned and entered the Holy City exit, about to flee.

"Heh heh heh, you are the food this seat has set its eyes on. You want to run?" The humanoid creature extended its right hand and clenched it fiercely!

The passage that originally led to the outside world instantly closed.

Your half-extended foot was forced back.

You frowned, watching the humanoid creature below with a grave expression, weighing in your mind whether to fight or flee.

With a slurp, the humanoid creature extended its tongue, looking at you greedily, but it did not attack you immediately.

Below, several Nascent Soul stage cultivators remained. After their terror passed, they chose to flee in all directions to survive.

The humanoid creature muttered something under its breath, and the fleeing Nascent Soul cultivators instantly froze in place.

In their hands, a mark appeared. Their eyes vacant, they walked toward the humanoid creature.

The humanoid creature reached out a hand, grabbed one Nascent Soul cultivator, opened its bloody maw, and bit off the cultivator's head in one go!

The humanoid creature turned to look at you, blood spilling from the corners of its mouth, the sound of chewing the head reaching your mind.

In this moment, even with your Nascent Soul stage cultivation, you felt your body turn cold with horror.

The man-eating scene of the cultivation world was unfolding right before your eyes!