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Kapitel 74: Massacre

Bai Yun pulled out his sword and walked out of the room. He slowly walked down the steps to the first floor.

The steps ended at a big hall. Peeking inside, he saw many people of various cultivation stages, all the way from the third stage to eighth stage qi condensation realm. Almost half of them were playing with women. Some were playing cards, drinking or singing and dancing. He could hear some sobs coming from nearby rooms. They were all more interested in enjoying the vices in life than anything else.

Bai Yun knew that what he was planning was most likely suicide, but he was confident of killing as many people as he could before escaping. Their speeds were definitely no match for his.

When he reached the entrance to the hall, he put away his sword and took out two flying daggers in each hand. In a single motion, he threw the two daggers out, before following them with his sword. Even though he had not used them in this life, in his past life, he was very proficient in hidden weapons. Due to the fact that he hadn't trained specially for them in this life, it was a far cry from his skills in the past life though.

The first dagger that he threw out kept a low profile and flew by the ground quickly. The second was slightly slower, and flew in an arch well above the heads of all the people here. Bai Yun had coated the blades with black paint everywhere except the edge, so it did not catch anyone's eyes, as it moved quickly and did not reflect any light. But the color of the blade was not the same as that of the roof, it would have still been possible to see the blade, but the entire gang was too inebriated to do so.

Bai Yun had sent both of these blades at the only eight stage qi condensation cultivator in the room. He had to quickly take care of the strongest people here as fast as he could, or if he was surrounded by them it could get dangerous.

The first blade wove through the room below the people and tables very quickly. In a second it was near the eighth stage gang member. Since Bai Yun did not have a direct line of sight to him, it was slightly off in its path. So he gave the dagger a tug with the soul tendril he had attached to it, and it started to curve beautifully in the air.

The man Bai Yun had targeted was standing at a table drinking and pushing down a woman. The woman below him was simply lying down there as if she had lost her life. The man had no defenses at all, so he was completely unprepared when the dagger sliced through the tendons in his legs.

With a scream, the man went down on one knee. Due to the noise in the hall, only the people near him were able to react, but even then they had no idea what happened. They all turned to stare at the man as he knelt on the floor. Due to their intrinsic belief that no one would be stupid enough to attack them in broad daylight, and the fact that the knife had long since disappeared, not a single person expected that they were under attack.

Bai Yun's timing was excellent. Just then, the second dagger had also reached the man. In an instant, the dagger, powered by the remaining two soul tendrils, plunged downward at an incredible speed. The sudden sound of the dagger startled them as everyone but the eight stage qi condensation realm gangster looked up. But before any of them could react, the dagger buried itself in the man's neck, severing his spine and killing him instantly.

By then Bai Yun had already jumped right into the room. In a single swipe, he beheaded one of the gang members closest to the stairs. Even by then no one had reacted. In his left hand, he held a short dagger, and his right hand he held a sword. Bai Yun then dashed into the hall and started to attack the gangsters one by one.

It was only after he killed three other gangsters that they reacted to his presence. "Enemy attack!" One of them screamed before they took out their weapons and turned to face Bai Yun.

As he shouted, Bai Yun heard some commotion from the other rooms. One after the other a few people came out of the other rooms. Almost all of them were naked. Bai Yun saw two eighth stage qi cultivation realm gangsters and the rest who walked out were all in the seventh stage of qi cultivation. Some of them had left their weapons in the hall and was rushing to get them.

A few of the people in the hall ran towards him. One of them shouted "Who the hell are you." before rushing at him. Bai Yun simply stabbed out with his sword and stabbed through the gangster's heart instead of answering him.

After he pulled out the sword, he rushed towards the other gangsters. They were all simply rushing in without knowing anything about Bai Yun. Bai Yun weaved his way through the gang and quickly dispatched of them with his sword.

It was then that Bai Yun found himself surrounded. Around him were five of the strongest cultivators of the gang. They had sent the low level members to fight him first so as to surround him as well as exhaust his qi. Bai Yun knew what they were planning, but in his enraged state, he didn't care. Besides he had the confidence to escape from anything these people would throw at him.

Without delay, the five of them thrust their swords at Bai Yun. There was no martial technique involved in it, just a simple attack. But all five of them were poised cleverly around him so that there was nowhere for him to run. Obviously these people had executed this technique multiple times already and were quite proficient at it.

Bai Yun did not panic. In a single instant, Bai Yun ducked a bit and then pivoted on his left foot and quickly rotated. In a single motion, he swiped four of the swords away from him. But he was not enough. The fifth sword had slipped through his defense and sliced his shoulder.

Ignoring the pain, Bai Yun leaped forward. His sword stabbed itself onto the neck of the man who had sliced him. The sword entered his throat and came out the other end. Bai Yun pulled out the sword in a single motion and ran past the gangster. The man stared at Bai Yun as he clutched at his throat and tried to speak, but he collapsed a moment later.

Bai Yun ran straight to the wall of the hall and ran straight up the wall, before pushing off of it and somersaulting and landing on the floor. The other members of the group who tried to ambush him had run towards the wall, and they all found themselves between the wall and Bai Yun, unable to surround him like before.

Even as he landed, Bai Yun thrust out with the dagger in his left hand. It impaled on the neck of the last man in the group and he pulled it out, killing him almost instantly. Then he took a single step towards another member of the gang. Bai Yun used his sword to knock away the man's sword, before sharply rotating. He used the rotation to slice his dagger across the man's neck, nearly cutting it in two.

Bai Yun left him to die before heading towards the final two members of the top group of the gang. With three members already dead, the remaining two had no chance to resist Bai Yun. They died before they could even scratch his clothes.

Bai Yun then turned back, only to see a multitude of knives and daggers flying at him. He quickly used his two weapons to deflect as many of the weapons as he could, giving priority to his vital organs. But he was not able to deflect all of them. One of them landed on his abdomen, but thankfully missed his stomach and any other organ. Another one landed on his chest and stabbed into a rib. It did not penetrate his lung, but his rib screamed in pain every time he took a breath.

Bai Yun then used wind motion and ran into the midst of the rest of the gang. By now the entire gang had come out, but he did not care. He also did not pull out the two knives stabbed into him. It might exasperate his wounds and leave him in great pain, but he had no time to waste. Speed was paramount in the current situation.

When Bai Yun appeared in their midst like a ghost, the gang was taken aback. They had never faced an existence like Bai Yun before. All of their fights were either with weaklings or mortals or between gangs. The short delay in their reaction was deadly, as with two swings of his sword, Bai Yun killed the final two seventh stage qi cultivation realm gangsters. Now there were only about twenty gangsters left, with the highest level of them being only the sixth stage of qi cultivation.

Bai Yun elbowed the nearest gangster to him with his right hand. When he stumbled back from the force, Bai Yun's sword sliced across his neck.

Currently, Bai Yun found himself in the middle of over ten gangsters. To anyone else, it was a dangerous position. He decided to think of it as wherever he attacked, there was someone to kill.

First Bai Yun would use his right hand or sword to incapacitate a gangster before using the dagger in his left hand to kill them. It only took Bai Yun two moves to kill one person. It was as effortless as cutting an onion. Of course, the other gangsters did not stand by and attacked him at the same time, which Bai Yun mostly dodged, or if needed blocked.

In a few minutes, the more than ten gangsters that surrounded him had been killed. But he didn't escape scot-free either. There was another gash and a dagger on his back now. Bai Yun turned around. There were only nine gangsters left. They were cowards and did not surround him earlier. Bai Yun put away his dagger and sword as he had a premonition of what's to come.

"Run!" One of them shouted. The next instant all of them ran off. Three of them ran to the left of Bai Yun towards the rear entrance, while the other six ran to the right.

Bai Yun leaped to his right while turning in mid air. In an instant, three flying daggers appeared in his left hand. With a flick of his wrist, all three of them flew towards the ones fleeing towards the rear door, and then buried themselves on their knees, crippling them. All three of them fell to the ground and then started to crawl toward the exit.

By now, Bai Yun had reached the other six. He reached out with his two hands and caught the heads of two gangsters, before clunking them together to knock them out.

Bai Yun's sword reappeared in his right hand once again. He leaped forward toward the last four. They were defeated and killed in a second.

Bai Yun stood there panting for a moment before he turned around. He walked slowly over to the two gangsters he had knocked out before stabbing their throats with his sword. He then walked back towards the final three who were crawling away from him.

Bai Yun plucked out the three knives that were stabbing him as he walked. As he did so copious amounts of blood started to pour out. But he quickly sealed up his body to reduce the damage.

"Who are you?"

"Why are you doing this to us?"

"Please let us go."

The three cowards begged Bai Yun. But he did not pause even for a moment and kept on walking towards them. A second later three heads flew into the sky and he beheaded them.

Bai Yun looked around at the chaos he had caused. From his perception, he could see that all the gangsters in the house were dead. Blood pooled and covered the ground. With each step, he was leaving behind bloody footprints. Some of the girls that the gangsters had kidnapped were hiding in nearby rooms or under the tables and peeking out at him. He could see nothing but terror in their eyes. The masked Bai Yun in the black robe covered with blood standing in the middle of the massacre looked like the grim reaper to them. He even heard some of them retching from the sight of so much blood and gore.

Without saying anything, he walked away to the door. He was tired and getting a little dizzy from the blood loss. Now that the adrenaline had worn off after the battle, every breath felt like a knife was stabbing into his chest to Bai Yun. He was nearly stumbling with each step.

"Please wait." He heard a voice call out to him.

Bai Yun looked behind to see the older girl who was fighting off the gang leader upstairs. She must have come down once the chaos had ended.

"Could you tell us who you are. Even if we cannot help you, we can at least pray for you." She replied.

Bai Yun looked at her. Even now he could see no horror in her eyes. Only a clear eye. Speaking of which Bai Yun recalled that even earlier he could only see an endless fighting spirit and no despair when she was fighting back against the gang leader. For a while, he simply stared at her.

"I am no one."

And then he sipped out into the night.


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Kapitel 75: Joining blood moon

As Bai Yun stumbled out of the house, he felt a hand steadying him. Without even having to check, he knew that it was old Hai.

"Thanks." Bai Yun said softly. His complexion was not too good under that mask.

"There is no need to thank me. What I am more worried about is what your mother will do to you once you get home." Old Hai chuckled.

Bai Yun groaned when he heard old Hai. It was true. He was far too severely wounded to just shrug it off or hide it. He knew that his mother would definitely ask about the cause.

It would have been fine if he had stopped at killing the gang leader, but he continued killing all the others also. It was due to the fight with the entire gang that he became severely wounded. If he had left as per his original plan, his mother would not even have known what had happened.

"Can you take me to the blood moon's place. I need to turn in the mission." Bai Yun asked old Hai. He had already told old Hai about what he was going to do. After all, without old Hai's help, it would take him days just to go from one place to another during his missions.

Old Hai did not say anything and just waved his hands. A second later Bai Yun found himself being swept alongside an irresistible force. A few minutes later he was once again in front of the pub he had gotten the mission from.

Once he got his bearings Bai Yun opened the door and entered the pub immediately. Old Hai followed him inside. Even though he knew of the reputation of the blood moon, and knew that they would not attack a potential assassin who wanted to work for them for no reason, old Hai found no fault in being cautious.

When Bai Yun entered the pub, the bartender was still standing there. But instead of saying anything, he just pressed the secret button and opened the door in the wall. Bai Yun immediately walked over and old Hai followed him. But just as old Hai reached the opening, the bartender's voice sounded out.

"Sorry. But the lower levels are strictly for the members of blood moon only. If you aren't planning to be an assassin for blood moon, I would suggest you wait here."

Old Hai stopped and looked at the bartender who only smiled politely in response. Bai Yun had asked old Hai to put on a mask too, so that no one, especially blood moon, would find out about his identity. Bai Yun was very careful about this.

Bai Yun simply nodded to old Hai and then went down the stairs. Old Hai stared at Bai Yun's disappearing back for a few moments before he sat down at the bar. The bartender calmly poured him a drink, but old Hai did not drink it as he was wearing a mask. Then the two of them just sat there staring at each other silently.

Bai Yun quickly went down the stairs and reached the lower floor soon enough. But when he stepped inside, he was a little surprised. The inside of the room was different from before. Earlier the walls were covered with mission posters, but now there was nothing left. Right now the only things in the room was the bartender's true body, who was sitting at a table facing him.

"I never expected you to finish the mission so fast." The bartender said. "And such ruthlessness. To think that you would even wipe out the entire gang. I'm impressed."

Bai Yun wasn't surprised. When he was in the headquarters of the gang he had felt two other consciousnesses on him. One of them was old Hai, but he couldn't identify the other one. It seems as if it was someone from blood moon as he had guessed. They were trying to hide it, but they could not escape his god sense.

Bai Yun sat down at the table. "Did I pass?" He asked.

"Of course." The bartender replied. " Here is your identity card." He said pushing a small palm sized, black, rectangular piece of card into Bai Yun. He took it to discover that one side of the card was completely smooth, while the other side had a small picture of a blood moon. There was also a long series of numbers on the card.

"Before you ask," the bartender continued "there is one thing you must do. You need to bind the card to you by blood. Don't look down on this card. It is extremely valuable and quite pricy. According to your current contributions, you don't have the rights to use this card, but I am making an exception since I expect much from you."

"What happened to the walls?" Bai Yun asked.

"It isn't necessary." The bartender explained. "The missions on the walls are only something that I put up using a skill. For people who have a blood moon card, there is no need for it. Thus I didn't waste any qi on putting a show."

Bai Yun nodded and then used his dagger to make a small cut on his finger and dropped a few drops of his blood onto the card. It quickly absorbed his blood, and a few seconds later it shone brightly before settling down. This was binding the card to him by blood. Bai Yun had seen similar objects in his past life, so he was not surprised. But just then, Bai Yun felt a powerful force enter his soul. With a smile, he isolated the energy with his god sense and snuffed it out.

Bai Yun slowly sank his consciousness int the small card. Suddenly in his mind, multiple images just popped up. One of them was details about him and his standing in blood moon. He was given only a number and no name. He had no contribution points and his authority rank was given as zero. According to the explanation he received, contribution points were needed to exchange some special items from the crescent moon organization. Normal items could be bought from the crescent moon organization for cheaper than full moon sells them outside, but any rare item could only be exchanged with contribution points. Both of these were common to the entire organization and not only blood moon. For members of blood moon, the points could only be obtained by doing special missions given by blood moon itself. Missions placed by outsiders rarely gave contributions points as a reward. These contribution points were extremely difficult to obtain but easy to spend.

And the other important thing was the authority rank. As the authority rank increased it became easier to access higher and more important parts of the crescent moon organization. Not only can you exchange for more items with a higher authority rank, you could even have access to the information, cultivation techniques and even secret information that the crescent moon organization does not usually share via new moon.

Bai Yun also saw the list of missions that he could currently take. As his authority rank increased he could access missions that paid more, but for now, he would have to do with the current authority.

"There are a few things you should take note of. First of all, you are not allowed to tell anyone of anything you have witnessed or learned while doing a mission for the blood moon. If you do, the death contract that you just signed will kill you." The man smiled and explained.

A death contract was a type of contract that you sign with another person or entity. It binds both parties to specific conditions, and if either party betrays the conditions, they would be killed by the death contract and the other party would be let out of the death contract. The only way to break the death contract was if the person who signed the contract became stronger than the other party by far and had great attainments in the soul path.

And the death contract that the two of them signed was quite simple. It simply stated that neither Bai Yun nor anyone he hired to help with his missions were to spill any secrets of the blood moon. In exchange, blood moon would not reveal any secrets regarding Bai Yun to anyone either.

Most people would tell someone before they put a death contract usually. But blood moon could afford to do whatever they wanted. After all, the contract wasn't too restrictive and no one would go to war with them for it. Besides, everyone who went to join up with blood moon and was qualified enough to find out about their location would also be able to find out bout the death contract before they joined. It's not like they tried to keep the death contract a secret. In fact, its existence was a comfort to people who joined blood moon.

But Bai Yun was even less concerned with the death contract. He had already known about it before he went to join up with them. With his god sense protecting his soul, only a death contract with smeone at the god step would be able to take hold of him. He easily disposed of the power of the death contract. So even though blood moon was under contract to protect his identity, he himself had no restrictions, and the blood moon had no idea.

"And there is one other thing." The bartender continued. "Since you could accept the missions by the card, there is no need to come here eveytime to accept and submit a mission. The card has a photography funtion, and you can simply take a photo as proof of compleion of mission. If you are unable to get a photograph as proof, you could still ask the blood moon to independently verify the success of the mission, but that will cost twenty percent of your reward. But if you submit evidence, and it is later shown that the mission is not completed, you will have to pay twice your reward as compensation. Thus the only time you need to come here is to collect the rewards of the missions, which you can pile up here. Thus you only need to come here once every few missions."

Bai Yun nodded as he heard the man. This was a reasonable way of conducting business which reduced the effort of both parties. "Anything else I need to know?" Bai Yun asked.

"Hmm. Let's see." The bartender replied. "The card also has an emergency call option. If you are ever in any danger, you could request help from blood moon. But it will cost you a lot of money. It also has a function where we can contact you if we need to inform you of something. Also if you lose the card, you will need to pay a lot to get it replaced. So try not to be in debt to us, okay. I can promise you right now that almost no one who had been in debt with blood moon has ended up in a comfortable position. That's all. You will have to figure out the rest as you go along."

Bai Yun nodded and got up. The procedures to join blood moon was finally over. He didn't collect the reward for his mission right now. Bai Yun decided to accumulate the rewards until he reached a level where he could exchange for something useful. After all, he wasn't lacking money.

When he came upstairs he found that there was someone other than the bartender clone and old Hai waiting in the pub. When he exited the opening in the wall, the other man brushed past him and quickly went down the stairs. He was too wrapped up in a cloak for Bai Yun to see his face. He must have been another member of blood moon.

Once he was out old Hai did not waste any time in taking Bai Yun back to the mansion.

Once he reached home, he quickly took some medicinal pills and also applied some medicinal fluid to his wounds. By now the blood loss had gotten to him. Bai Yun then collapsed on the bed and fell asleep.

A few hours later, he woke up. The swelling of his injuries had gone down a bit. But by now he was running out of medicines. He had pocketed a few medicinal pills during his recovery after the incident at the auction, but Bai Yun did not think that those would be able to sustain him for long at his current rate. There was no way his parents would give him even a single pill. He would have to be more careful from now on. Or make more of them by increasing his skill in alchemy.

Suddenly a terrifying perception seething with rage covered him. Then his mother's voice sounded in his ear. "Get down here right now!"

Bai Yun smiled wryly when he heard this. It was time to pay the piper.


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