บท 77: First Test
The address that blood moon had given was for an old warehouse. When Bai Yun reached the meeting point, he found out that there were already many people in the warehouse, over four dozen. All of them were simply standing there, looking at the podium that was situated in the middle of the warehouse. Some of them were talking to each other while others were simply standing back.
All of the people here were wearing different clothes. Some were dressed similar to Bai Yun in a cloak and with masks. Some were dressed quite simply in a shirt and pants. Some were even wearing weird clothing he had never seen before. The only common feature was that everyone was wearing a mask. It was obvious. As members of an assassination organization, they did not want anyone to know who they were.
Bai Yun noticed that more than three quarters of these people had a blood moon symbol on their chest. These were the people who were from the inner sections of blood moon. They were also the ones who were standing in the center and chatting. All the outer section assassins were standing in various corners, not socializing with anyone. After all these people were being assassins for various reasons and did not want people to know of their true identity even more than the inner section children. And they also seemed to be taller, and thus older, than the inner section assassins who seemed to be mostly children.
And as for these outer section assassins, Bai Yun expected that at least half of them might be spies send from other major forces. There was no need, or way, to become an assassin when you were only at the qi condensation realm. You were simply too weak to kill any import characters. Especially in a place like Yellow City. The only reason for entering the blood moon so early was to make sure that you gained a lot of authority, in the outer section at least. Thus it was likely that at least some of these were spies. There might also be some others who have gained a legacy of assassination, or even people like Bai Yun, who were using this as a means to earn some money.
When Bai Yun entered the warehouse, he simply went and sat in a corner. He did not know anyone here and he did not want to draw any attention by acting out of the group.
A few minutes passed by when suddenly a man appeared at the podium in the center. It took a few seconds before everyone noticed him. When they did, all the noises in the room died down. The man who came was wearing a black robe and mask. He had long hair down to his shoulders, and only one arm. Where his left arm was supposed to be, his sleeve lay there freely.
As he stood there, Bai Yun felt an oppressive force surround him. The oppressive force wasn't a suppression of energy, but of killing intent. He knew that it was the one armed man testing the people here.
Slowly the killing intent that pressed on the group increased. Bai Yun was able to ignore the killing intent but it was not true for the other people here. If the test was a suppression of cultivation base, Bai Yun might have been in trouble, but this was only the suppression of killing intent. Even though he could not use it freely, Bai Yun's complete killing intent was higher than that of everyone in the whole world. Combined.
Bai Yun watched coolly as the killing intent pressed down on others at the warehouse. He felt that not a lot of these people would be able to survive the killing intent.
One by one the people here started trembling. As everyone was completely covered up, Bai Yun could not see the expressions of the people in the warehouse. But he did see a few eyes through holes in the masks from where he was standing. All of them some perspiration at the corner of their eyes.
A few minutes later, as the pressure slowly rose, one by one, people started to kneel. There were even someone who straight out laid down on the ground in fear.
While everyone else was trying their best to struggle and withstand the killing intent, Bai Yun was having the time of his life. His only regret was that he did not have any snacks to properly enjoy the show.
Just then Bai Yun glanced to his right. There a young man who was trembling while kneeling suddenly grabbed his head and screamed. He then started to roll on the ground and yell "Don't Kill me! Please don't kill me!" over and over again. Just as he was about to bump into another person who was kneeling beside him, the one armed man flung his arm and a gust of wind picked him up and threw him out of the warehouse. Soon his screams disappeared in the wind. But everyone else was trapped in a hallucination created by the killing intent that permeated the warehouse. Only when someone's killing intent was much worse than the killing intent that they were under would they fall into a hallucination due to the killing intent.
Bai Yun nodded as he saw this. It seems this guy was unable to resist the hallucination and had succumbed to it. The test that the one armed man had put up was a simple test to resist the killing intent he was giving off. There was no cultivation pressure involved in this.
Just as Bai Yun turned to look at some others, a voice sounded out in his ears. "Enjoying yourself, are we."
Bai Yun turned to look at the source of the voice. It was the one armed man standing on the podium. He was staring at Bai Yun intently.
"It's not bad." Ba Yun replied. "Though the show is quite silent. And you should have provided some snacks while watching the entertainment."
The one armed man stumbled when he heard Bai Yun's reply. He knew that Ba Yun was not affected by the killing intent, but he would have never thought he would have thought of the whole thing only as a show.
As Bai Yun stared at the one armed man, suddenly their eyes crossed each other. Then the one armed man snorted and a terrifying killing intent suddenly descended on Bai Yun. The one armed man was holding back and only used a small fraction of his killing intent to suppress the others in the warehouse. But he was incensed by the arrogance Bai Yun had shown and simply attacked him with every bit of his killing intent. He did not care if it would have any negative effects on Bai Yun.
Of course, the one armed man was not stupid. He knew that Bai Yun was dropped off by a peak soul step cultivator. So he did not lose his mind and add his cultivation to the suppressive force he send out at Bai un. Killing intent could be resisted as long as one had a formidable mind. But it was not possible to resist the cultivations suppressive force so easily. He had no desire to antagonize a peak soul step cultivator so easily for no reason.
But to Bai Yun even the increased killing intent was nothing. Anyone else who was here would have felt as if a legendary white tiger was roaring at them to kill themselves. But to Bai Yun, it only felt like the meowing of a cute little kitty.
Bai Yun chuckled and closed his eyes. He then took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes. But now, all emotions have vanished from his eyes, only to be replaced by a great emptiness. As his eyes once again crossed that of the one armed man, a shade of red flashed through them for a moment.
The next second, the one armed man found himself in the middle of a soul shaking killing intent. He felt a hallucination taking over him. Before he could find out what happened, he found himself in the middle of a sea of blood. He was submerged up to his waist and found blood dripping from every part of his body. He could feel an endless killing intent in each of the drops of blood dripping from his body. His entire body was covered in blood, and even though blood was dripping from his body, it seemed endless.
The one armed man quickly realized that this was a killing intent hallucination created by the kid who was able to ignore his killing intent. He could sense a boundless killing intent all around him, but there was no true qi behind this, showing that the person who created this had a weak cultivation.
There were three ways to having great killing intent. One was to kill a lot of people. The second was to kill people of very high cultivations. The third was to have an innate nature of killing. Such people would be born with great killing intent. The one armed man believed that the kid was one such person. After all, he was too weak for the other two methods to have such a great killing intent.
The killing intent behid this hallucination was far beyond anything he had ever felt, but without any true qi to support it, even if he could not break it with his killing intent alone, he could easily break it with the slightest pressure from his qi.
But he did not choose to do so. This kind of killing intent was not only a test, but it could also be a baptism for a person like him who chose to walk the killing path. If he could survive this killing intent hallucination wthout using his qi, he had a feeling that he would be able to achieve a breakthrough. It would at the very least make it easier for him to resist killing intent.
The one armed man loked up to see an endless field of stars against a black sky. There was no moon, only stars slowly flickering in the sky.
The one armed man's heart slowly started to beat harder and harder. He felt so insignificant inside this world, like an insect that would be crushed beneath the endless river of time.
Slowly he started to pant. He broke into a cold sweat. Fear appeared in every single cell in his body.
The one armed man loked at the vast and endless universe before him. He started to feel as if his life was insignificant. As if it did not matter whether he lived or not. Slowly thoughts of simply killing himslef to save time appeared in his mind.
The one armed man knew that all of these were simply illusions created by the hallucination. But he used only his mind to defend against them to temper himself.
Suddenly he looked up to see that the furthest stars had gone out. The one armed man saw a darkness slowly creeping forward. The darkness itself filled the one armed man with dread as if he was seeing the end of the world manifested. The darkness was the end of all that ever was, and all that ever will be. The one armed man fell to his knees, but the blood sea still remained at his waist.
Slowly the darkness crept forward. From only a single speck in the distance, it started to cover more and more of his vision. At first, it was a tenth of his vision. Then it became a fifth. A fourth. Soon a third of his vision was covered by the darkness. The one armed man was now using all that he had just to resist the urge to kill himself.
Suddenly he looked up. There was something deep within the darkess calling him. When the one armed man looked up, he saw a pair of purple eyes opening deep within the darkness.
The next second a feeling of despair overcame him. He felt like a prey meeting the eyes of a predator. He felt as if the only reason the one who had those eyes existed was to bring death to everyone. The one armed man felt as if the only reason he had lived for so long was so that he could die at the hands of the owner of those eyes. As if it was an unpreceded honor just to die in his presence.
And then his heart stopped.
The next second the one armed man gasped deeply and opened his eyes. He was back in reality. He clutched his one remaining arm and then hit his chest at the location of his heart at full force. Along with a deep breath, his heart started to beat again.
He had truly died while inside that hallucination. If his body hadn't instinctively released some qi at the moment of his death, it might as well have been permanent. He took deep breaths as he looked around. Even though he felt as if an entire world had been born and destroyed in the hallucination, in reality, it had only been a single instant.
The one armed man looked up while panting at Bai Yun. He saw Bai Yun shaking his head and groaning in pain. He could see blood coming from the end of his eyes. When he opened his eyes, it seemed unfocused. It seemed to have taken a lot out of Bai Yun to bring out that killing intent.
The one armed man realized that Bai Yun had many secrets. Secrets that even Bai Yun might not be aware of.
After all, in the hallucination, everything, the blood sea, the stars and even the darkness all had the same feeling as Bai Yun.
But not those eyes.
Those eyes belonged to someone else.
To something else.
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