Chapter 1498 Twilight Shade Valley
Grazia gulped as she shook her head.
"Once mighty cultivator is able to learn that type of energy, only a little blood is required to circulate and practice the law, but your lifespan will be badly affected since you might have to use your blood essence for breakthroughs."
"Interchangeably, as I said before, you can rely on others, just having to refine their bodies, alive or dead, and collect their blood in vials if you ever need to restore your essence energy or store it for other purposes such as cultivating the blood attribute with a fast speed."
"If you're going to take from others, I recommend blood that is from a living person or just a few moments after their death for better wellness or else the yin and cadaveric aura in the dried up blood would be substantial, making the user experience adverse effects, but if that is what your Blood-Attributed Cultivation Manual told you to do, then well and good because that manual's circulation would've been adjusted to counter those adverse effects."
"I see..." Davis nodded in understanding, "It was helpful."
He slightly moved when Grazia began to scream.
"Please don't kill me~ I'm willing to be a slave! I can do anything master wishes!~"
Davis didn't say anything for a while, looking as if he was considering before his voice echoed with skepticism.
"Truly?"
"Yes~ The way of the wicked path is such that the woman must submit to the man who has defeated her or her man or both if they are of equal strength~ You, an exceptional man has conquered me from this moment that I'd be willing to follow you, but since I offended your esteemed self, I understand that I can only be a slave before I somehow manage to earn your esteemed self's trust. Please give an opportunity to this lowly one~"
Grazia pleaded with a feeble voice. Her posture that seemed helpless and seductive invoked many thoughts in Davis. He reached out his hand towards her, appearing as if giving her a second chance.
Grazia appeared shy, her eyes shining in reverence before she lowered her head.
'Righteous fool... You all don't know the ferociousness of a wicked path woman...! Your softness towards women would be your downfall...! I may be conquered today, but in a few days, I will have your skull...!'
She reached out her hand and grabbed his hand before she stood up. However, halfway, the grasp she had on his hand was suddenly lost as she fell to her butt.
Blinking how she could let go of his hand like that, she raised her head and saw the scene in front of her, her expression freezing into paleness.
"...!?"
Davis was still in front of her, holding out his hand, but as she saw the greyish-black energy permeating around her arm, her expression became aghast! It had somehow already eaten up her hand without her even noticing!
"AHHHHHH!!!"
She screamed as if she was being slaughtered like a pig. She felt no pain but looking at her right hand that had disappeared and her disappearing wrist, she felt terrified and had completely lost her composure.
"No! Hurry! Take it off!!!"
She waved her hands, trying to snuff it out while her blood essence energy tried to eradicate it to no avail. Her heart turned cold as she took a dagger, grasping it with her left hand before she ruthlessly swung at her arm.
*Schwing!~*
The dagger was also a Peak-Level King Grade Armament, allowing her to cleanly slice her arm, but she had already lost her arm till the elbow by the time she reacted.
Once the greyish black energy completely devoured her severed arm, leaving nothing behind, not even ashes, the pain from the severed part of the arm hit her mind, making her overwhelmed that she began to cry. The thought that it could have been an illusion flashed past her mind, but recalling the ominous aura, her eyes trembled.
"Were you planning on killing me with that dagger on the bed?"
Davis coldly asked when Grazia shook as she dropped the dagger.
"Please... I beg you." She was completely terrified by that aura that she lost all her willpower to resist, "I'm truly willing to become a sla-"
"That wasn't your true intent a while ago, unfortunately." Davis interrupted, sighing as if he lamented.
"Seeing that you only wanted my spatial ring and not my life, I thought of sparing you as you were like a bandit with some morals, but you failed to use my bout of kindness when I said for the second time to make way or die, and when you lost, you intended to kill me while taking advantage of my faked kindness. I wonder who you were going to call to aid in your escape...?"'
"I-"
Grazia's quivering lips opened and closed, unable to reply when Davis raised his hand before his index finger pointed at her.
"Not that I care, though, as I don't want much trouble..."
*Crackle!~*
A thin arc of black lightning flashed out, heading straight towards Grazia's forehead. It pierced into her glabella, entered her soul sea, and eradicated her soul, leaving her eyes to turn dull. No blood came out of her forehead, but her body collapsed while blood kept flowing out of her severed arm, staining the ground.
She died. However, her dying face was filled with disbelief.
Davis saw the blood mark technique on the back of his palm collapse without him needing to use his energy to erase it. It seemed that it was intrinsically stuck to Grazia's vitality. It stuck to him like glue, and he could've erased it anytime he wished as it was something of lower cultivation but let it remain because he was bored, wanting to see what it might've done other than tracking.
In the end, it seemed that it was used for nothing but tracking.
"Sucks to be you cause I really would've let you live if you had just left on the second warning..."
Davis shrugged and collected all their spatial rings. He went through their spatial rings and found many dark and wind attribute resources. He raised his brows and saw that nothing was of relevance to him in aiding his cultivation.
"At least make my time worthwhile, damn it..."
He muttered in annoyance before he stepped off the ground, floating into the air while continuing his journey. He didn't bother with taking their corpses or burying them, and as expected, within a few minutes, he already sensed their corpses being eaten by stray magical beasts on that mountain.
He didn't encounter any kind of troubles for the remaining journey but did see instances of cruelty many times, enough that he became desensitized to it and turned off his moral compass.
In the righteous path, wrong things happened in closed doors, but it was out in the open in the wicked path. Davis couldn't tell which was better, but it did have an eerie juxtaposition with the twisted morals of the modern world.
'In the end, any world is the same...'
He inwardly lamented before he arrived at the northern Territory Gate in a few hours since he was traveling at a slow speed in order to maintain his fake identity as a Law Dominion Stage Cultivator.
Surprisingly, he didn't have to pay a spirit stone to enter this Territory.
Because...
The Twilight Shade Valley was currently known to be a Desolate Territory like the Tripartite Alliance of the Nine Western Territories once was. In other words, it was a battlefield that was still fought over by many powers, but it was mainly between humans and magical beasts. However, it was between the wicked path and the magical beasts and not between the righteous path and the magical beasts.
Looking at the permeating darkness in the atmosphere under the shining light of the moon and the spatial rings whose content was mostly of darkness attribute resources, he was reminded of Mo Mingzhi and her stunning visage.
'That little brat...'
Davis inwardly cursed as he didn't think that she would become an extreme beauty of Isabella's caliber, or maybe he felt like that since she was in his strike zone. He could understand why Isabella would recommend her.
However, he didn't know what to think of her, but one thing was sure.
He didn't want her to die but wanted her to experience a happy life. The Darkness Elemental he had, intending to absorb, was still unused, and neither did he have the time to care about it when he was already beginning to be able to comprehend Death Laws, so he gave it to Mo Mingzhi.
Of course, he didn't go and give it to her as he left her hanging but gave it to his mother and told her to give it to Mo Mingzhi. He also provided his mother with the King Flame Floral Essence, which Shirley provided to have her meridians tempered to fire attribute to a more significant degree.
Furthermore, in Elizar Yantra's spatial ring, he found many poison-attributed resources at King Grade, making him extremely elated. He mused that Elizar Yantra had been preparing a tribute for the Poison Lord, or maybe someone he could deal with like the Poison Lord Villa's youths, but in any case, it became a boon for his Evelynn instead!
Nevertheless, this Territory Gate was quite desolate with no powerhouses or elders in check. He took off while being inspected by no one that he couldn't help but feel he was entering a danger zone.
The skies were dark since it was not dawn yet. However, it made for an eerie atmosphere along with a grey fog that hindered his visibility and soul sense to a degree. He didn't have any fixed goal but aimlessly went around, spotting a border town a bit away from the Territory Gate.
It looked like an abandoned town, so he didn't enter as it was set in stone that he would encounter people who would try to kill him there, giving him nothing but headaches.
As he looked for a magical beast territory, he sounded in his soul sea.
"Nadia, how is this amount? Is it endurable?"
"Yes, it is... quite endurable..."
Nadia's voice sounded like she was out of breath, but also a bit erotic, giving Davis a strange feeling.
"Well then... I'll maintain this amount..." Davis stopped but blinked before he added, "... of death energy. The Transitory Beast Taming Pact seems to be incapable of providing you with the necessary amount in a passive manner, so I'll be showering you with death energy actively."
To do what he mentioned, it took him concentration, a part of his psyche, to actively provide her with death energy. Fortunately, he was at King Soul Stage, which made it entirely possible for him to do multiple things, parallel thinking while maintaining the same output of death energy for Nadia.
Moreover, it was Fallen Heaven's death energy, so he mused that the increase in bloodline quality she received would be extremely high if she was able to digest it. However, he didn't know to what end she would mutate or if she would ever turn into an abomination from this mix of ominous energy.
He was only doing this because she said that it felt beneficial for her, or else he wouldn't have dared to test this on one of his women.
Nevertheless, he truly hoped that she would be able to mutate because Nadia's sorrow became more pronounced to him. He could feel that she was becoming more and more afraid of being left behind after he became stronger than her physically, or perhaps she felt useless. Either way, she was bad at hiding her emotions and occasionally whimpered silently.
"I understand..."
Nadia's voice resounded, "No matter what happens to me, I'll always be your Nadia, Davis."
"Nadia..."
Davis sounded moved.
Looks like they were thinking the same thing as they had already talked about the possible consequences before starting this endeavor. They didn't know what she would turn into or if she would even be the same person if this attempt produced some results!
He stopped moving and forcefully summoned her out, pulling her into his embrace as he looked at her astonished expression.
"No matter what you turn into, remember that you're always mine, Nadia."
Nadia heard and felt his commanding tone which made her feel the shivers.
"Master~"
She suddenly leaped and captured his lips, wanting to share this passion in her heart as much as possible before she could turn into something else.