Chapter 41 - Appearing Before The Flowing Cloud Sect

Immediately Xiao Lin came out from the castle, he began to walk back to the town from the densely-populated forest that the castle which his bandit colleagues were dwelling in was.

When he finally arrived at the town, with the hood of his grey hooded cloak pulled over his head so that he won't be noticed by anyone, he began to walk in a random direction.

After walking for sometime, he came before a row of shops and then asked the person in one of the shops that where was the Greensilk Valley and how could he get there.

The shop owner described the direction that he should go in which was the South direction.

When the shop owner described the direction of the Greensilk Valley to him, he gave his thanks with a nod of his head and began to walk towards there, following the description of that shop owner.

After walking for a few hours as the Greensilk Valley was really far away from the street that he was in, he eventually got there.

"Finally!" He said as he pulled his hood down.

He then walked into the valley to look for the bands of three mountains that seemed to be fused together which Deathwind described to him.

After walking for a long time, approximately thirty minutes later, he came across the massive crater that he made into the earth when he crashed into it immediately after he fused with Blood Wolf God Animal Spirit.

He then nodded his head.

"Yea. This is surely the place." He said.

He then began to look around for where the fused group of three mountains were.

After looking around for a few minutes, he saw the mountains many feet away from the crater that was in front of him.

Once he saw it, he produced a vicious smile in his face.

Then without wasting time, he quickly gathered strength in his powerful legs and leaped over the crater which was many feet wide.

Once he landed at the other side of the crater, he dashed towards that group of seemingly merged mountains.

Then with his thick, lustrous claws growing out from his nails, he pushed them into the surface of the mountain and began to climb his way up to the peak of the mountain. And so that he could arrive there in time, he activated his Super Speed ability.

Immediately he did so, he began to climb up really fast to the peak of one of the mountains.

Then many minutes later, precisely thirty minutes later, he got to the peak of one of the tall, towering mountains.

Once he arrived at the peak of that mountain, he looked into the distance and saw a structure that seemed like a sect.

When Xiao Lin saw this, he nodded his head.

Then looking further, he could see a large wooden board in which the name of the sect 'Flowing Cloud Sect' was written in it.

He then began to walk towards the sect to enter and show himself to his ex-sect members.

As he did so, he could hear them discussing things.

"Big brother Zhang Feng, what exactly are we going to tell Master that happened to Xiao Lin? I think that what we did that day was too abrupt. We didn't even think of what to tell Master before bullying Xiao Lin and forcing him to fall to his death." One asked while the others looked at Zhang Feng to hear what he would say.

"It's easy. We would just say that he became tired of everything in here and then decided to leave, since he totally lacked the endurance and patience which are two of the numerous virtues of a true cultivator to wait for our master that long to arrive from where he went to" Zhang Feng said with a smile

Then as soon as he said that, claps began to unexpectedly ring out, which then immediately alerted everyone that began to look around for where the claps were ringing out from.

Not long, Xiao Lin stepped in with a vicious smile in his face.

Once the people within the sect saw Xiao Lin, their bodies and souls shook to their cores, including that of Zhang Feng who then had fear suddenly engulf his heart. However, he dispelled the fear that had taken over his heart in the next moment when he saw that Xiao Lin was only a 3rd-layer Spiritual Ascendant stage cultivator.

"X-Xiao Lin, you are still a-alive?" One of them asked in a stuttering manner.

"Alive? No, I am dead. My resentful ghost came back to haunt you all" Xiao Lin answered with an hideous smile hung on his lips.

"But ghosts aren't real. They are only products of illusions." Another said with narrowed eyes, trying to refute Xiao Lin's statement.

Xiao Lin only maintained the wicked smile in his face.

He then said with his dreadful, beastly-sounding deep voice "You will know in a minute!"

As soon as he said that, he suddenly dashed towards one of them and used the lustrous claws that grew out from the nails of one of his hands to pierce deep into the chest of that person, directly at the heart which he then viciously pulled out, showing the others before him what the heart really looked like.

The person that had his chest effortlessly pierced through by Xiao Lin's thick, razor-sharp claws, couldn't even scream out in pain when he quickly fell dead to the the ground, with blood beginning to rapidly ooze out and at the same time, forcefully spurt like a fountain from the large, grievous wound suddenly made into his chest.

Seeing the speed that he moved at, and how ruthless he were, the other disciples in the sect quickly produced their Animal Spirits which they rapidly fused with in the next moment.

From what Xiao Lin just did, which was the speed that he moved at, he didn't seem to be someone in the 3rd-layer, Spiritual Ascendance stage. That movement speed that he achieved was very close to the speed that could be attained by a 6th-layer or 7th-layer, Spiritual Ascendance stage cultivator.

Xiao Lin only ignored the different types of looks in their faces and focused on the heart in his hand.

Then following the demonic mark condensation technique to condense True Demonic Marks in his dantian, threads of blood which were actually the blood essences, could be seen moving from the heart in his hand towards his arm. The threads of blood essence then pierced through the skin pores of that arm and flowed within his arm to his dantian where they rapidly merged and formed into a single Demonic Mark.

Once this happened, a thin and faint blood-colored aura of oppressive demonic power suddenly bursted out from his body which then retracted back into his body in the next instant.

Xiao Lin then exhaled and dropped the heart held in his hand to the ground which actually shattered into smithereens like it were glass.

He then produced an enjoyable, evil smile in his face in the next instant and said "If you know what is good for you, pull out your hearts from your chests and submit them to me."