Chapter 16: The sword devil sect

Yun Jhin was ready to leave the Corpse refining sect and go directly to the sword devil sect and see what happened there for the patriarch of the sect to acquire such an 'interesting' technique, but first, he had to take care of some of the things at his sect before he went, after he finished everything he had to take care off he directly left the sect.

As he finally left the sect location he could finally see how it was outside, the sect was situated in the middle of the woods where heavy fog surrounded it, most of the time the fog would ensnare poor civilians who were courageous enough to venture so far into the forest before they became corpses for the Corpse refining sect, those were the rare cases as most of the time the sect members went by themselves to procure fresh corpses.

To get to the sword devil sect Yun Jhin had to get outside the forest and go to a nearby river, he needed to follow the river tail till he found a waterfall, there above the waterfall he would find the sword devil sect, at first, the sect wasn't called sword devil sect, but sword devil slaying sect, not much was known about why the sect's name changed but Yun Jhin knew as he absorbed some of Miao Suiren's memories, the thing was the memories of him learning the technique were missing seemingly erased, that why Yun Jhin wanted to go and investigate the sect.

Yun Jhin frowned as he ran out of the forest and found the river that led to the sect, as he ran alongside the river bed he thought to himself:

"Missing memories can mean just one thing, a Ki Cultivator or above expert, but he should have already left by now, a devil Ki Cultivator is above the normal standard when it comes to fighting power, fortunately, he shouldn't be at the sect anymore if it showed anything the Ki Cultivator devil should have been injured when he arrived at the sword devil sect..."

As he thought about it a clear image appeared in his head, the devil was injured but still strong enough to deal with the others, however, to not aggravate his injuries he bewitched the sword devil sect patriarch and the others taught them some techniques in exchange of resources that he could heal himself with.

But due to his cautious nature, in the end, the devil deleted all of the memories regarding himself, but he let them have the techniques as promised, they must have signed a contract, devils must always adhere to a soul signed contract, it was their only weakness, making them sign the contract was another thing.

Yun Jhin finally reached the waterfall's location after a few tens of minutes of running alongside the river bed, there he easily scaled it till he reached the sword devil sect, the sword devil sect was minimalistic as it had huts instead of palaces and pagodas, on the surface, it seemed way poorer than the corpse refining sect.

Yun Jhin snorted inside, this was a good way to make others think they were poor but with the memories of the patriarch, he knew that their resources were quite plentiful even after they gave some to the passing devil, as not many things would interest a Ki Cultivator, at his stage the resources on this patch of land would have quite a tiny effect on his body and cultivation base. (...)

The sentry that stood nearby the waterfall to wait for intruders immediately sounded a war bugle as I approached but when he saw my figure he froze up and his sword started to tremble in his grasp, I grabbed his sword and put it back in the disciple's sheath.

I looked over at him and said:

"Your patriarch is dead and now I'm your leader, call all of the disciples and elders, I'm here to appoint a new patriarch to control the sect while I'm not here, do you understand?"

Most of the disciples beside the new ones knew how the patriarchs of the other sects looked, so when the disciple saw me he almost pissed himself in fear, after all, he was only a stage 2 earthly realm rookie. I nodded at him then motioned with my hand, now his voice combined with the earlier bugle call it finally took the attention of the whole sect.

After the elders and other disciples came out of their huts I immediately jumped up on a nearby tree and made all of them look at me as I said with a loud tone:

"As of now I'm the patriarch of all of the three sects in the nearby vicinity, but my headquarters are at the corpse refining sect, I'm looking for the strongest elder in the sect to take the helm as the new patriarch while I'm at the headquarters." (...)

The elders started to talk among themselves as they whispered to each other:

"The patriarch and sect master is dead, no way!"

"They must be, Sun Sisheng wouldn't have come this way leaving his sect alone, *sigh* It seems our sect lost all our prestige and now we are the slaves of another."

Another young-looking elder looked indignant as he said:

"Why would we let ourselves be conquered by him, he is one man and we are many, let's fight him to death!"

An older elder slapped the younger elder on the head and said in a raspy tone:

"Shut your dumb ass up, you just advanced to the 6th stage of the earthly realm and you don't know anything about the heavenly realm, he must have broken through the 3rd level that's why our patriarch lost, we are pretty much doomed no matter how many earthly realm experts we throw at him, we would need heavenly experts to deal with him!"

The young-looking elder sulked as he looked at his feet and nursed the back of his head where the older man hit him, As Yun Jhin was already hearing whatever they were speaking he suddenly interjected:

"I was waiting for you to decide whoever is stronger not to gossip about my strength, if you won't choose by yourself I will choose myself."

His soul willpower engulfed the bunch of elders and then he pointed at a middle-aged man with sideburns and a small mustache as he said:

"You are at the 8th stage of the earthly realm and the current strongest elder, you will be the patriarch under my absence, come here and make your allegiance!"

The man wanted to say something but a formless power dragged him towards Yun Jhin and made him kneel, his soul space was opened as his consciousness and psyche were invaded by Yun Jhin's soul willpower, unlike heavenly realm experts, earthly realm rookies could be forcefully enslaved.

The man started kowtowing immediately as he was on his knees and said:

"Oh lord Sun Sisheng, might the heavens let you live a life as long as them, I Mandred Branco will follow your lordship anywhere I can go!"

Yun Jhin nodded his head as his eyes trained over the others and then he threw a pill he refined while at the corpse refining sect and said:

"Eat this pill and you should break through the 9th stage, there you won't have any opposition from the others."

Branco immediately ate the pill without any hesitation as strange sounds came from his skin bones and organs as they were all strengthened at the same time, a bright red aura enveloped him as he broke through to the 9th stage of the earthly realm!

Yun Jhin nodded his head as he said:

"All of you go back to whatever you were doing, I will have to check up on something in the treasury and I don't want to be disturbed, Branco keep guard for me!"

Branco nodded his head like a loyal dog, if he had a tail right now he would be wagging it furiously to show how happy he was to serve his new master. Yun Jhin climbed towards a man-made cave under the sect near the waterfall, that's where the treasury was located and the things Yun Jhin needed for his cultivation base to advance a bit.

Yun Jhin finally entered the cave and disabled the weak formations that were guarding it, he then looked around and nodded his head as he saw that the riches the sword devil sect had were more abundant than what the poor corpse refining sect had, he didn't need spirit stones nor certain pills, what he needed were some spiritual plants the sword devil patriarch encountered a certain while ago. As he looked through the piles of spirit stones pills and trinkets he finally found what he needed, 3 eyes grass, 2 forks snake chrysanthemums, and one blood devil rose, they could be used to make a pill which would propel him directly to the second stage of the heavenly realm. However he wasn't here just for these, he looked around for some more in the treasury until he found an old tablet bathed in crimson blood.

The engravings on it were the cultivation techniques of the devil detonating technique, as he looked at the engravings he muttered:

"Not Asmophel descendant, not Mulciler either, Brotokus? no Brotokus descendants don't know how to write at all, they are all dumb brutes, Milizhaus? maybe but not probably, Milizhaus hates humans and he would never let his tribe out of hell."

Yun Jhin shook his head as he tried to thread on which devil monarch let his descendant out of hell, but he shook his head continuously as he couldn't identify the caligraphy, that either meant the devil wasn't from royalty or he was a traitor who didn't want his identity to be leaked, all royals wrote the same calligraphic, and the common calligraphy in hell wouldn't let someone inscribe such engravings easily..."

A traitor from the devil royalty, interesting, Yun Jhin mused as he used his soul to inspect the engravings better when he noticed the crimson blood that looked fresh suddenly dry up, he frowned as he took a better look and he shook his head as he said:

"He died, what a pity, if he was still alive I could have used his blood to track him down when I was strong enough."

When such engravings dried up that meant the one who wrote them died.

Yun Jhin kept the engravings as he could teach them to the cannon fodder of the sects, the devil detonation technique was one of the techniques he recognized and could teach but if he had the cultivation technique inscribed directly he didn't have to waste his time engraving such a tablet himself as it would take quite a while. As he looked around and noticed he didn't need anything else he left the treasury and notified the sect that he will leave.

The sect elders and disciples took a deep breath as they watched Yun Jhin's receding figure and finally restarted their daily activities such as sparring cultivating and fishing.

Yun Jhin looked back at the sword devil sect as he now walked towards the direction of the fairies sect, he had to visit their treasury as well!

There was something useful there that he had to get his hands on, an artifact that would increase the speed of mending his soul.