The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 426: Chapter 426: Bloody Fiend Patriarch_1

Wando Archipelago, a very remote uninhabited island.

Priest He, his face grim, landed on the island, riding a White Bone Treasured Sword that emanated a bloody light. He immediately took out a dark red, musky, blood-scented Elixir and swallowed it. Drawing upon the Bloody Fiend essence it contained, he replenished his nearly depleted Mana.

”There isn’t a single living person for hundreds of miles around this island.”

”Even if the Drunk Immortal’s companions possess immense Skills, they shouldn’t be able to find me!” Priest He’s expression relaxed slightly as he muttered to himself.

About half a month ago, after presenting the Drunk Immortal to First-Class Priest Wang Yuanxing, he had indeed received a generous reward from the powerful expert. The musky, blood-scented Elixir he had just consumed and the White Bone Treasured Sword beneath his feet were part of that reward.

He had initially thought that by latching onto the Wando Archipelago’s most powerful figure, his future cultivation path would become even smoother.

Who could have imagined that just as he received his reward and was returning to his cultivation island, he would hear a rumor that made his blood run cold...

First-Class Priest Wang Yuanxing had intended to use the Drunk Immortal as a cultivation resource. Such a blasphemous act incurred celestial wrath, and an Immortal descended from the heavens to strike him down! Not only Wang Yuanxing but all Priests, high and low, in the Bright Sand Country’s Capital City, had been slaughtered by these ’Immortals’.

Initially, Priest He had dismissed this rumor with scorn.

After all, where could one find genuine Immortals in this world?

It was surely just ignorant commoners exaggerating baseless tales.

Besides, Wang Yuanxing was the Wando Archipelago’s strongest expert; Priest He couldn’t imagine anyone capable of killing him!

But it wasn’t long before he learned from other Priests who had fled Bright Sand Country that the rumor was true: the so-called ’Immortals’ were actually the Drunk Immortal’s fellow sect members! Wang Yuanxing had indeed been killed, and the Class III and higher-ranking Priests in the Capital City had perished even before him. Furthermore, this deadly duo, a man and a woman, had begun a massacre of Priests throughout Bright Sand Country shortly after killing Wang Yuanxing, slaughtering them regardless of their cultivation Realm!

With this realization, how could Priest He not understand he had brought about a monstrous catastrophe?

He no longer dared to return to the island he had previously occupied. Instead, he fled Bright Sand Country entirely, continuously retreating towards the remote regions of the Wando Archipelago. If his cultivation hadn’t required living humans, and if he hadn’t risked encountering ferocious Sea Beasts by straying too far from the Wando Archipelago, Priest He would have fled countless miles away by now!

Just as his Mana had mostly recovered, and he was contemplating where to capture a few young fisherwomen to... indulge himself, a terrifyingly oppressive, murky streak of escaping light shot past overhead. Priest He’s expression changed drastically. He was about to use magic to conceal himself, but it was too late! The murky escaping light had already detected his presence. The moment its ’gaze’ fell upon him, Priest He felt his blood surge uncontrollably, rushing to his head and erupting from his seven orifices...

SPLAT!

Priest He’s corpse fell to the ground.

Only then did the murky escaping light reveal its true form: a figure in a crimson wedding dress. It was the late-stage Class III Demon Soul General, the Ghost Bride, controlled by Shen Mo. A Soul Splitting Rune had also been implanted within its Soul Body. Consequently, all its actions were under Shen Mo’s complete control. Furthermore, all information gathered by its five senses and spiritual sense was relayed back to Shen Mo’s mind without omission.

”Hmm? This person seems to be... Priest He, the one who presented Senior Sister Jiang.”

Within the Bright Sand Country’s Royal Palace, now the Bloody Fiend Sect’s headquarters, Shen Mo remarked nonchalantly upon receiving the visuals transmitted by the Ghost Bride. Immediately, the Ghost Bride, under his control, swept up Priest He’s corpse and belongings, enveloping them in its baleful light, and flew towards the Capital City.

Among the fallen Priest’s belongings were items useful to the Bloody Fiend Sect Disciples, which could be placed in the sect’s Treasure Hall. As for their corpses and remains...

When Shen Mo formulated the sect’s rules and regulations, he specifically added a decree: Sect Disciples are forbidden from using human remains for cultivation, even those of slain Priests or evil cultivators.

This was by no means Shen Mo exercising double standards; the Bloody Fiend Sect Disciples were different from him.

For Shen Mo, techniques like the Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body and the Soul Refining Flag’s Imperial Soul method were merely a couple of the many powerful abilities he possessed.

Even if they offered no further advancement, he could dedicate his time and energy to enhancing other abilities, with little overall impact on his strength.

Thus, he could always maintain a clear and steadfast mind!

For instance, some time ago, when the Demon Soul Generals in his flag began to lag behind his own power, he could have unleashed them to indiscriminately devour the Marine Race creatures in the coastal waters of the Immortal Burial Sea.

But Shen Mo had not done so.

This was solely because the Marine Race had an alliance with the Five Great Immortal Sects.

Let alone slaughtering the mortals of the Red Flame Country to advance the Demon Soul Generals’ Realms...

Shen Mo had been willing to let the Demon Soul Generals in the flag remain at Class II, only significantly enhancing their strength after he reached the far seas of the Immortal Burial Sea and the Ghost Nation Ruins.

The Bloody Fiend Sect Disciples, however, lacked his advantages: they had no ’Divine Soul’ system, no Special Destiny, no formidable magic. They possessed only a simplified version of the Dragon Elephant Blood Fiend Body. In their eagerness to enhance their vitality and power, they could easily stray onto a deviant path.

Rather than sow the seeds of future trouble, it was better to prohibit all practices involving the use of humans for cultivation within the sect’s rules and regulations from the outset.

Firstly, this would distinguish them from the Priestly evil cultivators, allowing them to occupy the moral high ground, which is more conducive to the Bloody Fiend Sect’s development and continued existence.

Secondly, it would encourage them to bravely battle savage Sea Beasts, thereby broadening their horizons and fortifying their spirit. This would prevent them from descending into petty schemes, constantly plotting against vulnerable islanders, mortals, or even their fellow Sect Disciples out of base desires!

Consequently, the bodies and souls of the evil cultivator Priests slain recently were all ground into dust. As for Priest He’s corpse, Shen Mo planned to use the Soul-binding Spell to extract his soul, allowing Senior Sister Jiang to vent her fury! After all, this man was one of the primary culprits behind Senior Sister Jiang’s suffering.

Furthermore, using the Soul Refining Flag and the Soul Splitting Runes, Shen Mo directed the ten Demon Soul Generals, including the Ghost Bride, to carry out a wide-scale slaughter of evil cultivator Priests in Bright Sand Country and its surrounding islands. To date, more than a dozen Class III and higher-ranking Priests had fallen to the Demon Soul Generals. Those Priests ranked below Class III but above Class IX were innumerable!

As an increasing number of evil cultivator Priests perished at the hands of the Demon Soul Generals, news about the Three Bloody Fiend Ancestors and their Ten Divine Generals rapidly spread throughout the entire Wando Archipelago. The Three Bloody Fiend Ancestors, of course, referred to Shen Mo, Jiang Lingfeng, and Ming Yu! The initial rumors likely originated from the Sect Disciples at the Bloody Fiend Sect’s headquarters...

In their accounts, Sect Master Shen Mo was honored with the title of Bloody Fiend Patriarch; Deputy Sect Master Jiang Lingfeng and Forge Hall Master Ming Yu were respectively nicknamed the Second Bloody Fiend Ancestor and the Third Bloody Fiend Ancestor! The Sect Disciples also mistakenly believed that the ten Demon Soul Generals, who were exterminating evil cultivator Priests everywhere, were powerful living experts. Consequently, these Demon Soul Generals were also given the grand title of the ’Ten Divine Generals’.

Many islanders, whose relatives and friends had become sacrificial offerings for the Priests’ cultivation, even set up memorial tablets in their homes or pooled money to build shrines for the living. They enshrined tablets for the Three Bloody Fiend Ancestors, with places for the Ten Divine Generals respectfully arranged below!