Infinite Slaughter System: I Kill, Therefore I Ascend!

CRACK!

The Body Foundation fellow was sweating bullets as he had fallen to his knees, his arm twisted into the shape of a pretzel by Li Ling, who still held his fist tightly like an iron grip. Overwhelmed by the pain, the other fellow could not easily muster the will to resist, only exerting more of his Fire Aura to suppress Li Ling's lower level Blood Qi.

"Tell me about your sect's placements and defenses, and I will give you a painless death." Li Ling commanded with a cold smile, looking down upon the fellow with a malevolent look in his eyes.

The Body Foundation fellow paled greatly. "Can't you spare my life? If you do, I will tell you everything!"

Li Ling tilted his head with a strange smile as he observed the fellow, which made the captive have terrifying chills all over his body, as if he should have never said that.

"You know what? I have a better idea actually." Li Ling muttered as his eyes lit up with a nefarious thought.

Li Ling stretched out his other hand to grasp the fellow's scalp, to which the enemy naturally resisted greatly with fear on his face.

"Stop! What are you trying to do? What are you— AHHH!!!"

His words were cut off by a scream of pain beyond measure as Li Ling activated the Soul Piercing Seal and shattered the barriers of his unopened Sea of Consciousness, immediately plunging within and placing his same old slave mark there, which manifested on the fellow's forehead as well.

However, unlike Luo Roumei who was allowed to keep her will, Li Ling directly erased this fellow's free will and turned him into a semi-mindless slave like the ones carrying Bai Ruyi's palanquin back then.

Li Ling released the arm of his victim and retracted the remnant Blood Qi on it, allowing it to heal rapidly as was typical of body cultivators. The enemy cultivator then looked up to Li Ling with dull pupils, not rising to his feet without an order from his new master.

"Stand. I don't care what your name or history was before, but now you are called Majin One. Now, tell me everything about your sect and its placements." Li Ling declared solemnly.

Majin One stood to his feet and bowed to Li Ling with maximum reverence before he began speaking fluently about everything contained in his memories, to which Li Ling listened with raised eyebrows.

"What a brave sect. Truly, demonic sects have more guts than the righteous ones, because this plan actually could have worked if the chips fell on your plate. Alright, Majin One, your current task is to recuperate and then head to the area of any other sect or mortal kingdom and bloodwash them thoroughly." Li Ling commanded with a wave of his hand.

As Majin One bowed and was about to leave to carry out the order, Li Ling suddenly remembered to add something. "Oh, and if you find any high-level beauties, capture them and bring them along with you to the location of your sect's headquarters, I will be waiting for you after a total of seven days."

Li Ling left the scene on the Mountain Splitting Blade, wondering if his little harebrained scheme would work. Since Majin One was enslaved by him and ordered to kill by him, would the kills his slave made generate Slaughter Points for the system to claim?

This was something Li Ling deeply considered for his long-term plan of creating a slaughter farm for him to periodically harvest high-quality Slaughter Points without having to always risk his life or come upon them infrequently.

Anyway, he soon arrived at his next destination, which was actually a small mortal village in the mountains that was one of the secret treasuries of the Fire Heart Sect, excavated recently to hide their goods while they 'pretended' to fight back.

In truth, most of their upper echelon were placed at strategic locations around the sect's various defensible areas, but if the going got tough, they were given the chance to flee to this location and hide out deep within the mountain until the whole thing blew over.

Li Ling did not think it was a bad idea, because in a situation like this, the only thing was to either hide so deep that you were miraculously spared from execution or to just die. Fleeing was not possible unless you were beamed in by a top sect to cause trouble like Jian Chen, also given a way out when the troublemaking was done.

But still, a plan to hide only worked if one person knew about it. Clearly, this Fire Heart Sect was too greedy, wanting to preserve as much of their lineage as possible for the future, and so let in all their second realm practitioners onto the plan, which allowed Li Ling to find out.

Looking down from the sky, the village seemed quite normal, containing the families and loved ones of all the Body Foundation practitioners of the Fire Heart Sect, along with some key Mortal Flesh fellows who were second generations or were truly core disciples.

Li Ling smiled and activated the Disguise Art, modeling his face and figure after Majin One as he descended down into the ground, walking up to the entrance of the village. When the villagers saw him come up, they became alert and tense, because despite being mortals, they knew about the situation after being warned by their families.

However, when they saw the relatively familiar face of Majin One, they relaxed visibly and continued to go about their days while chatting about various things. As Li Ling walked deeper, a boy of around seven years old ran over with a joyful expression.

"Daddy! You're back!" he squealed with joy as he clung to Li Ling's leg, his eyes curled into crescents.

A slender and fair-skinned woman who wasn't overly voluptuous but was still a solid six in Li Ling's eyes walked over slowly, her cultivation actually sealed by a special method to hide the fact that she was Qi Refinement level 4.

Li Ling, using his advanced spirit sense, could easily see through the fact that this mortal village contained a mixture of mortals and low-level cultivators, especially the wives of the various Body Foundation fellows who were used to dispel their heat.

Like this woman, despite seeing her husband, there was an undercurrent of fear in her and a slight limp in her walking. Li Ling guessed she must have a water or ice-type spirit root and was able to somewhat quench the fire, but it was not an easy or desirable task.

Coming over, she bowed with respect. "Noble Husband, I welcome you home. As per your instructions, I have settled everyone of your family members in the western wing of the village. Would you like to inspect things?"

Li Ling glanced at her and shook his head, mimicking Majin One's voice. "No need. I have urgent business to handle since the Six Paths Halls will be attacking soon, so take my son and dig a cellar underneath your home here and hide."

Li Ling never once glanced at Majin One's son, removing him from his feet and placing him in his mother's arms as he walked calmly towards the depths of the village, especially to the cave entrance where the treasury was installed.

Most people looked at him with curiosity and deference as he went, while the mother and son duo were puzzled.

"Mama, is daddy angry with us?" the child asked with a slightly sobbing tone, never having been ignored by his father like this before.

The woman hesitated and glanced deeply at Li Ling's back. "No… I think your daddy is doing something important. Let's go back and hide as he said."

She resolutely turned around and briskly walked back, not even informing the rest of Majin One's family as she exited the village after packing her important things, escaping with her son as fast as possible.

Li Ling only turned around to smile coldly when he sensed her actions but did not stop her. Rather, upon reaching the entrance of the cave, he saw that it was actually guarded by another Body Foundation fellow of the Fire Heart Sect.

When he saw Li Ling walking over, he was initially startled but then realized significantly. "Ah, it's Old Yao, huh? What are you doing here instead of the low-grade spirit stone mine near the Demon Wolf Forest? Did something happen?"

"It's been routed. The Asura Blood Disciples have already passed through and I was no match, so I took the chance to flee." Li Ling answered grimly as he approached closer.

"Oh? Damn, that must have been a terrible situation! At least you managed to make it here in time. Let's head inside so we can inform the Sect Master and get you settled in, yeah?" the other fellow cursed in lament and then stood up with a nod to Li Ling.

The moment Li Ling got within arm's reach however, the other fellow suddenly struck out with a strange kick from a blind spot, aiming to smash Li Ling in the side. The kick was a martial arts technique and quite a good one, also imbued with the familiar flame aura of the Fire Heart Sect.

"Die, bastard! Do you think I can't tell when someone is impersonating a friend?!" the fellow sneered as he struck cruelly.

However, he was subjected to the same horror as Majin One when Li Ling caught his blow head-on using his Blood Qi. Unlike before though, Li Ling only grabbed the fellow closer and placed a hand on his head, activating the Soul Piercing Seal once more.

"Wait, I— AHHH!!!"

Another scream, another slave.

"Your name is now Majin Two. Your first task is to head back to the village behind me and slaughter every man, woman, and child. Leave nothing alive, except your own wife and child maybe, that much I can spare you." Li Ling ordered casually, removing his disguise since it was pointless and boldly walking into the cave.

"Yes, Master." Majin Two responded dazedly, turning around and manifesting his Fire Aura as he charged into the village in a bloody slaughter, with screams, pleas and cries of confusion sounding out from behind Li Ling that became quieter the deeper into the cave he went.

Inside the cave, there were various dwellings carved out in a massive chamber that were meant to be retreats for the various upper echelons of the Fire Heart Sect, yet only a few were occupied. At the opposite end of the chamber was a massive double door that was also protected by a grade 2 array that likely sealed all the key resources of the Fire Heart Sect.

Once he had the layout, Li Ling was pretty satisfied, but by this point, his foreign aura had been detected by the sharp senses of those within.

Five burly Body Foundation experts of the Fire Heart Sect came out of their dwellings with suspicion on their faces, until they saw Li Ling with his young face coupled with his white and gold robes.

Then, their faces became grim as they understood that things had taken the worst possible turn.

"Don't worry, I've already enslaved two of your people and one is happily killing all your family and friends outside. Aren't I pretty great?" Li Ling announced first with a smarmy grin, causing the faces of the five to change severely.

"What?!"

"Bastard, what have you done?!"

"No, Xiao Yin!"

"Ah! How can this be?!"

"No, this cannot happen!"

The five were shaken to their core as their eyes became red, one of them at the fourth level of Body Foundation charging at Li Ling with fury in his eyes, his Fire Aura deployed to the max.

"Get out of the way!" he bellowed, swiping his hand to smash Li Ling away so that he could rescue his family members outside.

But this time, Li Ling manifested the Golden Blockade which perfectly offset the incoming attack and even caused his assailant to take a few heavy steps back due to rebound, his feet sinking into the stone beneath like it was sand, leaving deep footprints.