Getting a Sugar Mommy in Cultivation World!! - Chapter 824 - 824: Intentions of The Demonic Sect

The captain’s blood techniques were vicious and unpredictable. His blade would dissolve into mist and reform from impossible angles.

His body flickered in and out of existence, using the blood mist as a medium to teleport short distances.

But Jiang Shi’s ice was absolute.

Every time he tried to overwhelm her with speed, she would create barriers of ice mirrors that slowed his movements by blocking his path.

When he attempted to use his blood mist to obscure her vision or move past those barriers, she would summon blizzards to freeze the bloody mist itself. With it frozen, the captain found it hard to contend against Jiang Shi.

Her sword work was elegant yet chillingly brutal, each strike carrying the weight of winter itself.

“Impossible!” the captain roared as another of his attacks was deflected. “How can someone eight levels below me—”

Jiang Shi didn’t let him finish. She thrust her hand forward, and the ice phoenix, which had been circling above, dove down like a meteor.

Its beak pierced through the captain’s shoulder, drawing first blood.

“Arghh!” He screamed and swung his blade without aim like a wild animal who lost control, forcing the phoenix back.

But in that moment of distraction, Jiang Shi was already upon him. Her sword sang through the air, carrying with it the fury of a winter storm.

The captain tried to block, but the force behind her strike was overwhelming. His bloody crystal blade shattered into a thousand pieces.

Before he could retreat into blood mist again, Jiang Shi’s other hand shot out. Ice spread from her palm, freezing his feet to the ground and crawling up his legs.

“No! No, no, NO!”

He tried to circulate his blood qi to break free, but frost was already spreading across his meridians, slowing the flow of his energy.

He realized that it was already too late for him. His knees gave up, forcing him to kneel on the ground.

Jiang Shi landed gracefully in front of him. The ice phoenix perched on her shoulder, its eyes gleaming with cold intelligence. She raised her sword and placed the tip against his throat.

She was not unscathed; despite coming out victorious, her body was riddled with scars. Her white robes were dyed with her blood and dust. Her breath was uneven, but her eyes were firm and cold.

Chen Xueyan, seeing this, stepped forward towards them.

The dust finally settled. Nearly half the village lay in ruins. Craters dotted the landscape where their attacks had struck.

The air itself seemed to shimmer with residual energy. Chen Xueyan approached slowly, still maintaining the qi shield around the boy. She glanced at the destruction and sighed softly.

“Junior Sister, Elder Xin Yan is going to scold you again for being too reckless.” Jiang Shi ignored her, her cold gaze fixed on the captain whose face had turned pale with fear.

Blood trickled from his shoulder where the phoenix had wounded him, staining his robes a deeper shade of crimson.

“Now then,” Jiang Shi said, her voice as cold as the blade at his throat. “I believe you owe me some answers.”

“I have nothing to say to you.” With bloodshot eyes, the captain glared at Jiang Shi, but in reality, he was thinking hard, thinking of a way to escape. ‘Do I have to take my own life to protect the secrets of the sect?’

“What connections do you have to the Blood Fiend Sect?” Jiang Shi ignored his objections and started asking questions while pressing thorns made of ice against his legs.

The tip of the ice was thinner than an acupuncture needle, so it easily pierced his skin and muscles.

He could see it from the surface: the ice diffusing inside his body from the tip of the thorn and the excruciating pain it brought along.

“Why do you want to know about those heretics?”

“Argh!” the pain started low, like he had been pinched, but slowly it started to grow. “Wait, I will tell you.”

Hearing this, Jiang Shi paused and took back the insertion of the thorn, but it still remained inside his body.

‘Phew, this woman… she is worse than demons.’ Seeing the cold look in Jiang Shi’s eyes, he gasped for breath and thought inwardly. ‘Since she is not interested in the activities of the sect, I should be able to tell her that much.’

“Several decades ago, there was a time when the sect had a conflict because some heretics were worshiping a false god as their lord.”

Jiang Shi stayed silent but vigilant as the captain continued speaking.

“The Blood lord it the one true god, and they dared to worship the Bloody Fiend for power.” The venom in his voice was livid. It seemed like he was present at the time when this civil war happened from the way he spoke.

But Jiang Shi did not seem to be interested in all that. She coldly spoke as she pressed the thorn a little further. “Don’t waste my time and get to the point.”

Hissing in pain, he relented and continued, “We expelled the heretics from the sect, but one of the elders who was among them stole a portion of the legacy of our sect when he left.”

“By the time we sent forces after him, he along with the rest had escaped the empire. When we later got news about him, we found that he had formed a sect called the bloody fiend sect. He even had the balls to accept the title of Blood Demon, Chi Zu.”

After spitting all of the disdain for Chi Zu, the captain looked at Jiang Shi and spoke carefully. “Looks like you had a bad encounter with that man, but I swear on my life that we Blood Demon Sect have nothing to do with heretics!”

Jiang Shi looked back without any emotions. The truth was that she had heard about the sect from Noah when he told stories about his travel to them.

She was just curious and nothing more. But she did not let it show on his face and spoke. “Shut up and tell me what I want to know next.”