Chapter 12: Killing Night

After feeling the same sensation he felt a few days ago when he was squeezing Lin Long's neck, Cheng Tian smiled as his eyes opened wide.

As he squeezed that criminal's neck tighter, he saw that person regain consciousness, with a terrified look in his eyes.

But he felt nothing for this person, only the will to use this stone on his way to becoming stronger.

'I am not the type to target the innocent and weak, but since you have put yourselves in my path, blame yourselves...' Cheng Tian quietly thought.

"Now!"

Immediately after that, three spirit rings appeared one after another, along with that person's martial soul, a red and black dagger about 20 centimeters long.

Like before, the spirit rings of Cheng Tian's victim surged through that person's body until they circled around the young man's right arm.

At the same time, howls of pain started coming from the criminal's mouth as Cheng Tian's two purple spirit rings appeared on his arm, quickly beginning to fuse with them.

At that moment, his two spirit rings grew in size but did not undergo the qualitative transformation like the first time.

But that was only to be expected. After all, Cheng Tian's rings would need several thousand years to evolve. However, that criminal had white, yellow, and purple rings. In other words, the total age absorbed by Cheng Tian was between one thousand and two thousand years, insufficient to raise the degree of his rings.

In any case, during the entire absorption process, some of the criminals in the surrounding area noticed Cheng Tian's actions. But unlike the Cryptid Academy teacher, none saw this young man's spirit ring evolve.

Consequently, although they realized terrible things were happening there, they did not understand what it was.

To make matters worse, they were in the midst of a life-and-death battle. So, how could they have the calmness of judgment to pay attention that Cheng Tian had suddenly left peak level 27 and reached peak level 29 in just a few breaths?

Thus, the battles in the surrounding area continued, with most of those manipulated by Cheng Tian not even realizing what he had just done.

"Ah, this feeling..." Cheng Tian let go of that weakly breathing person's neck, who was already voiceless and as dry as a mummy.

As for his martial soul, it had already disappeared from this world, having helped to make his assassin's black and white fan more powerful.

'I can feel that my spirit rings have already exceeded the natural limit of someone at level 29...' He pondered this, looking at his hands in satisfaction.

Level 30 cultivators who were talented enough usually supported rings of 1,200 to 1,800 years old, but the age of each of Cheng Tian's two rings had already passed 2,000!

However, when thinking that having more than one martial soul generally meant having a more resilient body, he soon concluded that he could go even further, even before he reached level 30!

'This feeling is less uncomfortable than the previous one... I think that after I exhaust myself, I'll be able to absorb a few more spirit rings.' He looked at the battlefield, where already more than six bodies were lying on the outskirts.

No one knew whether they were alive or dead, but Cheng Tian soon began to feel his blood boil, with a desire to join the party.

'Several of these people are already almost exhausted and wounded... It's my time to fight!' He jumped up from where he had been standing until then, along with the giant scorpion beside him.

"Capture one more of these people for me. As long as it's someone capable of surviving for an hour, that's enough." He commanded his summoned beast while fully activating his Sharingan.

After that, he ran towards the battlefield as if taking an alternate escape route, distracting some of the individuals who had been watching him earlier.

"Hey, stop that brat!"

"We can't let him get away. I feel like he's the..." Someone was saying this, but an old man who Cheng Tian had manipulated previously used his third ability to stab this person in the back.

On the other hand, at the moment, the leader of this group was surrounded by Gou He and two other criminals, each coveting the External Spirit Bone that he had hidden so well.

Every person in that group was a criminal, individuals with a history of involvement in prostitution, slavery, murder, robbery, theft, etc. They had done a bit of everything, and no camaraderie in this world could overcome their greed.

So, seeing their leader using the spirit bone skill of his right hand's index finger, they no longer cared about anything but obtaining such a gem.

"Gou He, you bastard. Look at what you've done! The group was doing well, but you went crazy and destroyed everything!" The man, who looked to be around 30 years old, with black hair, strong and muscular, said in an enraged tone.

"Tsk!"

"You betrayed us first! Anyway, now it's your turn to die!" Gou He shouted furiously as the fingers of his hands bled intensely from his injuries.

After this, the three individuals brutally attacked the group's leader, using everything in their power to suppress and injure him.

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However, while making their move, the young man who seemed on the run suddenly did something unthinkable to most of them.

Shadow Clone Technique!

Two clones appeared side by side with Cheng Tian, one of them already with his martial soul appearing, his long tentacles running towards the enemy leader's legs.

At the same time, the other clone used his black and white fan to blow in the direction where most of the enemies were, creating solid gusts of wind.

Seeing the purple ring glowing around that clone, the people in the outskirts were not even bothered by the fact that there was more than one Cheng Tian. Instead, they simply felt the pain in their bodies and cried out without understanding how could anyone like that exist in the world.

"How can this be?" A woman with a bloodstained face shouted.

"A thousand-year ring, being only at level 29... How is this possible?"

"What kind of monster have we captured?" A man, lying on the ground with a spear stuck in his belly, said amidst the blood dripping from his mouth.

Meanwhile, the enemy leader was trapped by the tentacles of Cheng Tian's third martial soul, becoming defenseless to the three attacks coming toward him.

"NOOOO!" He screamed in desperation, but it was already too late.

When his mobility was affected by Cheng Tian's, he lost his one-second advantage, and his opponents' spirit claws hit his body.

"Ahhhhhh!"

"Damn, brat!" Someone who had been manipulated by Cheng Tian finally understood the situation after seeing his leader lose one of his arms to those three opponents.

"This is all your fault!"

"If I don't kill you today, my name is not Tian Heng!"

Cheng Tian said nothing to that man who had questioned him about Gou He a few days ago. Instead, he put his large fan in front of his body and activated his first skill.

"First Skill: Total Reflection!" Another purple spirit ring glowed along with the black and white fan's reaction to Tian Heng's attack.

When Tian Heng's spear and Cheng Tian's black and white fan touched each other, a loud metallic sound spread through the surroundings, with sparks coming out from the point of contact of the two.

At that instant, gusts of wind arose from the fan, attacking Tian Heng's defenseless body, while Cheng Tian felt his arms tremble given the weight of his opponent's attack.

Genjutsu: Sharingan!

As Tian Heng momentarily saw his attack resulting in a fatal wound to his opponent, he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine as a hand touched the back of his head.

"Die, you bastard!"

"Ahhhhhhhh!"

In the blink of an eye, while the last four survivors were still fighting on the outskirts, Cheng Tian began to absorb the spirit rings of that level 37 man.

By doing so, his two clones had their energy reserves restored, enough to put even more power into their attacks.

Wooden Style Secret Technique: Nativity of a Tree World!

Sharp branches appeared underneath the area where two survivors were standing, quickly piercing their bodies at several different points.

Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!

A fireball struck the other two, among them Gou He, causing them to groan in pain as the technique of Cheng Tian's second clone mercilessly burned them.

Seeing that, the scorpion saved a single one of those people, letting the other one burn until he disappeared from this world.

The battle had finally ended when Cheng Tian finished absorbing the spirit rings of his second victim of the night!

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