Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 296 - 293: Stirring Fate, Calamity Butterfly Effect

Chapter 296: Chapter 293: Stirring Fate, Calamity Butterfly Effect

The wolf-headed demon, while thrusting the steel pitchfork and piercing through Xie Yanji’s left shoulder, also found its own consciousness quietly lost amidst the layers of mountains and rivers formed by the "Peace Saber Technique."

Even the sound of a group of young boys reading aloud echoed in its ears:

"In ancient times, those who wished to bestow clear virtues upon the world first managed their own state; to govern the state, they first regulated their household; to order their household, they first cultivated themselves; to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their hearts..."

Immersed in the ideal peaceful era envisioned by countless virtuous scholars of Divine Land, the demon became the target of many people’s condemnation, and its eyes instantly lost their spirit.

Pu—!

With a faint sound of air being sliced, a streak of silver light flashed, crossing a distance of ten feet in the blink of an eye, it arrived in front of the wolf demon.

Although other demons and ghosts tried desperately to support it, they were cleanly decapitated by Xie Yanji the moment it lost its mind.

A large wolf head soared into the sky.

Immediately thereafter, the two black wings on the back of this female military leader violently unfolded, detonating an air stream as they flapped, further increasing her speed.

It was a partial deployment of her family’s "Profound Crane Military Skill" cultivated through the "Military Dao Dharma Image·Clear Sky and a Crane!"

But she did not vainly flee, using up her last bit of strength, instead, she became a swift black shadow, slicing through a crowd of demons.

Her resolve was set, regardless of bleeding dry to the last drop, she was determined to tear a chunk of flesh from these demons.

"It’s a pity, the inform fetched through enormous hardships is ultimately not going to make it back.

Plague! Plague! Such fierce demons, without any warning, the people inside and around White Cloud Pass may not know how many will die or get injured..."

This female military leader’s presence here was clearly not by chance.

Having faced off against such extremely evil beings like those from Desert North for years, the border army of Great Yan was naturally not composed of vegetarians.

Sensing something amiss on the plains, the elite scouts were dispatched at the first available moment.

Despite the crazed and rigorous defenses of those "All Spirit Beings," most of the scouts returned without success, many even with heavy losses.

Moreover, currently, the secret of using a plague to besiege cities was only communicated to someone at the level of "Old Master," a "Yellow Decree Earth Deity."

Not even the demons and ghosts at the Yin God Realm like Bone Bundle and Brother Lu Ming were aware of the details.

Even if they knew the details, bound by the "Divine Tao Talisman," it was almost impossible to extract information through interrogation.

Only Xie Yanji, at the fourth realm of military leader, relying on the magical "Heaven and Earth Breathing," successfully penetrated deeply into Desert North, enduring hardships outside the training ground of "Earth Mother Black Sky" for days.

After much trouble, she finally obtained the information from the source.

Yet, she also alarmed the demons and shamans guarding the training grounds, and was injured remotely by a high-level deceit god at the peak of Yellow Seal.

When she was fleeing with her injuries, and activated the "Military Dao Dharma Image" to fly to this place, she could barely hold on anymore.

Eventually, she was surrounded by a group of a dozen or so demons and deceit monsters that had received news of her presence.

In such a predicament, there was no need for further words—the fight was on!

Xie Yanji’s movements with the "Peace Saber Technique" were as swift as thunder.

Peace Under Heaven! Qingtian White Sun! Map of Ten Thousand Miles! Drunk Red Dust! Human Dao Flourishing!

Each magnificent and upright technique unfolded one after another, comparable to the spectacle of a vast Map of Ten Thousand Miles.

When the spirit got lost in this tapestry, peers could hardly withstand two or three strikes before perishing under the saber.

The "Peace Saber Technique" did not involve the Ten Thousand Enemies Skill but was merely a pure fighting technique that allowed cultivators to exponentially release their inherent power and military skill.

It could perfectly integrate with any military technique.

Moreover, the more resolute the mind and the more it was used to protect the peace of an area, the greater its might.

When military leaders and martial saints used it to resist foreign enemies and combat others of the same realm, it could even produce the astounding effect of a martial arts master fighting ordinary field laborers.

However, this technique could only be learned after reaching the peak of Dao General and subtly touching the spirit domain, and only with the awakening of the extreme intent of military skill.

It also required the most stringent of mental states—one must have the welfare of the country and the world in their heart!

The heavier the personal desires, the worse the effect, hence, very few people could truly wield the power of this saber technique.

And only a swordsman like the "Great Yan Soldier Saint" Xie Tianke, known as the "Number One Saber Under Heaven," had cultivated this technique to a transcendant level, turning decay into magic.

Yet, even though Xie Yanji’s saber techniques were sharp, those pre-emptive demons were at most equivalent to a third realm Dao General in power.

But she was heavily wounded and had long reached her limit.

After strenuously killing three or four demons, the remaining demons instantly pressed on together, firmly suppressing her.

In an instant, Xie Yanji was left with only increasingly weak defensive moves.

A pig-headed monster with skin as tough as rock, emitting a strong foul smell, wielded a copper hammer, stirring up wind and thunder, further compressing her room to dodge.

Clearly intent on capturing her alive.

A pair of lecherous eyes surveyed the delicate and lovely female military leader up and down, blazing with a tangible lust.

"Gaga, old pig heard this Xie Yanji is the little daughter that old fart Xie Tianke had at seventy-eight years old.

Not yet thirty and already broke through the military leader realm, she’s the most favored, the one with the best military skill amongst all of Old Dog Xie’s descendants.

We’ll just break this girl’s limbs, take her to White Cloud Pass, and make that old man open the gates and surrender.

If he doesn’t open the gates, we’ll just, in front of everyone at White Cloud Pass... hahaha..."

As he said this, the lecherous pig thrust his corpulent pig waist provocatively, causing the other demons to join in the boisterous laughter.

Naiman and Great Yan had waged war for many years, both sides harboring deep enmity.

Demons knew neither propriety nor shame, and there was nothing surprising about whatever heinous acts they committed.

But at this time, Xie Yanji was drenched in blood, her internal and external injuries becoming increasingly severe, even the recovery speed of a "Military Leader" could not keep up with the rate at which she was being injured.

Her body’s strength was also rapidly draining along with the blood, and her vision was growing darker by moments.

Even though she heard such unbearable foul language, she had no strength to fight back.

Just as a long-handled Wolf Fang Club, wrapped in black and yellow human tendons and encrusted with dirt and flesh, was about to brutally smash into her chest, she couldn’t even dodge anymore.

Flapping—!

Just then, out of the corner of her eye, a silver-grey butterfly that should not have existed in this season suddenly flickered and vanished.

The next moment.

The Wolf Fang Club, which should have been unavoidable, brushed past her shoulder and struck empty air.

Even though the fierce wind carried by the barbs cut off a strand of her hair, it ultimately didn’t harm her skin at all.

Seeing such a huge mistake from the opponent, Xie Yanji instinctively turned the blade and easily decapitated the other’s head.

Just when she thought she had narrowly escaped this attack and that the next attack would surely be unlucky—

She was shocked to see that the Ghost Head Big Ring Saber that was chopped at her not only missed her.

Instead, it viciously chopped the pig-headed monster who had just been spouting nonsense behind her into two halves, with guts and organs splattering everywhere!

Only then did Xie Yanji realize the accident was not a coincidence, but someone had intervened to save her.

Her spirit was immediately revitalized.

And it wasn’t over yet.

"Ah—!"

A demon was crushed under a heavy weapon, screamed in agony as it fell, and then had its brain punctured by thorns stabbing into its eye sockets.

"Amu, have you lost your mind, why did you chop me?"

A demon was mistakenly wounded by a companion, nearly having half its skull sliced off.

Covering his bloody ear after cursing out loud, he was then stabbed through the chest with a spear by another companion.

"Save me, my ’True Qi’ suddenly reversed, it’s going to explode, it’s going to explode..."

Boom—!

Xie Yanji, who barely managed to stand by leaning on her sword, watched this scene with a somewhat dazed expression.

In these sinister woods, it seemed like an invisible hand was gently tweaking everyone’s threads of fate.

Turning minor mishaps into miraculous chain reactions, ultimately leading them to doom themselves.

Compared to visible and tangible demons and oddities, such mysterious and brutal ways of killing were truly terrifying and eerily effective!

Only a few breaths later, Xie Yanji watched as the group of demons who had nearly captured her miserably perished.

Their deaths were a disordered mess, even comical to some degree in their absurdity.

Then she saw several silver-grey butterflies emerge from the bodies of those demons.

It was the—Deceit Object "Calamity Butterfly."

Calamity Butterfly: An invisible disaster.

Releasing a varying number of avatars, the "Calamity Butterfly" enters someone’s dreams, and bad luck continues unabated.

Everything they attempt is steered towards the worst possible outcome, similar to the "Evil God Order" in its miraculous workings.

The upper limit of influence reaches up to the Mage Realm, the higher the victim’s realm, the lesser the effect. If the victim can withstand the disaster, the user will face an equivalent backlash, use with caution!

This invisible disaster "Calamity Butterfly," paired with Star Lord Taibai’s powers "Conquest and Transformation" and "Exorcism and Disaster," allowed Wang Yuan to easily become a conductor of fate.

From a high vantage point playing a tune on the ’Fate Piano’ that brought utmost misfortune to his audience, more convenient than that old "Old Almanac."

As long as the cultivator’s level was below his, in his presence, they would only meet unfortunate deaths!

The greater the number, the more massive the system, the more gruesome their deaths.

It was like the famous "butterfly effect":

A nail lost, a horseshoe gone; a horseshoe gone, a horse crippled;

A horse crippled, a general lost; a general lost, a battle lost; a battle lost, a kingdom fallen.

In Wang Yuan’s case, it was the silent killer "Calamity Butterfly Effect."

Despite feeling that the grasslands were supremely eerie and wanting to finish his task and head home sooner,

those brothers lying on the ground would probably have a different opinion about this rationale.

"However, I feel like there’s also a thread above my head that seems to be called—’Good fortune South and North, misfortune East and West’?"

The longer Wang Yuan stayed on the grasslands, the more he felt something was amiss.

He increasingly felt that he was also part of some chain reaction.

Except in this chain reaction, the thread of fate was held in the hands of... the "Great Fate."

First, he accidentally broke upon discovering the secret of "plague," then he encountered the very sensitive Xie Yanji.

Wang Yuan highly suspected that the so-called "Good fortune South and North" mentioned by the "Great Fate" might not refer to him, but instead to Sister Ruan, the scheming sister!

His role was to shout "Stop!" before things escalated beyond control,

and then, carrying a toolbox, preemptively fix the nail on the horseshoe to prevent a massive disaster from occurring!

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