Chapter 16 "Venerable Might, Killing Intent"

Gu Shang picked up one of the two books, the two books looked antique, one of the books was full of different colors, and the other was gray. Gu Shang picked up the colorful book and saw that it was named "Worldy Lotus Battling Theory", he picked it up and tried to open it, but as he tried to open it, he felt his mind breaking down.

Gu Shang quickly let go of the book and felt his mind recovering from fatigue.

"Why can't this be opened?"

"Your realm is insufficient."

"Then at what realm can this book be opened."

"We don't know."

"Huh?"

"Even the ancestors can't open the book, so one would probably need a cultivation realm of the legendary Venerable Might."

"Have a realm of Venerable Might? I guess that's the realm above spirit emperor."

"If that's the case, what about the gray book?"

"It doesn't have a realm requirement, but to unlock it some special energy is required."

Gu Shang then looked at the book at the wooden altar.

"And that one?"

"That's the technique developed by the founder of the sect.

"There are no requirements?"

"No. You can learn it if you want."

"Then why does those two need some special requirements?"

"We don't know, the sect founder died thousands of years ago, and the last person to know him is long dead too."

He then looked at the wooden table.

"And that one?"

"It was also left by the founder, but it's empty."

"Then why is it here?"

"To respect the founder."

'Understandable.'

Gu Shang picked up the book on the wooden altar, it was crimson in color and was titled "Slaughtering Lotus Scripture".

After opening the book, he could feel a piercing aura of slaughter penetrate his body. But he knew that the technique was definitely a powerful one, so he persevered and read the entire book, which took him more than a full day.

After memorizing the book, he was relieved, he felt as if his mind was overheated to the point that it could melt his skull.

Gu Shang just fell to the ground and fell asleep, he didn't care about Elder Hua being here.

After a couple hours, he woke feeling as good as new.

"Are you done already, I have work to do."

"I will be done in a few minutes."

Gu Shang stood up and walked towards the table with the fourth book.

The book didn't have a title, it looked pretty normal, just a white book with nothing on it. After opening the book, Gu Shang wasn't surprised to see that the book was indeed empty.

He went through all the pages carefully, but there was nothing, not even a drop of ink. Gu Shang put the book back on the table and went up to Elder Hua.

"I'm ready to leave."

"If you didn't comprehend the scripture, you can always come back here."

"Seriously?"

"Yes, if the pass was a one time thing, no one would comprehend the scripture."

Hearing this, Gu Shang was relieved, he could come back here anytime, meaning that he had other chances to get the secret of those books.

"Well uh, thanks."

"Thank the founder, she was the one who made that rule."

Gu Shang and Elder Hua were then teleported out of the top floor, they were in the same place as before they entered the top floor.

"Well, goodbye disciple Shang."

"Goodbye Elder Hua."

Gu Shang then left for his home, he was going to practice the moves in the Slaughtering Lotus Scripture.

At first he felt like visiting Qu Bingxue, but he remembered that she entered closed-door cultivation once more. Before entering it, she told him that she has too much pressure from Yao Xiu, even though she just started cultivating recently.

After getting to his house, he took the sword and went to his backyard. Gu Shang held the sword with both hands in front of him, the tip of the sword was gently touching the ground.

Swish Swish Slash Swish

In an instant, Gu Shang performed four swift slashes.

Slash Swish Swish Slash

Swish Swish Slash Slash

Slash Slash Swish Slash

Every second that passed, Gu Shang performed four slashes, this wasn't any special skill or anything, it was a warm up exercise written in the Slaughtering Lotus Scripture, if you couldn't perform it, then you shouldn't even try to perform the skills in the scripture.

Gu Shang only stopped after two hours, after which, he stood in a position where his knees are bent, and his hands are holding the sword horizontally next to his head, he looked like some Japanese samurai without armor.

Then he closed his eyes and after a couple minutes of nothing happening, a hazy red aura outlined his body.

Slash BOOM!

In a second, Gu Shang dashed forward with explosive speed and after 4 steps, he made a vertical slash, as the slash was ending and the tip of the sword hit the ground, the ground exploded into dust.

This was the first skill of the scripture, Blooming Death. Gu Shang was heavily panting after performing this skill, it took basically all his Qi to do just four steps, not only that, it also extremely exhausted his mind.

The skill was exhausting for the mind because to correctly perform the move, you would first need to charge up all the killing intent you have, that was the red aura around his body while doing the pose, you could do the skill without killing intent, but it would take much more Qi and it would still be less effective.

That's because if an intent is mixed in into a skill, it would add a new effect to the skill, thing of it as a status effect in a game, killing intent would make any wound unhealable until its ejected from the body and it would make the wound worsen much faster.

Also, this skill, to be considered completely learned, needs the person learning it to be able to perform more than 20 steps, with every step the killing intent and Qi needed would skyrocket.

Of course, Qi wouldn't be a problem as long as he increases his realm, but killing intent is different, killing intent needs to be formed and polished by constant fighting, it could also be made from just killing something, meaning that every cultivator would have his own killing intent someday. The killing intent he used for those four steps was formed from his hate to Su Dao from Nether Tears Cave.

Gu Shang really wanted to castrate that guy and make him eat his own dick. And those four steps could demonstrate that, the amount of killing intent needed for four steps is approximately 10-13 kills.

He considered this skill to be his trump card as the explosion he made earlier caused a crater to be made. This crater was 5 meters deep, so one could imagine how much power the attack had.

Gu Shang knew that there was no way he wouldn't have any strong enemies in his path of cultivation, even someone who hid almost the entirety of their own novel had enemies, not as much as other Mcs, but he still did.

Gu Shang entered his house and started cultivating, he didn't cultivate in a while and he missed the feeling of his realm rising.