A Wolf in a Sheep's Skin

Abaddon had a deep look on his face as he muttered, " This is a waste of time; no point in figuring that out. I'll just kill him and get my promised reward."

Splash!

With a wave of his hand, Neon's head crashed into tiny bits of meat, blood instantly gushing out of his neck as the upper half body dropped to the ground, shaking a little but stopping moving after a few seconds.

A small pool of blood soon formed under his soulless body and around his neck; it was a horrifying sight to look at, that Mia's eyes uncontrollably rolled as she soon lost consciousness.

She was but a little innocent girl that thought the world was white as she lived with her grandpa in the forest and only went to the city from time to time to buy a few things.

Thus, her reaction was completely expected as she had never seen someone dying in front of her before. Hell, she had never even seen this much blood before, much less someone getting ruthlessly killed right in front of her.

Woosh!

Bam was a talented cultivator, had a lot of combat experience, and had seen a lot of blood in his life. Hence he quickly reacted as he grabbed the unconscious Mia by the waist and made a run for it through the door.

Regardless of his efforts and quick reaction, his body got effortlessly penetrated like it was made from tofu, cleanly sliced in half by black energy that didn't need any effort to materialize by Abaddons.

Another wave of black energy simultaneously targeted Mia, as her head was easily dismantled from her body, following her lover to the world of the dead and officially exiting the world of the living.

The whole process didn't take more than two seconds, and in the entire time, Abaddon didn't even bat an eye or have any change of expression on his face; it's like he didn't even just kill three humans but simply crashed and cut a few ants here and there.

But that's totally expected out of someone that killed to live and get stronger in his past life for thousands of years, as humans weren't any different from mere grass in his eyes.

This might look inhuman and even cruel to a lot of people, but he wasn't the only one who shared this idea, as everyone else in his world followed the rules of the jungle, and law only existed to make the weak people feel better about their lives.

But in fact, the only people who were considered humans and had any actual rights and voice in the different myriad situations that occurred in the world were the people who had power, and with that power, they could enforce their words and testify their actions.

Boom!

Both their bodies heavily crashed to the floor, and blood was heavily streaming out of their cut parts, but the boom wasn't generated by their bodies crashing on the wooden floor but instead by Ben's that his mental strength wasn't something to be trifled with given his vast experience and age as an emperor in his past world.

The moment his father died, he was only dazed for a split second as he didn't think that things would ever develop and reach such a state and a mere mortal to suddenly become a mighty cultivator with a goldy cultivation realm and go on a killing spree just cause he and Neon were hostile with him.

Nonetheless, that was only it, as he directly summoned his sword out of his spatial ring, and with quick movements, he waved his sword and spiritual energy in the form of a cut shot out from it.

The wall on his left side got cleanly hit, but he didn't even bother to wait for it till it crumbled since he knew that a mere wall couldn't handle his attack. Thus, he forcefully dashed into it, leaving a big hole behind him as he sped up without any thoughts about directions while constantly muttering under his clothes.

" I don't wanna die. I don't wanna die.."

His breathing and heartbeat were extremely accelerated as he didn't know what to do in this crisis and how he would attempt to survive, with his cultivation being way inferior to that old man's realm.

Abaddon lightly laughed as he was casually watching Ben's reactions, but he wasn't a bit hurried to take his life that fast as he always loved to play with his prey before he killed it.

However, right at the next moment, his smile suddenly vanished as he seemed to recall something, and he quickly muttered,' Black chains. '

Several black chains shot out from under Ben's feet, clearly coming out of the darkness that was caused by the night sky, and in a split of a second, Ben was forcefully chained, unable to move a muscle.

" Why are you doing this? If you informed us about your cultivation beforehand, we wouldn't have treated you that way. Why would you take people's lives for no reason at all? " Ben yelled as he still didn't get why this person would kill for no reason at all.

" Because it's fun." An evil smile was accompanied by his words.

Ben was extremely terrified as he saw the old man's devilish smile in front of him; for some reason, in his view, Abaddon was the exact definition of evil.

' No. I don't wanna die, I wanna become the strongest so I can go back to my world and family; this can't be my end. '

Ben wasn't naive, as he lived a long life as an emperor and knew that countless people killed each other every day, but he just didn't know why Abaddon would attack and kill them.

He didn't believe that it was for fun as he could have easily massacred the whole city if he was really seeking that feeling and not just targeting them and pretending to be a sheep while, in reality, being a wolf.

' This kid is surprisingly an old man that lived as an emperor for almost all of his life; even though he was but a mere mortal back then, I still shouldn't underestimate his capabilities.'

That's what he recalled that made him stop playing around and finish the job, but he somehow felt uneasy as he looked at the several layers of clouds in the sky above him, lighting flickering inside of them.

" A lightning tribulation, Is someone trying to destroy this whole city? Well, I don't have that much time left before my temporary cultivation realm expires; I should finish this as fast as possible and find a safe place so I can safely develop."

" Just die."

His words were minced as he was deadly serious at this moment. Right after, a wave of black spiritual energy shot out from him as he wanted to end this waste of time and behead this fat bag of treasures.

" Noooo, I don't wanna die!! " Ben yelled with all his might while his lungs almost burst out from the intensity of it.

As to obey his words or something along those lines that no one can explain, a dazzling brilliance light replaced the darkness of the night around the Fang Clan mansion, while the grounds suddenly started shaking.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of deafening explosions rang through the territory of the Fang Clan, the black spiritual energy attack that just killed his father and brother were turned into nothingness, as a hilt of a broken sword that only had a fraction of its blade could be seen hovering in front of Ben's face.