Infiltrating Ye Tribe

Fang Xian saw down in a house in the former Zhi Village. During his massacre of Zhi Village's inhabitants, he had made sure to not destroy any buildings, he had planned to take Zhi Village for himself anyway.

He brought out the materials to refine general storage soul beast, twenty-two kilograms of grass and ten kilograms of wood.

During soul beast refinement, the main focus was not usually the materials, it was the technique.

For example, during a water path refinement, you would have to flow like water, be adaptable to all situations and be formidable when needed.

During a chaos path refinement, you had to be chaotic and fast, moving so fast heaven couldn't detect your movements.

The technique used reflected the path of the soul beast.

The general storage soul beast was an everyday path soul beast, the refinement technique for this path was known as 'laid-back refinement'.

Fang Xian relaxed his body, mind and soul, he leisurely placed the wood on the table and chopped it into a hundred pieces. He took out the grass and curled it around every piece of the chopped wood before infusing all the pieces of wood intertwined with grass with soul qi.

As he infused more and more soul qi into the wood, they moved closer together, eventually merging together into one large piece of wood, like it was originally. After the wood finished fusing together, it was enveloped in a dazzling light, taking a different shape. The grass was expended to create the soul beast's body and the wood was expended to create the soul beast's soul.

Out of the blinding light, a soul beast emerged. It was the rank one general storage soul beast!

'I will use this to store the thousand ounces of human blood and I will use the soul storage soul beast to store the human souls and the soul of soul beast.'

Fang Xian then began to refine the soul storage soul beast. The soul storage soul was also an everyday path soul beast, he used the 'laid-back refinement' technique and successfully refined the soul storage soul beast.

'With my expertise, there is no room for failure. If it was somebody without my understanding of refinement, they would have a success and failure rate. If it is a rank one soul beast, I can't fail, but if it was a higher rank, I would have a progressively higher failure rate in accordance with the rank.' Fang Xian thought to himself, seeing his two successful refinements in a row.

With this, he now had the foundation to begin his second massacre, this time he couldn't use his soul aura in case he damaged any of his victims' souls.

Zhi Village had a close neighbour, Ye Tribe.

There were four stages of civilisation, the weakest one was a tribe, then a village, then a clan and finally a sect.

Tribes and villages consisted of entirely non-cultivator mortals, a single rank one cultivator could destroy any amount of tribes and villages.

A clan was primarily cultivators with still a few non-cultivators. If an immortal emerged in a clan, the clan would instantly become a quarter of a sect.

A sect was only cultivators and while they had mostly mortal cultivators, around forty percent of their cultivators were immortals.

Near the end of Fang Xian's life, a new type of civilisation was created, super sects.

Fang Xian ripped his clothes and used a bit of the blood of the Zhi Village inhabitants to smear it on his face, making him look like a poor mortal beggar or an orphan who had escaped a gruesome battle.

Fang Xian walked to the entrance of Ye Tribe, walking into the small tribe. A guard stopped him.

"Stop right there. We are not taking in any visitors at the moment, the area is not safe and we don't want to bring in any unwanted trouble." The guard said, crossing his arms in a defiant manner.

Fang Xian pretended to fall over. The guard ran to catch him and said: "Are you alright?" in a concerned tone.

"My whole village has just been annihilated by a monstrous cultivator, my father's last words were: 'Run, son. Run to Ye Tribe, they will take you in, that is the morality of their tribe." Fang Xian lied in such a convincing manner, the guard felt intense pain and fully believed Fang Xian.

The guard sighed. "May I know your name, son?" He asked.

"My name is Zhi Ling." Fang Xian croaked.

"Zhi Ling, I will allow you to take refuge in our Ye Tribe." The guard said softly.

Fang Xian laughed in his heart. 'Are you stupid, old man?'

"Thank you so much!" Fang Xian's complexion significantly brightened as he exclaimed.

The guard smiled. "As for where you will stay, I will allow you to stay in my house."

'My plan is coming to fruition.' Fang Xian laughed inside his mind.

Fang Xian and the guard walked to the guard's house, after soon as they entered and the door was closed behind them, Fang Xian stabbed the guard directly in the heart, watching as the life drained from his face.

Fang Xian placed his hand over the guard's body, easily drawing out his soul and placing it inside the soul storage soul beast.

For the next few days, Fang Xian drained the man of his blood, fulfilling the one thousand ounces of blood required for the chaos harness refinement.

Ever since the Great Blood Path Revolt a thousand years ago, humans had a lot more blood in their bodies, it was around a thousand and two hundred ounces for most.

Fang Xian had only one more condition of the chaos harness refinement, nine more human souls. He had one hundred percent confidence in successfully refining the soul beast, after all, it was a rank one soul beast.

Fang Xian didn't want to eliminate the entire Ye Tribe, he could bring unwanted attention on himself from cultivators with sufficient investigative methods to figure out his identity. If he was found out, he would surely be prosecuted, after all, he had committed many murders since his rebirth, the murder of Fang Ling, the killing of his father's killer and the massacre of Zhi Village.

Fang Xian didn't want to be under scrutiny by anyone with high authority, however, he needed this for his future plans and to deal with the rank eight cultivator residing in his soul land.

Knock!

Someone knocked at the door of the guard's house. Fang Xian ran out of the back door, carrying the body in his hands. Just before this, he had removed all traces of any human life in this house, he now disintegrated the guard's body using his heavily restrained unyielding demon immortal soul.

Fang Xian waited in the back garden, looking through the window at the door, waiting attentively. After a while, the door was knocked down, splinters of wood flying all over the place. Fang Xian saw a total of six people there, he instantly decided to kill them all and take their souls, leaving their bodies in the house.

He waited until they were in the farthest room from the door before he pounced on them, using his above-human speed to swiftly kill all of them, taking all of their souls for himself.

He now needed three more souls.

When Fang Xian and the guard had entered the house, three old people, one man and two women had greeted them, he went to the wall joining the two houses and kicked a hole in it, searching the house for the people.

Sure enough, there were three elderly people there.

Fang Xian grinned, dashing right at them.

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Fang Xian walked to the entrance of Ye Tribe, having obtained all the necessary materials for the refinement.

After exiting Ye Tribe, he walked back to Zhi Village to begin refinement.