CHAPTER 55: CHAPTER 55 GU MING_1

Blood Robe Sect, before the Righteous Hall.

A gold-inlaid jade chair made of pearwood was placed there.

Sitting on the chair was an exceptionally handsome young man.

At this moment, two beautiful women stood on either side of him, massaging his legs.

If any martial artists from the jianghu were present, they would surely recognize that these two beautiful maids were no ordinary women.

The woman in yellow on the left was the Sky Cold Sect’s heroine, Cold Ice Fairy.

The woman in white on the right was Wang Mengdie, the White-Clothed Heroine who had risen to fame in Tianyou City in recent years.

These two women should have been heroines revered by all in the jianghu.

But after being captured and brought into this demonic cave, they had to compromise and submit to survive, allowing this demon head to do as he pleased with them.

"Hmm..." Gu Ming popped a green grape into his mouth, then comfortably rested his head on Cold Ice Fairy’s body.

The young woman’s face turned bright red, and tears slowly streamed down.

She had devoted herself to cultivating her sect’s ultimate technique, the Empyrean Fairy Sutra, and had never experienced romantic love. She was still a virgin, but... it was obvious she would not escape the demonic palm today.

Although their hearts were filled with sorrow and indignation, they dared not resist.

There were already precedents.

Yuan Chuchu, the Wide-Sleeved Heroine renowned alongside them, had been killed by Gu Ming’s palm for resisting.

Between life and death lay great terror; they did not wish to follow in her footsteps and could only endure silently.

"Hmph." Gu Ming glanced at the expression on her face and snorted coldly.

He even stuck out his tongue and licked her tears away.

Then, he reached out, grabbed the white-clad heroine serving him nearby, and began to molest her.

The atmosphere grew sensual.

As he simultaneously enjoyed the services of the two heroines, Gu Ming felt exceedingly triumphant.

This is the true joy of life.

While Gu Ming sighed, he also felt grateful to have met a benefactor, which had led to his current glory.

He was originally from a merchant family, and his family was considerably wealthy.

Regrettably, his father developed an obsessive gambling habit. He not only lost all the family’s wealth but also, when Gu Ming was young, pawned Gu Ming, his sister, and his mother as slaves to an Official Chen to get money for the gambling table.

As slaves in the Chen household, the three of them naturally led incredibly bitter lives.

In their third year in the Chen household, Official Chen took a liking to Gu Ming’s mother and spent a night of passion with her.

They had originally thought that after she slept with the master of the house, the circumstances for her and her children might improve slightly.

Unexpectedly, Official Chen’s wife was intensely jealous. Upon receiving the news, she ordered the household servants to throw Gu Ming’s mother into a well and drown her.

With their only mother dead, Gu Ming and his sister Gu Zhao, still very young, suffered even more bullying in Official Chen’s mansion.

Finally, at sixteen, after being whipped for stealing Madame Chen’s jade bracelet, he could no longer suppress his vengeful fury. While the Chen household slept, he poured prepared arsenic into the well. The next day, all twelve members of the Chen Family, along with their servants and maids, were poisoned to death.

After escaping from the Chen Mansion, Gu Ming knew there was no turning back. To avoid prison, he began to drift through the jianghu’s underworld.

Living with his life on the line, he didn’t know how much longer he could survive.

But for someone like him, every extra day lived was a day gained.

It must be said, their luck was quite good.

Gu Ming and Gu Zhao, this brother-and-sister pair, managed to survive for several years in the underworld. Not only did they avoid death, but they also learned martial arts of various styles.

Through a fortunate coincidence, they joined the Blood Robe Sect, the largest Demonic Cult in Tianyou City.

He had originally thought he could drink and eat meat with his sect brothers and continue to climb the ranks.

But just a year after joining the sect, disaster struck.

The Shen Family was chosen as the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch of Tianyou City and gathered seven major righteous sects to besiege the Blood Robe Sect.

That day, corpses littered the ground. Gu Ming thought he would not survive, but he still managed to escape.

With his sister, he crawled out from a pile of the dead.

After escaping the Blood Robe Sect, he had originally thought the jianghu was too terrifying and planned to take his sister to find a farming village, live incognito, and pass their days peacefully.

But... he met Xuanzhi Superior Master!

To this day, Gu Ming vividly remembered the first time he encountered Xuanzhi Superior Master.

On a dark and windy night, the Daoist, stepping on a horsetail whisk, stood as if treading on air, like an Immortal. He presented Gu Ming with the greatest opportunity of his life.

Over the years, I have made a Blood Sacrifice of 3,731 people. I still need to sacrifice 269 more to reach the number ordered by the Superior Master.

In a few more days, I will exterminate the Shen Family. Sacrificing those self-proclaimed righteous members of famous sects should be enough to meet the quota.

At that time, when the task is completed and the treasure is handed over to the Superior Master, I am bound to receive great rewards!

Xuanzhi Superior Master had once personally promised that if Gu Ming could complete the Blood Sacrifice task, he would take him as his Direct Disciple.

Then, not only would he be given martial elixirs to increase his cultivation, but Xuanzhi Superior Master would even pass on cultivation methods to him!

Gu Ming dared not take these promises too seriously. However, even if he couldn’t be accepted as the Superior Master’s disciple, receiving rewards from him would still be extremely beneficial.

The Myth Realm! A single person suppressing the seven major righteous sects of Tianyou City!

Recalling his glorious achievements over the past six months, Gu Ming’s heart swayed, and he even felt a sense of unreality.

Five years ago, that young man who had just crawled out of a pile of corpses could never have imagined he would possess such power today!

The Fairies and heroines he once looked up to and feared were now his playthings.

"Ugh!" Suddenly, Gu Ming’s entire body trembled as a numbing sensation spread through him.

He kicked away the white-clad heroine, who hadn’t yet had a chance to wipe her mouth. Before he could even...

Suddenly, the main door of the hall was pushed open, and someone rushed in anxiously.

"Sect Leader!"

The visitor was a blue-robed attendant from the sect.

He glimpsed the scene in the hall, and his expression faltered slightly. He quickly lowered his head, not daring to look further.

He hastily prostrated himself on the ground, awaiting the Sect Leader’s judgment.

"Such a rash fellow! Utterly without manners!"

Gu Ming’s face was as dark as water. However, having just entered a moment of post-coital clarity, he wasn’t in the mood to kill. "Why the rush?" he asked.

"Reporting to Sect Leader, we have received news from the disciples outside the sect. Hall Master Xue and Hall Master Gu went to the Shen Family today, intending to disrupt their Hero Banquet... but they were captured."

What?

Upon hearing this, Gu Ming was astonished. "How is that possible!"

In Tianyou City, the strongest martial artists were merely at the Half-step Nature Realm.

With Xue Ren’s and Gu Zhao’s strength, even if all those experts of the righteous path attacked together, they wouldn’t necessarily be their match.

How could they have been captured!

"Sect Leader, this news is absolutely true. Multiple disciples witnessed it firsthand and can corroborate the account."

"According to the disciples, Hall Master Gu was captured, her scapulae pierced, and her martial cultivation crippled. She is currently imprisoned by the Shen Family, her fate unknown."

"As for Hall Master Xue, he was beaten to death at the Hero Banquet."

"Preposterous!"

Hearing that Hall Master Xue was dead and his sister captured, Gu Ming slammed his hands on the table and shot to his feet. "Elder Xue was a Nature Realm powerhouse! Who on earth did the Shen Family invite to their Hero Banquet that could beat him to death?"

"The disciples do not yet know that person’s identity. They only heard someone from the Shen Family say this person is their relative."

"He cultivates in an Immortal Sect and returned to the clan at the request of the Shen Family."

An... Immortal Sect? A cultivator!

Gu Ming’s eyelids twitched, and his entire body froze on the spot.

The towering rage that had been boiling within him was extinguished in an instant.