Yin curiously studied the group of white-robed poker-faced mortals that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Their discipline was impeccable, and it could be said that Ye Mo had personally trained these people to be the best among elites in the Ye Sect.
She wondered if they'll be fun to play with. She had not played for a long, long time.
Based on the fluctuations being emitted from their bodies, Yin could already measure what kind of resources she could expect in such a tiny world. This place might be not the lowest of realms and at least had a cultivating system unlike that one place she visited before – what's that planet again? Earth? – but it was just as insignificant as dust compared to the grand worlds Yin had seen before.
Maybe it was too early to judge, maybe it was wrong to use Ye Mo as the standard and she was yet to meet the pinnacle existence in this world, but Yin needed to make up her mind now lest she forgets it later. It's not like anyone would berate her for getting wrong intel.
She had already made a biased judgment based on what she had seen so far. This world has a relatively so-so amount of spirituality, thus allowing a so-so level of cultivation, like that of Ye Mo's, to be reached by its inhabitants.
Guess, beggars really couldn't be choosers.
However, these inhabitants… they looked and smelled a hundred percent human. Normal, typical humans.
Ptooey!
How dull!
Not that Yin had any prejudice against humans or favored other creatures. In fact, she knew that humans are created to have the best potentials and even if they were quite pitiful at the beginning stages of cultivation, they were one of the best vessels of Dao.
So, what's the problem then? Why was she so disturbed?
It's the horrifying truth that a world full of only humans are unquestionably boring with a capital B.
Diversity is the key to happiness! There had to be more creatures out there, right?
It would be awesome if there are wyrmwolves or succubae or even taoties in this world. Maybe, once Yin starts cultivating this porky midget's body, she could then recruit a few interesting fellows and start recreating a smaller scale version of the most devilish sect that flourished back in the Realm of Celestial Deities.
The taboo of taboos! The nightmare of hundred thousands of realms! A cause of torment that even Time could not reverse!
Her awesome devilish sect was a cursed existence that treated all mortals and immortals as equals, one that left even the most terrifying, hideous and unwilling deities and devils bitter, helpless and weak.
Yin had singlehandedly created it, and it was her proudest masterpiece.
The Church of… Love!
Yes, love!
In this world, in order to relieve her boredom from the expected dry cultivation in the upcoming years, Yin would spread love and torment all people with it!
"Hee hee..."
For some reason, Elder Ye Mo shivered as a faint sense of danger enveloped him. He subconsciously glanced at the little girl standing three feet away from him.
Maybe it was his imagination?
Ye Mo shook his head. Impossible. This little princess might be a nutcase, but she was a mortal through and through. He had scanned her with his divine sense to make sure. Besides, she was too young. The average age to start cultivation was between ten to thirteen years old. At her current age, she would never amount to anything as a cultivator even if she started meditating inside the womb.
Tonight's massacre must have affected his Dao heart, so he was imagining things.
"Everyone, thoroughly check the remains of the victims for identification. Send those intact bodies to their families for a funeral. For the rest, build a public mass grave for them and make sure no demonic cultivator will be able to get any advantage from this. Contact the other scout groups, even those from the Wu family and the Ravenrise Mercenaries, to continue monitoring the forest and nearby villages. Protect the commoners."
"Yes, Elder!" the members of the Ye Sect answered.
"Hmm?" All of a sudden, Yin felt like the world looked a little funny. The ground under her seemed to be dancing in waves. "What is this? So uncomfortable... Wait, I think I've read this in a book. Is this what humans call 'high'? Am I high? Is this high? Hey, old fogey –"
"Who are you calling old fogey?" Ye Mo almost spat out blood. "You're dizzy because of blood loss, you brat. Ye Hua! Xuan'er!"
He then called out to the two youngest members of the group. A tall, sword-wielding man around twenty and a lovely, gentle-looking woman stood out from the crowd.
"Uncle!" The two bowed in respect. Ye Hua is Ye Mo's nephew, while Wu Xuan'er is his newly-married wife.
Ye Mo waved his hand, causing the wind to pick and let Yin, who was about to fall face-first on the ground, to float mid-air.
"Take Little Yin with you. Xuan'er, I'll be troubling you to carry her. This girl has some issues about her virtue and refuses to be touched by a guy. I don't know how she was raised but that's so obsolete," Ye Mo could only sigh, before turning to his nephew. "Try to heal her as much as you can. Her heart artery seems to be damaged. Maybe her companions did some abstruse spell to keep her alive so we can't let their sacrifice be put to waste. I don't know how long she's been hurt, but if you don't treat her at once, she'll be dead in a day."
Wu Xuan'er carefully wrapped her thin arms around the bloody little girl. She could not help but marvel at how much injuries the girl had suffered. How much life force was forced into her body to keep her alive up to this point?
Yin, unaware of her thoughts, chuckled at the woman's dumb expression.
"Hey, I'm not dizzy!" she protested. "I'm high~ High, I tell you~"
The young couple Ye Hua and Wu Xuan'er hurried back to Leaf City without delay. They did not notice the obvious relief on Ye Mo's face at their departure.While running, Ye Hua gestured with his fingers and a formless energy covered Yin to make sure the travel back would not aggravate her injuries. As cultivators, their speed had long surpassed those of a mortal's and he was worried that Yin's body could not tolerate it.The little girl could not help but gasp because his energy tickles.Ye Hua then fell back, making sure that he was just at the right distance behind Wu Xuan'er in case an enemy sneak attacks. Noticing Yin peeking over, he smiled. "Tell us if running fast makes you hurt, okay?"The ever-'high' Yin gave the young man a toothy grin. "Faster is better!"She then made herself comfortable in the young woman's arms, cuddling closer and naughtily poking the 'most comfort
"Why the sad face, Yifan?" asked an ancient voice that seemed to echo with the Dao.One could not determine whether the speaker was a male or a female, only that whoever it is, he or she must be ancestor-level old."Do you miss your family?"Above the clouds, somewhere near the central part of the seemingly boundless lands, a beautiful white crane flapped its large wings against the midwinter wind. With a gigantic wingspan of one li, the crane looked nothing like an ordinary animal. Its feathers emitted a soft spiritual glow that wrapped its entire body with warm light, making it look equally sacred and majestic.On the crown of its head, a middle-aged man with white brows and peppered hair, a skinny teenager with a scar on his neck, a little boy not even a decade old and an ugly, fat cat were sitting cross-legged.Yes, even the ugly cat was sitting cross-legged. If one were to look closely, one could even see that the cat had a very humanlike expr
"Ooh, interesting playmates have appeared."In one of the mansions belonging to the Ye Clan, a little girl in clean white robes sat on the ledge of a window while casually swinging her pudgy legs. A naughty glint could be seen on her young eyes as she had a faraway look towards the southern direction.Of course, the little girl was no other than Yin, who had actually accepted being called Little Yin for no other reason than that the old fogey Ye Mo would not let her have extra midnight pudding if she did not agree.Her skin was still marked with wounds and bruises, but her inner injuries were all cured by Ye Hua earlier. Thinking that she needed to sleep some more, he assigned her a room for her to rest in and promised to come back again in the morning.Ye Hua, known to the rest of the city as Fourth Young Master Ye, is the top healer and alchemist of the Ye Clan's younger generation. He was highly c
"Wanna play with Little Yin?"By the time she finished speaking the sentence, the tip of the sword was already a hairsbreadth away from her throat.'Is she not dodging?' the black-robed man could not help but think. 'Is she stunned senseless in fear?'But then he remembered her age and realized that she was merely a mortal. Of course, she could not react on time.Though, this fact surprised him more. This little mortal girl found him despite the cloak of the night, not to mention that he was someone with decent cultivation. How did she do it?'No matter what, she is unlucky to catch sight of me.'He was an assassin and his mission was of utmost priority. It might be a pity to kill a child, but this would not be the first nor the last innocent that he had to silence in his trade.'In your next life, do not stay up so late at night, brat!'
An old man with silvery white hair, still strong as a bear in the waist and supple as a tiger in the back(1), appeared in between the unconscious Yin and the fleeing black-robed man."You think you can come and go as you like? You do not really put the Ye Clan in your eyes, do you?" he snorted, pushing his hand forward before making a grasping motion. "Come back here!"The old man was no other than Ye Wuqing, the current Patriarch of the Ye Family and one of the strongest experts in Leaf City!Without letting out a word, the black-robed man released his hidden weapons before dodging to one side. However, would the mighty Patriarch of Ye Clan, a venerated expert of his generation, allow him to escape?Of course not! Not only for safety, but also for face!As Ye Wuqing dealt with the intruder, a thirty-something-year-old man ran out from a nearby residence, to be followed by a youn
"S-So cold… I hope my arms make it and not fall off in the middle of the street…"Ye Mo could not help but grit his teeth as he flew out from the Ye Clan Manor. He sped towards the Leaf City's Ming Yue Sect branch, a place that was on the other side of the city.Despite covering his skin with qi, the icy coldness emitted by Little Yin was freezing his muscles and bones.To think that this girl was this capable despite still being a mortal…Ye Mo could not help but feel excited. One had to know that he was an accomplished cultivator. A mortal should not have been capable of leaving marks on his skin, much less injuring him.Little Yin was someone found and saved by the Ye Clan! As long as no one comes looking for her, she belongs to the clan!Imagine once she started the road of cultivation… wouldn't that mean she can make ice cubes fall and snow storms erupt with a flip of a single hand? In the Body Cultivation re
The heavily-bandaged Yin was roused by the abnormal smell in the air. It was heavy and sticky and irritating to the nose.In fact, it wasn't the room itself that smelled nasty. The room looked bland with its gray walls and lack of windows, but it did not stank to high heavens, only maybe a little stale.The culprit of the smell was those bandages wrapped around Yin. It seemed like they were soaked in blood and medicinal herbs before they were used on her. The bandages caused her to feel numb and the paralysis looked like it would not be gone for quite some time."Yuck! I smell!" She wanted to tear the bandages away, but she could not even move her finger, let alone lift her arm. "Wu wu, Yin is now disgusting! Disgusting! I don't like this!"She struggled to move but in the end, all she could do was flop around like a worm."Elder Sis Xuan'er?" she called out. "Bro Hua? Old fogey?"Where was everyone?Hey, is this some sort of game? Is
'Niu'er? What kind of boorish parents would give their daughter a cow 牛 character in her name?!'The old man claiming to be Yin's maternal grandfather was called Shangguan Ke, the Branch Leader and the person with the highest authority among Leaf City's Ming Yue Sect. After the ruckus that Ye Mo caused earlier, all the high-level members of the sect that wasn't in isolated meditation had gone to the entrance to see what the commotion was about.What they saw made their minds blow up.The well-known genius of the Ye Clan, a hero of his generation, titled Elder in-charge of the city's security for his depth of cultivation and battle prowess, the "Sword Flash" Ye Mo... that very man was standing in front of the sect entrance with a distressed appearance, as if he had passed through the nine hells just to get in there.On his arms was a block of ice...No, it was a body of a toddler