Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way

After hearing this, Gu Suihan looked away to think. His gaze flickered as he silently contemplated what he had just heard before he finally exhaled slowly and his gaze became calm and distant again.

“Not bad. I’m very satisfied with your answer, so you can have that.” Gu Suihan got up and strolled towards the door with Questioning Heaven in hand.

The king watched as Gu Suihan walked with confidence and said, “You don’t have to do anything, I’ll round up the people you mentioned earlier and send them to you.”

“Make sure that nobody is left behind. You should know what to do,” said Gu Suihan without turning around as a smile spread across his face. “Everyone except Sun Miaozhi’s people and their families. Send the rest to me. If you’ve got any troublesome fellows sitting around in your public jails, send them to me too. The more, the merrier.”

Several minutes later…

The king sighed heavily and murmured to himself, “I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing. Why do I have such a bad feeling about this young man?”

As he fiddled with the wooden sculpture with his hands, he could feel the rough edges scrape his fingers. His gaze soon became filled with more and more ambition.

“So, that’s how it is…” Gu Suihan walked out of the palace and felt the warm sunshine on his face as he stretched his limbs. He had finally confirmed what this Way of Martial Arts was.

It seemed like it was just something that humans had concocted a very long time ago in an attempt to fight with Demonic Race, but it eventually fell apart and the techniques to reach the more advanced stages were also lost along the way. Later on, some people much more recently had taken reference from the Buddhists and had created a new crazier way of advancing, which was how everything ended up like this.

Taohua had been waiting rather anxiously outside. When she spotted Gu Suihan walking out, she ran over to him. Her face was pinkish from the sun and she had to squint as she looked up at him. “Young master, where are we going now?”

“We’re going to buy a residence and get some servants. I don’t have the time to sit in a mine and cultivate, you know?” said Gu Suihan quietly with a chuckle.

“Oh, wait! I forgot!” Gu Suihan slapped his forehead and walked back into the palace.

“Why are you still here?” The king tensed up and raised his head with a start when he heard the door being opened and was rather puzzled to see that it was Gu Suihan.

“I need to buy some things, but it’s been a long time since I needed money, so I came back to ask if I could borrow some,” said Gu Suihan with a grin.

The king’s expression relaxed and gave a low shout. A eunuch tottered in and the king waved at him impatiently as he said, “Go to the treasury and give him 1,000 pieces of gold.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

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“Go and buy a good-sized estate, a quiet one if you can. Then get some maids too. I need to attend to some matters, so you can keep this,” said Gu Suihan as he threw the bag full of gold coins to the excited Taohua. He then flew into the air and disappeared in seconds.

“Miss, please come with me,” said the eunuch to Taohua with a bow. He didn’t dare to be rude to this maid at all.

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“Sun Miaozhi, where are you?” Gu Suihan arrived at the mine and sent his Spiritual Sense out to cover a radius of a few hundred meters.

He had spent nearly an entire day with the king of Qingguo in the capital city and it was evening time now. Fiery red clouds colored the horizon, meeting with the vast forest to make a picturesque scene.

“Sir, I’m here,” came Sun Miaozhi’s slightly hoarse and upset voice.

“You’ve acted pretty quickly, I see.” Gu Suihan landed a short distance from the mine and he could see Sun Miaozhi and his subordinates were trying to keep a few hundred angry and noisy people under control. They were frustrated with the crowd but didn’t dare hurt them, so they could only shout at them. They were in a difficult position and it showed on their faces.

“How noisy!” Gu Suihan frowned and shouted in a low voice. He took a step forward and released a murderous aura that struck terror in their hearts. Every one whom he looked at immediately shut up.

“You’re not here to be nice to these people. These people are slaves from now on. Free mining labor. If they mine a good amount, they’ll get to eat. If not, they can just die from starvation,” said Gu Suihan with a slightly displeased expression as he looked sharply at Sun Miaozhi, whose face was already covered in a cold sweat.

“How dare you capture us like that! And you’ve killed my husband too! I’m going to report you to the authorities!” shrieked a middle-aged woman with a nasty expression on her face as she tried to claw at Gu Suihan.

“What an idiot,” thought Sun Miaozhi and his subordinates as they looked away.

“I like energetic people like you. I hope all of you will be just as energetic when it comes to the mining work.”

Gu Suihan smiled and Questioning Heaven suddenly flew out of its sheath. There was a blinding flash and the ears of the woman who shrieked earlier fell to the ground. Blood immediately poured down the side of her plump face and several slits made by the sword were also visible.

“AHHH!” The pain hit her and she immediately started twisting on the ground in pain. Her screams were so bloodcurdling that they made everyone else pale in horror as they trembled uncontrollably.

“Shut up,” said Gu Suihan quietly with a frown.

“If you’ve got the guts, just kill me!!” The woman looked up and glared venomously at Gu Suihan with nothing but hatred and murder in her eyes.

“No, no, no,” said Gu Suihan as he shook his head and chuckled. “I wouldn’t kill you. If I do that, there’ll be one less slave to work the mines for me. I wouldn’t do anything that makes me suffer a loss like that.”

Everyone screamed in terror as Questioning Heaven glinted brightly, accurately plunging into the woman’s mouth. Gu Suihan turned his wrist slightly and pulled the sword out again, taking half a tongue with it.

“Are you sure you want to die? Have you thought about what would happen to your children and your elderly parents?” asked Gu Suihan quietly as he slowly scanned the crowd. He spoke nicely to them, but the content of his words were like the murmurs of a devil.

“You…you’re a demon!” A young man glared furiously at Gu Suihan and yelled out what everyone was thinking while protecting a little girl behind him.

Gu Suihan wasn’t bothered by his yelling and even nodded. “Well, I didn’t say I was a good person.”

He then turned to look at Sun Miaozhi, who had silently hung his head all this time. He said flatly, “Sort the crowd out. Pick out all the girls and the pretty young ladies. If you want, you can bring the former home and teach them how to behave. Send the latter to the brothels. Also, you can send the young boys to the brothel too. They’ve got some patrons who are into that sort of thing.”

Sun Miaozhi and his subordinates shuddered when they heard how Gu Suihan was basically going to make sure that none of these families would have descendants. Fear began to overwhelm them.

“Damn you! I’m going to fight you to death!” A dozen young men started yelling at Gu Suihan, charging toward him as they swung their arms and glared furiously at him.

“Everyone, there’s no need to fear! If we combine forces, this demon won’t be able to do anything to us!”

“Be quiet!” Gu Suihan glared at the young men icily and unleashed a murderous aura so real, that it felt like they were on a battlefield where corpses were strewn all around them. Their limbs were paralyzed and they couldn’t move any further.

“Get moving,” said Gu Suihan to Sun Miaozhi as his lips curled into a smile.

“Sir, are you Mr. Gu Suihan from the Seven Kill Sect? I have orders to bring these people here,” a voice called out from afar. A few dozen civilians had been rounded up by soldiers as the king had promised Gu Suihan and a small army of solemn-faced soldiers had escorted them to the mine.

“Good. Get them to stand over there and all of you may leave.” Gu Suihan randomly pointed at an empty spot in front of him.

The crowd looked despairingly as the soldiers of their own country did what they were told and left immediately after that.

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In less than an hour, Sun Miaozhi and his subordinates had gathered nearly 30 young men and women, who all had a hopeless look in their eyes.

“You can go settle this matter now,” instructed Gu Suihan. Sun Miaozhi led the group of young men and women away.

Gu Suihan then turned back to the crowd who were sitting in a daze on the ground and a cruel smile appeared on his face.

He pulled out a bottle from his pocket and crushed it with his hand, then he used his spiritual energy to send the pink powder inside the bottle flying towards the crowd, which engulfed the crowd in a shapeless, sweet-smelling mist.

“Have fun.” Gu Suihan chuckled, then flew into the air and watched them expressionlessly from above.

“Hooo!”

“What’s…what’s this?”

“I feel very warm inside…is this some sort of poison?!”

As the crowd inhaled the pink air, an unusual heat began to rise from within their bodies. Their skin started to redden from the heat and their faces flushed bright crimson. Their previously empty stares were beginning to light up in delirium.

Fifteen minutes later.

A feverish wave of lustful moans, screams, and heavy breathing, as well as tears of regret and sighs of despair, echoed continuously within a 30-meter radius of the crowd.

“I’m sure none of you would still want to team up to fight me after going through this. What a tragedy,” thought Gu Suihan. His face was expressionless as he watched the raw display of debauchery continue on the ground.