Fenrir's Journey : I Shall Devour The Heavens!

After cutting down the terrible smelling girly boy, Fenrir snorted and raised her palm towards the massive spectral sword flying towards her. To be safe, she had triple-layered the barriers but, after seeing the 20m long green blade strike her outer barrier, Fenrir frowned because her overestimation of the old fat man had wasted her energy. Though it had made her barrier fluctuate slightly, the magical circle didn't suffer any noticeable damage at all, meaning it would continue to hold against an almost infinite number of similar attacks. However, even though she had determined him to be weak, the man still shouted out, "You despicable curr! Why are you killing my clansmen!? Where are your honor and dignity!?"Seeing that his attack had failed, the Patriarch of the Fen Clan, Fen Xinyi, doubled back in the air and thrust forward with his sword once again. Just as before, the blade produced was around 20m long except, different than his previous attack, this one had runes glowing along the blade's length. With a voice filled with righteous indignation, he shouted, "With the Heavens as my witness, I will strike down this wicked and vic-" Before he could send the sword flying forward, Fenrir appeared next to Fen Xinyi, coldly intoning, "Drivel..." as she cut forward with a blade of energy. Fen Xinyi tried to move back, simultaneously pulling his phantom blade to act as a shield, shouting, "You dare!?" with a thunderous voice.Unfortunately for him, Fenrir's blade was completely undeterred, making use of its 'Severing Laws' to cut straight through the phantom blade, Fen Xinyi's waist, and the small hidden blade that was floating around behind him. The Fen Clan Patriarch immediately noticed that all feeling below his ribs had completely vanished, though it could have just been an illusion as the searing pain he was experiencing was overwhelming. Since the 'Dantian', where a person's cultivation was stored, was located in the navel, he had effectively been cut off from his source of energy. It felt like all his meridians were exploding, causing blood to erupt from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.With the last bit of his strength, Fen Xinyi shouted, "You bitch! I'll take you with me!!!" as he tried to pierce his heart. However, this action couldn't be completed as the hand he had moved to perform the sacrificial act simply fell to the ground below. His eyes absentmindedly followed it until, in less time than it took to blink, his head started following the same path. The last thing he saw was various segments of his body that had been cut to have perfectly flat surfaces. They were so clean that, for a short while, the blood had continued to try and flow through veins that were no longer attached...Fenrir didn't spare an eye towards the deceased man and instead turned her attention to the strongest person that remained in the residence, an elderly woman who was so aged that her eyes could no longer open. She hadn't been as strong as the previous man, but the elderly woman was still able to stand on the air without aid as asked, "Tell me, young mistress, why have you wrought death and destruction upon our Clan...? Please, allow this old lady to go to her death knowing the reason..."(Fenrir's Commentary: 'Talking instead of fighting...foolish...')

It could be a result of the old woman being unable to open her eyes, but Fenrir didn't feel the same 'disgust' as what she felt around the people she had killed. Since she didn't want to kill indiscriminately, if she could avoid it, Fenrir explained in an icy tone, "Only they would be able to confess their crimes...all I know is, they harbored ill will towards me. They also carried a powerful stench of blood, death, and negativity. The number of people they have killed unjustly may be a secret they take to their deaths, but I'm sure others would be able to give you an account..."Speaking so much for the first time in a long while, Fenrir felt a little strange and couldn't help but frown when she heard the dull tone of her voice. She didn't remember sounding so 'cold', even when she was angry and upset. When she left the city, Fenrir decided she would have to train her [Mimickry] ability and practice talking more, lest she forget how to converse with people. For now, however, she was readying herself to deal with the old woman standing in the sky across from her.For several seconds, the old woman stood in silence before finally releasing a sad sigh, muttering, "So, it is by our own hand that the Fen Clan has fallen...it seems the Heavens could not turn a blind eye to that foolish boy's actions..." Shaking her head, the old woman pulled out a blue shortsword and said, "I can tell that you are not a cruel person, even if your actions are vicious...please, take my life, take our treasures, take our techniques...but leave a path for the Fen Clan's future..." Fenrir's only response to this was a snort but the old woman put on a knowing smile and moved forward like a blur, completely ruining her frail image.The old woman's attacks were smooth and flowing, far different than the overbearing attacks used by the other members of the Fen Clan. Fenrir even suspected she had come from a different Sect but was unable to confirm her suspicions as the old woman had died moments later. She had tried to swing her sword at a shallow angle, almost as though she were thrusting forward, carrying a powerful water elemental energy that surged outward like a river crashing against boulders. Fenrir, however, had used [Koku Shundo] to get behind the woman, placing her palm against the unnamed elder's back and freezing her body in an instant.Unlike the stinky men she had killed previously, Fenrir didn't want to cut up this woman and instead carried her corpse down to the ground, leaving it laying there for the members of her Sect to tend to, assuming any returned after having run away. The old woman had been buying time for their escape and Fenrir hoped they would at least give her the courtesy of a proper burial after she left.Since she had 'permission', Fenrir took a series of blue and green rings off the bodies of some of the people she had slain, putting them into a pouch at her waist to investigate later. She knew it was 'wrong' to take items from the dead but, with the woman's final words, Fenrir would accept her conditions. In exchange for the lives of her Clansmen, though she hadn't planned to hunt them all down, Fenrir followed her senses to various hidden locations on the property and took all the most valuable items she could find. As for how she determined their value, it was by the concentration of energy contained within. For the rest, she threw them into her mouth to replenish the energy she had expended earlier, feeling her strength increase marginally as the hunger in her stomach was slowly satiated...(Fenrir's Commentary: 'Not every person in this world is bad...')

Fen Hanying had always been the apple of his Grandfather's, Fen Lee's, eye. Because he had been born with a unique constitution that had made the Yang energy in his body much stronger than normal, his potential had always been the highest in the entire Clan, nay, the entire City! To aid in his growth, his Grandfather had always found him suitable maidens from outside the Clan the help nourish his Yang energy further by consuming the virgin Yin contained within the bodies of females.Since he was able to become stronger while playing with women, Fen Hanying had always thought his life would be filled with sensual entertainment as he quickly increased his own cultivation further. He even believed that, in the near future, he would be able to have his way with the unplucked flowers of the other Clans within the City, increasing his own power even further. His rise was the same as the Fen families rise, so they had never spared any efforts in helping to make this dream of his a reality...So, why then, was that very same family currently being torn to shreds by the very girl that his Grandfather had claimed would be his key to becoming even stronger? His Grandfather had mentioned that, much like he had a unique Yang-based constitution, this woman before him had a Yin-based one. It was almost like fate had decreed his rise to prominence by bringing him the very thing he needed to pave his way forward. He could even feel the energy in his body surging the moment he laid eyes on her and, though she was very intimidating, Fen Hanying couldn't help but think about all the ways he would make her scream when she became his...So, how did the situation change so drastically that, instead of 'his' woman screaming for him, everyone that had treated him with care was currently screaming for her? What gave her, a simple furnace meant to aid in his growth, the right to go around killing his Clan members as if she were simply harvesting wheat in a field? Why were the Elders he had respected, the same ones who always told him how powerful he would be in the future, now groveling before this girl who was even smaller than he was? Did he drink some bad soup the previous night and, without realizing it, get stuck in a nightmare world that seemed more real than the reality he knew from memory...?These were questions Fen Hanying desperately wanted answers to but, shortly after his Grandfather had both of his arms cut off by the woman that 'should' have been his, her scarlet red eyes trained on him. In an instant, Fen Hanying felt as if his body were seized by a pressure that he could never hope to oppose and, as the nearly invisible blades of energy around her jade-like hands cut towards his face, the only vision of the future he could see was his own death..."AUDACIOUS! WHO COMES INTO THE FEN CLAN AND ACTS SO BRAZEN!? YOU ARE SEEKING DEATH!"Hearing these thunderous words, which seemed to cut through the void and cause the very heavens to tremble, Fen Hanying couldn't help but smile. He recognized the voice as the one belonging to the Fen Clan Patriarch, Fen Xinyi, the strongest man in their entire Clan. With his arrival, Fen Hanying believed that the Heavens still had eyes, as they had left him a path towards the future. Thus, with a smile on his face, Fen Hanying greeted death while thoughts of his inevitable rise to fame and glory spread through his delusional mind...(Fenrir's Commentary: 'Don't look at me with those disgusting eyes!')

Chapter 45: Fen Clan Patriarch