Chapter 3:Evil is Everywhere.
After walking for a long time, they finally saw signs of human habitation ahead. Although he didn't know why the village was still brightly lit at night, it was undoubtedly good news for Ji Wuchang.
"That aura...it's those disgusting things!" A voice filled with disgust echoed in the sky, looking towards the village.
"This young master is so lucky! I've found people! I'll mooch a meal and a room, have a comfortable night's rest before continuing!" Giving himself a thumbs up for his luck, Ji Wuchang quickened his pace and ran towards the village.
He had been traveling for a long time. To avoid being caught by that old Soul Master woman who was taking advantage of him, Ji Wuchang hadn't stopped to rest for a moment.
But he was, after all, just a Great Soul Master. Altough he trained with his father every day, Ji Wuchang still felt tired.
However, as he got closer, he finally saw the village's true condition.
This wasn't the village he had imagined, brightly lit for some kind of ceremony.
This was clearly a living hell, a place where murder and arson had continued to burn!
Entering the village, a wave of heat immediately hit him. The houses where the villagers had lived were completely destroyed by the fire.
An unknown liquid flowed on the ground, appearing strangely eerie under the flames. Ji Wuchang felt a stickiness under his feet.
Of course, he knew what it was!
He wasn't some immature kid. Aside from the fact that he possessed the resilience of a 21st-century teenager,
his father had taken him to fight in the Soul Beast Forest for the past six years, leaving him completely unfazed!
As for what the sticky stuff was?
It was the smell of blood from slaughter! He couldn't be mistaken!
"What happened here?"
Ji Wuchang didn't see any human or soul beast corpses around him. But the heavy stench of blood told him that something terrible had definitely happened!
Upon closer inspection, Ji Wuchang noticed something amiss.
The foul-smelling blood, whether human or soul beast blood, was converging in the same direction!
"Let's go take a look!" Although somewhat apprehensive, Ji Wuchang decided to head towards the blood pool.
"Hopefully, it's not what I think..."
After walking for a while, Ji Wuchang stopped. In his field of vision, a pitch-black altar quietly appeared. At the center of the altar was the pool of blood! Numerous corpses were neatly arranged around the altar.
In the eyes of someone hidden in the heavens, the altar was like a center, arranged with the surrounding corpses into an unknown pattern.
"Hiss~" Finally, the guess was confirmed!
Those corpses were human!
And judging from their clothing, they were undoubtedly the original villagers of this place!
Numerous man-made wounds were clearly visible on their bodies.
The men were missing limbs, or had their heads severed.
As for the women, they had been stripped naked.
From the sinful marks on their bodies and the fear, terror, despair, and resentment contained in their unclosed eyes, one could know the extent of the harm they suffered before their deaths!
Not one escaped the fate of being violated!
This showed just how cruel and perverse the culprit who caused this tragedy was!
"Damn bastards!"
Ji Wuchang's eyes seemed to spit fire.
Regarding the massacres of his previous world, Ji Wuchang could only judge the brutality of the enemy army through surviving pictures.
But now, Ji Wuchang could experience it firsthand! This scene was a tremendous shock to Ji Wuchang!
While he didn't vomit outright, his stomach churned.
Unfortunately, the tragedy had already occurred. No matter how angry Ji Wuchang was, it was futile.
He could only summon his martial spirit, driven by his soul power, and smash the altar, which looked like a dangerous object, to pieces!
He was determined to find the culprits behind this massacre and kill them on the spot!
However, he hadn't expected that day to come so soon!
"Hahaha, go ahead and scream! Why aren't you screaming anymore! Let's see if you dare resist me again. I pursued you relentlessly back then, but you wouldn't agree and instead married that guy Ye Huainan. What do you say now? You're still under my thumb! You filthy bitch, scream for me!"
In a room that hadn't been burned down, not too far from Ji Wuchang, although the sound wasn't very clear, it was definitely coming from that direction.
Tightening his grip on his longsword, Ji Wuchang slowly walked in that direction. As he drew closer to the house, he could clearly hear voices.
"Well, that's it. The evil gods have arrived, and your dead husband dared to defy them, getting publicly killed. You, that bitch who never even looked at me, are now being ridden by thousands, aren't you? That doesn't feel good, does it?"
Hearing the man's words, Ji Wuchang frowned. He quickly analyzed the general cause and effect, and could imagine what had happened.
He knew that every place had its repulsive darkness. Especially in this dog-eat-dog world of Douluo Continent!
Perhaps the darkness depicted in Douluo wasn't so obvious, even somewhat too beautiful to be real.
But darkness definitely existed!
You see, Soul Masters might be commonplace in the eyes of a Douluo fan like him, always quickly surpassed and utterly defeated by the protagonist.
But that's only true from the protagonist's perspective!
Have you ever considered how low the status of those lowly Soul Masters who possess Soul Power but remain at the Soul Warrior/Soul Master level for their entire lives, or even ordinary people with only Martial Souls and no Soul Power, truly is on this continent?
This unequal power dynamic inevitably breeds darker aspects.
For ordinary people, the life of a Soul Master is both something they yearn for and something they fear. They yearn for the treatment of Soul Masters, yet fear any involvement with them.
There are countless complex reasons for this. The most obvious is that in the presence of a Soul Master, you are merely an ordinary person, nothing more.
Even a six-year-old child who has just awakened and possesses Soul Power, after a little adjustment, can easily hold their own against an adult without Soul Power. Let alone those Soul Masters at the first or second ring level?
At this point, some Soul Masters at the bottom of the Soul Master world, in order to live a life of privilege, will bully and oppress ordinary people.
Don't tell me there are laws forbidding Soul Masters from harming ordinary people.
Those are laws that restrict high-level Soul Masters! Because those high-level Soul Masters, even just Soul Kings and Soul Emperors, could wipe out an entire area of ordinary people with a single skill, let alone the higher-level Soul Saints, Soul Douluos, or even Title Douluos.
As for those low-level Soul Masters who don't cause mass deaths, unless they go too far, how many would bother to care?
Oh, there is one. Ji Wuchang knows one:the Shrek Academy Inspection Team!
Any Shrek member who joins the Shrek Academy Inspection Team will immediately kill any evil Soul Master they encounter, regardless of their level!
The Shrek Academy Inspection Team is composed of disciples from the Shrek Academy Inner Court, making them the elite of Soul Masters. They are the hidden judges and adjudicators.
Although they are not widely known, they are undoubtedly worthy of respect!
Back to Ji Wuchang, after hearing that infuriating voice, his face grew increasingly grim. He could imagine that countless darkness and evil existed in this world. But that didn't mean he could tolerate it!
He quickened his pace and rushed into the room.
"Who goes there?!"
Only two people were in the room, a man and a woman. Both were completely naked, and the way the man had the woman pinned beneath him made it clear to anyone, even a fool, what they were doing.
"Where did this brat come from? Can't you see I'm busy? Get out of here right now, or don't blame me for being ruthless!" The man was furious, humiliated that he'd almost lost all feeling from being frightened by a mere child.
Ji Wuchang didn't answer. He looked at the woman beneath him, his anger reaching its peak.
She was a disheveled woman, her messy hair unable to conceal her original beauty.
She didn't resist the man's actions, or perhaps she couldn't, or perhaps her heart was dead. But her once bright eyes were now devoid of light, filled with despair and undisguised resentment.
Her beautiful body was stained with filth. The twisted curves of her limbs showed they had been completely broken. Perhaps, if she could move, she would have already taken her own life?
"You little brat, can't you understand human language? I told you to get out of here right now!" The man was furious that Ji Wuchang ignored him.
"Since you're so ungrateful, then die! Martial Soul Possession!" The man roared, a white halo erupting from his body. A few whiskers instantly sprouted on his face, his mouth became sharp, his face lengthened, and black fur grew on his body. Combined with his evil eyes, he looked exactly like a giant sewer rat!
This was his Martial Soul! A…dead rat!
Yes, a dead rat.
This wasn't an ordinary rat. Besides possessing the…sleazy nature of an ordinary rat, he also had a trace of necromantic power! This was incredible!
If it weren't for the characteristics contained within his Martial Soul, he would have already been killed on the spot by those adults who had arrived earlier!
"Die!"
The man's lips curled into a wide grin, and combined with his dead rat appearance, Ji Wuchang was beyond words in describing how ugly he was!
(End of Chapter)