Unintended Cultivator: Volume Two by Eric Dontigney

Author:Eric Dontigney [Dontigney, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Alley Press
Published: 2024-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

PROJECTING STRENGTH

Sen knew that using the liquid qi would make Heavens’ Rebuke more powerful, but he hadn’t fully appreciated how much more potent it would become. Add that in with the wrong balance between the lightning and killing intent, and he’d expected a lot of destruction. What he saw, though, was so far beyond his expectations that he didn’t know quite how to process it. The building that he’d leapt from was simply gone. In fact, most of the buildings in the immediate vicinity were gone. The destruction between where he stood and the wall seemed worse, though. Sen had been pretty focused on that wall at the time. He wondered if that had influenced the way the technique had expressed itself. Beyond the immediate ring of destruction, most of the buildings were little more than hollowed-out ruins with collapsed walls and roofs. In places, a partial second floor remained where he could see a bed or cabinet exposed to the air.

What captured his attention, though, were all of the dead spirit beasts. When he hid, he sacrificed access to a lot of information about the world nearby. Then, when he’d finally made his leap, he’d been almost entirely focused on his qinggong technique and controlling Heavens’ Rebuke, however ineptly. There had seemingly been more spirit beasts nearby than he knew, based on the sheer scale of the carnage. Sen couldn’t even guess at the actual number. There were some mostly or partially intact bodies on the ground. Yet, for each of those, there were countless pieces of spirit animals. Then, there was the blood. It was simply everywhere Sen looked. It covered the ground, the debris, and what intact walls were nearby.

The smell of the area was almost enough to overwhelm even Sen’s usually strong stomach. What he didn’t see were the insects he would have expected to be covering the area. With so much decaying flesh and blood around, the air should have been blackened with all the flies. Sen considered the idea that the lingering remnants of destructive qi in the area might be keeping them away. He supposed it was possible there was something about the spirit animal corpses themselves that kept the insects at bay, but that seemed less likely. As Sen took it all in, he wondered if he should swear off using Heavens’ Rebuke ever again.

That kind of destruction was too unpredictable, too widespread. It was just too much in every sense. Killing a specific person or spirit beast was one thing. It was unavoidable really, as he’d finally come to accept. Cultivators killed each other, even if Sen thought the reasons were often stupid. That was just the harsh reality of things, at least at Sen’s cultivation stage. He couldn’t change the rules of cultivation society by himself. One day, if he made it to the nascent soul stage, maybe he could decide not to kill or at least keep it to a minimum. Yet, he wasn’t entirely convinced it was completely avoidable even then.

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