Chapter 163: Nothing More Than That
This kind of cruel and selfish betrayal didn’t just leave Wen Jin heartbroken beyond repair, it also enraged her father and clan. In the end, the two of them were thrown into pig cages[1] and cast into the river.
Wen Jin had thought she would surely die. But to her surprise, she was rescued by an old man.
That old man was from the Bare Body Sect. He claimed to have taken a liking to Wen Jin’s potential and offered to take her as his disciple. Even the scholar was pulled from the river alive.
The old man told Wen Jin to make her own choice: let him go, or kill him.
In the end, Wen Jin used a dagger to carve out the scholar’s heart with her own hands, and ate it right in front of the old man.
The old man was delighted. He said he would personally train her into a cultivator that inspired fear and reverence.
Over the years, Wen Jin learned many techniques under that old man’s guidance, and all of them were sinister arts of killing and harming others.
She once believed him to be some reclusive master. But in truth, her “respected” master forced her to serve him in bed every night, constantly subjecting her to cruel torments in new forms.
Even now, recalling those painful years made Wen Jin shudder. She still didn’t dare dwell on them.
Later, her master left for the frontier, and Wen Jin remained in the sect, working on its behalf. That experience had twisted Wen Jin into someone filled with malice and resentment.
Over the years, she had not only slain numerous righteous cultivators for the Bare Body Sect, but also caused the deaths of countless innocents. Her favorite method was to use seductive charm to lure young scholars, cut out their hearts, coax them into murdering their own family members, and take joy in the process.
This time, the Bare Body Sect issued a task. She and her companions were to investigate the Blissful Land soon to emerge in Wei City, keep watch over the Baxia stone statue, and, if possible, eliminate a young Daoist from Wei City.