So, he began to follow behind them using only his Super Speed ability, which of course couldn't match up to the speeds that the beasts being rode on were moving at. However, he didn't lose sight out of them as he was still able to see them, hear them and smell them from far away using his powerful, enhanced senses.

About a few hours later of chasing after them at the highest speed that he could muster, using his Super Speed ability and his augmented vampiric senses to trace them to their location, he eventually arrived at an old and abandoned building that had no windows as long pieces of wood have been used to seal them up.

At the moment, the beasts that the masked assassins rode on, could be seen seated idly outside the deserted building. While Xiao Lin who didn't want to show himself to the beasts and possibly cause them to cry out and instantly alarm the assassins that he was after, decided to remain far away from where he would be noticed by any of the beasts.

Then from where he hid himself which was partially concealed from view, he tried to listen to the conversations going on within the building using his Enhanced Hearing ability. He simply had the intentions of knowing what they were talking about, and why they killed that person at the inn that he rented a room at.

However, he wasn't here to really listen to their conversations regarding the schemes and the other plans that they might have to execute later. He was only here for blood, and to do that successfully, he had to know the numbers of people in the building, just so he could devise his own plans of attacking them and slaying them one after the other.

...

"Lightwind, the job has been done?" Someone asked.

"Yes. It has been done." One of the four masked assassins that arrived here and was called Lightwind replied.

"Hmm. And hope no one followed you guys down here?" That person asked again.

"No one followed us. We are certain of that." One of the four assassins that Lightwind walked into the building with replied.

"Good! Now, that you have done the job, here's a thousand silver coins to be shared among each of you." That person said, stretching a spatial ring towards Lightwind.

Lightwind nodded his head and accepted the spatial ring that was stretched at him.

Then the person continued, "With that fool who knows too much of my schemes out of the way, I will be able to proceed without caution on the next phase of my plans." The person said.

He then looked at Lightwind and said further "And I want you guys to be by my side in helping me to gather the things that I need for the Awakening Ritual of the Blood Arbiter's Ironcleaver Sword"

Immediately he said that, Lightwind looked at him and said "As long as you will pay us, we would do anything for you."

Hahaha!

The person laughed.

"Certainly. I will pay you guys well" He said.

He then continued by asking "So, to kill close to a thousand people, how much would it cost me?"

Immediately he said that, Lightwind and the rest of the people in the building looked at the man with great shock in their eyes. They couldn't believe what they just heard. It was too much for them to take in.

Lightwind exhaled and then asked with deep puzzlement and perplexity in his tone "I hope you aren't trying to tease us? What do you want to do with a thousand people? Isn't that amount of people too outrageous for only an awakening ritual of whatever sword you may have with you?"

The person spoken to laughed for sometime before seriousness surfaced in his face. He then said, "Actually, it's kind of little, to be honest, but I am going to make do with that and hope that the Awakening Ritual becomes a success. But, if it fails after using the blood of a thousand people, then I would have no choice than to find another means to slay tens of thousands of people to simply awaken the great sword."

Once he said this, everyone in the candle-lit room that they were in, had their eyes glow with both awe and dread.

They couldn't believe that a sword like that could actually exist in their own world.

A sword that should possibly belong to a legend was in their own world? And was in the hands of a particular male from a sect that that they have never heard about? So many things that the male said became too much for them to take in.

Lightwind who suddenly developed difficulty in breathing upon hearing the greatly stifling amount of people to be killed if the thousands of people killed for the ritual failed, said with a hoarse voice, "Okay, I understand you now. But, where are we going to get such a large number of people to kill for you and take their bloods, if I may ask you? You know, we can't just go into people's houses or some organization to kill the people in there and bring their bloods for you. So, how do you want us to really go about that?"

The male spoken to, said with a smile appearing in his face as he looked at Lightwind "Well, it shouldn't be that difficult, right? Just search for a massive gathering of people and slay your way to the thousand number of people that I firstly asked for. Then if it fails, you all will help me to kill again up to ten thousand figures that I am sure should really awaken the sword soul."

Huuu!

Lightwind exhaled.

But before he could speak, that male spoke again "Like the legacy ground for the Azure Firestorm Archer which would be opening soon, you guys shouldn't find it difficult in killing up to a thousand people in there, right?"

"I don't know. So many skilled and monstrously-talented disciples and rogue cultivators from many sects and organizations would be coming in from different parts of the town and other towns. And we of slightly-above average talents wouldn't be able to really contend with those sort of people, talk more of killing them. It would be tremendously difficult for us to do" Lightwind said.

He then continued "And maybe you should do it yourself, since you are able to wield a sword that wants the blood of thousands to tens of thousands of people for it awakening."

"So, since you can proudly own such a dreadful majestic sword, you should possess formidable Battle Skills and a fearsome battle prowess to be able to easily accomplish what you want, like the slaying of the large numbers of good to terrific cultivators and disciples that would enter the legacy ground of the Azure Firestorm Archer to inherit his lifetime accumulated wealth."

Immediately after Lightwind made his last statement, the male spoken to shook his head with a smile appearing in his face.

He then said with a solemn tone in his voice "Well, you are absolutely right about what you just said."

Then he continued with arrogance in his voice "I, the youngest Obsidian Abdicator, and second Inheritance Disciple of the great Blood Arbiter from the unmatched God and Devil-fighting sect in the Spirit Continent, will definitely know a large number of horrifying Battle Skills, and possess an incredible battle prowess that no one in my cultivation level, would be able to match up with."

"Besides, I possess tons of small but insanely powerful treasures to accomplish what I want in that Legacy Ground. So, killing everyone in there, including any 11th-layer Mortal Spiritual stage cultivators that would enter there, would be as simple as killing tiny bugs to me, despite my 6th-layer Mortal Spiritual cultivation stage that should appear useless or insignificant to theirs. Haha!"

"However, I have to be very careful with what I want to do, and extremely cautious in absolutely everywhere I would go, as I do not want to foolishly expose myself to some deity-like people who would come for me and would spare no effort in obtaining me."

"Then if you ask me what I did to them to make them hate me so much, it's because I have killed their favorite legacy disciples in the past who were at my cultivation level and even turned some of them into my soul-contracted battle puppets. Very despicable right? Haha!"

"So, once they discover me using any of my overshadowing Battle Techniques outside my sect that boasts of many dangerously-skilled and immensely powerful cultivation teachers, they would instantly teleport down there to wherever I am to simply acquire or abduct me"

"Therefore, that's why I want you guys to do it for me, so I won't get caught and be taken away by those vengeful and eccentric nigh-immortal cultivators."

"I will pay you guys tremendously if you can do this job for me. Then to make the task that I am assigning to you guys very easy to fulfill, I will give you guys some special secret pills that will temporarily give you the true aura and power of a 1st-layer Spirit Earthking stage cultivator"