Ruthless, savage, barbaric, coldblooded, and backbiting.

The Blood Continent can be described as such and much more.

The Blood Sect is the strongest power on the Blood Continent and they were the most infamous heretic sect on planet Daiyu.

To show how harsh the conditions in the sect were; they would purposely limit the cultivation resources for their disciples, and encourage them to fight against each other.

The sect's motto was, "Only the strong will survive, trust no one but yourself, if you want something, kill for it."

From that alone, one could see that they follow the rule of the jungle, where only the strong will survive and the weak would be killed.

Even though the sect had rules for killing between disciples, as long as there was no evidence incriminating the killer or the person killed wasn't a top genius, then the sect would most likely ignore it.

Throughout the entire Blood Sect, disciples could be seen fidgeting while their eyes shifted about as if someone was going to jump them from behind at any time.

They were constantly on guard, keeping a distance from each other as they walk to and from their destinations.

On a random rock, next to a main path within the sect, a poor cricket decided to make a stop there and started its mating call, but not even a second before it started, it was slashed to death by a blood disciple.

"What the fuck?! I thought someone was attacking me from behind!"

That disciple was only walking past the rock and had reflexively attacked in the direction of the noise behind him. He was so vigilant and paranoid of some attacking him from behind that he mistook a cricket noise for a sudden ambush.

But the fact still remained that if it was indeed an ambush, he would've been able to stop a fatal blow.

And that was the main goal of the Blood Sect.

Training in such a competitive and anxiety-inducing environment would cause their disciples to develop a terrifying instinct for battle. The sect was practically raising a bunch of killing machines.

That was why despite being the weakest continent, the major powers on the other continents chose to refrain from opening pandora's box, which was the Blood Sect.

Another reason why they avoided them, was that, despite the internal conflicts and backstabbing going between the members of the Blood Sect, they had a blind loyalty for their sect.

When they were within their sect the disciples would fight tooth and nail against each other, but when they were dealing with outside powers they were united and even more brutal against them. This can be seen by their second motto, "The sect's priority is above all else."

When those two mottoes combine it simply means, you can fight, steal, and back-stab each other but when encountering outside forces, all previous grudges and conflicts are abandon and the sect's interest is placed above else, even your own lives.

The Blood Sect was not the only place that adopted these principles, all the other sects on the Blood Continent had, even the mortals.

Which was somewhat unbelievable.

But all and all, the whole continent's mindset was, be brutal to each other, and even more brutal to your enemies.

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The Patriarch of the Blood Sect was a late-stage Saint realm expert, and he was considered to be the most brutal person on the entire Blood Continent, as one could see from his nickname, Blood Demon.

He had a son that was seventeen years of age, however, he had no Spirit root, resulting in him being called a trash by everyone, as he was unable to cultivate Spiritual Qi.

When the Patriarch had found out about it, he had actually killed his wife.

His wife was examined by doctors and it was found that she was unable to give birth to another child.

The Patriarch had waited twelve years only to find out his son was a cripple. Anger had rushed to his head resulting in the tragic death of his wife.

Following that incident, his first concubine had become pregnant with a child.

Forgetting about the humiliation brought to him because of his wife bearing a cripple for a son, he made the first concubine his new wife.

However, not too long into the birth, the newly wedded wife had a miscarriage.

It was said that when the news was delivered to the Patriarch he had killed the messenger with a single slap.

The events that followed afterward were nothing short of tragic and gruesome.

After the miscarriage by the first concubine, now wife, the doctors again declared that she was unable to give birth to another child.

The Patriarch killed her and then said, "What's her use if she can't even give birth to a child?"

His vile and emotionless words at that time had shown his brutal nature that was buried deep within his bones.

With only a cripple son to pass on his legacy to, the Patriarch was starting to get anxious for new heirs.

He had only a wife and three concubines at the time. With his wife and the first concubine's death, his main focus was the last two remaining concubines.

He started to give them all types of pills and elixirs to help with pregnancy, and soon after, both of them had become pregnant.

Only to have a miscarriage not long after, with the same outcome as his wife and first concubine, being that they were unable to have a child again.

The two concubines followed the same faith as the wife and first concubine, they were killed.

Afterward, the Patriarch seemed to have become deranged, not that he wasn't already but he had become more so.

Every time he would take in concubines, they would become pregnant but have a miscarriage soon after. The events followed the same routine of them being unable to have another child.

The Patriarch was incensed, at one point he had taken in over a hundred concubines but the outcome was still the same, so was the faith of those women being killed by the Patriarch.

Rumors were starting to spread in the sect and across the continent that the Patriarch was probably inept in that area.

Hearing such rumors, the Patriarch was so angry from the humiliation that loud banging noises could be heard coming from his residence.

Ever since his first and only son had been found out to possess no Spiritual root at the age of ten and twelve, the Patriarch spent the next three years trying to gain a worthy successor to pass on his legacy. However, for three years he had failed with the same results happening over and over again.

He wasn't able to find out what the problem was.

One doctor had suggested that it might be because of his cultivation technique, the 'Three-Eyed Demon Revolution.'

It was one of the four legacy cultivation methods in the Blood Sect. However, he wasn't the only one that had cultivated this technique, a past Patriarch of the sect had cultivated it, and he had children without any trouble.

After the three years of his fruitless efforts, the Patriarch decided to put all of his hopes into his cripple of a son that he had ignored.

He decided that since he couldn't find a successor in his first generation of descendants, he would find one in the second. After all, Saint realm cultivators could live for thousands of years. He was willing to wait as long as it took, for a suitable heir.

Having made up his mind he set out to find a talented wife for his useless son.

And it just so happens that a genius appeared within the sect that had the Karma Physique. Which was ranked twelve out of the thirty Lengendary Physiques, and, most important of all, the disciple was a girl.

The Patriarch immediately took action by taking in the twelve-year-old girl as his disciple.

Her origins were that of a descendant of one of the most powerful Sage Clans on the continent, the Yang Clan.

When the Patriarch had made his decision to take her as his disciple, they immediately protested because they knew the Patriarch's intentions of making her marry his crippled son.

Who would want such a talented younger member of their clan to be married off to a cripple? Even if it was the Patriarch's only son, it was nothing more than throwing pearl to a swine or having a beautiful rose being stuck in shit. The swine and shit being the Patriarch's son.

However, being the strongest person on the continent, with the backing of the Blood Sect, the Yang Clan had no choice but to submit to the Patriarch's decision. That was unless they wage a war in rebellion and won, but they immediately chuck that idea out the window as that was too unrealistic.

The talented girl from the Yang Clan was named Yang Yuyan.

After she became the Patriarch's personal disciple, her cultivation soared by leaps and bounds.

When she was only fourteen years old she was already in the mid-stage of the Foundation Building realm and could fight across minor realms to battle late-stage Foundation realm cultivators.

Now she was sixteen years of age reaching the late-stage Foundation realm herself and had even comprehended the legendary 'blade intent'.

Something difficult for every blade master.

In the Seven Continents tournament, she had revealed her shocking talent of combining her Karma Physique and blade intent, which gave her blade intent a faint hint of karma.

Karma was one of the many Great Daos.

In the past, immortals were said to have the power to manipulate a person's karma and control their destinies, something only the heavens were capable of.

However, such things as immortals who could replace the will of the heavens were only spoken about in books and were considered to be folklore and legends told by past generations.

Throughout the whole tournament, Yang Yuyan remained undefeated to reach the finals and won in an overwhelming manner using only three moves.

She then gained the reputation of being the most talented person among the younger generation on planet Daiyu.

Her skills in martial arts and cultivation were unmatched by anyone in the Blood Sect. Making her fame among the blood disciples at the utmost.

Not only does her fame come from her extraordinary talents, but it also comes from her beauty and absolute ruthlessness.

Within the Blood Sect, there's no shortage of vicious and coldblooded disciples, however, none of them would dare go up against their senior sister.

One time a male disciple was too handsy with her so she cut off his ten fingers.

That male disciple didn't know what was good for himself and tried to retaliate in anger. But the 'blood empress' dissected both of his hands and shattered his dantian, turning him into a cripple for the rest of his life.

Yang Yuyan's beauty was considered to be number one, not just on the Blood Continent, but the entire Daiyu planet.

This caused some male disciples to have some thoughts about her, but this incident deterred them from even having fantasies about her.

One other thing to be mention was that despite being the Patriarch's disciple she was offered no special treatment or protection.

Some people were confused by this as the only reason he took her as a disciple was to marry his useless son to her, so his treatment of her seemed contradictory.

It was only when that incident took place that people realized something, the young patriarch that they had looked down upon for being useless, was even more vicious than Yang Yuyan, and could even be compared with his father.

That male disciple that had his arms chopped off, and his dantian shattered by Yang Yuyan, was found dead later that day.

Not only that, his family had gone missing overnight, while everyone he was acquainted with within the sect, even if it was only limited to speaking a few words with them, went missing with no trace of their existence to be found.

When everyone heard the news, they all felt as if a vice-like grip was squeezing their necks, rendering them unable to breathe.

Going after someone's family was frown upon in the cultivation world. If that were allowed and you went after your enemy, wouldn't he just target your loved ones?

And what would you do in retaliation?

Once that cycle was started it would be hard to stop.

That's why people on the blood continent were so shocked by the news. Even if they were vicious, they wouldn't have been this vicious.

The only reason why the young patriarch of the Blood Sect was able to do this and get away with it was precisely because of his position. If not, then everyone would be openly condemning him, but in reality, they could only do so silently within their hearts

Well, now they all know that Yang Yuyan was absolutely off-limits, else they and their families would die without even knowing how.

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~Fun Fact~

This chapter was actually 900 words longer than this, but I cut it down by scrapping a few ideas about how Yang Yuyan and Patriarch blood demon was supposed to be.

Maybe I'll have like separate chapter/s to show how different this book could've been so far.