Yan Hua walked through the village with the two women sauntering like he had no care in the world at this point he didn't.
The village was a wide fields with tiny wooden huts and rice farms everywhere seeing a cultivator must have been new to them they all stared as he passed he waved smiling mischievously true do not trust him with anything sharp or explosive.
They reached the village leaders hut and knocked the man opened he was clearly drunk and angry "what whada ya want?" the leader spat swaying side to side. then he noticed Yan Hua "whatis brat little cultivator i am a spiritual master don't...uuhh....don't cross meh.." Yan Hua smiled "Cultivator I thought you were a pig wearing his masers clothes ,fascinating" the older man raised his fist then promptly passed out. Yan Hua stared at him cocking an eyes braw. A cultivator ? what a joke this guy couldn't kill a chicken if he had a knife.
The women looked terrified backing away.
"Master Yan ,please" Xin Lan one of the woman on the right said "He is a primary level spiritual master he will kill you"
Primary was Yan Hua's level in truth he could break through in a while if he tried just could not he enough time of all the messes his family put him through. 'what a jerk' Yan Hua thought as he stared at the collapsed man poking him with his leg 'terrifying his villagers they should just kill him.'
A few hours passed and Yan Hua was eating delicious rice offered by Xin Lan and Meng Yu-the two ladies-they were nice and chatted with him but Yan Hua soon noticed them getting more uncomfortable as dusk comes ........so he asked them.
they were silent for a moment before answering.
"Every night" Meng Yu started "After dark demonic spirits come raiding things and killing people" here eyes were down cast sorrowfully as she added "They killed 20 people just last week."
Yan Hua was taken aback. Ghosts? Ghouls ? Demonic spirits ? shouldn't the 5 sects be handling this ? wasn't this their job?. Yan Hua himself had never seen Demonic spirits before as they never appeared anywhere near their area the Liu cultivators always killed them before they could enter the city.
"Why won't the Sects in this area come isn't this their job?" Yan Hua asked
Xin Lan answered him "it is but village leader Nan said he had it handled so....they never came"
Yan Hua felt his hands curl into fists at his knees bunching the fabric. sure he had a bad raising sure he was abused and mistreated by everyone but this area was under Liu and Lord and Lady Liu probably knew this was happening and left them all to die.
them mistreating him he could live with but hundreds of people dying because of their ignorance he wasn't going to stand.
"Don't worry" Yan Hua said "I'll help you"
*Demonic spirits=spirits off dead people with so much hatred or cultivators who could not pass to the after life hard to kill.