Chapter 18: No Intent to Kill

Qing Wugui only sensed a slight disturbance in the surrounding space, then saw the young man from the Xiao family’s head fly off, while Qu Yi returned to his side—his heart suddenly jolted.
Over the years, Qing Wugui had wandered across various regions of the cultivation world. On the surface, he appeared to be an ordinary mortal, but in secret, he had been studying the Heart of Asura, striving to comprehend a different kind of killing intent. Of course, while mastering the Heart of Asura, Qing Wugui also tried to craft spirit talismans. As long as he practiced both The Asura Demon Canon and The Spirit Talisman Canon simultaneously, his understanding of the five elements’ energies would advance rapidly.
Just now, Qing Wugui was momentarily inspired by Qu Yi’s decisive killing aura, his heart stirred, and he became immersed in an illusory state. On the surface, it seemed as though he were just a wooden statue standing in the desert.
Qu Yi was overjoyed—it seemed Qing Wugui had entered a state of sudden enlightenment.
The four others at the early stage of merging forms beside him stared at Qu Yi with terror, already drawing out their life treasures, yet none dared to attack.
“Fellow cultivator, we are Shaya, Shahan, and Shachen from the Tanping Sect. This is Xiao Kui, an elder from the Xiao family. This area belongs to our Tiantian Sect. We hope you won’t cause trouble here,” said one of the three helpers summoned by Xiao, his voice urgent.
Clearly, these three wanted to warn Qu Yi that if he fought them and Xiao Kui, he would be pursued by the Tiantian Sect’s experts.
Qu Yi sneered, disappearing once again. The next moment, Shaya from the Tiantian Sect’s head also flew off, and Qu Yi returned to his original position as if nothing had happened.
Huh!
At that moment, the other two from the Xiao family—Xiao Kui, Shahan, and Shachen—all held their swords, watching Qu Yi warily. Their eyes were confused, revealing their fear.
“You three, don’t speak or move. Whether I kill you or not depends on your behavior,” Qu Yi transmitted his message mentally, warning the remaining three.
Qu Yi saw that Qing Wugui was deep in a state of enlightenment and didn’t want to make any noise that might ruin Qing Wugui’s rare opportunity for insight.
The three froze, filled with panic, but none dared speak again.
Qu Yi was too fast; their spiritual senses couldn’t detect even the slightest movement. They naturally understood that fleeing meant death, and fighting also meant death. There was only one chance: to follow Qu Yi’s orders, perhaps they might have a slim chance of survival.
Three days later.

Qing Wugui’s heart was not by his side; no wind could be seen, yet there was a faint wind-like sound that filled people with dread, suggesting that life was about to come to an end. Suddenly, Qing Wugui opened his eyes, looked around, smiled at Qu Yi, then calmly gazed at the three men chasing him. “Qu Yi, do you have any pills? Give me one—after fleeing for so long, my vital energy is completely depleted,” Qing Wugui said with a sudden smile. Hearing this, Qu Yi felt both amused and exasperated; he never expected that after waking from his epiphany, Qing Wugui’s first words would be such. “Here!” Qu Yi quickly took out a bottle of Spirit Clearing Pill and tossed it to Qing Wugui. Qu Yi had many pills with him—gathered from the space rings of various sect elders in the Demon Poison Star Region and Tianhuo Star Region—so there were plenty of pills to restore vital energy. Qing Wugui swallowed the entire bottle of pills as if he hadn’t drunk a drop of water in hundred thousand years; now that he had finally drunk some water, he felt extremely comfortable and satisfied, his spirit greatly revived. “As for whether you three can survive, it depends on your own abilities. Now, attack me with all your might—I’ll take on all of you alone,” Qing Wugui said confidently, his vital energy restored. Qu Yi was stunned for a moment before his face lit up with joy. It seemed that Qing Wugui had gained something from his recent epiphany and wanted to test it by fighting the three of them. The three men standing at the front glanced at Qu Yi. Seeing him nod smilingly, they felt relieved, knowing that their survival now depended on whether they could defeat Qing Wugui. “Alright, the three of us will take on you alone!” Xiao Kui shouted loudly. Over the past three days, the three men had stood motionless, their emotions swirling inside them, filled with anger. Now, upon hearing Qing Wugui’s request, they immediately wanted to fight. Although they couldn’t kill him, they could give him a thorough beating before leaving. Qing Wugui drew out his black sword. Though it was still at the lower level of a spiritual weapon, it emitted layers of faint killing intent that made it impossible to approach. “Destruction Intent—shatter everything, slaughter all beings!” With a sudden shout, Qing Wugui transformed into a black shadow and appeared in front of Xiao Kui. His black sword rushed toward Xiao Kui’s chest, swift yet seemingly slow, while black vital energy flowed like a spiritual serpent. “Hmph! Our Xiao family is a great clan specializing in killing intent! Don’t think you can get the upper hand in front of me!” Xiao Kui shouted viciously.

In an instant, Xiao Kui raised the green sword in his hand, and a golden light balloon soared upward, lifting Qing Wu Gui’s black sword as well. Under Xiao Kui’s mental control, the golden light balloon swiftly shot toward Qing Wu Gui. Sha Hen and Sha Chen from the Tan Tian Sect also immediately followed, splitting into left and right sides, and simultaneously thrust their swords at Qing Wu Gui. Yellow true energy erupted from their swords, forming a yellow sand dragon that aimed to swallow Qing Wu Gui whole. Qing Wu Gui did not retreat at all; instead, he pressed forward. His black sword swiftly wrapped around him in a strike. Suddenly, a layer of pale gray true energy surrounded him, carrying an intense sense of destruction. Sha Hen and Sha Chen cast the “Yellow Sand Rolling Dragon” spell. Before their sand dragons even touched the pale gray true energy layer, they disintegrated on their own. Qing Wu Gui had actually reached such a level of using killing intent to influence others’ true energy. However, Xiao Kui’s golden true energy balloon also carried a faint sense of killing intent, which was not dispelled by Qing Wu Gui’s own intent. It struck the true energy layer and immediately shattered it. After all, Qing Wu Gui was only at the late stage of the Separation Realm, so the strength of his true energy still couldn’t compare to Xiao Kui’s early stage of the Fusion Realm. After another clash, all four realized something—at least Xiao Kui, Sha Hen, and Sha Chen understood that by focusing on Xiao Kui’s attacks with Sha Hen and Sha Chen providing supplementary attacks, they could defeat Qing Wu Gui. Seeing that his own sense of destruction couldn’t affect Xiao Kui, Qing Wu Gui was surprised, then his face lit up with joy. He had just achieved an epiphany while understanding a new kind of killing intent, and now having Xiao Kui as an opponent further stimulated him to develop another kind of killing intent. “One more time!” Qing Wu Gui shouted with a smile, thrusting his black sword at Xiao Kui. Besides the original sense of destruction, there was now a faint, vague impression of killing intent on the sword. Sensing the killing intent on Qing Wu Gui’s sword, Xiao Kui detected an additional layer of killing intent that even made him feel a bit afraid. He felt uneasy but not terrified. After all, with the gap between the Fusion Realm and the Separation Realm, he was confident he could defeat Qing Wu Gui. “Watch my triple strike!” Xiao Kui roared angrily and suddenly swung his green sword, slashing at Qing Wu Gui. It seemed like he had only swung the sword once, but in reality, he had swung it three times in succession, forming a semi-circular arc of light that carried a destructive aura. Sha Hen and Sha Chen immediately raised their swords in front of them, ready to strike together the moment Qing Wu Gui blocked Xiao Kui’s attack, thereby defeating him.

Qing Wu Gui saw Xiao Kui’s three consecutive sword strikes and his eyes lit up; he had already gained some insight from the destructive aura in those sword intents.
“Whether there’s a sword or not, it’s still inferior. Only killing intent can shatter all sword hearts,” Qing Wu Gui said softly.
After expressing this realization, his entire aura changed—his whole body seemed like a fierce sword or a collection of sword energies. With a snap of his hands, a black sword emerged from his body, spun rapidly, and blocked Xiao Kui’s three arc-shaped sword strikes, simultaneously destroying the destructive aura within them.
At that moment, Sha Hen and Sha Chen suddenly attacked, flying up and stabbing at Qing Wu Gui’s waist from both sides.
“You only know how to cast spells using true energy, but you don’t realize that true energy is also a form of power, and all power has its own consciousness. With consciousness, it cannot resist my killing intent. Shatter the killing intent, gather the heart of a Asura!” Qing Wu Gui seemed to be in a special state of transcendence, as if he had seen through the world.
Sure enough, Qing Wu Gui snapped his hands again. Just as Sha Hen and Sha Chen reached him and their swords were about to touch his body, the Earth Energy in their swords scattered as if under its own will.
“I refuse to believe it! Witness the ultimate killing intent of the Xiao family—Destruction Domain!”
Seeing Qing Wu Gui easily block his attacks and repel Sha Hen and Sha Chen, Xiao Kui could hardly accept it and resolved to go all out.
Destruction Domain was the Xiao family’s top-secret skill, one that required sacrificing one’s lifespan to use. At that moment, Xiao Kui wasted a thousand years of his lifespan. Suddenly, he was enveloped in thick black smoke filled with a destructive force.
The smoke quickly turned into a hundred-mile-wide black cloud that covered Qing Wu Gui, Qu Yi, Sha Hen, and Sha Chen. Then it contracted violently, aiming to kill all four of them.
“Destruction? Life? Disappearance? I understand. The next kind of killing intent I need to comprehend is the killing intent of non-existence.”
“Killing intent of non-existence—gather the heart of a Asura!”
At this moment, Qing Wu Gui finally clarified the faint impression of killing intent he had grasped earlier and developed a new kind of killing intent—the killing intent of non-existence.

Just as he grasped the concept of no intent to kill, Qing Wugui’s entire body underwent another profound change. Above his head appeared a huge black heart-shaped outline, which rapidly became clearer, seemingly devouring all the murderous energy, consciousness, and aura in the surrounding space. Naturally, the destructive domain that Xiao Kui had desperately unleashed became a supplement to the newly formed “Asura Heart” of Qing Wugui, all converging into this black Asura Heart.

“Impossible! What kind of killing intent is this? How can it devour my destructive domain?” Xiao Kui, whose face had grown greatly aged, cried out in terror.

Originally, Xiao Kui had intended to kill all four at once, but he never expected his own killing intent to be swallowed by the Asura Heart created from Qing Wugui’s understanding of killing intent. And that wasn’t even the most frightening part for him. He realized that if Qing Wugui went to the Xiao family, he would become their nemesis, capable of subjugating and killing every member of the Xiao family.

The Xiao family was a massive cultivation clan in the realm of cultivation, having endured for hundreds of thousands of years. Yet now, they had inadvertently provoked a nemesis—a disaster that could lead to their extinction, leaving Xiao Kui extremely worried.

At this moment, Qing Wugui’s Asura Heart was finally formed—a fist-sized black “heart” floating in the air. Suddenly, it shot into Qing Wugui’s body and merged with his primordial spirit.

From then on, every sword intent of Qing Wugui would be empowered by the Asura Heart, allowing him to unleash the Intent of Non-Life at any time. With the formation of the Asura Heart, Qing Wugui also reached the early stage of the Consolidation realm.

“You three will be the first sacrifices after I perfect my Asura Heart!” Qing Wugui said coldly suddenly.

The Asura Heart symbolized killing—how else could one become an Asura without killing?

Qing Wugui was now extremely eager to kill. As soon as he spoke, he appeared in front of Xiao Kui, the black sword reappearing in his hand. With a light swing, a powerful killing intent so intense it made it impossible to stand arose from the sword.

Xiao Kui couldn’t withstand such fierce killing intent. Before his legs even touched the ground, his body was already split in two.

Without even glancing at Xiao Kui, Qing Wugui suddenly flew over to Sha Hen and Sha Chen. With a casual swing, he sent out a black sword aura, which also contained the Intent of Non-Life, aiming to kill the two at once.

Sha Hen and Sha Chen felt their souls tremble even before raising their swords, already affected by the Intent of Non-Life, their vital energy unable to function properly.

Undoubtedly, the two were struck by a sword and died instantly. Qing Wu Gui collapsed heavily on the desert, as his vital energy had been exhausted. Qu Yi smiled, approached Qing Wu Gui, and immediately put a pill in his mouth.