God Of Slaughter - Chapter 5

 Martial Spirit and the power of lightning

Shi Yan opened his eyes, staring at those Medicine Slaves at a distance.

Those slaves mostly came from poor families. In order to survive, they had no choice but to sign the contract with Mo Yanyu, and sold themselves as slaves. If they were lucky enough to survive the first 6 months, not only could they regain freedom, but also get paid 200 Purple Crystal Coins[1]. If they were not that lucky and died from Medicine Trials, their family would receive this amount of money.

In the Grace Mainland, one Black Crystal Coin was equal to 100 Purple Crystal Coins, which equaled 10 thousand Blue Crystal Coins. The annual income of an average citizen was merely 5-6 Purple Crystal Coins. 200 Purple Crystal Coins were almost the savings for 40 years of work in another job.

On the contracting day, their family would receive 50 Purple Crystal Coins on the spot, and the rest would be paid within the next 6 months. If an unfortunate thing happened, their family would be compensated anyway. It might take some people’s entire life to make these 200 Purple Crystal Coins. But for them, all it takes is 6 months of painful suffering. It was all worth it. At least that was what they thought.

However, when they signed the contract, it had never occurred to them that the Medicine Trials would be so cruel and tormenting. Every few days, some of them would drop dead in the most horrible way. This made them so terrified that they began to make their own secret plans.

But a contract was a contract. Once they signed their name on it, there was no way out. This meant, for the next 6 months, the Mo Family[2] owned their lives. Any attempt to disobey the contract, or escape from the Mo’s, would be sentenced with the death penalty.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. It was already too late for them to realize the danger of these Medicine Trials. They had no choice but to accept all the pain as well as their miserable fate.

Shi Yan knew that none of those slaves would make it. Sooner or later, they were going to die. Maybe tomorrow, or maybe later. He knew he was too powerless to change all this. Therefore, he avoided contact with these slaves, and thus avoiding any hurtful feelings inside him when those slaves died.

Shi Yan frowned as he took a quick glimpse at Master Karu sitting in the high Ground Dragon Sedan, trying his best not to be discovered.

There were 5 White Medicine bottles embroidered on Master Karu’s chest, which meant that he was a Category-Mortality Level-5 alchemist. In the Grace Mainland, an alchemist was even more distinguished and rare than a Warrior.

Every alchemist has to be a Warrior himself. The Medicine that they refined could help enhance the Warrior’s capability. The Special Pills refined by a small number of extraordinary alchemists could even enhance a Warrior’s “Martial Spirit”.

Different compared to the 10 levels among Warriors, the ranking of alchemists were based on their expertise in the field of Medicine. There were 5 categories of alchemists in the Grace Mainland: Mortality, Mystery, Soul, Royalty, and Divinity[3]. Under each category, there were 7 sub-ranks.

Every alchemist would carry a special token corresponding to his ranking. Alchemists of the Mortality Category would be embroidered with White Medicine Bottles on their chests. Mystery Category - Red Flames; Soul Category - Medical Herbs; Royalty Category - Wonder Pills; and Divinity Category - Medical cauldron. There were 5 White Medicine Bottles on Master Karu’s chest. So it was clear that he had the expertise of a Category-Mortality Level-5 alchemist.

Since the medicine provided by alchemists could enhance the Profound Qi inside Warriors, this small group of people held a prestigious status among all Warriors. Due to the few numbers of alchemists, every gang here were desperate to hire a good alchemist, which made the alchemists even more special and exceptional.

As a Category-Mortality Level-5 alchemist, Master Karu was invited by Mo Yanyu from the Medicine Valley of God-blessed Empire. Like the Shi’s, the Mo’s were also one of the 5 distinguished families of the Merchant Union. The Mo’s were famous for their own Martial Spirits, which was called the Lightning Power. A lot of people from the Mo’s Family were naturally born with the “Lightening Power”, which would improve with the growth of their own skills.

While Mo Yanyu, she was the youngest generation of warriors born with this “Lightning Power” from the Mo’s Family.

The Mo’s were working in the Medicine business within the Merchant Union. They never stopped searching and looking for great alchemists for their own use, no matter where these alchemists were. However, most alchemists had quirky personalities with weird demands. Above all, they were the most haughty people on Earth with very high opinions of themselves. Therefore, very few of them would like to accept the influence of powerful families like the Mo’s, and thus the Mo’s had tasted more failure than success in recruiting these alchemists.

Although Master Karu was merely a Category-Mortality Level-5 alchemist, the Mo’s had exhausted every means to convince him. Nobody knew what Mo Yanyu had offered this time in order to persuade Master Karu to leave the Medicine Valley and come to work for the Mo’s.

However, Master Karu was not the type of people who was fond of the orthodox. He was more interested in crooked ways of applying this skillset to make poisons. However, the production of the finest poisons required huge amount of Medicine Trials, and the subject must be nothing but human, living and breathing. This was why these Medicine Slaves existed.

“Let’s move!” With Mo Yanyu’s order from the distance, the resting warriors all stood up and got ready for the march ahead. The Medicine Slaves resting on the road side also quickly got up, for fear of the punishments they would face if they didn’t manage to keep up.

Shi Yan stood up, still and silent. He took a sniff at the woman with the appearance of an Angel but the heart of a scorpion. He had no choice but to follow the group before him with obedience.

In the Merchant Union, the relationship between the Mo’s and the Shi’s was not that smooth. The fifth uncle of Mo Yanyu was killed by Shi Yang 3 years ago due to some dispute over mining rights at a mountain. After that, the Mo’s started a relentless vendetta on the Shi’s, causing dozens of the Shi’s members to die from this. With this kind of hatred, rooted between these 2 families, there were endless conflicts and fights going on, whether noticed or not.

Shi Yan understood that death would be his definite fate if his true identity was ever discovered.

But thank God! The original body that he was resting in really kept a low profile. He was not endowed with a “Martial Spirit”, didn’t take much interest in the martial fights, and barely showed up in any martial activities organized by the Merchant Union. Therefore, there was no way that Mo Yanyu could ever recognize him. Otherwise, Shi Yan wouldn’t have been this lucky.

As the night fell, the moon was like a silver plate floating in the dark sky, with the company of several sparkling stars around.

The Mo’s troop was camping and resting by the river. The Ground Dragon was resting quietly with only the sound of its heavy breathing permeating the air. The Mo-warriors were engorging themselves in dried meat, laughing aloud in a perverted way, exchanging gossip about some notorious whores at the Merchant Union’s brothel.

When Mo Yanyu was not looking, a few audacious warriors would gaze on her sexy body in secret, lusting for her body. They knew that for people of their level, Mo Yanyu was way out of their league. All they could every do was fantasize.

Shi Yan sat down in silence. When he was ready to circulate the Profound Qi inside his body, he noticed Mo Yanyu and Master Karu coming towards him from the front of the troops.

“Shit!” Shi Yan felt that something bad was going to happen. His face suddenly looked like hell.

“The Gut Cutting Medicine is way too strong for normal people. It has already killed 6 slaves within the past 2 days. I guess only Warriors could sustain its influence. That boy looks better than before, with much of his Profound Qi recovered. He could be our new lab rat. ” Master Karu said with a viperous smile on his face and a bowl of some black sticky liquid in his left hand.

“Well, Master, please. Help yourself. He is all yours. Don’t show any mercy. I want him to die as miserably as possible.” Mo Yanyu also laughed.

“Haha, no problem. Miss Mo, your wish is my command. I promise you that there is no way he could die easy. As you have seen in previous trials of the Gut Cutting Medicine, all the slaves died with their flesh and skin decaying of their bones, inch by inch, bit by bit. This boy looks tough. The stronger the subject is, the longer and more painful this decaying process would be. Just wait for the grand show and Enjoy!” Master Karu burst into a wild laughter, as if Shi Yan were not standing right in front of him.

“That is perfect!” Mo Yanyu smiled with consent. Her eyes were obviously shining with excitement, hating Shi Yan to the guts.

It was only a matter of time when the two of them finally arrived at Shi Yan. Master Karu didn’t even bother to do the explanation. He handed that bowl of black sticky liquid right to Shi Yan, and ordered with a cold voice, “You, finish this!”

While Mo Yanyu took out her left hand, generating a snake of electric power circling around her fingers - skin like porcelain, electric sparks like lightning. That was the perfect combination of the “Lightning Power” and “Profound Qi”. The energy band was like a catalyst in the air with sounds of little explosions all around.

“Woo-hoo!” Johnson sneered from behind, “Boy! If you ever dare to resist, you know what’s gonna happen to you, right?”

Master Karu couldn’t contain his excitement. He clapped his hands, and shouted, “Hey boy, the Gut Cutting Medicine is lots of fun. You are going to decay from the inside, little by little…”

For the whole time, Mo Yanyu was staring at Shi Yan with a cold face. She assumed that he would say no. Her plan was, as soon as Shi Yan showed any disobedience, she would kick his ass with the electric sparks around her fingers, showing him who was the boss here.

For days, every time she looked back on the humiliation she got from this man, she couldn’t help with her rage inside. Even her fiancée wouldn’t dare to do that to her. Who the hell was this guy? How dare he?! She would never forgive this guy.

“Sure. I will do it.” Shi Yan said dismissively. He took over the bowl of nasty medicine and drank up with no hesitation.