Night slowly arrived and Fu Xian left the underground cellar.
At midnight, when the moon was bright and the dream realm was at its strongest, he would attack the chief.
But until then, he had another plan.
No matter how he wanted to do it, he couldn’t just instantly attack the chief.
His power was meagre and he had to slowly cultivate to gain more dream power.
But, tonight was the best chance, and he wouldn’t let this go!
So, for the greater good, he had to take action-
He walked around the entrance of the underground cellar and entered the village from a side gate, this was where the two dead men usually walked through.
Slowly entering he village, he looked around.
Only after he saw no one on the street did he breathe a sigh of relief.
He walked down the road on the side, which was connected to the houses back entrance. Currently he was in the west of the village, going all the way north.
Listening to the sounds and looking at the houses, he understood that the first three houses on the left were owned by three of the warriors.
With an idea in mind, he skipped them for now, instead, he moved towards the houses further back.
Finally he arrived in the house occupied by the second strongest warrior after the five warriors!
He didn’t enter but listened, only to hear barely any sounds.
His hearing hasn’t improved a lot, so instead, he closed his eyes and focused his mind.
Instantly, he saw a different vision: in the house in front, three people were sleeping. It was a man, a woman and a little child. They all slept in one room, the child seemed rather young.
’The suffering of the few will safe the lives of the many!’ Teigu thought, a ruthless expression appearing on his face as a fanatic thought spread in his mind.
This step was necessary, as it could potentially decide whether he and all the villages in this region would survive!
At least that was what he told himself...
His dream spiritual power gathered and his hands formed symbols –
This time, they were slightly different. Five symbols created a triangular positioning: three similar symbols circled each other in the centre. One symbol above swung left and right, and one symbol in the front was sharp, as if about to pierce something.
Finally, once they came together, they formed an illusory firefly!
Teigu performed this twice more and three fireflies flew in front of him.
He looked at them for a moment, their dim back seemingly telling him they weren’t fully born yet.
With a slight wave of his hand, he commanded them to fly into the house.
The fireflies, without turning around, flew towards the house.
No noise happened, there wasn’t even a fast breathing, everything was the same as if noting happened.
Teigu looked at these a last time before he turned away, going from house to house.
Behind each house, he checked out those that lived in the house before creating fireflies and sending them in.
At the end of the intersection, he moved from the west to the east and covered the other half of the houses.
Surprisingly, there were more people that he thought.
While there were only around twenty hunters, there were over a hundred people!
’But how is this possible? Twenty warriors, including their wives it becomes forty, and each basically had one to three children in my memories, so let’s say two... shouldn’t it be around eighty total people?
Now, where do these twenty extra come from?
How come most hunters except for the younger ones had two wives, and they had three children in total at least?
This... it shouldn’t be like this, should it?’
But as he contemplated this situation, he soon realised.
If it was like he had heard from the two dead men, many hunters were likely killed in the hunt, mostly to serve as rations for the chief’s machinations.
Since that was the case, it was understandable why there were more women and children.
Soon, seeing this situation, he felt an even deeper sense of injustice!
’These women, they’re forced into this situation. Else, if they all acted like my mother, wouldn’t their children end up as orphans?
But alas, even if they do this, this will only delay the children’s death.
All the hunters that get killed, they’re likely the children of fallen hunters.
This... it shouldn’t be like this!’
He felt anger in his chest – somehow, these days, he had become indifferent to human life. But when he remembered his past and experiences, and when he looked at all of these children that would die, he couldn’t help but feel an emotion of humanity.
But, just as this emotion seemed to be supressed by his inner voice, it was actually redirected by his sub-conscious thoughts!
’In the future, I shall save them, all of them, from these evil people! Your lives will be used to kill the evil man with your own hands, your anger will be the oil igniting the fire to kill the pest of this world!’
Fu Xian, who saw this, was a bit surprised.
[What’s happening?] he asked himself, [The clone... even if I’m actively thinking of things, he reverts to my previous active thoughts.
He also adopted my sub-conscious indifference towards mortal life.
But my indifference stems from the fact that mortals are too far away for me. A qi-refining cultivator is still close to mortals, while a foundation establishment cultivator has gained a longer life and can no longer connect with mortals unrelated to him.
At the stage of origin light, there is a full separation of mortals and cultivators.
My indifference, transformed by Teigu, didn’t become indifference towards mortals but the life and death of mortals.
Then, even though he became indifferent towards life and death, because of his own experience and past memories prior to his awakening, combined with the previous active thought I inserted, he seemed to have created a prototype of a dao heart?]
Fu Xian sighed. He knew hat a dao heart meant. While personality, emotions and thoughts were mortal things, cultivators who cut off emotions transformed them over time into a dao heart.
Such a dao heart was like their inner moral codex, their goals and ambitions, and their feelings and thoughts towards things.
Once a dao heart has fully formed, it can’t be changed.
Although right now it as only a prototype, it was incredibly difficult to change.