Originally Aster wasn't going to meddle with all these people, earlier Felicia killed the snake eyed guy because he was trying to incite others to attack them, but their goal was to find that giant undead and take it down for its yin accumulation crystal.
Aster was fair with rewards and punishes, so the more they contributed to the group, the more rewards they will get, and yin accumulation crystals are one of the few types of resources, that can improve women's cultivation, regardless of path, or the manual they are using.
The only exception were those rare cases of girls who were born with yang constitutions, but there wasn't anyone like that in the group anyway.
Aster felt the greedy gazes of the other cultivators, not only spreading towards the red cover book and the flag on Felicia's hands, but to the girls and he shook his head, there was no reason to hesitate in what to do.
"Kill them all".
"Mm", Aster hadn't finished talking when the girls became flashes of light, it was as if a pack of fierce beast were released in a flock of sheep, in other words a massacre started.
Starting with Tiana whose hair was now silver-white, the world slowed down in her sky-blue eyes, the efforts of her training with Aster were now showing its results.
She wielded her war spear in a more refined way than when she met Aster, unlike Camila whose focus is piercing, she crushes her enemies with her heavy weapon, a battle style who normally isn't suited for flash fights, or at least that was before.
Without noticing, Tiana was smiling, she flashed through the battlefield turning enemies into minced meat.
"Boom!", loud explosions echoed through all the place.
"No, mercy please…. Ahhh!", a guy who earlier looked at her with lecherous eyes, exploded into a bloody pulp, before Tiana ended her reaction enhancing, which also allowed others to see her again.
"Phew", she let out a small sigh and then looked at the result, right now she could only manage one minute at the same amount of reaction enhancement Aster uses, so she had to fight explosively, not that she didn't like it though, the result was around one hundred guys that were smacked against the ground and became meat paste.
'Mmm, I'm still lacking, that guy could have tripled this number just with physical strength', she thought, she purposedly didn't use any technique nor her spear intent, because she wanted to see how far she was from Aster as of current.
At the other side of the room, the whole area had become a lifeless tundra, the cultivators in that place didn't even have the time to scream, before pretty but lethal blue flames flooded the whole area turning them into ice sculptures and killing them on the spot.
Aria stood there, like a snow fairy, even her way of killing was naturally elegant and less bloody compared to others, she had taken out her rapier but none of the guys who tried to attack her managed to get even one hundred meters near her, before they were frozen to death.
To their surprise, the arrays on their armors and other life-saving treasures didn't activate, so even if their bodies were protected, their blood, flesh and organs froze resulting in death.
Ignoring the field of frozen corpses, Aria happily returned to Aster's side, he didn't participate, so she approached him and then hugged his right arm.
"How was it, my flames also got stronger right?", she cutely asked.
Aster smiled and then caressed Aria's pretty face with his hand, he wondered why her flames had gotten colder, in his case he broke through in the soul path, so it was natural that his Rigel flames had a stronger purifying effect than before.
But Aira hasn't advanced in the soul path, if anything she is approaching a minor advance in the energy path, Aster's eyes then glowed as a realization hit him like a truck.
'Her flames are yin oriented unlike mine, and the origin of her constitution are those jade-like bones of hers which are being improved thanks to the physical training she had been doing', he thought.
It was amusing that a body constitution which is oriented to the soul, improves thanks to physical training, on the other hand, the supposition that Aria's constitution was oriented to the soul path, was based on the fact that Lilia found her constitution similar to the one of a person she knows off.
But no one knows the exact truth, well no one alive at least, since her mother probably knew what was going on, but didn't tell Aria's father anything else.
Aria smiled and then hugged Aster tight as they watched the others fighting, the next one that caught Aster's attention was Nerissa, he already saw a little fight in which she participated, but in the horrible state in which she was, she naturally couldn't exert her real strength as the strongest disciple of the Black Sword faction, and probably the strongest in the Battle Peak, since he has won against the first ranked disciple before.
And as one would expect from those personally admitted by either Agnes or Valentina, she was quite something.
She took out her blue jade sword and then to Aster's surprise both her body and the sword exploded in blue spirit energy, her attribute seemed to be related to water, as the blue ends of her dark hair suggested.
"Blue River Sword, Slashing Current", with those words she became a blue flash that flued through the battlefield leaving behind a blue trail, and a rain of blood, it was as if she was one with her sword, the blue current curved and waved wherever it was needed, cutting every enemy in its way.
By the time she ended her attack there were hundreds of corpses cleanly split in half, even their amors were the same, which was natural since her sword was an Immortal grade treasure.
Still normally for a light sword user like her, she would have to aim at the unprotected areas, such as the neck or head in general, as armor poses an obstacle for the light sword fighting style, but she instead charged and sliced everything in her path, meaning that she had a decent physical strength thanks to her body cultivation and also her intent was incredibly sharp.
"Her Ghost Sword and Sharpening are on par with mine, what a shame she hasn't set a foot into the third level of intent, I can bet her concept will be quite a sight to behold", said Aster as he saw Nerissa continue with her battle.
She was like wave that cleansed everything, there wasn't even a stain of blood in the blue current of spirit energy and sword intent she created, as she fluidly moved all over the battlefield.
One shouldn't underestimate water cutting properties, a jet of water at the correct speed can easily cut through steel, water can erode even mountains and swallow land, and that's what Aster saw in Nerissa's fighting style.
On the other hand, that wasn't the only eye-catching fight currently ongoing, Camilla was happily debuting her newly improved spear, though she hasn't fully refined the Steel Lightning Tree root which Aster gave her, her spear has already gained a new property, which was making the Mortal Transcending realm cultivators that had joined hands to fight her, suffer.
Previously, though she could crate large metal spikes and even giant spears using her copper-colored spirit energy, her natal treasure didn't change at all, it was a regular sized spear of around two meters length.
But now she gained a pretty tree-like ability, Camilla engaged in close combat with her enemies to try out the new ability of her natal treasure.
"Watch out, she is charging again, bombard her… ahhh!", the moment Camila dashed towards them, the enemies tried to step aside or get out of her way, but they were one step too late.
Even if they dodged the direct attack of her spear, which by the way created a sharp current of wind, due to the strength behind her thrust, with any part of the spear's shaft as the origin, a line of light was shot from it and pierced the neck of the guy who was talking earlier.
It was so fast that most of them couldn't even see what happened, a couple of soul cultivators managed to get a glimpse of it though, since they were terrified that even if the attack didn't hit them, anyone who was attacked by Camila died.
This was the new property of her natal treasure "Propagation", using the property of flexibility that the tree proportioned, as well as the malleability of the golden parts of the spear, whenever she thrusted thin hair-like threads were shot in every direction, so even if the main attack was dodged, the enemies turned into sieves.
What's worse is that the holes were so small that they were hard to spot, making others believe they died without even being attacked.
'With this I can land a hit on him the next time we practice~', thought Camila, her thrusts were the fiercest, as Aster commented back then, she pierced a hole through a mountain being hundreds of Kilometers away from it, the problem with that is that the attack moved in a straight line, so if it was dodged then there was no effect, now she wouldn't need to summon a large number of metal spikes to deal with groups of enemies.
And this wasn't even the most she could make out of the steel tree root, but the rest will have to wait until it has been completely refined and integrated into her natal treasure.
Seeing the opponents despair every time Camila thrusted her spear, made Aster laugh, he was the one who suggested her to find a way to spread the strength of her thrusts after all.
"Those two might be a bit of an overkill", mumbled Aria.
Aster nodded, Felicia was even more straightforward in her fight, a black portal with an ominous sensation, floated behind her, every time the enemies used long range attacks they were dragged, swallowed and rendered null by that black portal from which a pair of bright lamp-like eyes could be seen.
Then when the enemies thought they just had to attack her in close combat, they were taken by surprise by the fact that she is actually a body cultivator, and their bodies were ripped apart by Felicia's black clawed gauntlets.
It was like a nightmare for her enemies, they were forced to fight at short distance with a body cultivator as energy cultivators, who in their right mind would do such a thing if they had the option to not do it, unfortunately they had no choice, well they could escape but then, the moment they showed their backs, that smiling scary woman, would appear from below the ground and pierce their backs with her fists, it was a brutal way to die.
The fight didn't even last twenty minutes before all the people besides Aster's group was dead, it was a normal result, since none of them were even Sea of Knowledge cultivators, for Camila and Felicia it as a piece of cake to erase Mortal Transcending cultivators, regardless of the quantity.
Aster saw that all the corpses suddenly shrank a bit, making the skin stick to the bones, also all the blood was absorbed by the red flag which was given to Felicia earlier, and small black bone patterns appeared on its borders.
The red cover book also got new pages, but these ones were red colored and instead of the blood devouring flag, spoke about another technique, this time it was one related to the soul path.
"One Hundred Ghost Formation", this technique consisted in gathering all the negative feelings of the dead into some kind of container, to later deploy when fighting against someone, and make him get distracted to land a solid hit, it was simple but practical, since in a battle of cultivators, a second can determine who lives and who dies.
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