Douluo Dalu: 9 Treasure Sword

My heart started beating madly, I was really excited. I calmed a little and looked around, seeing the commotion created. If this continued, the City wouldn't last and we would be stopped by the Slaughter King, so I decided to move the fight outside the walls.

Mayi charged at me. I made a guard stance. She punched me with her right hand, I blocked it with my sword always surrounded by Intent, while jumping backward weakening the strength and at the same time being pushed away.

Mayi continued chasing me, while I was letting me be pushed, leading her outside. After some broken streets, minor damage and an unlucky passerby that was hit by Mayi making his body a bloody mess, I finally arrived at outside the City's walls.

Once outside I was facing Mayi who was 20 meters away. She coldly looked at me "Are you happy now that you guided me here?"

"So you knew it. I think that you're too good for Bai" I teased her.

Mayi really was a cheat in this City. As her use of spirit energy in internal, without any spirit skill, she wasn't affected by the domain of Slaughter City, being able to use the full force of her spirit. I suppose that we could be considered to be in a draw. Both of us were rank 60, she could use her spirit as usual, and I while I couldn't use my spirit, my intent and domain was increased fighting here.

Black aura surged from me surrounding both of us <Sword Doman: Slaughter>. This domain, increased my speed, reaction and made my Intent more powerful. It also affected the opponents, making them slower and in the case that they couldn't endure it mentally, they will unable to move.

Mayi dashed to me, for what it seemed she really wasn't affected by the domain at all, if she was like Bai, she would be unable to move around.

Arriving at me, she punched toward my face with her right hand, I leaned my body to the left side. She leaned her body forward, putting strength in her right leg, she lifted her left leg and flipped her body kicking me with her left leg. I little unbalanced due to evading her punch I couldn't evade it, so I lifted my sword with both hands blocking her kick.

Blocking her kick, I could feel Mayi's strength, the ground under my feet cracking. Focusing intent and putting strength in my arm I swung my sword. Mayi was pushed away, but she gracefully landed on the ground.

I lifted my sword with both hands "<Sword Intent: Death Drops>" multiples black spheres were formed around my sword, I swung the sword making a guard stance causing the black spheres to slowly move to Mayi.

Mayi jumped to me completely ignoring them "These tricks won't do". The black spheres in contact with May weren't able to affect her, unable to cross her armor.

Mayi started hitting me, changing between kicks and punches, always deciding the best at any interchange of blows.

After a barrage of hits, each of us hitting, blocking or evading, I couldn't find any opening, she had a really good battle sense and she adapted at every situation quickly. Her armor also was very strong, I wasn't able to damage it without a direct hit, while she could strengthen temporary one part of it, having the capability of taking a hit while she attacked me, being very difficult for me to try to attack her.

I could always try to use my Sword Heart, but there were two big problems to do it. First, she wouldn't let me time to prepare it, even if I only needed 1 second, it was enough time for her to counter-attack. Second, my Sword Heart is Slaughter, its only power killing the enemy, or I kill her or I fail and I didn't really want to kill her.

Why don't kill her? There were some reasons.

First, Bai liked her, considering family. I was blocking Bai to come outside, but after freeing him, he gained enough strength to keep my intent away from him, so he could sense what happened outside. Killing Mayi would create some reaction in him, he could fade away, being engulfed by my intent or could break through it, increasing a lot his strength, even forcing the control to him. I also didn't really want to kill her, having a spirit fusion it's always good.

And my main reason was that she was a 100.000 years old spirit beast, killing one would make a 100.000 years old ring to appear, plus a 100.000 spirit bone. I doubt that the Slaughter King didn't sense it, not doubting for a moment, he killing me to obtain the spirit bone at least. Not only it would be a waste for her, but it may also cost my life, not worth!

Comparing her state and mine, I could already see that she had more stamina, quirks of having a beast spirit, and maybe being a spirit beast also helps. A long battle would finish tiring me out. I decided to finish it quickly.

Mayi was launching a left punch at me. I lifted my right hand, I would block her attack even at the cost of my right arm, then I would counter-attack focusing all my Intent in my sword. Just as her punch was to break my hand, she hurriedly stopped her hit, making very easy for me to thrust my sword to her. The sword pierced her armor for the first time, Intent entering her body. It won't kill her but surely will weaken her. She was pushed 10 meters away but could recuperate in air landing safely.

I shook my head "So it's that" I sighed "It seems it's my win"

She jumped to me. Seeing her approaching, I opened my arms, leaving myself completely open to her attack. Seeing me not trying to defend, she made a shocked face and couldn't hide her worry. She tried to stop so forced that she broke her posture, creating multiple openings for me to attack.

Approaching me, now more like a ball than an attack. I put all my strength in my right foot and kicked her on her c.h.e.s.t, the same place where my sword pierced early. My kick imbued in intent, broke Mayi armor completely, forming cracks everywhere and some pieces so even fell. She was shot away, crashing multiple times to the ground while vomiting blood.

"To not even dare to damage me. I was wrong, Bai and you are the same, a pair of naive little children. What a pity" I walked to her. She was laying on the ground her face facing up, unable to move.

I took from my storage a Red Velvet Oreo, I put in my mouth and chew it. Then, I leaned toward Mayi, I lifted her chin and kissed her. I invaded her mouth with my tongue and I pushed the chewed Oreo to her, after some fighting with her tongue I could finally win over her, making her swallowing, causing her to cough.

I broke free the kiss, she was crying, with a look with a mix of sadness and shock with vacant eyes. Licked my lips " With this opportunity that I gave you, try to survive" I said before leaving Mayi there alone crying.

It would take some time for her to completely heal as she was affected by my Intent. I would ignore her while she didn't act, if I was lucky, maybe Tang San finish the matches before she recuperated.

One month passed, finally, Tang San had won 99 matches and today would be his 100. For Mayi, she seemed to have some shock, I saw her wandering around with a vacant look, completely ignoring me. But later, she participated in the Hell Slaughter Arena with a more powerful glace showing resolution, luckily she didn't face Tang San, luckily for Tang San, in a 1vs1 in Slaughter City I would root for Mayi.

Today, the Hell Road would be opened, but I had other plans that needed to be made at the same time of the match, I could only pray that Tang San match last and I had enough time. I wanted to enter the Slaughter King's castle. However, there was a problem, it was considered a prohibited area except when you're being invited by him. There was also the problem that the Slaughter King was always in there, I didn't have the certainty to enter and leave the castle under the Slaughter King eyes. So I needed the Slaughter King to go out, being Tang San's 100 matches a date that I was sure he would be out.

I went to the castle, carefully to not being watched by anyone. Once in its surrounding, I invoked the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sword on my right hand, even now it was clouded by my Slaughter Intent, blocking Bai to act, but it had a little shine in it.

Even now, I couldn't use its spirit abilities, but this sword would permit me to do a special technique, Stealth Treasure. Stealth Treasure was a family technique of the Seven Pagoda Clan, it usually used to hide your cultivation, being impossible for others to detect. This was made concentrating your spirit in your spirit, encasing it there, and the Pagoda, or the sword, in that case, would block it. It was as simple as using the spirit as a container, the spirit being impossible to detect. However, spirit power wasn't the only thing that could be stored in the sword, I could also store my intent, this in combination with the spirit power would make me almost undetectable, at least for large searching, if someone directly saw me would be all for naught.

I concentrated all my power, intent in the sword making my presence difficult to detect. Then I entered the castle through a window, just at the same time the Slaughter King left the castle towards the Hell Slaughter Arena.

Once inside I lifted my left hand, concentrating at it, I could sense a pull in some direction. I followed that direction. Just as I turned a corner, a black-masked man was there standing. Our eyes met "In-INT..." before he could even finish I already invoked my sword and threw at him, coated in Death intent, that was silent, cold and lethal, it easily pierced his neck, silencing him forever. Looking and listened around, it seemed that nobody discovered me. I continued my way.

The pull guided me to a library, there were tons of books there, strange in a city were depravity reign. I followed the pull arriving at a bookshelf. I could sense that it was near, beyond this shelf.

I invoked my sword with Death Intent and cut the bookshelf in two, showing an entrance behind. I entered and walked until I was stopped by a stone door with an image of a three-headed golden bat. Touching it I could sense that it was really strong. "I can only pray, that the Slaughter King doesn't come. <One Point Domain: Slaughter>" I powerful black aura surrounded my sword, creating the image of my sword tripling its size. This was something that I created thanks to my comprehension of the Sword Heart. The Sword Heart use the world's will similar at your own to attack, shooting it all in one attack, One Point Domain technique was a combination of domain and intent, focusing my domain at my sword I could increase my attack power a lot without much waste of power, as I could absorb it after using it.

I slashed the door cutting it in pieces that fall apart. Entering I looked around finding a glittering room, full of gold and different treasures, this was the Slaughter King's treasure room. I continued following the pull, finally arriving at a corner, there stood what I was searching, the broken half of my sword. With a simple touch by my sword, it became liquid and was absorbed by my sword.

I looked around the room "Being in the Slaughter King's treasure room already branded me as a criminal to him, so as I am here" I grinned putting all the treasures at my storage. There would be time later to see what I found.

As I left the room, my sensed shouted me of danger. I quickly jumped back "xinx!" a big weapon slashed my previous position, cutting the floor down. "I always knew that you will break the rules, Blanch" Besides me, wearing black clothes stood Black, a 2-meter long red scythe in her hands, and her 7 spirits ring hovering around her scythe.