Seven Deadly Sins System

Chapter 52: Malice



As soon as Chu Wuyao returned to the City Lord's mansion, she was received by a maid who led her towards a certain room.

While on the way to the mansion, Chu Wuyao had already used the Camouflage ability to hide her cultivation and show the 3rd Level of Qi Accumulation, making sure that no one would notice anything wrong.

Moreover, she had also sent the black cat back to the Devil World.

Now that the two of them had signed a Master-Servant Contract, Chu Wuyao was able to transfer it back to this world with a single thought, without needing to cast the Devil Summoning ability.

With the Will of the Devil World as a witness, Chu Wuyao wasn't afraid that the cat would find a way to resolve it and become free.

Otherwise, if it was so easy to break the contract, the Devils wouldn't be infamous for their contracts.

Soon, Chu Wuyao and the maid arrived outside a hall with an open door.

"Thank you.", Chu Wuyao nodded her head to the maid, who saluted respectfully and ran away in fear.

Chu Wuyao didn't care about her and walked inside, only to see a lone person standing at the center of the large hall, an old man with no hair on his head and a long white beard.

Chu Wuyao sized him up and was instantly able to find that his cultivation was at the 5th Level of Qi Accumulation.

Just like Chu Wuyao, the old man was also looking at her, sizing her up.

An awkward silence spread throughout the room, with the two staring at each other, until the old man laughed out of nowhere and spoke up.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect that there would be such talented people hidden in our Original Desire Sect.", he smiled kindly and praised Chu Wuyao, then cupped his hands and introduced himself.

"I'm Ren Zuan, the next City Lord appointed by the sect."

"Chu Wuyao.", Chu Wuyao nodded and replied nonchalantly.

Noticing her uninterested look, Ren Zuan didn't seem to mind and took out a red token out of his space ring, then threw it towards Chu Wuyao.

Chu Wuyao didn't resist and let the red token fly towards her.

When the red token was just some centimeters away from her, it stopped in the air and a 80% similar red token flew out of her pocket and met it in the air.

After a short flash, the number on top of her own token that symbolized her contribution points had increased, by about 1000 or so contribution points.

To be honest, Chu Wuyao had almost forgotten their existence.

"The sect has already investigated the case and confirmed that the information you reported was the truth."

"Since the mission was way more dangerous than originally stated, an elder of the sect personally decided to gift you 1000 contribution points.", Ren Zuan explained kindly and when he mentioned the elder, his voice became slightly louder.

His words turned Chu Wuyao speechless.

She always felt that she was shameless enough, but now, she felt that she was just a rookie in front of this guy.

Would an elder of the Original Desire Sect, a cultivator at the Supernatural Realm, personally go through the outer sect's missions and choose to give a compensation to a mere outer disciple?

She had never heard such nonsense before.

Regardless, Chu Wuyao didn't say such words out loud.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a kind elder in our sect."

"I knew that our sect is the only force that truly cares for its disciples."

Her voice was very emotional and she almost choked as she spoke, while her eyes hard turned moist and ready to cry.

If one were to judge by her current look, they would feel that if the sect told her to kill herself, Chu Wuyao would follow this order without missing a heartbeat.

"That's right, that's right. We need more loyal people like you.", Ren Zuan nodded his head in approval.

"Since I'm here, you don't need to care about the affairs of the Waterflower City any longer.", he continued and patted her on the shoulder, looking like a kind elder.

Suppressing her instinct to slap him in the face and knock his teeth out, Chu Wuyao also patted him on the shoulder and praised him too.

"The sect is very lucky to have a person like you."

After the two of them exchanged a few more pleasantries, Chu Wuyao walked out of the room under Ren Zuan's smile.

The moment she stepped out however, the kind smile that was always Ren Zuan's disappeared.

Raising his head, he looked outside the window, glancing at the slowly setting sun and the emerging moon.

"You only have yourself to blame for being unlucky and stumbling upon something you shouldn't have.", he muttered in a low voice.

At an unknown time, a white token had appeared in his right palm, which he squished with all his strength, until it finally started showing cracks.

"Bang!"

A little later, it exploded, turning into countless tiny pieces.

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Just like Ren Zuan, when Chu Wuyao stepped out of the hall, the smile on her face disappeared and she became expressionless.

Thinking over her previous interaction, she didn't find any flaw, as if Ren Zuan truly was just an ordinary cultivator that was sent by the Original Desire Sect.

But Chu Wuyao didn't need to find any evidence to know that something is wrong.

Since becoming a Devil, her already extraordinary senses had become even stronger and she was able to sense things that ordinary cultivators couldn't.

During their conversation, she felt a faint malice coming from Ren Zuan.

If it was not for the fact that he was sent by the sect, just this malice would have been enough for Chu Wuyao to cut his head off and turn him into her Blood Slave.

Unfortunately, if she were to do that, she would leave behind obvious clues and inevitably be found by the sect.

Once it was found that she had killed a City Lord appointed by the sect, it would be impossible to escape punishment.

"Is he a member of the secret organization that Li Zhengyu mentioned in his diary?"

"Does that mean that that organization has, at least partly, infiltrated the Original Desire Sect?"

Obviously, it was not normal for Ren Zuan, a man she had never met before, to have malice towards her.

Apart from Li Ruoshi, who wouldn't be able to order such a person, Chu Wuyao had only offended that organization.

Countless thoughts flashed through her mind, but in the end, she could only shake her head and suppressed these thoughts.

With the current information available, it would be almost impossible to piece the whole thing together.

At the current moment, her focus should rather be on dealing with the present situation.

While deep in thought, Chu Wuyao had unknowingly walked out of the mansion and reached the entrance of the Waterflower City.

Glancing at the darkness outside and feeling the faint light coming from the moon above, she was certain there would be a fight tonight.

Surprisingly, Chu Wuyao wasn't worried, but was rather excited.

This excitement was not only because of her instinct as a Devil, a creature that spent most of its life fighting, but also because she really wanted to test her new skills and abilities.

"Today is surely a beautiful day to kill someone.", Chu Wuyao whispered and slowly stepped out of the city.


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