Three years later, the youth, now a constable in Conglan County, slaughtered the Black Cloud Stronghold with nothing but a saber.
He personally killed 117 of his enemies. Three others were away from the stronghold.
Thirteen years later, after receiving a rudimentary Qi Refining manual from the imperial court and reaching the peak of Qi Refining in an astonishingly short time, the youth stormed the outer sect of the Heaven Feather Sect.
He defeated countless outer sect disciples and killed many of them, finally cutting off the heads of the three men who had murdered his father.
That firewood chopping knife stained half the Heaven Feather Sect's outer gates red.
The Foundation Establishment cultivator in charge of the outer sect personally stepped in to subdue him, only to lose an arm to a single stroke of the youth's saber.
As a cultivation sect with a Golden Core true person, the Heaven Feather Sect then began hunting the youth down.
The youth fled to distant lands with his younger sister.
That battle also earned him the title "God of Slaughter."
Forty-one years later, the God of Slaughter returned!
Both the mortal world and the cultivation world of the Heaven Cloud Empire were intensely curious about him, and their inquiries uncovered much of his story.
They learned that the God of Slaughter was named Duan Po and wielded an unadorned old firewood chopping knife.
He also had a younger sister named Duan Ning.
Once again, Duan Po stormed the Heaven Feather Sect alone with his saber. Now a late Foundation Establishment cultivator, he threw the entire sect into chaos.
The sect's patriarch, Heaven Feather True Person, a mid-Golden Core cultivator, was forced to emerge from seclusion to subdue Duan Po himself—and failed!
In the end, he could only let Duan Po leave,