Kill the Wicked, Rise in the Rankings!

The Sin Ranking listed three hundred people in all. Lin Ye first looked for his disciples' positions.

[Sin Ranking, 123rd place: Yang Yang]

[Sin Ranking, 109th place: Ye Chen]

Those were the only two. As for his other three disciples, none had even made it into the last place on the Sin Ranking.

He studied the Sin Ranking for a while. The system had an introduction to it: the ranking did not depend on how many people someone had killed. Killing bad people added almost no sin, while killing minor evildoers could add a small number of sin points.

There were two reasons Ye Chen and Yang Yang had made the list. Yang Yang had devoured too many Demon Beasts, which presumably added some sin points, and had also killed disciples of the Blazing Sun Sect. Ye Chen, meanwhile, had killed many mountain bandits and brigands. Most had been bad people, but a few had been forced into it and had not done much evil, so killing them also added some sin points.

That was how the two disciples had made the list.

But the two ranked too low, both over a hundred places down. They still had a chance to make the Sin Ranking within a month, but ranking high would be far too difficult.

Sometimes, even if there was only a difference of one or two places, the actual gap was enormous.

"Huh, you can click for details on this Sin Ranking and see a general account of everyone's life. That's convenient."

He looked through the Sin Ranking. A few had accumulated their sin points from being forced to kill or from accidentally killing good people while killing bad ones, but most were people whose sins reached the heavens.

"The evil of most of the top hundred on this killing ranking is downright terrifying. How can they catch up?" Lin Ye was troubled too. Ye Chen might be ranked 109th, but breaking into the top hundred would be difficult. Killing good people would get him up there quickly, but Lin Ye could not possibly do that, and Ye Chen could not possibly kill them either.

The Black-Yellow Sect was indeed a demonic sect in secret, but on the surface, everyone regarded it as a righteous sect. Lin Ye could not really develop it into a demonic sect either; that would be courting death.

"What should I do? If only all these evildoers were dead."

"Dead..."

A solution suddenly occurred to Lin Ye. If the sinful people on the Sin Ranking were killed, wouldn't Ye Chen and the others rise in the rankings?

"Holy shit, that's a great idea. I'm a genius!"

Lin Ye could not contain his excitement. Looked at this way, the task was simple!

"First, I'll make a copy of the Sin Ranking, give it to my disciples, and issue tasks for them to kill these people."

He quickly wrote down each evildoer on the Sin Ranking, along with their information, and began issuing tasks.

"Master has issued more tasks."

Through his identity token, Dongfang Bai saw the tasks his master had issued. The rewards for these tasks were... high, and every one was a killing task.

"Kill Ren Changhe of Black Spirit Town. Task reward: 300 points."

The task also provided a detailed account of Ren Changhe: a wealthy landowner at the Body Refining Seventh Layer, with several businesses. He knew a wicked Secret Method and captured a baby every month, using its heart as an ingredient to make a secret medicine, which he swallowed to maintain his youth. He had kept this up for three whole years.

"This... Ren Changhe is a monster!"

Dongfang Bai's killing intent boiled over, and he immediately accepted the task. The quick got it; the slow got nothing.

Black Spirit Town was near the Black-Yellow Sect, not far away, so he could easily go and complete the task.

He immediately set off for Black Spirit Town.

Before long, he arrived. After making a few inquiries, he learned where Ren Changhe's residence was.

But when he went there, he found that Ren Changhe was not home. He did not go looking for him, instead deciding to wait there.

He then slipped into Ren Changhe's residence and searched around. He went to the Ren Household's rear courtyard, where there was almost no one. It seemed to be a forbidden area of the household, and the servants were not allowed to come near.

He soon found a secret underground chamber. Inside, he saw many bones, all of them infants' bones, as well as an altar used for an Evil Method.

"Damn it, Ren Changhe actually believes in an Evil Method like this. Whether the Evil Method works or not, he has to die."

Dongfang Bai destroyed the place, then hid himself.

Time passed bit by bit. Only toward evening did Ren Changhe return, surrounded by several guards.

"Master, what did you think of that woman today?"

"Not bad, just a little disobedient."

"Don't worry, master. A few more times and he'll obey. Her husband owes us three hundred taels of silver. If she doesn't agree, they won't be able to pay it back in a lifetime."

"Good, good. Once she's obedient, I'll let you all have a taste next time."

"Thank you, master."

The guards grew excited one after another.

Suddenly.

A flash of cold light pierced Ren Changhe's head. His eyes immediately lost focus, and he collapsed.

"The master's been killed!"

The guards trembled all over. The enemy's methods were too terrifying: he had killed Ren Changhe, who was at the Body Refining Seventh Layer, in an instant. Although Ren Changhe had not fought for years and lacked practical experience, his overall strength was still greater than theirs. Since the villain could use a hidden weapon to kill their master in an instant, he could do the same to them.

"Run!"

They had only just begun to move when flashes of cold light shot through their heads, killing them one after another.

"They're all dead. Time to go back and turn in the task."

Dongfang Bai did not take Ren Changhe's corpse. The task only required him to kill Ren Changhe, not bring back any proof. He figured his master surely had a way to know whether Ren Changhe was alive or dead, so he did nothing unnecessary.

After returning to the Black-Yellow Sect, he immediately went to the Scripture Pavilion and submitted the task to the formation spirit. The task soon showed as completed, and 300 points were credited to him.

Meanwhile.

Yang Yang was also carrying out his own task. He had accepted a task to kill Li Xuanshi, a Body Refining Ninth Layer martial artist and young master of the Li Household in Myriad Phenomena Town. Li Xuanshi liked to disguise himself as a mounted bandit and go from village to village torturing and killing ordinary people. There was no evil he would not commit. At least several hundred people had died directly at his hands—a true young butcher.

It took Yang Yang some time to reach Myriad Phenomena Town, and night had already fallen. He could not be bothered to wait for Li Xuanshi to come out, so he charged straight into the Li Household.

Li Xuanshi committed such evils, and the Li Household was no good either. Yang Yang would show no mercy to anyone who dared stand in his way.

"An intruder!"

"Kill him!"

Li Household guards surrounded Yang Yang with swords and sabers, intent on killing him.

"Courting death."

Yang Yang struck, destroying their weapons with his bare hands and killing the martial artists one after another. He killed until the others retreated in fear and terror, their legs trembling. No one dared come forward.

At that moment, Li Kaitai, the head of the Li Household, who was at the Second Layer of the Body Forging Realm, made his move. Yet the moment he charged up to Yang Yang, Yang Yang's White Bone Claw seized him by the throat.

Crack!

The Li Household head at the Second Layer of the Body Forging Realm was like an ant, crushed to death by Yang Yang.

"Too weak."

Yang Yang continued forward and, before everyone's eyes, seized Li Xuanshi of the Li Household and dragged him out.

"You villain, let my son go!"

A fierce-looking fat woman ran out. Yang Yang tore a button off Li Xuanshi's clothes and flicked it lightly. The button became a flash of cold light that pierced the fat woman's throat, killing her.

"A fool who can't recognize the situation."

Yang Yang then looked at Li Xuanshi, who was already trembling all over, and pronounced his death sentence. "Li Xuanshi, you like to disguise yourself as a bandit and mounted raider, hunt ordinary villagers, and kill for amusement. Today, I sentence you to death."

With that, Yang Yang snapped Li Xuanshi's neck and tossed his corpse aside, smashing a house to pieces. Then he turned and left. No one else in the Li Household dared stop him.

A night passed.

After Lin Ye woke up, he confirmed that each of his five disciples had completed a task, killing five evildoers. Ye Chen's ranking had risen by five places, and he was close to entering the top hundred of the Sin Ranking.