Chương 83: Nightfall

Over the next weeks, I began testing the Foundation Consolidation pill, firstly on random cultivators in a nearby city, eager for a chance at redemption. May they rest in peace. Then after the first mistakes were fixed, another batch of pills, in another city. Nobody died this time, but only one in ten men got their Foundation cemented and healed. Third round of pills introduced the more expensive Tier 2 herbs, and I sold them at 10 times the price to small cultivator clans. Then watched the results...

50% heal chance, and no deaths. Only 10 fruits at Tier 2 in exchange for fixing the Foundation and getting a chance at the Core realm? Cheap! Should be good enough for the girls then, when adding my Lotus milk into the last stage. Penetration, insemination, and natural healing over several months of pregnancy. For the first test group I chose the Azure Stars, who already had some money made by killing criminals and looting their money. Much easier for them too, being Peak Foundation realm.

I just invited them to the aptly named Maternity Hall, and exposed the grand baby plan. Elder Mai was in charge of training their group and got a new hand for it with my pill, offered herself as a test pilot. She was... not a terminal case, but not a pretty flower either. Anyway, wearing stockings and sandwiched between two much younger Azure Stars, I could make an exception. For medical reasons.

Another level in my Nascent Soul was welcome too, because taking a woman's pure Yin was always a boost for a man's cultivation. Those vile rapists were cultivators too and grew stronger from their trade. Unlike me, whom women begged to suck my dick, or to get impregnated. I was totally different! Pef's scam worked perfectly on the naive fairies, but the fairies also benefited from my work. So... win-win, I might say.

With a wet pop, I extracted my slimy dick from the last Azure Star girl, and grabbed her head to clean my dick inside her drooling mouth. The young woman was too dazed to notice, perhaps on behalf of the mildly drugged ice wine.

"Thank you... hero." she mumbled around my dick. So she wasn't opposed... how cute!

"Increase your normal diet with cheese and fruits, and no more wine. Lemonade should be fine." I added with my fairy doctor voice, then called my pants and robes on my and flew out. Fenghue seemed to be a much more hands-on Sect Master, as she appeared exactly then.

"Wait here, until I check on my disciples. Then we go someplace." A minute later, Fenghue returned and sighed.

"You didn't spare that Elder either, beast!"

"Little Mai begged me on her knees, my lovely wife. For the sake of medicine and the Dao, I had to help. Maybe you remember when you also..." I answered when Fenghue shut me up with a long kiss, then dragged me into a secret room, where she had lots of Dark Fairy equipment. Black robes, armor, weapons, clawed gauntlets, metal masks, poison darts and so on. I sensed Zhen's tail was involved too, since a bunch of secret weapons had venom and such toxins on them.

And Minghue trying to look scary as a spy babe was amazing too.

"Minghue, you've come to the Dark Side too? Those armbraces are put backwards..." I noted with an amused voice. Fenghue sighed and went to help her innocent sister wear the murder equipment right, and not stab herself with scorpion venom darts.

"We're going to visit the Zhan Clan tonight. I hope you can help... we're not very good Dark Fairies." my brave wife admitted aloud.

"Sure! I'll keep watch and only help if you are danger. As a true Dark Lord, I must have my minions do the dirty work!" I proclaimed in a grand voice, hands raised in the air to project fear. Minghue giggled and was smacked by the Sect Master for breaching protocol.

"Yes, Dark Lord. We are your Dark Fairies, and will do your dark biddings. But, we get paid in milk! Warm, fresh... Lotus Milk!" Fenghue demanded as her tithe. A shadow coughed and turned into Zhen Chen, wearing all black, but very professionally.

"I'll take point, O, Dark Lord. I fear the new minions are not used to clan massacres yet." she said in a disappointed tone, then covered herself with a metal mask looking like a wicked black scorpion. This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. I dressed up as well, wearing my chainmail under dark robes and a metal mask with three blue flowers on it. No reason, just felt appropriate.

"Wow, hubby! You look intimidating!" Minghue spoke in awe.

"No more names. My codename is 3. Fenghue is 1, Zhen is 2, and you are 4. So, if you are injured, you say?" I asked to make sure.

"Husband 3, come and help me!" Minghue answered with a brave voice. That would be as confusing as the other code. I chuckled and covered us in a masking cloud, then we moved out. About an hour later, we located the Zhan compound, which was not a sect, but still protected by Formations, fences, guard towers and a few patrolling Core beasts. Including a Core lizard! Jackpot!

"Nightfall... in 3 seconds. 2, 1..." I whispered with a hidden smirk. Hidden under my mask. My Dark Lord mask! Which was cool and rad, and totally not cosplay. Could have added 'I am the Night!' like Pef wanted. Eh, next time. A fog of mist and sand moved over the compound, as Two took point, followed by Four who had to be dragged back by One. I ignored the idiots and went to collect my prize, being precious Core beasts with amazing meat, bones, and blood.

The beast blood could be used in talisman ink, the meat for eating well, and the bones for pills. Perfect combo. And even better, the skin or scales could be used for equipment, especially for Core Elders. Nothing particularly good, but still. Free stuff is free. This Zhan clan was already being generous, not to mention the last time when they gave me a Tier 4 fruit for free. Too bad they all had to die. So I could loot them. Next time, don't invite me to a duel to the death, at my own wedding.

It's rude, and makes me vengeful. People began to die, as Zhan neutralized the guards in silence, and collected their weapons and eyes for her husband. Such a caring wife, right? Then they entered the compound proper, and the traps activated, catching the three Dark Fairies in a mire of blood chains, howling screams and blood puppets. Puppets! I ignored my wives who were screaming for Three, and went to collect four new puppets into my Yang ring.

See, a higher realm ring can suppress a lower realm artifact, or even a puppet. It was a mental struggle, but I was better.

"The Dark Fairy visits us tonight! We are honored! Not one, but three of them. One for each of us, right?" A man with a metal mask proclaimed like a cheap villain. I appeared by his shoulder and nodded.

"Sounds right... Dark Brother. Nice mask, by the way..." I spoke in a secretive voice. The man nodded back, then frowned and did a new headcount. There was an impostor among them. Who could he be? Such a mystery, wraped inside an engima, and dressed in dark robes like a Dark Lord.

"That guy! Who is he?" I yelled and pointed at another masked man.

"I am Gu Lan, of course! Who are you?" he yelled back.

"... No! I am Gu Lan! Impostor!" I yelled louder, and took his head off. My two dark brothers observed carefully as I peeled the mask off, to see the face of the impostor.

"He looks exactly like Gu Lan!" my dear dark brother noticed at once. I pointed a trembling finger at the third guy.

"No! They replaced him too? Who are you?"

"I am Zhan the Fourth, you idiot. Three, why were these fairies yelling for you...?" Zhan asked my dark brother. I turned slowly, as if a spider was beside me.

"They killed Two..." I muttered and sliced off his head.

"That's why I painted three flowers on my mask..." I whispered in sad voice. My wives were still caught by blood chains, and looked at the impostor game with stupefied awe.

"Three! Save us!" Minghue yelled for no reason. I peeled the mask from the other Three, and saw the exact old man who had been at my wedding.

"Strange. I swear I've seen him before. A mask over the real mask? Dark Mask is real!" I exclaimed in surprise, and grabbed the Venerable eyes, just in case.

"I am the Dark Mask, idiot! Wait, WHO ARE YOU AGAIN!" the Fourth yelled in anger.

"Fourth! Shut up and let me think! Two men are down, and I am Three. They should be One and Two, if my count is right..." I whispered while looking around for more strange numbers. Number men.

"Two already died in the Blue Lotus ambush... none of them can be Two. There was an impostor!" Fourth muttered in deep thought. The female One laughed out loud, despite the blood chains keeping her prisoner.

"Three, hurry up!" she yelled amidst bursts of laughter.

"You know these Dark Fairies, Three?" the Fourth asked with a suspicious mind. I sighed, and shuffled my leg like a caught child.

"My idea... I admit. But it was mostly for sex and pleasure, nothing else!" I defended myself like an innocent teenager with overactive balls and not many brains. Zhan the Fourth laughed like a proper Dark Lord, then looked around.

"Fine, little brother. You can keep your Dark Fairies. Now let's go back and finish our dark work. Lord Shaggoth awaits our report." I waved goodbye at the trapped fairies, and followed the Forth into the depths of depravity and villainy. I already expected tied women to beds, but this guy also had tied up men, drugged to the gills to keep their small 4 inch dicks high up. Disgusting!

"Your ass must hurt a lot, big brother..." I noted with a sly voice.

"Dark Brother, I told you! This isn't like that. Something must have gone wrong with your copy..." Fourth complained as we reached the customary blood pool.

"I am not getting naked to reach the door! Yuck!" I protested as the man took off this robes.

"Why not? Blood is good for you..." he began to say, when my hand sliced out and took his head. Fun is fun, but I had other things to do. Collect the eyes, store the corpse, examine the naked women on my way back, but nothing special, put the men to rest... and return to my sweet innocent wives, still trapped in chains and waiting for a man to abuse them.

"Behold, your Dark Lord has returned! My victory is complete! Six new Venerable eyes, three storage bags, and more importantly, three Dark Fairies to use, for sex and pleasure!" I shouted into the night. The night answered only with silence.