I am an Eldritch Entity

In the Training Camp, rules regarding killing other disciples were lax.

The Earth had transitioned from a law abiding society where murder was heavily condemned to a civilization which was now facing invasions.

No matter what time period, murder was a crime and punished severely, previously because it was a peaceful society, and now because they needed every manpower they could get to resist the invasion.

It would be stupid to allow people to get away with murder when they were surrounded by enemies on all sides.

Here in the Cultivation world though, they were in a peaceful period.

But their society was simply so large, the population was so massive and the talent base was so vast that their viewpoint towards killing was more or less different than that of Earth.

There was also the fact that people cultivated real power here. The peaceful time of Earth and the peaceful time of the Cultivation world was different.

The former had no power to whatsoever, if anything, it was authority and money.

But the latter? They cultivated real power. Their 'climbing of ladder' didn't just give them real individual power, authority and money, but also the most important thing, lifespan.

An increase in realm granted extra lifespan. Who wouldn't want that?

The parents were aware of it, but brought up and molded by the society, they were very familiar with how things worked. If there was a way to rise in this world, it was only through bloodshed.

Some had overwhelming love and protectiveness towards their children, but the majority of them let their children experience the world for themselves, being prepared in their hearts long ago.

The rules at the Training Camp didn't explicitly allow killing, but as long as no traces were found, no one would bother you, except of course if the victim had connections and they were aware of your enmity with the victim.

Then you would have to face whatever they would retaliate with.

One might ask, what consisted of 'no trace found', like, how much effort would the Training Camp invest to find traces?

Well, zero.

They wouldn't go out of their way to search for disciples which had gone missing for a long time.

As long as you properly disposed of the corpse and removed all traces, you were more or less safe.

If you were stupid enough to kill a person right in front of a master, then it's all on you.

Because for the master, they literally saw a murder right in front of their eyes, with 'zero effort', which meant you were the clear culprit and the Training Camp would act against you.

Eryndor had stopped running long ago, as his Spatial Sight finally spotted an adult gray winged woodpecker.

Oh yea, I can do that.

Eryndor expanded the range of his Spatial Sight, and found the three disciples who had been after him.

He had lost them for a few seconds, but was quickly able to find them by simply extending his range even further.

Eryndor glanced at the beast flying above, and quickly climbed the tree.

At some point the beast finally spotted a human approaching it, therefore it swooped down at high speeds, intending to attack Eryndor.

Eryndor let the bird charge by staying still.

The beast was in the middle stage of the Stable realm, therefore it would be a tough fight for Eryndor who couldn't fly in his normal form.

Through Cognitive Scrying he already knew that the bird was planning to swerve right and hit him from the side in case he had any attacks in store.

He did.

Eryndor activated an Internal Fist in his right arm and Nine Suns Palm in his left arm.

As soon as the bird approached, Eryndor shot his left arm forward, and as expected, the bird suddenly turned right.

Just as it came near the human though, it realized that he was still emitting the aura of Qi.

That's right. Using cultivation arts revealed the aura of the person, which both the beasts and humans could sense.

Eryndor activated both his cultivation arts at the same time because he planned to use one as a cover for the other one.

Imagine this, you sensed an aura of Qi, but as you neared it, the human didn't attack even once, wouldn't you get cautious?

Therefore Eryndor deliberately attacked in a forward direction despite knowing it would turn right.

This was to let the bird know that the human's attack had been used.

With the bird's speed, by the time it neared Eryndor, only then would it realise that the aura it was still sensing wasn't the dispersing aura of the failed Nine Suns Palm earlier but that of a fully activated another hidden attack.

This move wasn't needed in fight against other humans despite them being capable of sensing the aura of Qi as well because the sensitivity to Qi and reaction speed of beasts was far above humans.

A beast would be able to sense and react in time, but a human wouldn't be able to do so, only relying on frontal combat rather than these tricks.

Eryndor had learned this move while going through the battle style of his eldritch form.

Without wasting any time, Eryndor punched the bird straight in its chest, intentionally not hitting the head.

The bird let out a sharp cry as a sound of a few bones breaking rang out.

Damn, the sound sure is crispy.

Eryndor thought, as the bird spiralled downwards for a few meters before finding its bearing and flying again. It seemed it wasn't heavily injured.

Its flight was a little wobbly, but still passable.

With red eyes, the bird turned to look at Eryndor who had already gotten down from the tree at this point and was gazing at it.

With a screech, the bird took a sharp dive to attack the detestable human once again.

Eryndor hid a smirk and began using his Shadowstep to run in the shadows of the tree, all the while using his Spatial Sight to keep track of the three disciples.

Didn't you want to fight?

Fight this lightly injured but angry middle stage Stable realm bird.