Power ripples through his body, a smile forms on his face as he grips his hand. Black ooze covers his body releasing a foul odor. Looking at Ezra in the same state he chuckles.

“Ezra, let's take a bath.” walking to the barrel he climbs inside. He doesn't feel a weakening effect, causing him to relax.

Ezra flies over, her naked body hidden by the ooze. She hesitates over the water as she dips in one toe at a time. The water is fairly cold, so she doesn't want to get in. After a few seconds, she can no longer tolerate the smell and drops in.

Marco grabs Ezra as she drops into the water so she doesn't drown. Using his hands he begins to wipe the ooze off her. His hands run along her tiny body, wiping her clean.

To stop Marco from taking advantage of her she flies out once she's clean.

“Haha Ezra you don't have to run.” shaking his head he begins wiping his body.

In the middle of his bath, he hears banging on his door.

“Inspection! Open up!!”

The corner of his lips curl “Finally here?”

Rising out of the bath, he uses clothes from the pile to dry off. “In a minute! I'm getting dressed!”

“Hurry up! This is an inspection!”

Marco puts on his clothes and ties the bags to his waist. Grabbing the hammer with his left hand, he opens all six gates. With his iron core, the stamina drain is negligible. After powering his eyes and illusion, he uses the remainder of his Qi to power his hammer.

Aura ripples through his body full force, an invisible layer surrounds his body. With his eyes, he can see that it's not actually invisible, but gray.

“Is this the true form of Aura?” a smile forms on his face as he puts his hand on the door.

Ezra is currently struggling to put on her clothes. She was sleeping when Marco put on her clothes, so she's not sure how it goes on. Seeing that Marco is about to leave she begins to panic.

“Don't worry Ezra, I’m not going far.” Qi fluctuates and the door opens.

A sword enters the door, stabbing straight for Marco's chest.

Looking at the face of the man he instantly knows where he's from.

The sword appears to be moving in slow motion in his eyes. Now that he's broken through to iron level his body can slightly keep up with his super perception, giving him more time to make judgments. When he finally masters the movement techniques he can take advantage of his eyes more.

Marco lifts the hammer, knocking the sword off path. Seeing that his sword is unranked as well, he stops pressuring his hammer.

The scar faced disciple is at the 7th stage of Qi gathering, so he should be stronger than Marco. Seeing his sword knocked away so easily he's stunned.

“That old man from the Demonic beast store sent you right?” a smile creeps on Marco’s face.

He can't win, terror fills the disciples very being. He doesn't know how this boy is stronger than him, but he has to survive.

He jumps back to get into position, and with a shake of his wrist, he swings at Marco.

*Tsk* Clicking his tongue he becomes upset. He was hoping he could learn something from watching him fight, but his skills are poor.

Seeing the incoming sword Marco doesn't dodge but reaches out his right hand.

Seeing the sword is about to hit the disciple is filled with joy. The sword comes down on Marco's shoulder, but instead of cutting him it passes straight through his body.

Before he even has time to react, Marco's hand lands on his shoulder. In the next second a portal opens around Marco's right eye, instantly sucking him in.

“A perfect test subject.” Marco steps back into his room and the door closes. Looking at Ezra she's finally figured out how to put her clothes back on.

Grabbing his robe collar, he pulls it open a bit. “Let us go, Ezra, time to play.”

“Chrym chim!” she flies straight into his robe and hangs on, and of course peeks out her head.

Marco places his hammer into his bag and holds a spirit stone in his left hand. The portal once again appears around his right eye and sucks him in, leaving the room empty.

Marco and Ezra appear in the Kamui dimension. Looking around he sees Hilda and Milly standing together, facing off agaisnt the scar faced disciple.

Seeing Marco appear Hilda's eyes go wide as saucers “YOU!” pointing her finger she angrily roars.

“Finally justice can be dealt and the demon can be slain!” Milly places her hand on her hips and strikes a heroic pose.

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The scar faced disciple doesn't scream nonsense, because he knows how strong he is. He takes a stance and readies his sword, Reaching into his bag he pulls out three spirit stones.

“Ladies I see that we are all on the same side, take a spirit stone" tossing a stone to each girl a smile forms on his face. He'd have to live under a rock to not know these two girls. While Hilda has weaker cultivation than him, Milly definitely does not.

Marco doesn't stop him from handing out stones, because no one can leave this dimension once trapped.

“Ok Ezra, you watch from above.”

“Cryim!” She flies out of his robe and lands on one of the floating orbs.

Marco closes his eyes as he tightly grips the stone in his left hand. He recalls everything he read in the manuals today. In the Kamui dimension he is unable to become intangible, so he will have to rely on himself to dodge.

“Demon! We meet again! This time I will not let you run!” Milly starts to charge. Running full speed she balls her tiny fist.

Hilda's eyes burn with fury, she never thought her life would be ruined on a simple escort mission so close to the sect. When she sees Milly charge, she gnashes her teeth and follows.

The scar face man is more methodical, he begins to circle around to try and flank him.

Opening his eyes his EMS scans his field of view, eyes flickering wildly as he tries to catch every scene. Taking a step forward he begins to charge.

Wrong, this isn't how it was shown. Steps too big, knee coming down at the wrong angle. Back too straight, twist hips more. His eyes continue to flicker as he watches his approaching opponents, thoughts flow through his head as he tries to correct every mistake.

Suddenly Milly and Marco arrive within striking distance.

Marco has been fighting on pure strength in all his battles so far. By using his eyes to his advantage he is able to avoid catastrophic failure, but his martial arts are terrible. Knowing this he watches Milly closely, last time he wasn't able to keep up with her speed.

Milly throws out a fist, Marco copies her exact move.

Their first collide, equal in power. Marco is holding back to see all her moves.

Seeing her punch fail she throws out a round kick, but to her surprise, Marco does the same.

Their Kicks cross mid air causing a loud bang from the force.

“Demon you think you can copy me!?!” Her eyes are set ablaze by the challenge.

Seeing this Marco smiles.

“Hurricane kick!”

“Hurricane kick"

At the same time, Milly and Marco’s legs become blurs as they send kick after kick, each one hitting each other. Their legs continue to cross time after time, constantly blocking each other.

Milly refuses to admit defeat so she continues to launch kicks.

Marco notices the strain this is putting on her knee and frowns.

At this time Hilda finally arrives. Not wasting any time she throws a punch at his back.

Marco’s support foot suddenly twist as he jumps to the side to dodge, breaking away from the battle of kicks.

But suddenly at his back, a sword slashes down. Blood pours as his back is slashed, Marco grits his teeth in pain.

Blue fire erupts around his back as he spins. His wound rapidly heals as he faces the scar faced disciple. His Aura erupts to full power as he throws a single Palm strike at the man.

The disciple tries to dodge by jumping back, but Marco follows.

As the palm descends, 15 palm shadows bloom around it. Moments before the palm makes contact with his chest the shadows combine back into the palm. It gently touches his chest, followed by an explosion.

Spitting out blood the disciple flies back like a ragdoll, a bloody palm print on his chest.

All of this happened in a moment, because his back was to the girls the first thing they saw was blue flames healing a sword wound. Before they even had time to react to the healing, the disciple was blown away.

Using his own self evolved technique Marco is satisfied, when he first used the move the stamina drain from his Qi was so great that it used all his Aura. Using the technique now only used ⅓ of his Aura. Using the technique a second time he saw a few places he can improve to make more palm shadows.

The principle behind the technique is the same as the original Flowing Flower Palm, using many strikes to supplement for power. The original technique wanted you to use both palms to send out a barrage of strikes, but there was one flaw. The technique took too long to do damage if you had to throw out many different strikes. Seeing the flaw, Marco used the concept of the one inch punch from his memories. The palm shadows aren't shadows at all, but individual strikes. The number of shadows represents the number of strikes launched. They are so fast the hand appears to do nothing more than vibrate slightly. Fifteen strikes land at the exact same place at almost the exact same time.

Recovering from the shock, Milly and Hilda charge.

Learning his lesson, he senses their Qi approaching. Turning around he sees two fists launching at him.

With his Aura now at full blast, they are no match for him. Marco throws out two fists to collide with theirs, careful not to break the stone in his hand.

While they can't overpower him, he is still able to learn from them. They have been training for a far longer time than him, but with his eyes, he can turn their experience into his power.

The two girls continue to attack together but he fends them off alone, constantly improving, becoming sharper, and more deadly as he improves on the mistakes in their combat techniques.

He has already Copied Milly’s hurricane kick, but Hilda has yet to perform a technique. After a few minutes, he figures he has nothing else to learn from the girls, so he returns to what he originally came here for.

The girls continue to furiously throw out punches and kicks, but Marco does nothing but dodge now.

The moves of Radiant Ghost flash through his head over and over as he dodges their moves. While he is able to dodge he is nowhere close to Radiant Ghost.

An Idea suddenly flashes through his head as he begins to decrease his power. He can still see every inch of their movement but It becomes harder to react, forcing him to be more precise.

Seeing that he's beginning to slow down Milly becomes excited “The demon is tired! Press the attack!” Her attack becomes more enthusiastic as she believed she gained the advantage.

Hilda’s eyes show doubt, as shes not as optimistic as Milly. Just based on the fact he was able to fend them off together, and what she's seen him do in the past.

He constantly decreases his power but is beginning to dodge with greater ease. He has already gotten as far as he was able to understand from the book, so from here out it's just him correcting flaws he sees in his movement.

After constant improvements, Milly’s fist flies towards his face, as it makes contact it passes through. The punched Marco disappears, like a ghost. Marco appears at the side of her body, lightly stretching out his fist he taps her on the chin.

Seeing this Hilda loses all hope. She drops to her knees and begins to cry. “Why?!? Why are you doing this to me!!”

Milly throws out a sidekick, but that too passes through his body as the real Marco appears a few feet away.

“My current limit is one ghost, but I finally got the technique down.”

Hearing this Milly’s arms drop to her side. She looks at Hilda on her knees, crying towards the sky. Her gaze returns to Marco before she bites her lip. Blood begins to flow from biting so hard as her eyes begin to tremble.

“Has justice failed, what have I been training for?”