Ye Tian and the others went out to check out the site of the cloud streams, and then bought their traveling tickets. This will allow them to use the streams to travel to another continent. The day went by in peace with no news of Lin Yang in danger….. until midnight arrived.
Ye Tian and the crew were about to go back to the inn until they saw a bright burning flame far in the distance. They could hear yells and screams, and weapons clashing against each other. They saw some people with black masks running towards the same direction of the noise. Ye Tian and the others instincts felt that Lin Yang was in the middle of that current chaos. They tried to ignore it, but they couldn’t resist. After all, they were righteous people, at least that was they thought of themselves.
They jumped seamlessly from building to another building towards the chaotic area. When they arrived, they heard Lin Yang’s familiar voice and another elderly voice.
“Lin Yang, give us that box. We will let you live. I will tell the King to pardon you for your family’s conspiracy against the throne” a black masked man said.
“Hahaha, Conspiracy? Everyone knows it was you and the 5 family clans that planned all of this. I never thought even the King would even bite the hands that fed them!” Lin Yang replied feeling the pain of betrayal.
“Kid, do you want to die?” the man continued asking.
“Devil Ming, you think you can fool me wearing that mask. I respected you as an elder, but I will never call you an elder ever again! Even if you got the box, you would kill me. I will never believe your shit again,” Lin Yang furiously responded.
“Kill him. We’ll eventually find the box,” the masked man said to all the other masked troops.
One masked soldier charges at Lin Yang, but he stands there with a calm exposure while holding his sword with both hands. The man stabs at Lin Yang, but he dodges leaving a mirror image of himself, then slides pass the masked man. The man made no movement, but blood is dripping until it burst. The man’s head suddenly slips and falls to the ground.
Ye Tian and the others watched shockingly. They only saw a phantom image of what happened. Everything went by so quickly and in one move, Lin Yang was able to cut off the man’s head easily.
Three other guys charges in, but before they’re able to come close to Lin Yang, he slashes upwards and a transparent shield erects as high as 10 feet! The men’s swords tries to penetrate the shield but Lin Yang vanishes and reappears to the side. He dashes again like a phantom and slashes!
“Aarrrrgh”
Blood spurts out on all three of the men’s back, and falls to the ground. Immediately, all the masks men charge forward. But Ye Tian and the others arrive beside Lin Yang before they are able to react. Ye Tian summons his flames like a dragon shield swirling around the masks man. One of Xiang Jiao’s bead flies towards the men and starts releasing mists. Ma Qian closes his eyes and starts making arm motions. He’s a bit of a distance away from the masked men but he punches straight. A void appears among the mists, then a closed fist comes out of the void at an extreme speed, and then punches one of the masked man. Ma Qian punches through the air again and again, and voids keep appearing in different places.
“Ahhhh.’
“Uurrghh.”
“What is th…..arrrghh.”
With a heavy mist and a wall of flames, the masked men couldn’t get out nor figure out who was punching them. Ma Qian felt so ecstatic, because he was starting to get the hang of it. At first, his summoning was slow, but it got a bit faster as time went by. He was punching and kicking. He knew every punch and kick connected even though he didn’t have great accuracy. That would still take some time to practice. Some of the masked men were kicked in the balls, some were poked in the eyes, and some were ruthlessly punched again and again.
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“Hahaha….haha….hahaha.”
Ma Qian’s eyes were getting redder by the minute and his face showed a berserk mode while smiling. He was getting too excited with the new skill he just learned. About 90% of the masked crew were trapped in wall of fire. The leaders of the masked men who were outside of the ring of flames, witnessed what was happening in front of them, was furious.
“Kill them all” the commander of the masked crew yelled. Five charged towards Lin Yang’s team. Ma Qian didn’t realize they were coming until Ye Tian smacked him in the face.
“Oucchh, what was that for?” Ma Qian angrily asked.
“Look!” Ye Tian replied while pointing ahead of them.
“Each gets one, the lucky one gets two,” Ye Tian continued while smirking. He saw two figures were actually heading for Lin Yang, but then one of them pointed towards Ye Tian.
“Fudge…damn bastards” Ye Tian furiously thought to himself. Now he has two opponents to fight against and this was supposed to be Lin Yang’s battle to fight!
Everyone except Ye Tian went on the offense rather than waiting for them to come.
Boomm. Baamm. Kaboom!
Ye Tian tries to execute the first step of the “Steps to the heaven” martial skill but fails to execute because he’s still lacking the full comprehension of the first step. Instead, he summons water blades on both of his arms to block the incoming attacks. Ye Tian counters quickly with one of his blade slicing one of the opponent’s legs, then smashes his knees upward at the opponent’s face. Another sword comes at him, but he dodges again and counters with a stab at one of the man’s knee. He then punches the man’s chest. The man is still standing there while holding his sword high up above about to strike Ye Tian down, but blood spurts out from his mouth and ears. This punch is no ordinary punch, it is actually filled with special qi that destroys the internal qi of the victim.
Xiang Jiao summons four beads. One bead transforms into a metallic shield, another transforms into a metallic spear. The other two beads are floating around his opponent without any changes. His opponent, confused about the beads floating around him, focuses on them instead. While the two beads are distracting the opponent, Xiang Jiao dashes forward and stabs at the man. A bloody cut appears on the man’s right shoulder as the man retreats, but Xiang Jiao continues to dash forward and uses his shield to slam on the man’s body. The man’s body flies further backward.
“Activate,” Xiang Jiao said.
The two beads lock in on the man until a visible spherical array appeared. Out of nowhere, multiple lightning strikes the man. The man screams wildly until he loses consciousness.
Ma Qian summons his vines and starts whipping his opponent like an octopus. The man can’t handle all the hits and angrily throws a dagger at Ma Qian. Ma Qian barely dodges the dagger, as there was a slight cut shown on his arm.
Lin Yang is exchanging sword attacks with the masked man he was talking earlier. They look equally match but Lin Yang was losing ground slowly.
“Give me the box!,” the masked man said.
“In your dreams, asshole!,” Lin Yang replied.
Shriiikkkk! Booommm. Bammm!
Lin Yang got stabbed on his stomach, then was punched on the chest. To make matters worse, the man kicked him on the same chest area. Lin Yang spitted blood while intensely looking at the masked man.
“Devil Ming, even if you kill me, you will never find the box,” Lin Yang smilingly said.
“You punk, this time you I will send you to your family’s grave and pee all over it,” the masked man said.
Losing his patience, he jumps forward with a sword pointing at Lin Yang. A Phantom Hyena appears behind his back. This was the masked man’s totem – the black hyena. The phantom hyena opens his massive jaws trying to bite Lin Yang in half.
But Lin Yang appears calm again. he closes his eyes until he whispers, “Sky Ascension!”
Lin Yang opens his eyes, leans forward, like a traveling wind, he dashes forward while slashing at the phantom image. He continues to slash forward with his sword. The masked man is hit and floats slightly in the air from the impact. Lin Yang closes in again, then slashes diagonally upward on the man’s body. The man’s body is hit again and floats higher in pain. Lin Yang slashes upward again, and again, until he was 25 feet above the ground along with the masked man. The masked man shows eyes of fear because he is unable to see Lin Yang’s lightning phantom attacks. At the peak of their elevation, Lin Yang unleashes a downward stab and pierces the man’s chest with incredible strength. The downward momentum is so fast, it resembles a lightning striking the ground”
A whispering sound could be heard from Lin Yang.
“Soon....I will come for the rest of you!”