"Start looking for a mechanism to open the painting.", Yami said and started looking around the painting.
Shen Hua approached the painting and
searched for the frame. He manipulated the sand and made it seep between the frame and the wall, searching for a lock. After a few seconds he found resistance and began manipulating the sand, releasing the lock and opening the passage.
"Ready. Ladies first.", Shen Hua opened the door and waved for Yami to enter.
Yami smiled back without moving forward, "Then you should go."
Shen Hua activated his lightning power, go after Yami and threw her into the passage. She tried to react but Shen Hua was very fast.
"Why did you do that !?", Yami said irritably.
"Because I wanted to. Now be silent, if I'm right from now on, there will only be cultivators. Or nobody if we're lucky.", Shen Hua entered the passage and closed the door.
The passage is a spiral staircase, it is very dark with few torches distant each other. At the end of the staircase is a large, well-lit, multi-columned hall, at the end, has a huge double-wood door reinforced by metal bars. Inside the hall twelve guards scattered, yours armor better than the other guards, and all have swords and daggers at their waist.
Shen Hua and Yami came down the stairs, not seeing anyone at the exit of the stairs Shen Hua and Yami, animated by the treasure, did not worry and left directly thinking that there were no guards. As they took their first step into the hall all twelve guards scattered around the hall looked at them.
'D*mn. That's what happens when you get excited. 'If I say we're lost they believe?', Shen Hua smiled and was about to speak when he felt a wind blade come towards him. Yami, with her arms until the her elbow, and her legs until the her black knees, stepped forward and punched her in the middle of the blade, dividing it in two and protecting Shen Hua.
"This is no time for hesitate. It's time to kill.", Yami said and became serious in a fighting stance.
"You're right. How about a game? Whoever kills more can give orders to the other for a week.", Shen Hua went into a fighting stance as well.
"Don't cry when you lose.", Yami said and ran toward two guards.
The guards have prepared to fight too, all have been trained and are prepared to fight and kill any people, even children.
'Do nothing in the middle of the fight. I don't want to lose concentration.', Shen Hua let Ichimaru speak again. 'So now can I talk?', Ichimaru got angry, he didn't expect Shen Hua to silence him.
'What is it? Are you sad?', Shen Hua joked a little, 'Tell me how you use firepower, one of those must have fire affinity, it's going to be a good opportunity to train.'
'I will help, after all if you die I will be without a body too. But then you'll have to give me something.'
'Two hundred human sacrifices?', Shen Hua remembered another animal that loved this kind of reward. 'Nothing so hard. I want the orb of all these cultivators.', Ichimaru spoke with a greedy tone.
'Orb? I don't know what it is, but that's fine. Just tell me how to get it.', if it wasn't going to hurt him or his friends he would. 'Just rip off the heart the orb will be inside it, it will have a different color depending on the affinity, get it for me.', Ichimaru quickly explained, when he feel the fight would start he fell silent.
Shen Hua watched the entire room to make sure there is no way to communicate with the outside. 'I wouldn't do a means of communication, after all the security of this vault is based on being hidden and unknown to the public. One form of communication would end up with many people knowing, and possibly, leaking information.', as Shen Hua suspected the hall has no way of communicating with the outside.
As he was calming down Shen Hua saw one of the guards closing their eyes and the others taking position themselves to defend him, 'Damn, one of them must have a way of communicating with his powers.', Shen Hua activated his lightning power and jumped toward the guard.
As soon as he moved one of the guards, who also have lightning affinity, appeared in front of him to block him. Seeing that his path was blocked Shen Hua jumped, when he reached the roof he jumped again toward the guard.
Two other guards in front of Shen Hua's target stood with one palm side by side forming a fireball the size of Shen Hua. When they saw Shen Hua leaping to the ceiling, they moved their hands in the direction he was heading and threw the fireball. The guard who had entered Shen Hua's way earlier jumped to intercept him in the air.
'Touch their flames and think how you want to shape them,' Ichimaru said when he saw the fireball coming towards Shen Hua. Shen Hua reached out and touched the fireball, which turned black fire immediately.
No time to think of a complex attack Shen Hua simply thought of a fireball and threw it back to guards, wrapping his hand in some of the flames in the process. With these flames Shen Hua pointed his hand at the guard who was going to intercept him, shaped another fireball, and threw it.
Everything was very fast and with the proximity the guards could not react. The three that were together were turned to ashes. The other, because of his lightning affinity, may react in time to put his arms in front of his face to defend himself, but the flames have consumed his arms and his head, killing him.
The whole hall watched the fight, it all happened very fast, a total of seven seconds from the guard closing his eyes to Shen Hua's landing on the floor with the four dead. The guards knew that time was not enough for your partner to use their powers and ask for help. This, added to the scene of their companions being charred to the bone in seconds was enough to make them all panic.
'Don't forget my reward.', Ichimaru said after Shen Hua landed. 'Ok. Just let me get this over with.', Shen Hua activated his lightning power and jumped toward another of the guards.
The guard still shocked by what he saw could not react in time to prevent Shen Hua from getting in front of him. Without option the guard struck with his sword. With his senses, and guard's nervousness, Shen Hua easily deflected, 'The easiest way to win a fight against multiple opponents is to break your spirit. Let's see how long yours can handle.'
As he deflected Shen Hua molded his sand into a claw around his hand. When the guard struck a second blow Shen Hua saw an opening and stuck his handreached under the guard's rib, breaking the armor, 'Ouch, that armor is too hard!'
Shen Hua, with a smile on his face, pulled his hand out of the guard's body with his heart still beating in her. The guard can see his heart stop beating Shen Hua's hand before falling dead to the ground with his face showing pure fear.
Being low the blood from the hole in the body of the guard splashed on Shen Hua face. With bloodstained face, and heart in his hand dripping blood on the floor Shen Hua didn't stop smiling, sending chills in everyone in the room.
Even Yami, who had killed two guards and was about to kill the third,was afraid of Shen Hua at that time.