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SNIKT!
Two hands flashed between both Sora and Yuujiro. Both hands passed by each other and stabbed into each other's bodies.
Sora's hands stabbed into the right side of Yuujiro's chest, spilling blood.
"Haha!" chuckled Yuujiro as he dug his fingers into Sora's arm before ruthlessly ripping it from Sora's shoulder.
Scht!
Despite having a body that can even stop the fastest and strongest of bullets, Sora's bodily strength was weak in the hands of the man known as Yuujiro, the Ogre. Sora's bodily defense can fully withstand the punch of someone at the peak of Legendary Master.
Unluckily, Yuujiro, who was known for his monstrous strength, had a strength that went a bit beyond the peak of Legendary Master.
Because Sora's cultivation was in a weak state as it grew stronger, Sora's body was at the level of a mortal. It could easily be harmed by anything as he waited for his cultivation to quickly return.
Though it sounded like something terrible, it was actually one of those special times when cultivators can explosively grow more in strength. As long as they permanently increase their strength in their weak state, the strength they receive in return would be immeasurable.
Any damage received during the weak time would disappear as if it never happened once one's cultivation returns. As long as a shred of life remains in the cultivator, they would recover back to their prime.
Yuujiro had jumped back and revealed a face filled with pleasure as he felt up the wound Sora gave him. He tossed Sora's arm to the side, and whilst no one was looking, the arm turned to dust that was carried off by the wind.
Vmm…
The air began to vibrate as a black aura began to surround Sora, his eyes going white.
The black aura was made up of killing intent, which is supposed to be red. With incredibly dense killing intent surrounding Sora, the stench of blood flooded the surroundings, dying a couple of plants black and red.
Some trees decayed at the presence of killing intent coming off Sora's body.
All that killing intent was directed at one certain happy, yet afraid, individual…
Yuujiro.
Despite feeling great fear deep down into the depths of his soul, Yuujiro felt incomparably happy as he felt something leak. His face was red, blushing like a young and innocent maiden that had just found out how babies are made.
Sora lifted up his remaining hand slowly into the air before bringing his thumb and middle finger together.
Snap!
With a snap of his finger's, Yuujiro felt his vision darkening as he lost control of his body. He fell unconscious and face down onto the floor.
Swish…
Sora slowly walked over to Yuujiro's unconscious body, his steps slow yet his momentum was absolute.
Standing over the man who had taken his arm, Sora's cold eyes swept over Yuujiro's body. His fist slowly rose into the air as the image of a hammer overlapped Sora's fist. Using the Blunt Qi he had gained insight into like all the other Qi like Blade Qi and Physique Qi, Sora swung his fist down.
The air parted, allowing Sora's fist to quickly fall down to the ground and straight to Yuujiro's head.
BOOM!
Sora's fist stopped a hair's width of distance away from Yuujiro's head. The force behind the punch traveled through Yuujiro's head and hit the floor, planting a deep imprint of Sora's fist into the ground.
That single force from the punch fell powerfully on the ground, causing an earthquake that reached through all of Japan's corners.
Sora's muscles tensed and his veins bulged across his body with his face contorting into anger.
"Fuck!"
The deathly aura dissipated and Sora just clenched his shoulder for a bit. He straightened his back and acted as if nothing happened as a calm look came onto his face. Although a bit pale, Sora looked fine if one ignored the missing right arm.
RUMBLE!!
The entirety of Japan continued to shake right after Sora's punch, sending tremors all over Japan. The tremors weren't too strong, but they still caused many weak and poorly built buildings to tumble over and collapse.
Caves collapsed and the nearby water of the Sea trembled under the tremors of Japan.
15 seconds elapsed and the Earthquake finally passed by.
Wiping Yuujiro's blood off his hand on Yuujiro's clothes, Sora calmly walked on over to Taejin before flashing a small amicable smile, "Thanks for not intruding. I hope you can deal with him, I need to go and recuperate."
Although Sora's words sounded sarcastic, he was truly thanking Taejin to not intrude.
Even if Sora wished for Taejin to step in, Taejin's martial artist code prevented him from doing so. Taejin believed that a martial artist should be able to protect himself and make his own decisions. Not joining into a fight was also one of his own rules, that way it doesn't look like he's playing favorites.
It also stops most from thinking that just because he joined in, it meant that one of the two parties fighting was weak and will lose miserably.
Of course not every martial artist was like Taejin, and it wasn't like Taejin's code was truly the first thing in his heart. There is one person in Korea who he will put ahead of his code, an individual who has his parental love.
'That's one scary kid,' thought Taejin as he watched Sora leave.
He wasn't the target of Sora's killing intent, but he could still feel that Sora's killing intent is truly scary.
Shaking his head and revealing a smile on his face, Taejin walked over to Yuujiro and laughed, "You were on death's door just now. I don't why that kid refused to land the killing blow, but you should count it as a blessing."
Taejin was only humorously talking since Yuujiro was still unconscious.
Leaning down to pick up and take Yuujiro to the hospital to have his wounds dealt with, Taejin moved Yuujiro. Just as he was about to slump Yuujiro over his shoulder, his eyes trailed over to the hole Sora made with his fist.
The hole on the floor was shaped after Sora's fist and was still filled with a remaining of Sora's Blunt Qi that still doesn't disperse. Yet Taejin wasn't looking at that.
Taejin looked beyond that and found a sliver of Sora's Will was embedded into that fist-shaped hole.
If people could see Will's, Sora's would have burst through the sky with how powerful and profound his Will was. And this wasn't including the profoundity and insights that his clones must have gathered so far.
Click!
Taejin's eyes dilated as he seemed to finally understand and something inside him finally clicked.
However, something more shocking besides the clicking happened within the depths of Taejin's body. The sound of a dam being lifted as the water gushed out at a rapid and powerful force flooded his body.
Taejin's strength overflowed and his Ki slowly transformed under the flood.
Joy filled Taejin's face as he laughed out loud, "HAHA! I've finally broken through the door that has stopped my growth!"
Standing at a bottleneck for almost 15 years, Taejin had finally broken through and entered the realm after Legendary Master. His strength was now countless times stronger than when he was a Legendary Master.
His whole body had even changed, his hair partially turned black and his lifespan had been extended. Now he could like up to 200 years.
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Far away from the forest, Sora was walking aimlessly around the streets.
His shoulder was already bandaged up and he had changed into a new set of clothes.
Sora couldn't heal himself no matter how much he wanted to, his weakened state wouldn't allow him to take any recovery items no matter how much he wished to.
The boundless life force within his body and the spiritual energy also couldn't really bring back his arm. So Sora could only give up, walking around the streets with a thoughtful look.
He didn't mind much about the lost arm, it didn't bring down his overall strength by much. Just a little over 5%, which wasn't much to Sora who could gain back that lost strength by just cleansing and opening his Circulatory System.
Usually losing an arm makes the strength of a fighter fall even more than just 5%. Sometimes they also end up as cripples, no longer able to practice martial arts. This didn't apply much to Sora.
He had lost limbs before in the Illusory Martial Floor where he fought millions of times against millions of different types of beings. Sora more or less trained to not receive any loss in strength if he lost an arm or even a leg.
Sora decided to take this time to live without an arm, to see if he can gain any new understanding with just a single arm.
If it ever comes down to it, Sora could just use the Dream Energy to get back his arm or even go to his wives to regain his lost arm. He can also just use his Emperor Eyes and just bring back his arm easily.
'I'm glad I can still regain my arm even without my cultivation,' thought Sora with a smirk as he walked around with a missing arm. 'The only downside is not being able to open up the veins on my right arm, but I can just get my arm back when that time comes by.'
Sora yawned and decided to head on home already.
Today was a school day, yet it was already 10 P.M. Sora had spent a lot of time walking after he left Taejin and Yuujiro, time passed by quickly for him as he calmed down his rage.
"Hiratsuka must have headed home already and Saki must be sleeping," muttered Sora as he opened the door to his house quietly.
Just as he closed the door, the light was turned on rather unexpectedly. A loud gasp and the sound of dishes breaking entered Sora's ears. Looking up, Sora found that Saki had dropped a plate that had cake on it.
"SORA!" yelled Saki in horror as she looked at Sora's missing arm. Her face went pale and she fell unconscious.
Looking at Saki with a wry smile, Sora was about to pick her up and take her to her room before hearing some hurried steps from further in the house.
"Sora..." a meek voice escaped Hiratsuka's lips as her eyes fell on Sora. She was about to yell at him and reprimand him for arriving late until she noticed his missing arm and slightly pale face.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she found that her student had lost his arm, especially the student that had slowly made himself part of her world. It wasn't until then that Hiratsuka realized her feelings for the 16 year old before tears streamed down the mature woman's face.
Sora sighed and revealed a faint smile as he walked over to Hiratsuka and hugged her.
"I'm fine. Losing an arm isn't much of a big deal," muttered Sora as he hugged Hiratsuka tightly with just one arm. 'I just hope this doesn't affect me in Sword Art Online.'
Hiratsuka sobbed for a while longer, slowly calming down under Sora's embrace. She wiped the tears off her face and shot Sora a sad look before going to pick up Saki and take her to her room.
Whilst Hiratsuka took Saki to her room, Sora went ahead to sit down and regain his blood. Since his spiritual energy was working on healing his shoulder, Sora had to use his energy to regain his blood.
The pale look on Sora's face slowly faded as a healthy look complexion covered Sora's face. He sighed and stood up before heading to the kitchen for a snack.
"I'll do it, just rest," quietly spoke Hiratsuka after returning. She sent Sora to sit down and grabbed some snacks for Sora and opened them for him.
Sora sighed since he could still do that, but he accepted Hiratsuka's will nonetheless. He even decided to enjoy it.
A beauty like Hiratsuka was personally feeding him, how could he not like that. Comfortably sitting on the couch whilst Hiratsuka fed him, Sora felt like it was a fair deal to lose an arm for the care of a beauty.
'Maybe I should lose limbs more often,' thought Sora as he thought about his many other wives who could lovingly nurse him as he recovers. Though Sora quickly waved the idea away thinking that it was pretty stupid.
He could just ask them to care for him as if he was hurt, it wouldn't bring him shame at all. He would greatly appreciate it if his wives would feed him grapes and even massage him. Sora's done it for them countless times, who's to say that they can't do it for him?
NO ONE!