Zeron right now was thinking of how to stay alive and escape from the cultivator.
You might think that Zeron is a coward for not being able to face the cultivator and do battle as he proclaimed before that he would.
That was before Zero knew the terror of a cultivator.
For someone to be within nine feet of him and he did not realize. This means it is effortless for the man to have killed him.
And for anybody to do that means that they surpass him in strength by a large league.
It was just like him being within nine feet of a beginner in martial arts and the person will not realize.
To him, being alive now without getting killed In a second is luck. And he is not ready to continue hoping that Lady Luck keeps showering her blessings to him.
He has to do something.
Swoosh!
With an instant transmission. Zeron is a hundred feet away.
This particular instant transmission has broken the martial art record for the fastest instant transmission.
This was something that even peak-class martial artists can not do. 'Travel at 60m/s but...
Three hundred feet away. Zeron stopped and looked seriously at the man in front of him. Then said with a somewhat dumbfounded voice "I didn't see you move".
The man with his hands behind his back dressed in black with a good-looking face said. "You young lad is a rare genius, Your spirit root quality will sure be above mine"
"Pushing the mortal arts to a limit that comes close to a first stage, skin tempering stage of the Body Tempering Rank"
"Impressive!, Super impressive!".
As the middle-aged man finished saying that. He gazed at Zeron with intensity and
Bang!. Zeron felt a titanic pressure on himself.
This time he wasn't made unconscious but he could not move at all. Like the body was not his anymore
like he was a marionette that had no will over his body.
"Kid, stay right here and wait for me"
"When I am done killing that fool, I will come and settle your debt of killing my Vice-Leaders and grandmasters"
Because you have a spirit root, I will not kill you, but you are surely going to finish paying off your debt before I let you go".
The man turned around. Leaving the immobilized Zeron standing.
"Hahaha, I never thought I could get a superior quality spirit root kid when I came to kill that man".
"If I turned him over to that sect, Maybe I can have some gold coins which I can use to buy spiritual items to advance my cultivation".
"Hmph! When I step into the Qi Accumulation Class".
"I will kill that bastard that made me hide away like a rat".
(But can I step into the Qi Accumulation Class in this lifetime?)
"Yes! I can".
"I know what a superior quality spirit root means to those sects".
"Only a superior quality spirit root and above can cultivate to become a powerhouse. Other low-level spirit root can only make you powerful".
"Hmmm Geezer, I will like to see how you survive this". Sakuku!!".
The man's face then turned fiendish as he mouthed out Sakuku's name. It was as if Sakuku was his most hated thing in the world
As if Sakuku did something so wicked to him and he is here for revenge.
The man walked forward to the other ends of the village, towards an open field.
There he saw him 'Sakuku Satin' standing with his hands behind his back and looking in his direction.
And kneeling before Sakuku was the six feet tall bulky man who calls himself the barbarian. 'Kailan Dai'. Master of the soul taking fist but now.... He does not have his former deterring look.
Now he is shivering in fear as he kneels with his face down in front of the friendly-looking fifty-year-old merchant-looking man with a young face.
Sakuku said to the good-looking middle-aged man. "Do I know you, sir?".
The man looked at Sakuku and said "You thief might not know me but I am here to kill you".
Swoosh~
With a speed that borderline teleportation in the eyes of a mortal.
The man appeared in front of Sakuku with his palm sticking out of his body.
Or was it?
No!
It wasn't Sakuku but his afterimage.
Sakuku appeared a hundred feet away. He then said "Sir, I have no grudge against you" "why must you attack me?".
The man just smirks mockingly.
When Sakuku saw it, his face turned cold.
He then said. "if that's it, sir, then you leave me no choice". "Die!!!"
With a ferocious expression on his baby face and smooth skin. Sakuku attacked.
And with a speed faster than the man.
Boom!. Two fists clashed and there was a Sonic boom in the air with four rings
"Fourth stage Body Tempering". They both cried.
Sakuku was mildly surprised, but the man was so enraged that he screamed out
"Argh!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!....
Exchange of blows that happened at a very fast speed that mortal eyes could not keep up. Even God Class Martial artists could be destroyed by one of those punches.
Boom!!!.
In the middle of the field where both fighters clashed with a punch and a kick, cracked inwardly four feet in a circular motion of twelve feet.
Kailan Dai who was released from his immobilization was outside the fight zone and was shivering with fear.
"How bold of me to want to kill Sakuku". "This power is above martial arts, So this is the fabled power of Cultivators."
Sakuku and the man were teleporting in and out.
Destroying the fields every time they clashed.
In a circular motion, the ground either cracked or caved in.
There were potholes all over the field.
They both separated.
Sakuku looked towards the good-looking man and said
"I remember your aura now, You were there in that battle between the Awakened Beasts". "I am sure of it".
The man then smiled evilly and said "Yes thief". "I am the rightful owner of what you stole, I see I can not take it back, so I am going to kill you".
Sakuku was silent which was as if he was in silent acknowledgement that he was a thief.
"This world is survival of the fittest, so whoever has the biggest fist wins".
"There is no justice or injustice".
"Good means or unscrupulous way". Any way that will make me succeed, I will follow that way".
"Yes! I admit I stole it from you but without it. How can I be who I am now!". Sakuku's aura flared in a domineering way
The man was angered to death! He grits his teeth and says "Thief", I Ezra promise to give you a painful death". His aura also soars as they both
Swoosh!, Swoosh! Bang!!!
They resumed their battle, but this time with more intensity