Boom!
They both clashed. Sakuku and Ezra. But this time their clash was not the 'testing the water fight' they have been doing.
This time both Cultivators went all out.
There was no more probing each other depths. Now each of them went for the kill.
"Argh!". Ezra punched Sakuku with a straight punch that affected the atmospheric air and created Sonic booms.
The punch was latched with enough might to break anything that was eight inches thick. 'Steel, concrete, or wood'
Sakuku responded by dodging the attack with his lithe body and responding with a left hook to Ezra's chin.
The punch connected, but Ezra's left-hand finger attacked, which he hid behind his back connected to Sakuku's torso, where his lungs are located.
Ezra flew out a hundred feet with an injury in his face but Sakuku just stood there with sweat all over his body. He was shaking and having difficulty breathing.
Ezra got up from his fall. He then walked up to Sakuku while laughing and said.
"Ignorant thief, though that median of the peak awakened beast can help you become a cultivator and improve your cultivation to the fourth stage of body tempering rank -The Blood Refining Stage." "But you, a rookie who has never fought a cultivator will never know how cultivators fight".
"Hahaha, Now you can go and die. After suffering my 'Illusive Finger Jab'.
"Hahaha". "Ugh?"
The moment that Ezra was within eighteen feet of him. Sakuku attacked with a speed that felt like a mirage.
The air undulated as if it were water. "Cut Stream"
In Sakuku's right hand was a short sword one foot long which he pointed forward and used to Pierce Ezra's heart.
After piercing Ezra. Sakuku teleported back for fear of Ezra counter-attacking in a suicidal way since he was sure he was going to die.
"How-w.. Is it possi-b-ble?". Ezra said as blood ran out of his mouth like a waterfall.
He looked down towards his pierced torso in the place where his heart was supposed to be.
And in there was a gaping hole left by a sword.
Because Ezra was a fourth-stage body-tempering rank cultivator. He has refined some of his blood and without a heart, he could still stay alive for a few seconds.
"You have a treasured weapon!". Ezra said as he struggled to keep himself from falling.
"How can you have a treasured weapon".
"Only Qi Accumulation rank Cultivators use first-tier treasured weapons".
"How can you have it!".
"Fate is playing me."
"First, the nidian I could have used to breakthrough to the aperture stage of the body tempering rank was stolen by a thief when I was critically injured when getting it."
"Now I am killed by the rare occurrence of a body tempering rank possessing a treasured weapon."
"Argh!!". He screamed as blood gushed out of his chest like a volcano that just erupted. He then fell straight back.
Dead. A Cultivator has just been killed.
Sakuku looks towards the dead body on the floor and heaves a sigh.
(I'm lucky, that after the mission that the Sword River association assigned to me, I was awarded two treasured weapons, a soft innerwear and a short sword, with a skill book of inferior rank).
(I was skeptical when the elder told me it could block a hundred percent force of a fifth-stage body tempering rank cultivator).
(And it was thanks to this treasured sword I could kill him).
(The last time that he was critically injured, I cut him with my mortal sword to kill him but my sword could not Pierce his skin).
(If not for that, I would have killed him then and not allowed for any foreseeable threat in the future).
"Sigh". (Now he is dead. I can now rest easy and not hang my heart in my throat).
Sakuku looked up to the sky and said. "It was well worth it, the risk I took for Sword River Association". He then frowned as he thought. "That one is also a problem".
He turned around as he walked away from the field. Kailan Dai has already escaped to a Faraway location.
...
Zeron who was on the other side of the village felt the constraint that was holding him released.
He breathes in slowly to calm his heavy breathing.
He looked around and the sounds of weapons clashing that he could hear before were no more.
He speeds away to the center of the village where the village chief house is located.
On his way to the village chief home he saw 'Sali'. Who were the village chief's third son and Sake's elder brother?
He was also in the room when they strategized on how to handle the attack.
Sali with a thin build and good-looking facial features saw Zeron, then walked over to him and said.
"The white Nightmares told me what you did. Saving them". I thank you, sir". With both hands cupped, Sali gazed at Zeron with a serious look.
"It's no big deal, how is the battle?". Zeron asked.
With an excited expression. Sali replied "We won the fights and all the attackers were killed"
"Only Kailan Dai escaped".
"Eve-n eve-n a cultivator was killed."
"My father killed a cultivator!" with a trembling voice, Sali voiced aloud
Zeron was shocked.
That black-clothed good-looking man was killed!
And Sakuku is that strong to kill a cultivator!
He looked up to the sky as he saw a bird soar from the roof of a house.
He said inwardly. (I want to be a cultivator and the strongest there is.)
(That is what I will chase in this lifetime).
He was tired of being immobilized with a look.
The feeling of his life and death in someone else hands disgusts him.
This firmed his heart on becoming a cultivator so he could control his fate.
(In this lifetime. I Zeron plum will rule over all cultivators!!!)