Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect
"Well, about beasts as mounts, we haven't caught one that we could contract to be our mounts. But when we do, we will be able to ride on them to go to other faraway regions or traverse large distances with them" Shang Fei suddenly said.
"Oh. I understand now. But when you guys reach a particular cultivation stage, would you continue using the contracted beast as mount, or you would discard it for a new one that is far stronger and faster than it?" Max asked.
"Yes. We would discard it for a better one that flies faster than it and possesses more flight stamina, endurance and durability" Shang Fei said.
Then before Max could say anything, Shang Fei unexpectedly asked "That blue-colored energy that I saw you emit from your eyes and I saw moving like actual liquid in your veins, what is that energy called?"
"Oh. That's Kronous energy. The energy gotten from the splitting of a single Kron particle. But don't try to ask me any question about it, Shang Fei."
"It's scientific, as the particles are extradimensional particles. Therefore, it's not something you would really be able to understand no matter how much I explain to you." Max said while Shang Fei nodded.
Not quite long, they left the valley and then walked towards the city.
A short while later, they appeared in a particular town in the city. And this town was one of the biggest towns among the hundreds of towns that comprised the city.
Max looked at the various buildings that lined the sides of the road of a particular street that they entered and then only shook his head.
'Well, not too primitive. At least, they got houses made from concrete. Still a good one though. But not as good as the one in my world where literally all the buildings are made entirely from heat and force-absorbing, highly durable foldable plastics and specially treated, chemical-resistant, organically-composed flexible glasses' He said inwardly.
As they walked along a side of the road that was also full of people moving up and down to indicate that it was a bustling area, these people saw the emblem of the Rainsword sect on their uniforms and then quickly respectfully gave way for them to pass. And as the disciples of the Rainsword sect passed by their sides, they humbly greeted which the disciples of the Rainsword sect only nodded their heads at.
Max saw all these and said inwardly 'It seems mortals in this world respect cultivators very much. See how these folks are looking at Xiao Bilan and the rest of the people in her group with fear and adoration in their eyes.'
However, he also felt their strange gazes on him which made him sigh.
'I will definitely be popular in this city before today runs out. Just see how these mundane folks are looking at me with oddity and strangeness occupying the entirety of their eyes.' He said within himself.
After the group walked for quite sometime in silence, they suddenly came across a group that was fully composed of students from the Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect. They were also taking that particular road to another place in the town
"Haha. Is this not Xiao Bilan, the female cultivator rumored to be the most beautiful young woman in the city?" A tall male who looked twenty-four and wore an immaculate white robe that fluttered in the wind, said with admiration and desire in his eyes when he appeared before Xiao Bilan.
Aiii!
Xiao Bilan heard this and sighed.
"Jiang Jun, it is just so unfortunate of me to meet you here. However, I don't have time to really waste on you. I have pills to collect to resume my cultivation. I want break through into the next cultivation realm. So, I don't have that liberty to exchange words with you" She said in a really unfriendly tone.
Haha!
The twenty-four year old male called Jiang Jun laughed and said to Xiao Bilan "Xiao Bilan, why are you being so stubborn? You will surely be become the lover of my super-strong and highly reputable elder Brother, Zhang Xiang, someday. Mark my words."
Haha!
Xiao Bilan laughed raucously.
"In your dreams, Jiang Jun. You and your annoying elder brother can go to hell" Xiao Bilan said coldly and then faced away from him to continue walking towards the location of her sect.
They have only walked for a bit when Jiang Jun took notice of Max who was really conspicuous because of his odd dressing.
He then furrowed his brows and asked "Mortal, what are you doing in this group of losers?"
"Come out of this group now and go find something meaningful to do with the short lifespan available to you." He said in a condescending tone, possibly trying to provoke the Rainsword sect members on the group that he was in.
Max looked at him with a gaze that would be read by anyone as 'Who the hell is this crackhead and why is he so foolish than usual crackheads?'
"Well, for your information. I am not a mortal. I am a super mortal. Haha!" Max said and grinned.
He then said further "In fact, I am a hybrid super mortal. And mind you, I don't have a short lifespan."
"Who knows, despite you being a cultivator and can really live long because of said cultivation, I could still outlive you by a thousand years or ten thousand years. Maybe a million, probably." Max said with a broad smile and with an air of confidence exuding from him.
Xiao Bilan who had begun walking away grinned inwardly when she heard what Max said.
She had become fascinated by what he mentioned to Jiang Jun.
'This guy! I hope he knows what he is getting himself into' She said within herself.
She then stopped walking and waited to see what would evolve out of this situation that Max had unexpectedly thrown himself into.
"You dare to talk to a senior disciple of the Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect in such a fearless and nonchalant manner?" Another who was in the group that Jiang Jun was in, asked with a thunderous fury in his voice.
Max heard what this person asked him and said in a funny way, actually imitating the way that the person spoke "You dare to talk to a senior yadayada disciple of the Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect in such a yadayada fearless and nonchalant manner?"
"Yeah! I dared to, moron. And what the hell are you literally going to do about it? You want me to talk to him with my eyes looking straight at the ground like he's some godly emperor or fiendish devil monarch?"
"Haha. In your dreams, ugly boy"
Jiang Jun's gaze and that of the rest of the people in his group turned cold upon hearing what Max said out loud and so fearlessly.
How dare this puny mortal talk to their senior, Jiang Jun, in this manner?
Then one came out of the group and said "Senior Jiang Jun, give me the chance to deal with this mortal for you who simply doesn't know how high the heavens are."
Jiang Jun nodded his head giving him his approval.
"Whaaat?! What the heck are you spitting, bro? Of course I know how high the heavens are. It's you who doesn't know that. Haha!" Max suddenly said and grinned.
The person who requested from Jiang Jun to beat Max up was called Zhang Wun. And when he came out, he looked at the disciples of the Rainsword sect and said "This doesn't concern you guys. If you dare get in my way, I and the others will make sure to punish you too. So, stay out of it, or become terribly shamed in public"
Shang Fei and the others in his group wanted to say something in defiance but were suddenly stopped by Xiao Bilan who told them to keep quiet since she wanted to see for herself how strong Shang Fei claimed Max to be, since he had compared his strength and speed to that of their powerful senior, Huo Chen.
Max looked at the Rainsword sect disciples and said "Guys, no need to really do anything. Just see how I will slap this guy to oblivion and back. Haha!"
Zhang Wun heard what Max said and then spoke with towering wrath in his voice "Mortal, come to me and eat the sands of my shoes."
Max only gave a fierce smile
"An arrogant one, eh?" He asked.
Then all of a sudden, Max dashed towards Zhang Wun at an extreme speed that caused everyone looking at him to be incredibly shocked by his movement speed as a mortal.
Swoosh!
Max appeared before Zhang Wun in that same second that he took off from where he was and launched a loud, resounding slap in the face of Zhang Wun.
PAH!
It was simply like an explosion took place.
Then due to the heavy force that Max's hand impacted his face with, Zhang Wun was shoved into the distance for about seventeen feet.
And when he crashed to the earth, his body still dragged across it to a distance of ten feet before coming to a halt.
So from a single thundering slap, Zhang Wun had been shoved to a distance of twenty-seven feet.
Max then said where he stood "A cultivator? And you couldn't withstand a single slight slap from me."
"What if I had put in more force, your head would have exploded into mist of blood like when a gigantic brute stomped madly on it. Haha!" He said further and then grinned.
Everyone that were looking at Max became deeply astonished as their minds were sent reeling extremely fast in awe.
Such speed!
Such powerful slap!
Jiang Jun looked at the rest of the people in his group and said indifferently "Kill that bastard for me with that formation"
However, there was great shock in his eyes which was fully concealed by the indifferent expression in his eyes.
They nodded their heads with concealed fear in their hearts and then came out to surround Max on all sides.
Max saw them surround him and looked on to see what they wanted to do next.
"Thunderous Fiend Punishment Formation!" The disciples from the Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect shouted out in unison.
Then performing mysterious gestures at the same time, large amounts of Thunder Qi erupted from the bodies of the people that surrounded Max and then condensed into a pentagram that started to float many meters above Max's head.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Seemingly endless terrifying thunderclaps actually began to ring out seemingly from the large pentagram that had formed many meters above Max's head.
"Nice magic, folks" Max said with a smile.
"Thunderous Deity Subduing Strike!" The disciples of the Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect screamed out again in unison.
Then as soon as they said this, an unseen, powerful limiting force suddenly came upon Max, giving him the feeling that he was 'locked up' in space.
Then in the next instant, a large bolt of red-colored lightning that was shaped like a dragon suddenly descended from the pentagram-shaped formation towards Max.
Xiao Bilan was about to make a move at them to stop them once she saw the kind of attack that they were about to unleash at Max.
However, she was a tad bit too slow as the formation which had quickly taken form abruptly unleashed that dragon-shaped, red-colored bolt of lightning that was as large as seven humans put together.
This large attack descended from the pentagram at an insane speed and heavily struck Max with an absolute killing power.
They literally wanted to annihilate Max for being unruly to their senior, Jiang Jun. But mostly because they were totally dreadful of his power and didn't want him to come at them in the future to shame them and possibly ruin them.
BANG!!!
The red-colored lightning bolt that was in the shape of a dragon struck Max's body hard and actually caused the shirt of his outfit to quickly burn away to ashes. While serious burns appeared rapidly all over his exposed upper body.
However, the great damage done to his skin by the lightning bolt strike healed in the next moment, causing the people that were looking at him to be heavily surprised.
'This mortal actually withstood that killing lightning attack?'
'Also, did his body just rapidly heal from the severe burns that were inflicted upon him by that terrifying lightning strike?'
'Who is this non-cultivator and where is he from?'
'He's so powerful and fearsome'
These flashed in the minds of the people looking at Max.
At the moment, Xiao Bilan's eyes were fully widened in shock and full astonishment from what she just witnessed.
She knew that she would never be able to withstand that kind of lightning strike at the cultivation stage that she was at, and will never regenerate from those numerous grievous burns at such a shocking tremendous rate.
'How did he do it?' She asked inwardly with her mind still reeling in awe.
***
Since Max was still locked up in that space and there was no way he could break out of the constricting force that had enwrapped his body with purely his vampiric strength, he decided to enter his Kron Form to borrow more strength.
Instantly, blue-colored energy began to emit from his eyes like it was an actual blue smoke. Then hundreds of veins bulged out from his entire upper body in which a glowing, blue-colored liquid-like substance could be seen moving in them.
Immediately Max entered his overpowering Kron Form, then with a raging shout, he effortlessly broke away from the powerful restrictive force that fully acted on his entire body and leaped straight towards the massive pentagram-shaped formation that produced that unseen subduing force to smash it apart to bits.
Reaching a height of thirty meters where the pentagram floated in, he sent his fist which glowed in a soft blue radiance at it.
BANG!!!
The massive pentagram-shaped formation shattered apart from a single punch into thousands of smithereens.
Then when Max landed to the ground, he dashed towards the members of the Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect and fully and deeply slashed them across the chest with his retractable, razor-sharp lustrous claws.
He then stopped running after doing this and reverted to his normal human form.
But he discovered to his amazement in the next instant that even by fully and deeply slashing them across the chests, they were only inflicted with serious injuries. It couldn't kill them.
'Ugh! I guess it's by cutting off their useless heads or pulling out their damned hearts and crushing them to bits that I really kill enemy cultivators.'
He was about to go at them again to kill them this time when Shang Fei's voice suddenly rang out "Max, leave them alone. They are people from a sect that you wouldn't want to mess with. Trust me. Please, let's go. You will certainly have your chance another time."
Max looked at Shang Fei and back at the disciples of the Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect with a chilling cold and fierce gaze in his eyes and then nodded his head.
However, he won't leave them to go just like that.
Since they had dared to unleash a killing strike at him, they should be prepared to have themselves killed since they couldn't kill him.
He understood something from his world when he and his colleagues went to war against fully armed cyborg-terrorists and bio-enhanced insurgents, which was 'Kill or be Killed,' 'Crush or be Crushed'.
He knew that one can't forgive or pardon one's enemies, or those enemies will surely come back to terminate one's life.
So, with a simple thought from him, the neurally-linked teleporter in the pocket of his trousers blinked and then a new shirt surprisingly appeared on his naked upper body to cover it up.
Also, AI-controlled, nano-sized tracking bugs appeared in the dozens and flew towards the unaware disciples of the Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect and attached to their clothes.
They were literally impossible to spot due to their really small sizes.
Then they began to blink, continuously reporting the immediate location of the Heavenly Termination Thunderous sect disciples to Max.
Max smiled inwardly and then went to meet Shang Fei and the others who were looking at him with great awe and full reverence in their eyes.