Joey knocked the five of them with a punch each, including the two ladies. He doesn't care for the fairer sex as they have ganked upon him without any reason. Then he looked toward the green-haired Gao Ling. He thought that this guy must be their leader. Then he moved toward him slowly.
" Who are you brat? Why are you here?" Gao Ling asked him. He has full confidence to kill Joey as his cultivation base was already in the beginning stage of the Hentian realm. But, he didn't want to kill some old hermit's disciple cultivating here, so he tried to reason with him.
Joey stayed silent. Instead, he walked toward him slowly.
As Joey ignored his questions, he became angry, punched him, and said," Ignoring my questions, then just die brat."
Joey too punched at his fist at the same time. Their fists collide.
' Bang'
Then, both of them move backward.
" Good, you can counter my punch. Then, eat my 'Lion's paw'. "
Gao Ling punched at him using his essence qi, the qi turned into an image of a lion's paw and quickly approached him.
Joey felt a strong pressure from the incoming image of the lion's paw. He quickly dodged it using his movement skill.
" Let's see if you can dodge this too." Gao Ling punched at him multiple times.
But Joey dodged all of them again and appeared beside Gao Ling. He hit his fist on his back first. Then he started beating and kicking him all over his body.
" Jerk! Don't your parents teach you not to start fighting someone you just met? Also, you even have the intention to kill me without any reason. "
Gao Ling rolled on the floor with pain. He cried out loudly but Joey kept beating him up.
Suddenly Joey senses something coming from his back. He quickly dodged it.
'Bang'
A small fireball exploded in the air just at the place where his head was, lucky that he moved quickly.
An old man with a goatee beard just appeared beside Gao Ling. He checked on his body first then brought out a rounded pill and put it inside Gao Ling's mouth.
"Boy, you dare to nearly kill the prince of the Fire Nation. For your crime, you deserve to die. " the old man declared and started circulating essence qi in his hand, then a ball of fire was made in his hand. The green-haired Gao Ling stands up after sometimes feeling better.
"Wait! Senior let me explain. If I wanted them to die then I would have killed them already. I am just trying to teach them to not provoke someone they just met. " Joey explained.
"Die! First palm print of flame god." A fiery red palm made up of a concentrated fire appeared and flew toward Joey.
"Damn old fart! Same as those kids, trying to kill someone they just met. Very unreasonable. " Joey shouted while using 10% of his movement skill, he dodged the incoming palm print strike easily but it kept chasing him. Its speed also keeps increasing with time.
"Brat! Escape as fast as you can. Why do you even provoke a late-stage semi-nascent realm expert?" A telepathic voice warned in his mind.
" What! That old fart is a semi-nascent realm expert. I even made up my mind to fight all out with him. I am a fool." Joey exclaimed and immediately decided to escape.
'Bang'
While he was dodging the palm imprint, another one approached him quickly and hit his chest. The impact was so strong that he felt a burning pain in his chest. He stumbled down the ground while rolling backward. Then, he stands up slowly while touching his chest with his right hand. He vomits a mouthful of blood twice.
" Hahaha, old fart! I will remember you. Next time we meet again, I have pledged to take your life. " Joey declared angrily. He then quickly turned back and started running toward the inner zone of the forest.
" Muhaha, you think you can escape from this old man. Dream on brat. Prince Gao Ling, you returned back with them to our camps." Then he started chasing Joey.
The old man catches up quickly behind Joey.
"A wounded mouse trying to run out of a cat. Let me see just how far you can run away from this old man." The old man quickens up his speed.
Joey quickly used his 50% movement speed. A gap was made between them soon.
" You still can run faster. Then let's see how much you can speed up " Then the old man too increased his speed, and came closer and closer. He was about 10 meters away from Joey.
Joey released all the restraint of 800 kg weight and used his full speed to outrun him this time.
" What the hell! This kid, who is really this kid? That is almost equal to my fastest running speed. Just a blood purification level brat, I should really get my hands on this brat." He murmured and started chasing at his fastest speed.
After that, they ran for about ten miles. Suddenly,
'Roar' ' Ro-ar'
A booming roaring sound stunned Joey for a while. After that, a level three white tiger walks out before them. It ignores Joey and looks fiercely at the goatee old man. It comes out after sensing the aura of the old man
" Brat, you are lucky to run into the domain of a level three beast. Oh! Don't think that you will be fine. Even if I don't kill you now. You will still enter its stomach after a while. Hahaha." the old goatee man returned back while laughing loudly.
After the old man left, the white tiger looked fiercely at Joey. It doesn't attack Joey. It just observes him for a while, then it returns back to its cave.
" This white tiger seems to have developed its intelligence. Even though you saved me today unintentionally. I will never forget your help today." Joey murmured to himself.
" Hey, brat! Stop daydreaming. It doesn't attack you because it feels your majestic dragon's aura from you. Instead, Check your health quickly." Ai said telepathically to him.
After Ai reminded him of his wound, intense pain ran through his body. A visible palm imprint was left on his chest.
"Thank goodness. If not for my dragon bone armor, that palm strike might cause heavy damage to my body. " Joey said to himself.