After the squad, the 3 dead soldiers were buried and the 2 injured got a little better they started moving towards where Ryu was and this time as the tracker man has already tracked further, they quickly get closer to where Ryu was.
Ryu finished wolfing down the meat and wanted to start getting moving again when Arnt's voice sounded in his mind.
"Ryu, a squad of soldiers is moving towards you and they are approaching fast, and It looks like they are coming straight as if they are targeting you"Arnt quickly warned Ryu about the soldiers.
Ryu pondered why a squad can be after him and quickly realize that they must be from the imperial palace of the sky firebird kingdom, they must have been sent by the emperor because they have found out the assassins have been killed by him.
But they are quite fast, how did they know it was me that killed them? Ryu thought and said to Arnt.
"What is their cultivation stage maybe I can wait for them to train my skills as fighting experience as they would make quite a training target for me, "Ryu said and he was right as the target would want to kill him or want to cripple him for real, so he would have a genuine life and death experience.
Ryu understand that for him to grow, he would need tempering, so he was ready for what was to come.
Ryu was quite excited when he thought about how he was about to fight strong and multiple enemies together.
After about 5 minutes of waiting, Ryu saw a squad of 15 men coming, they were 16 before plus the captain and the tracker man which makes them 18 but now they have diminished because they were ambushed by the black-striped leopard so Ryu only saw a squad of 14 now.
When they moved closer, they saw Ryu and Ryu stand up from his wooden seat and said.
"You guys take your time making your grandpa Ryu wait for you, so what should I do to you for making me wait "Ryu said chillingly and calmly.
The squad was angry at Ryu's sentence, it was only the tracker man that wasn't angry but rather scared when he saw Ryu still waiting for them even though he knows they were coming.
"So you knew we were coming and you still can stay here waiting for us, you are bold, or are you just trying to bluff us to scare us away, we won't be scared away just by your bluff anyway, so will you follow us willingly or we force you, "the captain said calmly but though he said it calmly if one is perceptive enough they would hear that the captain voice is also a little scared and a little bit hesitation.
"Oh so you were sent to come and catch me, I really pity you, your emperor only sends you to catch me, just a squad of 14, ahh I pity you and if you think it's a bluff, it's up to you, "Ryu said calmly.
The squad started hesitating when they heard Ryu's voice but the captain was only getting excited when he heard Ryu's last sentence, he thinks "this boy is bluffing, only people bluffing say those words' he looked around and sees that his men were getting to hesitate he shouted "don't be tricked by this boy he is only one person when are 17 so we.... ohhhh..14 but so what we are still more than enough to take him, so men attack!" though the captain pep talk Is ruined with his blunder it still works as the soldiers also think that what the captain said is true and they immediately forget their hesitation and attack.
' I have already intentionally warned you but, you all still dare to attack me, I won't be merciful at all' Ryu thought and he rushed to the soldiers to meet them.
Ryu blood boils as he ran toward the soldiers, it was unknown if it was excitement or because of his bloodline as his bloodline is made for war by the name implies 'the war god bloodline '
When Ryu meet one of the soldiers and lunged towards him while clawing at the man's throat and ripping it off, he one-shot the man as most of the soldiers are only between the mid to late stage Earth realm, there is only 3 spirit stage realm among them and they are 3rd stage to 5th stage spirit realm.
After Ryu one shot the man killing him, the tip of a sword was fast approaching him from another soldier which Ryu dodged and swipe his leg toward the man leg making the man kneel and he punched the man's head with his fire fist without using his illusionary fist art when Ryu's hand wants to pierce the man head like the first one he was attacked by one of the spirit realm experts in the 4th stage of the spirit realm and he bounced back saving the man.
"You are quite vicious for a young man, no wonder the emperor wants you killed, "the man said.
"What happened with that?, when have I ever killed any person that makes the emperor kill all my family and hunt me and my mother for 2 years, did I antagonize the emperor or threaten him?, but just because of my talent and the phenomenon on the day I was born, he destroyed by family, killed my father, and hunt me and my mother! for that even if I wasn't planning to do all that before I will now he had to antagonize me and I will make sure to destroy his family too and kill him cruelly "Ryu said each word louder and louder than the last, his every word sent chills down the spine of everyone here, even the spirit stages expert are no exception.
"Quickly let round him up and capture him before he goes berserk," the captain said urgently, he was still thinking about the reward he will get after capturing Ryu and handing him to the emperor in this situation, you can see that greed has totally clouded this usually cautious man eyes, he was still looking Ryu with such fervor like a piece of treasure.
The remaining 13 soldiers quickly surround Ryu and as Ryu too is blinded by rage he activates his physique.
"Booooooom" he unleashed his indestructible Primal physique and nine colored light unleashed from Ryu's body as he rushed towards the man that obstructed him earlier
He shouted "primal body skills, primal lightning physique" he unleashed his innate primal body skills and throw lightning at the man while running furiously toward the man.
After awakening his primal physique he also awakened innate abilities with it, they are;
The ALL ENCOMPASSING SEEING EYES
The LODESTONE PRIMAL ELEMENTAL SKILL
The PRIMAL BODY SKILL, which is divided into 9 elemental skills, are;
The Earth Primal Body
The Water Primal Body
The Fire Primal Body
The Golden Primal Body
The Wind Primal Body
The Light Primal Body
The Darkness Primal Body
The Blood Primal Body
The Lightning Primal Body
...
So after ryu activated the lightning primal body and threw the lightning towards the man, he disappeared from the encirclement of the group and he started appearing around them throwing lightning all around the group, scorching the group as wailing sound started ringing out, even the spirit realm powerhouse wasn't spared as they too were scorched by lightning from Ryu.
Even though Ryu was only at the 5th stage of the Earth realm, after cultivating the indestructible Primal Body Techniques he can now match an expert full realm higher than him, and as Ryu only unleashed his Primal lightning body, his qi, body strength, and soul strength weren't sapped compared to when he activated all when he was with the assassins as that time he hasn't be able to control the physique perfectly but now that he had cultivated the Technique, he can control it and it's even more powerful now.
But even though the soldiers were scorched non of them died and the spirit realm powerhouse is even more alright as it was only a minor injury they got from Ryu's attack.
The injured soldiers carried their bodies into position and formed a formation, they understand that today either they died or Ryu died so they put all their effort now, before they underestimate Ryu and also Ryu caught them off guard but now they don't dare look down on Ryu anymore, they use their full strength and the spirit stages expert too flanked Ryu at three sides and started attacking Ryu with the other soldiers.
Ryu activated his Earth Primal Body to receive the attack and also activated his wind primal physique while combining it with the wind chasing Foot Technique and started running around the soldiers in the formation throwing fire punches after fire punches to them after also activating his fire primal body, Ryu qi was being sapped at an alarming rate but he didn't care as he just wants to kill these soldiers and leave this place.
In no time the formation of the soldiers collapsed and all of them were injured badly by Ryu one of all the soldiers died leaving the three spirit realm expert.
"Whooshes" Ryu continues to flash among the three remaining people undetected by them while attacking them with fire qi when suddenly he stopped and use his illusionary fist art, he stopped because he can't use the art while moving because he have to gather strength to use the art.
"He is gathering strength to unleash a powerful Technique, quickly stop him or we will all die here, "the captain of the now-dead squad said while rushing toward Ryu who was gathering strength for the art.
"Booooom" Ryu punched out after he finished gathering strength before the captain reaches Ryu, an immensely large fire fist manifested and flashed towards the now terrified captain who viewed Ryu's prey before, the greed that clouded his eyes recede after seeing all his crew died, the Large fire fist reaches the captain and he shouted "nooooo" as he vaporized from the extreme fire and heat from the fist, the fist didn't stops but moved toward the remaining two that was escaping and they also vaporized like the captain but not after their cries containing hatred, regret, unwillingness and all kind of emotions before dyeing.
After Ryu delivered the fist and saw the 3 dead he also slumped on the ground exhausted but he didn't pass out like last time, he was just too exhausted, when Ryu was resting and recuperating on the ground he heard Arnt's voice.
"Ryu, armies are coming toward you, I think they are the remaining crews of the ones you just killed they may have been attracted here by the commotion, so quickly stand up and run as they are much more than the last ones, they are more than 200 of them and there are almost 20 spirit realm powerhouse among them, so you should quickly leave this place"
Ryu was quite surprised he didn't expect the emperor to send his full army toward him.
He quickly does as Arnt said and he hurriedly drags his exhausted body and leaves the scene.
Even before that he was at his full strength he wouldn't dare to take them on but now with his exhausted qi, he can even be killed by any random spirit realm expert.
So he scurried away, if he stayed that won't be braveness anymore but it will only be foolishness.
After Ryu get away minutes later the army arrived at the place where the fight happened, they checked for clues and after being sure Ryu was here by their tracker man, the general said
"Quickly follow him he shouldn't have gotten far as this scene is still fresh, the fight should have just finished minutes ago"
The tracker man quickly got to work fishing out Ryu's trails but as Ryu has learned from his lessons, he erased all his trails to escape.
After the general learned about it he was furious and shouted "goddamnit, now the emperor will be furious, no we have to keep finding, spread out again and if you find anything tell me and don't be like this fools, now spread out quickly and find him for me he mustn't escape"the general said and the army split again searching for Ryu.