Themur flew towards Lu Zheng and sent his Sea of Consciousness into the latter's body.
He was sensing the state of Lu Zheng's body.
Lu Zheng's soul fluctuations were weak and if Themur wasn't in the Sky realm, he wouldn't even perceive them at all.
The situation did not look good.
Hong Haoyu who was fighting mid-air also noticed the situation and wanted to help but the two men before him would not give him the chance.
His attacks became fiercer as he attempted to end the lives of the two men swiftly.
The fight between Nakao and Alaka'i was a one-way pummelling with Nakao at the receiving end.
Nakao was at the first tier of Void Passage realm and cultivated water path whilst Alaka'i was at the second tier and cultivated fire path.
Whenever water and fire met, only the stronger one would survive.
Nakao was at a huge disadvantage.
"Putchi"
A burst of ice Qi spread and the chest of one of the men Hong Haoyu fought was pierced by numerous icicles.
The light in his eyes dimmed and he died immediately.
"One down" Hong Haoyu's gaze was cold as he stared at the other man.
A cold light flashed in his azure pupils and a breath later, cold ice Qi surrounded him as his body temperature dropped.
Within moments, the man's body was covered in a thin layer of ice and his body turned a pale blue.
"When…?" The man's tone was unwilling as his lifeless body crashed to the ground.
His body had been infiltrated by strong ice Qi from Hong Haoyu.
"Hmph!" Hong Haoyu waved his sleeves and flew towards Lu Zheng. "He's still alive"
He placed his palm on Lu Zheng's head and thick ice covered the latter. However, this ice did not affect Lu Zheng at all.
Hong Haoyu was preserving Lu Zheng.
Alaka'i let out a breath of relief when he saw how things turned out and said to Nakao: "Young master Nakao, you have no more reason to be here and I do not want to kill you. Please leave"
Nakao looked down and saw that all of his subordinates were dead and Themur had already begun eating their corpses.
When he released his Sea of Consciousness, he couldn't even sense a wisp of their soul fluctuations.
– They were dead beyond a doubt.
"Arrgh!" Nakao let out a soul wrenching scream and stared fiercely at Alaka'i who only gazed at him calmly.
Nakao knew he had lost.
"This is not the end!" Nakao shouted and tore open a spatial passage before flying into it immediately.
Alaka'i sighed softly and destroyed the spatial passage immediately.
He was only a disciple in Blazing Flame Palace and couldn't act on his own to kill Nakao, the son of Alleyne Bellx, a Head Chief of Water Raising Palace.
It would only end in the loss of his life.
Alaka'i descended and took a glance at Lu Zheng to confirm if he was still alive.
A moment later, he said to Hong Haoyu: "Nakao has gone but we are still on Blazing Flame Palace's territory, we must leave at once"
Hong Haoyu gave a nod of understanding and used his soul consciousness to lift the ice block Lu Zheng laid in.
Alaka'i opened a spatial passage leading to the shoreline which the four of them entered.
…..
~Hmm? What is this ice? It must be Hong Haoyu's. Hehe, what was I thinking? Provoking a Sky realm expert with such a weak body… hehehe. Luckily, i have the Vermillion Bird Race's bloodline's regenerative abilities or I'd have truly died. Such recklessness…~
Multiple drops of Vermillion Blood went around Lu Zheng's body and healed his internal injuries.
Many of his organs and tissues were paste after being crushed by the Sky realm expert's technique.
Normal humans would have died on the spot.
The blazing crimson Vermillion True Flame combusted all over Lu Zheng, melting the thick ice on him instantly.
"Hmm? You're back" Hong Haoyu muttered when he saw that Lu Zheng had unsealed himself.
"Hmm. I was a bit reckless there" Lu Zheng admitted.
"Lu Zheng…" Themur was glad to see him alive.
"I'll be leaving now" Alaka'i said after reaching the shoreline with Lu Zheng and the rest. He was sure that Water Raising Palace would not dare to directly attack the shoreline.
Yin Yang Province had directly made it impossible for any of the two forces in Hawaii to infringe upon the shoreline.
That was why Nakao had created the Sea Fish Cult secretly.
Alaka'i flew into a spatial passage and returned to Blazing Flame Palace meanwhile Hong Haoyu boarded a ship headed for Asia.
Only Lu Zheng and Themur were left on the vast sandy shoreline.
"Guess it's only the both of us now" Lu Zheng smiled.
"Where to now?" Themur asked.
"For now, the North American Union will suffice" Lu Zheng said as he sat upon Themur who flew into the distant sky above the ocean.
…..
Lu Zheng sat on Themur who glided through the sky above the ocean as they headed for North America.
Many days had passed which Lu Zheng had spent cultivating and refining drops of Vermillion Blood.
When Lu Zheng had left China, he had refined a little over a hundred and twenty drops of Vermillion Blood.
Later in Hawaii, he used the heat from the ten thousand year old Earth Flame to condense even more drops during the course of one full month.
The number of drops of Vermillion Blood in his blood vessels had jumped from a hundred and twenty to almost two hundred and fifty.
However, during many fights and cultivation, he also expended Vermillion Blood.
Now, Lu Zheng had a little above two hundred drops of Vermillion Blood flowing in his blood vessels.
Two hundred drops of Vermillion Blood couldn't even fill a small bottle but to Lu Zheng, the two hundred drops of Vermillion Blood was equivalent to immense battle strength.
Lu Zheng also used the beast cores Olina gave him to enhance his cultivation.
From Olina, Lu Zheng had received seven beast cores, three from rank six beasts and four from rank five beasts.
Amongst them, only two beast cores were from fire path beasts. They were also from rank five beasts.
The three rank six beast cores contained wind Qi and two of the rank five beast cores contained water Qi.
Despite their immense value, they were extremely useless to Lu Zheng.
But Lu Zheng didn't hold a grudge against Olina, her behaviour was completely natural.
The beast cores came from rank five and rank six beasts. A lot of manpower was required to slay even one rank five beast.
Moreover, the beast cores from fire path beasts were important to Blazing Flame Palace, a force that mainly cultivated fire path.
Lu Zheng was even surprised to receive so many beast cores.
"I'll keep the remaining beast cores for future matters. As for the two fire path beast cores, I should use them to breakthrough to the Sky realm" Lu Zheng decided.
From knowledge from his past life and even the current events happening around him, Lu Zheng knew that Domain Formation realm cultivation base was utterly useless in the world.
Even a thousand fully armed Domain Formation realm martial warriors couldn't take down a Sky realm expert hell bent on killing them all.
It would all be resolved in two or three techniques.
Yue Bolin, Hong Haoyu, Nakao, Olina, Themur, they were all at the Sky realm or above.
Lu Zheng was not even qualified to spar with any of them with his measly cultivation base.
Only by breaking through to the Sky realm could he stand up to any of them.
Lu Zheng remembered his biological mother's words: "Bad things befall people easily, especially the weaker ones"
If he wanted to have a say in how his life went, he would have to possess strong battle strength.
Battle strength came naturally with advancing through the realms of cultivation.
With this mind set, Lu Zheng continued to cultivate as Themur flew above the ocean until one day when they were disturbed.