Moment's before the stab..." Is this really the end !?" Zhiyou asked himself , " no I refuse to die like this " as Zhiyou thought of this a flame lit up inside Zhiyou's eyes as that small flame remained strong against the dark and snowy winds .
Determination and survival was the only goal in Zhiyou's mind as with this flame a sudden warmth flowed into Zhiyou's abdomen area,~swoosh~ sounds came to Zhiyou's mind as ray of lights rapidly flowed inside him and a sudden bright light enveloped his whole body.
~Currently ~
"Hahahaha Zhiyou~ finnally you are dead " Sha erzi laughed like a maniac while grinning from ear to ear as his hands holding the shortsword managed to reach Zhiyou's chest .
But he quickly realised" huh!? why don't I hear this bastard's shouts of pain " thought Sha erzi as he suddenly glanced down to see the situation but suddenly his pupils constricted as he noticed Zhiyou's hand covered in crude black jade like material with unknown and beautiful white symbols blocking the tip of the sword.
"What!!? How did you-" but before he could finish his sentence Zhiyou's other hand which also was covered in the same material as the hand that blocked the sword suddenly moved in a upward slicing motion and along with its movement a sudden cry of pain was heard as a hand flew out ,
"arhhgggggghhhhh ahhhhhhhhh m..m..my hand ahhhhhhh f..fuck it hurtssss" scremed Sha erzi as despair and pain courses through him when he saw his right arm gone and as blood gushed out without stop ,
he quickly tried to block the blood from flowing out but it made the situation more grusome as blood was all over his body, he turned to scream at the perpetrator who did this to his precious arm but suddenly noticed that Zhiyou was gone from his initial lying position and was standing right next to him .
"Zhiyou you fu-" but before he could finish his word he suddenly noticed Zhiyou's hand which suddenly grabed into air ,but the next moment it shocked him to his core as a crude black sword which really couldn't be called a sword as there was no hilt to the sword and the handle was not even properly created with the blade only having sharpnessin on one side
But seeing this scene caused Sha erzi shivers down his spine as he noticed Zhiyou's hand tightly gripping his sword " hey- let's talk through this , if you kill me my family will hunt you to no ends , my father is the leader of troop five , he has command over ten men ,he will skin you alive if you kill me " said Sha erzi as he continued
"but I can save you out of this predicament if you just kneel , apologize and cut of your own arm " confidence emerged from Sha erzi after every word as he remembered that his father was an official and he shamelessly boasted and shouted at Zhiyou , but what he didn't notice was that Zhiyou's eyes had whitened ,soon he realised that Zhiyou was not answering to any of his rantings,he tried to ask again " hey are you listening or not you bas-!!" .
But before he could finish his sentence he noticed that Zhiyou was gone from his position and suddenly appeared in his right side almost like a ghost .
Suddenly a red line appeared in Sha erzi's neck as he noticed that a warm liquid was spewing out of his mouth ,he couldn't comprehend the situation as all of this happened in the span of a second .
The next moment Sha erzi's head rolled down onto the grass while his face that still had the same shocked and fearful expression.
"Hufff" smoke came out Zhiyou's mouth as the strange material covering his hands disappeared while his body suddenly fell down the next moment and didn't move for the next half an hour.
Half an hour later Zhiyou's hand suddenly twitched as he regained consciousness, "huh!? Where am I ? " Asked Zhiyou but the next moment he suddenly remembered that his life was in danger as a bastards hands were falling down at him.
He checked his chest and realised that he was not hurt but the next moment sudden pain came from his whole body as he realised that his movements from earlier had caused his body to react to it.
" What the hell!? Why am I feeling pain from moving my hand ?" Thought Zhiyou but suddenly he noticed that his other arm was grabbing a hold of something,
He weakly and softly turned his body to see that in his hands was a black stick in the shape of a sword with strange patterns on it.
"Why do I have a stick in my hand ?" Thought Zhiyou as he examined the stick he noticed that one of the sides of the stick had a sharpness to it.
Zhiyou quickly realised that he was in the forest , and then suddenly turned his attention to the headless corpse next to him and realised that it was Sha erzi's corpse,
"How did he die !?" many questions came to his head but he decided that it would be better to move aways from here since wild beasts can smell the blood and will surely come and attack him ,hell if a spirit beast came then it was his demise here.
Through difficulty Zhiyou forced his body to move and with the help of the strange black sword managed to climb back to his feet and started walking steadily .
After few hours of walking Zhiyou reached a lake with clear water which was in an open area with many small animals spending their times beside it ,
" This lake's water seems to be fresh and clean" Zhiyou thought to himself , soon he approached the glistering lake ,the small animals quickly hid in fear upon noticing him
Zhiyou removed his clothes and kept the strange black stick near his clothes and went to the lake to cleanse himself of all the blood and sweat.
Soon he saw a reflection of a tall ,slender man with pale skin ,a head full of black hair , attractive facial features and vibrant blue eyes which mesmerizes anyone who sees them .
After a few dips in the water to clean his body which was full of foul blood stench , Zhiyou floats atop the water and contemplates if he should go back to the city but he deems it unnecessary because he did not have any close ones in the city,
Yes he was an orphan,and as he was thinking hard about his future plans his vision changed as suddenly his eyes gain a golden ring around his pupils,
The next second his eyes turn back to normal , but he swore that he saw the world in a different angle as he saw tendrils of energy floating around and a bright light near one of the medium sized rocks that were laying around the lake.
{ Just what did he see in that rock ? Read next chp to find out }