Hearing the screech Yang Feng took a deep breath as he new that the serious battle starts now.
The next moment, the eagle in a display of great speed, vanished from it's previous place and flew towards him. As it flew, it's body was covered by thick layer of flames and made it look like a flaming bird.
Yang Feng grew solemn as he could feel the massive amount of Qi used by the bird, which honestly made him have goosebumps. He knew that if he didn't give it his all ... He would likely be heavily injuried or even die.
So he gathered a great amount of his Qi and channeled it into the spear. As soon as he did, wind started to flow erratically, along with a lightning flashing in the now cloudy sky.
These erratic winds soon formed a vortex surrounding Yang Feng with lightning flashing around. This was an ability of the spear, wind and storm manipulation, though it was possible on a small scale.
As the bird reached near him, the surroundings looked to be divided into two sides. One covered in flames as if the heavens wanted to smite someone with a heavenly flame and the other part filled with violent force of nature that promised to devour and cut through anything.
Seeing that the bird was about to reach him, Yang Feng let himself loose but his grip on the spear was still tight. The next moment, he sweeped the spear towards the approaching firebird.
As the two clashed, a fire storm spread throughout the surrounding, but the two didn't back down, albeit Yang Feng was pushed back a few feets.
Undeterred, Yang Feng again clashed with the firebird that also approached him again. For the next thirty minutes the two continued to clash, during which the eagle was restless with it's attacks and along with it's speedy tackles, it also attacked Yang Feng with it's feathers and compressed fire from it's mouth.
Yang Feng who was facing the unrelenting attacks was in a dangerous situation. He had accumulated alot of injuries in the last thirty minutes and had depleted more than 3/4th of his Qi, which was more than that of a second order Transendant in terms of quantity.
'*huff* *huff* this can't... go on like this. *Huff* I have to finish this quickly or I will die here.' he thought as he parred another feather attack from the eagle.
The next instant, a baleful, malicious aura irrupted from Yang Feng's body. The eagle that was just about to attack again suddenly stopped as it saw it's pray going through some changes.
As the aura was released, Yang Feng body got covered by a layer of miasma. When that miasma cleared, the person standing there was a bit different from before.
There stood a devilishly handsome man. His hair was long lustrous white, his eyes blood red, his muscular frame a little bigger than before, with injuries on his body, which had already started to visibly heal, with a demonic presence as if he was a devil straight out of hell.
Yang Feng also observed the changes in his body and also felt that not only had his body started healing, but his Qi reserves had also started to recover. All this happened because he had activated his Demonic Qi stored inside his skeleton.
Previously, when he had devoured the golden skeleton and also gained it's demonic attribute, he also gained it's ability to store Demonic Qi in his skeleton. After that whenever he absorbed something demonic in nature most of the energy or Qi was stored into his skeleton while the rest was absorbed by him to increase his cultivation realm.
This was the first time he had used his demonic nature, and he could say that it felt great. But he also felt an urge to destroy anything and everything that opposed him. 'well, if this is the downfault of it ... Than it's nothing to worry about.'
He looked towards the eagle that seems to be looking at him with caution. "Well little Birdy, looks like you had fun using me as a punching bag before.", he cracked his knuckles and continued with a cold smile, "now it's my turn, okay."
He was only saying this because after using the demonic Qi, he felt as if not only had his injuries started to heal, but also felt that his physical strength had increased as well, along with his rapidly recovering Qi reserves from the demonic Qi, he was certain that he could atleast defeat the bird if not straight up kill it.
The beast was fuming at this. It had used a great deal of effort to beat the human to a miserable degree, but he had now mostly recovered and now this human that he was basically playing with now dared to look at it like this. It wanted to torture the human for his arrogance but also knew that it had to do so quickly so that nothing unexpected happened, so it again leapt at him while covering it's with it's flames.
Seeing this Yang Feng grinned and with twice his previous speed sprinted towards the approaching bird. He then punched out, and to his own surprise, a phantom of a black dragon with golden markings manifested from his fist and aggressively tackled the firebird, before binding it's body around it, squeezing it.
*Screeeeeeccch*
This made the bird to let out a screech as it felt it's body being crushed. It channeled more Qi into the flames surrounding it which caused them to burn with much more furiousity, burning the black dragon phantom binding it.
But by the time it was freed Yang Feng was in front of it and thrusted his spear in it's chest. The bird however reacted quickly as it separated from the spear, making it's wound gush with it's blood.
Backing away, it threw a beam of fire from it's mouth towards him, which Yang Feng avoided using void steps and again attacked it's with it's spear. This went on for ten minutes before the bird grew afraid.
It didn't knew what happened, but after that change this human grew even more crazy and without care about injuries continued to attack it, unlike before when he was still a bit cautious.
This resulted in both receiving many injuries, but the beast looked more miserable than Yang Feng, with cuts and wounds all over it's body with most of it's feathers having fallen off.
Yang Feng who was also covered in injuries and blood on his body, suddenly vanished and appeared right under the eagles beak like he did the first time around and thrusted his spear into it's venerable soft skin under it's beak. Unlike before the eagle was not able to react this time due to Yang Feng's increased speed and it's own exhaustion.
The result? Yang Feng's spear entered from under it's beak and exited from it's head, killing it. As the corpse collapsed, Yang Feng felt relief as the battle had finally ended. Looking at the injured corpse he laminated, "*sigh* the corpse lost too much vitality and blood, I won't get any benefit from devouring it. Humm, well let's take it anyways I should make some Bar-B-Q after returning, it should taste good."
Just as he stored the corpse, he suddenly felt cold as a chill ran down his spine. He felt that he was being watched and could be killed if he didn't move.
So he did just that, but as if knowing what he was about to do, he felt the surrounding space compress a bit. This terrified Yang Feng. No one except those who cultivate space laws, below Origin Realms can interfere with laws.
Now whatever was targeting him was doing just that, influencing the space laws around him, but the influence was not much so he knew the the person targeting him was likely someone in the Origin Returning Realm. Knowing that if he didn't take drastic measures now, he would be killed, Yang Feng forced his space laws and Body,Qi and Soul.
He used his void steps to the absolute limit, Burning his Qi, Forcing his body and making his Soul go into Overdrive. All this boost proved to be enough for him to travel more than a hundred kilometers. Fortunately, the one targeting him didn't take him seriously and only applied little bit of his strength, which allowed Yang Feng to do so.
But as soon as he appeared, he didn't even stay there for even an instant and used his void steps again and again for a few times, reaching where the space portal he open was. He had chosen to leave this place as soon as possible because this place was highly unusual and dangerous for the current him.
So for the last time, he forced himself and opened the portal again and jumped through it. As soon as he reached the otherside, he closed the portal.
It was only then did he let himself relax slightly. He suddenly felt something and turned around, looking towards the sky. There he saw someone flying towards him at a high speed. That was the last thing he knew before his eyes were clouded by darkness.
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Su Yan PoV:
I was sitting in Yang Feng's cultivating. The past few days had been heretic for the people of High Heaven Pavilion. It wasn't a few months ago that many foreign forces came and forcefully took residence here.
Now a few days ago, someone with great power came to the sect with a few Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators and started to attack the sect people and destroy everything they could.
The person with the great power being someone she knew of, someone my husband Yang Feng had warned me about and told me to remain clear of, Yang Bai.
But ... well, he didn't say to remain clear of the people following him. So when Yang Bai went to fight the sect master and the elders, I along with a few others stopped and killed a few of those people.
After severely injuring the sect master and causing some injuries to the elders, Yang Bai suddenly left along with the remaining people, from whom I had killed two.
After that battle, the morals of everyone in the sect had been low, which became worse as the news of the injuries of the sect master spread, albeit only among the highest ranking people of the sect.
Today, I was cultivating as usual as I felt Yang Feng's presence approaching the sect at a great speed. 'Hmm, so he's coming back. He must have heard what happened.' I thought with a smile. Although Yang Feng doesn't interact with the sect people much and always focuses on cultivation, I knew that he cared for the sect alot.
Shaking my head, I went back to cultivating until I felt him suddenly change course and stopping at a place. Then suddenly felt as if Yang Feng was far far away from me, from the sect, from the world.
'.... Is this what he meant about the connection being able to sense his presence even if we were not in the same world?', after the sudden feeling, I recalled that Yang Feng once mentioned that through our dual cultivation technique, we could sense each other even beyond the world and vaguely described how the feeling would be.
Curious, as I felt his presence and tried to sense deeper. After sometime I felt his excitement at first, then came a little nervousness followed by a great thirst of battle which prompted me to utter "Battle Maniac".
These feeling were however pretty vague and I had to concentrate greatly to feel them. It was at the moment that I felt something I hadn't thought I would feel from him, ever.
I felt fear ... no I felt dread, pure dread. It was so sudden and intense that I didn't even notice before I was already flying towards him using all my means to boost my speed. Still keeping track of his emotions, in that dread I felt his determination.
For the next few minutes only one though kept going through my mind, 'please be safe, please be safe'. When I felt I was near the area where he disappeared, I felt his presence back in this world and new that he came back and alive.
Sensing his exact location, I flew towards him with the same speed. There I saw him as he closed a portal of sort and then turning towards her.
Seeing his condition, tears formed in my eyes. But the next moment, seconds before reaching him, I saw him collapsing to the group.
"Yang Feng!!"
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{So how was this event. This would count as the first real setback for the MC on his journey. And also included about a few things that would later make the story cultivation realms deviate from the original a little bit.
Also MC demonic version pic in discord.}