It's been half a day since we have riding horses to our destination and the journey seems to be going pretty smoothly.
Since it was getting boring i tried to strike up a conversation with Sister Xia.
"Sister, did treasurer meng's old injury really act up?" I asked in a normal tone though intending to tease her.
"Yes... Of course..." She said as blushed due to embarrassment.
"Or is there some other reason tha----" I couldn't finish my sentence as Old man warned me about a arrow coming from behind. I jumped from the horse and dodged it but horse was shot on the back of its head.
I landed on the ground and quickly shot a cero to where the cero came from. Sister Xia was warned from my sudden jump from the horse and the arrow and she came off of her horse as well , stood beside me and made a battle stance.
General POV
A scream was heard from where the arrow was shot and several man in brown clothing and masks came out from both sides of the forest holding weapons in their hands.
There were a total of 7 of them, six of whom were in the initial stages of separation and reunion and the last was at the 7th stage who seemed to be their leader.
Liu Zheng cursed his luck that even after staying away from Hu Mi'er and not forming any kind of enmity from storm manner as well, he still ended up getting attacked.
'Yang kai really is the favoured son of heaven, when he was attacked they were all in a yin gathering formation where everyone's strength was heavily suppressed and here i am in the middle of our way with absolutely no clue about treasurer meng.' Liu Zheng thought to himself.
"Do not resist Liu Zheng. I do not have anything against you but your death would allow me to rise in power so the least i can do is give you a painless death." The leader threatened him to surrender.
"Ohh, you want to kill me and don't even want me to resist. With such a brain no amount of power can help you out in life." Liu Zheng replied summoning his zanpakutos and activating immovable will.
'Hiding my powers would foolish if i cannot even stay alive.' Liu Zheng thought to myself as he frantically started to absorb the surrounding Qi.
The guy had a vein popping on his forehead and said "Since you are about to die, i shall forgive you this time. I will take care of that Lady, you guys kill Liu Zheng".
The rest of guys immediately jumped on Liu Zheng.
"I can handle those guys sister xia, they are after me so you either escape or hold their leader for a while. "Liu Zheng quickly said to Xia Ning Chang. She looked like she was to say something but he vanished from her sight the next moment.
Liu Zheng used Sonido to get behind the guy who was just got hit by cero and shot another one at point blank range to his back.
He tried to react but only saw a flash red light which forced him shut his eyes for a second, when he opened his eyes he felt something missing. He put a hand on his chest but it passed through just like his life the next moment.
Liu Zheng didn't waste any time and fully abused Sonido and Blut Arterie to attack all of them with his swords.
Meanwhile the leader attacked Xia Ning Chang, they clashed but he was pushed back. He didn't want to take any chances with someone 2 minor realms higher than himself so he made a faint attack and activated his artifact from his other hand which released many purple coloured electric vines and shot towards her.
Xia Ning Chang wasn't an idiot so seining danger she activated her own artifact which made all the attacks from the binding artifact useless as hers was a mysterious grade artifact given by her master.
Seeing this he couldn't help but make a dumbstruck expression. (image)
While they were fighting Liu Zheng already took care of the rest of them and seeing that Sister Xia was safe he felt relieved.
Liu Zheng totally knew how sturdy the shield from that artifact was but knew she couldn't hold out for long So he called her out in a loud voice and said "SISTER XIA, RUN TOWARDS THE HORSE I HAVE THE PERFECT WAY TO TAKE CARE OF HIM. JUST TRUST ME AND RUN, NOO NEED TO LOOK BACK."
Both of them heard Liu Zheng and Sister Xia who was anxious about him felt at ease with tears in her eyes but quickly nodded seeing that i really did defeat all the other guys and quickly ran towards the horse which was released a few minutes ago while the leader was infuriated that i came out unscathed after getting attacked by 6 Qi fusion guys whilst still being a Qi Transformation mid stage.
He charged at me thinking that his identity still hasn't been revealed and he can still kill me and gain Xie Hongchens favour but what he saw made him question his entire life purpose watching a Qi transformation vanishing from his sight, then going nor left or right but straight to the sky and looking down on him.
As soon as Liu Zheng told sister Xia to go away and saw the leader charring towards him , he used sonido to go directly towards the sky and using the world energy around him and forming a platform in the air.
It did make him smile seeing the guy on the ground looking so astonished. He saw that sister Xia was far enough from them so took his quincy zanpakuto (short one) and formed a stationary horizontal getsuga towards the guy on the ground and used his other zanpakuto to make another vertical getsuga and released it towards the guy shouting "GETSUGA JUJISHOO". (Image)
The guy was stunned for a moment but then he tried run away from it but it was too late and the attack was to big.
A Loud Blast resounded throughout the forest which made all the birds fly away and animals startled and run away as far as possible.
Xia Ning Chang was sensed something was wrong, turned around to see a flash of black & white light and a huge blast that followed.
She got really scared about what happened to Liu Zheng and run towards the blast praying that he was fine.
The dust was slowly getting cleared and the leader was on the ground with all his upper body clothes burned away but still far from being dead. He thanked God for the first time in his life for not making Liu Zheng no more powerful than he was or else he would have been dead and tried to get up quickly and run.
He will just run away from the sect to avoid persecution now that his face was probably revealed but he could take his revenge as long as he was alive.
Liu Zheng felt exhausted and breathing heavily after using 80% of his strength in the last attack but he knew it wasn't enough to kill that guy so he activated his sharingan to see through the smoke locate him through his Qi.
He found the guy and simply jumped on him from the sky.
Liu Zheng landed on his stomach which made him throw blood out of his mouth and his eyes go white which Liu Zheng ignored and put two finger on his forehead charging a cero.
He smiled and waved his hand and said "Bye~Bye~" while the cero instantaneously went through his head, taking his life.
He got up, walked a few steps and dropped on the ground, slowly falling asleep after losing the last bit of his energy. The last thing he saw was sister Xia running towards him but she didn't have any injuries on her so he felt relieved and closed his eyes.
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Cultivation - Qi Transformation 5th stage
Body Cultivation - Qi Transformation 8th stage
Combat Power - Separation and Reunion 2nd Stage (Shikai)
Sharingan - One tomoe
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I want ideas about what functions the next physique of the MC should have. Please comment down if you have any.