Zhang Jian felt the soft night air, the room passed him by as if he were on a train watching the surroundings. As Zhang Jian realized what was happening to him, he grabbed bottom edge the window. Holding on in that fraction of a second, he was unable to keep holding on as the force of being thrown was just too great.
His hand slipped off the window Zhang Jian spun in the air wildly as he fell. Unable to grab on to anything, unable to see anything. Zhang Jian was going to die from this fall.
His forehead hit the overhang of a floor below and knocked him out, should he remain like that, Zhang Jian will die as he hits the ground... And yet, he woke up alive in the courtyard, far away from where he should have landed.
"Looks like I made it just in time."
Zhang Jian's vision was blurry, he was bleeding from his forehead. In front of him, stood the figure of a really tall woman and beyond her was the servant. The servants skin had these thorny vine tattoos all over her skin, her spirit energy was active as she was ready to strike.
Getting up slowly, Zhang Jian looked around. It was the courtyard, ahead of them was the main building, he could see the overhang that his head hit, it was broken a bit. The tall woman had her back turned to him, she had long flowing hair and pale white skin reminiscent of the full moon. She also had vine tattoos, except it wasn't the thorn pattern but a leaf one.
"I knew the Crimson Jackals would target the S Grade, I didn't expect you dogs to arrive so soon!" The tall lady cackled, Zhang Jian could see a bit more clearly now, the tall lady had her fists covered in a Purple Spirit energy, a purple Spirit snake coiled around her right arm. "But this is not my fight" She turned around to face Zhang Jian, she had a white mask covering her face, the mask had an eerie smile and two slits for eyes.
"Boy, I saved your life once, do not disappoint me." She laughed, the servant lunged forward to attack her while she was distracted, the tall lady disappeared. It was as if she moved so fast it appeared others as if she teleported.
Zhang Jian stood there, blood covering his face. He put his hands up against the killer servant and ignited his orange Spirit energy.
The servant struck at Zhang Jian's head, he dodged and landed a blow to her stomach, knocking her far back and giving Zhang Jian some breathing room. The Servant quickly got up and noticed Zhang Jian's fatigue.
Planting her feet firmly into the ground and reaching out her left hand, as if she were pulling back a bow. With her right hand she pulled the Spirit energy from her left as if it were the bowstring, while the energy on her left hand began to shape and transform into the head of a hawk.
Zhang Jian sensing what was about to happen to him, readied himself to dodge or tank the blow. "Hawk Handed Crossbow" the servant whispered and launched the blue projectile at Zhang Jian, it was too fast for him to dodge, he raised his hands to block the blow unsure of whether it would be effective or not.
The energy clashed with his coated hands, almost blowing him off his feet immediately. The fiery hawk had sort of melted and the blue flame molded around him in a bright burst of flame, singeing his skin. The blue energy burned through the coating of orange that his hands had, burnt his skin and knocked him back.
Zhang Jian stumbled over, the servant leaped over the get the jump on him. His hands were burnt and he was bleeding from his forehead, but that doesn't mean he cant fight. As the servant tried to maul at him with her blue energy coated fists, Zhang Jian landed a wide right hook to the side of her head. The servant was thrown far off from where she was, flying straight into the ground and rolling ahead before crashing into the base of the side building.
A crater marked where she crashed, bleeding from her head, the servant reached out both of hands and made fists with both of them "Jackals" the servant said weakly. The energy from her hands seemed to jump out and form two blue jackals.
Just then, from above, the S Grade descended onto the courtyard, her entire body covered in a bright orange flame. Crashing down on one of the jackals, killing it with her tremendous Spirit Energy, Ling Tianshu has joined the battle.
She stared down the servant and pointed her finger at her, energy began to gather around the hand as if it were going to blast out "You, explain now." Ling Tianshu spoke with power and anger in her voice. Panicked, the servant quickly blurted out "He was going to kill you master! I stopped him in time but now he's attacking me! Please stop him-"
Ling Tianshu blasted the servant, knocking her out for good. The Jackal Spirit lunged out to bite her but was quickly killed in one hard punch by Zhang Jian. "How'd you know?" Zhang Jian said with a grin "you dont know? Demons have those markings on their skin" she pointed at the now unconscious servant.
The rest of the night was a process, Ling Tianshu alerted the guards outside of what happened, everyone in the family had to find out what was going on. By the end of the night, it had appeared that Zhang Jian was the hero that saved the S Grade Ling Tianshu's life.
Rather than fight the fame, Zhang Jian accepted it humbly and graciously, he cannot reveal that there was a second demon present that night or it would complicate things further.
Ling Tianshu took the opportunity to reward Zhang Jian with 200 Yin, he did not refuse. Money was now no longer a problem but there's still something going on behind the scenes that Zhang Jian wanted to know about.
He said his goodbye's to Ling Tianshu the next day and went off, he has more questions now than answers and that bothered Zhang Jian. "Who are the Crimson Jackals, who was that snake lady? Why is Ling Tianshu so damn nice to me?" stuff like that ran through his head.
Zhang Jian checked his pockets, there was a note. 'Moon Goddess Shrine, Qingyun' was written on the crumpled note. "How long has been here?" Zhang Jian wanted answers, now he has a place to go and find them.