Chapter 106: This Young Master Meets The Empire

Chapter 106: This Young Master Meets The Empire

The hollow collapsed as the tree uprooted itself and dropped its entire weight on top of their heads. Three different lights of peach pink and metal white flashed and split the tree from the bottom to the top in a rain of kindling.

Jiang Lei and Wang Xiao stood together with their swords drawn. A scent of peaches filled the air. Chen Haoran stood a ways away from them to the side. Phelps clung to his back and continually hissed. White energy scoured the ground around them.

The Gu hovered in front of them. A hawk-sized dragonfly. Amorphous qi emitted from its body in intermittent waves. Two topaz-like eyes seemed to stare at him from every direction within their hundreds of facets.

A slow clapping filled the air. From the darkness of the jungle emerged a man clad in the scarlet uniform of the empire. A large bone snake curled into a spiraling pattern hung from his neck. Chen Haoran reached out with his sense, and his heart fell. Liquid Meridian. The man did not emerge alone from the jungle. A dozen other scarlet-clad soldiers followed him and surrounded them, the lowest being Qi Realm Eighth-Layer.

The man whistled, and the Gu fell to perch on his arm. Your senses are better than I expected. I was hoping to end this in one fell swoop.

Jiang Lei pointed his sword at the Shaman. Simply put. You suck.

Chen Haoran chuckled despite himself. Did Jiang Lei really have to steal his lines like that?

The Shamans smile thinned. Rude bastards, arent you. He exaggeratedly sniffed the air. Peachbloods, eh? How about I cut you a deal? He motioned to Chen Haoran. Step aside while we apprehend him.

I will have to refuse, Jiang Lei said.

The Shaman raised an eyebrow. You, of all people, should know the price of defiance. Youve stepped into the Liquid Meridian Realm at such a young age. Itd be a shame if you never advanced again.

I believe I will be fine.

Chen Haoran frowned as he looked between the shaman and the other soldiers. They were talking too much. He took a step closer to Jiang Lei. At that moment, his senses screamed at him. He dropped to the ground even as the clash of metal sounded behind him. Jiang Lei blocked the axe of the second Liquid Meridian that tried ambushing them while they were distracted. With his other hand, he cast a wave of peach-colored liquid qi over Chen Haorans head and toward the Shaman. The Dragonfly Gu interposed itself between its master and the wave and dispersed the liquid qi with a beat of its wings.

Let go, Phelps. Go up.

Phelps squealed and floated further up, but he didnt let go of him. Chen Haoran flexed his qi and shrugged out of Phelpss grip, ignoring the sloths squeals as he fell through the air and pulled the rest of the Clear Heart Mirror Armor out of the storage bag. The Earth-Rank artifact looked like someone had taken a glass mirror and shaped it into plate armor. It was far from being as fragile as it looked. When the helmet finally slipped itself on over Chen Haorans face, he crashed feet-first onto the ground and barely felt a jolt.

The soldiers were on him in an instant with an onslaught of techniques. In that same instant, they were forced to dodge as their techniques touched the mirror armor and were immediately reflected back. Chen Haoran cycled qi to his legs and shot forward in a dead sprint toward the nearest soldier. Even when he chased them, their movement techniques would keep them ahead. He didnt need to reach them, however.

He just needed to get closer.

The soldier summoning vines fell down with a cry of pain as he couldnt dodge fast enough and was clipped in the side by a blade of metal energy. The glancing blow was enough to nearly cut clean through his leg, and he couldnt avoid the next blade that cut him clean down the middle.

Curses and attacks rained down on Chen Haoran, but fell uselessly on his armor. He lunged for the next soldier whipping up a constant barrage of white blades when the soil beneath him became quicksand. He sank up to his chest and quickly located the woman responsible. Her hands were glowing with yellow qi, and when she clapped them together, the quicksand around him rose and became a giant jaw. Chen Haoran plunged his scimitar into the ground, and the quicksand jaw split apart as white blades of light parted the earth like water. The earth sank beneath the woman, but rather than rise back and propel her to safety like before, it opened up entirely, and she fell through. White light flashed and tore up the ground until it was a mess of blood and loose soil.

Chen Haoran lifted himself out of the pit with a burst of qi and faced the remaining soldiers. They quickly backed away with solemn expressions, and he trailed after them, dragging his scimitar against the ground.

Thats two, Chen Haoran said.

The soldiers qi soared as they charged their techniques. Chen Haoran walked forward and cycled his qi as he considered his next target. The techniques flew. Chen Haoran charged.

Amorphous qi appeared above his head and covered Chen Haoran before just as abruptly vanishing, leaving him feeling exposed. He halted and looked upward at the Dragonfly Gu that suddenly appeared. The night breeze was cold across his neck.

Why was it holding his armor?

It was Chen Haorans last thought before he burst into flames.This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com