Day 148-165 Meeting and Facing a Loss Part 3 Festering Rage bubbles over

"So what do I owe to speak with.. whatever you pretend to be?" Liang Yu looked Shangguan over critically. With his memory from the series, he was not confident in fighting her and killing her to refine. 'Blasted Celestial Realm... but she is injured. I still have a chance.'

*Woosh!* The air begin to swirl as Laing Yu was no fool. For her to show up in front of him was not for a pleasant conversation and most likely for a demand or something he was not willing to do.

"A 7th Heavenly Layer at your age and with such pure qi, you should be proud." Her voice was pretty flat when speaking. The veil on her face barely moving while she spoke. "But I am way above your achievements. You have the choice of leaving Blue Carp Town and the surrounding area or dying here and now."

"Oh? I think I have more choices than that." Liang Yu shot forward with lightning trailing his feet. His arm doused in blue-white flame as he hit her with a Superman Punch. His opponent's knees buckled just a bit but the ground under her feet caved in. "Damn.. soft even against my fist."

*Fwoosh!* Intense flames surrounded the two as Liang Yu activated Fire Body. It was just in time as Shangguan raised her little hands flicked him in the stomach.

*Huum!* A hum left out from the Metal Seed as it spun wildly. It managed to dissipate at most 1% of the power generated from her. Stabilizing in the air with a burst of fire from the back, Liang Yu generated a Flame Lance and a Lighting Lance.

"I'll be damned if I don't mess you up!" He chucked both attacks at her pouring his qi throughout his entire body. The flame turned brighter with the lightning sparking more. "Rahh!" The lightning lance hit first but the flame was blocked by a wave of green qi.

"Impressive." Shangguan's hair rose up from the lighting. It moved faster than she was actually capable of reacting. However, it was to weak overall. With a crush of her hand, the flame lance dissipated. Barely leaving a scorch mark on her. "You power is rising as we fight... how interesting. I will half to eliminate you it seems."

Near his feet, Liang Yu had vibrations leaving from him. The Metal Seed helped to produce a Thunder Field. Completely poured by his Dragon Dantian, he hopes it would last a while.

'What is this?' Shangguan felt the air was charged by something. she couldn't see the change but felt it. Her eyes tracked the vibrating earth that followed Liang Yu's feet. He shot forward with a charge before dropping low. 'Unusual technique.'

*Bzzzzttt!* A stream of lightning followed a punch that was sent towards her kidneys. Shangguan did not try to dodge but guarded herself well to the attack. The slight change in the air alerted her senses to where he was aiming.

'This will slow her down even further!' Liang Yu was counting his chickens before they hatched. "What the hell!?" A green membrane of qi seperated his fist from her side. It was so thin it pissed him off. "Tch! Flare Up!"

*Fwoosh!* Fire Body bombarded Shangguan's vision for a brief moment, Her hair slightly burnt a little. A wave of lightning wrapped around her body as Liang Yu discharged the energy.

*Bzzt!* Dense lightning wrapped around her. All across Liang Yu's body, blue-white lines appeared. The amount of qi he was using picked up a level. His attacks and defense were no more powerful.

The Lighting Field was now viewable to the naked eye. But it kept shifting, however. Shangguan narrowed her eyes as she noticed it sort of close down around the two. With a lifted hand, she was about to shatter it with a push of qi.

"Hmmm?!" A fist came right towards her face as Liang Yu started a relentless assault. With each punch, a hum went out around the two. The ground giving way as it turned to powder from the pressure. 'How annoying!' Shangguan was uncomfortable under the heat and the tingling from the lightning running through her body. "You bastard!"

A bit of qi had entered her Dantian and was about to strike it. But she forcefully pushed it out before that could happen. The blows were starting to wear her qi down since she was not a body cultivator at all. And her qi was the only thing she really had to defend herself at this time.

Liang Yu drew back and came around with a haymaker. Before he could connect however, a blast of green qi shot a hole through his side. The left side of his body was visible to the naked air.

His bluish bones were somewhat visible. Shangguan then gave him a backhand that sent him flying across the area. Liang Yu bounced around like a ball through trees and a mountainside.

A few Demon Beast looked up at the direction he came from and made a note not to go that way.

"Tch!" Shangguan clicked her teeth disgusted. To have someone so much younger than her, to push her weakend state and annoy her like this was a disgrace. She ignored the slight tender sensation that passed where Liang Yu punched her. "What else does he know about me? I must have answers."

*Woosh!* Kicking off the ground, she sailed through the area Liang Yu plowed through. She found him already moving and the hole made in his flesh already closed.

It cost a good bit of his Dragon qi to do so but since he was so far away from the Lighting Field generated, it would be for the best if he could gain control of the qi that was pumped into it. But his opponent would not give him enough time for that.

*Bzzt!* Liang Yu's hand pulled towards the air grabbing at the electric current he left behind. Trying to lock his Astral Sense onto it.

"Hehe.. hehe.. he.." Liang Yu looked a mess as he laughed. Staring at her disgusted still. "You actually .. decided to do what you said for once. Such a bitch move!" The blood from his mouth burned under the flames around him. "Does it feel good now? To be one of your word?"

Shangguan's eyes narrowed as she looked at him. Her green eyes glowing a little more. Despite her self, she was intrigued to hear what he had to say.

"I will spare you a little longer. What are you talking about?"

"The shit ancestors of Ye Xinghe's, didn't you promise to watch over the family. Yet for years they were abused and lost more and more of their status and wound up the sorry excuse of what they are now. " Liang Yu felt the Metal Seed ready for one more burst. "SO much for protection. Guess giving him those Divine Eclipse Fruit should help. As well as put a target on his back. Oh wait, I bet you even told him some stupid shit like "I am not going to involve myself in the affairs of mortals." What a joke. No matter how high you climb, you will only be godlike.. oh wait, goddess-like. You are somewhat of a female. Bodywise anyway. But with Ye Xinghe's preference, you need to be blond and.."

*Boom!* The air exploded as Shangguan launched an attack brutally. Her qi radiating a bright green light as she stared at him as if she couldn't wait to kill him.

"I am sick of your mouth!" Shangaan charged forward as his body flew back. The moment she was on him, however, something unexpected happened. She was in between the current connection and it's the source. Human anatomy proves things even further for Liang Yu. Her neural network was a mess currently. "What.. did you.. do to..me!?"

*Wooooom! Huuummm!* A loud vibration combined with a hum locked her body down momentarily. With the strength gap, it would not last long enough.

"Not telling!" Liang Yu poured every ounce of his strength and bit of qi into his fist. Blue white qi lines etched all across his body and hair. Spreading further destroying his flesh visibly. "Let me jack up that face of yours!"

Blazing Sun Flame Explosion was not meant to be condensed like this. It was a crowd control attack. Not a single target one. Forcing it to work like his burning finger attack was not a smart idea.

Shangguan pushed herself to break free. Never had she come across an attack like this before. But the difference in Realm made for fast work against it. If Liang Yu was a higher level cultivator she would have been worse off.

Her hand was movable up to the elbow. Liang Yu noticed and went for broke. His Flame Vortex Core was emptied of the current bodies inside of it. The Flame Martial art Dantian and Dragon Dantian were now empty.

Blood energy from his bones were pulled forth and boosted his muscles. All the minerals inside pushing his body to the breaking point even further.

*Fwoosh!* A blaze of flame erupted from Liang Yu's finger that hit against her hastily risen palm.

*Kaboooom!* The impact from the blow and blast knocked Shangguan back a few feet. Her clothing burned away as well as her veil. Her face was turned to the side as if someone had smacked her. She also received a burn mark. Lightning currents circled around her body causing numbing sensations with every micro movement.

Liang Yu flew back through several trees leaving a burning path in his wake. His skin and muscles tearing away as well as burning away his organs a good bit. Cracks along his Skelton started to close up. The bones a dark blue and white in a few places.

The noise they made had scared animals away all over. Even a few cultivators turned away not wanting to be caught in the exchange.

Shangguan searched the area but didn't find him. She could feel a single trace of his qi due to the lightning that still circled her body. The amount of shame she felt today would not be forgotten.

Believing him dead, she made a note to pass through the area another time to find his corpse. With a sour disposition, she left instantly.

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Few Days Later-

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Liang Yu searched the woods as quickly as possible. His body still not recovered yet. At least his bones were all connected now. The Flame Vortex Core had been spinning nonstop to keep him alive the first day and refine the bodies he had stored. Any herb he came across was thrown in immediately to help.

To the left of him, a red white flame floated. It was a small piece of the man-god Shango. Telling him that his actions had made things easier for him in the future. Enough events had changed that "Destiny" no longer had any real interest in things here.

For they were all broken free from the highest Deity and their fates were their own. But to be careful of matters of "Time" and its effects. Laing Yu only here bits and pieces while moving. He was only focused on surviving and getting something to get stronger to deal with Shangguan.

He barely heard a word of what the Man-God said.

Covered in bandages from his fast medical use, he looked like a mummy more than anything.

"Found the location finally!" Coming across the Poison Lake, he didn't even bother to disrobe and jumped inside. The bandages soaking traces of the poison up a little. The poison in the lake was sucked inside as well as most of the water while he moved. Poison was refined by the Flame Vortex Core steadily. Every drop created was sent to the Dragon Martial Art Dantian. It slowly came back to life under the effects. 'There!'

Finding the chests were easy enough thanks to Astral Sense. With a wave of the hand, the majority of the chests were stored away. One however would not move. It was an odd occurrence, to say the least, but he was not in any condition to force it.

'Stupid glowing "gold" chest!' Liang Yu swam away to a deeper location of the lake. Having picked up a few herbs as well that needed to be taken away made the sting from the poison hurt less. As he swam, more of the poison was swept inside and less of the water.

*Vruum!* The Metal Seed started to vibrate once more. Creating an underwater current in moments. Despite the new churning sensation in the lake, the topside didn't change besides a small current that constantly pushed outward.

'It is time to recover!' Liang Yu sat crisscross at the bottom of the lake. Focusing inward, he opened the chests one by one with his soul. The first was artifacts or armor with actual methods to forge by the looks of it rolled up to the side. 'Hmm, not bad. Those pauldrons look nice and I need to look a little stylish some.'

*Bloop! Bloop!* Pulling the armor out with the armguards to the outside, he started refining them while cultivating. The blood from his flesh soaking into the clothing and metal. In moments blue-white qi lines appeared on the armor.

The spread from his cultivation pushed to the limit before finally showed signs of healing. As well as changing. New Rune patterns could be seen if one looked closer at his qi lines. They matched new ones that formed on his skeletal structure as well.

Another of the Green Grade Armor was tossed into the Flame Vortex Core. The quality of metal would help in upgrading the Metal Seed. And by the very first of it the metal that melted and dripped down was absorbed, it was causing it to rise in technique level already.

'Memory serves their is medicine in one of these!' Opening another chest, he ended up finding them. 'Alert Senses, Nourishing Spirit, and Sky Sun pills. The Alert Senses won't do anything for me at all!' He put it away back in the wooden box he took it from. 'The Nourishing Spirit can help at least. No.. it does the same thing the Flame Vortex Core does already!" He tossed it back in the box and to the side as well. "Ok... the Sky Sun pills at least will boost one's cultivation."

Consuming the Sky Sun pills all in one go sped up his recovery. Combined with everything his flesh came back. Richer and a higher quality than before. The Poison completely sucked up from the lake with it all going into the Dragon Dantian.

The churned bodies from the fighting back then were finally done. The large amount from the palace and those picked up from the fighting on the outside with the Imperial Army was a lot.

As the hours trickled away, his cultivation and the various techniques improved greatly. Everything else was best saved for selling to acquire more of what he needed. While improving his cultivation, he checked over every detail of his body. No sense in letting a injury pop up later.

With so much to digest while repairing his soul, he lost track of time. Hopefully, the message he sent to those in Dark Moon Compound would reach them fine by now.