Chapter 34 Ghost Town

Days passed, and then a week, and soon it was 3 weeks since Long Lei began forming his core. "Whew." He sighed as his body radiated an aura of power. "Seems my gains weren't small." Long Lei said to himself as he inspected his power.

He had reached the Spirit Gathering Realm, and his power surpassed anything he had previously attained. 'I suspect that if I had this strength when I fought against those 3 I could have probably engaged in actual combat with them, and come out on top.' He thought as he inspected his Imprint.

It had formed into an azure blue core with a diameter of 2 centimeters, and had a face of a devil imprinted on it. "Well this looks interesting, now I should check how much time has passed." He said to himself before exiting his room.

Long Lei soon found himself traversing through his house trying to find the semblance of any human activity, but no one was in sight.

"Odd, there's usually always at least 1 or 2 people running around the halls." He murmured as he continued searching. Eventually he gave up trying to look for people and simply exited his home and gazed at the Sect from his hill.

"Now this, this is weird." Long Lei gasped before teleporting to one of this kunai within the city. The streets were completely deserted, not a person in sight. 'What the fuck happened?' He thought as he began to increase his pace, running through the Sect.

Minutes passed, and then hours, and Long Lei realised, that the Sect was completely empty. 'Has the war began already?' He contemplated, as panic quickly ensued. "DAMN YOU HEAVENS!" Long Lei screamed in anger.

Long Lei had concocted the perfect plan, but now it was useless, and because of this he was pissed off, like, extremely pissed off. "Fuckin dip shit heavens with your fuckin thunder tribulating ass, not like you even function properly anyway as most protagonists end up just using your thunder to refine themselves."

"Lets not forget the fact that the heavens never actually do anything either, completely, fuckin, useless! You can't even stall the sect for me? Pah!" He spat on the ground in disdain, and as if answering his call someone suddenly descended from the sky.

"I see, so they forgot to evacuate their Young Master it seems." The figure said while standing on top of what seemed to be a flying pig. 'What the.....' Long Lei thought astounded, he had no words.

A man came flying down from the sky on a flying pig, and Long Lei frankly just had no clue what to say. Were the heavens playing a joke? Were they trying to make of Long Lei? Or was this man really dumb enough to ride a flying pig?

He couldn't tell but before he could say anything the figure continued speaking. "Haha, seems the Heaven Breaking Sect was so preoccupied with the war effort that they forgot their Young Master, not only that, but they're being slaughtered by the dozen, this is too funny!" The figure laughed as a smirk edged its way onto his face.

From this Long Lei realised 2 things, either, this person had 0 brain cells, or he had negative brain cells. Either way Long Lei wasn't just going to let an enemy shame him, especially one who rode on a flying pig.

"What was your name?" Long Lei asked before throwing a kunai that completely missed the man. "I am the glori-" The man tried to say, not even paying attention to the kunai.

Sadly for him though, that was his biggest blunder. Long Lei in a flash appeared at the kunai and slammed his silver fist into the mans back sending him crashing into the street with a hole in his chest.

"Fuck! Why is my first kill such trash." Long Lei said in dismay as he shook his head. The figure was embedded into the ground with his hair disheveled and his wound leaking blood.

"Y-You are a monster!" The man weakly said as he was about to die. "Wait a second actually, I have a method to save your life, but I need information." Long Lei said as he realised he had a play. 'I can just get some information out of this guy, feed him a senzu and then cripple him, that way my first kill won't be such fodder, and I'll know what the fuck is going on.' Long Lei mused as the figure looked at him with doubt and hope.

"I don't have all day, and neither do you, if you tell me what's going on I swear on my ancestors that I'll save your life." Long Lei swore with a dignified expression. "F-Fine, not like I have much choice anyway. T-Two, days ago your sect, the Kingdom, and Endless Hell Sect clashed at the Neutral zone to the west. Right now you're sect is being decimated and I was sent as a scout to see if you had any reinforcements left." The man weakly said almost on his dying breath.

"What about the Princess?" Long Lei inquired. ".....The King decided to leave her for dead, if she is recovered she's recovered, if not she's not, she's simply not worth it." He answered as his face looked as pale as a ghost.

"Here." Long Lei said before tossing a senzu bean into the man's mouth. Almost instantly the man was healed, as the Qi in the air seemingly infused itself into him. "I-I am healed." He said in shock. The information wasn't too important, and he doubted he'd be able to continue living but he was actually alive.

"Ya well." Long Lei muttered before quickly appearing in front of the man. He then crippled his dantian before giving the man a smile. "M-My dantian, I am crippled!" The man said in shock as tears streamed his eyes. "Well I said I'd save your life, not that I wouldn't cripple you, be happy that you still have all your limbs and live a good life!" Long Lei replied before disappearing.

'Decimated, who dares decimate, I, Long Lei, Son Above Heaven's Sect.' He thought as he reappeared to his kunai out the outer edge of the sect. 'Now, if I do this properly I can probably teleport to the Neutral zone in about 100 Flying Thunder Gods.' He pondered before throwing a kunai with all his strength.

This was war and Long Lei wouldn't play nice.