163 Slipping away. (2/2)
She then quickly brought a few of her closest aides and took Li Yang and his group to the spatial array within the city. She felt like she understood why Li Yang was in such a rush, there was a chance that they might get attacked by the two other organizations. Neither of the three organizations wished to see the other two grow much stronger so they would do their best to undermine their strength, killing promising juniors was exactly one such way of doing so.
The group quickly left the rest of the dazed people, Li Yang swallowing a few energy restoring pills and erasing the array as the surrounding people were starting to shake off their daze. They entered the city and quickly arrived at the spatial array that the Earth Rendering Empire used, Gang Lingqi activating it by touching the center of the array with the vine-shaped construct around her wrist. But as the array was whirring to life and space around them started to twist, Langshen let out another subdued howl, causing the flow of space around them to turn turbulent.
The group ended up getting tossed through space, moving in the general direction that the array would take them but ending thrown out of the spatial tunnel quite a bit before they reached their goal. They landed in a rather dense pine forest, the ground beneath them strewn with the somewhat damp needle-like leaves. Gang Lingqi and her three close aides quickly turned to look at Li Yang the moment they arrived in the forest, but he had already slapped out by the time they turned their heads.
He delivered four lightning-quick slaps to them, the immense strength of his body causing the sides of their face to sink in and sent almost half of their teeth flying in a spurt of blood. He kicked off the ground and caught up with the people as they were tumbling to the side from the attack, delivering several more quick punches and kicks to their faces and abdomens. He didn't use any of his laws, relying solely on his immense physical strength as he trashed the four people, quickly leaving them nearly unconscious on the ground.
Only Gang Lingqi was barely able to retain her consciousness, the main reason being that Li Yang needed her to be conscious for the next part. He turned his head, but Zhao Feng had already arrived at his side with a leisure gait, shaking his head in an exasperated manner as he crouched down.
”And again, you leave all the shit jobs to me. I swear, if we ever get a third life, I'm forcing you to learn the law of the soul just so that you can handle your own ass.”
Zhao Feng placed his hand on Gang Lingqi's head and invaded her soul using his law of the soul, swiftly crushing any resistance that might remain within her. Once her last line of defense was crushed and her soul was laid bare, he gave her a very simple command.
”Report to your sect that your group has been ambushed and defeated, the targets you brought along were kidnapped by masked assailants who seemed to specialize in body cultivation.”
Gang Lingqi mindlessly complied with Zhao Feng's words, once again speaking into the vine-shaped construct on her wrist to deliver the report. Li Yang kicked her in the face once she finished the report, sending her sliding backward and crashing into a tree before she fell unconscious. He dusted off his hands once the task was done, glancing at Gang Lingqi and the other unconscious people.
”I really do wonder what runs through the minds of these people whenever they try to recruit people into their sect, you'd think they'd be smart enough to know when to keep a distance from people stronger than them. I mean, I cut off the hand of someone that tried to touch one of those white hearts, normally they should get the message with just that. If not, they'll just en...”
There was nothing wrong with trying to recruit others into your sect, but it was important to keep the other party in mind while doing so. Li Yang had clearly shown that he didn't have the slightest care or respect for the great sects, it should be fairly obvious that he wouldn't join any of them just because these people asked nicely and made some sweet promises. They had to join one of the three sects at one point, but it would certainly not be in such a public fashion. Fang Ying walked up to Li Yang as he was talking and used her hand to give the back of his head a quick chop, cutting him off before he could keep on ranting.
”Yes yes, you're very strong and cool, they can't hold a candle to you. Now let's hurry up and dip before anyone comes to check on the area. We've also got a lot of places to explore, it would be a waste to come here and not check out any of the famous places. We also have to figure out which sect to join at a later date, after all, only they have access to the locations that are well-suite for easy traveling to other universes.”
Li Yang clicked his tongue slightly and puffed out his cheeks after he was cut off by Fang Ying, pretending to be pouting as she grabbed onto the collar of his robes and started dragging him away. Zhao Feng felt like gagging when he saw how they acted, sharing a quick exasperated glance with Langshen before they started trekking after Li Yang and Fang Ying.