52 Escape (1/2)

Chapter 52

Diako Zenua sat in the window of her carriage tapping her fingers impatiently. She felt that something was very wrong right now. The elite squadron should have been back by now. Zenua trusted her instincts implicitly, so she took out a token white jade token with the Diako family name engraved on it. She promptly crushed it in her hand. Her family would send one of the guardian elders to come to her rescue. This would be an existence that was anywhere from the mid to late Solid Core Stage cultivator.

She had sensed that Chen Zhen was only just into the Liquid Core Stage. Even if he was from a powerful clan that gave him a life saving treasure, he most likely used it already to fight off the elite squad. If he came looking for revenge he would end up falling right into her hands anyway, Zenua thought to herself with a chuckle.

BOOM!!

A carriage full of soldiers exploded, causing wood and flesh to rain down from the sky. Zenua's intuition was correct once again. Her soldiers were well trained, so instead of panicking they quickly formed a battle formation. When the dust and smoke cleared the soldiers didn't see anyone around. Suddenly they looked up into the air and saw what looked like a blood red armored demon standing there.

The strongest soldier there was only at the peak of Body Refinement Stage, so their attacks were just too weak to harm Chen Zhen. The smell of blood in the air was making the beastly instincts of Chen Zhen's bloodline start to enter a frenzy. Chen Zhen dove down thru the soldiers slaughtering them like a wolf amongst chickens. His claws ripped thru flesh and bone with absolutely no resistance. Screams filled the air as blood began to collect like a pool around Chen Zhen's feet.

Zenua witnessed this from a distance, and trepidation began to make her heart beat faster. She stood outside her carriage watching Chen Zhen massacring her troops and knew that it was useless to even try running.

As Chen Zhen walked out of the blood pool he had created from the soldiers bodies, his eye finally fell upon Zenua standing by her carriage. Chen Zhen's steps caused small indentations in the ground as he walked. His right arm had flame in the shape of a Phoenix with long tail feathers coiled around it. His left arm had a Lightning Dragon coiled around it. The detail of the two divine spirit creatures was to the point that they looked no different from real animals. Chen Zhen stopped ten feet from Zenua.

”Give me the antidote to the neuro-toxin and I will give you a painless death.”

”Don't think you can intimidate me. My family has housekeepers stronger than you.” It took all of Zenua's mental fortitude to not allow her voice to tremble as she stared Chen Zhen down.

Chen Zhen lifted his head and took a deep breath, he started laughing and Zenua could see his canine teeth enlarging in his mouth.

”You can't bluff me, I can smell the fear on you. If I had to guess I would say your bravado is an attempt to stall for time. No matter what you will not leave here alive. I gave you two chances to leave me and my family alone peacefully. You chose to ignore my warnings. You can only blame yourself for your own downfall.”

Just as Chen Zhen was about to take a step forward he was blasted back for hundreds of feet. When he picked himself up he saw a middle-aged man in black robes with a white symbol of the Diako family on his chest.

”You will die today for your insolence.” The middle-aged man said with an emotionless face.

”Hahaha… that actually hurt a little.” Chen Zhen said as he wiped a trickle of blood off the corner of his mouth, ”You're stronger then the rest. Good, this should be more fun.”

The longer Chen Zhen's bloodline was activated the stronger his blood lust became. It made him strive for battle and the feeling of his claws tearing his enemies apart. They had touched upon his reverse scale when they went after Mei Ling and the kids. Chen Zhen allowed the Blood Lion's instincts to fully take over his mind.

A saber appeared in the middle-aged man's hands. His aura skyrocketed around him, suddenly the surrounding temperature began to drop drastically. In a couple breaths frost covered everything around them. As the middle-aged man's aura kept surging spikes of ice began to form around him. The man took one step forward, but it carried him to right in front of Chen Zhen, ”Lunar Ice Storm,” as he slashed down hundreds of ice spike followed his saber.

Chen Zhen crossed his arms in front to block the incoming ice. The images of Shanggu Feng and Lou Tian flared up forming a barrier of Fire and Lightning that blocked the ice spikes. Even though the spikes were blocked Chen Zhen was still pushed back another hundred feet. He dug the claws on his feet into the ground to finally come to a stop.