With a silver flash a giant scorpion split into two in front Yilu Lok is looking at the dead scorpion with cold eyes.
"You have great swordsmanship, young master."
After finishing off the other giant scorpions, two escorts praise him and they are genuinely surprised. Yilh Lok can't use inner qi but in terms of pure swordsmanship Yilu Lok is one step above the two of them.
Yilh Lok smiles and unsheathes his sword and says.
"You praise me too much. I barely killed five giant scorpions but the two of you have killed three times more than me."
"Young master, you are too kind. Your swordsmanship is really strong. Without our inner qi the two of us might not be able to defeat you."
"He is right young master if you have inner qi you might have become one of the five dragons and three phoenix."
Yilu Lok looks at the escorts and asks in confusion.
"Dragon and phoenix what is that?"
Both of the escorts look at each other and one of them explains.
"Young master in the younger generation below twenty five years old the most outstanding ones are given the title of dragons and phoenix."
"Oh! those dragons and phoenix sound amazing."
Both the escort nods.
"Young master you don't know but the second young miss is currently known as fire phoenix and the first young master was formally known as sun dragon."
After discussing Yilu Lok stores all of the corpses into his black bracelet Then he and the two escorts continue their journey. They have travelled a total of one and half miles inside the crack. After walking for another mile they killed a few giant scorpions in their way now there is a giant cave in front of them.
Both of the escorts began to examine the cave.
"What do you think?"
Yilu Lok asks and after thinking for a long time one of the escorts says.
"Young master, I think this is where the source of this crack should be.
"So what are you waiting for? Let's go."
But one of the guards hesitates and says.
"Young master I have a bad feeling I think you should stay here."
"He is right young master your safety is our top priority."
"No, didn't you guys say this is a low level crack and don't worry nothing is going to happen to me."
Yilu Lok refutes them after all there is something inside that the black bracelet needs. How can Yilu Lok miss it?
Yilu Lok and the two escorts enters the cave.
Somewhere far away in the crack Jiu Jin and the other escorts are looking for Yilu Lok in the gray desert of the crack.
"Captain we have searched the area of half a mile but we are unable to locate the young master."
Jiu Jin thinks for a second and suddenly his eyes fall on something. He walks towards it and after touching it he finds the dried blood of the demon beasts.
"Captain this is.. the blood of demon beasts.But there is no corpse."
Jiu Jin cleans his hand and says.
"It seems that young master has passed though here since there is no corpses of the demon beasts young master must have used his artifact."
All the escorts nod in acknowledgement.
"Lets look for more traces. We should be able to find the direction where the young master went."
All the escorts are about to leave but suddenly Jiu Jin unsheaths his sword and swings it at his far right. An orange sword qi hits something in the gray desert and a man jumps backward after blocking the sword qi. Jiu Jin points his sword at the man and asks.
"Who are you?"
The man is wearing a plain brood red robe. He has sharp teeth and a pale face devoid of any blood. He has sharp long nails in both of his hands.
"Shi shi shi shi. you are able to find me. You are not just a simple escort."
Jiu Jin becomes more serious as he looks at the man.
"You.. Why is someone from that organization here?"
The man stops his laughter and looks at Jiu Jin with a serious face.
"You know about us. Just as I thought you are not simple. I am more curious about the identity of that young master of yours, both his sword and the black bracelet he has is not your everyday thing."
Jiu Jin jumps and swings his sword at the man. The nails of the man turn red and in response he also swings his hand.
Both sword and the red nails collide ground beneath Jiu Jin and the man shatter the shockwave from the collision pushes the other escort few step back.
"Tell me where is the young master?"
Jiu Jin asks in an angry voice but the man simply laughs.
"No wonder you can find me so you have reached peak. Now I am even more curious to have a guard like you what is the identity of your young master?"
Jiu Jin inserts more inner qi and swings his sword and the man jumps backwards creating a distance between him and Jiu Jin.
"To reach peak at such a young age your talent is not low but do you think all peak masters are the same? Let me tell you the difference in class between masters who have reached peak."
Then blood red aura envelopes his red hand turning it into a claw. The man swings his claw and five red lights cut through the gray desert and travels towards Jiu Jin.
Jiu Jin swings his sword and an orange sword qi also cuts through the gray desert and hits the five red lights.
Both the orange sword qi and the five red lights destroy each other and a terrifying shockwave shakes everything around and gray dust flies around the entire area.
As the gray dust settles. In the area of ten metres where the red light and orange sword qi collided the ground collapsed and a few feet deep hole can be seen.
The man looks at Jiu Jin, smiles and says.
"Not bad, it seems you are not weak. It is going to be an entertaining fight."
Suddenly one of escort appears behind the man and swings his sword. This time instead of dodging the man swings his hand and the claw hits the sword.
"Cough. cough."
The sword shatters and the claw hit the escort sending him flying. The man hit the gray desert and rolls around dozen times and voilently coughs blood. The mas has suffered deep internal injuries
The man gets distracted for a second and Jiu Jin doesn't let the chance go he dashes towards the man and swings his sword at him.
Great flame art- dance of the flame sword.
The sword envelopes in bright flames and instantly reach the neck of the man. But the man is also a veteran he reflexively uses his blood claw to block the flame sword.
As the flame sword collide with the claw. The flames incinerate the blood qi and cut through the hand of the man. The right hand of the man separates from his forearm and falls to the ground.
"Ahhh."
The man screams and takes a few steps back and presses a few acupoints on his forearm to stop the bleeding.
"You.. You are a late stage peak master."
Jiu Jin sneers.
"So what are you going to complain that you got cheated?"
The man look at Jiu Jin with resentment in his eyes.
"That martial art that you used. To be able to burn through my blood qi only one place has that kind of flame arts."
"Shi shi shi shi shi."
The man began to laught. All the escorts and Jiu Jin suddenly began to have a bad feeling.
"No wonder. No wonder that brat has so many things to think he is son of that basterd Yilu Yan."
Jiu Jin and all the escorts release their inner qi in anger. Anyone who is associated with the Yilu family, for them Yilu Yan, is a subject of worship. Even though Yilu Lok can't use martial arts just because he carries the blood of Yilu Yan for Jiu Jin and all the escorts his life is more important than their own.
"You basters how dare you curse our family head."
Jiu Jin slashes his sword and a flame sword qi fly towards the man. The man jumps and evades the flame sword qi and laughes.
"Did I hit nail in the head. Now just imagine if I kill his son how will Yilu Yan feel."
The bad feeling in Jiu Jin and all the escorts
began to grow.
"Just imagine the face of that monster filled with pain from losing his son. It truly fills me with delight."
Dance of the flame sword second form.
Jiu Jin sings his sword and barrage of sword strikes filled with flame sword qi flies towards the man.
Blood art- Blood mist escape.
As the sword strikes hit the man the man turns into blood mist and scatters. Few meters away from Jiu Jin all the blood mist recondense into the man.
Although the man is able to escape but he is still unable to fully protect himself all sorts of cuts can be seen on his body. But instead of screaming from pain the man laughs.
"Worthy of being guard of Yilu family even after using my secret techniques I am still gravely injured."
Jiu Jin looks at him solomonly. Instead of happiness frustration can be seen on his face because he has lost his chance.
Now instead of continuing the man turns around and leaves.
"Stoppp."
Jiu Jin screames and chase behind him and all of the escorts also follow behind Jiu Jin.
Inside the cave Yilu Lok and the two escorts fought many giant scorpians and killed their way and reached in front of a giant opening in the cave.
"Young master I think behind this gate there is the owner of this crack."
Yilu Lok nods and says.
"Let's go."