Li Zhao didn't know where the portal would lead, but knew it would go to a place that matched the energy of his last intension. As he fell through the portal onto the busy street, He sprinted through this new unfamiliar world, knowing there was a chance An Jian would follow suit.
People who saw the strangely dressed man in a purple and black robe running through the streets at high speeds, weren't sure if it was some viral drama promotion, or just someone on drugs high out of their minds. An older gentleman even shook his head wondering why such a man was not running in the Olympics but instead running around as a costume otaku.
As Li Zhao slowed down he was attracted to the sound of music unlike any other he had heard before. He walked closer to the building trying to get to the source, at the entrance the bouncer who waved some scantily clad girls through cutting the long line outside. His job was to let in beautiful girls, abnormally handsome men or interesting men, and somehow Li Zhao's strange aura, handsome looks with a weird costume of high quality material passed 2 of the 3 conditions. The bouncer waved Li Zhao through, some girls in the line looked in excitement as he passed through.
Inside Li Zhao could feel the degenerate energy, guilty pleasures, addictions, impure and even violent thoughts. As a waitress walked by with drinks, he grabbed one of the drinks on her tray, overtaken by curiosity. The waitress turned to him and said "Hey, that is not yours and it's not free". Li Zhao, understanding things were not free in his world either, pulled out a gold nugget hoping this world would accept it. The waitress who happened to have worked at her parent's jewellery store, took the nugget expecting to laugh at the pathetic attempt at a joke, suddenly realized it was really gold from the weight and texture. If this was pure gold it would be worth at least $10,000. Her face turned to a shocked expression before changing to her most seductive face "So you're a freaky rich boy". Li Zhao frowned, happy his gold nugget was worth as much here as it was at home, maybe more. The waitress then brought the gold nugget back to show her colleagues and they agreed he must be some wealthy playboy doing cosplay, deciding they should give him the VIP treatment.
Being quite the standout in looks and dress attire, he caught the attention of many women, before long he was surrounded by multiple women who seemed addicted to his aura. The women in this world wore less than the prostitutes did in his world. One of the ladies that had been eyeing him all night asked to take him back to her home. He contemplated, not sure if this was his darkness wanting to feed or was this his own feelings. He finally gathered himself, and waived off the women walking out of the club as he was craving a different kind of energy.
Li Zhao came to a dark alley where he could feel a violent aura. A gang of men were beating on another. Li Zhao walked closer smiling as if he had found something tasty. The men finally noticed this odd man in a purple and black robe like he stepped out of a costume drama, grinning at them watching their violence. It slightly creeped them out, but they would use anger to mask their fear.
"What the fuck are you looking at Freak" it was actually slightly hard to insult him because his uncovered chest that peaked out from his robe showed he was fit like a pro athlete, his only blemish was probably the odd dress attire but somehow even those seem of high quality.
Li Zhao inquisitively asked "Are you bandits?"
The gangsters looked at each other in surprised, "No fuck face, we are the Chum Li Gang, and your intruding on our turf"
Another gangster then pointed at Li Zhao with his bat "This clown needs to learn his place, lets see how much longer he will smile for us"
The five gangsters pulled out their knives and bats and walked slowly towards Li Zhao, but he could feel they had no internal energy and judging from how the man was getting beaten, it didn't look like much of a threat to himself. He too was unsure if the metal chariots were driven by incredible internal energy, but the more he studied these people, the weaker he thought they were. This would be a good time to test out his theory and see if anyone was worthy of his concern.
One of the gangsters then yelled "Hey dick head, are you ready to become fish food?" as he lunged with a knife trying to stab Li Zhao in the chest. Li Zhao grabbed the man's hand with the knife, freezing the man in place. The man tried his hardest to advance his stab but could not move the knife any closer to Li Zhao, no matter how hard he pushed. Li Zhao then looked at the man calmly and put his other hand on the man's head, and with an inhale, the gangster's face shriveled up collapsing to the floor dead. The others startled by the sight tried to gather their courage and attack but Li Zhao dodge each strike casually, countering with what was for Li Zhao light merciful strikes to each of the gangsters chest, causing them to fly back meters before crashing to the ground, however still leaving them alive.
Li Zhao looked at the pathetic group lying on the ground and grinned confidently knowing his hypothesis was right, they were all weak with no internal energy.
Li Zhao then walked into the middle of the 4 men lying on the ground with one dead and wrinkled, "You all now work for me, if you have any objections, please share"
The men laid groaning on the ground in fear not sure how to respond.
Li Zhao then said "Take your time to get up, but don't take too long" causing the men to shiver and try to gather themselves quickly to stand up.
Li Zhao pointed to the beaten man and asked "Who is he"
No one answered, but as Li Zhao's hand twitched about to take another life,
One of the gangsters quickly answered, "he tried to short change us so we had to teach him a lesson".
Li Zhao walked over to the man being previously beaten. The man looked into his eyes as if he was his saviour but Li Zhao placed his palm on his head and sucked the life from his eyes.
Li Zhao turned around with a grin "take me to your lair"
The gangsters looked at each other like timid school children and walked over to their car opening the door for Li Zhao, "Please get in boss"