As I reached to that conclusion, I noticed that Li Fu seemed to finally have as well, he was looking at me shocked and completely baffled, not willing to even think for a little, that guy directly tried to bust into the door, I was still shocked about this discovery, so I wasn't able to stop him in time .
But just as he was about to kick the door open, his feet happened to trigger some trap, instantly the door was opened and all sorts and shapes of machete, darts and other sharp weapons were launched at him .
I was about to call out for him to take cover, but luckily this wasn't necessary, the guy was able to move swiftly between the rain of sharp weapons and successfully evaded, then without even waiting for me, he directly disappeared into the building .
Seeing that there was no point in trying to reach him through reason at the current stage, I cursed my luck and directly followed right after him, once I went inside I saw that their was actually some sort of a tunnel leading downward, in the tunnel light was quite scarce, but that wasn't the most issue with the tunnel .
The most disturbing issue was the fact that I was currently walking in what seemed to be a blood ponds, there was no doubt about it now, things here are more complicated than what we initially thought .
I didn't see any trace of Li Fu even after I went inside directly after him, so either he had some accident or he hadn't stopped moving forward even after witnessing all this .
My heartbeats were so fast that I was beginning to hear them quite clearly in this dark place, I didn't know what was going on here and I'm beginning to think that it's better not to inspect into the matter any further .
I kept reminding myself of the reason I came here for and hope that the girl I came to save wasn't already gone, forcing myself to take a step after a step, my heartbeats weren't slowing down, in fact it kept on increasing, my Blood Qi Instinctively began running and circling around me, only then did my heartbeat began to slow down .
Taking a deep breath, I no longer used my enhanced sense of smell, the smell was becoming more and more unbearable, if not for the fact that I wouldn't want to run into an enemy in the darkness, I would have even stopped enhancing my eyes .
Continuing forward, I finally seemed to have reached a temple of some sort laying under the building above, this night was becoming more and more weirder, Bu Fan didn't mention anything of this place, he only said that he handed the drugged girl to a guy in front of the building above .
So he most likely have no clue about the interior of this place, just my luck I guess, there was still no trace of Li Fu and this alarmed me strongly .
Cautiously stepping towards the temple doors, I enhanced my sense of hearing by infusing my ears with Blood Qi, disregarding of the notifications that soon followed, I leaned slightly on the door and began to try and listen to whatever was happening inside .
After I did this, I began to hear some muffled groans and cries from inside, not thinking straight as before, I recklessly broke inside wanting to save the girl who was crying and get out of this cursed place, but just as I entered, I saw that there were actually a group of people waiting for me behind the door, the moment I stepped in, I heard a hoarse voice say :
Another lamb came to be slaughtered, take him .
Then I sense my back become cold after hearing this and without wasting a breath, I directly ducked on the ground and that was indeed the right call, a guy holding what seemed to be a wood stick was swinging aggressively at where my head should have been, if I was to get hit by that swing, I would have lost consciousness directly .
I wanted to retreat, but I was now surrounded and seem unable to do so, what made matters worse was the fact that from the auras I'm able to sense, everyone in front of me was actually like Ti Tu, a fifth layer Flesh Tempering Martial Apprentice .
The guy who was supposedly their leader was a 6th layer Martial Apprentice as well, sensing that there was no room for hesitation, I directly began swinging my fist at them, whether was it because the unique path I'm taking or them being quite weak .
Every punch of mine took down one of those guys, the leader seeing this asked them not to fret and use the formation, I saw them repositioning themselves to be in front, leaving the injured and those who directly got knocked out behind .
My path of retreat was once again opened, but I barely consider retreating anymore, no matter how much I thought about it, I believed that the best course of action now was to push forward, else there would be no more chance for me to save anyone .
Looking at the Battle Formation these guys use, I saw that they were actually battling me in a 4 on one kind of formation, I didn't get what they were trying to do exactly, but I was able to understand that they were trying to beat me with their numbers .
Luckily the temple interior had much space than I initially thought, taking advantage of that, I used Crouching Tiger and directly tried to run these guys over, but just as I was about to crash into them, I saw the 4 people in front making way for me .
Then another 4 people stepped forward brandishing their swords in front, aiming to stop my acceleration, but sadly for them, Crouching Tiger is the best in evading and changing direction, running back towards the 4 guys who were luring me into this trap .
I saw that they two turned their bodies towards me and brandished their swords at me as well, wanting to squeeze me between the two offenses, seeing that the situation become quite dire, I stopped using Crouching Tiger and instead used Gliding Swallow, this was a move that I wasn't familiar with, so it was quite difficult to control .
But luckily the principal behind this move was simple, I just raise my leg and force Blood Qi to burst right before I step down on earth, then I would make use of the force to rush forward swiftly or jump forward and land somewhere else gracefully like a swallow .
Through the gaps that those guys left between them, I was able to barely make it in time, the swords of the two teams clashed with each other, wanting to turn me into a minced meat, but after the loud sounds of swords clashing and some of them even breaking, I directly appeared behind the first team that lured me into their so-called formation .
Taking advantage of the situation, I directly moved towards the back of that team and used Thunderclap Fist, the thunder roared and four punches forced the bodies of four people to clash with the swords of the other team, piercing them and the force in these punches still forced them to crash into the other team .
From the 8 men team, 4 ended up dead, the other 4 ended up get crashed into by the first 4 and one of them only remained standing, just as managed to keep his balance, I directly appeared in front of him and landed a flying kick on his face, I heard the bones of his skull getting crushed and he was sent flying into the nearest wall .
Only the leader of this group of people was still standing and seemed to be stunned and unable to comprehend what just happened, but as I just merely started to move in his direction after pulling a sword from the body of one his men, I saw that his eyes become ferocious and he yelled :
Seeking Death, Heart Crushing Palm .
A palm strike aimed at the left side of my chest appeared in my sight, but with Crouching Tiger I directly passed this guy and directly tried to insert the sword in hand into his chest, he didn't seem to have expected me to be able to evade and the sword directly pierced his back and came from his chest .
But weirdly enough he didn't actually die, but instead turned to look at me with a horrified expression on his face .
Then without a warning, his body began to deform and transform to an abomination like monster, but what made me alarmed wasn't this weird development, but the fact that this guy transformation looked almost identical to Lu Sun .
I was merely beginning to have doubts about who might behind all this, but now these suspicions of mine were confirmed, the Evil Tigers might have a hand in whatever that was at work here, Su Niu a disciple of the Solid Rock Fist Dojo was actually working with such an organization .
Didn't this mean that they have already infiltrated the Dojo, as I reached this conclusion, the Blood in my veins ran cold and due to my lack of focus, I was directly hit by the blue like troll creature in front of me and was directly sent flying into the inner area of the temple crashing directly on the marbled floor .
I spat a mouthful of blood and felt as my internal organs were being reshuffled, groans of pain escaped from my mouth and my own Blood Qi seemed to consumed rapidly to try and stabilize my state .
You, you forced me into this state, kill you, I must kill you .
I wasn't even able to raise my hand and see him talking, I only heard this sentence and then the whole temple seemed to began shaking with the angry roar that came from that guy .
I wasn't able to understand what was the meaning of his words, what state, what exactly was he saying, but hearing him roaring was all that I needed to know that he had completely gone berserk now .
I heard a loud sound of earth seemed to be shaken, but then I felt a threatening coming from above me, forcing my Blood Qi to circulate in the Dragon-Tiger Transformation circulation route .
Then my head buzzed with notifications and my body become a bit lighter than before, I still was troubled with my injuries, but was able to roll my body to the side and evade being stomped to death by that angry like ghoul creature .
I barely had stood up when I felt my eyes following the massive shadow that was coming at me, seeming to not want to give me any time to catch my breath, I used Crouching Tiger to barely managed to evade his punch, he was unable to suppress his movements in time and still punched the wall, once again forcing the whole place to shake .
Sensing that I had no more than 3 to 5 minutes in my current state, I was clear about needing to finish this up quickly, I directly fetched the Blood Sucking Sword from the pouch .
Surprisingly the moment I did this, I saw that the creature seemed to have regained a bit of his sanity, enough to stare at me with the same horrified expression from before, then with his hoarse voice he managed to say while seeming to be quite panicked :
You, who are you, what are you trying to do with this .
" Of course sending you on your way .
This was the first time I actually spoke since this fight had started, but even these few words were enough to ignite his anger even more, I saw him looking around searching for something, then I saw that he found what he was looking for, a Pouch that was on the floor close to where he was initially standing, so it must be his .
Not willing to waste much time in seeing what he was up to, I moved swiftly and began to infuse my Blood Qi into the sword once again feeling the familiar connection with it then I began to circulate my Blood Qi according to the diagram of the Life-Severing Sword move and directly appeared in front of the troll like creature and swung the sword down while in the air .
After I jumped on the air to gain momentum, I barely managed to see him looking at me and having already gotten what he needed from the pouch, a familiar fool smell assaulted my nose and I saw him holding the familiar red pill from yesterday and about to swallow it while yelling loudly :
Since you are risking your life, then I will accept it for the price of you taking mine, see you in hell, hah.....h .
He thought that he would be able to swallow that pill even though I already this close to him, urging the secret skill more urgently, I sensed the familiar feeling from back in the Dojo's Hall, the feeling of my Life Force being consumed then less than a second the feeling disappeared and the sword in my hand became much sharper, faster .
Then without any warning, my body moved even faster than before and my slash successfully and directly descended on the body of the creature like a Divine Judgment, the creature was split in two from the head to the torso and the pill that he just tried to swallow fell on the ground after finding no mouth to fall in .
The creature's laughter stopped and as his body fell into the floor, his flesh was ignited and he turned into ash, landing behind him my figure was being illuminated by the fire that was eating his body and I swung the sword to cleanse it from the dark red blood of the creature, but the sword had already absorbed it .
Turning my head seeing his whole body being turned into powder in less than a minute, I couldn't help but sigh and after that I stopped using my Martial SecretSkills and sat down on the floor inspecting my current state and injuries .
Looking at my hands and seeing how bloody they have become and how shaky were they currently, I couldn't help but punch the ground out of frustration, I after all still indecisive, if I had acted faster before none of this would have happened, Li Fu wouldn't have encountered misfortune and I wouldn't have needed to spend that much Blood Qi to achieve victory .
Luckily, I didn't have that much free time on my hand to dwell here much, I raised myself up and got a few pieces of meat from the pouch and stuffed my mouth with them, not wanting to encounter another fight in my current state .
My clothes were damaged, heck even my body had suffered quite the number of bruises and cuts, I was heavily injured, but the pain was minimal and all thanks go to my Blood Qi .
In a few seconds later and thanks to the 100% consumption energy rate that the Panel blessed me with, I was able to feel revitalized again and even some of my bruises began to heal on their own, looking backwards at the guy who were unconscious, I managed to see that some of them are showing signs of waking up .
I went for the pouch of their leader and surely enough, there were not quite the few numbers of robes in it, after emptying everything in the pouch on the ground, I used the robes to tie all these guys who were still alive .
Then after thinking for a second, I tied the other who deceased as well, the reason was because I was worried that there might be any more surprises, I then covered their mouths with cloths then began to hid them in the dark corners of the place, thinking that even if someone were to come over to check he wouldn't notice anything out of order .
At least not to alarm whoever that come later, as for the signs of fighting on the ground and the guy's illustration on the wall, I decided that there was nothing much that I can do about this, with that done, I began to head through the corridor of the after gathering the belongings of this group of people .
I searched their bodies and found either hidden pockets or normal pouches, even the swords were not spared by me, these were normal swords, but they must be worth something, walking through the corridor, I began following the crying sounds until I finally arrived at the room where the sounds were quite clear .
Cautiously opening the door, what greeted me with the face of a wretched guy smiling sinisterly as he was saying :
You guys seemed to have had quite the fun, is the intruder got any bones l..... .
A second later a head fell over and then the loud cries of fright from more than dozen of people inside the room sounded, I was shocked at first but once I completely went inside, I saw that there were more than a dozen girls staying behind bars here with their hands cuffed .
" There is no need to worry, I'm here to get all of you out .
As I said this, some breathed a sigh of relief and others kept eying me wryly, but one girl was still weeping and crying her heart out while holding someone in her embrace, seeing who was she holding, I directly appeared inside the cage holding them after denting the steel bars .
The person who was laying in a pool of his own blood was actually none other than Li Fu whom I hadn't seen a trace of since we entered the temple and whom I have been looking for all this time .
As I drew near him, the girl glared at me and shielded him from me using her other hand, warning me not to get close, seeing her like this I said :
" You must be Liu'er, I came here with him to save you, could you let me check his state, I might be able to help him .
Please help him .
Until she heard that I might be able to help him she was still guarded against me, but after she heard that I might help, she directly pushed him towards me while bowing down on the floor, pleading for me to help him .
I checked his pulse and felt that he seemed to be barely hanging to life, his body had cuts and the back of his head seemed to have gotten a heavy hit, I pulled a green pill from my pouch and let him swallow it, nothing happened at first, but then like magic, I saw that his Blood Qi began to activate and circle around his body, then his injuries one by one began to heal .
His sickly complexion began to return normal and even become a bit more rosy, then he suddenly spat a mouthful of blood, before I understand what was going on with him, he opened his eyes, they were purple first then they returned to normal brown after a second .
Senior Brother Tian, Thank you .
Just as I was about to tell him, not to make much of it, I heard a few voices coming from the hallway, I stood up and told him that I will wrap things out there and after he gets enough rest he also should finish wrapping everything here and got out of the room directly .