Then what happened last night was actually real, I had, no, something doesn't add up if that did happen and she was indeed real, then why did she dissipated like that, other than a few stains on the sheets there is no trace that someone had joined me in bed .
But the ton of information that is currently giving me quite the strong headaches, didn't allow me to doubt that it happened anymore, I was just trying to find a way to deal with the shock and denial was for me the quickest option, that's why I still thinking that that encounter with her was indeed nothing but a dream .
But remembering what happened between us, made this line of thought vanish instantly and in its place, my mind gave birth to another thought, I forced myself on her at that time due to me thinking that it was nothing but a dream, but even though I really had believed that at the time, this doesn't change that what I did was in the end not okay at all .
Due to having lived another whole life before in a more civilized society and morals, I was unable to shake my sense of having to bear responsibility for my actions, I did her wrong due to my unstable state back then .
Her beauty and demeanor captivated and provoked me quite greatly at that time, but the problem still laying completely on me, not to mention that with my mind getting clearer about that incident, I was able to remember that she seemed to have tried to use something that should have forced me to wake up from my shock .
It took merely the thought of wanting to find out what was these notifications were telling me, Soul Shook, that was what the Panel described the purple light that she was trying to unleash would have done to me, it seem that what happened was something like a Meeting of souls kind of thing .
My thoughts aren't clear about how should I describe what happened, but my best guess would be that this meeting should have been inside my body somehow, all kind of authority or power she had was eliminated by the Panel authority .
My feelings regarding this were quite mixed, I liked the Panel supremacy, but in that situation, I would have preferred that the Panel could have let nature take its course without interfering just for only this time, but I had no ability to control on it, it acted of its own accord and removed all kinds of influence other than its.
That was why her tries of trying to stop me failed and I who was in a quite crazed state, didn't care in the slightest and continued to believe that since this was a dream, then there would be no problem with doing all that I want in it .
This led to that and here I'm accusing myself of assault and I'm not even clear about my innocence or guilty, I really don't know what to do now, the only other thoughts that came to mind was her current reaction and whether was she even aware of what had taken place or not .
Then there was the issue that for some reason made me frown quite deeply, recalling the words she said, it seem that she and Li Fu were in some kind of a weird and difficult situation, one that forced the two of them to be on the move .
Meaning that the two of them might have already left the city, no this can't work, I hurriedly changed clothes and wanted to get going, but I then remembered that there was a letter left by Li Fu or maybe Zi Xue, glancing at the desk where I remembered to have put the letter on .
I saw that there was nothing there, the letter had magically disappeared, I couldn't help but look at the doorknob, but so that I didn't unlock the door from inside, but there shouldn't be someone who could have broke in while I was asleep, I don't believe something like this should have been possible .
As I was thinking like this, my actions hadn't slowed down in the slightest, I will inspect the situation with the letter later, now I hurriedly changed my clothes and directly stepped out of my room, just as I was running down the stairs, I happened to have crashed into someone with a petite stature, a girl most likely .
But as if this crash fueled my desire to go and find Zi Xue, I apologized briefly and without doing anything other than stopping the girl from falling backwards by catching her hand and pulling her up, I continued to speed my way through the entrance of the Hall, there were disciples coming back to rest their bodies .
The entrance was crowded, so it would have been difficult to cross all those guys without the use of a special method and I had the perfect one in mind, at least I thought that at that time, this should have been the perfect method for me to use, using Crouching Tiger I was able to move from one crowded point to another, but just as I was flashing in the eyes of the disciples and was about to get out of the Hall .
Just my luck, someone seemed to have decided to enter the Hall together with some of his friends, due to the narrow space and the sudden appearance of those guys, there was not that much time for me to do anything and I ended up having to go through them by force, not willing to lose even a second more .
Like a bowling ball I crashed into those guys and they were directly knocked of my way and flew in all sorts of direction, I crashed them with my own body and not my limbs, otherwise they might have gotten more hurt and I might have lost bit of my momentum as well, I got out of the Hall and headed to the Dojo's Gate .
Unbeknownst to me, my actions seemed to have instigated a commotion that would be the talk of the city for the next few days, just as I got out finally of the Dojo, I suddenly sensed almost all the people at the Hall entrance before following me, but thinking not much of it first, I continued to go on my way, wanting to find Li Fu and Zi Xue .
I had tons of questions I needed to ask, a lot of apologies to give and a few promises to make, I still remember her talking about those enemies that beyond my current comprehension, but who am I, a weak nobody who just started his Martial Path .
Yet, in three days I was able to achieve this much, if I was given a week or two, I should be able to reach Marrow Cleansing Realm or the Peak of the Bone Forging Realm, I thought of this and couldn't help but find that this must be a good silly joke to say in tries of diffusing the tense situation later .
But I still believe that if I used some forbidden methods and skills, I should be able to achieve the same combat power as those in the said stages, this should make me eligible to share some of her burdens, shouldn't it ? .
Stop, thief .
As I was thinking like that, my thinking was suddenly interrupted by a shout coming from a few guys that seem to be still taking the same route as me, hearing them searching for thieves, I couldn't help but turn my head forward, wondering who would dare to come and steal something from our Dojo, could the guys from the Iron Sand Palm Dojo behind this .
I looked forward again and saw that there was no one in sight, the area we were in was quite remote and even though it was close to the market, the street here was completely empty, after all we were in the night, so other than a few certain places still bustling, there should be fewer people around at this hour, no one was currently in front of me, so who exactly were those guys talking to, were they playing some kind of game ? .
Not caring to meddle in other people business when I'm already late to deal with mine, I picked up my speed and decided that Gliding Swallow would be better if used to shuttle from one rooftop to another .
I Directly used the momentum given to me by Crouching Tiger to propel myself up, I jumbed up and landed on the rooftop closest to me, but I shattered a few wood and decorations with my leap and landing, this was my very time to be making so many mistakes, but it's just me not adapting well to my current strength .
There was also another factor that led to this result, which was the improvement in my Mastery over Gliding Swallow, in less than a day since I started to actually use it, I can clearly sense that I'm close to the Small Success realm of mastery, I still didn't even got the chance to see the Tempering Effect it had on the lower body, sigh, since I acquired this skill, a lot has been going on .
You won't be able to escape, thief, someone bring him down for me .
Just as I thought that those guys would be busy with their own play, I suddenly heard someone yelling and saying that he want someone to bring down the thief, I couldn't help but look around left and right, hoping to see where that thief they were going after, but we were shuttling on rooftops in the dark, so how could someone be able to tell who is where .
But this wasn't a problem for me or them, not few eyes glowed in the dark night, then the darkness that obscured most of those guys vision was dealt with, but unlike me who can support this state for more than an hour now, these guys eyes kept flashing on and off .
They were afraid of consuming much of their Blood Qi, that what me think that this scenario was them just playing around, this and the fact that after doing the same, my eyes didn't located anyone around us, unless that person was using a remarkable skill at hiding himself from all prying eyes, he shouldn't be able to stay hidden under my eyes .
Thinking like that, I picked up my speed even more, but then all of a sudden my ears buzzed as I heard the sound of something whistling in the air and coming towards me in quite a fast speed, cutting through the air in front of me was actually an arrow, an arrow that was infused with Blood Qi .
Slightly titling my body, I was able to evade getting hit but the arrow just now, but without even giving me a chance to ask what they were doing, dozen of arrows suddenly began to rain down on me, some were from the group in front of me, other from their friends on the ground, who hadn't still retreated and was still following from beneath us .
Some of these arrows were infused with Blood Qi, while most of them were normal arrow, the slight difference infusing these arrows with Blood Qi wasn't that big, but this was merely because the strongest among those guys was at the 5th Layer Flesh Tempering and nothing more .
Withdrawing the sword that I acquired from Gu Xan, I evaded the Blood Qi infused one and deflected the rest with my sword, one of the Blood Qi infused ones fell into what seem to a stall that sold firecrackers, the second that Blood Qi touched these things, they directly exploded and in an instant, the dim night sky was lightened up by who knows how many fireworks .
Alarming and illuminating the whole city about what is going on here, some normal people who had opened their windows to check on what was happening outside, had some normal arrows pierce into the walls next to the window and get planted there, terrifying most of their families off their wit .
Other people on those family, kids and boys and girls were fascinated by the scene playing in front of them, seeing that a scene was already made out of this situation, I under the lit sky turned towards the guys who were shooting arrows at me and said :
" I'm in a bit of a hurry, I don't know why you are trying to implicit me in your play, but I suggest you stop this instantly .
I turned around and was about to get out of here, but I heard one of them say :
Senior sister Chen had mentioned that you are a despicable thief who infiltrated the Dojo with ill intentions, for that we will detain you until Master come back and if you are not guilty, Master will let you go, so do you want to make this easy for all of us .
What all of you stupid bunch are doing here, who want to detain who, Hou Li, I recognize you, you are from the Solid Rock Fist Dojo, tell me what was going on ? .
Ah, it's officer Gu, the young miss of our Dojo told us that this guy was a thief and we were here to catch him and bring him back to the Dojo .
The two seemed to know each other quite well, they communicated with each other as an old acquaintance and even exchanged information with ease, that officer is surnamed Gu, could he be from the same Gu Family as the two Gu brothers I had met .
Also who was that young miss in the mouth of Hou Li, was she the girl that I happen to stumble upon accidentally a few minutes ago, or was that a few seconds ago, time I had on my had was very much now ticking, what should I do, I wonder what her reasons were to even frame as a thief, could she have not known about me becoming Master's apprentice .
Was women also allowed to practice Martial Arts, who am I kidding, haven't I already did the deed with a woman that might turn out to be stronger than most if not all of the men in this world, speaking of this, I really should be moving .
Where are you going, are you leaving like this without even asking my spear's permission, how willful .
Seeing them chatting so friendly, I was about to slip by them and head to The Pit, trying to find any traces of them, if that didn't work, I could go to Liu'er house, she should have been told something by Li Fu, but I sadly had no idea about where she lived, so my only real chance was try to catch up with them in the woods, hopefully .
But it seem that this would be quite difficult to achieve, slipping by them I mean, wait I might be able to convince these guys from the Dojo with quite ease, I thought like this and disregarding of the dashing Organ Quenching 2nd stage Martial Warrior that was heading towards me with his spear aiming for the kill, I appeared like a ghost in front of the group of disciples while exposing the Token I withdraw earlier .
They were startled at first, but then they all showed angry expressions on all of their faces, the guy surnamed Hou was the first to clear my confusion regarding the weird reactions of their, his answer confused me even more .
That guy actually accused me that I had stolen the young miss of his Token and vowed that he won't be a Man today if he did let me escape with it, the others around also agreed with him, I looked at their resolute expression and thought to myself that being knocked out coldly should not be considered as me escaping .
I blurted my thoughts out loud and 20 people or more were rooted to the ground with open mouths, seeing them like this I thought that it couldn't be more simple than this, shuttling among the Solid Rock Fist Dojo disciples, none of them was able to react, the 14 disciples felt their eyes roll back and fell unconscious .
Earth Snapping Spear .
Just as I finished giving each one of the a chop to the neck, I heard a cry and instantly put my guard on, the guy that was surnamed Gu seemed to be determined on attacking me today, I saw he was once again dashing towards me with his spear raised in a weird angle, but this time there was something different about him .
He was using his Blood Qi and he was most likely using a Martial Weapon Skill too, his attack came, but seeing his charge and the momentum he had already accumulated, I chose to evade clashing with him head-on .
The difference between those at the Organ Quenching Realm and the Flesh Tempering Realm laid in the purity of Blood Qi, the Blood Qi of the Organ Quenching Realm was more refined and as a result had more explosive strength contained in it as well .
But how much destructive his Blood Qi and attacks are of no threat as long as I don't get hit, I also can't stop him with my current strength, I can utmost deal with an 8th Flesh Tempering Martial Apprentice, a 9th layer would be a tough challenge, if he were to be a Martial Arts genius and had mastered unique Skills and Techniques .
Unless I used a one of my hidden cards, it was not possible to stop this guy's attack head on, unfortunately neither of my cards can be used openly here and I need to wrap things here quickly, so at most I can use my enhanced senses to keep him from landing any hits and attack with the sword and my Martial Skills, I need to make him feel both threatened and helpless .
Just as I evaded the first strike of his, it was aimed at my stomach, but I used Gliding Swallow to outmaneuver him and evaded to the side, just as I raised the sword in hand, I saw that he turned his head and his expression darkened and even began to sense a killing intent being exuded from him, I couldn't help but wonder where this guy acquired such hatred for me from, he squinted his eyes at me and said :
You, you are That Tian Long .