140 Dog bites.

"Good! You actually learned some of my moves by only watching!Most people can't register it even with a punch to the face."

Zh Rui said to a man spread on the sand

"Haha, I watched your movements for three whole days, andI could only dodge a single hit, with you even locking down your cultivation. ugh, I feel bad."

The man said while holding his broken nose.

"He~" Zhi Rui dragged the letter. His words where depreciative but the gloating was so obvious that people watching cringed.

He was the first guy to dodge a hit from her, it isn't weird for him to be like this.

But Zhi Rui started laughing aloud as the people screamed and threw things, cursing at him for his shamelessness, He shoved his proud broken nose up in the air and laughed like a winner.

Zhi Rui shook her head, 'if it wasn't for the blood flowing down I' might've found him sexy.'

As the people calm down again the next in line for the challenge stood to wait for Zhi Rui's invite.

(If you hadn't let your mind wander you wouldn't have missed the idiot.)

Zhi Rui ignored Tianzy, and motioned to the next in line to enter the circle.

through the four days she waited for Hilda she practiced her new ability.

The fully armored man stamped down inside the circle.

"Bloody hell, it's just like they say, our new chief Alpha is one tough little girl."

Zhi Rui frowned at the deep aged voice.

To the side of the circle, an elderly man who looked to be on his anniversary of eighty years strolled inside the circle with his back hunched.

"Ye, girlie, would you play a little with this old man?"

"Iusually don't mind as long as it can get up." Zhi Rui answered.

"Ahaha! good girlie!This old man will get it up for ya!"

His word finished, in the next moment his back was straight as a tall tree.

He pointed at the sky then pointed his finger directly at Zhi Rui's nose.

Zhi Rui's deep green eyes opened wide with urgency and herface scrunched

"HAAAAAAA!" She screamed

Materializing a wall of energy in front of herself.

Zhi Rui felt her hand burning, she clenched her teeth and jumped upwards.

an explosion resounded sending all the people watching ten meters away.

Standing above in the air Zhi Rui look down on the old man' location.

He thought the cloud of sand he created would blinf her vision a faint wheezing sound reached her ears and for a flash of a second a hole bore through the cloud of sandZhi Rui saw through it the old man standing right under it.

With a savage snarl, Zhi Rui used her solid energy to bolt herself downwards,directly in the route of the transparent hot air.

Her eyes glowed red and she shoved her hand coated on solidified energy onto it.

It exploded burning her arm until the elbows and torching the kin on her face and shoulders.

She could've avoided it, but it'd prolong the fight.

She shortened their distance by a few meters,the elderly man's startled eyes and inclination backward told Zhi Rui his hit and run strategy, she didn't laugh, she didn't want to give him the chance of dodging.

She punched away and hit him in the chest but his jump backward reduced the impact and she only managed to latch a string onto him.

That' when she saw it, the devious glint on the old man's eyes.

He had opened his mouth midair, and Zhi Rui saw the mall sparkle inside.

it wasn't hot air like before, a ball of fire made completely of dense fire attributed energy was forming as he flew backwards.If that thing exploded, she would be launched away with serious injuries, if not dead.

In a second Zhi Rui thought of using the ghost ability she acquired on the pagoda, she used it only one time to stop that fighting couple from committing suicide.

But he was level three, an old, and experienced one, that kind of ability might fail against him.

As she thought, the ball of energy in his mouth was almost ready and it was going to burst through her punch and send her away.

Suddenly a thought struck her mind. ;she used the ghost to stun a weak expectation. the ghost-filled her mind with horror and stunned her in place.

Zhi Rui's mind worked at the speed of light. The expectator was the woman who she latched the string before. She willed it, and the woman's absurd scared shitless moment came to Zhi Rui and she induced it onto the old man.

His eyes trembled and his mouth went rigid, he was scared stunned.

Zhi Rui's punch came crashing down and she broke the through the jaw of the old man. Destroying the ball of fire inside. It imploded torching her skin black and destroying his jaw. The old man flew twenty meters away. His back went to the normal hunched state. Once he fell on the ground people in red robes jumped up on him and started to feeding him herbs and pills.

Her hand's skin was torched black. All her face had burnt wounds and her meat was showing through those injuries.

Her chest trembled as Zhi Rui smirked at the old man. When she punched down she made sure the explosion happened inside his mouth

The people watched with hock as the people in red robes tried to attach his jaw back in and heal it together but Zhi Rui could see it clearly the burnt marks on it wouldn't let that happen

"You managed to get it up old man I'll give you that."Zhi Rui chuckled and laughed out loud.

(Well done) Tianzy said as Zhi Rui walked away.

Zhi Rui nodded to herself. 'It doesn't matter if a person doesn't react easily, If I induce an emotion, then that person will react with it regardless.'

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"Who was he?" Zhi Rui asked.

"Fire-heart's uncle. He'd been living in debauchery this past year, he used to be shunned from the tribe' high status, before that.

Zhi Rui looked at Rain's eyes. "Something tells me you'll hand me a list."

Rain's lost composure for a few seconds.

"Ah- I-"

"Just hand it to me." Zhi Rui says rolling her eyes.

Rain extended a sheet of paper "H-how di-"

"He's trash. When trash like him lives that long and build that amount of strength, it means they're intelligent and cautious. and if a person like that randomly attacks me, then it isn't random. He was incited or assured by someone. And you're my most recently made friends, you're eager to show how much you value our friendship. It's only right for you to know who did it, you were expecting them to."

"Haa, since you already know then I'm leaving." Rain got up and left.

The sound of the door echoed.

"That' you cue." Zhi Rui said.

Hilda walked over from the corner fo the room and sat across from Zhi Rui gasping, her eyes stern as she looked at hte deep green eyes.

Zhi Rui stopped drinking her tea,put it on the table and leaned in locking eyes with the out of breath Hilda.

"Zhun Xuyin, Izaya, and the couple will come in a week.' Hilda said. "But Zheng Li seemed weird."

Zhi Rui frowned.

"I told him we're about to wage war." Hilda continued.

"He agreed and nodded to everythingbuthe left a message"

Zhi Rui nodded for her to go on.

"He said that he won't be just a guardian anymore. And that he'll be waiting for you."

Zhi Rui frowned deeply 'What the hell is he thinking?'