Need to help Qian Ki 2

"That was the deal." Qian Ki agreed with the man skewered on multiple spikes.

"See you on the other side." The man hearing that this woman would uphold the deal was happy, and so said goodbyes.

The woman being dragged by Qian Ki just sobbed, not saying anything back, well, at least not before the red blade of her captor sliced her throat open.

"Can I go now?" The man, after leaving out a squeal from seeing it happen asked.

"Sure, she must be waiting for you" She spoke while already moving the body belonging to the lover of the man, who didn't want her to be waiting for him.

'That is the last of them...I should go and welcome those people trying to get here.' Without further ado, she having finished the ritual walked out of the mass grave towards the outside like the smoke wasn't affecting her.

After all, it wasn't.

"What do we have here?" Moments later as she walks the hallways, she notices the Holy Coalition troops wandering towards her like blind rats.

"Who are you!" The Chief, who was leading this exploration, shouted back into the hallway.

"The person you are looking for." She laughed.

".What! Who are you! What are you doing!" The Chief wasn't sure what to do.

"Me? I'm just one of the people who came to look at this place. What I'm doing? I'm cultivating." She had no hurry and so responded to the questions.

"So another one of you who needs to be eliminated" Somehow after hearing her answer those questions the Chief became confident and drew his sword. "I heard that you lot aren't very strong."

"Maybe." Qian Ki's voice came from the front of the man. "Yet here I hold all the cards." This voice came from behind him?

'Strike!' The Chief didn't think another second before using his sword to sweep the area behind him.

"Thanks." The same voice of a woman spoke again while around him, his ears heard how men were screaming in pain.

The sweep of his sword only hit his own men... 'Dammit!' The Chief then flailed around him. "Fight me!"

"Are you sure you want that?" Qian Ki wasn't going to fight this Body Reunion Realm expert; she preferred playing.

Yes, Qian Ki was taking on a Body Reunion Realm expert while herself being a Body Strengthening Realm Second Grade. A Realm difference was already something, but how about two? That was completely unheard of in the Ohin Continent or in the Tomb of the Four Ancient Ones. Still, it was possible because Qian Ki had all the cards while the Chief had dropped all of his by the entrance to this underground complex.

"I just need one hit, and you are done!" It might be so, but the Chief did realise a few things. Most significantly, he realised that the woman slashing at him could barely make a scratch onto his body.

"How are you going to achieve that?" Qian Ki wasn't scared, so to this, she laughed while creeping around the Chief following his hearing to fight.

"Wait and see." The Chief wasn't going to back down like this.

Neither backing down, the same thing happened over and over again. The Chief followed the laughing or taunting coming from the enemy while Qian Ki poked at him.

Sometime later.

"I'm getting bored with you." Qian Ki wasn't laughing so much anymore.

"Show some fucking respect you brat!" The Chief had had his cup of anger overflow for some time already.

"You aren't showing me anything to respect. I'm shaking my head over here if you didn't see." She taunted. "I'll see if your men have anything better to show me." She then said that she would be changing focus.

"Everyone get out of here!" The Chief didn't want to call a retreat, but the current situation didn't leave him with many options.

The conformation to this came soon, yet at the same time, his men began to scream from pain, "You witch come back here!" His opponent hadn't waited for him.

"You aren't my father!" She laughed back while throwing one of his subordinates at the man trying to search her in this thick red smoke.

On the other side of the Holy Coalition forces, the direction of out this place; nevertheless, on this side, the Chiefs were now trying to contest the Bald Eagle Dynasty and Yi Family.

"Armistice!" Someone called from the Holy Coalition side.

Hearing this, the Eleventh Prince who had taken command after the vision problem had been solved responded. "Armistice!" He was of the same opinion.

'Oh? Were going to stop fighting?' Xiao Fan far behind the front line heard this and thought. Indeed they were stopping and from that point on the fighting gradually stopped until no clanking or punching could be heard.

"Mask!" When that became the new norm, the Eleventh Prince called for the diplomat they had, though he might want to see him die...

'Oh shit!' It didn't take a second for Xiao Fan to realise this either, but what to do? "Coming."

Well, pray. He could pray.

"Go and talk with them." When by the Eleventh Prince was he commanded to do his job again.

"Just let me know what you want."

"Ask them what they are doing, and preferably get the fighting to stop." The reality was that fighting here would be something no one on their level wanted to see since it would be too random with no chance to surrender.

"Shall be done." Xiao Fan needed to swallow his pride a bit and follow the orders he was given.

"Were sending a diplomat over!" The Eleventh Prince then shouted into the hallway and gave Xiao Fan a push forward.

'No need to push...' Xiao Fan expressed to himself alone, yet did what he was told.

Soon, his hands up, he came to the point where the Holy Coalition frontline was, "Coming here, coming here." Repeating this was he let alone and allowed to walk towards the voice that responded to him.

"Oh, it's you again." Who was the Chief who saw him? It was the man with the wolf headdress.

"Looking for Wang Geming?" He before starting the diplomatic talk asked.

"He's here?" The Chief seemed to be interested.

"He's here. Might be looking for you?" Xiao Fan confirmed that Wang Geming was with them, and it might be that Wang Geming was also looking for this Chief, "However, what if you two settle this on the outside?"

"Another day?" The Chief was excited, yet proposed this.

"?" The Chief could see that Xiao Fan behind some smoke was confused as to why not.

"Our job here is to end that red smoke. I take that you are here for that too?" The man explained his wish.

"Indeed we are, but we thought it was you guys doing something" Of course, he knew exactly what was going on here, but lying is good.

"It isn't us. We wouldn't touch such vile arts." The man almost got himself on the death list, "It is actually one of you people."

"Then how about we work together on this problem? Armistice for today?" He then stretched his hand over to him.

"For today." The man saw no reason not to "Come with me." He then turned around, clearly in a hurry.

Before going with him, he shouted to the other direction. "It an armistice for today! Let them get out!" After that, he left with the Chief wearing the wolf headdress.

"Any idea what this is?" Walking amidst the Holy Coalition troops, the Chief asked if the other force had any idea to this.

"Some, blood magic, should be prevented, that type of idea." Xiao Fan gave out a vague answer. "But if we get to the origin of it, I can control it."

"You practise?" The man was surprised and shocked to hear this. Blood magic wasn't something looked well by his people; well, it wasn't even known to them.

"Of course, not." 'In a way, yes.' "I know how these things work so that I can prevent them.¨ He twisted the words.

The man he was lying to was a Body Reunion Realm expert most likely, so he couldn't make up things, or death would follow. Thankfully the smoke was making things easy for him.

After all, he was the same as Qian Ki. He saw perfectly fine.

"That is good. We have never countered anything like this." The Chief was eased a little when knowing they had some way to prevent what was going on.

"It is our bringing to this world." Xiao Fan could understand his worry.

Following that there was silence until Xiao Fan began hearing screaming in the hallways and rooms, "So it is a practitioner."

"A practitioner? Do you mean an actual blood magic practitioner?" The Chief still had his fears and doubts.

"They aren't that scary. Just crazy and crazy strong that's all." After calming the adult man down, he thought. 'These brutes are quite scared.' Everywhere he looked could he see how the men were running past him, towards the outside.

"Crazy strong? Then how are we going to eliminate this threat?" The man was already taking out his sword.

"Neutral, demonic, righteous, they all understand speech."

"You are going to speak?" The man wasn't convinced at all.

"Have you tried talking?"

"No, we came to eliminate the origin. Orders of the Shaman."

"No wonder. In your case, it would have been better to contain her rather than attack her straight up." 'They don't know what something is, so they attack it...primitive.'

*Hmph* Xiao Fan wasn't too pleased.

"We have our own methods and way of life." The man could take this, but he wouldn't stay quiet, not when the criticism came from a kid.

"Sure, sure. Now let me do my job." He stares into the end of the hallway had, by now, spotted that it was indeed Qian Ki, yet he wasn't surprised at all to see her. Her being here had been a fact to him long before seeing her thanks to the connection they shared.

To start helping her, he walked past the Chief and took a firm stance. "You there!" He called her out with a firm voice, yet not too much so she could recognise him.

'!' When sound waves carried that message to her ears, Qian Ki stopped slaughtering the Holy Coalition troops, beginning to dodge the and look for the noise.

"Yes, you there!" He shouted again to Qian Ki who found him amidst all others.

'!!!' Her interest shot into the sky when confirming that Xiao Fan was here, "Okay, we can stop." And as she had him here, she didn't want to fight, for now, at least.

The connection didn't make Qian Ki aware of Xiao Fan, as the link between them was something akin a slave contract since Xiao Fan needed to bend to the will of Qian Ki or he would go mad. For sure, it was weird, and neither had any explanations for it, but they would work with what they had.

"You are stopping our fight when you feel like it? No way!" The frail bodied Chief, who had been trying to prevent her from slaughtering everyone didn't agree.

"Just stop fighting!" But he soon would as the Chief next to Xiao Fan began to yell for him to stop.

"Argh! Fine!" He, in his anger, threw the sword into the ground.

Now that the fighting had stopped Xiao Fan and Qian Ki could look at each other in peace while everyone else stood there, not knowing what was going on.

"What are you doing here?" Xiao Fan started to ask questions.

"What are you asking?" The Chief next to him immediately asked what was he asking.

"Construct a bridge. Let her calm down. She's human like all of us." He said something which should make sense.

"I hope that you know what you are doing." Then the wolf headdress Chief shrugged his shoulders.