She is like Young master Yun, but with man!

"Deep Inhale" Shi was almost without air, the cold air was invading his nostrils cutting all the interior of his nose, his back arched as he inhaled air with all he got his sight was focusing on the frozen trail on grass floor, following it he could see a body mutilated and frozen in ice.

"Drip, Drip" he didn't know if it was the blood on his left arm or sweat that was dripping from all his body, Long Shin was watching the wretched kid and noticing his mind waving he started the heavenly circlet.

Feeling his head hurt, Shi felt his eyes become heavy as his spirit qi was being sucked by the circlet, after some time fighting against the instinct to lay down in the forest his head became clear again.

The morning sun was shining through the forest, glancing at his surroundings Shi could see the leftover of the battle. Suddenly his left arm muscle and skin are burning in pain making him almost to faint.

Turning his focus to his left arm it was in pure raw meat, the piece of cloth in his hands was so soaked and stuck together with his blood that it looked more like a thin layer of skin.

Shi inhaled a mouth full of cold air, attached to his arm was what was left from the stone shield it was destroyed it exploded from the 'ice' insides and was completely cracked stone now.

Untying the destroyed shield of his arm, he started to lose the bloodied cloth of his hand, because of the blood it was sticky making him feel even more pain, throwing the cloth away he started to clean his wounds, his arm wasn't exploded by little, the iron back proved its benefits.

It was hard to put wine on his wounds because of the ice, it would make him shiver, but clenching his teeth he did it, this time however because of the state his arm was, he couldn't put the blue paste.

Soon enough a young man with half of his body clad in cloth bandages was seated on the grass floor in the middle of the forest on a hot day of spring, his stomach was yelling in hungry as a fish was being roasted in a fireplace.

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A huge woman was seated in a wood stump, she was holding a flame cloud badge on her hands, from time to time she would glance at an enchanting woman knotted in a wooden pole.

Guilty was a powerful thing and most times it comes from relationships when she entered the Evil Cloud Sect when she was a child, seeing her body structure she got a chance to be an alchemist apprentice.

At the beginning of her teen years she was already mutated so much she barely could remember how it was to be a woman because of the yang energy infused in her body every day she would become manly over the years.

It wasn't to really become a man, but a hermaphrodite like Sima said before and this was the pain of every woman that wanted to become an alchemist in those low spirit qi places, the only way they could become an alchemist without manually infusing fire qi was to born with a fire martial spirit.

If Long Shin heard that, he would just sneer at those ignorant people, the only problem with making Shi practice alchemy in the body tempering realm was that he didn't have any way to produce a fire strong enough without the primordial 'fire' rune.

And if he taught a fire qi method he would end crippling Shi's future.

Jiangu got up from her seating with a vicious glint on her eyes she goes away deeper into the forest, near the place where Cuifen was being captive there was a camping site, this camping site was the place where disciples from the Evil Cloud Sect would come to complete missions, was also a place where the most important disciples would reside.

Being an Evil sect what they appreciated was strength, so the best disciples would be sent to the battlefield right away.

It had dozens of white tents with sky blue cloud patterns, and in the middle of the camping site a giant white tent with red clouds was being built now, it was Yun Xinghong 'castle' like he liked to call it.

With a "hmph" coming from her nose Jiangu kept walking until she was in front of a guard outpost, it had two wooden towers almost touching the crown of those giant jade trees, she climbed one as fast she could.

Reaching the top she meets two disciples holding crossbows, they're clad in inner disciple clothes but above their clothes, there was a leather armor, in the left outskirt of the armor there was a badge of two crossing spears in front of a cloud.

"Any news from Linghu the Tiger?" her gruff voice sounded with a low tone, which was uncommon for her.

Gulping at the sight of the giant woman one of the disciples replied to her almost like it was alive and death situation "Se-senior sister Jiangu there's no news of senior brother Linghu" and the other just kept looking at her.

Because of the red flare shot at the skies hours ago the Evil Cloud sect camping site had a heavy atmosphere, no one knew how the capture of Cuifen was found out by the enemy sect, but they knew very well what was about to happen.

Giving her junior brothers an ugly smile that gave them an urge to cry, Jiangu replied to him with her most caring tone "There is no need for anxiety junior, even if the matriarch of their sect comes out, we still have the sect master to protect us".

Her caring tone was like a bear hug, making them don't know how to react, they just bowed at her and said thanks for her care.

She took a deep glance at those two, and like she was thinking about something she decided to go down the wooden stairs, seeing the huge woman go away it was like a heavy object was taken from their chest.

Getting on the floor again she closed her eyes and listened to their murmur:

"Sigh… that bear woman… scary me even more than Young Master. I heard she liked to torture young man the same way young master like to do with a woman" said the one who didn't say anything before.

"SHH! my brother, no my grandfather are you out of your mind, if she hears you out we both gonna die" said the one who spoke to her, putting his hand on the other disciple's mouth as he looked at the surrounding with big widened eyes.

Seeing no one was there and after a breath, there was no reaction he sighed in relief.

Their words are just like a tonic to her heart the vicious luster reappeared in her eyes and clutching her hand she got up in the stair again, the two apprentices seeing she come up again almost died of a heart attack.

"Se-se-enior Sister Jiangu do you need something more?" The scared disciple spoke with trembling legs.

"Hehe, nothing, I just want to give you guys some pills. Can you guys look for me after your shift is over?" she asked looking deeply at his eyes, making the young man almost peep himself.

Nodding hundreds of times or he was just trembling and couldn't speak after some time he could say that they would look for her.

-

Shi already finished his fish and was walking through the forest, this time however he was truly walking. His body was tired but he didn't want to stay at the place he fought Linghu.

After eating he got up and went to see Linghu's body, his body was destroyed by an ice explosion. In Long Shin's words, it was because of the unbalance between his qi and the enemy qi.

He got the enemy saber but sadly the space ring was destroyed in the explosion leaving Shin with a bad aftertaste, but he was also happy that he solved a problem for Yue, with his oath they could become friends, and in this way, he and his father wouldn't be in the dark about this world anymore.

Suddenly a big yellow flare was shooting at the skies, it blossomed in a yellow lotus when Shi saw the red flare he knew it was Yue who flared it since it was coming almost from his side.

This time however it was a yellow flare, Shi didn't know its purpose, but he knew it was time for him to fight again, but knowing more people would join this fight he seated with his back facing a giant tree trunk and started to cultivate.

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Yue was wandering by the forest with a headache she didn't want to go back to the sect camping site, since she shot that red flare she kept fighting against her mind over and over.

"BANG" the yellow flare exploded on the skies awakening her from her daydreaming.

Even with the sunlight she still could see the yellow blooming lotus, making some calculations the distance and locations she suspected it was coming from the enemy camping site.

If it was true then Shi's bad feeling was true and Cuifen was taken by the enemy and was already at their camping site.

Using her footwork she shot high at a tree, the flare was almost extinguishing, seeing its position her suspicion becomes even fiercer, picking her last flare she shot it in the direction of the extinguished flare, making a new yellow lotus bloom.

-

Cuifen was awakened by the huge noises she was hearing, she weakly looked at the yellow lotus blossoming in the sky and a sad smile appeared on her face as she closed her eyes again.