Chapter 207: Regret

Louis felt a headache brew as he watched the experts search for him. He knew he had already lost the best chance to kill Lu Zheng.

His sole motive this day was to kill Lu Zheng but his battle strength wasn't great. He couldn't fight Immortal Star, Zuo Xiuzhen and Mei Luan at the same time.

He also couldn't instant-kill Lu Zheng. He had seen the man's tribulation and knew that his dao imprints accumulation was deep. He would be foolish to try fighting Lu Zheng.

All of a sudden, Zuo Xiuzhen's lips curled upwards: "Found you!"

Louis felt his heart jump as a stretch of white light shuttled towards him.

"Fuck!" Louis cussed involuntarily. He used his twin daggers to shield himself and his body emerged from the spatial gaps.

"Ding!"

The sound of metal colliding resounded as Louis' arms shook visibly from the impact. Zuo Xiuzhen was stronger than she looked.

Immortal Star smiled as he used his methods. Very quickly, star dust formed into a thick miasma that covered a forty metre radius from his body. Louis felt severe discomfort from the star dust.

Mei Luan did not move from where she stood. Her Sea of Consciousness rippled around to search for more enemies.

The fight between Zuo Xiuzhen and Louis was fast paced that Louis did not have any time to think at all. Immortal Star used his star cores to attack Louis too.

Just when Louis thought that nothing worse could happen, something worse happened.

"Crack~"

The sounds of joints cracking could be heard clearly as Lu Zheng stretched his limbs. A fiery aura that was exceedingly hot that nothing could compare burst out from him before quickly disappearing.

His first tier of Acquisition realm aura was dominating.

"Hmm! He has consolidated his cultivation base already?" Louis was tongue-tied. It was common knowledge that reinforcing the Qi fruits after each breakthrough in the Acquisition realm took very long periods of time.

Louis did not expect Lu Zheng to have woken so soon.

Pity, he was ignorant of the fragmented Qi fruit. The Essence in the fragmented Qi fruit was near infinite and Lu Zheng easily used it to reinforce his fire Qi fruit.

"Hmm? An ambush?" Lu Zheng smiled. Mei Luan had already explained what had happened to him. "Hehe"

Space shimmered and Lu Zheng instantly disappeared from where he stood.

"Spatial skipping!" Louis' instincts roared at him to run but before he could even move, a fist slammed into his back. His body cut a sorry figure as it crossed many metres in a heartbeat.

"Lu Zheng…" Immortal Star had a complex expression as he saw Louis get punched. He could sense that Lu Zheng was far stronger than he was.

For some reason, his tense expression relaxed after seeing him.

Lu Zheng did not even give Louis a chance to regain his stance as he spatial skipped towards him again, ramming his fist into Louis' guts.

"Boom!"

Thunder crackled as Louis spurted out blood from his mouth. His slender body crashed into the ground and formed a large crater. In such manner, Lu Zheng continued to beat Louis as Zuo Xiuzhen and Immortal Star watched.

After moments of devastating bullying, Louis finally managed to escape into a spatial gap.

"Interesting" Lu Zheng smiled faintly as his eyes glistened with a sinister light. Even though he urged his Sea of Consciousness, he could not sense Louis' life aura.

His soul path dao imprints had already reached one hundred and twenty seven and his soul foundation was at the hundred and thirty thousand man soul. It was rare for someone to escape his Sea of Consciousness.

Zuo Xiuzhen's blue pupils turned pure white and a dark shadow formed in her line of vision.

"Still won't learn" Zuo Xiuzhen muttered as her body suddenly left where she was, leaving an afterimage behind. Almost immediately, she was right before Louis.

"Again!" Louis was stunned to see Zuo Xiuzhen suddenly appear before him but he soon regained his composure.

Louis willed his hands to move so he could use his twin daggers to graciously disfigure her face but his hands could not move at all. Thick bands of starlight had bound his arms in place.

"When…?" Louis felt disbelief as he struggled to get free but when he saw Immortal Star's gentle smile, he understood the situation.

Dense light Qi formed from Zuo Xiuzhen that gathered in her palms. Louis could sense that the technique could kill him.

At the moment, endless regret welled up from his heart.

"Why didn't I wait for Brian?"

"Why did I attempt to kill Lu Zheng?"

"Why did I not escape?"

"Why…?"

Zuo Xiuzhen smirked coldly but just as she almost struck Louis, a chubby figure appeared that took him away in a flash, destroying the thick bands of starlight that bound him in one move.