What Makes You Say That?

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"DUCK!"

The ceiling suddenly collapses, shrapnel flying everywhere, while fire burns outside of the sect.

Dark clouds loom ahead as each disciple stands up fearfully.

The ones who were unfortunate were crushed by the falling ceiling.

Li Huan takes a step back, trembling unconditionally. A cold sweat seeps down his pale face.

"What's wrong... Sect Master, w-what's going on—"

CRASH! BOOM!

A flash of red lightning descends, and a man dressed in dark red robes descends.

His wild mane of red hair flings around, while his tongue slides over his sharp fangs glinting in the chaos.

"Haha, old friend Gao Yong, or should I say sect leader of the Great Whirlwind sect?"

He grins maliciously

Sect leader Gao Yong's eyes narrow, his feet leaving the ground as he slowly hovers to the mysterious trespasser's height.

"What is your business here, Zhan Qing, sect master of the Scarlet Blood sect. Why are you causing chaos in my sect?"

"To pay a lifelong debt!" A red wave suddenly gets shot towards Gao Yong, resulting in Gao Yong throwing up a wall of gnarled tree branches, effectively blocking the wave.

They engage in a terrific fight, with Gao Yong flying higher in order to avoid further destruction of the sect, Zhan Qing follows.

Li Huan kneels on one leg, eyeing demonic beasts and disciples from the demonic sect flooding into the sect grounds, his vision getting blurry.

Suddenly, he feels a cold hand on his back.

It's Xun Shi.

"There's no time for being afraid. Come on, we're the leaders of this new generation, lets help our fellow disciples."

Ignoring rivalries, they stand up together and start command their fellow disciples currently in chaos.

"Get into groups, each of you, we'll handle this orderly."

Li Huan's eyes flash as he takes note of Xun Shi's leadership abilities.

He joins in—rounding the disciples up into groups.

Disciples from the inner court arrive, along with sect elders.

At the front is a heroic disciple wearing pure white robes, with long tidy hair and blue eyes. Following him is a cold beauty and a muscular brown-robed inner disciple.

They ride swords as the arrive at the scene.

The heroic disciple waves his right hand at the new disciples, his robes billowing in the wind.

"There's no time to explain, I am the top inner court disciple, Tian Baijie."

The newer disciples eyes gleam at the sight of him, while some of the girls already start to fawn over him.

Xuan Wu's eyebrow raises as he hears a system notification.

"Ah, I see."

He dashes towards the exit of the pagoda while the sect is still in disorder.

While the newer disciples get into groups, the demonic beasts and disciples break through.

"Give me your life!"

A man similar to Tian Baijie, yet the opposite of righteous, dashes up to Tian Baijie and engages in a battle.

The top inner court disciples of the Scarlet Blood Sect start fighting the top inner court disciples of the Great Whirlwind Sect, and the inner disciples and outer disciples that have arrived fight the other party.

The demonic beasts get ganged on by a couple of Great Whirlwind Disciples.

"Blood!".

"Guts!".

"Bones!".

Some of the Scarlet Blood disciples carry red war-flags, with souls of fallen Great Whirlwind Sect disciples getting sucked into them.

"Damn it, damn it, I can't do anything".

Xun Shi struggles, his breaths coming in fast and short.

He gets a pat on the back from Li Huan.

"We may not be cultivators yet, but we can still help. We should be the role-models the other disciples want us to be, as we have the highest cultivation talent after all."

Xun Shi's eyes widen, seeing Li Huan in a new light.

He grins, "Come on, help the panicking disciples.". Walking towards a group of pale-faced disciples, he turns to Li Huan

"Me and you together.".

Dong Shui stands at the front of his fearful friend-group, his black glasses cracked, tilting off one side of his face.

A rabid demonic beast, a dog, foaming at the mouth corners them.

Feng Zhi, the big and tall disciple, is seated at the back of the group, with a stone spike penetrating his stomach. Two friends are giving him care, while the last cowers at the back, he hugs his knees as he cries silently.

"I want to go home. I want to go home. I want to go home.".

He cradles himself, locking in a fetal position.

Dong Shui stands, facing the rabid dog, holding a rock in his trembling left hand.

"Y-you, if you step any closer, just know—I'm not afraid to fight!"

Meanwhile, a knife pierces an outer Great Whirlwind disciples heart, leaving him to fall onto the dusty ground in a pool of blood.

The Scarlet Blood disciple pauses—raising his eyebrow.

"You... Aren't you one of those new disciples?"

CRASH!

Tian Baijie falls to the earthy ground, vomiting blood.

He wipes his mouth with his hand, getting back into position for his Seven Heavens Saber technique.

"Tao Wu, you dare! Fourth Heaven stance—Vengeful Wolf!"

Tian Baijie lowers himself to the ground, standing like a wolf looking down at his prey, before dashing quickly towards Tao Wu.

BAM!

Meanwhile, in another corner of the fallen pagoda, the two sect leaders battle it out.

"Your tyranny ends here, Zhan Qing, let the innocent souls rest!"

Zhan Qing, currently locked in a bundle of branches, groans as red veins pop up on his face.

"NNNNNNNNNEVER!!!!"

A wave of red light flashes through, breaking the branches.

"Scarlet Demon Transformation! Purge this world of all good!"

Zhan Qing suddenly transforms into a grotesque demon, standing at around 7 ft, with dark red skin, gouged out eyes, replaced by demonic horns, with a muscular build.

In a flash of red light, he almost teleports to the Whirlwind Sect Leader, knocking the Sect Leader up into the sky, before pursuing him. 

The newer disciples successfully get into groups, the numbers dwindling into the 20s.

Xun Shi takes deep, effective breaths as he counts.

"Haah, majority of the disciples either died, betrayed us, or ran."

He looks towards the exit of the pagoda, where he saw that one disciple he helped—Xuan Wu, run away.

He spits on the barren ground.

"Pussies."

Li Huan laughs, trying to boost the groups morale. 

"It's alright, as long as we're alive, that's all that matters. Now, just let our senior brothers and sisters finish the job and we'll be oka—"

CRASH

The ice cold senior sister from before hits the ground, sending a wave of dust towards the new disciples.

She looks up with pleading, tearful eyes, shaking her head as a red spike impales her. Li Huan and Xun Shi tremble as they watch the life fade from her eyes.

She was just in this world a few moments ago...

A Scarlet Blood disciple laughs as he descends.

"Pitiful whore, she couldn't even take five hits from me!"

He starts walking towards his body.

"Don't."

Xuan Wu starts shaking.

Li Huan shudders as he takes a step back.

"You... weren't you the one fighting elder brother Baiji?"

He turns pale at the words he wanted to hear the least.

"Him? Yeah, he's dead."

His knees fail, falling to the ground.

"It's over, it's all over.".

The scarlet blood disciple licks his lips as he eyes the cold senior sister's body.

"What a waste, she would've been a delightful treat."

"YOU BASTARD!"

Xun Shi dashes at the Scarlet Blood disciple, Fu Xia, not caring of the power difference.

"Oh? What a courageous one, standing up for your fellow disciples, I commend you."

PSSHT

SQUELCH

In a matter of seconds, Xun Shi explodes into blood mist, the wind pushing it all onto Li Huan.

Li Huan, with wide eyes, slowly wipes the blood from his face.

"You—"

PSSHT

a bundle of guts hits the floor as Li Huan gets eradicated from this world.

BOOM

Sect Master Gao Yong hits the ground. His eyes are lifeless, and he has several limbs missing. There is a hole going straight through him where his heart is supposed to be.

"That's all?"