Legend Of The Dragon Phoenix Warrior - 52 Escape

Chapter 52

Diako Zenua sat in the window of her carriage tapping her fingers impatiently. She felt that something was very wrong right now. The elite squadron should have been back by now. Zenua trusted her instincts implicitly, so she took out a token white jade token with the Diako family name engraved on it. She promptly crushed it in her hand. Her family would send one of the guardian elders to come to her rescue. This would be an existence that was anywhere from the mid to late Solid Core Stage cultivator.

She had sensed that Chen Zhen was only just into the Liquid Core Stage. Even if he was from a powerful clan that gave him a life saving treasure, he most likely used it already to fight off the elite squad. If he came looking for revenge he would end up falling right into her hands anyway, Zenua thought to herself with a chuckle.

BOOM!!

A carriage full of soldiers exploded, causing wood and flesh to rain down from the sky. Zenua’s intuition was correct once again. Her soldiers were well trained, so instead of panicking they quickly formed a battle formation. When the dust and smoke cleared the soldiers didn’t see anyone around. Suddenly they looked up into the air and saw what looked like a blood red armored demon standing there.

The strongest soldier there was only at the peak of Body Refinement Stage, so their attacks were just too weak to harm Chen Zhen. The smell of blood in the air was making the beastly instincts of Chen Zhen’s bloodline start to enter a frenzy. Chen Zhen dove down thru the soldiers slaughtering them like a wolf amongst chickens. His claws ripped thru flesh and bone with absolutely no resistance. Screams filled the air as blood began to collect like a pool around Chen Zhen’s feet.

Zenua witnessed this from a distance, and trepidation began to make her heart beat faster. She stood outside her carriage watching Chen Zhen massacring her troops and knew that it was useless to even try running.

As Chen Zhen walked out of the blood pool he had created from the soldiers bodies, his eye finally fell upon Zenua standing by her carriage. Chen Zhen’s steps caused small indentations in the ground as he walked. His right arm had flame in the shape of a Phoenix with long tail feathers coiled around it. His left arm had a Lightning Dragon coiled around it. The detail of the two divine spirit creatures was to the point that they looked no different from real animals. Chen Zhen stopped ten feet from Zenua.

“Give me the antidote to the neuro-toxin and I will give you a painless death.”

“Don’t think you can intimidate me. My family has housekeepers stronger than you.” It took all of Zenua’s mental fortitude to not allow her voice to tremble as she stared Chen Zhen down.

Chen Zhen lifted his head and took a deep breath, he started laughing and Zenua could see his canine teeth enlarging in his mouth.

“You can’t bluff me, I can smell the fear on you. If I had to guess I would say your bravado is an attempt to stall for time. No matter what you will not leave here alive. I gave you two chances to leave me and my family alone peacefully. You chose to ignore my warnings. You can only blame yourself for your own downfall.”

Just as Chen Zhen was about to take a step forward he was blasted back for hundreds of feet. When he picked himself up he saw a middle-aged man in black robes with a white symbol of the Diako family on his chest.

“You will die today for your insolence.” The middle-aged man said with an emotionless face.

“Hahaha… that actually hurt a little.” Chen Zhen said as he wiped a trickle of blood off the corner of his mouth, “You’re stronger then the rest. Good, this should be more fun.”

The longer Chen Zhen’s bloodline was activated the stronger his blood lust became. It made him strive for battle and the feeling of his claws tearing his enemies apart. They had touched upon his reverse scale when they went after Mei Ling and the kids. Chen Zhen allowed the Blood Lion’s instincts to fully take over his mind.

A saber appeared in the middle-aged man’s hands. His aura skyrocketed around him, suddenly the surrounding temperature began to drop drastically. In a couple breaths frost covered everything around them. As the middle-aged man’s aura kept surging spikes of ice began to form around him. The man took one step forward, but it carried him to right in front of Chen Zhen, “Lunar Ice Storm,” as he slashed down hundreds of ice spike followed his saber.

Chen Zhen crossed his arms in front to block the incoming ice. The images of Shanggu Feng and Lou Tian flared up forming a barrier of Fire and Lightning that blocked the ice spikes. Even though the spikes were blocked Chen Zhen was still pushed back another hundred feet. He dug the claws on his feet into the ground to finally come to a stop.

“Let me have a little fun” Lou Tian said taking control of Chen Zhen’s body.

A sword of flames grew out of Chen Zhen’s right hand. Chen Zhen’s aura changed and the temperature around him flared to over three hundred degrees. The frost the middle-aged man produced was quickly melted before evaporating into nothing.

When the middle-aged man saw the change in Chen Zhen he realized something was wrong. He had never heard of a warrior being able to change their aura before. A warriors aura was equivalent to a finger print, it was unique for everyone. The middle age warrior was truly beginning to think that the young miss had truly angered a real demon. He had heard what Chen Zhen said right before he attacked, so he was able to piece together where the enmity between them came from. If the young madam wasn’t the favorite niece of the main clan’s clan head he would have left her to her fate. He looked back at Zenua and threw a piece of black jade at her.

The middle-aged man transmitted his voice to Zenua, “If I’m killed by him break this. It will teleport you back to the clan immediately.”

Zenua looked at him in surprise. These one-time use family treasures where extremely expensive to have made. She understood her status in the clan was special because of her uncle, but she never expected to receive such a treasured gift. But what shocked her even more was that she would have to possibly use it today. For the guardian elder to not feel assured of victory enough to give her this life-saving gift meant he truly expected to die here today. This entire situation was incredulous. Chen Zhen was nothing more then some ant she passed on the road. How had things degraded to this point?

As Zenua was perplexed by what was happening, Lou Tian made his move. “Magma Burst” Chen Zhen stepped forward using Fire flash causing him to appear as if he teleported in front of the middle-aged man. The middle age man had formed a shield of ice before him. Chen Zhen’s foot struck the shield first, his foot stayed on the shield as he swung his flame sword forward. As the sword came forward a wave of hot magma followed behind the sword. Cracks had already started to form in the shield from the pressure Chen Zhen’s foot placed on it. When the sword and magma arrived the shield began to melt as the cracks spider webbed further across it. Just as the middle-aged man thought he had successfully blocked Chen Zhen’s move, the concussive force of Fire Flash arrived blasting him hundreds of feet away.

The middle-aged man pulled himself to his feet coughing up mouthfuls of blood. He knew he only had one chance to use his strongest technique, because if he didn’t do it now he wouldn’t have time to use it later. The middle-aged man pulled all of the remaining energy in his dantian, “Tempest of the Immortal Ice Dragon!”

Clouds quickly formed in the sky above the middle-aged man. Winds started slow but quickly turned into wailing gales. Snow started to fall from the clouds as the temperature plummeted even lower than before. The falling snow began to swirl around the middle-aged man covering him in a sphere of ice. This Earth ranked technique offered defense was well as offense. The snow that continued to fall began to turn into shards of ice. Hundreds of thousands of shards of ice swirled around the middle-aged man forming an ice tornado. When the sky above the middle age man was covered in these ice shards and the power had reached its peak a loud dragon roar came from inside the ice tornado. A hundred-meter-long ice dragon came out of the ice tornado and coiled around the middle-aged man ready to strike at any moment.

“Oh he wants to compete in dragons. Please allow me to have some fun with him.” Shanggu Feng said as he took over Chen Zhen’s body.

“You have done a very good job learning this move, but since it took you so long to bring out its might you still haven’t completely comprehended the essence of the will behind the move yet” Chen Zhen said to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was shocked, with just one glance he saw thru his greatest weakness when it came to this technique.

“It’s ok. Before you die I will show you what a true Earth Rank technique looks like.” With that Shanggu Feng called out, “Heavenly Lightning Dragon”

A spear made of lightning shot out from Chen Zhen’s left hand. As soon as it entered into the clouds loud rumbles of thunder could be heard. The sky darkened till it looked like night had come early where they were. Many bolts of lightning start to flash across the sky, soon after the lightning bolts began to congregate over Chen Zhen’s head. An enormous head in the shape of a dragon slowly descended from the clouds. The lightning dragon looked endless as it hovered over Chen Zhen’s head. This took a while to describe, but this whole process took only two breaths to complete.

The middle-aged man swung his sword, and Chen Zhen pointed his finger forward. The two dragons lounged at each other baring their fangs. The power discrepancy between the two was quickly apparent. The ice dragon was completely obliterated as soon as it came in contact with the lightning dragon.

Even though the middle age man had a higher cultivation then Chen Zhen, the middle-aged man wasn’t just battling Chen Zhen alone. He was also battling Shanggu Feng and Lou Tian, even though most of their power was still sealed they still had access to their comprehensions. Their understanding of techniques far outstripped the middle-aged man. Meaning they could easily bring out more battle power from their techniques then the middle-aged man. Unfortunately he was doomed to failure before he even started.

The lightning dragon swallowed the sphere of ice the middle-aged man was sequestered in. There was a loud crunching sound as it bite down. The lightning dragon raised its head to the sky roaring in triumph before detonating in the sky. Shanggu Feng new that Chen Zhen still needed the antidote from Zenua, so he didn’t want her caught up in the explosion.

Zenua looked to the sky only to see the middle-aged man’s charred remains falling to the ground. While she was still looking up a gust of wind blew in her face. She looked forward to see Chen Zhen standing right in front of her. She screamed in such terror that her hand snapped that black jade without her even meaning to. Chen Zhen was about to grab her, but there was a sudden flash of light and she was gone. Looking around all that was left was a puddle of piss where she had been standing.

“NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!” Chen Zhen screamed in frustration knowing that she got away.