Book 2 Chapter 54. Circumstances (Part 5)

  The remaining amount of Qi in Gyuu Park’s meridians would only be able to supply one more attack. And right now, he could not be sure even if he exerted all of his force he would be able to defeat this creature, not to mention cut the off pletely.

  He could use the oiled blessed in his hand and the bagua mirror, but right now the sharp energy from the bagua mirror was already deeply embedded in his right arm. Though dormant, he did not want to imagine what would happen if there was more of this energy flowing into him.

  After a short moment of ption, he decided to put the bagua mirror away, while clutg the tighter and infusing more of his Qi into it.

  “Crack!” A thick bolt ht, e and golden lightning and a much thinner bolt of green lightning shot through the sky, leaving a gaping hole in the clouds above. The lightning struething in the air, which was curiously not ected to the ground at all.

  The hairs on the back of Gyuu Park all stood up, sending a chill and some kind of burniion all over his body. And at the same time, straric curreed through the and circuted through his meridians. Somehow, these currents did rocute him, but instead melded into his own Qi, strengthening his power, as well as raising his senses.

  “My child! My child! MY CHILD!” The creature hopped up into the sky like a crooked i, dragging the made of aquaweeds along its body. Its arms extended forward aiming at Gyuu Park, and crooked teeth covered in foul saliva and blood shot from its two mouths like bullets.

  Gyuu Park rolled on the ground, the o appear gracious left far behind. The crooked teeth cracked the ground tiles and embedded into the ptform floor. With a quick sweep of his left hand, Gyuu Park unched a handful of dirt, tiny rocks and debris he grabbed from the ground in the sky. The creature screamed and ged course in mid air to nd on a broken wall to the side.

  Gyuu Park’s Qi exploded from all of these tiny fragments and formed some kind of green dust in the air. It temporarily blocked the view between Gyuu Park and the creature. Even though the wall of dust lingered for but one moment, it still made the creature hesitate and wonder for that period of time.

  Rushing forward beh the wall of dust with his entire body lowered, Gyuu Park readied his two hands that held tight with the fingers ced together.

  The made of aqua weeds was just above Gyuu Park’s head, and the gushing wound he just created earlier was almost within reach. With this window of opportunity, he thrust his arms forward, with his index fingers stig out, stig with each other and the other fingers still ced. A green arrow of sharp, almost solidified Qi burst from the tips of the two fingers, aiming right at the wound on the .

  Though off by a few ihe sharp arrow of Qi struck true on the wound, and tore into its interior.

  A loud crack exploded from the , streams of Qi splintered from ihe , and tore the pletely open. Foul liquid gushed from the wounds on the , the pu smell almost knocked Gyuu Park out. He had to push himself back with his tired legs as far away from the site as possible. His eyes teared up, his throat felt swollen, and the skin on his fad neck was burning.

  Befyuu Park could do anything, anhtning desded from the sky. The blue light blinded him for a brief moment, the loud crack deafened his ears to all sounds, and the unusually strong shockwave released by the strike blew him almost entirely out of the docks area.

  When Gyuu Park struggled up straight, he felt his arms shaking untrolbly. The wooden in his palm was severely buro an unreizable state, and had barely half its former shape remaining. Gyuu Park took a deep breath, thehe half wooden to his forehead and kissed the back of his hand holding it: “Thank you.” He did not yet know how this happened, but it must have been some kind of rea involving this very blessed oiled , the stale and stuck Qiyun of this area, and the foul substance leaked from the .

  There was the smell of ozone in the air. There were no other creatures anywhere visible. In the spot where the creature he was battling would have been, there was only a pile of what looked like inplete sets of skeletons, with two skulls, two inplete spines, arms and some finger bones.

  Everything happened in but a brief moment, yet Gyuu Park had grasped already made a pretty educated guess on what happehis creature was the amalgamation of corrupted spirits of a couple who lost their child, and had possibly been carrying this toll on their mind until their demise ier.

  Wind blew across the ptform, and these two sets of skeletons started to crumble and dissipate into the air like loose sand and dirt. Gyuu Park looked around a few more times - there was not anything he could see, aside from a bck charred mark on the ground, created by the lightning.

  He limbed closer and closer to the borying to go as fast as he could despite his muscles and bones pining, hoping he could at least get something out of them that could help him make sense of everything.

  The piles of bone dust were almost gone before he screamed and lunged forward with his arms extended in front of him. When he nded on the ground, chest bumping into the surface of the crete ptform, he mao grab a small handful of it.

  The dust felt chilly, even slightly freezing and also a bit ky. But when he held it closer, his Qi started leaking out of his palm. He tried to trol it, but somehow he felt a wave of dizziness rush through his head, aarted seeing different images of two faint shadows in front of his eyes.

  “... we just ’t find him… we ’t find him… what horrible parents we are. What horrible people we are… I shouldn’t have … I shouldn’t have …” The two shadows stood on the edge of the crete ptform.

  “... please, sir, please… you help us… we really ot find him… please… no oells us anything… please…” The two shadows k on the ground, kowtowing to someone, begging, weeping.

  “... please … I beg of you, he’s our boy… he’s been missing for days… please…” The two shadows asked, while holding what looked like piles of fliers in their hands.

  “Where are you!? Please! e out! Son! Where ARE YOU?” The two shadows shouted: “Please! Boy! e out, stop sg us! ”

  When the visions stopped, the bone dust was almost pletely gone from his palm.