1336 Who is this?
Ryu felt like all the air in his body was being pummeled out one fist at a time. He couldn't even see the sky above him because the fists were so densely packed. It truly felt like there was no mercy being given to him at all.
Empana didn't think much about it at first, he just thought it was someone overestimating themselves, but then his expression became weird. He hadn't sensed it in the beginning, but that young man definitely wasn't a Sky God. The scar eyed man shouldn't even need to lift a finger to kill such a person, let alone using so many fists.
The more Empana thought about it, the weirder it became.
Ryu coughed up a mouthful of blood, his bones fracturing one after another, but a sudden blazing light came from the depths of his pupils.
He suddenly swung his leg up, aiming for between the scar eyed man's crotch.
The scar eyed man sneered, blocking with a simple squeeze of his thighs. But right then, another flash of light came from Ryu's eyes and the subtle hint of a chain manifested. Seeing this chain, the scar eyed man seemed to have been frozen solid, a deep fear flashing in his gaze.
The chains vanished as soon as they appeared, but by the time the scar eyed man recovered, he felt a strong pain between his legs.
His breathing heaved and he seemed to vomit up his next breath of hair instead. The pain shook his body and seemed to shut him down again, but before he could recover once again, a heavy palm smashed into the bridge of his nose.
Ryu put all the power he had behind that strike, even using his Cosmos Fog to make his strike instantaneously far heavier at the point of contact.
Even so, the scar eyed man's nose only deformed and wasn't even close to breaking despite being one of the most fragile parts of his body.
That said, Ryu didn't seem to care. Seeing the tears forming at the edge of the scar eyed man's closed eyes, he grinned with a wild satisfaction, his second palm descending with even more force.
"You son of a bitch! You're cheating!" The scar eyed man growled.
First Ryu had used his chains, and then he had used his Bone Structure. Both were huge no-no's, but clearly this little bastard didn't care at all.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Ryu replied coldly, his chains appearing again just as the scar eyed man was about to recover.
BANG!
To Ryu's astonishment, the moment he pulled back his chains again, prepared to attack the scar eyed man again, he found a fist in his abdomen.
He was smashed into the ground again, but it was a truly novel feeling. He hadn't managed to get up from the first assault, so his back was still against the ground. For him to feel as though he had hit the ground again, the only explanation was that the scar eyed man had shattered another crater into being through his body, one that he then fell into moments later.
Ryu coughed up another mouthful of blood.
"You little noble prick, you think the same trick would work on me twice?!"
Ryu grit his teeth, another rain of punches coming.
By this point, even Mae's tragic expression had become somewhat weird. If she couldn't figure out what was going on at this point, she would be too foolish. But even then, she had lagged quite a bit, her heart falling into despair when she thought she would never see Ryu again.
"Look at you, still the same cripple, nothing's changed at all! Come, come, speak those annoying words to me again, I want to hear you squeal!"
Ryu's gaze grew colder and colder. Suddenly, his hand flashed out, his fingers aiming for the scar eyed man's closed eyes.
BANG!
A strong resistance bent Ryu's fingers back, snapping them broken. However, Ryu's expression didn't seem to change in the slightest.
This eruption of a hidden force caused the man's body to shudder and Ryu shot out from between his legs, crossing to his back and putting his head in a vice grip.
The scar eyed man recovered quickly then felt that this matter would be amusing, until a surge of Northern Heavenly Wind and Cosmos Fog wrapped around his head. Suddenly, his qi couldn't circulate to his head and neither could a breath of fresh air. He was being quickly suffocated.
Ryu grinned a bloody grin. Blood seeped out from between his teeth, but he didn't seem to care in the slightest. All he had his mind on was squeezing harder and harder.
"You cheating little bastard!"
The scar eyed man rushed backward, rising high into the skies and body slamming Ryu into the ground. However, Ryu refused to let go, his vice grip becoming tighter and tighter as the scar eyed man's head began to feel lighter and lighter.
The scar eyed man quickly realized the helplessness of the situation. He rampaged about, smashing Ryu from head to toe, but the little bastard he remembered to have fragile bones had suddenly come back with a Bone Structure he couldn't recognize and was countless times sturdier.
The scar eyed man suddenly swayed, his balance being thrown off. His vision began to turn dark and he was moments away from losing consciousness.
"ENOUGH!" He roared, an echo of qi surging into the surrounding and causing Ryu to fly away like a broken kite.
Spent, he dropped to a knee, heaving deep breaths as though a fish out of water. His body was struggling and it took him a long while to regain his bearings. Even for a Sky God, losing qi and oxygen to the brain for such an extended period of time was a life damaging matter.
In the distance, Ryu slowly crawled to his feet, wiping blood from his mouth. Even in such a state, he seemed to give off an elegant and indifferent bearing. One would never be able to guess that he had just been a brawl that could only happen in a flea market.
"You lost," he uttered plainly, patting down the wrinkles in his robes.
The scar eyed man suddenly growled. "Fuck off, you cheated first. Look at the state of you, I at most need to catch my breath and you're covered in blood and broken bones."
Ryu's lip curled in a smirk. "I'm a cripple, remember?"
The scar eyed man was at a loss for words before he roared into the skies.
This happened every time, Ryu would get the snot beat out of him and yet say some bullshit technicality that he couldn't immediately refute.
Indeed, he had just said that Ryu was a cripple, so how could a cripple cheat? Obviously, he shouldn't have access to qi and talents and the like, so what was he cheating with? He had been trapped into a corner with his own words.
Ryu smiled satisfactorily before looking toward Mac. He felt a bit bad, he acted before he could explain anything and he had given this wife of his a bit of a scare. Of course he felt somewhat guilty.
"Mae, there's no need to worry, this is a subordinate of my family. His name is-"
Mae's eyes opened wide. But then she almost couldn't refrain from rolling her eyes, wasn't it a bit too late to say all this? She had already figured out most of it.
However, before Ryu could say his name, he was cut off.
"Say that again and do you believe that I'll bend you over my knee and spank you like a toddler in front of your woman?"
Ryu gave the scar eyed man a look before looking back toward Mae and correcting himself.
"This a slave of my family, feel free to order him around as you please!"
Empana was rendered speechless. That clearly wasn't what the scar eyed man had meant? Plus, knowing this man's character, he would definitely...
The scar eyed man grinned a devilish grin. The temperature skyrocketed and the three that had followed Empana suddenly began to feel uncomfortable. He really looked more demon than human right now.
"Alright," Ryu shook his head, correcting himself again. "His parent leads a underling troop of my Clan."
The scar eyed man was rendered speechless before he suddenly exploded.
"You disgraceful son of a bitch!"
Once again, the scar eyed man could do nothing. As one said, the sins of the parent would be borne by the son. He couldn't deny his father's truth, nor could he deny his father himself. In the end, he had no choice but to admit that he was indeed a underling of Ryu's.
Mae covered her pink lips with a hand, a loveable laugh coming from her. Ryu was still the same Ryu, but she had never seen him tease someone to this extent without it carrying some undertone of maliciousness.
At that moment, Empana suddenly landed, his confusion clear on his face.
"lanjor, who is this?" Empana asked inquisitively.
Ryu's gaze flashed but he didn't say anything. Indeed, it seemed that he was hiding his real name.
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