Chapter 188: I'm Flying.

As soon as he stepped out into the middle open a spotlight appeared, illuminating him for everyone to see. Suddenly a voice shouted over a megaphone as Haru looked over at one of the cars to see a man dressed in green camouflage. On his shoulder, there was a patch with the flag of Russia on it.

'Russian military? Why are the Russians here in China?' Haru asked himself before the man shouted over the megaphone with an American sounding accent to his words.

"You boy! Identify yourself. You were riding that bus with a bunch of criminals! Are you okay? Did they take you, hostage?" The man wasn't fluent in Chinese but Haru could understand him just fine. But he wasn't in the mood to mess around.

He swiped his hand and leapt through a void corridor and then almost immediately ending up sat on the hood of the car in front of the man with the megaphone.

"*Leave.*" Haru spoke in Russian. He didn't speak fluently but he picked up a few words from watching movies. It was something hard to avoid since most movies liked to use Russians as the villains.

As soon as Haru appeared in front of him the man almost collapsed in fear.

"*What the fuck? How did that happen?*" Apparently Haru appearing in front of him scared the Russian out of him and he began talking in English to the rest of the people around him. Everyone spoke English with a neutral sounding voice almost like they were natives.

Haru remembered his days in the military. Sometimes when they were undercover in a country they had a treaty with they would be forced to wear the patches of another country just in case they died. They would question the other country. Was that what these guys were doing?

"*Are you guys American? Or Russian? Hmm… Either way, you had better leave before you force me to do something I don't want to do.*" Haru now spoke in English. The war he had previously fought in was also against the Americans and the rage in his heart surprisingly had not settled even after all these years.

"Haha, What's this guys problem?" One of the men laughed and then pulled out a handgun and pointed it at Haru's head. But as soon as he did Haru waved his hand and opened another spacial rift directly over his forearm and then cancelled it.

His arm vanished. There wasn't even a drop of blood. It was more like his arm had fallen out of existence or had been erased. He didn't even notice that his arm was missing until he noticed that he no longer felt the weight of the gun in his hand.

"Aghh! My arm! My fucking arm!" He began to shout as he realised that it was no longer there and the rest of the men began to panic along with him as they couldn't explain what had just happened.

"My final warning. Leave now and you won't end up in body bags. But if you decide to test my patience then don't blame me for what comes next." Haru warned the man who was still holding the megaphone but was now shivering as the feeling of helplessness enveloped his body.

But before he could say anything a man wearing just a tank-top and camouflage pants stepped out from one of the cars and aimed a gun at Haru.

" Do you think that we will listen to you just because you can do fancy magic tricks!?" He asked before pulling the trigger after targeting his head.

"How unfortunate…" Haru said to himself as a beam of light shot out travelling much faster than a regular bullet would.

He waved his hand in the air in front of his face and opened another spacial rift but this time opened the exit for it directly behind the man that had fired the gun.

Everyone fell silent before looking up at Haru who was still sat on the hood of the car without a single scratch on his body. Their eyes then turned to the man crazy enough to attack this unknown enemy.

He looked back at them wide-eyed like he was in pain before coughing into his hands. He expected blood to form but nothing came out. He began to feel like he was suffocating before looking down at the hole in his body.

There was a hole the size of a human head directly over where his heart was.

"How am I still alive…?" He asked before his body felt stiff and he fell to the floor. His heart had been destroyed so fast that his brain hadn't had time to stop receiving oxygen from his blood leaving him alive without a heart. It was a terrifying way to die. Knowing that no matter what you would die.

So terrifying that a few of the men present stained their pants with urine and human faeces upon realising what had just happened. That fear was only amplified by the look in Haru's eyes.

'So that's what happens when you lose your heart? That's amazing I thought he would die instantly' Haru was bewildered by what he had just seen but the look on his face was confused with a look of enjoyment by the soldiers. They didn't know what to do.

They just stood idle and waited for their death but that didn't come. As soon as Haru realised that they had given up he hopped down from the hood of the car and then walked over to the man who seemed to be leading them.

"Now take everyone and go. Or you will suffer a worse fate than your friend over there." He said in a threatening manner but in reality, he didn't know anyways he could kill someone that would be worse than what he had just seen. He just wanted to try acting tough in front of so many soldiers and it appeared to work.

The man nodded his head before running to an empty car and closing the doors behind him. Upon seeing their leader flee everyone else also took to their feet and run in different direction's trying to avoid being eaten alive by the terrible monster they had just stumbled upon.

"That's right! And don't come back!" Haru shook his fist and shouted as all of the cars that had originally come to kidnap the two young girls drove back off into the distance. He smiled before waving them off like a child saying goodbye to his friends after school had ended.

As he stood there and watched the cars vanish into the distance he heard the engine of the bus start-up and tires screeching against the floor behind him as they decided to abandon him out in the middle of nowhere.

"Hey! Wait up!" Haru shouted after the bus but it was too late. They had already left him behind.

'Did I scare them that much? They should have known that I was only acting. I'm not scary am I?' Haru pulled out his phone and saw his reflection off the screen from the moonlight above him.

There was a look in his eyes, unlike anything that he had seen before. Just what was it? He wondered before calling Li Jun out to question him.

"Li Jun! There is something wrong with my face." Haru stated before Li Jun appeared floating in the air like he usually did.

"What do you mean?" Li Jun asked as he looked at Haru. The was nothing there. He looked the same as he always did.

Haru looked back down at the phone screen before too realising that there was nothing strange about the look in his eyes at all. 'Was it just the lighting?' He asked himself before looking back up at Li Jun.

"Ah, nothing. I was wondering if you knew any movement techniques to help me catch up to a bus?" He asked. All of his belongings were still on the bus. He needed to find a way to catch up to them somehow. He couldn't just let them steal everything he had packed for his journey to Changbai mountain.

"Movement technique? Why don't you just teach yourself how to fly?" Li Jun asked.

"Fly? What!? Don't you have to be at a certain cultivation level to be able to do that?" Haru asked. The last he had heard only people at the manifestation stage and higher could fly. How would he be able to fly if he hadn't made it there yet?

"Not at all. You just need good control of your Qi. Remember how you controlled the sword using just your Qi? You made it fly. That's all you need to do. Just surround your body with Qi and focus on lifting yourself with it." Li Jun explained as simply as he could what he needed to do and then vanished. Leaving Haru on his own to figure it out.

He closed his eyes and focused on surrounding his body with Qi which was an easy task and then put all his focus on lifting himself a little bit. He knew it would take a while to get the hang of so he needed to take things one at a time but as soon as he opened his eyes he noticed that the ground was no longer beneath him and he was looking down upon a winding road going through the centre of a forest.

He looked again after noticing two small red balls of light getting further and further away from him into the distance and then laughed.

"I'm flying with only Qi!" He shouted. It felt the same as using wind magic to fly but only more free. He wasn't relying on magic. He was using his life energy. All he had to do now was to focus and controlling it and he would be able to catch up to the bus in no time at all.

"Here goes nothing." He said before shifting his focus on directing his Qi toward the bus that was still getting away from him.

"Ahhh!!!" He yelled as his body took off at the speed of sound creating a vortex around his body as he broke through the sound barrier.