Chapter 193: Changbai Lake...

Haru had expected him to stick around to talk. But despite his previous attitude when he was at the door with a gun, Now that he had been disarmed President Lan felt defenceless. It wasn't what he expected would happen when he came to the room so he left as fast as he could.

One minute he was standing in the doorway and the next he was gone, with only the sound of running footsteps through the corridor signalling that he didn't want to stay for a chat.

"Disappointing," Haru said to himself but the reason for coming here wasn't to chat with rich people all day. He was on a mission and had sidetracked himself.

The bus ride had bored him a little too much and he wanted to socialise. But there was no time for that. He had already almost wasted a full day travelling and booking a hotel room. His original plan was to stay in Beijing and book a bus to take him the rest of the way to the mountain range.

He didn't expect that he would learn how to fly so easily. If he had known that then he wouldn't have packed so much to take with him. He sighed before downing both glasses of whiskey that he had poured for himself and the president and then walked over to the door that was still wide open.

He looked down at both of his backpacks that were still on the floor and then held his hand out toward them before a spiral of light shot out from his hand and they vanished into thin air.

'Hmm… I forgot about the storage ring. I could have stored a tent or something so I wouldn't be out in the rain. But it's too late for that now.' He thought before deciding that he would head to the mountains right away.

He walked down the corridor to see the doors to the elevator were just about to shut and then stuck his hand between them, causing them to open back up.

As the doors opened once again he met with President Lan who almost screamed in fear when looking at Haru.

"I guess that big guy told you what happened to the last people who pointed guns at me, didn't he? And you still thought it would be a good idea to provoke me like this.

You're brave." Haru laughed before reaching out towards him.

President Lan recoiled away from his hand but when trapped within an elevator there was only so far he could try to escape.

Haru put his hand on his shoulder before giving him a firm pat.

"Raise your daughters well. You never know when the day will come where you don't get to see them again. Have a nice life." Haru said with a smile as the doors opened up at the top of the stairs in the lobby.

President Lan dropped to his knees as Haru left.

'What was his problem? I know the kid said he was overprotective but to try to kill someone. Jeez, these Beijing people are crazy.' Haru thought before heading down the staircase with the red carpet. But as soon as he did flashes from dozens of people holding cameras began to blind him.

"Fuck this I'm out of here." Haru turned around and walked into an empty storeroom before opening up a void corridor and stepping through.

The familiar feeling of pressure washed over his body as a cold chill surrounded him. He was expecting to feel the presence of something but to his surprise that wasn't the case. But the longer he floated through the emptiness of space the more it seemed like he was slowly losing consciousness.

But for some reason, the pressure didn't feel as overpowering as it did the previous times. It was probably a sign that he had gotten stronger than he was the last time he had used the power but it still didn't set in.

The soul tempering pills had even changed the way that he thought and matured his brain by quite a lot but he couldn't see the difference in himself at all.

Previously since reincarnating his brain had the biological maturity of someone his age. Despite memories from his previous life, The structure of his brain didn't allow him to think like an adult.

And even after returning to Origin, it had stopped his brain from maturing any more than a normal eighteen years old would have. But the rank three soul tempering pill he had taken had awakened a certain amount of wisdom in his soul.

It was a strange sensation but he adapted to the feeling of the increased wisdom almost instantly but it was too bad that his cultivation didn't increase yet or it would have reduced the pressure of space even more.

But that wasn't a concern that he had for the moment.

Haru struggled to hold onto his consciousness as he tried to sense a good place to open an exit void corridor.

Each time he had done so before it was an emergency exit so he didn't travel very far. This time he was tempted to see how far he could travel but he knew that if he spent too much time deciding where to exit it would be the end for him. So without a second thought, he opened a corridor randomly and floated into it.

"What the!?" He was about to say as the pressure released from his body and he was thrown out into the city. But the city was nowhere to be seen. All around him was white. It was like he had transcended the heavens although it felt like he was falling.

The sound of wind whistled past his ears and he couldn't feel solid ground beneath him. He then looked down to see that Beijing was now hundreds of metres below him.

"It spat me out in the air again! I thought I would have mastered the technique by now! Why is it so difficult?" Haru complained as he quickly fell towards earth.

He would have panicked and called Li Jun for help if not for his new ability to fly. So instead he wrapped his Qi around his body like a blanket enveloping him and then gently began to slow his fall until he was floating in the air a few metres above the tallest skyscraper in the city.

"Well, I'm outside now. So I guess I had better head for Changbai mountain now, shouldn't I? I don't want to keep Lao waiting too long." He said, concluding that there was no time like the present.

He had planned everything out from start to finish in his head before setting off. He just didn't expect things to turn out like this. Not only did he fight off what was possibly the armed forces of another country for no reason at all.

He also became famous in less than a day. Many people wanted to find out who he was and that was something that didn't sit right with him. He just wished that things had turned out differently.

"It's like plans were made to backfire on the person who makes them." Haru sighed before slowly moving the Qi around him to propel his body forward.

"Slowly now." He chanted over and over to stop himself from getting carried away with the speed and then pulled out his phone to use a map to know which direction to fly in.

He flew for hours on end, trying his best to not fly into the path of a plane and just before nightfall came he spotted something out of the corner of his eye.

He would have missed it at first if not for the light from the setting sun reflecting off the surface of the water below him and shining up into his eyes.

He had arrived at Changbai mountain. He knew from the huge lake in the middle. But had almost gotten lost as he was flying high above the peak of the mountain.

All that was left for him to do was to descend to the peak of the mountain. But something told him it wouldn't be that simple. He had gotten used to flying while on his trip but he hadn't tried to land yet. He figured that it would be hard to do but didn't know just how hard that would be.

"Okay… How hard can this be? I just have to take things slow and everything will fall into place for me. Remember Haru. Nice and slow" He thought aloud to make sure that he took it in baby steps.

It worked. He was slowly descending but it took a lot of concentration to keep on going at this pace and steadiness. It was a smooth descending pace but it was also taking a long time. He thought of putting things into overdrive to hurry it along but he didn't want to embarrass himself by eating the ground again.

When suddenly Li Jun's voice called out, Distracting him from focusing his Qi.

"It's close. Lao says he feels like it's nearby." He said in a loud excited voice.

"Shit!" Haru yelled as his Qi spiked out of reaction, the voice causing him to plummet toward the ground at a much faster speed than he would have gone if he had just fallen.

"Oh no! Oh no!" He yelled as he saw the ground getting closer. He was no longer calm and knew he wouldn't be able to focus his Qi in time. So the next best thing was to…

"Aim for the water!" He moved the Qi from helping him descend to propelling him into the lake headfirst with a splash.

Water shot high up into the air as he made contact with it and the fish swimming nearby got the fright of their life as they saw a human shoot past them at almost supersonic speeds.

"Not again." He tried to say but the only thing that came from his mouth were air bubbles that floated toward the surface of the water as he disengaged the blanket of Qi surrounding him.