Chapter 208: Murder.

Haru stepped out onto the rooftop that was still wet from the light shower of rain that poured down throughout the time they were inside the banquet hall, Frost had just started to settle on the city of shanghai causing small ice crystals to sparkle in the lights from the bustling city.

It would be a beautiful sight if not for the fact that he was dragging around the body of an unconscious man. Rain began to fall again but this time much more lightly like mist rolling down from the clouds before Haru floated up into the sky.

He had gotten Leung Li's address from Han and decided to head there take him back to his parents although he still hadn't decided what he was going to do about the matter. Surely his parents would have some common sense and try to resolve the situation but from what he saw from the man's uncle he wasn't certain that would be the case.

Haru began to fly throughout the night sky, making sure that no one could see him. He flew above the clouds for most of the journey to avoid being captured on video again which seemed to be becoming a regular occurrence. Now that he was able to fly it was much more of a hassle to him than it was just walking.

The lights from the city illuminated the peaks of the clouds like a fluorescent light show from below as Haru made his way across the city before finally coming to a halt as he reached the address that had been given to him. He stopped over the top of the roof to see that they had a domed glass ceiling above their dining room table and there seemed to be people sitting below and eating.

"He won't die from this hight will he?" He thought for a moment before descending a little bit more and letting go of Leung Li's shirt.

His body dropped like lead, slowly gathering more and more speed before breaking through the glass in the room with a loud shattering noise followed by a thud as his body hit the oak table directly below. Plates flew up from the table and wine glasses dropped to the floor as the table flipped and the five people sitting around inside were forced into a state of confusion before realising what happened.

"Li!" A woman shouted as she recognised the body of her son lying on the dining table, face up and covering in tiny cuts from the breaking glass. A man who looked to be in his forties with a black and white suit on then ran over to him before reaching down for his neck and checking his pulse.

"He's fine. His pulse is stable… But what just-" The man began to say and then gasped as he looked up into the sky from where the rain was now pouring into their house from, seeing Haru floating above their house.

A feeling of regret sank down into his stomach as he looked back at the boy laying on the table.

"We made a huge mistake coming here tonight." He said to a woman that was still sitting down in a state of shock. She didn't know what to do. The loud noises came to such a surprise and she couldn't take her eyes off from the man laying on the table.

"Quick, Get your things. We're leaving this place right now." The man in the suit said before pulling the woman by her arm.

"What is it? Why are you in such a hurry? I thought you were a doctor? Aren't you going to heal my son?" The woman who was tending to his wounds said with a frustrated look on her face.

"No! I don't want anything to do with this. Just look up and you will find out exactly what happened. I am not getting involved." The doctor said with fear. Seeing a man flying wasn't a common thing for people who lived in the city even in a world of cultivation and magic. It was a sign of strength and most people knew to stay far away from those that could.

"What are you talking about?" The thought hadn't even occurred to her that her son was in danger before his lifeless body was thrown through the glass ceiling.

But upon looking up at the sky and seeing Haru, her face went pale and she screamed. And alerted everyone nearby that there was a problem.

One by one the people in the room began to look up to the sky, seeing the man still floating there, unmoving and unwavering. His imposing manner seemed more like a sign of foreboding death. They couldn't put into words how they felt until the man slowly began to descend.

A man wearing a red shirt and black tie quickly ran down from the staircase upon seeing Haru and began to shout.

"I don't know who gave you the right to come into my house and injure my boy! But I will have you know that my brother is one of the strongest cultivators in the country! If you don't retreat right now, I will have no choice but to call him!" The man said in an outraged tone.

"Like father, like son." Haru chuckled to himself before holding his hand out at arm's length and releasing a small shot of Qi directly into the man's forehead. His body froze up as if all the muscles had tensed up and he dropped to the floor like a petrified deer in headlights.

Haru used a technique known as spirit splitting finger. It was a technique that used the power of Qi to break the spirit of whoever it is directed towards and will paralyse them for a short amount of time. The time that the victim was paralysed for depended solely on the power that the user put into it.

And Haru didn't really think about it. He just wanted to make the man shut up as fast as possible so he forgot to limit his power. The man dropped to the ground, unlikely to wake up for a few days at least.

"You… Who are you!?" The woman asked in fear. She had just seen her husband frozen within his own mind and was only thinking of survival. She didn't know who the young man was who had broken into their house and tossed the body of their son back to them but she knew that he was ruthless and violent by the way he composed himself.

"Your son made a few mistakes tonight and refused to apologise. So the responsibility falls to his parents who forgot to raise him with manners. How are you going to apologise?" Haru asked in a mildly threatening tone. He didn't sound like he was holding a gun to her head but he did make it sound like there would be consequences if she didn't find some way to apologise.

"A-apologise? What did I do wrong?" The woman asked quickly, sounding like she was on the verge of a panic attack. As for the other people in the room they pushed themselves against the walls as if they were trying to blend into the surrounding so that they wouldn't be noticed by Haru who was showing a sinister grin.

"It's not my fault that I have such a disobedient son! If anything I blame his father for teaching him to rely on someone else's name to push people around. Please, sir! Don't hurt me!" The woman pleaded, throwing both her husband and son under the bus to escape the wrath of a cultivator.

"Hm… So I should kill both your son and husband and let you go free? Is that what you are asking of me?" Haru asked with a confused expression.

He expected the whole family to be cocky but he didn't expect anything like this. She was really willing to let her whole family die to have another chance at life.

"Yes, that is exactly what I am saying. This whole meeting we were having tonight was to come up with a plan to take over the Leung family. You came at the perfect time. Please, I promise you that if you help us get rid of the family head, I will give you fifteen per cent of the annual income of the whole family.

I don't want to be part of this miserable family anymore. We are just mere slaves for that arrogant cultivator bastard of a brother in law to order around." The woman pleaded for Haru's help.

'Hmm… I didn't see things going this way. First I wanted to take down the whole family. But there was already an internal conflict between them? I wonder… Maybe they will be able to help me. But then again this woman is cruel enough to pin the blame of not raising their child on her husband alone.

I can't trust any of these people.' Haru thought to himself before turning around to see that the doctor was still standing by the door. He had yet to move and he looked as if he had something to ask.

"Mr cultivator. Me and my wife live nearby and we have been tormented by this family for many years. Can I ask that you don't let them off easily? Their son caused the death of our child and in a twisted way to compensate us. They have forced us to follow them.

I beg you…" The doctor had an honest heart and was now shedding tears as he bowed his head down and begged for Haru's help.

"How dare you! You signed an NDA! You can't-" The woman shouted as loud as a banshee. Haru was quick to silence her screams with a point of his finger.

"Well… They are all asleep now. It would be a shame if something unfortunate happened to them and they never woke up again wouldn't it?" Haru whispered to the doctor before flying up out of the ceiling once again.

He wanted to punish them but if things were as the doctor had said, he no longer cared if they lived. He could just think of this as karma.

Screams could be heard coming from the inside of the house as he flew away into the distance.