Chapter 209: It's now or never.

Haru looked up at the stars as he flew off into the distance. He didn't feel any guilt about what he had done. If the doctor was telling the truth then the whole family would most likely be dead right now. He thought that someone who became a doctor to save people would only take someone's life if they were forced into a corner.

He couldn't begin to imagine how he must have felt losing his son and being forced to become servants to the family that was responsible. It was just wrong. If that was truly the case, which he chose to believe then he was glad that he could help the doctor take revenge for the death of his son.

Haru flew through the sky to his next location. He was planning to clean up the whole family. He had given them a chance last time by leaving things at just a duel. But even Han had warned that the Leung family wouldn't leave things at something that simple.

It was for the best that he took care of them before they made any plans to harm his friends and family. The last thing he wanted to hear is that either Zen, Suyin or any of Andrew's family had been taken hostage on his account.

'People are stressful' Haru thought as he flew towards the other address that Han had given to him. It was the address of the main Leung family. Far out in the middle of the countryside, there was a temple that was inhabited by the Head of the Leung family and their servants. And that is where Haru planned to go.

As he arrived at the temple during the dead of night he had the feeling that something was off. It was too quiet. Usually, in the countryside, you would hear animals nearby but that didn't seem to be the case. It was like they had all run away out of fear and were no longer in the area.

'What's going on here? Did they know I was coming? There doesn't seem to be anyone here.' Haru thought as he used his spiritual sense to search the area for the prescience of people. But there was no one nearby.

Haru looked around once more but this time he noticed something. He looked at the windows of one of the building's seeing blood streaking down on the glass. Something had gone on here and that was the case for the lack of animals nearby.

Haru walked over to the door of the building and opened it up to find Master Leung, His son and all of the servants that lived upon the property laying on the ground in pools of their own blood. The strangest thing about it though wasn't the fact that they were dead.

But it looked like they had all bled to death from their eyeballs. That either meant that someone was sending a message or they were attacked by someone who didn't want to be recognised. There were a few techniques out there that could show the last thing someone saw before they died. But as long as the eyes were destroyed then it wouldn't work if it was used.

"What the…'' Haru thought as he looked down upon the sight. Alongside all of the people laying on their ground, there was something metallic on the ground, reflecting moonlight around the room. Haru approached it slowly. Making sure that he didn't disturb the crime scene.

Although he wanted to get rid of them to make sure that they couldn't threaten his family members, this seemed a little too far. All of the servants had the same wounds on their eyes and looked as if they had died in agony.

As he got closer to the object on the floor. Haru quickly realised that it was a dagger of some sort. The metal had a slight black tint to it, the handle seemed to be made out of ray skin and had a sharp horn as a pommel.

"Strange…" Haru thought as he looked down at it. There seemed to be Qi residing within the blade. The more he looked at it, the more he began to feel like it was a familiar feeling. The Qi was dark in nature and had a poisonous scent to it. It reminded him of the Demonic Qi that he had managed to refine in the soul tempering ground.

"This means…" Haru said out loud as he looked down at the blade on the ground when suddenly the sound of cracking wood came from behind as a large blast of wind took the whole off the building, followed by an enormous fireball falling down on top of the house.

"Shit, It was a trap," Haru said just as he took the full force of the fire attack. He was thankful that he had a phoenix bloodline within him or else the power of the attack might have killed him. Although he couldn't feel any pain from the fire he could sense the anger that was held within them.

Whoever had sent the attack was meant to kill him. And with the amount of Qi that it would have taken to use an attack like this. He was certain that the person who sent it was much stronger than his current self.

As the flame came down, the sounds of running footsteps and metal clanging together could be heard from outside as they seemed to surround the building. But the fire was too thick for him to see through. To see what was happening he would need to put himself at a disadvantage.

The person who sent the attack probably thought that he was burning to death. But if Haru wanted to know what was going on he would have to disperse the flames. And alert them that he was perfectly fine. It was risky since they could follow it up with another attack and the next one might not have been a fire attack.

But despite the chance of that happening. It was much riskier to not know the situation. Situational awareness is the greatest weapon to have during a fight, so you can always stay one step ahead of your opponent. Without it, you are a sitting duck.

Haru knew that it would be much worse if he didn't act so without hesitation, he took control of the flames and used Kun's absolute authority over flames to condense them into a single point on his index finger. The flame in his hand was no bigger than the tip of a needle.

'Hopefully, this will go unnoticed. I will teach them, for attacking me with fire' Haru thought with a smile as a voice shouted out.

"Retreat right now! The suspect is still fine!" The voice of an old man shouted from outside the building. The wood on the inside of the hose was now blackened by the fire and the same went for the bodies. Any chance of finding out who the one responsible for this was, now vanished. The wounds on them were no longer visible.

Haru stepped out from the building to see three men dressed in black and grey military patterned clothing with the Chinese flag upon a patch on their chests. They all stood in fighting stances very different from each other and they were all at least at the spirit soul stage, The same as Haru was.

Although one of them was at the manifestation stage Haru wasn't interested in those three. The person he was looking at was an old man wearing purple robes, floating in the sky above them.

The feeling Haru was getting from that man was the same feeling when he met Han. The overwhelming Qi that was constantly pulsing as a little bit more vanished while turning into true Qi.

It was a sign that the man was at the Nascent soul stage and was soon going to break through to the nirvana stage. His power was far from Haru's understanding and that was made obvious by him not even laying an eye on the three people who had begun to run toward him, thinking that he was distracted.

Haru looked at the old man and saw a smile form on his face. But as he looked back at Haru he too noticed that he was smiling.

"What is this boy thinking-" The old man said to himself after noticing the smile and then in a single flash the three people that were attacking fell to the ground.

Haru had used the shadow step technique to vanish and struck them all in the back of the neck with almost his full strength. Not even someone at the manifestation stage would be left standing after that.

As the old man noticed what had just happened, his eyes widened as he sensed that the flame that he had used to start the initial attack hadn't faded completely. He raised his hand up toward Haru, immediately gathering a new flame within the palm of his hand.

'Did he see through my plan!? Well then, It's now or never.' Haru thought to himself before he too raised his hand and stretched out his index finger.