Chapter 232: I came here to talk.

Haru and Suyin both finished getting ready and went down to the hotel restaurant to get some breakfast before going separate ways. Suyin had some things to do relating to her job and Haru on the other hand needed to gather more people to help him fight against the demons when they eventually came. The way it was looking right now was as if they would be defeated instantly.

He didn't know how strong the demons that would come would end up being but if they were from the upper realms then they would most likely be above the nascent soul stage. The only people he knew who could fight against people on that level were Lao and a few of the old masters from the black star sect but even so, he couldn't begin to predict the number of demons they would send.

If they were outnumbered as well as outclassed in strength then it would be a bloodbath that they wouldn't even have a chance of escaping from. Haru went back to the hong family this time when there wasn't a party going on. He felt a little strange doing so but he had a few questions for the old man he had spoken to the day before.

He used a few movement techniques to stay undetected by regular people as he swiftly traversed throughout the city and ended up outside the main gate of the huge mansion he had visited yesterday. As he approached the gate he now noticed that there was a little booth outside where a security guard would sit.

But it wasn't just any security guard he appeared to be a cultivator of the spirit soul stage. He wasn't strong by any stretch of the imagination but that would be enough to scare away anyone who didn't know whose house they were trying to break into.

As Haru started to approach the gate, the security guard jumped up from his seat and began to walk toward the gate.

"What business do you have here? This is the property of the hong family. I suggest that you move on." The security guard called out as a warning to deter Haru from approaching any further. He then used his spiritual sense and sent it toward the Manson that was in the business. That would be the best way to get the old man's attention. It seemed to work the day before.

But this time there was no response and Haru didn't feel his presence within the house.

'Is he not here? Well, that was a waste of time…" Haru thought to himself for a moment.

"Are you deaf? I just said that this is-" The security guard began to speak once again.

'I guess I might as well ask the guard. He would know wouldn't he?' He thought and then interrupted the guard.

"Hey, do you know where the old man is? Um, I mean the old head of the Hong family. I came to speak to him. Do you know where he has gone?" Haru asked. But the guard seemed to be looking down on Haru because of his appearance.

"You came to speak with the old head? Don't make me laugh. Why would he want to speak with someone like you? If you have come here to make a move on the young ladies of the family then I will have to disappoint you. I am under strict orders to kill whoever dares to try so I suggest that you turn back now boy." The guard said and then jumped over the eight-foot-tall iron gate to show off his strength. But in front of Haru, it was the equivalent of a puppy showing that it knows how to sit.

"I really did come to speak to the old head though. But if he isn't here then could you go ahead and call Hong Xia down here? I can speak to her about it." Haru asked without even realising that the guard was trying to threaten him.

"I knew it. There are always playboys like you who come to propose to the young ladies. Didn't you just hear me? If you don't leave now then I will have no choice but to kill you!" The guard shouted once again. Hoping that Haru would leave without forcing him to put another young man in hospital.

"I'm here just to talk. Why can't you believe that? Go and bring Hong Xia here. She will tell you that it's the truth." Haru insisted but the guard sighed before trying to use a movement technique to get behind Haru as quickly as possible to knock him out and be done with it.

He had to deal with many people coming to ask for Hong Xia's hand in marriage. And the minimum requirement the family had set for a potential suitor was being able to defeat a cultivator that used the Hong families secret art. That was the main reason they had a guard at the gate. Even if someone did break in they would be killed instantly by the warriors that they had been training for generations.

The only reason there was a guard was for the sake of the young ladies marrying someone strong.

As the security guard used his technique to quickly move behind Haru, he noticed that Haru had no problem keeping up with his speed and trailed him the whole time with his eyes looking directly into his as he moved faster than a regular person could perceive.

'Wow, he is the first person I have met who could keep up with my speed… Well, it's one thing to keep up with my speed but I doubt that he can match it.' The guard thought before striking Haru in the back of his neck with the side of his hand.

'Just as I thought. There is still no one who can match my speed.' The guard thought once again before taking his hand away from Haru's neck.

But a whole second went by and nothing happened. Then two. 'He should have fallen by now… What's going on?' The guard asked himself as a little bit of fear began to brew within his body.

"Are you done now? Like I said. I only came here to talk." Haru turned his head and asked. Nothing had happened from the guard's attack at all. He hadn't even flinched from pain. It was as if he was hit in the back of the neck with a napkin.

'Did I hold back too much?' The guard thought before trying to hit him in the back of his neck once again but as soon as his hand came down towards Haru's neck, Haru caught his hand and began to squeeze it while looking into his eyes.

"I asked if you were done. Not if you wanted to hit me again." Haru said before twisting his hips and spinning his arm toward the iron fence and then throwing the guard into it. The guard hit the centre of the gate and broke it from the hinges before flying back seventy feet onto the concrete path that led up to the house.

Haru then began to walk towards him once again but as soon as he stepped foot onto the property he began to hear footsteps rapidly approaching in all directions before he was suddenly surrounded by eight men all wielding spears.

"Not another step!" One of the men shouted out loudly before pointing the spear at Haru.

Haru looked at the weapons for a moment before noticing that they weren't just regular weapons. Each one of the spears had a trace of Qi within them and he concluded that they had been refined in a special way to strengthen them to be able to hold up in a fight between cultivators. It was much like the sword he had within his storage ring. The only difference was the sword Haru had was many times stronger than those spears.

Each one of the men that surrounded him was at the Qi creation stage apart from two of them who were at the spirit soul stage the same as Haru.

All thought Haru was outnumbered by cultivators at a Higher stage than him he didn't worry about it too much. He had managed to take down three people at the manifestation stage before which was a whole stage higher than these two warrior's pointing spears toward him.

But he really did only come here to talk. So instead of fighting, he decided to end it as soon as possible. He pulled his sword out from his storage ring and then sliced the heads off all of the spears that were pointing at him before they could even say another word. He managed to sheath the blade of the sword before they could even see that he had moved.

So when their spears all broke in unison they were confused to see him now standing there with a sword in his hands.

"Like I said before I came here to talk to the family head. But I guess I will just call them myself." Haru said to the men that were now wary of him and didn't know how to react next. They had been trained by fighting amongst one another but they had never fought against someone who outclassed them in strength this much and it brought down their egos a lot. As Haru took in a deep breath a few of them flinched with fear, thinking that he was going to attack them. But instead, he shouted.

"Hong Xia! I have come to speak to your grandfather again!" Haru shouted as loud as he could. The sound of his voice alone was enough to shake the ground in the immediate area. But there was no response from the house.

But then suddenly a voice called out in return.

"Who dares to call the name of my student!?" The voice shouted and suddenly the clouds in the sky turned dark before a gigantic hand pushed its way through the clouds and grabbed Haru tightly and pulled him up into them before he could even say anything."