Chapter 236: Make it stop.

Hong Xia watched as Haru made his way around the city. She didn't know where he had come from and had no idea about his background other than what her teacher had just told her. In an attempt to find out more information about him she decided to follow him for the rest of the day.

But to her surprise, something interesting happened. Haru went about his day by shopping in the markets and buying lunch for himself. He decided to sit in a coffee shop and have some food that reminded him of the coffee shop that he visited a lot back in Shenzhen. The taste of nostalgia was good and reminded him of the time that Jake had come over to visit with his parents.

It had been a while since he had spoken to Jake so he decided to call him. But to his surprise, it went straight to the answering machine. It didn't even ring out. 'Oh, that's right. School should have finished back in japan too. I guess he is probably working by now. I know he wanted to join the military as soon as possible. I will try again some other time' Haru thought before eating his food and then leaving.

He shopped for a little bit longer and bought some groceries but as he exited the shop they had seemed to have vanished. He had stored them in his storage ring so he wouldn't have to carry them around but Hong Xia didn't know that he had one so she assumed that he didn't buy anything.

After shopping in the city Haru got a phone call and whoever called him seemed to make him happy as he smiled as soon as he looked down at his phone and seemed excited as he spoke. But Hong Xia stayed far enough away so she wouldn't alert him that he was being followed but that made it so she couldn't hear what he was talking about.

As soon as the call ended he seemed to have changed his plans for the day and looked both ways to make sure that no one was looking at him before vanishing completely. Hong Xia couldn't believe her eyes. One second Haru was standing with his back to the wall and the next he had vanished. She looked around for him before feeling cold air run down her spine.

"You know. If you wanted to spy on me I would have invited you to come with me. There's no need to follow me like this." Haru's voice now came from behind her. Hong Xia became startled from the sound of his voice in her ears and the breath on the back of her neck. She turned around as fast as she could to see that he was now standing less than a meter away from her.

"How did you!?" She asked with confusion.

"Just a technique. It's not that big of a deal. I could teach you if you wanted me to." Haru spoke like it didn't bother him at all even though he was clearly being followed.

"I'm going to meet my girlfriend now. So if you can try not to act like a creepy stalker it would be appreciated. She might murder you if she thinks that you want me." Haru laughed. He had seen how she had reacted when someone spoke badly about him. He didn't even want to imagine what she would do if someone had the audacity to stalk him.

"You have a girlfriend? I feel bad for her." Hong Xia said before turning her back to him.

"Fine, I guess I will leave you alone for today. It's not like you do anything interesting with your days anyway. You really are quite boring." Hong Xia said and then began to walk away.

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Haru said. He was confused as to what her problem was. He hadn't spoken to her for long but she seemed to hate him for some reason. But he could kind of understand. He seemed to come out of nowhere and has gained the trust of two people she seeks praise from. She was acting like a spoiled child.

"Take it however you want to." She said, brushing his question off completely.

"Hey, wait a minute," Haru said to her. Suddenly Hong Xia stopped in her tracks and turned around to look at him once more.

"Wha-" Before she could ask what he wanted she felt something hit the back of her throat. She swallowed out of reflex but quickly realised what had just happened as she looked at Haru with his arm outstretched.

He had thrown something small and cylindrical into her mouth as she opened it to reply.

"You should really be nicer to people. How do you expect to make friends if you are this mean to people you don't even know?" Haru gave her a little warning but Hong Xia was both afraid and furious.

"What did you just do to me!? What was it!?" She asked, thinking that he had just poisoned her. Haru could see that she was worried and wanted to tease her a little bit as punishment for being mean to him for no reason.

"Come and find me when you figure it out." He said before vanishing into mid-air once again. Hong Xia was worried but she didn't believe that he would try to kill her if he needed the help of her teacher and her grandfather. But she didn't know what it was until her body began to feel hot. It was like something was burning within her and taking her breath away.

She could feel tears starting to form in her eyes as her whole body began to feel sensitive to the point where a gust of wind would send shivers throughout her whole body. She had never felt anything like this before and didn't know what to expect. She quickly made her way back home and locked herself up in her bedroom.

She lay down on her bed and began to feel lightheaded. She couldn't think anymore. The feeling was too much for her to handle and she began to squirm. It felt like bugs were crawling all over her skin and tickling her.

"What did he do to me? This is so… Make it stop!" She thought out loud before remembering that cultivating could ease pain and help you heal. She sat with her legs crossed on the edge of the bed and began to circulate the Qi throughout her body.

The feeling that she had before suddenly faded but it felt as if the Qi surrounding her was moving ten if not twenty times faster than it usually did. It was like the suction force in her dantian had increased and was absorbing Qi at a much faster rate.

Although the soaring palace sect didn't have any pill refiners. She had known about them because they would trade with other sects. But she had never heard of a pill that was this efficient before. This was on a whole other level.

'Why did he give this to me? It must have been unbelievably expensive. Even my grandfather can only buy pills that hold a fraction of this power.' She thought to herself. But this only made her more curious about Haru. He thought that he was just another playboy cultivator like she had seen many times before, given his good looks and the fact she thought that he had an artefact to hide his cultivation level.

But she was starting to consider the fact that he could be much stronger than she originally thought. Seeing him vanish and appear behind her was a big red flag. But she was acting too childish to see it. He could move faster than her eyes could perceive.

Although she was at the manifestation stage she was still at the beginning. There was a long way to go before she even considered breaking through to the nascent soul stage. But Haru on the other hand seemed to be well ahead of her even though he was younger than her by a whole year.

If she knew that he had only been cultivating for four years she would be even more shocked if she compared herself to him. She had been cultivating since she was four years old and was considered a genius for reaching her strength in fifteen years.

As Hong Xia carried on cultivating throughout the night. Haru met up with Suyin once again and spent another night together. Suyin had to go back to Shenzen to the recording company to choose another manager for herself. It seemed as though the owner of the company had taken Haru's threat to heart and wanted to make sure that there were no other incidents that could put his life on the line.

Haru on the other hand had done everything that he wanted to do in Beijing and had decided that he would head back to Shanghai in the morning. He wanted to see how far Lao had gotten on gathering people to help him fight against the demons and it was also Wednesday already. He had told everyone to meet him on Friday so he needed to get back and start making plans.

They didn't know when the demons would come so he would need to have some accommodations for all the people who would turn up. So it was lucky that he owned a resort. There was also a hotel attached to it so he needed to make sure that no one booked any rooms for the weekend so he would have enough space for everyone he invited.