The Legendary F Rank

Haru bent over to pick up the key from the floor but as soon as his hand made contact with the key a bell rang out throughout the mansion. Signalling that the mansion had received a new owner. Haru looked back at Li Jun who was in shock. 

"How did you make it through so quickly? I thought that you would die!" Ralph shouted out. He couldn't believe his eyes. But Haru thought that he knew what would happen before they sent him in. So he found it strange that he seemed so surprised. 

"I thought that you knew what would happen? You knew I have a phoenix bloodline so of course, it's normal to get past them this fast right?" Haru asked with a questioning look. He genuinely thought that they both knew he would pass the test or else they wouldn't have sent him in. So he felt a little betrayed that they sent him in, expecting that he would die. 

But knowing Li Jun he wouldn't have let Haru die in such a way. So he was probably planning some way to save him if he ran into trouble. Or so he thought. But he wasn't entirely sure right now. Haru looked back to see that they had both become even more confused by what he was saying. 

"What? How does the fact you have a phoenix bloodline relate to the fact that eighteen Talvos have gone missing in less than five minutes? What happened?" Ralph asked. 

"Well, Phoenix's eat Talvo's. I called the phoenix soul within my body out and he consumed them all. I thought you knew that would happen…" Haru tried to explain but the more he said, the more they seemed to become confused. 

"Phoenix's eat Talvos? Are you out of your mind? Nothing would even dare to eat a Talvo. They are close relatives to Soul Devourers. Their bodies are made out of antimatter and their power goes beyond the power of nature. They are evil entities that don't have a physical body. How can a phoenix eat them?" Ralph didn't buy the story since his master was the one who captured them all. And it even took the creator of the abandoned god technique quite a lot of effort to capture them. 

He couldn't believe that some random phoenix soul could eat a Talvo and survive. He looked at Haru with suspicion for a moment but Li Jun was quick to change the subject. He thought it was probably the issue that he thought of before. 

When they first discovered Lao they thought that he was a Heavenly Phoenix King but after a while, Both he and Lao started to notice that things didn't add up. Kun would act a lot differently from how phoenixes did and he even looked different from what Heavenly Phoenix king would look like. They knew that something was up but he never expected that he would be able to devour a Talvo. 

"Well, now that he's got the key, How about we go about with repairing his body first?"  He asked, getting slightly impatient. The longer a body remained dead, the longer it would take to resurrect them and that was something He was worrying about. He didn't want his student to die in a situation like this so he wanted to get on with it right away.

"Fine, fine. It won't take too long anyway. The mansion has been collecting power from the Talvo for millions of years. There should be enough power to resurrect people continuously for the next thousand years. Well if their soul isn't destroyed that is." Ralph said and then walked over to the unknown technology that Haru had never seen before. The only familiar thing was the countless amount of glassware. 

Everything else in the room looked like it was made from materials that they didn't have on earth. But at the back of the room, there was what looked like a capsule of some sort. It had a seat on the inside and a hatch door that swung down from the top so whoever sat inside would be completely on their own. 

Ralph started to fiddle with a few things on the counter before pulling out something that looked like a syringe with a sharp needle on top of it. 

"Since you can still go outside then go and inject him with this." Ralph then passed the syringe to Li Jun and without another word, Li Jun vanished from where he was standing and appeared in the office where Haru's body was laying on the floor. 

Although he was dead, the pills were still taking effect and were rapidly forcing Qi into his dantian. It was only a matter of time before his body would self-destruct from a lack of circulation. The Qi was just going straight into his Dantain and wasn't filling his soul ocean since there was a disconnect between them both. 

Li Jun keeled down on the floor next to Haru and pulled up his shirt to reveal his chest before positioning the needle over his heart and plunging it into his chest while avoiding the ribs. Once the needle became a little harder to push as it came into contact with his heart he pressed on the top of the syringe to release whatever Ralph had put into it directly into his heart. 

Once he had finished he went right back into Haru's soul ocean and appeared in the same place where he was before he left. 

"So is it working?" Li Jun asked Ralph.

"Well… He is still here. So I'm not sure…" Ralph spoke with a concerned sounding voice contrasted against the puppet-like face. But as soon as he finished talking, the ground beneath them began to shake. 

"What's going on? Is it working?" Haru asked. He didn't know what was going on but until the ground began to shake. All three of them immediately ran outside the mansion to see what was going on within the soul ocean. 

But as they got outside a bolt of lightning shot down from the sky and struck the ground, stopping them dead in their tracks. Haru looked up to the sky to see the red lighting now shooting around the sky with enough violence to desolate a city. 

But that wasn't the strangest thing. There was a slight crack in the sky above them. What was usually a clear blue sky had a dark black crack. But from that crack, there was a blue liquid leaking down into the thunder clouds above them. 

"What? His Qi is merging with the blood thunder sapling?" Ralph seemed shocked by what was going on. And so did Li Jun. They both knew that it was something unheard of. 

The blood thunder that was in the sky above them was the effect of the small tree that was standing in the centre of the lake. It had a dark red colour to the trunk of the tree and it had no leaves. But as the blue liquid leaked down from the sky and into the thunder clouds, the truth began to blossom blue coloured leaves. 

"It's blooming… It's actually blossoming." Ralph couldn't believe his eyes. The blood tree was almost as old as he was. The master of the mansion brought the tree to the mansion when it was just a sapling hoping that it would produce blood thunder fruits. But the sapling was heavily damaged during a battle and never blossomed. Not for millions of years. 

But now it has started to grow leaves upon the branches. He didn't know what it meant and Haru watched on in confusion before suddenly he felt a pain in his chest. It was a slow-burning pain followed by a throbbing within his heart. After feeling the pain there was a sudden rush of heat around his body as blood began to flow through his veins. 

As soon as blood began to pump through his body once again he vanished from the spot he was standing in and his soul was immediately brought back into his body. He gasped for air as he opened his eyes and began to look around the room. His vision was a little blurry and everything seemed dark but as the blood flow returned back to his eyes everything came into focus just as clear as it was before.

He looked up at the clock and watched as the seconds ticked by. He had been dead for just a few minutes and still had the pill affecting his body and drawing Qi into his body at a supersonic rate. Although he had just died and that would be enough for someone to take a few days to focus on living. He wasn't going to let this chance go to waste. 

He felt as though all of the organs had been strengthened by the serum that he had been injected with and that was the reason that his body was now resisting the side effects of the pills. His death was a blessing in disguise as now he knew that he would be able to handle more pills and speed up his training more efficiently than anyone else could. 

As he sat there and thought about it for a few moments. He realised that even his dantian had become stronger and was now working more efficiently than it did before. It really was a blessing in disguise, but he now realised that he couldn't keep on acting recklessly. He had died twice now. And that was enough to make him not want to push his luck anymore even if he could come back to life. 

He then closed his eyes and began to cultivate while the Qi flowed throughout his body.