The Six Immortals

 Capitulation

The Chimera’s tail swung one more time and forcefully twisted itself around the neck of the man. The noise of his crackling neck was audible to a fair length of distance as the man breathed his last breath and passed away, shutting his begrudging, hateful eyes for the last time.

The remaining five people, who were running haphazardly in every direction, trying to escape the Chimera’s wrath, decided to quicken up their pace.

“ARGHHH!………” The Chimera issued another deafening roar; loud enough to put that of a lion’s to shame.

The remaining five people, who were trying to escape at thunderous speeds, came to an instant halt, as the fear of the Chimera’s roar ran chills down their spines. Bi Fan was well aware that when this Chimera roared with so much intensity, then, its next strikes would be even fiercer, but he didn’t seem to care much about it anyway.

The Chimera had already launched itself after the remaining five humans, fully intending to deliver them to the same end as their last two comrades.

The five remaining humans realized that facing the Chimera, was their only option and attempting to flee would be the equivalent of courting death.

Bi Fan quickly found his way to the back of the fight, ready to cause all sorts of trouble for them.

Bi Fan sneakily watched from his hiding place, and observed that they were all from the ‘rising sun’ school, even though only a teenager, surprisingly, one of them was as strong as ‘spiritual intelligence’ layer.

‘Spiritual intelligence’ layer practitioners usually prefer going into the second layer of the devil’s territory. So it was rather obvious to him that he had entered this part of the region to search for him.

Bi Fan’s eyes, brimming with murderous intentions were concentrated on the battle ahead of him.

Bi Fan thus far, had only seen relatively weaker ‘rising sun’ students, who were mostly around the ‘inner organs’ layer, so he was very attentively watching some of their more experienced disciples while they displayed their skills, as the grave battle ensued.

Jiang Sheng, Jiang Wen, these two names had been encrypted into Bi Fan psyche, and he wanted to leave the two of them for the last.

A teenager wearing a purple jacket seemed to be leading this group, they advanced and retreated at his command and were able to hold the Chimera off, for now.

In fact, since they were fighting in the woods, the Chimera’s movements had been greatly restricted and he was unable to use his body to its full extent. Plus, the Chimera had been injured earlier, in the battle with Bi Fan and hadn’t fully recovered from it, which meant that the Chimera was actually leaning towards a defeat at the moment.

The man with the purple jacket couldn’t help but contain his joy as he realized: “The Chimera seems to be showing some weaknesses, if we work harder, we can kill it and we have already established the upper hand.”

The Chimera was covered in fur and flesh from head to toe, both of which were very precious, its tail, in particular, would fetch a very high price.

The man in the purple jacket kept shouting encouragements at his comrades as they attacked the Chimera with elated spirits, suppressing the beast.

The Chimera had been fighting non-stop for a long time now, and things were getting even worse for him. With every passing second, his hatred for Bi Fan only grew stronger and stronger; if it hadn’t been for the amount of energy that he had consumed in fighting Bi Fan, he had been able to make an easy game out of the humans in front of him.

“Harder! We almost have him now!” The man in the purple jacked roared.

“Chimera, it seems that you are going to require my help to finish this job after all.” Bi Fan said; ready to intervene in yet another fight.

He popped up a few stones into the air and launched them straight at the five humans with the aid of ‘the immortal finger’. Bi Fan had decided to name this attack, ‘a snap of the fingers’, a rather appropriate name.

As he heard the sounds of the stones piercing through the air, the Chimera was certain that Bi Fan had returned and had already launched an attack. As he realized that he would also have to deal with Bi Fan along with these five, he couldn’t contain the fear that hit his heart and it reflected on his face.

He was just preparing to try and make a run for it, when one of the stones whooshed past him and it dawned upon him that this hail of bullet stones was directed at the humans and not him.

The Chimera was visibly confused; he had no idea why Bi Fan was doing this and simply couldn’t understand the sudden change of course this fight had taken.

‘A snap of the fingers’ was a very dangerous attack, as the stones were pelted at very high speeds with incredible accuracy, making it very difficult to dodge, or even thwart the attack.

The man in the purple jacket easily crushed the stone that was directed at him, but the others weren’t strong enough and fell prey to Bi Fan’s strike.

“Ah! Ah!…..”

Blood-curling shrieks filled the atmosphere as the four of the five humans were hit by the stones and sustained injuries. In fact, two of the four had even lost grip of their weapons, leaving them with no way to retaliate the incoming attacks.

The man in the purple jacket was furious: “You scumbag! Attacking us sneakily!”

“Putt-putt…..” were the only sounds he heard in response as more stones found their way into the battle field.

Bi Fan launched several successive attacks, as he reproduced the stunt.

The man in the purple jacket decided to quit cursing and started concentrating on dodging the attacks.

The four others were finding it harder to dodge the attacks with every passing minute, as they had already sustained injuries. This forced the man in the purple jacket to combine forces with them and aid them in shooting down the stones, rather than fighting off the Chimera.

The Chimera was a little slow to react, but once it realized that he had been gifted with an opportunity, he brazenly launched a brutal attack at the humans, exposing its ominous nature.

“Ah…. ” another screech echoed, as another one of the injured teenagers met his fate.

The looks on the faces of the remaining teenagers had changed drastically; they were all looking for means to escape.

Even the youngster in the purple jacket, who had thus far been helping his comrades, seemed to be searching for an avenue of escape, willing to abandon his comrades, ready save himself at the cost of their impending deaths.

Although these teenagers were all from the same school, they obviously had no profound emotional connections; they were more than willing to abandon their friends in dire situations, if it meant that they could live to see another morning’s sun.

Bi Fan had seen enough in this world, but even then he couldn’t help but shun such a behavior on their part.

His hands hadn’t slowed down at all, in fact, his fingers had been snapping all the while, and stones were being launched at the humans unceasingly.

Since, the last time, when Bi Fan had used this technique, by the river, he had been picking up the appropriately sized stones and had been collecting them in the Yin Yang bag, making it very easy for him to get access to them when needed.

Bi Fan’s hands were doing the job of a machine gun, hailing bullets of stones at his enemies.

Bi Fan had been prioritizing the youngster in the purple jacket with his attacks, forcing him to focus his attention on dodging the stones rather than trying to escape.

The Chimera had managed to deliver the other three youngsters to their final destinations in quick successions, which meant that the youngster in purple now stood there, facing the Chimera, alone.

 

The Chimera had managed to deliver the other three youngsters to their final destinations in quick successions, which meant that the youngster in purple now stood there, facing the Chimera, alone.

“My human brother, I have done nothing to wrong you, so don’t collaborate with this demon against me.” The youngster in the purple jacket announced out loud.

Even though the youngster was in a mortal situation, the look on his face, deceptive of this fact, was quiet gentle.

Bi Fan replied in a cold voice: “My brother, asking me for help won’t work, but you can try begging the Chimera if you wish to survive, maybe that will help your case instead.”

“You despicable little creature, come out and fight.” The youngster in the purple jacket was furious after hearing Bi Fan’s reply.

Bi Fan chuckled: “If you think I’d ever help you against this Chimera, then you’re gravely mistaken. I’d rather enjoy myself as you slowly crawl towards your death.”

The Chimera had already kill four of his comrades in quick succession, but the anger that had been smoldering inside it’s heart hadn’t cooled down at all, in fact, had been flamed even hotter.

“OWWW” The Chimera threw itself at the youngster, its murderous bloody mouth, wide open like a sacrificial bowl, ready to nip off the youngster’s head.

The teenager in the purple jacket was still recovering from Bi Fan’s cold and sharp tongued replies, and he barely managed to dodge the attack, but quickly prepared to launch a counter.

In the current scenario, the youngster in the purple jacket was all alone, against a ferocious Chimera which had Bi Fan helping it out. He could make out that Bi Fan was fairly strong and that taking them both on at the same time wasn’t going to be possible for him.

The Chimera had been on a very successful killing spree and was quite excited, high on confidence and self-belief.

Bi Fan was in no hurry to kill this one off, and instead of firing stones at him, he started concentrating on observing his martial arts.

The youngster was using all kinds of ‘rising sun’ techniques very optimally, and his strength was nothing short of formidable.

Bi Fan had been doing a lot of reading on the ‘rising sun’ techniques, using the book that he had procured, but hadn’t been able to get a grasp of its essence. But as he watched the youngster display some of those styles, thing started becoming a lot clearer to him.

Bi Fan had been wanting to learn the ‘rising sun’ techniques to enhance his own style of sword fighting and hoped that it would help him increase the efficiency of ‘the immortal finger’ as well.

The youngster in the purple jacket had been using his skills very efficiently to such an effect that the Chimera was finding it very difficult to deal with him.

Bi Fan had already figured out all that he needed to know, and decided that it was time to end the life of another ‘rising sun’ disciple.

‘A snap of the fingers’ and two stones went flying again.

The stones made their way straight for the eye balls of the youngster.

The youngster was fully concentrated on fighting the Chimera when he suddenly heard the sound of the stones piercing the air. He knew he didn’t have the time to dodge this time, so he quickly covered his vital organs, hoping to minimize the damage.

“Ah!….” Even though the youngster managed to protect his eyes, he couldn’t get out of the way completely. The stones hit him in the face, poking open, two bloody holes, as they embedded themselves in his handsome face.

The youngster in the purple jacket covered his face with his hands as the pain took over and he completely forgot about the Chimera that stood before his closed eyes.

The Chimera seized this opportunity and grasped the head of the youngster. In one single strike, the Chimera snapped off the youngster’s head in a terribly frightful scene, as blood splashed all over the ground.

Once the Chimera was done, it roared out as loudly as it could, venting out all of its frustration. Once he was done, he turned around to sneak a look in the direction from which the stones were being fired from and the color of fear returned to his face. The Chimera quickly started to leave, not even bothering to tow away the bodies of its kill.

“Big Guy, you know I will find you…” Bi Fan came out of his hiding spot, smiling and walked over to the dead bodies of the deceased ‘rising sun’ disciples.

Each of these people had only been carrying a very small amount of spars, and Bi Fan collected them very quickly.

The youngster in the purple jacket was obviously a core disciple of the ‘rising sun’ school, and had a Yin Yang bag in his possession, a gift which Bi Fan kindly accepted.

Bi Fan started walking towards the Chimera quickly, fully aware that the Chimera had quite possibly consumed all its energy, and now would be the most the fortunate time to kill it.

The Chimera, grabbed at one of the humans bodies that was lying near it and with the body dangling from its mouth, quickly started to leave the scene.

The Chimera was too slow at this moment, and Bi Fan could easily catch up any time he wanted.

“Big guy, don’t try to run now.” Bi Fan shouted as he started to close the gap between them very quickly.

As soon as the Chimera realized that Bi Fan had decided to chase after it, he decided to lose the human carcass that was dangling from its mouth and started running at full capacity.

Bi Fan complying with the Chimera accelerated his own pace and continued chasing it.

The Chimera had a huge body, hence was at a huge disadvantage as the huge trees tarried his escape plans.

Bi Fan on the other hand, was very cleverly picking the most optimal paths to close down the Chimera and was catching up very quickly.

Abruptly, the Chimera came to sudden halt, turned around to face Bi Fan, making it clear that he had no intention of escaping any further.

Bi Fan figured that the Chimera was up to something funny and was very vigilant, on guard, prepared for any attacks.

The Chimera suddenly revealed a very ugly smile, and while looking at Bi Fan with its pitiful eyes, closed its forepaws on the ground beneath, almost as if he was bowing down.

Bi Fan was taken aback by this gesture as he had no idea what the Chimera was doing.

“Whrrrrr…..” The Chimera produced a very subdued roar, more like purr, as it slowly creeped to the ground.

Bi Fan was even more confused now, and even more alert than before.

Unexpectedly, and boldly, the Marten came out of his hiding spot, issued a creaking sound and started making gestures incessantly.

The Marten had been communicating with Bi Fan using gestures for a long time, so Bi Fan could understand what the Marten was trying to say.

The Marten was trying to tell Bi Fan, that the Chimera was really scared of Bi Fan, and was begging him for mercy, no wonder the Chimera was acting in such a docile manner.

“So, Big guy, you want me to spare your life? Well, not so easily…” Bi Fan said with a strong smile on his face.

The Chimera’s eyes were filled with hope. The feel of those eyes wasn’t something that Bi Fan could simply ignore.

“Big guy, you will have to follow me or….” Bi Fan said with a smile, his body language reeking of a threat.

The Chimera hesitated, after all, he was a demon, and a mighty powerful one at that, surrendering wasn’t even remotely in its nature.

The Chimera was a very proud and arrogant creature. On top of that, it’s every cell permeated with rancor as far as Bi Fan was concerned, so he naturally didn’t want to surrender to his will.

However, it was evidently clear to the Chimera, that if he didn’t surrender to Bi Fan’s whims then Bi Fan wouldn’t hesitate to kill him.

“Big guy, you have to think logically, there is no harm in following me. I will even provide you with a nucleus to charge yourself up, if you’re willing to let me train on you.” Bi Fan smiled.

“Creak….” The Marten was bouncing vivaciously in an attempt to try and persuade the Chimera.

The Chimera stared at Bi Fan and at the Marten for a long time, still hesitant.

Bi Fan was extremely patient, and continued to look at the Chimera, harboring his ill intentions.

“Humm….” Finally, the Chimera lowered its head, symbolizing his surrender and its eyes reflected its compliance.

Bi Fan was in a frenzied state of exaltation: “But first, you will have to offer me your spirit!”

The Chimera obediently exposed the strands of its spirit, which Bi Fan collected. Now, if the Chimera ever showed any signs of malice or disloyalty, Bi Fan could fragment these strands of his spirit, and cause the Chimera a massive amount of damage.