The Six Immortals

“Kill them!” The few remaining fighters, all in the ‘transformation’ layer, full of enthusiasm and power, charged at Wang Zhong’s division.

Wang Zhong’s platoon knew the importance of stalling these guys, and hence they continued to stand in their paths, even though they knew that they would end up injuring themselves.

Bi Fan realized that situation was a lot worse than he had anticipated, and hence, asked the Chimera to find a way out, and it went out in search of a safe escape route.

Bi Fan incorporated the body of the Dark Drake into the Tian Yuan ring, without any further hesitations.

“Withdraw!” Bi Fan commanded out loud.

As soon as Wang Zhong’s, three man platoon, heard Bi Fan’s order, they immediately dashed away from the fight, and started to run in Bi Fan’s direction.

All three of them were using divine essence seals to increase their pace of escape.

“Chase them down! We must snatch the Dark Drake’s body from him!” The eyes of the few remaining people were blood-shot red, and their expressions were so fierce, that it appeared as if they would eat Bi Fan alive.

These people had lost a lot of men, friends, companions, and comrades, while battling the Dark Drake, which is why they hadn’t given up on chasing the Dark Drake, even when they were too scared to.

Today, the Dark Drake had killed so many of their companions, that, they simply couldn’t tolerate the idea of not having to show anything for it. They needed a reward, a consolation, in exchange for all that they had lost today.

These people bolted out in a mad frenzy to intercept Bi Fan. Now, naturally, they didn’t care about Wang Zhong, Blue Dragon or Lone Leaf, as they knew that the body of the Dragon, their reward, was in Bi Fan’s possession.

Bi Fan hadn’t taken the route that the Chimera had spotted, but had indicated the rest of his platoon to go that way.

Bi Fan was afraid that if they all went the same way, then he might get slowed down a bit. He was well aware of the fact, that he’s be the only target, and hence, felt that he’d be better off escaping alone, since he wouldn’t have to bear the burden of anyone’s lack of pace. And then, obviously, he would also manage to create for his friends, some much needed diversion.

Bi Fan chose a path that he knew would be crawling with the Devil’s Race beasts.

Bi Fan ran himself directly into the flock of beasts in a wild rampage, and smashed his way, straight through them. And soon, found himself being chased after by a large group of angry beasts.

His pursuers saw the huge flock of beasts that was chasing their target, and realized that by the virtue of being the last ones in the queue to get to Bi Fan, they were going to have a pretty difficult time doing the same.

The distance that separated them and Bi Fan, was occupied by so many creatures, that if they were to get their hands on Bi Fan, they would first have to kill these beasts, which wouldn’t be any easy task.

Even if they were to take a detour around the beasts, they would end up taking a very long one, and weren’t certain to catch up to him.

On the other hand, if they just stood there and watched, then, they would soon lose sight of their target, which would make it even harder to track him down later on.

“What now? How do we go about this? This guy is too cunning!”

“This plan was worked out between four people; did you recognize any of them? As long as we can identify even one of them, we would be able to catch hold of them all later on. We lost so many men today, and we simply can’t let their sacrifice go in vain.”

“The four of them were very unfamiliar to me. I have never seen those weapons before, nor have I seen that kind of martial arts; there is no way we can tell which sect they belonged to.”

“Same here, these guys are too cunning. Even the ones that were blocking us, used very different kind of martial arts, I don’t think I can tell who they were.”

They continued to discuss and debate, but no matter how much they talked, they couldn’t come up with any valuable clues.

They were all talented students from big martial arts school, which by its very virtue, meant that they were very knowledgeable. But since, the other party hadn’t left any bread crumbs, and had executed a flawless plan flawlessly; their investigation only left them even more muddle-headed than they had been before.

Bi Fan turned around to see that the flock of beasts that were following him, were beginning to scatter, and give up. So turned around and killed a few of them, just to excite the rest of them.

As soon as the smell of fresh blood wafted through the air, the beasts became even more violent and started to chase after him again.

As more and more beasts joined in the chase to hunt down Bi Fan, the looks on the faces of his human pursuers began to get gloomier.

“Withdraw! This was all planned from the very beginning. There’s nothing we can do, so let’s retreat and decide the course of action.”

“We can’t let him get away with this, so let’s go back and work things out. Then, let’s go to our seniors and they will investigate this further.”

“Agreed! Let’s do that!”

…    …

Bi Fan looked over to see that those people were beginning to leave, so, he breathed out a sigh of relief. He quickly got rid of the beasts that he had used so well, and then left in search of his companions.

Bi Fan had successfully killed a Dark Drake, and even though the credit for his success could be largely attributed the element of chance, one simply couldn’t take away Bi Fan’s credit; his planning was exceptional, and execution, smooth.

Obviously, for any other man, killing the Dark Drake, the way Bi Fan had, would have been very difficult.

No matter how badly a Dark Drake is injured, killing it is still a very difficult task.

To cut through the Dragon’s scales, is never an easy task, and requires at least a top-grade magical weapon to do it efficiently. The Dark Drake’s only weakness, were his eyes, but the rest of his defense was solid.

Bi Fan had seized his opportunity well, and had managed to strike the Dragon, right in the eyes, and very accurately at that. And then, had taken advantage of the pain that the Dark Drake was suffering from, as a result of his initial attack, and then, using is sword, he had pierced through its throat, and had managed to split open its arteries.

This opportunity was always a fleeting one, and wasn’t easy to grasp. Bi Fan had taken a huge risk in order to implement it with absolute perfection.

Soon, Bi Fan caught up with his companions, and they were all visibly happy to see him return.

“Brother Bi Fan, now you’ve managed to completely convince me of your prowess. You really are amazing!” Lone Leaf exclaimed. “If someone ever questions your skill, they will have to deal with me.”

“Brother Bi Fan, what were you doing? What were you trying to prove?” Wang Zhong smiled slyly.

He knew that he would end up agitating Lone Leaf with his words, and well, he didn’t want to deny himself the pleasure of irritating that man.

“Wang Zhong, you have such a close-minded approach!” Lone Leaf was furious, and short on breath.

Bi Fan continued to smile, as if it was no big deal.

Blue Dragon said: “Brother Bi Fan, you have demonstrated your amazing skills today, I simply can’t think of anyone who could stand up to you.”

“I’d like to thank you all, if it wasn’t for your distraction, I would not have succeeded.” Bi Fan said: “Let’s find ourselves a quiet place so we dissect the Dark Drake’s body, and we can divide the valuables we need.”

Lone Leaf was the first one to speak up: “Brother Bi Fan, you killed the Dark Drake on your own, so I don’t think it’s fair to divide the loot equally. But then again, I’d really like to get something out of it; I’m planning on getting myself a new armor and helmet, so I’ll just take some scales.”

“No problem, would a hundred scales be sufficient?” Bi Fan smiled: “Brother Blue Dragon, would do you like?”

Blue Dragon thought for a second, then said: “Brother, if you don’t mind, then please give me barrel of his blood.”

“Of course, no problem at all.” Bi Fan replied.

Wang Zhong was next: “Brother Bi Fan, I’m your subordinate; you won’t ill-treat me, right?”

“If you want something brother, just ask for it.” Bi Fan was feeling very generous at the moment, after all, his trip into the Devil’s Abyss had ended with him killing, and procuring the body, of a Dark Drake, so after all said and done, this reward was more than worth all the trouble that he had to undertake.

Wang Zhong mulled over for a while, and then stated his desire: “I want two of his teeth.”

“Works for me!” Bi Fan readily agreed.

Even after the separating out the parts that the three of them were asking for, Bi Fan would still be left with a lot of the valuables, as they hadn’t really asked for much.

“Once we go out, don’t brag about the Dragon’s valuables, otherwise we might end up in trouble, if the big schools find out and pay us a visit.” Bi Fan cautioned everyone.

The three of his companions weren’t stupid either, and understood the meaning of his words immediately.

“Got it!”

The Four of them, found a nice and quiet place to rest, and left the Chimera to stand guard while they went about their business.

They had already reverted back to their original appearances, as the ones that they had been wearing while undertaking their mission, would now be very much sought after.

Those big school boys had lost a lot today, and wouldn’t exactly resign to their loss easily. In fact, Bi Fan was afraid that they might even band together, and set out to find his trail.

Bi Fan was the first one to finish his practice. Blue Dragon and the others were still meditating, so Bi Fan started replaying the recent events once again in his head.

In order to kill off the Dark Drake, Bi Fan had taken a really huge risk.

As he replayed the scenes in his head, post-traumatic stress started to overtake his conscious. Bi Fan patted his chest, to soothe himself: “I’ll need to get used to this, if I want to live much longer in this world.”