Saint Rinushka wasn''t a man that Ryu was intimately familiar with. In fact, he had only met him once. The trouble was that he had killed his youngest disciple, he still remembered how annoying that little bastard was. Of course, he didn''t know his background at the time and it was only Aantha, Mae''s cousin, who had informed him... not that it would have made much of a difference.


    He killed who he wanted to kill.


    Unfortunately, the issue with being so disobedient was the fact that someone would always come to demand a debt. At moments like these, he almost felt that Primus was a bit noble. It was too bad that he was also a spineless piece of trash.


    Pierthorn looked at his hand, somewhat astonished.


    At first, he couldn''t believe his luck. He had recognized Ryu long ago. Due to this man, he had gone from a person that stood on top of the world and whom not a single soul dared to offend, to a man who had spent the better part of the last two years on the run.


    Under his master''s influence he had offended a lot of people, but no one that he couldn''t deal with personally, he wasn''t that shameless. The trouble wasn''t who he had offended, but rather who his master had offended.


    As a Transcendent Sky God that had ridden on the heads of many Omniscient Sky Gods, it was safe to say that the Saint had a great number of enemies. He had obviously thought that Aika would just be one more to this number, but who would have expected that not only would his clone die, but Aika would even be able to use a mysterious method to target his real body at the same time.


    This left his first disciple carrying a heavy weight. As the saying went, a master for a day was a father for a lifetime, and unfortunately it was the Fate of the son to carry on the sins of his father. This was the reality of it all. He had benefited from his master''s umbrella, and because he had, he had to deal with the consequences. This was Karma.


    Even so, that didn''t mean that he was happy about it.


    ''I need to go all out. If someone witnesses this...''


    The current location wasn''t exactly hidden. They were in a rocky land, and there were many mountains in the distance. There was some sparse greenery, if they could even be called that. They were far more grey and brown than they were green. At the same time, there was this odd pressure above as though it was leading people by the nose, dangling a piece of meat before them just far enough away that they couldn''t fully understand what was happening.


    There was no region for him to disappear quickly outside of the mountains, but they weren''t a range, but were rather far more spread out than was usual for such a group. Speed wasn''t his forte, so this would be dicey. The only choice was to crush Ryu with his full force as quickly as possible.


    He stopped holding back. Retracting and flicking his palm, his Spiritual Qi surged.


    Ryu immediately tried to pull out his God Treasure, but that failed. That mysterious energy dangling a piece of meat almost slapped him out of the skies, and not long later he crashed and rolled along the ground, coughing up mouthfuls of blood.


    He didn''t stay there, immediately rolling up to his feet, but he had only just when he grabbed his head, roaring out in pain.


    Pierthorn''s Spiritual Qi was fast, descending without technique first and crashing into Ryu''s mind.


    "What?!"


    Pierthorn''s eyes widened. He had begun preparing a true technique out of pure habit, he hadn''t thought he would need it. But the fact Ryu was screaming meant that he still wasn''t dead.


    "What kind of mental defences could possibly protect a Soul Ascension Realm expert from me?!"