Lord of the void realm

Lightning cracked across the horizon.

On a ridge soaked in dark clouds, three figures stood without a word.

Their faces were calm, but tension hung in the air.

Zhen and Shi Yun were gone.

Not dead in battle.

Removed.

They didn't understand how. That's what made it worse.

The leader, Ji Shen, wore grey armor etched with old celestial runes. His presence was steady—controlled, but dangerous. He wasn't like the others.

He knew when something couldn't be taken lightly.

Beside him, Karo the Bone Reaver grinned as if hoping to die, while Vei, the Sound Killer, hovered above the rocks with no expression.

Ji Shen spoke first.

"No more mistakes."

He looked toward the east. "He moved again. The moment the air shifted, I lost the last trace."

"Then let's stop hiding," Karo said, cracking his neck. "If we wait longer, he'll disappear like the others."

"No," Ji Shen said. "He wants us to come. Alone, we're bait. Together, we're dangerous."

Karo smiled. "And what if together… we vanish too?"

"Then we die smarter than the others."

Raizen sat near the mouth of a cold river, eyes closed, hand resting on the surface. The water didn't touch him—it parted before making contact.

The moment the three stepped into his sensing range, he opened his eyes.

He didn't move.

He just stood.

And waited.

They arrived with no sound.

Ji Shen landed first, forming a barrier around the entire valley. It wasn't to trap Raizen—it was to stop him from bending space mid-fight.

Karo charged without warning, summoning hundreds of white bone spears from his body. They swirled through the air and came down in a storm of sharpened death.

Vei followed, releasing layers of distorted sound designed to rupture spiritual cores and crush inner thoughts.

Raizen didn't speak.

He didn't release his aura.

He took one step forward—and the ground warped.

The bone spears shattered before reaching him.

The sound walls bent around his body and collapsed into silence.

Ji Shen's barrier held.

That made things interesting.

Karo landed a heavy fist—Raizen let it hit.

The strike cracked the ground beneath him, but Raizen didn't budge.

He grabbed Karo's arm.

And erased it.

The bone cultivator screamed as his entire left side vanished. He leapt back, blood spraying across the dirt.

Ji Shen moved fast—swinging a blade charged with sealed lightning.

Raizen dodged. Not with flash or tricks. Just clean movement.

Then he folded space behind him, forcing Vei and Karo to stumble.

He raised his hand—and the air between him and Ji Shen dropped ten degrees.

Not cold.

Still.

Ji Shen's blade struck, but something blocked it. Not a shield. Not energy.

Void tension.

He jumped back, eyes narrow.

"This one's not like the others."

Raizen walked forward, slowly.

Ji Shen raised two fingers.

A celestial rune flared in the sky.

Raizen looked up.

And vanished.

When he reappeared, he was behind Vei.

No words.

Just a hand.

Vei disappeared.

Not torn. Not crushed.

Just gone.

Karo screamed again and fired every bone weapon he had.

Raizen ignored them and appeared behind him.

The earth swallowed Karo whole. No dust. No echo.

Just... finished.

Only Ji Shen remained.

Raizen faced him without expression.

Ji Shen didn't run.

He didn't charge.

He stood still and said, "I wasn't sent to kill you. I was sent to delay you."

Raizen raised his hand.

Ji She

n smiled faintly.

"Then again… maybe they knew we'd all lose."

Raizen dropped his hand.

And Ji Shen vanished.

His soul joined the others