The Legendary F Rank

Hanying clenched his fist before striking Haru in the stomach before he could react. The fighting styles between the twin demons were so different that Haru couldn't comprehend it at first.

He had managed to get the hang of fighting against the younger brother but as the real Hanying started to attack him he was useless he wasn't prepared to fight with such speed.

Haru took a further three punches to the face before he was backed into a corner as Hanying reached down into his pocket and pulled out a small black crystal.

Haru didn't know what it was but as Hanying grabbed the crystal he put it against his lips before biting down on it causing it to shatter into hundreds of small fragments as a pale blue orb emerged in front of him before he gulped it down.

Haru continued to watch on in confusion as he took the time to catch his breath. If he was going to be able to fight Hanying who was much faster than the one known as Fen then he would have to use every last ounce of his strength.

Yet he knew that if both of them decided to fight together then he wouldn't stand a chance. Fearing that he would lose the fight Haru took a few steps back as the pale blue light that he had seen emerge from the crystal had now begun to emerge from Hanying's eyes as they shone like flashlights, illuminating Haru's surroundings. 

Haru raised his sword and prepared for another attack. But instead of getting closer to him, Hanying held out his hand as shards of ice began to fly in Haru's direction.

"See the power of casters isn't something entirely unique to mortals. Even cultivators can use it when they meet the right conditions and all it takes is having mana flow within your body. But that can't happen naturally while Qi flows through your veins so we have to use mana stones to do it. But I wonder… How is it that you can use caster abilities at will?" Hanying asked as Haru raised his hand to take the attack.

Although Haru was much weaker than Hanying in terms of cultivation his magic abilities were much stronger than anything that could be thrown at him unless they had trained for a lifetime.

"You don't want to answer? Well, that's fine but in reality, there is only one way that someone would be able to have a dantian and mana stores at the same time. And that would be If their mana isn't stored in their body.

So that means that either something is constantly supplying you with Mana to use at your own will. Or something even more amusing is going on. 

I think that the mana is stored in your soul and not your body. When you became a cultivator your body should have rejected your mana stores so it was no longer possible for them to exist within your body.

But if you had a strong connection to mana then it is possible for fragments of mana to imprint themselves on your soul.

I can't wait to harvest your body and find out if I'm correct but I can tell that there are a lot of secrets about you and I will be the one to crack them." Hanying smiled as he shot another blast of ice out of his hand but this time used it as a distraction as he pulled out a short dagger from his waistband and lunged towards Haru's throat.

Haru was on guard the whole time while he was speaking so he was prepared enough for the attack to see it coming and he managed to lift his sword in time to meet the dagger before it struck his body.

Haru exhaled with relief as he managed to stop the attack but he was given no time to rest as it was followed up with another attack as Hanying tried to stomp down onto Haru's knee to make him fall but Haru quickly retreated back and then twisted his wrist before grabbing the pommel of his sword and plunging it into Hanying's chin. 

The impact from the pommel hitting him caused him to stumble as the skin below his chin tore open slightly revealing dark red blood that seemed almost black in colour to pour down his neck and drip down onto the floor.

He looked up in shock that Haru had managed to hit him back and then ran forwards again while swinging his dagger wildly, hoping to hit him anywhere and everywhere as punishment for hurting him but the wild attack seemed too predictable for Haru to think of them as a threat.

He dodged them with ease until Hanying took a step back to calm himself down.

He had let his anger get the better of him and it had made him lose control. He wasn't thinking strategically and let himself get carried away.

As Hanying took a deep breath he composed himself and smiled at Haru before walking towards him yet again and following up with the same move as he used the ice attack as a distraction before attacking with his dagger.

Haru parried the attack as he sliced down with his sword cutting through the air in front of them both, creating a shock wave that blow against the two of them as static electricity fizzled around them.

Hanying took a step back as he saw the power in Haru's party. It was enough to cut through the atmosphere around them. Although Haru didn't think anything about it, Hanying recognised that it was one of the signs that someone was about to reach enlightenment in the art of swordsmanship.

It usually took hundreds of years to reach that point for regular cultivators but Haru was definitely less than twenty years old and as Hanying stared at Haru for a few moments he began to connect the dots together.

"I finally understand it now," Hanying said as he turned around to his brother who was looking back in confusion as Haru became even wearier. He wasn't about to attack just in case it was another trap so he took a few more steps back to distance himself as Hanying began to laugh.

"You have an old soul, don't you? You have a lot more talent than anyone on this planet and you are about to reach enlightenment at such a young age.

There are other things that you are able to do that someone with your life experience would have no clue about such as how to create formations with dragon runes.

It would take years to decipher the dragon language and not even the top scholars in the upper realm have managed to understand every rune since literature in the dragon language is rare even there.

So if I'm correct then you should be the reincarnation of someone who has that knowledge. You were probably someone powerful beyond belief if you know something like that when not even the elders in the demon clan know such things.

But what would you be doing on a small planet like this? Wouldn't you choose to reincarnate in the upper realm to get the best cultivation opportunities?" Hanying asked as he seemed sure that Haru was reincarnated before.

Although Hanying was right about the reincarnation part, he couldn't be further off the mark with Haru being the reincarnation of a strong cultivator. But he had no plans of correcting him as he knew that nothing good would come of giving him any more information than he needed.

"Don't want to answer huh? Well, that doesn't matter. I will find out when I search through your soul. I will find your deepest and darkest secrets along with that information too." Hanying bragged as a rumble shook the tunnel as it begin to give in on its self all around them.

Stone began to fall from the ceiling as cracks formed on the walls. 

'They must have detonated it. Were they waiting for me?.' Haru thought as the shock from the blast shot throughout the tunnel and into the final room as it filled with dust, causing Haru to go blind as the fight was interrupted with a loud bang as a large rock fell down.

Haru took the time to put up a formation around him to keep safe from the attack just in time as the rest of the tunnel collapsed around him. It seemed that Mia wasn't joking about the strength of the explosives that they were using.

It seemed that since they knew the leader of the demons down there they were willing to go as far as sinking an entire city to get rid of the threat.

But Haru knew that an explosion like that wasn't enough to finish Hanying off and as he opened his eyes again and took in the surroundings as the dust faded, revealing that he was now standing on a large pile of rocks in the open air.

During the collapse of the tunnel, it seemed as though some holes had opened up giving room for Hanying and Fen to escape without damage as Haru looked back up to see that Hanying was still waiting with his brother as if nothing had happened.