EAST DRAGON

Chapter #02. Hunted

Chapter #02.  Hunted

With all his strength Zhao Yun endured the punishment given to him, his determination to avenge the insult given to him fueled his will to survive.

After serving his sentence, Zhao Yun was expelled from the Black Dragon Sect, even though his back was dripping with blood, his stomach still felt intense burning pain, Zhao Yun stepped as hard as he could towards the sect gate.

All the Black Dragon Sect disciples' eyes just looked sadly at his situation, no one was there to help him, apart from looks of pity, cynical looks accompanied his every step.

Among the thousands of pairs of eyes, there was only one pair of eyes that looked at Zhao Yun closely, sharp and meaningful.

Bai Ning, the owner of those eyes and the daughter of the master of the Black Dragon sect, wished to approach Zhao Yun and help him, but a pair of hands had been preventing Bai Ning from taking a step toward Zhao Yun from the very beginning.

"Father..." Bai Ning said to his father who was holding back her movement.

"Stay here," said the father calmly.

"But father?..." Bai Ning argued quickly, but Bai Ying immediately cut her off.

"If you go there and help Yun'er, you will just increase his burden, do you understand, daughter?" Bai Ying said to her only daughter.

Bai Ning took a deep breath after hearing her father's words. She understood and understood the meaning of her father's words

Bai Ning understands the situation, if she goes to Zhao Yun, of course she will be wasting her father's help, who has helped Zhao Yun escape from a heavier punishment.

"But father, can't you help Yun'er restore his dantian?" Bai Ning said angrily.

"It's difficult, daughter, only a grandmaster alchemist can make a legendary pill like that, and on the eastern continent there are no fifth level grandmasters, if anything it is very difficult to find the spirit plants needed to refine the pill," said the father honestly.

"Then what if Yun'er........"

"Don't worry too much, he is a man, and men have longer legs and strides? Do you know why men's legs are made longer than women's legs?" Bai Ying asked her daughter.

Bai Ning just shook her head slowly as a sign that she didn't know the answer to her father's question.

"A man's footsteps are made longer than a woman's because a man has greater responsibility, both for his own life and the lives of those next to him, therefore as long as Zhao Yun steps on the path of truth he will find things which makes him a 'big man'" Bai Ying said wisely.

The two then looked at Zhao Yun who was slowly walking towards the sect's exit gate.

"We can only hope that Yun'er finds his destiny," Bai Ying said wisely.

Zhao Yun, who knew from the start that Bai Ning and the sect master were watching him, warmed his cold heart a little, of the hundreds of pairs of eyes that stared cynically at him, only Bai Ying and Bai Ning looked at him differently.

For Zhao Yun, the gazes of Bai Ying and Bai Ning then and now remain the same, Zhao Yun remembered the time when he was a child and almost died from hunger and cold, it was these two people who gave him food and shelter so that he could live until now. These two also gave him encouragement so that he could become a disciple of the Black Dragon Sect.

Even though Bai Ying was the sect master, he did not make it easy for Zhao Yun in the slightest. It could be said that Zhao Yun was able to enter the Black Dragon Sect and become a core disciple thanks to his own efforts and abilities.

Arriving in front of the sect's gate, Zhao Yun stopped, he then turned back for a moment, looking at the black dragon sect he had only been living in for a few months.

Apart from looking at the sect, his eyes looked at the sect masters Bai Ying and Bai Ning, from the look in Zhao Yun's eyes there was gratitude to the two people who had contributed to his life, Zhao Yun cupped his hands and pay respect them from a distance.

"Sect master, Ning'er, thank you for the valuable ten years, thank you for Master’s help and also Lady help, Zhao Yun owes his life to Master and Lady Ning. Zhao Yun asks for permission to take his leave," said Zhao Yun very softly, with a small smile curling on his lips.

After paying his respects, Zhao Yun turned around and started walking again,

After Zhao Yun left, all the disciple began to carry out their activities again, only a handful of disciple remained in their places.

"Do it immediately!!, bring me his head! I must repay his previous insult for daring to spit in my face!" Ma Durung said to the disciple who were his subordinates.

"Yes, crown prince," said one of the disciple behind him.

Immediately some of the people behind Ma Durung rushed towards the outside of the sect, the four disciples immediately followed in the direction Zhao Yun left.

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Zhao Yun's footsteps took him towards the black forest. After resting for some time and using wild grass as medicine for his wounds, Zhao Yun was finally able to recover a little.

Zhao Yun quickly continued his journey, what was on his mind right now was how to become strong and take revenge on the people who had made him like this, perhaps those who had known Zhao Yun for a long time could see that the current Zhao Yun was not the same Zhao Yun from before.

Just as he stepped out, he felt an uncomfortable feeling, Zhao Yun began to increase his guard.

" Swiiing .... swiiiing "

The sound of a flying knife cutting through the air sounded shrill in the ears, Zhao Yun swiftly avoided the two blades that were aiming at his body, even though the strength of his qi had disappeared, his alertness and instincts were still functioning well.

"Wuuusshhh.....wuuussshhhh ....wuuusshhh"

Four people dressed in blue with a black dragon symbol on their chest surrounded Zhao Yun, the four people immediately surrounded Zhao Yun to eliminate Zhao Yun's escape route.

Zhao Yun smiled slightly when he saw that Ma Durung's men had surrounded him from the four directions.

"Finally we found you, for a disabled person, your movements are fast too, so we had to chase you this far," said one of Ma Durung's subordinates.

"Hey useless being, help us and also help yourself, hand over your neck to us and let us cut it off" Said Ma Durung's other subordinates who were immediately met with laughter from the four.

Hearing this, Zhao Yun just smiled a little without replying to their words, he immediately sat down and thought for a moment.

"Okay, I'll follow your wishes, you don't need to bother killing me, I'll do it myself," said Zhao Yun flatly.

The four disciples with the skilled realm certainly did not refuse Zhao Yun's request, immediately one of them threw a sword at Zhao Yun.

The sword that was thrown at Zhao Yun was still floating in the air, Zhao Yun immediately jumped from his sitting position and caught the sword.

Ma Durung's four men, who were not alert, were of course shocked by Zhao Yun's spontaneous movement.

A sword slash hit the chest of one of the disciple which immediately made the disciple fall down, finding an opening to escape, Zhao Yun didn't waste anything, he immediately shot away from the encirclement of his ambusher.

The remaining three subordinates of Ma Durung then pursued Zhao Yun again. Although Zhao Yun had no qi to fight them, he still excelled in physical strength. Since living with Bai Ying, he had been physically trained by Bai Ning's father since he was five years old, and for more than ten years, Zhao Yun had not stopped training his body.

Therefore, Zhao Yun was not afraid at all against Ma Durung's three subordinates who were in the skilled realm.

Even though his body still felt pain, Zhao Yun tried to endure it, because he was outnumbered, Zhao Yun used a strategy to fight them, Zhao Yun now took risks by trying to use up their stamina and qi.

Zhao Yun didn't have any other ideas because there was no time or other way, with the battle area being completely forested, he chose to use this double edged tactic, because after all this strategy both used up his stamina, Zhao Yun ran here and there, zig zagging, spinning. around the forest to make the three of them tired.

After several incense sticks passed, Zhao Yun's strategy went according to plan, Ma Durung's three subordinates were exhausted, not much different from them, Zhao Yun felt the same way.

"Now is the time" Zhao Yun muttered softly.

Now Zhao Yun stopped running, what he did now was attack the weakest of the three subordinates of Ma Durung. This change clearly allowed Zhao Yun to easily defeat Ma Durung's subordinate, who was exhausted and unprepared.

The two subordinates of Zhao Yun who realized that they had entered Zhao Yun's scheme, now stopped chasing him, this time they used their qi to attack Zhao Yun.

With qi energy, they attacked far away with their moves, and this succeeded in pushing Zhao Yun, until finally Zhao Yun was cornered into a ravine.

"Got you now, where else are you going to run?" Said one of Ma Durung's subordinates.

"I won't run anymore, I will fight it out with you guys," Zhao Yun said confidently.

"You're imagining too much! How can a loser who doesn't have a dantian like you win against us who are in the advanced realm!?"

"Who said I would win? Winning and losing are matters for later!" Zhao Yun said again.

Immediately Zhao Yun dashed and attacked towards Ma Durung's two subordinates, the fight was clearly one sided, Ma Durung's two subordinates immediately used moves using their qi, this clearly made things very difficult for Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun could only dodge and stay in the cornered position, until a punch hit Zhao Yun's body and made the ground on the cliff crack. This seriously injured Zhao Yun and threw him into a ravine.

"It turns out... this is the end of my life..." Zhao Yun said softly.

Zhao Yun's body hurtled towards the bottom of the ravine, but moments before he fell to the bottom of the ravine, someone caught Zhao Yun's unconscious body, then both of them disappeared instantly.