Chapter 263: That doesn't sound good.

Lao usually wore a bored and tired looking expression on his face but this time he was looking at the demon with a look of excitement and interest. If Haru could put into words what someone's facial expressions were saying then he thought that Lao would have been saying "This is starting to get interesting."

He watched for a few moments as Lao and the demon's leader stared each other down and then saw Lao crack another smile before a flash of green light shot throughout the sky once again.

"Good luck," Haru said to himself quietly as Lao began to battle with the demon and then made his way over to where the main portion of the fight was happening. He felt like he was neglecting his duties and was also dissatisfied that he had yet to fight someone who matched his strength.

"You shouldn't worry about Lao. No matter what happens he won't die. There is a reason that he is only at the manifestation stage and that is because he planned to be.

He could breakthrough to the nascent soul stage whenever he wanted to. It would be as easy as clapping his hands. But once he got to the nascent soul stage his body would begin to turn his Qi into True Qi in preparation for him being forced into the upper realms.

But since dragons are beings of pure Qi he would be forced into the nirvana stage as soon as he reaches the nascent soul stage and he would be forced out of the lower realm. I'm sure if his life is in danger then he will just break through and head to the upper realms.

But dragon's have a naturally strong body. A cultivator at the profound death stage like that demon up there has no chance of causing actual damage to his body. The most he will be able to do is blast him through the air a little. But I bet if they were fighting on the ground then he wouldn't be able to make Lao move even an inch." Li Jun explained to Haru who was feeling a little worried about him.

But as Li Jun said, there was really no reason to worry. Lao was from the upper realm and was much stronger than even the strongest person in the middle realm. There wasn't a single thing that someone could injure him as things stood now.

Haru sighed and felt a little bit stupid that he worried about Lao but he had yet to see him go all out and it the current situation called for at least a little bit of worry. He looked back at Li Jun before flying up into the air to meet up with the others who were fighting off the army of demons that seemed never-ending.

As Haru arrived at the main battle he was quickly stared at by the other cultivators. Not many of them knew how strong Haru was because of his flooded soul ocean.

But sect master Shen knew that he had only been cultivating for around four years. It was almost impossible for someone to reach the nascent soul stage within that time so he instantly yelled out upon seeing that he had entered the battle.

"Get away from here! These guys are far too strong for you to fight against." Shen warned Haru.

"It's fine. You're strong enough to kill a bunch of them with a single swipe of your sword." Li Jun egged Haru on from over his shoulder.

Haru had mixed feelings about the situation. The last time he had fought against someone at the nascent soul stage he nearly died. But it had only been around two weeks since then and Li Jun was telling him that he could fight on equal terms with them.

He didn't know what to think. But he did feel like he was significantly stronger than he was before and he was no longer intimidated by the power that each of the cultivators was releasing as they fought. The same couldn't be said for the manifestation stage cultivators on the ground below them who were shivering in fear as the battle raged on above them.

Haru was only at the spirit soul stage but the Qi within his body had far surpassed that of a nascent soul stage cultivator. He didn't know since he had yet to test his strength but Li Jun could feel it.

"Just try it." LKi Jun said once again as Haru was having conflicting thoughts about what he should do. But he decided to listen to his teacher after all he knew best.

Haru drew his sword from his storage ring and then pulled it out from its sheath before pointing the blade at one of the demons in the sky.

The demon looked at him for a moment before smiling.

"You're not qualified to fight me you little insect." The demon laughed at Haru before charging towards him with a sword of his own.

Haru lowered his arm and then slashed upwards towards the sky with as much strength as he could muster. The demon that was charging towards him stopped dead in his tracks before tilting his head to the side. The demon's body slowly split in half as a loud boom rang out through the city.

There were so many demons in the sky that during the process of slaying one of them. Haru's attack had gone through the body of the first demon and struck a group of twenty more that were floating in the sky behind him.

The fighting suddenly stopped as everyone's sight narrowed in on Haru who was at a loss for words. He knew that Li Jun had warned him that he could kill a nascent soul stage demon with a single slash from his sword but he thought that he meant one of them. Not over twenty.

"What was that…?" Sect Master Shen stopped along with the demons who turned to face Haru out of fear.

The strongest someone could get within the lower realm was the nascent soul stage therefore there was an advantage in numbers that the demons currently had. But given the fact that Haru's Qi transcended that of a regular cultivator, he was almost on the level as someone at the late Nirvana stage.

He killed multiple demons with just a single attack and that was enough to strike fear into everyone within the city. Including the demon that was fighting with Lao.

"See, I told you so. You know you should really start trusting me a little more." Li Jun smiled proudly as he was right all along despite Haru doubting him.

"Yeah… You were." Haru replied slowly as he looked down at his hand before raising it again while pointing the blade towards another group of demons.

A thin slice of blue light shot from the blade of his sword as he swiped it across the sky and marked around fifteen of the demons with the same blue light for a few moments before their bodies split into multiple pieces and then rained down upon the city below.

"How is this possible!? There's two of you?" The demon's leader asked Lao who was also surprised by what he had just seen.

"Wow. I didn't think that he was that strong already. I can't let him get too ahead of himself now can I?" Lao ignored the question from the demon before rushing towards him and hitting the demon in his stomach with his fist.

The demon groaned out in pain for a moment before Lao quickly rushed behind him and hit him in the back of his head with an open palm. Causing the demon leader to tumble towards earth with enough speed to break the sound barrier.

A shock wave hit the city as the demon leader's body slammed against the concrete on the roads and dust flew up into the sky clouding the vision of most people who watched on.

Haru slashed his sword again. This time taking down more than thirty demons at a time as he swiftly flew through the sky. The demons that remained were now on the retreat as Haru flew around like a mad man, slaying them in the dozens.

Lao on the other hand followed up with some more attacks on the leader of the demons who was laying with his back against the ground. Each punch from Lao pushed the demon deeper into the dirt beneath the ground as the floor was giving way from the strength behind his fists.

Haru finished his rampage with strength to spare as he looked over at the roaring strikes of thunder that were striking the ground less than three hundred metres away from him.

"What did I miss?" Haru asked as the only people that remained were the cultivators that belonged to earth. It seemed like all of the demons that had come to earth were either dead or mortally injured. There wasn't anything else to do but watch as Lao beat up their leader.

"What did you miss? You need to explain yourself first. Where were you hiding that power? I know you have a flooded soul ocean but to reach that level in just a few years is unprecedented…" Shen said to Haru with a shiver as a chill ran down his spine when just thinking about how much talent that it would take to become that strong in such a short amount of time.

The only other person in history to become so strong so quickly was the monarch of the black star. So it shouldn't have come as so much of a surprise that his student would be able to do something similar. Yet he never saw it coming.

But as Shen was lost in thought and Haru was watching Lao's fight a thunderous roar cried out from the sky. The roar was so loud that it shook the ground for miles and even the civilians hiding in the mountains felt the quake produced by the sound.

Haru's heart raced as a pit formed within his stomach.

"That doesn't sound good…" Haru said before looking up at the sky to see that a gigantic dark cloud had formed over shanghai.