The Geared Immortal

/*unedited*/ 

The face of BeiBei Ji has been down for quite some time now. She has been following the young man she thought really familiar and didn"t expect to encounter such news that the Dragcule was loose on the outer perimeter of the Dark Forest. So without a choice, she immediately reported to the town. She also relayed this news to the Nian clan as part of their elite group.

Hence the news was spread and in just three days, they began sending group after groups of mercenaries.

What confuses them thought is that not a single group returned. Until one day, when they discovered that one of the mercenary team came back with grievous wounds. Then they received the news that the Dracule is now more powerful and has eliminated all those mercenary sent by the town.

Today was the third day and the day they would attack the beast as a large army. This way, they can get rid of the danger it possesses.

BeiBei Ji"s feeling is really down right now, because if the young man truly enters the forest while the rampage of the Dragcule is happening, then she is sure that his life would be forfeited. With only a core-forming realm as his cultivation, how could he survive such a powerful creature when those gold core realm cultivators are slaughtered like lambs. Hence she is feeling gloomy at this time.

If her conjecture was correct, then that young man might have been her savior, s.h.i.+n Jiao. Because of her indecisiveness, she let him enter a dangerous situation and his whereabouts and life are unknown.

As the group began preparation, she decided to just stand in the recruitment booth and help with the security there. Suddenly from the corner of her eyes, she saw a familiar face.

And when she turned and their eyes met, she was dumbfounded.

"You… you"re… you"re alive?" she muttered with a surprised look on her face.

When s.h.i.+n Jiao heard her words, his heart skipped a beat. He didn"t expect that BeiBei Ji would be in this place. He thought that she would be in one of the s.h.i.+ps and preparing with the rest of the elites along with the elders.

"Senior sister, how have you been? Don"t tell me that you missed me that much. Just because you haven"t seen me for a while you thought I was dead…" s.h.i.+n Jiao replied with a wry smile.

When everyone heard his words, they thought of the same thing. When their gaze turns towards the young woman who suddenly blushed, they knew that what they think was right.

"Shameless… humph…" BeiBei Ji harrumph then turns around and walks away.

While walking, she could not help but clench her fist and held it close to her heart. Then a smile bloomed on her face as she continues walking towards the s.h.i.+ps.

…

In a blink of an eye, s.h.i.+n Jiao found himself inside one of the s.h.i.+ps of the Nian clan.

The huge wars.h.i.+p contains hundreds of rooms and there are many complex rune drawings that make it move. However, it consumes an astronomical amount of spirit stones, so the s.h.i.+ps are not used casually. However, today the event is very dangerous and the clan decided to act by deploying the two s.h.i.+ps.

s.h.i.+n Jiao looks outside as he observes the ground and the speed of the s.h.i.+p as it travels through the air.

The thick smog of the Dark Forest makes it hard for anyone to navigate inside it. But because of the strong cultivators inside the s.h.i.+p, they were able to locate which path to take.

Suddenly something happened which made the s.h.i.+p shook violently.

"Something is attacking the s.h.i.+ps! Everyone, prepare to fight!" shouted someone from the deck.

With this, all of the cultivators in the s.h.i.+p took out their weapons and went to the deck. And what appears on their sights are a group of unknown creatures that looks like humans with burly bodies and blood-red skin. Their face looks like that of a human, but the two horns on their heads say otherwise.

When s.h.i.+n Jiao saw the enemy he squinted his eyes in confusion.

"Demons… How did the demons enter the kingdom?" s.h.i.+n Jiao thought.

But then he saw the cultivators rus.h.i.+ng forward, he didn"t hesitate and follow them from behind. But when he saw a corner he stealthily hid in there and began observing the situation.

"I may not need to do anything anymore. These demons… why are they here? And how were they able to enter the borders this quick?"

s.h.i.+n Jiao knows how big the continent is, and even if a person could fly really fast, it would take those demons years before they can reach the borders from the supposed point of entry of the demons.

"If so, then maybe the other possible answer is that there is another portal being opened." s.h.i.+n Jiao muttered as he continues observing the battle.

However, the battle is clearly a one-sided fight. From the darkness energy erupting from the bodies of the demons, s.h.i.+n Jiao can confirm that they have the strength comparable to a late-stage gold core and there are few whose strength is comparable to infant soul realm cultivator.

"This is going to be troublesome…" s.h.i.+n Jiao muttered as he carefully took out a long rifle and slowly aimed it towards one of the demons.

"I need to whittle their number down so that I won"t have any problem later."

As the battle continues on the deck, s.h.i.+n Jiao started shooting down those demons which have the power comparable to the infant soul realm. Since it is a sneak attack, in an instant, s.h.i.+n Jiao was able to take down two immediately.

The remaining one faces off against the elders of the Nian clan on board.

Then s.h.i.+n Jiao s.h.i.+fted his attention to the fight, this time without interfering.

Suddenly, the wars.h.i.+p he was on began shaking.

"Hmm… the s.h.i.+p controlling arrays seem to have been broken… Well, it"s time to abandon s.h.i.+p." He muttered as he deactivates his cloak and reveals himself.

Suddenly he saw BeiBei Ji coming out of a cabin with a wound on her side.

From the looks of it, she was stabbed with a sword. Without thinking twice, s.h.i.+n Jiao rushed on her side and immediately caught her before she could fall on the ground. He then feeds her a pill and then removes the short blade on her side.

Using his goggles, he turned his gaze towards the other s.h.i.+p. And from there he saw that the situation is much worse. That is because he can see the demons have already overtaken the s.h.i.+p.

He scanned the whole wars.h.i.+p as it too flew lower and began falling to the ground.

"Where are you?" s.h.i.+n Jiao muttered.

Although the s.h.i.+p is already falling, he is sure that Ziyun Lee is fine. This is because she is with the first elder of the Nian clan.

After a while, s.h.i.+n Jiao saw a particular figure being dragged by someone. It was the first elder of the clan. But what made him stunned is that the first elder now has a single horn on his forehead.

"How? What is happening here?" s.h.i.+n Jiao thought as he observed the situation.

He could not carelessly attack and move because it may endanger the life of Ziyun Lee. Hence he observes while hiding on the deck. Sometimes, he would casually kill a demon that would approach him.

The deck of the wars.h.i.+p is now bathed in the blood of both cultivators and demons. And chaos can be seen anywhere. The fire began to grow bigger on the wars.h.i.+p as it slowly plummeted to the ground.

How the demon got in the wars.h.i.+ps is a puzzle to s.h.i.+n Jiao, but with the situation he has now, he already has some idea about what happened. The appearance of the first elder of the Nian clan alone can tell him the crux of the situation.

But what baffled s.h.i.+n Jiao is why the first elder is holding into Ziyun Lee?

Then suddenly, s.h.i.+n Jiao"s eyes lit up in realization.

"Pills… the demons are after the pills."

With this deduction, s.h.i.+n Jiao clenched his fist and decided to make his move. He didn"t know what can the demons do, and how their mode of travel to this place. But if they have a portal in this place, then it would be too late for him to rescue her if she enters it.

Judging from the falling rate of the wars.h.i.+ps, it would take them around 10 minutes before they would crash to the ground. So s.h.i.+n Jiao has to make his move and fast.

Carrying BeiBei Ji on his shoulder, s.h.i.+n Jiao activates his cloak and flew through the air towards the opposite s.h.i.+p.

When he landed, he carefully put down BeiBei Ji on the deck.

But before he can walk away, his hand was grabbed by something soft which almost startled him.

When he turns around, he saw BeiBei Ji who has already regained her consciousness.

"Wait… Where… where are you going? P… please… please, don"t leave me in here." She muttered as fear can clearly be seen in her eyes.

s.h.i.+n Jiao felt a little indecisive at this time. She wanted him to stay but he needs to rescue Ziyun Lee, he can take her with him, but she would be a burden. These options before him are making his head hurt.

With a wave of his hand, he took out a s.h.i.+eld.

"Take this… don"t move from where you are. I will put you inside a formation. So be at ease, I will come back soon. Okay? I promise I won"t leave you." s.h.i.+n Jiao said with an a.s.suring tone in his voice.

Although a little hesitant, BeiBei Ji nods her head without a choice.

Looking at the departing back of the young man, she gripped the s.h.i.+eld with both hands and just sat on the side of the deck while the wailing and explosions are happening around her.

s.h.i.+n Jiao was able to traverse the s.p.a.cious deck and arrive at the highest part of the wars.h.i.+p"s deck.

Then from that place, he can see where the first elder and many of his minions as they began casting spells attacking the cultivators who tried to attack them.

Taking out his long rifle, s.h.i.+n Jiao carefully put the horned head of the Nian Clan first elder on his sight.

"Hmm… that mana undulation is weird… Wait a minute, I… I think I remember this aura." s.h.i.+n Jiao muttered as he realized something.