God Slayer Chronicles 40 Yu Shi

Where he was about to land, he saw an old man looking up, surrounding him were a group of nine-ten youngsters, either around Sha Ku's age or a few years older. The oldest among them looking twelve.

The old man chuckled; he'd experienced this many times.

With a wave of his hand stones across the bottom third of demonic peak lit up, purple, green, blue, black. Each of these colours shot into the air, creating a massive illusionary projection in the air. It was intricate, but clearly, in the style of a talisman.

The moment Sha Ku saw this talisman his futile screaming turned furious instead, "Fucking cunt! Cunt faced fuck, little Dao Stage twat!"

The giant inscription on the air was the symbol for 'Stop', which caused him fury to boil over. He'd been had. This was An Mo's idea of some joke?!

By the last few feet towards the ground Sha Ku wasn't even cursing anymore, a loud residual growl was emerging from his lips though, while a deep and hearty chuckle could be heard coming from his purple ring.

"Yan Huang, silence!" Sha Ku sent out his thoughts, which caused the fallen immortal to laugh even further.

As Sha Ku was about to splatter on the ground, the air pressure whipping him about like a kite, he suddenly stopped a foot above the ground.

Frozen there in the air the old man nodded, with a smile on his face, "We can't have disciples dying from something as stupid as falling, after all, Demonic Peak is the sparsest populated of all the five peaks."

The old man had a green beard, and was bald all over, even missing eyebrows and lashes. His eyes were a deep green as well. He wore a bright purple robe with a dark flame dancing across the fabric.

"You must be the young boy the Hall Master went out to collect… Strange your only six or seven." The green bearded old man covered with wrinkles was by Sha Ku's side in a flash, holding his wrist and stroking his beard.

"But then again, Hall Master's judgment has never been anything less than beforehand when scouting new talent."

The green bearded man's smile vanished, "I am Tun Feng, you may refer to me as Third Elder Tun. I am Master of Lower Demonic peak." A stream of violent energy encompassed all of the younglings, crushing them and causing some even to cough up blood.

All but three fell to their knees or the ground.

Sha Ku, who felt a slither of blood trickle down his nose.

Another boy who had purple hair down to his waist was skinny and tall.

The third was a young girl, older than the rest of them. She seemed to be around the age of eleven or twelve and was obviously at the early coloured sea realm unlike him and the purple haired boy.

Seeing the green bearded man's attempt the girl snorted, looking too proud even to consider this an attempt of a test.

Seeing the girl's reaction, the Third Elder smiled, "So, her young highness Wen Fe is indeed talented."

Hearing the name everyone else in the group took in a deep breath!

Wen!

As in the Imperial name Wen!

One of the shorter boys in the group mumbled, "Wen Fe… Wen Fe, that name… it belongs to the young princess Fe, youngest daughter of Wen Kong, Imperial Uncle to the current Wen Emperor!"

Wen Fe looked over at the brightly clothed young lad, meeting his gaze for a second then gave a snort of derision, looking to her left at the purple haired boy.

"You, what's your name?"

The lanky purple haired lad looked around and pointed to himself, raising an eyebrow, as if saying, "You're talking to me, right?"

"The names Yu Shi. I'm from the Yu clan."

The girl looked at him suspiciously, then her gaze landed on Sha Ku, and smiled, "I'll keep my eye on you."

With this, she walked off, into the small mountain town that was situated in lower demonic peak.

Sha Ku frowned, indeed the Imperial family were like vicious beasts that could strut about like they own the place, any that defy them would fall, becoming their prey.

Sha Ku looked over towards the group with a grin, looking to make friends among the newcomers. Instead, he encountered a sea of glares and frowns, making it feel like he'd been hit in the stomach.

"Oh, seriously. One smile and I encounter the dregs of jealousy…" he growled under his breath, turning to the tall purple haired boy.

"Greetings, I'm Sha Ku." He cupped his hands; goodwill expressed in his warm tone.

"Sha Ku, that names strange. I'm Yu Shi."

"Oh Yu Shi, as in-"

"No."

"I didn't answer though."

"I know."

"But how do you know what I was going to say was wrong?" Sha Ku raised an eyebrow, deeply confused.

"The name, it has no meaning. Its symbols may be Feather and Decoration, but there is no meaning in such things as I'm neither."

"Righhhhhhht…." Sha Ku let out slowly nodding his head, clearly somewhat bamboozled.

"I'm Yu Shi; you're Sha Ku; let's be friends." Yu Shi said in his monotone voice, as his purple hair swayed from side to side, covering his eyes.

"Sure." Sha Ku shrugged, thinking this was easier than he first thought while splitting one of his eyes to look back at the group who had just managed to stand, up biting at him with their cold hard stares.

Chapter end