Diako Zenua walked into her carriage and shut the door. When she opened her hand she had two small bamboo tubes that had red ribbons on them. When she snapped her hand shut they made a small 'clack' sound. Right afterward the other side of her carriage slowly started to be enveloped in darkness. It was as if night had descended on the other side of the carriage. When the darkness faded away there was an old warrior kneeling down in front of her.

"What is your bidding Madam?" the old warrior asked with his head bowed.

"There is a very powerful warrior with his family some where in the woods behind us. I sent Ling Chanyom and fifty warriors to capture him, but they returned in failure. I'm not even sure in Ling Chanyom will survive his injuries. I must have them all in my stock for the auction in Qianbei. Take the elite soldiers and capture him with our family secret formation. I will not tolerate failure from you. With your strength this should be an easy task." When Zenua was done speaking the old warrior simply vanished into thin air.

Chen Zhen and them decided to leave the road and travel thru the woods to avoid running into Zenua's caravan again. This allowed them to continue their training and helped solidify their cover story as a family of hunters. They traveled this way for a couple day when suddenly Chen Zhen's bloodline began to boil again. He suddenly stopped and signal for everyone to step back.

Chen Zhen slowly searched ahead of them for any threats. He couldn't smell anything this time, so he was very confused as to were the danger was coming from. Just as Chen Zhen was realizing he couldn't hear animals in this part of the woods, five people suddenly jumped out of the ground surrounding him. Chen Zhen's bloodline armor immediately grew out and covered his body.

The warriors surrounding him were all chanting together and forming hand seals in perfect unison. In the blink of an eye they had already formed one hundred hand seals. A rune formation appeared under their feet. The force of this rune formation locked Chen Zhen in place not allowing him to move. He happened to be facing Mei Ling when the formation took effect, so he saw when an old warrior appeared behind them. He jabbed each of them in the neck in quick secession with a neuro-toxin, causing them to fall down paralyzed. Chen Zhen screamed out and tried to move but he was completely immobilized.

"You will return and become the young madams property. Please stop fighting, your efforts are futile." The old warrior said as he bent down and easily picked up Mei Ling and the kids.

As much as Chen Zhen tried to struggle it was of no use, he couldn't budge an inch. Another elite soldier appeared behind Chen Zhen and tried to jab him with the neuro-toxin, but his armor prevented it. When the old warrior saw this he shook his head at the nuisance this caused.

"Is there any way you guys can help me save them!" Chen Zhen screamed in his head.

[This formation is too powerful there is nothing I can do to neutralize it.] the clone said in exasperation

"I've been trying but there is nothing I can do. We are not strong enough to break a formation of this caliber yet." Lou Tian said feeling helpless.

"If I had my strength back I could have killed all of them with a mere sneeze." Shanggu Feng said, frustrated with his current weakness.

"I really wish we were stronger right now!!" they all screamed in their minds at the same time.

When this happened a strange things happened with their souls. Their souls pulled closer together and the very edges of their souls overlapped with each other. When this happened a new meridian network was opened up in Chen Zhen's body. The three dantians that had always been separated were suddenly connected. Their souls resonated together allowing them to be linked as one mind. For the first time they truly felt connected.

Inside the formation Chen Zhen's body slowly began to glow. A bright red light was slowly starting to be emitted from his body. As the warriors maintaining the formation saw this they poured more power into the formation. But it was no use, as Chen Zhen's power level rose cracking sounds started coming from his body as he pushed against the formation. Cracking sounds like gla.s.s shattering could be heard from the runes on the ground. The soldiers maintaining the formation soon had blood pouring from their orifices as the backlash of the formation breaking was rebounding in their souls.

The pressure of the formation was slowly weakening around Chen Zhen. Seeing that the formation was about to break, the old warrior was trying to decide if he should use family as hostages or return to the caravan for re-enforcements. Before he could make his decision the formation shattered completely. A scream that sounded like the roar of three mighty beast simultaneously came from Chen Zhen's mouth.

The soldiers who made the formation lay on the ground twitching. The powerful backlash from the formation shattering was too much for their minds and bodies to handle. They would die shortly of the internal injuries they sustained. The old warrior was a peak of the Liquid Core Stage cultivator, but the power radiating off of Chen Zhen made him weak in the knees. He knew there was no going back for him. The bloodl.u.s.t in Chen Zhen's eyes showed that even if he tried to hold his family hostage it wouldn't stop him.

As Chen Zhen sat their looking at the old warrior, he wanted nothing more then to tear him apart with his bare hands. He didn't see Mei Ling and the kids in his arms. He saw Moxian and his kids lying unconscious in front of him. Shanggu Feng and Lou Tian could feel his rage thru their bond, but it only fueled their own rage at this moment.

The old warrior dropped them to the ground and pulled out the long sword on his back. Words were meaningless at this point, so he just attacked with his full strength. He flashed in front of Chen Zhen and swung his sword down diagonally from right to left. Chen Zhen didn't even bother to move to avoid or defend himself. When the sword struck upon his armor the energy stored inside blasted out at Chen Zhen in point blank range. Dirt flew everywhere from the blast; Mei Ling and the kids were flung a distance away. When the dust cleared there was a large crater in the ground expect for where Chen Zhen stood.

The old warrior stepped back and released another martial technique. When he swung his sword, ten afterimages were left in its wake. Each afterimage attacked Chen Zhen from different side and angles. Once again Chen Zhen neither moved nor defended. Seeing that none of his strongest techniques could leave a scratch on Chen Zhen's armor, the old warrior decide that the only way to made hurt Chen Zhen was to detonate his dantian.

As soon as Lou tian saw what the old warrior was going to do he instantly activated Fire Flash. The old never saw Chen Zhen move it wasn't until he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen that realized Chen Zhen was right in front of him. Chen Zhen's fist was buried in his abdomen before the concussive blast from Fire Flash took effect. The old warrior was like a kite without the string as he tumbled thru the air. He tried to stand up from where he landed but his body no longer had energy. His dantian had been completely destroyed, all he could do was lay on the ground coughing up mouthfuls of blood.

Dark cloud began to appear in the sky, soon they congregated above the old warrior. Shanggu Feng took over Chen Zhen's body and pointed his finger at the old warrior. The old warrior felt a heavy pressure build up around him as he lay on the ground. As the pressure grew stronger sparks of lightning could be seen flas.h.i.+ng in the dark clouds. The old warrior struggled with all his might and finally managed to roll over. When he saw the dark clouds hanging in the sky, his last thought was who was this powerful warrior that his young madam chose to offend. A bolt of lightning as thick as a grown man landed on the old warrior, turning him and everything else in a twenty-foot radius into ash that blew away on the wind.

Chen Zhen looked down and could see that the soldiers were still twitching on the ground. He crossed his hands in front of himself with his claw facing out. As he stepped out of their encirclement he swung his arms behind, sending out ten red streaks of light from the tips of his claws. Those red streaks of light minced up the twitching soldiers putting them out of their misery.

Chen Zhen went to were Mei Ling and kids lay on the ground. They were breathing stably but they were unresponsive otherwise. Seeing them in this state made Chen Zhen's rage soar to it peak once again. Chen Zhen picked them up and rushed them back to the Specter Monkey territory. When he got there the Golden Specter King rushed over to see what was wrong. Chen Zhen asked if they could just watch over them for him. As soon as he knew they were safe he headed back toward the main road to Qianbei. Chen Zhen, Shanggu Feng, and Lou Tian all had the same thought in mind, they had some hunting to do. With that Chen Zhen let his Blood Lion bloodline take over as he raced down the road.