"How long do we have to stay here," Zhang Tian Grumbled, "This Baelful Qi is eating away at my sanity, I hate it here," he added as he dug away.
"It shouldn't take more," Master Rain said, "We're glad the Fire Lord had taken a liking to ng Hao, otherwise everything would have taken a turn for the worst, for now, we'll wait until he returns from his daily commissions, and we should be able to leave, I heard that there will be a ship leaving the Main Planet soon, we can hijack it," Just as Master Rain finished his words, loud footsteps ca from outside their cave.
"Right here," they heard as three minor spears ca.
"Are you sure you're not taking them just because you were their captain?" asked another spear to ng Hao disguised as Xiao Lai.
ng Hao shook his head, "No, so of them used to work for , and for Zhengfei, we were cave comrades, so we can take him. ng Hao turned to Dao Shen disguised as Zhangfei and asked him, "How's the mining conditions?"
"Not great, I'm keeping up with the quota, but I'm lacking miners, are we getting any new supplies soon?" Dao Shen did his best impression acting.
"Yeah, that's why I'm here, you all of you, co with us, we'll be taking a trip, consider it a blessing from . I've been asked to get more workers, and we want servants to help us out with our daily errands," ng Hao said.
"Gladly," Zhang Tian said as he placed his pickaxe down.
"This one seems too happy, how about we leave him here," said one of the minor spears, taunting.
"You're really cruel aren't you, no don't worry, among the miners I used to train, he's one of the best, and very useful, c'mon, pack up, we'll be leaving for a few weeks, consider it a vacation, not that you'll ever have another one," ng Hao said.
The group then followed after him, while Dao Shen made sure to keep the others in line by shouting orders and cursing at them occasionally."
"He's pretty excited," one of the minor spears accompanying ng Hao said.
"Yeah, he probably wants to leave a good impression on you for his next promotion," ng Hao said.
"Well, he's doing a good job keeping the slaves in line, I like firm people, I'll consider vouching for him in the next evaluation, anyway, let's pick up the pace," said the minor spear.
After several hours they arrived to the shipyard where they'll be leaving.
There were a few more slaves around, carrying cargo to the ship, and the mont ng Hao saw them, he ordered the group, "Go help them out, we want to leave fast," ng Hao said.
Zhang Tian and Master Rain nodded then hurried to help the others, carrying the boxes and what seed to be shackles and chains.
"You never asked where we're going by the way," the minor spear asked.
"Does it matter, if it's a mission, we'll do it anyway," replied ng Hao.
Suddenly a hand rested on his shoulder, "That's how one should act, ask not where to go, but ask what to do and how to serve."
Turning, ng Hao saw a Fire Spear next to him. it was the sa fire spear that humiliated him on his day of arrival.
"Hmm, this group, I rember it, where is the fisty kid that was with them?" asked the Fire Spear.
"He died due to demonic impulses," ng Hao replied instantly.
"What a sha," The fire spear, his words contradicting his mocking expression, "The weak die, and the strong prevails, it is such a world. Now hurry, we need to co back here by the end of the week," said the Fire Spear.
Soon, the ship was already packed and full of its cargo, and it seed that it was to deliver this to a nearby planet that was under the command of the Fire Lord, the cargo was nothing but purified and processed BloodStones. These were probably to make another Fire Spear.
After everyone boarded the ship, sothing unexpected happened.
"HALT!" one of the minor spears shouted outside.
"What's going on?" the Fire Spear asked.
"The General wishes to accompany this shipnt," said the Minor Spear. "He'll arrive soon."
This was bad.
ng Hao, Dao Shen, and Zhang Tian realized that things were going to get really awkward, since if it was just one Fire Spear, they could handle him, but the General is strong enough to be among the Emperor ranks. Which is the sa as Master Rain's level.
The issue wasn't that they couldn't win, the issue was, if they were to fight, would they be able to win in ti before reinforcents arrive.
Their plan was to takeover the ship and head to the area where the Thunder Bull was waiting for them. But now it seems that this plan will have to be adjusted.
The General entered the ship, didn't even bother with the slaves or the minor spears and headed to the navigation room, ng Hao was waiting calmly on the side next to the fire spear, listening to what's going on.
"I'll be heading with you, the lord isn't happy with the Quality of the Fire Spears, we have so candidates, but I want to see their ability first," the general then turned to ng Hao.
"You again," he said, "I can't see any improvents from the last ti. I thought you wanted to be the next Fire Spear," The General said.
"My apologies, I have shad myself with my weakness," ng Hao replied.
"We do not tolerate weakness here, the next ti I see you, if you're the sa level as now, I'll make sure to personally execute you," the General then scuffed and looked away.
"I'll be taking command of the ship, let's depart."
"As you command," the Fire Spear said and the ship soon took off.
The general discussed logistics with the Fire Spear and how the event of promoting the new Fire Spear will happen, all in all, ng Hao was still processing a thod to takeover the Ship with the General still on it.
"Go check up on the slaves, they're awfully quiet," the Fire Spear gave ng Hao and the minor spear an order.
"As you command," ng Hao said and the three left the room.
"You're in big trouble," said one of the Minor Spears to ng Hao.
"I know, I have to improve fast," ng Hao said, not really lying, he was thinking of needing to improve himself for real, after facing the Fire Lord, he realized how truly weak he was.
Once they arrived to the areas where the slaves were kept, they noticed that all of them were doing nothing but sit down, quietly.
"I guess nothing was happening after all, let report it," said the Minor Spear as he headed up.
"Man, this is really boring," said the second minor spear as he looked through the window peering on the outer space.
"It's ti off the planet, what do you an boring?" asked ng Hao, making sure to keep up the small-talk since he noticed Master Rain's hands doing gestures.
"It takes a couple hours to reach our destination, and there is nothing to see on the way besides a belt of teorites, then we'll spend days there waiting for a ceremony that takes a full week to complete. While we're not allowed to not even move. I wish if I had just stayed back," he said.
"Indeed, it will be boring,"
"I wish sothing was to happen, I an, we've been cooped up near the mines for a long while. Still, for so reason I'm feeling uneasy," he said.
"Is that so,"ng Hao said as he slowly brandished his sword.
"Yeah, it's like a dark feeling I have, you know, like sothing bad might happen, you know what I an?" the spear turned to ng Hao who had his sword raised.
Master Rain imdiately finished his spell and locked the entire body of the dead minor spear in a formation along with the mouths "I know," ng Hao said and ripped the man's head off.
Master Rain imdiately finished his spell and locked the entire body of the dead minor spear in a formation along with the mouths of every slave in the ship.
He locked their movent and words.
"Is it ti already?" ng Hao asked.
"Yes, I already finished preparations," Master Rain said
"You can release our disguise," said Master Rain to Dao Shen.
Dao Shen then imdiately removed their disguises and restored their Qi signatures.
"We're not afraid of the General finding out that were here?" asked Zhang Tian.
"No, I made precautions," Master Rain said.
Suddenly, the Ship began shaking.
"What's that?" asked Dao Shen.
"That's the precaution I made," Master Rain grinned.
"Everyone buckle up!" he added.
And almost imdiately, the hull of the ship burst apart, as the Thunder Bull made its grand entrance breaking into the ship.
Zhang Tian, ng Hao, Dao Shen, and Master Rain all jumped on the carriage portion, and the bull shot forward breaking the other side of the ship rendering it useless.
"Well, I hope that the Thunder Bull is fast enough," said Dao Shen as he noticed an incredible amount of Qi gathering inside the Ship Wreck.
The General shot forward from the ship toward the bull.
But suddenly the General was zapped with what seed to be a trap formation.
He got stalled for a second, and that second is all it took for Zhang Tian to use one of his own spells, the sa one that sealed the Primordial Serpent God.
"Got him!" Zhang Tian said.
"Let's hurry then, he'll probably exit the seal in no ti we can't delay, alright little cabbage, ti to show them the aning of haste!" Master Rain said and the thunder bull, true to its na roared in bursting lightning as he zood forward with incredible speed.
"How did you apply a trap formation on the general," Dao Shen laughed as he watched them get away.
"The first formation, I didn't apply it directly, I placed it on the Minor spear that went to report the slave's calm behavior. The second one is Zhang Tian's work, he's pretty decent when it cos to seals…"
"Well, I learned from your prison, I had a thousand years to learn anyway," Zhang Tian laughed.
"Don't bring that up, it was your fault," Master Rian said.
"Emm, is it just , or are we not heading outside the Fire Domain?"
"No, we're not heading out, that's a ticket to the afterlife if we do that. Our escape had already been reported, and if we proceed to leave the Fire Domain using the shortest rout, a lot of cultivators will be waiting for us, we'll take a roundabout way to leave, don't worry about it, and just trust little cabbage," said Master Rain as the bull continued to rumble forward.
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