The Geared Immortal

Chapter 1046

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While scribbling on the ground, Xin Ja suddenly stopped as the ground began shaking. He heard some battling sounds coming from the top floor. One explosion after another began to echo through the corridor which made the dust on the ceiling began to fall off.

"This… What is happening…" Xin Ja muttered as he quickly tried to finish the runes inside the room.

After that, he did not want to think about anything else anymore as he began to shift his attention to healing his father.

Xin Ja began to inject his Ki into his father's body. However, he discovers that his father's body would actually reject his Ki and his Ki seem to be doing something in his father's dantian. And this made him feel worried.

"It… it seems that only pure Ki could enter my father's body… What should I do? I need to be able to use pure Ki to help him recover…" Xin Ja began thinking as a slight panic enters his heart.

His eyes suddenly darted towards the food on the plate. Although some of them are already stale, they can still be injected. But what he needed is the pure Ki that is coming from them.

With a slight hesitation, he began inscribing a rune array on the ground, and using that rune array, it actually sucks the pure Ki from those foods and then dispels the rot among them.

The rune is just a simple combination of absorbing and elemental dispel runes.

It did not take long before Xin Ja was able to gather enough pure Ki after absorbing every Ki from those foods. What made him astounded is that he noticed that the Ki on the ground which comes from his father's blood, from the droplets of water, and from the stone on the walls began to also coagulate.

But Xin Ja has no time to think about anything else, he needed to prepare his father's body to absorb the Ki, so he began to uses the stone needles to hit the acupoints in his father's body to enable the pure Ki to enter his meridians.

It did not take long before the flow of pure Ki that looks like white mist began to flow into his father's body.

Upon seeing this, the heart of Xin Ja heaves a sigh of relief.

With this, pure Ki he knew that his father's body would sure recover faster.

Bam!!!

Suddenly, a loud burst coming from the door startled the young boy. Then, a burly young man came rushing inside the prison cell.

The cell is bigger than the one where Xin Ja was imprisoned and his father has been lying in the corner, so when the prison door came crashing because of the force of the kick, they were not hit. Instead, it kicks up a small dust cloud that covered the whole prison cell.

The eyes of the burly young man are like glowing fire as he scanned the room. Then his eyes landed on the two figures on the ground. One has blood all over him, while the young boy is sitting beside the man.

"How did… How did you escape?!" the young man was a bit taken aback upon seeing the young boy.

But then he suddenly woke up from his stupor as he knew that he has no time to ask questions. The town's guards are already attacking their hideout and he needs to take away their hostage or take them as a human shield so that he and his cohorts would be able to escape.

As of this moment, Lou Gom is a bit resentful of the choice he made a few days ago. They have decided to work with that merchant so that they could take advantage of his unique wares. However, when he saw how lucrative the business was, his heart was suddenly engulfed with greed, and decided to work with another gang.

Their purpose is to get the location of the real runemaster that the merchant is working with. They wanted to get their hands on that guy and capture him so that they could get more out of the merchandise.

But no matter what they did to the guy, he would never tell them. Even when threatened with his son's life, he still would not say anything.

Suddenly, this morning they did not expect that the town's guards would suddenly attack them along with an old man.

They were taken by surprise because it was morning and they did not expect that the town's guards would be brazen enough to attack their gang.

At this time he was really regretful that he did not follow the words of his friends, Tao Yom and Lai Bin. But it's too late for regret now. He could only use the hostages to be able to save his own life.

Upon seeing that the father and son are actually in the same room, he immediately showed a sneer on his face. This would save him some time and would easily be able to capture them.

"You two should come with me…" he growled as he takes a step forward.

After just taking two steps, he suddenly feels his surroundings becoming unstable. His balance was interrupted making him stop with his charge.

Bam!

He hit the wall as he fell completely out of balance.

When he was on the ground, he suddenly heard the boy speak with a slight crying tone.

"Are you the one who tortured my father?"

Upon hearing this, the expression of Lou Gom turned ugly.

"Yeah… so what?" he growled as he pushes himself up.

"So it was you who inflicted these wounds on him?" the boy continues asking while sobbing.

"Arrgghh… Haha… I will not only torture your father but also you if you are not obedient." Lou Gom said as he picks himself up.

He feels a bit ashamed at the incident where a powerful level 2 Ki warrior like himself would fall on his feet. Plus it seems that the young boy saw it all.

He could not help but feel his reputation plummeting, and he could not accept that. In his mind, he already swore to punish the boy just like what he has done to the boy's father.

But then his expression suddenly changes as he feels his whole world began to turn around making him feel dizzy and disoriented.

"Damn it! What is happening here?" Lou Gom shouted as he tried to pick himself up but still failed.

Suddenly, before he could know it he is already planted on the ground not knowing his left hand from his right due to extreme disorientation.

"Hey… What is taking you so long?" shouted someone from the outside.

A man suddenly peeks inside the prison cell and what he saw made him show a hint of astonishment in his eyes.

On the ground, the huge body of Lou Gom is sprawled and it was as if he was knocked down. And not too far from him is the crying young boy who is caressing the hair on the head of the bloodied man on the ground.

"This dim wit! How could he fall unconscious just like that? What a fool…" the man said as he strode forward inside the cell.

But before he knew it, he too has actually entered the sphere of influence of the rune array.

The eyes of Xin Ja look at the two figures on the ground and then to his father's head. He then looks at his small hands stained with blood. The tears in his eyes could not stop from pouring as he could feel the pain that his father have suffered at the hands of these ruthless people.

He has already noticed that his father is not wearing the pendant that he gave him. He knew that the reason why they were captured is that they were truly taken by surprise. As a young boy, how could Xin Ja know the craftiness of these people?

He might have thought that he has prepared well against them, but now he knew that his young mind is still too naïve.

His gaze suddenly landed on the two figures on the ground.

"You… I know now why your father would not talk… It was you… his son… you are the runemaster…" the man who just entered said with disbelief in his eyes.

He had already realized why the boy was able to escape and appear inside the prison.

After all the planning and scheming in the shadows, he now knew why they are unable to know who the runemaster was.

They thought that it was someone else who is hiding with them. They wanted to get the information from the father so that they could lay an ambush and get that guy.

But who could have thought that the person they are looking for is the inconspicuous weak-looking boy?

"Yes… I am who you are looking for… I would not have mind it if you ask us peacefully. But you made a big mistake by hurting my father… and since I knew what's in your mind… I… I will make sure that you will not be able to hurt me and father ever again…" the young boy said.

The man was unable to answer anymore as his consciousness became too muddled.

At this time, more and more people began pouring inside the cell, and more and more people have fallen into Xin Ja's trap.

Suddenly, in the corridor, one could hear curdling screams of pain which seem to be coming from that particular prison cell.