The Geared Immortal

The war part 9

/*unedited*/

Bang!

Kaboom!

Aaah!

Without a word, an explosion suddenly happened at the deck of the huge warship. And this was followed by the chaotic shout of those who were hit. As the cultivators were caught off guard everyone began to panic.

Right now, the elder who acts as the captain of the airship is currently lying on the ground drench in a pool of his own blood. Although the bullet didn't hit him square on his head only the trajectory of the bullet plus the speed of the airship made the impact of the bullet against the airship's barrier too strong.

Hence after the bullet break through the barrier, a loud thundering explosion happened followed by a destructive force that destroyed the front of the airship.

The debris flew everywhere and hit those unlucky cultivators, while the main bullet from Shin Jiao's rifle directly flew towards the elder of the Nian clan. But because of the impact, the trajectory deviated and directly hit the elder on his heart.

The elder is either unlucky or that Shin Jiao is just lucky because this made everyone in the airship panicked.

Seeing that the person in command is down, the cultivators are now at a loss.

Although they are trained by the clan to fight, yet right now they are like soldiers without a general, a headless dragon.

When Shin Jiao saw this, he smiled.

He didn't expect that the bullet would deviate and directly kill the captain of the ship. While everyone is in panic, a person suddenly came out from the ship's cabin.

This person is a young man and he looks familiar to Shin Jiao. But he could not think of who it was no matter how hard he thinks about it.

But then, Shin Jiao has met a lot of people in his life and of course, he could not remember all of them. However, he found the face of the young man really familiar.

Right now, the airship's speed has already slowed down and Shin Jiao can clearly see the panic-stricken crowd. But when that young man came out of the cabin, everyone showed hope deep in their eyes.

"Hmm… I guess this is their true leader." Shin Jiao muttered as he once again raised the rifle and take his aim.

But then before he can pull the trigger, the young man who saw the elder of the clan bleeding on the ship's bridge, immediately jumped down and lay flat on the ground.

Then he heard him shouting in a loud voice.

"Turn the ship around! Turn the ship around now!" the young man's voice is clearly full of panic.

"I knew this would happen, but they didn't listen. Now what?" the young man muttered under his breath while lying on the ground.

"Hey, Hong Nian! What are you doing?" one of the cultivators asked in disdain at the action of the young man who is Hong Nian.

Hong Nian is a genius strategist of the Nian clan. He is a very crafty person and didn't like eating a loss. But when he discovered that Shin Jiao, Zhen Nian, Rat Ling, and Ya Nian were able to escape his grasped his pride has taken a hit.

And from then on, he stopped being conceited and instead turned more careful.

Yet, because of this sudden turn of his attitude, the Nian clan has regained a lot of advantages. Hence the clan has now fully put their trust in him from then on in many of the clan's important decision making.

Young as he is, Hong Nian became like an elder of the clan and he would always stand by the side of Jin Nian whenever he would visit the clan. Because of this, many envied him and also some of the elders have him in their eyes. They are just waiting for an opportunity to teach Hong Nian a lesson so that he would not dream of climbing higher in the clan's hierarchy.

So when the news about Shin Jiao appears, the elders suggested sending Hong Nian. They point out that he would be a perfect candidate to capture the fugitive, Shin Jiao.

But of course, the elders know about the story of his failure to capture the slave even under his own nose. So they wanted to once again wound his pride.

Although Hong Nian knew this plan of the elders, he didn't back down. This is because he has a plan, a plan which he has been concocting a long time ago. Since Shin Jiao was able to make artifacts and that his fame is already widespread throughout almost the whole kingdom of Wu, he would grab this opportunity to be on the good side of the young slave.

And so the large airship retreated a few kilometers away from Shin Jiao's small airship.

"What is this, Hong Nian? The elders explicitly commanded us to capture that slave!" shouted one of the Nian clan elite members.

Hong Nian just showed him an indifferent attitude.

"I guess what the elders said is true. You've lost your balls in fighting against other cultivators. You became a scheming coward." The man added with a sneer.

"Sigh… you and I have different orders so... you just follow yours and I will do mine as I see fit." Hong Nian said indifferently.

This annoyed the other cultivators in the deck of the ship. Then one of them who looks like a good fighter walks forward.

"If Hong Nian doesn't want to fight then we will. Brothers and sisters, let's go! We'll show that bastard that he could not scare us with that sneak attack!" shouted the man as he jumps to the air and quickly rides his flying sword.

Upon seeing him, the rest followed and also rode their flying swords and came rushing towards Shin Jiao's small ship.

Hong Nian didn't bother them as he squatted to the ship's deck.

"How about the rest? Do you also want to attack that small ship?" Hong Nian asked as he turns his gaze at the remaining people on the deck.

As if they have agreed on it, everyone shook their heads and lower them.

In truth, these people are already scared when they saw the ship was attacked by a single unseen shot from the enemy. These people are the ones who are in charge of the logistics and maintenance of the ship. Hence they know how powerful that attack was.

Although it didn't destroy the ship, however, the reason is very clear. The airship is not the target of their enemy but the captain or the head of the ship.

"Good, you are wiser than those fools. Let them die in their folly." Hong Nian said with a sneer. Then he calmly stood up and walks towards the ship's cabin.

"Call me when they're all dead or have returned to the airship." He said before closing the cabin's door.

When the people heard this, they could not help but pity those foolish cultivators.

…

Meanwhile, Shin Jiao saw more than a hundred people flying towards his direction.

"Ahh… they wanted to fight one against one hundred. Aren't they too shameless?" Shin Jiao muttered.

Shin Jiao didn't bother with thinking and just reloaded his rifle. Then he also brought out a snowboard like a thingy and stepped on it.

Unlike a flying sword, Shin Jiao made this flying snowboard in his spare time. This is because he wanted to test a theory of self-sustaining flying artifacts. Hence his little experiment leads to this snowboard thingy. In the middle part of the snowboard is a small box. He carefully put a small demon core inside that box and stepped on the flying snowboard.

As he lifts off his airship's small deck. Shin Jiao saw the approaching Nian clan elite cultivators. From the looks of it, they seem to be deadly serious in capturing him, dead or alive. This is because he is being drowned by hundreds of killing intent which is making him uncomfortable.

"Is this for real? These guys would really kill me for defending myself, right?" he thought as he weighs his options.

Right now, if he kills this many cultivators from the Nian clan, then the royal family would surely be alarmed by the Nian clan and would try to include many powers just to deal with him.

But if he let them go, then he would always be hunted by the Nian clan and this would not be good for him.

Shin Jiao knows what the Nian clan wanted from him. And this problem happened because of their greed, so why would he run from them. Right now, Shin Jiao has already made his decision. And that decision is to fight against the Nian clan. Although, Zen Nian is his friend, yet he could not blame him for doing what he has to do right now.

As a man, Shin Jiao did not rely on others for his safety. He might be humble and amiable when he is trying to act and win others for his purposes. But he would never bow down to others even if it is the royal family of Wu.

Luckily for him, the royal family is not greedy enough to challenge him and would just support him from the side. So now that he made his decision to fight it out with the Nian clan. He would start with these elites of the Nian clan members. As someone who has stayed in the Nian clan before, he can clearly see that these people were really trained by the clan as their elites.

"If the Nian clan would go this far, then they could not blame me for being impolite." Shin Jiao said with a smile.

"Let the camera roll!"