The Geared Immortal

Chapter 446

/*unedited*/

The rumbling sound of the clouds can be heard from afar as rain clouds began to form in the sky. The air rushing through his ears are like a piercing sound that woke his consciousness. He didn't know how long he was unconscious, but it seems that it was not that long.

Shin Jiao remembers what happened a while ago when the whole cave collapsed. A huge beast suddenly burst out of the ground disrupting the teleportation portal. The Captain shouted for them to hold arms, but he was a bit far hence he was separated from the three soldiers.

And now he found himself in this situation where he is currently plummeting high up in the sky. He can also see a couple of rubles falling with him.

"This is… What place is this?" Shin Jiao thought as he tried to recall the map in his head.

As he has hidden his goggles inside his ring, he didn't have time to wear it and check the map. But he is already familiar with the map hence he carefully checks the topography while falling. He suddenly took out an orb from his ring and activates it.

As soon as the orb lits up it floated in the air and stopped Shin Jiao's fall.

From where he is floating he can already see the vast ground and even the borders of the Daemon forest.

"This means that I am out of the forest, but where is this?" he muttered.

Then he suddenly saw some landmarks which are nearly like that from the map. But it was not that clear as the map is not complete yet.

Shin Jiao decided to land when he spotted a town. It's has a fair size, so he might find some information about this place from it.

He turns the levitation function of the orb and his figure plummeted down once again.

Once he was about to hit the ground, Shin Jiao turns on the orb and his descent stopped. He landed near a river in which there is a road a couple of meters away.

Shin Jiao looks around and found no one so he carefully walked down towards the river and decided to clean himself up. He wanted to wash off the grimes on his face and body from his long travel inside the Daemon forest.

As he walks near the river he suddenly discovers some clothing at the side which was hanged on the rocks.

Then from the river, a loud splash was heard as a figure suddenly burst out of the water.

With arms extended and fingers pointed like a blade. A naked figure dashes towards Shin Jiao. He was a bit taken aback from this incident especially upon seeing the beautiful figure of the person dashing towards him.

The snow-white supple skin, two jiggling peaks with pink cherries on top was fully displayed in front of his eyes.

He wasn't able to dodge the strike from the woman due to the distraction. But Shin Jiao's physique is not that of a normal person or cultivator. He has a true nascent realm physique which is very strong. So as the Qi covered finger of the woman hit his chest, Shin Jiao moved and made it slid making a light scratch.

He then immediately grabs the woman's wrist and twisted her arm towards her back. He then grabs her other hand making her figure fall towards the ground.

Eeek!!!

The woman shrieked upon seeing that her face is about to hit the ground.

However, Shin Jiao lifted his foot and caught her body. He then immediately turns her body in the air and made her stand, then with a quick move grab her robe and wrapped her body with it.

The woman was in a daze upon discovering what had happened.

"I am sorry, for what had happened, but why did you attack me?" Shin Jiao suddenly asked as he showed his back to let the woman fix her clothing.

She was still a bit stunned and wasn't able to react at the moment. When she saw that Shin Jiao was polite enough to give her a chance to put on her clothing, she seems to heave a sigh of relief.

She quickly got dressed while trying to watch Shin Jiao's back. She was still vigilant towards him because she didn't know who the man is.

After she got dressed she immediately grabs her sword from her spatial pouch and pointed it to Shin Jiao.

"Please… if I wanted to harm I would have done it while you were unarmed."

"I… I don't know who you are and why are you peeping at me while I was taking a bath."

"I just walked and found this river… However, since I have found someone I wanted to ask you a question."

"Wait! Who are you?"

"Oh, sorry… My name is Si Ji, and you are?"

"I… I am Wen Mo Yang"

"Nice to meet you, Miss Yang… regarding my question, may I ask where am I? Or, what kingdom is this?" Shin Jiao asked with a gentle smile.

Upon seeing the handsome face and the gentle attitude of the young man in front of her, Wen Mo Yang couldn't help but show a faint blush on her face.

In her travels, she would always encounter men, but those men would either be lecherous or arrogant bastards. She has never encountered such a person who has treated her with respect before. But of course, her vigilance is still there.

"This… this is the kingdom of Si… this place is a couple of kilometers away from the town of Yungaw."

Upon hearing the words of the woman, Shin Jiao was a bit dumbfounded.

"What happened to the teleportation? Why was I sent to this place thousands of kilometers away and one kingdom away from Yi kingdom?" Shin Jiao thought.

Seeing the reaction of the young man in front of her, she knew that he might be from another place or even from another kingdom. The teleportation portal that he was in might have some malfunction. This is not new as many have experienced such a thing before, especially those portals inside the Daemon forest. That's why people would only trust portals that are protected by the Shi City or the Xi empire troops.

Because those two forces are really strong and have not encountered any failure or lost any teleportation gate inside the Daemon forest.

"If you want, you can come with me to the nearest town, it would be safer to travel together." The woman suddenly suggested after hiding her sword in her pouch.

Shin Jiao just nodded his head in agreement. Since he didn't know about this new place, he decided to travel with the woman in the meantime.

"Would you mind waiting… I need to wash first… I have a thick smell of blood on my body." Shin Jiao said as he walked towards the river.

In his anxiousness he has forgotten to wash, hence he needs to be at least civilized looking to enter a town with ease. Shin Jiao knew that the woman has the same idea as him when she washed in the river.

When Shin Jiao took off his robes, the woman could not help herself but steal a few glimpses of his body as he carefully washes the traces of blood and dust on him.

Not long later, the two began walking down the path towards the town.

The woman became a bit talkative. She is already an 8th level gold core realm cultivator and on her way towards her home town taking a break from her school at Xilu Academy in Dongxi City.

It has taken her 5 days of travel via carriage, to reach the outskirts of the town of Yungaw.

As the two walks, she already knew that Shin Jiao is not showing spiritual undulation in his body, but she dare not look down on him.

In truth, the Si kingdom is less affected by the changes that are happening in the empire. This is because they are too far and are a border kingdom just like the kingdom of Wu. However, lucky for them, the beastmen cannot attack the borders in those days of the war because of the cliff and the mountain which acts as a natural barrier of the land. So the prejudice to mortals from the cultivators is strong in this empire.

Wen Mo Yang wanted to warn Shin Jiao of this fact, so she suddenly asked.

"Brother Shin… umm… Are you a mortal or a mage?"

Hearing this, Shin Jiao gave her a smile and said.

"I'm a mage…"

"Oh, I see… Umm… I want to warn you, that many cultivators are not aware of the existence of mages in this kingdom, hence they would view you are mortals because you don't have spiritual undulation in your body, But I hope that you won't take offense to this and wreak havoc in town. I really cherished my hometown…" she said with reluctance.

She knew of the power that mages held her classes in the city. Hence she didn't want that her town would have a huge accident.

"No worries… I'm patient enough for that." He said.

Of course, that is if someone really pisses him off, then he could just get rid of them.

The two talked for a while until they can now see the silhouette of the town's gate. The town is enclosed with tall walls and a huge gate. Plus Shin Jiao can feel that it is covered with a strong defensive array.

"This is a nice place…" he muttered as they began to line up to enter.