As he sensed the presence, he was reminded of that night once again. The otherworldly feeling that he gets when concerning those creatures.
'How did the Yami Clan get a creature from the sixth layer to be a guard dog? Even the old man in his healthy days almost died after entering there, ultimately losing his vision. He was merely saved by luck. Also, if they indeed got a monster from there, this presence has something to do with it. But there's almost no way they did. There has to be something Jin and the others are missing.'
With that, Jin launched an attack as he clad his staff with his natural chi. In just a second, he closed the hundred-meter distance creating a small crater from where he started. This speed amazes Hisashi and he felt Jin suddenly jump.
While that was happening, Hisashi and the others followed slowly careful not to alert the creature. Just as Jin spins his staff to attack, Hisashi froze. Not because of fear of the creature, nor amazement at Jin's increasing presence, but because of…
'A DEMON!' Because of bloodlust. This bloodlust was detected by the old man, Ren, and the dark cloud creature. But even, then, it was too late as Jin has already cast his spell.
[Shield Sorcery: Srivatsa's Command]
Jin thought to himself and summons a huge golden shield at the tip of his staff that was also covered by the same golden mana making his weapon look like an umbrella.
On the ground, Old Man Kai gathers his mana on the soles of his bare feet. Using his Seismic Sense to detect Hisashi's positioning, he disappears from his place.
'Zhantian!' The old man said to himself as he reappears in front of Hisashi. The latter sees this and was surprised, snapping out of his trance. But he wasn't able to react as a punch hit him in the face. His body flew tens of meters away as the ground shook at the same time. A large cloud of dust also spread, but no sounds can be heard.
Hisashi stood up seeing all this and remembered something. He agreed to cooperate with them. With this, he charged his foot with lightning mana and flashed to where he needed to be.
'That move! That was the one he used back in the waterfall area.' The old man thought to himself, seeing how the teen's movement seemed familiar. 'Doesn't matter. It's good that he's back now. With that intense bloodlust, I almost froze. I never even felt something like that before.'
Hisashi appears 'behind' the scattered dark clouds. He puts his wooden katana in a quick draw form as he watches the dark mist gather. From there, he watches carefully, trying to forget about the demonic presence he felt earlier.
With his acute mana-sensing abilities, he sees that the dark mist isn't made of a spell that he can just analyze, which was a pity. But that isn't his job there.
As the dark mist gathers, it forms 10 weirdly-shaped dark limbs like an octopus. The 50-meter-tall monster moves clumsily as if trying to balance itself. Hisashi draws his wooden sword from his waist as it burst into flames, as he simultaneously cut a 'tentacle'. He didn't stop with just one as he continued to slice four more 'tentacles' with his flaming sword.
On the other side, Old Man Kai slices the other 5 with his incredible speed relative to Hisashi. Despite that, the monster didn't react with any shriek of pain.
Jin once again gathers his mana once again as a golden dome covers the monster. The dark 'tentacles' that the two swordsmen sliced simply disappear and the monster grew bigger inside the dome.
'It just regenerated. The darkness can be hit like they said but it didn't do any damage.' Just then, the dome starts to move and Hisashi faintly sees Jin heavily push his staff like it's a handle of a cart. His Bo staff's end was also putting out a gold glow.
This was due to the monster counter-acting his push by floating the other way, causing the Qin to put in a deal of effort. Hisashi runs to him and helps him push without any word…
As they return to the second layer, Hisashi sees the darkness on the monster start to change. Not only was it looking like a real monster, but the dark mist around the body also starts to decrease. But the thing that Hisashi finds the most intriguing is the change in Ki.
"Gozu, get in position." Jin orders, as Hisashi lets go of the staff. Despite the monster looking like it was weakening, it was the opposite. It got livelier and angrier as it slam itself on the walls of the dome.
"How far have you taken this monster?" Hisashi asks. "Ready to go." He added. He positions himself with the third layer of the valley behind him.
"Almost the first layer. It ignored and regenerated from our attacks and rushed back to the demonic… 'Yami' Clan's hideout. By that time, we exhausted large reserves of our stamina and natural chi." Old Man Kai answers as Jin focuses his dome-shaped spell.
"All I have to do is to prevent it from going back there, right?" Hisashi said as he clasps his hands. His mana gathers behind and a large bubble of water appears. At the same time that Hisashi pulls his hands away from each other, the water bubble stretched out making a long and tall wall of water.
[Water Sorcery: Chaoxi Qiang] (Tidal Wall)
As he felt the army slowly advancing via Ren's signal, Hisashi didn't wait any more time. As this was happening though, Jin and Old Man Kai were once again surprised at the mystery of Hisashi's abilities. Given the preparation, they haven't asked him nor did they try to despite knowing that it wasn't normal.
Focused on his job, Hisashi ignored the changes in their Ki. He simply snaps his fingers. He mumbles to himself, the wall of ice quickly froze.
"Analysis Magic: Overlap"
With this, the water wall that was stretching up to hundreds of meters if not kilometers, instantly froze. The two Seismic Sense users were once again dumbfounded, but this time for a different reason.
'That move! Although it's not the same, it's also similar! How did he do that? How did he move like he was bending? Even those movements were similar!' Jin thought as he remembers the memories he had on the continent behind the fog.