AIR Chapter 183

Chapter 183

Gai Jin was ready. 

He had a dao and very recently, he had a law. 

He was a man of mercey, of kindness, and of power. 

But there was something disgusting about this man. He was filled with violence and his very presence seemed to reek of bloodlust.

“I was hoping I’d get you,” the man called Bear commented. “I hate monks.”

“I try not to hate, but I do find your existence to be pitiful.”

That seemed to be the wrong thing to say, because suddenly, Gai Jin had a man who was as wide as he was tall flying towards him with a snarl. 

Gai Jin tried to dodge but something held him in place. It was a physical thing, a nature that turned the air around him into a sealing prison. 

So Gai Jin punched. 

He incorporated everything into this attack, his will, his mind, his dao, and his newly acquired law. 

His law and dao had received a transformation within the immortal realm.

His law was the law of earth. He was a man who had spent centuries with the ground. He had dug through more dirt than some people had ever stepped on. He had buried demonic beasts with caves. 

He had covered his master’s corpse with fresh soil. 

Ground came to be around him and the earth he had once been surrounded in surrounded him once more and shielded him from the oncoming man. 

The man broke through it, but Gai Jin was ready for this and released his punch, also filled with earth. 

And he struck the man with the weight of ten mountains. 

It barely knocked him back, and he seemed to be almost unaffected by the strike. 

“I like it when they fight back,” the burly man cooed. 

Gai Jin shivered. The air was free now, so he moved, making sure to stay out of the man’s range as best as he could. 

He could sense many things. One was that this man’s dao was of bloodlust. He walked the path of death and killing. He searched for lives to take and reveled in their pain. He was the type of man people hated, the type of animal that needed to be put down. 

He was rabid and even Gai Jin felt a hatred for the man he could not define. 

His law was the one thing he seemed to care about the most, and that was the law of force. Within him was the ability to make others do as he pleased. 

His nature was to take, to ignore consent, and to dance in his victim's futile rebellion. 

He was evil, well and truly. 

Even animals had reasons to kill, even beasts would avoid battle if it wasn’t necessary, 

Bear stuck again. There was no style, no technique, nothing fancy aside from the attack. 

A feeling of stillness came at Gai Jin and held him there. 

He had underestimated the man’s distance. Earth rematerialized again but this time the man punched through that with his left hand and punched for Gai Jin with his right. 

The Bleeding Monk’s Persistent Steps

Mister Bill had helped him refine many of his original techniques, and this was one of them. It was a fusion of two of the Bloody Fist Sect’s treasured techniques. 

The Monk’s Holy Steps and the Bloody Fist Technique had been fused and remade within the earth. And after a while, Mister Bill had taken a look at it and given him a number of alterations. He didn’t understand why or how the old man knew what to do, but he used the new technique and his power had multiplied. 

His right hand punched into his opponent’s fist and blood sprayed from his fist, but this technique was both a movement technique and a fighting one. Gai Jin’s fist came from the bottom of Bear’s and the attack pushed Bear upwards, while also pushing Gai Jin towards the earth. 

Gai Jin’s legs kicked at the barrier beneath him and he broke through it, heading to the ground with a single impact. 

Bear followed, unphased by the act. 

Gai Jin had a better advantage upon the ground, but not by much. 

And the man was a beast. He was the type of bastard who would fight to the death with a smile and his dao gave him an edge in almost every fight.

Bear flew to him and struck the ground like lightning. Gai Jin held his forearms crossed in defense as he sunk into the earth beneath. 

He tried moving within the earth, within the element he knew and controlled, but the man swam through the ground as if it was air and trailed after him. 

Gai Jin burst out of the ground and onto land and Bear came from beneath him, hands outstretched in a fist. 

Gai Jin kicked both legs while Bear was coming out. 

One leg struck the man’s face while the other stuck his hand. 

His other hand came and grabbed Gai Jin’s leg. 

Gai Jin flew upwards and the earth around the still buried Bear squeezed. But as much as Gai Jin matched with the earth law, he was not accustomed to using it. 

He tried to hold the man from emerging but the earth was young and he didn’t know how to use it. 

A sudden force of force held Gai Jin in place. Force versus Earth, monk vs demon. 

Gai Jin kicked with what he knew. The earth was young but his dao was old, but he hadn’t used it till now. 

If only because he knew his dao, he had fought with it and he had surpassed tribulation with it. It wasn’t strong or powerful. 

His wasn’t the dao of strength or force, but of refinement.

He kicked and teeth came from Bear’s mouth. 

This time, he fought with all he was. 

The earth let the man go, but it rose up to Gai Jin to strike once more, and for the first time in this fight, the man called Bear defended. 

Earth and Refinement mixed. Gai Jin’s bloody hand healed and his strength was renewed. 

He struck again and this time Bear dodged and stuck back. 

A burst of pain hit Gai Jin’s midsection, but he stood nonetheless. He grabbed the man’s hand and punched, aiming at his face again. 

The Bleeding Monk’s Persistent Steps held true and fueled qi to all his limbs equally. 

Bear punched and Gai Jin moved, sidestepping and striking at the man’s face once more. 

Gai Jin’s fight continued like this, blow after blow being traded, punches being dodged and landing. Kicks, strikes, and blood all mixed into a movement of violence. 

Halfway into the fight the man equipped some kind of weapon. A gauntlet with two blades coming out of the knuckle area. 

It was surprisingly useless. 

The man called Bear was an animal and these tools were rusty and broken. They shined with something expensive, but these were wall pieces made to be shone, not weapons meant to be fought with. 

One of them scratched Gai Jin, but the other broke against his hands. 

The fight was brutal and long. But Gai Jin grew with every step and his opponent withered into an animalistic state. 

He didn’t spare the man when the time came. He punched with a sound uppercut that crushed the man’s jaw and ended his life. 

Gai Jin was the third to finish his battle, and by then the last one was almost finished.