Murim Recurve

"There," Burfuna Ki'Nha shouted, thrusting her index and middle finger forward, unleashing another bolt of lightning. The lightning bolt slammed into a spot where a dark cloud condensed on the floor, vaporising it.

A feeble scream followed suit as the coldness suffusing the floor abated. Ki'Nha immediately rushed to the help of Re'Kha, "Lady Re'Luk, are you alright?"

"I'll be fine for the time being," Re'Kha panted as she said, "Please head to the ground floor. We need those keys to save the others."

"I'll be on my way, please be safe," Ki'Nha said and rushed through the stairs with the other Royal Clan lady. Re'Kha watched their backs as she felt difficulty in breathing. The coldness seeping into her lungs was preventing her from breathing properly.

'Is it related to the Blinded Ghost?' Re'Kha thought, linking the clues from her experiences. She experienced a dream where she was the Blinded Ghost and reaped the eyes of a boy. The chillness in her body began after that.

And now, the chillness was steadily increasing while she felt a familiar presence in her senses. A Harmoniser didn't possess a method to sense the presence of others, not to mention that of the Sha. The only means of perception they had other than their five senses was their elemental perception. Even the scouts Re'Kha had faced before only relied on the Nerou—their Pranic Avatar—to sense the presence of others. Their own capabilities were no different from other Harmonisers.

The way Harmonisers sensed a Sha was through their five senses and the emotion of fear they felt. They used all that to guide their way towards a Sha and chase after it. Thanks to her Wind Qi perception, Re'Kha could easily spot the Sha's figure. The Sha's form was condensed by Ghost Qi, so it was a large blank space in her perception.

Re'Kha inhaled and exhaled at a rapid pace, using the vigorous action to warm her lungs while she traced the movements of the Sha. The two Royal Clan ladies had arrived on the ground floor by now and engaged it. It seemed to be a Sha that had just formed, judging by its lacking means of attack.

All it was capable of was pulling its victims into a hallucination and cause them to experience nightmares. This way, they would feel fear, which it could use to generate Fear Qi by absorbing from them. Till now, it hadn't manifested its true powers.

A Sha was a condensation of negative emotions that had been birthed after it was nurtured in an object for a long period. So, depending on the negative emotions that had nurtured it, its target varied. And to achieve the target, it developed corresponding abilities.

The hallucination the Sha created was only the base form of its ability. It was only being used to generate Fear Qi. Only when the Sha robbed something from its victims would it manifest the truest essence of its ability.

"A Sha doesn't conform to logic in its actions. But, it always focuses on the one thing it desires." Re'Kha thought of the Blinded Ghost, her most detested foe. It was a Sha that was unable to see; that was how it existed.

Therefore, to see its surroundings, it needed eyes. And, to achieve that, it stole eyes from people and attached them to its body. Unfortunately, any eyes it stole could only be used for a short duration before it would shatter. So, the Blinded Ghost was always on the hunt for the eyes of people.

Just when she recalled information on the Blinded Ghost, her heart ached, causing her to moan in pain. Re'Kha rolled on the floor, trembling as the nerves on her neck protruded. She felt the coldness in her body intensify further, almost causing her to curl up in one place. Thoughts of wanting to set her body aflame echoed in her mind due to the cold she experienced.

The presence she could feel drew closer and closer. Re'Kha activated her Wind Qi perception, expanding it outside the inn. The rain had reduced in intensity, allowing her to perceive, albeit with a lot of noise.

Two blocks away, she saw a spherical figure float in the rain, moving slowly as it went into a building. When the rain splashed onto its body, it was only hurt a little. Before the damage could stack up, the spherical figure moved into the building, causing its interior to turn dim before all the lights vanished.

Guards pursued it from a few more blocks away, shouting as they tried to trace it. The spherical being just moved through the buildings while they had to encircle it. Soon, they were left in the dust.

"It's you!" Re'Kha slowly got up, enraged. Its shape, its figure, and the way it moved were all quite familiar to her. After all, they had faced each other many times before. Re'Kha rubbed her storage ring, running through the stairs, "You're finally here, bastard!"

The Blinded Ghost!

Her heart thumped, pumping blood at its maximum pace as Re'Kha ran, skipping some of the stairs in her hurry. She kept watch on the Blinded Ghost's position, seeing that there were no other people near it for the time being.

Arriving on the ground floor, Re'Kha swiftly proceeded towards the exit. The two Royal Clan ladies were battling the other Sha in the middle of the inn's rectangular courtyard, trying to use the rain to damage it.

She focused on their fight for a moment, watching the Sha be unaffected by the rain. Upon a closer look, she saw that the influx of Fear Qi to it surpassed the damage the Water Qi in the rain could inflict upon it.

'Where is it getting all this Fear Qi from?' Re'Kha was confused as she trailed against the flow of the blank spaces in her perception, soon noticing an open tap through which it was flowing out from. She then made a sweep throughout the area, noticing the Fear Qi gush out from all the taps on the ground floor.

Among one of the taps that had a weaker flow, she extended her perception, barely managing to move forth, albeit with a lot of noise, perceiving an outlet in another building. There, a Sha similar to the one the two Royal Clan ladies fought moved unhindered, absorbing Fear Qi from the people.