“Fuck!” Jianmen cursed at himself and rushed straight to the rupture in space that was almost closed. With a quick tap of the rupture with his fingers, he was able to locate where the jellyfish monster teleported to. Then he opened a small portal himself and teleported to somewhere near the monster’s destination.

The moment Jianmen got out from his own portal and into a space with no clear sense of up versus down and sky versus ground, a concentrated beam of energy shot right at him, he was able to dodge through the energy beam, but then he saw a few more energy beams firing at his general direction, as well as a couple of explosive energy bolts.

With a few quick flight maneuvers, Jianmen was able to escape the attacks without a scratch - he was almost about to defend himself when he realized that the monster did not actually lock on to him but instead was directing its attacks at a few general directions - directions that seemed to have wrinkles in space and time, which were indications of teleportation or other uses of the power of space and time. It seemed to Jianmen, that something else was also tracking this jellyfish monster, and whatever or whoever that may be, they were clearly not as discreet as Jianmen was.

And then it turned out he was right - another monster of tremendous size grew to its full size and revealed itself from another direction of the jellyfish monster’s attacks - this was a monster shaped like a hybrid between a snail and a multi-headed centipede, with a shell that shined in different color when observing from different angles at the tail end of its body, and five or six long bodies with hundreds if not thousands of segments and each had a pair of scythe-shaped mouthparts on the head.

One of the heads of the multi-headed centipede/snail monster flanked the jellyfish monster, and delivered a devastating blow to its opponent, its scythe-shaped mouthparts pierced the bloated body of the jellyfish monster, causing dark red and purple smoke to leak out of the jellyfish monster’s body.

And the jellyfish monster was not going to lay down and take it - its tentacles wrapped around the body of the centipede/snail monster that struck its body, and striking its opponent with poisonous spikes emerging from the tentacles and electrocuting it with lightning.

When Jianmen managed to keep himself at a safe and discreet distance and was about to figure out what to do next, his mobile phone rang - at this place and time, it could only be one of a few people that could actually reach him.

“Caroline, not really a good time right now.”

“Hey Boss, sorry about that, but can you come to the SFPD?”

“I am dealing with something right now. Even if I could find Dave now he’s not going to be at the inn for a few hours. Unless you are in urgent trouble or you find something serious, I cannot come right away. ”

“Okay, Boss, but we’ll really need your help here soon. We could use your pointers and guidance.”

Before Jianmen answered, he flew to the side and dodged a piece of meteor that flew his way due to the two huge monsters’ heated battle. 

“Nonono, trust your guts.” Jianmen said after finding another relatively safe and advantageous spot to observe the battle: “If you feel something is not right, then be extra cautious and careful. ”

“Thanks Boss, but you’ll be here if I called?”

Jiamen found a window of opportunity and placed two tracking spells on both monsters and answered Caroline: “Yeah. And tell you what, since you just had experiences where your phone doesn’t work. So I already blessed our phone connection - you can always reach me whenever and wherever.”

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After hanging up the phone, Jianmen continued observing the battle for a short while. And in one desperate move of attack to hold off and push back at its enemy, the jellyfish monster broke off hundreds of its tentacles and let them explode. The explosion completely pulverized one of the centipede/snail monster’s centipede heads, and seriously injured another. And riding the shockwave of the explosion, the jellyfish monster squeezed itself through another rupture in space.

Jianmen followed the trace of the rupture and teleported to another place - this time it was on the surface of some distant planet - the gravity was a few times that of the earth, the air was filled with unbreathable air to humans and a terrible sandstorm was raging through the area. When Jiamnen looked further into the direction of the jellyfish monster, it seemed to be caught in a dark yellow tornado, with a diameter so wide that one cannot fully see without turning their head even at a distance, and its height was so high, as if the entire planet was impaled by a lance of galactic scale size, where even Jianmen could not see the top clearly without using Xuanli on his eyes or casting a spell.

The jellyfish monster, now seriously injured and drained of its power was trying its hardest to get out of the range of the tornado. The grevious wounds on its once bloated body was now leaking what was once inside its body all over the whole tornado, which unfortunately, included those karmic pollutants.

With a long and heavy sigh, Jianmen concentrated his Xuanli, and with a flash of orange and golden light, a humble rattan broom appeared in his hands,.

“This better not hurt too much.” Jianmen took out the flask he made for himself and took a large gulp of the specially brewed wine in the flask.

But just when he was about to act, his phone rang again, it was Jason.

“Hey Jason. This is not a good time.”

“Hey Boss, we really need your help. It’s kinda urgent.” Jason’s voice was shaking: “The body from Prime Royals Hotel, I just tried looking at it with the basic true sight spell, and something dark just attacked me. I’m okay, but this is clearly above our paygrade here.”

“You’re attacked? What happened?”

“I don’t know, it happened too fast, I was just trying to use the true sight spell...”

“Okay, I am on my way. Hang on and don’t do anything stupid.” Jianmen retracted his broom, marked the position of where he was, and opened a portal by his side.