Zhang Ruochen had also heard some rumors about the Dragon Protector Pavilion, only that even he had not come into contact with the members of the Dragon Protector Pavilion.
It was merely known that the Dragon Protector Pavilion was very mysterious, only following the orders of successive Ming Emperors, and that all its members were Sacred Realm powerhouses.
“The night before Father disappeared, the Dragon Protector Pavilion shifted the treasury, could it be that Father had anticipated something?”
Zhang Ruochen pondered carefully, feeling a bit suspicious.
Of course, he didn’t completely believe the information released by the Cai Clan’s family head, after all, the Cai Clan had already submitted to the First Central Empire.
They might not necessarily be looking for the Blood Clan Secret Scrolls, perhaps, searching for the Dragon Protector Pavilion members and the treasures of the national treasury was the true purpose.
The news announced by the Cai Family Head was quite astonishing, and it quickly spread throughout the entire Cai Family Sacred Mansion, and, even more so, to the various city regions of Sacred Brightness City at an astonishing speed.
The Grand Master of the Cai Family Sacred Mansion, Cai Jin, holding a cold ice jade box, came to Zhang Ruochen’s side and smiled in a pleasant manner, “My lord, this is something that the Painting Sage Ancestor, has asked me to deliver to you.”
Zhang Ruochen received the chilled jade box and slightly opened it a crack, and then, immediately closed it again.
“Old man Chu’s efficiency, is quite high, sending over the Fifth Grade Sacred Elemental Dan so quickly.”
The corner of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth hooked as he put away the cold jade box and left the Cai Family’s Sacred Mansion straight away.
He had come to the Cai Family’s banquet with the main purpose of the Fifth Grade Sacred Elemental Pill.
Since the Sacred Elemental Pill was in his hands, there was no need to stay here any longer, and it was just as well to take this opportunity to get rid of Chu Siyuan and go do what he really wanted to do.
Walking out of the Cai Clan’s Sacred Mansion, Zhang Ruochen sensed at least three forces that were following him.
Zhang Ruochen used the power of his Meteor Invisibility Clothes and quickly shook them all off.
Zhang Ruochen arrived at that stronghold of the Zhang Family’s descendants and said in his heart, “I hope that Zhang Bongxing and the senior figures of the Zhang Family have already gotten in touch with the …… bad ……?”?”Swish.”
With a display of his stance, Zhang Ruochen leapt down from the night sky, landing in the courtyard at the center of the inn and looking around.
A smell of blood that was so strong that it was sickening filled the space.
On the ground, there were all dead bodies.
During the day, all thirteen descendants of the Zhang Clan that he had rescued, even including the shopkeepers and residents in the inn, had all died horribly, with some split in half, and some left with only a headless corpse.
Zhang Fengxing was nailed to death by a silver-white spear on top of a wall, his body was full of wounds, his stomach was cut open, and all of his internal organs rolled out.
Obviously, before he died, he was tortured.
Zhang Shu, who was only eleven years old, stood on top of a blood-covered dais, with a look of horror, grief, and despair on his face, staring precisely in the direction of Zhang Fengxing’s corpse.
Zhang Ruochen’s finger, on his face, gently stroked it.
“Snap!”
A thread of blood appeared on Zhang Shuji’s body, breaking into thirteen pieces.
Zhang Ruochen’s fingers were trembling, his teeth made a dejected sound, a rage erupted from the depths of his bloodline, and the form of flames was reflected in his two pupils as he said, “Come out!”
“Wow!”
Around the inn, dozens of dark black light curtains emerged. Within the curtains of light, a sound of armor clashing resounded.
Immediately after, Canglong soldiers wearing black armor, like Yin soldiers and ghosts, emitting a monstrous aura, rushed out from the light curtains one after another.
A middle-aged man with a hawkish nose and a pair of black feathered wings on his back flew out, emitting an icy aura all over his body.
He stood in mid-air, cupping a piece of jade in his hand, and let out a laugh, ”The Tai Ming Sacred Canon should be the one you gave to that brat, right? As far as this Commander knows, only some extremely high status characters among the remnants of the former dynasty are qualified to cultivate it.”
Without a word, Zhang Ruochen took out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
The middle-aged man with a pair of black feathered wings continued, “Originally, this Commander was only ordered to eliminate a stronghold of the remnants of the former dynasty, but I never imagined that it would lead to a big fish. Haha!”
Even though, he was caught in a heavy siege, Zhang Ruochen’s face remained unchanged, and there was only a chill in his eyes as he said, “You’re laughing a little too early, aren’t you?”
“To be so composed, one should be an expert.”?The middle-aged man with black feathered wings had a posture of controlling the whole situation, and with a wave of his palm, he said, “Open the Seven Star Sword Formation and suppress him, remember, make sure to leave him alive.”
In the Cang Long Army’s camp, seven formation masters, simultaneously struck their staffs into the ground.
In the next moment, with the inn as the center, the ground in a hundred feet radius surfaced with dense white inscriptions, forming a formation.
“Wow.”
In the formation, a sword qi automatically coalesced, and in a split second, it churned and flattened all the buildings and corpses, including the inn.
Zhang Ruochen had wanted to rush out of the area of the sword formation first, but he was a step late and suffered hundreds of sword qi attacks, failing to rush out of the formation and having to go backward.
In the distance, above a vermillion tower, three dancers with exquisite figures revealed their true forms and looked out in the direction of the inn.
That area of the city was completely blocked off by the formation, with a black dust mist pouring out, containing a huge killing opportunity.
“Senior sister, that’s the sergeant of the Cang Long Army’s eighth battalion, there are at least three thousand elites gathered here, that person must have encountered great trouble, should we step in to help him?”A woman wearing a yellow dance dress said.
A dancer wearing a veil, standing on top of the flying eaves of the tower, as if she was a stunningly beautiful elf under the moon, said in a pleasant voice, “Since, the eighth battalion of the Canglong Army has dispatched three thousand elites, from this, it can be seen that they are taking this matter extremely seriously. Most likely, the commander of the eighth battalion, Cold Eagle, is also in that area. Cultivation of the Cold Eagle is even deeper than Guo Lu’s, so the two of you rushing up there would just be sending them to their deaths.”
The dancer wearing a veil was none other than the Phoenix Dance Palace’s Dance Fairy, Qin Yutong.
The other two dancers were her senior sisters, the Heavenly Character level dancers of the Phoenix Dance Palace, Bai Xuanshang and Bai Xuanyu.
When Zhang Ruochen left the Cai Clan’s Sacred Mansion, they followed him out.
After losing them, Qin Yutong guessed that Zhang Ruochen had most likely brought them to this one stronghold, which was why they rushed over to investigate.
Bai Xuanxiang, wearing a yellow dance dress and possessing a powerful cultivation of a Fourth Order Half-Saint, looked to be in her early twenties as she inquired, ”What should we do now? This person is a first-rate powerhouse, we can’t just see him die, right?”
Qin Yutong appeared calm and said, “The two of you immediately rush back to Phoenix Dance Palace and report to Granny Bai Su, perhaps Granny can come up with a way to rescue him.”
Bai Xuanshang and Bai Xuanyu transformed into two ghostly shadows and disappeared into the darkness, rushing in the direction of Phoenix Dance Palace.
The Zhang Clan did indeed have Saint realm giants secretly lurking in Sacred Brightness City.
Only, once the Saint realm giants personally came to the rescue of the man in the golden mask, they would definitely alert the Heavenly King of the Sky. At that time, both the Saint realm giant and the man with the golden mask would die without a burial place, and the Zhang Clan’s losses would be quite heavy.
Qin Yutong knew very well that tonight’s matter was very tricky, so she could only act as she saw fit.
Zhang Ruochen stood at the center of the Seven Star Sword Formation, breaking the flying sword qi, one after another, into wisps of white smoke.
The man with a pair of black feathered wings on his back was none other than one of the Ten Great Commanders of the Cang Long Army, Cold Eagle.
“To think that even the Seven Star Sword Formation couldn’t suppress you, your sword Dao attainments are quite high.”
Cold Eagle’s expression was cold and sharp as he once again ordered the seven Formation Masters, saying, “Excite the strongest power of the Seven Star Sword Formation.”
Receiving the order, the seven Formation Masters made a blood scar on the palms of their hands and smeared their own blood on top of the staff.
The blood and the inscription fused together and surged into the ground.
The entire Seven Star Sword Formation turned blood-red, and at the edge of the formation, a blood-red inscription, surged out of the ground, coalescing into seven warrior ghostly figures holding long swords.
“Swish swish.”
The seven Warrior Ghost Shadows let out whistling sounds and swung their long swords, sweeping towards Zhang Ruochen at the same time.
The killing intent on Zhang Ruochen’s body was so strong that he no longer held back, mobilizing out the holy qi in his body and pouring it into the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword in a steady stream.
“Break for me.”
A move called “Golden Dipper Sunrise” was executed, which was a move from the Nine Lives Sword Technique that was comparable to a Saint Art in terms of power, and could explode thirty-two times its power.
Earlier, Zhang Ruochen had already figured out the weak point of the Seven Star Sword Formation, and with a Saint Art level sword move slashing out, it directly split the formation in half with a rumble.
Originally, the long swords of the seven Warrior Ghost Shadows were already only a foot away from Zhang Ruochen’s body.
At this moment, they all went up in smoke, obliterating along with the Seven Star Sword Formation.
As the formation broke, all of the Canglong Army warriors present were startled, not having expected that this person would be so strong.
“Swish.”
Zhang Ruochen swung his sword and a series of seven sword qi flew out, rushing towards the seven Formation Masters, no longer giving them a chance to set up their formations.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation and sword dao realm, the sword qi that he casually struck out contained earth-shattering power, and it was not something that ordinary cultivators could block.
From the Canglong Army’s camp, dozens of powerful figures rushed out, wanting to block the sword Qi for the seven Battle Masters.
“Poof.”
All of the dozens of powerful figures were pierced through their bodies by the sword Qi and flew backwards.
The seven sword qi went unabated and pierced through the heads of the seven battlemage masters at the same time, only leaving behind seven corpses.
“Looking for death.”
Cold Eagle was quite annoyed as his entire body’s holy qi revolved and converged towards his eyes.
His pair of black pupils gushed out two pillars of light, striking at Zhang Ruochen below.
Zhang Ruochen was alerted and dodged out first.
“Boom.”
The two pillars of black light, striking the ground, shattered the earth, and in some of these places, the soil and rocks had melted and turned into magma droplets.
A Cang Long Army that fell to the ground had a twelfth-grade True Martial Treasure Weapon cupped in his hand, but, only slightly stained with the black light pillars, that True Martial Treasure Weapon, immediately burst apart.
The two black pillars of light possessed a very terrifying destructive power, even if it was a holy weapon, it might not be able to block it.
Cang Long army, there are some experts, immediately organized three thousand elite soldiers, set up a combined attack formation.
In the sky above the Combined Attack Formation, a thirteen-foot long white giant sword coalesced and chopped down towards Zhang Ruochen’s head, like a white waterfall that descended from the sky.
A sword that gathered three thousand elite armies and exploded out, one could imagine how powerful it had to be?
Even a Ninth Order Half-Saint would not be able to block it.
“Wow!”
A tens of meters long spatial crack flew out, piercing through both the white giant sword and the light shield of the Combined Attack Formation at the same time, exterminating over a hundred elite soldiers with just this move.
Immediately afterward, Zhang Ruochen executed his Body Technique and rushed into into the Canglong Army’s camp, thrusting the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword into the ground as a vast sword intent erupted out.
“Die for me.”Zhang Ruochen roared, the hair on the top of his head, all of it standing upside down as his body’s killing intent was released.
Thousands of sword-shaped sword qi flew out from the body of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, emitting a “clattering” sound as they flew in all directions.
When the sword qi dissipated, the ground was littered with the corpses of the Cang Long Army.
