“Chang Wan has actually passed through the third life and death tribulation and cultivated the Sacred Phase, now Zhang Ruochen is in danger!”
All the human cultivators outside the oasis were worried for Zhang Ruochen.
The three tribulations of the Quasi-Saint, the “Four Nine Tribulations, Eight Nine Tribulations, and the Life and Death Tribulation”, each one was more dangerous than the other.
Especially the last life and death tribulation, the mortality rate was as high as more than 50%, without a deep enough accumulation, who would dare to go through the tribulation?
When Chang Wan passed the life and death tribulation, it also meant breaking the final shackle, and in the future, he would become one of the Saint realm beings.
In this piece of heaven and earth, all living beings were envious, feeling that Chang Wan was truly too lucky, about to shed his mortal form and become a saint, transcending above all living beings.
“The Saint Phase is condensed with the Saint Dao rules, it’s impossible for Chang Ruochen to block it.”The Red Ant Beast King said.
The Red Ant Beast King had once fought with a quasi-saintly being who had cultivated a Saint Phase, and the other party had nearly killed it by merely striking a blow.
The thirty-odd feet tall Sacred Phase emitted a blood-red light that was particularly blinding, much like a Giant God King descending into the Green Dragon Market Realm.
Around the Saint Phase, space was violently shaking, forming layers of invisible ripples.
“Die for me.”
Chang Wan condensed a hand seal and attacked above Zhang Ruochen’s head.
The Saint Phase also stretched out a thick arm and waved his hand to slap down, as if it was transformed into a blood-red, five-fingered mountain, carrying densely-packed rules of the Saint Dao as it descended from the sky.
Even the living beings standing outside the oasis felt an icy cold aura that blew them backwards.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes narrowed as he held the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, injecting a steady stream of Saint Qi into it, activating the thousands of inscriptions in the sword’s body, and inducing the Thousand Stripes Destruction Power.
The Destruction Power erupted out, forming a wave of energy that surged out in all directions.
Fortunately, the three large blood formations set up by the Immortal Blood Clan each induced a thousand lines of Destructive Power, blocking the power fluctuations of the Sacred Phase and the Ancient Sword of Sinking Abyss, or else, the entire oasis would probably have been annihilated.
Zhang Ruochen swung the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword out and clashed hard with the Saint Phase’s handprint.
“Rumble.”
The earth underneath Zhang Ruochen’s feet split into pieces, large swathes of dust poured upwards, and the power force spread outwards, shaking the four walls of blood-red mist.
Chang Wan roared sternly, ”You think that by using the Thousand Stripes Destruction Power, you can block my Saint Phase? With your cultivation, how many times can you execute the Thousand Stripes Destruction Power?”
The Saint Phase once again gathered its strength, squeezing its five fingers into a fist and striking downwards.
On the fist, flames were bubbling, emitting scorching energy as if it was a meteorite falling from the sky, erupting with power fluctuations that shook the ground before it even landed.
Zhang Ruochen mobilised his spatial power and swung out with one hand, splitting a spatial rift and colliding with the fist struck by the Saint Phase.
“Boom!”
The powerful force collided, destroying the spatial structure.
With the spatial crack as the centre, some fine lines unexpectedly appeared again, as if they were broken glass.
With a clatter, this piece of space, unexpectedly, collapsed.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen was no longer able to continue controlling the spatial rift, and could only immediately fall backward, lest he too be caught up in the void space.
It was only after roughly a breath’s time that the piece of shattered space, regained its integrity.
Under normal circumstances, with Chang Wan’s power, even in the Green Dragon Market Realm, it would be impossible for him to shatter space.
It was only because the Saint Phase Fist Seal that he had struck out had struck right on top of the spatial cracks, which was equivalent to striking at the most fragile part of the space, that it had collapsed the space.
Seeing this scene, a strange lustre flashed across Prince Qingtian’s eyes, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned as he laughed, “So that’s how it is.”
Through the battle between Chang Wan and Zhang Ruochen, he had finally found a way to crack Zhang Ruochen’s spatial means.
“Chang Wan, you step back.”
Prince Qing Tian slowly flew up from the top of his seat, and all over his body, one hundred and twenty-two orifices were completely opened, radiating a brilliant light as if he was carrying a starry sky inside his body.
He stepped on a long bridge of blood qi and walked above the heads of Zhang Ruochen, Chang Wan, and Ghost Mist, exuding a brilliant aura as if he was able to control the entire world.
Chang Wan said, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, give me some more time, I will definitely take Zhang Ruochen down.”
Prince Qing Tian gently shook and said, “We can’t wait that long anymore, we must fight quickly. Next, I will personally take the shot!”
Prince Qingtian had already seen Zhang Ruochen’s purpose, and reckoned that the human cultivators and savage beasts on the outskirts of the oasis had already spread the news, and it was believed that it wouldn’t be long before a large number of Beast Kings and Paramount Saints rushed over to deal with the Qingtian Clan.
Thus, he had to suppress Zhang Ruochen before then.
Ghost Mist and Chang Wan retreated, standing in two very critical positions respectively. If, however, Zhang Ruochen tried to escape, they could rush up at the first opportunity and intercept Zhang Ruochen.
Wan Huayu stared at Prince Qingtian standing in mid-air and sucked in a breath of cool air as he said, “I’ve long heard that Prince Qingtian is on the verge of cultivating his fleshly body into sainthood, but I didn’t expect that he’s actually already sainted one hundred and twenty-two orifices.”
Flesh body becoming a saint had always been a legend, and after the Middle Ages, very few people were able to reach that level.
It was said that once the fleshly body became saintly, in the same realm, it was half a step more powerful than the Sword Saint, who was known as the number one in attack power.
Wan Huayu still had a certain understanding of “Flesh Body Sainthood”, because her father, Wan Zhaoyi, had cultivated to the level of Flesh Body Sainthood, and had always been invincible in the same realm. This had always been a secret, unknown to outsiders.
Only the other four people on the Heroic Fugue were able to fight against Wan Zhaoyi, and there were very few other saints in the same realm who were able to block a single move of Wan Zhaoyi’s character.
Prince Qing Tian was able to saintly transform one hundred and twenty-two orifices, that kind of battle power was simply unimaginable, it was estimated that only the Standing Ground Master and the Heaven Swallowing Demon Dragon could press him head on above the strength of his physical body.
“It’s already a situation like this now, why isn’t Zhang Ruochen retreating, what exactly is he doing?”
All the human cultivators were quite puzzled, earlier, Zhang Ruochen clearly had a chance to escape, why did he still remain in the Qingtian Tribe’s tent.
Now, he was caught in a heavy siege, and he had even encountered such a great enemy as the Prince of Qingtian, so even if he wanted to retreat, it was probably already impossible for him to leave.
They didn’t know that Zhang Ruochen was now at the critical moment of his realm breakthrough, his entire body’s Saint Qi was in rapid motion, and in the sea of qi, there was a constant rumbling sound.
However, it was always a little bit short, making it difficult to break through the final barrier.
“I can’t retreat, I must continue the battle, only by pushing myself to the extreme can I stimulate my body’s potential and impact to the Eighth Order Half-Saint realm.”
Zhang Ruochen clenched his teeth, having strands of flame that used out from his pores, wrapping the entire person in it.
“Puffing.”
On the ground, the soil could not withstand the high temperature on Zhang Ruochen’s body and became scorched black, showing signs of melting.
“Zhang Ruochen, this Prince doesn’t know why you haven’t fled, but since you’ve already reached this point, then, you’ll stay forever!”
Prince Qingtian’s voice was rather bland, however, in the next moment, his body’s aura became stern as he transformed into a blood-red stream of light, descending from the sky and striking Zhang Ruochen with a palm strike above his head.
“Ow!”
“Roar!”
Zhang Ruochen’s arms lifted up, presenting the gigantic silhouettes of a green dragon and a green elephant, as if they were ancient divine dragons and infernal divine elephants manifesting, clashing with Prince Qingtian’s palm force.
“Boom.”
The handprint struck by Prince Qing Tian was so powerful that on the ground, it left a handprint that was nine feet long.
The handprint sank all the way into the ground, and at the same time, it also knocked Zhang Ruochen into the ground.
Looking from the ground, there was only a large black handprint pit left there.
It was unknown how deep it was.
Whether it was the Immortal Blood Race, humans, or savage beasts, all of them were shocked. Luckily, the living beings present were all strong, otherwise, they would have been scared to the ground.
Wan Huayu used her spiritual power to probe and found that Zhang Ruochen and Prince Qingtian had sunk more than a hundred metres deep into the ground, and the two forces were still hedging against each other.
A crack appeared in the oasis that stretched for dozens of miles, and the entire earth seemed to be crumbling.
More than one hundred and thirty metres deep underground, Zhang Ruochen still held up his arms, blocking Prince Qing Tian’s palm to the death, his feet stepping into the hard rock layer, finally stopping his descent.
Zhang Ruochen’s five viscera and six bowels suffered severe damage, and blood was continuously spat out from his mouth.
“To actually be able to block this Prince’s strike, your strength is still very good.”
Prince Qing Tian used his palm force to suppress Zhang Ruochen, and immediately after, the Saint Qi in his body surged towards his eyes, and his two pupils turned into two crimson fireballs.
Two pillars of flaming light surged out from inside the pupils, striking Zhang Ruochen’s head.
At the critical moment, Zhang Ruochen forcibly broke free from Prince Qingtian’s suppression and performed Spatial Shift, rushing towards the ground.
“Puffing.”
The two pillars of flaming light struck the underground rock layer, melting the rock and turning it into hot magma.
“To actually be able to perform a technique like Spatial Shift, it seems that the suppression of my palm force on him just now wasn’t ruthless enough.”
Prince Qing Tian smiled faintly and performed a body technique to rush out of the ground.
Just as Prince Qing Tian rushed out of the ground, Zhang Ruochen tore the space apart and struck three tens of feet long spatial cracks in a row, chopping at him.
Instead of dodging, Prince Qing Tian took a large step forward and struck out with both of his palms at the same time, striking out two huge palm seals that collided with the three spatial cracks.
“Boom.”
The two palm seals and the three spatial cracks shattered at the same time, and, shattered all the surrounding space as well, creating a chaotic zone.
In such a situation, even Zhang Ruochen could only retreat.
“Zhang Ruochen, your spatial attack tactics are useless against me.”
Prince Qing Tian bypassed the shattered spatial zone and appeared diagonally above Zhang Ruochen, striking down with another palm, emitting a series of sonic booms, the speed of his palm reached ten times the speed of sound, not giving Zhang Ruochen a chance to continue to perform spatial shifting at all.
Zhang Ruochen could only stretch out his arms to receive this strike.
“Boom.”
Zhang Ruochen only felt like he was hit by an iron mountain, his body was uncontrollable and sank down towards the back of the incline, falling all the way to over a hundred metres deep into the ground and hitting the top of the rock layer once again before coming to a halt.
On the ground, dirt continued to be offered upwards, soon forming a small hill.
Outside the oasis, all the human cultivators all turned pale, realising that they were afraid that the worst had happened. Was Zhang Ruochen still alive?
Prince Qingtian was simply too powerful, even if a thousand armies rushed over, it was estimated that he would be killed by him alone and his entire army would be wiped out.
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