The silhouette standing beside Zhu Qingyi, named Stu Fengcheng, was the great disciple of King Zhongyin, and also the deputy commander of the Qinglong Tribe’s army that was attacking Hongchuanfu this time, mastering millions of troops, and was a true giant.
Stu Feng Cheng was close to two metres tall, with broad shoulders and a stocky body, the angles of his features were very clear, as if he had been carved with a sword and axe, and his body was permeated with a masculine aura.
Stuart Feng Cheng’s voice was deep and thick as he said, “Light Yi, Master has always praised you for your intelligence, I never thought that you would also make such a low-level mistake.”
“What mistake?”
Zhu Qingyi stood up again, a layer of holy light surged out from his body, and with that, all the bloodstains on his body disappeared, no longer appearing to be in such a sorry state, and regaining the elegant temperament of a top powerhouse.
Stuart Fengcheng said, “Since Pei Yutian has been included in the Necessary Kill List, then, it also means that it’s impossible for him to defect to the Immortal Blood Race, so what’s the use of you continuing to persuade him to surrender?”
“Eldest Senior Brother has a point.”
On Zhu Qingyi’s face, an evil smile appeared, and he added, “However, it’s not useless at all, at least you can stall for time until you come to save me.”
From the beginning to the end, Pei Yutian stood calmly at the side, the aura on his body, gradually becoming stern, and the stone blade in his hand was also surfacing some ancient patterns. Those patterns were, in fact, strikingly similar to the patterns of the Northern Domain’s Mountain and River Geography.
With his hands behind his back and the armour on his body, under the moon, reflected a metallic luster as he said, “East Lawlessness, West Lawlessness. Southern Heart Technique, Northern Rain Field. The Central Region and the Nine States are trillions of trillions of trillions. I have long heard that the five people on the Heroic Fugue are the five strongest masters born from the Human Race in the last hundred years, and today I have seen them, and they have not let me down, and with your attainments in the Blade Technique, it is enough to be crowned as the Saint of the Northern Domain Blade.”
“Stuart Phoenix City, I’ve also heard your name more than once, I’ve already killed forty-two Blood Saints, I hope you’ll be the forty-third.”Pei Yutian said.
Stuart Phoenix City revealed a smile and said, “You are a good prey, but unfortunately today, I have other things to do and cannot fight you.”
“That’s not up to you, if you want to leave, you still have to ask if I agree.”Pei Yu Tian said.
“If I want to leave, you really can’t keep me.”
Stuart Phoenix City laughed, and pointed his finger forward, then, a deafening sound came out from the direction of his finger, and a silhouette shrouded in sixty-four layers of blood light shattered a large mountain, and walked out from the interior of the mountain.
It was a middle-aged man, his body suffused with blood lines, holding a Saint Sword and carrying six Saint Swords on his back, his body was covered in sword Qi, and he directly attacked Pei Yutian.
“Rumble.”
The first strike collided, and that piece of earth was torn apart by the blade and sword qi, and the clouds in the sky were also broken apart, and the place turned into a dead land, and any living being that intruded into it would be dead.
Stuart Phoenix City and Zhu Qingyi, had already retreated five hundred miles away.
Stuart Phoenix City’s eyes narrowed as he stared at the dusty territory, saying, “Worthy of being Bei Yu Tian, really is a rather powerful character, cultivating for only a hundred years, surprisingly, he is already so powerful, he must be gotten rid of as soon as possible.”
Zhu Qingyi also sucked in a breath of cool air, asking herself that even if she exerted all her means, she probably wouldn’t be able to block Pei Yutian’s three moves.
She asked, “Eldest senior brother, where did you find that sword dao powerhouse that can even compete with Pei Yutian.”
“That’s a Human Sword Saint.”Stuart Fengcheng said.
“Sword Saint?”
Zhu Qingyi couldn’t calm down and felt appalled.
One must know that in the entire Northern Domain, there were only two Human Race Sword Saints, both were old monsters who had lived for more than five hundred years, titanic figures, and any one of them who made a move was bound to be a stone-cold shocker.
Stuart Fengcheng said: ”This person, was once the clan leader of the Zhen Prison Ancient Clan, Wang Bei Lie, was captured by the Blood Emperor Lord, refined into a blood slave, and is now working for the Qing Tian Clan. Originally, I thought that with Wang Bei Lie’s strength, it would be enough to decapitate Pei Yu Tian, but I didn’t realise that Pei Yu Tian was so powerful.”
Zhu Qingyi said, “After being refined into a blood slave, Wang Bei Lie’s consciousness would definitely diminish drastically, and he wouldn’t be able to exert his original strength at all. Otherwise, there is no way Pei Yutian would have been able to block him.”
Stuart Fengcheng stopped looking at the battlefield and stared at Zhu Qingyi’s stunning face as he said, “Master sent you to the Hongchuan Prefecture, there should be a secret mission, right?”
“There is indeed an important mission. From within your military camp, pick a few powerful Saint realm experts for me, I need to rush over there now.”Zhu Qingyi said.
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Zhang Ruochen took Huang Yichen and Qing Mo with him and erupted into a blistering speed, fleeing tens of thousands of miles away.
Gradually, the power of the Shelly Son became calmer, and Zhang Ruochen’s speed gradually returned to normal. Without stopping, the three of them continued to frantically rush, and erased their residual scent, so as to avoid the Undying Blood Race’s powerhouses from chasing after them again.
The Hongchuan Prefecture was indeed in a state of war, and everywhere Zhang Ruochen’s trio passed through was scorched earth, making it difficult to see living people.
Some towns were hit by an attack that sunk into the ground and turned into a sinkhole;some cities were broken and littered with dead bodies that had been drained of blood. A mountain and field, all dyed red with blood, a river was filled with floating corpses, emitting a foul stench.
It was too tragic to be like earth, like a world of death.
Continuing onwards, Zhang Ruochen’s trio encountered some small armies of the Immortal Blood Race and killed their way through, finally arriving at a human gateway that hadn’t been breached yet.
This city pass, was very grand, the walls were a hundred feet tall, lofty and atmospheric, and from afar, it looked like a black mountain range straddling the horizon.
“Stop Lin Pass, is the last major pass in the territory of Hongchuan Prefecture, and it is also the place where the imperial court’s men and the Undying Blood Race fight the most fiercely. Once Zhiling Pass is breached, the entire Hongchuan Prefecture will fall. Should we enter the Stopping Pass to spy on the news?”Huang Yichen said.
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “It’s best not to alert the court’s powerhouses, lest we get caught in the crossfire, let’s go around from the weak spot in the defence line and go directly to Black Wind County.”
The Stopping Pass was not far from the Black Wind County and was already close to reaching its destination.
Not every part of the defence line set up by the imperial court was loophole-free, and with Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation, the three of them naturally shuttled through it with ease and headed towards Black Wind County.
For the next few days, Zhang Ruochen had been absorbing the spiritual power emanating from the Sherry, and his spiritual power strength had increased extremely fast, reaching the peak of the 52nd rank.
“At this rate, it shouldn’t take more than a few days to reach the fifty-third rank.”
Right now, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t care about anything else, he only wanted to go all out to raise his battle power, lest he would be beaten senseless when he met Zhu Qingyi again.
He could only think of ways to dissolve the drawbacks brought about by swallowing the Sheridan Seed in the future.
“Can I exert spatial power using only spiritual power?”
Zhang Ruochen’s biggest cards were the Time Power and Space Power. If he still mastered those two powers, how could he have escaped in such a sorry state when he encountered Zhu Qingyi?
However, these two kinds of power needed the support of holy qi to be able to be exerted.
Right now, Zhang Ruochen’s body only had blood veins constructed out of spiritual energy, no meridians or sacred veins, and he was simply unable to mobilise sacred qi.
Zhang Ruochen was very unwilling and secretly said, “Spiritual energy can mobilise heaven and earth aura, and with the support of heaven and earth aura, it might not be impossible to execute spatial power.”
“Spatial Crack.”
Zhang Ruochen used his Spiritual Force as the basis and mobilised the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi as the medium as he lifted his arm and slashed forward.
The space didn’t tear apart, it only trembled gently.
However, just this gentle trembling caused Zhang Ruochen’s heart to rejoice, “It’s working.”
Next, Zhang Ruochen took out the Space-Time Secret Codex and began to seriously study the Space Way.
Prior to becoming a Saint, Zhang Ruochen had been going all out to cultivate Palm Technique and Sword Technique, and it was only now that he was considered to have truly settled down to study and cultivate space.
“Space, borderless and eternal.”
“The so-called boundlessness refers to the fact that any point in space is the point of departure for any orientation.”
“The so-called eternal existence refers to space always appearing in the current moment.”
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The knowledge contained in space was quite subtle and profound, and it was only after Zhang Ruochen became a Saint that he dared to study it carefully. Before that, studying it too deeply would not be beneficial instead.
As for the power of time, Zhang Ruochen hadn’t dared to touch it easily until now, in case he fell into illusory time, his entire being would collapse.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze was fixed on one of the pages, which elaborated on, one of the moves of the spatial means – Spatial Distortion.
Previously, Zhang Ruochen had also cultivated Spatial Distortion, but his understanding of this move stayed at a rather shallow level, and when he encountered a true top master, it would be useless, and the opponent would be able to penetrate the distorted space with a random move.
Studying this move carefully, Zhang Ruochen realised that the power of spatial distortion was actually quite powerful and full of endless variables, not only could it be used to defuse an enemy’s attack, but it could also be used to counter the enemy by allowing the attack to shift to any direction.
On top of that, spatial distortion could also be used to change the alignment of mountain ranges, the direction of large rivers, break formations, and even set up spatial mazes.
As long as it was a substance in space, it would not be able to escape the attack of spatial distortion.
“The true spatial distortion is only achieved by first distorting the two sides of space, then connecting them and fixing them together. The spatial distortion I used to cultivate only distorted the space on both sides and didn’t connect them, so it wasn’t that stable and its power was limited.”
Comprehending the root cause, Zhang Ruochen once again began to cultivate Spatial Distortion.
Zhang Ruochen’s hands lifted up at the same time, releasing his spiritual power, using the spiritual qi of the heavens and earth to change the spatial rules, causing both the left and right sides of space to become distorted.
“Connect.”
Zhang Ruochen chanted out, then, his hands merged towards the centre, and the twisted space on both sides immediately connected.
“Wow…”
The road in front of the frame was originally more than ten metres wide, however, after the air distorted, in a split second, the road disappeared and closed together.
The sky-high ancient trees on both sides of the road also collided violently, with some of their trunks and branches unexpectedly overlapping, with a piece of leaf falling down.
Even the spatial structure was permanently altered.
“The road is gone!”
Qing Mo, who was driving the car, was startled and hurriedly took control of the savage beast pulling the car and stopped.
Huang Yichen, however, did not have a trace of surprise, instead, his rosy lips slightly hooked, revealing a meaningful and beautiful smile as he muttered, “It’s true that the harder he’s pressed, the more powerful he’ll become, his potential is endless.”
