The three Blood Saints escaped, and at any moment, they could summon even more powerful Immortal Blood Race experts, and with Zhang Ruochen’s current physical state, he naturally couldn’t continue to meddle in the matter, and had to leave immediately.
Zhang Ruochen thought for a moment, but still said, “You shouldn’t beg me, you should ask for help from the military experts of the Stopping Pass, as long as the imperial army rushes over, what kind of enemies can’t be swept away?”
The Liu Li Female Saint shook her head and said, “Once you enter the Immortal Machine Mountain, there is no way to send a message to the outside world, the mountain is thickly shrouded with a mysterious force, the message light talisman cannot fly out.”
“Oh? There is still such a thing.”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly surprised, with his current spiritual strength, he had not even noticed the changes after entering the Immortal Machine Mountain.
Thus, he took out a Transmission Light Talisman and shot it out in one of the directions.
The summoning light talisman had only just flown out tens of miles when it automatically fell to the ground, as if there was an invisible force preventing it from flying out of the Immortal Machine Mountain.
“This Immortal Machine Mountain is indeed a bit weird!”Zhang Ruochen said to himself.
The Liu Li Female Saint added, “The four clans of the Immortal Blood Clan have gathered a large number of Saint realm powerhouses to enter the Immortal Machine Mountain, and there must be a portion of Blood Saints guarding the entrance of the Immortal Machine Mountain. Yuan Rustling and I are both severely injured, so it’s simply impossible for us to kill our way out. Right now, we can only beg Your Excellency to help us, as long as we can help us escape from the Immortal Machine Mountain, we will be able to spread the news so that the Stopping Pass can send a large army to rescue Lord Martial Saint and the saints who are besieging the Immortal Blood Race.”
If a large number of powerhouses from the Ministry of Military Affairs really rushed over, I was afraid that not only would the Immortal Blood Clan be besieged, Zhang Ruochen himself would also be besieged.
Zhang Ruochen said, “I entered the Immortal Chance Mountain because I have something very important to do, it’s impossible for me to turn back again.”
Qing Mo also understood Zhang Ruochen’s awkward situation, being able to step in and save them was already quite a feat, and it was impossible to continue helping.
To help any further would be harming themselves.
Qing Mo pursed her lips and quietly said, “Your Excellency, the three Blood Saints could go and return at any time, and with the injuries on their bodies, they definitely won’t be able to cope. Why don’t we take them on the road with us and wait until their injuries are healed, and then we will completely stop caring about this matter?”
“It can be done.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Qing Mo was slightly taken aback, clearly not expecting Zhang Ruochen to agree so readily.
Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “It’s a good thing that you have the heart to help others. If I continue to sing against you, won’t I become a great evil?”
Female Sage Liu Li and Female Sage Yuan Rustling also understood that they were indeed being a bit forceful, and so, they did not continue to say much, and could only recuperate from their injuries now before making any other plans.
Immortal Machine Mountain was vast and boundless, some places were filled with ancient pines hundreds of feet tall, and some places were lush green bamboo forests, there were both cliffs and waterfalls and lakes.
There were many spirit medicines in the mountains, emitting a faint glow. Of course, there were also a lot of killing formations left over from the Middle Ages, so if one was not careful and took one wrong step, one’s corpse might not survive.
Zhang Ruochen and the others had already crossed over into the Saint realm, so ordinary spiritual herbs were naturally unappealing, and it was impossible to risk their lives to pick them.
Lady Sage Liu Li and Lady Sage Yuan Rushing were female officials of the Zi Wei Palace and had the background of a great family, so naturally, there was no shortage of healing elixirs. After taking the healing elixir, the injuries on their bodies, temporarily stabilised without further deterioration.
Zhang Ruochen travelled forward while checking the traces on the ground, and at the same time detached his spiritual power to probe the surrounding area, so the speed of the rush was not too fast, and they were able to keep up.
“Immortal Machine Mountain is full of dangers, even if Gu Songzi is secluded in the mountain, he should be in the outer region. However, the outskirts of Immortal Machine Mountain is also quite vast, trying to find someone is like finding a needle in a haystack.”
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was secretly analysing, and with a soft sigh, he slightly raised his head and saw the clouds in front of him disperse, and an incomparably lofty mountain was revealed.
The shape of the mountain was like this one stone elephant, the height of the mountain had to be more than 10,000 metres for fear, the atmosphere was majestic, and at the top of the mountain there were large swathes of ancient buildings, emitting a divine haze.
“That should be one of the important places of the Immortal Machine Mountain, I can feel the aura of a sacred medicine, coming out from the mountain.”Qing Mo said.
Zhang Ruochen found some traces left behind by living beings who had been active at the bottom of the mountain, only, it was not certain if those traces were left behind by humans.
“Climb to the top of the mountain to have a look, even if we can’t find the Ancient Pine Child, maybe, there will be other rewards.”
A group of four people began to climb the mountain, the mountain was extremely quiet, and they didn’t encounter any dangers along the way.
However, there is a powerful “potential” in the mountain, the closer to the top of the mountain, the more powerful the power of the “potential”, suppressing the cultivator’s five senses, strength, spiritual power ……, all aspects of the bodyFunctions are declining.
When we came to the place near the top of the mountain, a Taoist temple appeared in front of us.
The Taoist temple had long since become dilapidated, with collapsed walls and weeds growing all over, even the incense pots were tipped on their sides and growing rusty on the ground.
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards the Liu Li Female Saint and Yuan Rustling Female Saint, only to see that their snow-white cheeks were covered with beads of sweat and their mouths were gasping for air, both suffering from serious injuries and having to withstand the “potential” emanating from the mountain, they were clearly on the verge of reaching their limits.
“After nightfall, no one knows if Immortal Machine Mountain will still be as peaceful as it is now. Tonight, let’s not rush any further and rest inside this Daoist temple for the time being.”
After saying this, Zhang Ruochen took the first step and stepped into the threshold of the Taoist Temple.
Just after taking a step in, Zhang Ruochen’s ears resounded with all sorts of strange sounds, including shrill screams, the howls of savage beasts, the cries of women, and the sounds of battles where swords and armies clashed, it was almost as if he had taken a step into another world.
Zhang Ruochen’s face changed, and he hurriedly retracted his footsteps.
Those sounds, all of a sudden, disappeared cleanly.
What happened?
Zhang Ruochen had to re-observe this dilapidated ancient Taoist temple for a few moments before taking another step to step in. Immediately after, those voices, once again, came into his ears.
This time, Zhang Ruochen opened his Heavenly Eyes and observed the Taoist Temple, only to see that there was actually a black shadow travelling through the Taoist Temple, and in the depths of the Taoist Temple, it was even completely shrouded by a black aura, so that even the Heavenly Eyes could not see it.
Those strange sounds were coming out from the depths of the Taoist Temple.
Zhang Ruochen had already been to even the netherworld, what had he not seen before, so naturally, he was fearless, maintaining his caution and carefully walking into into the Taoist Temple.
Immediately after, Qing Mo, Female Saint Liu Li, and Female Saint Yuan Rustling followed him and also walked in. However, they appeared calm, as if they couldn’t see or hear anything.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Qing Mo, did you hear any strange sounds?”
“No! Gongzi, what’s wrong with you, don’t scare me.”
Qing Mo’s pretty face turned white with fright and moved closer to Zhang Ruochen’s, her slender and delicate body seemed to be sticking to Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Lady Sage Liu Li and Lady Sage Yuan Rushing also revealed a look of astonishment, they stayed in the palace all year round, they had never seen even the Yin soldiers and ghosts, naturally, they were quite afraid of sticking to something unclean.
“It’s nothing, just kidding with you.”
Zhang Ruochen saw that this Taoist Temple was still calm, and those black shadows seemed to be afraid of humans, all of them retreated to the depths of the Taoist Temple, so he did not tell them what he saw and heard.
Perhaps, only a Spiritual Saint could see and hear, their cultivation was very high, but their spiritual power was still far from Zhang Ruochen’s.
“You guys stay here, I’ll go outside to set up, remember, don’t break into the depths of the Taoist Temple.”
Zhang Ruochen instructed, and then walked to the outer perimeter of the Taoist Temple, taking out the Space-Time Mysteries and preparing to use the means of spatial distortion to set up a spatial maze.
In case the Immortal Blood Race’s powerhouses found this place, they would at least have some means of dealing with it.
Qing Mo and the two female saints were however a little uneasy, their eyes would look towards the depths of the Taoist Temple from time to time, they always felt that there was something in Zhang Ruochen’s words, could it be that there were really some unknown beings inside the Taoist Temple?
Zhang Ruochen had not set up a Spatial Maze before, and could only study it while setting it up.
A spatial maze formation was a zone of spatial disarray formed after using spatial distortion multiple times. Moreover, each spatial distortion was also to follow a certain pattern, interconnecting and complementing each other, so that it would be difficult for the enemy to escape once they broke in.
The first time he set up the Spatial Misty Formation, Zhang Ruochen was also exhausted and made many mistakes, and it was only when the sun set that he was able to set it up.
After successfully arranging it, Zhang Ruochen was still quite accomplished and smiled, saying, “With this Spatial Maze Formation, even if a figure at the level of a Tong Tian Blood General comes here, he will have to be made to pay some price.”
Zhang Ruochen returned to the Taoist Temple, only to see that, Lady Sage Liu Li and Lady Sage Yuan Rushing had already taken off their armour and were wearing silk palace dresses embroidered with phoenix feathers, and inside was a layer of moonlight-white bustier, with large swathes of snowy-white skin exposed on their chests, and a deep, fascinating gully could be seen.
They were sitting on the ground, running the gong method, with thirty-six layers of holy qi aura enveloping the body, making them appear incomparably holy, just like two absolutely beautiful immortal jade statues.
The female officials who can work in Ziwei Palace, in the outside world, the human cultivators are calling them fairies, because Ziwei Palace represents the highest power centre of Kunlun Realm, and it is also the place where the aura of heaven and earth, the luck of the human race, and the rules of the Heavenly Dao converge, it is like the world above the Nine Heavens, and the ordinary people can’t even get close to it.
Both the Liu Li Female Saint and the Yuan Rustling Female Saint were indeed quite beautiful, with elegant and holy temperaments, definitely considered Heavenly Immortal beauties for those cultivators below the Saint realm.
Qing Mo could see that Zhang Ruochen was quite tired, so she hurriedly got up and assisted him, telling him to sit down and rest first.
“My lord, do you want me to roast a dragon claw for you to eat?”
Qing Mo was confident in her cooking skills and was eager to try it out, moreover, she was a foodie herself and had long wanted to make some for dinner.
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards the depths of the Taoist Temple, a little worried in his heart, he really didn’t have much of an appetite, so, shaking his head, he said, “I’ll cultivate first, and try to train my spiritual strength to the fifty-third rank as soon as possible. If you want to eat, roast it yourself. Remember, don’t let the odour emanate out, so as not to attract some terrifying beings.”
