In less than a quarter of an hour, there were more than a dozen forces of Saint realm powerhouses that appeared on the shores of the Rim Lake, some of them alone, while others had four or five of them showing up at the same time.
In addition to the Martial Market Chambers, the Black Market One Piece Hall, and the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect, which had forces all over the world, there were also some of the top powers in the Northern Region, such as the Starshade Sect, which was one of the Seven Ancient Religions, and the Four Elephant Sect, which was one of the Three Great Branches of the Taijutsu Dao.
On the shore of a small lake, there were actually dozens of human saints gathered, and every one of them who walked out was also a great person who shook one side, such a powerful lineup, calling it a gathering of heroes.
From this, it could be seen how great the attraction of a 100,000 year old Saint Pill was.
“How did the news leak out so quickly, they all rushed over before we even landed on the island.”Qing Mo said.
Originally, picking the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass was not an easy task, and now, with all the major forces coming to compete for it, the difficulty naturally became even greater.
Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “Who else could it be?”
Qing Mo’s eyes lit up, his mouth grew wide, and he said, “You’re saying that the person who spread the news out was an old man, Gu Songzi.”
“Apart from him, there is no one else.”
“But why did he do that? Isn’t he afraid that the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass will be picked up by other forces?”Qing Mo felt puzzled.
Zhang Ruochen said, “It can only mean one thing, picking the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass is more difficult than we thought. Gu Songzi lured these people here, which means that he is letting them come to explore the path, and he is also letting them come to send them to their deaths.”
“This old fellow, really has a belly full of bad water.”Qing Mo hummed lightly.
Right at this moment, a purple-robed old man, who held himself to be of profound cultivation, took the lead and flew towards the Unbounded Island in the centre of the lake, preparing to forcefully board the island.
This person, the Vice Patriarch of a super large clan in the Northern Domain, had already lived for close to five hundred years, his strength could not be described as not strong, but it was a pity that his lifespan was about to expire, and he had to desperately seize the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass to renew his own life.
“As long as I seize the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass, not only is my cultivation expected to rise to the next level, my lifespan will also increase greatly.”
The purple-robed old man’s eyes gleamed as a purple cloud surged out from his body, shaking space to the point that it trembled slightly. The water of the Rim Lake, however, was like iron, withstanding such a shocking amount of holy dao power qi, it was surprisingly still as flat as a mirror, not even a single ripple was lifted.
The purple-robed old man sensed the oddity of this lake, and was secretly shocked in his heart, wanting to withdraw back.
“Rumble.”
In the sky, a fine inscription pattern emerged, intertwining into a giant net of lightning, descending from the sky and enveloping him.
“There’s a killing formation …….”
The purple-robed old man let out a cry of alarm, striking out four Saint Weapons in a row, the purple clouds gushing out from his body became even denser, wanting to tear apart the giant net of lightning and electricity to escape.
“Boom boom.”A series of explosions rang out from above the Rim Lake.
All four Saint Weapons exploded and turned into scrap metal, and in the end, even the purple-robed old man’s body exploded and turned into a mist of blood.
A great figure at the Vice Sovereign level had directly fallen.
The saints present, all of whom had seen this scene with their own eyes, all of them were sucking in cool air, and no one dared to act rashly anymore.
“Han Fuzhu’s cultivation had already reached the Thoroughfare Realm, and he fell just like that?”
“What kind of killing formation is it that even a Saint realm powerhouse can’t block it.”
That leader of the Black Market’s One Piece Hall snorted coldly, “The Marginal Lake is the place where the Marginless Great Sage used to reside, would it be so easy to break in? With the Great Sage’s means, casually leaving behind a few array inscriptions also has a rather terrifying killing power.”
A Great Saint’s means were profound and unfathomable, not something a Saint could imagine. Obviously, the Edgeless Great Sage had left behind a killing formation here, and after 100,000 years had passed, the killing formation that once existed had long since become tattered and had greatly diminished in power.
However, even so, the Marginal Lake was still an extremely dangerous place.
The Saint Masters of all the major powers, all of them calmed down and began to discuss ways to break the killing formation.
In the Martial Market Chambers, there were a total of four Saint realm powerhouses that had entered the Immortal Machine Mountain, and the one with the most powerful cultivation was named Qiu Lanshan, with a cultivation that reached the Tongtian realm, and was one of the Northern Domain Saint Academy’s academy masters.
Other than that, the other three were two Xuan Huang realm elders, and the young leader of the Northern Domain Sacred Academy, Xue Sheng.
Xue Sheng had sword brows and eagle eyes, handsome and extraordinary, less than a hundred years old, but his cultivation had already crossed into the Saint realm, definitely considered a first-class person.
When he came to the Rim Lake, Xue Sheng’s eyes were observing the surroundings, and although he was young, he was very sophisticated.
At this moment, Xue Sheng’s gaze was locked onto Zhu Qingyi’s body, and a look of surprise and fear appeared in his eyes.
Immediately after, his lips moved and whispered something to Qiu Lanshan and the two Xuan Huang Realm Elders, and one of the Xuan Huang Realm Elders exclaimed in shock, “How is that possible?”
The gazes of the four Sacred Realm powerhouses of the Martial Market Money Vault were fixed on Zhu Qingyi in unison, and then, they looked towards Zhang Ruochen and Qing Mo, all of them revealing a look of astonishment and uncertainty.
“It should be that demoness, although she doesn’t wear a veil and is somewhat different from before, the aura on her body is very similar.”
“She seems to be very weak, could it be that she has been seriously injured?”
“A faint layer of golden aura flows on that female devil’s skin, she should have been poisoned by the Golden Bat Python. What a heavenly opportunity, today, no matter what, we must kill her to avenge the dead cultivators of the Martial City Money Bank.”Qiu Lanshan’s eyes sank as intense killing intent flowed from his pupils.
Zhang Ruochen sensed that someone’s gaze was watching him, and so, looked over, just in time to see the four Saint realm powerhouses from the Martial Market Money Vault walking head on.
“Fiendish girl, suffer death.”
Xue Sheng conjured up a five-foot-long cyan-coloured Saint Sword, his body erupted with powerful Saint Might, and he directly struck the Saint Sword out, transforming it into a stream of cyan-coloured light that struck at Zhu Qingyi’s heart.
A sharp sword aura actually enveloped both Zhang Ruochen and Qing Mo.
Zhang Ruochen frowned slightly as he pointed his finger forward, and a circular lightning barrier coalesced out like a lightning mirror, resisting the cyan-coloured holy sword.
Where did Qing Mo expect that this group of people would make a direct move as soon as they came up, and she shouted out delicately, “What are you doing?”
Within the voice, there was a powerful attacking force contained within it, forming a ripple of sound waves that shook Xue Sheng backwards and backwards, retreating all the way to Qiu Lan Shan’s Holy Soul Domain before he could stabilise his footsteps.
Xue Sheng’s hair crown on his head was shattered and his robes were split, indescribably wretched.
Of course, Qing Mo didn’t want to hurt anyone and only used one or two percent of his cultivation, otherwise, where would Xue Sheng still be able to remain standing?
One must know that Xue Sheng was the youngest Saint of the Northern Domain Saint Academy, with some countless halos on his body, he had not been afraid of anyone amongst his peers, yet he was retreated by a sixteen or seventeen year old little girl with a roar. It could be imagined what a huge shock he had received, in his heart.
Qing Mo’s roar had startled all the cultivators on the shores of the Rim Lake, and they all looked towards them.
Qiu Lan Shan stared at Qing Mo, a cold colour appearing in his eyes as he said, ”It is not easy for a deviant to cultivate to a realm like yours. It’s just a pity that you chose to side with the Immortal Blood Race, you are undoubtedly looking for death.”
“Who are you calling a deviant?”
Qing Mo’s eyes became incomparably cold and angry, with a trace of green flame that escaped from the surface of her skin.
As a plant spirit, staying in the world of human cultivators was already a bit out of place, and hearing someone call her a “foreigner”, Qing Mo’s emotions were naturally quite agitated.
Qiu Lan Shan was full of arrogance and hummed, “You are not a human being, and now you have joined the camp of the Immortal Blood Race, so is it wrong to say that you are a foreigner?”
The other human cultivators, hearing the words “Immortal Blood Race”, all became murderous and surrounded Zhang Ruochen, Qing Mo and Zhu Shengyi.
Knowing that there was a misunderstanding between the two sides, Zhang Ruochen frowned and said, “Who told you that we have joined the camp of the Immortal Blood Race? Words, you can’t say nonsense.”
Xue Sheng coldly said, “How dare you argue, the woman standing behind you is the female devil of the Undying Blood Clan’s Qingtian Clan, Zhu Qingyi. Countless human cultivators have died in her hands, and the Seventh Academy Master of the Northern Domain Holy Academy was killed by her.”
“Zhu Qingyi.”
A stone stirred up a thousand waves.
The entire Rim Lake’s shores completely exploded, and all the saints present, all of them revealed shocked colours. A few of them couldn’t help but take two steps backward.
Zhu Qingyi was definitely a vicious character with a fierce reputation amongst the Immortal Blood Clan, and there were at least ten human saints who had died in her hands.
A silver-crowned old man from the Starshade Sect stared at Zhu Qingyi’s body and said, “That’s right, she’s that female devil, old me once fought with her once, and if I hadn’t used my secret escape technique, I would have already died in her hands.”
Confirming Zhu Qingyi’s identity, the killing intent on the human saints present intensified, itching to break her into pieces.
Zhu Qingyi was happy to see such a situation, the corner of her mouth revealed a moving winking smile, and she even reached out from behind Zhang Ruochen, stretching out a pair of jade hands to protect his chest, her face pressed against his back as she softly said, “The toxin from the Golden Bat Python has already soaked into the meridians and holy veins, and I am unable to mobilise my holy qi, and I don’t even have the power to fight back if they want to kill me, so you can definitely protect me. ”
“Shameless.”
Qing Mo stretched out a hand and grabbed Zhu Qing Yi’s hair, then, ruthlessly threw her onto the ground.
Zhu Qingyi lay on the ground, blood flowing from her mouth, but a smile still hung above her beautiful face.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze, stared towards the crowd and said, ”Whether you believe it or not, I will only explain once. She is indeed that female devil of the Immortal Blood Clan, however, she is also my prisoner now, so whoever wants to kill her, shouldn’t they ask my opinion first?”
Qiu Lan Shan sneered, “What kind of powerful character is Zhu Qingyi, would she obediently be your prisoner? Do you think too highly of yourself?”
“Your acting is also too fake, you have clearly defected to the Undying Blood Race, yet you still want to deceive us.”
Xue Sheng said nonchalantly, “If it was me who captured Zhu Qingyi, I would have definitely beheaded her at the first opportunity, and used her head to exchange for military merit value and a large amount of cultivation resources at the imperial court. Capturing but not killing, and preventing others from killing her, are you bewitched by her beauty or have you really defected to the Immortal Blood Clan?”
Zhang Ruochen glanced at him and said, “With your eyesight, you can only use Zhu Shengyi’s life in exchange for military honours and cultivation resources. I, on the other hand, can exchange her life for something even more important. Two people with different horizons, the way they do things, is definitely different.”
“You’re saying that I have low vision?”
How proud Xue Sheng was, hearing Zhang Ruochen’s words, he was so angry that he trembled in fear.
“That’s right, a frog at the bottom of the well.”Zhang Ruochen said.
