“So you are the Time and Space Successor Zhang Ruochen …… No wonder, haha, no wonder the means used are so bizarre, so it’s the power of space ……”
Zhu Qingyi let out a laugh as he came to a realisation, and until this moment, finally knew who his opponent was.
The world thought that Zhang Ruochen had turned into an invalid, who would have thought that even though this son’s three veins were all wasted, he still wasn’t someone who could be taken down.
“You shouldn’t have come to the Northern Domain, this is the Immortal Blood Clan’s home turf, I don’t know how many people in the Immortal Blood Clan want to kill you, when your identity is exposed, that’s when you die.”Zhu Qingyi said.
“Wanting to kill me is not an easy task.”Zhang Ruochen mobilised his spiritual power and stretched out an index finger, pointing it towards Zhu Qingyi’s brow, and with that, she went limp and fainted on the ground.
“Can’t let her speak again.”
Zhang Ruochen stared at Zhu Qingyi who was lying on the ground, revealing a grave expression.
This was because he was very clear that once his identity was exposed, not only would the Immortal Blood Clan come to kill him, even some greedy forces in the Human Clan would surely try every means possible to deal with him and seize the treasures in his possession.
Qing Mo handed Zhang Ruochen the silver kitchen knife and asked, “Should …… you cut her tongue?”
“Why are you so cruel?”Zhang Ruochen said.
Qing Mo stared with a pair of wide eyes and said seriously, “Our situation is too dangerous, we have to be a bit more careful, in case we are captured, it will definitely be more than just having our tongues cut out.”
“Having a sense of crisis is also a kind of progress, however, the way you do things is a little too simple and rough. With the Immortal Blood Race’s strong vitality, even if their tongues are cut out, they can still grow back.”
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head, feeling that Qing Mo was just a little girl who needed his guidance in every way, neither making her too timid nor too extreme.
“Rumble.”
The Edgeless Island shook slightly.
Zhang Ruochen looked in the direction from which the loud sound came, only to see that above the Flowerless Illusory Forest, a formation inscription emerged, condensing a hundred and eight thick chains that connected from the ground all the way to the sky.
Between the chains, the aura of heaven and earth was transformed into thunder and lightning, emitting a “giggling” sound.
The space where the Edgeless Island was located seemed to become frozen, and a terrifying pressure fell on every living being on the island, suffocating people and causing them to feel incomparably fearful.
“Someone else has boarded Marginless Island and touched one of the key formation eyes of the Great Sage Remnant Formation, causing the Great Sage Remnant Formation to activate completely. Marginless Island has become even more dangerous!”
Zhang Ruochen looked towards the medicinal garden and saw that a blood-red light shuttle flew out from the soil, each one of them was like a blood knife, incomparably sharp and could easily slice through the flesh of a Saint realm being.
Those light shuttles were also part of the Great Saint Remnant Formation.
Vaguely, Zhang Ruochen heard Gu Songzi’s strange screams coming out from the Pill Garden, and it was clear that the power of the Great Saint Remnant Formation had created a great deal of trouble for him as well.
Not long after, the entire Pill Garden was enveloped in a blood-red mist. Within the mist, a light shuttle that intertwined into a net.
The originally calm Pill Garden became incomparably menacing.
“That damnable old man won’t die in there, right?”
Qing Mo was a little worried, after all, the three veins in Zhang Ruochen’s body had yet to be renewed, and even though Gu Songzi was no matter how repulsive he was, he couldn’t die now.
“Gu Songzi has managed to stay for hundreds of years alone in such a dangerous place like the Immortal Machine Mountain, his means of staying alive will not lose out to the Wine Crazy Man, there is no need to worry about him.”
Zhang Ruochen instructed Qing Mo to stay outside the Pill Garden and wait, then, alone, he returned to the Illusory Woods and went forward to find out which people had intruded into the Edgeless Island?
Shortly after entering the Illusory Forest, Zhang Ruochen saw Xue Sheng’s figure.
“Just you dare to mock this Saint, go to hell.”
Xue Sheng seemed to have been hit by the Illusion Poison, his hair was dishevelled and a loud roar came out of his mouth as he slashed indiscriminately in all directions with his Saint Sword in hand.
In fact, to be able to cultivate to the Saint realm before the age of a hundred, Xue Sheng was already quite outstanding and could be called a human genius. Although, he had some conflicts with Zhang Ruochen earlier due to a misunderstanding, but it was all inconsequential in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes and he did not take it to heart.
Zhang Ruochen had once cultivated at the Martial City Money Bank for a period of time, and was considered to have some connections, so he did not want the grudge between the two sides to expand further.
Thus, Zhang Ruochen executed the Thunder Rushing Technique and rushed towards Xue Sheng, preparing to restrain him and bring him out of the Illusory Forest.
“Who? Who dares to sneak attack this Saint, this Saint will let you die without a burial place.”
Xue Sheng suddenly turned around, his eyes were covered in dense blood filaments and filled with hostility, his hands grasped the hilt of his sword and slashed out with all his might, forming a splendid waterfall of sword qi.
Zhang Ruochen was slightly startled, not expecting that Xue Sheng would suddenly slash out this sword.
Knowing that Zhang Ruochen could only use his spiritual power right now, and could not engage in close combat at all, at such a close distance, he could only release all the spiritual power in his body and condense it into a huge lightning light shield for defence.
Xue Sheng’s sword collided with the Lightning Light Shield, and immediately after, a circle of ripples appeared on the Light Shield, with dense lightning flying out in all directions.
Three of the lightning bolts struck Xue Sheng’s body, causing Xue Sheng to spit blood from his mouth and continuously fall backwards.
“Boom.”
When Xue Sheng took his thirteenth step backwards, he stepped on top of one of the formation inscriptions of the Great Sacred Remnant Formation, and instantly, his saintly body was torn apart by an invisible force.
Zhang Ruochen withdrew his spiritual power and the lightning light shield immediately dissipated, looking at the forest that was dyed red by the Saint’s blood, he sighed softly, “It’s a pity!”
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen felt a strong killing intent and turned his head, looking to his left to see Qiu Lanshan, the Ninth Master of the Northern Domain Sacred Academy, standing underneath an Illusory Tree, glaring angrily at him.
“How can you be so ruthless, earlier, Xue Sheng only questioned you and you actually killed him. Both are Human Saints, how could you lay your hands on him?”
Qiu Lanshan revealed two white teeth, as if he wanted to eat Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen was too lazy to explain to Qiu Lan Shan, and even if he did, he probably wouldn’t believe him, so he laughed coldly, “Are you qualified to say that I am ruthless? When you laid your hands on me, did you ever think that I am also a Human Saint?”
“Unbridled.”
The anger in Qiu Lan Shan’s body grew even stronger as he summoned the Underworld Serpent Sword and suspended it in front of his body, and as the sword trembled violently, countless sword-shaped sword qi flew out.
Qiu Lanshan possessed the cultivation of the Heavenly Realm and was the Head of the Northern Domain Sacred Courtyard, so naturally, he was quite a formidable figure.
In Zhang Ruochen’s state, there was no way he could be his opponent.
“Swish-” Zhang Ruochen used his Thunder Rushing Technique and rushed towards the outside of the Illusory Forest, preparing to meet up with Qing Mo.
“You can’t escape, today, you will die.”
Qiu Lanshan’s speed was even faster, chasing after Zhang Ruochen in a matter of moments, and the sword qi that flew out from the Stygian Serpent Sword formed dozens of light shuttles that twisted and entangled together, striking Zhang Ruochen’s back and piercing through the defence shield formed by the thunderbolt.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes sank as he turned around sharply and pressed his hands forward, two strands of spiritual energy flew out, about to use spatial distortion to dissolve Qiu Lanshan’s attack.
“Swish swish.”
Suddenly, a series of sword sounds rang out.
Six holy swords flew out from the forest and inserted themselves in front of Zhang Ruochen, forming a sword formation to ward off the attacks struck by Qiu Lanshan.
Qiu Lanshan roared out in a deep voice, “Who dares to stop Old Master from beheading him?”
Wearing a snow-white armour, the Liu Li Female Saint stepped out from the forest and chided, “Qiu Lan Shan, how dare you. Right now, all the human cultivators are united against the Immortal Blood Race. How dare you lay your hands on a human saint and not be afraid of suffering the condemnation of all human cultivators in the world?”
Immediately after, the other five female saints all followed and stood beside Zhang Ruochen.
Qiu Lanshan naturally recognised the identities of the six female saints, and the anger in his eyes collected for a few moments as he slightly arched his hand and saluted, saying, “The six female saints don’t know, he was the one who made the first move to kill Xue Sheng, and I was just avenging the Saint of Martial Saint Chancery’s saints.”
“Xue Sheng is dead?”
The six female saints all revealed a look of surprise, not expecting this to be the case.
“Duke, what exactly is going on?”
Lady Saint Liu Li’s eyes were fixed on Zhang Ruochen, and although she was inquiring, it was with great affection and her voice was very soft.
Zhang Ruochen simply explained a few sentences and told them what had just happened.
Qiu Lan Shan, however, didn’t believe it and said with an ironclad voice, “Impossible, old me doesn’t believe your words, how can it be that easy to shirk responsibility?”
“I knew you wouldn’t believe it, so I didn’t even bother explaining it to you.”Zhang Ruochen said indifferently.
“I believe it.”
The Liu Li Female Sage followed up with, “It’s impossible for Gongzi to be a narrow-minded person, and he’s definitely a person who dares to act. If he really killed Xue Sheng, he definitely won’t deny it.”
The other five female saints also nodded, believing in Zhang Ruochen’s character.
Qiu Lanshan could see that the six female saints had a friendship with Zhang Ruochen, however, with his status and position, he naturally would not stop there and said, “The Martial Market Money Bank is not that easy to bully, a Saint Realm Heavenly Pride falling is enough to alarm Lord Martial Honour. Otherwise, let’s each make a concession? As long as you hand over Zhu Qingyi to me, I can stop pursuing this matter.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed and said, “Is this a deal on interests?”
Zhu Qingyi’s value was quite huge, using her head would be enough to exchange a large amount of cultivation resources from the imperial court, and, with this credit, getting a royal title would be an easy task.
Qiu Lan Shan naturally would not admit it, and said in a deep voice, “Old me will kill her with my own hands to avenge my senior brother.”
“I’m sorry, I can’t hand her over to you.”Zhang Ruochen shook his head.
“Junior, you’re just refusing to drink until you’re punished, today, even if the six Female Saints were here, they wouldn’t be able to protect you.”
Qiu Lan Shan had a reason to kill Zhang Ruochen, thus, he was not at all afraid of the Six Female Saints.
The Thousand Stripes Destruction Power in the Underworld Serpent Sword was aroused, and in the woods, thousands of sword qi condensed and flew rapidly, emitting an ear-piercing sword chirping sound.
“Form a formation.”
The Liu Li Female Saint droned out.
Immediately after, the six Female Saints quickly stepped out and formed a sword formation, the strength of the six of them superimposed together, and from their bodies, an aura of the Saint Dao that was no weaker than Qiu Lan Shan’s erupted as they met the attack.
