Zhang Ruochen was well aware of Canglan Martial Sage’s purpose of having a sword match with him, which was nothing more than trying to surmise his origin and identity through the moves he made with his sword.
“Now is not the time for a sword match, and this is not the place for a sword match, there will be an opportunity later.”
After saying this, Zhang Ruochen was sparingly turning around and travelling in the direction of the Pill Garden.
Canglan Martial Saint quickly caught up and walked alongside Zhang Ruochen, saying, “There is another matter that I want to discuss with you. Lend Zhu Qingyi to me for a while, and the conditions are whatever you want to mention.”
“No way.”
Zhang Ruochen refused decisively.
The Canglan Martial Saint was quite puzzled and said, “Keeping Zhu Qingyi by your side won’t be half as beneficial to you. The Immortal Blood Clan will definitely have a large number of experts out to rescue her. Among the Human Race, cultivators who have a grudge against her, or who want to use her head in exchange for cultivation resources, will also surely come after you. With your cultivation, you won’t be able to protect her at all, and you’ll only end up harming yourself. If you hand her over to me, count me as owing you a favour.”
Zhang Ruochen stopped and stared at her, smiling, “Is your favour expensive?”
“Of course it’s expensive.”
The Canglan Martial Saint’s eyelashes curled upwards, and a confident smile flowed from her pair of phoenix eyes, radiant and proud as if she was a true phoenix.
Zhang Ruochen’s expression, however, turned serious as he said, “Don’t you already owe me two favours, how do you plan to repay them?”
The Canglan Martial Saint was first slightly stunned, then, revealing an expression of both good humour and amusement, he said, “I didn’t see that you were actually a calculating person. Today, it is also considered a favour owed to you? If it wasn’t for me stepping in, you and the Martial Market Money Bank would have already formed a great feud.”
“If you hadn’t stepped in, that Head of the Northern Region Holy Academy would have already turned into a dead man.”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Canglan Martial Saint was speechless.
The six female saints followed behind the two, all of them looking at each other with blank faces, some even revealed gloating looks, it was the first time that someone was able to choke the towering Martial Saint Lord to the point where he was unable to speak.
Zhang Ruochen stopped once again and said, “What are you following me for?”
The Canglan Martial Saint stroked her long, crystalline, crimson flame-like hair, raised her snow-white chin, and looked at one of the formation chains connecting heaven and earth as she said, “The Unbounded Island is very dangerous, and there are killing opportunities everywhere, so we should form an alliance, and in this way, even if we are pitted against the Immortal Blood Race’s three great Tongtian Blood Generals at the same time, we can still deal with them with ease.”
Zhang Ruochen was a little curious and said, “The strong men from the Ministry of Military Affairs, they haven’t rushed to Immortal Chance Mountain yet?”
“They should already be on their way, however, it is said that the Immortal Blood Race has also rushed over with a large number of experts, and the situation is not that optimistic. The latest news received, it seems that Immortal Organisation Mountain is hiding a great mystery of unimaginable proportions.”Canglan Martial Saint said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “What exactly are you and the six Female Saints ascending to the Unbounded Island for? The Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass?”
“That’s right. Legend has it that the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass is the main medicine for refining the Sacred Transformation Pill, so whether it’s true or not, we can’t at least let it fall into the hands of the Immortal Blood Race.”
The Canglan Martial Saint added, “Besides, the more dangerous a place is, the more it can sharpen a cultivator’s will. With my current cultivation level, it’s difficult to break through to the Heavenly Realm just by swallowing holy pills and holy elixirs, I need to practice, I need to perceive the rules of the Holy Dao in the midst of battles, and I need an opportunity to shed my transformation.”Staying in a place of peace, stability, and comfort all the time, a person was going to become numb, like stagnant water, and even with more cultivation resources, it would be very difficult to perceive the higher level of Saint Dao rules.
A change was needed.
Encountering such a predicament, even Buddhist Dao cultivators who stayed in the deep mountains would be still and choose to enter the rolling world and cultivate in the world.
Martial Dao cultivators who encountered such a predicament, on the other hand, would look for an opponent of comparable strength to themselves and engage in a life and death duel.
The Canglan Martial Saint, who spent the vast majority of his time in the Central Imperial City, had obviously encountered the same dilemma, which was why he had personally rushed to Immortal Machine Mountain.
Not only was she here to search for the formula of the Sacred Transformation Pill, but she was also here to achieve her own breakthrough.
The White Feather Twelve Saints also shared the same purpose as her, unwilling to remain in the stagnant water and wanting to break the shackles and impact to a higher realm, thus, death was inevitable.
“Since we are all so kindred spirits, let’s make a temporary alliance.”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Unbounded Island was only so big, and at any moment, it could once again face off with the Tongtian Blood General, and with his and Qing Mo’s strength, they simply couldn’t cope with it, so an alliance with the Canglan Martial Sage was indeed a good choice.
Zhang Ruochen led the Canglan Martial Saint and the six Female Saints out of the Illusory Woods and outside the Pill Garden, but there was no sign of Qing Mo, so his heart couldn’t help but tighten.
Could it be that something had gone wrong?
“Gongzi.”
On the hedge, Qing Mo’s voice rang out.
Immediately after, a green vine that was wrapped around the fence gradually contracted and transformed into a slender young girl, precisely the somewhat timid and weak Qing Mo.
Zhu Qingyi, who had fainted in the past, was originally wrapped in the interior of the green vine, but at this moment, she was being lifted in Qing Mo’s hands.
Qing Mo’s eyes rolled as she whispered, ”Earlier, several Saint realm powerhouses came here, I didn’t dare to fight them alone, so I hid. Gongzi, you won’t blame me, right?”
“Why would I blame you?”Zhang Ruochen laughed.
Qing Mo said, “They all barged into into the medicinal garden and I didn’t step in to stop them, but that old man said that once ……”
Noticing that the Canglan Martial Saint and the six Female Saints were beside him, Qing Mo didn’t dare to continue and hurriedly shut his mouth.
Cang Lan Martial Saint was quite astute and quickly asked, “Which old man?”
“There is indeed that one old man that has broken into into the Medicine Garden and is ready to snatch the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass. Therefore, we should speed up and not let him get the jump on us.”Zhang Ruochen explained to the Canglan Martial Saint, and then, took a step forward and directly stepped into into the Medicine Garden.
Qing Mo grew his mouth wide, feeling incredulous that Zhang Ruochen had completely ignored Gu Songzi’s words and barged in himself.
Gu Songzi was very cunning, if he really listened to him and helped him guard the Pill Garden outside, in the end, he would most likely be pitied by him again.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen decided to take the initiative.
As long as he was able to obtain the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass, at that time, I was afraid that Gu Songzi would still demand him.
In the Pill Garden, a blood-red mist filled the air, with beams of light intertwining together, filled with danger.
Zhang Ruochen took out the Cloud Swallowing Bell that he had taken from a Blood Saint not long ago and threw it forward.
“Wow…”
A beam of light, slicing through the top of the Cloud Swallowing Bell, directly cut this Thousand Lines Sacred Artifact into two halves and crashed to the ground.
Seeing this scene, even the Canglan Martial Saint sucked in a breath of cool air.
“The power of the Great Saint Remnant Formation is at its maximum in the Medicine Garden, everyone must be careful, once you come into contact with the light beam, you will surely die, and any means of defence will be useless.”
Zhang Ruochen reminded and continued on his way.
The soil of the medicinal garden, which was crimson in colour and erupted with divine light, was unexpectedly a divine blood terracotta that had been watered using divine blood.
Since it was a Divine Soil Pill Garden, it wasn’t a surprise that it was capable of breeding a large number of sacred pills.
It wasn’t long before they found a corpse next to a sacred medicine, cut into nine pieces by a beam of light. That was a Thoroughground Realm Saint of the Starshade Sect, an overlord on one side, but unfortunately, he had lost his life for the sake of a single Saint Pill.
Neither Zhang Ruochen nor the Canglan Martial Saint lacked holy pills, so their goal was clear, heading straight for the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass, not wanting to waste time picking other holy pills at all.
It wouldn’t be too late to wait until they captured the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass before considering it.
The mist in the medicinal garden became denser and denser, and with the vision of a Saint realm being, surprisingly, one could only see the scene within five paces.
“Ding ding.”
A pleasant wind chime sounded from the fog, like someone was walking at a fast pace.
Suddenly, the wind chimes stopped.
At that moment, a black silhouette appeared in front of Zhang Ruochen and Canglan Martial Saint, with a tall figure, long arms, and a string of white wind chimes hanging from his waist.
From the black silhouette’s mouth, a hoarse voice, rather piercing to the ears, said, “Go back! The Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass does not belong to you.”
“Death Evil Qi.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes glared as he detected the aura of Death Evil Qi on the black silhouette’s body.
Suddenly, the black silhouette’s aura became incomparably stern, and the wind chimes on his waist, which were also windless, rang out as he said, “Originally, I was still sparing your lives, but not anymore! You know too much and must die.”
The black silhouette was like a ghost, passing through a blood-red beam of light, his five fingers stretched forward and pressed towards Zhang Ruochen’s face, having a mass of deathly qi that gushed out from his palm print.
“Sword out.”
Cang Lan Martial Saint’s fingers pinched into a sword trick and pointed forwards, the Holy Sword flew out and collided with the black silhouette’s palm, emitting a resounding sound of gold and stone.
With that, both of them simultaneously fell backwards.
“So powerful, I didn’t expect that the Kunlun Realm’s World Spirit had all been severed, and that a heavenly pride like you could still be born, and in the same realm, you can actually fight with me.”
The black silhouette let out a laugh, and then, fell backwards, hiding into into the blood mist.
“Chase.”The Canglan Martial Saint instinctively realised that the black silhouette was from a very uncomplicated background and wanted to leave him behind, so he quickly chased after him.
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was also filled with doubts, his eyes glazed over and he immediately followed.
Without chasing for a long time, Zhang Ruochen only felt that he had stepped into the air, and his body rapidly fell downwards, as if he had jumped off a cliff, and was not under his control at all.
However, he soon regained his feet on the ground, gently exhaled a breath, and looked up, only to see that the entire world had become different, and was no longer in that Pill Garden.
Just now, it seemed that he had crossed a spatial wall layer.
