Zhao Qilin was also a Devil Dao giant who had been cultivating for over four hundred years, and had killed several beings even at the Saint realm, so would he be afraid of a young Saint who had risen to prominence in the space of a few years?
“I heard that you used spatial power to kill Qiu Lanshan of the Northern Domain Saint Academy. Could it be that just because of this battle, it has inflated you? Do you think that you’re already able to call the shots of a Saint of the Tong Tian realm?”
Zhao Qilin was wearing a mask, so his expression could not be seen, but he could hear a few hints of disdain.
Zhang Ruochen said, “It seems like you guys are not planning to retreat.”
“Clang!”
A sword sound rang out.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s hand, its heavy body and black sword aura just flew out, and the space around it automatically condensed a sword aura.
Aside from Zhao Qilin, the rest of the Dark Night Emissaries, all of them felt a huge pressure of sword intent, their legs softened, and they couldn’t help but fall backward.
The mere sound of the sword chirps caused blood to flow from the ears of some of these Dark Night Emissaries.
“What a powerful sword intent.”
Zhao Qilin’s heart secretly shuddered as he put away his contempt and hastily propped up his Holy Soul Domain. Immediately, 100,000 thin filaments of demonic Qi rushed out of his body and escaped outwards, causing this piece of dilapidated land to completely transform into a dark demonic domain.
“The Eight Deserts, the only one is me.”
The holy might on Zhao Qilin’s body grew stronger and stronger, and underneath the golden mask, a pair of pupils turned blood red, appearing overbearing and stern, yet sinister and evil.
“So it’s the Eight Desolate Hexagonal Technique that is cultivated.”Zhang Ruochen recited a sentence to himself.
The Eight Desolate Hexagonal Technique was one of the most powerful King Grade Techniques, and it was not much weaker compared to the Six Great Wondrous Books.
Cultivating the Eight Desolate Hexagonal Feats and reaching the Tong Tian Realm, then Zhao Qilin’s strength was by no means comparable to that of an ordinary Tong Tian Realm Saint.
Although the other Dark Night Emissaries were all strong as well, yet, they were not worth mentioning when compared to a Tong Tian Realm Saint. Seeing Zhao Qilin use the Eight Desolate Six Harmonies Kung Fu, they knew that Zhang Ruochen was not that easy to deal with, and they all cast out their body techniques and retreated to the distance.
Zhao Qilin took the initiative to attack, two fingers pointing forwards, and instantly, a cold, bone-piercing Saint Qi surged out.
“Snap.”
The earth between him and Zhang Ruochen was actually cracked by the finger force.
Zhang Ruochen stood in place, standing proudly as he raised the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and drew a circle, and then, a circle of sword qi flew out to dissolve that finger force.
At the same time, he quickly stabbed out another sword, striking Zhao Qilin’s brow.
The two of them were entangled together, sometimes flying in the sky, sometimes hiding in the ground, and they actually fought to a standstill.
A Dark Night Emissary watching the battle said, “Zhang Ruochen is really powerful, his cultivation has actually reached a level that is sufficient to fight against the leader, Lord Godson is already lagging behind a bit compared to him.”
“Don’t talk nonsense, Zhang Ruochen is indeed strong, but the Divine Son isn’t weak either, it’s still unknown who will have the last laugh.”
……
Undoubtedly, in this era, the light on the Nine Great Realm Sons was incomparably bright, each one of them had been nurtured by the Empress using the resources of the entire Kunlun Realm, and their cultivation speed and potential were not something that could be compared to ordinary heavenly prides.
It was feared that only the Space-Time Transmitter Zhang Ruochen could suppress the radiance on the Nine Great Realm Sons.
“It’s time for everything to come to an end, Eight Desolate Infinite Seal.”
Zhao Qilin’s voice came out from the volatile demonic clouds, and then, his hands formed a seal that drew all of the heaven and earth’s aura in a radius of hundreds of miles.
A large handprint, a thousand feet long, descended from the sky, a single palm pattern all containing arcane Saint Dao rules, and before it even fell, it pressed the earth into subsidence.
Zhang Ruochen raised his head and stared upwards, his eyes calm and without fear.
“Taixu Splitting Light.”
Three thousand inscriptions emerged above the body of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, erupting into a Thousand Stripes of Destructive Strength, forming an ebony sword pillar.
The battle sword swung out, directly tearing apart the Eight Desolate Infernal Seals that descended from the sky, and even Zhao Qilin was sent crashing down.
The demonic Qi in the sky and earth became thinner.
A long bloody scar appeared from Zhao Qilin’s left shoulder to his abdomen, and the wound was so deep that it almost split him in half. In his eyes, there was a look of disbelief, ”How is it possible? You’re using the Nine Lives Sword Technique, that’s the mastery of my sect’s Holy Maiden Head Honour, how did you learn it?”
In the distance, Xiao Mie, who was healing his injuries, also revealed a look of surprise.
Xiao Mian was not surprised that Zhang Ruochen was able to perform the Nine Lives Sword Technique because, he had long heard some secret stories and knew that Zhang Ruochen and the Holy Maiden’s Head Sovereign had a very deep friendship.
What surprised him was that Zhang Ruochen’s power that had just erupted surpassed Zhao Qilin’s.
“An Upper Realm Saint can be so powerful, no wonder someone told old me that Zhang Ruochen was the number one amongst young Saints, and when I see him today, his name is indeed true.”
Xiao Extinction’s two green eyeballs returned to their sockets as he walked over to Zhao Qilin’s side and stood opposite Zhang Ruochen.
Zhao Qilin slightly saluted Xiao Extinction and said, “Palace Master, feel at ease and recuperate, just leave this place to me.”?”Leave it to you, I’m afraid it won’t work. Can’t you see that Zhang Ruochen hasn’t been using his full strength the entire time, and is just using you to practice his sword?”Xiao Xie said.
Zhao Qilin didn’t believe that Zhang Ruochen was that powerful at all, and only felt that it was because he was too careless that he was injured by Zhang Ruochen’s sword strike.
“Give my subordinate another chance and I will definitely capture Zhang Ruochen alive.”Zhao Qilin said.
“I’m afraid you’ll lose your life if you’re given one more chance.”
Xiao Xie did not let Zhao Qilin continue to strike, lifting his right foot and stepping downwards, with a clattering sound, a circular flame formation seal presented itself.
At first, the diameter of the flame formation seal was only ten zhang, and it gradually became huge.
Twenty zhang, fifty zhang, eighty zhang, one hundred zhang ……?
“The Time and Space Transmitter is not an ordinary person, today, I can only bully the small with the big and personally come to capture you.”Xiao Xie said.
The Flame Formation Seal extended to Zhang Ruochen’s feet, and a fiery power came over him.
“His mental power has been heavily damaged by the Wine Crazy Man, but he is still so powerful… The masters of the Nine Palaces of the Devil Sect are really not simple characters.”
Zhang Ruochen was very clear that he absolutely could not be caught inside the formation by Xiao Xie, and so, he used his Luan and Phoenix Divine Seal Sprint, stepping on a luan and a phoenix as he sprinted high into the sky.
“Thinking that you can avoid the formation by flying into the sky? Encountering a Formation Master also means that you will have no way into the sky.”
The corner of Xiao Xuan’s mouth hooked slightly as he pointed his finger towards the sky.
Above the dome of the sky, a flame formation unexpectedly condensed as well, slowly rotating and pressing downwards.
Zhang Ruochen stood in mid-air a hundred feet above the ground, a sea of fire above his head and under his feet as two huge formation seals rotated, reflecting the skin on his body to turn crimson as well.
“Sword Seven.”
The Saint Qi within Zhang Ruochen’s body swiftly revolved as surging sword intent erupted out, and the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword radiated ten thousand feet of dark light as tens of thousands of sword qi erupted out.
The terrifying power of the sword dao caused even the cultivators standing on the ground to feel fear in their hearts, only to feel that Zhang Ruochen at this moment was like a supreme sword saint.
“Swish-”
Zhang Ruochen transformed into a light shuttle, riding the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, crashing into the centre of that Flame Array in the sky and penetrating straight through.
“Rumble.”?The Flame Great Formation crumbled and turned into a ball of fire, falling downwards.
“Sword Seven …… Could it be that Zhang Ruochen has become a Sword Saint?”
Zhao Qilin sucked in a breath of cold air, finally realising the gap between himself and Zhang Ruochen.
That sword just now, he definitely couldn’t catch it.
At the same time, Qing Mo stood on top of the Golden Bat Python’s head, combining the holy qi of the one person and the python, and stimulated the origin power in the silver chopper, chopping at the big flame formation on the ground.
With a loud boom, the silver-coloured blade light tore apart the Flame Great Formation, splitting it in two.
After the Flame Great Formation disappeared, on the ground, there was just a dozens of miles long blade scar left behind, almost like a dried up river.
“Divine Legacy …… Ancient Weapon ……”
Xiao Mie detected that just as the silver-coloured chopper chopped down, a rather terrifying aura was released.
That strand of power, exceeding the Holy Dao, was the power of a god.
Only a Divine Legacy Ancient Artifact could exert such power.
Xiao Xie’s palm pressed the top of his head, only to feel an incomparable pain in his head; earlier, the Wine Crazy Man’s strike had heavily damaged his spiritual power and Saint Soul, and it was flaring up again at this moment.
“Go, retreat immediately ……”
Xiao Xie suppressed the pain in his head while mobilising his spiritual energy, turning into a stream of flames and flying towards the darkness.
Zhao Qilin, on the other hand, unfolded a scroll of holy orders and used the power of the holy orders to carry the Darkness Palace’s group of emissaries and began to retreat.
Unfortunately, there was no walking away.
The Golden Bat Python was very angry and felt that these people had come to plot against Gu Songzi, so it chased after them and ferociously attacked Zhao Qilin and the group of Darkness Night Emissaries, beating them to the point that they kept letting out screams, some of which were poisoned by the Golden Bat Poison, and some of which were swallowed into its stomach.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t go after them and slowly floated down to the ground, his palms covering his chest, his face bearing a look of pain.
Just now, the forceful use of Sword Seven was beyond the capacity of the three veins to withstand, and once again, conical and piercing pain emanated from his body, his face was filled with cold sweat.
“Gongzi, what’s wrong with you?”
Qing Mo swept over and hurriedly assisted Zhang Ruochen.
“There’s no major harm.”
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head, sat down on his knees, and slowly operated his gong methods.
As the Sacred Qi and Chaotic Qi travelled through the meridians and Sacred Veins for several large circumferences in a row, it was only gradually that the pain disappeared.
By the time Zhang Ruochen recovered, the huge body of the Golden Bat Python, travelling from afar, appeared in front of him, its mouth full of blood, looking particularly hideous.
Qing Mo was not afraid of the Golden Bat Python at all, saying, “Little Jin said that all of the Dark Night Palace’s Dark Night Emissaries, except for Zhao Qilin, were killed. Zhao Qilin also suffered a considerable amount of injuries and used an escape secret technique before escaping.”
Zhu Qingyi had even fallen in front of the Golden Bat Python, which was naturally quite a powerful savage beast, and dealing with a group of Dark Night Emissaries was simply a breeze.
“Xiao Muo’s spiritual strength should have reached the level of peak fifty-fourth rank, and coupled with his attainments above formations, there are very few characters under Saint King who can engage him. The reason why he had retreated was simply because his spiritual power had suffered a heavy blow and was somewhat overwhelmed. When he recovers some of his spiritual power, he will definitely come back, and at that time, there is no way we can be his opponent.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Qing Mo asked, “What should we do?”
“Leave this place before we leave and find another hiding place.”
Zhang Ruochen was still in a period of recuperation and didn’t want to fight and slug it out, lest the three veins would be left with hidden dangers, otherwise, he would definitely want to take advantage of this excellent opportunity to get rid of Xiao Xie and Zhao Qilin, so how could he possibly let them escape?
Zhang Ruochen walked into into the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass and carried out the unconscious Zhu Qingyi, and also put the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass into the Mercury Gourd before he sat on top of the Golden Bat Python’s head with Qing Mo, and left a broken and scorched land.
