Walking out of the mountain forest, Zhang Ruochen unleashed his spiritual power and conducted a search to find the traces of the battle left behind by the Wine Crazy Man and Night Xiaoxiang.
“The Wine Crazy Man and Ancient Songzi surprisingly didn’t escape the Immortal Machine Mountain, instead, they went to the depths of the Immortal Machine Mountain.”
Zhang Ruochen was a little surprised, feeling incomprehensible.
Subsequently, after repeated confirmations, in the end, he came to the same conclusion.
Whether it was the black silhouette that claimed to be the “Dead Race” or the bone finger that rushed out from the bottom of the Taoist Temple, both went to the depths of the Immortal Machine Mountain, so it was clear that there must be a great danger there.
What was the point of going there?
“It seems that Shi Qianjie’s holy match has caused great trouble for the Wine Crazy Man and Gu Songzi, forcing them to flee to the depths of the Immortal Machine Mountain, borrowing external forces to fight against Night Xiaoxiang.”Zhang Ruochen’s heart speculated thus.
“No one knows how terrifying the power of those dead races really is. This path, for them, I’m afraid it’s also a nine deaths.”
Qing Mo pursed her lips, as if she had thought of something, and sighed softly, “My lord, the Wine Crazy Man told me what happened back then.”
“Is that so? Tell me about it.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Qing Mo said, “Six hundred years ago, when Crazy Wine Maniac received a summons from Gu Songzi, he indeed immediately rushed back to the Demon Sect’s General Altar, ready to dissuade Shi Qianjie and save Gu Songzi’s family. However, he was unlucky enough to be intercepted by Lord Empress on the way. In order to rush back alive, he could only kneel down and beg the Empress, and also made a poisonous oath to never kill, never do evil, and quit the Devil Sect. However, he still went back one step too late and failed to save the person.”
“In that case, it seems that the Wine Crazy Man is tolerant of insults and is not as timid and life-shy as Gu Songzi said.”Zhang Ruochen said.
How many grudges were there to sigh over.
Fate is full of misfortunes, yet there is nothing one can do about it.
Qing Mo frowned a pair of willow leaf eyebrows and said, “However, I just don’t understand why he didn’t tell Gu Songzi the truth?”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “For a Saint, making him kneel is harder than making him die. What’s more, the one who knelt was his own master-killer. If he were to tell the truth, then the person who would be guilty for the rest of his life would be Gu Songzi.”
“In other words, the Wine Crazy Man paid a price greater than his life?”Qing Mo asked with seeming understanding.
“That’s right.”Zhang Ruochen said.
A great battle at the Saint King level, with Zhang Ruochen and Qing Mo’s current cultivation level, they couldn’t intervene at all. The depths of the Immortal Machine Mountain was also not something they could go into.
Currently, the most important thing they should do was to find a safe hiding place and nurture the three veins to their best state.
The Immortal Machine Mountain was indeed dangerous, however, it was also an excellent hiding place.
When Zhang Ruochen raised his head, he saw a lofty spirit mountain shaped like a stone elephant, the very same mountain that they had ascended when they first entered the Immortal Machine Mountain.
At the top of the Spirit Mountain, a large ancient building was built, with a divine light that emanated from it, making one wonder if that was the place where the gods resided?
“Go, that’s the place.”?Zhang Ruochen brought Qing Mo and climbed the mountain again.
The Golden Bat Python, on the other hand, shrunk its body and became only three feet long, flapping its bat wings as it flew above Qing Mo’s head.
As they neared the top of the mountain, they saw the broken Taoist temple. The ruins of the Taoist Temple were split in two, and in the middle, there was a crack in the ground that extended all the way to the ground.
In the beginning, the bone finger had rushed out from underneath the ground crack.
“The bone finger was once sealed here, with a Daoist temple suppressing it. Just how amazing an origin does the bone finger have? And who sealed it here? Could there be other bone fragments in the Immortal Machine Mountain?”
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was filled with doubts, and he instructed Qing Mo to wait for him on the ground, then, alone, he jumped down into the cracks in the ground, searching for clues.
At the bottom of the Taoist Temple’s ground was a twelve feet tall black stone altar, engraved with ancient characters.
However, the black altar had already shattered, and Zhang Ruochen did not find any useful clues on top of those writings, so he had no choice but to return to the ground again.
“Well?”
Qing Mo stared with a pair of bright eyes, incomparably curious, obviously quite interested in the origin of that cut-off bone finger.
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head and said, “Let’s go!”
The piece of ancient architecture at the top of the mountain was still magnificent and awe-inspiring even though it had already endured 100,000 years of wind and rain.
To know that even that cut-off bone finger didn’t dare to break in and go in, it was enough to show that this place must be quite extraordinary.
Outside of the green-coloured hall, Zhang Ruochen set up a spatial maze to prevent the experts of the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect, the Immortal Blood Race, and the Death Race from breaking in.
Walking into the cyan-coloured hall, Qing Mo’s eyes rolled for a moment as she said, ”My lord, your cultivation has been restored and you can tear through space, so you should be able to break through the formations in the depths of the hall. Should we go in and explore, it’s not certain, there will be an unimaginable harvest.”
“Go.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said.?Walking on the stone path filled with weeds, he passed through an ancient temple and came all the way to a silver maple tree before Zhang Ruochen was able to stop his footsteps.
With his palm, he gently pressed forward.
“Wow…”
A water curtain-like translucent barrier appeared, blocking his palm. A white electric pattern flowed above the water screen barrier, converging to the position of Zhang Ruochen’s palm, forming a counter force.
Zhang Ruochen had already prepared for this, and in a split second, he withdrew his palm and his body floated backwards, landing three feet away.
The formations here were quite powerful and could not be broken using brute force.
“Move to try using a spatial rift.”
Zhang Ruochen operated his Saint Qi and, at the same time, released his Spatial Saint Phase, mobilising the rules of space with all his might and condensing them towards the index finger of his right hand.
Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to rip through space, he suddenly detected a strange fluctuation of Saint Qi above his head.
“There is an overwhelming Saint realm expert standing at the top of the temple.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes glanced diagonally upwards with the rest of his eyes and immediately changed the trajectory of his finger and swung it upwards, chopping towards the location where the Saint Qi fluctuation was emanating from.
Right at this moment, a crimson figure swooped down from the top of the temple with a bizarre and unpredictable speed, changing its position seven times in a row, dodging the spatial cracks and leaving behind seven silhouettes in mid-air.
Qing Mo sensed the heat wave and Qi energy coming from above, and with the fastest reflective speed, he reached out for the silver-coloured chopper.
However, the other party’s speed was even faster, clasping Qing Mo’s wrist first, while his other hand went to grab Zhu Qingyi, who was being held in Qing Mo’s hands.
Seeing that the crimson silhouette was about to get his hands on her, suddenly, Zhang Ruochen transformed into a residual shadow and appeared behind her, a finger sword striking the back of her neck.
The crimson silhouette had to send Qing Mo flying with a palm strike, and then, her two slender index and middle fingers stretched out and also pinched into finger swords, colliding with the finger sword struck by Zhang Ruochen.
“Boom boom.”
It was all finger swords, dueling thirteen moves in a row.
The two finger swords clashed violently, and countless sword qi flew out, leaving holes in the palace walls on both pieces of the stone path.
Afterwards, the two men separated sharply.
By the time Zhang Ruochen steadied his footsteps, the crimson silhouette, had already retreated to the end of the stone pathway, standing more than twenty feet away.
The entire process happened in a flash of lightning, adding up to less than a breath of time. However, Zhu Qingyi had already been snatched away.
Immediately after, six White Feather Female Saints rushed out from the nearby halls in a row, standing behind that crimson silhouette.
Zhang Ruochen finally got a good look at the crimson silhouette’s face, but he did not get angry and calmly said, “This is how the Canglan Martial Saint pays back a favour?”
The Canglan Martial Saint hugged Zhu Qingyi, a pair of phoenix eyes actually had a smug look in them as she smiled sweetly, “I hid in the green-coloured hall, yet you didn’t discover me. In other words, I could have made a move to assassinate you at any time, yet I didn’t do so. Is this not considered returning a favour?”
Reasoning with a woman was clearly not something an intelligent person should do.
Zhang Ruochen was too lazy to argue with the Canglan Martial Saint, and could only blame himself for being too careless and should have been more careful.
In the green-coloured hall, there was a mysterious power that could suppress the spiritual power and perception of cultivators, otherwise, Zhang Ruochen would definitely be able to spot Cang Lan Martial Saint in advance.
“You guys have already entered this green-coloured hall long ago?”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Canglan Martial Saint was in an extremely good mood as he said, “Do you think that you are the only one who found this place extraordinary? This piece of hall, being able to block the evil shadow of that Bone Cutting Finger from entering, there must also be treasures that restrain that Bone Cutting Finger and the Dead Race.”
“But you guys couldn’t break the formations here and were blocked out.”Zhang Ruochen said.
“That’s right.”
The Canglan Martial Saint put away the smile on his face, his heart was a little unfulfilled, clearly frustrated.
“Perhaps I can break the formation here.”
Zhang Ruochen gently waved his hand, and the space not too far away cracked open a half-foot-long opening, saying, “If you want me to take you in, you have to return Zhu Qingyi to me first, and apologise to me.”
“Are you insane? To think that the Canglan Martial Saint, the head of the Nine Heavenly Mysteries, would bow her head and apologise to a court felon?”
The Cang Lan Martial Saint tilted her snow-white chin, revealing a long and sexy neck, not intending to compromise at all.
Zhang Ruochen said, “The Cang Lan Martial Saint, the head of the Nine Heavenly Mysteries, even attacked two cultivators whose realms were lower than hers from behind, once it is spread out, I am afraid that it will also be reduced to a laughing stock for cultivators in the world, right?”
The Cang Lan Martial Saint wrinkled her pair of diaphanous eyebrows and said solemnly, “The Dead Race comes from outside the domain, and the threat to the Human Race is said to be not necessarily greater than the Immortal Blood Race. The treasures in the depths of the Cyan Palace that can restrain them would also have to be in the hands of the court in order to be most effective. Zhang Ruochen, for the sake of righteousness, we should put aside our former enmity and break in together to take it out. In the future, I will definitely report your merits to the Empress, say no ……”
Hearing the word “Empress”, Zhang Ruochen’s eyes sank as he interrupted her, saying, “For the sake of righteousness, you should return the person to me before apologising to me.”
The Cang Lan Martial Saint ground her teeth vigorously, very angry, originally, her image of Zhang Ruochen was very good, if Zhang Ruochen could cooperate with her to take out the treasures in the depths of the green-coloured hall. In the future, even if she risked angering the Empress, she would still report this credit upwards and use it to offset the crimes that Zhang Ruochen had committed.
However, Zhang Ruochen unexpectedly did not cooperate at all, and wanted her to bow her head and apologise, admitting that she had done wrong!
Who was she? She was the head of the Nine Heavenly Mysteries, the lofty Cang Lan Martial Saint, not a little girl like Qing Mo, who also wanted to have a face, okay?
The six Female Saints were also a bit dumbfounded, thinking that Zhang Ruochen had eaten the guts of a bear.
However, for some reason, their hearts were not resentful and hostile towards Zhang Ruochen, instead, they were laughing in their hearts, thinking that the Martial Saint Lord was going to suffer again this time.
At the same time, there was also some curiosity as to which of the two of them would ultimately compromise?
