“We are all sword bearers of the Underworld Sword Graveyard, you should understand my purpose in taking Zhu Qingyi away, the Burning Sky Sword was lost from my hands, and it is my responsibility to take it back.”Canglan Martial Saint said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “It’s your business if you want to recapture the Burning Sky Sword, but Zhu Qingyi is my prisoner. Of course she is now in your hands, and you have the right not to return it to me.”
“Wow…”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword flew out and hung in front of Zhang Ruochen’s body, the dense sword-shaped sword qi neatly arranged, pointing straight towards the opposite Canglan Martial Saint.
At one time, the two were considered to be enemies together, so Zhang Ruochen gave the Canglan Martial Saint a chance to shake hands and make peace. But now, with both sides standing on opposite sides of the enemy, there was no need to be as polite as they were just now.
The six Female Saints were also nervous, and honestly, they didn’t want to be enemies with Zhang Ruochen, much less fight to the death.
The Cang Lan Martial Saint’s eyes flinched as a hesitant look appeared in her eyes, saying, “Zhang Ruochen, we may not be enemies, so why make a big deal out of it?”
“The one who made the first move was you.”Zhang Ruochen said.
“Fine, I can return Zhu Qingyi to you, but you must promise me that when you deal with Stuart Phoenix City, you must bring me along.”
The Canglan Martial Saint guessed Zhang Ruochen’s true purpose, so he negotiated terms with him in advance.
“If you want to co-operate with me, you must at least show your sincerity first.”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Canglan Martial Saint said, “Already promising to return the person to you is not enough sincerity?”
“Apologise.”Zhang Ruochen said coldly.
The Canglan Martial Sage tried to suppress the anger in his heart and said, “This demand of yours is too much!”
“Excessive? Luckily, we have fought together and fought against our enemies together, if it were another person, I wouldn’t even talk so much nonsense to her, and there is no way I would give her the chance to co-operate again.”
The Cang Lan Martial Saint stared at Zhang Ruochen with a pair of almond eyes that looked like they wanted to eat him up, but she just refused to bow her head and admit her mistake.
Although Qing Mo was shaken back by the Cang Lan Martial Saint, however, she was not injured and walked back to Zhang Ruochen’s side, transmitting, “My lord, the Cang Lan Martial Saint is at least the head of the Nine Heavens’ Xuan Women, with a high position of power and a high-mindedness, so other than the Empress, who can make her bow down?”?”You also think that this request is excessive?”Zhang Ruochen said.
Qing Mo nodded vigorously and transmitted his voice again, “Getting the Canglan Martial Saint to apologise is simply impossible. We already have many enemies now, we shouldn’t make any more.”
In the distance, the Cang Lan Martial Saint took a deep breath, biting his two rows of snow-white white teeth, and said, “Zhang Ruochen, count on you, I’ll be ruthless, I’ll compromise this time, but I won’t pay back the favours owed to you, and in the future, don’t come begging to me if you’re captured by the imperial court.”
With that, the Canglan Martial Saint walked up to Zhang Ruochen, his eyes burning with flames as he directly threw Zhu Qingyi to the ground, favouring a stunning face as he stared at the wall on the right side of the stone pathway, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have sneaked up on you guys and robbed your prisoner.”
Qing Mo and the six female saints were all dumbstruck, how could they not expect that the Cang Lan Martial Saint would actually compromise and actually apologise to Zhang Ruochen and admit his mistake.
Even if this matter was spread out, no one would surely believe it.
Zhang Ruochen said, “I don’t see your sincerity, I won’t accept such an apology.”
“Don’t go too far, we are so close to each other, do you believe that I can take you down right now and make you a prisoner as well?”
The Cang Lan Martial Saint clenched her ten fingers and gritted her teeth, her body burning like a furnace.
Right now, the distance between her and Zhang Ruochen was only three steps, which was almost negligible for a Saint realm being. If she really wanted to make a move, Cang Lan Martial Saint had full confidence in taking down Zhang Ruochen.
“Even if you are closer, you won’t be able to capture me.”
Zhang Ruochen was even more confident and did not look fearful, instead, he took three steps forward.
The two of them were even closer, only a fist’s distance away, and the circular arc of Cang Lan Martial Saint’s chest shrugged up, almost sticking to Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Neither of them backed down, and both of their personalities were sharp.
Qing Mo and the six female saints all held their breaths and stared at the two of them closely, having a premonition that a great battle was feared to be inevitable.
The two of them stood in a stalemate for a long time, and Cang Lan Martial Saint’s eyes were sunken, seemingly pondering something.
In the end, she didn’t take the risk to try and withdrew the flames released outside her body, saying, ”Nowadays, the Human Race is in internal trouble, it’s not the right time to continue infighting, we should join forces and be united against the outside world. I’m sorry, this time it was indeed me who did something wrong, after all, we once worked together against the enemy, no matter when, we shouldn’t sneak in secretly. If we want to fight, we should also fight openly and honestly.”
Zhang Ruochen turned around and walked in the direction of the formation barrier, saying, “The next time, it will be a fight to the death.”
Ever since she was a child, Cang Lan Martial Saint had always used her formidable strength to crush the opponents around her, never submitting to anyone, including that elder brother of hers who was ranked number one in the Heroic Fugue.
Today, because of various reasons, it was the first time that she had been suppressed and forced to bow her head, and naturally, she was quite unwilling in her heart.
“Zhang Ruochen, you abominable fellow, when I recapture the Burning Sky Sword, I will definitely defeat you in front of everyone and let you know the power of the Head of the Nine Heavens.”
The Cang Lan Martial Saint’s heart was aggrieved, and he also had a little regret, feeling that his performance just now was too humiliating, and that he should have decisively struck out and fought him for 1,000 rounds, beating his smug face into a pig’s head punch by punch.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t have an ounce of smugness, but the Canglan Martial Saint just felt that he was quite smug, and was very angry just thinking about it.
All six female saints could feel the anger on the Martial Saint Lord, at this moment, she was simply like a mother tyrannical dragon, so all of them stayed far away from her, not daring to say much.
Zhang Ruochen used the power of space to strike a spatial rift and chopped towards the formation barrier.
“Wow…”
The Formation Barrier tore open a ten foot wide opening, and after the spatial rift closed, the opening of the Formation Barrier was also merging rapidly, and the crowd hurriedly performed their fastest stances, and all of them shuttled in.
Entering the formation barrier, immediately, the concentration of heaven and earth aura increased greatly.
In the sky, there were thunder and lightning flickering, and the heaven and earth aura condensed into liquid form, turning into a drizzle that fell to the ground.
“Spiritual Qi turning into rain, it’s too much, even the Central Imperial City doesn’t have such a thick concentration of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.”A female Saint marvelled.
“Cultivating here, it won’t be long before I’m sure I’ll be able to break through my current realm.”
……
Entering the formation barrier, the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram in Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Sea became agitated, resounding with a series of shattering sounds, and on the surface of the scroll, more than a dozen cracks were actually opened in a row.
“Boom.”
The Chaotic Qi surged outwards even more ferociously, and the Qian Kun Divine Wood Diagram seemed to have reached the brink of complete shattering.
“How could the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram change like this?”Zhang Ruochen was secretly shocked.
“Watch your feet.”
The Canglan Martial Saint grabbed the Holy Sword and violently thrust it downwards, striking at the position next to the right foot of a female Saint.
“Boom.”
A blue firebug, crawling out of the dirt, was about to nibble on her right foot when it was struck by the sword and sank into the ground.
Cang Lan Martial Saint retrieved her holy sword and looked at the tip of the sword, her face became a bit gloomy, saying, “Surprisingly, I didn’t kill it, what kind of bug is it?”
“Wow!”?The blue fire bug flew out of the ground from another direction and bit into the left hand of a female Saint.
With a giggle, blue flames emerged from that female Saint’s entire arm, and it was still spreading rapidly to her shoulder and head.
“Pfft.”
Zhang Ruochen swung out his sword and directly severed her arm.
That female Saint let out a low, miserable cry as blood flowed from the location of her shoulder, and she hurriedly fell backwards, hiding beside Cang Lan Martial Saint.
“What are you doing?”Canglan Martial Saint said in a deep voice.
Zhang Ruochen did not respond to her, his eyes just staring at the broken arm on the ground.
The broken arm, had already been burnt to ashes.
Canglan Martial Saint understood what was going on and sucked in a breath of cool air, her face becoming even more ugly.
That female Saint whose arm had been severed by Zhang Ruochen was even paler to the extreme, realising that she had just walked through the ghost gate.
“The legendary God Devouring Worm?”
Zhang Ruochen’s face, at this moment, was also incomparably stiff, and all of his muscles were tensed to the extreme.
“This is not a place for them to stay, they must be sent out immediately.”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Canglan Martial Saint didn’t know what the God Devouring Insect was, yet he understood that this place was indeed too dangerous for the six female saints, and they would fall if they were not careful.
“Qing Mo, your vigilance is too poor, exit with them as well.”Zhang Ruochen said with incomparable seriousness.
Qing Mo had long been scared to the point where her legs were weak, and when she heard Zhang Ruochen’s words, she was as if she had been pardoned, saying, “My lord, why don’t we all exit, this place is just too dangerous.”
If the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram hadn’t undergone a huge change, Zhang Ruochen would have definitely withdrawn as well, but as for now, he had to go and look for an answer.
Perhaps, here, it would be possible for the Qiankun Realm to be completely born.
After sending them out, only Zhang Ruochen and the Cang Lan Martial Saint remained to continue towards the depths of the temple. There, there was a green-coloured mist of light that enveloped all the halls, and not only did it emit heaven and earth aura, it seemed that there was also innate holy qi gushing out from it.
The Cang Lan Martial Saint was vigilant of the ground while asking, “What exactly is a God Devouring Insect?”
Just now, that kind of blue fire insect was unable to pierce even her full strength strike, and Canglan Martial Saint’s heart was also feeling balked and a bit bottomless.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Legend has it that the God Devouring Insect is the tree insect of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, born along with the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood and resides inside the trunk of the tree. Because, it gnaws on the wood of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, that’s why it’s been made a God Devouring Insect, and it’s not really capable of devouring gods.”
“Isn’t the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood a god? To be able to host the interior of a divine wood and still gnaw on it, the God Devouring Insect is already quite terrifying, okay?”The Canglan Martial Saint said.
“If you’re scared, it’s not too late to withdraw now.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Facing a being like the God Devouring Insect, who could not be afraid?
The Canglan Martial Saint was truly eager to withdraw, however, upon hearing Zhang Ruochen’s words, she was a bit unconvinced and said, “If you’re not afraid, how could I be?”
Her footsteps quickened and she actually walked up to Zhang Ruochen.
