“Ancestral Dragon Mountain declared war on the Immortal Blood Race? How is that possible, how come we didn’t receive the news?”
In the Central Imperial City, in the Lianzhu Mansion, a group of great Confucians, holy Confucians, and court officials from the Confucian Dao gathered together, all wide-eyed and feeling incredulous.
The major races in the Barbarian Secret Realm were all still fighting and killing each other, so how could Ancestral Dragon Mountain suddenly declare war on the Immortal Blood Race?
However, the intelligence they had received clearly stated that this matter had been spoken by the Heaven Swallowing Demon Dragon himself, and there would be no falsehood.
Even the extremely intelligent Sacred Book Talented Lady frowned straight away, feeling that this matter was somewhat unbelievable.
A few moments later, another news came from the Northern Domain: ”The Qi Heavenly Clan’s Heavenly Blood General, Qi Zhenyi, died under Zhang Ruochen’s Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword. The Time Successor has risen strongly to fight the Immortal Blood Clan to the death.”
The Central Imperial City was abuzz with excitement, whether it was the younger generation of cultivators or those Saint Realm Ancestors who had been cultivating for hundreds of years, all of them were unable to calm down.
Not long ago, when it was rumoured that Zhang Ruochen had killed the Ninth Lord of the Northern Domain Sacred Academy, Qiu Lanshan, at the Immortal Machine Mountain, the crowd was still skeptical.
Now that Zhang Ruochen had returned to the Central Region with another major achievement, no one thought it was a rumour anymore.
A Confucian Sage was quite perplexed and asked the Holy Maiden, saying, “Is Zhang Ruochen, this brat, good or evil? How come good people and bad people are killing?”
The Sacred Maiden Talent Maiden pursed her lips slightly and smiled with a beaming smile, saying, “There are no such things as good guys and bad guys in this world, perhaps he is just doing what he thinks is right. According to the information I have, the Immortal Blood Clansmen who died in Zhang Ruochen’s hands would already be able to seal the Heavenly King if they were all converted into military honours.”
“That powerful?”
“Among the young saints, the characters that can make the Undying Blood Race hate their teeth, Wan Zhaobian counts as one, Qingxiao counts as one, Pei Yutian counts as one, and obviously, Zhang Ruochen can count as one as well. With just these four people, it is estimated that they are able to infuriate even the Blood Emperors of the Undying Blood Clan.”
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Not only were the Ruodao bigwigs in Lian Zhu’s mansion talking, the entire Central Imperial City’s streets and alleys were also talking about today’s several pieces of news.
“What on earth, isn’t Zhang Ruochen’s three veins abolished? How come he’s become even stronger instead, first he destroyed a Heavenly Realm Saint, and then he destroyed Qi Zhenyi, he’s going to the heavens!”
“Is the Middle Winning King good or not, did he not waste Zhang Ruochen’s three veins at all?”
“Zhang Ruochen has only been cultivating for a few years? With a cultivation speed like his, he can be considered the first person in the ancient world, right? When the Empress was young, she wasn’t as strong as him.”
“The Empress used a large number of holy pills and even divine pills, consuming the Kunlun Realm’s endless resources, and the nine Sect Sons that were cultivated all seem to have been outclassed by Zhang Ruochen. The title of Realm Son is becoming more and more embarrassing.”
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In the Central Imperial City, there were already people who dared to talk about the Empress. From this, it could be seen that after the Empress’ disappearance, her influence and deterrent power was weakening, and many human cultivators believed that she had fallen.
This was quite a frightening phenomenon, once someone no longer feared the Empress, a chain reaction would surely form, and the rule of the imperial court would no longer be as unbreakable as it was before, and all the major families and sects would surely have some ideas of their own.
Chu Siyuan walked on the street and saw this phenomenon, gently stroking his beard, his heart was very worried, “It seems that it is time to publish the Secret Scrolls of the Blood Race to the world, we must suppress the Undying Blood Race at the fastest speed, or else there will be a big mess.”
Chu Siyuan accelerated his pace and rushed towards Lianzhu Mansion.
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On the banks of the Snow Stream River, Ten Thousand Fragrant City.
Snowless Night was practicing sword practice on a green stone martial arts field, as the sword moves wandered, the sky drifted down a white snowflake, sprinkling the entire Wanxiang City, the green pavilions, the red buildings, the flying eaves tower pavilions, and the Stargazing Divine Terrace …… were all covered with a thick layer of icy crystalline snow clothes.
A beautiful woman with a clear and unassuming appearance, came with her sword, landed on the edge of the martial arts field, used sound waves, and whispered to Xue Wuyi.
Instantly, the sword in Xue Wuyi’s hand, stopped.
The snowflakes in the sky and earth also stopped instantly, hanging in mid-air as if space had frozen, quite bizarre.
“Already able to subdue the Tong Tian Blood General, such a speed of improvement is truly a bit mind-boggling, could it be that he has also swallowed a divine medicine?”Xue Wuyi said.
That clear woman said, “The Young City Lord has honed in that temporal treasure for a whole year, and nowadays, his strength should not be below Zhang Ruochen, right?”
Xue Wuyi just smiled faintly without answering her and said, “Zhang Ruochen is so high-profile that the limelight has been stolen by him, so it looks like I have to go for a battle as well.”
“Young City Lord has already locked in his target?”That clear woman’s eyes lit up.
“There are still many targets, only that the strong ones can’t be beaten, so I can only fight the weakest one.”
Xue Wuyi let out a soft sigh, and then, asked, “Who is the weakest Sword Saint among the Immortal Blood Clan?”
“The Wuji Sword Saint of the Sealed Sky Clan.”
“Send a letter of war over to him for me, five days later, outside the Stopping Pass, I won’t see you there.”
After saying this sentence, Xue Wuyi started practising his sword again.
The snow in Ten Thousand Fragrant City fell even more rapidly.
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In the Fengdu Ghost City in the Eastern Region, Han Qiu was wearing a long black robe, standing on top of the towering city wall, one long hair flying in the wind as he looked out in the direction of the Northern Region, “So what if you announce that she’s your wife, sooner or later, Huang Yichen will die in my hands, and there won’t be any good end.”
At the general altar of the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect, Mu Lingshi’s face was wearing a smile, but tears were flowing from her eyes, her heart was mixed, unable to say whether it was joy, or pain.
In the topmost restaurant in the Tiantai Prefecture, Zhu Hongtao and Wan Ke were both letting out loud laughter and drinking openly, both celebrating Zhang Ruochen’s great advancement in cultivation, and also celebrating the fact that Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yichen had a lover.
There was a lot of news coming from the Northern Region, however, different people focused on different points, it could be said that there were several happy and several sad, some were happy, some were sad, some were fearful and some were apprehensive.
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The battle outside Feng Yue City did not end.
Zhang Ruochen, Devil Ape, and Potentate chased after those Blood Saints who were retreating, constantly launching attacks, not wanting to let any of the Blood Saints escape.
A Blood Saint of the Xuan Huang Realm, seeing the one man and two beasts in the rear chasing closer and closer, knew that he could not escape, so he stopped and threatened, “If you guys keep chasing, do you believe that this Saint will self-destruct his Saint Source to die with him?”
“Unbelievable.”
The pot stretched out a dragon claw and slapped down at her.
Where could that Xuan Huang realm Blood Saint resist, she was severely injured and crashed to the ground, a look of desperation appeared in her eyes as she roared out sternly, “Then the jade will burn with the stone, all of you die for me.”
The Saint Qi within her body raced, her body becoming brighter and brighter, releasing a chaotic aura of destruction.
“Wow-?”Zhang Ruochen crossed space and appeared diagonally above her, and with a stroke of his finger, he tore out a spatial rift and swallowed her up.
“Rumble.”
When the Saint Origin burst, the spatial rift had already closed to only a foot long, and only a small amount of destructive power was released, unable to hurt Zhang Ruochen at all.
Continuing to chase and kill upwards, the Blood Saints of the Immortal Blood Race were subdued one after another, and in the end, only the Four Sword Blood Saint was left alive.
Those human cultivators who were watching the battle, all of them were dumbfounded, Zhang Ruochen’s hostility was also too heavy, just like a murderous devil king, he didn’t give the Undying Blood Race a chance to live at all.
“If I had known that Zhang Ruochen would grow to this point, I should have killed him at all costs back at Immortal Machine Mountain.”
The Four Sword Blood Saint’s heart was quite regretful, and suddenly, his figure lurched and stopped, not continuing to flee, his eyes staring ahead, a scornful look in his eyes.
A crimson fire cloud blocked his path.
The Cang Lan Martial Saint flew out from the fire cloud, a pair of phoenix feathers on his back gently flapping as he exuded a powerful Holy Dao aura.
“At Immortal Machine Mountain, you had stabbed me, now it’s time to return all of it with interest!”
The Cang Lan Martial Saint’s finger pointed in the void, and immediately, a piece of phoenix feathers, flew out from her back, condensing into a flaming phoenix sword.
A sword sound rang out as the flaming phoenix sword flew out, piercing through all of the Four Sword Blood Saint’s defences and penetrating through his chest.
“You …… have broken through to the Heavenly Realm ……?”The Four Sword Blood Saint’s face was incomparably pale, not daring to fight with the Canglan Martial Saint, he inspired an escape secret art and fled in another direction.
It was a battle without suspense, and by the time Zhang Ruochen arrived, the Four Sword Blood Sage had already fallen, with all four of his arms broken and dozens of sword holes all over his body.
Zhang Ruochen and the Canglan Martial Saint exchanged a glance and without saying a word, they turned around and left, returning to Feng Yue City.
On the way back, Zhang Ruochen collected the corpses of those Blood Saints and piled them up with the corpses of the Blood Slaves in Feng Yue City, and then, summoned the Sacred Eating Flower and allowed it to absorb the nutrients in it.
Because of swallowing the Fengyue Dan, Huang Yichen and Qing Mo’s injuries recovered quickly and had completely stabilised.
Pots and Pans re-turned into a rabbit and hurriedly rushed to Huang Yichen’s face to claim credit, saying, ”Sovereign madam, all the Undying Bloods that dared to besiege you have all been decimated by us. I don’t know, Sovereign Lady, what else do you command?”
There was not a trace of joy on Huang Yichen’s face, it was rather stoic as he stared over towards Zhang Ruochen and said, “Before you came, Shi Ren was captured by them!”
“How come?”
The killing intent in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, which had all but subsided a bit, became even more intense upon hearing about this.
Shi Ren was the Junior Patriarch of the Prison Zhen Ancient Clan, who had experienced life and death with Zhang Ruochen in the netherworld, and the two of them had fought together against the invasion of the Undying Blood Clan in the Stygian Sword Graveyard, and they were considered to be life and death buddies.
It was because of this layer of relationship between Zhang Ruochen and Shi Ren that he would feel comfortable handing over ten million drops of divine blood to the Prison Suppressing Ancient Clan, asking for their help in refining the Blood Suppressing Talisman.
Huang Yichen said, ”Shi Ren knew that your three veins were severed precisely when you were at your weakest and most in need of help, so he brought a large number of experts from the Prison Suppressing Ancient Clan to rush to the Northern Domain with me. However, I don’t know why, but the news leaked out, and just after we entered the Northern Domain, we were besieged by a large number of powerful people from the Immortal Blood Clan.”
“Although the Blood Suppressing Talisman can restrain the Undying Blood Race, it is not foolproof. Once the Undying Blood Race launches a long-range attack, even if one is in possession of the Blood Suppressing Talisman, one will not be able to strike the talisman onto their bodies.”
“After four sieges in a row, the experts of the Ancient Prison Suppressing Race were all wiped out, and none of them survived except for Shi Ren, who was captured. The Immortal Blood Clan’s target should have been me, and it’s all because I caused them to suffer.”
Zhang Ruochen’s hands clenched and shook his head, saying, “It’s not you, it’s me, I’m their target. Just as well, it seems that the bloody battle with the Immortal Blood Clan is not over, and this is only the beginning.”
Zhang Ruochen knew very well that the Undying Blood Clan would interrogate the source of the Blood Suppressing Talisman at all costs, and Shi Ren was afraid that he would be subjected to the most brutal torture after he was taken back.
“No matter who dares to touch my wife and brother, I will definitely make you pay a heavy price as well.”
Zhang Ruochen took a deep breath, and his ten fingers pinched directly into his palm, having blood flowing out from the cracks of his fingers.
