“With your strength, a hard encounter with a True Saint level figure is tantamount to a dead end.”
Zhu Qingyi sat on the ground with a cold smile on her face and added, “True Saints and Tong Tian realm cultivators are not at the same level at all. Characters who can reach that realm are all not old monsters who have been cultivating for hundreds of years, and a TongTian Blood General would have to bow down and salute when he sees a True Saint.”
“Boom.”
A fiery red stream of light descended from the sky and landed in the ruins not far away, coalescing into the tall figure of the Canglan Martial Saint.
A strong, domineering, and thick power naturally radiated out, making her as if she was a heavenly divine peak that one could only look up at.
“Zhang Ruochen, how about co-operating once more?”Canglan Martial Saint said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “How to co-operate?”
“Together, we’ll deal with Stuart Phoenix City, you save the people, and the Burning Sky Sword will belong to me.”The Canglan Martial Saint said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Can you keep the Burning Sky Sword?”
These words were like a stab to the Canglan Martial Saint’s sore spot as a cold colour appeared in his eyes and he snorted softly, “Last time, it was just a moment of carelessness on my part, and it’s not likely to happen a second time.”?Zhang Ruochen gazed at her for a moment, nodded, and said, “Alright, I’ll believe you once. Let’s see if you still deserve to be the sword bearer of the Burning Sky Sword based on your performance in this battle.”
The Cang Lan Martial Saint ground her teeth in anger, with her current cultivation level, who else would dare to speak to her in such a tone besides Zhang Ruochen?
However, losing the Burning Sky Sword was indeed a blot on her path of the Sacred Dao, nearly causing her mind to collapse.
Only by recapturing the Burning Sky Sword with her own hands would she be able to wash away this stain.
Zhu Qingyi could naturally see that the Canglan Martial Saint had already broken through to the Heavenly Realm, and with the battle power possessed by her True Phoenix Physique, she was afraid that it would not be the slightest bit weaker when compared to a True Saint.
“What you guys are about to face is definitely more than one True Saint, trying to save and seize the sword is undoubtedly hitting a stone with an egg.”Zhu Qingyi did not look at them favourably.
Just based on the strength of the Eldest Senior Brother, compared to the Canglan Martial Saint, it was only higher. What’s more, there was also a Sword Saint level Blood Slave by Eldest Senior Brother’s side.
With just Zhang Ruochen and the Cang Lan Martial Saint, they are still far from enough…?Suddenly, Zhu Qingyi’s eyes stared, and the sound of jingo and iron horses could be heard faintly in her ears, as if there were a thousand armies marching, and that kind of sound was quite astonishing.
When she looked over to the direction where the sound came from, she didn’t see thousands of horses at all, but only saw a tall silhouette wearing pitch-black battle armour, marching over against the sand and wind.Behind him, there was actually a battle shadow that continuously appeared and disappeared. The sound of a thousand armies was actually formed by the breath emanating from his body.
An expert, definitely an expert.
When Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yichen saw this person, their taut faces, slightly relaxed, both revealed a faint smile and said in unison, “Eldest Senior Brother.”
The person who came forward was none other than the Xuan Gui Sword Saint’s eldest disciple, Qing Xiao.
“When I heard that something had happened to the seventh senior sister, I immediately rushed over from the Zhiling Pass, and I am relieved to see you all safe and sound.”
Qing Xiao carefully sized up Zhang Ruochen, revealing a smile as he said, “On the way, I heard the news that Sixth Senior Brother had actually beheaded Qi Zhenyi, so there is a chance for us senior brothers to have a go at it?”?”There will definitely be a chance, but right now, there are more important things that need to be done.”
With that, Zhang Ruochen told Qing Xiao about Shi Ren.
Qing Xiao’s expression stared as he said, “I also have a piece of bad news here, coming from the Eastern Domain. The royal family of the Thousand Water County Kingdom, was slaughtered and exterminated, and the whereabouts of the Seventh Senior Sister’s parents, the Thousand Water County King and the Liuli Half-Saint, are also unknown, suspected to have been taken captive by the Immortal Blood Race’s Sacred Realm powerhouses.”
Qing Xiao didn’t hide Huang Yichen, after all, she would know about this sooner or later.
“How …… could this happen?”
When Huang Yichen heard the news, it was as if she had suffered a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and her face turned incomparably pale in an instant, so much so that she couldn’t even stand somewhat unsteadily.
Zhang Ruochen hurriedly held her waist and embraced her into his arms, the self-blame in his heart deepening a few points.
“This matter is most likely Stuart Phoenix City’s tactics, I’ve fought with him more than once, and I have some understanding of him. This person, in order to deal with his enemies, he can do anything and everything, a rather terrifying character.”Qing Xiao said.
The anger in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were used to spurt out as he said, “This battle is his death.”
“Stu Fengcheng dared to bypass the defences and enter the Hongchuan Prefecture, he was already arrogant to the extreme, so he should indeed be taught a heavy lesson. However, Stu Fengcheng is a person with a meticulous mind, once a Heavenly King from the Ministry of Military Affairs, who laid a heavenly net, failed to kill him. To deal with him, I will have to go and hire another helper.”
After saying this, Qing Xiao’s figure moved and disappeared in place, sending a voice message to tell Zhang Ruochen that he would definitely arrive at the Southern Cliff of Immortal Machine Mountain on time.
Qing Xiao’s appearance caused Zhu Qingyi to no longer be able to laugh, this person was a figure that was truly able to fight against Stupendous Phoenix City, causing countless Blood Saints to be scared of him.
Zhang Ruochen felt Huang Yichen’s body go a little cold and worried that she wouldn’t be able to take the blow, saying with concern, “Just leave this matter to me, you go to the Qiankun Realm to recuperate!”
Huang Yichen shook her head vigorously, a hateful and sharp gaze appearing in her eyes as she said, “I’m not as fragile as you think, this battle must have my share.”
The group set off, rushing towards the southern cliff of Immortal Machine Mountain.
The human cultivators who stood watching from afar saw Canglan Martial Saint and Qing Xiao appear one after another, and knew that something big must have happened, so they followed suit and rushed to Immortal Machine Mountain.
Immortal Machine Mountain, South Cliff.
Stuart Fengcheng stood at the top of the towering cliff, his pupils radiating eye-catching light as he looked down at the sea of clouds below and smiled faintly, “It’s here!”
“Worthy of being Zhang Ruochen, he is indeed bold enough to actually dare to come.”Fluttershy stood above the layers of clouds, an incomparably bewitching smile on her face.
“The fact that he dares to come also means that there must be some preparations, we have to be careful and on guard.”
Stuart Phoenix City took a step forward and directly jumped off the 10,000 feet high cliff and crashed to the ground, starting to co-ordinate and arrange.
The southern cliff of Immortal Machine Mountain was a medieval relic, leaving behind a large number of ancient buildings, the ground was densely packed with white bones, and there were some ancient formations laid out underneath the ground. However, most of those formations were broken and had limited power.
Zhang Ruochen, Huang Yichen, Qing Mo, and Pot Pot stood on top of the devil ape’s shoulders as they stepped into this relic, continuously approaching the southern cliff.
The closer they got, the thicker the blood mist in the air became.
A moment later, a thick voice came out from the blood mist, “Zhang Ruochen, I didn’t expect that you would actually come to die.”
Through the layers of blood mist, Zhang Ruochen saw the huge figure of the Wind Destroying Blood Saint and said in a deep voice, “It’s not certain who will live and who will die.”
The Wind Destroying Blood Saint only let out a burst of laughter, but did not say any more.
The Devil Ape quickened his pace and finally arrived at the bottom of the cliff.
Those Immortal Blood Race cultivators, seeing the huge body of the Devil Ape, also revealed a look of surprise, “Surprisingly, it really is a Giant Spirit Devil Ape.”
One must know that the Giant Spirit Demon Ape was a ferocious beast of the world in the ancient times, and could wrestle with divine dragons.
The Immortal Blood Race that had gathered at the Southern Cliff was not large in number, only four to five hundred in total, yet each one of them was very powerful, and when put on the battlefield, they were strong enough to stand alone.
After observing the surroundings, Zhang Ruochen’s gaze, only then, was locked onto the location of the half-cliff, seeing Shi Ren, who was hanging there, and immediately, dense threads of blood emerged from his eyes.
“Wow…?”Zhang Ruochen mobilised his spatial power and charged forward, ready to cross space and go forward to the half-cliff to save him.
“Set.”
With a wave of her sleeve, Flux struck out twelve radiant Saint Bones in a row, landing in twelve directions.
The holy bones crashed to the ground as if they were twelve mountains hitting the earth, emitting a roaring sound that caused the area to shake violently.
Zhang Ruochen had only taken one step into the space before he was shaken and bounced back.
The space had become incomparably solid, and even the Time and Space Transmitter was unable to control it as he wished.
Fluttershy, much like an enchanting fairy, descended from the sky and laughed, ”Those are twelve Great Sacred Bones, each of which has quite complex inscriptions engraved on it, and when combined together, they can hold space in place. To deal with the Space-Time Transmitter, how can one be unprepared at all?”
Zhang Ruochen squeezed his hands tightly, trying to keep himself calm as he said, “I didn’t expect that the Immortal Goddess would personally come to the Red River Mansion.”
“I missed you!”
Fluttershy’s voice was full of charm, capable of tingling a man’s bones.
Stuart Phoenix City walked out and stood to a higher ground position, carrying his hands behind his back as he said, “Zhang Ruochen, where is Lightning Yi?”
“If you want to see her, you have to release her first.”Zhang Ruochen said.
“Good.”
Stuart Phoenix City was quite quick and signalled the two Blood Saints to release Shi Ren, who was hanging from the half-cliff.
At the same time, a crimson flame appeared in midair. The Cang Lan Martial Saint stood at the centre of the flames, holding Zhu Qingyi in his hands as he looked down at Stu Feng Cheng below and said, “I don’t just want the person, I also want the sword.”
Seeing Cang Lan Martial Saint appear, Stuart Phoenix City was not surprised at all, smiled and nodded, saying, “As long as you release Light Yi, both the person and the sword will be given to you.”
“Clang-?”A sword chirped, and in the next moment, the Burning Sky Sword appeared in Stuart Feng Cheng’s hand, and on the sword, a scorching flame burned.
Zhang Ruochen said, “If I’m not wrong, apart from Shi Ren, there are some other people who are also in your hands, right?”
Stuart Phoenix City spoke with some grumbling and laughed, “I was hoping to give you guys a surprise, but I didn’t expect you guys to know the news in advance, and I don’t know who leaked the news?”
“It really is you.”
Huang Yichen was unable to keep her composure and was about to rush up to duel with Stuart Phoenix City.
Zhang Ruochen stopped her.
There were a total of three people who had been arrested, namely Huang Yichen’s father, the “Thousand Water County King”, his mother, the “Liuli Half-Saint”, and his own sister, the “Thirteenth County Lord.”
The legs of all three were broken, and each of them had a chain wrapped around their necks. A large hand of the Wind Destroying Blood Saint grabbed the three chains and dragged them out from inside a stone cave, on the ground, leaving three long bloody marks.
The pain on their bodies was still secondary, for the Thousand Water County King and the Liuli Half-Saint who had been in a high position for a long time, it was the humiliation in their hearts that made their lives worse than death.
The County King and Queen of a county country, yet they were dragged along with their legs broken and hanging by their necks, how humiliating was this? If they hadn’t suffered from suppression and were unable to commit suicide, they would have already ended their lives.
