A powerful Holy Dao aura emanated from the Sacred Wood Peak, causing the surrounding space to tremble gently. Among them, the two most powerful auras rushed out from the peak, transforming into two Saint Clouds that hovered above Zhang Ruochen’s head.
On top of that, the core figures of the Wood Family also descended the mountain, staring at Zhang Ruochen on the opposite side as if they were enemies. The cultivation of the weakest Wood Family cultivators had all reached the Half Saint realm.
From this, it was also possible to see how astonishing the heritage of a medieval family was.
Zhang Ruochen held Ah Le’s corpse and calmly looked at the Wood Family’s powerhouses, his gaze locking onto Yun Zheng’s body as he said, “Senior Yun Zheng, how have you been?”
Yun Zheng walked out from amongst the crowd, with layers of holy light surging through his body, radiating a powerful aura as he said in a cold voice, “Zhang Ruochen, less of you to climb into a relationship with this Saint, I’m not familiar with you.”
Zhang Ruochen’s face did not change as he said, “I want to see Senior Sister Duanmu.”
“Lingxi is now the fiancée of the Fire Clan’s Prince Qiu Yu, and the marriage will be consummated on the seventh day of next month. Junior, Sacred Wood Peak is not a place you should come to, and Prince Qiu Yu is not someone you can afford to offend, so it’s best to stay away from Lingxi in the future.”Yun Zheng said.
“I understand, you can’t make the decision.”Zhang Ruochen said.
“You ……”
Hearing this, Yun Zheng’s face was incomparably embarrassed as he clenched his teeth, a wave of anger appearing in his eyes.
Zhang Ruochen raised his head and stared at the two Saint Clouds flying in the sky dome as he said, “Ouyang Huan, aren’t you going to come down to meet this old friend of mine?”
A silver-coloured Saint Vehicle flew out of the Saint Clouds, emitting a brilliant light as it flew down to the ground.
Ouyang Huan sat on the Silver Luan Sacred Vehicle, wearing a white and flawless Sacred Robe, with his long black hair neatly tied at the top of his head, still quite young, handsome, and elegant, as if he was a supreme exiled immortal.
Those Half-Saint and even Saint realm elder level figures of the Wood Family all bowed and saluted, “Greetings to the Vice Sect Master.”
Ouyang Huan stared at Zhang Ruochen and laughed, “In just a year’s time, you have fallen to such a level.”
“It’s not thanks to you?”Zhang Ruochen said.
Ouyang Huan shook his head and said, “Do you know why, a year ago, we, the nine senior brothers, fought to the death to stop you? It wasn’t to kill you, but to save you. If, on that day, you crossed the palace gate of the Zi Wei Palace, you would definitely die, how could you still be standing here?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Lidi, Xue Wuyi, Gai Tianjiao, Beigong Lan, Yearning Cold, and even Chi Huan Wang, all of them could have been saving me. However, by no means do they include you. With that palm of yours, you were trying to put me to death, and you also wanted me to die at the hands of the woman I used to be, your intentions cannot be described as ruthless.”
Ouyang Huan lapsed into silence and said, “You are still very smart, but unfortunately, you do things too impulsively. Today, ascending the Peakless Mountain is just as foolish as the hard intrusion into the Zi Wei Palace in the past.”
“I don’t need you to judge how I do things.”
Zhang Ruochen asked again, “Where is Autumn Rain?”
“Qiu Yu is not at the Peakless Mountain, if, on your own initiative, you can return the Boundary Son Seal to me, I can invite you to attend the wedding banquet on the seventh day of the month next month, and at that time, you will naturally be able to meet him.”Ouyang Huan said.
“The seventh day of the first month next month right? I will definitely be on time for the meeting.”
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze, once again, was fixed on the towering Sacred Wood Peak as he exhaled a mouthful of sound waves and said, “Senior Sister Duanmu, you must cherish your life and not give up so easily. Zhang Ruochen hereby swears that on the seventh day of the next month, he will definitely rush to pick you up and leave, and no one will ever think of forcing you to do something you don’t want to do.”
Every word Zhang Ruochen uttered was loud and clear, and it travelled all the way to thousands of miles away, startling all the Devil Cult cultivators.
Zhang Ruochen had come to Sacred Wood Peak just to say these words, he had to give Mu Lingshi hope, otherwise, with her character, she would most likely not be able to wait until the seventh day of the next month and would commit suicide.
Sacred Wood Peak, in the middle of a Xuan Iron Temple, Mu Lingshi was lying on the ground, hearing Zhang Ruochen’s oath, her heart was incomparably moved. As long as she could hear such a sentence, even if she died, she already had no regrets.
At the same time, Mu Lingshi was also quite worried about Zhang Ruochen’s safety, fearing that Zhang Ruochen would do something foolish like striking a stone with an egg by breaking into the Peerless Mountain for her sake.
“Enough, having such a sentence is also enough …… Zhang Ruochen, you don’t have to come, you don’t have to return the promise from back then, it’s already enough ……”
Mu Lingshi murmured, tears streaming from her eyes, but a happy smile appeared on her face.
Unfortunately, there was no one to deliver the message for Mu Lingshi, and Zhang Ruochen couldn’t hear her voice.
Lin Su Xian stood at the top of a spiritual mountain not far from the Sacred Wood Peak, wearing a white veil on her face as she looked down at a holy light below the Sacred Wood Peak, a complex and sorrowful look appearing in her beautiful eyes as she said, ”See, another young man who doesn’t have his own mind set on anything, how much he resembles Luo Xu from back in the day. Unfortunately, reality is simply not humanly possible to fight against, and in the end, it will be another period of tragedy.”
Qi Fei Yu stood behind Lin Su Xian and said, “Didn’t mother always say that there was nothing else you could ask for if you could meet a man who would fight to the death for you like senior Luo Xu? For Mu Lingshi to be able to meet Zhang Ruochen, why wouldn’t it be beyond envy.”
Zhang Ruochen carried Ah Le’s corpse and prepared to leave.
Yun Zheng’s face changed, and he hurriedly transmitted his voice to the Wood Clan’s Sacred Lord, saying, “Zhang Ruochen is Lingxi’s heart disease, and if he doesn’t die, Lingxi won’t die.”
Immediately afterwards, a deafening voice came out from a holy cloud in the sky above, “Is Sacred Wood Peak not a place where you can come and go as you please?”
Zhang Ruochen glanced upwards and saw a man in his fifties standing at the centre of the Saint Cloud, giving off a mountainous feeling, definitely a first-rate powerhouse.
From his body, there were tens of thousands of chains of holy light dropping down from the sky, each of them interwoven by the rules of the Holy Dao.
“The Wood Family’s Saint Lord, also a Saint Dao Overlord who has been famous for hundreds of years, to strike out at a junior, isn’t he afraid of being laughed at by the cultivators of the world?”A bright sword light flew from afar, trailing a long shuttle of light, falling to the ground and coalescing into the form of Ling Fei Yu.
Seeing Ling Fei Yu appear, all of the Devil Cult cultivators present knelt down and saluted.
The Sacred Lord of the Wood Family snorted coldly and said, “Palace Master Ling, do you also want to meddle in the Wood Family’s family affairs?”
Ling Fei Yu’s eyes were cold and chilly, as sharp as swords as she said, “This Palace Lord once owed Zhang Ruochen a favour, so today, no matter what, I will have to bail him out of Peakless Mountain.”
A Saint King personally stepped forward, and the Saintly Might that emanated from her body shook the entire arena, even a Saint like Yun Zheng was unable to move, as if there were ten heavy mountains pressing down on them.
A Saint King was a king in the Holy Dao, and with a single strike, he could destroy a Saint.
Who would dare to disobey when the kings of the Holy Dao were present?
However, right at this moment, another holy might not weaker than Ling Fei Yu’s came out from the Sacred Wood Peak. The two strands of Saint Might clashed together, and instantly, it caused a hurricane to blow through this part of the heavens and earth.
Ling Fei Yu’s eyes stared into the distance, only to see, a slender figure wearing a black robe, as if it was a ghost, standing at the centre of the hurricane, like a black hole, swallowing all the surrounding light.
“Night Xiaoxiang, you actually want to meddle in this matter?”Ling Feiyu said.
That black figure was none other than the Palace Master of the Dark Night Palace, one of the Nine Palaces of the Devil Cult, Night Xiaoxiang.
Night Xiaoxiang let out a light laugh and said, “This Palace Master just feels that what you’re doing is too unfair to the Mu Family and wants to say a fair word.”
“How unfair?”Ling Fei Yu said.
Night Xiaoxiang said, “Zhang Ruochen is not a disciple of the Divine Sect, yet he dared to barge into the Sacred Wood Peak and called out to sabotage the marriage of a junior member of the Wood Family, undoubtedly provoking the Wood Family. If the Wood Family just lets him go, how can they still gain a foothold in the sect in the future? Palace Master Ling, you can’t let the Wood Family suffer such a great humiliation just to return your own favour, can you?”
The saints of the Wood Family, spoke up, saying, “That’s right, the Wood Family must not endure this.”
“Palace Master Ling, the Wood Family is also a Medieval Family, so I hope that you will be able to save some face for our Wood Family, lest all outsiders feel that the Wood Family is easy to bully.”
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A smile appeared in Night Xiaoxiang’s eyes as she said, “Palace Master Ling’s cultivation is so profound that he was crowned King among the Sacred Paths, however, he can’t bully others too much. After all, that old ancestor of the Wood Family is also a king among the Sacred Dao. When his old man returns, how should you explain to him?”
Ling Feiyu said, “You don’t need to be so gloomy, say it, in your opinion, what would be considered fair?”
“If Zhang Ruochen is able to catch the Sacred Lord of the Wood Family in three moves without dying, this Palace Master will join you in preserving his life and personally send him down the mountain. How?”Night Xiaoxiang said.
“No way. The cultivation of the Wood Sage has already reached the late stage of True Sage, and his cultivation is so profound that after three moves, where would Zhang Ruochen still be alive?”Ling Feiyu said.
Ling Fei Yu was able to tell that even with his daily drinking, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation had not been wasted, and this year, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation had skyrocketed, and had already reached the peak of the Xuan Huang Realm.
Back then, when Ling Fei Yu had cultivated from the early stage of the Xuan Huang Realm to the peak, it had taken him five whole years.
With Zhang Ruochen’s rate of improvement, it was not the least bit slow compared to Ouyang Huan who had taken countless pills.
However, the True Saint realm was extraordinary, from the early stage to the middle stage, from the middle stage to the late stage, each small realm was a gap between heaven and earth.
For a Saint of the Xuan Huang Realm, even if he possessed the most heaven-defying system and the most powerful natural talent, it would be unrealistic to try to block the three strikes of a late stage True Saint powerhouse.
Zhang Ruochen naturally didn’t want to make things difficult for Ling Feiyu, after all, her situation in the Demon Sect was also very difficult, so he stood out and said, “Three moves, right? I’ll take it.”
“Worthy of being a Time and Space Successor, good vigour.”Night Xiaoxiang let out a silver bell-like laughter.
Ouyang Huan could see Night Xiaoxiang’s scheming, the corner of his mouth hooked slightly as he muttered to himself, “Zhang Ruochen is too conceited… A character at the late stage of True Sainthood is not comparable to a character at the early stage of True Sainthood?”
In the distance, Lin Su Xian gently shook her head and said, “Originally, I had wanted to see how he was going to turn the heavens upside down on the seventh day of the month next month and change his fate for Mu Lingshi against the heavens. Unfortunately, he is the one who won’t live through tonight.”
