After the Crown Prince’s edict was published, the Ming Hall also exploded with a huge shock, a large number of strong people rushed to Shengming City and gathered at a spirit mountain shrouded in white mist in the west of the city.
The Hall Master of Ming Hall, Kong Sheng, stood at the top of the Spirit Mountain, with a pair of emerald green pupils, looking out at the smoke and battle flames in the distance, and said meaningfully, “They actually dared to attack the Lingxiao Heavenly King’s Mansion, don’t they realise how powerful the imperial court has set up in Sacred Bright City?”
Wearing a blood-red Sacred Jade Treasure Armour, Kong Hongbi stood behind the Ming Hall Master and snorted coldly, “Unconscionable, completely wanting to get all the old ministers of the Sacred Brightness Central Empire killed.”
Kong Hongbi was quite depressed, at first, in Sacred Ming City, he had moved a large amount of manpower to spread rumours, wanting to get rid of Zhang Ruochen by the hand of the imperial court, but he did not think that the prophecy would come true, Zhang Ruochen was actually the Crown Prince of Sacred Ming.
The appearance of the Crown Prince’s edict had put Ming Tang in a rather awkward position.
The Sacred Ming Crown Prince was the orthodox one, and if he did not respond to the edict, some of the old Sacred Ming troops under the seat of Ming Tang would definitely have a great deal of opinions. If he answered the edict, wouldn’t he have to submit to Zhang Ruochen?
If he really had to submit to Zhang Ruochen, Kong Hongbi would definitely vomit blood in anger.
An old sage from the Hall of Brightness said, ”Zhang Ruochen is young and doesn’t know how to take things lightly, and the King of Ming Jiang is a figure who has lived for close to a thousand years, but he is even fooling around with him. Could it be that they don’t know how powerful the formations in Sacred Ming City are? Could it be that they don’t know how terrifying the cultivation of the Ling Xiao Heavenly King is?”
In the Minor Sacred Heavenly King’s Mansion, Wan Huayu stood at the top of the mansion’s wall, gazing out at a wave of Sacred Dao battle qi light coming from the distance, a complicated look in her eyes as she muttered to herself, “Zhang Ruochen has finally made his move, and I don’t know how many people will die in this battle.”
“County Lord, should we send an army and go to the rescue of the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion?”An old man with a white head asked.
Wan Huayu shook her head and said, “With the Lingxiao Heavenly King Mansion’s depth, it’s enough to deal with any enemy and doesn’t need our assistance at all. Father is not in the mansion, so we should still be careful and immediately activate the Mansion Protection Formation to prevent the Sacred Brightness Army from launching an attack on the Lesser Sacred Heavenly King’s Mansion.”
Sacred Brightness City was a city with a history of over a million years, and an unknown number of ancient kingdoms had established their capitals here, and the city area was quite vast, stretching for tens of thousands of miles, with no boundaries in sight.
In each of the eighty-one directions of the ancient city, a thousand-metre-high metal formation tower stood.
A voice resounded in the air above each formation tower, “The Heavenly King has ordered that the city protection formation be activated immediately to subdue the Saint Ming rebels in the city.”
At this moment, the court officials and formation masters guarding the formation towers hastily mobilised their holy qi and spiritual power and went all out to activate the city protection formation.
“Boom.”
The eighty-one metal formation towers simultaneously bloomed with bright light, releasing a terrifying and overwhelming power fluctuation.
The city area, which was tens of thousands of miles in circumference, shook at the same time.
Standing in the city, one could see eighty-one points of light on the horizon, as bright and dazzling as eighty-one stars.
Even saints, at this moment, felt their hearts tremble and balked a little.
“The City Protector Formation is activated, it can kill all the rebels, and all of the Saintly Ming rebels will all go up in smoke.”
Such a voice rang out from the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion, and again in the war drums sounded, and immediately, the morale of the imperial army increased greatly, moving to counterattack, killing down a large swath of the cultivators from the Sacred Brightness Central Empire.
Attacking the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion was bound to result in bloodshed and death, it was inevitable.
The aura emanating from the metal formation tower was getting stronger and stronger, however, the City Protector Formation was never able to activate, the formation inscriptions were damaged, and it simply couldn’t wield the power it should have.
At the same time, the old Sacred Ming ministers lurking within the court moved to attack, and at least half of the formation tower’s interior was in the midst of a bloody battle.
“The city guard formation has been destroyed, it’s not enough, keep charging forwards, kill a bloody path and break through the gates of the Lingxiao Heavenly King’s Mansion.”
Ming Jiang Wang pulled out a golden holy blade, the vast holy qi in his body was like a great river flowing, surging into the blade, and he swung it out.
“Ow!”
A deafening dragon roar sounded.
Immediately after, a total of ten dragon shadows appeared, each of which was more than ten miles long, slashing downwards along with the golden holy sword’s blade.
Those were the shadows of ten divine dragons.
“Rumble.”
The earth outside the city gates was torn apart by the sabre aura, and the layers of reinforcement formations under the ground were all chopped off, and the lofty Sun and Moon Gates were bombarded with cracks.
One must know that the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion was once the imperial palace of the Sacred Brightness Central Empire, and the Palace Protector Ancient Formation had been left behind from ancient times.
Even with the protection of the Palace Protector Ancient Formation, the Sun Moon Gate was still struck with several cracks, thus showing how terrifying the power of King Ming Jiang’s saber was.
“Ten Dragon Blade.”
“Legend has it that Emperor Ming’s imperial sword.”
……
Emperor Ming had a total of four battle treasures called the Eight Dragon Umbrella, the Nine Dragon Chariot, the Ten Dragon Blade, and the Hundred Dragon Ming Emperor Armour.
It was said that the Eight Dragon Umbrella, Nine Dragon Chariot, and Ten Dragon Blade were all quite powerful Ten Thousand Stripes Sacred Artifacts, with 80,000 inscriptions, 90,000 inscriptions, and 100,000 inscriptions within them respectively.
The Hundred Dragon Ming Emperor Armour, on the other hand, was a supreme Saint Artifact that had been passed down from the Middle Ages, and was so powerful that it could be called the first supreme treasure of the Imperial Clan.
Eight hundred years ago, King Ming Jiang was the one with the highest natural talent amongst all of Emperor Ming’s siblings, which was why Emperor Ming gifted him the Ten Dragon Blade.
The Ten Dragon Blade was not comparable to an ordinary Ten Thousand Stripes Sacred Artifact, and when King Ming Jiang swung it out with all his might, he was invincible, and a dozen blades chopped down in a row, striking the Palace Protector Ancient Formation and causing it to shake violently, and dense cracks appeared on the city wall near the Sun and Moon Gates.
“Only by breaking the Palace Protector Ancient Formation can we take down the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion. Where is the Dragon Protector Pavilion, why don’t you make a move?”Zhang Ruochen roared.
“Clatter-”
A bright white light flew out from the night.
The silhouettes in the white light were all dressed in white robes and star masks.
“Candle Sky Finger.”
The Vice Pavilion Master’s hands received fingerprints, and then, with his fingers pointing forwards, he struck out a holy art.
Sacred arts were also divided into low ranked sacred arts, middle ranked sacred arts, and high ranked sacred arts.
The Candle Heavenly Finger was already in the category of high rank holy arts, bursting out with a power that was not comparable to the low rank holy arts cultivated by saints.
The holy dao power of the Candle Heavenly Finger landed on top of the Palace Protector Ancient Formation, with millions of haze falling downwards at the same time, as if a god had struck out, the image was incomparably terrifying, covering the entire Lingxiao Heavenly King’s Mansion and shocking countless court soldiers to the ground.
The Palace Protector Ancient Formation was burned to a crimson colour by that Saint Dao power.
Part of the power of the Candle Heavenly Finger was transmitted to the interior of the Lingxiao Heavenly King’s Mansion through the formation’s defensive cover, causing a magnificent temple to burst apart and a mountain to collapse, much like a destructive force.
“Heavens …… what kind of power is this, just how terrifying is the arrival of a figure?”
“High-ranked holy arts, definitely high-ranked holy arts, could it be that amongst the Saint Ming rebels, there is actually a peak Saint King level character?”
……
One would need to be at least at the peak of Saint King cultivation in order to possess sufficiently thick Saint Qi to cast a high-ranked Saint Art.
Any figure that could reach the peak of Saint King, which one of them was not an existence that shook the world? Who could not be shocked by the appearance of such a figure?
Those princes, grandchildren, and nobles among the Heavenly Kings of the Lingxiao no longer had the arrogance they had a few days ago, and were really scared out of their souls by the power of the Candle Heavenly Finger.
Right after the Vice Palace Master struck the Candle Heavenly Finger, followed by dozens of members of the Dragon Protector Pavilion, they each struck a Saint Weapon and attacked down towards the Palace Protector Formation.
There were more than thirty Saint Weapons, and the weakest one was a Thousand Stripes Saint Weapon that possessed six thousand inscriptions, and on top of that, there were three Ten Thousand Stripes Saint Weapons.
Any one of such powerful Saint Weapons could create a huge destructive force, enough to destroy a city and exterminate a ridge.
Dozens of Saint Weapons fell at the same time, and the Thousand Stripes Destructive Power and Ten Thousand Stripes Destructive Power intertwined together, actually tearing open a corner of the Palace Protector Ancient Formation.
“Boom.”
The dozens of feet tall gates of the Sun and Moon Gate, one of the eight gates of the Lingxiao Heavenly King’s Mansion, melted into iron in an instant.
In that battle eight hundred years ago, the Palace Protector Ancient Formation had been damaged, and although, the court had repaired it, it was never as powerful as before.
Precisely, under the full force of the Palace Protector Pavilion’s attack, in just a few short breaths of time, a corner of the Palace Protector Ancient Formation was shattered.
“The Dragon Protector Pavilion really does exist, how wonderful!”
In the eyes of the Ming Jiang King, a fiery glow appeared, and with a warlike intent on his body, he raised his Ten Dragon Blade and charged into the Sun Moon Gate ahead of the others.
At the same time, the Vice Pavilion Master sent out a spiritual energy that entered Zhang Ruochen’s ears, “I will deal with the Heavenly King of the Lingxiao.”
Subsequently, the Vice Pavilion Master transformed into a light shuttle and also rushed into the Sun Moon Gate.
A few moments later, the depths of the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion exploded in a Saint King level battle, and the light radiating out from a Saint Art caused the night to turn into day.
“The Sun and Moon Sect has been breached, let’s kill in together to avenge our dead loved ones and friends, fight for Saint Ming, and wash away the shame from eight hundred years ago.”
Zhang Ruochen grasped the Sacred Brightness Battle Flag in one hand and carried the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword in the other, as if he was a sharp arrow, advancing forward at the fastest possible speed, and in a blink of an eye, blood flew all over the sky, killing to the point of frenzy, as if he was trying to vent all of the hatred that had been accumulated over the years.
The Blood Moon Ghost King, Ah Le, Devil Ape, and Heaven Swallowing Devil Dragon followed closely behind Zhang Ruochen, shattering all of the imperial court cultivators who rushed from the four directions of left, right, back, and up into a cloud of blood mist.
“You’re that Sacred Brightness Crown Prince, I’ve come to take your life.”
An old man whose cultivation had reached the True Saint realm stepped out from the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion and stamped his foot downwards, and a heaven-collapsing force swept out, pulling Zhang Ruochen into his battle circle.
Because the Empress had no descendants, the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion was the most powerful branch of the First Central Empire’s royal family, and its heritage was naturally quite astonishing, and there were many powerful human cultivators who were willing to join the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion.
This old man, was one of them.
He had been cultivating for more than five hundred years and was a figure comparable to a Sacred Lord of a Medieval Family.
“With you, you’re not worthy yet, go die for me.”
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen’s battle spirit was so strong that he released the Time Domain, Space Domain, and Sword Dao Domain at the same time, and the three domains counter-pulled that True Saint realm old man.
“Rumble.”
Zhang Ruochen poured all of his Saint Qi into the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, mobilising the Sword Intent of Sword 7, and slashed down frantically, striking more than thirty swords in a row, causing that old man to continuously retreat and spit out blood from his mouth.
In the end, Zhang Ruochen chopped his Sacred Source and Qi Sea with a single sword and killed him
Crimson True Saint blood stained Zhang Ruochen’s head and robes.
“Kill!”
Zhang Ruochen roared out, using the battle flag, picking up the corpse of that True Saint, waving his battle sword, and continued to kill forward, with a domineering aura of a sovereign over the world.
