Zhang Ruochen’s expression stirred as he thought of something and said, “You’re that supreme heavenly pride of the Chi Family from two hundred years ago?”
“That’s right.”
In the tone of Chi Dufeng, who was sitting in the golden-stepped dragon carriage, there was a powerful confidence.
With his honourable status as a son of the royal family, and his attainments in the Dao of the Sword that had reached the Sword Saint realm, he was considered a leader among his peers, and was even more powerful than those old generation Saints who had been cultivating for five or six hundred years, and with such an achievement, he should indeed be confident.
Chi Dufeng said, ”You were able to break in here, it seems that there are still quite a few experts among those Saint Ming rebels. The battle outside, it should be very tragic, right?”
“It was indeed tragic, many of the Chi Family’s sons and daughters were wiped out, including some of the old ones who had lived for hundreds of years.”Zhang Ruochen said nonchalantly.
Chi Dufeng knew better than anyone how powerful the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion was, and with the little strength of the Sacred Ming Rebels, I’m afraid that they were able to storm in at a great cost.
If they wanted to seriously damage the Ling Xiao Heavenly King’s Mansion, they were still a long way from being able to do so.
Chi Dufeng snorted lightly, clearly not believing Zhang Ruochen’s words, and laughed, ”Your purpose of coming to the Shrine of the Emperors should be to take control of the Great Sacred Inscription and reverse the dire battle situation outside, right? Unfortunately, you’ve met this king, and it’s destined that the Sacred Ming rebels will be completely wiped out today.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t want to continue to talk nonsense with him and was prepared to suppress him with the fastest degree possible, so he went all out to mobilise the world power of the Qiankun Realm.
It was mobilised nine times in a row, and instantly, a vast and boundless power surged out from the Qian Kun Realm, bursting out through Zhang Ruochen’s five Saint Veins.
Zhang Ruochen swung the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and chopped across.
“This power, it’s terrifying ……”
Chi Dufeng sensed that the power fluctuation bursting out from Zhang Ruochen’s body was very wrong, his face changed slightly as he pressed his hands forward, and the holy qi in his body surged into the nine chains, transmitting it towards the nine augur dragons.
“Nine dragons united, sweeping across the eight wastelands.”
Within the bodies of the nine Saint realm augur dragons, there was a scorching light gushing out, and those Saint Dao powers twisted and twisted together, illuminating this piece of heaven and earth.
In the sky above the nine Saint realm augur dragons, a divine dragon silhouette appeared as if nine dragons were united, and the Saint Dao powers were superimposed together to meet them.
“Boom.”
Mobilising the world power of the Qiankun Realm, Zhang Ruochen was able to stir up the consummate power of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, and on the blade of the sword, there were ten thousand feet of black light surging outwards, striking the divine dragon silhouette to explode into pieces.
The sword blade slashed across, invincible, and it actually severed all nine Saint Realm Jiao Dragons’ bodies with a single stroke, the dragon blood spilling down like nine blood-red waterfalls, and the nine dragon heads as huge as palaces were thrown out towards the back.
If there were outsiders here, they would definitely be stunned silly.
Zhang Ruochen’s sword had an invincible momentum, and after the sword qi surged out, it nearly struck the Golden Step Dragon Carriage, causing it to topple over onto the ground. However, the Golden Step Dragon Chariot was quite a remarkable treasure with unrivalled defensive power, and it surprisingly deflected the sword qi aftershocks.
All nine Saint Dragons were killed by Zhang Ruochen’s sword.
Chi Dufeng’s mind could hardly be calmed and was incomparably astonished.
At the Demon Sect’s General Altar, Zhang Ruochen had executed three moves in a row, and had only barely repelled Mu Kengtian, his strength was estimable. However, at this moment, the strength he had exploded was more than ten times more powerful than Mu Kengtian.
“No, the power in his body, is fast diminishing.”
Chi Dufeng woke up to the fact that the sword just now was by no means Zhang Ruochen’s true strength, but rather, he had borrowed an external force.
Only when he thought of this did he calm down.
As long as one borrowed external power, one would definitely have to pay a huge price, and it was also impossible to use that power as one wished. Otherwise, if everyone went to borrow external power, who would still be down-to-earth and cultivate seriously?
Chi Dufeng also possessed the means to borrow external power, however, he would never use it until the time of life and death.
“What a powerful strength, Zhang Ruochen, you really do have hidden cards, but it’s a pity that you’ve already embarked on the path of self-destruction. For a true Heaven’s Pride, borrowing external forces to fight has a hundred harms rather than one benefit.”
Seeing that Zhang Ruochen was a strong enemy, Chi Dufeng let out a loud laugh, preparing to break Zhang Ruochen’s mind with words first: “Originally, this king thought that with your natural talent, you should be able to cultivate to the Great Sage realm and become a world-defying hegemon like Emperor Ming. Unfortunately, I overestimated you.”
“Below Great Saint, it lies in enlightenment and talent. Above Great Sage, however, there is a greater need to refine the heart.”
“While you were recklessly borrowing external forces to fight, your heart, was already corrupted. You are consuming your own potential and wearing down your will, just trying to gain power for a moment and ruining the entire path of cultivation.”
Unbeknownst to him, Zhang Ruochen knew this very well.
With anything, there were both advantages and disadvantages, and while you gained great power, you would definitely pay some unseen great price.
If he wasn’t eager to enter the Shrine of the Emperors, Zhang Ruochen wouldn’t have taken the initiative to mobilise the world power of the Qiankun Realm.
“Self-righteousness. It’s people like you who have even greater brokenness in their minds.”
Zhang Ruochen mobilised the world force of the Qiankun Realm once again, but unfortunately, it failed to mobilise and was unsuccessful.
Chi Dufeng seized the moment and did not give Zhang Ruochen the chance to continue borrowing external forces, lifting a holy sword and rushing out from the Golden Step Dragon Chariot, stirring up the Qing Jiu Divine Skill, mobilising out the Sword Intent of Sword 7, and attacking with three swords in a row.
“Heavenly Elephant Three Swords.”
The first sword, like a shocking hurricane, had thousands of wind blades following the sword qi as it travelled, converging into one long line of sword qi.
The second sword, with thunderous sounds and electric light bursting out, condensing a vast ocean of thunder and lightning, just the thunderous sounds bursting out could shatter the eardrums of some Saints.
The third sword, the sword qi fell like a torrential downpour, fusing with the hurricane and thunder and lightning, complementing each other, one layer stacking on top of the other, the power climbing up.
The so-called Heavenly Elephant Three Swords was a sword technique created based on the three Heavenly Elephants, which could be fitted with the rules of the Heavenly Dao, and each sword was a Saint Art.
Only a Sword Saint could make the three sword techniques merge into one, thus increasing their power exponentially.
Facing a powerhouse like Chi Dufeng, Zhang Ruochen had to go all out, releasing his sword intent and executing the sword technique of the Monstrous Heavenly Sword lineage, the True One Thunder and Fire Sword Technique.
“Divine Sky True Thunder.”
The sky became pitch black as hundreds of thunderbolts, descending from the sky, merged with the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and swung out to meet the Heavenly Elephant Three Swords struck by Chi Dufeng.
“Rumble.”
Two powerful sword intent and sword qi gave birth to a great collision, this was a sword saint level duel, for ordinary cultivators, it was as if a true god was fighting.
In the midst of that dense mass of sword qi, Zhang Ruochen retreated, taking dozens of steps back in a row and landing several miles away. Dozens of cracks appeared on his robes, and even his head had a strand chopped off.
Chi Dufeng was wearing a golden king’s robe, looking incomparably handsome and elegant, and a green-coloured Saint Qi surged out like a wave, shattering the sword Qi around him.
He held the Saint Sword as he looked at Zhang Ruochen, who was in a bit of a mess, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth as he said, ”Do you know why this King is waiting for you here? It’s because, this piece of heaven and earth outside the Shrine of the Emperors has a very solid structure of time and space, which can suppress your time and space power to the greatest extent possible. If you want to blame it, you can only blame your Zhang Clan’s old ancestor for engraving too many inscriptions here.”
Obviously, although Chi Dufeng was arrogant to the point of being somewhat unimpressive, but, was a rather intelligent character who was also careful and prudent in his actions, otherwise, a person with a character like him would not have lived for more than two hundred years without dying.
From the very beginning, Chi Dufeng was attacking Zhang Ruochen’s state of mind.
Because, he knew very well that in a Sword Saint level encounter, fighting the mind was the top and fighting the sword was the bottom. Once the state of mind was breached, one was also bound to lose.
Chi Dufeng had once been invincible with the fusion of the “Three Heavenly Elephant Swords”, killing gods and devils, and Zhang Ruochen was able to block the “Three Heavenly Elephant Swords”, but in fact, he was quite surprised in his heart, and it was not as easy as it appeared to be.
With one hand holding the sword and the other behind his back, Chi Dufeng walked forward in a leisurely manner and said, “Honestly speaking, your strength is a bit beyond my king’s expectations. Unfortunately, within ten moves, you will still die under this King’s sword.”
Zhang Ruochen’s heart, as firm as a rock, was not affected in the slightest as he said, “Your strength, too, is somewhat out of my expectations.”
“Is that so?”
Chi Dufeng smiled slightly.
Immediately after, Zhang Ruochen added, “It is said that two hundred years ago, you were able to exchange dozens of moves with Senior Luo Xu without losing. And nowadays, I’m afraid that Senior Luo Xu only needs one punch to kill you. Over these years, you have completely fallen off the wagon!”
The smile on Chi Dufeng’s face disappeared, and his killing intent was revealed as he said, “It seems that I have to let you see the true strength of this king, so that you can die with a heart that is convinced by the spoken word.”
“Heaven’s Will Three Swords.”
Swish-swish sounds rang out.
The Saint Sword in Chi Dufeng’s hand rushed out tens of thousands of sword qi, flying rapidly around this part of the world.
Zhang Ruochen’s face changed slightly as he secretly said, “Has Chi Dufeng successfully cultivated the Three Swords of Heavenly Will as well?”
Whether it was the “Heavenly Image Three Swords” or the “Heavenly Will Three Swords”, they were in fact all sword techniques in the Heavenly Dao Sword Technique, and on top of that, there was the “Heavenly Dao Three Swords”.
There were a total of nine sword techniques, which could be performed individually or merged into one.
If someone was able to cultivate the “Heavenly Dao Sword Technique” to the point where the nine swords were united, the power that exploded out would be enough to be compared to the Great Perfection’s Sword Nine.
“Heaven’s will is hard to disobey.”
“Heaven’s will is hard to measure.”
“Heaven’s will is determined.”
Three sword strokes in a row, extending tens of thousands of sword qi and sword shadows, surging towards Zhang Ruochen in an overwhelming manner, as if he was a sword god coming out of the world, wanting to beat Zhang Ruochen to ashes.
“Nine Nine to One.”
Zhang Ruochen did not retreat or dodge, but, instead, mobilised the sword intent of Jian Qi and executed the strongest move of the True One Thunder Fire Sword Technique.
In an instant, Zhang Ruochen’s body split into nine, and then, into eighty-one.
The eighty-one figures were arranged according to a strange rule, and immediately, the wind and clouds above the sky changed, landing thousands of thunderbolts, while at the same time, rolling flames rose from the ground, as if it was a fire cloud wrapping around the eighty-one Zhang Ruochen.
The eighty-one figures struck out at the same time, waving their swords and chopping out, attacking against the Three Swords of Heaven’s Will.
