“Too much, not only did he snatch away the Rule Emperor Artifact, he also wanted to use the saints of the five worlds to suppress us together.”
“When we find Zhang Ruochen, we must break him into pieces.”
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In the Wujin Sacred Mountain, the Saints of the Blade Prison Realm and the Violet Mansion Realm learnt of this, and all of them gnashed their teeth in anger.
Fang Yi and Dongliu Sword Sovereign were also blue in the face, knowing that they could not just sit back and wait for death, and immediately summoned the two worlds’ supreme saint level powerhouses to discuss a way to kill Zhang Ruochen together.
Without killing Zhang Ruochen immediately, the Blade Prison Realm and the Violet Mansion Realm would be quite passive, and it was likely that they would really be at the bottom.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen, Ah Le, and Princess Rakshasa had already arrived at the bottom of the Sacred Mountain of Qifeng, looking up, the sacred mountain was densely covered with ancient sycamore trees with flourishing branches and leaves, with strands of heaven and earth’s holy qi encircling the mountain, giving it the appearance of an immortal’s blessed land.
The Sacred Mountain of the Phoenix, one of the thirty-three sacred mountains in the innermost layer, was once the habitat of the phoenix clan of the Ancestral Spirit Realm.
Of course, the phoenixes of the Ancestral Spirit Realm had gone extinct, and the Sacred Mountain of the Phoenix had also become dead.
Just after stepping into the Sacred Mountain of Perching Phoenix, the earth shook violently.
“Rumble.”
A huge white bone emerged from beneath the soil, each bone was more than ten metres long, with an eerie blue pattern on it, and then, an intimidating cold aura spewed out from the bones, causing a small half of the Qifeng Sacred Mountain to be covered in white frost.
Each of the thirty-three holy mountains in the innermost layer had great dangers.
Thus, in the face of the sudden turn of events, Zhang Ruochen, Princess Rakshasa, and Ah Le did not panic, but merely sprinted backwards with lightning-like speed, pulling away a long distance.
Only when the white bone completely rushed out from the ground did the crowd see that it was a complete phoenix bone, and after a pair of bone wings unfolded, it was actually more than five hundred metres long.
“It’s been turned into white bones, and it’s still able to rush out from the ground.”Princess Rakshasa gave an evil smile.
Zhang Ruochen stood with his arms crossed, his expression grave as he said, “Deep within the bones of the Bone Phoenix, there is a strand of indestructible Saint Soul hidden, and it was the support of that strand of Saint Soul that allowed it to crawl out from the ground.”
Ah Le coldly said, “It’s not just the holy soul, there’s also a huge resentment.”
“Ga–”
From the mouth of the bone phoenix, a sharp cry came out, the sound waves were layer after layer, carrying an extremely powerful aggressiveness.
The heaven and earth holy qi of the Sacred Phoenix Mountain shook violently, the boulders crumbled into pieces, and even those sycamore trees that had grown for tens of thousands of years and had given birth to a spirit couldn’t withstand it, and they made a “creaking” sound as a dustpan-sized piece of leaf drifted down.
Zhang Ruochen took out the Buddha Emperor’s Shariko and put up a protective shield of Buddha’s light to withstand the sound wave impact.
“So powerful, when the Bone Phoenix was alive, its cultivation should have reached the level of a three-step Saint King.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Princess Rakshasa said, “This is not a small trouble, even if a Three-Step Saint King was turned into white bones and could only explode 10% of its power, it would still be much more powerful than a One-Step Saint King.”
“Rumble.”
The Bone Phoenix’s wings flapped as it soared up and swooped down towards the three of them.
One of its bone claws, pressed downwards.
Immediately, a wave of air was pressed onto their bodies, as if it was causing the air to become frozen, and it was impossible to escape from underneath the bone claw.
Zhang Ruochen quickly operated his Saint Qi, and his fingers grabbed upwards.
“Puffing.”
Space was torn apart and transformed into a pitch-black crack that chopped upwards.
A phoenix pattern surfaced on the surface of every bone of the bone phoenix’s bone claws, and from the phoenix pattern, there was even spatial power dispersed as well, pressing the spatial cracks to close back up.
“That is a …… spatial brand.”
Zhang Ruochen looked at the centre of the bone claw and his eyes snapped shut, then he stirred up the Hundred Saints Blood Armour, summoned the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, and began to activate the inscription in the sword.
Along the way, in the ninety-nine holy mountains, they had spotted a large number of spatial inscriptions and time brandings, thus showing that the owner of the Phoenix Nest must be a rather powerful spatial cultivator and time cultivator.
That being was most likely the Icefire Phoenix that held a lofty position in the Ancestral Spirit Realm.
The Icefire Phoenix was able to cultivate the spatial way to such a profound level, and it would be quite normal for it to bestow a few spatial imprints on a junior at the Three-Step Saint King level.
Princess Rakshasa took out a seven-foot-long aquamarine holy staff, and as her spiritual energy surged into it, a circular film of light rushed out from a strange stone at the top of the holy staff.
The huge bone claw, colliding with the light membrane, hit the light membrane and kept on trembling.
Even with Princess Rakshasa’s fifty-five stage mental strength, she was also shaken pale by the power of this strike, and was somewhat unable to grip the holy staff in her hand.
The Bone Phoenix then struck a second blow, piercing through the film of light and falling straight down towards the tops of the three people’s heads.
At this time, Zhang Ruochen stirred up the consummate power of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and leapt forward, lifting his battle sword as he swung it upwards.
“Crack.”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was so sharp that it chopped off a small piece of the Phoenix Bone Claw.
However, Zhang Ruochen was also shocked by the force that exploded from the bone claw and crashed violently to the ground, smashing the earth and sinking it downwards.
Zhang Ruochen wiped the traces of blood from the corner of his mouth and used his Heavenly Eyes, staring at the Bone Phoenix with its gigantic body above him, saying, ”That strand of the Bone Phoenix’s Holy Soul is hidden inside the Holy Source, which is located in the middle of the third phoenix bone of the spine. The Spirit Flame Demon Princess and I will hold it back, Ah Le, you go dig out the Bone Phoenix’s holy source.”
The Bone Phoenix was extremely vigilant and had a spatial brand on its body that was capable of suppressing spatial power, using spatial shifting to dig out the sacred source was obviously a huge risk.
Instead, the three of them would have a greater success rate if they worked together.
“Swish.”
Ah Le leaped up and reached a height of more than ten feet, grabbing out a piece of bone from the tail of the bone phoenix. With that, he sprinted upwards from the Bone Phoenix’s tail.
When the bone phoenix realised that there was a tiny ant on its body, its mouth once again uttered a shrill cry, and the phoenix pattern on its body became brighter.
Zhang Ruochen stepped on a luan and a phoenix underneath his feet and soared up to the same height as the Bone Phoenix, mobilising the Pure Destruction Divine Flame to strike a wave of fire and attack the Bone Phoenix head-on.
The Rakshasa Princess, on the other hand, made use of her holy staff to condense a hundred-metre-high ice mountain, which continuously fell downwards and bombarded the Bone Phoenix’s body.
In the face of Zhang Ruochen and Princess Rakshasa’s strong attacks, the Bone Phoenix was instantly enraged, not having the time to continue to pay attention to the “mole cricket” on its body, and went all out to deal with the two great enemies in front of it.
The phoenix pattern on the Bone Phoenix’s body resisted the burning of the Pure Destruction Divine Flame, and the bone wing on its right side passed through the flames and struck Zhang Ruochen’s waist horizontally, as if it was swatting away a fly, sending him flying out and crashing into the cliff wall of the Sacred Phoenix Mountain.
Wearing the Hundred Saints Blood Armour, even Zhang Ruochen felt incomparable pain, as if he had been chopped at the waist, his entire body unable to move.
“What a terrifying power, the dead three-step Saint King is so powerful ……cough ……”
Blood was coughed out of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth.
“Boom.”
The Rakshasa Princess also flew over and crashed into the cliff wall, causing the entire cliff wall to crack out a shocking gap, while her mouth spat out a large mouthful of scarlet blood.
Even at this time, her face still had a smile on it, “Originally, I wanted to use Spatial Shift to dodge away, but, the Bone Phoenix’s degree is too fast, it simply can’t be dodged …… open …… poof……”
With that, she spat out another mouthful of blood.
“Ga!”
The Bone Phoenix’s entire body was shrouded in a cold aura, like a hellish evil god as it rushed in from below, stretching out its two gigantic bone claws and pressing down towards Zhang Ruochen and the Rakshasa Princess, who were embedded in the cliff wall.
The pupils of the Rakshasa Princess shrank as her fingers pressed towards the location of her navel, about to use her underhanded means.
Right at this moment, the huge body of the bone phoenix actually suddenly stopped and became still. A phoenix pattern on the surface of the bones also dimmed.
“Boom.”
The killing aura on the Bone Phoenix’s body disappeared, and the bone body crashed down to the bottom of the cliff, making a loud sound.
In mid-air, Ah Le held his sword in one hand, while the other grabbed the holy source that he had just dug out of the Bone Phoenix’s body, and asked, “Still holding up, right?”
“Of course.”Zhang Ruochen smiled.
“Boom.”
An accident was born.
From somewhere, a ball of flame flew out and crashed into Ah Le’s body, hitting him and throwing him out.
When the flames dissipated, it actually turned into a piece of sycamore tree leaves that floated in mid-air.
Ah Lok’s body, on the other hand, fell limply towards the abyss below, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
How could Zhang Ruochen have expected such a turn of events to occur, his eyes were quite sullen and cold as he shouted, “Ah Le.”
Princess Rakshasa was also quite surprised because, even with her spiritual attainments, she had not sensed the danger in advance just now.
At the bottom of the cliff wall, an ancient sycamore tree shook a little, and an extremely handsome young man walked out from the interior of the tree trunk, his entire body radiating a crimson fire light.
That sycamore tree, as if all the vitality had been sucked out by the handsome man, withered quickly, its leaves becoming scorched and falling to the ground, becoming bare.
Seeing the handsome man, Zhang Ruochen’s eyes became even colder, “It’s you.”
Qiu Yu grabbed the Sacred Source that had been dug out from the Bone Phoenix’s body through the air and pinched it between his two fingers to play with it, a smile surfacing at the corner of his mouth, “Originally, I sneaked into the Sacred Mountain of the Perching Phoenix and absorbed the Sycamore Essence here, and I didn’t even think that you’d be coming here as well.”
“It was you who made a sneak attack on Ah Le?”Zhang Ruochen said.
Autumn Rain stepped on the void and ascended the cliff wall step by step, approaching over to Zhang Ruochen and Princess Rakshasa, and said indifferently, “Originally, it was someone who had already been killed by me once, so what does it matter if he dies again?”
A murderous aura surged in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes as he said, “Last time at the Demon Sect’s General Altar, you had Chi Yao sheltering you, allowing you to luckily save a dog’s life. I never thought that you would still dare to make an enemy of me.”
Thinking about the incident at the Demon Sect’s General Altar, Qiu Yu was quite annoyed, that was the biggest shame of his life, not only was he defeated by Zhang Ruochen in three moves, put into the tripod for sacrifice, forcing him to beg for forgiveness, but also, Zhang Ruochen snatched away his fiancée.
These four great disgraces had caused him to lose face and be ridiculed by the entire Kunlun Realm, which simply caused him more pain than killing him.
However, Qiu Yu quickly suppressed the anger in his heart, revealing a smile, and with a victorious stance, he said, ”Based on your current state, I can crush you to death with one hand, but I won’t kill you that easily. Zhang Ruochen, falling into my hands, you should be mentally prepared for a life worse than death and a life of pain.
