“Pfft!”
The Thunderbolt Arrow flew out and slammed into the Antelope Magus, piercing the Eight Prince’s vest.
The arrow exploded into a fist-sized ball of lightning, and a bolt of lightning was released from the ball, leaving a bowl-sized bloody hole in the eighth prince’s back.
“Swish!”
A short, fat black shadow, rushed into the carriages, and with just a flash of a blade, he cut off the human head of the eighth prince and put it inside an animal skin bag.
A sinister laugh escaped from his mouth, and with the bag on his back, he rushed out of the Antelope Magu Cart.
After a split second, it disappeared into the hazy night.
Yun’er sensed the strange noise and immediately controlled the Antelope Magu Cart to stop, calling out, “Your Highness the Eighth Prince, what just happened? Your Highness the Eighth Prince!”
She carefully lifted the curtain of the car, only to see a headless dead body sitting inside, the car was full of blood, it was simply horrifying.
Yun’er let out a scream and fainted in fear.
……
Two black shadows, one tall and one short, travelled swiftly through the royal city, and before long, they came to the riverside of the moat.
Han Qing Luo had her hands behind her back, her tall figure, pulling out a long reflection under the moonlight.
She stood under the willow tree by the river, her eyes staring at the bright moon in the river, and faintly said, “Mission completed?”
“Reporting back to Miss Cold, the mission was much easier than we imagined, one strike, he didn’t even have a chance to fight back.” That one tall and thin man in black said.
The other short and fat man in black laughed, “What teenage genius, simply unbearable, a complete joke.”
Han Qing Luo gently nodded and said, “Both of you are at the cultivation level of the Yellow Extreme Realm Grand Circle, and you are also professional killers, it is indeed not difficult to kill him. The head was brought, right?”
“Brought it!”
The tall and thin black-robed man took out the animal skin bag and placed it on the ground, opened the bag and a bloody human head was revealed from the bag.
Han Qing Luo looked towards the human head in the bag, her face changed slightly, and she said in a cold voice, “Are you sure the person you killed is the Ninth Prince?”
The tall and thin black-robed man and the short and fat black-robed man looked towards the human head in the bag, and their hearts were shocked before they realised that they had killed the wrong person.
They immediately knelt on the ground, trembling, and said, “Miss Cold, give us another chance, we will definitely decapitate the Ninth Prince’s head and send it to you.”
“You guys don’t have a chance!”
Han Qing Luo shook her head and said, “You guys didn’t kill the Ninth Prince, but you killed the Eighth Prince. Having made such a huge mistake, even I will be severely chastised, you guys think you still have a chance to live?”
“Miss Cold spare your life!”
“Miss Cold spare your life!”
Suddenly, the tall and thin black-clothed man and the short and fat black-clothed man simultaneously leapt up lightning fast, striking out at the fastest speed possible and attacking towards Cold Qing Luo.
There was no way, the mission had failed, but instead they had mistakenly killed the eighth prince, making such a big mistake, the two of them would definitely be executed by Cold Qing Luo.
Since it was death, why not let go and fight?
As long as they killed Cold Qing Luo, they would immediately escape from the royal city. In the future, the heavens were far away, and as long as they hid, even if the Queen Mother’s power was no matter how vast, they might not be able to find them.
Cold Qing Luo was also only at the great circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm, and with the two of them joining forces and being surprised, they might not be without a chance to kill her.
Cold Qing Luo sneered, her five fingers transformed into a claw shape, her nails becoming incomparably sharp.
“Pfft!”
The claws of her hands struck through the chest of the tall and thin black-clothed man, digging out a bloody heart.
The tall and thin man in black watched, as his heart was crushed by Cold Qing Luo, only feeling a pain in his heart, he fell straight to the ground.
Afterwards, Cold Qing Luo slashed out with another quick palm, her palm was wrapped in a layer of cold ice true qi.
“Wow!”
The palm swung through, sharper than a blade, directly chopping the head of that one short, fat black-robed man out.
Similarly all of them were at the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Circle cultivation level, but Han Qing Luo was far too powerful than them. Even if seven or eight Yellow Extreme Realm Great Circle martial artists joined forces, they might not be her opponent.
She specialised in killing techniques, and once she struck, a single blow was bound to see blood.
“The killing of the eighth prince will definitely cause a huge shock in the royal city, and there is no longer any chance to assassinate the ninth prince. I must immediately rush back to the royal palace to report the news to the Queen Mother and prepare a strategy to deal with it in advance.”
After throwing the two corpses into the moat and drying the blood on her palms, Han Qing Luo transformed into a green shadow and immediately returned to the royal palace.
……
Zhang Ruochen exchanged ideas with Zorn and learnt a lot about inscriptions.
At the same time, Zorn also spoke a lot about the learning of weapon refining, causing Zhang Ruochen to develop a few interests in weapon refining as well.
Shan Xiangling continued to stay behind at the Inscription Guild to learn about weapon refining, while Zhang Ruochen left first.
Walking out of the Inscription Guild, Zhang Ruochen looked around and frowned slightly as he said, “Where did Sister Yun’er go? She wouldn’t have gone back to the Royal Palace first, right? It shouldn’t be!”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t think much about it, after all, it was in the Martial City, the law and order was stable, there shouldn’t be any accidents, so he probably had an emergency and left first.
Afterwards, he headed to the Dan Market, intending to is to purchase some high grade pills to help him cultivate.
Once again, he came to Qingxuan Pavilion.
He had just walked through the door when Mo Hanlin immediately greeted him with a smile on his face and said, ”Your Highness the Ninth Prince, purchasing pills again? The boss’s wife has already instructed that as long as His Highness the Ninth Prince is purchasing pills, all of them will be counted as half price.”
“The Boss Lady is surprisingly so generous?” Zhang Ruochen was slightly surprised.
Mo Hanlin narrowed his eyes and laughed, “The Boss Lady isn’t so generous to anyone, and it’s only His Highness the Ninth Prince that has such treatment.”
Zhang Ruochen asked, “How much is one of the Three Qing True Qi Pills?”
The Three Clear True Qi Pill was a second grade pill that had the same medicinal effect as the Qi Gathering Pill, however, the medicinal power was more than ten times stronger. Moreover, the true qi cultivated by taking the Five Clear True Qi Pill was purer than the true qi cultivated by taking the Qi Gathering Pill.
“Five thousand silver coins, one.” Mo Hanlin stretched out five fingers and shook them at Zhang Ruochen.
So expensive!
An elixir of this level, even the top geniuses of those great clans couldn’t take it every day, and it was estimated that they could only be issued one for half a year.
Alchemists and alchemists were both too lucrative!
Zhang Ruochen said, “I want to purchase ten of them.”
“Ten Sanqing True Qi Dan.” After Mo Hanlin wrote it down, he added, “Ninth Prince, what other pills do I need to purchase?”
“Give me another hundred Second Grade Blood Pills.” Zhang Ruochen said.
The blood pills that he had purchased last time had already been consumed and had to be repurchased.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current martial cultivation, he could already digest the blood qi of the second grade blood pills.
A normal Huangji Realm Grand Circle martial artist would only take a first grade blood pills. However, Zhang Ruochen didn’t care about spending more money, as long as his cultivation was able to increase rapidly, it was worth spending any amount of money.
Although the price of the Second Grade Blood Pills was much more expensive than the First Grade Blood Pills, the benefits to the body were much more.
The blood qi of a first grade blood pill could only provide a martial artist with a day’s worth of energy. However, a Second Grade Blood Pill could provide a martial artist with energy for three days.
“Second grade blood pills, thirty silver coins each. One hundred in total!” Mo Hanlin wrote it down again.
Zhang Ruochen continued to look on the counter, and suddenly, he saw a third grade elixir that helped martial artists quench their bodies, the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Elixir.
Zhang Ruochen’s most urgent need right now was to improve his physique, the stronger his physical body was, the more it would help him in his future cultivation.
Thinking of cultivation as constructing a building, then the most important thing was the foundation, the stronger the foundation, the higher the building could be constructed.
The Yellow Extreme Realm’s cultivation was to temper the physical body and open up the meridians, laying the foundation for the martial artist’s future cultivation path.
“Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill, how much is one?” Zhang Ruochen asked.
Mo Hanlin’s eyes lit up as he said, “The Celestial Elephant Red Flame Pill is a Third Grade Pill, refined using the bone marrow and blood of a Celestial Elephant, moreover, it also has the Red Flame Lotus Seed added to it, making it very expensive. Eighty thousand silver coins a piece.”
Even if it was more expensive, Zhang Ruochen would still buy it.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “How many does Qingxuan Pavilion have in total?”
“A total of seven pieces!” Mo Hanlin said.
“Good! Sell them all!” Zhang Ruochen said.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen purchased another twenty copies of the Marrow Cleansing Liquid and a bottle of Healing Pill.
Mo Hanlin held his abacus and crackled half a day’s worth of calculations before saying, “Ten San Qing Zhen Qi Pills, 50,000 silver coins.
One hundred Second Grade Blood Pills, three thousand silver coins.
Seven Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Dan, five hundred and sixty thousand silver coins.
Twenty copies of Marrow Cleansing Liquid, four thousand silver coins.
Ten Sacred Nirvana Dan, twenty thousand silver coins.
The total adds up to …… six hundred and thirty-three thousand seven hundred silver coins, and counting it as half price, that’s three hundred and eighty-five thousand silver coins.”
Even if Zhang Ruochen had been mentally prepared, he was still shocked that it cost over three hundred thousand silver coins. The price of seven Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pills was too expensive, fortunately, counting it as half price, it was still within Zhang Ruochen’s acceptance range.
“If I were to refine all seven Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Dan, my physique would definitely be able to reach the level of my previous life.” Zhang Ruochen’s heart secretly said.
After paying the 38,500 silver coins to the Qingxuan Pavilion, Zhang Ruochen’s assets would only be left with 800,000 silver coins, and, all of them were stored in the Martial City Money Bank.
Zhang Ruochen had just left Qingxuan Pavilion when he saw a group of armoured soldiers riding on war ponies, rushing past the middle of the street, rolling up a large cloud of smoke and dust.
A martial artiste beside him, looking at the soldiers rushing past, sighed in a low voice, “I don’t know who was so bold as to kill the Eighth Prince, now the whole city is under martial law, even the imports and exports of the Martial Market have been closed!”
“The eighth prince was killed?”
Zhang Ruochen clearly remembered that he had even met the Eighth Prince at the Inscription Guild, so how could it be that he had been killed just a short while ago?
“Rumble!”
A team of soldiers rushed over and neatly knelt down in front of Zhang Ruochen. Among them, at the forefront was an old eunuch who respectfully said, “Your Highness, the Ninth Prince, the Great King summons you to return to the palace immediately!”
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