At the edge of this Endless Abyss, the sky was only tens of metres high, with black clouds tumbling over and overpowering the earth, giving people a sense of physical and mental oppression.
Sweeping away the dishevelled momentum from earlier, Zhang Ruochen’s spine was straight, his gaze sharp, and the Seven Saint Serpent Spear in his hand emitted an eye-catching golden light that seemed to pierce through the black clouds above his head.
If he were somewhere else, even if Zhang Ruochen had displayed all of his cards, he would not have been a match for the Infinite Flag King.
In the Endless Abyss, however, he had a fighting chance.
The Infinite Flag King appeared quite calm as he laughed, “So, you’re trying to make use of the special Heaven and Earth rules of the Endless Abyss as a way to turn defeat into victory.”
“Don’t you know that even if this King can only exert one-tenth of his cultivation, it would still be enough to defeat you in your heyday? What’s more, here, you can only exert one-tenth of your cultivation as well?”
“Of course I know.”
Zhang Ruochen added, “It’s just that by coming here, I have at least that one or two levels, a chance to win.”
“Ignorant.”
The Infinite Flag King merely gave a hoarse laugh, not thinking that Zhang Ruochen had any chance of winning at all.
The Heavenly Demon Seal flew up once again, spinning in mid-air, releasing a piercingly cold aura that caused the earth to emit a “clattering” sound, covering it with a thick layer of black ice.
A demonic cloud wrapped the Heavenly Demon Seal, and then, in a hideous form, it suppressed Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen’s arms shook, activating the inscriptions within the Seven Saint Serpent Spear, and seven gigantic gnarled python silhouettes flew out.
The shadows of the gnarled pythons, wrapped around the top of the spears, stabbed out and collided with the Heavenly Demon Seal.
In an instant, sparks flew.
Ear-shattering sound waves spread across the heavens and earth.
The Heavenly Demon Seal failed to suppress Zhang Ruochen, and was instead picked off, plummeting towards the bottom of the Endless Abyss.
“How is this possible?”
The Infinite Flag King stared at a pair of pitch-black demonic pupils, shocked, and immediately struck out a black holy qi that swept towards the Heavenly Demon Seal, wanting to retrieve it.
Zhang Ruochen’s body was surging with battle intent as he took this opportunity to strike again, his arms radiating multicoloured light as he waved his Seven Saint Serpent Spear to slash down horizontally, shattering the holy qi that the Infinite Flag King had struck out and severing the connection between the Infinite Flag King and the Heavenly Demon Seal.
The Heavenly Demon Seal, after all, was only a Hundred Stripes Sacred Artifact, and losing control of its master, it immediately plummeted into the endless abyss, disappearing between the clouds of the Manifestation.
The Infinite Flag King trembled with uncontrollable rage as he roared, “This King will surely thwart you.”
Zhang Ruochen’s face sank cold as he struck out decisively and sharply, taking a step of three feet, spinning the Seven Sacred Serpent Spear, and stabbing it towards the Limitless Flag Lord’s brow.
“Glacial Hell.”
The Immeasurable Flag Lord’s hands lifted, and on the ground, two layers of black metaphysical ice immediately condensed, taking on the shape of a diamond, emitting a dark splendour, surprisingly freezing the Seven Sacred Serpent Spear, unable to advance a single point further.
Immediately after that, the Infinite Flag Master struck out with a palm strike.
The palm imprint struck Zhang Ruochen’s abdomen from below the Seven Saint Serpent Spear.
Zhang Ruochen could only abandon the Seven Saint Serpent Spear and formed a seal with both hands, punching open the six major orifices and striking both palms out at the same time.
“Boom.”
The Infinite Flag Master’s palm force actually overpowered the Seven Orifices Blood Underworld Palm, knocking Zhang Ruochen back sixteen steps in a row.
On the ground, crackling sounds resounded, leaving sixteen half-foot deep footprints in a row.
If Zhang Ruochen hadn’t forcefully stabilised his figure and taken another step backwards, he feared that he would have fallen down into the Endless Abyss.
The Infinite Flag Lord’s figure shook slightly and took two steps backward before he was able to dissolve the power of the Seven Orifices Blood Underworld Palm.
Even so, his palms, too, were vaguely painful, and his Saint Qi operation became somewhat sluggish.
He stared at Zhang Ruochen, who was standing at the edge of the abyss, in considerable surprise, and said, ”You were actually able to block the full force of my old man’s palm? At your cultivation level, even if you execute a Saint Art, it shouldn’t be this strong …… Could it be fleshly strength.”
At this moment, the Infinite Flag Lord finally understood somewhat.
Gu Linfeng’s physical body was indeed incredibly powerful. Earlier, he had suffered such a severe trauma, but he was still dragon-like and fierce, with a fierce battle spirit, even a Saint Body would find it difficult to achieve this.
Even so, the Infinite Flag King was still confident in himself, taking out the Seven Saint Serpent Spear that was sealed in the black cold ice and holding it tightly in his hand as he said, ”Your physical body strength is indeed very strong, exceeding this King’s expectations. However, you have lost the Seven Sacred Serpent Spear, so what good is your fleshly body strength?”
Zhang Ruochen stared towards the Seven Sacred Serpent Spear and said, “Without the Seven Sacred Serpent Spear, it’s my battle power that will be stronger.”
“Is that so? It’s just a pity that your proud palm technique also lost to this King just now.”The Infinite Flag King laughed.
Soon, the smile on the Infinite Flag King’s face became stiff, and a look of surprise surfaced in his eyes.
Only to see that a black ancient sword, which had also flown out from nowhere, hovered above Zhang Ruochen’s head, emitting dense sword Qi, forming a Sword Qi Domain.
“My Palm Technique, right now, can only be considered second-rate, and has not reached the realm of Heavenly Unity. Perhaps only the sword technique can barely be considered first-rate.”Zhang Ruochen said.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen’s aura, again, had some changes, becoming sharper and more imposing.
With a sword in his hand, he was like a Sword Saint in the dust.
Successfully cultivating a palm technique at the level of a Saint Art, and yet he still claimed that his palm technique was only second-rate?
If such words were to be heard by those other cultivators who cultivated palm techniques, there would be many who would die of shame.
“False pretence, this king would like to try, just how extraordinary is your sword technique?”
The Infinite Flag King’s hands gripped the Seven Sacred Serpent Spear tightly, mobilising his entire body’s holy qi completely, and in the air, a sharp sound was emitted, forming a reverberating qi force.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze, glanced in the direction behind the Infinite Flag King as he pinched out a sword trick with two fingers, invoking the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword flew out, transforming into a black stream of light, forming a ghostly arc and circling around behind the Immeasurable Flag King.
“Stab!”
The sharp sword qi, which was hundreds of metres long, did not land on the body of the Infinite Flag King, but instead split the ground behind the Infinite God King.
The blood-red rock, shattered and opened up, forming a hundreds of metres long gully that went straight into the ground.
The ground shook for a moment, and the earth, which was 10,000 square metres in circumference, separated from the rock and plunged downwards below the abyss.?”Gu Linfeng, are you crazy?”
The Immeasurable Flag King’s eyes turned red as he immediately withdrew the power he had prepared to attack Zhang Ruochen, and with a stomp of his legs, he charged upwards, wanting to return to the ground again.
Zhang Ruochen stood on top of the descending rock slabs, appearing quite calm as he once again formed a sword trick.
Above, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword emitted a large black glow, and even the Sword Spirit, which was also visible, stood at the centre of the black glow.
“Wow!”
As the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword flew down from above, it actually emitted thousands of sword qi, continuously crashing into the Infinite Flag King.
Seeing the rain of swords falling from above, the Immeasurable Flag King immediately stabbed the Seven Sacred Serpent Spear out, collapsing all the sword qi and turning it into a trail of green smoke.
However, this strike stopped the Infinite Flag King from charging upwards.
Zhang Ruochen used his Sword Royal Art, controlling the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, and continued to attack the Immeasurable Flag King, beating him so much that he had to fall downwards.
Finally, the Immeasurable Flag King crashed down, his eyes very fierce as he said, “Do you want to die with this king?”
Zhang Ruochen reached upwards and grabbed the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword that flew back, shaking his head, “Didn’t you say that the bottom of the Endless Abyss is the First Gradient, so how can you call it dying together?”
“Even if there is a first gradient, with your cultivation, you would never expect to be able to return to the surface alive.”
The Infinite Flag King’s eyes were filled with killing intent.
He injected the holy qi in his body into the Seven Saint Serpent Spear in a steady stream, and stepped forward with his right foot, shattering the rocks underneath his feet.
At the same time, the Seven Saint Serpent Spear stabbed out, presenting dozens of razor-sharp light flashes that rained down like rain, completely enveloping Zhang Ruochen.
“Broken.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and stabbed forward, also forming dozens of sword lights, dissolving all of the Infinite Flag King’s attacks.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword collided with the Seven Sacred Snake Spear, sending out grains of sparks.
The sword Qi, along the shaft of the Serpent Spear, flew all the way to the Limitless Flag King’s arm, cutting his sleeve into pieces of cloth, revealing a yellowish-brown withered hand.
Immeasurable Flag King immediately retreated backwards, releasing the holy qi from his body, forming a black curtain of light that blocked all the sword qi.
“How could this happen? How come Gu Linfeng is getting stronger the more he fights?”
The Infinite Flag King was quite alarmed, just now, if he hadn’t retreated fast enough, I’m afraid that his right arm would have turned into a white bone.
At the very beginning, on the ground, the Infinite Flag King was still able to hold a certain advantage. However, the more he fell downwards, that advantage, however, shifted towards Gu Linfeng.
“The more one falls downwards, the stronger the rules of heaven and earth suppress cultivation, and the advantage of physical strength will become greater and greater.”
The Infinite Flag King secretly calculated that, suppressed by the rules of heaven and earth, right now, he could only exert, at most, one-thirtieth of his cultivation in his heyday.
The Saint Qi in his body was like turning into lead and mercury, and could only flow slowly.
“We can’t wait any longer, if we reach the first echelon, with Gu Linfeng’s formidable physical strength, this king is no match for him at all.”
The Infinite Flag King took a big step forward, waving his Seven Sacred Serpent Spear and sweeping it towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen no longer held back, his silhouette flashed forward three feet in mid-air, appearing in front of the Infinite Flag King’s body, brilliant sword light, swinging and chopping over.
“Golden Dipper Sunrise.”
“Boom.”
A spear and a sword collided together.
The power that erupted from the sword sent the Immeasurable Flag King flying backwards.
The Immeasurable Flag King’s five fingers crumbled and blood flowed out. Not only was the Seven Sacred Serpent Spear trembling, but his arm, too, was trembling along with it.
Zhang Ruochen glanced downwards and did not attack again.
On his back, a pair of golden dragon wings grew, which were actually more than ten feet long, like two golden clouds.
In an instant, the speed of his descent began to slow down.
The Infinite Flag King glanced downwards, his gaze piercing through the black clouds, only to see that, hundreds of metres below, a layer of ground actually appeared.
A vast dark world was revealed.
