Taking advantage of this moment, Zhang Ruochen struck again, tearing out a spatial rift.
The ten-odd feet long crack was like the mouth of the God of Death, capable of devouring all matter, and struck at the top of Immortal Orchid King’s head from above, cutting through the void.
Immortal Orchid King looked up, revealing a grave expression.
He did not fight the spatial rift hard, and performed his body technique, splitting into three, turning into three residual shadows, and rushing backwards.
The spatial rift chopped at the ground, resounding with a clicking sound as the rocks cracked, leaving a deep, bottomless gully.
“Wow.”
All three holy swords flew back, charging straight up and interlocking with each other, emitting dense sword light that struck at Zhang Ruochen, who was flying in mid-air.
Zhang Ruochen held the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, not dodging or evading, quickly striking out, either slashing, chopping, entangling or lifting, picking off all three Saint Swords.
His figure, quickly pressing downwards, swung his sword towards the top of Xian Lan King’s head.
“Golden Dipper Sunrise.”
This was a move from the Nine Lives Sword Technique, and even though Zhang Ruochen had yet to cultivate it to its grand completion, it was still incredibly powerful, and the sword’s aura soared, emitting ear-piercing sonic sounds.
“A mere Half Saint, how dare you challenge the majesty of this King, this King only needs one punch to waste you.”
The Immortal Orchid King snorted coldly, his arm emitting crackling sounds, with flames flickering.
A layer of blood-red holy light surged out from his fist covered in blood armour, and he struck upwards violently, and immediately, blood awnings rushed into the sky, intent on dethroning Zhang Ruochen.
In the air, the sound of whining wind and thunder resounded as the wind of the fist surged rapidly.
The body of a Saint was able to connect with the heavens and the earth, and the power of a fist was mixed with the might of the heavens and the earth.
“Boom.”
As the fists and swords clashed, a sound of metal shattering rang out, and even more blood and light spilled onto the ground.
The Immortal Orchid King retreated a dozen steps backwards, stepping on the rocks on the ground and creating a crack.
In his fist, a stinging pain came from it.
The blood armour scales on his fist were unexpectedly shattered, and a sword mark appeared on the back of his hand, with holy blood gushing out from the wound and sliding down his fingers.
A Blood Saint was actually injured by a human Half Saint?
The Immortal Orchid King pinched his five fingers together, and in the next moment, the blood scar left on the back of his hand by the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword automatically healed, not even leaving a scar.
“Worthy of being a Blood Saint, what a strong self-healing ability. It’s estimated that he’ll be able to continue fighting even after chopping off his head.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t dare to take it lightly and remained taut.
Suddenly, the body of the Immortal Orchid King actually shrunk by a hundred times, becoming less than an inch tall, as if it was a small, blood-red bat but with a human body, which was quite bizarre.
For the Immortal Blood Clan, they could both easily shrink by a hundred times and turn into the size of a mosquito, appearing more flexible and versatile.
At the same time, they could also make their bodies a hundred times larger, transforming into a giant of infinite strength that could move mountains and the sea.
Zhang Ruochen’s greatest threat to the Immortal Orchid King wasn’t his Five Elements Chaotic Body or his exquisite sword technique, but rather his spatial means.
Now that the Immortal Orchid King had taken the initiative to shrink his body by a hundred times, he would also be able to avoid the attacks of spatial forces to the greatest extent possible, maximising his advantage.
The three holy swords flew out once again, turning into three streaks of white light that flew against the ground towards Zhang Ruochen.
Immortal Orchid King stood on top of the sword body of one of the holy swords, with strands of blood qi surging out from his body, and although his body became extremely small, the aura on his body became even stronger.
Facing the attacks of the three holy swords, Zhang Ruochen could only keep retreating and defuse the Immortal Orchid King’s attacks.
Even so, Zhang Ruochen was still unable to completely dodge them, and the three holy swords left sword wounds on his arms and legs.
One of the attacks, the most sinister, slashed through his neck, chopping off a strand of hair.
The Immortal Orchid King seized the moment and leapt forward, rushing out from above the body of the Saint Sword, transforming into a brilliant blood light and striking Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
Zhang Ruochen’s palm, slapped forwards, and a low-pitched dragon’s roar emanated from his palm.
“Boom!”
This time, Zhang Ruochen failed to block the Immortal Orchid King’s punch and flew backwards, his body’s qi and blood shook, even his internal organs were somewhat misaligned.
The power that erupted from a being of the Saint realm was truly not to be underestimated.
Whether it was in terms of combat skills or understanding of the Saint Dao, there was a huge gap between Zhang Ruochen and Immortal Orchid King.
With close to a thousand years of cultivation, Immortal Orchid King had long cultivated his martial skills to the level of perfection, sophisticated, steady, and atmospheric, and even if Zhang Ruochen’s system was more powerful than his, it would be difficult to pose a threat to him.
“Zhang Ruochen, you’re still a little too tender after all.”
The Immortal Orchid King flew out forwards, riding on his victory, wanting to seriously injure Zhang Ruochen, causing him to completely lose his fighting strength.
In the distance, the sound of the zither resounded once again.
The Sacred Book Talented Lady’s fingers plucked another zither string.
In a flash, the rocks on the ground tumbled up, forming walls, earth thorns, and boulders that blocked the Xian Lan King’s body and pressed towards him.
The material of the ancient zither was very special, and the five strings on the zither, namely Gong, Shang, Horn, Zheng, and Feather, represented the five powers of the five elements, namely gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.
“Rumble.”
Immortal Orchid King’s sword Dao was very superb, having already cultivated Sword 5 to its great completion, and he attacked the Holy Book Talent Girl’s interception with a devastating momentum. The three blood-red silhouettes, merged into one, simultaneously catalysed the three holy swords and swung them down towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen stood underneath the sky-covering sword aura, the Meteor Invisibility Clothes on his body emitting a bright light that was just as bright and radiant as the blood light in mid-air.
With a wave of his arm, he chopped upwards, tearing out a crack in space.
Immortal Orchid King’s body, in a very bizarre manner, twisted slightly, surprisingly dodging the attack of the spatial crack.
Looking at the three holy swords, they were about to land on Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Zhang Ruochen once again mobilised his spatial power, and the space around him, quickly became distorted, and the holy swords that were clearly falling straight down, chopped towards Zhang Ruochen’s side.
“Swish.”
Zhang Ruochen stabbed out with his sword, striking at the Immortal Orchid King whose body was only an inch tall.
The Immortal Orchid King immediately flew out sideways, regaining its original body size, and retreated all the way back tens of feet away.
That sword strike just now was quite dangerous, just a little bit short of Zhang Ruochen’s sword piercing through his body.
Forcing back the Immortal Orchid King, Zhang Ruochen’s aura increased greatly as he performed a Spatial Shift, reaching the Immortal Orchid King’s body and launching a succession of attacks.
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden played a murderous zither piece, her fingers rapidly pulsing above the five strings.
The five elemental attack power exerted by the ancient zither and Zhang Ruochen’s Five Elements Chaotic Body worked seamlessly together, beating the Immortal Orchid King into quite a mess, and he could only defend passively.
The blazing flames refined the blood armour on the Immortal Orchid King’s body into black.
Zhang Ruochen’s sword strokes left a foot-long wound on the Immortal Orchid King’s back, and holy blood continued to flow out, staining the earth red.
The Immortal Orchid King had been cultivating for nearly a thousand years, and had never been in such a sorry state now, unexpectedly being beaten by two juniors, who had suffered consecutive injuries, holding a bellyful of anger.
“Blood Devil Descending.”
A vast blood qi surged out from the Immortal Orchid King’s brow.
At the centre of the blood qi, a tens of metres long blood-coloured skull was suspended, spinning rapidly, forming a vortex of blood qi.
At this moment, the rules of heaven and earth seemed unable to suppress the Immortal Orchid King as a mountain of power was released, surging out in all directions.
“Boom!”
A blood qi surged out, sending Zhang Ruochen flying, his body crashing into the top of the black cliff wall, half of his body set in.
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden didn’t fare well either, suffering from the impact of the blood qi and spitting out a mouthful of blood.
She was already injured, and now, her injuries had worsened by one point.
One had to know that the blood-coloured skeleton hadn’t really landed, just a single blood qi emanating from it had already heavily injured Zhang Ruochen and the Sacred Book Talented Maiden.
If, the body of the blood-coloured skeleton, launched an attack, it was hard to imagine how terrifying it would be?
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden stared at the huge skull suspended in mid-air, her face turning a little pale as she said, “That is the head left behind by a Saint King level being. In the skull, there is a vast and unfathomable residual force that can exterminate saints.”
A cold smile surfaced on the Immortal Orchid King’s face, “The two of you, being able to force this king to take out Lord Blood Demon’s head is already quite a remarkable achievement.”
After saying this, Immortal Orchid King controlled the gigantic skull and attacked towards Zhang Ruochen, who was embedded in the cliff wall, preparing to kill Zhang Ruochen first before cleaning up the Sacred Book Talented Girl.
In his opinion, the Sacred Book Talented Maiden was, after all, severely injured and wasn’t too much of a threat.
The huge skeleton, like a small mountain of blood, had a very hideous form, with fangs and two ghostly flames burning inside its deep eye sockets.
If one were to probe carefully, one would even find that there was a faint aura of life emanating from the interior of the skull.
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden immediately punched out the Ru Ancestor Sacred Book and flew towards the skeleton, stopping it from crashing into Zhang Ruochen’s body.
“Wow!”
The Sacred Book of the Confucian Ancestor turned over page after page, flying out tens of thousands of bright points of light, each of which was a text.
As, the skeleton pressed down, the words continued to burst and turn into aerosols.
With each text bursting, the Sacred Book Talented Lady’s injuries were going to worsen by one point, as blood continued to flow out from the corners of her mouth, and her soft and delicate body appeared to be trembling as if it was going to shatter along with the text as well.
“The Ru Ancestor’s Holy Book is nothing more than that, how could it possibly stop the head of Lord Blood Demon?”
The Immortal Orchid King laughed out loud and mobilised even more powerful forces to continue pushing the blood-coloured skull.
However, he did not notice that Zhang Ruochen’s figure flew out from the top of the black cliff face, transforming into a stream of light as he crossed the sky with a sword.
“One Moment Four Direction Change.”
The eye-catching sword light pierced through the blood mist and struck at Immortal Orchid King’s brow.
The power of time formed a circle of ripples, covering a hundred feet of space.
The Immortal Orchid King’s face turned a little ugly when he noticed the flying sword light, and he immediately controlled the blood-coloured skeleton, trying to block Zhang Ruochen.
However, he realised that his speed, which had become very slow, and Zhang Ruochen’s speed was incredibly fast.
“How can this be? The flow of time seems to have become somewhat slow.”
By the time Immortal Orchid King realised this, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword had already pierced in through his brow, piercing through his Qi Sea and skull.
“Err …… you ……”
Immortal Orchid King’s body, fell straight backward, gradually becoming cold.
A human-shaped holy light flew out from the top of Immortal Orchid King’s head and drilled into the blood-coloured skull suspended in midair.
Subsequently, inside the blood-coloured skeleton, the life energy, which had become a little stronger, unexpectedly broke free from the suppression of the Ru Zu Sacred Book, and flew towards the gully where the blood-coloured alien light had previously rushed out.
Zhang Ruochen landed next to the corpse of the Immortal Orchid King, panting heavily, his heart palpitating.
Just now, if he hadn’t comprehended the second level of the Time Sword Technique’s realm and executed the first move of the Scale Sword Technique, I’m afraid that both he and the Sacred Book Talented Lady would have died here.
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden retrieved the Ru Ancestor Sacred Book, but her eyes looked towards the blood-coloured skeleton that had flown dozens of miles away, and said, “The Immortal Orchid King’s Sacred Soul, flew into into that skeleton.”
“That skull seems to have come to life, it seems like we’ve messed with an even more terrifying enemy. Whose skull is it exactly?”Zhang Ruochen asked.
Although he had killed a Blood Saint, Zhang Ruochen didn’t have a trace of joy, instead, a greater sense of crisis arose.
