“Leaning on the building to listen to the wind and rain, the wind and rain can know the wish? Look lightly at the road of the jianghu, the hearts of the people on the road are dangerous. Cold wind on a rainy night, a sword breaks a soul.”
Zhang Ruochen embraced the stone beauty, sitting on top of the third floor attic, listening to the sound of the wind and rain outside the window, as if he had forgotten about the murderous robberies outside, he couldn’t help it, and the corner of his mouth revealed an arc.
It was already dawn.
The rain, did not stop, but instead, it fell more rapidly.
Last night, Murong Yue, the Grand Secretary, and the Second Secretary had already come to the Heavenly Music Room, and had sent over the Open Deer Cauldron and the Elephant Soul of the Green Armored Sacred Elephant.
Zhang Ruochen placed them all into the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, and even the powerful Da Si Kong and Er Si Kong were no exception.
In the end, the Great Sikong and the Second Sikong had yet to cross into the Saint Realm, and would likely be in danger when they encountered a true Saint Realm being.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t send the Stone Beauty, into the Scroll World.
There were two reasons for this:
First, in the end, Shi Beauty was the Palace Master of the Devil Cult, and once her state of mind was restored and she wanted to snatch the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, Zhang Ruochen would not be a match for her at all.
Zhang Ruochen was able to treat people with sincerity, but who could say if others would return the favor with a grudge? When faced with a treasure like the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, not to mention a Sword Saint, even a Great Saint would make a move to snatch it.
In history, there were too many bloody examples, without absolute certainty, Zhang Ruochen would not expose his biggest secret.
Secondly, Zhang Ruochen also wanted to cleanse the heart of the Stone Beauty through the battle. If, however, she could be awakened, with her strength, she would be enough to sweep away all the strongest members of the Demon Sect, and could neutralize all crises.
Outside of the Heavenly Music Room, there were three layers of formations laid out, so even if it was a Saint, it would be impossible to vanish silently.
It was already the next morning, because the sky was cloudy, the sky was still still very dim.
Ouyang Huan was in the rain, standing for the whole night.
Qi Fayu was holding a fan, appearing to be standing next to Ouyang Huan’s body, and said, “Would mother be making too much of a fuss, and need to use the power of the entire Pearl Pavilion for the sake of a stone beauty and a Gu Linfeng?”
Ouyang Huan had probably guessed a few moments of the truth, and understood even more how important this matter was, once the news leaked out, the entire Moon Worshipping Divine Sect would have to be in turmoil.
This matter, absolutely cannot be lost.
Ouyang Huan did not explain to Qi Fayu, staring at the distant pavilion, an ominous premonition arose and said, “I’ll go to the Heavenly Music Room to take a look.”
“I’ll go with you.”
Qi Fayu followed.
The two of them arrived at the bottom of the attic and did not immediately barge in, instead, they were secretly observing, always feeling that it was too quiet inside.
From the attic, an unfamiliar man’s voice rang out, “Since the two of you are already here, why don’t you come in for a chat?”
This voice, definitely did not belong to Gu Linfeng.
Ouyang Huan and Qi Fayu glanced at each other, and then, their figures flickered and disappeared in place.
In the next moment, they had appeared on the third floor of the attic, pushing the wooden door open, only to see two people sitting in the center of the room.
One was a stone beauty.
The other, a young man, they had not seen at all.
Ouyang Huan, still maintaining his calm and collected demeanor, quickly scanned through the attic and asked, ”Your Excellency is really good at this, you can actually break in and enter this place unnoticed. Where is Gu Linfeng? Where are the Murong Family’s cultivators?”
Zhang Ruochen remained seated on the ground, stroking the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword in his hand as he said, “Naturally, they have been sent away by me.”
“I don’t believe it.”Ouyang Huan shook his head.
“I can break in without a sound, can’t I send someone away without a sound?”Zhang Ruochen asked rhetorically.
Someone was able to break through the three layers of formations without a sound and, in addition, escape the senses of all the Devil Cult experts in the Pearl Light Pavilion?
Even a Saint realm assassin could not possibly have such a skill.
“Don’t make a fool of yourself, who exactly are you?”Qi Fayu chortled coldly.
“Zhang Ruochen.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Hearing those three words, even with Ouyang Huan and Qi Fayu’s state of mind, they revealed a look of surprise, feeling very unbelievable.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen resumed his original appearance and did not use Gu Linfeng’s identity.
Ouyang Huan and Qi Fayu had only met Lin Yue and had not seen Zhang Ruochen’s face, so they naturally did not recognize him.
“Time and Space Successor, Zhang Ruochen?”
“That’s right.”Zhang Ruochen said.
At this moment, Ouyang Huan finally believed somewhat in what Zhang Ruochen had said earlier. What other people could not do, the Time and Space Transmitter who controlled the power of time and space might not be unable to do.
Ouyang Huan said, “Since you have already sent away Gu Linfeng and the Murong Family’s cultivators, all of them, why didn’t you leave together, but instead stayed here?”
“I stayed here just to give you guys a reasoning.”
“What reasoning?”Qi Fayu asked.
Zhang Ruochen took Shi Beauty’s hand and slowly stood up, staring at Ouyang Huan and Qi Fayu, saying without slowing down, “Regardless of how much internal fighting there is in your Demon Sect, the Fei Yu Sword Saint is half a teacher and half a friend of mine, so you guys shouldn’t have treated her like that.”
In Qi Fei Yu’s eyes, a trace of a different color flashed, instantly figuring out all the doubts in her heart, with a feeling of sudden enlightenment.
“Swish.”?Without warning, Zhang Ruochen directly executed the first move of the Scale Sword Technique, the Moment Four Directions Change.
The black Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was like a stream of light as it chopped horizontally towards Ouyang Huan and Qi Fayu.
Ouyang Huan was worried about Qi Fayu’s safety, so he immediately grabbed her wrist and executed the Seven Star Lotus Steps, stepping on the black lotus flower with his feet, and took seven steps backwards in a row, flying out of the pavilion and rushing into into the rain curtain.
“Rumble.”
Hundreds of sword qi flew out, completely shredding the three-story wooden attic building, collapsing downwards and turning it into wooden block ruins.
Ouyang Huan looked towards a two-inch long rip on his clothes, his heart secretly flinched, “What a fast sword. Sword four? Or is it sword five?”
Such a fast sword, Ouyang Huan had only seen it when he fought with Xue Wuye. Could it be that Zhang Ruochen’s sword Dao could already be on par with Xue Wuye?
Ouyang Huan stared towards Zhang Ruochen in the distance, but then shook his head.
He could see that Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation level was not too strong and there was still a huge gap between him and Xue Wuye.
Zhang Ruochen carried the black Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and held Beauty Shi’s hand as he scanned the four directions with a disdainful stance.
In the darkness, a black silhouette, all of them rushed out, hundreds of them, all of them strong.
More than ten of them emitted an aura that was very powerful, as if they were flooded mountains standing in the rain, giving people a powerful oppressive force.
Ouyang Huan raised his voice, “Zhang Ruochen, where exactly do you get your confidence from that you dare to challenge the Moon Worshipping Divine Sect alone?”
“Who said I was alone?”Zhang Ruochen said.
“Wow!”
A wisp of ghostly Qi flew out from Zhang Ruochen’s sleeve, condensing into a beautiful figure with long hair, standing in midair.
It was none other than the Blood Moon Ghost King.
In recent times, the Blood Moon Ghost King had been cultivating in the Scroll World, and with the absorption of a large amount of death qi from within the stump of the Heaven Receiving Divine Tree, her cultivation had been taken to the next level.
The ghostly aura emanating from the Blood Moon Ghost King enveloped the entire Pearl Light Pavilion, causing this piece of heaven and earth to become pitch black and cold, and all the vegetation to become withered and yellow at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.
In just an instant, this place looked like it had turned into a Shura Hell.
“Everyone be careful, that’s a Ghost King, its strength is comparable to a Saint.”
Seeing the Ghost King appear, the black-clothed people surrounding the area, feeling fear, retreated backwards.
Ouyang Huan was exceptionally calm and ordered, “Turn on the Ten Square Heavenly Thunder Formation.”
The Pearl Pavilion as the important place for the Devil Cult to gather wealth, naturally, there were guarding and attacking arrays arranged.
Once the formation was turned on, even a Saint could be subdued.
However, the formation masters sitting in the four directions of the Pearl Pavilion did not move when they activated the Ten Square Heavenly Thunder Formation.
“What’s going on, we check the formation inscriptions once a month, why can’t we activate the formation?”
“Where exactly did the accident occur?”
The formation masters in the Pearl Pavilion were all in a frenzy of anxiety.
At this moment, Little Black crawled out from the ground and looked in the direction of the four array towers, grinning and holding out his furry chest, looking accomplished.
“A mere seventh grade formation, how can it be difficult for this Emperor?”
Last night, before entering the auction house, Zhang Ruochen had Little Black destroy the formation inscriptions on the ground floor of the Pearl Light Pavilion, for this moment right now.
“Hehehe, now it’s this Emperor’s turn to dominate your lives and deaths.”?Little Black was excited and mobilized his holy qi, gathering it in his claws, and then, punched it into the ground.
“Rumble.”
In the Pearl Pavilion, seventy-two white pillars of light with a diameter of one meter rushed up and went straight into the clouds, causing the dark clouds in the sky to rapidly roll over.
A huge formation rotating wheel, in the clouds, coalesced out.
Densely densely packed lightning, intertwined together, emitting crackling sounds, causing a sound that startled the major powers in the black market.
“The Pearl Lightning Pavilion actually activated the Ten Square Heavenly Thunder Formation, it should have encountered a great enemy. I don’t know who it is that dares to go against the Demon Sect?”
“In that direction, a ghostly aura covers the sky, it’s most likely a Ghost King fighting with the Demon Sect.”
“This matter is not trivial, how about we don’t meddle in it.”
The major evil forces in the black market did not extend a helping hand and immediately opened their defense formations for fear of suffering the repercussions.
The Devil Cult cultivators in the Pearl Pavilion, seeing that the Ten Square Heavenly Thunder Formation was successfully opened, all of them secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although, without the Ten Square Heavenly Thunder Formation, they were also confident that they could take Zhang Ruochen and the Blood Moon Ghost King down, but they would definitely suffer heavy casualties, and even the entire Pearl Pavilion would be destroyed.
They could not afford such a loss.
The Master of the Pearl Light Pavilion glanced towards the formation spinning wheel above his head, nodded in satisfaction, stood out, and said in a raised voice, “Zhang Ruochen, it’s not too late for you to stop now. If, however, the power of the Ten Directions Heavenly Thunder Formation descends, even if there is a Ghost King sheltering you, you will only end up with your divine form destroyed.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “I can no longer withdraw my hand, tonight, it is destined to be a matter of you dying and me living.”
“You are looking for death.”
The Pearl Pavilion Master’s gaze locked Zhang Ruochen in place as strands of black demonic Qi surged out from between his fingers, forming a circle of ripples that broke through the ghostly Qi emanating from the Blood Moon Ghost King.
With this alone, it could be seen that this person’s cultivation was unfathomable, and had likely crossed over into the Saint realm.
However, before the Pearl Pavilion Master’s attacking means could be struck, above the dome of the sky, in the center of the formation’s rotating wheel, a bowl-thick thunderbolt struck down, impartially, right on top of his head.
The entire person of the Pearl Light Pavilion Master froze, the demonic energy that he had condensed was all dispersed, his body became scorched black, his hair stood up, and he was still smoking black.
