As if she was electrocuted, Concubine Lin gently trembled and slowly turned around.
When her gaze, landed on Zhang Ruochen’s body, her figure trembled even more, however, she seemed to think that it was her own illusion, and withdrew her gaze, gently shaking her head with a sigh.
Kong Xuan stood beside Concubine Lin, who had already grown into a stunning and moving beauty, seeing Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yichen’s figure, her clear face was filled with joy, assisting Concubine Lin to stand up.
“Madam, it’s really Gongzi who has returned, look quickly, it’s not an illusion, it’s really not an illusion.”
Zhang Ruochen walked to Consort Lin’s front, his eyes were incomparably sour, he held her tightly, in his heart, he had a thousand words he wanted to say, but he didn’t know how to say them, and in the end, he transformed them into one sentence, “Mother, Dusty-er has come back to fetch you, and we’ll never be separated again.”
“Dust child …… is good to come back, good to come back ……”
Concubine Lin only felt as if she was dreaming, it was very unreal, desperately hugging and straining Ruochen, afraid that the next moment he would disappear again.
Mother and son gathered together, there were endless words to talk to each other, until Qing Mo and Huang Yichen made dinner, they walked out of the room and came to the dining hall.
“Kong Xuan, you also sit down to dine, if you don’t try Qing Mo’s cooking, you will definitely regret it for the rest of your life.”Zhang Ruochen laughed.
Kong Xuan’s cultivation level had already reached the Half-Saint realm, yet, she was still faithfully guarding Princess Lin’s side as a maid.
It was because of her care that Concubine Lin was able to come out of her grief and painful cries time and time again.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen did not treat her as a maid, but rather as half a disciple.
“Many thanks, Your Excellency.”
Kong Xuan curtsied to Zhang Ruochen with a flourish before he sat down.
Reunited after a long time, Zhang Ruochen only felt incomparably happy, only wishing to be able to stay like this and never pay attention to the world’s strife and vendettas again.
However, how could peace and quiet be that easy, and strife was inevitable.
Under the night, a thick killing chance came surging in.
“Hoo!”
Outside the Boundary Son’s Mansion, a gloomy wind hung up.
A black silhouette, manifested and stood in the shadows.
One of them, an old man with a waxen face, held a dark red holy staff as he stared at the brightly lit Boundary Son Mansion and said, “The Spirit King Saint Ancestor has held Ling Fei Yu in check, so tonight is the best time for us to make our move, no matter what, we must capture Zhang Ruochen’s mother.”
“However, the news coming from the Northern Domain says that Zhang Ruochen’s three veins are not wasted, instead, his cultivation has risen so much that even figures like Qi Zhenyi and the Wind Destroying Blood Sage have been subdued by him. If we capture his mother, won’t we be messing with a great enemy?”A younger cultivator said with some concern.
“What do you know? Zhang Ruochen has long been a mortal enemy of our two clans, and only by getting rid of him can we completely eliminate our worries. How strong can Zhang Ruochen be, can he compare to the Spirit King Saint Ancestor? Can it compare to the Heavenly Fate Corpse Emperor?”
That old man reprimanded and added, “Anyway, Princess Silver Shadow has already given her word that if this operation fails again, all of us will be refined into ghost servants.”
All of those black silhouettes trembled, followed by a strong Yin cold aura emanating from their bodies.
The old man waved the holy staff in his hand, and thousands of ghostly shadows flew out, coalescing into a cloudy wind that rushed in the direction of the Boundary Son Mansion.
The spirit lamps in the Boundary Son Mansion shook violently, followed by extinguishing.
The soldiers guarding the Boundary Son Mansion had just realised that something was wrong, when a ghostly shadow rushed into their bodies and took over their bodies.
In an instant, all of those sergeants were fixed in place, becoming motionless, their expressions stagnant, as if they had hit an evil spirit.
“Swish swish.”
The cultivators of the Ghost Raising Ancient Clan and the Corpse Catching Ancient Clan transformed into a dark shadow and rushed into the Boundary Son Mansion unnoticed by God.
In the dining hall, the crowd was eating.
Huang Yichen’s eyes, staring at the gently swaying lights, sensed that an enemy had intruded into the Boundary Son Mansion, and said in a cold voice, “Brother Dust, I’ll go out to welcome the guests.”
“You stay and tell your mother about the interesting stories we encountered in the Green Dragon Market Realm, the Yin Yang Sea, and the Northern Domain, and I’ll go to meet and greet them.”
Zhang Ruochen gently patted Huang Yichen’s fragrant shoulder and signalled for her to sit down, followed by a faint smile at the somewhat uneasy Concubine Lin before he walked out of the dining hall.
Standing on the stone stairs, Zhang Ruochen turned around, facing the dining hall, and stretched out a palm.
Muddy spiritual energy surged out from his palm, forming a soundproof boundary that completely wrapped the dining hall.
“Look guys, there is a silhouette, standing outside the dining hall.”
“As long as it’s not Zhang Ruochen’s mother, all the rest of the idle people will be exterminated.”
Two black silhouettes, as if they were ghosts, flew down from above one of the eaves, waving their swords at the same time, chopping at Zhang Ruochen from two rather tricky angles.
“Boom boom.”
Before their knives could slash at Zhang Ruochen’s body, their bodies automatically burst apart, turning into two clouds of blood mist.
Zhang Ruochen was incomparably sunken in anger, the Ghost Raising Ancient Clan and the Corpse Catching Ancient Clan were so bold that they actually dared to come and capture his mother. If he hadn’t rushed back earlier, wouldn’t they have got their way?
It seemed like they had to be taught a painful lesson before they could do so.
“There are still experts guarding Zhang Ruochen’s mother.”
Seeing the tragic deaths of the two clansmen with not-so-weak cultivation, the cultivators of the Ghost Raising Ancient Clan and the Corpse Catching Ancient Clan rushed over, some standing in the compound, some on the roof, surrounding Zhang Ruochen.
“Just a youngster, not enough to fear.”
A bald old man, who smiled disdainfully, held a bell and shook it vigorously.
“Ding ding.”
Behind him, a series of four Half-Saint Battle Corpses rushed out, all wearing armour and wielding bloody swords, emitting a corpse aura full of corrosiveness, causing the trees and flowers in the Boundary Son’s Mansion to wither.
Zhang Ruochen let out a light humph as he pressed his palm in the void and a stream of Saint Qi surged out.
Immediately afterwards, the four Half-Saint Battle Corpses stopped in mid-air, their corpses bursting apart and turning into yellow sand, flowing out of their armour and spilling onto the ground.
Only four empty armours remained, falling to the ground.
“Heavens, it’s a Saint.”
The cultivators of the Ghost Raising Ancient Race and the Corpse Catching Ancient Race all sucked in cool air.
The bald old man, in particular, was so frightened that he couldn’t help but fall backwards, wanting to vanish.
Zhang Ruochen’s finger pointed, and a sword wave flew out, striking that bald old man’s brow, and with a bang, the entire head burst open.
An old man with a somewhat waxy face, holding a dark red holy staff, rode the Yin Wind and appeared in the sky above the dining hall.
Seeing this old man appear, the cultivators of the two races were relieved and all bowed, “Greetings to Elder Knight Saint.”
Elder Li Sheng’s gaze, locked onto Zhang Ruochen’s body, his voice was gloomy, “Kid, you’d better not mind your own business, going against the Corpse Catching Ancient Race and the Ghost Raising Ancient Race won’t lead to any good outcomes.”
Zhang Ruochen glanced at him and said, “Who is the mastermind? Tell me and I can give you a whole body.”
The cultivators of the two clans, all of them felt that the young man in front of them was really crazy, facing a Saint Realm Elder and daring to say such words.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen’s icy cold eyes, the Sage Elder Li felt a tremor in his heart, realising that the young man in front of him was very uncomplicated, and said vigilantly, “Who the hell are you?”
“Who am I? Can’t you recognise that I’m the one you’re dealing with.”Zhang Ruochen dispersed his spiritual power and revealed his true face.
“Zhang Ruochen.”
A large chorus of terrified voices rang out.
Nowadays, Zhang Ruochen’s fame had spread throughout the world, and he had long since become more than the junior who had once been at the mercy of others; just the identity of the Blood God Sect’s Sectmaster was enough to scare countless cultivators to death.
The cultivators of the Ghost Raising Ancient Clan and the Corpse Catching Ancient Clan trembled in fear and fled, already regretting coming to the Boundary Son’s Mansion. Including Elder Li Sheng was no exception, fleeing as hard as he could, how could he dare to fight with Zhang Ruochen, the two of them were a hundred thousand miles apart in cultivation.
“Still want to leave?”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t make a move at all, only releasing his Sacred Might, enveloping the entire Boundary Son Mansion.
The cultivators of the Ghost Raising Ancient Race and the Corpse Catching Ancient Race were then all suppressed to the point where they knelt on the ground, none of them were able to remain standing, and some of them, even fainted to death directly.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen stretched out a palm and grabbed it through the air.
A large handprint tens of zhang long appeared, capturing the Knight Saint Elder who had fled to the edge of the Boundary Son Mansion, dragging him back and suppressing him within the large handprint.
Zhang Ruochen carried his hands behind his back and walked to Elder Knight Sage with an expressionless face, saying, “Tell me, who are the masterminds? Where are they?”
“Zhang Ruochen, you’d better let this Elder go, or you’ll end up in a very miserable state.”Elder Li Sheng roared in a deep voice.
Zhang Ruochen stopped asking him and stretched out a hand, pressing it towards Elder Li Sheng’s brow, ready to seize his memories and find the answer himself.
The Knight Saint Elder was obviously aware of Zhang Ruochen’s purpose as well, so he mobilised his Saint Qi and rushed into the Saint Source, and in the next moment, a destructive force surged out from his body.
“Surprisingly, he blew up the Saint Source himself.”
Zhang Ruochen’s brows furrowed as he retreated backward sharply, and at the same time, his finger pointed forward, shattering the space near the Knight Sage Elder, creating a shattered spatial zone.
The Saint Body of the Knight Saint Elder was swallowed by space.
After blowing up the Saint Origin, it only caused the space to tremble slightly and did not cause too much destruction.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen began to interrogate the other cultivators, but unfortunately, their cultivation levels were too low and their knowledge was very limited, and they didn’t ask too many valuable things.
Just one thing was established, they all followed the orders of the Silver Shadow Princess, moreover, there seemed to be quite a number of Saint realm experts sent by the two clans to the Central Imperial City, not just to capture Concubine Lin, but also to make friends with some of the powerful and noble people in the court.
And that Silver Shadow Princess, who was the elder sister of Feng Yinchan, had a great purpose, and it was assumed that it was all to avenge Feng Yinchan’s death.
The cultivators of the Corpse Catching Ancient Clan and the Ghost Raising Ancient Clan were all exterminated and crushed into robbed ashes.
Afterwards, Zhang Ruochen took out the Buddha Emperor Relic and flew around the Boundary Son Mansion, and the Ghost Fiends that had invaded into the bodies of the guarding sergeants were all purified.
The guarding sergeants didn’t know what had happened, thinking that they had just lost their concentration for a moment, they didn’t take it to heart and started patrolling and standing guard again.
Zhang Ruochen, on the other hand, pushed open the door of the dining hall and walked in with a smile on his face, resuming his seat on top of it as he laughed, ”Mother, how was your chat with Smokey? What happened in the Green Dragon Market Realm, the Yin Yang Sea, and the Northern Domain is still very interesting, where there is any danger, it’s all just those people talking nonsense.”
