Ancient Immortal Emperor Chapter 167

The Half-Saint’s Light above Lu Han’s head was like a rain of golden light that continuously fell and melted with her corpse.
Gradually, Lu Han’s skin emitted a faint golden glow, and her pair of pupils also turned golden, as if two golden flames were burning within her eyes.
Every blood vein and meridian in her body also turned surprisingly, and the lines of each vein could be clearly seen.
The aura on her body was getting stronger and stronger!
Zhang Ruochen held his breath and moved his body carefully, wanting to take this opportunity to escape the Ghost Mist Mountain.
Suddenly, Lu Han turned around violently, her golden eye pupils staring towards Zhang Ruochen as her lips turned upwards, revealing two sharp teeth as she let out a sinister laugh, “Blood, fresh blood ……”
As if it was a ghastly wind, Lu Xin’s legs stepped out and rushed towards Zhang Ruochen.
“Puffing!”
With each of Lu Han’s footprints stepping down, on the ground, a thick sheet of cold ice would appear. The cold aura on her body became even more intense.
Zhang Ruochen had read in an ancient book about the Light of the Half-Saint: a dead person who melded with the Light of the Half-Saint would need a large amount of blood to enhance the strength of their physical body.
Lu Han’s martial cultivation was at the early stage of the Earth Extreme Realm.
Her fleshly body couldn’t even compare to that of a Half-Saint’s, so if she wanted to withstand the power of the Half-Saint’s Light, she would have to absorb a large amount of fresh blood and use it to condense her fleshly body.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen injected his True Qi into the Wings of Wind, and a moment later, a pair of light wings grew on his back as he fled backwards at a speed of a hundred metres per second.
Behind them, was the Ghost Mist Mountain.
Lu Han was chasing after him, and Zhang Ruochen could only charge headlong into the Ghost Mist Mountain.
If he hesitated a little, he would definitely be drained of blood and die.
Lu Han had only fused a very small portion of the Half-Saint’s Light and had yet to truly control the power of the Half-Saint’s Light, so her speed was only a fraction of a second faster than Zhang Ruochen’s.
She chased after her closely, and the distance between her and Zhang Ruochen grew closer and closer.
Seeing that Lu Huan was about to catch up, Zhang Ruochen threw a Thunder Bead out and threw it towards Lu Huan.
“Boom!”
The thunder bead cracked open, forming a streak of lightning.
A powerful destructive force erupted out in front of Lu Huan’s body, lifting him off.
Lu Huan’s body was protected by the Half-Saint’s Light, and the Thunder Bead didn’t hurt her one bit at all. Soon she leapt up from the ground, a long whistle escaping her mouth as she chased after Zhang Ruochen once again.
Zhang Ruochen glanced back and secretly cried out in his heart, ”The power of the Thunder Bead actually couldn’t even hurt her, the Half-Saint’s Light is really powerful. If I could obtain the Half-Saint’s Light, I could definitely save ten years of bitter cultivation.”
The Half-Saint’s Light was, to a certain extent, equivalent to a Half-Saint’s inheritance.
By absorbing the Half-Saint’s Light, although it was impossible for a martial artist to immediately become a Half-Saint, there were many benefits, and their future cultivation speed would be far greater than their peers.
Because he was suppressed by the miasma of the Ghost Mist Mountain, Zhang Ruochen was unable to fly even with his Wind Wings, and could only desperately rush towards the top of the mountain.
Zhang Ruochen had just rushed to the halfway point of the mountain when he suddenly stopped in his tracks, cold sweat on his forehead falling like rain.
Only to see, tens of metres away in front of him, lying on its back was a green-coloured scorpion with a body more than ten metres long, its entire body covered in sharp barbs, revealing two green-coloured eyeballs as it stared angrily at Zhang Ruochen.
The green-coloured giant scorpion was lying next to a pool of water, which was roughly more than ten metres long and wide, and the bank was filled with green and black poisonous grass.
The water in the pool was very foul-smelling, emitting strong toxicity, and a set of white bones of humans floated on the surface of the water, not knowing how many years they had died?
When that one green coloured giant scorpion saw Zhang Ruochen, it immediately became excited and let out a weird cry.
“Wow!”
It waved its two sharp giant pincers, its tail dragging on the ground, clashing with the boulders on the ground, making a metallic sound and sending out a particle of sparks.
Lu Han also chased after it from behind, quickly approaching Zhang Ruochen.
With the poisonous beasts in front of him and the evil corpses behind him, Zhang Ruochen seemed to have no escape.
Zhang Ruochen did not despair, he took out two Thunder Pearls at the same time and threw them towards the green-coloured giant scorpion in front of him and Lu Han behind him, and immediately after that, he immediately executed the Wind-Resistant Flying Dragon Shadow and fled through a steep cliff face in another direction.
Although, Lu Han’s consciousness was blurred, when Zhang Ruochen threw the Thunder Bead for the second time, she dodged over it in the first instance, turning into a stump and rushing behind Zhang Ruochen.
Her hands, which turned into claws, wanted to grab Zhang Ruochen’s shoulders.
Just as Lu Han’s claws, were about to grab Zhang Ruochen’s shoulders. The space behind Zhang Ruochen distorted, and it was as if Lu Han’s claws had paused slightly in mid-air.
Prick-la!
Lu Han’s dual claws tore through the robes on Zhang Ruochen’s back, leaving ten blood-red claw marks from Zhang Ruochen’s shoulders to his back. Droplets of bright red blood emerged from the claw marks.
Zhang Ruochen endured the icy cold stinging pain on his back and continued to charge forward.
“Ow!”
Lu Han licked the blood on his fingers, a howl escaping his mouth as he charged forward once again.
In the other direction, that one green-coloured giant scorpion also pounced towards Zhang Ruochen. That one Thunder Bead just now had not killed it, but had instead enraged it.
The mouth of the green-coloured giant scorpion spat out a mouthful of poisonous gas, which coalesced into a pillar shape, like a pillar of light, and impacted towards Zhang Ruochen.
Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to hide into the Space-Time Crystal Stone, suddenly, he saw an underground cavern appearing in front of him, the entrance of the cavern, only the size of a bowl, was very deep and seemed to lead to the ground.
Zhang Ruochen’s face revealed a joyful expression and immediately used his True Qi to open the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
With a swoosh, Zhang Ruochen disappeared into the Ghost Mist Mountain and entered the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
At the same time, the Space-Time Crystal Stone fell into the cave with precision, as if it had fallen into an endless abyss.
Lu Han and the green-coloured giant scorpion rushed to the mouth of the cave at the same time, however, the mouth of the cave was just too narrow for them to enter.
“Boom!”
The green-coloured giant scorpion used its giant pincers and attacked the cave entrance, trying to smash it open.
The powerful force of the attack split the stones on the edge of the cave entrance, instead sealing it.
“Blood …… blood ……”
Lu Han stared at the huge green giant scorpion, pounced on it, stretched out his claws, and tore the armour of the green giant scorpion apart, blood gushed out from the body of the green giant scorpion, dyeing Lu Han’s whole body into blood red.
The original colourful female corpse became somewhat hideous and scary.
……
That one cave was vertically downwards, and it was unknown where it led to?
The Space-Time Crystal Stone kept falling downwards for a long time before it fell to the ground.
Zhang Ruochen endured the pain in his back and injected his True Qi into his Soul Vein to stimulate his Martial Soul. Using the power of his Martial Soul, Zhang Ruochen probed towards the outside of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
With the Space-Time Crystal Stone as the centre, the surrounding distance of eighty metres was dark, with little scent of life.
“It seems to have landed at the bottom of the Ghost Mist Mountain, it’s good, at least it’s safe for the time being, the Green Coloured Giant Scorpion and Lu Han definitely can’t break in at a moment’s notice.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t rush to walk out from the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, it wouldn’t be too late to heal his injuries first before going out.
Taking a healing elixir down, Zhang Ruochen operated the little remaining true qi in his body and began to refine the elixir and heal his injuries.
Two days later, Zhang Ruochen’s injuries had recovered to the extent that his True Qi had also regained its peak state.
“Wow!”
With a flash of light from the Time and Space Crystal Stone, Zhang Ruochen stepped out and appeared in a pitch-black underground world.
In the Red Sky Mysterious Mansion, other places were as hot as a furnace, but in the underground of the Ghost Mist Mountain, it was very cold, almost like an underground ice cellar.
Zhang Ruochen picked up the Time and Space Crystal Stone on the ground and pinched it in his hand, a hint of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, “Luckily, there is a Time and Space Crystal Stone, or else I would have already died twice in the Red Sky Mysterious Mansion.”
However, Zhang Ruochen soon discovered another problem, the Space-Time Crystal Stone seemed to have become a little smaller again.
“It seems that the spiritual power of the Space-Time Crystal Stone will also be consumed, and one day, it will definitely be completely exhausted.”
The Space-Time Crystal Stone allowed Zhang Ruochen to have three times more cultivation time than other martial artists. However, even if he lost the Time and Space Crystal Stone, Zhang Ruochen was still confident that he would become a true powerhouse, and the belief in his heart would not change.
Zhang Ruochen put away the Time and Space Crystal Stone and took out a Fire Attribute Spirit Crystal from his spatial ring and injected it with his True Qi, and with a wow sound, the Spirit Crystal burned like a fireball.
The flames illuminated the dark space, revealing the entirety of this underground world. All around were natural stone walls, with no traces of human excavation.
The stone walls and the ground were completely covered by a layer of white cold ice, forming thousands of strange ice crystal shapes.
Zhang Ruochen stepped on the cold ice and walked forward, about a hundred metres away, when suddenly, underneath the thick cold ice, he saw a palm-sized metal fragment.
“Pah!”
Zhang Ruochen shattered the cold ice with a palm strike and reached out to pick up the piece of metal fragment.
“It’s so heavy, at least five hundred kilograms.”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit incredulous, just a piece of metal fragment was so heavy, and he didn’t know what material it was made of.
Looking closely at the metal fragment, there was a fine pattern engraved on it, much like the remnants of an armour.
I don’t know how strong a force is needed to tear that piece of armour into pieces.
Inside the metal fragment, there were also many inscriptions, but it was a pity that all of those inscriptions were shattered and could not be activated anymore.
Zhang Ruochen put the metal fragment down and continued to walk forward.
When he was about to reach the end, a large pit with a diameter of more than sixty metres appeared in front of him, with the ground sunken and raised around it. It was like a meteorite falling and causing a natural sight.
At the bottom of the large pit, lay the bones of an old man, completely sealed by cold ice.
The armour on his body was very broken, his chest was pierced through, and his body all looked like it was about to fall apart. However, it was such a dead corpse that had been dead for hundreds of years, but it exuded a powerful aura that caused this underground cold world.
Zhang Ruochen felt an enormous pressure as he stared at the dead corpse and said, “Could he be the Golden Cloud Half-Saint?”
Only an existence that had reached Half-Saint Defeat could possess such a powerful aura of power after death.
Five hundred years had passed, and the corpse of the Golden Cloud Half-Saint had not decayed in the slightest.
In the face of this scene, Zhang Ruochen did not have a trace of fear, instead, he revealed a joyful expression, finally having a way to deal with Lu Han and even take away her Half-Saint’s Light.