“What kind of power is this? It cannot possibly be just the way of space affecting a great god.” Great God Li Xiao felt terror in his heart.
Zhang Ruochen formed a sword mudra with his fingers and drew a circle with his arm. The six divine swords rotated accordingly. From his sleeves an endless stream of swords flew out forming a vast sword river that slammed heavily into Great God Li Xiao’s body.
Boom!
In an instant Great God Li Xiao’s bone body exploded turning into a vast black ocean of divine qi.
Even though the divine body shattered the divine sea remained indestructible.
Great God Li Xiao tried several times to reconstitute his divine body but each time billions of swords crushed it back into divine bone powder.
“Zhang Ruochen do not blame this seat for self-detonating the divine source to perish together!” A divine thought voice echoed from the black divine qi ocean.
Zhang Ruochen controlled billions of swords and said “Cultivation is not easy. Are you truly willing?”
“If you spare this seat’s life from now on we shall be allies and not enemies.” Great God Li Xiao finally compromised. Though extremely unwilling he had no choice.
Zhang Ruochen said “You are too weak. I have no interest in sparing your life. I want to slay you to send a message to that palace lord of the Dark Divine Hall. Offending me Zhang Ruochen comes at a price.”
Great God Li Xiao’s rage stirred powerful storms even in the void world.
Great God Li Xiao sensed the void constantly eroding his divine sea. The Rain Master could not even protect herself now let alone come to save him. Only one path remained for him.
“Then let us perish together. This seat will eliminate you a great enemy for the darkness.”
Great God Li Xiao drew the divine qi from his divine sea gathering it toward the divine source.
Zhang Ruochen had been waiting for him to self-detonate the divine source. Though risky the moment of self-detonation would expose the divine source.
“I see it!”
Through the Truth Divine Eyes Zhang Ruochen spotted the flickering point of light in the boundless divine sea. He reached out his palm and seized it from afar.
An unwilling voice came from the divine source. “Zhang Ruochen by opposing the darkness sooner or later you will be swallowed by it!”
Zhang Ruochen held the divine source calmly and said “It seems killing a great god is not so difficult after all. Next I will slowly refine your divine soul and spiritual will.”
He sealed the divine source and put it away.
Whoosh whoosh!
Billions of swords flew back into his sleeves.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation he could easily store universes in his sleeves and worlds in his robes.
In the void world the vast black divine qi ocean and divine bone powder recombined into Great God Li Xiao’s hundred-zhang-tall divine bone body. Within the body his spiritual will remained unextinguished and his divine soul thoughts continued cursing Zhang Ruochen.
Most of a great god’s spiritual will and divine soul thoughts resided in the divine source.
Yet a portion still fused into the body.
If Zhang Ruochen simply let Great God Li Xiao leave even without the divine source after some recovery he could still regain at least mid-level god combat power.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation thoroughly refining Great God Li Xiao’s spiritual will and divine soul thoughts would take a very long time.
This was precisely why great gods were so hard to kill!
Fortunately this was the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain in the void world. If it were outside before Zhang Ruochen could refine Great God Li Xiao to death the palace lord of the Dark Divine Hall would have already found him.
After suppressing Great God Li Xiao’s divine body as well Zhang Ruochen erased all traces in the void world before tearing open space and returning to the real world.
The moment he returned to the real world Zhang Ruochen sensed something wrong.
It was too quiet!
He could not sense the ancestral realm Boundary Venerable’s aura.
Zhang Ruochen grew vigilant. His spiritual power probed farther but even the auras of Little Black Xue Tu and the Dark Divine Hall gods had vanished.
Suddenly a bone-chilling dangerous aura erupted making his spine run cold.
Without thinking Zhang Ruochen immediately took out the God King Talisman activated it turning it into a shield of brilliant golden light that blocked above his head.
Boom!
A thousand-li flame sword beam descended from above striking the God King Talisman and sending Zhang Ruochen flying hundreds of li away.
In that instant masculine yang qi filled heaven and earth. The cold dark world rapidly heated up becoming hotter than boiling water.
“This is the Pure Yang Divine Sword!”
Zhang Ruochen had never seen the Pure Yang Divine Sword yet the thought arose instinctively in his mind.
The opponent’s cultivation was too high. Even with Yu God King’s God King Talisman it could not hold for long. Zhang Ruochen directly burned lifespan executing god steps at maximum speed fleeing into the darkness.
He had not expected that after just dealing with one great god he would fall into such a miserable situation.
Zhang Ruochen glanced back. In the deep cosmic void he saw an ancient bronze divine ship immense in size with nine iron cloth divine sails fluttering its momentum overwhelming.
At this moment Zhang Ruochen had no time to wonder whether Little Black Xue Tu and the ancestral realm Boundary Venerable had escaped. That earlier sword strike had clearly aimed to take his life.
Zhang Ruochen knew that Feng Clan Fourth Master Feng Yun Ba wielded the Pure Yang Divine Sword. His nature was like raging fire hating evil as if it were his personal enemy.
A hundred thousand years ago in the Truth Divine Hall he had held high hopes for Huang Tian. Though their ages and cultivations differed greatly they had both cultivated under the Truth Divine Hall Master and regarded each other as senior and junior brothers with deep friendship.
Huang Tian’s betrayal filled Feng Yun Ba with both pain and rage. He swore to slay him under the Pure Yang Divine Sword.
In Feng Yun Ba’s eyes Zhang Ruochen was another Huang Tian. He had ascended Truth Divine Mountain received a heaven-shaking opportunity from the Truth Divine Hall yet betrayed the Truth Divine Hall betrayed Heaven Court and killed countless Heaven Court cultivators on the Heaven Hunting Battlefield.
Such a traitor such a faithless villain deserved death ten thousand times over.
“To actually possess a God King Talisman let us see how many swords this talisman can block from this seat. Full speed pursue!”
Feng Yun Ba stood like a mountain his gaze cold. A sword beam shot from his left pupil trailing a thousand-li sword light.
Killing a mere Zhang Ruochen did not require activating the true form of the Pure Yang Divine Sword.
The pure yang sword qi in his pupils was enough to slay him.
Back then Famous Sword God had stood still and with two sword beams condensed from his gaze shattered the strongest of Zhang Ruochen’s seven soul swords the “Love Sword” nearly killing him.
At the level of Feng Yun Ba and Famous Sword God below the immeasurable realm few could match them. They could refine their gaze into something as sharp as a divine sword.
“Fourth Master how shall we handle them?” a Feng Clan god asked.
Little Black Xue Tu the ancestral realm Boundary Venerable and two true gods of the Dark Divine Hall were suppressed in five divine wind cages all bearing wounds.
Little Black showed no fear. He said “My grandmaster is Kunlun Realm’s Supreme One. Who dares touch a single hair of mine?”
The ancestral realm Boundary Venerable said “The Yasha Clan and Feng Clan have no enmity. We rarely participate in the wars between Heaven Court and Hell Realm. If this Boundary Venerable dies at the hands of the Feng Clan I fear it will force the Yasha Clan and even Hundred Clans Royal City into the war.”
Xue Tu saw that both had backing and regretted deeply. If he had known he would not have jumped out for a few divine sources. Now what could he do?
He could not possibly bring up Death Divine Venerable could he?
That would probably get him killed even faster.
Low profile low profile. At this moment he must stay low-key not say a single word best treated as air. As long as he preserved his life who knew if there might be a turning point later?
One of the Dark Divine Hall true gods spoke defiantly. “Our Dark Divine Hall left space markers all along the way. Lord Frost City Demon will soon catch up. Then we shall see whether the Pure Yang Divine Sword is stronger or the Dark Divine Sword.”
Bang!
Feng Yun Ba’s gaze shot over. Divine qi and sword qi gathered in his pupils. A sword beam flew out shattering that Dark Divine Hall true god into a black mist.
That true god did not die and reconstituted his divine body but was extremely weakened and dared not speak again.
“Keep them alive and imprison them.”
Though Feng Yun Ba’s character was fierce and decisive in killing he was not impulsive or foolish. Since the Dark Divine Hall Yasha Clan and Undying Blood Clan all had powerhouses entering the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain keeping them alive would allow him to cast a long line to catch big fish.
Zhang Ruochen fled at extreme speed. The God King Talisman in his hand blocked more than ten swords from Feng Yun Ba before a crack finally appeared.
Yet he could not shake off that bronze divine ship no matter what.
“This Feng Yun Ba is too strong. Escaping from him is as hard as ascending to heaven. The God King Talisman can block at most six or seven more swords.”
Zhang Ruochen had tried fleeing into the void world but was forcibly driven out by Feng Yun Ba.
Against such a powerhouse even releasing soul swords would probably be useless.
Suddenly Zhang Ruochen sensed something. Joy appeared on his face and he rushed forward at even greater speed.
“Heaven never seals all paths!”
Ahead in the dark void a chaotic zone appeared.
Here space fragments densely filled the area where real and void coexisted. The range was extremely vast with no visible boundary like the chaotic cosmic sea at the beginning of heaven and earth.
“Chase inside.” Feng Yun Ba ordered.
The Rising Wind Divine Ship could ignore shattered space.
Boom!
Deep in the chaotic zone two brilliant sword lights suddenly rose. Two completely different sword qi clashed as if two sword dao gods were fighting.
When the Rising Wind Divine Ship arrived it saw a Daoist riding a yellow ox holding a war sword flashing with cyan light. He bellowed angrily “Zhang Ruochen you traitor where do you think you are escaping to?”
The Daoist full of killing intent charged into the void world to pursue.
Feng Clan Seventh Master Feng Xuan standing on the divine ship showed joy. He said “It is Qingping Zi of Kunlun Realm!”
Whoosh!
Feng Xuan flew out from the divine ship closely following the Zhang Ruochen who had transformed into Qingping Zi and entered the void world.
After a while the two returned.
At Feng Xuan’s invitation Zhang Ruochen led the yellow ox and boarded the Rising Wind Divine Ship.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze was cold his killing intent still lingering. He said angrily “Damn it that traitor must have some secret treasure. He escaped!”
Feng Xuan appeared quite calm and smiled. “In the world how many wish to kill Zhang Ruochen yet he escapes every time. It can hardly be mere luck. How did Daoist friend come to the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain?”
Zhang Ruochen pondered for a moment put away the Qingping Sword and said vaguely “This poor Daoist also heard that various forces are searching for Sword Realm so I came to take a look.”
Feng Xuan knew the other was concealing something but understood. After all one major reason so many sword cultivators had rushed to the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain was the appearance of the Qingping Sword.
Qingping Zi’s presence here was perfectly normal!
