Even though the Marquis of Zhen Jun was already seriously injured, he still erupted with a speed of two hundred and forty metres per second, instantly leaving Zhang Ruochen behind and rushing towards the gates of the black market.
The greatest advantage of Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artists was their speed.
If he hadn’t been stunned by the spatial rift that Zhang Ruochen had unleashed, the Marquis of Zhen Jun would still have had the power to fight at all, and wouldn’t have been able to escape in such a sorry state as he was now.
A Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Myth, but being chased by a young martial artist, it was too humiliating!
“When this Marquis escapes back to the barracks, he will definitely deploy his army and break that one bast*rd into pieces.” The Marquis of Zhen Jun’s heart still harboured hope, as long as he escaped back to the barracks, the initiative would be in his hands.
Han Chu stood at the top of the city wall of the black market, holding a white jade ancient sword in both hands, his body standing straight as he stared at the Marquis of Zhen Jun who was like a bereaved dog, and said in a cold craggy voice, “Marquis of Zhen Jun, where else are you going to escape to?”
The Marquis of Zhen Jun stopped abruptly, raised his head, and stared at Han Qiu, cursing his bad luck, saying, “And who are you?”
“Who I am, you don’t need to care! But how many shady deals you’ve made by colluding with the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce, only you know best. Today, I am the one who will behead your head and bring it back to the Yuntai Zongfu.” Han Chu said.
“You’re from the Yuntai Zongfu?”
Marquis Zhen Jun’s heart sank to the bottom, how could even the Yuntai Zongfu have interfered in this?
“No matter what, let’s get rid of her first.”
A killing light appeared in his eyes, and with a stomp of his feet, he crushed the stone slabs on the ground and rushed up dozens of feet, striking his palm towards Han Qiu.
The opponent was just a young martial artist, how strong could he be?
The Marquis of Zhen Jun didn’t believe that his luck was so bad that he would encounter two top young experts in a row.
The corner of Han Chu’s mouth ticked as lightning was touched and a sword stabbed out, inspiring a brilliant sword light, like ten thousand swords coming out in unison.
Marquis Zhen Jun’s pupils dilated as he looked at the flying swords, his heart skipped a beat, knowing that he had underestimated his opponent.
He immediately withdrew his palm seal, drew the greatsword on his waist, and slashed.
The Marquis of Zhen Jun was only making a hasty move, but Han Qiu was storing up his momentum for a strike.
The two swords clashed, creating a shower of sparks.
Han Chu’s arm shook, and the white jade ancient sword immediately turned into a series of phantoms, appearing in thirty-six shadows of sword light and stabbing towards the Marquis of Zhen Jun in an all-encompassing manner.
Han Qiu’s attainments in swordsmanship were already extremely high, reaching the peak realm of the sword following the heart, so how could the severely injured Marquis of Zhen Jun be her opponent?
“Boom boom!”
The sound of sword strikes was like raindrops, constantly falling on the Zhen Jun Hou’s body.
“Puh!”
The Marquis of Zhen Jun spat out a mouthful of blood and fell down from mid-air, landing on the ground in an incomparable state of distress.
The armour on his body became tattered and torn as it was struck by the sword and made a crater.
Zhang Ruochen chased after him and stood in the direction behind the Marquis of Zhen Jun, his gaze revealing a few puzzled looks as he stared towards Han Chu who stood above the city wall.
Han Chu stood upright above with a smile on his face and said, “Friend, the head of the Marquis of Zhen Jun belongs to me, don’t argue with me.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Who is your friend?”
Han Qiu laughed, “If I hadn’t helped you destroy the black market’s city protection formation, would you have been able to walk out of the Vermilion Bird Building peacefully? I did you such a huge favour, can’t I still be your friend.”
“So it was you who made the move, no wonder the black market’s city guard formation didn’t open for so long.”
Zhang Ruochen added, “Alright! It’s fine to let you have it, if you can’t kill him, I’ll step in again.”
“Many thanks.” Han Qiu slightly arched his hand towards Zhang Ruochen.
The Marquis of Zhen Jun, who was standing between the two, had long been furious, he was a Marquis with 300,000 troops in his hands, and he was even a Heavenly Extremity Realm Martial Myth, yet he was forced into such a sorry state by two young martial artists.
Marquis Zhen Jun gritted his teeth and said, ”You two juniors, you are too hateful! Do you really think that a Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Dao Myth can be killed just because you say so?”
Han Chu said, “If you were in your full state, it might be difficult for me to kill you. But in your current state, it’s just a breeze for me to kill you.”
“So arrogant.” Marquis Zhen Jun angrily said, “Who exactly are you?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “Marquis Zhen Jun, you don’t even recognise her? She is the daughter of the Yun Tai Sect House Patriarch, counting, she still has to call you Senior Uncle.”
The Zhen Jun Hou, was once also a disciple of the Yuntai Sect House.
The Zhen Jun Hou’s face was stunned as he finally snapped out of it.
“Swoosh!”
Han Qiu flew down from above the city wall, and strands of black true qi surged out from his body as if it were ink, enveloping the space in a hundred feet radius.
“Boom boom!”
The sound of war swords clashing resounded in the pitch-black space.
Zhang Ruochen retreated a hundred feet away and looked at the tumbling black cloud, muttering to himself, “This should be the Darkness Domain!”
The Dark Domain, to a certain extent, was actually a heaven and earth anomaly.
Han Chu’s cultivation wasn’t strong enough yet, so she could only make a hundred feet in a radius, form a dark domain.
If her martial cultivation was able to reach the Half-Saint realm, she would even be able to change the sky and cover the sun, instantly turning the day into night in a territory.
A moment later, the black true qi gradually contracted and surged back into Han Qiu’s body.
When Zhang Ruochen looked over, there was only a headless corpse left on the ground.
The Zhen Jun Hou’s head had been cut off by Han Chu and put inside a box.
Han Chu put the box into his bag and carried it on his back, glancing towards Zhang Ruochen, smiling with bright eyes and teeth, “Let’s go, friend! Let’s hit the road together!”
Zhang Ruochen said, “You know where I’m going?”
“Aren’t you going to Heavenly Demon Martial City?” Han Chu said confidently.
“I’m sorry, we’re on different paths.” Zhang Ruochen executed the Grand Completion’s Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow, his feet stepping into the void and travelling on the wind, merely stepping out with a single step, he ascended onto the city wall of the Black Market.
Stepping out a second step, Zhang Ruochen flew out.
“Damn it, still trying to hide it from me.”
Han Qiu had gone through so much effort just to show Zhang Ruochen goodwill and prove that the Yuntai Zongfu had nothing to do with this matter.
However, it didn’t occur to him that the other party didn’t appreciate it at all.
Naturally, Han Qiu would not let Zhang Ruochen go, so he performed the ‘Treading Clouds and Chasing the Moon’ stance martial art and immediately chased after him.
After Zhang Ruochen and Han Qiu left, a great earthquake occurred in Boulder City’s martial dao world, as astonishing news, one after another, travelled out from the black market.
“It is said that the two Martial Dao Myths killed their way into the black market and went on a massacre, even Elder Wei of the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce and the Vermilion Bird Floor Master died in their hands.”
“What are Elder Wei and Vermillion Bird Floor Master? Don’t you know that even the Marquis of Zhen Jun was killed and his head was chopped off.”
“What kind of person is it that is so terrifying?”
It wasn’t long before another piece of news reached Boulder City.
“Lord Hua Ming of the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce, the Poison Spider Young Master and Mu Qing, were killed by the Ninth Prince of the Yunwu County Kingdom in Lin’an County City!”
This piece of news travelled to Boulder City and once again set off an uproar.
Knowing that Hua Ming Gong and Mu Qing were both Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Myths, and that the Poison Spider Young Lord was also a young expert who was about to enter The Earth Ranking, no one expected that they would be killed on the same day.
A shocking piece of news continued to travel out from Boulder City and was sent to the king’s palace of the Four Direction County Kingdom and the general meeting of the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce respectively.
After the king of the Four Direction County received the news, his face turned pale, and a cold sweat as big as a bean popped out on his forehead as he said, “Was it really someone from the Martial City Academy that killed the Marquis of Zhen Jun?”
A martial artist wearing a black robe knelt in the centre of the great hall and presented a token of the Martial City Academy Palace.
“This is the token left behind by that one mysterious teenager!”
The Four Direction County King took the token, one side of the token had the words “Martial City Academy” in golden letters, while the other side had three words “Zhang Ruochen” engraved on it.
“Boom!”
Four Square County King smashed the token out, said fiercely: “It’s this Zhang Ruochen …… not right …… Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation was only at the Xuanji realm a year ago, how could he kill the Marquis of Zhenjun? ”
That one black-robed martial artist said cautiously, “It is said to be another expert from the Yuntai Sect Mansion that killed the Marquis of Zhen Jun. But before that, Zhang Ruochen had already severely injured the Zhen Jun Hou.”
“The Yuntai Sect Mansion has unexpectedly intervened as well!” The Four Directions County King’s eyes darkened and he almost fainted.
Fortunately, the Four Directions County King’s cultivation was profound, and he braced himself and sat up straight again, trying to keep himself calm.
“Report!”
Outside the hall, another black-robed martial artiste walked in and presented a piece of intelligence.
After the Four Directions County King saw the content of the intelligence, he directly crushed the letter paper into pieces and said angrily, “Zhang Ruochen, Zhang Ruochen, how come it’s always this Zhang Ruochen, if I had known that this king should have taken action in person, a year ago, I should have killed him.”
Beside the Four Direction County King stood a purple-crowned old man.
The purple-crowned old man’s face was solemn as he asked, “Great King, what exactly happened?”
The Four Directions County King said, “Lord Hua Ming, the Poison Spider Young Lord, and Mu Qing were killed by Zhang Ruochen in Lin’an County Town. Lin’an County City is only a few hundred miles away from Boulder City, so Zhang Ruochen must have discovered something and rushed to Boulder City …… badly! Mu Qing had an account book in his hands that recorded the records of the transactions between the royal family and the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce, and it must have fallen into Zhang Ruochen’s hands.”
“If that one ledger book is sent to the Heavenly Demon Martial City, the Four Directions County Kingdom will surely suffer sanctions, and furthermore, the Yuntai Sect Mansion will definitely not let us off the hook.”
The purple-crowned old man’s face also changed drastically as he said, “That one account book must be recovered at all costs, otherwise, both the Four Directions County Kingdom and the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce will suffer extinction.”
The Four Directions County King took a deep breath, his eyes kept changing as he said, “It’s already too late to go after it now! There is only one way, immediately summon Huo Jingcheng and ask him to intercept Zhang Ruochen and that one expert from the Yuntai Sect Mansion.”
The purple-crowned old man nodded and said, “Huo Jingcheng is a top expert of the Royal Clan, as well as an Elder of the Yuntai Sect Mansion, so he is definitely the best person to intercept them. As a precaution, I will now set off and rush to Sky Demon Martial City in case they escape.”
The Four Directions County King let out a slight sigh of relief and said, “If Elder Ling personally rushes to Sky Demon Martial City, it would be difficult for Zhang Ruochen and that one expert from the Yuntai Sect House to survive even if they had heavenly means. Now I only hope that it’s not too late.”
The purple-crowned old man said, “Don’t worry, Great King, not only will we make our move, but the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce will definitely send a large number of experts to rush to intercept them. As long as the account book hasn’t been sent into the Heavenly Demon Martial City, the old man will have the certainty of chasing it back.”
After saying this, the purple-crowned old man walked out and flew a fourth-ranked savage bird in the direction of the Heavenly Demon Ridge.
