The sixteen soldiers guarding the gate also turned their gazes and stared in the direction of Chen Tianran and Zhang Ruochen.
They didn’t expect that the young man just now was actually the young heavenly pride that had appeared on the Eastern Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper.
Could he really be that strong?
The one Fire Wolf Demi-Human Race’s sergeant who had previously turned Zhang Ruochen away from the gate became apprehensive, if Zhang Ruochen was really a valued guest of the Eastern Region Sacred King’s Mansion, with his status, it wouldn’t be a breeze to clean up a sergeant guarding the gate?
“I wonder if he’s really strong?”
The eyes of that one Fire Wolf Demi-human Race’s sergeant were fixed tightly on, the two people who were preparing to fight in the distance, very much expecting Chen Tianran to be able to defeat Zhang Ruochen.
Just as Chen Natural stabbed out with his spear, Zhang Ruochen actually didn’t dodge, instead, he took the initiative to attack up.
It was just the right time to test, the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm that he had just successfully cultivated, the sixth palm.
“Divine Dragon’s Tribulation.”
Zhang Ruochen’s expression was calm as he mobilised his true qi without the slightest reservation, his palms condensed their strength and struck out with all his might,.
In the centre of his palms, a lightning glow surged out, transforming into an eye-catching electric cloud.
In the electric cloud, thunderous sounds and dragon whistles resounded.
With that, a more than ten metre long divine dragon shadow flew out, driving powerful fluctuations of true qi, crashing on top of the Ghost King Gun in Chen Tianran’s hand, and in just a moment, it dissolved the power of the Ghost King Invisible Gun that Chen Tianran had executed.
That powerful palm force, however, did not completely disappear.
Chen Natural’s face changed, and only at this moment did he realise that the gap with Zhang Ruochen was so great.
He hastily unfolded his arms and mobilised his entire body’s true qi, completely punching it into the Ghost King Gun and activating the inscriptions in the gun.
Crossing his spear, he blocked.
“Touch!”
That one dragon shadow, impacting on top of the spear, shattered Chen Tianran’s protective heavenly deity and sent Chen Tianran flying out.
Twenty feet away, Chen Natural fell heavily to the ground, his entire body’s robes shattered.
Especially that pair of arms, under the impact of the powerful palm force, a bloody wound was torn out.
Chen Natural climbed up with great difficulty, his arms were in pain and his whole body was trembling, but his eyes were full of excitement, saying, “So strong, let’s fight again …… cough ……”
Chen Natural had just mobilised his true qi when he felt a sharp pain in his internal organs.
Obviously, it had already suffered internal injuries and could not fight again.
The dozen or so genius children present, in the younger generation of the Chen Family, almost all of them could be ranked in the top one hundred, all of them were experts of the Heavenly Extremity Realm.
However, at this moment, they were also stunned and speechless.
Although it had long been expected that Chen Tianran was not Zhang Ruochen’s opponent, but …… Chen Tianran actually couldn’t catch a single move from Zhang Ruochen, this was also …… too terrifying, wasn’t it?
The top experts of the Eastern Region Sacred King’s House were that unbeatable?
In fact, they didn’t know that Zhang Ruochen had already used his full strength in that move just now.
For Chen Tianran to be able to catch one of his moves and still be able to get back on his feet was already quite a remarkable thing.
In the case of a different Heavenly Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position martial artist, if he had caught Zhang Ruochen’s move, I’m afraid that his body would have been torn apart.
Chen Tianshu was the first to react, stepping forward and laughing, “Sixth brother, you should now know what it means to say, ‘There are heavens beyond the heavens, and there are men beyond men’, right?”
Those few Heavenly Proud Daughters of the Chen Family were also very much in awe, staring at Zhang Ruochen with beautiful eyes.
There were even people who made secret glances at Zhang Ruochen, blatantly expressing their affection towards him.
The Chen Family had always been known to pull in top geniuses by way of marriage.
With Zhang Ruochen’s natural talent, he was also definitely a target for the Chen Family to pull in. If, they were able to and marry a man of such calibre as Zhang Ruochen, their status in the Chen Family would also surely be raised by a large margin in the future.
The reason why the Chen Family had been able to carry on their legacy from the Middle Ages to the present day and never fail, was not just that there were geniuses who carried the show in every generation. A more important reason was that they knew how to gather geniuses.
Marriage was the best way to bring in geniuses.
Besides, which genius wouldn’t wish to marry the Chen Family’s proud daughter? Not only would he be able to hold onto a beautiful woman, but he would also be able to obtain the Chen Family’s patronage and a large amount of cultivation resources, so only a fool would refuse.
And the Chen Family, too, never lacked beautiful female descendants.
Chen Tianran clenched his fists tightly and said, ”Zhang Ruochen, you think that defeating me is considered defeating the geniuses of the Eastern Domain Sacred King’s Mansion? Our Eastern Domain Sacred King’s Mansion’s number one ranked man of genius is following a Saint in the Two Element Sect to cultivate a miraculous skill, if he were to come down, it would be enough to compete with you.”
Chen Tianshu laughed, “Sixth brother, what are you arguing about? Brother Zhang is not an outsider, but one of our own. He is Cousin Smokey’s fiancé and came here, presumably to look for her as well.”
“What? Cousin Soot’s fiancé?”
Chen Natural slapped his forehead and said, “So it’s one of our own, brother Zhang, you should have said so earlier!”
The main reason why Chen Natural wanted to duel with Zhang Ruochen was because he felt that the Eastern Domain Saint King’s House was being outclassed by a martial artist from a small place, and he felt resentful in his heart.
Since, Zhang Ruochen was one of their own, it was completely different.
Earlier, those proud daughters of the Chen Clan who still had some thoughts about Zhang Ruochen were also a bit discouraged. Unexpectedly, Zhang Ruochen had actually been engaged to Huang Yichen long ago, so what chance did they have?
Chen Natural’s attitude immediately changed and became quite enthusiastic, pulling Zhang Ruochen, he then strutted towards the Sacred King’s Mansion, ordering to one of the Fire Wolf Demi-Human Race’s sergeants, “Ah Si, why don’t you still go and invite Cousin Smokey Dust and tell her to come out to greet her fiancé.”
“Forget it, just tell her to go to my Phoenix Forest Pavilion, today, I’m going to have a good drink with Brother Zhang. Also, you guys go and call out all the brothers and sisters in the Sacred King’s Mansion, tell them that my Old Sixth is going to organise a banquet for guests, dedicated to one of the six young kings of the newborn generation of the Eastern Domain, Zhang Ruochen, and tell all of them to come out to support the occasion. Hehehe! A Heaven’s Pride at the level of the Six Great Kings, they don’t get to see them all the time.”
The Fire Wolf Demi-Human Race sergeant who had previously turned Zhang Ruochen away from the door hurriedly knelt on the ground and made amends to Zhang Ruochen, saying, “My subordinate, Er, makes amends to Auntie. I failed to recognise your aunt’s identity earlier, please punish you?”
Auntie, of course, was referring to Zhang Ruochen.
Chen Tianran’s eyes sank as he said, “What’s going on? You’re just a mere servant and you dare to offend Brother Zhang? Drag me down to death by a thousand cuts ……”
Zhang Ruochen hurriedly stopped it and laughed, “It’s just a small matter, in fact, he didn’t offend me, there’s no need to chastise him.”
Chen Tianran thought for a moment and said, “Alright! Since Brother Zhang pleaded for you, I will let you off. In the future, you should recognise people clearly, Brother Zhang is one of the six young kings of the Eastern Domain, not something you can afford to offend. Deadly sins can be spared, but living sins can’t be escaped, starting tomorrow, you’ll go to the Ten Thousand Meteor Mining Cave to serve hard labour for thirty years before you can leave.”
“Many thanks young master, many thanks auntie.”
That one Fire Wolf Demi-human Race sergeant kowtowed on the ground three times in succession before he retreated in gratitude.
Chen Tianran was not a brutal person, instead, he was very smart, the reason why he reprimanded that Fire Wolf Demi-Human Race sergeant was also to give Zhang Ruochen an attitude that the Chen Clan had already treated him as one of their own.
Sacrificing a servant in exchange for Zhang Ruochen’s sense of belonging to the Eastern Region Saint King’s Mansion, why not?
Zhang Ruochen also saw through this point, so he also gave the other party a step down.
He was still just an outsider and had yet to truly consummate his marriage with Huang Yichen.
That one Firewolf Demi-Human Race sergeant was, after all, a Heavenly Extremity Realm expert, and was definitely a loyal slave carefully cultivated by the Chen Clan.
If you, an outsider, had yet to enter the Eastern Domain Saint King’s Mansion and caused the death of a Heavenly Extremity Realm loyal slave because of a small matter, what would those other sons and daughters of the Chen Family think? Would they think that Zhang Ruochen was too arrogant, too unseemly, too self-righteous?
A huge family like the Chen Family, although its power was huge, its internal struggles were also quite fierce, Zhang Ruochen did not want to step into the Chen Family’s internal struggles yet, so everything had to be done carefully, and if he could not provoke right and wrong, he should try his best not to provoke right and wrong.
That night, Chen Tianran held a feast at the Phoenix Forest Pavilion, and there were as many as hundreds of Chen Family’s children who came.
Many people had seen this issue of the Eastern Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper and knew about Zhang Ruochen’s several major battles in recent times, so they were very curious about Zhang Ruochen, a young expert who had suddenly risen to prominence, and wanted to come and get to know him.
Of course, there were also some people, who held themselves to be strong in cultivation and wanted to challenge Zhang Ruochen.
When they learnt that Zhang Ruochen had defeated Chen Tianran with only one move, immediately, no one dared to challenge Zhang Ruochen anymore.
Chen Natural, in the younger generation of the Chen Family, ranked twelfth, and what even he couldn’t do, others would be even more unable to do.
Huang Yichen naturally also rushed to Fenglin Pavilion, and after seeing Zhang Ruochen, he did not have the slightest bit of good face, and coldly said, “Auntie, you have such a big face that you actually want me to personally come to greet you.”
“Zhang Ruochen, after becoming famous one day, aren’t you a little too complacent?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed bitterly, “Senior Sister Huang, I guess you’ve misunderstood, that’s not what I meant. I came to the Sacred King’s Mansion, and I actually just want to hand over the Sword Heart Pill to you.”
With that, Zhang Ruochen took out the dan bottle containing the Sword Heart Pill, placed it in the palm of his hand, and handed it to Huang Yichen.
When Huang Yichen saw that one dan bottle, her heart warmed, and the icy coldness on her face instantly melted, adding a few more tenderness.
Of course, she knew the origin of that one Sword Heart Pill, it was the reward that Zhang Ruochen received for becoming the number one in the Sword Dao Department, representing an honour.
The Sword Heart Pill, which was a seventh grade pill, was very precious, and although it no longer had much effect on Zhang Ruochen, as long as it was taken, it would also definitely be able to raise his Sword Dao cultivation a little more.
However, Zhang Ruochen didn’t take it himself, but instead travelled all the way to the Eastern Domain Saint King’s Mansion to personally deliver the Sword Heart Pill to her.
Just this token of affection alone had already moved Huang Yichen to the core.
Previously, Huang Yichen had always felt that Zhang Ruochen had no feelings for her at all, and had only decided to marry her because of the binding of a marriage contract.
It wasn’t until this moment that she realised that Zhang Ruochen might have her in his heart as well, it was just that Zhang Ruochen himself wasn’t good at expressing it.
Huang Yichen bit her lips tightly, still tensing her face, but she snatched the Sword Heart Pill away and squeezed it tightly in her hand as she said, “Count on you having a bit of a conscience.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “The third round of the Holy Academy Examination will definitely be dangerous, it’s always safer to be able to raise your strength by one point.”
Huang Yichen was slightly shy and sighed, “It’s a pity that you came a day late, my mother left the Sacred King’s Mansion yesterday to visit an old friend. Otherwise, I would have been able to take you to meet her.”
Zhang Ruochen’s face was a little unnatural as his fingers touched his nose and said, “Even if we can’t meet her this time, in the future, won’t there be many more opportunities?
