Zixi pressed her hand on the hilt of her sword and really struck out.
True Qi was injected into the longsword, and the eleven inscriptions in the sword body were activated at the same time, emitting a two-metre long purple sword blade.
“Wow!”
The sword light flashed and instantly stabbed in front of Huang Yichen’s body.
Zixi was a genius amongst assassins, her eyesight, earsight, and speed far exceeded those of martial artists in the same realm.
Zixi was even more aware that she was facing a Xuan Ranked martial artist, so she had to get it within a single strike, or else she would be the one to die.
Huang Yichen did not expect Zixi to react so violently, the sword in Zixi’s hand was only three inches away from her heart, she was still a bit dazed.
It wasn’t just chopping through a door, what was the need for life and death?
After all, Huang Yichen was a Xuan Ranked martial artist, too much stronger than Zixi, and quickly stretched out two fingers, forming a series of phantoms. The two jade fingers steadily clamped Zixi’s sword, turning all of Zixi’s power into nothing.
“What for? Trying to kill me?” Yellow Smokey’s pair of almond eyes carried a chilling aura as her jade fingers flicked.
A ray of true qi struck out from the fingertip and flicked at the tip of the sword.
“Pop!”
Zixi’s arm ached as a blood crack opened in her tiger’s mouth, and the sword in her hand flew out of her hand, nailing it to the wall.
“Zixi surprisingly couldn’t even block a move from Yellow Soot.”
Zhang Ruochen knew that he had to make a move to save Zixi, and picked the best time to make a move, just as Huang Yichen had just had his sword flicked out, Zhang Ruochen’s palm struck Huang Yichen’s back.
“Boom!”
The palm struck with all his might formed a powerful wave of true qi that travelled in all directions.
Only, Huang Yichen remained standing straight in place, not moving at all.
A faint wind force formed on her back, dissolving Zhang Ruochen’s palm force into nothing.
“So powerful! Once a Xuan Ranked Martial Artist is prepared, even if she stood still and handed it over to me to attack, I wouldn’t be able to injure her for a single point. The difference is too great!” Zhang Ruochen gave a wink towards Zixi, telling her to run away.
Zixie glanced towards Zhang Ruochen with slight concern, knowing that it was her that Yellow Smoke Dust was trying to capture, and that Zhang Ruochen should not be in danger. Thus, she transformed into a purple shadow and swept out of the window.
To Zhang Ruochen’s surprise, Huang Yichen did not go after Zixi.
Huang Yichen’s face was icy cold as he glared at Zhang Ruochen and said, “Succubus/thief, it’s that trick again, you think you can still sneak attack me?”
Zhang Ruochen withdrew his palm and immediately stepped back, standing by the window where Zixi had left, preventing Huang Yichen from continuing to go after Zixi.
Zhang Ruochen was quite disgusted by the nickname of lecherous/thief and said, “Senior Sister Huang, you should understand that I also had no choice but to strike at you. Since Senior Sister Zi has already left and I’m no match for you, if you want to report this matter to the Academy Master, I can always go and ask for forgiveness from the Academy Master.”
Seeing that Zhang Ruochen was still honest, Huang Yichen felt slightly better and said, “Reporting to the courtyard master is not necessary, I am not that careful. It’s just that you have to remember, in the future, don’t bring women into the Dragon Martial Hall at will, don’t corrupt the Dragon Martial Hall’s ethos. Hmph!”
After saying this, Huang Yichen left with his sword, leaving behind only a stunned Zhang Ruochen.
“She just let Zixi go like that?”
Zhang Ruochen was still a bit unconvinced, after all, Zixi was an assassin of the Hellmouth Sect, and Huang Yichen was the personal disciple of the Western Courtyard’s Master. How could she possibly let Zixi go?
“Senior Sister Huang, you decided to spare Senior Sister Zi?” Zhang Ruochen asked after her.
Huang Yichen turned around and said in a cold voice, “If you didn’t catch the adulterer in bed today, this senior sister will let you guys off the hook. If there is a next time, you will never be spared.”
Only after watching Huang Yichen completely walk out did Zhang Ruochen realise that Huang Yichen thought that he and Zixi were cheating on him/her.
Surprisingly, it was just a misunderstanding!
“Luckily it was just a false alarm.”
Zhang Ruochen let out a long sigh of relief, and suddenly, it was as if he had thought of something, so he immediately chased after Zixi in the direction she had fled.
When Zhang Ruochen caught up with Zixi, Zixi was already on the verge of escaping the Western Courtyard.
Thus, Zhang Ruochen told Zixi what Huang Yichen had said, originally.
Knowing that it was just a misunderstanding, Zixie was relieved. If Huang Yichen had really discovered her identity, she would have had no choice but to escape the Western Courtyard.
Since her identity had not been exposed, she would naturally be able to leave the Western Courtyard.
Once she left the Western Courtyard, she would instead make Huang Yichen suspicious.
“That one Senior Sister Huang’s imagination is really rich, besides, even if I have a little something with you ……, it doesn’t seem to be any of her business?” Zixi stared at Zhang Ruochen with a puzzled look.
Zhang Ruochen appeared frank and said, “There is indeed a small misunderstanding between her and I. Perhaps, it’s not really a misunderstanding, it’s me who has wronged her.”
Zixi sneered, “I don’t think that was by any means a small misunderstanding, after all, Senior Sister Huang is a Xuan Ranked Martial Artist, her cultivation is as powerful as it is, so for a small matter in general, it is simply not possible for her to personally take action.”
Although Zi Xi’s face was expressionless, there was a hint of unhappiness in her eyes as she added, “If she wasn’t really concerned about me and you, she definitely couldn’t have rashly barged into the Yellow Character No. 1, and also splintered the doors of the Yellow Character No. 1.”
Zhang Ruochen naturally understood the meaning of Zixi’s words and said, “Senior Sister Huang already had deep prejudices against me, and it’s only natural for her to act too vehemently.”
“I don’t care to meddle in your affairs.” Zixi turned around and left without looking back, “In the recent month, be careful yourself. Your head belongs to me, don’t die under someone else’s sword.”
Zhang Ruochen looked at Zixi’s departing back and his face turned serious.
At three million three hundred thousand silver coins, a Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Myth would be very moved, and such an expensive head would surely attract the assassins of the Hellmouth Sect to compete for it.
With his current cultivation, he could still cope when he encountered an assassin of the Yellow Extremity Realm Great Extremity, but what if an assassin of the Xuan Extremity Realm Great Extremity, or even the Earth Extremity Realm, appeared?
Zhang Ruochen’s mind stirred and quite a solution, a hint of a smile surfaced on his face.
Returning to the Dragon Martial Hall, Zhang Ruochen saw that the pavilion in the Yellow Character No. 1 where he lived had collapsed. It was already shaky after being chopped through the main door and two pillars by Huang Yichen’s sword earlier, and now it had finally been reduced to rubble.
“Little Black, follow me to Xuan character number one.”
Zhang Ruochen carried his hands behind his back and walked towards the Xuan Character Number One.
Little Black also followed behind Zhang Ruochen, walking on two legs with a thick book clutched under his front paws.
After Duanmu Xingling learnt of Zhang Ruochen’s intention, she was a little surprised and said, “You’re going to stay here with me for a month?”
Zhang Ruochen naturally couldn’t tell Duanmu Xingling that there would be assassins coming to kill him in the recent month, and that he was coming to her for refuge.
Zhang Ruochen smiled bitterly and said, “Senior Sister Huang demolished the Yellow Character No. 1 just now, so I am now homeless and can only temporarily stay here at Senior Sister Duanmu’s place first. I just don’t know if Senior Sister Duanmu is willing to take me in?”
Duanmu Xingling’s eyes narrowed, her heart blossoming with joy as she secretly said, “Sister Dust fought off that one Freshman No. 1 beauty, but it’s cheaper for me. Close to the water, Sister Dust, the handsome prince that was delivered to the door, Senior Sister will take it.”
“Not disturbing, not disturbing at all.”
Duanmu Xingling brought Zhang Ruochen into the Xuan Character Number One.
Xuan Character No. 1 was still very spacious, and Duanmu Xingling quickly packed up a room next to the one she was living in, saying, “Zhang Ruochen, in the future, you’ll live here! I’ll be living next door, in the future, how about you and I exchange more martial arts.”
“Although my Martial Dao realm is above you, however, your Sword Dao realm is above me, if I have time, I will definitely ask you to teach me about Sword Dao cultivation. By the way, don’t you need to bring your luggage over?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “I have all my luggage with me.”
Under Duanmu Xingling’s shocked eyes, Zhang Ruochen took out one piece of luggage from inside the Space-Time Crystal Stone and placed it inside the room.
“Spatial treasures?”
Duanmu Xingling stared at the Space-Time Crystal Stone in Zhang Ruochen’s hands, both very surprised and envious.
Every spatial treasure, that was priceless.
“Sort of a spatial treasure!” Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly, appearing indifferent, “If Senior Sister Duanmu wants it, I can give you one.”
“You have other spatial treasures?” Duanmu Xingling was even more surprised, her eyes widening as she always felt that Zhang Ruochen was lying to her.
First of all, it was already quite remarkable for a martial artist to be able to obtain one spatial treasure, how could they obtain a second one?
Secondly, how precious were spatial treasures, how could they be given away casually?
Zhang Ruochen smiled mysteriously and said, “Does Senior Sister Duanmu want a spatial ring or a spatial bracelet?”
Duanmu Xingling heard the meaning in Zhang Ruochen’s words, could it be that he really had more than one spatial treasure on his body?
Duanmu Xingling carefully stared at Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, as if she was thinking about the truthfulness of Zhang Ruochen’s words, and only after seeing that Zhang Ruochen’s expression was very serious and didn’t look like he was trying to swindle her did she smile sweetly and say, “If it’s possible, I would like a spatial bracelet. Are you really able to conjure up another spatial treasure out of thin air?”
“Senior Sister Duanmu come to me again at night, I will definitely give you a spatial jade bracelet.” Zhang Ruochen said.
After all, she was taking refuge here with Duanmu Starling, and might have to use Duanmu Starling’s power in dealing with those killers, so Zhang Ruochen felt that he should compensate her with something.
A Spatial Jade Bracelet, for Zhang Ruochen, it was just a moment’s effort to refine it. However, for Duanmu Xingling, it was simply priceless.
After Duanmu Xingling left, Zhang Ruochen began to refine the Spatial Jade Bracelet.
Firstly, a jade bracelet with excellent jade quality was taken out and placed on the table. Then, Zhang Ruochen engraved eight basic spatial inscriptions on top of the jade bracelet.
After only a quarter of an hour passed, all eight basic inscriptions were successfully burnt at once.
Zhang Ruochen’s last refined spatial ring only had twelve cubic metres of internal space, and with his cultivation having risen by two minor realms, the spatial jade bracelet he refined this time had twenty-four cubic metres of internal space, which was twice as large as the previous one.
Zhang Ruochen thought about it, since he was refining spatial treasures, he would refine a few more.
An hour later, Zhang Ruochen burnt out two more storage bracelets and two more storage rings, all of which had an inner space of twenty-four cubic metres.
Zhang Ruochen entered the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, put the three storage bracelets and two storage rings into the refining furnace, and started refining.
At night, when Duanmu Xingling came to Zhang Ruochen’s room again, Zhang Ruochen had already successfully refined all five spatial treasures.
