Zhang Shaochu was very surprised and looked around for Liu Chuanshen, but he couldn’t even find a single hair.
Could it be that Liu Chuan Shen was put inside the stomach of the Two-Headed Blood Lion by the Ninth Brother?
Zhang Shaochu stared at the stomach of the Two-Headed Blood Lion, then looked at the calm and collected Zhang Ruochen, and resolved in his heart that when he returned to the King City, he would definitely ask the Ninth Brother to pass that kind of secret art to him.
“Ta-da!”
The sound of iron hooves was getting closer and closer.
Soon, a group of black-robed men with golden masks, riding tall antelope horses, rushed opposite Zhang Ruochen and Zhang Shaochu in a murderous manner.
There were twenty-one people in total, all of them strong martial artists, carrying bows, crossbows, and battle swords.
Each black-robed man’s body was stained with blood, and his face, with its golden mask, looked quite hideous. The gazes of all of them were all fixed on Zhang Ruochen and Zhang Shaochu.
In an instant, the atmosphere on the mountain path became very solemn.
One of the tall black-robed men glared at Zhang Ruochen and Zhang Shaochu and said in a deep voice, “Who are you two and why have you appeared here?”
Zhang Shaochu appeared fearless and puffed out his chest, glaring at the black-clothed man through his nostrils and said arrogantly, “This road was built by my family, why can’t I appear here?”
The black-clothed man at the very front, with an ice-cold voice, said, “Have you seen a middle-aged man who is seriously injured?”
“No.” Zhang Ruochen calmly said.
Zhang Ruochen was able to sense the powerful aura of that one man in black, an aura that was similar to the aura on General Hongye.
In other words, the cultivation of that one man in black had probably reached the Earth Extreme Realm.
If they were really after Liu Chuan Shen, then it would be best not to provoke them.
That one man in black sized up Zhang Ruochen and Zhang Shaochu carefully and waved his hand towards those men in black behind him, saying, “Let’s go.”
Both Zhang Ruochen and Zhang Shaochu let out a slight sigh of relief.
Just then, the voice of a black-clothed man rang out, “Helm Master, there are bloodstains on the ground.”
The one black-clothed man at the very front immediately looked towards the ground, and sure enough, he found a pool of fresh blood. That one black-clothed man immediately raised his head and looked towards Zhang Ruochen with cold eyes.
“Do it.”
Since he had already been defeated, Zhang Ruochen decisively struck out, waving his Flashing Soul Sword and chopping towards that one black-clothed man with the strongest cultivation.
Zhang Shaochu also immediately took out his Life Snatching Scythe and killed the black-clothed man, his seemingly obese body possessing an extremely athletic body.
In a flash, Zhang Shaochu killed three people in a row.
“What a trouble!” Xiao Hei ripped off a page of book paper and pinched it with two cat claws, injecting his true qi into the page.
On the surface of the book page, a faint halo appeared.
“Pfft!”
The pages of the book flew out, sharper than a sharp blade, and decapitated the head of a black-clothed man at the early Xuanji realm.
Zhang Ruochen erupted his strongest power, his arms powered up and slashed his sword to the top of that one black-clothed man’s head.
“Good boy, hiding deep enough, where did you hide that one who was seriously injured?” The man in black removed the purple plain sword on his back and blocked it horizontally, blocking Zhang Ruochen’s full force strike.
“Boom!”
The bell horse under the black clothed man’s seat couldn’t withstand that powerful force and broke all four of its legs, neighing sadly as it collapsed to the ground and fell down the cliff.
When Zhang Ruochen saw the man in black blocking his full strength sword, his eyes narrowed and he said, “Indeed, you are a strong person of the Earth Extreme Realm. Strong people like you are every famous and renowned in the Yunwu County Kingdom. Who exactly are you?”
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen chopped out another sword, and under the power of the Ice Inscription, there was a cold energy in the sword energy, causing a layer of frost to form on the black-clothed man’s body.
That one black-clothed man retreated three steps in a row and stared at Zhang Ruochen once again, quite surprised in his heart.
He simply did not expect a teenager in his teens to burst out with a battle power that was not much weaker than his.
One must know that he had cultivated for more than forty years to reach his current level of cultivation.
How old was that teenager?
“Kid, who the hell are you?” The black-clothed man’s wrist exerted force, and a thick true qi was erupted from his body, shocking Zhang Ruochen back.
Zhang Ruochen quietly released his spatial domain, covering the man in black in the spatial domain and said, “Why do you want to kill Liu Chuan Shen?”
“Liu Chuan Shen was indeed saved by you, lol lol lol, kid, you’re in big trouble! Honestly hand over Liu Chuan Shen, this helmsman can keep your whole body.” The man in black stood at the edge of the cliff and crossed his sword.
“If I’m not wrong, your cultivation level is at the early stage of the Earth Extreme Realm.” Zhang Ruochen said.
With an Earth Extreme Realm cultivation, in the Yunwu County Kingdom, it definitely belonged to a unique martial arts powerhouse, and could completely establish a family, a clan. Entering a military camp, one would also be at the general level.
The man in black laughed, “Are you afraid?”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “I was trying to say that with your cultivation, you can’t kill me yet.”
“Arrogant! A strong person of the Earth Extreme Realm can’t even kill you, you think you’re a Xuan Ranking martial artist?” The man in black said.
Zhang Ruochen stopped talking and activated all fourteen inscriptions in the Flashing Soul Sword as he stepped on his feet and attacked towards the man in black.
“Heavenly Heart Pointing!”
The battle sword swung out, dragging out a seven-metre-long sword qi, on the ground, leaving behind a long sword path.
The black-robed man did not expect that not only did the kid not flee, but he even took the initiative to attack him.
“Good timing.”
The man in black cupped the purple plain blade with both hands, and by the stimulation of his true qi, the inscription pattern was activated, and strands of purple electric light appeared on the blade.
“Boom!”
The blade cut through the sword Qi.
The man in black took three steps in a row, leaving three deep footprints on the ground, and as he took the last step, his body soared up and slashed down towards Zhang Ruochen.
The blade contained the power of lightning, and with his body as the centre, strands of free electricity appeared in the air around him, all of which converged on the blade.
Zhang Ruochen couldn’t retreat at all because, behind him was the cliff.
“Heavenly Heart Full Moon!”
The Flashing Soul Sword drew a circle in the air, and the bright sword light made the sword circle look like a bright moon, suspended above Zhang Ruochen’s head.
The sword move struck out, colliding fiercely with the purple Park Sword, and a violent sound travelled out, echoing between the mountains for a long time.
“Wow!”
The rocks under Zhang Ruochen’s feet shattered, and a piece of debris rolled down the cliff, falling into the treacherous abyss.
“Swish!”
The man in black changed his stance in a hurry, his body rotating three hundred and sixty degrees in mid-air as he slashed three times in a row.
Each slash contained the power of thunder and lightning, so fierce that even a piece of cliff wall would probably have been shattered.
Zhang Ruochen could only passively defend himself, executing the Wind-Resisting Flying Dragon Shadow and quickly flying through the narrow mountain path, trying his best to avoid colliding head-on with the man in black.
“Earth Extreme Realm powerhouses are really powerful, with my current strength, I can fight against early Earth Extreme Realm martial artists, but it’s too difficult to defeat early Earth Extreme Realm martial artists!” Zhang Ruochen’s heart murmured.
Luckily, Zhang Ruochen’s speed was in between that of the man in black, if it were Sikong Technique to fight the man in black, he would probably lose within ten moves.
“It’s really strange, this kid actually fought me for more than fifty moves without losing, could it be that he really is a Xuan Ranked Martial Artist?” The more the man in black fought, the more frightened he became, finally realising that this teenager in front of him was not to be messed with.
Not an Earth Extreme Realm martial artist, yet his battle power was not much weaker than an Earth Extreme Realm martial artist.
Only a Xuan Ranked Martial Artist would have such a skill.
In the entire Yunwu County Kingdom, there were only eighteen Xuan Ranking martial artists, and the youngest one was already thirty-five years old.
To become a Xuan Ranked Martial Artist at the age of ten or so, how high must one’s natural talent be to do so?
“Demon Blade Triple Stack.”
The black-robed man executed a lower-grade Spirit Grade blade technique, his aura increasing greatly as he slashed out, transforming into three blade shadows. Moreover, the purple plain blade in his hand followed suit and slashed over to Zhang Ruochen’s neck.
A Spirit Grade Martial Skill executed by an Earth Extremity Realm Martial Artist was extremely powerful, and it was simply not comparable to a Spirit Grade Martial Skill executed by a Xuan Extremity Realm Martial Artist.
Before the blade qi could chop into Zhang Ruochen’s body, the robes on Zhang Ruochen’s body had already been torn out by the invisible force, tearing out a gash.
“Heavenly Heart Storm!”
Zhang Ruochen suddenly soared up, exploding the peak Sword Intent Realm of Sword Follows Heart, the sword was like a shock, travelling around the blade of the purple plain sword, stabbing at the black-clothed man’s heart.
The black-clothed man’s face changed drastically as he exclaimed, ”Sword Follows Heart Walking high level realm? No, it’s the realm of the peak of the Sword Follows Heart Walking …… How could ……”
Generally speaking, even if it was a Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Myth, very few people were able to cultivate to the peak Sword Follows Heart Walking realm.
For a Xuan Extreme Realm teenager to cultivate his sword technique to such a realm could simply be described as a demon.
Earlier, the sword technique Zhang Ruochen had performed had remained at the middle stage of the Sword Follows the Heart realm, and hadn’t exerted any real power.
He did not want to expose his bottom card until he had to.
Since it had already been exposed, the man in black had to die.
The man in black decisively gave up his purple plain sword, trying to dodge Zhang Ruochen’s sure-fire sword.
However, he still underestimated the power of the sword stance at the peak realm of Sword Follows Heart, and he had only just taken half a step backwards when the Soul Flash Sword pierced into his heart.
“Giggle!”
The tip of the Flash Soul Sword stabbed out from the black clothed man’s back, dropping drops of blood low.
The man in black looked at the sword that pierced through his heart, felt the coldness of the sword, clenched his teeth, and yelled, “Then let’s die together!”
Mobilising the last of his strength within his body, the man in black slammed towards Zhang Ruochen, swooping him off the cliff.
Zhang Ruochen’s face also changed slightly, he didn’t expect that the life force of an Earth Extreme Realm martial artist would be so strong, having already been pierced through the heart, he still had the strength to fight back.
“Ninth Brother.” Zhang Shaochu’s face changed and he immediately rushed towards the edge of the cliff.
Right at this moment, Zhang Ruochen transformed into a shadow, carrying his bloody battle sword, and flew up from the bottom of the cliff, landing steadily on the ground.
Zhang Ruochen exhaled a long breath and said, ”That was too close, fortunately I have cultivated the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow, or else I would have really died with him. We must not be this careless in the future!”
Zhang Shaochu thought of that amazing speed-type martial skill that Zhang Ruochen had performed on the challenge stage and thought in his heart, “That should be the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow, I have to beg Ninth Brother to teach me when I have the chance. If I learn that kind of speed-type martial skill, even if an Earth Extreme Realm martial artiste wants to kill me, it won’t be an easy task.”
