Chu Siyuan and the eight Xuan Maidens retreated to a more distant position, staring at the duo on the wall of the Book of Merits.
“Does Zhang Ruochen really possess the strength to fight against the Nine Spectres Sword Saint?”One of the Xuan Maidens held a sceptical attitude.
The Divine Goddess of Life said, “Although Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation hasn’t reached the Saint King realm, yet, his battle strength is definitely not weaker than that of a Saint King. However, the Nine Spectres Sword Saint has been cultivating above the Dao of the Sword for more than five hundred years, and his attainments are extremely profound, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation time is too short, and his underlying strength is still quite a bit inferior.”
Even if a sword cultivator had a high level of talent, it would still take a lot of time to cultivate the Sword Dao before it would bear fruit. Trying to become a sword dao powerhouse overnight was simply something that was simply impossible.
“Sword Dao Xuan Gang, unbreakable. With just this move alone, the Nine Spectres Sword Saint can stand proudly against other one-step Saint Kings, how could Zhang Ruochen be his opponent?”
Zhang Ruochen’s strength was very strong, yet no one thought that he could win against the Nine Spectres Sword Saint.
……
Zhang Ruochen was obviously also aware of the power of the Sword Dao Xuan Gang, thus, just at the moment when the two men’s auras were pitted against each other at their peak, he grabbed a step ahead of them and attacked with a sword.
“Wow–”
The sword was like a light shuttle.
The sky full of sword qi converged at a single point, fusing with the tip of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and blossoming into an eye-catching light.
“In the eyes of the old man, your sword technique is riddled with flaws and is no different from a child’s sword dance. With this amount of strength of yours, if you want to right Xuan Gui’s name, you’re still a long way off.”
The Nine Pale Sword Saint didn’t use the nine holy swords in his sea of qi, only releasing the sword intent within his body. The powerful sword intent condensed into a white Saint Sword, resembling a white rainbow, and swung towards the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
As long as one was a Sword Saint, they were all capable of executing a sword of sword intent.
However, the sword of sword intent condensed by a Sword Saint was only a shadow, similar to a sword qi.
However, the Sword of Sword Intent that the Sword Saint of the Nine Sephiroths unleashed was indistinguishable from a true Saint Sword, which could be either real or imaginary.
“Rumble.”?
Before the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword could enter within three feet of the Nine Sephirotic Sword Saint, it was sent flying diagonally out by the power that erupted from the Sword of Sword Intent. The Sword of Sword Intent did not dissipate, instead, it blossomed into an even more radiant light, turning into a stream of light and attacking Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen naturally understood the dreadfulness of the Sword of Sword Intent, and in the first moment, he struck the Fengbei Shield.
“Wow…”
The Sword of Sword Intent did not collide fiercely with the Fengbei Shield, but, instead, it directly penetrated through.
Reaching the level of sword dao like that of the Nine Pale Sword Saint, the Sword of Sword Intent could be both a sword and a sword intent, and no physical defence could stop it.
Seeing that the Sword Intent Sword was about to strike Zhang Ruochen’s body and pierce him through, suddenly, Zhang Ruochen’s finger slashed, and a spatial crack tore out.
Colliding with the spatial crack, the powerful might contained in the Sword of Sword Intent instantly disappeared without a trace.
The eyes of the Nine Pale Sword Saint stared, suddenly realising that Zhang Ruochen was not just a sword cultivator, but also cultivated the Way of Time and the Way of Space among the Nine Constant Ancient Ways.
This thought, had just flickered, when the Nine Spectres Sword Saint noticed that a spatial fluctuation was coming from all around his body, and that fluctuation was getting stronger and stronger, as if the heavens and earth were about to collapse.
“Not good.”
The body of the Nine Spectres Sword Saint transformed into a sword awn and rushed up to the sky.
At the location where he had just stood, dense cracks appeared in the space, and then, it collapsed into a black hole, and void space was revealed, and a powerful devouring force erupted.
Even with that powerful cultivation of the Nine Spectres Sword Saint, he was unable to fight against the spatial power and could only keep throwing out protective talismans behind him. As the protective talismans burst apart, blocking some of the devouring power of the shattered space, the Nine Spectres Sword Saint finally escaped.
“Careless!”
Cold sweat broke out on the Nine Spectres Sword Saint’s vest, just now, if he had slightly reacted half a split second slower, he was afraid that he would have died inside that fragmented space.
That brat Zhang Ruochen must have deliberately shown his enemy to be weak earlier to make the old man let his guard down, and only then, did he burst out with this killing move.
Zhang Ruochen was naturally a little disappointed to see that the Nine Spectres Sword Saint had escaped out. However, there was nothing that could be done about it, the Great Sage power left behind in the Phoenix Nest had a great suppression on the cultivation level of the cultivators, and even Saint Kings were unable to erupt into a heaven destroying battle might.
Furthermore, the space in the Phoenix Nest was quite solid, and Zhang Ruochen’s ability to execute a move like the Spatial Collapse was already quite difficult.
If they were to fight outside the Phoenix Nest, Zhang Ruochen’s advantage would definitely be greater.
When he failed to win with one strike, Zhang Ruochen struck out dozens of spatial cracks in a row, continuously attacking towards the Nine Spectres Sword Saint, not giving him a chance to fight back.
The spatial cracks intertwined into a net, forcing the Nine Spectres Sword Saint to only passively dodge.
“The Nine Spectres Sword Saint, whose cultivation had reached the Saint King realm, was actually beaten into submission by Zhang Ruochen?”Those Xuan Maidens were all a bit speechless, this was completely different from what they had imagined at the very beginning.
Chu Siyuan said, “Zhang Ruochen is getting more and more cunning, at the very beginning, he intentionally used the Sword Dao to attack the Nine Spectres Sword Saint, causing the Nine Spectres Sword Saint to develop a sense of contempt. By the time he surprised him by exercising his spatial power, he immediately gained the upper hand, and from then on, he no longer gave the Nine Spectres Sword Saint the chance to use his sword.”
The Divine Goddess of Life said, “Could it be that the Nine Spectres Sword Saint is going to lose?”
Chu Siyuan shook his head and said, “The Nine Spectres Sword Saint doesn’t know how many battles he has experienced, and he is definitely able to seize the opportunity to counterattack. Once he starts to counterattack, I’m afraid that’s when Zhang Ruochen will lose.”
The Sacred Book Talent Maiden’s hands were hidden in her sleeves, her ten fingers tightly pinched, her heart was extraordinarily tense.
The ferocity of this battle between Zhang Ruochen and the Nine Spectres Sword Saint was comparable to that Sword Saint duel between the Xuan Gui Sword Saint and the Nine Spectres Sword Saint, and in the midst of such a battle, both sides would inevitably go all out and it would be difficult to collect their power at the critical moment.
Once the battle was lost, it would most likely be death.
Zhang Ruochen struck more than two hundred spatial cracks in a row, and even though the Nine Spectres Sword Saint had a lot of battle experience, three blood marks still appeared on his body.
“Kid, you were even able to injure old me, not a small skill.”
Anger surged in the eyes of the Nine Spectres Sword Saint, a bright point of light appeared at the centre of his eyebrows, and a series of nine holy swords rushed out and flew out from between a spatial rift.
“Nine Swords Devouring God.”
The Nine Spectres Sword Saint extended a palm and raised it above his head, manipulating the nine holy swords through the air, and then, he pressed his palm downwards.
All of the nine holy swords emitted powerful power fluctuations, and the silhouettes of the nine Flame Saint Birds rushed out from within the body of the swords, emitting deafening chirps.
With that, the nine Flame Saint Birds, simultaneously pressed downwards.
Zhang Ruochen did not panic as the Saint Qi within his body was injected into the Hundred Saint Blood Armour, and the blood-red armour became radiant.
The shadows of a hundred Middle Realm Saints rushed out from the armour.
The power of the Saint Shadows fused with Zhang Ruochen’s body, transforming into the power of the Hundred Saints. Immediately after, Zhang Ruochen’s feet stepped on the ground, his hands formed palm seals, and he slapped his hands into the air.
“Ow.”
“Roar.”
Sounds of dragons and elephants roaring came out.
A green dragon and a green elephant silhouettes appeared, combining with Zhang Ruochen’s palm imprints, sending the nine Flame Saint Birds flying out and reshaping into nine swords…?After this clash, the earth beneath Zhang Ruochen’s feet sank a large area.
The nine holy swords made swish-swish sounds and flew into the sky again, merging into the interior of a round of blazing sun.
“That’s ……”
Zhang Ruochen raised his head and looked upwards.
However, every ray of light emanating from the blazing sun was like a sharp sword, piercing his eyes and preventing him from opening them. At the same time, Zhang Ruochen also felt a huge crisis, as if the next sunlight that fell would pierce through his scalp.
“The Nine Pale Sword Saint’s famous technique, the Red Sun Sword Technique.”Chu Siyuan exclaimed in shock.
Inside the blazing sun, the sword dao fluctuations that erupted grew stronger and stronger, emitting heat as if it was going to melt the entire Phoenix Nest.
Zhang Ruochen stretched out his hands and propped up the spatial domain, at the same time, invoking the most powerful spatial force, using the spatial domain as the centre, tearing open hundreds of spatial cracks.
“Wow.”
In the blazing sun above, a fiery red sword qi fell down like a rainfall, continuously bombarding Zhang Ruochen.
Chu Siyuan and the eight Xuan Maidens in the distance also sensed the danger and fell back once again.
The vast majority of those sword qi were swallowed by the spatial cracks, however, there were also a small amount of some that landed inside the spatial realm, causing Zhang Ruochen no small amount of trouble.
The Red Sun Sword Rain lasted for nine breaths in a row, and by the impact of the sword qi, the soil melted, and the piece of earth around Zhang Ruochen completely turned into a sea of red flames and fire.
After those spatial cracks disappeared, the nine swords merged into one, being pinched in the hands of the Nine Pale Sword Saint, rushing out from the blazing sun, merging with the sky full of sword Qi, and stabbing straight at the top of Zhang Ruochen’s head.
With this sword, the Sword Dao Xuan Gang had already been brewed.
“Sword Eight.”
The Nine Peeps Sword Saint and the Nine Swords were like a flaming meteorite that flew from beyond the sky, intent on destroying the heavens and destroying the earth.
The pressure Zhang Ruochen was under was not small, and he clenched his teeth as he struck the Buddha Emperor’s Relic, stimulating the origin power in the reliquary and doing his best to resist.
At this moment, the few people standing in the distance, all of them were tense to the extreme, realising that they were afraid that this sword would be the difference between victory and defeat, life and death.
“Rumble.”
The nine swords impacted on top of the Sherri Son, and immediately, an energy ripple was formed, rushing and shooting in all directions.
Unfortunately, the relics failed to block the Nine Spectres Sword Saint, and the powerful sword light, still stabbed down.
“Space distortion.”?
Zhang Ruochen’s hands braced themselves, and almost all of the meridians on his face and body protruded out as he was frantically mobilising the spatial rules and Saint Force, trying his best to distort the space above his head.
Finally, the nine swords shifted their direction and stabbed down next to Zhang Ruochen’s cheek.
Right at the moment of the stabbing down, even with the protection of the Hundred Saints Blood Armour, Zhang Ruochen’s cheek was still cracked open with a long blood scar. The blood scar, which connected from his temples all the way to his jaw’s position, scarlet holy blood, dripped down his chin.
It could be imagined that if the power of the spatial distortion was just slightly weaker, I’m afraid that Zhang Ruochen’s body, would have already been pierced through.
“Rumble.”?
This sword of the Nine Netherworld Sword Saint attacked the ground beside Zhang Ruochen, directly shaking Zhang Ruochen and throwing him out, with thousands and thousands of sword qi, striking the Hundred Sacred Blood Armour on top of Zhang Ruochen’s back, emitting a series of rumbling sounds.
Seeing that this sword had failed to kill Zhang Ruochen, a look of amazement flashed across the eyes of the Nine Spectres Sword Saint, who then drew up his longsword and swung another sword towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen, who was thrown in mid-air, violently flipped his body and formed a sword technique with his fingers, pointing a finger when the Nine Spectres Sword Saint felt that he had already won.
“Morning Sword.”
In an instant, time stopped.
At the tip of Zhang Ruochen’s finger, the Sword Qi and the Pure Destruction Divine Flame merged into one, seizing this extremely short period of time and striking the Nine Spectres Sword Saint’s brow with a single finger.
Knowing that just now, Zhang Ruochen had already been shaken out by the power that erupted from the Sword Eight and the Sword Qi Xuan Gang, and was already bound to lose, how could the Nine Spectres Sword Saint have expected that under such a disadvantage, Zhang Ruochen would still have the power to counterattack?
Zhang Ruochen’s finger, in the end, did not stab down, the flame on the tip of his finger was only an inch away from the Nine Spectres Sword Saint’s brow.
The Nine Spectres Sword Saint stopped and did not strike again, plunging the nine swords into the ground, the expression on his face became wooden, his mind fluctuating greatly, and only after a long time did he say with difficulty, “This is the Time Sword Technique?”
“That’s right.”Zhang Ruochen said.
“Why didn’t you use this move at the very beginning?”
“The Time Sword Technique is my biggest card, so naturally, I cannot use it casually. Once I use it, I must also make sure that I can kill the enemy and win.”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Nine Spectres Sword Saint said, “But, why did you withdraw your power again and not kill me?”
“Someone like you shouldn’t die at the hands of your own people, even if you do, you should die in battle while fighting the Rakshasa Clan.”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Nine Spectres Sword Saint laughed out, and after a long time, that smile turned into a bitter laugh, “I’ve lost!”
Zhang Ruochen retracted his finger that was pointing at the Nine Spectres Sword Saint’s brow, and then, his five fingers formed a palm seal again, and he quickly slapped his palm out, striking the Nine Spectres Sword Saint’s chest.
“Boom.”
A mouthful of blood was spat out from the Nine Spectres Sword Saint’s mouth, and he flew backwards, half-kneeling on the ground, his face turning incomparably pale.
“Back then, you stabbed Master Teacher with a sword, today, I will slap you, and from now on, no one will owe anyone anymore.”Zhang Ruochen said.
By striking this palm, within an hour, the Nine Spectres Sword Saint would never want to fight anyone again.
Losing the Nine Spectres Sword Saint as a combatant, with the strength of Chu Siyuan and the Nine Heavens Xuan Maiden, they would not be able to take away the Wall of Merit Book from Zhang Ruochen’s hands.
