“Senior, how do you call yourself?” Zhang Ruochen asked.
A smile appeared on that middle-aged man’s serious face, “Nine Spirit Divine Bird Clan, Su Jing.”
“Another Nine Spirit Divine Bird Clan.”
Zhang Ruochen unconsciously uttered such a sentence, and his gaze couldn’t help but look over towards Su Qingling, who suddenly realised that Su Qingling and that middle-aged man called Su Jing actually had a slight resemblance to each other.
Mo Fei …… Su
Jing obviously saw what Zhang Ruochen’s mind was thinking, and laughed out loud, “That’s right, this king is Qing Ling’s father, since you and Qing Ling are friends with a good relationship, how about you don’t need to be so raw, just call me Uncle Jing.”
Sure enough, he was Su Qingling’s father, so Su Jing was also the son of the Nine Spirits Great Sage?
Such an identity as Su Jing was extraordinary, and when placed in the Kunlun Realm, it carried more weight and power than Zhang Ruochen, the Imperial Crown Prince of the Sacred Brightness Central Empire.
After all, the Nine Spirit Divine Bird Clan ruled over half of the avian clans in the Broad Cold Realm, with experts like the clouds. The Sacred Brightness Central Empire did not have that kind of dominance in the Kunlun Realm even at its peak.
The few people present were all able to tell that Su Jing Province was looking at Zhang Ruochen with a very wrong look in his eyes, completely like he was looking at his future son-in-law.
Su Qingling knew about some of the clan’s arrangements, therefore, she was quite shy in her heart, and always stood behind Su Jing, silent, only sneaking a glance or two towards Zhang Ruochen from time to time, but her eyes would soon move away again.
Zhang Ruochen, however, felt no pressure and instead asked out, saying, ”Uncle Jing, is the situation of the Guanghan Realm in the Heavenly Court Realm really that difficult? With your powerful cultivation, even when you step out of the Shatuo Heavenly Realm, you need to carry a hidden lamp to hide your whereabouts?”
Zhang Ruochen had heard the Moon God say that the dark forces of the Heavenly Court Realm had always suppressed the Guanghan Realm, and that as long as the cultivators of the Guanghan Realm stepped out of the Shatuo Heavenly Domain, they would be bullied and assassinated.
At that time, Zhang Ruochen still felt that it was a bit exaggerated, and that the environment of the Heavenly Court Realm shouldn’t be so cruel and dark.
Upon hearing Zhang Ruochen’s question, a gloomy look appeared on their faces, including the faces of the several Heavenly Pride Sons present.
The Heavenly Court Realm was vast and boundless, yet the Guanghan Realm couldn’t walk out of the Shatuo Heavenly Domain, how miserable and suffocating it was.
A cold and stern light appeared in Su Jing’s eyes as he said, ”When one’s cultivation reaches a level like this king’s, they naturally have the means to defend themselves, and they won’t be so oppressed that they can’t walk out of the Shatuo Heavenly Realm. However, I heard that there are strong people from the Soul Realm who want to kill you, which is why I intend to be more careful and come with a hidden light to avoid business.”
At this time, Wu Hao said, “There is the light of the hidden lamp, masking the aura on us. And with Uncle Jing personally escorting us, on this journey, we definitely won’t encounter any danger.”
“I hope so.”
Su Jing took out a piece of silver-coloured metal and mobilised his Saint Dao power to inject it into it, and with a series of “clicking” sounds, a ten-odd feet long Refining Earth Dragon appeared in front of everyone’s eyes.
“Out.”
Su Jing was the first to leap onto the back of the Refining Earth Dragon, followed by Zhang Ruochen, Wu Hao, and the others who also followed to ascend.
The Truth Divine Hall was located in the Truth Heavenly Realm of the Western Niuga Continent, which was incomparably far away from the Shatuo Heavenly Realm, and if they didn’t use the Spatial Teleportation Array, with Zhang Ruochen and the rest’s speed, they wouldn’t be able to get there without three to five years.
Fortunately, there were spatial teleportation arrays in every heavenly domain in the Heavenly Court Realm. In some of the prosperous Heavenly Realms, and even in every Holy Realm, there were also spatial teleportation arrays.
The spatial teleportation array in the Shatuo Heavenly Domain was located in the Dark Bing Sacred Domain, which was separated from the Red Dragon Sacred Domain by eleven Sacred Domains, a distance of more than 300,000 miles. Even with the degree of the Refining Earth Dragon, it would still take five or six days to catch up without sleep or rest.
Mu Lingshi sat beside Zhang Ruochen, closing a pair of beautiful eyes as if she was meditating on the Holy Dao, but in reality, she was communicating with Zhang Ruochen with her spiritual power: “It is said that the Nine Spirit Divine Bird Clan wants to befriend you very much, and may even use the marriage method.”
Zhang Ruochen understood what was going through Mu Lingshi’s mind, and in her heart, there was definitely a sense of crisis, so he said, “Don’t think too much about it, first meditate and cultivate, and strive to digest the inheritance of the Ice and Fire Phoenix as soon as possible, and break through to the Saint King realm.”
Mu Lingshi unconsciously ground her teeth, feeling that Zhang Ruochen’s reply was evasive, not responding positively to the answer she wanted to know at all.
In the next moment, Zhang Ruochen’s voice, once again, came out of her ears, “I hate marriages.”
Sensing that Zhang Ruochen’s mood was a bit off, Mu Lingshi immediately stared towards him. Only to see that Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were a little cold, yet a little lifeless, as if he was recalling something.
“That’s right, no matter if it’s the union with Chi Yao or the union with Sister Dust, it has caused him quite a bit of harm. How am I myself not a victim of the alliance?”
Mu Lingshi stretched out a small hand and probed to Zhang Ruochen’s side, grasping his palm tightly. The faint warmth emanating from her hand was like a warm current mending the wounds in Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
Zhang Ruochen turned his head and locked eyes with her, the coldness in his eyes gradually disappeared and turned into a smile as he was about to open his mouth to say something.
Suddenly …… ”
Rumble.”
The ground, shook violently.
Two violent storms of holy power swept in from both the front and back of the Refiner Earth Dragon, producing a sound like a landslide and tsunami.
On the back of the Refiner Earth Dragon, a weird smile flashed across Wu Hao’s face.
The other few people, however, were shocked, not understanding what had happened.
Su Jing’s face was rather sullen and cold, appearing calm and collected the hidden lamp, and a pair of huge feathered wings grew on his back, soaring upwards into the sky.
At the same time, his left palm reached downwards, and then, a series of six channels of Saint Qi surged out from his palm.
The six channels of Saint Qi were like six threads wrapping around Zhang Ruochen, Wu Hao, Mu Lingshi and the others, carrying them along as they flew upwards into the sky.
“Boom.”
On the ground, the Refining Ground Dragon was impacted by the two strands of holy power, and was squeezed and deformed, before bursting apart and turning into a piece of scrap metal.
Seeing this scene, even Zhang Ruochen sucked in a breath of cool air.
That Artifact Refining Earth Dragon was not simple, possessing the strength to fight against Saint Kings and a hardness that surpassed the vast majority of Thousand Stripe Saint Artifacts, yet, it was like tofu dregs, easily being shattered into pieces.
What was even more astonishing was that just as they were soaring upwards, the earth in all directions also rose upwards, transforming into a canine-like mountain peak that surrounded them.
Zhang Ruochen raised his head to look, and his eyes contracted violently as he saw an incomparably large and hideous head poking out above the blackened peaks, and on the head, there were also densely packed spikes.
It was almost like a huge monster that was as high as heaven and earth was looking down at them, and they were like tiny crickets in a bowl.
A huge and boundless holy might surged out from the body of the owner of that head, covering this piece of heaven and earth, and the weakest cultivators, Wen Shusheng, Ling Mi, and Su Qingling, turned very pale in an instant.
Su Jing burst into flames and roared out in a deep voice, “Prairie Mourning Monarch.”
A voice that shook the sky and earth came down from above, “Su Jing, two hundred years ago, you killed my son, Yin Silence, today, this day, this Monarch will eat you alive to avenge this blood feud.”
Su Jing felt that today’s events were too strange, it was not at all like the Prairie Mourning Monarch had come specifically to seek revenge on him.
Why did he choose today for the blood revenge from two hundred years ago?
Moreover, it was still in the Shatuo Heavenly Domain, and for the Prairie Mourning Monarch to strike to kill him, he must be taking a great risk, and the losses would outweigh the gains.
Su Jing said, “My movements are secretive and I have hidden lights to cover my breath, how did you find me?”
“To a dead man, this king doesn’t want to explain so much.”
At the top of a mountain peak, a large black hand poked out as if it was a five-fingered mountain, suppressing downwards.
Below, everyone’s eyes went black, and with the exception of Su Jing, the remaining six people were suppressed by the Saint Dao power contained in the large hand, so much so that they couldn’t move or even breathe.
“Damn it, Shang Zi烆 clearly promised me that he would only kill Zhang Ruochen alone, but, looking at this Prairie Mourning Monarch’s stance, he’s trying to kill all of us all here.”
Although Wu Hao had known for a long time that Shang Zijian was not a good thing, and that his words could not be trusted, however, he had not expected Shang Zijian to be ruthless to such an extent.
“Boom.”
Su Jing’s body swelled and transformed into a Nine Spirit Divine Bird that scattered nine types of holy auras, charging towards the mountain peaks to the northwest, and with a violent tremor, they escaped through the thick mountain.
“Finally escaped.” Su Qingling exhaled a long breath, just now it was too depressing.
“I’m afraid it’s not that simple.” ? Zhang Ruochen stood on the back of the Nine Spirit Divine Bird and looked up at the sky, his face serious to the extreme.
Only to see that the entire sky was covered by thick dark clouds, and ten thousand feet above the dark clouds, there was a golden, four-coloured glazed cover suspended, and from the glazed cover, a pattern of rules surged out, spilling down and enveloping a territory hundreds of miles in circumference.
From the outside world, that territory was still the same as it was before, with bright sunshine, green mountains and green water, without any abnormalities.
However, within the interior of the glazed cover, there was a landslide and holy power tumbling.
The Nine Spirit Divine Bird with a huge body did not escape from the region covered by the glazed cover, and when it flew to the edge of the region, it crashed into an invisible wall of light.
“Rumble.”
On that wall of light, densely-packed rules of the Holy Dao emerged, spreading from the ground, upwards, and eventually connecting with the glazed cover in the sky above.
The Nine Spirit Divine Bird’s body quickly contracted and reformed into the appearance of a human man, staring intently at the layer of Sacred Dao Rule light curtain in front of him, his mouth spat out five words, “Sealing Heavenly Glazed Shield.”
With that, Su Jing turned around and shouted at the Prairie Mourning Monarch, “It’s simply impossible for you to possess such a treasure as the Heaven-Sealing Glazed Shield, who on earth instructed you to intercept us? Creating killings in the Heavenly Realm so blatantly, aren’t you afraid of breaking the Heavenly Laws and dying without a burial place?”
The Prairie Mourning Monarch’s body, covered with a thick layer of evil clouds, had already chased after him, his voice tinged with sarcasm, “Firstly, this Monarch has come to kill you for the sake of vengeance, and this matter is beyond the control of the Heavenly Laws!” ?
“Secondly, with the power of the Heaven Sealing Glazed Shield blocking off heaven and earth, who can know that it was this Monarch who killed you?”
