Half an hour ago.
Because of the arrival of a great person, all the evils in the Yin Yang Hall either stopped comprehending the engraved diagrams of the Way of Truth, or immediately put down what they were doing, and rushed towards the most magnificent and grandiose Senwei Hall.
The number of strong Evil Daoists gathered in the Hall of Senwei reached hundreds.
They were all at least at the Supreme Saint realm of cultivation, and some of them were even powerful Saint Kings, the top Evil Dao prides of the three worlds, all of them unruly and untamed.
However, at this moment, they were all sitting honestly on top of their seats, and none of them dared to show their wild colours.
The leaders of the Yin Yang Realm, Queen Ren and King Amazing, the leader of the Black Demon Realm, Dome Lin, and the leader of the Ten Thousand Evil Realm, Evil Chengzi, sat at the four main seats. The leader of the Black Demon Realm, “Dome Lin”, and the leader of the Ten Thousand Evil Realm, “Evil Chengzi”, sat on the four main seats. And above them, at the very centre of the Senwei Hall, sat a silver man wearing a tri-coloured treasure armour.
This man, probably in his mid-twenties, wore a vermilion-coloured three-feathered crown on his head, and his aura was quite elegant, forming a stark contrast to those fierce Evil Dao figures in the hall.
If Zhang Ruochen was here, he would be able to recognise him, this person was the leader of the Merit Divine Hall’s current generation, Shang Ziqian.
Behind Shang Zi烆, the “Fire Prana Women”, “Wood Prana Women”, and “Earth Prana Women” of the Five Elemental Women all had outstanding temperaments and stood in a pavilion, like three stunningly beautiful maidservants who had stepped out of a scroll.
Apart from that, the Deadly Market, who ranked seventh on the Saint Merit List, was smilingly sitting not far from Shang Ziqiao, tasting a kind of holy wine called “Heavenly Duke”.
The leader of the Black Devil Realm, Dome Lin, took the lead to stand up, a pair of Heavenly Devil’s eyes swept across the crowd of evils present, and said in a cold voice: “The matter of Zi Qian’s arrival at the Hall of Yin and Yang belongs to the confidentiality, whoever dares to divulge half a word, this king will definitely make him beg for his life and beg for his death.”
Qiong Lin was definitely a ferocious and ruthless person, just saying so instantly silenced even those murderous evil characters present.
Shang Ziwei, however, was wearing a smile on his face, “Dome Lin, don’t be so serious, it was me who took the initiative to meet them, even if the news leaked out, it was also because I wasn’t careful enough, I can’t blame them.”
Those evil characters present were not stupid, and knew very well that although Shang Zi烆 had put the blame on himself, if anyone really leaked out the news, he would definitely end up in a miserable situation.
Shang Zi烆 added, “In fact, I came to the Yin Yang Hall mainly because I heard that you guys are about to have a great calamity, so I accepted Vault Lin’s invitation and came to help you guys deal with the great calamity.”
“Boom!”
The Senwei Hall exploded.
“Great Tribulation? What does that mean? How come I don’t know?”
“The Yin Yang Palace has stood in the Tendu Sacred City for tens of thousands of years, and every once in a while, there were always some enemies who came to attack, but, all of them returned in defeat. Even though it has suffered several major crises, yet, it has survived them all.”
“How powerful is the Yin Yang Hall nowadays, with experts like the clouds, and even with the guardianship of the Warp and Weft Heavenly Net Array, how could it possibly suffer a major calamity?”
…… All the
evils were talking, only such great figures as Empress Ren, Amazing King, and Evil Chengzi remained calm and collected, obviously having guessed what the great calamity Shang Ziqian was talking about was.
Qiong Lin stood up and said, “About twenty days ago, I received a message from one of the Black Demon Realm’s infiltrators that Zhang Ruochen had already come to the Tendu Sacred City.”
“Zhang Ruochen? That’s the fellow who was cultivated by the Broad Cold Realm to be number one on the Saint Merit Ranking?” An evil half-step Saint King with an elder crocodile head asked.
“That’s right.”
Hearing Dome Lin’s affirmative answer, those Evil Dao cultivators present who hadn’t learnt the news were really a bit terrified.
One must know that Zhang Ruochen’s current reputation was not small, having just come to the Truth Heavenly Domain, he had attacked the Mirror Fragrance Cliff Dojo and decapitated dozens of powerful people from the Cloud Realm without leaving a single one alive, including the White Boa who possessed a perfect physique, and the Fey King whose cultivation had reached the four-step Saint King realm.
With Zhang Ruochen being so murderous, who could not be afraid?
Since Zhang Ruochen had come to the Tendu Sacred City, as a divine Envoy of the Moon God, would he not attack the Yin Yang Realm?
Some of these Evil Dao powerhouses had long known that Zhang Ruochen had come to the Tendu Sacred City, and there was no fear on their faces.
The Green Fang, who was ranked seventy-three on The Saints’ Merit List, let out a cold laugh: ”Duke Zi Zi is too alarmist, isn’t he? Zhang Ruochen’s strength is strong, that’s not true, but with just him alone, he can also bring about a great calamity to the Yin Yang Hall?”
A Saint King realm Evil Dao expert followed suit and chimed in, “Even if Zhang Ruochen borrows the divine power of the Moon God and opens up the equality of all living beings, there are still plenty of strong people in the Yin Yang Hall who are able to suppress him in a single fight.”
“What’s more, there are also killing formations like the Warp and Weft Heavenly Net Formation in the Yin Yang Hall, not to mention him being a half-step Saint King, even if a seven-step Saint King barged in, he would still be trapped to death.”
Those powerful Evil Dao cultivators present all nodded.
If they were, at the half-step Saint King realm, perhaps they were still a bit afraid of Zhang Ruochen.
However, they were now Saint Kings and had been cultivating for much longer than Zhang Ruochen, and even if their cultivation was suppressed to the realm of a half-step Saint King, their attainments above the Sacred Art and Truth Rule would still be able to throw off Zhang Ruochen by a few streets, and they were not afraid of him at all.
A Scorpion Clan being whose cultivation had reached the four-step Saint King realm let out a dry laugh, ”It is said that a month ago, Zhang Ruochen was only able to kill the Cloud Realm’s Fey King with the help of a powerful sword cultivator, and only barely succeeded. So, after turning on the equality of all beings, Zhang Ruochen’s strength is estimated to be somewhere between that of the Fey King, and I should be able to suppress him.”
“If he really comes to the Yin Yang Hall, everyone stay out of the way and leave it to me to clean up.” Another laughter rang out.
Only after these Evil Dao cultivators had pretty much finished speaking did Shang Ziwei say without slowing down, “It seems like you guys really don’t know how terrifying a Time and Space Controller is.”
As Shang Zi烆 opened his mouth, in the Senluo Hall, silence immediately fell.
Shang Zi烆 added, “You guys think that just over a month has passed since Zhang Ruochen’s last battle. However, for Zhang Ruochen, who has mastered the power of time, it is very likely that he has been cultivating for several months, or even several years. What level of battle power he has reached today, even I can’t tell.”
Thinking of the identity of the “Time and Space Controller”, at once, all of the Evil Dao cultivators who had been fearless earlier put away their smiles and revealed a grave expression.
Shang Ziwei added, “It’s only a matter of time before Zhang Ruochen attacks the Yin Yang Temple. Perhaps, with his current strength, he won’t be able to defeat the Yin Yang Hall, but what about in the future? If we let him cultivate in the Truth Heavenly Domain for another three to five years, not to mention you guys, even I am not sure that I can suppress him. At that time, will you all still be able to laugh?”
“Zhang Ruochen’s methods are quite bloody, in the Ancestral Spirit Realm, I don’t know how many Saints in the Shatuo Seven Realms he killed. At the Mirror Incense Cliff Dojo, he killed the cultivators of the Cloud Realm cleanly. As far as I know, in order to become the leader of the current generation of the Guanghan Realm, Zhang Ruochen killed all of Guanghan Realm’s previous realm son, Wu Hao.”
“Someone with such a ruthless heart, once he made up his mind to deal with you, he would also be sure to kill all of you.”
Hearing these words from Shang Ziwei, all the Evil Dao cultivators present were drenched in cold sweat, finally feeling a huge pressure.
That pressure was Zhang Ruochen.
The most powerful ones, Empress Ren, Amazing King, and Evil Chengzi, still appeared calm and saw the situation clearly, knowing that Shang Ziqian was trying to borrow the power of the Yin Yang Hall to deal with Zhang Ruochen.
Of course, this was also in their interest, so they continued to remain silent, wanting to see what method Shang Zi烆 planned to use to deal with Zhang Ruochen.
“Zhang Ruochen must be taken out as soon as possible, we can’t let him continue to grow stronger.”
“However, the Tiandu Sacred City is so big, trying to find Zhang Ruochen out is not an easy task.”
“Zhang Ruochen is proficient in the art of change and has mastered the Spatial Shifting Grand Technique, trying to capture him is even more difficult than dealing with a seventh step Saint King.”
Qiong Lin said, “That infiltrator from the Black Demon Realm has lost contact, most likely because his identity has been exposed and he has been purged. Otherwise, he would have been able to tell us Zhang Ruochen’s whereabouts.”
Shang Zijian, on the other hand, smiled faintly, “If he doesn’t show himself, we can force him to offer himself.”
“What kind of brilliant strategy does Lord ZiJian have?” Qiong Lin asked.
“Wow-” Shang
Zi烆’s sleeve, gently flicked on top of the table, and as a piece of holy light escaped, a series of more than a dozen bloody human heads were placed on top.
“I came to the Yin Yang Hall, of course, to bring some gifts to Zhang Ruochen, just to see if he dares to come and receive them.”
Shang Ziwei’s finger, gently touched the tip of his nose, obviously somewhat unable to stand the bloody odour emanating from the human heads, however, his eyes carried a smile full of anticipation.
In the Shatuo Heavenly Domain, Shang Ziqi had spent a great deal of effort to ambush Zhang Ruochen, but not only was he unsuccessful, instead, he allowed Zhang Ruochen to kill the King of the Shatuo, the Gold Phenomenon Lady, and the Water Phenomenon Lady, and suffered a great loss.
At that time, he had spent a lot of money and invited the most prestigious assassin organisation in the Celestial Court Realm, the “Heavenly Killers”, to assassinate all the cultivators who were related to Zhang Ruochen.
Although those cultivators stayed in the Shatuo Heavenly Realm and were protected by the great saints of the Kunlun Realm, the Heavenly Killer organisation was pervasive and so powerful that even the gods could not destroy them.
At the initial stage, the higher echelons of the Kunlun Realm were unprepared, and the Sky Killing Organisation easily got their hands on them, killing several Saint realm cultivators in a row, and even Saint Kings and Great Saints were assassinated, and some of them were even seriously injured.
This matter alerted Empress Chi Yao, causing her to be thunderously angry.
She personally took action, and in a single day, the Heavenly Slayer Organisation assassins that had lurked into the Kunlun Realm’s various holy realms were actually put to death by more than fifty of them, and among them, there was also an assassin at the Great Saint realm.
God, in the holy realms occupied by the Mother Realm, dealing with the Heaven Killing Organisation was not subject to the constraints of the Heavenly Rules.
Of course, after leaving the Mother Realm-occupied Sacred Realm, a god could no longer strike.
This bloody counter-killing served as a deterrent, suppressing the arrogant flames of the Heaven Killing Organisation.
However, the Sky Killing Organisation was, after all, a terrifying force that had once assassinated a god, and it didn’t stop there, but only became more cautious, no longer sending out assassins at the level of Great Saints and Saint Kings. Instead, it sent out assassins at the Half-Saint and Saint realm to infiltrate into the Shatuo Heavenly Domain and continue their assassination missions. Their auras were weak and would not attract the attention of the gods.
It was only then that this large-scale assassination operation finally changed from an open killing, to an assassination.
The cultivators of the Kunlun Realm had become cautious, and it had naturally become much tougher for the Heaven Killing Organisation to get their hands on them.
These causes and consequences were all told to Zhang Ruochen by Xiao Hei, Nine Heavenly Xuan Maiden, and Qing Xiao together in the Mirror Fragrance Cliff Dojo three days later.
Three days ago, outside the gates of the Yin Yang Hall, when Zhang Ruochen saw more than a dozen human heads hanging on the gates, the anger within his body blazed up and he almost lost his mind.
Before Zhang Ruochen could take action, in the next instant, Xiao Hei sneaked up from behind and sealed the meridians of his entire body, bringing him back to the Mirror Fragrance Cliff Dojo.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen sat on the ground with the Binding Sacred Lock bound to his body, trying his best to say in the calmest tone possible, “Release me.”
Xiao Hei shook a huge cat head vigorously and said, “No, the side effects of the Joy and Rage Pill in your body haven’t completely disappeared yet, if I let you go, who knows what kind of life-threatening things you’ll do?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, you’re not going to help me unlock the Sacred Binding Lock either?” Zhang Ruochen stared at Qing Xiao.
“There are more than a dozen heads hanging outside the Yin Yang Hall, suffering whippings every day, and in the heads, there are still Saint Souls wailing,” This matter had long been spread throughout the Truth Heavenly Domain.
It was precisely because they knew that Zhang Ruochen was likely to go on a rampage that Qing Xiao and the Nine Heavens Xuan Maiden immediately rushed to the Mirror Fragrance Cliff Dojo, which naturally had a dissuasive intent in it.
Even Ling Fei Yu, who was out on a mission, returned within the shortest time possible.
At this time, Ling Fei Yu was sitting coldly in the distance, polishing her Burial Heavenly Sword, the anger in her heart half as much as Zhang Ruochen’s.
Because, she had received news that her father, Ling Xiu, had also been assassinated and suffered extremely serious injuries.
