Zhang Ruochen didn’t want to confront Dome Lin head-on for the time being and used Spatial Shift to disappear in place, avoiding the strike that Dome Lin had struck with all his might.
“Boom.”
The Blood Refining Demon Mace blasted the ground and not only did it not hit Zhang Ruochen, it instead sent several Evil Dao cultivators flying.
When the Blood Refining Demon Mace fell short, Dome Lin was instantly enraged and was about to give the order to use the means he had prepared in advance to suppress the space.
Just then, however, he sensed that an extremely dangerous force was about to burst out.
Only to see that in the distance, Zhang Ruochen pulled out the only Heavenly Dipper Purple Flame Talisman and mobilised his Saint Qi, injecting it into the talisman at the fastest possible degree.
Qiong Lin’s face changed violently as he shouted, “Be careful.”
The Evil Dao cultivators, naturally, all sensed the danger as well, with some stirring up defensive-type Saint Weapons and others retreating in a hurry.
Green Fang, who was ranked seventy-third on The Saint’s Merit List, had the fastest degree of strain, taking out a high-grade defensive talisman and pressing it towards Zhang Ruochen’s direction.
“Rumble.”
The Heavenly Dipper Purple Flame Talisman shattered and broke apart, gushing out monstrous purple flames like a flame vortex, emitting a whistling sound and impacting in all directions.
The blazing flames melted the gate of the Yin Yang Hall into copper water.
The power of the Heavenly Dipper Purple Flame Talisman was comparable to a holy art struck by a four-step Saint King.
Nowadays, the cultivation levels of all cultivators were suppressed at the half-step Saint King realm.
It could be said that there were no cultivators that could withstand the Heavenly Dipper Violet Flame Talisman with their own strength. Including the leader of the Black Demon Realm, Dome Lin, all of them were fleeing.
“Puffing.”
Some of the Evil Dao cultivators, whose reaction degree was slightly half a beat slower, were stuck by the purple flames, and in an instant, their bodies burned like lanterns, turning into fireballs.
More than twenty fireballs burned at the same time, and there were roars, curses, and screams.
The demonic clouds on Qiong Lin’s body were burned very thin, revealing his true appearance. He looked young, with a greenish-coloured face, a string of iron rings on his forehead, and a pair of eyes that were rather narrow and long, connecting all the way to the back of his ears.
A total of eighteen pupils grew in these long eyes, nine in the left eye and nine in the right.
With a cold snort, Qiong Lin lifted both palms and pressed them forward, and two chilly clouds of demonic qi flew out, enveloping the twenty-odd fireballs.
A few moments later, the purple flames dispersed, leaving only more than twenty charred corpses.
With his foot, Qiong Lin gently kicked at one of the black corpses, and in an instant, the corpse turned into powder.
In the other direction, the green fangs used a defensive talisman, forming a white net of light that actually blocked the purple fire for a breath of time.
Of course, with one breath of time, it was already enough for those evil cultivators to escape, preserving the lives of dozens of cultivators. Otherwise, the corpses on the ground would have been more than just twenty-odd.
One must know that when those twenty-odd corpses were alive, each one of them was a first-rate heavenly pride of the three worlds, with a one or two percent chance of cultivating to the Great Sage realm. Killing them was like killing several future Great Saints.
Such a loss could not be afforded by any of the great worlds.
At once, the entire Yin Yang Hall became silent.
All of the Evil Dao cultivators were on standby. They finally understood why Shang Ziwei had said that Zhang Ruochen was a “great catastrophe” for the Yin Yang Hall, and that this great enemy was really hard to deal with.
Outside the Yin Yang Hall, there was a great deal of clamour, and the cultivators of all the major worlds sucked in a breath of cold air.
A group of Heavenly Flame Demon Butterflies, placed in mid-air, chattered, ”So easily won? Just a single attack talisman has caused the Yin Yang Hall to suffer such heavy losses.”
“Just one attack talisman? That Attack Talisman is worth at least 10 million Saint Stones, even this Princess would have to dump her family’s money to afford one.” The Demon Butterfly Princess said without a trace of anger.
“Even if one grasps such a powerful attack talisman, one would need to have ghostly spatial means like Zhang Ruochen’s and seize the opportunity to strike with precision, accuracy, and speed in order to wield the power of the talisman.”
“Otherwise, those evil cultivators of the Yin Yang Temple are prepared, even if your talisman is powerful, others will have long escaped. The talisman bought by ten million holy stones is like a wasted effort.”
“In that case, this Zhang Ruochen, really isn’t simple, I really hope that he can teach those evil guys in the Yin Yang Hall a hard lesson.”
…… The
group of Heavenly Flame Ink Butterflies hated the Yin Yang Hall very much, and seeing that Zhang Ruochen had made them suffer a big loss, all of a sudden, they all felt much better about Zhang Ruochen, a stranger.
Not far away, Ji Fanxin, Dan Spirit King, and Demon Jedi King stood together, and their faces also showed a ray of joy.
However, they were quite clear that the main reason why Zhang Ruochen was able to strike a heavy blow to the Yin Yang Hall was because, at the very beginning, the Yin Yang Hall had underestimated Zhang Ruochen too much.
Zhang Ruochen had accurately grasped this mentality of theirs and struck decisively, and only then did he inflict such a huge loss on the Yin Yang Hall.
It was simply impossible to have such an opportunity again.
The Demon Jedi King frowned with some curiosity and said, “By using that attack talisman, Zhang Ruochen has already broken through the encirclement of the Yin Yang Hall’s Evil Dao cultivators, so why didn’t he take advantage of the chaos to escape?”
The Dan Spirit King was also a bit puzzled, “The Yin Yang Hall has already died two Saint Kings and more than twenty top geniuses, Zhang Ruochen is considered to have avenged the owner of those seventeen heads, he shouldn’t have stayed in the Yin Yang Hall. Could it be that the Yin Yang Hall, has used some other hidden power to trap Zhang Ruochen, making it impossible for him to leave?”
It wasn’t just the Demon Jedi King and the Dan Spirit King who were confused, countless cultivators in the Tendu Sacred City were all unable to guess the reason for this.
Ji Fanxin said with sunken eyes, “Zhang Ruochen is trying to exterminate the Yin Yang Hall.”
“What?”
The Demon Jedi King and the Dan Spirit King were both startled violently.
This was because, in their opinion, wanting to exterminate the Yin Yang Hall was simply not something that a single person, or a few people, could do.
Historically, the several major crises that had appeared in the Yin Yang Hall were all due to being besieged by dozens of great worlds. But even then, they had all blocked it and survived the crisis.
For Zhang Ruochen to want to destroy the Yin Yang Hall with the power of one person, to put it nicely, it was a move against the heavens. To put it badly, it was seeking death.
………………
In a Daoist temple not far from
the Yin Yang Hall, there was a hundred feet high stargazing platform built, piled up with holy jade, radiating crystal white light.
On the four sides of the stargazing platform, there were four divine beasts carved, a dragon, a tiger, a sparrow and a turtle.
Under the illumination of the holy light, the shadows of the four divine beasts emerged, like four divine mountains, clustering the Stargazing Platform in the centre.
On the stargazing platform, on both sides of a chess table, sat two men, playing chess.
One of the men, dressed in a Taoist robe, had a refined air about him, and always had a smile on the corner of his mouth.
The man sitting opposite him was unexpectedly Shang Ziqi, who was wearing a three-coloured holy armour.
Who would have thought that at this incomparably critical moment tonight, Shang Zi烆 would not be sitting in the Yin Yang Hall, but instead be here playing chess with someone?
Shang Zi烆’s two fingers, holding a chess piece, hesitated to make a move and said, “If I had known that you had come to the Truth Heavenly Domain, I should have prepared a little more fully.”
The dao-robed man laughed, “The Heavenly Dao is still flawed, and even if you prepare more fully, there are bound to be flaws. Therefore, it’s better to let nature take its course.”
Shang Ziwei placed the pieces onto an empty space on the board and said, “You Taoists are really going to intervene in this? I feel that this is not a wise decision.”
“Where is the meddling? I’m just inviting you to play a game of chess, don’t have any other distractions or you’ll lose.”
The dao-robed man twisted up a chess piece and placed it on the board, and instantly, there was a huge change in the game, which actually ate a large portion of Shang Zi烆’s pieces.
An hour ago, Shang Ziqian received a letter with the word “Troublesome Sun” written on it.
Troublesome Hei was the name of the Shadowless Immortal on the Nine Immortals’ Beauty Diagram, and at the same time, she was also the elder sister of the King of the Crow King, the “Great Hei King”, the leader of the current generation of the Soul Realm.
Shang Ziwei had invited her to come to the Truth Heavenly Realm to use the Soul Technique to seize Zhang Ruochen’s Sacred Soul.
Da Xi Wang had originally promised him and had already come out. However, after more than two months had passed, not only had the Great Sun King not arrived at the Truth Heavenly Domain, but she had instead lost her voice, which made Shang Zi烆 vaguely feel bad.
Thus, upon receiving the letter, Shang Zi Yan immediately rushed over.
Shang Zi烆 stared at the chess board, not continuing to play, and asked, “Where exactly is the Great Sun King?”
The Dao-robed man’s finger guided, saying, “Play chess first, as long as you can win me, I will naturally tell you.”
Shang Ziwei said, “Hasn’t your Taoist family always been bright and open, as the leader of the current generation of the Five Elements Guan, the holy land of the Taoist family, how could you do something so underhanded? Release King Da Xi, don’t ruin your reputation.”
The Dao-robed man knew very well that Shang Ziwei was testing him, trying to figure out if the Great Sun King was in his hands.
The dao-robed man’s face remained unchanged as he smiled faintly, “As the leader of the Merit Divine Hall’s current generation, you should be a little more calm, or else you will disappoint me.”
Shang Ziwei pondered for a moment, then revealed a smirk as he twisted a chess piece and said, “You think that by holding me back, Zhang Ruochen will be able to walk out of the Yin Yang Hall alive tonight? Zhang Ruochen’s purpose was to destroy the Yin Yang Hall. However, this thought of his is destined to get him killed. Tonight, let’s see who will be unsettled first?”
………………
Outside the Yin
Yang Hall.
Qiong Lin stared coldly at Zhang Ruochen and said, “You actually didn’t take this opportunity to escape?”
“Why should I escape?”
Zhang Ruochen took out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and lifted it in his hand.
“It seems like you have other ideas, however, you will definitely regret not leaving just now when you could.”
Qiong Lin shouted, “Make the formation work.”
The Yin Yang Hall’s guardian formation, the Warp and Weft Heavenly Net Formation, immediately manifested.
Dense beams of light travelled through the air, interweaving into a large formation net. Moreover, the formation net spread outwards in a hurry, and in an instant, it enveloped Zhang Ruochen and Little Black.
“Wow.”
A black beam of light flew out from the formation and struck Zhang Ruochen and Little Black.
With a loud “rumble”, the three rock giant balls in front of Zhang Ruochen and Xiao Hei were broken into pieces and turned into rubble.
The rock giant balls were refined from three asteroids, how hard was it?
As if it was visible, the power of the Warp and Weft Heavenly Net Formation was truly terrifying to the extreme.
Zhang Ruochen used out Spatial Shift and appeared beside one of the Evil Dao cultivators and swung his sword out.
The sword light was as fast as lightning.
When those Evil Dao cultivators were not aware of it, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword split his head and Qi Sea into two, and blood flew into the air.
Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to use his Spatial Shift again, he realised that the space had become incomparably solid, as if it had frozen into lead and iron, which made him feel extremely bad.
“Zhang Ruochen, do you really think that the Yin Yang Palace can’t clean you up?”
Four black figures with extremely powerful auras appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s four directions at an unknown time. In their hands, they were each holding a powerful Ancestral Weapon, the Blazing Sun Ball and the White Moon Pearl, as well as two Star Halberds.
It was these four Ancestral Weapons that fixed space.
These four great experts were none other than the four siblings of the Song Clan of the Ten Thousand Evil Realm, Song Yang, Song Yue, Song Xing, and Song Chen.
The four of them, all possessed Perfection Physique, and although none of them had entered the Saints’ Merit List, the four of them had joined forces and defeated the Green Fang, who was ranked at the top of the Saints’ Merit List. Each one’s strength was a few points more powerful than a weak realm’s realm son.
