The man called Mr Mu looked to be in his early thirties, with thick eyebrows, a wooden crown on his head, and a pair of stern eyes that were always staring at the three people fighting in the centre of the Sun, Moon, and Stars Combined Attack Formation.
“The youngsters are still short of some fire after all.” Mr Mu spoke lightly.
Lady Mu, who appeared exceptionally young, with delicate skin and moving beauty, with a young/woman’s flavour, said, “In terms of the use of holy arts, our couple is far from the death of those two brats, Void and Zhan Yu, at the same realm, and within a hundred moves, we can defeat them.”
“However, that little fellow Zhang Ruochen is a bit tricky, almost all aspects have reached the peak under Saint King, there are no shortcomings.”
Mr Mu shook his head and said, “It’s not that there are no shortcomings, Zhang Ruochen’s attainments above the Way of Truth are still weak, if I’m not mistaken, he should have only fully comprehended the second Conceptual Diagram on the first level of the Truth Divine Hall, and could only make the Sacred Art explode with triple the power.”
“Zhan Yu, on the other hand, has already fully comprehended all of the third Contemplation Diagram, and is able to make the Sacred Art explode with four times its power.”
“Deceased Void, on the other hand, is even more powerful, I heard that he recently comprehended the realm of Flower Non-Flower at the second level of the Truth Divine Hall and broke through the fourth level of the Sea of Truth’s ocean in one fell swoop. In terms of attainments above the Way of Truth, both of them are only a step behind even compared to our couple.”
Lady Mu let out a light laugh, “Zhang Ruochen drank a holy wine that increases his power, enough to make up for his shortcomings above the Way of Truth.”
“It seems that we are indeed needed to make a move in order to battle it out.” Mr Mu said.
When they hadn’t reached the Saint King realm, Mr Mu and Madam Mu had also been on the Saint Merit Ranking List, only to be ranked quite low.
Of course, it had been over a hundred years since they had both cultivated to the Saint King realm.
This hundred-odd years was enough time for them to comprehend a large number of Saint Dao rules, cultivate top-notch Saint Arts, collect even more powerful Saint Artifacts Battle Soldiers, and hone even more perfect combat experience.
Precisely for this reason, even after being suppressed to the half-step Saint King realm, their battle power was still a few points more powerful than Undead Void and Zhan Yu.
“Evil Finger.”
The five fingers of Mr Mu’s right hand were pinched into an odd fingering technique.
Wisps of evil qi, twisting above the five fingers, condensed into the form of a precious bottle.
This was an ordinary middle-ranked Saint Art, but, relying on his profound cultivation and the huge number of Saint Dao rules in his body, Mr Mu managed to mobilise close to a hundred Finger Dao rules and incorporate them into the Saint Art.
Instantly, a majestic evil aura exploded out, causing Mr Mu’s body to transform into a black vortex.
It must be known that when Dead Void performed a middle-ranked Saint Art, he could only mobilise twenty or thirty Saint Dao rules at once, and that was the limit.
It was also an ordinary middle-ranked Sacred Art, but with different Saint Dao rules, the power of the explosion would naturally be vastly different.
As Mr Mu transformed into a black vortex and charged into the Sun, Moon, and Stars Combined Attack Formation, the Mu Woman also executed a middle-ranked Sacred Art, transforming into a white vortex and charging into the formation.
In the formation, what was originally a battle between three great masters had now turned into a duel between five great masters.
In the eyes of the crowd, this battle should have ended soon due to Zhang Ruochen’s defeat.
However, loud “rumbling” sounds came from inside, and the battle became even more intense.
Outside the Yin Yang Hall, Ling Fei Yu, who was hiding in the shadows, tightly grasped the Heavenly Burial Sword and stared at the five people in the fierce battle without blinking. If she hadn’t known Zhang Ruochen’s plan in advance, I’m afraid that she would have been unable to resist charging over.
As the five great masters dueled, the power fluctuations escaping from them grew stronger and stronger, causing the pressure on the Song Clan’s four siblings to increase greatly, and the four Ancestral Artifacts grasped in their hands were gently trembling, shocking their arms and making them numb.
The surrounding Evil Dao cultivators, all of them looked at each other in disbelief, their eyes suspicious.
Zhang Ruochen was inevitably too powerful, the combined efforts of Death Void, Zhan Yu, Mr Mu, and Madam Mu were unexpectedly slow to take him down, did he really have three heads and six arms?
Gradually, Dome Lin sensed that something was wrong, sensing danger.
“No, no, earlier, Zhang Ruochen and Undead Void dueled against each other and fought equally. Immediately after that, Zhan Yu joined in the battle circle, and the three of them fought to a standstill again. Mr Mu and Madam Mu joined in, and the five of them still fought to a standstill. How could this happen?”
Suddenly, as if he understood something, Dome Lin’s face changed drastically as he yelled, “Be careful, stay away from Zhang Ruochen.”
In the formation, the hearts of Death Void, Zhan Yu, Mr Mu, and Madam Mu, all thumped at the same time, being experienced in hundreds of battles they all sensed that it was not good, and were about to exit the Sun, Moon, and Stars Combined Attack Formation immediately.
However, right at this moment, they saw the corner of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth, revealing an evil smile.
Between the fingers of Zhang Ruochen’s left hand, two talismans appeared.
To be exact, those two talismans had long been pinched in Zhang Ruochen’s hands, only that they had only just realised it.
Zhang Ruochen quickly affixed one of the talismans onto himself, and at the same time, struck the other talisman, and chanted in a low voice, “Hundred Steps to Lifelessness.”
On the surface of the Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman, dozens of light patterns emerged, and then, a piercing holy aura was dispersed.
Even cultivators who were far away from the Yin Yang Hall were stung to the point where their eyes hurt by the light scattered from the Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman. From afar, it looked like a ball of light with a diameter of a hundred feet had appeared at the gate of the Yin Yang Hall.
“Rumble.” ?
A dull bursting sound came out.
The waves of energy transformed into a destructive storm that swept through the entire Yin Yang Hall. If it hadn’t been blocked by the Warp and Weft Heavenly Net Formation, that storm would have definitely surged into the Tendu Sacred City, destroying a large swath of Sacred Shop buildings.
Dead Void, Zhan Yu, Mr Mu, Mrs Mu, and the four Song siblings were the closest, within thirty feet of Zhang Ruochen, and were naturally subjected to the most terrifying impact.
The protective talismans on the four Song siblings’ bodies all burst into pieces, and their flesh and blood exploded, turning into pieces of scattered holy bones. The four Ancestral Weapons were also thrown out, impacting on top of the light wall of the Warp and Weft Heavenly Net Formation, forming a circle of ripples.
If Mr and Mrs Mu’s cultivation hadn’t been suppressed, they would naturally be able to withstand the power of the Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman, and would probably only suffer some minor injuries at most.
However, after their cultivation had been suppressed, they were not spared, and at this moment, they collapsed into a pool of blood, suffering incomparably serious injuries.
Mr Mu’s chest collapsed, his left arm turned into bloody mud, and half of his body became tattered.
Mrs Mu was even worse, her flowery face became a bloody mess, her head was shattered by a large portion, and a crack appeared in her sea of qi, with a large amount of holy qi escaping from the crack.
Zhan Yu’s fleshly body was powerful, suffering the attack of the Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman, but he didn’t die, and there was still a breath left in his mouth.
It was only Undead Void, who remained in a standing position, but there was still blood hanging from the corners of his mouth.
It wasn’t that Undead Void was more alert than the other cultivators, or that he was stronger than the other few cultivators, but it was because, ever since the last time, when he was pierced through his brow by Zhang Ruochen’s Time Sword Technique with a single stroke of his sword, a shadow was born in his heart, knowing that the Time Sword Technique couldn’t be defended against.
Thus, after returning to the Ruiya Realm, Dead Void went to beg that father who possessed the cultivation of the God Realm to carve a defensive divine pattern on his body as a means to save his life.
Before he had met Zhang Ruochen, Death Void did not want to carve divine lines on his body at all.
This was because, with the protection of divine patterns, cultivators would lose their vigilance and sense of crisis, which was not a good thing for cultivation. The more high-minded and proud a cultivator was, the less they cared to borrow external forces to protect themselves.
It was only at this moment that Nefarious Void was feeling thankful and rejoiced in his heart, “Luckily, I asked my father to carve a defensive divine pattern on my body, or else I’m afraid I’ll be in trouble today, I don’t have such a perverted fleshly body as Zhan Yu’s.”
Of course, after blocking the destructive power of the Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman, the Divine Patterns on Death Void’s body, became much dimmer.
The god also didn’t want his son, whom he valued quite highly, to rely too much on divine lines and end up losing his enterprising spirit. Therefore, there would not be a permanent divine pattern laid out, and the divine pattern could only block 90% of the attacking power.
In addition to Dead Void, Zhan Yu and the eight of them who were closest, within a hundred feet, there were seventeen other Evil Dao cultivators who were too late to retreat and died under the bombardment of the talismans.
The number of injured Evil Dao cultivators was even more than dozens.
The killing power of this talisman was much more terrifying than the Heavenly Dipper Purple Flame Talisman, and Zhang Ruochen had also intentionally lured Deceased Void, Zhan Yu, Mr Mu, Madam Mu, and the four siblings of the Song Clan to his side, and thus, once again, the Yin Yang Hall was heavily damaged.
“Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman, it’s actually the Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman …… How did Zhang Ruochen get this kind of talisman?”
“It really is the Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman? Legend has it that this kind of talisman can only be found in the Tomb of the Dao King, and only a dozen or so Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talismans have been unearthed since the Tomb of the Dao King was discovered.”
“Under Great Saints, very few cultivators can afford a Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman. Where did Zhang Ruochen get so many Saint Stones that he could afford a Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman? And who sold it to him?”
On the stargazing
platform of ……
, Shang Ziwei, who was playing chess, turned cold and chilly with his eyes and said, “You Daoists have gone too far, haven’t you? To even use the Hundred Steps to Lifelessness talisman, is this an attempt to lead to a bloody battle? Believe it or not, I’ll also get a few Death Riding Talismans to come to the Truth Heavenly Domain?”
The Taoist-robed man sitting on the opposite side of the table revealed a contemplative expression and said, “This Hundred Steps Without Life talisman has nothing to do with the Taoist family.”
Shang Ziwei’s culmination had always been very good, but, just now, he had lost his temper quite a bit, which was enough to see how angry he was in his heart.
“Nothing to do with the Dao Family? Could it be that the Broad Cold Realm could still get a Hundred Steps Without Life Talisman? With Zhang Ruochen’s wealth, could he still afford a Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman? Besides, there shouldn’t be anyone who would take the Hundred Steps to Lifelessness Talisman and put it out for sale, right?”
Shang Ziwei didn’t believe the words of the Taoist-robed man at all, so he immediately stood up and prepared to rush back to the Yin Yang Hall.
Who knows, how many talismans did the Dao Family also give back to Zhang Ruochen?
Therefore, even if Shang Ziqian didn’t personally make a move to capture Zhang Ruochen, he at least had to rush back and tell Dome Lin and the others that they didn’t need to capture Zhang Ruochen alive anymore, and that they could kill Zhang Ruochen if necessary. Lest they tied their hands when they struck out and were instead counted by Zhang Ruochen.
The dao-robed man sat by the chess table and smiled, “This Observatory, arranged with the Four Elephant Sealing Formation, none of us will be able to get out until the battle in the Yin Yang Hall is over. It is only proper for you to stay and continue playing chess with me. Be careful, be calm.”
“I still don’t believe it!”
Shang Ziwei took out a holy lamp, and the vast holy power in his body surged into the lamp, stirring up the holy lamp’s Six Flares of Perfection power, and directly blasted it into the night.
The light emanating from the holy lamp became more and more brilliant, as if it had transformed into a blazing sun.
“Rumble.”
On the four sides of the Observatory, the silhouettes of the four divine beasts became even more gigantic, rising up from the four directions and blocking the holy lamp back.
Shang Zi烆’s brows tightened as he hurriedly withdrew the holy lamp, and his entire being fell into silence.
After a long time, Shang Zi烆 seemed to have thought of something, and a smile appeared in his eyes again as he sat back down opposite the dao-robed man and said, “Alright, I’ll stay here to play chess with you, and I’d like to see if Zhang Ruochen can hold out until the end with just a few talismans.”
When the dao-robed man saw Shang Ziwei with a smile on his face, immediately, a strong doubt arose in his heart.
Could it be that Shang Zi烆 had already guessed who was secretly helping Zhang Ruochen, and that was why he knew that Zhang Ruochen had a limited number of talismans at his disposal, and that only a few of them could be used?
