Back on Empyrean Island, Feng Yan arranged an independent cultivation chamber for Zhang Ruochen. Outside the secret room, two maidservants stood guard, ready to listen to Zhang Ruochen’s commands.
Zhang Ruochen was actually quite perplexed that Feng Yan was so enthusiastic, and was always on guard.
For a first class disciple of the Truth Divine Hall with a huge family backing to take the initiative to befriend him, a time and space heir who was the enemy of the world, really made Zhang Ruochen feel incomprehensible.
Did he really like making friends, or did he have another agenda?
“Since befriending Feng Yan, he has had several chances to strike against me, but has not done so. So it seems that he shouldn’t be part of the shady forces.”
Zhang Ruochen couldn’t think of a reason for this, so he could only suppress the doubts in his heart for the time being.
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After separating from Zhang Ruochen, Feng Yan walked towards the magnificent Sacred Temple at the centre of Empyrean Island.
The door of the holy hall automatically opened, and with that, he took a step inside.
Feng Ruoxi, the Divine Transmission Disciple of the Truth Divine Hall, was wearing an Immortal Crane Blue Sky Robe and a veil as she sat by a chess table, studying the remaining games on the table.
Hearing the footsteps coming from behind her, she didn’t turn around, only saying faintly, “Not a small blow, is it?”
“Sister has already heard about it?”Feng Yan smiled bitterly.
Feng Ruoxi hummed lightly, “Just now, I received news from at least ten Divine Transmission disciples, all of them saying that the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden had crossed the fifth layer of the sea, and the one from the Feng Clan with three heads and six arms had only crossed the fourth layer of the sea. Do you think it’s disgraceful?”
“How is this considered a disgrace, a heavenly proud woman like the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden is hard to come by in ten thousand years, losing to her ……”
Before Feng Yan finished speaking, Feng Ruoxi said, “If you don’t mind being humiliated, I still mind being humiliated. If you didn’t cross the Sea of Truth with her, you could at least be a little more decent. Now what? Your three heads and six arms have all become her companions, do you know what a stepping stone is? It’s you.”
In front of this sister, Feng Yan didn’t have any temper at all, rubbed his nose and whispered, “I’m not the only one who is a stepping stone ……”
Feng Ruoxi’s pair of beautiful eyes, glared over, and instantly Feng Yan closed his mouth.
Only after a long time did Feng Ruoxi speak again, “The God Sealing Platform Assembly is only held once every ten years, and the opportunity is quite rare. However, if you want to make gains at the God Sealing Stage, there will definitely be some danger, so you need to make some preparations in advance, so that you don’t lose our Wind Family’s face again when the time comes.”
“Understood, I’ll go prepare now.”
Feng Yan fled and exited the holy temple, walking out of the gate, his entire body was much more relaxed, raising his head to look at the clear long sky, muttering to himself, “If I had known that I would be counted so miserably, I shouldn’t have come to see her.”
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“Finally the crafting is complete.”
In the cultivation chamber, Zhang Ruochen grasped the White Sun Arrow in his hand and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, revealing a satisfied smile.
After spending most of the day, Zhang Ruochen finally carved three time seals on the White Sun Arrow.
With this, the arrow, too, became an even more terrifyingly desperate arrow.
The arrow, was only an attack on the surface.
The time imprints that flew out from the arrow were the “dark arrows” that could not be defended against.
Zhang Ruochen made this arrow specifically to deal with the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden. This woman had most likely cultivated the Way of Void and could not be fought in close combat.
If one could shoot the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden to death from a distance, it would naturally be the best thing to do.
With the Green Sky Bow and White Sun Arrow, Zhang Ruochen quietly left the Empyrean Island and rushed towards the Clear Brightness Island.
Like Empty Spirit Island, Qingming Island was also a suspended island, less than ten thousand miles away from the Truth Divine Hall, and the Sacred Dao Rules were quite active, making it an excellent place for cultivation.
Divine Transmission disciples who were able to have a cultivation island within ten thousand miles of the Truth Divine Hall were among the best of the Divine Transmission disciples.
Going forward to a divine Transmission Disciple’s cultivation place to kill someone was an extremely dangerous thing to do. However, Zhang Ruochen was also forced to do so.
Both of them possessed the Truth Upanishad and would definitely try to kill each other by all means.
If the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was allowed to strike first, Zhang Ruochen would be even more passive.
Zhang Ruochen first changed his appearance and put on a mask, and took out the seed of the True Illusion Sacred Flower and pinched it in the palm of his hand, and in an instant, his figure disappeared into the air.
Arriving at Qingming Island, Zhang Ruochen didn’t rush out, but hid himself and secretly observed.
On the island, there was a defensive formation arranged, and it was impossible for ordinary forces to attack it.
But with the power of the Fire God Fist Gloves, pulling back the Green Sky Bow, with the penetrating power of the White Sun Arrow, it was very possible, to pierce through the formation’s light shield and kill the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden with a single arrow.
Zhang Ruochen found a mountain peak with higher terrain, almost flush with Qingming Island, which could be considered the best location to strike.
After two days in a row of watching and waiting, Zhang Ruochen looked over from afar and finally, on the Clearing Island, he saw the figure of the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was travelling with two other graceful women, they were like fairies in the Heavenly Palace, beautiful and out of this world, even when they stood tens of miles away and looked at them, they left people in awe.
Zhang Ruochen, however, was not in the mood to admire their stunning fairy faces and grabbed the Blue Sky Bow and White Sun Arrow.
Above the two gloves of the Fire God Armour, crimson flames emerged, like two small rounds of blazing suns burning, causing Zhang Ruochen to explode with a tremendous power that had never been seen before.
The Green Sky Bow and White Sun Arrow were also unknown to be Saint Artifacts of some level, and as Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation level grew higher, they exploded with even more power.
“Crack.”
Zhang Ruochen exerted all his strength before pulling the Green Sky Bow into a full moon.
Just as Zhang Ruochen locked onto the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden and was about to shoot it, behind him, a loud laughter rang out, “Brother, I’ve finally found you, haha.”
Xiang Chunan also rushed out from somewhere, appearing heartless as he slapped on top of Zhang Ruochen’s shoulder.
“Wow…”
Zhang Ruochen’s arm and the White Sun Arrow shook at the same time, and then, it turned into a white light that flew out and shot towards the distant Qingming Island, dragging out a long tail.
“Boom.”
As expected, the White Sun Arrow was infinitely powerful, shooting through the formation light shield of Qingming Island.
However, because of Xiang Chunan’s sudden appearance, the White Sun Arrow shifted its direction and struck the underside of Qingming Island, causing the huge island to shake violently, with a large amount of earth and rocks falling downwards from mid-air.
Qingming Island’s Island Master, Concubine Huairou, exuded icy cold power all over her body as she shouted explosively, “Who is so bold as to dare attack Qingming Island?”
Subsequently, Concubine Huairou’s murderous aura grabbed a holy sword, transformed into a white rainbow, and in an instant, she flew dozens of miles away, and swung her sword down.
“Rumble.”
The mountain peak where Zhang Ruochen had just stood collapsed and turned into flat ground.
Concubine Huairou’s voice startled the cultivators in a thousand-mile radius, and they all looked in the direction of Qingming Island. Only to see that the overhanging island, which was surrounded by holy qi, was actually missing a corner, and there were halls that had collapsed, making it look rather dilapidated.
They were quite shocked, and at the same time, they were also curious as to what kind of saint dared to make an attack on Qingming Island.
Qingming Island was less than ten thousand miles away from the Truth Divine Hall and belonged to the core area, even Great Saints did not dare to make a move, and even, the killers from the three major assassin organisations did not dare to kill within this area.
“Shoo! Shoo! Shoo!”
The formations on Qingming Island were all activated and functioned, forming twelve layers of defensive light shields.
The cultivators on the island, all of them were tense and entered into battle.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden, on the contrary, appeared to be calm and unperturbed, and with a grab of her fingers into the void, she instantly, fixed the White Sun Arrow that wanted to fly away, and took it into her two slender jade hands, carefully observing and studying it.
“Huh!”
An ordinary cultivator would not be able to see the time marks at all, but the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden was born with a special pair of holy eyes, and could see the three time marks on top of the White Sun Arrow.
“Could it be him.”
An odd expression appeared in the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s eyes.
Then, she lifted her snow-white chin and peered into the distance, her rosy lips slightly upturned as she said with a smile, “This fellow, creating such a big commotion, what exactly does he mean?”
The Thousand Star Celestial Maiden had probably guessed that the person who shot the White Sun Arrow was Zhang Ruochen.
However, because Zhang Ruochen’s arrow was too inaccurate. So the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden didn’t think that it was an attempt to kill her. Instead, she guessed that Zhang Ruochen might be trying to woo her, so he had deliberately come up with this kind of eye-catching and cheap trick.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden had this kind of confidence, with her charisma, there were simply too many men who had fallen in love with her at first sight, and it didn’t seem to be a strange thing to have one more Zhang Ruochen.
“How ridiculously childish.”Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden said darkly.
Concubine Huairou flew back to Qingming Island with her Saint Sword in hand, somewhat furious, saying, “This person’s degree of fleeing for his life is incredibly fast, when I arrived, he had already vanished, leaving no traces behind, and I don’t know if the visitor is an enemy of any of the three of us.”
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s peach face contained a smile as she handed out the White Sun Arrow.
“This is the arrow that pierced through the defences of Clear Sky Island?”
“That’s right.”
Concubine Huairou grabbed the White Sun Arrow and mobilised her spiritual power to inject it in, and then a look of astonishment appeared in her eyes as she said, “What a bizarre arrow, the method of refining the weapon is quite special, and it’s surprisingly impossible to detect the number of inscriptions within.”
“This arrow alone is a priceless treasure.”
The Thousand Star Celestial Maiden did not voice out the guesses in her heart, after all, through the three time marks on the arrow, it could only show that the other party was most likely Zhang Ruochen, but might not really be him.
“Give it to me, I want to continue studying it.”Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden laughed.
Concubine Huairou did not see anything on the White Sun Arrow, so she handed it over to the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden cupped the White Sun Arrow in her hand, her eyes revealing a crafty light. With such a precious arrow in her hands, the owner of the arrow would surely come back to her.
Zhang Ruochen grabbed Xiang Chunan with one hand and used dozens of spatial shifts, fleeing until he was hundreds of miles away, making sure that Concubine Huairou was not chasing after him before he was relieved.
Fortunately, his cultivation had reached the Saint King realm, so he could move far away each time, and he could move continuously, so he was able to escape easily.
The reason why he brought Xiang Chunan with him was because he was worried that he would expose Zhang Ruochen’s identity if he fell into the hands of Concubine Huairou.
After stopping, Zhang Ruochen’s face was ugly as he summoned the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and pointed it at Xiang Chunan’s brow.
“Brother, what are you doing? We have no grievances, why do we need to fight with swords?”Xiang Chunan was puzzled.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were sharp like a sword as he said, “Why did you appear there?”
Xiang Chunan was slightly stunned, then said, “I heard that soon, the Truth Divine Hall would be hosting a God Sealing Platform Assembly, and wanted to go and join in the fun, so I have been staying in the area where the Truth Divine Hall is located. Today, while wandering outside, I suddenly raised my head and saw Brother Tai standing at the top of the mountain.”
“How could it be that coincidental?”Zhang Ruochen didn’t believe him.
Xiang Chunan said, “It’s just that coincidental. It means that we are really destined to be together, hehehe, how about worshipping each other as brothers?”
Looking at his naive and sincere look, Zhang Ruochen really couldn’t stab out with his sword, so he added, “Around my body, there is an illusion realm condensed by the True Illusion Sacred Flower Seeds. Furthermore, I have also used a secret method to transform my body. If you were to take a casual look, how could you possibly see through the illusion? And how could you possibly recognise that it was me?”
Xiang Chunan blinked his eyelids and laughed out loud, “Truth be told, I have a pair of thousand-mile eyes. Within a thousand miles, all illusions cannot be hidden from my eyes, including the cultivator’s art of change.”
