The nine chains were an extremely powerful Saint Artifact, containing nine different kinds of power, one cold and piercing, one burning with flames, and one radiating the aura of death …… Various kinds of power intertwined, wanting to lock Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen held the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, and at the same time, he mobilised his entire body’s Saint Qi to harness the other ten dozen Ten Thousand Stripes Saint Artifacts, defending his surroundings from the wind.
“Boom.”
On the wall, an Eighth Grade Killing Formation operated and condensed into a pillar of blood-red light, striking on top of a shield shaped Ten Thousand Ripple Saint Artifact, smashing that Ten Thousand Ripple Saint Artifact into pieces, with debris falling all over the carriage.
Zhang Ruochen controlled four Ten Thousand Ripple Saint Artifacts in a row to blast over before the power of the formation was blocked.
However, all four Ten Thousand Patterns Saint Weapons were cracked.
Zhang Ruochen was secretly shocked, the formation set up by the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden was also too terrifying, once one was poleaxed, one would lose half of their life without dying.
It had to be said that fighting a Formation Saint Master was a rather terrifying thing.
“Giggle.”
“Wow.”
……
In the carriage, four more eighth-grade formations were in operation, locking onto Zhang Ruochen, ready to explode with devastating attacks.
In fact, the Thousand Star Celestial Mistress had already calmed down, that earlier strike was only meant to shock Zhang Ruochen, and she hadn’t thought about actually activating all of the eight product formations to kill Zhang Ruochen.
There were two main reasons why Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden had lost control of her emotions earlier.
Firstly, she was worried that Zhang Ruochen had been bribed by the Sorcerer God Celestial Son and the Heavenly Primordial Fairy.
Secondly, that was because, on the Sage Merit Ranking, Zhang Ruochen had suppressed her, taking away some of the glory that had belonged to her. Secondly, when Zhang Ruochen was critiquing her, he went so far as to say that her state of mind was flawed and that she would not be of great use in the future. The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was naturally unconvinced and felt that Zhang Ruochen was too arrogant and cocky. Thus, deep down in her heart, she had always had the mind to compete with Zhang Ruochen.
Only by defeating Zhang Ruochen with her own hands could the pent-up Qi in Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s heart be cleared.
The star points of light were like fireflies at night.
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s voice, which sounded in the star light spots, drifted and said, “Zhang Ruochen, stop, you are not this Heavenly Maiden’s opponent. If you invoke the four eighth grade formations, you will definitely die.”
“Is that so? I really don’t believe it.”
Zhang Ruochen took out the Secret Code of Time and Space and cupped it in his hand.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden said, “You don’t need to try to provoke this Heavenly Maiden anymore, in the Star Mantle Sacred Vehicle, I have a lot of cards I can use. Merely using the power of formations is enough to defeat you.”
“Trying to force me to submit with just these formations, you’re underestimating me, aren’t you?”Zhang Ruochen said.
A grain of starlight dots gathered together, condensing into the snow-white and crystal-clear immortal body of the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden, and her true body was revealed.
She said, “Here, your spatial power, is suppressed by a large portion. I have a divine tattoo to protect my body, and I even have a large number of protective talismans, so the Sword Dao, Palm Dao, and Fist Dao that you cultivate are useless to me. Are you going to use the power of time against me? The power of time is even more subtle than space, how much of it can you grasp just with your Saint King realm?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed coldly.
A smile appeared on Thousand Star Celestial Maiden’s exquisite and stunningly beautiful face as she turned her words around and said, “Never mind, this Celestial Maiden also knows that Time and Space Transmitters want to save face, so let’s do it this way, I don’t want you to submit either, all you need to do is to admit defeat.”
“Why should I admit defeat, it’s not like you defeated me?”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s brows knitted, she felt that she had already made huge concessions and had given the other party a step down, but this guy unexpectedly didn’t buy it.
“Do we have to fight to the point of no return? Honestly, I really don’t want to kill you just yet.”Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “We could have worked well together, I didn’t even agree to the price offered by the Witch God Celestial Son, it’s your desire for control and overweening sense of triumph that has caused this outcome now. I am Zhang Ruochen, the Controller of Time and Space, not those other cultivators, I will not submit to any living being. Gods, are no exception.”
“It seems that the only way to break the arrogance in you is to defeat you completely and utterly.”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden stood still and released her spiritual power, and instantly, the four eighth grade formations operated in a hurry, releasing increasingly powerful power fluctuations.
This space in the Sacred Vehicle became even more terrifying than the danger of death.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen flipped open the Spatio-Temporal Mysteries, and silver light burst out.
This space in the carriage was divided into multiple spaces, and layers of silver-coloured spatial walls appeared, like pages of a book or a curtain of light.
“Rumble.”
The four eighth-grade formations exploded with devastating attack power, colliding with the silver curtains of light, causing the entire Star Mantle Sacred Vehicle to shake even more violently.
Fortunately, the Star Mangled Sacred Vehicle was an Eight Flare Ten Thousand Ripple Sacred Artifact, and there were defensive formation inscriptions laid out by the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden, or else, it would surely have already been shattered into dust.
The silver-coloured curtain of light was constantly being shattered and coalescing back out again.
There was a stalemate of ten breaths in a row before the attacking power of the four eighth grade formations disappeared.
That was because the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was swept into the Multiverse Space.
The spiritual connection between her and the four eighth grade formations was cut off by the spatial wall. The formations, naturally, stopped functioning.
Just now, Zhang Ruochen had been going all out to control the Space-Time Mysterious Code, constantly injecting holy qi into it, and it was only at this moment that he let out a slight sigh of relief.
“This woman is really powerful, forcing me to use my last card, and I’m still short of being able to block it.”
Although the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was only at the realm of a three-step Saint King, going up against her was even more of a headache for Zhang Ruochen than fighting against a six-step Saint King like Vault Lin and Sealing Sword.
Moreover, Vault Lin and Sealing Sword were not ordinary six-step Saint Kings, they were both world leaders.
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s heart was even more surprised as her eyes stared at the Secret Code of Space and Time in Zhang Ruochen’s hand, saying, “That’s a treasure of yours?”
Zhang Ruochen naturally would not tell her, saying, “Now you admit defeat! Actually, we can still sit down and have a good talk. You have to know that although you have my secrets in your possession, however, I also have your secrets in my possession. If, I were to tell the news that you possess the Truth Upanishad, even if you were the Heavenly Daughter of the Thousand Star Civilisation, it would probably be difficult for you to escape death.”
“Are you threatening this Heavenly Maiden?”The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden said in a cold voice.
Zhang Ruochen corrected, “It was you who threatened me first.”
“You think that a book can imprison this Heavenly Maiden? You have also underestimated me.”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden mobilised her Origin Force and gathered it into her fingertips.
The slender jade finger, pointed out towards the silver-coloured light screen blocking her, her red lips gently reciting, “Return to the Origin.”
“Boom.”
The silver-coloured light screen burst into pieces, turning into particles that could not be observed with the naked eye, as if it had disappeared.
Zhang Ruochen’s fingers, flipping quickly on top of the pages of the book, the silver-coloured light curtain that was originally blocking Thousand Star Celestial Maiden’s front was only one layer, and now it had turned into five layers.
As the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden looked at the silver curtain of light that had suddenly appeared in front of her, her brows lightly frowned as she once again mobilised her Origin Force to converge towards her fingertips.
This time, Zhang Ruochen struck out even faster, a Time Seal was carved out, and with a flick of his finger, he struck out.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s eyes slightly condensed, and she hurriedly performed her Body Technique to avoid the Time Seal.
Zhang Ruochen was surprised and said, “You can actually see the time imprint?”
“This Heavenly Maiden possesses Origin Divine Eyes that can recognise everything in the world, even time cannot be concealed from my eyes.”The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s red lips curled slightly, somewhat smug as she continued to condense her Origin Power.
The reason why Zhang Ruochen’s Time Seal was able to suppress his opponents every time was because even the top powerhouses under the Great Saints like Dome Lin couldn’t see the Time Seal, and it was difficult to perceive the power of time.
This was the root of his ability to overcome his opponents!!!?However, a freak like the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden had emerged from the heavens and earth, and actually possessed the Origin Divine Eye, which was able to see time. In certain aspects, she was able to restrain Zhang Ruochen.
To be exact, the nine Stellar Ancient Ways were all restrained and complementary to each other to a certain extent.
“Boom boom.”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden once again shattered the two layers of silver light curtains, but her face did not look joyful, instead, she grew increasingly grave.
Because, the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was surprised to now see that the silver-coloured light curtains that she had previously beaten back to their origin had coalesced again.
Nothing like this had ever happened before.
Zhang Ruochen finally breathed a sigh of relief, then closed the Space-Time Mystical Codex.
In the carriage, all the silver curtains of light disappeared along with the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden and were collected into the silver tome in Zhang Ruochen’s hand.
Previously, the reason why Zhang Ruochen didn’t dare to do so, that was because he was worried that the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden’s Origin Power would destroy the Space-Time Mysterious Canon. But as it turned out, with Thousand Star Celestial Maiden’s current attainment in the Origin Way, she was still unable to beat the Space-Time Mysterious Dictionary back to its Origin state.
Zhang Ruochen once again flipped the Space-Time Mysterious Dictionary open, and on top of one of the pages, he saw a picture of a stunning beauty.
That beauty was simply as if it was sketched out by the world’s number one skilled hand, lifelike and full of spirituality, even if the Painting Sage Chu Siyuan saw this picture, I’m afraid that he would only be willing to bow to it.
“Zhang Ruochen, this Heavenly Maiden still has a lot of cards that she hasn’t utilised yet, if you have the ability to release me, I will be able to beat you to dust with just one strike.”The beauty in the painting opened her mouth to speak, her tone quite unwilling.
Zhang Ruochen’s finger, which was on the beauty’s face, smiled warmly, “If you have any undercard, feel free to use it, as long as you can break open the tome and escape, I’ll admit defeat immediately.”
Zhang Ruochen knew very well that once he let her out, he was afraid that she would be the first to send a message to the blind man and the bearded man.
The cultivation of those two men was unfathomable, and Zhang Ruochen was not confident that he could deal with them.
Zhang Ruochen’s finger was as if it was literally on the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden’s face, causing the beauty on the booklet to tremble gently, and then, the page of silver paper actually trembled violently, and cracks appeared.
Zhang Ruochen was slightly startled.
What kind of terrifying power had the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden invoked that was able to shake a page of silver paper from the Secret Code of Time and Space out of cracks?
Nope.
It wasn’t a crack, just a scar mark.
That scar mark, quickly disappeared again.
Zhang Ruochen calmed his mind and exhaled a long breath, secretly saying, a false alarm, if the Secret Canon refined by the Sacred Monk of Sumeru had also been breached, then I’m afraid that the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden would be able to walk horizontally throughout the entire Celestial Court Realm.
“How is it possible? The invincible power under the Great Sage was unable to break through one of your books.”The Painted Scroll Beauty uttered an astonished voice.
She had actually grasped a power that was invincible under a Great Saint?
Zhang Ruochen was shocked and uncertain, this Heavenly Maiden who was at the same realm as him brought him too much shock.
In the past, at the same realm, Zhang Ruochen could easily crush any opponent.
But today, if it wasn’t for the Secret Code of Time and Space, Zhang Ruochen was afraid that he would have to carry a great deal of heel in the hands of the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden.
“Zhang Ruochen, I admit defeat.”Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s voice rang out.
Zhang Ruochen was slightly surprised that the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden, whose heart was higher than the sky, had admitted defeat so quickly?
