Upon hearing Zhang Ruochen’s words, those Evil Dao martial artists were first slightly stunned, then roared with laughter.
An Evil Dao martial artist holding a bowl-thick iron rod and riding a bell-horse laughed, ”Kid, you can’t be stupid! Letting us live? You think you’re the Heavenly Demon Ten Xiu?”
On the back of the gold-spotted giant tiger, Lin Mishan raised her head and glanced towards the masked teenager in the distance, giving birth to a few feelings of familiarity.
Zhang Ruochen’s aura had changed so much, and he was wearing a metal mask, that Lin Mishan didn’t recognise Zhang Ruochen at all, and only felt that he looked a little familiar.
Lin Mishan could see that that one teenager was deliberately blocking the way of the evil people from the Black Tiger Hall. Who exactly was he that he dared to go against the Black Tiger Hall?
A surge of survival* arose in Lin Mishan’s heart and called out, “I am a disciple of the Yuntai Sect House, I beg Your Excellency to save my life, and I will be grateful.”
“If you dare to say another word, cut out your tongue.” Nie Zheng Han glanced at Lin Mishan and said in a cold and deep voice.
Lin Mishan was shocked by Nie Zheng Han’s powerful martial aura and immediately shut her mouth, staring miserably at that one teenager in the distance.
Right now, that one teenager was her only hope.
Nie Zheng Han stared at Zhang Ruochen in the distance and said in a deep voice, “Does Your Excellency really want to go against Black Tiger Hall?”
Zhang Ruochen said expressionlessly, “I’ll say it again, I just want to go to Earth Fire City, if you lead the way for me, I can spare your lives. Of course, you people from the Black Tiger Hall have done too much evil and must be punished. Deadly sins can be spared, but living sins are hard to escape.”
“You still want to punish us?” Nie Zheng Han said.
“I just think that you guys should be imprisoned for ten years, or twenty years.” Zhang Ruochen said.
“What a big mouth, I, Ji Lao San, would like to see how capable you are?”
That one martial artiste with an iron stick, riding a bell horse, violently rushed towards Zhang Ruochen.
“Rumble!”
The bell horse ran and shook the ground.
Ji Lao San’s cultivation had reached the Great Extreme Position of the Xuanji Realm, and he was Nie Zheng Han’s right-hand man, and the Blood Soul Stick in his hand was a third-stage True Martial Treasure Weapon that had killed an unknown number of martial arts experts.
True Qi surged into the Blood Soul Stick, and the nine fire inscriptions in the stick were activated in an instant.
The bowl-thick Blood Soul Stick was completely wrapped in flames, emitting a “giggling” sound.
“Wow!”
Ji Lao San held the stick in one hand and violently attacked down towards Zhang Ruochen’s head. A blazing wave of fire turned into a stream of flames and surged towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen stood still, not moving a bit.
Ji Lao San’s heart was overjoyed, it turned out that he had encountered a fool, he must have been stunned by his own aura and that was why he was too scared to move a bit.
Lin Mishan’s heart was also in her throat, a pair of bright eyes staring tightly at that one teenager in the distance, could it be that he was really just bluffing?
“Boom!”
The Blood Soul Stick was only half a foot away from Zhang Ruochen’s head when it was unexpectedly blocked by a layer of True Qi Shield and bounced back.
Ji Lao San only felt a huge force used from above the Blood Soul Baton, cracking the tiger’s mouth between his thumb and forefinger, and the Blood Soul Baton in his hand flew out of his hand.
With a clang, the Blood Soul Baton fell to the ground, smashing a thousand-pound boulder.
Ji Lao San was scared out of his wits and exclaimed, ”Body Protecting True Qi Mask! Everyone be careful, he’s an Earth Extreme Realm martial arts expert.”
Ji Lao San rode his bell horse and immediately fled back.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t make a move to kill Ji Laosan and remained standing at the same spot, looking very calm.
Those Evil Dao experts from the Black Tiger Hall were all scared pale and stared unbelievably at the teenager across from them.
Although that teenager was wearing a metal mask on his face, the crowd was still able to tell that he wasn’t very old, definitely no older than twenty.
To reach the Earth Extremity Realm at such a young age was also too terrifying!
Nie Zheng Han was the fourth person in the Black Tiger Hall, and he only reached the Earth Extremity Realm when he was in his fifties.
Nie Zheng Han took out the silver coloured giant axe and cupped it in his hand, his eyes staring at Zhang Ruochen warily as he said, “Your Excellency is an Inner Palace disciple of the Martial City Palace of Learning?”
The corner of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth hooked slightly as he said, “That’s right.”
Those Evil Dao martial practitioners from the Black Tiger Hall all tensed up, originally, they all knew that the experts from the Martial City Academic Palace had rushed to Lingyue Town, and they had long been psychologically prepared. However, when they saw the experts of the Martial City School Palace with their own eyes, their hearts were still very nervous.
That was an inner palace disciple of the Martial City School Palace, definitely a first-rate powerhouse.
“Set up the formation!”
Nie Zheng Han roared out.
Those Evil Dao martial artists from the Black Tiger Hall all spread out and formed a huge circle, surrounding Zhang Ruochen in the centre.
Each Evil Dao martial artist’s hand cupped a piece of jade and injected their true qi into it, and a formation inscription flew out from the jade.
Dozens of formation inscriptions intersected, forming a huge formation that completely connected the dozens of Evil Dao martial practitioners into one.
“Combined Attack Formation.”
Zhang Ruochen stood in the centre of the formation and did not panic as he nodded and said, “A bit interesting.”
Combined Attack Formations were widely used in the Martial Dao world.
Formation masters burned formation inscriptions into the jade stone in advance, which became the “formation base”. The martial artist only needed to inject their true qi into the jade formation base, and it would be able to stimulate the formation inscription.
The more array bases there were, and the stronger the martial artist’s cultivation level was, the more powerful the Combined Attack Formation would be.
A Combined Attack Formation, with a minimum of two array bases, only required two martial artists to activate the formation.
There were super combined attack formations that could even have tens of thousands of formation bases, which were incomparably powerful.
Generally speaking, ten Yellow Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position martial artists, using a Combined Attack Formation, could completely deal with an early Xuan Extremity Realm martial artist.
In fact, a Combined Strike Formation was one that allowed a martial artist to stimulate the true qi in their body for a short period of time, unite it all together, and erupt with a power that exceeded their own by several times.
Controlling this kind of Combined Attack Formation, the martial artist’s true qi would be depleted rather quickly.
If the true qi of the martial artist who set up the formation was exhausted, then the formation would not be broken.
There were a total of sixty-seven evil martial artists from the Black Tiger Hall, of which fifty-seven of them were at the Yellow Extremity Realm, nine were at the Xuan Extremity Realm, and only Nie Zhenghan’s cultivation had reached the Earth Extremity Realm.
The sixty-seven people all held jade formation bases, with the jade formation base in Nie Zheng Han’s hands having twenty formation inscriptions. Each formation inscription was very thick, like twenty formation pillars, supporting the formation completely.
The jade formation bases of those nine Xuan Extreme Realm martial artists, some controlling three inscriptions and some controlling ten, were also quite stout, forming the second layer of pillars of the formation.
The remaining fifty-seven Yellow Extreme Realm martial artists, they all controlled only one formation inscription.
Sixty-seven martial artists, under the effect of the Combined Strike Formation, combined their powers completely.
“This set of Combined Attack Formation would cost at least a million silver coins to buy!” Zhang Ruochen’s mind secretly said.
“Fire Dragon Lock.” Nie Zheng Han roared.
The formation inscription was completely active, spinning non-stop and condensing strands of flames.
Those flames intersected and formed a fire dragon over ten metres long. The fire dragon flapped its wings and stretched out a pair of gigantic dragon claws as it slapped towards Zhang Ruochen’s head…
“Unbearable!”
Zhang Ruochen slapped out, a powerful palm force surged out, forming a one-metre-long true qi palm print.
“Boom!”
The true qi palm print directly shattered the fire dragon.
“So powerful!” Nie Zheng Han’s heart was stunned.
The power of that one fire dragon just now was enough to seriously injure Nie Zheng Han with a single claw, yet it was dealt with a palm that crumbled. That teenager’s cultivation was simply unfathomable!
“Open the heavens and crack the earth!”
Nie Zheng Han raised the silver coloured giant axe in his hand, and all the formation inscriptions, all of them surged towards the silver coloured giant axe.
The silver-coloured giant axe emitted a piercing light as it chopped down.
A huge axe shadow, more than ten metres long, broke through the void, carrying a powerful and unparalleled aura as it chopped down towards Zhang Ruochen’s head.
That giant silver-coloured axe was a Sixth Grade True Martial Treasure Weapon with thirty-five inscriptions in it. With Nie Zheng Han’s cultivation, it was simply impossible for him to activate thirty-five inscription patterns at the same time.
However, by using the power of the Combined Attack Formation, Nie Zheng Han fully activated the thirty-five inscription patterns in the silver coloured giant axe, erupting with a terrifying and incomparable power.
Zhang Ruochen’s arm stretched out, and the Blood Soul Stick, which had originally fallen to the ground, flew into his hand under the guidance of his True Qi.
Although the Blood Soul Stick was only a third-stage True Martial Treasure Artifact, after grasping it in Zhang Ruochen’s hands, it exploded with unrivalled power.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen’s arm swung, and the Blood Soul Stick collided with the silver-coloured giant axe with a deafening roar.
The Blood Soul Stick was shattered by the powerful force and turned into countless broken pieces of iron that flew out towards the surrounding Evil Dao martial practitioners.
“Poof! Poof ……”
More than a dozen Evil Dao martial artists were pierced through their bodies by the shattered iron pieces and flew out backwards, lying on the ground and wailing.
Nie Zheng Han was also shocked by the powerful impact, sending him backwards more than ten feet away, his arm cracked with a trail of blood, his five fingers aching and cracking, and the silver coloured giant axe almost flew out of his hand.
Zhang Ruochen had only casually struck, and the Combined Attack Formation had been shattered into pieces, and even Nie Zheng Han, the number four person of the Black Tiger Hall, had been injured by the blow.
“Everyone, run away, this person is not something we can deal with!” Nie Zheng Han called out and immediately jumped onto the back of the Golden Spotted Giant Tiger, wanting to ride it to escape.
“You guys were given a chance earlier, and you didn’t cherish it. Now you guys think you can still escape?”
Zhang Ruochen executed the Wind-Resisting Flying Dragon Shadow and took a step forward, directly flying tens of feet away and hanging above Nie Zheng Han’s head.
Nie Zheng Han’s face changed as he held his silver coloured giant axe and slashed upwards.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen slapped his palm downwards, and a powerful palm force surged down, sending Nie Zheng Han flying, his body crashing into the wall above, piercing through it.
There was a loud boom.
The entire house collapsed, burying Nie Zheng Han inside the rubble.
Nie Zheng Han’s entire body was drenched in blood as he crawled out of the rubble, staring with some fear at the masked teenager across from him, clenching his teeth as he said, ”Even in the inner palace of the …… Martial City Palace of Learning, there aren’t many people who’s cultivation has reached …… your level, every one of them is a prestigious existence. Who exactly are you?”
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