Zhang Ruochen’s hands were behind his back as he walked towards Nie Zheng Han, saying, “There’s no need to ask me who I am, all I want to know is, will you take me to Earth Fire City?”
“Go to hell!”
Nie Zheng Han let out an explosive shout, stimulating the bloodline power within his body, his body was wrapped in a blood mist, a blood formation with a diameter of three metres appeared under his feet, and behind his body, it looked like the shadows of a gigantic, blood-coloured tiger and an axe shaped battle weapon had appeared.
Raising the silver-coloured battle axe with both hands, Nie Zheng Han charged forward violently, slashing towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head as his body moved and disappeared from the spot. In the next moment, he was already standing in front of Nie Zheng Han, and a finger pointed out, striking the centre of Nie Zheng Han’s brow.
A muffled sound resounded in Nie Zheng Han’s head as his Qi Sea shattered, and surging true qi surged out from the Qi Lake, bursting through the meridians and blood veins in Nie Zheng Han’s body in a split second.
“Pfft!”
Nie Zheng Han’s eyes were lifeless as his legs went limp and he knelt on the ground, spitting a mouthful of blood from his mouth as he collapsed limply.
Although Zhang Ruochen didn’t like killing, he would never be merciful to these evil martial artists of the Black Tiger Hall.
There were an unknown number of ordinary people who had died in the Black Tiger Hall, killing one would save more.
“A sixth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon grade battle axe is worth over 400,000 silver coins.” Zhang Ruochen put away that silver coloured giant axe before chasing after those other Black Tiger Hall’s evil martial artists.
“Wow!”
With a swing of the battle axe, a silver light scattered across.
A slim blood scar appeared on the neck of an Evil Dao martial artist before he collapsed on the ground.
Zhang Ruochen very delicately controlled the battle axe as if he was controlling a sword, and every time he killed an Evil Dao martial artist, he would only leave an extremely thin blood mark on the opponent’s neck. It was not at all like other axe-using martial artists who either split people in half or chopped them into two.
Zhang Ruochen had already cultivated the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow to its grand completion, and with how fast he was, it was impossible for those Yellow Extreme Realm and Xuan Extreme Realm Evil Dao martial practitioners to escape from under his nose.
However, Zhang Ruochen didn’t kill them all, and only killed Nie Zheng Han and those nine Xuan Extreme Realm Evil Dao martial practitioners. As for those Yellow Extreme Realm Evil Dao martial artists, Zhang Ruochen let them escape and did not go after them.
Why did the Martial City Palace only set the merit value for martial artists above the Huang Extreme Realm Great Circle when they enacted their quests? In fact, it was also because evil martial artists with a high realm were more harmful. Martial artists with low realms were just a bunch of rabble.
As long as the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Perfection or above powerhouses in the black market were killed, the remaining low realm Evil Dao martial artists would naturally be eliminated by the official forces of the Yunwu County Kingdom.
The official forces and the Martial Market Palace had always had a co-operative relationship.
Zhang Ruochen seized a large amount of cultivation resources from the nine Xuanji Realm Evil Dao Martial Artists and Nie Zheng Han, among which were pills, True Martial Treasure Weapons, spirit crystals, silver coins, and formation base jade stones.
Zhang Ruochen placed the ten Formation Base Jade Stones together and gently nodded his head, saying, “Even though we let those other Yellow Extreme Realm martial practitioners escape and take the other Formation Base Jade Stones with them, the value of just these ten Formation Base Jade Stones is equivalent to 800,000 silver coins.”
The formation foundation jade stones of Nie Zheng Han and the nine Xuan Polarity Realm martial artists were of the best quality and could form a combined formation.
The quality of the formation foundation jades that those other Yellow Extreme Realm martial artists had at their disposal were much worse, and even if they were added up, they would still not be as valuable as these ten formation foundation jades.
So the wealth added up to roughly a million and a half silver coins worth, with the silver coloured giant axe and the ten formation foundation jades taking up the absolute lion’s share.
“The wealth possessed by the Xuanji Realm martial artists of the Black Tiger Hall really can’t be compared to the Outer Palace trainees of the Martial City Academy.” Zhang Ruochen was somewhat disinterested and put all the cultivation resources into his spatial bracelet.
The Outer Palace Cadets of the Martial City Academy Palace had a wealth of tens of thousands of silver coins, even if they were just a new student. If it was a veteran student who had stayed as a cadet for a year, he or she basically had more than 100,000 silver coins of wealth on them.
However, the martial artists of the Black Tiger Hall, although they were also at the Xuanji Realm’s cultivation level, excluding the Formation Base Jade Stone, the wealth on their bodies added up to just over 10,000 silver coins, which was not comparable to the cadets of the Martial City Academy Palace at all.
Even Nie Zheng Han, who was an Earth Extremity Realm powerhouse, the most valuable thing he had on him was only the silver coloured giant axe of the sixth rank True Martial Treasure Artifact level. That was still a battle weapon that he had bought with decades of savings.
An inner palace cadet of the Martial City Academy Palace would simply be too embarrassed to go out if he didn’t have a million silver coins.
The trainees of the Martial City Academy Palace, caring about the same realm, were ten times richer than the martial artists outside.
“Nine Xuan Extreme Realm Evil Dao Martial Artists and one Earth Extreme Realm Evil Dao Martial Artist should be able to exchange for eight hundred points of merit value!” Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly.
Zhang Ruochen did not leave, but waited in place.
By letting those Yellow Extreme Realm Evil Dao Martial Artists go, why wouldn’t Zhang Ruochen want to borrow them to lure other powerful people from the Black Tiger Hall?
If it wasn’t necessary, Zhang Ruochen didn’t want to blatantly break into Earth Fire City.
Other students of the Martial City Palace might not understand Earth Fire City, but Zhang Ruochen knew it quite well.
Earth Fire City was a great black market, responsible for everything in the southeastern part of the Black Market in the Yunwu County Kingdom, with experts like clouds, it could be called the third largest branch of the Black Market in the Yunwu County Kingdom.
In Earth Fire City, there was definitely a city guard formation.
If it was attacked by the City Protector Formation, even with Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation, he might not be able to retreat in one piece.
Of course, if he really went to break into Earth Fire City, Zhang Ruochen naturally had other methods. For example, by first destroying the Earth Fire City’s City Protector Formation, as long as there was no threat from the City Protector Formation, with Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation, he would be able to come and go as he pleased in the Earth Fire City. Unless he encountered a strong person of the Earth Level Realm Grand Circle, otherwise, no one would be able to stop him.
“Boom!”
Lin Mishan forced the meridian seals in her body to burst open, revolving her true qi and shattering the iron cables straining her body, she jumped off the back of the gold-spotted giant tiger.
She did not leave immediately, staring curiously at the one teenager wearing a metal mask standing in the distance, her heart still very much shaken.
“He actually defeated dozens of Evil Dao martial artists with just the strength of one person, and even the Combined Attack Formation couldn’t hurt him. At his age, he should be much older than me by a large step, right?”
Both were equally in their teens, yet the other party had already reached the Earth Extreme Realm and could sweep away a group of Evil Dao experts, yet she was not even able to fight back in the hands of those Evil Dao martial artists.
How could the gap be so great?
Lin Mishan was shocked by that young man’s powerful cultivation and supreme valour, her heart was filled with curiosity, she carefully walked towards that one young man, very elegantly bowed her hand and softly said: ”The outer house disciple of the Yuntai Zongfu, Lin Mishan, is also here to deal with the evil martial artists of the Black Market and the Moon worshiping Demon Sect, and is on the same side with the Martial City Palace of Learning. I don’t know …… what your name is, Eunuch?”
Zhang Ruochen did not have any favourable feelings towards Lin Mishan, nor did he even think of saving her, still turning his back to her, but in his heart, he was a bit curious and queried, “The Martial City Academic Palace has actually joined forces with the Cloud Tower Sect House?”
In the boundaries of the 36 counties of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, the Yuntai Zongfu was considered to be a top power, just like a snake in the ground, and could be separated from the Martial City Academic Palace, the Black Market, and the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult.
The power of the Yuntai Sect Mansion was above the various county kingdoms. Even the position of the county kings of the various county kingdoms would, to a certain extent, be influenced by the Yuntai Zongfu.
For example, the royal family of the Yunwu County Kingdom had a deep relationship with the Yuntai Sect Mansion, and almost every generation of county kings were disciples of the Yuntai Sect Mansion.
Thinking that Zhang Ruochen was asking her, Lin Mishan said, “The Yuntai Sect Mansion was originally a righteous force in the 36 county kingdoms of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, and it has always been a co-operative relationship with the official forces, and with the Martial City Academic Palace.”
“The Yuntai Sect Mansion also has a lot of business in the Thirty-Six Counties Country, and is often attacked by the Black Market and the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect. Since the Martial City Academic Palace is going to deal with the Black Market and the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect, it’s only natural that the Yuntai Zongfu should also contribute.”
Zhang Ruochen kept his mouth shut, appearing cold and aloof, with a look of rejecting others, with no intention at all to continue communicating with Lin Mishan.
However, Lin Mishan did not see the indifference of the young man in front of her and continued to survey him, feeling more and more familiar the more she looked at him. However, she did not even think that the other party was Zhang Ruochen.
She once again asked, “May I ask the name of the benefactor?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “I’m not your Benefactor, there’s no need for you to know my name. I advise you to leave earlier, if you don’t leave, I’m afraid you won’t be able to leave!”
Lin Mishan was also quite intelligent, her eyes lit up as she said, “Your Benevolent Lord is deliberately letting those Yellow Extreme Realm martial artists leave, wanting to lure other experts from the Black Tiger Hall to Lingyue Town?”
Previously, when Lin Mishan saw him, she always had a cold and arrogant look, simply looking down on him and not even bothering to say more than a word to him.
However, today, Zhang Ruochen was clearly cold, but she didn’t leave in any way, appearing to be very enthusiastic, and even had an adoring lustre in her eyes.
Zhang Ruochen took a deep breath and said, “Since you know that the Black Tiger Hall’s experts will soon arrive, how dare you stay here?”
Lin Mishan seemed to be a little shaken as well, but in the end, she still didn’t leave and smiled brightly as she said, “With Your Excellency’s formidable strength, even if the Black Tiger Hall’s Hall Master, Iron Hunchback, were to personally arrive, he might not be a match for Your Excellency.”
“Of course, it’s better for Your Excellency to be careful, Iron Humpback’s cultivation has already reached the Earth Extremity Realm’s Great Extremity Boundary, more than ten times more powerful than Nie Zheng Han, and he’s definitely the No. 1 formidable and ferocious person in the Yunwu County Kingdom.”
Zhang Ruochen was a little impatient and said, “The Black Tiger Hall’s Hall Master, Iron Hunchback, should be in Earth Fire City and will soon arrive.”
Lin Mishan laughed, “Although Mishan’s cultivation level is not high, she is willing to help Enkong, one more person will always have more strength.”
Zhang Ruochen’s intention was to remind her that she should leave, but he didn’t expect her to actually say such a thing, leaving him at a loss as to how to refuse.
Women were truly a strange animal, the man who really treated her well, she didn’t care in the slightest. Men who were indifferent to her, she tried her best to stick it to them.
Zhang Ruochen lazily ignored her and took out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, holding it in his hands and stroking it carefully as he mumbled to himself, “Sinking Abyss, today will be the first battle of our reunion after 800 years.”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, like a psychic, trembled slightly and let out an ear-piercing sword chirp.
“Is a rusty broken sword better looking than me?” Lin Mishan stood in the distance, pursing her lips and staring with some resentment at that one metal-masked teenager.
She felt like that teenager was like a piece of wood without any interest, but the more so, the more mysterious she felt the other party was, the more reverence she felt in her heart, wanting to know just how strong he was?
“How nice it would be if he could take a look at me, perhaps he would realise that he is actually standing next to a beautiful woman who is better looking than a sword.”
Lin Mishan stared tightly at that teenager’s back, very much expecting the other party to turn around and take a look at her, even if it was just a glance.
