Zhang Ruochen stood upright at the entrance of Lingyue Town, just holding a broken sword in his hand without any sadness or joy, as if his entire person had become one with the sword.
Lin Mishan also did not leave, still standing on the side, staring at that mysterious young man wearing a metal mask.
A long time later, a rolling cloud of smoke and dust swept over from the distance, emitting the sound of roaring iron hooves.
“Hall Master, it’s that teenager, Protector Nie died in his hands.” A Yellow Extreme Realm Evil Dao martial artist pointed at Zhang Ruochen and said fiercely.
Iron Humpback rode on the back of a snow-white Flying Cloud Tiger, arching his body as he glanced at Zhang Ruochen from afar, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth as he laughed, “So it’s just a young doll in his teens, I thought that it was Sihuangkong who had come to Lingyue Town. Hehehe!”
When Iron Hunchback heard that Nie Zheng Han was killed by an Inner Palace Cadet with a single move, he was indeed shocked and thought that it was Si Xingkong, the number one person in the Inner Palace Academy, who was trying to deal with the Black Tiger Hall. Seeing that the other party was just a teenager, his heart was no longer fearful and instead, contempt was born.
“Rumble!”
More than two hundred evil martial artists from the Black Tiger Hall, led by the Black Tiger Hall’s Hall Master, Iron Humpback, rode more than two hundred bell-horse in a semi-surrounding shape and rushed towards Zhang Ruochen.
Smoke and dust rolled out, and the whistling sound was undecided.
Lin Mishan did not expect the Black Tiger Hall to have so many strong men rushing in, and was shocked in her heart… With only that youngster’s own strength, could he be able to defeat the Black Tiger Hall’s many Evil Dao experts?
At a distance of only twenty feet away from Zhang Ruochen, Iron Humpback’s arm slightly lifted, and all the Black Tiger Hall’s Evil Dao martial artists all stopped.
Iron Humpback glanced at, the ten corpses on the ground, his brows Avray furrowed, and he coldly said, “Kid, you actually didn’t escape, you don’t have a lot of guts.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Why should I flee? I was originally waiting for you guys here.”
Because of his hunchback, Iron Hunchback’s height appeared to be only one and a half metres, standing on the back of the Flying Cloud Tiger, he smiled coldly, “Don’t know the height of heaven, don’t think that being an Inner Palace Disciple of the Martial City Academy Palace makes you something great, don’t you know that there are already four Martial City Academy Palace trainees who are being held captive in the Earthly Fire City? Among them, there is even an Inner Palace disciple.”
“Oh! There’s still this matter?”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit surprised and said, “Alright! If you release those four trainees from the Martial City Academy back, I can spare your life.”
“Haha! There is no such thing as a prisoner caught in Earth Fire City being released?” Iron Hunchback laughed aloud, then, with a cold look in his eyes, he said in a deep voice, “Set up a formation! Surround this arrogant fellow, don’t let him escape.”
Behind Iron Humpback, one hundred and eight Evil Dao martial practitioners rushed out, eight of them were at the Xuan Extreme Realm, and the other hundred were at the Yellow Extreme Realm.
Each martial artiste’s hand cupped a jade stone of the formation base and injected their true qi into the jade stone, and the formation inscriptions were immediately triggered, completely encircling Zhang Ruochen within the formation.
“Another Combined Attack Formation, don’t you know that the so-called Combined Attack Formation is of no use to me at all?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Iron Hunchback laughed, “What Nie Zheng Han used was only an incomplete set of Combined Attack Formation, so naturally, it couldn’t help you. Now, with one hundred and eight of them, they have set up a complete Combined Attack Formation, there are no more cracks, and their power has increased by an unknown number of times. Do you think that you can still block it?”
“A Combined Attack Formation without an Earth Extreme Realm martial artist presiding over it has no power in my opinion.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t continue to talk nonsense with Iron Hunchback and lifted up the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, completely mobilising the true qi in his body and injecting it into the sword body, fully activating the twenty-nine force system inscriptions in the sword body, and the weight of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword immediately climbed up to 2,994 jin.
Within the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, there were a total of sixty-six force system inscriptions, and if all of them were activated, the weight of the ancient sword could reach six thousand six hundred and ninety-four jin.
Each basic force system inscription could increase the weight of the sword body by one hundred jin.
It was only with Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation at the early stage of the Earth Extremity Realm, the amount of True Qi in his body was limited, and he could only activate twenty-nine inscription patterns at the same time.
A battle sword that weighed close to three thousand kilograms was quite terrifying even if it was just a purely physical attack, not to mention the powerful Spirit Fire True Qi within Zhang Ruochen’s body. The might that erupted from the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was naturally even more powerful.
If it was really a combined attack formation set up by a hundred martial artists of the Huang Extreme Realm Grand Circle and ten martial artists of the Xuan Extreme Realm Grand Circle. Not to mention Zhang Ruochen, even an Earth Extreme Realm Great Perfection martial artist might not be able to carry it.
However, it was simply impossible for the Black Tiger Hall to cultivate so many elite martial artists, and the evil martial artists who set up the formation had mixed martial cultivation, and there were even late Huang Polarity Realm martial artists among them. Those late stage Yellow Extreme Realm martial artists could merely barely hold up the formation inscriptions, and had no power to fight at all.
The seemingly powerful formation was full of loopholes in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes.
As long as he found the weak point of the formation, he could crush them with just one strike.
“Break it for me!”
Zhang Ruochen’s pupils looked like flames were bubbling in his eyes as he stomped his legs and catapulted up sharply.
Both hands gripped the hilt of the sword and chopped downwards.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword looked like it had transformed into a fiery dragon as it fell from Zhang Ruochen’s hands, dragging out a ten-metre long flaming sword Qi.
“Rumble!”
The combined attack formation that one hundred and eight martial artists had jointly set up could not block Zhang Ruochen’s full force strike.
It was only supported for a split second before the formation inscription was pierced through by the sword Qi. Nine Evil Dao martial practitioners were chopped in half by the sword qi, their bodies flying out left and right, leaving behind only blood on the ground.
There were also more than twenty other Evil Dao martial practitioners who were seriously injured under the impact of the powerful sword qi, and they flew backwards as if they were blown up by a gale, flying out and falling to pieces.
With just one sword, the combined attack formation set up by one hundred and eight Evil Dao martial practitioners was destroyed.
Lin Mishan, who was standing in the distance, was stunned and her mind went blank at the sight of that one extremely powerful and mysterious teenager.
“A hundred feet of flying snow!”
An ice-cold true qi surged out from Zhang Ruochen’s body, and as the true qi melted with the air, the temperature in the air dropped drastically, and moments later, the sky drifted down with snowflakes the size of a fingernail cap.
Snow, the more it fell, the bigger it got.
In a radius of a hundred feet, snow was flying, as if it had entered the winter months all of a sudden, causing those evil martial practitioners of the Black Tiger Hall to feel a deep chill.
“One movement of true qi, snow flies in a hundred feet.” Iron Hunchback’s face changed in shock as he looked at Zhang Ruochen, no longer daring to be the slightest bit contemptuous.
Tie Hunchback’s cultivation was above Zhang Ruochen’s, having reached the Earth Extremity Realm’s Great Extremity Position, but he was simply unable to achieve the “One movement of true qi, a hundred feet of flying snow”.
Only geniuses with a special physique, after reaching the Earth Extremity Realm, could induce heaven and earth phenomena to change the surrounding fighting environment.
Zhang Ruochen did not have a cold and icy physique, it was only because he had taken the Ice Vein Pill that his meridians and true qi had developed a cold and icy attribute, and that was why the vision of “100 feet of flying snow” appeared.
If Zhang Ruochen was willing, he could have caused the “100 feet of thunder” and “100 feet of prairie fire” visions, because his true qi originally carried the thunder and lightning attribute and spirit fire attribute.
“Chop!”
Zhang Ruochen’s arm swung, and the flying snow in the air immediately condensed into more than ten sword qi.
“Puff!”
“Puff!”
……
The seven Evil Dao martial artists were pierced through their bodies by the sword qi, letting out a series of miserable screams.
Within a hundred feet, it was full of drifting snowflakes. Every snowflake could be transformed into Zhang Ruochen’s sword.
More than thirty people fell in a row, and those Evil Dao martial practitioners were scared, not daring to fight with Zhang Ruochen any more and turned around to flee.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen heard a tiger’s roar from behind him, the ground shook, and sand flew away.
A powerful true qi fluctuation came from behind him.
“Kid, this Hall Master has come to meet you!”
Iron Humpback stood on the back of the Flying Cloud Tiger, squeezing a golden-backed battle sword as he rushed to Zhang Ruochen’s body and slashed down.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen also swung his sword and slashed, sparring hard with Iron Humpback.
The Golden Back Battle Blade in Iron Humpback’s hand was a Sixth Order True Martial Treasure Weapon, which also weighed more than two thousand jin after the inscription was activated.
Together with the impact force of the third rank savage beast Flying Cloud Tiger and Iron Humpback’s arm strength, the three stacked up and erupted with a power that was on par with Zhang Ruochen’s.
The swords clashed together, sending out a large ripple of energy that shook more than a dozen of the nearest Evil Dao martial practitioners into flying out.
Zhang Ruochen stood firmly in place, but his feet sank half a foot into the ground.
“Worthy of being the Hall Master of the Black Tiger Hall, it’s really not comparable to an ordinary martial artist.” Zhang Ruochen’s heart was slightly shocked, and his arms felt a little numb.
Iron Hunchback, however, was even more alarmed, only to see a gaping hole appear above the blade of the Golden Back Battle Sword.
“How could he damage the sixth rank True Martial Treasure Artifact grade Golden Back Divine Blade with just a broken sword in his hand?” Iron Hunchback dared not underestimate Zhang Ruochen even more.
This teenager was truly bizarre.
When did such a powerful character emerge from the inner palace of the Martial City Academy?
After all, Iron Hunchback was a martial arts powerhouse who had been famous for decades, had killed countless people, had rich combat experience, and was also the head of the Black Tiger Hall, so he definitely possessed some sure-fire undercards. Zhang Ruochen didn’t dare to take it lightly and was very cautious in dealing with this battle.
“It’s amazing that he can fight with the Black Tiger Hall’s Hall Master, Iron Hunchback, and seems to have the upper hand.” Lin Mishan held her breath, staring tightly at that one mysterious teenager who was very calm from start to finish.
Previously, she had always thought that the Seventh Prince Zhang Tiangui was the most marvellous person in the world, and that no one could compare to him. But after this mysterious teenager appeared, it made her change her previous notion.
Even her father, the Lin Family’s family head, would have a few moments of fear when it came to Iron Hunchback.
The strength of the mysterious teenager was definitely more powerful than her father, even comparable to her grandfather.
“If he can kill Iron Hunchback, he will surely become a household name as a heroic figure in the Yunwu County Kingdom.” Lin Mishan secretly said in her heart.
“Kid, take another slash from me and try.”
Iron Hunchback clenched his teeth as the Golden Back Divine Blade in his hand emitted a piercing golden light, and a single inscription surged within the blade.
“The first style of the Shattered Moon Blade Technique, Blade Wind Wrecks the Moon.”
The Shattered Moon Blade Technique, was a Spirit Grade Upper Grade Blade Technique.
Tie Hunchback had been taught by a high ranking person, and although he had only learnt one move, with this move alone, it had allowed him to kill a number of strong enemies and successfully become the Hall Master of Black Tiger Hall.
In the same realm, no one could block this blade move of his.
Three years ago, he had even used this powerful blade move to kill an injured Earth Extreme Realm Grand Circle martial artist. It was that battle that caused Iron Hunchback’s fierce reputation to spread throughout the Yunwu County Kingdom, causing Black Tiger Hall to become the ninth ranked major force in the black market of the Yunwu County Kingdom.
Although it was only a Spirit Grade Upper Grade Blade Technique, it changed Tie Hunchback’s life.
