Even a single move of a Spirit grade sword technique was not to be underestimated.
“The Heavenly Heart Sword Technique was only a Spirit Grade Lower Grade Sword Technique, both in terms of power and variation, it was far inferior to the Moon Shattering Sword Technique performed by Iron Camelback.
Zhang Ruochen had only cultivated the Heavenly Heart Sword Technique, and at this time, using the Heavenly Heart Sword Technique would obviously not be able to stop Iron Humpback.
Just as Iron Humpback slashed down, suddenly, with Zhang Ruochen as the centre, within a hundred feet radius, all the battle swords were affected by an invisible sword intent and trembled.
“What’s going on?” The crowd was alarmed.
Those Evil Dao martial artists, using their hands to press down on their battle swords, the battle swords still flew towards Zhang Ruochen and flew around him.
“Wow.”
Close to a hundred battle swords, all of them flew over Zhang Ruochen’s head, rotating and flying, as if all the swords were serving the Lord.
Even the sword in Lin Mishan was not under her control and flew out.
“This is …… Imperial Sword Flying …… can only be achieved by reaching the legendary Sword Heart Understanding.” Lin Mishan stared unbelievably at that one mysterious teenager, simply like looking at a monster.
He had actually reached the realm of Sword Heart Understanding?
Once one’s Sword Heart is clear, one must have condensed the Heart of Sword Intent, and using the Heart of Sword Intent, one can mobilise a hundred swords, a thousand swords, or even ten thousand swords.
Even in the Heavenly Extremity Realm, no one had ever heard of anyone being able to condense the Heart of Sword Intent and reach the realm of Sword Intelligence.
Only Half Saints could reach that realm.
But a teenager in his teens had managed to do so, how amazing was this?
If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, Lin Mishan would never have believed it.
“Even the Seventh Prince, who possesses a heavenly talent, has only reached the peak of Sword Follows Heart. He has actually reached the realm of Sword Mind, if this matter spreads out, I’m afraid that the throne of the first genius of the Heavenly Demon Ridge’s thirty-six county lords will change hands.”
At the same time, Lin Mishan was also clear that even if she told this matter out, it was expected that no one would believe her words.
Iron Hunchback was also startled as he looked at the battle swords flying in a line all over the sky, and the battle sword in his hand couldn’t help but slow down slightly by a hair.
Right at this moment, Zhang Ruochen’s mouth spat out a single word: “Thrust!”
With a finger pointing forwards, the one hundred and two battle swords turned into a river of battle swords as if they were guided, surging towards Iron Humpback in a hurry.
The war swords collided with the war swords, emitting a “popping” sound.
In the end, Iron Hunchback’s move of a Spirit Grade Upper Grade Blade Technique was crushed by the swarm of swords, and three of the swords plunged into Iron Hunchback’s body, sending Iron Hunchback flying backwards and suffering a heavy blow.
How could a move of a Spirit Grade Upper Grade Blade Technique be a match for a martial artist with a clear sword heart?
“Actually didn’t die!” Zhang Ruochen was a little surprised and couldn’t help but admire Iron Hunchback’s martial cultivation.
If it were any other Earth Extreme Realm Grand Extreme Position martial artiste who had suffered from Zhang Ruochen’s all-out strike, he would definitely have been stabbed with dozens of bloody holes by the battle swords and collapsed in a pool of blood.
Although Tie Hunchback was stabbed in the body by three battle swords, he dodged the vital points and was not fatal.
“How old is he, and how has he already reached the Sword Mind Realm?”
Iron Hunchback looked at Zhang Ruochen once again, it was almost as if he had seen a ghost, and he shouted in anger, “Set up the formation!”
Almost all of the Black Tiger Hall’s experts in Earth Fire City had rushed to Lingyue Town. Although a group of experts had been killed by Zhang Ruochen earlier, there were still many Evil Dao martial artists who had not yet made their move.
After Iron Hunchback gave the order, one hundred and eight of them quickly rushed out and once again set up the Combined Attack Formation.
“Swish!”
A formation inscription rose up into the sky, forming a huge ball of light with a diameter of a hundred metres, wrapping Zhang Ruochen and Iron Humpback in the formation.
Those formation inscriptions all converged towards Iron Humpback.
The aura on Iron Hunchback’s body grew stronger and stronger, and the light of the Golden Back Divine Blade in his hand grew brighter and brighter, and the inside of his clothes looked like it was filled with wind, completely bulging.
Under the enchantment of the Combined Attack Formation, at this moment, Iron Hunchback was still like a martial artist of the Earth Extremity Realm Great Extremity Position, it was as if he had already crossed over into the Earth Extremity Realm Great Circle.
“A complete Combined Attack Formation, coupled with an Earth Extremity Realm powerhouse, the power is completely different!” Zhang Ruochen’s brows gently furrowed as he finally felt the pressure.
After all, there was a huge gap between Zhang Ruochen and Iron Hunchback’s martial realms, so even if it was just a one-on-one match, it wouldn’t be easy. That was why Zhang Ruochen had to burst out the power of his Sword Intent of Sword Heart Passage as a means to defeat Iron Humpback.
Now that Iron Hunchback had obtained the power of the formation, he naturally became even more powerful, climbing to a new height.
“Boom!”
Iron Humpback slashed away, splitting a huge blade shadow of more than ten metres long, striking at the top of Zhang Ruochen’s head.
Zhang Ruochen’s index and middle fingers pinched together, mobilising the Heart of Sword Intent in the Sea of Qi to control the Hundred Swords once again.
With a point of his finger towards the Iron Hunchback, the hundred swords rushed out at the same time.
“Rumble!”
The huge blade shadow was torn apart by the hundred swords and turned into strands of true Qi.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t feel good either, his chest felt like it was struck by a heavy hammer, his internal organs shook violently, and he took three steps back in a row before dislodging that surge of power.
This was the first time Zhang Ruochen had stepped back!
“The formation must be broken before I can defeat Iron Hunchback.”
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze swept and saw a weak spot in the formation.
With a wave of his arm, a hundred swords simultaneously attacked towards that one weak spot.
“Lol! How can it be that easy to break the formation?”
Iron Hunchback had managed to gain the upper hand, so naturally, he did not wish to see Zhang Ruochen break the formation, so he flew down from mid-air, stood on his legs, and swung his sword towards the hundred swords.
Iron Hunchback’s blade technique was indeed formidable, and with just one slash, he shattered the Hundred Swords.
“I’m going to break your Combined Attack Formation, it’s easy as pie!” Zhang Ruochen said.
Iron Humpback sneered, “The Combined Attack Formation is hosted by me, and its power is unknown how many times more powerful than before, and you still want to break it? Do you believe that this Hall Master only needs ten slashes to cleave you in the formation?”
“Unbelievable!”
Zhang Ruochen had at least three methods to break the formation.
The simplest method was to use the haste of the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow to dodge Iron Humpback’s attack. In other words, it was to stall for time.
As time passed, those Evil Dao martial artists who had set up the formation would naturally not be able to hold on, and the formation would not be broken.
However, Zhang Ruochen did not want to use this method and intended to have a quick battle.
“Hundred-foot prairie fire.”
The true qi in Zhang Ruochen’s body surged out and turned into a repeated spirit fire, covering the space of a hundred feet in a radius, like it had turned into a sea of fire.
The temperature in the air, grew higher and higher.
With Iron Hunchback’s cultivation, he was naturally not afraid of spirit fire.
However, those evil martial practitioners of the Yellow Extreme Realm and Xuan Extreme Realm could not carry the spirit fire at all.
“What exactly is this brat? First, he drew in a hundred feet of flying snow, causing the severe cold of the icy sky. Now he’s summoning boundless flames, is this to burn us all to death here?”
“My clothes are burning up …… ah ……”
“My face …… Hall Master, help!”
……
Those Yellow Extreme Realm martial artists also had true qi to protect their bodies, but their true qi was so thin that they couldn’t block the spirit fire. Soon, the clothes on their bodies burned, and then their hair and skin were also ignited by the spirit fire.
A moment later, a hundred Yellow Extreme Realm martial artists, fled in all directions, using various methods to extinguish the spirit fire on their bodies.
The combined attack formation was breached in a matter of moments.
“Damn it!”
Seeing that the momentum was gone, Iron Humpback immediately leapt onto the Flying Cloud Tiger’s back, wanting to escape.
The Flying Cloud Tiger unfolded its wings and soared up.
Iron Humpback let out a slight sigh of relief, finally escaping, and said in his heart, “That inner palace disciple of the Martial City Academy is simply too heaven-defying, and I don’t know what his origins are. One must immediately rush back to Earth Fire City and combine the experts from all the major forces in order to hold him back.”
Suddenly, a voice, sounded behind Iron Hunchback.
“Iron Hunchback, do you still want to escape?”
At some point, that one teenager wearing a metal mask, standing on the back of the Flying Cloud Tiger, stood behind Iron Humpback.
“Pfft!”
Iron Humpback was about to roll over and get up, when suddenly, his neck hurt and his head flew up, only to see a headless corpse appear below.
“That is …… my body ……,” the last thought emerged in the mind of Iron Hunchback.
The fiercely renowned Black Tiger Hall Master had died in Zhang Ruochen’s hands just like that.
Zhang Ruochen caught Iron Hunchback’s head and put it away, “The head of the Black Tiger Hall Master can be exchanged for at least a thousand points of merit value.”
There were one thousand points of Merit Value for destroying a chapter of the Black Market.
The significance of killing the Black Tiger Hall Master was far, far more significant than the significance of destroying a black market chapter.
Of course, a large chapter like Earthfire City had a different meaning. The other ten black market chapters combined were estimated to be equivalent to one Earthfire City.
Ground Fire City was the largest black market in the southeastern part of the Yunwu County Kingdom, and if Ground Fire City was annihilated, it would definitely be a heavy blow to the black market.
Of course, with only Zhang Ruochen’s own strength, it would still be a rather difficult task to annihilate Earth Fire City.
“Since Iron Hunchback is dead, you are also free. Go wherever you should go!”
Zhang Ruochen gently patted the Flying Cloud Tiger’s head and executed the Wind-Resisting Flying Dragon Shadow, flying down from the Flying Cloud Tiger’s back, his body pausing in mid-air nine times before finally landing back on the ground unharmed.
“Ow!”
The Flying Cloud Tiger was in the clouds, letting out a tiger’s roar, as if it was grateful to Zhang Ruochen for not killing it.
It then flapped its wings and flew away, disappearing at the end of the sky.
Although he let the Flying Cloud Tiger go, it didn’t mean that Zhang Ruochen would let the evil martial practitioners of the Black Tiger Hall go.
Those who should be killed still had to be killed.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen kill Iron Hunchback, all those evil people from the Black Tiger Hall were scared out of their wits, so they still dared to fight against Zhang Ruochen?
“My lord, spare our lives! In the future, we won’t dare to work for the Black Market anymore!”
“As long as Your Excellency spares our lives, no matter what Your Excellency wants us to do, we are willing.”
……
They all knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, crying in pain and begging for mercy.
Zhang Ruochen had killed far more people today than he had killed before combined, and simply didn’t want to kill any more people. However, letting them go seemed to be a curse.
The martial artists in the black market, except for a few, were almost all poor and vicious. Zhang Ruochen would not believe that they would really reform.
How to dispose of them?
Lin Mishan rushed over with a ruthless look in her almond eyes and said, ”We can’t spare them, if we let them go, we don’t know how many ordinary people in the Yunwu County Kingdom will die at their hands in the future. Kill! All of them must die!”
Zhang Ruochen looked at Lin Mishan and his eyes lit up as he said, “Since that’s the case, then they will be at your disposal.”
Then, he added, “Their heads, you can also bring them back to the Yuntai Sect House.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t intentionally give the heads of these Evil Dao martial artists to Lin Mishan, it was really because, he really didn’t want to kill anyone else.
Killing people was not something to be happy about in the first place.
Since Lin Mishan liked to kill, then he would leave it to her.
Zhang Ruochen walked towards the distance, preparing to head to Earth Fire City.
“Even if I want to kill people, I should go and kill the true Evil Dao powerhouses.”
If he was able to annihilate Earthfire City, he should be able to obtain a large amount of cultivation resources and merit value.
