“Senior Sister Huang, if I impersonate Pavilion Master Lei’s secret disciple, will I anger Pavilion Master Lei if word gets out?” Zhang Ruochen pulled Huang Yichen aside and inquired in a low voice.
“It shouldn’t.”
Huang Yixian said, “You may not know that Pavilion Master Lei holds you in quite high regard. He was the one who ordered that you be given the treatment of an 『Earth Ranking』 student, and all the cultivation resources, all of them are tilted in your favour. Just because of this matter, the Inner Palace School even caused quite a stir.”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit puzzled and said, “I’ve never met that one Pavilion Master Lei, why is he taking such care of me?”
Huang Yichen said, “Pavilion Master Lei is in charge of the Silver-robed Elder Pavilion and has a high position of power, although he is not a Gold-robed Elder, he is stronger than many Gold-robed Elders. He should have valued your potential, so he wants to take you as a disciple. If you are able to worship under him, you are getting a great backer, and I’m afraid that in the future, in the thirty-six counties of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, a few people will dare to mess with you.”
“Of course, don’t be too happy, Pavilion Master Lei has another word, if you can’t become one of the top ten ranked students of the Inner Palace Academy within a year, you will be cancelled as a student of the Earth Ranking.”
“I didn’t care in the first place.” Zhang Ruochen laughed, “Getting the treatment of a 《Earth Ranking》 cadet is certainly a good thing. At the same time, yet it also pushes me to the tip of the storm, becoming the object that all the trainees want to challenge.”
Huang Yichen said, “Perhaps this is Pavilion Master Lei’s training for you, with your current martial cultivation, although you are already very strong, you are ultimately still too young, and there is still a considerable gap between you and the top ten ranked cadets of the Inner Palace Academy.”
“If you are able to enter the top ten of the Academy Palace within a year, perhaps Pavilion Master Lei will personally accept you as his disciple, and will even guarantee you entry into the Holy Academy in the future.”
“Let everything be as it is! Martial cultivation is supposed to be one step at a time, and I don’t know what level I’ll be able to reach after a year?” Zhang Ruochen laughed.
Chang Qiqi walked over and stared at Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yichen who were standing side by side, a few puzzled looks in their eyes as they called out from afar, “Senior Sister Huang, Senior Brother Chen, what are you guys talking about?”
Zhang Ruochen turned around and smiled, “We are talking about the recent situation in the Yunwu County Kingdom.”
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen saw the puzzled look in Chang Qiqi’s eyes and instantly understood, immediately moving his feet and pulling some distance from Huang Yichen.
One must know that his current identity was Chen Ruo, the secret disciple of the Silver-robed Elder Pavilion Master, while Huang Yichen’s identity was Zhang Ruochen’s fiancée. With his current status getting too close to Huang Yichen, it was indeed not very appropriate.
Chang Qi Qi’s figure was short and thin, appearing to be just one metre six in height, with dark skin, thick black eyebrows, a high nose, eyes that seemed to be only the size of green beans, and a bronze ancient sword on his back, giving him a short and lean appearance.
He had a smile on his face at all times as he said, “I understand the current situation in the Yunwu County Kingdom better than you do, since a month ago, our Martial City Academy and Martial City Money Bank joined forces, coupled with the assistance of the official forces of the Yunwu County Kingdom, and defeated the major rudders of the Black Market and Moon Worshipping Demon Sect, more than thirty of which were annihilated, killing more than 10,000 Evil Dao martial practitioners, which is truly described as a bloody rain.”
“Other than some extremely Avray hidden sub-rudder forces, all those other evil people, all of them fled towards the King City.”
“I reckon that the final showdown will definitely be in the King City.”
Zhang Ruochen frowned slightly and said, “The Martial City Academy and the Martial City Money Bank have suppressed them too hard, and the Black Market and the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect will definitely fight back. The evil martial practitioners from the various surrounding counties will definitely rush over, and at that time, there’s no telling how chaotic the situation will be. I also don’t know if the King City’s army will be able to control the situation?”
Chang Qi Qi laughed, “We will only deal with the evil martial artists of the Black Market and the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult, as for the situation in the royal city, those in power in the royal family will worry about it.”
With the Black Market, Martial City Academy, Moon Worshipping Demon Cult, and even the Yuntai Zongfu intervening, the entire King City must have been turned upside down. Even if the Royal Palace had many experts, I was afraid that there would be no peace.
Zhang Ruochen was still a little worried, after all, there were still loved ones he cared about in the King City.
“I must rush to the King City immediately.” Zhang Ruochen said.
As soon as Zhang Ruochen’s words fell, a swish of wind came from above the treetops, and a black shadow flashed past with a strangely fast speed.
A piece of dead leaf, drifted down from above.
“What kind of person?”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes became sharp as his arm stretched out lightning fast, clamping the piece of dead leaf with two fingers.
Spirit Fire True Qi surged out from his body and wrapped the withered leaf.
With a flick of his fingers, the withered leaf continued to rotate amidst the Spirit Flame and flew out, chopping off the trunk of a large, bowl-thick tree with a loud bang.
A dark shadow flew out from the back of the tree trunk, leaping more than ten metres high and landing on top of the branch of another large tree.
His body was dressed in a black robe and a face scarf, his figure was tall and thin, his gaze was like a torch, he was definitely a martial arts expert.
“Haha! You guys are really naive, thinking that you can still rush to the King City?” The man in black laughed.
“Who are you?” Zhang Ruochen said.
“The person who killed you all.” The man in black said in a cold and deep voice.
Chang Qi Qi rolled her eyes and said, “Che! Who doesn’t know how to talk big? Our three Inner Palace trainees are here, so even you can kill us? Unless you’re a Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Myth is more or less the same, but you don’t seem like that kind of powerhouse to me.”
“So what if you’re an Inner Palace Cadet? Over the years, it seems that our black market has killed quite a few Inner Palace Cadets.” The man in black disdainfully said.
“You are from the Black Market?” Zhang Ruochen’s eyes slightly raised, expressing some scepticism.
Although the other party was masked, but just by listening to his voice, one could hear that he was by no means more than thirty years old. In the Black Market, when did another young expert emerge?
“That’s right.” The man in black said aloud.
Zhang Ruochen continued to ask, “Which power in the Black Market are you a member of?”
“You are all about to become dead, so why should I even bother telling you?” The man in black let out a sharp laugh.
He merged his true qi into his voice and performed a soundwave-type martial skill, Great Sound Xuanxu.
Under the vibration of the sound wave, the air was like a wave of water, and layer by layer, it impacted towards Zhang Ruochen’s three people.
The moment the sound wave rang out, all the flying birds within a radius of tens of feet were all killed by the sound wave and fell from the trees.
“Pah!”
The trunk of a dead tree beside Zhang Ruochen was cracked by the sound wave.
Even with Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation, under the attack of the sound wave, he felt his entire body’s blood qi stirring and his eardrums hurting. The sound wave airwaves in the air were like sharp blades that cut into the skin.
Huang Yichen’s face turned a little white, and under the sound wave attack, she kept retreating, seemingly already injured.
Knowing that her cultivation had already reached the late stage of the Earth Extremity Realm, she still couldn’t block the sound wave even so, if she were to be replaced by an Earth Extremity Realm martial artist of a much lower realm, she would probably have been seriously injured at this moment.
In the presence, Chang Qi Qi’s martial cultivation was the highest, having reached the middle extreme position of the Earth Extreme Realm, and being a Second Extreme Genius, her strength was quite profound, and she was able to withstand the sound wave attack of the man in black.
“I’ll come to meet you for a while.”
Chang Qi Qi surged out forwards, the battle sword on his back flying out of its sheath and falling into his hands. He gripped the sword with both hands and slashed out a ten-metre long blade Qi.
The blade Qi broke apart the sound waves and chopped towards the man in black.
“Boom!”
The blade Qi chopped off more than ten large trees around him, clearing a large area of the mountain forest.
The black-clothed man’s body once again leapt up like a large black bird, lightly standing on top of a tree branch as he laughed, “As expected of an expert ranked forty-first in the Martial City Academy, the blade technique is quite good.”
“The speed of a normal Earth Extremity Boundary Great Perfection martial artist is only one hundred and twenty metres per second, the speed he just erupted from reached at least one hundred and forty metres per second, this person is not an idle person. Senior Sister Huang, Senior Brother Chen, you guys go first, I’ll block him.”
Chang Qiqi’s face was grave as she stood with her sword crossed, staring at that one black-robed man as if he was an enemy.
“Let’s go first!” Zhang Ruochen said.
Zhang Ruochen could also see clearly that that one man in black was indeed quite powerful, even if the three of them added together, they might not be his opponent.
Huang Yichen was a little worried and said, “Can Senior Brother Chang block that one man in black?”
“Can’t block it.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “However, that one man in black is clearly coming towards the two of us, and his target is not Senior Brother Chang.”
“How do you know that his target is us?” Huang Yichen became even more curious, his gaze tightly fixed on Zhang Ruochen.
“Let’s get out of here first.”
Zhang Ruochen glanced back, the man in black and Chang Qiqi had already started exchanging blows, and said, “There’s no need to worry about Senior Brother Chang, even Hua Qingshan couldn’t kill Senior Brother Chang, which means that Senior Brother Chang’s ability to save his life is absolutely top-notch.”
Without any further delay, Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yichen simultaneously executed the Wind-Resisting Flying Dragon Shadow’s stance and fled as fast as they could. Before long, they had already reached a hundred miles away.
On the mountain path, only two illusory residual shadows could be seen, rushing forwards.
“Zhang Ruochen, what the hell is going on? How do you know that that person is coming towards us?” Huang Yichen asked once again.
“Because he’s not an evil martial artiste from the black market at all.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “That man in black didn’t ask for Senior Brother Chang’s name, but he knew Senior Brother Chang’s ranking in the Martial City Academy, don’t you think it’s strange?”
As soon as Zhang Ruochen reminded him, Huang Yichen also reacted and said, “It is indeed quite strange, it seems that that one black-clothed man should have once known Senior Brother Chang, could it be that …… that one black-clothed man was also a student of the Martial City Academic Palace?”
“It may not be that only the trainees of the Martial City Academy Palace know Senior Brother Chang.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “There are so many sects in the Heavenly Demon Martial City, any disciple of any sect could have seen Senior Brother Chang. Although the identity of that one black-robed man is something we can’t tell right now, since the other party falsely claimed to be an evil martial artist in the black market, he must have an ulterior motive, and it’s never just as simple as wanting to kill three Martial City Academy Palace Inner Palace trainees.”
Huang Yichen said, “Neither you nor Senior Brother Chang’s identities are considered special, so the other party shouldn’t have come specifically to kill you, and is probably here to deal with me as well.”
“Perhaps!”
The two of them hurried forward, their speed exceeding a hundred metres per second, not daring to stop for a second.
By the time it was dark, they had already reached seven hundred miles away. They were the only ones who had such a fast rushing speed, if it were any other Earth Extreme Realm martial artists, they would probably have exhausted themselves long ago.
After nightfall, Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yichen temporarily stopped rushing and stayed inside a dilapidated Mountain God Temple, preparing to recover their depleted True Qi first.
Zhang Ruochen stood in front of the dilapidated temple door, gazing out into the dim night colour, his eyes a little gloomy.
The air was cold and chilly, and dark clouds covered the sky, seemingly harbouring a huge storm.
After Huang Yichen recovered his true qi, he also stepped out, looking at Zhang Ruochen’s expression, he said, ”That one black-robed man shouldn’t be able to catch up that quickly, besides, even if he catches up, with our strength, we may not be without a fight. By the way, I forgot that you can’t just use spatial power.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “I always have an ominous premonition that tonight will definitely not be peaceful, perhaps a great enemy will appear. There is a force that is preventing us from returning to the King City, who exactly is it?”
“Your mental power is far beyond normal, did you sense something?” Huang Yanxian said.
She knew that some characters with strong spiritual power could foresee something that was about to be discovered.
Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power was quite perverse, so maybe he had sensed something?
