It was only when he saw Huo Jingcheng leave that Han Qiu let out a long sigh of relief, staring towards the green-scaled thread serpent that was wrapped around him, closing his eyes and secretly mobilising the dark true qi in his body to start impacting Huo Jingcheng’s seal.
“Crap! Huo Jingcheng used the ‘Great Compassion Sealing Cloud Hand’ and actually sealed all the meridians in my body, even if I have Dark True Qi that can slowly corrode Huo Jingcheng’s sealing power. It would take at least three hours to unseal them. By that time, Huo Jingcheng would have long since returned.” Han Chu was a little anxious.
What to do now?
Han Chu knew very well that Huo Jing Cheng was trying to force the cultivation technique of the Supreme Sacred Qiankun Technique out of her mouth, and that was why, for the time being, he didn’t kill her.
But Huo Jingcheng’s patience was limited after all, and if he couldn’t force it out, he would definitely kill her without hesitation to get rid of any future problems.
“Even if I can’t rush it, I must.”
A hint of determination appeared in Han Chu’s eyes, even if she had to fight her way through serious injuries, she had to escape before Huo Jingcheng rushed back.
Zhang Ruochen stood at the top of a small hill that was hundreds of metres away from Han Chu, using spatial power to distort the surrounding spatial levels and hide his figure.
Only after seeing Huo Jingsheng leave did he rush over in the direction of Han Chu.
Just as Zhang Ruochen reached within ten feet of Han Chu, the Green Scaled Thread Snake that was originally wrapped around the tree trunk seemed to have discovered something and suddenly raised its head, flicking its tail out like a whip.
“Splat!”
The green-scaled snake’s tail lashed out with a loud bang, sending out a shower of sparks and striking the spot in front of Zhang Ruochen with unerring accuracy.
“Worthy of being a fourth-stage savage beast, its perception is surprisingly more sensitive than an average Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist.”
Knowing that he could not sneak attack, Zhang Ruochen dispersed the power of spatial distortion and revealed himself, taking out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and swinging it towards the snake’s tail.
“Swish!”
The Green Scaled Thread Snake quickly retracted its tail and turned into a green-coloured light that swam across the ground, rushing towards Zhang Ruochen’s legs.
The Green Scaled Thread Serpent, a fourth-ranked inferior savage beast, with strength comparable to a martial artist of the Earth Extremity Realm’s Great Perfection, and speed comparable to a martial artist of the Sky Extremity Realm’s mid-stage, could only be regarded as one of the weaker types among the fourth-ranked savage beasts.
However, its teeth contained intense poison, even if a fourth rank medium savage beast was bitten by it, it would die a violent death.
“Hiss!”
The Green Scaled Thread Snake revealed its two sharp fangs and blood-red eyes, staring at Zhang Ruochen as it bit at his calf.
Zhang Ruochen’s speed was far inferior to the Green Scaled Thread Snake, so he did not dodge at all and immediately used a defensive sword move.
The sword qi, condensed into a large sword qi bell, rotated rapidly.
“Boom boom!”
The Green Scaled Thread Snake continuously crashed on top of the Sword Qi Great Bell, shattering a sword Qi, but was unable to break through the Sword Bell’s defences at all because it was not powerful enough.
Zhang Ruochen stood in the middle of the Sword Qi Great Bell, constantly observing the trajectory of the Green Scaled Thread Snake’s attack.
After a long time, the corner of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth revealed an arc, “So that’s how it is.”
The speed of the Green Scaled Thread Snake was indeed incredibly fast, and even with Zhang Ruochen’s attainments in swordsmanship, it would be very difficult to hit it with a single sword strike.
However, as long as one was an experienced martial artist in combat, one would realise that the Green Scaled Thread Snake also had a weakness.
A weakness that was in its head.
Every time the Green Scaled Thread Snake launched an attack, its head would be slightly retarded.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen stabbed out with his sword, passing through the Great Bell of Sword Qi and accurately piercing through the Green Scaled Thread Snake’s head, nailing the Green Scaled Thread Snake to the ground.
Zhang Ruochen took a big step towards Han Chu and said, “Let me help you unlock the seal.”
Han Chu hurriedly said, “No, Huo Jing Cheng used the Great Compassion Sealing Cloud Hand, only he knows the order of the sealing, if an outsider forcefully unseals the seal without knowing the order of the sealing, it will only cause the true qi in my body to retrograde and I will die a violent death.”
The Great Compassion Sealing Cloud Hand, there were a total of thirty-six techniques that could form thousands of seals.
For each technique, a slight change in the order could form a new type of sealing prohibition. If the order was slightly wrong when unsealing the prohibitions, then the person being sealed would only die.
“Is that so? It just so happens that I once learnt the Great Compassion Sealing Hand, so I might be able to find the correct order of Huo Jingcheng’s sealing technique.”
Zhang Ruochen stood up in front of Han Qiu, staring at the woman in front of him who had some of the most beautiful immortal face in the world, hesitated slightly and said, “I’m offended!”
After saying this, Zhang Ruochen’s palm pressed to the top of Han Chu’s head, quickly finding the Hui Vein at the top of her head, then travelling downwards, probing behind her ears, her face, her neck, and then continuing to travel downwards, pinching the Spirit Charge Vein on her chest, and the Tianxin Vein on her back.
Han Qiu had never been rubbed by a man like this before, her pretty face flushed and she chided, “What …… are you doing?”
“Probing the meridians, only then will I know exactly what techniques Huo Jingcheng used on you?”
Zhang Ruochen’s palm slid from Han Chu’s thigh, all the way to his ankle.
For every meridian he explored, Zhang Ruochen would strike a sliver of true qi into that meridian as a way to probe the seals.
However, every time Zhang Ruochen struck a trace of true qi, Han Chu would have a tingling sensation, as if a warm current had entered his body, which was indescribably soothing.
Watching Zhang Ruochen, constantly kneading her entire body, Han Qiu was both annoyed and a little shy, her pair of beautiful eyes glaring round, her entire body tensed, her cheeks red like two cloudy haze.
“Alright!”
Zhang Ruochen finished checking the meridians at the bottom of Han Chu’s feet and stood up again, condensing his true qi at the tip of his index finger.
Han Chu got a little nervous and stared at Zhang Ruochen, saying, “Hey …… wait a minute, are you sure you can unlock the Great Compassionate Wind and Cloud Hand?”
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen stared at her and his fingers quickly clicked out, clicking thirty-six fingers in a row.
It looked like he had clicked thirty-six times, but it was done in a single instant. Zhang Ruochen’s fingers formed thirty-six phantoms in front of Han Qiu.
In the next moment, Zhang Ruochen’s finger was already withdrawn
“Hmph!”
A muffled sound came out of Han Chu’s mouth, and the true qi in the Qi Sea at the centre of his brow suddenly surged into the meridians of his entire body as if it had suddenly found a vent.
With his strength restored, Han Qiu’s face carried a few moments of anger as he struck his palm towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen’s body sidestepped and grabbed her wrist as he said in a deep voice, “What are you doing?”
Han Qiu’s cultivation had just recovered and had not yet reached its full strength, and her strength was not strong, so after being grabbed by Zhang Ruochen’s wrist, she was surprisingly unable to resist at all.
“Let go!”
Han Chu’s heart became even more mortified as he said, “Zhang Ruochen, you are also the Ninth Prince of Yunwu County Kingdom, a man of honour, what kind of hero is it to deliberately take advantage of me while I’m being sealed by Huo Jingcheng?”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes narrowed as he said, “How did you know?”
Han Qiu clenched a mouthful of snow-white shell teeth and blankly glanced at Zhang Ruochen, saying, “Do you take me for a fool? Even if you want to unlock the Great Compassion Sealing Cloud Hand, is there a need to pinch me randomly on my body? You …… you are shameless scum!”
“What I’m saying is, how did you know my identity?” Zhang Ruochen said coldly.
Han Qiu was slightly stunned and then added, “So you really are Zhang Tiangui’s younger brother. Zhang Ruochen, I originally thought that you were a world-renowned genius who could possibly surpass your elder brother and become the new Heavenly Demon Ridge’s number one genius. Yet I didn’t think that you were actually a villain. Despicable! Shameless!”
“If it wasn’t for the fact that you helped me in the black market, I wouldn’t have bothered to rush back to save you.”
Zhang Ruochen released her wrist, not bothering to continue arguing with her, and carrying the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, he walked over to the decapitated Green Scaled Thread Snake.
Using the sword, he carefully broke open the snake skin of the Green Scaled Thread Snake and dug out a poisonous bile that was only the size of the snake’s eye.
Han Qiu looked at Zhang Ruochen’s seriousness, and the anger in his heart gradually subsided as he walked over, clasping his hands in front of his chest, and asked in a good-natured manner, “What are you doing digging up the poisonous bile of the Green Scale Thread Snake?”
“The poison of the Green Scaled Thread Snake is enough to poison a martial artist of the Small Extreme Position of the Heavenly Extreme Realm. Digging out its poisonous bile might be of great use.” Zhang Ruochen put the poisonous bile away, stood up again, glanced towards Han Chu, contemplated for a moment, and said, “I’m sorry for offending just now.”
Han Chu stared Avray at Zhang Ruochen and said, “The one who says sorry should be me. Thank you for rushing back to save me, counting you as somewhat righteous.”
In fact, Han Qiu also understood that it was never an easy task to unlock the Great Compassion Sealing Cloud Hand. Zhang Ruochen was definitely probing her pulse just now, and was not really trying to take advantage of her.
However, her heart was just furious, after all, since she was a child, other than her own father, other men had never even touched her fingers, yet Zhang Ruochen had pinched her entire body.
Therefore, Han Qiu knew that Zhang Ruochen was trying to save her, but her heart was still very angry, and only by teaching Zhang Ruochen a lesson could she find her mental balance.
Zhang Ruochen took the initiative to apologise to her, but it surprised her even more, and the irritation in her heart immediately disappeared, instead, a different emotion arose, feeling that she had just been too unreasonable.
Han Qiu pursed her lips slightly, avoiding Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, and said in a low voice, ”We …… had better leave quickly! Otherwise, when Huo Jingcheng comes back, we’ll be in big trouble!”
Zhang Ruochen was already seriously injured, so naturally, he had long planned to leave, saying, “Let’s separate there! You go your way, I’ll go mine.”
After saying this, Zhang Ruochen executed the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow, stepping on the void with his feet and taking nine steps in a row, and after the nine steps fell, he had already reached ten miles away.
Just as Zhang Ruochen continued to move forward, he suddenly heard the sound of wind coming from behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Han Qiu chasing after him again.
Zhang Ruochen had always been on guard against Han Chu, so when he saw her chasing after him, he became a little impatient and said, “Why are you following again?”
“It’s not that I’m following you, but Huo Jingcheng is catching up! I’m injured right now, I’m not his match at all. It’s only when we join forces that we might be able to put up a fight.” Han Chu said.
In the distance, a wildly surging hurricane, swirling up black mud, rocks, sand and dust, emitting a sound like the roar of a giant beast, followed closely behind Han Chu.
In the middle of that hurricane, there was indeed a silhouette standing in the middle of the hurricane, with a cold and stern voice coming out of his mouth, “This time, let’s see where you guys are going to run away from?”
