“Stop!”
With Zhang Ruochen’s command, both of them simultaneously withdrew their swords and stopped.
The nine silhouettes on the left, overlapped together to form Zhang Ruochen’s body.
The nine people on the right, overlapping together, coalesced into Han Chu’s body.
Han Chu was immersed in the subtleties of the formation but was suddenly told to stop, he was a bit puzzled and said, “Why are you stopping, wasn’t the rehearsal perfect just now?”
“Perfect?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “How can that be called perfect? When we were rehearsing the sword formation, there was no tacit understanding between us at all, the sword moves of the eighteen silhouettes were not coherent at all, the sword intent of the two of them could not be communicated together, and they simply did not form the true form of the Yin-Yang Two-Eyster Sword Formation, not to mention mobilising the heaven and earth spiritual qi.”
Han Chu was a bit displeased and said, “There is no tacit understanding, is it any wonder that you blame me? It’s you who haven’t been treating me as a friend and have always been on the defensive. With a mindset like yours, how can we have a tacit understanding?”
“I’m just very curious, I’ve never done anything wrong to you, and I’ve even shown you kindness many times. Why are you so hostile to me?”
Zhang Ruochen was silent for a moment and said, “If I truly regarded you as an enemy, I wouldn’t have stepped in to save you.”
“Then for what reason? Could it be …… Zhang Tiangui’s reason?” Han Chu said.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t deny it and said, “That’s right, with your intelligence, you should understand that Zhang Tiangui and I are already incompatible, and there will be a battle in the future. You are his senior sister, how can I not guard against you?”
Han Chu sighed, “When I was in the royal city, I could tell that there was something wrong with your relationship, but I didn’t think that it had reached such a bad level.”
“Perhaps Zhang Tiangui did indeed do something wrong in some aspects. However, he is still a good person, not only is his natural talent very high, but he is also bright and open, and extremely kind to others. If you guys really have conflicts, I can step in and help mediate between you. After all, you guys are blood brothers.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “There are some things that I don’t want to say explicitly, you yourself will naturally understand in the future. In the Royal Clan, there is no such thing as blood brothers. You don’t have to care about what’s between me and him!”
Han Chu stared at Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, as if he wanted to see through Zhang Ruochen’s true thoughts, and in his heart, he said, “Could it be that Zhang Tiangui had done something wrong to Zhang Ruochen, which had caused the conflict between the two to rise to a level that could not be reconciled.”
In fact, in Han Chu’s heart, Zhang Tian Gui was still a good person, at least there was nothing that she hated, instead, he had a lot to learn from her.
After Zhang Ruochen said this, Han Qiu, however, developed a few doubts and secretly decided in her heart that after returning to Heavenly Demon Martial City, she must send someone to thoroughly investigate Zhang Tiangui.
One must know that her father, the Patriarch of the Yuntai Zongfu, had already intended to betroth her to Zhang Tiangui.
If Zhang Tiangui was really a villain who was capable of scheming and plotting against his own brother, then she would never marry Zhang Tiangui no matter what.
Although the time she spent with Zhang Ruochen was very short, she felt that Zhang Ruochen would definitely not slander Zhang Tianwei for no reason.
Han Qiu said with some confusion, “Since, you are guarded against me, why did you pass the Yin Yang Two Instruments Sword Formation to me?”
“What I passed on to you is just the Nine Swords of Yin Yi, without the Nine Swords of Yang Yi, you simply can’t set up the Yin-Yang Two Yi Sword Formation.”
Zhang Ruochen paused and added, “Besides, after spending some time together recently, I feel that you are still a trustworthy person.”
“You should have trusted me a long time ago!” Han Qiu’s eyebrows raised slightly as he added, “If we had more trust between us, we wouldn’t have been hunted down and killed in such a mess.”
“Keep practising your sword! Strive to sharpen the Yin Yang Two Instruments Sword Formation earlier, I’m worried that if we continue to wait, the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce and the Four Directions County Council will rush in more experts, and at that time, it will be even more unfavourable for us.” Zhang Ruochen said.
“Hmm!”
The two of them continued to rehearse the Yin Yang Two Instruments Sword Formation, spending ten hours almost every day honing the sword formation.
As they spent more and more time together, the two understood each other better and better.
Finally, on the sixth day, the sword formation was successfully rehearsed.
Using his sleeve, Han Qiu wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, stared at Zhang Ruochen, and said joyfully, “It’s finally successful! With our Yin Yang Two Instruments Sword Formation, not to mention Huo Jingcheng, even two Huo Jingchengs would not necessarily be our match. Now, let’s kill our way out!”
Zhang Ruochen appeared quite calm as he said, “It is indeed time to go out!”
“Rumble!”
The stone door of the underground palace slowly opened.
When Zhang Ruochen and Han Qiu stepped out from the underground palace, Huo Jingcheng, who was guarding the outside, immediately burst his eyes open.
Huo Jingcheng smiled coldly, ”You guys are finally willing to come out! I thought that you two were going to hide inside for the rest of your lives.”
Han Qiu pinched his white jade ancient sword and stretched his waist, outlining a perfect curve as he laughed, “If we didn’t have absolute certainty, wouldn’t we have come out from inside?”
“Oh! Could it be that you have already broken through to the Heavenly Extreme Realm?”
Huo Jingcheng was immediately cautious, if Han Chu had really reached the Heavenly Extremity Realm, then the person who should run for his life would have to become him.
Han Chu laughed and said, “There is no need to reach the Heavenly Extremity Realm, just with the cultivation of the two of us at the Earthly Extremity Realm, it would be enough to kill you.”
“Haha!”
Huo Jingcheng let out a loud laugh and said, “You guys think that with your injuries healed and the two of you joining forces, you’re Old Man’s opponents?”
“That’s right.” Han Chu said firmly.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Set up a formation!”
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen and Han Qiu rushed out at the same time, standing in two directions of Huo Jingcheng, lifting their hands and holding their swords, pointing at Huo Jingcheng who stood in the centre.
“With your cultivation, even if you set up a formation, you’re no match for old me. Raging Wind Beast Shadow!”
Huo Jingcheng raises his hands to the sky, and the true qi in his body rushes out, drawing the aura between heaven and earth, forming a huge whirlpool of stormy winds.
In the air, whistling sounds resounded.
Under the control of Huo Jingcheng’s true qi, the storm vortex formed a huge beast shadow with a body that was more than ten metres long, forming a semi-transparent form as it rushed towards Zhang Ruochen with open teeth and claws.
“Swish swish!”
Zhang Ruochen and Han Qiu moved almost at the same time, originally there were only two silhouettes, but after a split second, they turned into eighteen silhouettes.
Above the eighteen silhouettes, a bright circle of sword qi was formed, like a Taiji Bagua Seal that was spinning.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen struck out with his sword in a wide-open stance, directly splitting the beast silhouette that the wind blades had converged into in half.
“What?”
Huo Jingcheng was shocked, how did that kid’s power suddenly become so strong?
He was about to make a move to continue attacking Zhang Ruochen when suddenly, behind him, a sharp sword sound rang out.
“Look at the sword!”
Han Qiu’s slender figure was like a flying fairy with a sword, as she executed one of the Nine Swords of Yin Yi, “Looking at the Moon in the Clouds”, and stabbed directly at Huo Jingcheng’s vest.
“Giggle!”
The body of the white jade ancient sword was flowing with light-based inscriptions, rushing out a nine-foot-long sword awn, piercing through Huo Jingcheng’s robes and leaving behind a not too shallow but not too deep sword wound.
Feeling the pain coming from his back, Huo Jingcheng immediately rushed forward and flew out, roaring, “I don’t believe that I can’t break your sword formation.”
Huo Jingcheng turned around violently and struck Han Qiu with his palm.
Just as his palm was about to strike Han Chu, Zhang Ruochen attacked from behind again.
Huo Jingcheng could only retract his palm when he felt the fiery aura coming from behind him, and with a wave of his arm, he struck a wind blade that slashed out behind him.
Just when Huo Jingcheng thought he had forced Zhang Ruochen back, a sword shadow chopped at the top of his head from the upper left position, chopping off a strand of his hair.
Huo Jingcheng’s face changed drastically, finally noticing the power of the Yin Yang Two Instruments Sword Formation.
It seemed to him that he wasn’t fighting two people at all, but eighteen.
Any one of the silhouettes’ sword moves could turn into an actual move at any time, catching him off guard.
Han Qiu let out a silver-bell-like laughter as he kept changing his orientation in the sword formation, saying, “Uncle Huo, our sword formation, it’s not bad, right? Do you want to give us some pointers?”
“It’s not just a sword formation, in front of absolute strength, formations are just tricks that only children play.” Huo Jingcheng said in a cold voice.
“In that case, we won’t play with you anymore!”
Han Qiu stared Zhang Ruochen towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen nodded to her.
The two of them executed their sword techniques with full force, operating the Yin Yang Two Instruments Sword Formation to the extreme.
“Catching Shadows in the Wind!”
“Catching Chestnuts in the Fire!”
The range covered by the Yin Yang Two Instruments Sword Formation became smaller and smaller, at first the diameter was ten zhang, then nine zhang, eight zhang ……
As the range of the sword formation became smaller, the sword attacks became denser and denser.
In the end, the diameter of the sword array became only one zhang.
Huo Jingcheng was trapped in the sword formation like a trapped beast, and could only keep striking out to fend off the attacking sword moves. Although his cultivation was profound, the sword wounds on his body were increasing.
“Puh!”
Zhang Ruochen slashed his sword horizontally, chopping at Huo Jingcheng’s neck, finally breaking Huo Jingcheng’s Protective Heavenly Deity and chopping off Huo Jingcheng’s head.
“Boom!”
After his head was chopped off, Huo Jingcheng’s body could no longer control the wind and fell limply to the ground.
“It’s finally over!”
Han Qiu retrieved the white jade ancient sword and said with some regret, “Actually, our co-ordination is still not good enough, if we were able to be a bit more silent, it would be easier to kill Huo Jingcheng.”
Zhang Ruochen looked at the corpses on the ground without a trace of joy and said, “Let’s go! Let’s leave this place as soon as possible.”
“Hmm!”
Han Qiu nodded.
Not long after Zhang Ruochen and Han Qiu left, an old man with a purple and gold crown on his head, riding a three-legged fire crow, flew into the White Mist Ancient City, stopping above the underground palace.
The old man jumped off the back of the three-legged fire raven and walked over to Huo Jingcheng’s corpse, a brilliant aura appearing in his eyes as he mumbled to himself, “To actually be able to kill the Zhenling County Lord and Huo Jingcheng, these two juniors are truly not to be underestimated.”
His nose gently sniffed and said, “The smell of blood is still fresh, it should have only died less than three hours ago.”
The old man glanced at the ground and quickly found the traces left behind when Zhang Ruochen and Han Qiu left.
He jumped back onto the back of the three-legged fire raven and rode it, chasing after Zhang Ruochen and Han Qiu in the direction they left.
