Zhang Ruochen sat on the inn threshold and said, “Tell me, what is the thing you are fighting over?”
“Actually, we do not know exactly what it is. We only know it is contained in a skull space ring. And that ring fell into Meng Sheng’s hands.” Ye Manman said.
Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes. When the Yaksha Clan Great Saint Meng Sheng first came to the town, he did indeed wear a skull space ring on his finger.
“This item is of immense use to the God Maiden First City.” Lu Yi said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “What use?”
Ye Manman and Lu Yi exchanged glances.
“Sorry, senior. This is a major secret of the God Maiden Twelve Pavilions and cannot be leaked.” Lu Yi said.
Zhang Ruochen did not force them, but he already understood that he had underestimated the value of this item. At the same time, he had a deeper realisation of the trouble he was about to face.
Since he had not died for decades despite being on the verge of death, continuing to wait for death here seemed meaningless.
It was better to take this opportunity and use the last moments of his life to settle that karmic debt with the God Maiden Twelve Pavilions.
Ye Manman and Lu Yi discussed.
“It seems we can only go find the thief old heaven and buy information from him.”
“I do not know what high price the thief old heaven will ask this time.”
“I am more worried about master. We failed to seize the ring, and let Meng Sheng escape without a trace. We will definitely be punished.”
The other two women gathered. They were about to leave.
“Actually, finding Meng Sheng is not difficult.”
Zhang Ruochen opened his wrinkled right palm. Immediately, the drop of blood on him turned into strands of blood qi, floating to his palm.
It was the blood left by Meng Sheng.
The eyes of the four building masters all stared at Zhang Ruochen.
With a drop of blood without saintly power, could he find Meng Sheng?
Moments later, the blood qi in Zhang Ruochen’s hand dissipated. He stood up, looked beyond the sky, and said, “He has already escaped this planet.”
“Whoosh!”
Powerful mental power released outward.
Zhang Ruochen turned into a beam of light, disappeared from the spot, instantly broke through the atmosphere, reached the dark and cold cosmic void, and appeared beside Meng Sheng.
Not to mention the skull ring, even Meng Sheng’s entire arm had disappeared.
And Meng Sheng…
Had become dead Meng Sheng.
Zhang Ruochen examined Meng Sheng’s floating corpse and found that apart from missing one arm, there were no other wounds. But when he mobilised mental power to check internally, he discovered that Meng Sheng’s meridians, blood vessels, qi sea, and Saint source were all petrified.
Only then did the four building masters of the God Maiden Twelve Pavilions fly here. They were overjoyed.
Lu Yi said, “Meng Sheng could not escape senior’s palm after all.”
“He was not killed by me.” Zhang Ruochen said.
“How is that possible?”
The four building masters of the God Maiden Twelve Pavilions felt incredulous.
Although Zhang Ruochen had shown them kindness, the facts were right in front of them. How could they believe that Meng Sheng died at someone else’s hands?
Ye Manman said, “Meng Sheng escaped the planet not long ago. If other cultivators killed him, they should still be nearby. Senior’s mental power is strong. Can you find them?”
“Cannot find them.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Ye Manman was puzzled, frowned tightly, and said, “Why?”
“Because trouble has already come!”
Zhang Ruochen had roughly guessed who took the ring, but was not sure. He looked towards a certain direction in the universe and saw two black flood dragons as huge as mountains pulling a pitch-black carriage like a coffin, slowly coming from the starry sky.
It was said to be slow, but the speed was extremely fast.
Only because the starry sky was too vast, even the fastest speed appeared slow.
The aura erupted by the two black flood dragons alone oppressed the four building masters so they could not breathe. They could only release Dao domains to resist those two pressures.
Zhang Ruochen recognised that they were two flood dragon type strange beasts.
The one-eyed grey-robed old man stood on the head of one flood dragon strange beast. From afar, he laughed, “Old senior, Meng Sheng’s corpse is right in front of you. What explanation do you have now?”
The two flood dragon strange beasts stopped. Their two heads were as huge as ten mountains, hanging one on Zhang Ruochen’s left and one on the right. Every breath exhaled would condense into a piece of black divine cloud.
The four building masters of the God Maiden Twelve Pavilions looked towards the coffin-shaped carriage behind the two flood dragon strange beasts. They immediately drew in cold breaths. How could they not guess who was inside?
“Pay respects to Qing Xuan Spirit God.”
They simultaneously kowtowed in salute.
Facing a god of Qing Xuan Spirit God’s level, any Saint realm cultivator must salute upon seeing. Not every god was as easygoing as Zhang Ruochen.
Qing Xuan Spirit God’s voice was very young, but aggressive. He said, “That thing is not something you can possess. Better hand it over to this seat, to avoid bringing killing disaster upon yourself.”
Zhang Ruochen did not like his tone much, nor did he like gods from the Darkness Temple, so he did not explain.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Why, if in my hands, will it bring killing disaster, but in your hands, it seems it will not?”
“Because no cultivator in the world dares to be enemies with the Darkness Temple.” Qing Xuan Spirit God said.
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “Not necessarily, right?”
“Whoosh!”
Qing Xuan Spirit God leaped out from the coffin-shaped carriage. He had full head of green hair, black skin, in the form of a human male. Setting aside the skin colour, in terms of temperament and appearance, he was top-notch heroic.
Qing Xuan Spirit God stared deeply at Zhang Ruochen and said, “Unexpectedly, your mental power is so impressive.”
The reason he said this was because it was after Zhang Ruochen’s reminder that he noticed other gods hiding nearby.
The twelve spirit gods of the Darkness Temple were all powerful mental power gods.
Unexpectedly today, he lost a round in front of an unknown old guy.
“Come out.”
Qing Xuan Spirit God shouted coldly. Two green light beams flew from his pupils, hitting a dozens-of-metres-long rock in the universe.
Before the green light beams arrived, the rock jumped up first, turning into a black stone giant, wearing stone armour, holding a supreme Saint artifact level dragon sparrow heavy sword.
The black stone giant laughed long, “Heavenly Venerable Treasure Yarn, such a supreme treasure, who does not want it? Qing Xuan, how about giving it to me?”
“Shi Ying, you dare to compete with me?” Qing Xuan Spirit God’s tone was unkind.
Shi Ying Shang Jun said, “We all know the immense significance of seizing the Heavenly Venerable Treasure Yarn. Not to mention competing with you, this lord even dares to kill you.”
“Just you, want to kill me?” Qing Xuan Spirit God said.
“Killing you now is meaningless. Seizing the Heavenly Venerable Treasure Yarn is this lord’s purpose.”
Shi Ying Shang Jun’s gaze fell on Zhang Ruochen and the four Great Saints of the God Maiden Twelve Pavilions. He said, “Four building masters, you better stay away from this old guy, to avoid this lord accidentally injuring you when we fight later. It would be bad to explain to Bai girl.”
Lu Yi became worried. Shi Ying Shang Jun and Qing Xuan Spirit God were both gods with notorious reputations, with towering forces behind them. She really wanted to persuade Zhang Ruochen to hand over the skull ring.
But she, a Great Saint, had no qualification to speak in front of the gods.
“You go east. Once gods fight, not to mention intervening, the aftermath can kill you.” Zhang Ruochen said.
“Senior…”
Lu Yi called out these two words, but ultimately could not persuade, and went east with Ye Manman and the others.
After flying east for ten thousand li, they saw a blue-haired beauty who looked about twenty, standing on a leaf-shaped small boat. The blue-haired beauty wore a crystal long dress, with plump chest, strange divine patterns at her brow, skin delicate and snow-white like immortal jade, temperament extremely ethereal.
They finally understood why Zhang Ruochen let them go east.
“Master.”
The four building masters all bowed in salute to the blue-haired beauty.
This woman was precisely the top figure of the God Maiden Twelve Pavilions, Snow Domain Pavilion Master, Liu Qingcheng.
Liu Qingcheng stared at the white-haired old man in the distance, eyes dazed, murmuring to herself, “Who is this person? Such powerful perception. The concealment array on my Green Leaf Divine Boat was refined by God Master Yu Yao, and we are so far apart, yet he discovered it.”
Lu Yi boarded the Green Leaf Divine Boat and quickly said, “It is an old senior hidden on Yun Fan Star, with extremely high music attainments, and he said he has connections with our God Maiden Twelve Pavilions.”
Liu Qingcheng fell into thought.
Shi Ying Shang Jun glanced at Liu Qingcheng, then retracted his gaze. He said, “Old guy, you can choose to hand over the thing you seized from Meng Sheng to this lord. After all, you cannot guard it. No need to lose your life for it.”
Zhang Ruochen did not want to carry this blame anymore. He said, “Was Meng Sheng not killed by you?”
“Killed by me?”
Shi Ying Shang Jun was both angry and furious, feeling the opponent wanted to turn the tables.
Zhang Ruochen waved his sleeve. Meng Sheng’s corpse flew towards Qing Xuan Spirit God. He said, “Meng Sheng has powerful stone qi inside, petrifying meridians, blood vessels, qi sea, Saint source. In the nearby starry sky, besides you, where are other Stone Clan gods?”
Qing Xuan Spirit God grabbed Meng Sheng’s corpse and probed.
Zhang Ruochen immediately said again, “You really are the thief crying thief.”
Qing Xuan Spirit God’s face was gloomy and uncertain. He stared coldly at Shi Ying Shang Jun and laughed, “I said, that old guy’s life fire is already exhausted. What use is the Heavenly Venerable Thin Yarn to him? So, the Heavenly Venerable Thin Yarn was seized by you!”
“I did not.”
Shi Ying Shang Jun immediately acted, snatching Meng Sheng’s corpse, planning to probe personally.
It was at this moment that the starry sky was broken by an extremely domineering blade light. The blade qi spread ten thousand li, like a bright green river, slashing straight on Shi Ying Shang Jun’s body.
“Who?”
Shi Ying Shang Jun swung the supreme Saint artifact Dragon Spring Heavy Sword, but unfortunately could not block. His body flew out hundreds of li. Stones were slashed off by the blade light, flowing stone blood.
Every stone was part of his divine body.
Liu Qingcheng and Qing Xuan Spirit God’s faces both changed. Each displayed defensive methods.
Shi Ying Shang Jun was such a domineering and strong god, yet injured by one slash.
The one who slashed was obviously stronger than Shi Ying Shang Jun.
At the instant the blade light appeared, Zhang Ruochen’s eyes became profound, looking towards the direction the blade light extended from. There, silver glow, like star clouds, enveloped hundreds of thousands of li of cosmic space.
A Ying Dragon pulled a war chariot, driving out from the silver glow.
It was precisely Wu Ma Jiu Xing’s Silver Glow Cloud Light War Chariot.
