“Gui Thunderbird, this place is the Tong Ming River, the territory of the savage beasts of the waters, you should put away your power first, so as not to provoke those savage beast overlords in the waters.”
Jin Chuan chased after him from the direction of the valley and stood on top of a protruding reef by the river.
He wore a golden robe and looked rather old, with white hair that kept fluttering in the wind.
Although he was only speaking calmly, Jin Chuan’s voice had already reached the sky.
Above the dome of the sky, that one huge black shadow immediately withdrew the power of thunder and lightning, circled around in the air, and landed on the top of a small mountain by the river.
From afar, that one Gui Thunderbird’s body was as huge as half of a small mountain, with a black eagle-like body, but with a scaly neck and a snake and python like head.
It was like a savage beast with a terrifying aura, coiling its snake head around its neck. Ordinary martial artists wouldn’t even dare to approach it.
Zhang Tiangui rushed to the bank of the Tongming River and looked at the still choppy river, his face was a bit sullen and cold.
Zhang Tian Gui squeezed his hands tightly, his heart indescribably cynical, “Still, he escaped!”
If it was him, he would definitely only die tonight. Zhang Ruochen, however, escaped, which could only mean that Zhang Ruochen was truly stronger than him, and not just a little bit stronger.
He was jealous of Zhang Ruochen’s strength, and the more jealous he became, the more he hated Zhang Ruochen, and couldn’t wait for Zhang Ruochen to be broken into pieces.
“Swish swish!”
Four silhouettes flashed as Jin Ye Yun, Cao Lin, Guo XIII, and Yin Shan descended from the sky and stood in a row, each with a powerful aura, as if they were four large mountains standing by the river.
“A heavenly net was laid down, but he actually escaped. If this son doesn’t die, he will become a great danger.” Jin Ye Yun said.
Yin Shan said, “Zhang Ruochen has already been seriously injured, even if he escapes into the Tongming River, he might die in the belly of the savage beasts in the waters.”
“Don’t be careless, the County King has an order to see a man alive and a corpse dead.” Jin Chuan said.
“Rumble!”
A group of barbarian elephants, rushed out from the forest, and on the back of each barbarian elephant stood a sergeant wearing heavy armour and holding a lance.
They stood in a square formation of two hundred people, each one of them a first-rate martial dao powerhouse.
Jin Chuan gave the order, saying, “Everyone will each lead a group of Barbarian Elephant Army and follow the Tongming River, splitting up and chasing after them, making sure to kill Zhang Ruochen while he is seriously injured.”
“You guys should also be careful, the waters of the Tongming River are survived by many powerful Barbarian Beasts, known as the ‘Forbidden Land of the Human Race’, when chasing Zhang Ruochen, don’t alert those Barbarian Beast Overlords in the water.”
“Yes!”
The four great experts, each leading fifty Savage Elephant Army, disappeared into the night.
They travelled up and down the river and began to collect in Zhang Ruochen’s trail.
Right at this moment, a red, demonic shadow flew over the water, like a ghost suddenly stopping in the water mist, leaving only a concave and beautiful silhouette.
Seeing that one red beautiful shadow standing on the surface of the water, Jin Chuan and Zhang Tian Gui immediately knelt on the ground and saluted, saying in awe, “Greetings to the Red Lust Messenger, I wonder what has startled the Red Lust Messenger’s great presence?”
The Red Desire Emissary’s feet were as white as jade, and they stood right on the surface of the water, their toes connecting with the water, forming a circle of rippling ripples.
She said, “The Young Lord has already arrived at the Tong Ming River and asked me to tell you guys something, he has discovered the traces of the Demon Cult’s Holy Daughter in the City of Death, and it is likely that the Demon Cult’s experts have also rushed to the waters of the Tong Ming River. He asked me to tell you all that it’s best to be careful when acting, and that you must not spoil his big event.”
“What? How did the Holy Maiden of the Devil Cult come here?” Jin Chuan raised his head and his face changed violently.
Everyone had an instinctive fear of the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect.
The Red Desire Star Envoy said, “The Young Lord is also investigating this matter, and in case the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult also knows about the news of the Dragon Shelter, our actions in the Underwater Dragon Palace will definitely be hindered. Weren’t you guys killing a so-called genius of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, and did you succeed?”
“Originally, the old man has already laid a heavenly net, but unfortunately …… that kid was too cunning and escaped into the Tongming River, and is now being searched for.” Jin Chuan said with some embarrassment.
The Red Desire Star Envoy laughed and said, “This little thing can be wrong, it’s really a bunch of wastes! I hope that you guys can solve this side of the matter as soon as possible, so as not to delay the young lord’s big event.”
After saying this, the Red Desire Star Envoy turned into a red mist and flew out, disappearing into the water.
Only after Zhang Tiangui felt that powerful pressure disappear, did he raise his head and looked at the location where the Red Desire Star Envoy had previously stood and asked, “Senior Jinchuan, what exactly is that one Red Desire Star Envoy, how come even you are so afraid of her?”
Jin Chuan stood up and flicked the dust from his knees, a look of awe in his eyes as he said, “She is one of the Seven Fateful Star Envoys of the Black Market’s One Piece Hall. The Seven Deadly Star Envoys, each one is a genius among geniuses, an expert among experts. You are already one of the top geniuses in the Heavenly Demon Ridge, but in their eyes, you are still not up to par.”
Is that so?
Zhang Tiangui had a will to not give in, he just didn’t believe that he was really inferior to the so-called Seven Deadly Star Ambassadors, inferior to that one so-called Young Lord.
One day, he would also become a human being, admired and feared by all.
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Zhang Ruochen wore the Flying Fish Armour and swam at the bottom of the river, swimming rapidly downstream.
There was no telling how long it took to pass, but Zhang Ruochen stopped, but he didn’t leave the bottom of the water and opened the inner space of the space crystal stone.
Entering the inner space, the Flying Fish Armour on Zhang Ruochen’s body immediately disappeared and reappeared as a fist-sized red iron ball.
“Cough!”
Zhang Ruochen knelt on one knee to the ground and coughed out drops of blood from his mouth.
On his back, a sharp pain came from him, as if there was a flame burning in his flesh and blood.
“The Four Direction County Kingdom has sent so many experts to kill me, it seems that after the news of the ninety-eighth position in the Earth Ranking was spread out, it has indeed caused quite a shock to them, and they want to get rid of me before they can do so.”
What worried Zhang Ruochen even more was Zhang Tiangui, previously, Zhang Tiangui was a disciple of the Yuntai Sect House, and he usually left room for manoeuvre, not daring to do anything too blatant.
Now that he had joined the black market, he no longer had to be as fearful as before.
Zhang Ruochen already knew his secret, how would he come to deal with Zhang Ruochen?
Would he directly go after Zhang Ruochen’s mother, Concubine Lin?
No, Zhang Tiangui must be eliminated, or else his mother would definitely be in danger.
“Cough!”
Zhang Ruochen coughed out another mouthful of blood and hurriedly cleared his mind of distracting thoughts.
First, he would nurse his injuries well before making any plans.
Zhang Ruochen took a healing pill and began to refine the dan qi to heal his injuries.
Half a day later, Zhang Ruochen recovered most of his injuries.
There were two main reasons why his injuries were able to recover so quickly, firstly, Zhang Ruochen had refined a large number of Bone Quenching and Tendon Refining Pills during the months of training in the Gravity Cultivation Chamber, and his physical body physique had already reached the level of a late stage Heaven’s Extreme Realm martial artist.
With a strong fleshly physique, recovery was naturally going to be easier.
Secondly, because of the protection of the Flying Fish Armour, the power of the Phoenix Feather Arrow’s flaming true qi was completely isolated from the outside of the armour and did not crash into Zhang Ruochen’s body.
The injuries that were the most difficult to recover from were the injuries caused by the true qi and sword qi entering the martial artist’s body.
Just like Zhang Ruochen, if a sword struck a certain martial artist, not only would it just leave a sword wound on that martial artist’s body, but also, there would be sword qi and true qi that would invade that martial artist’s body from the wound.
If that one martial artist, was unable to dissolve Zhang Ruochen’s sword qi, he would die with his meridians broken.
The power of the Flying Fish Armour lay in the fact that it could resist a martial artist’s true qi and sword qi, and it could even help Zhang Ruochen dissolve 70% of the impact force.
After recovering from his injuries, Zhang Ruochen immediately left the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and rushed out of the water, preparing to rush to the City of Death first and meet up with Si Xingkong, Huang Yichen and the others before making his next plans.
Not long after Zhang Ruochen left the Tongming River, suddenly, he felt a subtle fluctuation of True Qi coming from the forest.
In the air, the aura trembled, shaking the fallen leaves and sending them flying, colliding with a “giggling” sound.
What a powerful killing aura.
“Wow!”
The aura on Zhang Ruochen’s body changed as he drew out his Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, the blade shooting. Out a cold light and said, “What kind of person?
“It’s me.”
A grey-robed man, walked out from the forest.
His figure, which appeared rather thin, carried a simple iron sword.
As he approached, a chilling aura emanated from him. It was an invisible killing aura that he couldn’t hide even if he wanted to, giving off a feeling of sharpness.
“Ah Le!”
Zhang Ruochen stared at that one man, his heart was delighted as he put away the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, not expecting to meet him here.
There was an indescribable perseverance in Ah Le’s eyes, like a sword that would never bow down to anything.
However, in front of Zhang Ruochen, he lowered his head and said briefly, “Benevolent Lord, I have come here specifically to find you, and I have something important to tell you.”
“What is it?” Zhang Ruochen’s expression was solemn.
Back then, when Zhang Ruochen saved the dying Ah Le and passed on the Nine Turns Life and Death Decree Technique to him, he had simply done it casually, without any thought of asking Ah Le to repay the favour in the future.
After all, the Nine Revolutions Life and Death Decree was originally a death technique, and every time one level was raised, one would almost experience a death calamity, and very few martial artists were able to cultivate to more than three levels.
At that time, Ah Le also had all his meridians broken and could only take this path before Zhang Ruochen passed on the Nine Turns Life and Death Decree to him, which was considered to give him a glimmer of hope.
Later, Ah Le went to the black market.
It had only been two short years since he had seen him, and it seemed that the teenager who had once had his meridians severed had already become strong enough.
Definitely, he had killed countless people to be able to condense that ice-cold murderous aura on his body, like he was able to freeze one’s blood.
Ah Le said, “Four Square County King Huo Shilin has dispatched a large number of experts to hunt you down.”
“I know, and have already exchanged blows with them.” Zhang Ruochen laughed.
Ah Le said, “The experts of the Sifang County Kingdom are certainly terrifying, but the people behind the Sifang County Kingdom are even more terrifying.”
“What people? The Black Market?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Ah Le said, “The Black Market One Piece Hall, there is a young master with a mysterious identity that has come to the Heavenly Demon Ridge.”
