“The young master of the Black Market One Piece Hall actually comes to the Sky Demon Ridge.”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly taken aback for a moment, finally realising the gravity of the situation, and hurriedly asked, “The Seven Deadly Star Envoys, they have also come to the Sky Demon Ridge?”
“You know about the Seven Deadly Star Envoy?” Ah Le said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Since the Black Market One Piece Hall has already elected a Young Lord, the Seven Fateful Star Envoys responsible for guarding the Young Lord should naturally be born as well. The Seven Fiendish Star Envoys, none of them are experts among experts, and when the Young Lord didn’t grow up, the seven of them were the most terrifying existences.”
“Seven Fateful Star Envoys, how many of them came to the Heavenly Demon Ridge?”
Ah Le said, “I’ve only seen two of them, the Red Desire Star Envoy and the Purple Wind Star Envoy, and don’t really know if the other five have come to the Heavenly Demon Ridge.”
Zhang Ruochen pondered for a moment, his finger touched his nose, and said, “The Seven Fateful Star Envoys, are usually selected at the age of twenty, and one is chosen every three years. In other words, the Purple Star Emissary is the earliest person to be selected, and naturally has the strongest martial cultivation. The Red Star Envoy is the one who was selected the latest, and theoretically should be the weakest.”
“The two strongest and weakest Star Envoys have rushed to Sky Demon Ridge, and the other five Star Envoys must have already arrived as well. What is so remarkable about the Heavenly Demon Ridge that it has caused the Young Master of the Eastern Domain Black Market’s One Piece Hall and the Seven Deadly Star Envoys to all rush here?”
“The Dragon Sherry.” Ah Le said.
“What is the Dragon Sherry?” Zhang Ruochen asked.
Ah Le said, “According to that one mysterious Young Lord ‘Emperor One’, the Dragon Sherry was something left behind by one of the Nine Emperors, the Buddha Emperor, eight hundred years ago, and it later fell into the hands of the overlord of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, the Four-Winged Earth Dragon. After the death of the Four-Winged Earth Dragon, the whereabouts of the Buddha Relic was unknown. Emperor One suspects that the Dragon Sherry is in the Dragon Palace under the water.”
“So it’s for the relics left behind by the Buddha Emperor, no wonder with the identity of the Black Market One Piece Hall’s Young Master, he would personally rush to the Sky Demon Ridge.”
Zhang Ruochen was planning to go to the Underwater Dragon Palace, but he didn’t expect that he would actually run into such a strong opponent.
The Young Master of the Black Market One Piece Hall was definitely considered a first-class young powerhouse even in the entire young generation of the Kunlun Realm, and could be considered one of the future rulers of the Black Market.
There was no fear in Zhang Ruochen’s heart, instead, a powerful battle intent was born.
Moreover, what made Zhang Ruochen even more surprised was the “Dragon Sherry”.
Speaking of which, Zhang Ruochen had some connection with Emperor Buddha. At the time, when Emperor Buddha and Emperor Ming were discussing martial arts, each of them exchanged a martial art. The martial art that Emperor Buddha exchanged with Emperor Ming was the “Dragon Image Prajna Palm”.
It was said that the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm was one of the best palm techniques in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Dao, being the strongest and the most masculine, and being like a thousand things. Only this palm is extremely difficult to cultivate, very few can cultivate to the seventh palm.
“The Dragon Shelter, I must obtain that as well.”
Zhang Ruochen’s goal was Empress Chi Yao, and if he could obtain the relics left behind by the Buddha Emperor, it would bring him a huge step closer to his goal.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen wouldn’t blindly go hard against Emperor Yi, that would only be hitting a stone with an egg and dying without a burial place.
Ah Le told Zhang Ruochen some more news about Emperor Yi, but, after all, Ah Le was only an assassin of the Hellmouth Sect, and knew very limited things, and Zhang Ruochen only had a general understanding of the actions of the black market.
“Eunuch, almost everything that should be told to you has already been told to you. I also need to go back as soon as possible, lest I be discovered by the people from the Hellmouth Sect.”
Ah Le bowed to Zhang Ruochen and immediately turned to leave.
“Ah Le!” Zhang Ruochen called out.
Ah Le stopped in his tracks.
“Thanks!”
Zhang Ruochen knew that Ah Le must have taken a great risk by rushing here to ventilate the situation.
“The one who should say thank you is me, if it wasn’t for the grace of the Benefactor’s saving my life and passing on my skills in the first place, I wouldn’t be where I am now.”
Ah Le’s voice was still raw, and he didn’t seem to be good at talking.
One could imagine that in normal times, he must be very withdrawn.
“Rumble!”
The ground, shook violently.
In the distance, the sound of barbarian elephants hissing resounded.
Zhang Ruochen and Ah Le’s faces both changed slightly.
“It must be the Four Direction County Kingdom that has found its way here, Your Highness the Ninth Prince, you leave first, I’ll deal with them.”
Ah Le placed the grey hood on his back and put it on his head, covering most of his face, leaving only a sharp and cold lips.
“Swish!”
The iron sword left its sheath, and an icy cold murderous aura emanated from him.
“Zhang Ruochen, you’ve been surrounded and can’t escape!”
Gold Leaf Cloud transformed into a slender, beautiful figure and flew down from the top of the ancient tree.
To be able to become the consort of a country and a Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Myth, Jin Ye Yun was naturally still very poised, looking like she was only twenty-eight or nine years old, with skin on her face that seemed to be more delicate and tender and whiter than that of even a young girl.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
……
Fifty savage elephants with huge bodies surrounded them from all directions, moving like a small mountain covered in scales, surrounding Zhang Ruochen and Ah Le in the centre.
“Roar!”
The fifty heavily armoured martial arts experts standing on the backs of the savage elephants, each carrying a long spear, let out a deafening roar.
Zhang Ruochen said to Ah Le, “They are calling for other pursuers, we must kill our way out as soon as possible or more powerful people will rush over.”
“Haha! Zhang Ruochen, you have overestimated your strength, even if your cultivation doubles again, you will never be able to kill the ‘Heaven Shaking Battle Formation’ set up by the Barbarian Elephant Army.” Jin Ye Yun laughed coldly.
“Then let’s see if you guys, can successfully set up the ‘Heaven Shaking Chopping Formation’.” Ah Le said in a cold voice.
After saying this, Ah Le rushed towards one of the barbarian elephants, and when he was still three feet away from the barbarian elephant, he leapt up violently and stabbed his sword at the heart of that one of the sergeants.
That one sergeant swung his lance and also stabbed at Ah Le.
Ah Lok’s speed, however, was faster than he thought, easily avoiding that one sergeant’s lance.
“Ding!”
The iron sword accurately struck that one sergeant’s heart, but it was blocked by the thick heavy armour, crashing out a ripple of energy.
That one sergeant suffered a powerful impact and his body flew backwards with a bang, crashing to the ground more than ten metres away.
Suddenly, that one sergeant struck the ground with a palm strike and violently rolled over, standing up from the ground, re-falling onto the back of the Barbarian Elephant and attacking Ah Le once again, as if he hadn’t been injured at all.
Jin Ye Yun laughed and said, “The Barbarian Elephant Army’s armour is cast from Ground Heart Inferno Iron, it’s three inches thick and weighs ten thousand pounds, so how can you break it?”
Ah Le retreated back and glanced towards that one sergeant’s heart. His sword just now had surprisingly only left a one-inch deep sword mark on the armour, not piercing through the armour at all.
The Barbarian Elephant Army’s armour was as if it was completely connected, there was not the slightest gap at all, even the eye socket area was inlaid with crystal pieces.
“Is there really no breakage? I don’t think so.” Ah Le said.
Jin Ye Yun didn’t even talk much with Ah Le and ordered, “All Barbarian Elephant Army listen to the order, set up the Heaven Shaking Battle Formation to suppress the two of them.”
Just as the Barbarian Elephant Army began to set up their formation, Ah Le struck again.
“Wow!”
A sword stabbed out, like lightning across the sky.
“Pfft!”
His sword stabbed the underside of that one Barbarian Elephant Sergeant’s chin, piercing through the armour.
Ah Le withdrew his sword.
A fountain of blood gushed out from the neck of that one Barbarian Elephant Sergeant, his body trembled for a moment, and he fell to the ground on his back.
“How …… possible?” Jin Ye Yun said in a shocked voice.
Zhang Ruochen said, “The Barbarian Elephant Sergeant’s armour, indeed, possesses an extremely strong defensive power, moreover, it is as thick as three inches, and ordinary swords and knives are simply unable to injure them.”
“However, the place where the head and shoulders are connected is the weak spot, the thickness of the armour, is roughly only one inch. The place that connects the helmet to the body armour is even weaker, and that place is just below the chin.”
Just now, Ah Le’s sword was piercing through the weakest place underneath the Barbarian Elephant Sergeant’s chin.
A martial artist needed extremely rich combat experience and superior eyesight to be able to see the weak point of the Barbarian Elephant Soldier.
“Even if you guys know that, so what?”
Jin Ye Yun shouted, “Defence.”
The remaining forty-nine sergeants, almost simultaneously lowered their heads and tucked in their chins, using the armour on their heads to guard the weakest interface of their necks.
“Defence is also useless.”
Zhang Ruochen injected his true qi into the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, activating the “Force” lineage inscription in the sword, causing the weight of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword to surge, reaching the level of 5,000kg.
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen leapt into the air and swung his sword down.
The Barbarian Elephant Soldier at the bottom crossed his spear and tried to block Zhang Ruochen’s full strength sword.
“Boom!”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword severed the lance in the Barbarian Elephant Sergeant’s hand almost instantly, then broke through the heavy armour and slashed down from the top of that Barbarian Elephant Sergeant’s head.
The sword energy passed through, and with a loud bang, Zhang Ruochen landed on the ground with both feet.
On the ground, in the direction that the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was pointing to, a long bloody path appeared, and even the ground was torn open with a crack.
Not only did the body of that one Barbarian Elephant Sergeant split in half, even his mount, the Barbarian Beast, was split in two by the sword Qi, cracking into two halves and collapsing on the ground.
The power of a sword was so terrifying that it shocked those Barbarian Elephant Sergeants present, suppressing the aura of the Barbarian Elephant Army, suppressing it.
“He …… he actually …… broke through the Barbarian Elephant Sergeant’s armour so easily?”
“The sword in his hand, how could it be so sharp, could it be the legendary 10th rank True Martial Treasure Weapon?”
……
Even Jin Ye Yun’s face went white, shocked by Zhang Ruochen’s dominating sword move just now.
“Could it be that when he was in the valley, he deliberately hid his strength?”
How could Jin Ye Yun not be shocked, even with her cultivation at the peak of the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, it was impossible for her to burst out with such a powerful attack.
“Battle!”
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards Ah Le and charged out once again, attacking another Barbarian Elephant Soldier.
“Wow!”
With a flash of sword light, the head of that one Barbarian Elephant Soldier flew straight out.
The so-called heavy armour, in front of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, was like being made of paper, completely devoid of any defensive power.
Those Barbarian Elephant Sergeants weren’t worthy of being all first-rate martial arts experts, in just a split second, they reacted and attacked Zhang Ruochen at the same time.
Nine long spears, stabbing out almost simultaneously.
“Blood Qi Condensed Soldier!”
Crimson blood qi surged out from Zhang Ruochen’s body, forming nine spinning blood swords that flew out.
“Swoosh!”
The nine swords flew out, sending the nine Barbarian Elephant Sergeants flying out into the air at the same time.
At the same time, Ah Le seized the opportunity and immediately rushed out, his body stopping nine times in mid-air. When he landed on the ground again, a bloody hole appeared on the necks of the nine Barbarian Elephant Sergeants, and blood continued to gush out.
“Boom boom!”
Those nine Barbarian Elephant Sergeants all turned into dead corpses when they landed on the ground.
Zhang Ruochen’s swordsmanship was subtle and atmospheric, following the right path without the slightest breakage, just like a teenage Sword Saint.
Ah Le, however, was a sword that went off the beaten track, bizarre and unpredictable, like a devil of the sword path.
