Space vibrated and intensified.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen, who had already been seriously injured, jerked his body up, his eyes staring sharply at the charging Cao Lin as he swung his arm and chopped towards him.
With this swing, he slashed at the void, as if he had no power.
However, the space in front of Cao Lin split into a two-metre long crack.
The space shattered, and the chaos within the crack erupted into a powerful suction force, emitting a “whimpering” sound.
The entire underground space became chaotic.
The spatial crack became the centre of the entire space, seemingly devouring everything in the underground space.
Looking at the cracked space, Cao Lin’s face changed drastically, but he was charging forwards at the moment, and there was no way for him to dodge.
“No …… how did this happen ……”
“Gimme!”
The spatial rift swallowed Cao Lin completely, and only a miserable scream from Cao Lin was heard.
The crack, re-closed.
“What a powerful old eunuch, it’s fortunate that he lost his guard against me, otherwise, the spatial rift might not have been able to injure him.” Zhang Ruochen exhaled a long breath.
In fact, Zhang Ruochen had been preparing to use the Spatial Rift to deal with Cao Lin, only that Cao Lin’s speed was very fast, and using the Spatial Rift rashly might not be able to kill him.
Therefore, it was necessary to wait for an opportunity, an opportunity where Cao Lin had completely let down his guard.
Only then could one strike be successful.
After killing Cao Lin, Zhang Ruochen didn’t have excitement because, just now, fighting with Cao Lin had injured him even more.
With his current physical condition, even trying to move a finger was difficult, not to mention jumping down the dark river.
“There is a secret passage here that leads to the ground, Zhang Ruochen must have escaped through the secret passage.”
“Quickly chase after him.”
A large number of human voices came from the ears, and it was obvious that the Barbarian Elephant Army had discovered the underground secret passage and were chasing after them down below.
“So what if you kill Cao Lin, you still can’t escape.”
Zhang Ruochen clenched his teeth and tried to control his body as he crawled towards the dark river not far away.
Even in the most desperate of times, one must never give up on survival.
“Puffing!”
From the distant stone staircase, a strange sound was heard.
A red rabbit, from the top of the stone stairs, rolled and crawled down, looking as big as a small pig, revealing two snow-white rabbit teeth, running as fast as it could.
Seeing that one rabbit, Zhang Ruochen was overjoyed and hurriedly called out, “Pot Pot, this way ……”
Pot Pot, who was running for his life, heard Zhang Ruochen’s voice and immediately stopped and looked over.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen lying on the ground, Wok Wok’s eyes widened as he rushed over, his mouth emitting a “squeaking” sound, as if asking Zhang Ruochen why he was here? Why was he lying on the ground?
Earlier, Zhang Ruochen had given the Black Wind Python’s spirit meat to it to eat, but he had forgotten that the spirit meat’s energy was too violent, and that the ice-cold power had frozen the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit, rendering it completely unable to move.
Therefore, when Chang Qi Qi was evacuating, he couldn’t find it in any way and left it inside the manor.
It was only then that it digested the power of its spiritual meat and chased after the scent of the crowd to the underground dark river, but it didn’t expect to encounter the severely injured Zhang Ruochen.
“Quickly chase after it, Zhang Ruochen definitely won’t be able to escape far.”
“Lord Cao Lin has already chased after it, Zhang Ruochen might have already been taken down by him.”
……
The voices of the people above the dark pathway were becoming clearer and clearer, and it looked like they were about to catch up to the underground dark river.
“Potpourri, quickly take me out of here.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Staring at a pair of eyes somewhat blankly, Pot Pot tugged hard at Zhang Ruochen’s clothes, but he couldn’t drag Zhang Ruochen at all.
Zhang Ruochen hurriedly said, “Take me away and I’ll give you endless goodies.”
Hearing Zhang Ruochen mentioning “food”, the pot immediately lifted its spirits, grabbing Zhang Ruochen’s body, carrying it on his shoulder, and with a “thud”, jumped into the dark river, sank under the water, and swam downstream towards the dark river.
A few moments later, Jin Chuan and Guo Thirteen with a group of Barbarian Elephant Army chased to the bank of the underground dark river, but there was no trace of Zhang Ruochen and Cao Lin at all.
“They must have left from the underground dark river, Guo XIII, you lead your men to continue chasing after them, and absolutely cannot let Zhang Ruochen escape like this. I’ll go back and reply to the Young Lord and County King and tell them the current situation.”
Jin Chuan commanded, and then returned back to the ground from the passageway, rushing in the direction of the six-story tower pavilion in the City of Death.
When Jin Chuan saw Emperor Yi sitting above him, he immediately revealed a respectful expression as he knelt on the ground and carefully said, “Reporting to the Young Lord, Zhang Ruochen and those Inner Palace trainees from the Martial City Palace of Learning have escaped!”
Jin Chuan had thought that Emperor Yi would definitely be thunderstruck and was already prepared to be punished.
However, he didn’t expect that upon hearing his report, Emperor Yi appeared unusually calm and said indifferently, “I’ve been watching the battle where you guys were just besieging that one Martial City School Palace trainee, the other party’s cultivation is very strong and he has prepared many means, even if he escaped, you guys aren’t to be blamed. Even if you want to blame it, you can only blame the Black Market’s intelligence organisation for doing an unfavourable job.”
The Four Directions County King stood at the side and asked, “What does the Young Lord mean?”
“The strength of that one Martial City Academy student isn’t as simple as being in the top one hundred of the Earth Ranking at all, it should already be close to the level of the top twenty of the Earth Ranking.”
Di smiled, “I really didn’t expect that the Heavenly Demon Ridge would give birth to such a powerful expert, formidable, formidable indeed.”
The Four Direction County King said flatteringly, “Even if Zhang Ruochen is powerful, he is still a hundred thousand miles short of the Young Lord. Even the first step of the Earth Ranking, Qianfan, is not a match for the Young Lord’s three moves, let alone a mere Zhang Ruochen.”
Emperor Yi snorted coldly and said solemnly, “You guys really don’t treat the top twenty experts of the Earth Ranking as characters?”
“If an expert like Zhang Ruochen appears in the Martial City Academy, do you know how big of a threat it is to our Black Market? I can clearly tell you that his threat is even greater than his master, Lei Jing. This person, must die. Otherwise, when he grows up, he will definitely be a scourge to our Black Market.”
“Where is the Red Desire Star Envoy?”
In the void, a wisp of red smoke flew in, and in mid-air, coalesced into the sexy and delicate body of a demonic woman.
The Red Lust Star Envoy flew in mid-air, dressed in red, and a wisp of evil smoke circled around her body, appearing like a dream.
Di Yi said, “From now on, you go help them and hunt down Zhang Ruochen together. Remember, this person, must die.”
“Subordinate leads the way.” The Red Desire Star Envoy said.
After the Red Desire Star Envoy and Jin Chuan retreated, Di Yi’s gaze became even deeper as he said, “Purple Wind Star Envoy, pass on the order that the situation has changed, have the various forces in the black market begin preparations, tonight, I am going to go to the Dragon Palace under the water, and find out what’s going on.”
The Violet Wind Star Envoy was a little worried and said, “Young Lord, the underwater Dragon Palace is too dangerous, it is better to send people to explore a few more times, and find the raw door to enter the Dragon Palace, so it is not too late for Young Lord to go again.”
“It can’t wait any longer! I have a premonition that the Martial City School Palace and the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect have already received wind of this and will soon send their experts over.”
Di Yi said, “Besides, I’m only going to explore the path first, not necessarily, forcing my way in now.”
“Subordinate understands, I will now go and notify all forces to start preparing.”
After saying this, the Violet Wind Star Envoy also retreated.
……
In the deathly section of the Tong Ming River, the water was pitch black like ink, with extremely low transparency.
Moreover, the river water was ice cold and piercing to the bone, and ordinary savage beasts were simply unable to survive in such waters.
However, the savage beasts that were able to survive were all extremely fierce creatures.
“Wow!”
The originally calm river water, suddenly, a huge water bubble rose.
A rabbit carrying a man in armour emerged from the river water, its eyes darted around and found no enemies on the bank.
The other end of the dark river was the deathly section of the river that led to the Dimming River.
Arriving at the bank and entering the woods, Zhang Ruochen immediately put away the Flying Fish Armour, turning it back into a metallic iron ball.
Immediately after, Zhang Ruochen took a healing elixir and began to transform his gongfu, fully resolving the palm force of the Bone Transforming Yin Mian Palm.
After about a quarter of an hour, the Spirit Flame True Qi ran through the body for nine large circumference days, dissolving the palm force of the Bone Transforming Yin Mian Palm almost completely.
Zhang Ruochen opened his eyes and looked ahead, before him was a chubby rabbit face.
Pot was staring at him with unblinking eyes, and when he saw Zhang Ruochen waking up, he immediately revealed a joyful expression and stretched out his two small paws, asking Zhang Ruochen for something to eat.
Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “Right now, we haven’t reached a safe place yet, and the enemy will catch up at any time. Although I have already dissolved the palm power of the Bone-Converting Yin Mian Palm, I have not recovered from my injuries, so I can probably only exert 20% to 30% of my power. If you take me to a safe location, I’ll give you lots of delicious food.”
The pot’s mouth made a “squeaking” sound, as if asking, what is a safe place?
Right!
Right now, the entire perimeter of the City of Death is full of Black Market’s people, so where is the safe place?
Although, Zhang Ruochen could hide in the Space-Time Crystal Stone, the top experts who had cultivated their Martial Souls would be able to completely locate the Space-Time Crystal Stone based on the scent left behind by Zhang Ruochen.
Could it be that Zhang Ruochen wanted to hide inside the Space-Time Crystal Stone for the rest of his life?
Moreover, the Time and Space Crystal Stone was indestructible to ordinary martial artists, but it might not necessarily be indestructible to the top experts of the black market.
At least for now, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t pin his hopes on the Space-Time Crystal Stone and had to find another safe location.
Zhang Ruochen pondered for a moment and said, “The most dangerous place is perhaps the safest. Let’s go to the deathly section of the Tongming River and enter the waters, perhaps that’s our only way to survive.”
Zhang Ruochen chopped off an ancient wood that was two metres thick in diameter and hollowed out the middle to make a ten metre long dugout boat.
After placing the dugout boat into the water, Zhang Ruochen sat on the bow of the boat and continued to start healing his wounds.
The deathly section of the Tongming River was like a vast, large lake, many times larger than a normal lake, and at a glance, it looked like an ocean, boundless.
The pot stood at the stern of the dugout boat, holding a tree branch and paddling hard, sailing towards the depths of the Tong Ming River.
For the sake of the delicious food that Zhang Ruochen had said, this one Elephant Swallowing Rabbit had put up a fight!
