Zhang Ruochen immediately rushed back to the Yunwu County Kingdom after his duel with Emperor Yi.
He pushed his true qi to the extreme, his feet leaving the ground as if he was stepping on the tips of grass, his speed was extremely fast.
After running for a day and a night, spanning tens of thousands of miles until the true qi in his body was almost depleted, he came to a slight halt.
“We should have already entered the territory of the Yunwu County Kingdom, I hope we can still make it in time.”
Despite being very anxious, he had to stop and take a short rest.
Zhang Ruochen walked into a deserted temple and sat down underneath a stone statue wrapped in spider webs, taking a blood elixir, revolving his gongfu, absorbing the power of the Sacred Dragon from the Dragon Pearl, and starting to recover his depleted true qi and physical strength.
“Oooh!”
The whistling cold wind poured in through the broken wooden door, emitting a sound like a severe ghost crying, adding a bit of coolness.
In the middle of the night, outside the broken temple, a deep and thick footstep sounded.
Zhang Ruochen was awakened by that single footstep, the true qi in his body had already recovered most of its strength, and summoned the Sinking Abyssal Ancient Sword out, vigilantly looking in the direction of the wooden door of the deserted temple.
“Creak!”
A fat figure, crashing the wooden door open, stumbled and rolled down the stone ladder, landing in the courtyard of the Desolate Temple.
“It hurts, it hurts me to death!”
That one fat figure kept wailing, it seemed to have fallen badly.
Zhang Ruochen took a closer look and discovered that the fat figure that had fallen in was actually a rabbit with long red hair all over its body, its body was exceptionally large and standing up, it was two metres tall.
Its ears, standing on top of its head, looked like two huge bushels.
Its head, round as a fluffy ball of fur, had a pair of big round eyes that kept turning, looking around in the barren temple, and eventually saw Zhang Ruochen sitting underneath the stone statue.
With a strange cry, it swooped up.
“Pots and Pans, how did you come here?”Zhang Ruochen asked with some confusion.
Wok Wok sat on its bum next to Zhang Ruochen, revealing two snow-white rabbit teeth and spitting out human words, “It’s a long story! I was in the water, swallowed a piece of meat, and my whole body ignited, so I ran as hard as I could, trying to make the flames go out, but the flames just wouldn’t go out. It pissed me off! Then I just kept running. Then, I saw you running too, so I ran after you, followed followed followed, and came here. Running and running, I caught up with you.”
After absorbing the dragon’s blood, although Pots and Pans had opened its spiritual aperture, its intelligence was still limited, so it couldn’t help but speak very fast and spit out its words.
It spoke for half a day, gesturing with its claws and making various exaggerated expressions, but Zhang Ruochen was listening to it for a while, having no idea what it was saying?
However, Zhang Ruochen understood one thing from what he heard, the cause of the whole thing was because it had swallowed a piece of meat.
What meat?
Zhang Ruochen’s heart fluttered, could it be ……
He immediately stretched out a hand and grabbed one of the pot’s paws, injecting a strand of Green Void True Qi into its palm.
“Boom!”
A powerful demonic qi unexpectedly corroded Zhang Ruochen’s true qi and surged back out from the pot’s body, spreading towards Zhang Ruochen’s arm.
The mass of demonic Qi was ice-cold and piercing, freezing Zhang Ruochen’s arm.
Zhang Ruochen immediately revolved his true qi and dissolved the demonic qi, staring at Pot Pot with some astonishment, revealing a grave expression.
Pot Pot looked at Zhang Ruochen with a bad feeling, widening his eyes and nervously saying, “Master Dust, I …… I wouldn’t have eaten …… something I shouldn’t have eaten, right……”
Zhang Ruochen stared Avray at it and nodded, “Indeed, you have eaten something unclean.”
Potty’s mouth went askew in fear, its tongue falling out of its mouth as the entire rabbit froze.
After a long time, it screamed miserably and immediately stretched out a pair of claws, digging hard into its mouth, trying to pull out the piece of unclean thing.
It howled and rolled around on the ground non-stop, knocking the surrounding stone benches and incense cases to pieces.
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “You don’t need to look so miserable, if I’m not wrong, what you swallowed should be Emperor Yi’s demonic heart.”
Pot immediately somersaulted and climbed up, bringing a fat face to Zhang Ruochen’s face, saying, “Master Dust, Emperor Yi is so awesome, how did he throw the devil’s heart into the water? What exactly is the Devil’s Heart? You say it! Tell me instead!”
Zhang Ruochen said without slowing down, “The Devil’s Heart is Emperor Yi’s heart, which was dug out by my sword and fell into the Tongming River, only to be swallowed by you in one gulp. The Devil’s Heart, even though it grows on a human body, is an innate spiritual object that contains the most yin and evil power. I have just used my Martial Soul to probe for a while, and found that the Devil’s Heart, in your body, has formed a red-flame Devil’s Sphere, fusing with the flesh and blood of your entire body, which is a bit strange.”
“Oops! It’s finished! I’m a vegetarian rabbit, and if I mistakenly eat the devil’s heart, I’m afraid I’ll be killed by that thing. Master Dust, you must help me take out that one magic ball. We, the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit clan, have had a single lineage for generations, we can’t afford to have our lineage broken on me.”Pot’s pair of round eyes stared at Zhang Ruochen and said pitifully.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Generations of single transmission …… How did your father give birth to you?”
“Don’t care about those details.”Potter said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “You’re not a vegetarian either, you still ate the spirit meat I gave you in the past.”
“Master Dust, when Little Chang taught me how to speak, he told me that when listening to people, you have to learn to grasp the key points. How come you just can’t grasp the point? Whether it’s a single generation or not, whether it’s vegetarian or not doesn’t matter, the most important thing right now is to help me take out that one magic ball in my body.”Pot said.
Zhang Ruochen shook it and said, “It’s really true that with what kind of teacher there is, there is what kind of student. Following Chang Qi Qi, before even learning the human language, you have already learnt to talk nonsense first. Don’t worry! That one magic ball shouldn’t be bad for you, instead, it has great benefits. In the future, you might even be able to cultivate an inner elixir.”
Hearing Zhang Ruochen’s words, the pot immediately felt relieved, exhaled a long breath, and sat down again.
“Master Dust, where are you going? What’s the point of running so fast, I almost didn’t catch up.”Pot had just sat down when he couldn’t help but ask.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze sank, and after a long time, he said, “Going home.”
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen’s ears twitched slightly and said, “A large number of people, are rapidly coming in this direction, and are roughly one hundred and thirty miles …… away from us.”
Zhang Ruochen immediately closed his eyes and released his Martial Soul.
The Martial Soul left his body and flew towards one hundred and thirty miles away.
“You can hear the movements from a hundred and thirty miles away? Really?”
Potty gave Zhang Ruochen a somewhat dubious look, somewhat disbelieving, so he plopped down on the ground and pressed his ear against the ground, listening carefully.
“No good, it’s Fourth Brother.”
Zhang Ruochen suddenly opened his eyes, and with a wave of his arm, a sword intent emanated out, invoking the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
“Swoosh!”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword let out a sword roar and transformed into a stream of light that flew out from the barren temple, dragging its long tail as it disappeared into the deep night sky.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen soared up with a bang, breaking through the top of the Desolate Temple.
The true qi in his body was released, transforming into a twenty-odd metre long dragon shadow that wrapped around Zhang Ruochen’s body, erupting at the speed of sound as he dashed away.
“Master Dust, why are you running away again? Where are you going, don’t leave me behind …… afraid of the dark ……”
The pot smashed through the wall of the barren temple, rolling and crawling as it rushed down the hillside, chasing after the dragon shadow in the sky, rushing out. Its speed, surprisingly, was also surprisingly fast.
A hundred miles away.
Fourth Prince Zhang Shaochu was fleeing with a group of soldiers, and behind them, they were chasing dozens of evil martial practitioners from the Black Market dressed in black.
Zhang Shaochu was wearing armour and fighting in blood, but the generals around him were still getting fewer and fewer, and one by one, they all fell in a pool of blood. In the end, there were less than ten people left, still following him.
Five days ago, Zhang Tiangui returned to the Yunwu County Kingdom and slaughtered all the members of the royal family, killing his father and brother, thus ascending to the throne of the County King.
At that time, Zhang Shaochu was leading his army to attack the Four Directions County Kingdom, and when he heard about this, he was heartbroken and immediately returned to the court, wanting to crusade against Zhang Tiangui and avenge his father, brother, and mother.
Unfortunately, Zhang Tiangui was surrounded by many experts and supported by the forces of the black market. Before Zhang Shaochu even attacked the city gates, he was already defeated and was hunted down by the experts of the black market.
Fleeing all the way, Zhang Shaochu is already exhausted, not only the wounds on his body, but also the wounds in his heart have caused him to shed tears many times.
A blood-stained sergeant with a cloaked head said miserably, “Your Highness the Fourth Prince, it seems like we won’t be able to escape today!”
Zhang Shaochu, who was also extremely injured, propped up his body with his sword and said, “Don’t be afraid, Mr Liu has already rushed back to the Martial City Palace to report the news, so as long as Ninth Brother is able to make it back, we’ll be able to regroup and kill our way back to the King’s City, slaughtering that son of a b*tch, Zhang Tiangui.”
“I’m afraid you guys don’t have that chance!”
Xue Jingtian walked out from that group of black market martial artists, stared at Zhang Shaochu, and laughed, “Fourth Prince, all the other princes have already been executed, so why do you still need to struggle? You wouldn’t be pinning your hopes on Zhang Ruochen to rush back to save you, would you? To tell you the truth, Zhang Ruochen has already died in Tongming River, he can’t come back! Haha!”
Zhang Shaochu clenched his teeth and said angrily, “Xue Jingtian, thanks to my father’s trust in you so much and appointing you as a State Master, I never thought that you’d be a beast with a human face and a beast’s heart.”
Xue Jing Tian laughed freely, looked at Zhang Shaochu compassionately, used sound waves to transmit his voice into Zhang Shaochu’s ears, and laughed, “You even guessed right! I am the beast with a human face, not only did I kill your father, but I also slept with your father’s woman.”
“What did you …… you say?”Zhang Shaochu was shocked.
Xue Jing Tian was very proud and laughed, “Zhang Tian Gui is my son, now, do you understand? From now on, the Yunwu County Kingdom belongs to our Xue Family, and has nothing to do with your Zhang Family! Haha!”
“Sure enough …… so …… so …… so …… so,” Zhang Shaochu shed tears miserably and said:”I said, even if Zhang Tiangui is ruthless, he won’t lay a harsh hand on his own father and brother, so it’s like this ……”
The reason why Xue Jingtian told the truth just now was also because he knew that Zhang Shaochu would surely die today, so that’s why he told him that one secret that was suppressed in his heart.
Keeping a secret is a painful thing, and Xue Jingtian has never dared to tell anyone.
But, it didn’t matter if it was told to a dead person, right?
Telling the secrets in one’s heart was a rather comfortable feeling, giving Xue Jingtian a sense of beauty as if he was riding on clouds. One’s own achievements were finally shared with someone else.
“Since you already know that secret, now, you can go die!”
Xue Jingtian used his hand as a sword and swung out an arc, chopping at Zhang Shaochu’s neck.
