“Is that so?”
Zhang Ruochen naturally wouldn’t believe Zhang Tiangui’s words, but he wasn’t in a hurry to kill Zhang Tiangui as he continued to ask, “Then answer me, my mother, Auntie Concubine Lin, who was killed by?”
Zhang Tiangui continued to shake his head and said, “Concubine Mother Lin …… didn’t die ……”
“What?”
Zhang Ruochen grabbed Zhang Tiangui’s lapel and lifted him up, saying, “You’d better not lie to me, or else, I won’t give you a painful death.”
Zhang Tiangui hurriedly said, “Ninth brother, Concubine Lin …… really didn’t die, she was saved by someone!”
“Who?”
“I don’t know …… only know that it is an assassin from the hell gate …… very powerful assassin with a sword ……”Zhang Tiangui said.
He didn’t lie to Zhang Ruochen, but tried to answer Zhang Ruochen’s words as much as possible, not to provoke Zhang Ruochen, as long as Zhang Ruochen softened his heart a little, he might be able to spare his life.
In the future, after he recuperated from his injuries, he would naturally have a chance to rise again, and at that time, it would not be too late to slowly clean up Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen gently loosened his hand, revealing a thoughtful expression, speculating in his heart, could it be that Ah Le had saved his mother?
In the Hellmouth, only Zixi and Ah Le were friends with Zhang Ruochen.
When the incident at the King’s Palace happened, Zixi was still in Tongming River, it simply couldn’t be her.
It should be Ah Le.
Learning that his mother was not dead, Zhang Ruochen’s mood was mostly better, and his gaze was once again fixed on Zhang Tiangui.
“Ninth …… brother, I was wrong, I was wrong before, please let me live, after all …… after all, we are blood brothers ……”
Zhang Tian Gui stared at Zhang Ruochen with supplicating eyes, shedding tears in a very pitiful manner.
Right now, as long as he could save his life, not to mention asking him to beg for forgiveness and admit his mistake, even if he was asked to drill through Zhang Ruochen’s crotch, he would immediately do it.
A great man can bend and bend, so thought Zhang Tiangui in his heart.
It was a pity that Zhang Ruochen was no longer the simple teenager he used to be, in the last three years, he had seen all the human feelings in the world, and he knew even more that the martial arts world was a cruel world, and that there were only two outcomes in many cases: it was either you die or I die.
“Since Mother is still alive, then I won’t make things difficult for you, and I’ll give you a pain in the arse right now.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were incomparably sharp, and with a lift of his arm, he struck out that Demon Breaking Needle, turning it into a stream of light and stabbing it into Zhang Tiangui’s brow.
“No …… Zhang Ruochen …… you can’t kill …… me ……”
On the Demon Breaking Needle, it carried a strand of Green Void True Qi, piercing through Zhang Tiangui’s Qi Sea in just an instant.
With a loud boom, Zhang Tiangui’s Qi Sea exploded.
Wild and chaotic true qi surged out from the sea of qi and rushed into the meridians within Zhang Tiangui’s body.
A few moments later, Zhang Tiangui died with all of his meridians severed, his body gradually becoming cold and not breathing.
On the surface, there were no injuries, as if he had fallen asleep.
“It’s finally over!”
Zhang Ruochen let out a long sigh, his heart was quite complicated as he once again returned to his original position and continued to cultivate.
After spending three days and two nights, Zhang Ruochen finally condensed a hundred drops of true essence and began to impact the middle stage of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
There was almost no bottleneck for a martial artist to break through from the early stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm to the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, and as long as they were able to condense one hundred drops of true essence, ninety-nine per cent of them would be able to impact the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm in one go.
For Zhang Ruochen, it was naturally even a piece of cake.
In almost only an hour’s time, Zhang Ruochen broke through the realm and officially crossed into the middle stage of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
When a martial artist reached the Heavenly Extremity Realm, the strength of their martial soul would increase by one point with each realm they broke through. Just as he broke through the middle stage of the Heavenly Extreme Realm, Zhang Ruochen sensed that his martial soul had strengthened again!
“Puffing!”
The true qi in his body continued to immerse into his muscles, bones, internal organs, and meridians, nourishing his physical body and quenching his martial soul, and his entire body seemed to have been sublimated once.
Only, in the sea of qi, there were still only a hundred drops of true essence.
“With the Dragon Pearl, breaking through to the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm is really easy, but it will be much harder to break through to the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm.”
When one hundred drops of true essence were reached, one would be able to impact the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm.
However, the quantity of true essence had to reach ten thousand drops before one could impact the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm.
The amount of true essence had increased by a hundred times.
Even if Zhang Ruochen had reached the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm now, and absorbing the power of the Sacred Dragon had doubled his speed, it was estimated that it would take five months to cultivate a full ten thousand drops of True Yuan. Moreover, it was still possible to do so while in seclusion.
The higher the cultivation level, the harder it was to raise it.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen had the Time and Space Crystal Stone, which gave him three times more time than others, so if he was in seclusion, he should be able to reach the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm within two months.
In the last three days, Hua Qingye hadn’t come to the secret room, perhaps in his opinion, Zhang Ruochen, who had already had his meridians and Qi Sea sealed, couldn’t make any big waves, so he didn’t bother to bother with him.
As for Zhang Tiangui, Hua Qingye would care even less about his death or life.
These days, almost every day, Hua Qingye would enter the King City to spy on the news.
It wasn’t until the fourth day that Hua Qingye finally waited for news, and it was news that shook the entire Heavenly Demon Ridge martial arts world.
“Zhang Ruochen defeated Di Yi, the young master of the Black Market One Piece Hall, and dug out Di Yi’s demonic heart.”
Although Hua Qing Ye had heard Zhang Ruochen say this a long time ago and had some mental preparation, he was still very shocked when he heard the news in person, but after a long while, he revealed an ecstatic expression.
The fact that Zhang Ruochen was able to defeat Emperor Yi, who possessed the Sacred Body Demon Heart, at the same realm, proved from the side that that one ancient cave where the Bodhi Fruit grew was definitely an extraordinary place. If he could also obtain some treasures from it, he might be able to make an impact to the Half-Saint realm in the future.
Right now, Zhang Ruochen was a huge treasure.
And he was in possession of this treasure, how could he not be happy in his heart?
Hua Qingye immediately returned to the secret room, to have Zhang Ruochen take him to search for that one ancient cave right now, he couldn’t wait.
Only, Hua Qing Ye did not know that Zhang Ruochen had already unsealed himself and was in the secret room, waiting for him for a long time.
Hua Qing Ye pressed his palm onto the surface of the stone door of the secret room, closing the formation, and a rumbling sound rang out as the stone door slowly rose, revealing Zhang Ruochen, who was sitting cross-legged in the secret room.
“Zhang Ruochen, you are indeed very powerful, you actually really took out Emperor Yi. Haha! For the Heavenly Demon Ridge to be able to give birth to a heavenly pride like you, old me is a little reluctant to kill you.”
Hua Qing Ye glanced towards the corner, his eyes landing on Zhang Tian Gui’s body, and realised that Zhang Tian Gui was already dead.
He seemed to have expected this outcome and wasn’t the least bit surprised, instead, a smile appeared on his face as he said, “Since Zhang Tian Gui is already dead, shouldn’t you also take old me to that ancient cave now?”
Zhang Ruochen opened his eyes, stood up, and said indifferently, “It seems that the news of the Tong Ming River has already reached the King City. Just as well, let’s set off now.”
For some reason, the very moment Zhang Ruochen stood up, a dangerous feeling arose in Hua Qingye’s heart.
Why was Zhang Ruochen so calm and collected?
Not good.
Almost in an instant, Hua Qingye’s feet stomped and rushed out to the left.
“Wow!”
A spatial crack, more than three metres long, tore open on Hua Qingye’s right, creating a strong suction force that pulled Hua Qingye towards the crack.
Zhang Tiangui’s corpse was sucked over in just an instant, and before he could enter the spatial rift, he was torn into blood powder, leaving only a skeleton.
“What kind of martial skill is this?”
Hua Qing Ye had to tighten his teeth, mobilising his entire body’s true qi, his legs sank, crushing the ground, and below his knees, he completely sank into the ground, his entire body seemed to be fixed there as a means of resisting the power of the spatial rift.
Zhang Ruochen made a decisive move, striking out with both palms at the same time, striking at Hua Qingye’s chest.
“Boom!”
Hua Qing Ye flew backwards and crashed into the top of the stone wall, cracking it with a ripple.
At the centre of the cracks was a deep, human-shaped pit, and Hua Qing Ye’s body was set inside the pit.
With a swish sound, Zhang Ruochen rushed in front of the stone wall, his hands continuously striking out palm seals, striking Hua Qing Ye’s chest.
“Boom Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen’s hands, which were rapidly striking out, could only be seen as a series of palm imprints.
Within a breath of time, Zhang Ruochen struck more than seventy palms, all of which struck Hua Qing Ye’s body, causing Hua Qing Ye to sink another two metres deeper into the stone wall, as if his entire body was buried inside.
“Kid, you’re looking for death!”
Hua Qing Ye roared with a fierce face, his five fingers clenched tightly, and from the 100,000 pores of his entire body, true qi like waves of water surged out.
“Boom!”
The power that only a Fish Dragon Realm martial artist possessed erupted from his body, transforming into a powerful wave of Qi that shook Zhang Ruochen backwards.
“Still not dead?”
Zhang Ruochen steadied himself and stared at the large pit on the stone wall. He took out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, controlled it with his sword intent, and struck it into that one big black pit.
“Boom!”
“Wow!”
Hua Qing Ye stepped out from that one deep pit and kept punching, sending the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword flying out.
Just now, Zhang Ruochen’s bludgeoning blow had injured Hua Qingye so badly that his chest was covered in blood, and his chest cavity was almost collapsed by the blow.
It was a pity that Hua Qing Ye’s cultivation was simply too high, and after hard resisting Zhang Ruochen’s seventy-odd slaps, he was still able to walk out of the big pit, I’m afraid that only a Fish Dragon Realm martial artiste would be able to do so.
Hua Qing Ye’s grey head was covered in blood on his face, body, and legs, and along with his old, dry and thin face, he looked like a stern ghost that had crawled out of the ground.
“Ow!”
Hua Qing Ye roared and lunged at Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen immediately unleashed his Martial Soul and mobilised the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, condensing a gigantic True Qi handprint, which was three metres long, with five fingers like pillars, and the handprints in the palm could be clearly seen.
“Boom!”
Hua Qing Ye was once again sent flying backwards, his body hitting the top of the stone wall, and the entire chamber shook.
“You’ve broken through to the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm?”Hua Qingye said in shock.
How did Zhang Ruochen break through the realm so quickly?
Zhang Ruochen stood upright opposite Hua Qing Ye, radiating a burning green aura light, his entire aura changed, as if he was a sharp sword out of its sheath.
Needless to say, Hua Qing Ye knew that he had fallen for Zhang Ruochen’s delaying tactics. Earlier, Zhang Ruochen was deliberately showing weakness to the enemy, with the main purpose of delaying time and impacting the realm.
