“Sacred Flame Hall?”
Zhang Ruochen revealed a puzzled expression.
Archmage Longze snorted coldly, “You still want to continue hiding? In the Five Elements Continent, someone who can possess such a high level of fire mana as yours can be cultivated by any other force other than the Sacred Fire Hall? lol! Even if you’re someone from the Sacred Fire Hall, you’ll never be able to suppress old me.”
Archmage Long Ze had his own schemes in his mind, although he couldn’t afford to mess with the Sacred Flame Hall, but the Sacred Flame Hall couldn’t manage to cover the sky with only one hand in the Five Elements Continent, after killing this one Sacred Flame Hall’s wizard, the big deal would be to join a force that was hostile to the Sacred Flame Hall.
Most of all, since the other party was a Holy Fire Hall’s wizard, there must be a lot of terrific treasures on his body. As long as he obtained the treasures on his body, perhaps his own cultivation, he would be able to go to the next level and break the limits of mortals.
Thinking of this, Archmage Longze was incomparably excited and had to put up a fight no matter what.
“Ow!”
Under Archmage Longze’s control, that one ice crystal dragon, letting out a loud roar, swooped down and slapped a claw at Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen’s body stood straight, his gaze sharp, his right hand behind his back, just extending a left arm, striking a finger and striking at the dragon’s claw.
“Solar Pulse Sword Wave.”
The tip of the thumb emitted a crimson glow.
A bowl-thick sword path flew out, colliding with the dragon claw.
“Boom!”
The dragon claw was shattered by the sword energy, breaking apart and turning into strands of ice crystals.
Archmage Long Ze’s magic power was powerful, and under his control, the ice crystal dragon’s claws quickly regrouped and attacked Zhang Ruochen once again.
“This person’s cultivation, it’s really powerful, with just a single Xuanji Ice Dragon, it’s estimated that it won’t be able to suppress him.”
Archmage Longze’s eyes were cold and chilly as he pressed his palm onto the top of the skull, a black light surging out from his palm. In an instant, thirty-six great swords of cold ice condensed, arranging themselves into a sword formation that flew towards Zhang Ruochen.
“Swish swish.”
Under the attack of the Xuanji Ice Dragon and the thirty-six Cold Ice Greatswords, Zhang Ruochen’s pressure doubled.
“The indigenous human of the Five Elements Market Realm cultivates mana and is quite dominant in long-distance battles. I must close the distance with him in order to regain the advantage.”
“Twelve Folds of Elephant Power.”
Zhang Ruochen executed the fifth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, his arm striking out quickly, striking out twelve palm imprints in a row.
The twelve palm imprints, overlapping together, transformed into a huge handprint that erupted with twelve times the palm force.
“Boom!”
With just one palm, the powerful force smashed the Xuanji Ice Dragon into ice crystal fragments.
Cultivating into the sixth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, a palm technique that was promoted from a Spirit Grade Intermediate to a Spirit Grade Upper, the power of the palm technique naturally followed suit.
The fifth palm, which could only erupt nine times its attack power before, was now capable of erupting twelve times its attack power.
Shattering the Xuanji Ice Dragon, Zhang Ruochen rushed out from the thirty-six cold ice greatswords, his body bending into the shape of a bow, and with a single stomp of his legs, he was like an arrow off the string, rushing up more than a hundred metres high and flying rapidly towards Archmage Longze at the top of the cliff.
Archmage Longze didn’t expect that one young man’s physical strength to be so powerful that he didn’t dare to engage Zhang Ruochen in close combat.
While rapidly retreating back towards the deep valley, he waved his Crystal Divine Staff and fused the thirty-six Ice Cold Great Swords into one, transforming it into a ten-metre-long giant sword that chopped towards Zhang Ruochen, wanting to block Zhang Ruochen’s footsteps.
The giant sword, before it even landed, a powerful sword aura had already torn apart the ground beneath Zhang Ruochen’s feet, with slabs of earth pushing out to the left and right.
The power of this sword, even Zhang Ruochen did not dare to underestimate it.
“Out of the sheath!”
The Violet Thunder Sword flew out of its sheath and landed in Zhang Ruochen’s hand.
Immediately, Zhang Ruochen punched his true qi into the sword body, activating the seventy-two electric inscriptions, emitting a loud “crackling” sound as countless thunderbolts flew out from the sword body, condensing into the silhouette of a Thunder Eagle Beast.
There was a loud bang.
Zhang Ruochen shattered the giant ice sword and rushed out again, swinging another sword, which was the “Soul Breaking Wind” of the Thirteen Soul Pursuing Swords.
The sword cut through the sky, emitting an ear-piercing sound that was enough to shatter one’s soul.
The sword technique had reached the realm of realisation, comparable to the power of a Ghost Grade Lower Grade Martial Skill.
Archmage Long Ze’s face sank as he immediately raised his Crystal God Staff and blocked forward, presenting nine layers of defensive light curtains in front of the God Staff.
“Break!”
Zhang Ruochen let out a low roar, and the Violet Thunder Sword was as powerful as a bamboo, as if it had pierced through nine layers of paper, breaking apart the power of Archmage Longze’s arrangement of defences.
“Boom!”
The Crystal God Staff collided with the Violet Thunder Sword.
The powerful explosive force was transmitted through the battle sword, shocking Archmage Longze into a lumbering retreat, and with one foot stepping on the ground, he directly fell off the cliff and into the deep valley filled with poisonous miasma.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen executed the Sword Mind Realm and struck the Violet Thunder Sword out, transforming it into a flying sword that struck the downward falling Archmage Longze.
When the Violet Thunder Sword flew back again, there was a bloodstain on top of the blade.
Zhang Ruochen knew very well that with Archmage Longze’s strength, that sword just now would at most only cause him some injuries, not enough to kill him.
With a leap, Zhang Ruochen jumped off the cliff and chased him inside the deep valley.
Since he had already injured him, he naturally had to take the opportunity to kill him.
As long as he was able to kill Archmage Longze, Zhang Ruochen would be able to gain one hundred points of Military Merit Value and reach the standard for the third round of examination.
The deep valley was filled with a black miasma that obscured the vision, making it difficult to see beyond ten feet.
Zhang Ruochen had stimulated his Heavenly Eyes, so it wasn’t affected.
“This deep valley is the lair of the Dragon Zephyr Archmage, it must have arranged formations, it’s better to be careful. However, for a powerful person like Archmage Longze to establish his lair in such a deep valley of poisonous mist, there must be some reason for it. Could it be that there is some kind of unimaginable treasure in this deep valley?”
Archmage Longze was hidden, and even Zhang Ruochen, who possessed the Heaven’s Eyes, had difficulty discovering his trail.
The more so, the more careful Zhang Ruochen became.
Suddenly, the silhouette ahead flashed, and Zhang Ruochen immediately chased after it.
After chasing for a moment, the silhouette disappeared.
Not far away, Zhang Ruochen found a deep well leading into the ground, and at the mouth of the well, a formation was arranged.
“Wow!”
With a swing of his sword, Zhang Ruochen easily broke through the formation and then, jumped down into the deep well.
After dropping roughly twenty metres downwards, he reached the bottom of the well.
The space at the bottom of the well was very vast, with stone walls on all sides, and on the stone walls, there were iron rings and chains hanging, seemingly a dungeon.
Above one of the stone walls, a hole was cut out and locked with an iron door.
When Zhang Ruochen broke open the iron door, in the stone dungeon, the screams of a woman resounded.
Only to see that behind the iron door, there were more than a dozen raggedly dressed women imprisoned, each of them seemed to be quite attractive, and the youngest among them was only twelve or thirteen years old, appearing to be very young.
They seemed to be frightened and immediately curled up in a corner, looking at Zhang Ruochen with fearful eyes.
In another corner, there were also the corpses of two women, covered in blood, seeming to have died only a short while ago, and the blood on their bodies had not yet dried.
“This Archmage Longze really deserves to die!”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were icy cold as he immediately withdrew.
Suddenly, the ground shook slightly, and above it, a loud noise was heard.
Immediately after, the mouth of the deep well, seemed to be blocked by a heavy object, all light disappeared, and the surroundings became pitch black.
“Wow!”
On the stone wall, an inscription appeared, forming a black layer of formation light.
As the formation was catalysed, the stone walls of the dungeon, turned into metal, transforming into a bronze wall.
Archmage Long Ze’s voice resounded from above, his voice was hoarse, and he laughed grimly, “Kid, the old man has already transformed the stone wall with the earth attribute, through the Five Elements Formation, into a metaphysical iron and gold wall, even if you have heavenly abilities, you will never be able to escape from inside. Haha! Be a good boy and wait for death inside!”
Zhang Ruochen appeared calm as he struck out with a palm, and an ear-splitting metallic bang was heard.
On the wall, a five-inch deep palm print crater appeared.
“What a hard metal wall.”
Zhang Ruochen’s finger touched on top of the cold metal wall, and the corner of his mouth hooked, “Five elements transformation, earth begets gold, gold begets water, water begets wood, wood begets fire, and fire begets earth.”
A mere layer of gold wall could not be difficult for Zhang Ruochen.
Although the five elements were born from each other, they were also mutually exclusive.
Among them, fire was overriding gold.
Although Zhang Ruochen appeared calm, the women who were being held in the dungeon all panicked, as if they were in great danger and were terrified.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen took out a Light Attribute Spirit Crystal and held it in his hand.
Injecting his true qi into the Spirit Crystal, in the Spirit Crystal, a bright light was instantly emitted, illuminating the entire dungeon.
Seeing the bright light, those women, immediately quieted down, and more than a dozen pairs of beautiful eyes stared at Zhang Ruochen’s body in unison.
They were all curious as to what kind of person this extremely handsome man in front of them was, and how he could have caused Archmage Longze to become thunderously angry.
In their eyes, Archmage Longze was a devilish existence, with monstrous magical power that was unrivalled, and had once even destroyed a city with his own power.
They were captured here as the lowest slaves, and could only do their best to serve Archmage Longze, and if they made the slightest mistake, they could not escape death.
Therefore, they were terrified of Grandmaster Longze to the extreme, and they simply did not believe that anyone in the world would be able to defeat Grandmaster Longze.
Zhang Ruochen stared at them and pondered, if he were to use the power of the flame, it would definitely refine the entire dungeon.
With Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation, he was certainly not afraid of the flames, but the vast majority of those captured women were ordinary people. Once Zhang Ruochen unleashed the power of flames, they would go up in smoke in an instant.
If it were any other trainee, they certainly wouldn’t care about the lives of a group of natives, if they died, they died, and it wouldn’t affect their martial arts heart at all.
Zhang Ruochen was different, if those women really burned to death in front of him, his heart of martial dao would definitely have a knot in his heart, potentially leading to an inch of difficulty in his cultivation in the future.
“Could it be that Archmage Longze had already calculated this when he lured me to this dungeon?”
Zhang Ruochen’s brows, wrinkled deeper, secretly said, there must be another way.
Everyone had a weakness, and Zhang Ruochen was no exception.
Zhang Ruochen’s martial dao was almost perfect and flawless, however, it was not ruthless enough. Such a person would often be caught by someone’s weakness and fall into passivity.
