Underneath the ground of the Divine Sword Holy Land, there was a ninety-nine feet high holy altar cast in a cylindrical shape, lofty and atmospheric, emitting a white divine light throughout.
The Jade Sage walked to the bottom of the holy altar, and with a gentle push of his palm, he induced a stream of air that wrapped around the one hundred jin of black water glazed crystals, and flew off the ground, flying towards the top of the holy altar.
The white-haired woman stood in the centre of the holy altar, her stance standing proudly as she stretched out her five snow-white jade fingers, grabbing the Black Water Glazed Crystal through the air and striking it towards the Creation Life Sword suspended in the sky.
“Wow!”
The Creation Life Sword absorbed the Black Water Glazed Crystal, and like a source of life, it began to slowly repair itself.
The Jade Sage said, “Holy Ancestor, Zhang Ruochen is in the Divine Sword Holy Land. Perhaps, right now, you can confirm his identity.”
The white-haired woman opened a pair of stunningly beautiful and moving eyes, pondered for a moment, and said, “Not for the time being, when the Creation Bio-Sword is completely repaired, I will definitely go and meet him.”
For some reason, her heart was quite at a loss, it had been a long time since she had felt that way.
The Jade Sage nodded and said no more.
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Leaving the Hall of Foreign Affairs, Zhang Ruochen went to visit the current Patriarch of the Divine Sword Holy Land, Lu Chongyu. However, he was told that the Shengjian had not yet been fully repaired, and that he would personally return it to him when it was repaired.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t think much of it, and that afternoon, he left the Divine Sword Sacred Land, preparing to make a trip to the 31st Urban District first.
“The urban area where mercenaries gather, I wonder what kind of scene it will be like? Lu Youcai said that he had already arranged for a close friend to meet me in the thirty-first city district, hoping to hire a strong person capable of killing the Blood Spirit King as soon as possible.”Zhang Ruochen’s mind thought so.
Only by getting rid of the Blood Spirit King could Zhang Ruochen truly feel at ease doing anything else.
The Blood Spirit King was like a knife that hung over his head at all times, and at some point the blade would swing down and leave Zhang Ruochen dead.
Not long after leaving the Divine Sword Holy Land, Zhang Ruochen developed an ominous premonition, always feeling that there was a pair of eyes behind him, always watching him.
“Could it be someone from the Divine Sword Holy Land, who coveted the money on me and wanted to take back the 360 million Spirit Crystals?”Zhang Ruochen’s mind secretly thought.
No matter what, Zhang Ruochen was now a Saint of the Sacred Academy, and the Divine Sword Sacred Land dared to lay their hands on a Saint in the Eastern Region Sacred City?
Zhang Ruochen released his spiritual power and sent it out to probe that one strong person who was following him.
But at that moment, a dangerous aura came from behind him, getting closer and closer, and vaguely, he could already smell a bloody aura surging over from behind.
“Not good, it’s the Blood Spirit King.”
Zhang Ruochen’s face changed drastically when he sensed the aura of the Blood Spirit King, immediately stirring up the power of his Martial Soul, a pillar of light rushed out from the top of his head, and with the pillar of light as the centre, a huge vortex was formed, which absorbed the heaven and earth’s spiritual qi and entered his body.
In an instant, the aura on Zhang Ruochen’s body climbed to the level of the Fish Dragon Realm.
“Ow!”
Zhang Ruochen’s body, wrapped in a layer of golden light, let out a dragon roar from within his body, and like a meteor, he rushed out to the front.
Behind him, a loud bang was heard.
A huge blood-red palm imprint struck where Zhang Ruochen had just stood, hitting a large pit with a diameter of more than ten metres, and the surrounding ground followed and shattered apart.
If Zhang Ruochen had reacted a little bit more slowly, that palm just now would have struck his body.
Ten feet behind Zhang Ruochen, a circle of watery ripples appeared in the originally transparent void, and in the centre of the ripples, a blood gas flew out, coalescing into the Blood Spirit King’s body.
The Blood Spirit King’s gaze was cold and murderous as she chased after Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen regarded her as a great enemy who must be killed, so why wouldn’t she want to get rid of Zhang Ruochen?
“Zhang Ruochen, today, do you still want to escape? Hand over the Half-Saint’s Light and the Divine Meteor Sutra and I’ll spare you from death.”The Blood Spirit King’s eyes chilled and every bloody hair on his head stood up.
Although the Blood Spirit King had lost her Half-Saint’s Light, her cultivation, which had already reached the Sixth Transformation of the Fish Dragon, therefore, displayed an astonishingly fast speed.
In an instant, she chased after Zhang Ruochen, and her arm spun round, using her blood qi to condense a sharp blood sword that swished and stabbed at Zhang Ruochen’s vest.
Zhang Ruochen stimulated his spiritual power to the extreme, and just as the Blood Spirit King struck the sword, he immediately shifted his orientation and moved seven feet horizontally to the left.
“Swish swish!”
After the Blood Spirit King’s sword stabbed empty, he immediately stabbed out a second sword, a third sword ……
Sword Qi, continuous and unending, like layers of water waves, swept towards Zhang Ruochen.
“Out!”
A point of light emerged from Zhang Ruochen’s brow, mobilising the Violet Thunder Sword and executing the Sword Royalty Technique.
The Violet Thunder Sword flew out from Zhang Ruochen’s storage ring, emitting the sound of thunder and lightning as if it was a shuttle of light, attacking the Blood Spirit King across a distance of ten feet.
A blood-red sword light and a purple thunderbolt light kept intersecting in mid-air, emitting “crackling” sword clashes.
“It’s only been a few days, but Zhang Ruochen’s strength has grown so much.”The Blood Spirit King was very alarmed and had to reassess Zhang Ruochen’s potential.
Although, Zhang Ruochen was still far from being her opponent, but if Zhang Ruochen was allowed to continue growing, it was estimated that it wouldn’t be long before he could completely surpass her.
Finally, Zhang Ruochen saw a row of navy blue coloured gigantic city walls appearing ahead of him, as if it was a big dragon, lying across the horizon.
Above the gates of the city wall, five ancient characters were engraved – Thirty-First City.
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was overjoyed, he had finally arrived at the main city of the 31st City District, as long as he could escape into the main city, he would be able to escape.
Even if the Blood Spirit King’s cultivation was high, he wouldn’t dare to kill someone in the main city.
The Blood Spirit King was determined to kill Zhang Ruochen, so it was naturally impossible for her to let Zhang Ruochen escape into the main city.
Her body, which had turned into a cloud of blood mist, split into six strands of blood Qi and flew out rapidly, rushing in front of Zhang Ruochen and blocking his path.
“Die for me.”
The Blood Spirit King stretched out a jade-white finger, the sharp tip of which, like the tip of a sword, stabbed out sharply, striking at Zhang Ruochen’s brow.
Zhang Ruochen immediately called back the Violet Thunder Sword and blocked it horizontally.
“Boom!”
The Blood Spirit King’s finger struck the centre of the Violet Thunder Sword’s blade, and the powerful sword qi, converging into a single point, formed a mountainous force.
Around Zhang Ruochen’s body, three layers of light immediately surfaced, appearing green, gold, and white respectively.
The cyan-coloured glow was his Body Protecting Heavenly Deity.
The golden-coloured glow was the guardian power of the Dragon Pearl.
The white glow was the defensive Qi of the Half-Saint’s Light.
Even with the three layers of body protection light, Zhang Ruochen was still as if he had suffered a heavy blow and flew backwards like a kite with broken strings.
The difference in cultivation was too great, and even if there were more treasures, it wouldn’t help.
The Blood Spirit King then wanted to attack a second strike to completely break Zhang Ruochen’s defence and cut Zhang Ruochen down outside the 31st City.
A stern voice came from the thirty-first city in the distance.
“A Blood Spirit, how dare it commit an act in the Eastern Domain Holy City?”
A man in white armour rushed out from the thirty-first city, and in a moment, he rushed to the Blood Spirit King and struck out with a palm.
His palm, as white as jade, with five slender fingers, just those hands were more beautiful than even a woman’s hands.
However, the power contained in his palm was quite terrifying, and with just one move, he knocked the Blood Spirit King back down.
The Blood Spirit King’s eyes stared viciously towards that one man in white armour and snorted coldly, “Mind your own business and seek death.”
The Blood Spirit King’s five fingers clenched their fists and punched out, blood qi surged out, forming a huge fist shadow.
“Boom!”
The man in white armour, striding forward, pinched his five fingers into a claw shape and smashed that fist shadow with a claw. Afterwards, his claw quickly turned into a palm and slashed down diagonally, striking at the Blood Spirit King’s neck.
The Blood Spirit King also swung his arm and slashed at the man.
“Boom!”
The two men, at the same time, retreated backwards.
“Zhang Ruochen, I’ll let you off the hook today, next time, you won’t have such good luck.”
The Blood Spirit King stared at Zhang Ruochen somewhat unwillingly, turning into a wisp of blood Qi, burrowing into the ground and disappearing without a trace.
That one man in white armour chased after him, but still missed by one step, allowing the Blood Spirit King to escape.
“What a powerful Blood Spirit, it has the potential to become a Blood Spirit Half Saint.”
That one man in white armour, his face a little grave, stomped his foot on the ground so hard that it shook the earth.
Zhang Ruochen walked over to that one man, clasped his hands and said, “Thank you, Your Excellency, for your help.”
That one man in white armour turned around and stared at Zhang Ruochen, saying, “Deputy Master of the Silver Sky Mercenary Corps, Nie Honglou. Are you Zhang Ruochen?”
As he gave his name, Nie Honglou looked very arrogant. Because, with this name, there were endless honours, and those honours were more important than even his life.
Zhang Ruochen was slightly surprised and said, “How do you know my name?”
Nie Honglou smiled and said, “Among the geniuses of the new generation, I’m afraid you’re the only one who can execute the Sword Royal Art. Besides, just now, the person from the Divine Sword Holy Land already told me that you would be coming to the 31st city district, and I was only halfway through my conversation with him when I saw someone being chased outside the city. As long as one has a bit of brain, who couldn’t guess that person was you?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “I see. Could it be that the strong person that the Divine Sword Holy Land contacted for me was you?”
After that battle just now, Zhang Ruochen was still quite satisfied with Nie Honglou’s strength.
After all, the Blood Spirit King was the one who had fused the Half-Saint’s Light to reach the Sixth Transformation of the Fish Dragon. Her strength was already much stronger than the average Fish Dragon Sixth Transformation cultivator.
Nie Honglou was also at the Fish Dragon Sixth Transformation cultivation level, yet he was able to suppress the Blood Spirit King.
From this, it could be seen that his natural talent was also quite high, and he wasn’t an ordinary mercenary.
Nie Honglou smiled and said, “Let’s go into the city first, then we can talk business slowly, the one in charge of the Divine Sword Holy Land is still waiting for us in the city.”
After Zhang Ruochen and Nie Honglou walked into the thirty-first city, a strand of blood qi, which emerged from the ground, quietly and silently, flew into the thirty-first city as well.
