On Pei Ji’s face, a cold smile appeared, “I still want to ask you, what exactly are you? To actually be able to manipulate space and perform spatial distortion and spatial tearing.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed and said, “If you are able to catch me, I will tell you.”
“Do you really think that if you can manipulate the power of space, I won’t be able to deal with you? Don’t you want to know who I am, I’ll tell you now.”
Pei Ji’s legs parted and he operated his Qi, and all of a sudden, the blood inside the veins of his entire body flowed rapidly and made a clattering sound.
Gradually, Pei Ji’s skin, completely turned blood red.
The bones of his entire body, protruded out.
The nails of the ten fingers turned into sharp claws, and two sharp fangs grew out of his mouth.
“Wow!”
On his back, two protrusions grew and stretched out completely, turning into a pair of huge blood wings.
When Zhang Ruochen saw Pei Ji’s true form, he took a deep breath and said, “You are actually a member of the Immortal Blood Clan.”
“Haha! That’s right, precisely the Immortal Blood Clan.”Pei Ji laughed.
Zhang Ruochen said, “If I remember correctly, eight hundred years ago, the clansmen of the Immortal Blood Clan were all expelled to Chi Gui Island by Emperor Ming, and, Emperor Ming even sent people to seal Chi Gui Island. How could there still be people from the Immortal Blood Clan remaining in the Kunlun Realm?”
The clansmen of the Immortal Blood Clan were not truly able to be immortal, but, rather, they were able to absorb human blood and extend their lifespan.
The lifespan of an ordinary person was only sixty or seventy years old.
However, as long as the Immortal Blood Clan was able to absorb enough human blood, even if they were just ordinary clansmen, they were able to have a lifespan of two hundred years. Legend had it that some of the strongest members of the Undying Blood Clan were even able to live for a thousand years after absorbing enough sacred blood.
Back then, Emperor Ming expelled them to Chi Gui Island, an overseas place far away from the Kunlun Realm, just because he didn’t want to see too many innocent people die from them sucking out their blood.
Unexpectedly, eight hundred years had passed, and the clansmen of the Immortal Blood Clan had actually reappeared again.
Pei Ji laughed, ”You know quite a lot. There’s no harm in telling you, our Immortal Blood Clan has broken the seal of Chi Gui Island, and soon, we will be revisiting the Kunlun Realm. At that time, we will naturally go and settle that score from eight hundred years ago with the people of the Hall of Brightness.”
Zhang Ruochen snorted coldly, “Just you guys want to go against Ming Hall, you don’t know how high the sky is.”
“It’s just a mere Ming Hall, do you think it’s still the same Sacred Ming Central Empire from back then? Even if the Sacred Ming Central Empire wasn’t destroyed by Empress Chi Yao, as long as there’s no Ming Emperor, we, the Undying Blood Clan, will still be able to make it overthrow.”Pei Ji let out a wild laugh.
“Wow!”
After metamorphosing into the true body of the Immortal Blood Clan, Pei Ji’s speed had increased quite a bit more, and in just the blink of an eye, he flew above Zhang Ruochen’s head and swung his Dragon Marked Bishop Sword, chopping down.
After exchanging a sword strike with Pei Ji, Zhang Ruochen immediately turned around and fled into the distance once again.
“Haha! There’s no escape!”
Pei Ji flapped his pair of bloody wings and laughed loudly, quickly catching up with Zhang Ruochen and slashing his sword once again.
Forced to do so, Zhang Ruochen could only engage Pei Ji once again.
“Boom Boom!”
The two of them tangled together, striking out their swords at an extremely fast speed.
With each strike, countless sword qi was emitted. There were sword qi that flew into the sky. There were sword qi that chopped into the ground.
At the same time, their stances, kept changing, forming more than a dozen shadows.
After exchanging twenty-three moves, Zhang Ruochen was struck by Pei Ji’s fist and flew backwards.
On top of Pei Ji’s fist, he wore five bloody-handed golden rings, which left five bloody holes at the location of Zhang Ruochen’s lower abdomen. From the blood holes, blood continuously dripped out.
However, Zhang Ruochen had the Dragon Pearl protecting his body, so the five blood holes were not deep and he did not suffer any internal injuries.
“It’s the power of space again, which you dodged.”Pei Ji snorted coldly.
His punch just now was meant to strike Zhang Ruochen’s heart, but it was dodged by Zhang Ruochen to avoid the vitals, only leaving five blood holes in the location of his belly.
“Again.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes sank as he controlled the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword with the Heart of Sword Intent and performed the Sword Royal Art. The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword turned into a sword light and flew towards Pei Ji.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen raised his arms and quickly struck out a Dragon Elephant Palm.
“Barbarian Elephant Chasing the Earth.”
“Flying Dragon in the Sky.”
“Dragon Elephant Returning to the Field.”
“Dragon Elephant Image Shadow.”
“Nine Folds of Elephant Power.”
“Divine Dragon’s Tribulation.”
Striking out six palm seals in a row, Zhang Ruochen once again stirred up the power of the Dragon Pearl, his body covered by a layer of golden dragon scales, and a pair of golden dragon wings grew on his back.
“Wow!”
The wings unfolded and Zhang Ruochen flew.
Zhang Ruochen used two things at once, while controlling the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, he performed a sword technique to keep Pei Ji in check. At the same time, he mobilised his spiritual power and drew in a lightning bolt to attack Pei Ji.
“Zhang Ruochen is both cultivated to the point of Sword Mind Passage and a spiritual power master, if I fight him from a distance, it will be too disadvantageous for me. I must close the distance with him and fight quickly.”
Thinking of this, Pei Ji’s wings retracted and quickly landed on the ground, rushing towards Zhang Ruochen.
Seeing Pei Ji approaching rapidly, Zhang Ruochen, however, flapped his dragon wings and flew towards the distance, not giving him a chance to get closer.
Just like this, the two of them, one after the other, kept chasing.
Zhang Ruochen used his Sword Royal Art and Thunderbolt Power to hold Pei Ji back from afar, so that he was never able to get close.
It was unknown how long they exchanged blows before the two of them, rushed into an odd forest.
In the forest, all that grew were huge black trees, the thinnest of which were the thickness of a bucket, and the thickest of which required several people to hug.
On the trunks of the trees, there were densely wrapped green vines, like spider webs, one after another.
Just after rushing into the woods, Zhang Ruochen realised that it was not good, and when he wanted to retreat, Pei Ji had already chased after him. Thus, he could only harden his head and continue to rush inside.
“Wow!”
A wrist-thick vine flew up from inside the thick fallen leaves like a python, entangling Zhang Ruochen’s feet and dragging them forward.
“Break!”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword let out a sword roar as it flew from above and chopped down, severing the vine.
However, Zhang Ruochen had only just stood up when the vines in the forest all moved quickly, emitting a swish-swish sound.
“Not good!”
“Not good!”
Zhang Ruochen and Pei Ji’s faces both changed, realising that they had intruded into a place they shouldn’t have.
The two of them, stopped exchanging blows and simultaneously spread their wings, rushing towards the sky above.
Right at this moment, the huge black tree next to them, which was seventy feet tall, looked as if it had come to life. On the trunk of the tree, a huge mouth grew out, emitting a voice: “Foolish human, entering the Blackwood Plains and still wanting to leave?”
A thick branch of the black giant tree, as if it had transformed into a large hand, slashed downwards and struck the top of Pei Ji’s head, sending Pei Ji crashing back down to the ground.
Another branch of the black giant tree swept towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen immediately executed Spatial Shift and leapt forwards, passing through the branch and rushing up into the sky, quickly rushing up to a hundred feet in the air, escaping from that black forest in a thrilling manner.
“So, this is the Black Wood Plain.”
Zhang Ruochen had seen the “Black Wood Plain” labelled on the map, and it was one of the most dangerous places in the Wood Essence Market Realm.
In the Blackwood Plain, there were a large number of Blackwood Tree Spirits, the natives of the Wood Essence Market Realm, who were also known as “Blackwood Tree People”.
Just now, Zhang Ruochen and Pei Ji encountered a thousand-year-old Blackwood Tree Man, whose strength was comparable to that of a Fish Dragon Realm cultivator. In the Blackwood Plains, a thousand year old Tree Man could mobilise a large amount of wood-attribute aura, and the strength that erupted from it was quite terrifying.
Even a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Second Transformation would have a hard time getting away if he encountered a thousand year old tree man.
“Boom!”
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen saw that the Thousand-Year Tree Man below him actually collapsed with a bang.
“Pei Ji’s strength is so strong that he actually chopped off the Thousand Year Tree Man.”
Zhang Ruochen stopped staying and immediately flew away.
Not long after, Pei Ji killed his way out of the Blackwood Plains with a grey head and did not spot Zhang Ruochen, so his nose sniffed the air and soon caught a hint of scent remaining in the air.
“Zhang Ruochen, you can’t escape!”
Pei Ji chased after the scent left behind by Zhang Ruochen and flapped a pair of bloody wings as he flew high into the sky.
Zhang Ruochen certainly knew that Pei Ji would catch up.
So, after flying a hundred miles away, he landed back on the ground and with a plop, jumped into a large river, using the current to wash away his breath.
When he entered under the water, Zhang Ruochen entered the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and took a healing elixir, and then, he began to rapidly run the Nine Heavens Bright Emperor Sutra.
“Pei Ji’s strength is too strong! I can only defeat him if I break through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Extremity Position.”
Zhang Ruochen healed his wounds while impacting the realm.
The Time and Space Crystal Stone, on the other hand, was under the water, following the current and rushing downstream.
“Wow!”
Pei Ji put his wings away and dropped down from the sky, standing at the edge of the river and glancing towards the rolling river, his brows furrowed, “Actually jumping into the water, this is not going to be easy to track! Since that’s the case, let’s go and clean up Ao Xin Yan first. Since Zhang Ruochen saved her life twice in a row, as long as I capture her, Zhang Ruochen will definitely still show up.”
Pei Ji left the great river and followed the original route back, going forward to track Little Black and Ao Xin Yan.
At this time, Little Black, with Ao Xinyan in tow, had long escaped a thousand miles away and was temporarily recuperating inside a tree cave.
Ao Xin Yan Xu woke up, an arm just moved, at once, tugging the wound, the location of the chest and abdomen, came from a tearing general sharp pain.
“Boing ……”
Ao Xin Yan’s face turned pale, and the muscles in her entire body twitched. She immediately ran her true qi to heal her wounds, only to find that a large portion of the meridians in her body had been broken, and she couldn’t even complete a circumferential cycle if she wanted to.
The current her was almost an invalid.
“How …… could …… this happen ……”
In Ao Xin Yan’s heart, there was incomparable fear, as if the sky had collapsed into despair.
In that pair of eyes, crystal tears flowed out and cried out in pain.
For a martial artist, especially a genius amongst martial artists, to actually turn into an invalid all of a sudden, that was simply more difficult for her than killing her.
Right at this moment, by her ears, a familiar voice rang out, ”Three ribs broken, lung lobes pierced, heart traumatised, seventeen meridians broken. Tsk! To have suffered such heavy injuries and still be able to survive, worthy of possessing a half-dragon body.”
Ao Xin Yan struggled to open her eyes, and in front of her eyes, a huge cat face appeared.
Her blouse, which had been unravelled by that one fat cat with two claws, was split on both sides and was full of blood.
Little Black was staring at the wounds on her body with a pair of big round eyes, seemingly studying something.
