The sudden sword caused the Mingyi Tree Man King to suffer a heavy blow, and the hole in the tree trunk, which was two metres in diameter, was punched right through.
However, the tree man’s vitality was strong, and as long as the tree trunk wasn’t chopped off, it wasn’t that easy to die.
“Yes yes extradimensional death god quick, set up a formation.”The Mingyi Tree Man King called out.
“Swish!”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword flew round in the void, holding a long sword blade, and slashed diagonally out again.
The blade of the sword clashed with the trunk of the tree, emitting a “giggling” friction sound and emitting a particle of sparks.
It was as if the sword was standing on top of an iron pillar.
The tree trunks of the Tree King were so hard that ordinary blades couldn’t hurt them at all.
However, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was not an ordinary blade, but a holy sword.
In the end, the trunk of the Mingyi Tree Man King was chopped off, and on the ground, only a long stump was left behind, with blood continuously gushing out from above it.
A powerful Tree Man King, just like that, fell down heavily.
Originally, the four Tree Man-Kings were going to unite with those other thousand year old Tree Men to set up the Heavenly Wooden God-exterminating Formation, using the formation to subdue Zhang Ruochen. However, because of the sudden death of the Mingyi Tree Man King, the formation was not broken.
At this moment, even those Thousand-Year Tree People had begun to flee, and it was simply impossible for them to continue setting up the formation.
“This king doesn’t believe that combining the strength of the three of us, we still can’t deal with an Extraterrestrial Death God.”
The three Tree Man Kings glanced at each other and immediately rushed forward.
They each struck out a Fire Vine, transforming into three long fire snakes that kept rotating and struck out from three directions.
Under Zhang Ruochen’s control, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword spat out long sword awnings, and in mid-air, it rapidly rotated, forming a huge circle of sword qi with a diameter of a hundred metres.
“Swish swish!”
The three Fire Vines were chopped off by the sword qi, twisted into pieces and flew out.
Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Spirit, mobilising the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, was added to his body, causing his battle power to climb to a level where he could fight against cultivators of the Fish Dragon Third Transformation.
It was important to know that Zhang Ruochen was only dealing with three Tree Human Kings, not three Human cultivators of the Fish Dragon Third Transformation, or Fierce Savage Beasts. Therefore, with his strength alone, he had beaten the three Tree People Kings to the point where they kept retreating and could only defend.
However, even with Zhang Ruochen’s current strength, he could only suppress the three Tree People Kings, and it was not an easy task to kill them.
Zhang Ruochen fought with the three Tree People Kings, for half an hour in a row, and finally, seizing an opportunity, he struck the middle of the trunk of one of the Tree People Kings with his sword, killing it.
“Not good, the Golden Eclipse Tree Man King was killed by the Extraterrestrial God of Death, with the strength of the two of us, it’s impossible to be his opponent. Quickly go, leave this place and return to the altar. Only by asking Lord Tree Ancestor to take action can we suppress him.”
The two Tree People Kings fought while retreating backwards at a rapid pace, rushing towards the hinterland of the Blackwood Plains.
The Tree Man King’s defences were very strong and, moreover, they were also very fast, if they tried to escape, even Zhang Ruochen would have a hard time killing them.
“Can’t leave!”
Zhang Ruochen stretched out an index finger and pointed it in the direction where the two Tree Man Kings had fled.
“Rumble!”
The entire space shook for a moment, and then, it quickly tore apart, collapsing from the outside in.
The two Tree People Kings screamed miserably and were caught in the collapsed space, their trunks shattering and their branches and leaves turning into pieces.
When space regained itself, the two Tree Man Kings completely disappeared.
Above their heads, a leaf drifted down and fell to the ground.
On the leaves, there were still drops of blood staining them.
As Ao Xin Yan watched this scene, her mood was both shocked, yet somewhat sad. For some reason, she always felt that those tree people didn’t deserve to die. Both she and Zhang Ruochen were invaders, destroying the peace of this world.
“Group Leader, why must we kill these tree people, just to earn military value?”Ao Xin Yan felt a little confused when she saw a bloody tree stump on the ground.
Zhang Ruochen put his sword away, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said, “The battlefield of the Market Realm is meant to be so brutal, there is no right or wrong, nor good or evil, there are only the engagements between the living beings of one world and those of another.”
Zhang Ruochen turned around and gave Ao Xinyan a deep look, saying, “If you have pity in your heart, then it would be best if you don’t come to the Market Realm Battlefield. On the battlefield, there is only killing and being killed. If you have mercy in your heart, then it is likely that you will be the one to be killed.”
Did the Wood Essence Market Realm count as a Market Realm Battlefield?
Of course it counted.
The Market Realm warriors of the Ministry of War were fighting the tree people powerhouses of the Wood Essence Market Realm every year, killing and injuring each other. The tree people clan has never given up fighting, and the Market Realm warriors of the Ministry of War have suppressed them as usual.
It was only that the Wood Essence Ruins Realm was a relatively peaceful Ruins Realm battlefield, and the death rate was not as high.
The true Market Realm Battlefield was ten or a hundred times more brutal than the Wood Essence Market Realm, and those with a heart of compassion simply couldn’t survive on the battlefield.
When he set foot on the Market Realm Battlefield, Zhang Ruochen was mentally prepared.
He had come to the Market Realm Battlefield originally to sharpen a heart of irony.
Of course, if he could avoid killing, Zhang Ruochen would not kill innocents indiscriminately, or at least he would not lay his hands on the poor amongst the Market Realm natives, and would try his best to kill only the strong amongst the Market Realm natives.
While Zhang Ruochen was fighting with the Tree People Clan in the Wood Essence Ruin Realm, a not-so-small stir appeared below the Heavenly Ranking Stone Monument on the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.
The Heavenly Ranking Stone Monument, which stood at a height of 676 metres, was very grand and magnificent, and it was unknown how many years it had stood on the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.
On the square below the Heavenly Ranking Stone Monument, many martial artists gathered every day, all of them observing the changes in the ranking of the Heavenly Ranking.
If a certain name on the Heavenly Ranking List suddenly disappeared, it was proof that that one Heavenly Ranking martial artist had either fallen in the Market Realm Battlefield, or had broken through to the Fish Dragon Realm.
Those experts who had been famous for many years who ranked in the top 1,000 of the Heavenly Ranking were of course the object of the crowd’s focused attention.
“Too powerful! Zhang Ruochen is going against the heavens, and his Military Merit Value is growing too fast, it’s only been a few days and he’s reached the sixteenth position on the Heavenly Ranking, with a Military Merit Value of one million two hundred and ninety-seven thousand points.”
“Zhang Ruochen? Could it be that young king from the Eastern Domain?”
“Of course it’s him. In the heavens, there are many people with the same name and surname. However, there is no one else but him, a young heavenly pride who can break into the top 20 of the Heavenly Ranking at such an age!”
Next to him, another young martial artist, also praised, saying, “At his speed, he might soon be able to accumulate enough thirty million military merit points to reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.”
Not far away, a cold laugh came from the distance, “How can it be that easy to reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm, even if there is a great rise in martial arts nowadays, there are only a handful of people who are able to reach that realm.”
The gazes of the crowd looked over, only to see that, inside the stone house at the edge of the square, there was a yellow-robed man sitting.
The yellow-robed man looked like he was in his early twenties, with a rather tall figure, probably around two metres. His arms appeared to be very long, half a hand’s length longer than an ordinary person.
His features were three-dimensional in appearance, with divine marrow eyes and a high nose, making him appear rather handsome.
However, no one dared to approach him.
Anyone, who walked within ten steps of him, would immediately feel a powerful killing aura, causing one to uncontrollably feel fear and only retreat backwards.
Of course, to be able to come to the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain, there was no one who was weak.
Among them, there were some bold people who walked over and stood ten paces away from that one yellow-robed man, saying, “Although it is said to be a handful, after all, there are still some people who have amassed enough thirty million points of military value to invoke the resonance of the gods and reach the supreme extreme realm.”
“For example, the current Great Mighty Great Virtue Female Saint Emperor, eight hundred years ago, she reached the Supreme Extreme Realm. Legend has it that the corpses of the natives of the Ruins Realm that she killed were enough to pile up into a huge mountain, the blood flowed into the sea, and the living beings of a Ruins Realm were almost all slaughtered, accumulating a military value of ninety million points, which no one has been able to surpass to this day.”
“Another example, six hundred years ago, that one rebel of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Dao, the Evil Monk of Dead Zen, didn’t he also decapitate one hundred thousand natives of the Ruins Realm and succeeded in reaching the Supreme Extreme Realm. However, six hundred years have passed, and we can no longer call him the Deadly Zen Evil Monk, but rather the Deadly Zen Evil Ancestor.”
“There was also the Demon Sect Holy Maiden Ling Fei Yu three hundred years ago, the ghost genius Luo Xu two hundred years ago, and the Junior Sacred Heavenly King Wan Zhaoyi seventy years ago, not all of them reached the Supreme Extreme Realm.”
“With the great revival of the Martial Dao and the proliferation of geniuses, the number of martial artists who have reached the Supreme Extreme Realm will only increase. With Zhang Ruochen’s natural talent, along with the speed at which he accumulates military merit values, it may not be impossible for him to reach the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Supreme Extremity Realm.”
That one yellow-robed man laughed, removed a wine bag, took a sip, and then, placed the wine bag back on the table.
In his eyes, a cold light appeared as he continued to laugh, “Zhang Ruochen’s natural talent is indeed very high, it’s just a pity that he was unlucky that there was someone else on the Heavenly Ranking who was able to crush him. If that person were to make a move, I’m afraid that even if Zhang Ruochen had the strength to impact the Supreme Extreme Realm, he wouldn’t have the life to wait until that time.”
“Are you talking about the number one on the Heavenly Ranking, Huang Shenyi?”
Another person said, “Huang Shenyi is a supreme genius, and with the speed at which he is accumulating Military Merit Values now, it is very likely that he will reach 30 million Military Merit Values within a year. Zhang Ruochen’s current strength is estimated to still have some gap with him.”
The man in yellow smiled and said, “That’s natural, Huang Shenyi encountered a great chance when he was training in the Xuanwu Market Realm. With his current strength, I’m afraid that even Hua Li, who is the second in the Heavenly Ranking, would find it difficult to block three moves from him. As for dealing with Zhang Ruochen, only half a move is enough.”
Huang Yichen, along with a group of young disciples from the Eastern Domain Sacred King’s House, had been standing inside the crowd, and when she heard this, she finally couldn’t listen to it any longer and walked over, snorting coldly, saying, “Your Excellency is too high on Huang Shenyi! Zhang Ruochen is the number one person in the Eastern Domain Sacred Academy, if we really have to fight, I’m afraid we don’t know who will live and who will die.”
