“Captain Ye, you.”
The rest of the sergeants of the Patrol Army were shocked to the extreme, all of their gazes, all of them were fixed on Ye Chuan’s body.
Some of the sergeants who had experienced countless life and death battles immediately grabbed their war spears, their gazes were vigilant, and they defended, they had already realised the danger of Ye Chuan.
“What are you looking at? Haven’t seen the Moon Worshipping Sect’s experts killing people?”
Ye Chuan smiled disdainfully, a killing light appeared in his eyes, and with a bang, his body burst apart and turned into a ball of black gas. In the black gas, eighteen phantoms flew out, rushing towards each of the eighteen sergeants of the Patrol Army.
In an instant, the eighteen phantoms flew back again and overlapped.
Ye Chuan was still standing on the back of the savage beast, holding a spear and looking disdainfully, as if, he hadn’t moved a bit from the beginning to the end.
“Boom Boom!”
The eighteen sergeants of the Patrol Army and the eighteen savage beasts, all exploded into a cloud of blood mist, leaving only a short, broken white bone that fell from mid-air.
In the air, a strong smell of blood lingered.
“Unbearable.”
Ye Chuan stood on top of the head of the Purple Lin Quod King Beast and glanced in the direction Zhang Ruochen had left, then, chased after him.
“Someone is catching up, it should be the Patrol Army that senses something wrong and wants to get rid of us.”Little Black said in a cold voice.
On Xiao Hei’s body, a black glow emerged as he began to gather his strength and prepare for battle.
Zhang Ruochen appeared calm and said, “No, he’s from the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult, stop first, it should be that Senior Sister Duanmu has explained something to him.”
With Zhang Ruochen’s current mental strength, even if he didn’t unfold his Heavenly Eyes, he could still perceive things a hundred miles away.
Just now, Zhang Ruochen had been releasing his spiritual energy to observe every move of those patrolling troops. Therefore, he was well aware of what had happened.
Ye Chuan caught up and was slightly surprised to see that Zhang Ruochen had stopped, saying, “Seeing me catching up, you actually didn’t flee?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “You killed Fang Li and the eighteen patrolling soldiers, so obviously wah we are friends and not enemies, so why would I run away?”
“Is that so?”
Ye Chuan had the intention to test Zhang Ruochen’s strength, so he secretly mobilised his true qi and ran it rapidly through his meridians, and when he was taken by surprise, he took off from the savage beast’s back.
He executed a profound body martial art, his feet stepping on the void as if he was walking on a flat surface, and rushed to Zhang Ruochen’s body in a flash of lightning, stabbing his spear out.
Against a Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist, Ye Chuan did not use his full strength, only using 10% of his power.
Even though, it was only 10% of his power, it was still quite terrifying, not much weaker than the Tree Ancestor’s full force strike.
Facing such a strong person, Zhang Ruochen didn’t dare to be the slightest bit careless, without any hesitation, his hand gripped the hilt of the sword, his arm raised upwards, and he swung out with a sword.
It was none other than the first sword of the Sword of Time, the Momentary Tracelessness.
The Momentary Tracelessness, which seemed to be only one sword, actually had thousands of changes, being the foundation between time.
Right now, Zhang Ruochen had only initially comprehended the “Moment” of time, and had only learnt one of the thousands of moves.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen preferred to treat the first sword of the Sword of Time as a set of swordsmanship, called the Ksana Sword Technique.
One move, one moment, one change.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen struck his sword with a speed as fast as a stream of light, swinging it over the top of Ye Chuan’s head, leaving behind a circular arc of sword light.
With a snap, the hair crown on top of Ye Chuan’s head was chopped off by the sword light, and his long, black hair, scattered, draped over the sides of his cheeks.
Ye Chuan quickly retreated and rejoined the savage beast’s back, staring rather shocked at Zhang Ruochen who stood on the opposite side of the room, “What a fast sword, if that sword of yours just now had chopped into my neck, I probably wouldn’t have been able to dodge it.”
Zhang Ruochen put his sword away and said, “If you were to use your full strength, the sword I used just now might not have been able to chop off your crown of hair.”
“You don’t have to be modest, with the speed of that sword of yours just now, even if I mobilised all my cultivation, I would barely be able to dodge it.”Ye Chuan said.
Ye Chuan didn’t know that Zhang Ruochen’s sword Dao contained the power of time. He only felt that Zhang Ruochen’s sword speed was fast, so fast that it was scary. Until now, his whole body was still in a cold sweat.
In that moment just now, he felt that he was quite close to death.
In reality, the power of time was even more void and imperceptible than the power of space. With the power of space, there were at least traces of it, but the power of time was shadowless.
Unless one was a Half-Saint, whose perception of the laws of the heavens and earth had reached a certain realm, one could only feel that faint wave of time change.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen’s Sword of Time had a great flaw, it could only be executed within a very close distance to achieve a one-strike effect.
Furthermore, the sword technique lacked coherence, with moves being independent of each other.
Once the sword, failed to kill the opponent, there would be a pause in the sword stance and thus a breakage would occur.
If, Ye Chuan were to fight Zhang Ruochen again, he would definitely not easily come within three feet of Zhang Ruochen. Even if Zhang Ruochen’s sword speed was fast, it would not be able to hurt him.
Although this move, “Momentary Without Trace”, was Zhang Ruochen’s bottom card, sooner or later, it was going to be exposed, and even if it was performed now, it was only a test of the power of this move in advance.
It was proven that even if it was only the most basic Sword of Time, it was still powerful. If it was struck by surprise, even an expert like Ye Chuan would be killed.
Ye Chuan stared Avray at Zhang Ruochen and said, “Are you really a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist?”
Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “Of course.”
It was no wonder that Ye Chuan was sceptical, after all, Ye Chuan was also a first-rate genius of the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect, at the Heavenly Extreme Realm, having entered the Heavenly Ranking.
Now, his cultivation, which had already reached the Fish Dragon Fourth Transformation, actually almost died under the sword of a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist. Even if he said it, it was estimated that no one would believe it.
Ye Chuan put his spear away and said, “Worthy of being the person that Her Highness the Holy Maiden has her eye on, he is indeed a supreme heavenly pride that one can’t help but admire.”
Zhang Ruochen was not sure if Ye Chuan knew about Duanmu Xingling’s apparent identity, so he revealed a curious expression and said, “Who is Her Highness the Holy Maiden?”
Ye Chuan laughed, “Her Highness the Holy Maiden didn’t tell you her identity, it should be because the time hasn’t come yet. However, Her Highness the Sacred Maiden ordered me to help you in the Wood Essence Market Realm, so I will naturally do my best to help you.”
After contemplating for a moment, Ye Chuan’s face, became serious as he said, “According to my probing, the depths of the Black Wood Plain hides a great secret. You have been to the Blackwood Plains, have you gained anything?”
Obviously, Ye Chuan was also probing the secrets of the Blackwood Plains and wanted to report to the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect.
Perhaps, this was the reason why he was lurking in the Wood Essence Market Realm.
The secret of the Blackwood Plains was of great importance.
After careful consideration, Zhang Ruochen made the decision that he could properly tell him something.
This was because, once Zhang Ruochen left the Wood Essence Market Realm, the Essence Qi of the Wood Essence Market Realm would disappear with him, and the entire world would begin to decline.
Such a big matter would surely alarm the higher echelons of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and at that time, when the Ministry of Military Affairs ordered a thorough investigation, with their intelligence network, even if Zhang Ruochen had smuggled his way to the Wood Essence Ruin Realm, it would surely be investigated on him.
The best way was to have the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult to hold the Ministry of War back.
Thus, Zhang Ruochen said, “In the depths of the Blackwood Plains, there is an altar with extremely complex inscriptions engraved on it, and a preliminary estimation is that it should be from the handwriting of a Spiritual Power Saint.”
Ye Chuan was indeed attracted by Zhang Ruochen’s words and looked grave as he said, “I’ve also been to the depths of the Blackwood Plains and observed that altar from afar, it is indeed extraordinary, not something that could have been built by an ordinary person.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “I dived into that one altar, but I discovered an even more astonishing secret.”
“What secret?”Ye Chuan asked.
Zhang Ruochen said, “The Origin Qi of the Wood Essence Market Realm is suppressed under the altar.”
“What.”Ye Chuan was shocked.
His face, which kept changing, had realised the seriousness of the situation. Such a significant matter must be immediately reported to the top echelons of the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect.
Ye Chuan’s gaze, once again, stared at Zhang Ruochen and said, “The people from the Ministry of Military Affairs, why are they doing this? What exactly is the purpose?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “Captain Ye doesn’t even know that he’s from the Ministry of War, so how could I possibly know? Besides, that is the Origin Qi is really powerful, I don’t even dare to get close to it.”
Ye Chuan nodded.
Naturally, Ye Chuan could not have thought that the Origin Qi of the Wood Essence Market Realm had already been taken away by Zhang Ruochen. After all, the power of the Origin Qi was quite huge, and even if it was only the Origin Qi of the Inferior Ruins Realm, it could only be suppressed by an existence at the Half-Saint level.
Zhang Ruochen’s sword skill, even if it was no matter how brilliant, was only a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist. In front of the Origin Qi, he was like a mole cricket.
Zhang Ruochen said with a straight face, “I want to rush back to the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain immediately, I wonder if Captain Ye has any ideas?”
Ye Chuan gathered his thoughts and said, “Her Highness the Sacred Maiden has instructed me long ago and has already made the arrangements, I will now take you to the Market Realm Ship.”
Zhang Ruochen’s heart secretly said, “As expected of the Holy Maiden of the Demon Sect, the energy she was able to use was truly beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
The Wood Essence Ruins Realm was considered to be at the top level amongst the inferior Ruins Realms, and even though the Ministry of Military Affairs had placed a ban on it, there were still a lot of young sons and daughters with knighthoods who came here every year to train.
Under Ye Chuan’s leadership, Zhang Ruochen and Xiao Hei soon boarded the ship that was returning to the Chaos Ten Thousand Realms Mountain. At this time, there were some other young children of nobles on the ship.
Standing on the ship, Zhang Ruochen looked downwards and asked, “Captain Ye, not returning to the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain together?”
Ye Chuan laughed, “I still have to go and deal with some matters, and after that, I will naturally go back.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded, understanding the meaning of Ye Chuan’s words.
The tragic deaths of Fang Li and the eighteen patrol soldiers definitely required an explanation, and without dealing with these matters, it was impossible for Ye Chuan to leave the Wood Essence Market Realm.
Ye Chuan stood on the ground and watched the ship fly away, his eyes gradually became cold and sharp: ”What exactly is the Ministry of Military Affairs plotting? The Origin Qi of the Wood Essence Ruins Realm is actually suppressed underneath an altar, so it seems that I must immediately report the news to the Copperbeard Half-Saint.”
Involving the Origin Qi of a Ruins Realm, Ye Chuan didn’t dare to act rashly, he must notify the Demon Sect’s Half Saints, so that the Half Saints could deal with it.
