The Iron Maiden’s eyes were like two bright, cold stars as she lowered her head, looked at the blood on her hands, and revealed a cold, craggy smile, “Worthy of being the number one on the Heavenly Ranking, your reaction speed is quite fast.”
“Your strength, isn’t very strong as well.”
Zhang Ruochen touched the bloodstain on his neck, his eyes gradually turning cold.
The Iron Maiden’s speed was incredibly fast, her strikes were vicious, and every move was a killing technique.
One had to be careful when engaging such an enemy, the slightest oversight could result in death.
The Orange Moon Star Envoy stood at Zhang Ruochen’s back and warned, ”The Iron Maiden is the tenth assassin of the Blood Cloud Tower, and she once assassinated a Fish Dragon Fifth Transformation powerhouse, and furthermore, she successfully completed that assassination mission. However, in that battle, she was also severely injured, and the bones in her entire body were almost shattered by her opponent.”
“One of the Half-Saints from the Blood Cloud Building used the Silver Molybdenum Iron to reattach the bones of her entire body, creating a new body that was even stronger than before.”
“It can be said that half of her body was forged from Silver Molybdenum Iron.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded, finally realising that it was no wonder that when he stabbed his sword on the Iron Maiden’s body just now, she couldn’t feel any pain.
Such a half-human, half-metal assassin was indeed not easy to deal with.
The Iron Maiden looked at the Orange Moon Star Envoy with an icy expression and said, ”Orange Moon Star Envoy, your betrayal of the Black Market is an unforgivable sin, and once you return to the Kunlun Realm, you will surely be hunted down and killed by all the Evil Dao cultivators in the world. By submitting to Zhang Ruochen, you have already cut short a great future.”
The Orange Moon Star Envoy smiled disdainfully, “Iron Maiden, your body is indeed powerful, and your cultivation isn’t weak either, but it’s not difficult for me to kill you.”
“Worthy of being a former Star Envoy, what a big mouth.”
The Iron Maiden snorted coldly, placing the Ruyi Treasure Vase inside the metal groove at her waist, her feet slowly spread apart, her metal battle boots rubbing on the ground, causing a hint of flame to emerge from the fragments of the battleship.
Her two iron hands, tightly pinched together, said, ”Orange Moon Star Envoy, if it was before, I was jealous of your identity and would not have dared to fight you. But now, if I behead you, I can still bring it back to the black market to claim credit. Killing you is better than killing ten Saints.”
“Is that so? A Star Envoy is a Star Envoy after all, and an assassin will always be just an assassin. Fighting me, you will die a miserable death.”
The Orange Moon Star Envoy shook her head and laughed as she began to secretly revolve her true qi, her ten jade fingers exuding an icy cold aura.
In the space between the two, two powerful streams of true qi, simultaneously surged over and collided.
“Swish!”
In the next moment, the Iron Maiden and the Orange Moon Star Envoy simultaneously stomped their feet, transforming into two residual shadows, rushing into mid-air, quickly striking out and fiercely battling.
“Boom Boom!”
Between the flashes of lightning and fire, the two women exchanged dozens of moves in a row.
On top of the battleship debris, Ao Xin Yan pulled out the Aqua Dragon Sword and looked at the two people fighting in the sky above, saying, “Team Leader, do you want me to go and help Orange Moon?”
“No need, if she can’t even solve a mere Iron Maiden, she wouldn’t be able to become one of the Seven Star Ambassadors of the Black Market.”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Orange Moon Star Envoy had still entered the Fish Dragon Second Transformation for a short period of time, and had not accumulated enough depth, nor had she cultivated several profound Ghost Grade Martial Skills, yet, Zhang Ruochen had full confidence in her.
Being a Star Envoy who was selected by the Black Market by thousands of people and finally stood out after being carefully cultivated by the Saints, shouldn’t she have this kind of strength?
Zhang Ruochen raised his voice and said, “Star Envoy Orange Moon, if you are able to kill the Iron Maiden and help me recapture the Ruyi Treasure Vase, I will heavily reward you.”
“Many thanks, Your Excellency.”The Orange Moon Star Envoy’s laughed.
Fighting against an Evil Dao powerhouse like the Iron Maiden, the Orange Moon Star Envoy was actually able to open her mouth and reply back, so it seemed like she should be coping with the situation with ease.
“Wow!”
Suddenly, in the distance, there was a subtle sound of water.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze, looked towards the back, only to see the seven Red Bird Beasts, catching up in their direction.
Three of them, flying in mid-air, were like three small rounds of blazing suns. The light emanating from their bodies stung one’s eyes.
The other four Red Treasure Beasts, swam in the water.
“Since the Iron Maiden has already appeared, other Evil Dao experts must be nearby as well, and they may rush out from the shadows at any time, so you guys must be careful and on guard, and I’ll go and clean up the seven Red Trevally Beasts.”
Zhang Ruochen instructed Ao Xinyan and Huang Yichen, and then carrying the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, he jumped down from the warship fragment, stepped on the water, and met the seven-headed Red Reef Beast.
Facing the seven Red Snake Beasts alone was indeed quite a challenge.
However, Zhang Ruochen didn’t have the slightest fear, instead, he was very excited.
Because in his eyes, it wasn’t just seven Red Reef Beasts, it was also a huge amount of military merit value.
Four Red Reef Beasts of the 4th Fish Dragon Transformation and three Red Reef Beasts of the 3rd Fish Dragon Transformation was a total of 1.1 million points of Military Merit Value.
Zhang Ruochen’s top priority was to impact the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
Now, he was getting closer and closer to this one goal.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t possibly fight the seven-headed Red Trevally Beasts at close range, in that case, he wouldn’t have any chance of winning.
After all, the Red Trevally Beast’s defences were extremely strong, and using a mental power attack wouldn’t be able to kill it at all. If he didn’t hit its vitals, even a holy weapon like the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword wouldn’t be able to kill it with a single strike.
“Wow!”
There was still a hundred feet away from the nearest Red Reef Beast, and Zhang Ruochen struck the Dragon Locking Chain out.
The Dragon Locking Chain gradually became thicker under the stimulation of the inscriptions, transforming into an iron rope as thick as a disc, emitting electric and fiery light as it wrapped itself around the top of the left flank of the red quail beast flying in the sky at the very front.
That Red Snake Beast was at the strength of the Fourth Transformation of the Fish Dragon.
The very moment its feathered wing was entangled in the dragon chain, it immediately flapped its wings, erupting a powerful force that ripped the dragon chain straight.
“Wow!”
How could Zhang Ruochen’s strength defeat the Red Reef Beast of the Fourth Transformation of Fish Dragon?
It only felt a huge pulling force coming from the Dragon Chain, dragging Zhang Ruochen up and throwing him in the direction of the Red Reef Beast.
The claws on the lower part of the Red Trevally Beast’s abdomen stretched out, a total of three claws that were like sharp barbed spikes, reaching upwards and striking Zhang Ruochen’s chest and abdomen.
Zhang Ruochen flipped in the air and flew over the top of the claws.
At the same time, he quickly stabbed out a sword in a lightning fast manner, striking at the left eye of the Red Trevally Beast.
“Plop!”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword pierced through the eyeball of the Red Striped Beast and pierced into the Red Striped Beast’s skull, and the overpowering sword qi erupted out, shattering the blood, flesh, and brain matter within the Red Striped Beast’s skull into a mass of paste.
In just an instant, Zhang Ruochen retrieved his sword again and flew past the Red Trevally Beast’s head.
“Wow!”
The corpse of that Red Reef Beast crashed down and fell into the sea.
“Wow!”
Without any stops, Zhang Ruochen immediately struck the Dragon Lock Chain out again, striking at another Fish Dragon Third Transformation Red Trevally Beast.
That one Red Reef Beast, before it had time to dodge, was entangled in the Dragon Chain for more than twenty turns.
Its wings were wrapped tightly, and it was unable to continue flying, falling downwards.
“Swish swish!”
Two golden holy swords flew out from the storage ring, piercing through its two eyeballs and entering its body.
By the time the two holy swords flew out again, all of the blood vessels and organs in that one Red Reef Beast’s body had already shattered.
In just a split second, Zhang Ruochen had killed two Red Trevally Beasts in a row, and the key reason for this was that he had found the Red Trevally Beast’s weakness.
The weakness of the Red Snail Beast was its eyes.
Of course, there was also the most crucial point, the Red Trevally Beast’s intelligence was low.
Similarly being a fifth level savage beast, the Red Harpy Beast’s defence far exceeded that of the Red Cloud Python Jiao, however, its intelligence was far inferior to that of the Red Cloud Python Jiao.
“Quack!”
With the tragic deaths of the two Red Crest Beasts, the remaining five Red Crest Beasts were completely enraged and flew over towards Zhang Ruochen, surrounding him in the centre and launching a frantic attack.
“Boom Boom!”
The Dragon Pearl emitted an eye-catching light, guarding Zhang Ruochen in the centre of the golden circle of light.
At the same time, six golden holy swords were suspended in six directions around Zhang Ruochen’s body. Under the control of the Heart of Sword Intent, the six holy swords continuously attacked the five-headed Red Reef Beasts.
“Spatial Crack.”
Zhang Ruochen searched for an opportunity to mobilise spatial power, condensed it into his fingertips, and chopped towards one of the red quail beasts.
In front of his finger, a two feet long spatial crack was torn out, striking the head of the Red Trevally Beast.
In an instant, the scale armour on the head of the Red Trevally Beast turned into fragments, and its skull snapped in two.
Another Red Trevally Beast fell into the sea.
Not far from the battlefield, amidst the white mist, stood two Evil Dao martial practitioners dressed in black robes, none other than Huo Wuji and Huo Guang.
Huo Wuji’s eyes, stared at the distant battlefield where Zhang Ruochen and the Red Reef Beast were fighting, his voice hoarse, “Zhang Ruochen is using spatial power, every time he mobilises that wave of power, his fingertips emit a strong spatial fluctuation.”
Huo Guang said, “So it seems that Zhang Ruochen’s body is hiding quite a secret. If we can capture him and force out the secret of the spatial power, why do we need to look at the green-robed Star Envoy’s face in the future?”
Huo Wuji nodded and clenched his hands, saying, “If I can obtain the Dragon Pearl within Zhang Ruochen’s body, I might be able to break through to the Half-Saint realm within my lifetime.”
“Grandpa, let’s do it now?”
Huo Guang cupped the six-foot long Silver Bone Bow in his hand and stared at the distant battlefield with an air of eagerness.
Huo Wuji glanced at him and said, “Right now, is not the best time. You see, Zhang Ruochen appears to be powerful, killing the seven Red Reef Beasts to the point where only four remain. However, whether it’s catalysing a Sacred Weapon or executing Spatial Power, it must have consumed a huge amount of True Qi.”
“What’s more, Zhang Ruochen also used several Sacred Weapons at the same time, under such circumstances, even if he was able to kill seven Red Trevally Beasts, he would definitely exhaust the True Qi in his body.”
Huo Guang’s eyes lit up with realisation and laughed, “Grandpa’s meaning is that when Zhang Ruochen kills the seven Red Snail Beasts and his true qi is almost depleted, then we’ll make our move?”
Huo Wuji smiled in a general manner as he strategised and said, “This is called the mantis catching the cicada, the yellow sparrow is at the back, and by the time that time comes, it will be as easy as a slap in the face to capture Zhang Ruochen.”
Huo Guang looked in the other direction, staring at Huang Yichen and Ao Xinyan.
However, Huo Guang only glanced at their bodies before immediately withdrawing his gaze. He did not place them in his heart, they were just two little girls, not worth mentioning.
