The two eyeballs of the Earth Fire Qilin were like two burning copper bells, translucent with multicoloured strange light, and just by glaring at Zhang Ruochen, they exuded a best*al, fierce aura.
“Rumble!”
The Earth Fire Qilin took four iron hooves and charged towards Zhang Ruochen.
It seemed to be thinking that it would eat Zhang Ruochen first to replenish some strength before continuing to deal with the Standing Earth Monk.
Monk Standing Earth stopped, gasping for air, wiping away the beads of sweat on his forehead with his monk’s clothes, and loudly warned, “Zhang Ruochen must be careful, that Qilin is not a small one, you cannot fight it with strength.”
“Ow!”
The Earth Fire Gryphon opened its bloody mouth and let out a long whistle that shook the heavens and the earth, completely drowning out the voice of the Standing Earth Monk.
The unicorn’s whistling sound formed sound waves that coalesced into circle after circle of sound wave threads.
Each circle of sound wave threads was comparable to the full force strike of a strong person at the ninth transformation of the fish dragon.
Hundreds and thousands of sound wave threads surged over in a continuous stream, impacting on top of a small island, and in an instant, there was a loud bang.
The ten-odd mile long island was turned into mud and stone fragments with a bang, disappearing into the sea.
Earlier, the whistling sound of the Earth Fire Qilin was mainly directed at the Standing Earth Monk, and Zhang Ruochen was able to block the sound waves that escaped even when he stood at a distance and used the Spatial Domain.
Until this moment, the Earth Fire Qilin’s target of attack had mainly become Zhang Ruochen. Only then did Zhang Ruochen realise that its power was actually so terrifying.
The sound wave that emanated from just a burst of roar had the power to shock a Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation cultivator to death.
Zhang Ruochen could of course use Spatial Distortion to nudge the sound wave attack to his side, but when the opponent’s power was too much stronger than Zhang Ruochen’s, even Spatial Distortion would not be able to withstand it.
For example, at this moment, the sound wave spat out by the Earth Fire Qilin had far exceeded Zhang Ruochen’s tolerance range.
It was incapable of resisting.
Zhang Ruochen controlled the power of space and prepared to perform a spatial shift to dodge the Earth Fire Qilin’s sound wave attack.
Right at this moment, above his head, a red, delicate shadow flew out from the clouds and coldly shouted, “Unwilling beast, how dare you hurt my senior brother.”
“Swish!”
A white holy sword, like a meteor from the sky, flew down with a whistling sound, striking at the Earth Fire Qilin’s head.
The white Saint Sword, was originally only an inch long, however, when it landed on the Earth Fire Qilin’s head, it instantly increased in size ten thousand times, transforming into a giant sword.
Thousands of sword qi erupted from the holy sword, swish swish swish, all of which struck the Earth Fire Qilin’s body, breaking through the thick scales and penetrating through the skull.
“Pfft!”
The white holy sword carried a large swath of blood with it as it flew out from underneath the Earth Fire Qilin’s neck and rushed back up high into the sky.
The Earth Fire Qilin suffered a heavy blow and let out a miserable cry, stopping its attack on Zhang Ruochen.
It raised its head and looked towards the woman in red standing in mid-air, revealing a look of violent anger as it roared up to the sky.
A hundred feet away from the surface of the sea, a woman dressed in red, with a wisp of white smoke cloud under her feet, stood suspended in the air as if she were a peerless Sword Immortal.
The height of the woman in red, was only seven inches, and as soon as her arm was stretched forward, the white holy sword flew back and hung in the palm of her hand.
This person was none other than Elder Xuan Gui’s fifth disciple, the Ling Shu Half-Saint.
Zhang Ruochen was relieved to see the Spirit Pivot Half-Saint and dispersed his spatial power, saying, “Fifth Senior Sister.”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint nodded to Zhang Ruochen, revealing a ray of joy as she said, “The Golden Brilliant King told me that you were in this part of the sea, so I came over to look for you. Junior Brother, seeing that you are fine, I am finally relieved. After I subdue this Earth Fire Qilin, how about we return to the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.”
Zhang Ruochen reminded, “The strength of the Earth Fire Qilin is extremely powerful, senior sister must be careful.”
“Senior brother, you’re underestimating senior sister, senior sister is a sword cultivator no matter what, wouldn’t she not be able to deal with a mere sixth-stage medium savage beast?”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint stretched out a slender arm and grasped the holy sword that was a hundred times longer than her body, and a powerful holy qi surged out from her palm and injected itself into the sword body.
A vast sword qi erupted from her body as if it was a white rainbow, rising up into the sky and plunging into the clouds.
“Clang!”
Affected by the Ling Shu Half-Saint’s sword intent, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword in Zhang Ruochen’s hand trembled as if it was about to fly out of his hand.
“Senior Sister is so powerful in the Sword Dao realm, just this single sword intent makes it beyond one’s reach.”Zhang Ruochen secretly said.
Having reached the middle stage of Sword Mind, Zhang Ruochen had thought that his achievement in Sword Dao was already extremely high, enough to be comparable to the vast majority of Half-Saints.
However, the Sword Dao realm of the Spirit Hub Demi-Saint was even more terrifying, not a single star higher than Zhang Ruochen.
She was the true sword cultivator.
A true Sword Cultivator, in the same realm, was known as the number one in terms of attack power, and no one could compare.
“Junior Brother, watch this! Senior Sister will now demonstrate to you what the true Dao of the Sword is.”
“The two qi’s of yin and yang divide heaven and earth, and the way of the sword naturally ends with all laws.”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint slowly waved his Saint Sword, invoking the aura of heaven and earth, and in front of him, a huge circle of sword qi was formed, and vaguely, it seemed to form a Taiji Bagua.
Before Zhang Ruochen could see the move, she disappeared from her spot.
“Swish!”
The sword qi circle landed on the Earth Fire Qilin’s body, emitting a “snapping” sound, chopping off all the scales on the Earth Fire Qilin’s body and sending it flying, leaving behind only a bloody flesh body.
In the next moment, the Spirit Pivot Half-Saint stood proudly on top of the Earth Fire Qilin’s head, pointing his sword at its brow, saying, “Submit, or die?”
The Earth Fire Qilin was completely out of temper, and with a low roar of deterrence and trembling, it immediately slumped to the ground, revealing an expression of pleading for mercy.
“Count on you to be sensible.”
The Holy Sword in the Spirit Pivot Half-Saint’s hand re-transformed into an inch and retracted into its scabbard.
Afterwards, the Spirit Pivot Half-Saint’s arm swung, transforming into a wave of air that rolled up the Earth Fire Qilin’s scales.
The scales, originally the size of a dustpan, gradually became smaller under the control of her holy qi, becoming only the size of a fingernail cap, and flew inside a silver silk bag.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint patted the bag, and a “clattering” sound resounded.
She looked over towards Zhang Ruochen and smiled, “Junior Brother, all this time, Senior Sister hasn’t given you anything good, when we return to the Holy Academy, Senior Sister will ask the Divine Sword Holy Land’s Refiner Master to create a Qilin Armour for you.”
Zhang Ruochen looked at the silver silk pouch on the waist of the Spirit Pivot Half-Saint, and after some thought, he eventually took out a crimson storage ring and handed it to her, saying, “Senior Sister, I’ll give you a gift first.”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint’s eyes lifted and stared towards that one storage ring, before she pouted with some resentment and said, “Don’t be like this, right? All along, those few senior brothers, they have treated me like a little junior sister, giving me all sorts of gifts. It’s not easy for Senior to accept a Junior Brother, letting me get rid of the junior character. Will you just let me be a junior sister for once and give me a gift?”
Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “It’s just a trinket, not as good as the Qilin Armour that Senior Sister is going to present.”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint thought about it and said in his heart, “It’s just a ring, there’s no harm in accepting it.
As a Half-Saint, what kind of good things hadn’t she seen before, and in her opinion, Junior Senior Brother should really just be gifting her a trinket that was quite exquisite in appearance.
If someone else had given the Spirit Pivot Half-Saint a piece of jewellery, she probably wouldn’t have even bothered to look at it, however, Junior Senior Brother was her Master’s favoured disciple and her only Senior Brother.
No matter how cheap the gift he gave was, it still represented a token of affection.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint stared at Zhang Ruochen, took the crimson jade ring, and laughed, ”The gifts sent by all the Senior Brothers are all cultivation treasures such as Sacred Artifacts, armour, and Sacred Pills. No one has ever, ever sent me trinkets, you are the first. So it seems that the rumours in the outside world are not empty, Senior Brother is a flirtatious and affectionate person who knows how to please girls so well.”
Zhang Ruochen revealed a bitter smile and said, “Senior Sister mustn’t misbelieve the rumours, they are all rumours that the Xu Sheng Sect Valves want to use the sword to kill people and purposely put out.”
“Why are you so nervous? Senior sister was just joking with you but, the Xu Sheng Sect Valve actually dared to harm you, this is a debt that I will first mark down for them! Hmph!”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint’s eyes, all of a sudden, became abnormally cold and sharp, and the five fingers of his right hand pinched the crimson jade ring tightly, and a stream of holy qi surged out, surprisingly activating the spatial inscription in the ring unintentionally.
“Wow!”
On the ring, a red halo emerged, expanding outwards as if it were water ripples.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint detected the strange appearance of the storage ring and let out a soft eep as he extended his left hand and probed inside the halo, surprisingly discovering the existence of a huge inner space in the ring.
“This is a spatial treasure storage ring.”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint’s eyes, lit up as he looked towards Zhang Ruochen, feeling quite incredible.
In the entire Kunlun Realm, there were only a few spatial treasures, and although each one of them was a Sacred Artifact of astonishing power, no one would take them out to store their belongings.
Thus, storage rings were also the stuff of legends to Half-Saints.
Zhang Ruochen smiled and spoke the words he had already prepared long ago, saying, “I’m afraid that Senior Sister still doesn’t know that I once discovered a secret mansion from the Middle Ages, and within it, I obtained a few spatial treasures that could be used for storage. This storage ring, is one of them.”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint didn’t ask too many questions, after all, discovering the secret mansion and obtaining the treasures was Zhang Ruochen’s own luck.
Just like herself, she had also discovered a few secret mansions and obtained quite a few unknown benefits.
Zhang Ruochen was able to take a storage ring, take it out, and give it to her, thus showing that this Junior Brother, was not a selfish person.
Invisibly, the relationship between the two, became a few more points closer.
Seeing that Zhang Ruochen was also wearing a storage ring on his finger, the Spirit Pivot Half-Saint knew that Zhang Ruochen must have other spatial treasures on his body, and so, he accepted this gift openly.
She placed the crimson spatial ring, which was like a luscious bracelet, on the top of her right wrist, just right.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint placed the silver silk pouch containing the Qilin scales into the inner space of the ring, smiled and nodded as she said, “Junior Senior Brother has given me such a precious gift, and I wonder if those Senior Brothers will be jealous when they see it?”
“Master and several senior brothers, are all at the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain, let’s hurry back as well.”
“You impacted to the supreme extreme realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm and attracted the resonance of the gods, it’s also considered to have given all of you a long face, with the character of the second senior brother, he’s definitely going to have a big feast tonight to receive you.”
