Wan Zhaobian cupped the imperial decree in his hand, just like Empress Chi Yao herself, and walked into the Eastern Domain Saint King’s Mansion, and wherever he passed, no one dared to stand in his way.
Whoever blocked his path was blocking Empress Chi Yao.
Unless one wanted to rebel, otherwise, even saints could only give way to the imperial decree.
It wasn’t long before a group of golden armoured troops, led by Wan Zhaobillion, walked into the garden and surrounded Zhang Ruochen in the centre.
Wan Zhaoyi was quite surprised as he stared towards Zhang Ruochen who was standing next to the lake, because, Zhang Ruochen appeared to be very calm, relaxed, and idle at the moment, and the vast Imperial Might didn’t seem to have caused any impact on him.
A mere cultivator of the Fish Dragon Realm was able to withstand the Queen’s Imperial Might?
Even the golden-armoured soldiers present looked at each other in disbelief.
The reason why the golden armoured soldiers were not affected by the imperial might was because, the golden armour on their bodies, which had been christened once by a special sacrificial ceremony, could resist the suppression of the imperial might.
Then, what method did this one young man in front of them use to resist the Imperial Might?
They didn’t know that Zhang Ruochen had attracted the resonance of the Gods a total of four times, and had the Seal of the Gods on his body, so how could he be suppressed to his knees by a mere Imperial Decree?
Only Wan Zhaobian probably guessed the reason for this and carefully sized up Zhang Ruochen for a while, but saw that Zhang Ruochen’s face remained unchanged.
In front of him, there were very few young cultivators who could be as calm as Zhang Ruochen.
Wan Zhaoyi laughed, “Worthy of being the person the Queen wants to see, it’s really extraordinary. Lock it up and take it away.”
The two golden armoured soldiers took out the iron cables and drew their golden swords and walked over, their expressions very cold, as if they were soul hookers from hell.
The white iron cables kept colliding, emitting “clattering” sounds of impact.
As long as Zhang Ruochen dared to resist, they would not hesitate to swing out their golden swords and kill him.
Only, Zhang Ruochen appeared unusually calm, and from the beginning to the end, he didn’t even blink his eyes.
“咵click!”
The wrists of his hands and the ankles of his feet were instantly locked by iron cables.
The two iron cables were as if they had spirituality, crazily absorbing the true qi in Zhang Ruochen’s body, and in an instant, the true qi in the meridians of both arms and legs was sucked into nothing.
The two iron ropes absorbed the true qi, emitting a ray of electricity and a “giggling” sound.
Even though Zhang Ruochen had already cultivated to the realm of “Skin of Gold”, his wrists and ankles immediately became a bloody mess, and were then burnt to a crisp by the electric light.
Zhang Ruochen attempted to mobilise a trace of True Qi and transported it to his right hand meridian.
“Giggle!”
In an instant, the iron rope absorbed the true qi and transformed it into a trace of electric light that struck Zhang Ruochen’s right wrist. Instantly, the right wrist, then gushed out blood again.
Wan Zhaoyi reminded, saying, “In order to prevent the prisoner from escaping, the iron rope is capable of absorbing the true qi from the cultivator’s arms and legs, converting it into a power of reversal. The higher the cultivation level of the cultivator, the stronger the power of the iron rope to release the backlash. This king advises you that it’s best not to mobilise your true qi, lest you ask for trouble.”
Right at this moment, the depths of the Sacred King’s Mansion resounded with the voice of the King of the Eastern Domain, “Tomorrow is his wedding day, can’t we just wait one more day?”
Wan Zhaoyi raised his head and looked into the depths of the Sacred King’s Mansion, then, arching his hand in obeisance, he said, “Heavenly King, it is difficult to disobey the imperial order.”
Afterwards, Wan Zhaoyi re-straightened his body, and with a wave of his arm, he said, “Take them away.”
It was only after the Golden Armoured Army left that the wave of imperial might, gradually dispersed.
Wan Ke walked to the side of Qing Xiao Sage, his face gloomy, saying, “Eldest senior brother, why do I feel that something is very wrong, what is the status of the empress, to actually personally give an order to apprehend the youngest senior brother, it’s too much of a fuss, isn’t it?”
“You suspect Wan Zhaobian of falsely passing on the imperial decree?”
Saint Qing Xiao shook his head and said, “False transmission of an imperial decree is a major crime of executing nine clans, no one dares to do so. Although Wan Zhaoyi is crazy, I’m sure he doesn’t have the guts to challenge the majesty of the empress.”
Wan Ke said, “However, even those great treasonous saints do not have the qualifications to have the Empress personally issue an order to apprehend them. Even if Junior Brother has high natural talent, I’m afraid that in the Empress’s eyes, he’s just a speck of dust, not qualified, at all, to enter her eyes.”
“Could it be that because the identity of the Space-Time Transmitter was exposed, even the Empress felt threatened and wanted to get rid of Junior Senior Brother?”Zhu Hongtao said.
Wan Ke immediately shook his head and said, “Impossible, Junior Senior Brother only exposed the identity of the Time and Space Successor yesterday, just one day, even if he travelled through a wormhole, it would be impossible for him to travel from the Central Domain, to the Eastern Domain in such a short period of time. In other words, before that, the Empress had already issued a royal decree.”
Saint Qing Xiao frowned and said, “This matter is, indeed, very strange. The Martial Market Money Bank has already checked very clearly, and it is absolutely impossible for Junior Brother to be a member of the Devil Cult, so why would the imperial court use this as a reason to capture him? For the sake of a genius of the Fish Dragon Realm, offending both the Eastern Domain Sacred King’s Mansion and the Martial Market Money Bank, what exactly is the Queen’s next move?”
Wan Ke said, “I think it’s better to report it up first, and let the senior management of the Martial Market Money Bank think of a way, and with them operating at the court, along with the Chen Family’s power at the court, they should be able to save Junior Master’s life.”
Sage Qing Xiao nodded and said, “That’s all we can do for now.”
Afterwards, Sage Qing Xiao, Zhu Hongtao, and Wan Ke, immediately left the Eastern Region Sacred King’s Mansion and rushed back to the Sacred Academy.
The Golden Armoured Beast, a fifth rank inferior savage beast, had a body as tall as nine metres, with scales as thick as five fingers, and a pair of large wings full of scales on its back. Once the golden wings were unfolded, they could reach thirty metres long.
Only the Imperial Golden Armoured Army could use a golden armoured beast as a mount.
Right now, Zhang Ruochen was sitting on the back of a golden armoured beast, however, outside of him, there was a layer of iron bars that locked him in all directions.
Originally, a cage could not trap Zhang Ruochen.
However, Zhang Ruochen wore Saint Locking Chains on his wrists and ankles, so he couldn’t even mobilise a single trace of true qi, so he couldn’t escape at all.
A golden-armoured man in his thirties, sitting on top of the golden-armoured beast’s head, glanced back and laughed, “In today’s world, there are very few people who can make the Empress personally issue a royal decree to apprehend them, so you’ve already counted yourself as quite an honour.”
“Oh! Is that so? You’ve met the Empress?”Zhang Ruochen said.
The golden-armoured man revealed a look of awe and shook his head, saying, “The Empress is a figure above the Nine Heavens, and even though we are the Imperial Guards, we have never seen her holy face.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and closed his eyes again.
The journey from the Eastern Domain to the Central Domain was very far, and if one were to rely solely on flying, one would not know how many years one would have to fly before arriving.
Therefore, in order to travel between the two domains, one would have to pass through a spatial wormhole.
It took three days and three spatial jumps for the group to reach the edge of the Eastern Domain’s Divine Soil.
Then, they continued to rush to the fourth spatial wormhole.
According to the Golden Armoured Army, the fourth spatial wormhole was only six thousand li away from this place. Through the fourth spatial wormhole, they would be able to directly pass through the Barbarian Desolate Mysterious Realm between the Eastern Domain and the Central Domain, saving two years of rushing time.
The Barbarian Secret Realm was vast, dividing the Eastern Domain and the Central Domain, and even with the Golden Armour Army’s marching speed, if there were no accidents, it would still take two years to cross that area.
If it was an ordinary martial artist, even if it took two hundred years, it would be unlikely for them to reach the Central Domain from the Eastern Domain.
It was precisely because the spatial wormhole was able to connect the two domains that the imperial court paid considerable attention to it, placing a large number of troops at both ends of the wormhole to ensure that the wormhole would not be destroyed by man.
Only halfway through the journey, suddenly, Ten Thousand Trillion sensed something, causing the white auger dragon to stop and raise its head to look ahead.
Only to see, twenty miles away, a seventy-something year old man in cloth stood at the edge of the cliff face.
The cloth-clothed old man’s pair of pale eyes looked downwards and stared at Zhang Ruochen’s body on the back of the golden-armoured beast, a cold smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
Zhang Ruochen opened his eyes and looked towards the cloth-clothed old man in the distance, immediately recognising him, “He’s actually here, it seems like there’s no way for me to reach the Central Domain.”
The cloth-clothed old man was the Nine Spectres Sword Saint.
The appearance of the Nine Spectres Sword Saint immediately made Zhang Ruochen’s situation worse, however, Zhang Ruochen didn’t panic, instead, he began to calmly think about how to make use of this opportunity to get out of the situation.
Although, the true qi in his hands and feet were sealed, his spiritual energy was not, and it was not difficult to break through the iron cage.
The key was, with the strength of his spiritual power, even if he escaped the iron cage, how could he escape from the palms of Ten Thousand Trillion and the Nine Spectres Sword Saint?
He couldn’t act rashly, and could only wait for his chance.
“Ow!”
The white scaly dragon underneath Ten Thousand Trillion, sensing the aura of danger, became restless, white columns of air continuously gushing out from inside its nostrils, and a low dragon’s roar emanating from its mouth.
It was not under the control of Wan Zhaoyi and kept retreating backwards.
Wan Zhaoyi appeared unperturbed by the change, mobilising the heaven and earth aura while asking, “Senior Wan Zhaoyi, I wonder senior, what is your name?”
The Nine Spectres Sword Saint stood at the edge of the cliff, his voice carried twenty miles away as he said, “Leave Zhang Ruochen behind, you may leave.”
“Doesn’t senior know that Zhang Ruochen is the person the Empress wants?”Wan Zhaobian said in a deep voice.
“Regardless of who he is the one who wants him, old me today, I will definitely take his life as well.”
“Wow!”
The figure of the Nine Pale Sword Saint shifted and disappeared in place.
Wan Zhaoyi knew that the other party’s cultivation was too powerful to be able to defeat him. Thus, he quickly took out the Imperial Decree, wanting to repel the other party with the power of the Imperial Decree.
However, Wan Zhaoyi had only unfolded half of the Imperial Decree when above the sky, a sword Qi, like a pillar of fire, struck down towards the ground.
“What a fast sword.”
Wan Zhaoyi’s face changed, immediately unfolding his stance, he rushed out and fled ten miles away.
The ten-mile radius was full of chaotic sword qi that kept weaving in and out, emitting swish-swish sounds.
Wan Zhaoyi turned back to take a look, only to see that at the centre of the sword qi, the rocks and soil had melted, completely turning into a magma lake, emitting a burst of heat waves.
From this, it could be seen how terrifying the power of that sword just now was?
If he hadn’t dodged fast enough, he would probably have suffered a serious injury.
Wan Zhaoyi’s face was very ugly, from the time he debuted until now, he had rarely encountered such a powerful and strong person, whether it was the speed of the sword or the power of the sword, all of them had reached the peak of excellence.
“Swish!”
Wan Zhaoyi’s figure moved, flying to the edge of the magma lake and landing on the ground.
The sword just now had blasted all of the Golden Armoured Army and Zhang Ruochen into flying dust, with no bones left, and even his White Jiao Dragon mount had died under the sword qi.
However, the white auger dragon’s cultivation was so powerful that it didn’t go up in smoke, at least there was still a tattered dragon bone left, hidden in the magma lake.
“The Three Great Sword Saints of the Eastern Region, which one are you?”Wan Zhaobian’s eyes stared around, incomparably angry, and roared out.
