“Electricity and Fire Vortex.”
Zhang Ruochen released his spiritual energy completely and stretched out his arms, spreading his hands out and placing them flat on his chest.
“Wow!”
In an instant, the surrounding spiritual Qi of the heavens and earth shook violently, transforming into a vortex-like airstream of power that rotated around Zhang Ruochen.
That one air current, which only appeared for a moment, suddenly dissipated.
It failed!
Cultivating a third level spell, it really wouldn’t be that smooth.
Zhang Ruochen frowned slightly and studied the contents of the Barbarian Lizard Beast Skin again, carefully searching for the places he had just overlooked. It took a whole half day of studying before Zhang Ruochen started cultivating again.
“Wow!”
The Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth once again formed a vortex, like a layer of wind wall, wrapping Zhang Ruochen’s body tightly.
Afterwards, Zhang Ruochen carefully controlled his spiritual energy and held it upwards, and all the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi immediately converged towards a point above his head.
Gradually, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi transformed into the power of lightning, which gradually began to coalesce.
“Rumble!”
It looked like it was about to succeed, but the power of thunder and lightning suddenly exploded and burst out with a powerful force. Zhang Ruochen was unable to dodge in time and was instead injured by the lightning power.
Fortunately, with the Dragon Pearl protecting his body, he was not seriously injured.
The difficulty of cultivating third level spells was far beyond Zhang Ruochen’s expectations, and with a slight distraction, he was unable to control the power of the lightning.
Zhang Ruochen was not discouraged and tried to adjust his mindset and cultivate again.
Again and again, he failed, and again and again, he retrained.
Time passed like this, spending more than thirty days, Zhang Ruochen failed more than three hundred and eighty times, bruising himself and scorching his whole body, before he succeeded in cultivating the “Electricity and Fire Vortex”.
Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation of spells was solely to conceal his true identity, and his main cultivation was still martial arts.
However, successfully cultivating a tertiary spell like the “Electricity and Fire Vortex” still made him a lot stronger.
With his 44th rank mental strength, coupled with the increase of the Thunder Bead, casting a level 3 spell was enough to make an ordinary Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation cultivator flee in fear.
At the same time, when Zhang Ruochen was cultivating the Level 3 Spell “Electricity and Fire Vortex”, the power of the peak of the Fish Dragon Third Transformation was completely consolidated, reaching a state of ease of retraction and release.
If he were to open the first Sacred Vein now, the probability of success could rise to 30%.
Zhang Ruochen roughly estimated the time, and this time, he had been inside the Scroll World for almost five months.
“Half a month should have passed in the outside world, and I don’t know how far the situation has developed?”
Now that it was a critical period, Zhang Ruochen didn’t dare to remain in seclusion for too long, so he didn’t continue cultivating.
After exiting the Scroll World, Zhang Ruochen immediately headed to Sacred Willow Hall.
Along the way, Zhang Ruochen could clearly feel that the Red Willow Villa had changed greatly from half a month ago. Firstly, the number of Evil Dao martial artists in the Villa had suddenly become quite a lot more. Secondly, the atmosphere of the entire Villa had become very heavy, always giving off an indescribably depressing feeling.
Could it be that some major change had occurred during his seclusion?
“Greetings to the Great Protector.”
Outside the Sacred Willow Hall, two maids saluted Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen nodded to them and walked straight into the gate.
The Red Desire Star Envoy sat at the topmost position, and when he saw Zhang Ruochen, he immediately put down what he was doing and raised his voice, “Great Protector, you’ve finally come out of the gate! How was it, did you succeed in cultivating the Electricity and Fire Vortex?”
“Naturally, I won’t let Lord Star Envoy down.”
Zhang Ruochen stretched out a palm and slowly spread it out.
It was as if the palm had transformed into a thick earth, and above it, a trace of electric light condensed, forming a small lightning vortex that emitted a crackling sound.
With regards to Zhang Ruochen’s ultra-fast cultivation speed, the Red Lust Star Envoy had long been immune to it, and although he marvelled in his heart, he did not show it.
The Red Lust Star Envoy nodded and said with a grave expression, “A lot of things have happened in Qing Yun County during this period of time, I knew that you were in seclusion, so I didn’t send anyone to disturb you.”
Zhang Ruochen was able to tell that the Red Desire Star Envoy’s brows were tinged with sadness, and it was obvious that he had encountered a big trouble.
His five fingers closed and the lightning vortex automatically dispersed as he asked, “Has Emperor One arrived in Qing Yun County yet?”
“Empyrean One is still hiding in the shadows, his movements are secretive, and I don’t know if he has arrived in Qing Yun County yet. However, the Star Envoy of Green Desire and the Ice Demon arrived first and broke into the Red Willow Villa once, and two experts of the Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation who were loyal to me were killed by them.”The Red Lust Star Envoy said rather angrily.
In fact, the Red Desire Star Envoy wasn’t angry because of the tragic deaths of the two Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation experts, what really made her angry was that there were people working as insiders, otherwise, it would have been impossible for the Green Clothes Star Envoy and the Ice Demon to break into the Red Willow Mountain Villa and still be able to retreat in one piece.
The Red Lust Star Envoy’s mood, seemed a bit low as he said, “Right now, within the Qing Yun County, any of my manpower that is loyal to me is assassinated almost every day, making a scene where everyone is in danger.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Why don’t you withdraw your manpower back to Red Willow Villa?”
The Red Desire Star Envoy laughed in a self-deprecating manner, “Three days ago, I had already withdrawn most of my manpower to the Red Willow Villa. But what can I do? Now, as long as someone walks out of Red Willow Villa, they will be killed immediately.”
“I suspect that it’s not just the Green Clothed Star Envoy and the Ice Demon that have come to Qing Yun County, it’s very likely that even the Blood Cloud Sect’s number one assassin, the Hunter, is hiding in the vicinity of the mountain villa, and he’s the only one who can kill people invisibly.”
“If we continue to cower inside the mountain villa, it’s almost equivalent to being a turtle in a jar for Emperor Yi, and when the time is right, we’ll be wiped out by him.”
The Red Desire Star Envoy’s demeanour remained fairly calm, but Zhang Ruochen could feel the helplessness and loss in her heart, and perhaps a hint of unwillingness.
In just half a month, the originally ambitious Red Desire Star Envoy seemed to have turned into a weak woman who needed care and help.
In fact, upon closer examination, yet it was quite normal.
Emperor Yi hadn’t even personally stepped in, and by merely sending out two or three subordinates, he had already attacked the Red Lust Star Envoy’s carefully cultivated forces to pieces, and was only able to cower inside a mountain villa.
If the situation was allowed to develop, not to mention a duel with Emperor Yi, I’m afraid that the Red Willow Villa’s interior would be in turmoil, and thus would not be broken.
In fact, the Red Desire Star Envoy had long wanted to talk to Zhang Ruochen and discuss a plan.
For some reason, right now, when she encountered something that could not be resolved, she would always be the first to think of Zhang Ruochen.
At this moment, the Red Desire Star Envoy’s pair of beautiful eyes were fixed on Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Zhang Ruochen appeared very calm and said, ”Emperor One has arranged for two groups of people, one in the light and one in the dark. The green-clothed Star Envoy is in the open, purposely disrupting us and weakening our strength so that we have to retreat to the Red Willow Villa.”
“Empyrean One, on the other hand, hides in the dark and quietly observes, once the Red Willow Villa’s internal turmoil occurs, he will uproot the Red Willow Villa with a thunderous force.”
The Red Desire Star Envoy said, “Of course I also know Emperor Yi’s purpose, but what should be done to open up the current situation?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Right now, there is only one way for us to go, and that is to take the initiative. If we are able to kill the Green Clothed Star Envoy and the Ice Demon, not only will we be able to boost our morale, but we will also be able to force Emperor Yi out from the shadows. Only if Emperor One takes the initiative to show himself will we have a chance to win.”
The disparity in strength between the two sides was too great, in fact, Zhang Ruochen didn’t have too good a solution.
The Red Desire Star Envoy’s eyebrows gently furrowed as she thought carefully and said, “The Green Clothes Star Envoy and the Ice Demon are both first-rate experts, and in the entire Red Willow Villa, only me, the Blood Cloud Patriarch, and you can compete with them. If you want to kill the two of them, you would need at least six experts like you to do so. What’s more, apart from the two of them, there is also a top assassin that could potentially be hiding in the shadows, the Hunter.”
“If we take the initiative, we will definitely lose both. By the time that happens, the Emperor will come out of the shadows again and wait for the enemy to come out of the shadows, and I’m afraid that we won’t even have a chance to escape.”
Zhang Ruochen asked, “You want to give up?”
The Red Desire Star Envoy shook his head and said, “If I were to leave now, I would have at least a fifty per cent certainty that I would be able to retreat in one piece. However, those people inside the Red Willow Villa who are loyal to me will definitely be massacred, and I must be responsible for them. Thus, even if I die, I will still insist until the last moment.”
“Since that’s the case, why don’t we plan carefully, and maybe we can fight our way out of this desperate situation?”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Red Desire Star Envoy was still hesitating, always feeling that Zhang Ruochen’s method was too risky.
If he stayed in the Red Willow Villa, with the help of the formations in the Villa, he would at least have a chance to fight against Emperor Yi.
On the contrary, once he took the initiative to attack, he would definitely lose the guardianship of the formation, and by that time, there would be a huge disparity between the enemy’s and our forces, so how could he still fight?
Right at this moment, outside of the gate, a white light appeared.
“Swoosh!”
A summoning light talisman flew in from outside.
The Red Desire Star Envoy stretched out a hand and grabbed it forwards, collecting the summoning light talisman.
After reading the content on top of the summoning light talisman, the Red Desire Star Envoy’s expression did not change, and he simply put the summoning light talisman away.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “What happened?”
“Not much.”The Red Desire Star Envoy said indifferently, “It’s just that I didn’t expect that Emperor Yi would actually go against the Demon Sect’s Holy Maiden.”
Zhang Ruochen, who had always been calm, suddenly, a powerful fluctuation of ability emanated from his body as he took a step forward and asked, “Why would Emperor Yi want to deal with the Demon Sect Sacred Maiden? What is going on?”
The Red Desire Star Envoy stared at Zhang Ruochen with considerable surprise and asked curiously, “Why are you so nervous about the safety of the Demon Sect’s Holy Maiden?”
Zhang Ruochen tried his best to collect his emotions and said, “It’s nothing, I just met with her once. ”
After a pause, he added, “I think that since Emperor Yi wants to deal with the Holy Maiden of the Demon Sect, why don’t we use the Holy Maiden of the Demon Sect to deal with him?”
The Red Desire Star Envoy shook his head and said, “Unfortunately, it’s too late, according to the news that came in just now, last night, the Green Clothes Star Envoy and the Ice Demon broke into one of the strongholds of the Demon Cult, went on a killing spree, and severely injured the Demon Cult Holy Maiden. It is said that the Holy Daughter of the Devil Cult has already fled out of Qing Yun County City and headed in the direction of the Falling God Mountain Ridge.”
