“How could it be, catching up so quickly?”
In his haste, Di Yi had to execute the Hell Ghost King Claws once again, his hands radiating an icy cold aura as he struck at the flying Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
“Pfft!”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was as powerful as a bamboo stick, striking through Emperor Yi’s right palm, piercing through the centre of the palm, half of the sword body, piercing into Emperor Yi’s chest.
Crimson blood continued to gush out from Di Yi’s palm and chest, dripping down the dimly glowing Saint Leather Soft Armour and onto the ground.
“How? How did this happen?”
Di Yi’s face was very pale, although he knew the power of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, he still found it difficult to accept the current result.
It was simply impossible for a Hundred Stripes Saint Weapon to pierce through the Sacred Leather Soft Armour, could it be that Zhang Ruochen’s sword had already reached the level of a Thousand Stripes Saint Weapon?
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword had naturally not reached the level of a Thousand Stripe Saint Weapon, only that its sword body was forged from the Divine Iron of Creation, which was already extremely sharp, not to mention the fact that it had also absorbed a large number of True Martial Treasure Weapons and Saint Weapons. Thus, the sharpness of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was naturally not comparable to other Hundred Stripe Saint Weapons.
Zhang Ruochen flew down from mid-air and pinched his index and middle fingers together to form a sword trick, harnessing the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and violently pushing it forward.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, which was stabbed inside Di Yi’s body, erupted with an even stronger sword light, pushing Di Yi’s body and charging into the distance.
The sharp body of the sword continued to penetrate deeper and deeper, and the tip of the sword had emerged from Di Yi’s back.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword kept pushing Di Yi’s body, charging thousands of metres away, spilling blood all over the ground.
“Pfft!”
Finally, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword pierced through Di Yi’s body and flew out from Di Yi’s back.
Zhang Ruochen’s hand reached out and grabbed the bloody hilt of the sword, and with a wave of his arm, a piece of blood, swung down from above the blade.
Carrying the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, Zhang Ruochen walked over to Di Yi and said in a cold voice, “You still think that you can escape today? That sword just now, was me promising a deceased person to avenge her brother.”
If it was, any other cultivator, who suffered such a heavy blow, would surely die.
Di Yi, however, did not die and remained standing steadily in place, a spiteful light in his eyes. The black holy qi in his body surged out again, converging towards his chest and palm wounds, emitting a “giggling” sound.
The two wounds were rapidly healing.
His body seemed to be truly immortal.
Zhang Ruochen quietly watched until Emperor Yi had recovered 70% to 80% of his injuries before he swung out his sword again, dragging out a sword light and slashing at Emperor Yi’s neck.
Emperor Yi’s eyes widened, his heart incomparably irritated as he stretched out his hands, wanting to grab the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
However, his fingers, which had only just touched the blade of the sword, were chopped off, and ten fingers flew out at once.
With a bang, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword slashed at Emperor Yi’s neck, directly decapitating his head.
Although, Di Yi’s head rolled out, the Heavenly Demon Shadow on the ground turned into a dark shadow and quickly fled, reaching a place thirty feet away.
“Giggle!”
Inside of Emperor Yi’s head and headless body, black flames gushed out, quickly burning the corpse to ashes and rushing up a black holy qi and a red blood qi.
The holy qi and blood qi flew to where the Heavenly Demon Shadow was, once again coalescing into a body of Emperor Yi, intact, with surprisingly no injuries on his body at all.
Although Emperor Yi had condensed his body again, Zhang Ruochen could tell that Emperor Yi’s aura had become much weaker, and even his cultivation realm showed signs of regression.
From this, it could be seen that the so-called Immortal Body was not truly immortal.
Zhang Ruochen said coldly, “The second sword is for the thousands of unjust souls that died for the royal family of the Yunwu County Kingdom, this hatred, I have always remembered it, and I have come to claim my life from you on their behalf.”
“Zhang Ruochen, you can’t kill me.”
Emperor Yi clenched his teeth and roared in annoyance.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Is that so? If I kill you one more time, I’m afraid that your cultivation level will have to slide down to the Fish Dragon First Transformation.”
Emperor Yi’s eyes turned red as he folded his hands together, and a Divine Martial Seal emerged from the centre of his eyebrows, and with this as the centre, a tiny vortex condensed.
The vortex emitted a powerful aura that grew stronger and stronger, and the area it covered grew more and more expansive, as if it seemed like it was going to sweep Zhang Ruochen inside.
Deep within Emperor Yi’s brow, a crimson light flew out, condensing an ancient seal.
The crimson ancient seal hovered just above Di Yi’s head, rotating rapidly, and with each rotation, the ancient seal would grow larger with it, and the power fluctuations that erupted would also become stronger.
In a few moments, the crimson ancient seal became more than thirty metres high, the whole body was wrapped in a blazing flame, emitting an ancient and majestic holy might.
The name of the crimson ancient seal was the “Crimson Copper Brahma Seal”, and it had already reached the peak of the Hundred Stripes Saint Artifact, and a single strike was enough to crush a large mountain into flat ground.
Its grade even surpassed the current Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
With a loud roar, Emperor Di controlled the Red Copper Brahma Heavenly Seal and suppressed it towards Zhang Ruochen.
At the same time, the Heavenly Demon Shadow on the ground continued to rush towards Zhang Ruochen, attacking Zhang Ruochen’s legs from below.
The Red Copper Brahma Heavenly Seal was on the top and the Heavenly Demon Shadow was on the bottom, the two attacks were launched at the same time, thus it could be seen that Emperor Yi was also pushed to fight with Zhang Ruochen.
The powerful Saint Might of the Red Copper Brahma Heavenly Seal seemed to suppress the entire space to the point of solidification, greatly restricting Zhang Ruochen’s mobility and preventing him from using Spatial Shift to escape.
It was not the first time Zhang Ruochen had fought with Emperor Yi, so he naturally understood the undercurrents in Emperor Yi’s body.
Just as Emperor Yi struck the Red Copper Brahma Seal, Zhang Ruochen took out the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram and threw it towards the sky, the scroll unfolded and a spatial door opened, forming a devouring force that took in the Red Copper Brahma Seal.
“No.”
Sensing that something was wrong, Emperor Yi desperately revolved his true qi, wanting to take back the Red Copper Brahma Heavenly Seal.
It was a pity that everything was in vain. His cultivation level was one realm lower than Zhang Ruochen’s, so he did not have an advantage, not to mention, how could the Red Copper Brahma Heavenly Seal defeat the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram?
After a few moments, the Red Copper Brahma Heavenly Seal was taken into the world of the diagram and lost contact with Emperor Yi.
While Zhang Ruochen struck the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, he also mobilised his spiritual power and condensed a spherical lightning bolt that struck the ground, hitting the body of the Heavenly Demon Shadow.
With a loud bang, on the ground, a wisp of blue smoke emerged.
The Heavenly Demon Shadow suffered a heavy blow and became a few shades darker as it hurriedly fled back.
Seeing the Red Copper Brahma Seal being taken away, Emperor Yi’s face, turned very pale as he muttered, “What kind of Saint Artifact was that, how could it take away the Red Copper Brahma Seal?”
Zhang Ruochen retrieved the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram and cupped it in his hand, his gaze fixed on the opposite side of Emperor Yi as he said, “It’s just a scroll, if you have any other Saint Artifacts to fight with, I will be able to take them away as well.”
Carrying a sword, Zhang Ruochen took a step towards Emperor Yi, “Emperor Yi, my third sword will be to avenge my mother. The fight between us, and you involving her in it, is a capital offence. I won’t let you suffer for too long, so with this last sword, I will give you a pain and end the feud between us once and for all.”
After the previous two swords, Zhang Ruochen had already seen something.
As long as he drained the black Saint Qi and blood Qi from Di Yi’s body, he would be able to kill him completely.
“Ta-da!”
Each footstep sounded like a funeral bell tolling.
Emperor Yi finally understood that Zhang Ruochen’s purpose of coming to the Eastern Region Evil Lands was entirely to seek revenge on him.
One by one, one by one, the hatred was counted.
The pain of being killed every time was something that only Emperor Yi could experience. That kind of feeling was simply painful, more unbearable than death.
Originally, when Emperor Yi learnt of Zhang Ruochen’s death, he had already breathed a long sigh of relief, thinking that he had become the number one heavenly pride of the Eastern Domain, and didn’t put anyone in his eyes at all.
Even when he knew that the Red Desire Star Envoy had ambitions to compete for the Young Lord, he had only treated the Red Desire Star Envoy as a minor character, thinking to himself that, as long as he rushed to the Qing Yun County, he would be able to cause the Red Desire Star Envoy to go up in smoke with a single wave of his big hand.
Zhang Ruochen’s reappearance, however, had knocked his confidence and pride out of existence.
It was only at this moment that Emperor Yi came to the realisation that he had indeed taken his opponent too lightly and been too careless in the past. Otherwise, he was surrounded by experts, so how could Zhang Ruochen and the Red Desire Star Envoy be his opponent even if they joined forces?
“Zhang Ruochen, you really are like a mirror, and it’s only when I spar with you that I truly realised that there are so many weaknesses in me.”Emperor Yi laughed instead of being angry.
Zhang Ruochen said, “It’s not too late to understand, but it is!”
“Not too late, not too late.”Emperor Yi shook his head.
On his face, there was not the slightest negative emotion of panic or anger, and he actually gave off a feeling of returning to the basics.
“Oh! Do you think you can still escape?”Zhang Ruochen said.
“Aren’t you curious as to why I fled in the direction of the Falling God Mountain Range? Instead of fleeing in the direction of Evil Emperor City?”Emperor Yi asked rhetorically.
“Why?”Zhang Ruochen said.
Emperor Yi laughed and raised his head, looking in the direction of the Fallen God Mountain Range.
Only to see that a crimson fire cloud in the sky was rapidly flying over, and vaguely, one could see countless golden shadows swaying in the cloud, emitting a “rattling” sound.
Zhang Ruochen activated his Heavenly Eyes and gazed at it, only to see that the incoming fire cloud was actually thousands of Red Blazing Crows.
The Red Blazing Crow was a third-ranked savage beast with the bloodline of the ancient divine bird “Golden Crow”, and its strength was comparable to that of a martial artist of the Earth Extremity Realm Grand Circle.
Ever since the establishment of the first central dynasty, the court had started a large-scale siege of the savage beasts, and the savage beasts in the entire Kunlun realm had long since hibernated, and the appearance of thousands of red blazing crows at one time could be said to be a rather rare spectacle.
Among the crows, there was a Red Incandescent Crow King, with a very huge body, its whole body exuding blazing flames, it was almost like the legendary Golden Crow.
From afar, the Red Incandescent Crow King was like a blazing sun in a crimson cloud haze, erupting with an astonishing aura of power.
“Gah!”
The crows flew into the air above Zhang Ruochen and Di Yi’s heads, then, swooped down, circling and flying around them, turning the earth in a hundred mile radius into a field of fire.
