Climbing to the top of the second mountain, Zhang Ruochen didn’t make any stops and immediately headed to the second sacred spring.
Next to the second sacred spring, there was also a green-coloured ancient Daoist temple.
Entering the Taoist Temple, Zhang Ruochen took down a three-foot tall giant gourd from the Divine Platform, resting it in his hand, and headed over to the second Sacred Spring.
According to the rules, if one successfully challenged three words at the first level of the second mountain, one would be able to take one hundred times the amount of sacred springs.
The three foot tall giant gourd was exactly one hundred times the capacity of an ordinary gourd.
Arriving next to the second Sacred Spring, Zhang Ruochen immediately placed the gourd into the spring and began to collect it. Of course, he still kept his spatial ring open and collected one more cubic metre of holy spring.
Only when Zhang Ruochen had finished collecting did Qi Fayu ascend to the top of the mountain, her entire body drenched in sweat, her face a little pale. Obviously, ascending the second mountain was quite strenuous for her.
Being able to ascend to the top of the second mountain already showed that her willpower, too, had reached a rather terrifying level, far surpassing other cultivators.
“Your speed, it’s faster than I thought.”
Holding a huge gourd, Zhang Ruochen stood next to the Sacred Spring and didn’t leave immediately, but wanted to see how much of the Sacred Spring Qi Fayu would take?
Qi Fayu coldly stared at Zhang Ruochen, then, entering the Taoist Temple, she also took out a three-foot tall giant gourd and began to collect the Sacred Spring.
“It turns out that her first level in the second mountain is also challenging the three words of success.”
Without much surprise, Zhang Ruochen simply nodded his head gently before he stopped and travelled towards the third mountain.
Qi Fayu dragged her gourd with one hand and also arrived at the foot of the third heavy mountain, glancing towards Zhang Ruochen and saying, “You first, or me first?”
“Senior Sister Qi, please.”
Zhang Ruochen made a gesture of invitation and took a step back.
Qi Fayu was not polite and placed the gourd on top of the boulder on the side, walking to the bottom of the stone wall and gazing for a moment.
“Wow!”
On the stone wall, one of the characters for “reason” fell off, transforming into a translucent gatekeeper.
Qi Fayu fought against the gatekeeper for more than two thousand moves in a row, and in the end, the gatekeeper struck her right rib cage with a sword, leaving a bloody sword hole.
Failure to break through the barrier.
Qi Fayu gasped for air, dripping with fragrant sweat, and returned to the side of the boulder, peeling off the lid of the gourd and drinking a mouthful of the holy spring inside. She wanted to use the power of the Sacred Spring to quickly recover from her injuries.
However, just after taking a sip, she immediately spat it out again.
Qi Fayu’s nose gently sniffed, and in her eyes, an icy cold light appeared as she stared over in Zhang Ruochen’s direction, saying, “You stole the Sacred Spring inside my gourd?”
Zhang Ruochen was very frank and said, “That’s right. Just now, when you were fighting with the gatekeeper, I swapped the Sacred Spring in my gourd away.”
“Are you looking for death?”
Qi Fayu’s beautiful and pretty face revealed an unprecedented look of anger, and the light and elegant aura on her body was instantly gone.
Zhang Ruochen appeared very calm and smiled disdainfully, “You’ve already been seriously injured, if you were to fight me now, it wouldn’t do you a bit of good.”
“Besides, you were the one who made the first move to kill me, if I hadn’t reacted quickly enough, I would have probably become a dead soul under your sword. Taking the Sacred Spring in your gourd is also considered compensation for me.”
“Actually, you have nothing to be angry about. At least, I didn’t poison the inside of your gourd, didn’t I?”
Zhang Ruochen held the huge gourd in his hand, ignoring Qi Fayu’s annoyed look, looking very calm.
Qi Fayu was so angry that she trembled, her eyes turning the colour of scarlet again.
However, she quickly controlled her emotions and took a deep breath, regaining her breezy appearance as she took a healing elixir and began to heal her injuries.
Based on Qi Fayu’s fight with the gatekeeper, Zhang Ruochen could already tell that her Sword Dao cultivation had reached the high level of Sword Mind and had cultivated Sword One to the eighth level of the realm.
Qi Fayu was just born at the Sword Heart Passage Realm, and after so many years of cultivation, Zhang Ruochen wasn’t the least bit surprised that she had such an achievement.
Even with her Sword Dao cultivation, she couldn’t break through the first level of the Third Heavy Mountain.
In that case, it seemed that the strength of the gatekeeper should have reached the ninth level of the First Sword Realm.
In other words, if Zhang Ruochen hadn’t reached the ninth layer of the Sword One realm, he wouldn’t have been able to break through the first level of the Third Heavy Mountain.
Since this was the case, why would he bother wasting his effort to break through the barrier?
Zhang Ruochen raised his head and glanced towards the top of the third heavy mountain, only to see that at the top of the mountain, there was a white stone Sacred Cliff towering over it, and through the hidden mist, he could vaguely see a tall tower that stood above the Sacred Cliff.
The legendary Sword Pavilion was situated at the top of the third heavy mountain.
If, however, Zhang Ruochen was able to break through the three levels of the third mountain, he would be able to arrive at the Square of the Sword Discourse Conference early, to admire the Sword Pavilion and explore the secrets of the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Altar.
“I will definitely climb to the top of the third heavy mountain with my own strength.”
Zhang Ruochen withdrew his gaze, exhaled a long breath, turned around, and marched down the mountain.
Arriving at the top of the second heavy mountain, Zhang Ruochen met Qin Yufan who had just ascended the mountain.
When Qin Yufan saw Zhang Ruochen, he naturally looked quite surprised as well.
Only, the two of them just brushed past each other and did not exchange any words.
On his way down the mountain, Zhang Ruochen found several more climbers who had all broken through the second level of the second heavy mountain and were making their way to the top. Among them, there were both Fish Dragon Sixth Transformation and Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation Heavenly Pride, as well as top powerhouses of Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation.
Qi Fayu followed behind Zhang Ruochen from the beginning to the end, appearing to be very unwilling, as if she wanted to seize the gourd in Zhang Ruochen’s hands. Only, she hadn’t been able to find an opportunity.
Going down the mountain was much faster than going up.
It didn’t take long for the two of them, one after the other, to reach the foot of the Ancient God Mountain.
Zhang Ruochen and Qi Fayu appeared at the same time, causing a huge shock and a tsunami of clamour.
The two of them, one of them was a rising Sword Dao wizard, a new star about to rise. The other was a stunning beauty with innate passages, and already had countless suitors and crushes.
The two had just descended the mountain, and all the Sacred Transmission disciples, all of them, surrounded them.
“Senior Sister Qi’s natural talent makes me, Xie Yunfan, admire her to the core, and when the Sword Dao Competition takes place, Senior Sister Qi will definitely win the top spot by overpowering the group.”
A Sacred Transmission disciple of the Ninth Transformation of the Fish Dragon immediately rushed to Qi Fayu’s body and uttered a whole bunch of flattering words.
Even saints had seven emotions and six desires, let alone a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation.
It wasn’t such a shame to say flattering words in order to pursue the woman one liked. Only if the woman one liked, fell into someone else’s arms, would that be truly disgraceful.
“The three levels of the second mountain were easily taken down by Senior Sister Qi, with Senior Sister Qi’s Sword Dao realm, I believe that it won’t be long before she will be able to ascend to the top of the third mountain.”There was another suitor that walked up to congratulate Qi Fayu.
Qi Fei Yu’s suitors were numerous, and among them, there were more than a dozen of them whose cultivation was quite strong, all of them at the Fish Dragon Eighth Transformation and the Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation realms, surrounding her in the centre like stars surrounding the moon. Other suitors were unable to get close at all.
Qi Fei Yu was quite cold towards any suitors, appearing to be unearthly.
Suddenly, her black and white eyes glanced towards Zhang Ruochen’s back in front of her, and then revealed a trace of a strange lustre.
In the next moment, a scene that was unacceptable to Qi Fei Yu’s suitors and crushes present occurred.
“Senior Brother Lin, wait a moment.”Qi Fayu called out softly.
Zhang Ruochen stopped, turned around, and glanced towards her, revealing a puzzled expression as he said, “What are Senior Sister Qi’s orders?”
The Sacred Spring, which he had obtained with great difficulty, was stolen by him, Qi Fayu must be very upset, and he didn’t know what tricks she was going to play again.
Zhang Ruochen was carefully on guard.
All around, Qi Fayu’s suitors were also quite curious and a bit puzzled as to how Senior Sister Qi, who had always been uninvolved, would suddenly interact with a newly promoted Sacred Transmission Disciple.
Qi Fayu took a step forward, her steps slow, until she reached Zhang Ruochen’s body.
The distance between the two was getting closer and closer.
Zhang Ruochen could already smell a faint fragrance, and instinctively sensing that it was not good, he immediately had to retreat, but he was a step too late.
Qi Fayu stretched out a pair of soft jade hands and gently grabbed Zhang Ruochen’s wrist, making a soft appearance of being seriously injured and unsupported, she leaned sideways against Zhang Ruochen’s body and coughed softly, “I’ve been seriously injured, Senior Brother Lin, is it alright for you to send me back to Jade Clearance Palace?”
She gently pursed her lips and stared at Zhang Ruochen’s face with a pair of sultry eyes, appearing rather sickly, as if she was a soft woman with a small birdie.
Seeing this scene, all of Qi Fei Yu’s suitors and crushes present were as if they were suffering from a bolt from the blue.
Immediately, their eyes were ablaze with rage, and they looked at Zhang Ruochen as if they were looking at their father’s enemy.
Zhang Ruochen also did not expect that Qi Fayu would actually play such a devious trick. By doing so, she completely wanted to use the knife to kill, using her many suitors to make Zhang Ruochen die without a burial place.
Xun Guihai and Mu Jiji had both rushed to Zhang Ruochen’s front, wanting to welcome him back.
Seeing the scene in front of them, the two of them were as if they had been electrocuted, so shocked that their jaws dropped to the ground, their eyes full of envy.
“Boss Lin Yue is also powerful, that that’s the Jade Clearance Palace’s Heavenly Pride, Qi Fayu, a fairy-like woman.”
“Anyone who can see Qi Fayyu smile is already flattered, who can imagine that Qi Fayyu actually took the initiative to grab Boss Lin Yue’s hand and even leaned on Boss Lin Yue’s body?”
What exactly happened between Qi Fayyu and Lin Yue when they were breaking into the Ancient God Mountain?
How could the two of them be so close?
Could it be that the ice-clear Qi Fayu had fallen in love with this newly-promoted Sacred Transmission disciple in front of her?
