Lin House.
Lin Mishan received the news and immediately rushed to Lin Chenyu’s residence, saying with some anxiety, “Brother, Zhang Ruochen has already left the Royal Palace to go to the Martial City Academy, why haven’t you made a move yet?”
Lin Chenyu smiled faintly and said, “What’s the hurry?”
“If we let him reach the Martial City Academic Palace, we will never have the chance to kill him again.” Lin Mishan’s eyes carried a chilling aura, her hatred for Zhang Ruochen was extremely deep.
Lin Chenyu was sitting on a chair with his hands folded, practicing an evil technique, his entire body radiating an icy cold aura. He closed his eyes and faintly said, ”Muddy Shan, even if you can’t trust me, you should still trust the Hellmouth Sect. Rest assured! He will be killed before he reaches the Martial City Academy.”
“Hellmouth Sect? The largest assassin organization in the Yunwu County Kingdom, it is said that it has once killed a Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist.” Lin Mishan’s eyes lit up, if the assassins from the Earth Foundation Sect were really hired, then Zhang Ruochen would definitely die for sure.
Lin Chenyu laughed, “The Earthly Mansion Sect is not only the largest assassin organization in the Yunwu County Kingdom, the Earthly Mansion Sect is considered number one in the entire Nine Counties of Lingxi. This time, the two assassins sent by the Earthly Mansion Sect have both assassinated at least one Xuan Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position martial artist. With both of them striking at the same time, even if Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation had reached the Xuan Extremity Realm, he would definitely be dead.”
“My guess is that we don’t even need to wait until noon before we receive the good news that His Highness the Ninth Prince has been assassinated and killed. At that time, the Queen Mother will definitely give me a generous reward. Haha!”
Lin Chenyu’s eyes opened, and a pair of pupils turned out to be blood red, giving off an unusually hideous feeling.
A smile also surfaced on Lin Mishan’s face as he said, “Since it’s an assassin sent out by the Hellmouth, it’s naturally foolproof.”
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Other than Zhang Ruochen, in the King City, there were other martial artists who would also go to the Martial City Academy Palace to participate in this year’s Academy Palace Exam.
If one was able to get into the Martial City Academic Palace, it would simply be like a carp leaping over the dragon gate, a step up to heaven, and getting endless cultivation resources. Just thinking about it made people feel very excited.
These martial artists, very young, all under thirty years of age, yet their cultivation had reached the Xuanji realm, each one of them was not a weakling. At this moment, all of them gathered at the martial market fighting arena, waiting quietly.
When Zhang Ruochen arrived, more than thirty young martial artists had already gathered in the Martial Market Fighting Arena, both male and female.
“Everyone, look, His Highness the Ninth Prince has actually come too!”
“It’s really the Ninth Prince, it’s said that he won the first place in the Yellow Ranking only a short while ago, could it be that he has already broken through to the Xuanji Realm?”
“Since he came to the Martial Market Fighting Arena, he must have reached the Xuanji Realm. It’s unbelievable, his cultivation speed is also too fast, worthy of being a martial arts prodigy.” A yew woman in her early twenties, a jade flute cupped in her hand, stared at Zhang Ruochen, who stepped down from the carriages, a strange light flashing in her eyes.
Opposite the yew woman, a bone-thin man exchanged glances with the yew woman. The two of them gently nodded, their gazes simultaneously looking towards Zhang Ruochen, who was not far away, with a faint killing intent emanating from his body.
They were the two assassins sent out by the Hellmouth Sect, both of them reaching the Xuan Extremity Realm in cultivation at a young age, which could be described as exceptionally talented.
The Purple Cedar woman, named Zixi, was very beautiful looking and had a certain level of fame in the King City. However, no one knew that she was an assassin from the Hellmouth Sect.
The bone-thin man, named Chen Libing, appeared somewhat sickly, looking only twenty-five years old.
When he hadn’t reached the Xuanji Realm, he had won ten matches in a row in the Yellow Ranked Martial Arts Palace, and his highest ranking above the Yellow Ranking was the eighteenth.
It was because of his excellent performance in the Yellow Level Martial Combat Palace that he was recruited by the Martial Market Money Bank and became one of the guard captains of the Martial Market Money Bank, and under the cultivation of a large amount of cultivation resources, his cultivation skyrocketed and reached the late Xuan Extreme Realm.
Those who were able to become a Yellow Ranked Martial Artist and reach the Xuanji Realm were definitely top powerhouses in the same realm, and were even able to kill people across realms.
Zixi and Chen Libing were in the Hellmouth Sect and belonged to the category of talented killers. This time, their main mission was to infiltrate the Martial City Academic Palace in order to facilitate the completion of future assassination missions in the Martial City Academic Palace.
Assassinating the Ninth Prince, to them, was just an additional mission arranged from above.
If the assassination was successful, they would naturally be able to obtain a generous reward.
To assassinate the Ninth Prince without revealing their identities was no small challenge for them.
Liu Chengfeng immediately greeted them, bowed to the arch, and smiled, “Your Highness, the Ninth Prince, Mister Liu makes amends to you for what happened in the past.”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly taken aback when he saw Liu Xifeng’s humble appearance and said, “Brother Liu, what are you doing?”
Liu Xifeng laughed, “Ever since I lost twice to His Highness the Ninth Prince in the Yellow Grade Martial Arena, I was painfully reminded of my mistakes and decided to change my ways and make a fresh start. I didn’t expect that I would be able to make a clean break, and my cultivation immediately broke through to the Xuanji realm.”
Zhang Ruochen looked carefully into Liu Xifeng’s eyes and smiled, “Congratulations, Brother Liu.”
“If it wasn’t for His Highness the Ninth Prince’s motivation, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have broken through to the Xuan Extreme Realm so quickly.” Liu Xifeng laughed.
Liu Chuan Shen, the owner of the Martial Market Money Bank, walked into the Martial Market Fighting Arena together with a few other big names from the Martial Market Money Bank, immediately attracting all the gazes of the martial artists.
Liu Chuan Shen walked towards Zhang Ruochen and laughed, “Your Highness the Ninth Prince, this Lord of the Manor and the County King were life and death buddies when they were young and had an irreconcilable relationship. In the future, if you and Ruochen had some grudges in the past, I hope that you can forgive him for the sake of this Manor Master. If you are admitted into the Martial City Academy together, you must take care of each other and support each other.”
Afterwards, Liu Chuan Shen’s gaze fiercely stared over towards Liu Xifeng and said, “Xifeng, you do things too violently and are not calm enough when things happen, I want you to learn more from His Highness the Ninth Prince in the future, and take His Highness the Ninth Prince as your role model.”
How shrewd was Liu Chuan Shen, he could naturally see that Zhang Ruochen’s heaven-defying talent was something that his own son was definitely unable to match. If his own son could socialize more with Zhang Ruochen, he would naturally have endless benefits in the future.
Liu Chengfeng said, “There is no need for Father to command me, I will definitely learn more from His Highness the Ninth Prince as well.”
If Liu Xifeng really reformed and decided to be a new man, Zhang Ruochen could naturally abandon his former suspicions and not pursue the previous matters.
It was also true that Liu Xifeng could be considered a genius, being able to reach the Great Circle of the Yellow Extremity Realm at the young age of seventeen, and later becoming a Yellow Ranked Martial Artist, breaking through the Xuan Extremity Realm at the age of twenty.
Such a genius could not be found in the entire Yunwu County Kingdom.
Because Liu Chuan Shen stood beside Zhang Ruochen, Zi Xie and Chen Libing had no chance to lay their hands on him at all.
By noon, the number of Xuanji Realm young martial artists who had gathered at the Martial Arts Palace reached sixty-eight. In the entire Yunwu County Kingdom, all the martial artists who were going to go to the Martial City Palace had all arrived.
“Wow!”
An ear-splitting eagle cry came from the sky, resounding through half of the royal city.
A huge blood-feathered eagle, flying out from the clouds with its wings spread out, more than seventy meters long, practically like a blood-red mountain, flew down from the sky above.
A huge aura emanated from the body of the Blood Feather Eagle, causing those Xuanji martial artists standing below to feel a huge pressure. Some of those martial artists with weaker cultivation were even weakening their legs and breaking out in cold sweat.
“The Blood Feather Eagle is a Third Order Upper Grade Savage Beast, and its battle power is comparable to that of a martial artist at the Grand Circle of the Earth Extreme Realm. If we’re talking about destructive power, the destructive power of the Blood Feather Eagle is even more terrifying than an Earth Extreme Realm Great Circle martial artist.” A young martial artist of the Xuan Polarity Realm said with some trembling.
Another young female martial artist, said, “I once saw a Blood Feather Eagle on the outskirts of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, and that one merely spat out a mouthful of flames, turning a small town into scorched earth, with everyone being burned to death.”
Hearing the murmurs of the crowd, those noble children who had never left the royal city were all scared pale by this Blood Feathered Eagle in front of them.
Zhang Ruochen, however, appeared calm and composed as he looked upwards above his head, only to see a middle-aged man in a silver robe standing atop the head of the Blood Feather Eagle.
The silver-robed man’s body stood straight, carrying an ancient sword on his back. The aura on his body seemed to be a few points more powerful than the Blood Feathered Eagle.
Liu Chuan Shen carried his hands behind his back and smiled, “Elder Xie, long time no see.”
The silver-robed man stood on top of the Blood Feathered Eagle’s head and said, “Elder Liu, there are only dozens of people from Yunwu County Country to participate in the Academy Palace Examination this year? I remember that last year, there were a total of one hundred and three Xuanji Realm martial artists from Yunwu County Country who went to participate in the Academy Palace Exam, but only three of them passed the exam and became the Academy Palace’s outer palace disciples.”
Liu Chuan Shen was the owner of the Yunwu County Kingdom’s Martial Market Money Vault, but, within the Martial Market Money Vault’s inner circle, he was in the same position as the silver-robed man as an Elder.
Liu Chuan Shen laughed, “Don’t worry Elder Xie, the number of people who will be admitted into the Martial City Academy Palace this year will definitely be more than last year, moreover, there might even be unexpected surprises.”
“Oh!”
Hearing Liu Chuan Shen’s words, Xie Nantian’s heart stirred as he said, “Could it be that some supreme genius has been born in Yunwu County Kingdom? It can be ranked in the top ten of the Academy Palace Examination?”
Liu Chuan Shen smiled mysteriously and said, “When the time comes, you’ll know.”
Xie Nantian knew that Liu Chuanshen was a person who did things without a drop of water, and that Yunwu County Kingdom must have given birth to some extraordinary genius. It was imperative to find that one genius out and take him as a disciple in advance.
Xie Nantian’s gaze fixed on the sixty-eight Xuanji Realm martial artists below, and best of all, on Zixi’s body, a soft eek escaping his mouth.
Zixi was only around twenty-two years old, yet she had already reached the Xuan Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position, even in the Outer Palace of the Martial City Palace of Learning, she was definitely considered a genius.
“It seems like the Liu Transmission God is referring to her.”
A hint of a smile appeared in Xie Nantian’s eyes as he gently nodded and said, “Since everyone has arrived, all of them will go to the back of the Blood Feathered Eagle, and we’ll go to the Martial City Academic Palace now.”
The sixty-eight Xuan Extreme Realm martial artists, one after another, executed their body techniques and leapt onto the back of the Blood Feather Eagle, each looking for a spot to sit down.
Zhang Ruochen sat side by side with Liu Chengfeng, and suddenly, he smelled a faint fragrant breeze.
Zhang Ruochen turned around and looked towards his left, only to see a purple-clothed woman sitting next to him, very beautiful looking and with an extraordinarily perfect figure, especially the pair of crispy peaks that were extraordinarily high and curved and rounded, as if they would burst through the purple clothes.
Zhang Ruochen just glanced towards her and withdrew his gaze.
“Wow!”
When everyone sat on the back of the Blood Feather Eagle, the Blood Feather Eagle took off and flew out of the King City in the blink of an eye in the direction of the Heavenly Demon Ridge.
