Suddenly, the Daoist-robed old man, who was called “Master Ning” by the Sacred Book Talented Woman, suddenly stopped and glanced towards the passageway not far away, and his expression became very solemn as he said, “Something’s not right… I’m sensing an unfamiliar aura… I think someone has come here. ”
“Wow!”
The Dao-robed old man’s arm swung, and dozens of holy qi light flashes struck out from the palm of his hand, flying towards the thirty-seven passages spread out in all directions.
Each of the holy light flashes contained a sound wave, simultaneously sending a message over to the guard warriors sitting in the altar, telling them to step up their vigilance.
The Sacred Book Talented Lady wore a white robe with a slender figure, her long, ebony-black hair was tied up with a hair crown, and she was dressed as a handsome male. She held a folding fan with written words in her hand, appearing to have red lips and white teeth and a graceful demeanour.
“Sect Master Ning, I’ll leave this place to you!”
With a bright-eyed, white-toothed smile, she added, “If the secrets of the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Altar were to accidentally spread, I believe you know better than I do how serious the consequences would be.”
After saying this, the Sacred Book Talented Maiden turned straight around, entered one of the passages, and quickly left.
Zhang Ruochen was hiding in a corner twenty feet away, using the Meteor Stealth Clothes to wrap his body tightly, but the dao-robed old man, as if he had noticed something, walked straight over in the direction he was in.
It was getting closer and closer.
Fifteen feet, fourteen feet, thirteen feet ……
“Rumble!”
In the distance, the sound of a battle was heard, and two huge forces could be vaguely felt, colliding together.
Immediately after, the altar shook slightly.
In one of the passages, powerful qi energy surged out, transforming into a stream of true qi, impacting over, scraping out a “whistling” whistling sound on the jade wall.
“Patriarch, a Half Saint broke into the Xuan Gu layer of the altar and has already killed twelve guard warriors in a row.”
An urgent voice transmission entered the Dao-robed old man’s ears.
“Hmph!”
With that, the dao-robed old man immediately stopped in his tracks and transformed into a fast-moving shadow, rushing towards the passageway that was gushing out qi energy.
“Could it be that there are other people, entering the altar?”
Zhang Ruochen exhaled a long breath and wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, feeling like he had walked through the doorway of hell. He immediately stood up and rushed in towards the passageway that led to the bottom of the ground.
This place could not stay for long, and must be left immediately.
That old Taoist just now was most likely the Two Element Sect’s Patriarch, Ning Xuan Dao.
If he were to discover him, Zhang Ruochen would surely die ten deaths.
Now, to return the way he came would be a complete death sentence.
However, Zhang Ruochen believed that this Heaven and Earth Altar definitely had more than one door. There must be other exits at the bottom of the Ancient God Mountain.
Escape! Escape! Escape!
Zhang Ruochen rushed towards the bottom, and because he was wearing the Meteor Invisibility Clothes, his speed was extremely fast, and he soon reached the bottom of the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Platform.
Sure enough, at the bottom of the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Platform, Zhang Ruochen discovered a stone door that was twenty feet tall.
On the stone door, there were two coiled Jiao Dragons engraved with open claws in a forward lunge stance.
The walls on the left and right sides of the stone door were sunken inwards, and in that sunken position, there was a three-metre tall metal giant standing on each side. They held battle axes and stood still, like two statues of war generals cast in molten metal.
Zhang Ruochen came to the bottom of the stone door and probed his hands into the gap below, mobilising his entire body’s holy qi, wanting to lift the stone door up.
“Ka ka ka!”
Zhang Ruochen had only just lifted the stone door, half a foot high.
Suddenly, on the surface of the stone door, a layer of crimson light surfaced, and hundreds of formation inscriptions appeared at the same time, causing the weight of the stone door to increase tenfold.
With a loud bang, the stone door fell back down.
“What a heavy stone door, I’m afraid that only a Half-Saint, can open it.”
Zhang Ruochen exhaled a deep breath, no longer using brute force to lift the door, and began to mobilise the power of space, condensing it into the fingertips of his right hand, preparing to tear through space and directly break the door.
Right at this moment, the metal giants standing on the left and right sides of the stone door looked like they had been stimulated by some kind of power. Their eyes, swirling open, emitted an icy cold light.
“Wow!”
The metal giant on the left side, took a step forward and landed on the stone platform, swinging its battle axe, it slashed diagonally at Zhang Ruochen’s neck.
“Trespassing on the altar, die.”
The Metal Giant, a “Weapon Refining Warrior”, possessed immense power and was capable of slashing cultivators of the 9th Fish Dragon Transformation.
The City Breaking Giant Axe in the hands of the Weapon Refining Warrior was also a formidable battle weapon, as heavy as a small mountain, and even if it was only gently placed on the ground, it could press out a large pit several metres deep into the ground.
The reason why the Ministry of War named it “City Breaking Giant Axe” was because, with just one axe chop, it could break through a city’s defence formation and walls at the same time.
With the strength of a Refiner Warrior and the weight of the City Breaking Giant Axe, it could be seen how powerful this axe was.
If it were to strike Zhang Ruochen’s body, even with the defence of the Meteor Invisibility Clothes, he would probably still have a hard time escaping death.
“Not good.”
Zhang Ruochen sensed the powerful killing aura coming from behind him, and immediately struck out his condensed spatial power in the direction behind him.
With a wave of his arm, he tore open a two-metre-long spatial rift and collided with the city-breaking giant axe that the Refiner Warrior had slashed out.
“Gimme!”
The power of space was indestructible.
The City Breaking Giant Axe broke off from the centre of the blade and turned into two pieces. One of the iron pieces of the axe flew out from Zhang Ruochen’s head and nailed on top of the stone door with a bang.
Afterwards, Zhang Ruochen’s body sank downwards and struck out with a palm strike, striking the Refiner Warrior’s chest.
“Boom!”
The Artifact Refining Warrior flew out backwards and slammed into the distant stone wall, knocking out a thin crack in the stone wall before landing on the ground with a loud bang.
At the same time, another Alchemy Warrior also swung his City Breaking Giant Axe and slashed horizontally, striking at Zhang Ruochen’s waist.
It looked like the Alchemy Warrior’s body was huge, and the City Breaking Giant Axe was also quite heavy, however, it was incredibly fast, and in a flash, the City Breaking Giant Axe landed on Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Only, Zhang Ruochen had now broken through to the Sixth Transformation of the Fish Dragon, and with the support of the Meteor Invisibility Clothes, even a First Order Half-Saint might not be that much faster than him, not to mention the Alchemist Warrior.
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen shifted one step to the right sideways, his body, almost sticking to the edge of the battle axe, flew out.
His feet stomped on top of the wall, and with that, he took out a Golden Serpent Sacred Sword, his gaze fixed on the Sacred Stone in the chest of the Weapon Refining Warrior.
As long as he was able to pick out the holy stone, the Alchemist Warrior would naturally lose his attack power.
“Pah!”
Just as the Alchemy Warrior attacked again, Zhang Ruochen stabbed out with a very precise sword, striking the edge of the Holy Stone and picking it out.
At the back, the Alchemy Warrior who had been knocked out by Zhang Ruochen earlier, struck over with a fist, hitting the back of Zhang Ruochen’s head.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t turn around, he just slapped on the hilt of the Golden Serpent Holy Sword, and instantly, the Holy Sword turned into a golden stream of light and flew backwards, striking on top of the Sacred Stone on the chest of the Alchemist Warrior.
Losing the Sacred Stone, the two Alchemy Warriors immediately let out a clicking sound and immediately shrunk into a ball, turning into two fist-sized black iron balls.
Zhang Ruochen put the black iron balls, the City Breaking Giant Axe, and the Sacred Stones, all of which were treasures, into his spatial ring.
“The battle just now will definitely startle the powerhouses in the Heaven and Earth Altar, we must leave immediately.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t dare to delay and rushed towards the stone door once again.
“Break it for me.”
The spatial rift slashed out, breaking a two-metre wide crack in the stone door.
Even the formation on the door could not block the power of space.
Escaping from the stone door, Zhang Ruochen indeed arrived at the foot of the Ancient God Mountain, before him was a wide stone road, on both sides of the road were dozens of ancient carts and savage beasts parked, and on those carts were materials for building altars.
“What people?”
Six guards in armour stood neatly on the left and right sides of the stone gate, simultaneously drawing their swords out.
Although Zhang Ruochen was wearing the Meteor Stealth Clothes, when he performed his stance, there was true qi escaping, which was why the six guards had spotted him.
The six guards, all of whom were cultivators of the Fish Dragon Realm, at the first moment, simultaneously flew off the ground and attacked Zhang Ruochen.
Each of the six of them stood in a single direction, forming a combined attack formation, and as the sword Qi surged out, they formed a sword Qi formation that covered a ten-foot radius, enveloping Zhang Ruochen.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen directly executed Sword One and swung his sword, instantly breaking the combined attack formation.
The powerful sword qi pierced through the armour of the six guards, leaving dozens of bloody holes.
Miserable screams emitted from their mouths as they flew out backwards and fell to the ground, unable to get back up.
With that sword just now, Zhang Ruochen was still very measured, merely wounding them and not injuring their lives.
“Offended!”
Zhang Ruochen stopped stopping and performed his Body Technique, quickly dashing forward.
Roughly, after sprinting forward for six hundred metres, he entered a jungle that was completely shrouded in white mist, surrounded by gigantic ancient trees that were more than two metres in diameter, like giants standing inside the mist.
“This place should be that forbidden place under the Ancient God Mountain, the Qui Mist Forest.”
It was said that the Qui Mist Forest, which was covered in white mist all year round, was a dangerous ancient jungle, and none of the cultivators who had intruded into it had been able to walk out alive.
Therefore, all of the disciples of the Two Yi Sect did not dare to approach the Qui Mist Forest.
It wasn’t until this time that Zhang Ruochen understood. It turned out that it was because the entrance to the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Stage was hidden in the depths of the Qui Mist Forest, which was why this place had been turned into a forbidden place where no one was allowed to intrude.
Xiao Hei drilled out from Zhang Ruochen’s sleeve and glanced outside, his pair of round cat eyes dripping as he said, “Something’s not right, there are very clever illusionary formations laid out in this jungle, for a while, I’m afraid we won’t be able to walk out.”
“The powerhouses in the Heaven and Earth Altar will soon catch up, if we are trapped inside the Qui Mist Forest, it’s tantamount to waiting for death.”Zhang Ruochen said.
He was quite clear that staying in the Qui Mist Forest for even just a moment longer could result in him being caught.
Suddenly, a silhouette of a person quickly rushed in from the distance.
The speed displayed by this person made even Zhang Ruochen feel inferior to himself, and with just a slight projection, he realised that even if he used all his strength to run for his life, he would definitely not be able to escape.
That person, stepped out from the fog.
Zhang Ruochen finally saw his appearance, it was none other than the Sword Pavilion’s Sixth Sword Bearer, Qi Hong.
At this moment, Qi Hong was wearing a black tight suit, and on the left side of his chest, there was a half-foot-long wound that had chopped off two of his ribs, obviously suffering from a not-so-light injury.
On Qi Hong’s face, a hideous smile appeared, saying, “Good boy, you actually managed to escape as well, really not simple.”
“Swish!”
Qi Hong quickly struck out, thick Saint Qi surged out from his palm and grabbed towards Zhang Ruochen.
