Those young martial artists of the Yunwu County Kingdom all knew that when the Ninth Prince hadn’t broken through the Xuanji Realm, he was the number one on the Yellow Ranking, with a battle strength comparable to a martial artist in the middle Xuanji Realm.
Now that the Ninth Prince had reached the Xuan Extreme Realm, his cultivation must have risen even higher, so how could Shen Mengxi be his opponent?
Because the matter of Zhang Ruochen becoming the number one on the Yellow Ranking had only been passed for two months and had not spread to other counties, Shen Mengxi naturally did not know Zhang Ruochen’s true strength.
Those young faces of the Yunwu County Kingdom all showed a few odd smiles, thinking that Shen Mengxi was out of her depth. However, none of the people pointed it out.
Zhang Ruochen stared at Shen Mengxi and said, ”Since you want to fight me, then I promise you. However, if you lose, it won’t be as simple as compensating 30,000 silver coins, but 100,000 silver coins.”
“Why?” Shen Mengxi said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “You just cursed so cheerfully, don’t you have to pay?”
“Hmph! Let alone 100,000 silver coins, even if it’s a million silver coins, so what? You can’t win against me at all!”
Shen Mengxi’s body’s true qi surged, flowing down her arm and into her palm.
His five fingers merged and coalesced into a palm blade, swinging it towards Zhang Ruochen.
Palm Blade, Human Grade Upper Grade Martial Skill.
Jiang Heng was the one who was seriously injured by Shen Mengxi’s Palm Blade move.
Just as Shen Mengxi’s Palm Blade slashed to Zhang Ruochen’s chest, Zhang Ruochen struck out at an even faster speed, his arm shook, and he backhanded a slap out, slapping Shen Mengxi’s face.
“Splat!”
A resounding slap.
Shen Mengxi flew out backwards, her body rotating three hundred and sixty degrees in midair, and with a bang, she fell to the ground.
The smiles on the faces of those young martial artists from the Four Direction County Kingdom all froze, unable to believe their eyes. There were even many who didn’t see how Shen Mengxi flew out?
The speed of Zhang Ruochen’s strike was too fast!
“You …… you ……”
Shen Mengxi’s hands propped up on the ground, raising her head with difficulty, her mouth full of blood, the left side of her face swollen, purple and red, almost like a pig’s head.
Zhang Ruochen’s slap just now was quite vicious, knocking Shen Mengxi’s teeth out all over the place and shattering her jaw and cheekbones.
At this moment, Shen Mengxi couldn’t even speak, her mouth was leaking all over.
Liu Xifeng laughed out loud, ”Well played! Shen Mengxi, this gongzi has told you long ago, telling you not to think less of yourself, with your little Taoist skill, you still want to fight with His Highness the Ninth Prince? Now that you’ve lost, hand over the 100,000 silver coins?”
“I …… I don’t …… have any.”
At this moment, Shen Mengxi even had the heart to cry, he only had a total of more than 30,000 silver coins added up on his body, how could he come up with 100,000 silver coins?
How could he not have expected that Zhang Ruochen, who was only sixteen years old, would be so powerful?
Hearing Shen Mengxi’s words, Liu Xifeng’s face sank as he walked over and stomped on top of Shen Mengxi’s palm, fiercely pressing downward, causing Shen Mengxi to let out a miserable scream like a dead pig.
Liu Chengfeng said in a threatening tone, ”The fourth prince of the seventh-rate family, Shen Family, can’t even take out 100,000 silver coins, do you think I, Liu Chengfeng, am a fool? Before you fought with His Highness the Ninth Prince, but you promised in person, and now you want to renege on your debt? Elder Xie, Elder Situ, you heard it earlier, right?”
Elder Situ’s face was a bit embarrassed, he also didn’t expect Zhang Ruochen to be that strong and actually knocked Shen Mengxi to the ground in a single move. This Shen Mengxi was also too much of a waste!
Elder Xie’s heart, however, was very happy and he couldn’t help but think highly of Zhang Ruochen for a few moments, but his face looked very serious as he said, “This matter, this Elder can testify to it. It is only natural to repay a debt.”
Liu Xifeng’s foot was still on Shen Mengxi’s palm as he laughed, “Hear that, debt repayment, heaven and earth. If you don’t take out one hundred thousand silver coins, do you believe that this gongzi will break your legs today?”
Shen Mengxi was really a bit scared, he knew that Liu Xifeng was an evil young man who could do anything, he quickly said, “There …… there …… I have silver coins… …”
Shen Mengxi hurriedly took out a purple brocade parcel from his bosom, his five fingers trembling, and handed it over to Liu Xifeng.
Liu Chengfeng opened the parcel, only to see that it contained thirty spirit crystals and hundreds of silver coins.
He closed the parcel and fiercely kicked at Shen Mengxi’s body, saying: ”Where are there 100,000 silver coins? It’s clearly only thirty thousand silver coins, how dare you deceive this gongzi?”
“Don’t dare …… don’t dare …… I only have this many silver coins, it’s already my entire property ……” Shen Mengxi kept begging for mercy.
Liu Chengfeng handed the purple brocade package to Zhang Ruochen and said, “Your Highness the Ninth Prince, he only has this many silver coins, what should we do now?”
Zhang Ruochen took the purple brocade parcel and glanced toward Shen Mengxi.
“Understood.”
As if he had already realized the meaning in Zhang Ruochen’s heart, Liu Chengfeng nodded at Zhang Ruochen and then walked over towards Shen Mengxi again, with a hint of an evil smile on his face.
“Understand? What exactly do you understand? I didn’t say anything!”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit speechless as he looked towards Liu Xifeng, wondering what exactly he understood.
Thinking that he had guessed Zhang Ruochen’s mind, Liu Chengfeng walked over to Shen Mengxi and directly snatched the True Martial Treasure Grade Battle Sword from Shen Mengxi’s back.
“Twelve inscriptions in the sword, it’s barely a fourth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon, 10,000 silver coins to collect!”
Shen Mengxi screamed and said, “I spent twenty thousand silver coins on that fourth-order True Martial Treasure Artifact grade battle sword …… ah ……”
Liu Xifeng stepped on top of Shen Mengxi’s palm again and untied a jade belt on Shen Mengxi’s waist, “Sea Stone Jade Belt, worth eight hundred silver coins.”
“Second rank True Martial Treasure Artifact grade Heart Protector, worth two thousand silver coins.”
……
All the treasures on Shen Mengxi’s body were searched by Liu Xifeng, even her clothes were pulled off and her boots were removed.
“Add it all up and count you twenty thousand silver coins. You still owe His Highness the Ninth Prince 50,000 silver coins, so you’ll write an IOU first!”
Liu Chengfeng ripped off the last piece of clothing on Shen Mengxi’s body, bit Shen Mengxi’s index finger, and forced Shen Mengxi to write an IOU in blood on top of that piece of clothing.
“This …… is what he comprehended?”
Black lines rose on Zhang Ruochen’s forehead, worthy of being a vicious young man, his methods were too extreme.
In his heart, he could only sigh a sigh of relief that evil people have their own evil people to grind.
When dealing with someone like Shen Mengxi, one could only rule him into submission by using only extraordinary means.
Prince Huo Xing of the Four Direction County Kingdom’s face was very gloomy as he said, ”Enough! Ninth Prince, you’re really doing something desperate. Shen Mengxi is a martial artist of my Four Directions County Kingdom, even if he owes you 100,000 silver coins, he shouldn’t humiliate him like this, right?”
Zhang Ruochen felt puzzled, from the beginning to the end, it was Liu Xifeng who was humiliating Shen Mengxi, it had nothing to do with him at all, okay?
Liu Chengfeng folded up the debt note and handed it to Zhang Ruochen, saying in a low voice, “Your Highness, the Ninth Prince, you have to be careful! Prince Huo Xing was a Yellow Ranked Martial Artist when he was in the Yellow Extremity Realm, and now his cultivation has reached the late Xuan Extremity Realm, and he has a royal treasure weapon on his body, so he’s a very tough and ruthless character to deal with.”
Zhang Ruochen naturally wasn’t a fearful person and took a step forward, saying, “Prince Huo Xing, is it possible that you only allow your Four Directions County Kingdom to humiliate our Yunwu County Kingdom’s martial artists and not allow us to fight back?”
Prince Huo Xing smiled coldly and said, “The strong can naturally humiliate the weak.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “Since that’s the case, it doesn’t seem wrong for us to humiliate the martial artists of the Four Directions County Kingdom?”
“So what if I let you guys be complacent for a while? At tomorrow’s Academy Palace Examination, this prince will make you all pay back with interest. This year, no young martial artists from the Yunwu County Kingdom will ever think that a single one of them will be able to enter the Martial City Academy Palace.” Prince Huo Xing scanned the dozens of Yunwu County Kingdom’s martial artists on the opposite side of the room, a cold snort escaping his mouth.
A trace of coldness flashed in Prince Huo Xing’s eyes, already moving to kill Zhang Ruochen.
Afterward, two martial artists from the Four Directions County Kingdom assisted Shen Mengxi down.
Liu Chengfeng looked at those martial artists from the Four Directions County Kingdom who retreated into the distance and said with some concern, ”The situation is not good! I’m afraid we’ll be in quite a bit of danger for tomorrow’s Academy Palace Exam!”
Zhang Ruochen said, “The Academy Palace Exam allows killing?”
Liu Chengfeng said, “On the surface, martial artists taking the exams, of course, cannot kill each other. However, every year, the first round of the School Palace Exam takes place in the Heavenly Demon Ridge, and at that time, those martial artists from the Four Direction Prefectures will definitely kill us.”
Zi Xi, who was standing at the side, holding her battle sword, her eyes staring at those young martial artists from the Four Directions County Kingdom in the distance, said in a cold voice, “If they want to drive us to extinction at the time of the Academy Palace Examination, why can’t we kill them back?”
Zhang Ruochen slightly glanced sideways towards Zixi.
He knew that Zixi’s cultivation was extremely high, having reached the Xuanji Realm’s Minor Extreme Position, but he had not expected that as a woman, she would have such a tough side, which was rare.
Liu Xifeng heatedly smiled and said, “If Miss Zi is willing to make a move, naturally, she would be able to kill those young martial artists from the Four Direction County Kingdom to death.”
Zi Xie glanced faintly at Liu Xifeng, then, staring at Zhang Ruochen, she said, “Ninth Prince, if you and I were to join forces, we could definitely deal a devastating blow to the young martial artists of the Sifang County Kingdom. It’s about time for the Yunwu County Kingdom to pay them back for all the pent-up anger they’ve suffered over the years.”
If Zixi wanted to assassinate Zhang Ruochen, she naturally had to approach Zhang Ruochen first and gain his trust. Only by finding out Zhang Ruochen’s secrets would she have a chance to kill him.
Zhang Ruochen revealed a thoughtful expression!
Liu Xifeng once again intervened before Zhang Ruochen and Zi Xie and said, “Miss Zi, you must not underestimate those young martial artists of the Four Directions County Kingdom, according to reliable intelligence, they have at least three Xuan Extreme Realm Minor Extreme Position powerhouses, and more than a dozen Xuan Extreme Realm Late Stage martial artists. If you really go hard against them, it’s like hitting a stone with an egg.”
Zixi used her sword to set aside Liu Xifeng, looking very cold. Her pair of beautiful eyes were still waiting for Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen gently stroked his chin, stared at Zixi, and laughed, “Since Miss Zi is so bold, this prince will naturally accompany him to the end. It’s time to make the Four Direction County Kingdom pay some price for tomorrow’s School Palace Examination!”
