“Boo!”
The two powerful forces, crashed together, forming a violent hedge.
All the leaves, all of them, turned into pieces.
That one martial artist from the Four Direction County Kingdom retreated more than ten steps backward in a row before he could barely stabilise his footsteps, as if he had been hit by a sledgehammer on his chest, the blood and qi in his body rolled over, and he had suffered a not-so-light internal injury.
On the contrary, Zhang Ruochen was still standing on the same spot, appearing breezy, even the corners of his clothes were not damaged.
“How is it possible? How could a martial artist at the early stage of the Xuanji Realm be so powerful?” The one martial artist from the Four Direction County Kingdom covered his chest and stared unbelievably at Zhang Ruochen, who was standing on the opposite side.
Zi Xi walked out from behind that one martial artist and said, “Don’t you know that he was once the number one on the Yellow List of the Yunwu County Kingdom? Ignorance, too, is a sin.”
“There are still strong people?”
That one martial artist from the Four Directions County Kingdom’s face changed as a word surfaced in his heart.
Flee!
He immediately executed a body martial skill, his paws stepping on the ground as his body violently rushed out, his speed surprisingly fast at thirty-two metres per second.
However, Zhang Ruochen’s speed was even faster, quickly catching up with him, a finger pointing out and striking above the third bone of the spine of that one martial artist’s vest.
“Boom!”
That martial artist screamed miserably as his entire body went limp and fell to the ground.
“You …… you wasted my Midheaven Vein ……” That one martial artist lay on the ground, his whole body trembling as he stared resentfully at Zhang Ruochen.
A martial artist, if the Middle Heavenly Vein in his spine was abolished, then in the future, it would be impossible for his cultivation to make any progress, and he would be considered half an invalid.
“Pfft!”
Zixi swung her sword out, chopping off the head of that one martial artist, red blood, gushing out from the neck.
“You ……”
Zhang Ruochen stared at Zi Xi and said, “His Middle Heavenly Vein has been abolished, he is no longer qualified to be a student of the Martial City Palace, it is impossible for him to threaten us anymore, so why bother killing him?”
Zixi coldly withdrew her sword and said, “He was able to cultivate to the late Xuanji realm at such a young age, he must have a not-so-small force behind him. If he doesn’t die, he will definitely retaliate against us.”
Zhang Ruochen was actually speechless.
Honestly speaking, there was actually nothing wrong with Zixi doing this. It was only that Zhang Ruochen felt that the other party’s offence was not to the point of death, and having his Midheaven Vein wasted was already a great punishment for a martial artist.
Zixi seized twenty-one Spirit Crystals, five hundred silver coins, and a box containing a beast’s eye from that one martial artist’s body.
She opened the box, and on her pretty face, a joyful look appeared, “Six Beast Eyes, equivalent to three Second Stage Inferior Savage Beasts.”
Zixi immediately put away that one box, then she glanced towards Zhang Ruochen and said, “You’re a prince, so you shouldn’t be short of money, right?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Not lacking.”
“In that case, I’ll take the spirit crystals and silver coins he’s carrying!” Zixi was very nonchalant and took away all twenty-one spirit crystals and five hundred silver coins.
Zhang Ruochen was a bit curious and said, “Are you very short of money?”
Zixi said solemnly, “Without cultivation resources, even the most gifted martial artist will not become a strong one. If you want cultivation resources, you naturally need to spend a lot of coins to buy them. Of course, high and mighty princes like you, who have never lacked cultivation resources from birth, simply can’t appreciate the importance of coins for cultivation.”
“His battle sword, belongs to you.”
Zixi kicked up the third grade True Martial Treasure Artifact grade battle knife in the corpse’s hand and flew towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen took over the battle and without the slightest bit of politeness, stowed the battle knife into his spatial ring.
Zixie’s eyes were slightly astonished as she stared at the ring on Zhang Ruochen’s finger and said in surprise, “Spatial treasure?”
“Right!”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t hide anything and said, “If you want it, I can give it to you?”
Zhang Ruochen removed the white ring carved with phoenix patterns and handed it to Zixi, smiling, “Honestly, this space ring has too many patterns, it’s a bit more suitable for a woman to wear!”
Zhang Ruochen felt that it didn’t matter, anyway, it was just a spatial ring, and, it was still half-finished, so even if he gave it away, it wouldn’t hurt. Big deal, he would refine another one in a few days.
In Zixi’s view it was completely different, a spatial treasure that was definitely worth a lot of money and very rare.
“He actually gave it to me for nothing? Could it be that this Ninth Prince is really a bit stupid?”
Zixie stared Avray at Zhang Ruochen, but realised that Zhang Ruochen had a faint smile on his face, and it seemed that he was really going to give her the spatial ring.
Zixie gave Zhang Ruochen a cold glance and did not bother to take the spatial ring in Zhang Ruochen’s hand, saying, “Don’t you know that a man is not allowed to give a woman a ring at will?”
After saying this, Zi Xi walked over to the side of that one Silver Dragon Lion and dug out a piece of three taels of spirit meat from the Silver Dragon Lion’s body.
Zhang Ruochen’s hand stretched out in mid-air and was slightly stunned, then he laughed, “I’m just looking at the fact that you’re carrying too many things, so I’m just gifting you a spatial ring to store your belongings, so where did you think of that? Besides, I’m only sixteen, okay, how could I possibly have other intentions towards you?”
Zixie’s eyes turned colder as she tossed the spirit meat inside the Silver Dragon Lion to Zhang Ruochen and stretched out a hand, saying, “Bring that piece of spatial treasure for me to take a look at.”
Zhang Ruochen took the spirit meat and handed over the spatial ring to Zi Xi’s hand.
“How do I use it?” Zixi asked.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Just inject your True Qi into the ring.”
Zixi injected her true qi into the spatial ring, and a faint layer of white light immediately surfaced on the surface of the spatial ring.
She stuck her hand into the spatial ring and found that the inner space in the spatial ring was not large, only the size of a small house, and not like those spatial treasures in the legends that could fit large mountains and take away the heavens and the earth.
However, using the spatial ring to store her belongings was completely sufficient.
Zi Xie naturally liked this spatial ring very much and could not return it to Zhang Ruochen. Her beautiful eyes stared towards Zhang Ruochen and said, “What are you going to do if you give the spatial ring to me?”
“I naturally have other spatial treasures!”
Zhang Ruochen had a faint smile on his face as he took out all the items from that one spatial ring and put them into the inner space of the spatial crystal stone.
Zixi reaccepted the spatial ring and placed one item after another from her body into it, and soon, she became empty-handed, with only a phoenix pattern jade ring remaining in her jade hand.
“Worthy of being a spatial treasure, it’s truly marvellous!” Zixi pinched the spatial ring, the more she looked at it, the more she liked it.
Afterwards, she took out thirty spirit crystals from the spatial ring and handed them to Zhang Ruochen, saying, “I don’t want your spatial ring for nothing, thirty spirit crystals, here you go.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “If you were to sell it, that one spatial ring would have to be sold for at least two hundred spirit crystals.”
Zixi’s eyes went cold as she looked at the spatial ring in her hand and said, “If you want to sell it for two hundred Spirit Crystals, this one spatial ring, I don’t want it!”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “If I were selling it to you, it would naturally be two hundred Spirit Crystals. But I’m giving it away for nothing, so naturally I don’t want a single silver coin.”
“You ……”
Zixi clenched a mouthful of crystalline shell teeth and said, “Good! I’ll take it! Why did you send me such an expensive thing?”
Zhang Ruochen continued to walk forwards and said indifferently, “Fate.”
Zixi said, “Aren’t you afraid that I’ll kill you and snatch all the other treasures from you?”
Zhang Ruochen glanced at her and said, “Those who are gracious and revengeful are a minority after all, there are still more good people in this world after all. I don’t believe I’m that unlucky to be met …… by me What are you doing?”
Zixi’s sword, sheathed at an unknown time, was pointed above Zhang Ruochen’s neck. All that was needed was for her to make a slight stroke forward, and Zhang Ruochen’s head would fly out.
Zhang Ruochen stared at Zixi, not panicking and very calm.
He secretly injected his True Qi into his Soul Vein and released his Martial Soul, forming a spatial domain within a ten-metre radius.
As long as Zixi dared to make a move, Zhang Ruochen would be able to go out in a faster manner and kill her.
Zixi did not notice the spatial domain, and with a few struggling looks in her eyes, she stared Avray at Zhang Ruochen, put her sword back, and said, ”I just want to tell you, Your Highness the Ninth Prince, that you are too naive! People’s hearts are treacherous, and you can’t be too careful in guarding against others. Have you always been cultivating in the royal palace and have never gone out to practice?”
Zixi retrieved her sword, and Zhang Ruochen dispersed his spatial domain as well, saying indifferently, “That’s right!”
Zixi was very speechless and didn’t bother to pay attention to Zhang Ruochen as she said, “Let’s continue to hunt the martial artists of the Four Direction County States!”
Zhang Ruochen stared at Zixi’s back, his finger stroked his chin, revealing a hint of a smile, “The way she used to strike her sword is exactly the same as the assassin of the Hellmouth Sect, Chen Libing, and only a professional assassin could possibly train their sense of hearing and smell to the same degree as her. It seems that my guess was right, she really is also a killer of the Hellmouth Sect.”
Zhang Ruochen was someone who had already died once, so how could he still be as naive as before?
From the moment Zixi intentionally approached him, he had already started to be vigilant, he just wasn’t sure that Zixi was an assassin of the Earth Sect.
After continuous probing, Zhang Ruochen was finally able to determine Zixi’s identity.
Even if she was an assassin of the Hellmouth Sect, Zhang Ruochen was not afraid in the slightest, taking it as a training for himself.
“Miss Zi, wait a minute, why are you walking so fast?”
Zhang Ruochen immediately chased after her.
The first round of exams was a total of three days.
Before dark on the first day, Zhang Ruochen and Zi Xi encountered two more martial artists from the Four Direction County Kingdom. The results were obvious, those two martial artists, all of them died under Zi Xi’s sword.
The beast eyes, crystals, and silver coins were collected by Zixi.
The weapons of the two martial artists and the pills on their bodies all went to Zhang Ruochen.
“It’s nightfall, so I can finally have a good rest.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Zixi blankly glanced at Zhang Ruochen and said, “After nightfall, most of the martial artists have the same idea as you, looking for a safe place and preparing to rest. Therefore, this time is the best time for us to hunt them. Tonight, we have to kill at least twenty martial artists from the Four Directions County Kingdom before we can be considered to have completed our mission.”
“Where is the mission?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Zixi said, “We gave ourselves the mission. The Four Direction County Kingdom not only robbed the mines of the Yunwu County Kingdom, but also took away seven cities of the Yunwu County Kingdom, and I don’t know how many soldiers and subjects died tragically. Don’t you want to avenge them? Prince Huo Xing, let slip that he wanted to kill you, don’t you want to kill him? Don’t you want to give the Four Directions County Kingdom a painful lesson?”
Zhang Ruochen was actually speechless.
After a long time, Zhang Ruochen said, “Let’s battle!”
