Zhang Ruochen and Zixi sped through the crisis-ridden dense forest, searching for traces of the Sifang County’s martial artists.
In the night, a mournful scream was heard from time to time.
“Who …… are you guys …… ah ……”
“I am the son of Grand General Wei Wu of the Four Square County State …… you …… poof ……”
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The martial artists of the Four Direction County State were originally still plotting to snipe the martial artists of the Yunwu County State, wanting to teach the martial artists of the Yunwu County State a painful lesson. However, they were killed by two mysterious people first.
Overnight, there was a bloody storm.
Zixi’s secret tracking technique and sense of smell were very powerful, even if the martial artists of the Four Directions County Kingdom hid themselves as stealthily as possible, they would eventually be found by her.
By midnight, Zixi had already killed eight martial artists, and even the purple clothes she was wearing were dyed red and turned into bloody clothes.
Zhang Ruochen was not averse to killing, however, he himself would not kill easily, and even if he had to, it would be those he felt deserved to die.
“Eight people have been killed, twelve more to go.”
Zixi carried her bloody sword, intending to continue to hunt the martial artists of the Four Direction County Kingdom.
“Danger!”
Zhang Ruochen grabbed Zixi’s fragrant shoulder and dragged her backwards by three metres.
“Swish!”
A purple thunderous arrow flew through the void and impacted on top of a thousand-pound boulder not far away.
With a loud bang, the thousand-pound boulder split into pieces.
If Zhang Ruochen hadn’t stepped in to drag her away, that arrow would have pierced through her skull just now.
Cold sweat broke out on Zixi’s vest as she glanced at Zhang Ruochen with a grateful look, then, her eyes looked towards the direction where the Thunder Shocking Arrow flew out just now and said, ”What a powerful archery technique, it almost killed even me. Among the young martial artists of the Four Direction County Kingdom, there is only one person who possesses such archery skills. The Wind Family, Feng Zhiyi.”
The Wind Family was one of the eight seventh-rate families of the Four Direction County Country, famous for their archery skills in the Nine Counties of Lingxi, and was known as the “Archery Family”.
Feng Zhiyi was one of the Feng Family’s top archery geniuses, at only twenty-four years old, he had already reached the Xuanji Realm’s Small Extreme Position. Moreover, he had cultivated the Dao of Archery to the Suicidal Heart Stage.
One must know that amongst the young martial artists of the Four Directions County, there were only three who had cultivated to the Xuanji Realm’s Small Extreme Level.
In the darkness, a man’s voice was heard, saying, ”Worthy of being the number one expert of the young generation of the Yunwu County Kingdom, you actually knew it was me. However, what surprises me even more is Your Highness the Ninth Prince, I am very curious, how did you detect that I was hiding in the dark?”
Feng Zhiyi was naturally very surprised because, in the same realm, there was almost no one who could avoid his surefire arrow.
What’s more, that arrow just now was a sneak attack.
Zhang Ruochen naturally wouldn’t tell him that he possessed strong spiritual power.
Zhang Ruochen unleashed his Spatial Domain, enveloping a ten-metre radius in it to prevent Feng Zhiyi from shooting the Thunderstorm Arrow again. He said, “Your archery skills are too poor, of course it’s impossible to hit us.”
“You’re the first person who dares to mock our Wind Family’s poor archery skills! Don’t you know that in the battle of Mo River two years ago, it was my grandfather who used the Zhen Deer Bow and the Open Tablet Arrow to injure your father, County King Yunwu? Haha!” Feng Zhiyi laughed out loud, “It’s just a pity that that arrow was slightly off, otherwise, it would have already taken County King Yunwu’s dog’s life!”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes sank as he said, “You seem to be very accomplished?”
Feng Zhiyi laughed, “That’s natural, because my grandfather shot and wounded the Yunwu County King, the Great King rewarded our Feng Family with a city and 80,000 slaves.”
“You have to know that that one city was once the city of the Yunwu County Kingdom. Those eighty thousand slaves were once the people of the Yunwu County Kingdom. As long as the Sifang County Kingdom destroys the Yunwu County Kingdom, our Wind Family will receive more rewards, and at that time, even you will only be a slave of our Wind Family. If I tell you to bark like a dog, you wouldn’t dare to bark like a human.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Are you trying to provoke me and then look for a break in me?”
“Haha! So what if I provoke you? Can you kill me?” Feng Zhiyi laughed.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Since that’s the case, then I’ll kill someone today to try.”
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen took out the Flashing Soul Sword and cupped it in his hand as he rushed into the dark jungle at an extremely fast speed.
In just a breath’s time, Zhang Ruochen found Feng Zhiyi, who was hidden in the darkness.
Feng Zhiyi naturally did not expect Zhang Ruochen’s speed to be so fast, and with a slight shock in his heart, he immediately bent his bow and shot three arrows in a row.
The Feng Clan’s Human Grade Upper Grade Martial Skill, Triple Crack Cloud Breaking Arrow.
The three thunderous arrows were like three purple streams of light that flew out at a rapid speed.
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen swung his sword three times in a row, and three sword shadows appeared in the air as all three Thunderstorm Arrows were picked off.
“How is that possible?”
Feng Zhiyi was confident in his archery skills, shooting three arrows in a row under such a close distance, even a martial artist at the middle extreme position of the Xuanji Realm would not be able to dodge them all.
However, Zhang Ruochen not only didn’t dodge them, but instead picked all three arrows off.
Even Zixi, who had caught up, was stunned by the scene just now. Even she did not dare to guarantee that she would block all three of Feng Zhiyi’s arrows within twenty metres.
They naturally didn’t know that Zhang Ruochen possessed a spatial domain, and when Feng Zhiyi’s three arrows entered within ten metres of Zhang Ruochen, Zhang Ruochen was able to easily see the flight trajectories of the three arrows. It was naturally not difficult to pick off the three Thunderbolt Arrows.
After Zhang Ruochen picked the three arrows off, he did not stop for half a second and continued to rush over.
In an instant, Zhang Ruochen had rushed to Feng Zhiyi’s front, his arm rested flat and he stabbed out with his sword.
The sword intent of the Sword Follows the Heart high level erupted out, Zhang Ruochen was simply like a sword god possessing his body, and a half a zhang high sword aura appeared above the blade of his sword.
Feng Zhiyi no longer had the chance to shoot the Thunderbolt Arrow, so he used his bow as a weapon and slashed horizontally towards Zhang Ruochen.
Knowing that he was a martial artist of the Xuan Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Position, how could he be afraid of a martial artist of the early Xuan Extremity Realm?
“Boom!”
A strike was exchanged, and both of them retreated at the same time.
Feng Zhiyi looked at his slashed wrist, his face changed slightly as he said, “What a powerful sword technique, if it was a late Xuanji realm martial artist, he would probably have already had his arm chopped off by you.”
“Your Wind Family has obtained a city in our Yunwu County Kingdom, I will now send one of the Wind Family’s geniuses to hell first.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Feng Zhiyi sneered, “Even the Yunwu County King was almost shot by my grandfather, what are you? It was just a momentary carelessness on my part just now, now, the battle has just begun.”
Just as the word “beginning” fell, Feng Zhiyi’s mouth spat out a silver-coloured fine needle.
The silver-coloured fine needle, out of the blue, flew towards Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
Once pierced through the heart, he would surely die.
Who would have thought that Feng Zhiyi had a needle hidden in his mouth?
If it was any other martial artist, even if it was a martial artist in the middle extreme position of the Xuanji realm, he would probably die from his assassination.
However, he had met Zhang Ruochen, and when the silver-coloured fine needle flew within ten metres of Zhang Ruochen, Zhang Ruochen had already sensed the danger and immediately swung his sword to block it.
The silver-coloured needle flew out backwards, narrowly flying past Feng Zhiyi’s neck, leaving a shallow bloodstain.
Feng Zhiyi touched the bloodstain on the side of his neck and was even more surprised, “You actually blocked my flicking tongue arrow?”
The so-called tongue flicking arrow refers to using the tongue to flick the arrow hidden in the mouth to achieve the effect of surprise. Between words, it could kill someone.
Flicking She Arrow, a secret technique of the Feng Family, was said to be a case of no surprise, and was often able to kill martial artists whose cultivation was higher than his own.
“You take a sword from me and try it too!”
“Heavenly Heart Breaking Plum!”
Zhang Ruochen stepped on the pace and stabbed out with his sword.
The gorgeous sword light, split into seven, was almost like a plum blossom blooming in the void.
Feng Zhiyi retreated back and forth, but no matter how much he retreated, the seven sword beams just followed him like shadows, getting closer and closer to him.
Feng Zhiyi finally managed to panic, his eyes widened as he said, “Spirit level sword skill …… you ……”
“Poof!”
Seven sword qi, simultaneously pierced through Feng Zhiyi’s eyebrows and went through his head, flying out of the back of Feng Zhiyi’s head.
A tiny blood-red plum blossom appeared in the centre of Feng Zhiyi’s eyebrows. Seven drops of blood overflowed from the centre of his eyebrows, like the stamen and six petals of a plum blossom.
Zhang Ruochen took the Flashing Soul Sword back into its scabbard and walked over, using the scabbard to make a point on Feng Zhiyi’s chest.
“Boom!”
Feng Zhiyi’s body, straight down.
Zixi stood not far away, staring at Zhang Ruochen’s back, a long breath exhaling from her mouth for a long time before she said, “I thought you wouldn’t be able to kill!”
Zhang Ruochen said, “If I don’t kill him, he will kill me, what can be done? Besides, you heard it earlier, it was him who wanted to seek death, is it my fault?”
Zixi said, “You were only at the early stage of the Xuan Extremity Realm when you were able to kill a Xuan Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position martial artiste, with your natural talent, you will definitely be able to become a Xuan Ranking martial artiste if you don’t get killed.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “It’s mainly because Feng Zhiyi is an expert in the Arrow Dao, which is suitable for long-distance battles and not for close-range battles. In a close range battle, his strength would be equivalent to a late Xuan Extreme Realm martial artist.”
Zixi also nodded, if she were to fight Feng Zhiyi at close range, she was also certain that she would be able to kill Feng Zhiyi within three moves.
“Feng Zhiyi was a top genius of the Feng Family, spending many resources to cultivate him, the Feng Family had high hopes for him. If he dies in the exams of the Martial City Academy, those old men of the Feng family will definitely be furious.” Zixi said.
Zhang Ruochen crouched down and retrieved a box from Feng Zhiyi’s body. The box contained eight beast eyes, which were equivalent to four second-order inferior savage beasts.
“I only need to collect ten Beast Eyes to pass the first round of exams, and now I’m only two short.” Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly, not psychologically resisting because of his first kill.
Zhang Ruochen’s psychological quality was stronger than many Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artists.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen retrieved thirty-two spirit crystals and a two-star VIP card from Feng Zhiyi’s body.
One had to have saved at least 100,000 silver coins in the Martial Market Money Bank to have a 2-star VIP card.
“Worthy of being a genius from a sixth-rate family, really rich.”
Even if Zhang Ruochen obtained a 2-star VIP card, it would be useless because, in order to use the 2-star VIP card, one had to put a drop of one’s own blood on the card in order to unlock the special prohibition on the card.
Only by unlocking the prohibition could one bring up silver coins at the Martial Market Money Bank.
Even if Zhang Ruochen collected some of Feng Zhiyi’s blood now, it would be useless, after all, Feng Zhiyi was already dead and the blood would soon lose its activity. Once the blood was inactive, it would unlock the prohibition on the VIP card.
Seeing the 2-star VIP card in Zhang Ruochen’s hand, Zixi said, “Using the blood of Feng Zhiyi’s direct blood relatives can also unlock the VIP card’s prohibition! As far as I know, one of Feng Zhiyi’s biological elder brothers is cultivating in the outer palace of the Martial City Palace of Learning and is also a genius powerhouse.”
“In that case, let’s put it away for now!” Zhang Ruochen put away that one 2-star VIP card.
One hundred thousand silver coins was also a considerable fortune for him.
