Zhang Ruochen landed next to the remains of the Xuan Gui Sword Saint, took out the Ruyi Treasure Vase, and put the Holy Soul and Blood Qi of Half-Saint Xin Feng into the vase.
The Half-Saint’s holy soul and blood qi were able to condense into the “Half-Saint’s Light”, which could be called the Half-Saint’s inheritance, so it was naturally an extraordinary treasure.
If it could be collected, it couldn’t be wasted.
As for Half-Saint Xin Lei, he had already been swallowed by the spatial rift and transferred into the void space, and his divine form was extinguished, so there was no Saint Soul left behind.
Zhang Ruochen reclaimed the Ruyi Treasure Vase and held it in his palm as he stared over towards Feng Han.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was full of spirituality, and sensing the killing intent on Zhang Ruochen’s body, it also gently trembled, emitting a piercing “clang” sound.
Tessie Half-Saint and Xin Yu Half-Saint immediately converged behind Feng Han, and the distance between the three Half-Saints was kept within three zhang, forming a hand in each other’s direction.
The Saint Qi emanating from the three Half-Saints also converged together, forming a flawless defence. If Zhang Ruochen wanted to attack any of them, the other two would be able to strike back at the first opportunity.
The Tessie Half-Saint revealed a worried expression as he solemnly said, ”Sixth Prince, the battle just now caused quite a commotion, and it has most likely already alerted the powerhouses of the Two Element Sect. Old me thinks that our first priority is to bring back the Monstrous Sword to avoid any accidents.”
Feng Han carefully projected that with his cultivation, it was not difficult to defeat Zhang Ruochen. However, to kill Zhang Ruochen or capture him alive was as difficult as heaven.
If he was entangled by Zhang Ruochen and couldn’t get away, it would be quite unfavourable for him when the powerhouses of the Two Yi Sect arrived.
Upon hearing the words of the Taisi Half-Saint, Feng Han thought briefly before nodding and saying, “Give me the Heavenly Monstrous Sword, I’ll bring it back and personally hand it over to Father.”
The Tessie Half-Saint handed Feng Han the Monstrous Sky Sword, stared at the Xin Yu Half-Saint, and said, “Xin Yu Half-Saint, you escort the Sixth Prince away, and I will stop this brat for you.”
“Be careful, the spatial power that this son is exerting is quite bizarre.”Xin Yu Half-Saint said.
The Tessie Half-Saint let out a laugh and said, “Old me’s realm has already reached the early stage of a Second Order Half-Saint, even if I can’t win against him, I’ll still be able to retreat calmly.”
The gap between a first-order Half-Saint and a second-order Half-Saint was like the gap between the Ninth Transformation of the Fish Dragon and a first-order Half-Saint, it could be considered quite huge. The four great Half-Saints, Xin Feng, Xin Lei, Xin Yun, and Xin Yu, joined forces and performed a combined attack formation before they could separate themselves from the Tessie Half-Saint.
Of course, although there was a huge difference in the strength of the Half-Saints, there were many means of preserving their lives, and the difference in speed wasn’t too great. Thus, even if a Half Saint was not as strong as another Half Saint, as long as he did not fall into the other party’s Holy Soul Domain, he would mostly be able to escape.
Trying to kill a Half-Saint was never an easy task.
Zhang Ruochen, however, was on the contrary a Half Saint Killer, as he was able to mobilise the power of time and space, and within a certain distance, even if a Half Saint wanted to escape, he would not be able to do so.
“Feng Han, you are at least a Half-Saint, and you are ready to run away without even fighting a battle?”
When Zhang Ruochen saw Feng Han and Half-Saint Xin Yu retreating with the Monstrous Heavenly Sword, he was immediately about to chase after them to intercept them.
“Seal the Sky and Lock the Earth Formation.”
The Tessie Half-Saint stood behind Feng Han and took out a crimson ancient jade disc with a diameter of one foot. With a slap of his palm, he knocked the ancient jade disc out and flew it into the air above Zhang Ruochen’s head.
In the ancient jade disc, densely packed formation inscriptions emerged and quickly surged out in all directions.
“Wow…”
Eighteen bowl-thick flame pillars flew out from the interior of the Ancient Jade Disk, transforming into the shape of chains, connecting to the ground and spreading out in Zhang Ruochen’s eighteen directions, confining him in the formation.
Zhang Ruochen mobilised his spatial power and performed a spatial shift, wanting to use the power of space to directly rush out of the formation.
However, when he reappeared, he did not rush out of the formation. Instead, he appeared at the edge of the formation and was about to collide with a flame chain, making the situation quite critical.
“Giggle!”
A wave of scorching hot air poured out.
Despite the accident, Zhang Ruochen’s reaction speed was extremely fast, immediately blocking across his sword, causing the sword to collide with the flaming chain.
“Boom.”
Zhang Ruochen flew backward and landed back in the centre of the formation.
The power of the formation was quite terrifying, and the high temperatures that erupted from the flame chains roasted the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword to redness as well, dropping grains of sparks.
It could be imagined that once a collision with the flame chains occurred, even a Half Saint’s physical body would suffer heavy damage.
The Tessie Half-Saint stood at the periphery of the formation and laughed out loud, ”Zhang Ruochen, so what even if you are able to mobilise the power of space? The power of the formation is capable of distorting space to a certain extent.”
“The Heaven Sealing and Earth Locking Formation, a sixth grade formation, is extremely subtle and complex, even a third rank Half-Saint would need a day and a night to break the formation open. Your control of spatial power is obviously still at a rather shallow level, how can you break the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Formation?”
The difficulty of laying out a Sixth Grade Formation was no less than building a city, it was a vast undertaking.
Even if a Sixth Grade Formation Master personally led a team, with dozens of lower grade formation masters, operating together, it would still take a month to lay out a Sixth Grade Formation.
Trying to take a Sixth Grade Formation and refine it into a Formation Saint Artifact would be even more difficult.
Not only would one need to search for precious materials to refine the holy artefact that would carry the formation, but also, one would need to spend even more time engraving formation inscriptions.
A Sixth Grade Formation Master would probably need three to five years to successfully refine a Formation Saint Artifact.
Even so, the power of a formation set up using a Formation Saint Artifact was greatly reduced, and could not be compared to a Sixth Grade City Protection Formation or a Sixth Grade Clan Protection Formation.
The only advantage was that it could be carried around, and the formation could be set up at any time.
The value of a Sixth Grade Formation Saint Artifact was several times more precious than a normal Hundred Lines Saint Artifact.
Zhang Ruochen’s face did not change as he said, “The Heaven Sealing and Earth Locking Formation is indeed infinitely powerful, but I’m afraid it’s not that easy for you to trap me.”
“Is it? I would like to see how you can break the formation?”The old face of the Tessie Half-Saint revealed a sinister smile, appearing very calm and self-satisfied.
If, a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Realm could also break the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Formation.
Could the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Formation still be called a Sixth Grade Formation?
“From the inside, it is indeed very difficult to want the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Formation. But what about breaking the formation from the outside?”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Tessie Half-Saint said, “Not a bad idea, but, can you get out of the formation?”
“After getting out of the formation, do I still need to break the formation?”
Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes, his fingers pinched out the Sword Technique, and a powerful Sword Intent erupted from his body, transforming into an invisible Qi that rushed out of the Sealing Heaven Locking Earth Formation, extending all the way to a hundred miles away.
The Heaven Sealing and Earth Locking Formation was able to trap the cultivators in the formation, but it could not trap the invisible and intangible sword intent.
One must know that Zhang Ruochen had already reached the realm of “Human Sword Unity”, and how powerful his own sword intent was.
Empowered by the sword intent, all the leaves of the trees and grasses in the mountain forest were covered with a layer of white light and trembled, causing the tips of the leaves to be like swords, pointing in the direction of the Heavenly Locking Earth Formation.
Tessie Half-Saint’s eyes swept the four directions, and his face changed violently, ”Once the sword intent comes out, everything is a sword. The realm of human sword unity, how is this …… possible? That is, a realm that only a Sword Saint has.”
If it wasn’t for the fact that the Tessie Half-Saint was able to clearly feel that the sword intent, was emanating from Zhang Ruochen’s body. I’m afraid that one would have to wonder if there was a Sword Saint hiding nearby.
During the Sword Discussion Conference, Zhang Ruochen was able to kill the Xuanlong Half-Saint using a single hair. From this, it could be seen that his attainments in the Dao of the Sword had reached a profound realm.
The cultivation level of the Taisi Half-Saint was even weaker than the Xuanlong Half-Saint.
Even if, the Taisi Half-Saint had the assistance of the Heaven Sealing and Earth Locking Formation, Zhang Ruochen did not fear him at all.
Sensing that it was not good, the Taisi Half-Saint stopped waiting and began to control the formation, initiating an attack, preparing to exterminate Zhang Ruochen as fast as possible.
With both of his hands, he simultaneously pushed forward.
In the palms of his hands, two pillars of holy qi surged out, sending a steady stream of thick holy qi into the ancient jade disc.
The Ancient Jade Disk spun up quickly, and with a clatter, a pillar of flame rushed out from the centre of the disk, striking downwards sharply.
“Boom!”
With just one blow, the centre of the formation was struck with a large pit that was too deep to see the bottom. Around the large pit, the soil and rocks completely melted, turning into drops of crimson magma.
It was fortunate that Zhang Ruochen had dodged first, otherwise, with his cultivation, he definitely wouldn’t have been able to block that strike just now.
The Ancient Jade Disc spun up again, preparing to strike the second blow.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes sank as he spat out a sound wave from his mouth and said, “Imperial Sword.”
“Swish swish.”
In this mountain forest, all the leaves and blades of grass, all of them flew up and rushed into the sky, transforming into densely packed black dots. All the black dots, converging together, transformed into a huge black cloud, blocking out the moon in the sky.
In the next moment, in the air, a dense sound of breaking wind resounded.
Leaves of trees and blades of grass flew down in a rush, continuously impacting towards the Tessie Half-Saint and the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Formation. Because of the extreme speed and the sword intent, ordinary tree leaves and grass leaves were also transformed into murderous weapons.
A leaf that struck the ground could pierce a foot deep into the ground.
“Boom boom.”
The cultivation of the Tessie Half-Saint was very powerful, and the defence of the Heaven Sealing Earth Locking Formation was also extraordinary, before the tree leaves could even get close to the past, they were shattered into wood dust by a powerful holy qi.
“Your sword intent, as powerful as it is, can’t kill a Half-Saint with just tree leaves.”The Tessie Half-Saint roared.
Zhang Ruochen still unleashed his sword intent in a steady stream, saying, “Dripping water penetrates stone, and rope saws wood. You may not be as strong as you think, and the power of a leaf may not be only as weak as you think.”
As time passed, the pressure that the Tessie Half-Saint was under, grew stronger and stronger. The densely packed leaves finally pierced through his defences and landed on his body, piercing through his skin and cutting through his blood veins.
After a long time, the Heaven-Sealing Earth-Locking Formation let out an explosive sound, and was unexpectedly broken open from the outside by the blades that had turned into sharp swords.
With a bang, the light of the ancient jade disc converged back and fell to the ground.
