?”Wow–”
The speed of the descent was getting faster and faster.
Zhang Ruochen’s teeth clenched and immediately stimulated the power of the Dragon Pearl, unfurling a pair of golden dragon wings on his back, using the wings to slow down the speed of the descent.
The further downward, the more power Zhang Ruochen endured on his body, the greater it was.
Later on, even with the dragon wings, the role it played was quite limited.
Moreover, the space under the cliff was even more fragile, with one or two huge spatial cracks appearing every tens of metres across the mid-air, and once one fell in, anyone would also die for sure.
There were several times when Zhang Ruochen almost fell into the void space as well.
“Haha! Zhang Ruochen, let’s die together!”
Feng Han landed below Zhang Ruochen, his face covered in blood as he laughed hideously and maniacally.
“Even if you die, you must die before me.”
A condensed look appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes.
In the next moment, he executed the Dragon and Elephant Palm, and the sounds of dragons and elephants roaring resounded within his body, as dragon shadows and elephant shadows surged out from both arms, condensing palm seals that continuously slapped out downwards.
“Boom boom.”
Seventeen palm imprints were struck out in a row, striking Feng Han’s body in a steady stream.
Even though, Feng Han possessed the Hundred Beasts True Cauldron’s resistance, blood kept flowing out of his mouth, and more than a dozen blood lines cracked out from his chest, almost about to split apart.
Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to strike the 18th palm, he saw the black ground below Feng Han, presenting itself.
It had reached the bottom of the cliff.
“Haha! Master, your favoured disciple didn’t die just as prematurely, unable to inherit your mantle at all, not to mention having no chance to become a Sword Saint.”
Feng Han laughed even louder, even if he was about to die here, Zhang Ruochen would still have to give him a burial.
However, Zhang Ruochen took out the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram under Feng Han’s astonished eyes, opened the door of space, and jumped into the world of the scroll.
The Gate of Space had just closed, and the Qian Kun Divine Wood Diagram crashed to the ground.
“No……”
Feng Han roared and landed on the ground first, smashing the hard stone, to smithereens.
Of course, his powerful Half-Saint body also turned into a mass of bloody mud, leaving only a silver-coloured skeleton, which was also set inside the stone.
The mere cliff, even if it was higher, could not kill a Half-Saint.
However, that downward powerful force, coupled with the cultivator’s own gravity, the two were superimposed together, and when it touched the ground for a split second, it was simply like a Saint’s full force strike hitting his body, and even if he had a protective treasure, he could not withstand it.
In the next moment, Zhang Ruochen stepped out from the world of the scroll and landed on the ground, taking out the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram that was plunged into the ground, cupping it in his hand and wiping the dust from it.
The picture scroll, intact.
“It’s just a pity that I haven’t used to comprehend the spatial rules, otherwise, I wouldn’t have to borrow the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram to save my life.”
Zhang Ruochen put the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram back into his Qi Sea, and was quite emotional in his heart.
No matter what, being able to save his life was the greatest fortune.
Zhang Ruochen raised his head and looked towards the top of the cliff, and could see that there was a spatial crack spread above his head. Those spatial cracks, which closed and cracked at times, appeared to be quite unstable.
With his cultivation, he could only jump up nine feet in a vertical leap upwards, and when he landed on the ground, his legs directly plunged into the ground, and the bones in his entire body looked like they were about to fall apart.
“I also don’t know if Senior Sister Duanmu has returned to the top of the cliff wall?”
Zhang Ruochen secretly estimated that even if there weren’t any accidents, in order to climb from the bottom of the cliff, to the top of the cliff, it would take at least several months.
The cliff face was full of dangers, and the probability of not having any accidents was just too low.
In other words, with Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation, it was almost impossible, to still be able to return to the top of the cliff. For many people, this was something that made people quite desperate.
However, he was looking at it with an open mind, and with just a gentle shake of his head, he looked towards the ground.
On the ground, there were dozens of large pits, and at the bottom of each pit, there was a white bone. Human bones were in the majority, and there were also a few skeletons of savage beasts.
At the edges of some of these large pits, Zhang Ruochen also found broken silver silk ropes and chains.
Obviously, they were all looking for the Resurrection Pill and the Divine Corpse and wanted to come below the cliff, but they had an accident and fell to their deaths.
What horrible things had happened to them?
What kind of dangers were there, on the cliff face?
If they fell down from here and still had complete skeletons, they were at least Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation cultivators who had cultivated the Glazed Treasure Body. It was even likely that all of them were Half-Saints, and in the Kunlun Realm, they must all be mighty overlords.
“A rumour of a Rise from the Dead Pill that killed so many people, and not that black hand behind the scenes, who exactly is it? Not right ……”
Zhang Ruochen suddenly realised something, his eyes once again looking into the pit.
“How come all of them are white bones, where is the blood and flesh on them? Could it be that some sort of creature is also surviving at the bottom of this cliff?”
Zhang Ruochen carefully stood on guard, releasing his Spatial Domain and Spiritual Force completely in case something untoward happened.
Just then, Zhang Ruochen sensed what looked like a pair of eyes in the darkness, staring at him.
“What kind of person?”
Zhang Ruochen’s finger pointed out, and a pillar of fire-like sword wave flew out from his fingertip, striking in the direction that he sensed.
Only the power of the sword wave, which had only just erupted, shattered the fragile space.
Zhang Ruochen had to immediately put away his power and retreated backward in a hurry, and then, chased it out at an even faster speed, disappearing into the darkness.
Not long after, above the cliff, the ghostly mist shook.
Afterwards, a huge phoenix shadow, flew down, and at a position a hundred feet above the ground, it transformed into the shadow of a stunningly beautiful person, coalescing into the petite body of Mu Lingshi.
A pair of beautiful phoenix feathers turned into a particle of light and flew into her back.
Mu Lingshi first looked around and walked to the edge of a large pit, seeing that the pit was full of blood, with only flesh and mud remaining.
The blood, which had not yet dried, gave off a faintly hot aura.
Her legs, trembled a little, and she fell to her knees, only feeling that the location of her heart was very painful, as if there were razor blades churning.
“Why …… why …… why do you want me to go through such …… pain twice……Oooo……”
Mu Lingshi’s hands pressed on the ground, her ten fingers embedded into the stone, and that crystal snow-white face, with tearstains hanging on it, was also clinging to the dirt, as an incomparably grief-stricken emotion surged out.
This kind of feeling was really painful.
If she had known earlier, she shouldn’t have jumped off the cliff, why did she do such a stupid thing. If Zhang Ruochen hadn’t been trying to save her, he wouldn’t have died with Feng Han.
“It’s all my fault… it’s me… it’s me who killed you… I’m sorry……”
Mu Lingshi was cloaked on the ground, tears kept flowing out, a rapid breathing sound came out of her mouth, her eyes became incomparably desperate, saying, “Since, you have already died, what’s the point of me living?”
With her hands, she pressed on the ground and sat up, taking out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, she was about to stab down towards her heart.
However, just as she raised her head, she saw that on the opposite side of the large pit, there was actually a handsome young figure standing. The other party, was staring at her with curious eyes.
Who was it if not Zhang Ruochen?
Mu Lingshi’s entire body seemed to be petrified, and her raised sword, too, stopped hard in mid-air.
Zhang Ruochen pursed his lips and asked, “Senior Sister Duanmu, what are you doing?”
Those absolute eyes of Mu Lingshi once again gushed out large teardrops as she directly threw the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword out and lunged forward, pouncing into Zhang Ruochen’s arms.
Zhang Ruochen looked at the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, and then at the bloody mud on the ground, and probably guessed what had happened, and a wave of complicated and incomprehensible emotions arose in his heart.
Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes, lowered his head slightly, and gave a gentle sniff between the hair behind Mu Lingshi’s ears, then, he stretched out a pair of arms and held her tightly.
Suddenly, Mu Lingshi raised her head, and her two soft and fragrant lips, printed together with Zhang Ruochen’s lips.
After a long kiss and separation, Mu Lingshi slightly gasped, clenched her pink fists and draped them over Zhang Ruochen’s chest, asking with tears in her eyes, “Where did you go just now? I thought ……”
“I encountered a weird thing just now, so I rushed over to chase it. But it was too fast and didn’t catch up.”Zhang Ruochen’s palm, caressing Mu Lingshi’s cheek, gave a gentle sigh, “In the future, don’t do anything stupid again, if I come back a little later, the consequences would be unimaginable.”
“Hmm.”
Mu Lingshi’s two rows of eyelashes gently blinked as she gave a cheeky smile, “As long as you are alive, I will definitely not do anything foolish.”
Zhang Ruochen let out a light eep and stared at Mu Lingshi’s brow.
Only to see that in her brow, there was a blood-red phoenix seal, only the size of a vermilion sand, but it was incomparably bright and coloured, surging out with very sacred power fluctuations.
It was clearly just a mark, but it seemed like it could come to life at any time.
Mu Lingxi obviously also sensed something, her finger gently touched her brow, recalling, earlier, she suddenly, changed into a phoenix ……
Thus, she immediately put her spiritual power, into her body, and began to investigate.
In the sea of qi, a phoenix shaped holy qi actually appeared, as if it had life, gently flapping its feathers and emitting a low chant.
“Could it be that the phoenix bloodline in her body has been stimulated?”
Mu Lingshi also had some half-understanding of what was happening to her, but fortunately, following the meridian diagram of the Eight Desolate Six Meridians Technique, she controlled the flow of the holy qi.
“Wow–”
A pair of huge cold ice feathered wings, rushed out from the back, more than ten metres long, with brightly coloured feathers, emitting multicoloured light, and even, there were the rules of wind, the rules of speed, and the rules of ice ……, more than a hundred kinds of holy dao rules, flowing between the wings.
Mu Lingshi’s aura, became incomparably sacred, her skin was crystal clear like jade, and every strand of her hair was also emitting a faint holy light, as if she was a Phoenix Heavenly Maiden descending to the earth, and at any time, she would fly away, disappearing into the earth.
Her pair of phoenix feather wings was a substantial existence, not a holy qi illusion.
Zhang Ruochen also felt a bit incredulous and said, “Your Wood Family, could it be that you are a Phoenix Half-Human Race?”
