The face of the empress was so blurred that no one could see her face clearly.
Merely, as she merely stood there, a terrifying power that swept through the mountains and the sea erupted out, carrying the emperor’s might and sweeping through a thousand miles of land in a radius.
In the shadows, some low-ranked Half-Saints, unable to withstand that surging imperial might, directly fell to their knees, unable to stand up.
Zhang Ruochen, who stood opposite the Empress’ silhouette, naturally endured an even greater oppressive force. His hair and the corners of his clothes kept flicking, and his legs were trembling, except that Zhang Ruochen did not kneel down, instead, a loud roar came out of his mouth.?”Kill.”
Inside Zhang Ruochen’s body, the Seal of the Gods emerged and surrounded him, resisting the pressure emanating from the Empress’ Shadow.
With his eyes, dense blood filaments surged out as he grabbed the Monstrous Sword, and with a stomp of his legs, he violently leapt up and swung his sword towards the three hundred feet tall Empress Shadow.
Seeing this scene, in the darkness of the night, countless people were shocked and felt their hearts jump.
In the Kunlun Realm, even mentioning the Empress’s true name was a great disrespect.
However, who could have expected that a mere cultivator of the Fish Dragon Realm would dare to take the initiative to raise his sword and chop at the Empress’s shadow.
Could it be that he didn’t know that the cultivation of the Empress had already reached the point of passing through the heavens and through the earth? Even if it was just a silhouette, it carried the might of the Emperor and the spiritual will of the Empress.
I’m afraid that, at this very moment, the Empress’s true body had already memorised this treacherous brat in front of her through the silhouette.
“In front of the Empress, to even dare to be so reckless, is simply looking for death.”
Sword Emptiness let out a cold laugh, and then, with one of his palms, he slowly raised it and quickly slapped it forward again, striking the surface of the Broken Killing Order.
Right at this moment, the Empress’s silhouette, too, raised her palm and pressed it forwards, slapping it towards Zhang Ruochen’s head.
“Sword Three.”?Zhang Ruochen poured the Saint Qi in his body into the Monstrous Sky Sword in a steady stream, and on the surface of the sword, more than a thousand inscriptions emerged.
The Thousand Stripes Destruction Power emanated out and merged into the sword stance.
The Heavenly Sword and the palm of the Empress’s silhouette collided together with an earth-shattering roar.
“Puh!”
Zhang Ruochen spat out blood from his mouth and fell from mid-air, crashing onto the ground with a bang.
Only to see that on the ground, a large pit with a hundred metres long handprint appeared, resounding with a rumbling sound. Around the palm print, the soil arched up and spread out in all directions.
Zhang Ruochen half-kneeled at the bottom of the large pit, supporting his body with his sword, his entire body was covered in blood, and his skin had almost all exploded. The blood soaked the dirt beneath his feet and turned it into bloody mud.
Seeing this scene, everyone’s face revealed a sneer, and no one had any pity.
Everyone felt that Zhang Ruochen was completely out of his depth, daring to challenge the Empress, it was as ridiculous as an ant trying to challenge a god.
“Taking a palm imprint from the Empress’ shadow, Zhang Ruochen is probably crippled even if he doesn’t die, it’s simply impossible for him to still be able to fight back.”Zhuang Hangkong laughed.
With that, he took the first step and walked over towards the palm print pit.
Zhuang Hangkong had only taken five steps when a surging wave of air actually surged out from the bottom of the palm print pit.
“What’s going on?”
Zhuang Hangkong’s face changed as he mobilised his holy qi and transported it to his arms, his hands propped forward, condensing into a thick layer of holy qi walls.
The powerful wave of qi struck the holy qi wall, directly sending Zhuang Hangkong flying out.
Immediately after, the crowd saw Zhang Ruochen carrying his bloody sword and stepping out of the big pit.
The Martial Soul suspended above Zhang Ruochen’s head emitted a brilliant divine light, and within it, there was even an extremely thick rule that slowly condensed out.
In the Martial Soul, there was originally a very thick Saint Dao Rule that connected the top of the head and the soles of the feet, which could be called a pillar that topped the sky. That was the Everlasting Dao, the spatial rule.
The Saint Dao rule that was condensed out at this moment was just as thick as the spatial rule, and it was clearly also an Everlasting Ancient Way, precisely the time rule.
Not only was it aided by the Pure Destruction Divine Flame and the Dragon Pearl, but it was also stimulated by the Empress’s Void Shadow that allowed Zhang Ruochen to realise the true meaning of time in one fell swoop, and comprehend the Time Rule.
At this moment, in Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul, there were already more than three hundred Saint Dao Rules condensed out.
Zhang Ruochen raised his head and stared at the Empress’s silhouette not far away, his eyes were very sharp and filled with hatred and anger, “Since the rules of time have been comprehended, it’s time to break through to the Semi-Saint realm as well.”
A drop of the Dragon Emperor’s blood appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s palm, followed by a quick swallow in his stomach.
“Boom!”
The Dragon Emperor’s blood was like a piece of ammunition that exploded in Zhang Ruochen’s abdomen, releasing a massive amount of Saint Qi that rushed towards the five Saint Veins and thirty-six meridians.
The aura on Zhang Ruochen’s body climbed rapidly, growing by a large margin with every passing moment.
“The power in Zhang Ruochen’s body is becoming stronger and stronger, he should be about to make a breakthrough.”Wind Bird’s face was gloomy as he said.
“Since he wants to impact the Half-Saint realm, then we will suppress him when he is about to break through.”
Sword Empyrean Son’s expression was icy cold as he poured the Saint Qi in his body into the Breaking Killing Order in a steady stream.
The Empress’s silhouette, once again, struck out, punching out a hand seal and pressing down towards Zhang Ruochen’s position.
The huge palm was like a white cloud that wrapped the entire heaven and earth, not giving Zhang Ruochen a chance to escape at all.
Right at this moment, in Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Sea, the Seal of the Gods flew out once again.
This time, the God Seals were rushing towards his Martial Soul, fusing with it. With each God Seal that was incorporated, Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul would become one point stronger.
By the time the marks of the Gods were fully integrated into the martial soul, the martial soul finally sent out an essential metamorphosis, transforming into a Holy Soul.
The metamorphosis of the Martial Soul to the Saint Soul was also a process from the Fish Dragon Realm to the Half Saint.
For others, impacting the Half-Saint realm might be quite arduous. However, Zhang Ruochen had already accumulated quite a strong amount, so breaking through to the Half-Saint realm was a snap.
Right at this moment, Zhang Ruochen finally broke through to the First Order Half-Saint realm.
With the realm breakthrough, a steady stream of heaven and earth aura converged towards him, entering the Divine Martial Seal in the centre of his brow. With his body as the centre, a huge vortex of aura was formed.
The heaven and earth aura entered his body and was immediately converted into Saint Qi.
Having reached the Half-Saint realm, in his meridians, it was still Holy Qi that was running. Only, the holy qi became more condensed and purer.
Similarly absorbing the heaven and earth aura from a hundred feet in a radius, at the Fish Dragon Realm, one could condense ten strands of holy qi. Reaching the Half-Saint realm, however, one could only condense one strand of holy qi.
Although, it was much more difficult for a Half-Saint to absorb Holy Qi, yet, mobilising Holy Qi, the power that erupted from it was much more powerful.
If the same martial skill was performed by a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Realm and a Half-Saint, there was a tenfold difference in the power that erupted from it.
It was precisely because, it was already difficult for Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to satisfy Half-Saints. Thus, it was why Half-Saints would search for holy stones by all means, absorbing them and recovering the consumed holy qi.
In the sky above the dome of the sky, the Empress’s handprints, which had already fallen down, appeared above Zhang Ruochen’s head.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, surged with an incomparably bright light, using his Saint Soul, he mobilised the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a radius of hundreds of miles, and continuously injected it into the Monstrous Heavenly Sword.
“Chi Yao, I know that you can hear my voice. Listen, sooner or later, one day, I will kill my way into the Imperial Palace and cut you down by the sword.”
Zhang Ruochen roared as he charged into the sky.
The sword aura of the Heavenly Sword and his body, almost completely fused into one, reaching human-sword unity. Above the ground, because of Zhang Ruochen’s violent stomp, the earth collapsed downwards.
Many people thought that Zhang Ruochen would flee, but they didn’t expect that he would even dare to fight with the Empress’s shadow and call the Empress by her name, claiming that he would behead the Empress with his sword.
Such treacherous words, even the Deadly Zen Ancestor and the Demon Sect Master wouldn’t dare to say them casually.
“Since he broke through the Half-Saint realm, he should immediately flee, find a place, properly recuperate from his injuries, and when his injuries are healed, it will be just like a submerged dragon coming out of the abyss, the sky is high and the sea is wide, why would he want to go and fight with the Empress?”
“Today, after these words were shouted out, Zhang Ruochen would have completely offended the Empress, and even if the Empress didn’t personally take action, those people in the court, in order to please the Empress, would definitely go out of their way to capture or even kill Zhang Ruochen.”
“A fanatic, what a fanatic.”
……
The inscriptions that surfaced in the Monstrous Sky Sword became even more numerous.
A terrifying Thousand Stripes Destruction Power erupted out, colliding with the handprint struck by the Empress’ shadow, tearing the shadow apart and penetrating it.
Penetrating the handprint, Zhang Ruochen flew higher and higher, straight above the head of the Empress Shadow, and swung his sword once again.
“Wow!”
The bright sword light traced out an arc hundreds of feet long, chopping at the neck of the Empress Shadow and sending her head flying.
Immediately after, with a loud bang, the Empress Shadow shattered.
At the same time, down below, apart from Sword Emptiness, the other three kings, Wind Bird, Yin Eagle King, and Zhuang Hangkong all spat blood from their mouths and half-kneeled on the ground.
