Min Lai squatted on the ground, a pair of clear eyes, blinking as she stared at Zhang Ruochen and asked, “How is it? Have you recovered from your injuries?”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “If I want to fully recover, I’m afraid it will take at least three days.”
If Zhang Ruochen wanted to recover from his injuries, in fact, it would take at least a month. The reason why he had told Ri Min that it would only take three days was because, he was preparing to enter the Scroll World to heal his injuries.
Ri Min laughed, “I told you to be so wild, even chopping off the Empress Void, now you know what it’s like to be injured, right?”
“Cough.”
Zhang Ruochen’s internal organs were in great pain as he coughed twice, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth again.
Ri Min hurriedly walked over and helped him pat his vest, saying, “Don’t be anxious, don’t be anxious, seeing that you’re injured so badly, I’m sure I won’t leave you behind, come on, dry the blood first. Oops! Half-Saint turns out to have such a fragile moment, how pathetic.”
With that, she took out a green-coloured embroidered gauze and handed it to Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen smiled and took the gauze, able to smell a faint scent of orchids, and looked at an exquisite orchid embroidered on it, thus showing that this little girl in front of him was still quite handy.
He dried the blood at the corner of his mouth and returned the gauze back to Li-Min, “Many thanks.”
“It is said that the blood of a half-saint can also be sold for a considerable price.”
Li-Min’s pair of snow-white small hands held the gauze and looked at the blood stains on it, but her originally clear eyes were letting out light.
Black lines rose on Zhang Ruochen’s forehead, and it always felt like Li-Min had lent him the gauze solely for the purpose of obtaining the Half-Saint’s blood.
“Huh!”
Right at this moment, a very powerful power fluctuation appeared within the coverage area of Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power.
“Someone is catching up!”
Zhang Ruochen’s face was very sullen as he looked in the direction of the cave entrance.
Even under the circumstance of being severely injured, Zhang Ruochen still sent his spiritual energy outward to probe the surroundings in case someone had traced their way to this place.
Li-Min was startled, as if she was a frightened white rabbit, and immediately hid behind Zhang Ruochen.
Xiao Hei, who was originally lying on the ground, also rolled over and rose up, his pair of round eyes revealed an ebony-black light, and he spat out a human language, saying, “Actually able to pursue to this place, it seems to have some ability, this Emperor will go and clean him up.”?”There’s no rush.”Zhang Ruochen stopped Little Black.
In his heart, he was quite curious as to what kind of person it was and how he was able to catch up so quickly.
The other party obviously knew that Zhang Ruochen must have already discovered his scent. Thus, when he arrived outside the cave, he stopped.
“I, Huo Yin of the Hall of Brightness, pay my respects to Sir Zhang.”
A voice, penetrating the formation at the entrance of the cave, travelled into into the cave.
Lai Min was secretly shocked and whispered to Zhang Ruochen, “Huo Yin is one of the one hundred and eight Saint Generals of the Hall of Brightness. It is said that this person has raised a Six-Eared Monkey that can hear the wind and grass blowing ten thousand miles away and can sense extremely subtle scents. It is likely that Huo Yin was able to find us so quickly by utilising the Six-Eared Monkey’s ability.”
Zhang Ruochen lifted his head and stared slightly towards Li Min.
This little girl, who knew everything about the experts of the Kunlun Realm, was truly on par with the Sacred Book Talent Girl.
However, Zhang Ruochen was a little curious as to how the people from Ming Hall would take the initiative to find him.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Your Excellency followed him here, what exactly is the reason for this?”
“Our Young Hall Master, wishes to meet you.”Huo Yin said.
“The Young Hall Master of Ming Hall?”
“Precisely.”
With regards to the people of Ming Hall, Zhang Ruochen naturally had a certain amount of goodwill and was not repulsed.
It was only that he was really too injured right now, and it was really not suitable for him to come into contact with the people of Ming Hall.
After all, if he had a good feeling towards the people of Ming Hall, the people of Ming Hall did not necessarily have a good feeling towards him as well.
Zhang Ruochen covered his aching chest, his breath was quite weak as he said, “I don’t want to see anyone right now, I just want to recuperate at ease, Your Excellency, please go back!”
Ri Min gently bit her lips, wanting to remind Zhang Ruochen that the Young Master of Ming Hall should never be offended, but, seeing that Zhang Ruochen had already rejected the other party, she didn’t say anything more.
Huo Yin’s voice, no longer as kind as it was just now, became rather cold and deep as he said, “With all due respect, Zhang Ruochen is a felon of the imperial court, and now that he has been seriously injured, I’m afraid that he won’t be able to survive for long if he doesn’t have someone to shelter him.”
Zhang Ruochen frowned slightly, coughed, and said, “The Young Master of Ming Hall, can shelter me?”
Huo Yin said, “The Young Hall Master greatly appreciates the boldness and talent of Zhang Ruochen, after all, there aren’t many people in the world who have no fear of the Empress. As long as you are willing to take the initiative to offer the Buddha Emperor’s Relic, our Young Hall Master is very willing to take you in. As long as you enter the Hall of Brightness, I’m afraid that even the people from the Ministry of War will not be able to do anything about you.”
The Young Hall Master of Ming Hall had come to Yuanfu because he had originally heard that Zhang Ruochen had appeared and wanted to seize the Buddha Emperor’s Relic on Zhang Ruochen.
Now that Zhang Ruochen was seriously injured, it was the perfect time to seize the Buddha Emperor’s Relic. Of course, if he could take this opportunity to take Zhang Ruochen into the Hall of Light and work for him, it would naturally be even more perfect.
“So it’s for the relics.”
Zhang Ruochen was silent for a moment before he added, “Is he not afraid that I will enter Ming Hall and steal his limelight, or even steal his position as the Young Hall Master?”
Huo Yin stood outside the cave and gently stroked the Six-eared Monkey’s head as he sneered, “The owner of Ming Hall will only be surnamed Kong, even if you have a high natural talent, you won’t be able to steal the Young Hall Master’s limelight. Don’t worry, the Young Hall Master is a very generous person, and will definitely not be cynical. As long as your natural talent is high enough, the Young Hall Master will naturally reward you with resources and cultivate you with all his might.”?Ri Min’s eyes blinked as she whispered in Zhang Ruochen’s ear, “Sounds like it’s very good, Zhang Ruochen, do you want to agree to it. In the Central Region, the Ming Hall’s power is quite huge, as long as you defect to the seat of the Ming Hall’s Young Hall Master, you won’t have to hide in the east and fear and become displaced in the future ……”
Zhang Ruochen glared at her.
“What are you …… doing with such a fierce look in your eyes?”Immediately, Li-Min shrunk her neck and gibbered, “It’s not that I can’t part with the Buddha Emperor’s Sharp Sons, I think, it’s still more important to have a life.”
Zhang Ruochen ignored Li-Min, but slowly stood up and walked towards the outside of the cave with steady steps.
“Wow!”
At the entrance of the cave, a layer of formation light screen flickered for a moment, with an inscription pushing outwards, and then, disappeared.
Zhang Ruochen walked out of the cave, his face was very pale, but his back was straight as he looked towards Huo Yin and said, “You go back and tell the Young Hall Master that I will keep his kindness in my heart. It’s just that I’m a person who likes to wander the world, and doesn’t want to join any forces and bind myself.”
Huo Yin stood in mid-air, wearing black iron clad robes with white clouds under his feet, rather thin and dark looking, with a neat beard and a red six-eared monkey standing on his shoulder.
Upon hearing Zhang Ruochen’s words, Huo Yin’s heart, however, let out a cold laugh as he said, “Your Excellency, I’m afraid that this is not a wise behaviour. Is there no further consideration?”
“No need to reconsider.”
Zhang Ruochen could clearly feel the cold aura emanating from Huo Yin’s body, but his heart was even colder.
At first, the Orange Moon Star Envoy had told him that after the disappearance of Emperor Ming, the head of the Kong Family was the one who had joined forces with the dynasty to take control of the dynasty.
At that time, Zhang Ruochen had actually thought of everything in a favourable light out of his trust in Kong Lanyou.
However, now, Zhang Ruochen had to think, what kind of role did the Peacock Villa, or rather the Kong Family, play in the palace mutiny of eight hundred years ago?
The Ming Emperor had disappeared, and the Crown Prince had died tragically, but the Imperial Zhang Family, however, had other direct descendants, and among them, there was no lack of gifted and talented people who were fully capable of serving as the new emperor of the Sacred Ming Central Empire. Why was the person who took over the imperial government the head of the Kong family?
Why was the owner of the Hall of Brightness surnamed Kong and not Zhang?
More clouds of doubt surfaced from the public case of eight hundred years ago, causing Zhang Ruochen to feel confused and pained.
“Zhang Ruochen, it seems like you are definitely going to drink to your honour, do you really think that if you don’t go to pay your respects to the Young Hall Master, the Young Hall Master will let you go? To tell you the truth, the Young Hall Master is determined to obtain the Buddha Emperor’s Relic.”
Huo Yin’s hands, surging out two clouds of fire, burning the void to a somewhat distorted state, coldly said, “If you take the initiative to offer the relics and submit to the Young Hall Master, there is still a way to live. If you continue to be obstinate, you will only die here, and the relics will still fall into the hands of the Young Hall Master. If you are a smart person, you should know how to choose.”
“What’s the difference between your behaviour like this and robbers?”Zhang Ruochen didn’t even try to hide the contempt in his eyes.
“What a fool, what’s wrong with being a robber as long as you can get the Sherri Seed?”
“Being a robber for a time is also being a robber for the rest of your life.”
Intense anger surged in Huo Yin’s eyes, no longer arguing with Zhang Ruochen, his hands came together and two flames overlapped each other.
Subsequently, a pillar of fire, one metre thick in diameter, flew out from the palms of Huo Yin’s hands and rushed straight towards Zhang Ruochen outside the cave.
Huo Yin’s cultivation, reaching the peak of a Fifth Order Half-Saint, was naturally a first-rate powerhouse.
Zhang Ruochen stood in place, just carrying his hands behind his back, not moving a bit, the only thing he did was to just gently shake his head, feeling even more disappointed.
“Do you really think that this Emperor is just for show?”?Little Black let out a strange laugh and stretched out a claw, carving an inscription in mid-air, connecting it into a formation disc with a diameter of seven zhang.
“Boom!”
The pillar of fire struck on top of the formation disc and immediately turned into a tiny flame that flew away.
A savage beast raised by Zhang Ruochen was surprisingly this powerful.
Huo Yin was quite shocked and sensing that he had lost some ground, he immediately harnessed his cloud and retreated backwards, pulling away for some distance.
However, Little Black was the one who slapped his claws forward, knocking the formation disc forward and pressing it backwards towards Huo Yin.
The formation disc rotated rapidly, and dense electric light surged out, transforming into a thick electric blade that struck Huo Yin’s body.
Immediately, Huo Yin braced up his Holy Soul Domain and struck a flame bead in his hand, flying above his head to ward off the lightning attack.
“Heh heh! This Emperor’s Seven Tribulation Divine Thunder Formation, is it not something you can block?”
On Little Black’s back, a pair of black wings sprouted and flew to the top of the formation, his mouth spitting out a mouthful of holy qi that surged into the formation disc.
The light of the formation disc directly skyrockets tenfold, extending to a diameter of thirteen feet, emitting an even stronger might of lightning.
Huo Yin’s heart was very depressed, as a Saint General, he was actually being suppressed by a cat, is there anything more suffocating than this?
The Six-eared Monkey that he raised was already quite a powerful Fae, making many Half-Saints envious.
However, the cat that Zhang Ruochen had raised was even more heaven-defying, and was even capable of arranging formations. The formation that was set up was a few points more powerful than a Formation Grand Formation.
