The Yuan Mansion’s Military Department Battalion, located in the northwestern part of Zhongyuan County, was stationed in the area of the Ziyong Pass and the Great Torch City, with as many as three million soldiers and soldiers stationed there, thus making the military battalion extremely vast and not difficult to find.
The Yuanfu’s military battalion is responsible for guarding the Yuanfu’s thirty six counties, not only to fight against the Devil Cult and the Ming Tang’s branch rudiments, but also to exterminate savage beasts, evil spirits, yin spirits, evil sects …… and so on.
Therefore, it was only natural that the military camp was also filled with strong people.
Zhang Ruochen stood outside the Ziyong Pass and opened the Heavenly Eye in his brow, peering into the Pass. Only to see that a powerful aura of holy qi surged straight into the sky, connecting with the clouds in the sky as one.
This was the “Heaven’s Eye Looking at Qi”, a means that could only be used by Spiritual Half-Saints.
Everything has a spirit, and all beings have qi.
Undoubtedly, the more powerful the cultivator was, the thicker the qi was.
If one reached the level of a Spiritual Saint, they would even be able to see the qi haze emanating from a clan, and use it to judge, the rise and fall of the clan and its misfortunes and misfortunes.
In the distance, in the Ziyong Pass, every holy qi haze represented the powerful aura emanating from a Half Saint. They were communicating with the heavens and the earth, comprehending the subtleties of the Saint Dao and striking a higher realm.
Among them, there were a few qi haze that were exceptionally divine, all of them purple in colour, taking the form of dragons and tigers, as if ten thousand dragons were ascending to the sky and ten thousand tigers were rising to the sun.
Just looking at them from afar also made Zhang Ruochen’s heart flutter.
“It’s true that there are so many experts and hidden dragons and crouching tigers, we can’t go in hard.”Zhang Ruochen said to himself.
Li-Min stretched out two fingers and tugged on Zhang Ruochen’s sleeve, saying in a low voice, “Since that’s the case, we’d better leave this place quickly and don’t provoke them.”
Even the powerful Devil Cult and Hall of Brightness didn’t dare to take the initiative to attack the Military Ministry’s camp. For Zhang Ruochen to even want to go to the Military Ministry Camp to pick a fight, in Lai Min’s opinion, he must have gone crazy.
“Go!”
Zhang Ruochen carried his hands behind his back and led Li-Min, stepping on the fallen leaves and walking into into the barbaric general woods. The two of them left Ziyong Pass and travelled into the distance.
Lai Min finally breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, she had persuaded Zhang Ruochen to stop, otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
The two of them, came to a place roughly eight hundred miles away from the Ziyong Pass before they came to a stop.
At this place, there was a three hundred metre high yellow stone hill, in the form of a huge Xuan Turtle lying on the ground.
Xiao Hei was circling around the hill, using his two claws, engraving inscriptions, arranging formations, and burying a piece of spirit crystal into the interior of the hill.
“How is it? Are the formations burnt in yet?”Zhang Ruochen asked.
“You’re still not at ease with this Emperor’s work?”
Little Black stood at the top of the hill and smiled heatedly. Afterwards, it mobilised its Saint Qi and punched it into the mountain to activate the formation.
“Wow!”
Wisps of white mist fell down from the sky above, enveloping the hill, and a moment later, the entire hill completely disappeared in front of Zhang Ruochen and Ri Min’s eyes.
Li-Min stared with a pair of wide eyes, pursed her lips, and said, “A concealment formation.”?Little Black stepped out from the formation and glared at Ri Min, saying, “Little girl, what do you know? The formation that this Emperor has set up is a Xuanwu Hidden Sky Array that was set up based on the subtleties of the terrain. As long as the formation is opened, even a Saint would never be able to discover our traces.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “That’s right, as long as we hide in the formation, even the Soldier Saints of the Ministry of Soldiers should find it difficult to discover us.”
Just now, Zhang Ruochen was unable to see through the traces of the formation even when he used his Heavenly Eyes and Spiritual Force, thus showing that the Xuanwu Hidden Heavenly Formation that Xiao Hei had set up was indeed of a high calibre.
“In that case, let’s begin.”
Zhang Ruochen took a step and ascended the yellow stone hill, entering the formation.
Ri Min was quite surprised and asked, “Start what?”
Zhang Ruochen did not answer her, but instead took out the Monstrous Sky Sword and mobilised the Saint Qi from his entire body, which was continuously pumped into the sword body.
An inscription pattern emerged, causing the Heavenly Sword to emit an extremely bright white light as it slowly rose into the air.
The aura emanating from the Heavenly Sword became more and more intense, simply like a blazing sun hanging in the sky, forming a thousand lines of destructive strength that scared the savage beasts in the jungle, all of them trembling in fear.
“Out!”
Zhang Ruochen mobilised his sword intent that was comparable to that of a Sword Saint level, transforming into a pillar of substantial light that rushed straight out, fusing with the Monstrous Heavenly Sword.
With a “wow” sound, the Monstrous Sky Sword transformed into a white light shuttle that flew at tens of times the speed of sound in the direction of the Ziyong Pass.
Outside of the Ziyong Pass.
Sword Empty Son flew down from mid-air, looking dusty, and landed at the bottom of the city gate, coldly shouting, “This King is returning to the city, why don’t you open the formation immediately?”
After pursuing for several days in a row and finding no trace of Zhang Ruochen, Sword Empyrean Son was naturally a bit furious.
Seeing Sword Empty Son outside the pass, the formation masters inside the pass naturally opened the city protection formation immediately.
At the same time, the two heavy city gates cast in cold iron were slowly opened.
Zhuang Hangkong walked out from within the city gates to greet Jian Kongzi and asked, ”How is it? Have you found any traces of Zhang Ruochen?”
Jian Kongzi’s face was gloomy as he shook his head and said, “The holy decree that this son controls should have been issued by the Xuan Gui Sword Saint, and the speed that erupted from it can be compared to the Xuan Gui Sword Saint, so it’s impossible to catch up.”
Zhuang Hangkong’s face also darkened, quite worried, saying, “The Ministry of War has lost four Inferior Domain Kings in a row, Duke Wan is very angry, when you see him later, you must be more careful.”
Sword Empty Son nodded, the fingers of his hands were tightly pinched together, his heart became even more resentful, and he secretly vowed that once he found Zhang Ruochen, he would have to pull his tendons and skin off.
Right at this moment, Jian Kongzi and Zhuang Hangkong sensed something and immediately looked in the direction outside the Pass. Only to see that there was an extremely bright sword light flying rapidly from the sky, as if the rising sun had risen, and as if a meteor had cut through the sky.
Sword Empyrean Son’s face, violently changed drastically, and yelled, “Immediately open the city protection formation, someone is attacking Ziyong Pass.”
The sword on Jian Kongzi’s back trembled rapidly, emitting an ear-piercing “clang” sound, and flew out of its sheath.
The sword light in the distance came extremely fast, and only halfway through the opening of the city protection formation, the powerful sword aura was already chopping down.
“Rumble!”
With an earth-shaking roar, thousands of sword qi poured down at the same time, directly tearing apart the city gate of Ziyong Pass, along with the city wall.
On the ground, a ten-mile long sword path was left behind, several zhang wide, splitting the Yuanfu’s number one military fortress, Ziyong Pass, in half after all.
Jian Kongzi had already put out his sword to fend it off, but the Monstrous Heavenly Sword was the one that erupted with a thousand lines of destructive strength, and it was not something that he could block.
Sword Empty Son’s robes, which became tattered and torn, were covered in blood as he sat tens of metres deep below the ground, panting heavily. That sword just now had directly sent him flying over ten miles away, crashing into the bottom of the sword path.
Fortunately, his cultivation was profound and he was a sword cultivator himself, thus he did not have to worry about his life.
Zhuang Hangkong, however, was not as lucky as him, his entire body was set into the dirt, his entire body was covered in bloody sword holes, only with a faint breath emanating out, proving that he was not dead yet.
Wan Zhaoyi was sitting in the camp and was meeting with the Sacred Book Talented Lady.
The Sacred Book Talented Woman had passed on the Empress’s oracles, to him, causing Wan Zhaoyi to feel a huge amount of pressure. After all, it was not an easy task for the Empress to ask him to capture Zhang Ruochen within three months.
In case Zhang Ruochen hid himself or left the Central Region, I was afraid that trying to find him again would be tougher than finding a needle in a haystack.
Right at this moment, an immense sword qi came surging from afar, directly separating his tent and breaking it into two halves.
Fortunately, Wan Zhaoyi and the Sacred Book Talent Girl were both first-class characters, extremely alert, and the first time was to retreat backwards.
Therefore, the sword qi did not injure them.
Surprisingly, someone dared to attack the military camp?
Who has such big guts?Wan Zhaoyi was obviously quite annoyed and broke through the tent and flew up into the sky, and when he saw the monstrous sword hanging in the dome of the sky, the anger in his heart burned even brighter.
“Zhang Ruochen, this king didn’t go looking for you, yet you took the initiative to send you to the door.”?As soon as Trillion Trillion’s palm was stretched out, the rules between heaven and earth were quickly condensed, transforming into a gigantic golden palm that tackled towards the Monstrous Heavenly Sword.
“Wow…”?The Heavenly Sword transformed into a shuttle of light, and before the golden palm condensed out, it rushed out first, flying out of the Ziyong Pass.
Wan Zhaoyi put away his anger and instead revealed a colour of joy, sneered and chased after the Heavenly Sword, quickly disappearing into the sky.
The Sacred Book Talent Girl wore a moon white garment, as quiet as a virgin, her body like an orchid, her pair of clear and wise eyes staring at the flying away monstrous sword, softly pronouncing out, “Zhang Ruochen.”?The Devil Cult and the Ministry of War could guess that Zhang Ruochen was most likely Lin Yue of the Two Element Sect, not to mention the extremely intelligent Sacred Book Talented Girl.
Thus, upon seeing the Monstrous Sword, the Sacred Book Talented Maiden also felt a slight tremor in her heart, and in her mind, an extremely familiar silhouette surfaced.
That silhouette, like a nightmare, was deeply imprinted in her Sacred Heart, lingering and never able to be erased.
Sometimes, she even wondered if she had already given birth to a heart demon.
“Is he really Lin Yue?”
The look in the Sacred Book Talented Lady’s eyes kept changing, and in the end, she flapped her folding fan, and a large swathe of Sacred Writings flew out from the top of the fan, transforming into a long bridge of words, connecting towards the sky.
She stepped on the Sacred Texts and chased after them.
Zhang Ruochen stood at the top of the hill and retrieved the Monstrous Sword, after which, he immediately swallowed a mouthful of Xuanwu Sacred Blood to recover the consumed Saint Qi.
Even after reaching the Half Saint realm and executing a strike of Thousand Stripes Destruction Strength, the Saint Qi in his body had been depleted by seventy percent.
A sense of weakness filled his entire body.
“Puffing.”?Above the dome of the sky, suddenly, there was a golden light showering down, reflecting the earth into a gold-like colour.
Vaguely, it could be seen that a valiant man wearing the Green Dragon Treasure Armour was hanging in the air, with every hair radiating golden light, as if he was a world-defying god of war.
“What a terrifying aura, who is this person?”Ri Min said in a low voice.
Zhang Ruochen glanced upwards and said, “You don’t know the heroes of the world, how come you don’t even recognise Ten Thousand Trillion?”
“What? Stepping on the White Jiao Sacred Dragon, wearing the Green Dragon Treasure Armour, wielding the Mixed Yuan Qiankun Blade, destroying the Ten Saints, seizing the fate of the heavens, and the Trillion Trillion of the Nine Regions of the Central Region?”
Li-Min was both incomparably excited and scared half to death.
She would be excited, naturally, because, Wan Zhaoyi was the last hundred years, the entire Kunlun Realm’s most legendary first pride, known as the “Little Saint Heavenly King”, who was unrivalled in the world.
Such a character that only exists in the legend, now appears in front of the eyes, any young girl, I’m afraid that is also screaming. How could Lai Min not be excited?
She would be scared half to death, naturally because, in case they were discovered by Wan Zhaoyi, wouldn’t they go to heaven?
To dare to take the initiative to provoke Wan Zhaobillion, Zhang Ruochen’s arrogance had once again refreshed Lai Min’s perception of him.
