“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen rode the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit and rushed out from underneath the collapsed mountain, sending dirt and rocks flying.
His arm reached out and retrieved the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, squeezing it tightly in his hand as his eyes stared towards the Blood Sword, revealing a look as if he was facing a great enemy.
Beside him, a low roar emitted from the Demon Ape’s mouth as he slowly climbed up and sat on the ground.
“Devil Ape, you go into the Scroll World first to heal your wounds.”
Zhang Ruochen took out the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram in his Qi Sea and opened the diagram scroll, the surface of the diagram scroll emitted a surfeit of light and collected the Demonic Ape inside.
“Wow!”
The bloody sword flew back and fell into the Second Prince’s hands.
The Second Prince stood several ten miles away and did not approach over. This was because, he was quite worried that Zhang Ruochen still possessed pills that contained the Evil Qi of Death
Once it was tainted with the Death Evil Qi, even with his cultivation and physique, it would be very difficult to dissolve it.
“Zhang Ruochen, hand over the Monstrous Heavenly Sword and this Imperial Prince can consider sparing your life.”
The Second Prince stood dozens of feet above the ground, wearing a pair of blood armour, with a dense blood cloud under his feet, as if he was a world-defying devil emperor.
Even though, Zhang Ruochen was standing tens of miles away, he could still smell the bloody odour emanating from him.
Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, “With your strength, if I were to leave, would you be able to stop me?”
The Second Prince sneered and said, “Do you think that you can escape from the palm of this prince’s hand just because you hold the Sacred Decree of the Sword Saint of Xuan Gui? To tell you the truth, this prince also possesses a scroll of holy decree, only, this scroll of holy decree came from the Qingtian Blood Emperor. No matter how strong the Xuan Gui Sword Saint’s cultivation is, is it stronger than the Blue Sky Blood Emperor?”
“Is that so? Since, the Qingtian Blood Emperor’s cultivation is so powerful, how come he doesn’t dare to go to the Central Imperial City to deal with Empress Chi Yao?”Zhang Ruochen asked rhetorically.
Eight hundred years ago, the Cyan Sky Blood Emperor was one of the Ten Blood Marshals under the Blood Queen’s seat, and at that time, he was a mighty lord that shook the world, known as the “Cyan Sky Blood Marshal”, and he did not know how many sages of the Human Race he had killed.
Now, eight hundred years later, the Qingtian Blood Marshal had already turned into the Qingtian Blood Emperor, and his own cultivation must have reached a point that even a Saint could not hope to reach.
The Second Prince’s eyes were rather sullen as he said, ”How long do you think that Lord Empress will live? As long as Lord Hades escapes the Underworld Dungeon, the first person to clean up is her. Once the Empress dies, it will be the turn of our Immortal Blood Race to dominate everything in the Kunlun Realm, and all humans, all of them, will be reduced to livestock bred by our Race, supplying us with blood, and serving as slaves and beasts of burden for generations to come.”
Zhang Ruochen’s five fingers couldn’t help but grip the hilt of his sword a few more points tighter, saying, “Do you think that the Underworld Dungeon is something that anyone can break into? If the Immortal Blood Clan was able to save the Underworld King, the Underworld King would have already escaped eight hundred years ago.”?”You think that the situation today is the same as it was eight hundred years ago?”
The Second Prince clearly thought that he had already settled for Zhang Ruochen, so he didn’t have that many scruples and said directly, “Eight hundred years ago, the reason why the Undying Blood Clan failed was because, Lord Blood Queen had underestimated the strength of the six Sword Bearers.”
“Who would have thought that in that Sword Graveyard, the six sword-bearers would be able to borrow the power of successive generations of ancestors. Each sword bearer is like more than a dozen Sword Saints merging together.”
“The Blood Queen broke into the Underworld Sword Graveyard for the second time, only to be met with the resistance of Emperor Ming and Emperor Qing, and ended up losing the battle again.”
“In today’s world, the Ming Emperor has disappeared and the Qing Emperor has retreated. Besides, through those two fierce battles eight hundred years ago, the Undying Blood Clan knew the power of the six sword bearers and focused on dealing with them. As early as a hundred years ago, our clan began to secretly make arrangements.”
“In addition to dealing with the Xuan Gui Sword Saint, other means were also used to deal with the other five sword-wielders.”
“To tell you the truth, apart from Ling Fei Yu who realised in time that it was bad and killed the strong person sent by the Immortal Blood Clan. The remaining few sword-wielders have either died or have already been captured by the Qingtian Blood Emperor himself.”
“Aside from the Burial Heavenly Sword and Heavenly Sword of Execution that Ling Fei Yu holds, as well as your Monstrous Heavenly Sword, the other three holy swords, all of them are already in the hands of our Immortal Blood Clan.”
Hearing this piece of news, even Zhang Ruochen felt very shocked.
No wonder Ling Fei Yu was the only one who rushed back to the Underworld Sword Graveyard, perhaps, there was a really great possibility that the other few sword holders had already been assassinated by the Immortal Blood Clan.
If the Qingtian Blood Emperor himself had taken action, even the Sword Saint would be in dire straits.
Zhang Ruochen tried his best to restrain the intense emotions in his heart and using a calm tone, he said, “You guys are only in possession of the three holy swords, so what use can you be? Save the Underworld King?”
Zhang Ruochen knew a secret from the successive ancestors of the Monstrous Heavenly Sword, that the six holy swords were actually six keys.
Only by holding the six holy swords at the same time could one open the fifteenth floor of the Underworld Dungeon and release the Underworld King.
The Undying Blood Clan must have also known this secret already, and that was why they had gone out of their way to snatch the six holy swords.
In other words, as long as the Undying Blood Clan did not obtain the six holy swords, then, it would be impossible for them to save the Underworld King.
On the Second Prince’s face, an odd smile appeared as he said, ”Just as the army of the Ancient Clan of Prison Suppression was attacking the Immortal Blood Clan of the Eight Cities and Twelve Ridges. The Qingtian Blood Emperor has already led another army that has also launched an attack on the Underworld Sword Mound, and if there are no surprises, at this moment, the Underworld Sword Mound has already fallen. The two holy swords in Ling Fei Yu’s hands have most likely already fallen into the Blood Emperor’s hands.”
“Lord Blood Emperor, however, missed one point in his calculations and did not anticipate that you, a little stray fish, actually did not stay honestly in the Underworld Sword Mound, but instead escaped by mistake.”
“But it doesn’t matter, as long as this Emperor captures the Monstrous Sword in your hand, our Immortal Blood Clan will also have gathered six holy swords, which is enough to open the fifteenth layer of the Underworld Dungeon.”
Zhang Ruochen stared at the Second Prince’s eyes and was able to tell that he wasn’t not lying.
If the Qingtian Blood Emperor really went ahead to attack the Underworld Sword Mound himself, with his terrifying cultivation, coupled with the Immortal Blood Clan’s many years of setup in the Underworld Sword Mound, there was a real possibility that he would be able to attack his way in.
In that case, the Monstrous Sword in Zhang Ruochen’s hand was also of vital importance, and could not fall into the hands of the Undying Blood Clan no matter what.
Without any hesitation, Zhang Ruochen immediately took out the holy decree given to him by the Xuan Gui Sword Saint and injected his holy qi into it.
“Wow!”
The light emanating from the holy decree transformed into a light shield that completely wrapped Zhang Ruochen and the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit’s bodies.
Afterwards, the light shield transformed into a stream of light and flew rapidly towards the sky.
“Both are already in a jar, but you still want to escape?”
The Second Prince laughed coldly and also took out a roll of holy decree, borrowing the holy power contained within the holy decree and quickly caught up with Zhang Ruochen.
“Wow.”
The Second Prince flew above Zhang Ruochen’s head and lifted his Blood Sword, dragging out a long sword light as he swung downwards.
Zhang Ruochen stared at the sword energy flying down, clenched his teeth, and immediately mobilised his spatial power as he silently chanted, “Space Freeze.”
The entire space, suddenly condensed as if it was frozen, and apart from Zhang Ruochen, everything else became static.
Even the sword Qi that the Second Prince chopped down, paused slightly before it struck through the spatial power.
Only, during the short time that the sword Qi paused, Zhang Ruochen flew forwards.
The sword Qi flew down from a few feet behind Zhang Ruochen and struck the lush mountain forest, leaving a sword mark hundreds of metres long.
“It’s spatial power again.”
The Second Prince had both a few scruples and envy towards spatial power.
If he was able to plunder Zhang Ruochen’s physical body and become the new generation of Space-Time Successor, then how much would his strength be increased?
In the eyes of the Second Prince, a fervent light appeared as he chased after him once again.
Only, the Second Prince chased after Zhang Ruochen for thousands of miles in a row, but he didn’t see Zhang Ruochen’s figure again, and even, even Zhang Ruochen’s aura disappeared.
“Surprisingly disappeared out of thin air?”
The Second Prince immediately retreated backwards, carefully tracing the scent left behind by Zhang Ruochen.
This was because he firmly believed that no matter what concealment means Zhang Ruochen had used, he must have left some traces behind as well.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen had already jumped into a large river that was a hundred feet wide, and at the same time, he stirred up the power of the Meteor Invisibility Clothes to completely conceal his body’s aura.
The water current washed Zhang Ruochen downstream and was moving away from Golden Bird City.
It wasn’t until after nightfall that Zhang Ruochen once again took off from the great river and stood on the surface of the water, his entire body having a huge amount of holy qi surging out, forming a five-coloured chaotic cloud of qi.
Earlier, while hiding in the water, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation level had already broken through to a Second Stage Half Saint.
“Whew.”
Zhang Ruochen opened his mouth and sucked in the Saint Qi that filled the water, sucking it all back into his body.
The thirty-six meridians and five Saint Veins let out a rumbling sound as if there were dozens of great rivers flowing through the body.
Returning to the shore, the Swallowing Rabbit asked, ”Master Dust, what do we do now? Should we rush back to the Underworld Sword Mound?”
Tonight’s night, without the moon, appeared pitch black, and one could not see five fingers even when stretching out one’s hands. The only thing was, the cold wind on the river, but it still made a whimpering sound.
Zhang Ruochen pondered for a long time, shook his head, and said, “If, the Qingtian Blood Emperor really captured the Underworld King’s Sword Mound, then it also means that of the six holy swords, he has already obtained five of them. Therefore, I absolutely cannot return to the Underworld Sword Saint, in case the Monstrous Sword is also taken, then the consequences, are truly unimaginable.”
“Then, where are we going now?”The Spitting Elephant Rabbit asked.
Zhang Ruochen said, “I’ll first find a place and take shelter for a while, and it won’t be too late to make a decision until there is news of the Stygian Sword Mound.”
Even if the Qingtian Blood Emperor captured the Underworld Sword Mound, as long as he could not find the Monstrous Sword for a while, it was possible that Chi Yao, who was in the Imperial City, as well as the Martial Zun of the Martial God Mountain, and even the Sect Leader of the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect, would all rush to the Underworld Sword Mound.
After all, none of the top powerhouses in the Kunlun Realm wished for the Underworld King to escape, and that would be a disaster for the entire human race.
Nowadays, Zhang Ruochen had clearly become the most crucial one, and I’m afraid that at this moment, there were countless strong people from the Immortal Blood Race, searching for him.
