It had to be said that Chen Xi’er’s words did remind her, causing the irascible Huang Yichen to calm down slightly.
Huang Yichen’s steps were light and carried a faint fragrance as she walked over to the Seven Spirit Pill Spring Pool and looked at Zhang Ruochen, who was healing his wounds in the pool.
She did not immediately wake him up from the pool, instead, she very quietly waited at the side, carefully observing Zhang Ruochen.
It was undeniable that in the Hurricane Cultivation Chamber, he was really badly injured.
“Ta-da!”
Chen Xi’er followed in from outside, stood opposite Huang Yichen, and laughed, “Cousin, I really don’t understand a little, with such a high level of discernment, could it be that you are really in love with Zhang Ruochen?”
Huang Yichen cradled her sword in her hands, with a dignified and forceful presence, like an ice-clear goddess in a scroll, without a trace of emotion on her face, she said, “You’d better not meddle in the affairs of Zhang Ruochen and I, or else, don’t blame me for flipping out with you.”
Chen Xi’er laughed, “Hehe! Cousin, you’re making it really difficult for me, after all, Zhang Ruochen is so outstanding and I’m also very moved. How about we compete fairly?”
“Fair competition? There is no such possibility.” Huang Yichen said.
“You don’t have confidence in yourself?” Chen Xi’er held out her chest as if provoking, revealing a full arc from her chest to her waist.
Huang Yichen’s eyes narrowed as he stared at Chen Xi’er, saying, “In the thirty-six counties of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, men who are even better than Zhang Ruochen abound, so why do you have to compete with me?”
Chen Xi’er pursed her crystalline lips and laughed, “Since men better than Zhang Ruochen abound, why can’t cousin give him up to cousin?”
Huang Yichen’s gaze condensed, no longer suppressing the anger in his heart, and said, “Fine! If you can catch ten of my swords with your bare hands, I’ll give you a chance to compete.”
“Swish!”
The sword in Huang Yicun’s hand, automatically left its sheath and flew out, transforming into a blue precious light, dragging out a long sword qi towards Chen Xi’er **** and stabbing at Chen Xi’er’s chest.
Chen Xi’er laughed, her delicate body twisted, soared up, rushed up more than seven feet high, avoiding Huang Yichen’s first sword.
Huang Yichen’s cultivation had already reached the middle stage of the Earth Extreme Realm, his speed was even faster than before, reaching more than a hundred metres per second, rushing out like a phantom, pinching the hilt of his sword and swinging it out in mid-air.
“Sword Rain Light Song!”
The sword qi formed a huge sword net, attacking towards Chen Xi’er from the bottom up.
Chen Xi’er’s cultivation was in between that of Huang Yichen, the difference being that Huang Yichen was more dominant in terms of speed, and his true qi contained a strong wind-attribute power.
Although, Huang Yichen’s sword technique was sharp and compelling, carrying an indestructible aura.
Chen Xi’er’s true qi contained the power of the wood attribute, and her combat strength was slightly inferior to Huang Yichen’s, but she had a high talent for alchemy. Therefore, Chen Xi’er was not just a martial artist, but also a second grade alchemist.
“Green wood shield armour.”
Cyan-coloured true qi surged out from Chen Xi’er’s palms, condensing into a one-metre-long cyan-coloured shield armour that blocked in front of her body.
“Boom!”
The powerful sword qi shattered the shield armour.
Chen Xi’er also took this opportunity to leap backwards and land on top of a maple tree not far away.
It was as if her body did not have an ounce of weight, merely stepping on a maple leaf while her delicate body hung in mid-air and did not descend.
“Wow!”
The true qi within Huang Yichen’s body was released, forming a huge vortex of true qi, a wind blade flew in the vortex of true qi as if it was an invisible sword.
“Chop!”
With a single point of the battle sword, a wind blade chopped towards Chen Xi’er, and with a destructive force, it instantly chopped that maple tree into pieces of wood shavings.
Chen Xi’er leapt through the air, turning into an arc as she swept towards the lake in the distance.
“Great Wind and Cloud Rising!”
Huang Yichen chased after her at an even faster speed and swung out a sword, a powerful sword qi that swept up a large wave of water on the surface of the lake, surging towards Chen Xi’er.
“Must leave!”
In the Seven Spirit Pill Spring Pool, Zhang Ruochen opened his eyes and sighed softly, taking advantage of the time when Huang Yichen and Chen Xi’er were exchanging blows, he immediately climbed up from the pool, and without having time to change into a new set of clothes, quietly left Chen Xi’er’s Secret Cultivation Mansion.
Zhang Ruochen was indeed very tired, and the injuries on his body were also very heavy, but he still woke up at the first moment when Huang Yichen reached the Seven Spirit Pill Spring Pool.
Because of his strong spiritual power, even when he was asleep, he could still wake up at the first moment once someone approached.
In other words, he had actually woken up a long time ago and had heard the dialogue between Huang Yichen and Chen Xi’er.
It was because he heard their dialogue that Zhang Ruochen chose to pretend to be asleep.
“Could it be that Senior Sister Huang already regrets her fake engagement with me? It shouldn’t be, something must have gone wrong somewhere, with her condescending personality, how could she possibly look at me?” Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head, not feeling happy with Huang Yichen’s words, but instead had a huge headache.
“What about Senior Sister Chen, I’ve only met her twice.”
Zhang Ruochen turned around to take a look, Huang Yichen was still still fighting with Chen Xi’er, and the entire Secret Cultivation Mansion was shattered, even an attic building was given a sword qi churning and turned into rubble.
Luckily, he quietly left while they were fighting, otherwise, he really didn’t know how to resolve this matter.
With Huang Yicun’s character, he could do anything.
Just as he walked out of Chen Xi’er’s Secret Mansion of Cultivation, Zhang Ruochen heard a series of silver bell-like laughter from behind him.
“You actually managed to escape from it alive, that’s out of my expectation.” Duanmu Xingling walked out from the distance with a playful smile on her face, revealing two rows of snow-white teeth.
Obviously, she had been waiting outside for a long time.
When Zhang Ruochen saw Duanmu Xingling, it was as if he had seen his saviour, and he solemnly said, “Senior Sister Duanmu, you’ve come too good! I’ve gotten into big trouble, this time, you must help me.”
Duanmu Xingling’s beautiful eyes chilled with smoke as she smiled and said, “Is that so? You had to mess with Chen Xier yourself, and now you know that you’re in big trouble?”
“Can you stop talking sarcasm? Besides, I never took the initiative to provoke her, and I don’t know what exactly happened? In fact, including Senior Sister Huang, I only had an attitude of respect and distance, not even thinking that it would develop into today’s situation.” Zhang Ruochen’s brows were tightly locked, his mind was in chaos, clueless.
“Really?” Duanmu Xingling’s eyes brightened slightly as she said, “You really don’t have that kind of meaning towards Sister Dust?”
“Really no.” Zhang Ruochen said solemnly.
“Alright! Since you’re pleading with me so much, then I’ll help you once.” Duanmu Xingling nodded gently and said, “This isn’t the place to talk, go to my Secret Mansion of Cultivation first to take shelter. If you let them chase you out, you won’t be able to leave!”
Arriving at Duanmu Xingling’s Secret Mansion of Cultivation, Zhang Ruochen gradually calmed down.
Although Zhang Ruochen appeared to be ignorant and practically a rookie when it came to relationships, he still managed to clear his thoughts very quickly.
“How do you plan to deal with your relationship with Sister Dust? Although Sister Dust has always been as cold as ice, never spilling her heart out to anyone, I can tell that she should have moved towards you with true feelings. If you really thought that after three years, she would voluntarily withdraw from the marriage, you would be very wrong.” Duanmu Xingling laughed with narrowed eyes.
Zhang Ruochen frowned slightly, still somewhat unconvinced that Huang Yichen would really be moved, and shook his head, saying, “I don’t think …… Senior Sister Huang is a woman who would be easily moved, much less be moved towards me. She should be concerned about her own face, so that’s why she broke into Senior Sister Chen’s Secret Mansion of Cultivation. After all, I am her nominal fiancé, and she doesn’t want others to gossip.”
Duanmu Xingling laughed, “Senior brother, are you not using all of your energy on cultivation, so you don’t understand women at all? Do you think that if Sister Dust didn’t care about you at all, she would take the initiative to break into Chen Xi’er’s secret cultivation mansion? Perhaps even she herself doesn’t know that she has already developed very subtle feelings for you.”
“Then what should we do now?” Zhang Ruochen said.
“What else can we do? Sister Duan and Chen Xier are both the proud daughters of the Martial City Academy, I don’t know how many people want to get their favour, you don’t even know how lucky you are.”
“Senior Sister Duanmu, can you be more serious?”
Duanmu Xingling became serious and said, “I think that you should just not meet them for the time being, and then slowly observe their attitudes.”
Zhang Ruochen gently nodded and said, “Then I can only temporarily stay in your Secret Mansion of Cultivation, and I hope that Senior Sister will keep my secret.”
“A small matter.” Duanmu Xingling laughed, “I just hope that Sister Dust won’t misunderstand that I want to get in on the action as well. Hehe!”
For the next five days, Zhang Ruochen stayed in Duanmu Starling’s Secret Mansion of Cultivation, the injuries on his body gradually healed, and his energy was once again restored to a full state.
Zhang Ruochen purchased a large number of healing pills and once again entered the Tong Sheng Mountain, coming to the Earth Grade Hurricane Cultivation Secret Mansion, putting the troubles from Huang Yichen and Chen Xi’er completely behind him, only wanting to impact the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Xuan Extreme Realm as soon as possible.
The current him was very eager to reach the Earth Extreme Realm, and as long as he reached the Earth Extreme Realm, he would be able to have the ability to defend himself.
At that time, he wouldn’t need to intentionally avoid Huang Yichen and Chen Xi’er, and could completely take up the mission of the Martial City Academy Palace and go outside to train. As long as he didn’t meet up with them, naturally, he wouldn’t have to think about those headaches.
Entering the Hurricane Cultivation Secret Mansion once more, Zhang Ruochen’s state became even better, and his comprehension of the Wind-Resistant Flying Dragon Shadow was even better.
“Whew!”
In the middle of the cultivation secret chamber, the wind was raging, with strong winds in all directions.
Zhang Ruochen struggled to control his centre of gravity, and in the wind, he stepped and harnessed the wind like a stumpy shadow, constantly changing his orientation in the wind.
“Boom!”
It lasted a full forty seconds before Zhang Ruochen was accidentally struck by the wind force that suddenly appeared at the top, hitting the ground and falling to the ground.
In the midst of cultivation, time passed extremely quickly.
Soon, half a month passed, and Zhang Ruochen’s progress was tremendous, on average, he would only impact with the stone wall almost once a minute, and about 120 times an hour.
When Zhang Ruochen entered the Hurricane Cultivation Chamber for the third time, his ability to harness the wind was even stronger, and in an hour, he would only collide with the stone wall ten times at most.
When Zhang Ruochen entered the Hurricane Cultivation Chamber for the fourth time, he was already able to walk idly amidst the strong winds without having to worry about losing his centre of gravity.
Three whole months passed, and Zhang Ruochen entered the Hurricane Cultivation Chamber five times to cultivate, each time for half a month.
The rest of the time, Zhang Ruochen spent almost entirely in Duanmu Xingling’s cultivation secret mansion, either healing his wounds or realising the progress he had made above the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow.
On the seventh day of Zhang Ruochen’s sixth entry into the Hurricane Secret Mansion for cultivation, he finally cultivated the Wind-Resisting Flying Dragon Shadow to its grand completion, with the fastest burst speed reaching eighty-one metres per second, and succeeded in striking the Xuan Extremity Realm’s Supreme Extremity Realm.
