Arriving outside the stronghold of the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Ruochen looked over towards the short courtyard in front of him, and was already able to clearly feel Lord Hua Ming’s aura.
“This is it!”
Zhang Ruochen walked to the gate of the courtyard and stood ten feet away, raising one arm and turning his five fingers.
True Qi, gushing out from his palm, was like an invisible pillar of Qi that struck the top of the gate.
“There was a loud bang.
The gate of the stronghold was directly shattered into pieces of wood.
The dozen or so Evil Dao martial practitioners who were originally ambushed behind the gate were all sent flying by the powerful true qi, falling to the ground in a heap.
Each Evil Dao martial artist had a bloody hole punched out of their body by the wood shavings, some had their heads pierced through, and some had their abdominal cavities shattered …… Half of them all died on the spot, and the other half suffered extremely heavy injuries.
Zhang Ruochen walked into the stronghold, and without even glancing at those Evil Dao martial artists, he walked straight towards the inner courtyard.
A few moments later, Zhang Ruochen saw Hua Ming Gong who was healing his wounds.
Hua Ming Gong sat cross-legged on the ground, his hands clasped together, and with his body as the centre, a ten feet diameter True Qi Shield was formed.
The True Qi, like a mist of light, wrapped his body.
When Zhang Ruochen walked into the stronghold, Hua Minggong had stopped healing and opened his eyes as he said in a cold voice, “Zhang Ruochen, you have indeed caught up again! I thought I hadn’t left any traces behind, can you tell me how you managed to locate me?”
Zhang Ruochen naturally couldn’t tell him the secret of his Martial Soul, and only said indifferently, “Hua Ming Gong, you don’t need to stall for time, today, I won’t give you another chance to escape.”
Hua Ming Gong stood up and roared, “In that case, let’s fight! Either you die or I die.”
Beside him, a huge stone mill was placed, weighing thousands of kilograms.
With one hand on the stone mill, Hua Ming Gong’s arm rotated twice and threw the stone mill out, smashing it towards Zhang Ruochen.
At the same time, Hua Ming Gong turned his head and fled, with no intention of fighting Zhang Ruochen.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen smashed the stone mill with a palm and chased after Hua Ming Gong.
“Still want to escape? Set it for me!”
Zhang Ruochen unleashed his Spatial Domain, covering a space of 500 metres in a radius, and exerted the power of ‘Spatial Condensation’.
Hua Ming Gong, who had originally fled to a hundred metres away, suddenly felt the space around him completely freeze, his body was like being sealed inside cold ice, and it was incredibly difficult for him to even move.
Hua Ming Gong could only feel that the pressure on his body was getting bigger and bigger, so he could only stimulate the power of his bloodline and violently slam into the void.
“Splat! ‘
It was as if space was torn apart, and Hua Ming Gong regained his freedom once again.
However, just a moment ago when he was sealed, Zhang Ruochen had already chased after him and struck out with a palm.
“Dragon Elephant Returning to the Field.”
Hua Ming Gong’s eyes were crimson, his entire body surged with blood qi, and with a crimson blood formation under his feet, he violently turned around and punched out as well.
“Shake the heavens and move the earth.”
The fists and palms clashed, emitting powerful fluctuations of true qi.
Hua Ming Gong’s throat was sweet as he spat out a mouthful of blood, his footsteps kept retreating.
After Zhang Ruochen landed on the ground, he rushed forward once again, his entire body’s blood qi surging ceaselessly in his meridians, emitting a clattering sound as it gathered into his arm and struck out with another palm.
“Barbarian Elephant Chi Earth.”
The thick palm force, in front of Zhang Ruochen’s palm, formed a huge translucent palm imprint, emitting a loud sound of an elephant whistling.
Before the palm imprint even struck Hua Ming Gong’s body, the mountainous aura seemed to be already about to blow Hua Ming Gong out of the air.
Hua Ming Gong’s eyes exploded as if he was a furious vajra, and both of his fists struck out at the same time, once again sparring hard with Zhang Ruochen.
“Boom! ”
Hua Ming Gong directly flew out horizontally backwards, falling ten feet away, his arms aching with pain as if his bones were broken.
“Damn it, if my Black Gold Gloves were still there, how could I have lost to your palm?”
The fist technique that Hua Ming Gong cultivated could only bring out its strongest power with the help of the Black Gold Gloves. Unfortunately, his Black Gold Gloves had long been shattered by the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
“Kid, you’re the one who forced me to use a forbidden technique.”
Hua Ming Gong rolled over and took out eight half-foot long silver needles, simultaneously inserting them into the eight most dominant meridians in his body.
At the same time, he took out a red-coloured elixir and quickly swallowed it into his mouth.
In an instant, Hua Ming Gong acted as if his injuries were healed, and the flow of true qi in his body doubled.
The skin on his body, completely turned scorched black, and his pair of crimson eyes were very cold, staring at Zhang Ruochen like a poisonous snake.
“Silver Needle Stabbing Vein, Fire Dan Burning Blood.”
Zhang Ruochen frowned slightly and said, “I’m afraid that your lifespan will be reduced by twenty years if you use this kind of forbidden technique to stimulate your meridians and burn your blood.”
“So what? If you don’t use this kind of forbidden art, won’t you die for sure?” Hua Ming Gong Dao.
“Fair enough.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and took out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, no longer underestimating Hua Ming Gong, his face becoming serious as he prepared for a good battle.
Just by using the Silver Needle Pulse Stabbing, Hua Ming Gong had already recovered to his full strength, plus the fact that he had taken the Fire Pill, which was able to burn the blood in his body, making him much more powerful than his full strength.
It could be said that Hua Ming Gong was now considered to be in the state of a true Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist.
Of course, there was a time limit for using the forbidden technique, after a maximum of one hour, if Hua Ming Gong was still unable to kill Zhang Ruochen, the power of the Silver Needle Stabbing Vein and the Fire Pill Burning Blood would disappear, and at that time, he would become very weak and could only allow Zhang Ruochen to slaughter him.
Zhang Ruochen always felt that Hua Minggong was deliberately stalling for time, so, not wanting to use time to exhaust Hua Minggong as well, he decided to fight a quick battle so as not to be late.
“Zhang Ruochen, let you see the true power of the old me.”
Hua Ming Gong laughed out loud and erupted with a speed of 280 metres per second, almost rushing to Zhang Ruochen’s face at the same time his words rang out.
“Shake the heavens and move the earth!”
A punch was thrown out, carrying a powerful fist wind.
The opponent was so fast that Zhang Ruochen couldn’t even dodge in time, and could only cross his sword to block.
“Boom!”
A huge force came from the sword and surged into Zhang Ruochen’s arms, sending Zhang Ruochen flying.
Without waiting for Zhang Ruochen to land on the ground, Hua Minggong immediately threw the second punch, the third punch ……, completely not giving Zhang Ruochen the opportunity to fight back, a series of forty-nine punches, a set of boxing before it was completely finished.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t know how far he had retreated, knocking down all the houses on the entire street, one building becoming completely flat, his hair, body, and face covered by a layer of mud and grey, a bit pudgy.
Zhang Ruochen, who had a spatial domain to protect his body and was wearing the Ice and Fire Qilin Armour, was not injured, but only appeared to be in a bit of a mess.
After the forty-nine punches were finished, Hua Ming Gong paused slightly for a moment, preparing to regain his breath.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Ruochen soared up, utilising his entire body’s True Qi, and slashed down with his sword.
“Whew.”
Hua Ming Gong tilted his head and looked up, only to see a brilliant sword light descending from the sky like a river of sword qi.
His arms spread out, his hands condensed a large area of true qi and closed towards the centre, using a move to catch the white blade with his empty hands, surprisingly catching Zhang Ruochen’s sword that he had slashed with all his might.
“Boom!”
The ground under Hua Ming Gong’s feet shook violently, and then, it split into pieces, raising a wave of mud that surged in all directions.
The smoke and dust dispersed.
The ground, which was ten metres in circumference, unexpectedly sank by more than a metre, forming a huge crater.
“Kid, you’re nothing more than that, even with my bare hands, old me can still catch your ninth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon, if old me also had a ninth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon, I would only need one move to kill you.”
Hua Ming Gong laughed out loud, still holding his battle sword with both hands, his legs stomped and his body shot straight up, flying against Zhang Ruochen’s head, and his foot stomped violently downwards.
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head, and the hand that was originally holding the hilt of the sword was suddenly loosened, falling to the ground as his arm chopped towards the void.
“Spatial rift!”
Hua Ming Gong’s face changed, instinctively sensing that a dangerous aura was approaching, but not knowing exactly where the danger was coming from?
“Giggle!”
Suddenly, the void in front of Hua Ming Gong, gently trembled, and a small crack appeared, and those cracks converged together, transforming into a three-foot long crack.
Within the crack, there was chaos.
A powerful devouring force emanated from that one crack, and even with Hua Ming Gong’s Heavenly Extreme Realm cultivation, he was unexpectedly unable to resist it.
The spatial crack, like a large mouth in the void, swallowed Hua Ming Gong’s head in an instant.
“Boom!”
A headless corpse fell down from mid-air, bright red blood gushing out from the inside of his neck, emitting a disgusting bloody odour.
Zhang Ruochen’s arm stretched out, and the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, which was originally held between Hua Ming Gong’s hands, trembled and flew up, falling into Zhang Ruochen’s hands.
“The power of the Spatial Collapse is truly formidable, even a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist cannot resist it. I also wonder how strong the power that erupts from a successful cultivation of Spatial Collapse should be?”
Zhang Ruochen looked at the corpse on the ground, squatted down, and removed the space ring from Hua Ming Gong’s finger.
Inside the spatial ring, it was surprisingly filled with treasures, apart from pills and True Martial Treasure Weapons, it was surprisingly filled with a large amount of Spirit Crystals and a small amount of silver coins.
Those pills and True Martial Treasure Weapons were the next best thing, none of them were of a high grade, the best pills were only third grade pills, and the best True Martial Treasure Weapons were only sixth grade True Martial Treasure Weapons. For a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist, it seemed too shabby.
However, the amount of spirit crystals surprised Zhang Ruochen, piling up into a small mountain of over 9,200. Together with some of the extremely good quality medium spirit crystals and high quality spirit crystals amongst them, the value of these spirit crystals definitely exceeded ten million silver coins, counting it as a huge fortune.
Why did Lord Hua Ming carry such a huge amount of spirit crystals with him?
One must know that martial artists almost always converted their spirit crystals into silver coins and deposited them in the martial market money banks.
Even the evil martial artists in the black market would mostly have an explicit identity that would allow them to deposit their wealth into the Martial Market Money Bank without having to carry it around with them.
The black market actually also had a money bank, however, because of the many forces within the black market and the serious division, the money bank that was established could not be compared to the money bank in the martial market, instead, it often closed down.
Therefore, even the evil martial artists in the black market mostly preferred to deposit their wealth in the martial market money bank.
Although it is a bit risky, but do not have to worry about the closure of martial arts money bank, and also very convenient to withdraw money, any city must have a branch of martial arts money bank.
Of course, once one’s identity was found out by the Martial City Money Bank, then the wealth deposited in the Martial City Money Bank would be frozen.
