“What a terrifying sword.”
Jin Ye Yun’s face was a little ugly as she watched the Barbarian Elephant soldiers fall one by one. She immediately unfolded her stance and dashed off into the distance, preparing to flee.
Facing such powerful two teenage swordsmen, cowardice had already developed in Jin Ye Yun’s heart, and she felt that even fifty Barbarian Elephant Soldiers would not be able to defeat them.
Jin Ye Yun had only just rushed out more than ten feet away when she saw Ah Le, dressed in a grey suit, stopping in front of her and blocking her way.
“Who exactly are you? Why are you helping Zhang Ruochen?” Jin Ye Yun said.
“A dead person is not qualified to talk to me.” Ah Le said.
“Another arrogant brat!”
Jin Ye Yun held himself at a high level of cultivation and was prepared to kill one person before leaving.
She channelled her true qi into both her palms, and a “giggling” sound was emitted from her palms, condensing a sharp and crystal ice spike. With a flick of her wrist, dozens of ice spikes flew towards Ah Le at the same time.
“Xuan Shadow Sword Art!”
Ah Le swung out his sword and seven shadows appeared, as if he had performed seven sword moves in a row, shattering the ice spikes that Jin Ye Yun had struck into pieces.
“Die!”
Jin Ye Yun’s voice almost sounded in Ah Lok’s ears.
As soon as he struck the ice spikes, Jin Ye Yun quickly rushed out, and at this moment, had already rushed in front of Ah Lok, with the two of them less than a metre apart.
A palm struck out, emitting a “popping” sound of air explosion.
The strong palm force struck at Ah Lok’s abdomen.
Before the palm hit Ah Lok’s body, a layer of thick frost condensed on the surface of Ah Lok’s body from the cold air.
After all, Jin Ye Yun was at the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, but Ah Lok hadn’t reached the Heavenly Extremity Realm yet, and there was a huge difference in their cultivation levels.
Ah Lok didn’t even have a chance to dodge.
“Boom!”
Jin Ye Yun struck Ah Lok’s abdomen with a palm strike, sending Ah Lok flying, the clothes on his body shattering apart as if he had been transformed into a piece of shredded cloth butterfly sheet.
“Haha!”
A loud laughing sound came out of Jin Ye Yun’s mouth as he struck a second palm in succession, striking Ah Lok’s chest.
Ah Lok spat out a mouthful of blood, the sound of bone crushing resounded within his body, and his ribs directly collapsed.
“Boom!”
Ah Le crashed to the ground, kneeling on both knees, blood continuously dripping out from the position of his chest, staining his robes completely red.
“It’s time to end it!”
Jin Ye Yun’s five fingers transformed into palm blades and slashed at Ah Lok’s neck.
Right at this moment, Ah Lok, who was already breathless, suddenly, gave birth to a deathly aura, and using the last strength of his entire body, he lifted his iron sword and stabbed upwards.
This sword was done in a single stroke.
It was like a dying struggle, but also like a sword that had been prepared long ago.
How could Jin Ye Yun expect that Ah Lok actually had the ability to counterattack?
“Poof!”
The iron sword broke through Jin Ye Yun’s protective heavenly deity and struck through his heart, piercing through his back and emerging a half-foot-long bloody sword tip.
Jin Ye Yun’s body shook as his eyes glanced towards the location of his heart, still unable to believe that he would die under the sword of a person who was seriously injured and dying.
“How …… how …… could …… it be?”
Ah Le retracted his iron sword, and Jin Ye Yun’s body, fell heavily to the ground.
An expert at the peak of the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, dying like this, died extremely unwillingly, so after dying, a pair of eyes still stared straight at the sky, not closing his eyes.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen chopped the last Barbarian Elephant Soldier under his sword and immediately rushed over, taking out a healing elixir and handing it to Ah Le, “Quickly take it.”
The exchange between Ah Le and Jin Ye Yun just now had actually all happened in a flash of lightning, and when Zhang Ruochen rushed over, Jin Ye Yun had already died under Ah Le’s sword.
Ah Le glanced at the healing elixir and shook his head, “I don’t take …… healing elixirs. The more injured I am, the faster my martial arts cultivation will progress. Have you forgotten that I cultivate the Nine Revolutions of Life and Death Decree? Putting death to death, injuring to the extreme and growing. Ahem!”
Ah Le covered his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.
However, he still persisted and did not take a healing potion, instead, he propped his hand on the ground and stood up with perseverance.
The Nine Revolutions of Life and Death Decree, was just so magical, a martial artist had to go through nine deaths to become strong.
Even if they were injured, they couldn’t deliberately heal, they had to recuperate on their own with their physical body and true qi, and only then would their cultivation increase.
This was a great test of a martial artist’s willpower!
Those who were timid and cowardly would not be able to cultivate even the first layer, let alone cultivate the technique to Mahayana.
In the past two years, Ah Le’s cultivation was able to grow so fast, from which it was clear that he must have suffered countless injuries, gone through countless life and death tests, and endured torments that were difficult for normal people to endure.
Someone like him, as long as he wasn’t killed, he would definitely become a Saint in the future, and would still be a top powerhouse among Saints.
Zhang Ruochen took back the healing elixir and said, “Over the past two years, your heart has become colder and your will has become stronger. For you, I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse?”
Ah Le stared at Zhang Ruochen, looking at the blood all over his hands, and revealed a stiff smile, saying, “In two years, haven’t you changed a lot as well. As I recall, two years ago, you wouldn’t be able to kill.”
Zhang Ruochen looked at the piles of dead bodies on the ground, his brows furrowed as he said, “In the past, my status was different, no one dared to kill me, so I naturally didn’t need to kill. However, now is different, there are too many people who want to kill me. If I don’t kill someone, the one who dies will be me. I don’t want to die yet, I still have very important things I haven’t done yet, so, I have to kill. Perhaps, this is the case of being born without a choice!”
Ah Le said, “A general’s work is done with ten thousand bones, and a thousand people are slaughtered under a Saint’s sword. Every Saint’s sword must be stained with the blood of millions of people. Enkong, I can feel that the path of cultivation you’re going to take will be even more difficult than mine.”
Dragging his heavily injured body, Ah Le quickly left and returned to the Hellmouth.
Zhang Ruochen headed in another direction and continued to rush to the City of Death.
Half an hour later, Jin Chuan, Zhang Tiangui, and Guo XIII rushed over with fifty Savage Elephant soldiers.
A dense blood aura filled the forest.
Around them, some savage beasts were attracted by the smell of blood and were gnawing on the corpses.
Fifty Savage Elephant soldiers, rushed out and stabbed all those savage beasts that were gnawing on the corpses to death.
“A squad of the Barbarian Elephant Army has been completely wiped out!”
Guo XIII tightly squeezed his heavy sword, a cold and angry look in his eyes.
“Concubine Jin’s corpse is here.”
A Barbarian Elephant sergeant searched through the forest and found Jin Ye Yun, who had fallen in a pool of blood.
“Yun’er!”
Jin Chuan rushed over and picked up Jin Ye Yun’s body, instantly bursting into old tears and crying out in pain.
Jin Chuan, was Jin Ye Yun’s father.
“Zhang Ruochen is so ruthless, he even killed Concubine Jin.” Zhang Tiangui’s eyes were sinister as he said, “Senior Jin Chuan, you must take revenge for Concubine Jin.”
“Zhang Ruochen!”
Jin Chuan roared, a powerful wind force was spat out from his mouth as if it was a hurricane, shaking down all the leaves in the entire mountain forest, flying in mid-air with a “rustling” sound.
Within a radius of a thousand feet, all the trees became bare, not a single leaf could be seen.
The birds and beasts in the forest were all shaken to death.
“Chase me, make sure to catch up with Zhang Ruochen, I will personally cut him into a thousand pieces.” Jin Chuan roared.
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The Tongming River Basin was the territory of the savage beasts of the waters and the forbidden land of the human race.
In order to clean up the Tongming River, the Human Race had built a city, the City of Death, only a hundred miles away from the Death River section of the Tongming River.
In the City of Death, armies from more than ten counties were stationed, with as many as a million soldiers.
Almost every month, the human soldiers would ride their warships and enter the waters to clear out the savage beasts.
Every year, a large-scale battle would be held, where the savage beasts and the human army fought in the darkness of the sky, causing huge casualties on both sides.
In addition to the army, there were also many martial artists from various counties that came to the City of Death, wanting to go to the Tongming River Basin to hunt the savage beasts and look for treasures in the water.
There were more cultivation treasures in the water than on land, and finding even just one could raise a martial artist’s cultivation by a large margin.
It was because of the profitability that a large number of martial artists still rushed to the City of Death every day to join the team of adventurers, even though they knew that the Tongming River was dangerous.
Some, indeed, gave their lives away and sank to the bottom of the water; some, however, got cultivation treasures and from then on became martial arts experts.
This was a place full of opportunities, but also full of danger, where legends and death coexisted.
When Zhang Ruochen arrived at the City of Death, he saw the high city walls, the densely packed warships moored at the harbour, and the endless stream of martial artists travelling to and from the city.
“I heard that Zhao San Tu dug out a blood coral in Tong Ming River and sold it for two million silver coins, he made a fortune.”
“There was another martial arts fight on Grass Market Street, it’s said that more than sixty people died and blood flowed into the river, among them, there were also strong martial arts practitioners of the Earth Extreme Realm.”
“This morning, the Death City’s army, dispatched thirteen warships, into the Death River section, supposedly to hunt the fourth-ranked medium savage beast ‘Xuan Cold Octopus’, and I don’t know if it will succeed?”
“Vermilion Bird House has come with ten more charming red girls, their first night will be auctioned off tonight, I wonder who will come out on top?”
……
Walking on the traffic-lined streets, Zhang Ruochen heard all sorts of news, from news of some kind of treasure coming out, to news of a certain big shot coming to the City of Death, and news of a certain powerful savage beast coming out ……
The City of Death could truly be described as a place of mixed fish and dragons.
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen’s heart seemed to feel something, and he raised his head to look towards a restaurant in the distance, and seemed to see a familiar silhouette.
“It’s actually her.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes narrowed as he stared at the purple-clad woman standing on top of the third floor of an ancient building next to the street.
That one purple-clothed woman, standing in a pavilion, had a very clear and beautiful face, a slim figure that looked soft, but her martial arts cultivation was very high. Moreover, her five senses were sharp, and she seemed to detect that someone was watching her.
Thus, she turned around and looked in the direction where that gaze came from, and she happened to see Zhang Ruochen standing in the centre of the street.
