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Lei Jing and Chen Ying retreated and stood at a distance, leaving space for Zhang Ruochen and Emperor Yi to duel.
Chen Ying’s eyes gleamed and his face was quite serious as he said, ”With Zhang Ruochen and the Red Desire Star Envoy’s performance in that battle just now, it’s enough for him to spread his name to the Eastern Domain and become the leader of the younger generation. You shouldn’t have let him go to battle against Emperor Yi, in case of any slip-ups, those Half-Saints and Saints in the Academy Palace will definitely blame us.”
Lei Jing’s fists were placed in his sleeves as he stood proudly and said, “Zhang Ruochen is still very young now, he should be allowed to suffer some setbacks, even if he loses to Emperor Yi, it will still be a kind of sharpening for him. If I were to stop him from fighting Emperor Yi now, it would instead affect his heart for martial arts.”
Zhang Ruochen’s defeat of the Red Desire Star Envoy had indeed caused a great shock to the major forces of the Heavenly Demon Ridge. However, when he fought with Emperor Yi, no one still favoured him.
One must know that Di Yi was a Saint Body, which could be considered invincible amongst martial artists of his generation.
What’s more, Di Yi was now in the same realm as Zhang Ruochen, and in the same realm, a Saint Body fighting a non-Saint Body was a crushing advantage.
“Zhang Ruochen, you really don’t want to know where Zhang Tiangui has gone?”Di Yi said.
“This battle is inevitable, anything you say won’t disturb me, instead, it will only reflect the cowardice in your heart.”Zhang Ruochen said.
“I have the mindset of certain victory, how could I be timid?”
Emperor Yi smiled coldly and said, “In that case, let’s fight.”
Emperor Yi’s hand probed towards the back of his neck, clasping a piece of the back of his neck’s spine, his fingers snapped into the flesh and blood, and with a forceful tug, he slowly dragged a spine bone out of his body.
Each piece of bone was like white jade, blossoming with brilliant holy light.
Emperor Yi pulled the spine completely out of his body and cupped it in his hand, five feet long with nineteen sections in total, shaped like a white bone sword, emitting a rather powerful aura.
There seemed to be the silhouette of a cloaked Saint that floated above the white bone sword, wrapping the white bone sword.
Looking from afar, one could see that there was an inscription floating above the white bone sword, emitting an icy cold aura.
Before Di Yi even injected his true qi into the white bone sword, the cold qi emanating from the white bone sword had already caused the water particles in the void to condense into ice and snow, drifting down from the sky.
Di Yi’s finger, gently touched the white bone sword and said, “This sword, is named Snow River. It was made by a Calcined Weapon Master who stripped the spine of the Snow River Half-Saint and refined it using the Earth’s Heart Inferno Flame. It’s just a sword, but it carries the holy power of the Snow River Half-Saint, so it can be considered a human sword.”
Using the bodies of powerful martial artists and savage beasts to refine weapons was not a strange thing.
Some people could use a martial artist’s meridians and refine them into whips; others could use a half-saint’s leg bone and refine a holy stick; and still others could use a saint’s head and refine it into an evil jar.
The more powerful the martial artists and savage beasts were, the more valuable they were to use to refine weapons…
The bone sword in Di Yi’s hand contained the power of a half-saint and was so powerful that it had reached the peak of a tenth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon, and could even resist an eleventh rank True Martial Treasure Weapon.
Generally speaking, the grade of True Martial Treasure Artifacts were only divided into nine ranks.
Above the ninth rank, it had already surpassed the realm of True Martial Treasure Weapons and was called a “Holy Weapon”.
However, there were always some master refiners who made some high-grade war weapons that were much more powerful than the ninth grade True Martial Artifacts, but far less powerful than the Sacred Artifacts.
Thus, the refiner added three more ranks on top of the ninth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon: tenth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon, eleventh rank True Martial Treasure Weapon, and twelfth rank True Martial Treasure Weapon.
Di Yi’s pair of gloves, the Black Dragon Ghost Claws, could only be considered as the lower grade of a 10th rank True Martial Artifact.
This white bone sword “Snow River”, however, could be called the very best of the 10th rank True Martial Artifacts, much more powerful, especially in terms of attacking power, it could be considered invincible.
Di Yi said, “Three months ago, I was the one who used the Snow River Bone Sword to defeat the ‘Earth Ranking’ Emperor One Step Qianfan in just three moves. You’re just going to use a broken sword and fight me?”
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and said, “One broken sword is enough!”
“Zhang Ruochen, I have a tenth rank True Martial Treasure weapon battle sword that I can lend you.”Chen Ying said.
“Thank you, Palace Master, the broken sword in my hand, although it is only a ninth rank True Martial Treasure Artifact, it is the one I am most familiar with, it is the only one that fits me the most.”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword seemed to sense Zhang Ruochen’s will and trembled violently, emitting a piercing light as if to tell the world that it was not a ruined sword.
Swords, too, had spirituality.
Swords, too, had dignity.
“Underworld Sword Body.”
Emperor Yi’s arm waved, and in an instant, icy cold sword qi rushed up into the sky, transforming into a black cloud of sword qi.
Within the cloud, a sword qi, which looked like it had converged into the silhouette of an Underworld King, emitted a stern “whimpering” sound and stared with a pair of huge ghost eyes as it attacked Zhang Ruochen below.
This was a ghost grade sword technique, the Underworld King Sword Technique.
The Ghost Grade Sword Technique was many times more superior than the Spirit Grade Sword Technique, especially the Ghost Grade Sword Technique that had reached its grand completion was even more astonishing, and the power that erupted from it had already surpassed the realm of ordinary sword techniques.
Seeing Di Yi execute the Ghost Level Sword Technique, the faces of the people standing in the distance all changed drastically.
“No wonder Di Yi was able to defeat Bu Qianfan with three swords, with the power of the Snow River Bone Sword, coupled with the Underworld Sword Technique, how many people in the younger generation can stop it?”
“This is Di Yi’s true strength, if I were to fight him, he would only need one sword, and I would have to be destroyed in my divine form.”Si Xingkong said.
“I also wonder how many swords Zhang Ruochen can block against Emperor Yi?”Qin Ya held her breath and watched from afar, an expectant look in her beautiful eyes.
It didn’t take much, as long as Zhang Ruochen was able to block three of Emperor Yi’s swords, he would surely be famous.
“I’m afraid it’s even difficult to block the first sword.”Devil Cult Elder Hua Shenyi said with a grave expression on his face.
Martial artists standing a hundred feet away were able to feel a suffocating pressure, and Zhang Ruochen, who stood below the sword cloud, was naturally under even more pressure.
A star-like point of light, the Heart of Sword Intent, emerged from Zhang Ruochen’s brow in the sea of qi, rapidly rotating.
“Break!”
Zhang Ruochen’s fingertip pointed, and the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword flew out, transforming into a pillar of light that shot up into the sky, striking at the Stygian King in the sky that had been formed from the convergence of sword qi.
Although the Hades King Sword Technique was profound and powerful, it had a weakness.
A weakness that was right at the centre of the eyebrows.
Zhang Ruochen’s sword was striking at the centre of the Underworld King’s eyebrows.
“Boom!”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword struck into the heart of the Underworld King’s brow, and it was as if it had broken through a bamboo wall, instantly tearing apart the sword cloud and transforming it into a streak of scattered sword qi that flew off in all directions, making a swish-swish sound in the air.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen pinched his fingers into a sword technique and controlled the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword from a distance of dozens of feet, quickly chopping towards Emperor Yi.
“What? Zhang Ruochen is controlling a sword? Am I seeing things wrong!”
“That’s right, it’s the Royal Sword.”
“Royal Sword, doesn’t that mean reaching the Sword Mind Realm? In the legends, isn’t it that only Half-Saints can reach that realm?”
“That’s not necessarily true, as long as a martial artist’s perception is strong enough and they work hard enough, before they become a Half-Saint, they also have a chance to reach the Sword Heart Passage, only that kind of martial artist is too few, and, most of the time, it’s only the Fish Dragon Realm’s martial artistes who can achieve it. It is not true that there is no one who has reached the Sword Heart Enlightenment …… at the Heavenly Extremity Realm, only that such people are all legends, and in history, they are also great saints of great prowess.”
“Earlier when Zhang Ruochen dueled with the Red Desire Star Envoy, I guessed that he had reached the Sword Mind Enlightenment Realm, only that I never dared to be sure.”
“No wonder Zhang Ruochen is not a Saint Body and also has the strength to fight against Saint Bodies, it turns out that it’s because of his powerful enlightenment and profound attainments in the Way of the Sword.”
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“Sword Mind Enlightenment” was a realm that people looked up to, even cultivators as powerful as Lei Jing and Chen Ying had not reached that realm.
The impact caused by Zhang Ruochen’s display of the Sword Sentience Art could be imagined how shocking it was.
“Underworld Chaos.”
Emperor Yi released his Innate Demonic Qi and struck out with his sword once again, sending the incoming Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword crashing out.
“Wow!”
Emperor Yi rushed out with quick steps, his body shot up explosively, holding the hilt of the white bone sword with both hands as he chopped towards Zhang Ruochen’s head, “It’s already three swords, it’s time to end it! Underworld King Destroys the City.”
Di Yi had used three swords to defeat Bu Qianfan, and he also intended to use only three swords to defeat Zhang Ruochen.
With the loss of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, how else could Zhang Ruochen stop him?
“Boom!”
A powerful force of sword intent erupted from Zhang Ruochen’s body, sweeping through the waters in a thousand zhang radius.
Within a thousand feet, the swords in the hands of all the martial artists were all out of their control, trembling non-stop as they flew towards Zhang Ruochen.
“What’s going on? My sword ……”
“My sword flew away!”
……
In all directions, close to a hundred battle swords, all of them flew towards Zhang Ruochen, as if ten thousand swords were flying above Zhang Ruochen’s head.
