The silhouettes of divine dragons and divine elephants condensed from blood qi wrapped around Zhang Ruochen’s body, carrying a brilliant aura as they flew rapidly towards Emperor Yi, who was suspended above the crimson demonic sun.
“Boom!”
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The two pillars of light that shot out from Emperor Yi’s pupils continuously struck above the divine Dragon and divine Elephant’s silhouettes, colliding to create a ripple and emitting earth-shattering sounds, but they could not stop Zhang Ruochen’s advance.
No one knew why Zhang Ruochen’s blood qi was so powerful, and the two blood beast silhouettes condensed were able to resist the Sacred Body Demon Heart.
However, Zhang Ruochen roughly knew some of the reasons. Firstly, he cultivated the Nine Heavens Bright Emperor Sutra, and one of the 36 meridians opened up was called the “Blood Spirit Vein”.
The Blood Spirit Vein, connecting the Qi Sea and blood, was a strange vein.
It was because of this strange vein that Zhang Ruochen was able to use his true qi to continuously water the blood, constantly enhancing the spirituality of the blood.
Cultivating other techniques could not do this.
Furthermore, Zhang Ruochen had also invoked the resonance of the Gods three times, leaving the imprint of the Gods on the Qi Sea wall, so his True Qi was also imprinted with the Gods, and sublimation occurred along with his blood.
Secondly, the Golden Dragon passed its Dragon Pearl, to Zhang Ruochen, into Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
In other words, Zhang Ruochen’s blood had the power of the Holy Dragon incorporated into it, and his blood qi naturally became even more powerful. As he continued to refine the dragon pearl, Zhang Ruochen’s blood qi and flesh would become stronger and stronger, even surpassing many dragons.
If someone looked closely, they would notice that the divine dragon and divine elephant blood qi vapours that wrapped around Zhang Ruochen’s body carried a layer of golden light, like a layer of light mist armour that blocked the power of Emperor Yi’s Heavenly Demon Eyes.
A moment later, Zhang Ruochen rushed to Emperor Yi’s front and flew up with an open heart, lifting his sword to stab at Emperor Yi’s heart.
Since he had a demonic heart, let’s break that one first.
Emperor Yi’s eyes narrowed, revealing a hawk-like smile as he slowly raised his right arm.
The ten foot tall multicoloured holy shadow that was originally hanging behind him immediately transformed into a multicoloured holy cloud that appeared in the centre of his palm.
With a palm strike, multicoloured holy light rushed out from his palm, striking at the incoming Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
The two forces charged together, resisting and attacking each other, surprisingly evenly matched again.
Looking from afar, one could only see Emperor Yi stepping on the Demonic Sun and holding the multicoloured Saint Cloud, the light emanating from his body was brighter than even the light of the blazing sun in the sky.
On the other side, a giant dragon’s shadow wrapped around Zhang Ruochen’s body, and as Zhang Ruochen stabbed out with his sword, it was as if the divine dragon had probed out a claw, striking the piece of multicoloured holy cloud and causing it to wobble unceasingly.
Emperor Yi’s brows furrowed as he changed the battle.
The five fingers closed and squeezed into a fist.
“Human King Pushing Mountain!”
Dozens of electric lights, condensed out in the void, emitting a “crackling” sound, converged on top of his fist and fiercely struck out, attacking Zhang Ruochen’s chest.
“Boom!”
The golden light on the surface of the Divine Dragon and Divine Elephant was shattered by the punch, and the blood aura dispersed as that one fist attacked towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen sensed the powerful force on that one fist and immediately struck out a palm that exploded with nine times the attacking force.
It was another tough duel of power as the fist and palm print collided together with a boom.
Both of their bodies swayed slightly and retreated backwards at a rapid pace.
“Elephant Power Nine Stacks.”
Zhang Ruochen rushed up again and struck out nine palms in a row again, nine palm imprints overlapping together and erupting with nine times the power.
“Human King Zhen Shi.”
Emperor Yi violently charged forwards, clenching his fists with both hands and punching out at the same time, one fist striking Zhang Ruochen’s palm and the other striking Zhang Ruochen’s chest.
Seeing that Zhang Ruochen was about to suffer a heavy blow, suddenly, a sword sound rang out, and the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword flew down from the side of Emperor Yi’s head, striking at the Heavenly Spirit on top of his head.
If Di Yi’s double fists continued to strike, Zhang Ruochen would definitely be seriously injured, but Di Yi would also definitely be pierced through his head by the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
“Zhang Ruochen, you want to die with me, that’s impossible. The only person who will die is you.”
A sneer appeared on Emperor Yi’s face as he injected his True Qi into a turtle-shaped jade pendant hanging on his waist. The inscriptions in the jade pendant were activated, forming a light shield that guarded him in the centre of it.
With the protective treasure guarding him, it was enough to block the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, and Emperor Yi’s double fists continued to go unabated, aiming to crush Zhang Ruochen under his fists.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze, staring towards the piece of turtle-shaped jade pendant, revealed a dazed expression, “So that’s Di Yi’s protective treasure.”
“Boom!”
Emperor Yi’s left fist struck Zhang Ruochen’s chest, and while he was secretly pleased with himself, suddenly, a golden light rushed out from Zhang Ruochen’s chest.
A powerful force of recoil slammed into the top of Emperor Yi’s fist.
“Ow!”
Emperor Yi seemed to hear a dragon’s roar that travelled into his ears, causing his eardrums to go numb and his eyes to go dark.
At the same time, the impact force coming from his arm shook him and sent him flying backwards.
The surge of power just now was erupted from the Dragon Pearl.
Just as soon as Emperor Yi punched over, Zhang Ruochen immediately injected his True Qi into his Blood Spirit Vein, activating the power of the Dragon Pearl, which was used to counteract Emperor Yi.
The Dragon Pearl, not only did it just contain the power of the Holy Dragon, but it was also a powerful body-protecting battle weapon.
Emperor Yi looked at his bloody arm, his five fingers squeezing tightly once again, and instead of being angry, he laughed excitedly, “Zhang Ruochen, you have indeed obtained the Dragon Shelter. I’m going to break open your heart and dig out what belongs to me.”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit speechless, since when did the Dragon Shelly belong to him originally?
This person, his possessiveness was too strong.
Emperor Yi stepped on the round of demonic sun and flew up again, pulling out his white bone sword and stabbing at Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
Zhang Ruochen did not dodge, he also condensed his Green Void True Qi, pulling up fifteen sword blossoms and stabbing at Emperor Yi’s demonic heart.
Just when the two were about to come into contact, Zhang Ruochen suddenly dodged slightly, his body shortened and violently fell downwards, surprisingly, he didn’t clash with Emperor Yi.
“How could it be easy to dodge?”
The corner of Emperor Yi’s mouth hooked out a trace of arc, and his sword Qi fell like a curtain of water, chopping towards Zhang Ruochen.
“Thrust!”
One of the sword qi, breaking through Zhang Ruochen’s protective heavenly deity, chopped at Zhang Ruochen’s left shoulder, leaving a half-inch deep bloodstain.
Just when Emperor Yi was complacent, Zhang Ruochen’s sword flicked at his waist, chopping off the piece of tortoise-shaped jade pendant that he had hung around his waist.
The turtle-shaped jade pendant was a very precious protective treasure that could be used nine times. Up until now, Emperor Yi had only used it twice.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t just want to defeat Emperor Yi, he wanted to kill him.
Since this was the case, it was necessary to remove his protective treasures first, only then could he rush to the Seven Deadly Star Envoy’s rescue and behead Emperor Yi with his sword.
Doing so was not only a promise to help Zixi take revenge, it was also to get rid of the aftermath.
Seeing the turtle-shaped jade pendant being chopped off, Di Yi’s face sank as he immediately shot out a palm of true qi and pulled it downwards, wanting to grab the turtle-shaped jade pendant back.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen stood on the surface of the water, condensed his true qi in his fingertips, and struck out a sword wave with a single finger.
“Boom!”
The sword wave struck on top of the turtle-shaped jade pendant, breaking the jade pendant into pieces.
“Damn it.”
Emperor Yi roared with rage, “Zhang Ruochen, do you think I only have one protective treasure?”
“I will break as many pieces as you have.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Emperor Yi smiled coldly and said, “You think you have that ability?”
Zhang Ruochen asked a rhetorical question and said, “How much True Qi is left in your Qi Sea? Is there 20%?”
Emperor Yi’s face sank as he realised that it was not good.
Just as Zhang Ruochen had said, there was indeed less than 20% of True Qi left in his body.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Whether it’s the Ghost Level Martial Technique or the Sacred Body Demon Heart, although they are extremely powerful, they also consume a great deal of True Qi. With your cultivation level that has just broken through the early stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, you dare to consume True Qi recklessly, do you really think that you can take me down within three or five moves?”
Di Yi said, “So what? Performing the Imperial Sword Technique also consumes true qi very much. I’m afraid you don’t have much true qi left in your sea of qi, right?”
“Are you that sure?”
Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly and stretched out his right hand, a surge of true qi.
The true qi, surging out from his palm, was like a wisp of mist that spilled onto the water.
“Wow!”
As his palm lifted, on the water surface, a crystal clear ice sword flew up, close to a thousand, densely packed and all around, covering the waters within a hundred feet in circumference.
The tip of the sword was upwards, and the hilt was downwards.
The surface of the ice swords was covered with a layer of green-coloured light, very sharp and could cut iron like mud.
How did this look like true qi was about to run out?
Seeing this scene, Emperor Yi’s face finally changed, saying, “How is it possible?”
The True Qi in Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Sea had indeed been depleted by more than 70%, however, Zhang Ruochen had a Dragon Pearl in addition to his Qi Sea.
The Dragon Pearl, which was connected to the Blood Spirit Vein, was like transforming into one of Zhang Ruochen’s inner pills, which could provide Zhang Ruochen with an unending source of energy.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Emperor Yi, there are at least four ways for me to defeat you, only, I chose the most troublesome one.”
“I didn’t see that you are even more arrogant than me.”Emperor Yi laughed disdainfully.
Emperor Yi didn’t think that Zhang Ruochen had the ability to defeat him, even though he had consumed a huge amount of his True Qi, yet he could still recover it quickly through the advantage of his Sacred Body.
Zhang Ruochen was not arrogant, to defeat Emperor Yi, he did have several ways, for example, the most direct and simple method was to use his Martial Soul.
Zhang Ruochen had now reached the Heavenly Extremity Realm and could fully mobilise the power of his martial soul.
Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul was more powerful than some weaker martial artists of the Fish Dragon Realm, so as long as he mobilised the Spiritual Qi of the heavens and earth through his Martial Soul, he would be able to strike Emperor Yi to the point of annihilation with just one blow.
Of course, if Di Yi had a protective treasure on him, it would be able to help him block the blow. However, Zhang Ruochen could still strike a second strike, a third strike, and a fourth strike …… until he exhausted Emperor Yi’s protective treasures.
Only, if he did that, it would be too shocking to the world. Not to mention the Black Market wanting to kill him, I’m afraid that even the Saints of the Martial City School Palace would come out to personally study him.
At that time, Zhang Ruochen wouldn’t have any secrets to speak of, instead, he might even be assassinated by some greedy people in the Martial City Academic Palace.
Even if he wanted to show his natural talent, he had to keep it within a certain range and not go too far against the heavens.
On top of that, Zhang Ruochen was able to use the power of space and the power of the Sherpa.
There were many ways to defeat Emperor Yi, and Zhang Ruochen just chose the most troublesome one.
Of course, although the battle was tough, it was through the constant fighting that the Dragon Pearl and his body became more integrated, and his physical body, blood qi, and cultivation level all continued to strengthen.
