“Middle Spirit Vein Sword Wave.”
Zhang Ruochen’s middle finger of his right hand stretched out, gathering his entire body’s true qi and rushing it to the tip of his finger, transforming it into an ice-cold sword wave that struck at the body of a Blood Spirit.
As the sword wave struck, a wave of cold air surged out, and on the ground, it left a long icy path that stretched all the way to that one Blood Spirit.
Just as the blood spirit was struck by the sword light, the blood patterns on the surface of its body emerged, emitting a crimson glow to block the sword wave.
“Boom!”
The sword wave failed to penetrate the Blood Spirit’s body, but the force of the impact sent the Blood Spirit flying backwards and crashing down more than ten feet away.
Its body was sealed by a thick layer of cold ice, transforming into a ten-metre-high iceberg, its entire body unable to move.
Just as Zhang Ruochen let out a slight sigh of relief, the ice mountain shook violently, cracking out a ripple, and suddenly, exploded.
The Blood Spirit, soaring up from the ice mountain, attacked Zhang Ruochen with another claw.
“Can’t be killed, can’t be sealed. Is there really no way to deal with the Blood Spirit?”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes turned cold, and he immediately unleashed the Spatial Domain, entrapping all six Blood Spirits in the Spatial Domain.
At the same time, he began to mobilise the spatial power and gathered it into the palms of his hands.
Just as that one Blood Spirit rushed over, Zhang Ruochen’s hands split, and a spatial crack appeared five metres away in front of him, engulfing the Blood Spirit.
A split second later, the spatial crack re-closed, and that one Blood Spirit fell into the void space, completely disappearing.
“Spatial power is truly indestructible, even for a Blood Spirit with amazing defence, falling into a spatial crack is a dead end.”
Zhang Ruochen let out a slight sigh of relief, since he had found a means to deal with the Blood Spirits, there was no need to be afraid of them, and even if there were still five left, he could still face them with ease.
The remaining five Blood Spirits were all stunned by Zhang Ruochen’s means just now and immediately stopped, standing ten feet away, not daring to easily approach the past.
The blood spirits, too, had a certain level of intelligence, knowing what people were good to mess with and what people were not.
“Since you guys aren’t going to attack, then I can leave first!”
He didn’t dare to wait any longer, if the Blood Spirit King caught up with him, then he wouldn’t be able to leave even if he wanted to.
Zhang Ruochen immediately unfolded his Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow stance, his true qi was released from his body, forming the silhouette of a flying dragon as he soared up and was about to leave.
“Haha!”
The Blood Spirit King’s laughter rang out, spreading over tens of miles in a radius, startling the flying birds from the trees and shaking the leaves on the ground to the point where they fluttered.
Just listening to the sound, the Blood Spirit King’s voice was actually wonderful and very pleasant to the ears.
However, that voice carried an intimidating cold aura that contained a powerful energy.
In the midst of the surrounding mountains and forests, more than a dozen chaotic air currents appeared and swept Zhang Ruochen up, his body flying uncontrollably high into the air.
“Damn! The Blood Spirit King is catching up so quickly?”
Zhang Ruochen struggled to control his figure, using his true qi to condense a green-coloured sword qi and swung it out, breaking the chaotic air currents and rushing out.
The Blood Spirit King’s vast voice sounded once again, “Zhang Ruochen, you can’t escape me.”
“Wow!”
Suddenly, a gigantic palm of blood qi coalesced out in midair and grabbed towards Zhang Ruochen.
That one blood qi palm was more than twenty metres long and was like a blood cloud pressing down. In front of that one giant hand, Zhang Ruochen’s body was as small as an ant.
“Break it for me!”
Zhang Ruochen’s fingers pinched into a sword technique, mobilising the power of the Sword Mind, and the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword flew out from his hand, transforming into a ray of sword light that struck at that one giant bloody hand.
“Puffing!”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword surprisingly did not pierce through the huge blood-coloured hand, instead, it was resisted by the huge blood-coloured hand and slowly flew backwards as the light on the sword became weaker and weaker.
Zhang Ruochen immediately retrieved the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, and from a hundred metres in the air, he quickly fell back to the ground with a bang, the powerful impact stomping out a crack in the ground.
He had just stood up and wanted to flee into the distance ……
However, he found that the Blood Spirit King was standing right in front of him, and he almost crashed into her body.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen’s face and the Blood Spirit King’s face were only less than an inch apart, the tips of their noses were almost next to each other, and Zhang Ruochen could clearly see his own shadow from within the Blood Spirit King’s blood-coloured pupils.
Her pair of eyes were very beautiful, her eyelashes standing up one by one, her eyeballs snow-white like jade, but her pupils were crystal clear like two rubies.
It was such a pair of eyes, but they carried a strong murderous aura that made one feel a piercing chill.
Instantly, Zhang Ruochen’s entire body stiffened as if he was petrified.
A moment later, Zhang Ruochen immediately mobilised his true qi and struck over with his palm, hitting the Blood Spirit King’s chest.
However, Zhang Ruochen’s palm, only just struck over, his wrist was clasped by the Blood Spirit King’s two fingers, his meridians were locked, and the powerful palm force reversed back in a split second.
True Qi travelled backwards, palm force reversed.
With that palm just now, it was as if Zhang Ruochen had struck himself, his body shook and a sharp pain spread throughout his body.
Luckily, his Qi Sea was guarded by the Seal of the Gods, otherwise, just that reverse impulse power just now would have caused the Qi Sea to suffer a heavy blow.
“Zhang Ruochen, I can smell the scent of a dragon on your body, you have swallowed dragon blood, right? Your blood, should be delicious as well.”
The Blood Spirit King stood upright in front of Zhang Ruochen, his red, blood-like lips slightly upturned, revealing two rows of white, neat teeth.
Upon closer inspection, one realised that she actually had two sharp fangs.
Suddenly, the Blood Spirit King bent her head sharply and bit towards the position of Zhang Ruochen’s neck.
“Giggle!”
The two long fangs pierced through Zhang Ruochen’s skin and began to absorb the blood in Zhang Ruochen’s body.
In just an instant, Zhang Ruochen felt a large amount of blood drain from his body, his eyes darkened and a slight sense of vertigo appeared.
“No way, we must perform that one secret technique.”
A cold colour appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes as he backhanded the Blood Spirit King’s slender waist and lunged forward, pressing the Blood Spirit King underneath him.
That secret technique was called the “Soul Recruitment Technique”.
The reason why the Blood Spirit King was so powerful was because she had fused the “Half-Saint’s Light” that was left behind by the Golden Cloud Half-Saint.
The so-called “Half-Saint’s Light” was actually the energy that evolved from the Half-Saint’s holy soul.
In order to absorb the Half-Saint’s Light, the martial artist’s body had to be compatible with the Half-Saint’s holy body. Zhang Ruochen had refined the holy blood of the Golden Cloud Demi-Saint, and naturally, he was more compatible with the Demi-Saint’s Light.
Zhang Ruochen immediately released his own Martial Soul, from which he performed the Soul Recruitment Technique. At the same time, he quickly struck out, striking a finger at the centre of the Blood Spirit King’s brow.
“Collect!”
Zhang Ruochen’s mouth spat out a word with difficulty.
The Blood Spirit King shuddered as if she had suffered a lightning strike and stopped absorbing Zhang Ruochen’s blood.
The speck of light at the centre of her brow shook violently, and the power of the Half-Saint’s Light, in her sea of qi, surged ceaselessly.
“Wow!”
Suddenly, the Half-Saint’s Light was not under her control and flowed out of her brow, passing through Zhang Ruochen’s finger and entering Zhang Ruochen’s brow Qi Sea.
His Martial Soul, was absorbing the Half-Saint’s Light.
In just a few moments, the martial soul that had been injured by the Soul Beating Bell earlier was completely healed and, moreover, it was still growing stronger.
If Zhang Ruochen was able to completely absorb the Half-Saint’s Light, his martial soul, within a short period of time, would be able to reach a level comparable to that of a Half-Saint.
However, Zhang Ruochen had only absorbed a small amount of the Half-Saint’s Light when the Blood Spirit King broke free from Zhang Ruochen’s control with her powerful cultivation.
“Boom!”
The Blood Spirit King struck Zhang Ruochen’s chest with a palm strike, sending Zhang Ruochen flying.
The Soul Recruitment Technique that Zhang Ruochen had unleashed had disrupted the power of the Half-Saint’s Light in her body, and that powerful force surged wildly in her body, completely out of her control.
After striking that palm, her entire body was unable to move, and she had to do all she could to suppress the power of the Half-Saint’s Light that was rushing chaotically within her body.
The Blood Spirit King closed her eyes, her cultivated eyebrows slightly furrowed as she said, “Quickly take me away.”.
When the five Blood Spirits saw that the Blood Spirit King seemed to have been heavily injured by that one human, all of them were shocked and immediately lifted up the Blood Spirit King and fled into the dense forest.
The dense blood mist, too, gradually dispersed.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen fell down from the sky and landed heavily on the ground, almost fainting from the fall.
“Luckily, I have the Dragon Pearl to protect my body, or else if I were to be slapped by her, even if my body wasn’t pierced through, my organs would definitely be shattered.”
Zhang Ruochen climbed up from the ground, took a healing pill, and immediately began to transform his true qi to heal his injuries.
Just now, right when the Blood Spirit King struck out with her palm, Zhang Ruochen immediately stimulated the power of the Dragon Pearl to ward off her attack, and only then did he save his life.
About half an hour later, Zhang Ruochen had recovered roughly 30% of his injuries, as he was worried that the Blood Spirit King would suppress the power of the Half-Saint’s Light and return again.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen immediately stood up and quickly left, not daring to continue staying here.
After fleeing for about 300 miles, Zhang Ruochen took in a second-stage savage bird, the Lion Hump Bird, and sat on its back to heal his wounds while rushing back to Sky Demon Martial City.
In his current condition, it was impossible for him to go to Yunwu County, in that case, he would definitely be stopped halfway by the Blood Spirit King.
With the Blood Spirit King’s current strength, I’m afraid that the Heavenly Demon Martial City was the only place that she wouldn’t dare to break into yet.
That was why Zhang Ruochen decided to go back to Sky Demon Martial City, and it would be best if he could invite Master Lei Jing and borrow his power to eradicate the Blood Spirit King as early as possible, so that the Blood Spirit King wouldn’t completely refine the Demi-Saint’s Light in the future, and become a Demi-Saint level demonic evil.
“The Blood Spirit King probably sucked away about twenty percent of the blood in my body, and I only sucked away one percent of the Half-Saint’s Light in her body. All in all, it’s still a profit.”
Zhang Ruochen took a Blood Pill, hoping to refine it and recover his blood as soon as possible.
Although he had lost twenty percent of his blood, but with Zhang Ruochen’s current martial arts cultivation, he could still survive, and at most, he would be weak for a while, and would soon be able to cultivate back.
One hundredth of the Half-Saint’s Light was a huge force, and as long as Zhang Ruochen completely refined the Half-Saint’s Light, he would definitely be able to make the Martial Soul even more powerful.
That strand of Half-Saint’s Light was like a white cloud, suspended in Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Sea.
“Refining the Half-Saint’s Light should also be able to make my spiritual power, reach the 40th rank. At that time, I’ll be able to use the attacking means of spiritual power to open the heavens, break life and death, summon wind and thunder, and observe the stars.”
Right now, Zhang Ruochen’s Spiritual Strength was at the thirty-ninth rank, only one rank short of reaching the fortieth rank.
With the energy contained in one percent of the Half-Saint’s Light, it would definitely be able to make the mental strength go further, and there was a great chance that it could reach the fortieth rank.
Spiritual power, once it reached the fortieth rank, the martial artist would be able to enter a mysterious realm where countless arcane powers would unfold with it, just thinking about it made his heart excited.
