In the Evil Wood Palace, the Divine Wreckage Venerable King was thunderously furious.
The mages that he had sent out to check for news had returned, and someone had found more than a hundred corpses of Evil Wood Palace’s mages in the battlefield, which, even including the Greenwood Venerable King, had also died.
Those other mages, even if they died, it was just a matter of time, how come even the Greenwood Dharma King had fallen?
The Evil Wood Palace only had four Dharma Kings, each one was a pillar, and the death of one would mean that the foundation of the Evil Wood Palace would be unstable, and its strength would be weakened by a large margin.
Moreover, the Ancestral Heart Dharma King who had rushed to the rescue had also lost the news, causing the Divine Skeleton Dharma King to develop an ominous premonition.
“Damn it, who the hell is it?”
With sharp eyes and anger, the Divine Wreckage Dharma King slapped his palm on top of the copper pillar in front of him with a bang, denting it.
In the palace building, those other mages were silenced, all of them bowed their heads, and no one dared to speak.
Outside, there was a sound of hurried footsteps.
“Palace Master …… Palace Master …… Something big is wrong ……”
Venerable Muto held two wooden boxes, rolling and crawling, and rushed in from outside.
“What’s so panicky?”The Divine Wreckage Venerable Lord said in a cold voice.
Seeing the Divine Wreckage Venerable King sitting above him like a demon king, it immediately scared Venerable Wu Teng to his knees, cupping the wooden boxes with both hands and holding them forward, he said in a trembling voice, “Reporting back to the Palace Lord, Venerable King Qingmu and Venerable King Ancestral Heart were killed by a person called Zhang Ruochen, and the wooden boxes contained their Crystal Divine Scepters.”
“What?”
The veins on the Divine Wreckage Dharma King’s face, completely protruded as he waved his arm and a wave of mana surged out, lifting the lids of those two wooden boxes.
Two broken crystal god staffs fell out of the box.
Surprisingly, they really were the divine staffs of Dharma King Qing Mu and Dharma King Ancestral Heart.
With two Dharma Kings falling in a single day, the Divine Wreckage Dharma King stormed out in a fury, and strong Dharma power gushed out from his body, almost lifting the entire Evil Wood Palace off the ground.
“Where is Zhang Ruochen, I’m going to break him into pieces.”
The Divine Wreckage Venerable Lord whistled harshly and condensed a large hand of mana, lifting Venerable Master Wutou up in the air.
Venerable Master Wutou hung in mid-air, feeling his body being pulled hard by an invisible force, like the sensation of five horses splitting his body into pieces, shocked and horrified, he hurriedly said, “Palace Lord spare your life …… He said …… that after ten days, he would wait for you in Crescent City tofight with you in a fair battle.”
“Gimme!”
With a twist of his five fingers, the Divine Wreckage Venerable Lord mobilised his mana and directly tore Venerable Master Wutou’s body into pieces, turning it into a cloud of blood mist.
“Wow!”
The Divine Wreckage Venerable Lord rushed out of the Evil Wood Palace and was about to head towards Crescent City.
Nie Wenlong immediately rushed up and stopped the Divine Wreckage Venerable King, saying, “Even if you rush to Crescent City now, you definitely won’t be able to find Zhang Ruochen. Since he has asked you to fight in ten days, why don’t you wait a little longer.”
The Divine Wreckage Dharma King snorted coldly and said, “The Evil Wood Palace lost two Dharma Kings in a row, how can I bear this breath, I can’t wait a moment.”
Nie Wenlong shook his head and said, “It’s only the death of two Dharma Kings, why are you in disarray? In case you fall for Zhang Ruochen’s trick of transferring the tiger away from the mountain, the entire Evil Wood Palace will be in danger.”
“What do you know? The reason why Zhang Ruochen waited until ten days later to battle me is definitely because, right now, he is not sure of winning against me. In the next ten days, he will definitely lay a dragnet in Crescent City and use it to deal with me. Therefore, I must take advantage of the fact that he hasn’t perfected his preparations yet to take him down in one fell swoop.”
Nie Wenlong was a bit speechless and cursed an idiot, if Zhang Ruochen hadn’t perfected his preparations, wouldn’t he have come to declare war so early?
Nie Wenlong still had to use Evil Wood Palace’s power to deal with Zhang Ruochen, and the deeper the hatred between Evil Wood Palace and Zhang Ruochen, the more favourable it would be for him, so he didn’t speak those words out.
He said, “Since Palace Master must rush to Crescent City now, Evil Wood Palace can’t be left without someone to guard it, I would like to stay and help Palace Master guard Evil Wood Palace.”
No matter what, Nie Wenlong was an outsider after all, and Divine Wreckage Venerable Lord was not at ease with him.
Therefore, before leaving, Divine Wreckage Dharma King invited out the other Ashen Dharma King of Evil Wood Palace, who was in seclusion, to use as a counterweight to Nie Wenlong.
Seven days later, Divine Wreckage Dharma King returned to Evil Wood Palace, and just as Nie Wenlong had said, he did not find Zhang Ruochen in Crescent City.
“During the seven days of my absence, did Evil Wood Palace come under attack?”
After returning, Divine Wreckage Dharma King immediately asked Nie Wenlong.
Because, he was afraid that he had really fallen for the trick of transferring the tiger away from the mountain, lest the Evil Wood Palace had suffered a loss, that was why he immediately returned.
Nie Wenlong said, “Everything is normal, although a few trainees came to provoke, they were all killed by me.”
On the way to and from Crescent City, Divine Wreckage Dharma King had calmed down and said suspiciously, “What exactly is Zhang Ruochen up to? Neither attacking the Evil Wood Palace nor setting up in advance in Crescent Moon City, could it be that he’s really so confident that he wants to compete with me?”
Nie Wenlong also revealed a puzzled expression.
If it was in the past, he would never have believed that Zhang Ruochen would be able to call his bluff with the Divine Wreckage Dharma King.
However, if Zhang Ruochen was able to kill the Greenwood Dharma King and the Ancestral Heart Dharma King, then he was afraid that his strength had truly reached an unimaginable realm, and it would be possible for him to fight the Divine Wreckage Dharma King.
Right now, even Nie Wenlong was a little messed up, feeling completely puzzled as to what exactly Zhang Ruochen was playing at?
“Could it be that Zhang Ruochen really just wants to kill the Divine Wreckage Dharma King and obtain a huge amount of military merit value?”
The Divine Wreckage Dharma King was a Fish Dragon Second Transformation, Heaven’s Extreme Realm martial artist, and as long as one was able to kill him, they would be able to obtain 10,000 points of Military Merit Value, and directly enter The Heavenly Ranking.
Of course, it was almost impossible for a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist to kill a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Second Transformation.
Fish Dragon Second Transformation was called “Refining Skin into Gold”, which meant that the skin had been refined to be like gold and stone, so that it could not be broken by knives and swords, and could not be damaged even when standing inside a fire.
The only way for a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist to break through a Fish Dragon Second Transformation cultivator’s defences was to use a Sacred Weapon.
Moreover, even if you mastered a Saint Weapon, a Fish Dragon Second Transformation cultivator wouldn’t stand still and leave it to you to cleave.
Nie Wenlong said, ”Three days from now, it will be the time Zhang Ruochen has agreed to, what has the Palace Master decided to do? Going to Crescent City for the appointment or not?”
“Go, why not.”
Divine Wreckage Dharma King’s face was cold and heavy as he said, “Zhang Ruochen killed the two major Dharma Kings of the Evil Wood Palace, it would be hard for me to get rid of my heart’s hatred if I don’t set his bones to ashes.”
“But what if, in case, Zhang Ruochen attacks Evil Wood Palace in the meantime?”Nie Wenlong said.
Divine Wreckage Dharma King said, “If Zhang Ruochen really wanted to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, he would have already attacked Evil Wood Palace in the past few days. Since he hasn’t done so, it means that he really wants to fight me.”
The Divine Skeleton Dharma King’s face revealed a smile that he had already guessed Zhang Ruochen’s intentions and said, “Zhang Ruochen must have been bursting with confidence after killing the Greenwood Dharma King and the Ancestral Heart Dharma King, and wanted to continue to strike to kill me and gain more military merit value. However, he was afraid of the Evil Wood Palace’s formations and didn’t dare to come and challenge me in a dignified manner, so he could only make an appointment with me to fight in Crescent City.”
“He doesn’t know that there is an essential gap between the first and second transformations of the Fish Dragon, and it’s simply not something he can imagine. Just wait and see, three days later, I will definitely behead Zhang Ruochen.”
Nie Wenlong frowned slightly, somewhat displeased.
His purpose of coming to the Five Elements Market Realm was to kill Zhang Ruochen.
Now, before he could kill Zhang Ruochen, Xu Qing, the heir to the Xu Sheng Clan, had already been killed by Zhang Ruochen first.
If he could not return with Zhang Ruochen’s head, the Three Blades Half-Saint would definitely not be able to spare him.
“No, Zhang Ruochen must die in my hands, I can’t let the Divine Wreckage Dharma King take the credit.”Nie Wenlong’s heart secretly said.
Nie Wenlong righteously said, “Just in case, I’ll also go to Crescent City with the Palace Lord.”
The Divine Wreckage Venerable Lord glanced at him and gently nodded, saying, “Alright! Since that’s the case, you’ll go with me to Crescent Moon City, anyway, the Evil Wood Palace has a holy formation left behind by the Ancestor, so even if more experts come to break into the mountain, they’ll still die.”
Divine Wreckage Dharma King also had a grudge against Nie Wenlong.
Nie Wenlong’s willingness to go with him to Crescent City was right in line with what he wanted.
The Evil Wood Palace was guarded by the Ashen Dharma King, and at the same time, the opening of the Sacred Formation was enough to ensure that nothing could go wrong.
Zhang Ruochen of course didn’t go to Crescent Moon City, but was in Wind Spirit City, which was only 500 miles away from Evil Wood Palace.
In the past few days, he had been comprehending the first three layers of the Kun Peng Martial Canon, learning the essence of martial arts within it.
“There comes a time when any secret book has reached the end of its cultivation, and only by comprehending a hundred martial arts and creating one’s own martial dao can one find the true meaning of the Dao.”
Although the Kun Peng Martial Canon was a king-level secret book, it was only the first three layers after all, and Zhang Ruochen had already stripped out the essence of it after about twenty days of comprehending it in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
He spent a few more days rehearsing his martial arts, incorporating the Kun Peng Martial Code into his martial dao.
Although there was no breakthrough in the realm, the martial dao was more complete.
“Ten days should have almost passed outside as well, it’s time to go out and launch an attack on the Evil Wood Palace.”
Zhang Ruochen stood up and flicked his finger forwards, the space distorted for a moment as he took a step forwards and walked out of the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
During this period of time, Si Xingkong had refined two jin of Black Water Glazed Crystals, saving two years of hard cultivation, and his cultivation had reached the peak of the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, and he could cross over to the Small Extremity Position of the Heavenly Extremity Realm at any time.
Chang Qi Qi had refined one catty of Black Water Glazed Crystal, saving one year of hard cultivation, and her martial cultivation had also made considerable progress.
Huang Yichen had refined three jin of Black Water Glazed Crystals to save three years of hard cultivation because he had broken through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Position during the cultivation period, and although he hadn’t cultivated into the Water Spirit Treasure Body, his cultivation had increased greatly.
“Why can’t I continue refining the Black Water Glazed Crystal after only refining one catty, my body seems to be saturated.”Chang Qi Qi held the remaining Black Water Glazed Crystal and let out a long sigh.
Empty of a supreme spiritual treasure in one’s hand, but unable to refine it, it really made one want to cry without tears.
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “When you break through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position, you can naturally continue to refine more Black Water Glazed Crystals to enhance your body and increase your cultivation.”
