Pei Ji’s “Blood Magic Phase” was as tall as three zhang, and it looked exceptionally hideous, like a gigantic blood-coloured ghost shadow that overlapped with his body.
Pei Ji leapt up and rushed to Zhang Ruochen and Ao Xin Yan in an instant, he used all his true qi and struck out with a palm.
The Blood Magic Phase was driven by Pei Ji’s power and followed suit with a palm strike, forming a huge blood qi handprint.
To Zhang Ruochen and Ao Xin Yan, the Blood Magic Phase’s palm print looked like a blood-red cloud in the shape of five fingers falling from mid-air.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen and Ao Xinyan flew backwards at the same time.
With a “wow” sound, Ao Xinyan’s mouth spat out blood and fell into the distance, suffering from a light injury.
Zhang Ruochen’s strength was a step higher than Ao Xinyan’s, and he was still able to remain standing and landed smoothly on the ground, but he also suffered some light injuries.
“Bijou Ascension.”
Ao Xin Yan endured her injuries, and with a stomp of her legs, she flew up more than ten feet high, holding her sword in both hands, breaking through the air and stabbing at Pei Ji.
“Come back.”
Zhang Ruochen rebuked.
Ao Xin Yan was not Pei Ji’s opponent, what was the difference between her rushing up to engage Pei Ji and sending her to her death?
However, Ao Xinyan’s sword stance was already out, and there was simply no way to retract it.
Pei Ji laughed and took a big step forward.
At some point, the five fingers of his right hand had five black iron rings on them.
Iron ring, called “blood hand gold ring”, is made of extremely cold black gold casting.
A Blood Hand Gold Ring was a tenth rank True Martial Artifact.
Five Blood Hand Gold Rings were a set.
If the inscriptions in the five Blood Hand Gold Rings were stimulated at the same time, it would be enough to erupt with a power comparable to an eleventh rank True Martial Artifact.
Although Ao Xin Yan was holding a Holy Sword, her cultivation level was too low, so she could not exert the true power of the Holy Sword at all.
Pei Ji’s footsteps shifted to the left, easily dodging the Holy Sword that Ao Xin Yan had stabbed over, and then, he stimulated the inscriptions in the five bloody-handed Golden Rings, and fiercely punched out, striking at Ao Xin Yan’s chest.
Ao Xin Yan hastily mobilised her true qi and injected it into the glazed crystal on her wrist, inspiring a wave of guardian force.
“Boom!”
The power of the five bloody-handed golden rings shattered that layer of guardian force into a speck of light.
Pei Ji’s fist struck Ao Xin Yan’s chest with a solid blow.
“Ka ka ka!”
Inside Ao Xin Yan’s body, the sound of bones breaking resounded, and her delicate body shook as she was thrown away like a kite with broken strings.
Her chest, was pierced by the Five Finger Bloody Hand Golden Ring, leaving five huge bloody holes, not only did her ribs break three times, even her internal organs suffered severe damage.
The entire person, almost half wasted.
“Only when you reach the Fish Dragon Realm can you truly utilise the power of the Holy Sword, a mere Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist holding a Holy Sword is simply a waste.”
Pei Ji picked up that Dragon Marked Aqua Sword, stroked the jasper-like crystal clear body, and sighed in admiration, “A good sword.”
With a wave of Pei Ji’s arm, the Dragon Marked Bishui Sword immediately emitted a dragon roar.
A holy sword was enough to make countless cultivators of the Fish Dragon Realm fight desperately for it, enough to cause a catastrophe of extermination. For a cultivator, a holy sword was the most precious treasure.
Therefore, Pei Ji’s mood was incomparably excited when he obtained the Dragon Marked Aqua Sword.
Afterwards, his eyes sank as he swung the Saint Sword in his hand and chopped at Ao Xin Yan’s neck, wanting to kill her completely.
Zhang Ruochen, however, rushed over first and stabbed out his Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, lifting it upwards and clashing with the Dragon Marked Bishui Sword, blocking Pei Ji’s killing move back.
Pei Ji carried the Dragon Tattoo Bishui Sword and took a step back, sneering, “If I were you, I should have fled immediately while I was killing her.”
Zhang Ruochen stood with his sword crossed, his body standing straight as he revealed a leisurely smile, “If I want to leave, I can leave anytime, you can’t keep me.”
“Really? You’re so confident in your own strength, surprisingly.”Pei Ji laughed.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze slanted towards Xiao Hei, who was not far away, and said, “Xiao Hei, you take her away first.”
“Wow!”
With a flash, Little Black’s figure rushed to Ao Xinyan’s side, glanced towards her, and said, “Troublesome Essence!”
After saying that, it grabbed Ao Xin Yan’s clothes, and with two claws, it held her in its arms and rushed off into the distance.
“If you want to escape, you still have to ask me if I’ll agree.”
Pei Ji snorted coldly and took a step, executing a brilliant body martial art, taking a step of ten feet and chasing after Little Black.
Whether it was Ao Xin Yan or Zhang Ruochen, both of them were extraordinary.
If Ao Xin Yan was allowed to escape back to the Sacred Courtyard, then, even if Pei Ji obtained the Dragon Pearl, in the future, he would only be able to hide as a human being, and wouldn’t even dare to return to the Kunlun Realm at all.
Therefore, it was necessary to eliminate the roots and kill both Ao Xin Yan and Zhang Ruochen in the Wood Essence Market Realm.
Pei Ji’s speed, which could not be said to be fast, almost in an instant, he chased after Xiao Hei to within ten paces behind him.
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen executed Spatial Shift, and with just a flash of his body, he appeared in front of Pei Ji, and stabbed out with his sword, striking at Pei Ji’s neck.
Sword Qi, emanating from the sword, transformed into dozens of sword shadows. It was like dozens of swords, stabbing out at the same time.
“So fast. Could it be that he has cultivated a ghost level body martial skill?”
Just now, Pei Ji had been focusing his attention on Xiao Hei and Ao Xin Yan’s bodies, so he did not notice the subtle fluctuations in space, and did not know that Zhang Ruochen was performing Spatial Shift, and thought that Zhang Ruochen was performing a Body Technique Martial Skill.
Pei Ji’s combat experience was rich, and he was not shocked or unruffled, facing Zhang Ruochen’s unexpected sword, his body quickly twisted, bringing up a vortex-like wave of true qi, and dodged it.
However, one of the sword qi still passed through his neck, leaving a shallow bloodstain.
Zhang Ruochen stared at Pei Ji, his heart secretly aghast, ”Worthy of being an expert ranked in the top 50 of the Heavenly Ranking, such a fast reaction speed even surpasses many Fish Dragon Realm cultivators. Even if I cast a spatial rift, I might not be able to injure him.”
Not to mention Pei Ji, even those martial artists who were able to enter the top 1,000 of The Heavenly Ranking, which one of them wasn’t a one-in-a-million supreme genius?
Like Pei Ji, not only was his own qualifications high, but he was also determined, and he didn’t know how many great storms he had experienced.
Anyone who wanted to use a strange trick to backstab him would be impossible.
In that one moment just now, Xiao Hei had already taken Ao Xin Yan and disappeared without a trace.
Pei Ji touched the bloodstain on his neck and snorted coldly, ”The realm of the Sword Mind, it is really something, actually able to injure me. It’s a pity that the gap between us is too great, today, you don’t have the slightest chance.”
“They’ve already left, it’s time for me to leave as well!”
Knowing that he was not Pei Ji’s opponent, Zhang Ruochen did not engage in a battle and immediately executed the Wind-Resisting Flying Dragon Shadow’s stance, stepping on his feet in nine steps, one step being a mile. After nine steps, he was already standing nine miles away.
However, Pei Ji’s speed wasn’t slow either.
He stepped on the Nine Star Steps and chased after Zhang Ruochen, and after stepping out nine steps, he actually caught up with Zhang Ruochen.
“Remnant Sun Nine Star Steps.”
Zhang Ruochen glanced back and recognised the stance Pei Ji had performed.
The Remnant Yang Nine Star Steps, which was also a Spirit Grade Upper Grade stance martial art, was almost on par with the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow that Zhang Ruochen cultivated, and was a stance of the Middle Domain Confucian Dao. Confucianism, also one of the three paths, was on par with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Path and the Taiji Path, all of which had been passed down from the ancient times, with disciples all over the world.
The world’s martial arts come out of the three paths, nine streams and hundreds of schools all over the world.
The Remnant Sun Nine Star Steps, being able to become a Ru Dao’s top technique, showed how powerful it was. Under the ghost level martial arts, there is no one else, even the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow is only in between with it.
As for the Ghost Grade and above body martial arts, they were masterstrokes that were close to flying through the sky and hiding in the ground, and only cultivators of the Fish Dragon Realm could perform them.
“Pei Ji is actually proficient in Confucianism stunts, yet, with the way he acts, it doesn’t seem like what a Confucianism heir should be.”Zhang Ruochen’s heart was somewhat puzzled.
Although the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow was on par with the Remnant Sun Nine Star Steps, Pei Ji’s cultivation level was even deeper than Zhang Ruochen’s. As a result, the distance between the two of them was getting closer and closer.
Zhang Ruochen could already feel the intense blood aura emanating from Pei Ji’s body.
“Zhang Ruochen, you can’t escape!”
Pei Ji inspired the inscriptions in his five bloody-handed golden rings, and his legs violently stomped, as if he was an arrow off the string, his speed skyrocketed, and he struck Zhang Ruochen’s vest.
“Spatial Domain.”
Zhang Ruochen unleashed his Spatial Domain and performed the “Spatial Distortion”.
As Pei Ji’s fist was about to hit Zhang Ruochen’s back, suddenly, the space seemed to have turned into a liquid state, distorting a bit and sucking Pei Ji’s fist in.
What happened?
Pei Ji’s face changed, sensing that something was wrong.
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen moved one step sideways and appeared in a position three steps to Pei Ji’s left.
Since he had already decided to use his spatial power, he would continue to strike, striving to kill Pei Ji in a single blow before he could react, by surprise.
“Spatial Crack.”
Zhang Ruochen stretched out an index finger and quickly made a stroke in front of Pei Ji’s body.
Space, like a curtain of water, was cut open by Zhang Ruochen’s finger, revealing a huge crack that was two feet long.
Pei Ji felt a threat from death, his whole body was like an electric shock, quickly shrinking, his original height of one metre eight, instantly shrinking ten times, turning into a small person.
His feet, stepping in mid-air, like a leather ball, catapulted out.
“Wow!”
Falling ten feet away, Pei Ji’s body made a “popping” sound, expanding once again and returning to its original size.
However, his left shoulder was still struck by the spatial crack, leaving behind a flat wound that flowed out blood.
If, his reaction had been a little bit more delayed, his entire left arm, would have been devoured by the spatial rift.
Zhang Ruochen looked at Pei Ji, a shocked look in his eyes as he said, “What exactly are you?”
In the martial arts world, there was indeed a martial art called Bone Shrinking.
However, even the most powerful martial artist could not make their body shrink ten times.
If a martial artist cultivated to the ninth transformation of the Fish Dragon, the “Glazed Treasure Body”, he or she would be able to make his or her body grow ten times and shrink ten times. However, Pei Ji’s cultivation level was still far from reaching the level of the “glazed treasure body”.
