The inner and outer layers of the Sacred Leather Soft Armour were inscribed with a large number of inscriptions, and there were also other precious refining materials, such as dragon scales, auger skins, luan feathers, and so on.
As a result, the defensive power of the Sacred Skin Soft Armour was more than ten times stronger than the defensive power of a Saint’s skin. After all, this was a Saint Weapon.
A normal Hundred-Line Saint Weapon would not be able to break through the Sacred Skin Soft Armour at all, and only by using a Thousand-Line Saint Weapon would it be able to pierce through it.
Xu Hai was quite proud of himself and laughed, ”Zhang Ruochen, now, you should know my bottom card, right? Wearing the Sacred Leather Soft Armour, my fastest speed can reach seven times the speed of sound, so even a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation might not be able to catch up with me. Moreover, the soft armour contains holy power that can enhance my strength, that slap just now, it shouldn’t have been easy to take, right?”
Xu Hai was already a first-rate expert, and by stimulating the inscriptions and holy power of the Sacred Leather Soft Armour, his power, became even stronger, and even if Zhang Ruochen had the Dragon Pearl to protect his body, he suffered a considerable amount of injuries after receiving his palm hard.
Suddenly, Xu Hai’s expression became solemn, his eyes somewhat sharp as he said, “However, you have also brought me quite a surprise, actually being able to use the power of space. If I wasn’t wearing the Sacred Leather Soft Armour, perhaps, I would have died under your sword just now.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled as if he was not injured and said calmly, “The defence of the Sacred Leather Soft Armour may not be unbreakable.”
Upon hearing this, Xu Hai was first stunned, then laughed out loud and said, “Zhang Ruochen, that Saint Sword of yours is only a Hundred Stripes Saint Artifact, even if it’s more powerful, it’s not likely to be able to break through the Sacred Leather Soft Armour.”
Zhang Ruochen calmly said, “It’s true that a Hundred Stripes Saint Weapon cannot break through the Sacred Skin Soft Armour, however, there are always places on your body that the Sacred Skin Soft Armour cannot defend. For example, your eyes.”
The Sacred Skin Soft Armour was refined from the skin of a Saint, and it definitely couldn’t defend against both eyes.
Xu Hai snorted coldly and said, “Even if my eyes are broken, so what? I would stand still and leave it to you to attack?”
Zhang Ruochen still had a smile on his face as he took out the six golden holy swords from inside his spatial ring, and under the control of the Heart of Sword Intent, the six holy swords levitated and flew in the six directions of Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen so calm and collected, a hidden worry arose in Xu Hai’s heart: ”Zhang Ruochen’s Sword Dao has already reached the realm of Sword Mind, it’s better to be careful.”
Thus, Xu Hai closed his eyes.
In this way, he was no longer worried that he would be attacked by Zhang Ruochen’s eyes.
In fact, when one’s cultivation reached Xu Hai’s realm, there was no difference at all between closing his eyes and not closing them, because, the Martial Soul and Spiritual Power had a stronger ability to perceive the outside world than the two eyes.
Seeing Xu Hai close his eyes, Zhang Ruochen knew that he was already somewhat afraid, even though he was wearing the Sacred Leather Soft Armour, he still did not have enough confidence in himself.
It was no wonder, after all, Zhang Ruochen had killed two Xu Sacred Sect Valve Elders without seeing any bloodshed, and he had also collected the other Elder into the Ruyi Treasure Vase.
It was precisely because of this that Xu Hai was left with a psychological shadow, feeling that Zhang Ruochen’s methods were too bizarre to be defended against, and that the slightest mistake could result in death by Zhang Ruochen’s sword.
Perhaps even Xu Hai himself didn’t realise that his psychological defences had been shattered by Zhang Ruochen.
A person, once they developed fear, then, even if they were strong, it was hard to escape death.
The breakage of the Sacred Leather Soft Armour was indeed the two eyes.
However, Zhang Ruochen had never thought of attacking Xu Hai’s eyes.
The reason was simple, because, the eyes were located at the front of a person, and they were still the most protected place. In the case of an even match, it was also almost impossible to attack the opponent’s eyes.
What’s more, Xu Hai’s strength was originally above Zhang Ruochen.
If Zhang Ruochen wanted to break through his defences head on and stab his sword into his eyes, it was simply an impossible task.
If that was done, the one who would die would definitely be Zhang Ruochen, not Xu Hai.
Therefore, the means that Zhang Ruochen really wanted to use was spatial power, and only by using spatial power would it be possible to kill Xu Hai.
Of course, Xu Hai, who was wearing the Sacred Leather Soft Armour, was frighteningly fast, so using the “Space Crack” and “Space Collapse” means hastily would most likely allow him to escape. As long as he escaped once, a second attack with spatial power would be even more unlikely to hurt him.
“Swish swish!”
The corner of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth hooked slightly, revealing a smirk as he pointed his finger forward, performing the Sword Royalty Technique, and six golden holy swords flew out at the same time.
Seeing the six golden holy swords flying, Xu Hai’s first feeling was that Zhang Ruochen must be trying to attack his eyes. Thus, Xu Hai quickly struck out palm seals, defending his face and sending the six holy swords that flew in, flying out continuously.
However, the six Saint Swords spun around in the void before attacking him again.
“I’m clearly stronger than Zhang Ruochen, and moreover, I’m wearing Saint Leather Soft Armour, so why can I only passively defend? No, I’m going to initiate the attack.”
Xu Hai continuously injected his true qi into the Sacred Leather Soft Armour, and the power fluctuations on his body became stronger and stronger. A wave of holy power erupted from the soft armour, forming a circle of energy ripples that sent the six holy swords flying out in all directions.
“Kun Peng Birth and Death Fist.”
Xu Hai erupted at seven times the speed of sound, transforming into a stream of light as he instantly rushed to Zhang Ruochen’s body and struck out a dominating fist move.
The Kun Peng Birth and Destruction Fist, a Ghost Grade Middle Grade Fist Martial Skill, Xu Hai had only managed to cultivate two of these moves after five years of cultivation.
With these two moves alone, Xu Hai had once punched to death a fifth-ranked medium savage beast, the “Blood-tailed Qilin”. It was in that battle that his strength was recognised by the senior management of the Xuxie Sage Clan, and he became the successor of the future head of the Xuxie Sage Clan.
The Xuxie Sheng Clan had a great affinity with the ancient divine beast, the Kun Peng, and thus, the blood of the divine beast, the Kun Peng, flowed through the bodies of the direct descendants of the Xuxie Sheng Clan.
The Kun Peng Bio-Destructive Fist was a mastery that a Saint of the Xu Sheng Clan had learnt from the Kun Peng Martial Code, integrating the 32 forms of the Kun Peng into the Martial Dao and evolving it into 32 destructive punches.
Having only just exchanged blows, Xu Hai had unleashed his strongest Jutsu, thus showing how much importance he placed on Zhang Ruochen.
As the punches were struck, a layer of light emerged on the surface of Xu Hai’s body, taking on the form of a Kun Peng.
The Kun Peng’s silhouette, which was more than seventy metres tall, looked like an ancient Kun Peng suspended on the sea surface, emitting an aura of a Mangwu Divine Beast that made people tremble.
“Rumble!”
A gigantic fist shadow that flew out seemed to have completely lifted and rolled over the waters of the entire sea.
“This is a Ghost Grade Middle Grade Fist Martial Technique.”
Zhang Ruochen looked at the shadow of that one Kun Peng, as well as the punching force that came to his face, and sucked in a breath of cold air as he kept retreating backwards.
In such a situation, the only way to fight Xu Hai head on was to activate the “Divine Dragon Transformation”.
However, Zhang Ruochen could only activate the Divine Dragon Transformation if he kept striking the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, the probability of which was quite low, and it was completely dependent on luck.
The current situation, which was quite a crisis, did not allow Zhang Ruochen to try his luck at all. Thus, he did not fight hard with Xu Hai and immediately executed Spatial Shift, rushing towards the bottom of the water.
“Boom!”
Xu Hai’s punch struck the water surface, denting the entire sea level and surging up a layer of huge waves as tall as mountains.
“Lol! Zhang Ruochen, don’t you know that the Kun Peng is the overlord of the water.”
Xu Hai laughed maniacally and immediately rushed into the water, chasing after Zhang Ruochen.
Xu Hai possessed the Sacred Skin Soft Armour, and Zhang Ruochen was also capable of Spatial Shift, so despite Xu Hai’s incredibly fast speed, he was never able to catch up with Zhang Ruochen.
The two were in the water, chasing and escaping.
The Saint Qi and Kun Peng Qi emanating from Xu Hai’s body scared those savage beasts in the water into fear. They thought they had seen a supreme being in the water and retreated, not daring to approach.
Zhang Ruochen executed the Sword Control Technique, sending the six golden Saint Swords, striking them out continuously.
At the same time, he used his spiritual power to mobilise the power of thunder and lightning, launching attacks behind him, constantly creating trouble for Xu Hai.
“Zhang Ruochen is really able to control spatial power, each spatial jump is a distance of thirty zhang, at this rate, I won’t be able to catch up with him at all.”
In Xu Hai’s heart, there was a bit of a fire, gradually becoming a bit irritated.
The two of them chased for thousands of miles in a row before a ten-metre high reef island appeared ahead.
Xu Hai’s arms stretched out at the same time, and in the water, they condensed into two tens of metres long true qi hands, lifting that one island up.
“Boom!”
With the force of both arms, the island reef flew out and struck Zhang Ruochen in front of him.
Zhang Ruochen looked back and saw a small black mountain flying and striking over, projecting a huge dark shadow on the surface of the sea.
Zhang Ruochen stopped, gathered his strength, and injected his True Qi into the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
At the tip of the sword, a white sword aura rushed out, and surging sword qi emanated from the blade.
“Break!”
Zhang Ruochen chopped the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword out, colliding with the island reef.
The island reef, which split apart from it, flew to the left and right directions and fell into the sea.
Xu Hai rushed out from the back of the island reef, and in a moment, he reached Zhang Ruochen and punched out.
“Birth and Death Without Delusion.”
Xu Hai’s arm, emitted a snapping sound, and on the surface of his skin, a green-coloured scale emerged, and each of his fingers exuded a deathly glow.
It could be imagined that the power of this punch must be stone cold, and once struck, it was feared that a small mountain would be broken into pieces.
On the surface, Xu Hai seemed to be in full control of the situation and would be able to kill Zhang Ruochen a few moments later. However, for Zhang Ruochen, his chance, too, had appeared.
It was now.
Will Zhang Ruochen die, or will Xu Hai die?
As Zhang Ruochen watched Xu Hai getting closer and closer, his eyes became more and more determined as he secretly mobilised the power of space and gathered it into the fingertips of his right hand.
The arm quickly came out to strike, and the fingers pointed forwards.
