Zhang Ruochen’s face was neither alarmed nor surprised in any way as he calmly said, “You recognised me after all, so it seems that your eyesight is still good. It’s good to recognise it, so that you know who killed you.”
When Zhang Ruochen exchanged blows with Emperor Yi just now, he didn’t hide the hatred in his eyes at all, and it wasn’t surprising at all that Emperor Yi was able to recognise him through his eyes.
Speaking at this moment, even his voice changed, reverting back to his original voice.
Emperor Yi snorted coldly, and within his body, a strand of black holy qi emanated from the boiling blood, surging towards the location of the throat wound.
“Wow!”
The black holy qi continuously flowed around Di Yi’s neck, and instantly, the originally sunken throat quickly bulged out, recovering as if it had never been injured.
Generally speaking, only those who had cultivated to the Fourth Transformation of the Fish Dragon and opened up a Saint Vein within their bodies could condense thin Saint Qi.
The only exception was one kind of person, and that was the Saint Body.
When a Saint Body reached minor completion, the blood veins, bones, and five organs would all nurture Saint Qi. The holy qi that was birthed would be different for different holy bodies.
“What a powerful Heartless Saint Body, after receiving such a heavy injury, it actually recovered completely in a split second. Could it be that it’s really an immortal body?”Zhang Ruochen said.
“Even if it’s an immortal body, so what? Compared to you, I’m still too far behind. Everyone in the world thought that you had died, who would have thought that you were still alive?”Emperor laughed.
At this moment, there were only Zhang Ruochen and Emperor, standing right at the top of the empty mountain, the other Evil Dao cultivators had not yet caught up, so naturally, Zhang Ruochen was not afraid of exposing his identity.
The corner of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth hooked, also revealing a smile, ”I don’t believe that you really have some kind of immortal body. Let me try, is your defence stronger or is my attack more powerful?”
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen’s finger moved, invoking the power of the Heart of Sword Intent, and the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword immediately flew out from inside the spatial ring, transforming into an ebony-black stream of sword qi, and flew in front of Emperor Yi’s body in an instant.
The Golden Sacred Sword, although it was also a Sacred Artifact, was far inferior to the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword had refined a large number of True Martial Treasures and Sacred Artifacts, and both the sharpness and the power of the sword had long since been taken to the next level.
Moreover, with Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation level of Fish Dragon Third Transformation, he was also able to activate even more inscriptions in the sword, erupting even more powerful.
While the Golden Saint Sword could not break through the defence of the Saint Leather Soft Armour, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword might not be unable to do so.
Emperor Yi obviously knew the power of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword as well, and didn’t dare to use the Sacred Skin Soft Armour to clash with it.
Di Yi performed a stance to rapidly retreat, and at the same time, unfolded a pair of arms, and at the position of his heart, a strand of black holy qi rushed out, and in front of his body, it coalesced into a gigantic black hole with a diameter of three zhang.
“Heartless Black Hole.”
The power of the black hole was quite bizarre, devouring all the surrounding true qi and aura, and even, even the light that shone through, was absorbed by it.
Every Sacred Body, when it reached Minor Completion, was able to cultivate a Dharma Phase.
The green-clothed Star Envoy’s Dharma phase was the “Green Sky Sacred Cloud”, while Mu Lingshi’s Dharma phase was the “Xuan Tian Ice Phoenix”.
The stronger the Saint Body was, the stronger the Dharma Phase that was cultivated would be. As long as the Dharma phase was cast, the Saint Body could completely crush cultivators of the same realm.
For example, if a green-clothed Star Envoy were to display the Dharma Phase of the “Green Sky Saint Cloud”, with a cultivation level of Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation, he would even be able to suppress a Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation practitioner to the point where he would not be able to fight back.
The Dharma phase cultivated by Emperor Yi was the “Heartless Black Hole”, as long as it unfolded, it could devour everything in the world, and even devour the Dharma phases of other Saint Bodies.
The black hole with a diameter of three zhang hung in front of Di Yi’s body, emitting an icy aura and pulling everything around towards it.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword that flew out also suffered the pull of that force, as if it was going to break away from Zhang Ruochen’s control and fly into the Heartless Black Hole.
“Emperor Yi’s Dharma Phase is surprisingly so powerful.”
Zhang Ruochen’s expression remained unchanged, but he began to mobilise the power of space, and with a stroke of his finger forward, he performed a move called ‘Space Rift’, tearing towards the Heartless Black Hole.
Even if the Heartless Black Hole was strong, it was still in space.
As long as it was still in space, Zhang Ruochen could mobilise the power of space to break it.
So what if it was a Saint Body Dharma Phase?
The power of space and time could break all the phases of the world.
“How could this happen, space actually cracked”
Emperor Yi obviously also realised that it was not good, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, so he operated the Heartless Black Hole with all his might, pouring a steady stream of true qi from his body into it.
Can’t lose, mustn’t lose.
Under Di Yi’s full power of excitation, the Heartless Black Hole increased in size by another circle, directly expanding to four zhang, and the suction force that erupted from it became even more powerful.
The Heartless Black Hole formed a strange force that unexpectedly caused space to distort as well.
The six-metre-long spatial crack collided with the Heartless Black Hole’s phallic phase, and a circle of energy ripples sprang up. The power displayed by the spatial crack was quite strong and still crushed through, and with a clatter, it tore the Heartless Black Hole’s Dharma Phase into two halves.
“Boom!”
The Dharma Phase shattered, and Emperor Yi also suffered a heavy blow, flying backwards like a kite with broken strings.
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was also a little surprised, thus, when the spatial rift chopped out just now, it was slightly shifted to the left by a hair.
In other words, the Heartless Black Hole’s Dharma Phase was able to distort spatial forces?
If, for example, Emperor Yi’s cultivation level, exceeded Zhang Ruochen’s by a lot, reaching above the Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation, perhaps, he would be able to utilise the Heartless Black Hole to defeat the spatial rift first.
Of course that was only an assumption, after all, Zhang Ruochen’s current mastery of spatial power was only at the primary stage.
Emperor Yi’s heart, however, was even more surprised, how powerful was the Heartless Black Hole, even capable of devouring the Dharma Phantoms of other Sacred Bodies, it could be called an invincible Dharma Phantom, how could it be broken by Zhang Ruochen so easily?
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t give Emperor Yi too much time to think, immediately condensing the power of space once again, he performed a spatial shift and appeared beside Emperor Yi.
With his arm quickly raised, he swung out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and chopped at Emperor Yi’s neck.
Di Yi was too late to defend, however, a black shadow on the ground quickly slashed out a blade shadow, striking Zhang Ruochen’s abdomen.
Everyone had a shadow, only that a normal person’s shadow could only follow the body.
When the body moved, the shadow moved.
When the body was still, the shadow was still.
The scene in front of him seemed rather strange, as Di Yi’s body didn’t move, but the shadow on the ground slashed out.
What was even more surprising was that it was clearly just a shadow, but it contained a powerful demonic aura, and the shadow blade that slashed out carried a terrifying power that seemed to be trying to open up Zhang Ruochen’s intestines.
Zhang Ruochen let out a light eep and immediately reversed the blade of his sword and chopped towards the shadow on the ground, parrying the shadow blade that the other party chopped out.
The shadow blade slashed out by the shadow on the ground looked incomparably fierce, yet it was formless.
Zhang Ruochen’s sword swung over and instantly cut through the top of the shadow blade, merely creating fluctuations like water ripples, not stopping the shadow blade at all.
Without any hesitation, Zhang Ruochen leapt up with a stomp of his feet and charged upwards.
“Wow!”
The Shadow Blade slashed horizontally, bringing up a powerful blade wind that chopped past Zhang Ruochen’s feet below.
Zhang Ruochen stood suspended three feet above the standing ground, looking downwards and staring at the black shadow beside Emperor Yi.
“The Heavenly Demon Shadow is actually so powerful, when I attacked it, it was completely formless. When it attacked me, however, it had both form and quality, and the power that erupted from it was not even the slightest bit weaker than Emperor Yi’s original body.”A grave expression finally appeared on Zhang Ruochen’s face.
If one were to say that Zhang Ruochen could become a first-rate assassin by putting on the Meteor Stealth Clothes.
Then, Emperor Yi’s Heavenly Demon Shadow was simply like an assassin’s doppelganger, completely capable of killing people without a sound. The so-called Blood Cloud Sect’s number one assassin, “Hunter”, was a complete joke compared to the Heavenly Demon Shadow.
Who could defend against a shadow?
Di Yi said, “Zhang Ruochen, my Heavenly Demon Shadow, it’s not bad, right?”
The black shadow on the ground, even though it was connected to Emperor Yi’s feet, was completely different from Emperor Yi’s current form.
The black shadow was still holding a shadow blade, looking extraordinarily cold and stern, exuding a strong demonic aura, as if it could rise from the ground at any time.
Zhang Ruochen laughed and said, “It is indeed a bit interesting, however, the sword’s attack can’t hurt the Heavenly Demon Shadow, what about the spiritual power’s attack?”
Zhang Ruochen lifted the Purple Thunder Bead with his left hand and mobilised the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, condensing it into dozens of powerful lightning bolts. The lightning bolts travelled rapidly through the air, erupting in deafening airbursts.
“I didn’t expect his spiritual power to be so strong as well.”
Emperor Yi’s face finally changed a little, knowing that Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation level had already exceeded his by quite a bit, and continuing the battle would not do him any half good.
“Zhang Ruochen, do you really think you’re going to win? To tell you the truth, the moment your identity was revealed, you had already lost! Not only will you die, but the Red Desire Star Envoy will also be buried with you.”
Zhang Ruochen, of course, understood what Emperor Yi meant and said, “As long as I kill you, my identity, too, will not be exposed.
“Is that so? Are you that confident that you can kill me?”
From inside his sleeve, Emperor Yi took out a roll of golden holy decree and cupped it in his hand as he sneered at Zhang Ruochen.
“Wow!”
Muddy true qi surged out from both of Emperor Yi’s palms and infused into the holy decree, stirring up the holy power in the holy decree.
A golden light, wrapping Emperor Yi’s body, shot up into the sky and flew rapidly towards the heavens.
Zhang Ruochen only smiled faintly when he saw how Emperor Yi was fleeing, then he also took out a volume of the Holy Purpose, stimulated the holy power in the Holy Purpose, transformed into a golden light, and chased after Emperor Yi.
Both Emperor Yi and Zhang Ruochen erupted with the speed of a Saint, as if they were two meteors flying through the sky, and it wasn’t long before they arrived 10,000 miles away, one after the other.
“Boom!”
Emperor Yi’s feet landed on the ground, stepping out a half-metre deep crater.
Before he could wait for him to breathe a sigh of relief, a black sword light, flew down from the sky above, erupting into an ear-piercing sword chirp, and the entire space was shaken by the sword energy.
