“What should I call you, senior?” Zhang Ruochen asked.
That middle-aged man smiled. “Su Jing, from the Nine Spirits Divine Bird Clan.”
“Also from Nine Spirits Divine Bird Clan?”
Zhang Ruochen couldn’t help it. He then looked to Su Qingling, and he found some similarities between Su Qingling and Su Jing.
Could it be…
Su Jing figured out what Zhang Ruochen was thinking. He laughed and said, “That’s right. I’m Qingling’s father. You don’t need to be so polite around me since you’re a good friend of Qing Ling. Just call me Uncle Jing.”
He was indeed Su Qingling’s father, which meant Su Jing was Supreme Saint Nine Spirits’ son.
Su Jing had an incredible status in Guanghan Field. If he were from Kunlun’s Field, he would’ve had more power than Zhang Ruochen, the crown prince of Sacred Central Empire.
After all, Nine Spirits Divine Bird Clan ruled more than half of the bird clans in Guanghan Field. Even Sacred Central Empire wasn’t that influential in its prime.
Everyone could tell that Su Jing was looking at Zhang Ruochen as if he would be his future son-in-law.
Su Qingling knew some of the arrangements in her clan, so she was so shy that she stood behind Su Jing the entire time. She shot a glimpse or two at Zhang Ruochen, but then, she would look away.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t feel pressured at all. He asked, “Is Guanghan Field really struggling now, Uncle Jing? Even you needed an invisibility lamp to cover our tracks after walking out of Shatuo Heavenly Domain.”
Zhang Ruochen heard from the Moon Goddess that the sinister power in Heaven World had been suppressing Guanghan Field. Once the monks from Guanghan Field walked out of Shatuo Heavenly Domain, they would be attacked, and even assassinated.
Zhang Ruochen originally thought that the Moon Goddess was exaggerating, as he reckoned Heaven World shouldn’t be this dark.
After hearing Zhang Ruochen’s question, all the other talents were disheartened.
Heaven World was boundless, yet the monks from Guanghan Field couldn’t even make it out of Shatuo Heavenly Domain. How pathetic was that…
Su Jing said, “I surely have a way to protect myself, so I can still get out of Shatuo Heavenly Domain. However, I heard some great beings from Soul Field are coming at you, so I need to be careful and brought the invisibility lamp.”
Wu Hao said, “The light can cover our forces, and Uncle Jing is protecting us. We definitely won’t run into danger.”
“Hopefully.”
Su Jing took out a piece of silver metal and infused his saintly way power into it. Following a clacking sound, a Refiner Dragon showed up in front of everyone.
“Let’s go.”
Su Jing hopped on the back of the dragon first, and then, Zhang Ruochen, Wu Hao, and the others followed.
Truth Godly Palace was in Truth Heavenly Domain in Western Ox State, which was very far from Shatuo Heavenly Domain. Without space transportation formation, it would take Zhang Ruochen’s group several years to get there.
Fortunately, there was a space transportation formation in every heavenly domain in Heaven World. In some prosperous heavenly domains, there was a space transportation formation in every sacred domain.
The space transportation formation in Shatuo Heavenly Domain was located in Anbing Sacred Domain, which was more than three hundred thousand miles away from Red Dragon Sacred Domain. Even the Refiner Dragon would need five or six days to get there.
Mu Lingi was sitting beside Zhang Ruochen with her eye closed. It seemed that she was comprehending saintly way, but she was actually communicating with Zhang Ruochen using her mind power. “I heard Nine Spirits Divine Bird Clan wanted to befriend you, even using marriage.”
Zhang Ruochen knew what she was worried about. He said, “Don’t overthink it. Refine and comprehend the inheritance of the Ice and Fire Phoenix to become a saint king first.”
Mu Lingxi couldn’t help grinding her teeth, as she felt like Zhang Ruochen was trying to change the subject.
And then, Zhang Ruochen said to her, “I hate being united through marriage.”
Mu Lingxi felt that Zhang Ruochen got kind of emotional. She immediately looked to him. Zhang Ruochen looked a bit aloof but dazed as if he was recalling something.
“That’s right. Both his union through marriage with Chi Yao and Sister Chen ended in tragedy. I was also a victim of union through marriage.”
Mu Lingxi grabbed Zhang Ruochen’s hands, and the warmth from her palm healed Zhang Ruochen’s pain.
Zhang Ruochen turned around and looked at her. He looked more and more amiable. He smiled and tried to say something.
Suddenly…
Boom!
The ground shook.
Two saint power storms rushed toward the Refiner Dragon from the front and back, making earth-shattering noises.
Wu Hao smiled weirdly, sitting on the back of the Refiner Dragon.
Su Jing looked solemn. He put back his invisibility lamp, opened his wings and flew up.
Meanwhile, he reached his left hand downwards, and six traces of saint Qi gushed out.
The six traces of saint Qi wound around Zhang Ruochen, Wu Hao, Mu Lingxi, and the others like six threads, bringing them up into the sky.
Bang!
The Refiner Dragon was crushed into pieces after being hit by two bolts of saint Qi.
Even Zhang Ruochen was horrified after seeing that.
The Refiner Dragon could rival a saint king, and it was sturdier than most thousand-patterns saint weapons, yet it was dismantled like bean dregs.
What was more surprising was that the ground around them also ascended as they flew up, turning into mountains and surrounding them.
Zhang Ruochen looked up, and he saw a giant fierce head above the mountains, and there were thorns all over the head.
It was a giant beast that was as tall as the sky, looking at them as if they were crickets in a bowl.
Horrific saint might gushed out of that head, covering the sky and land. Wen Shusheng, Ling Mi, and Su Qingling, who were relatively weaker, went pale.
Su Jing yelled, “Lord Liaosang.”
A thunderous voice came from above. “Su Jing, you killed my son, Yin Ji, two hundred years ago. Today, I’ll avenge him by eating you alive.”
Su Jing found it bizarre, as Lord Liaosang hadn’t seemed to have come for revenge.
The incident happened two hundred years ago. Why would he pick today?
And besides, they were still in Shatuo Heavenly Domain, which meant Lord Liaosang was taking a huge risk coming at him.
Su Jing said, “We’re very careful with our tracks, and I even have the invisibility lamp to cover our forces. How did you find us?”
“No need to explain something to a dead man.”
A giant black hand extended out of the top of the mountains and pressed down.
Everyone except Su Jing lost their sight, as they were all petrified by the saintly way power from that giant hand. They couldn’t even breathe.
“Damn it. Shang Ziyan promised me he’d only kill Zhang Ruochen. Now it seems Lord Liaosang is going to kill us all.”
Wu Hao had known that Shang Ziyan wasn’t an honorable person and that he shouldn’t easily believe what he said, but he didn’t expect him to be this ruthless.
Boom!
Su Jing’s body bulged, turning into a Nine Spirits Divine Bird glowing with nine colors of saint light, rushing toward the mountain at the northwestern side. They went through the mountains after a huge tumble.
“We’ve finally made it out.” Su Lingxi took a long breath.
“Not that easy perhaps.” Zhang Ruochen stood on Nine Spirits Divine Bird’s back, looked at the sky and couldn’t be more serious.
The entire sky was covered by dark clouds, and there was a glass dome engulfed in golden light floating above the clouds. There were rule engravings on the glass dome, which covered the area of several hundred square miles.
From the outside, the area looked exactly the same with sunshine and woods.
However, the earth was being shattered while saint power tumbled inside the glass dome.
The Nine Spirits Divine Bird couldn’t make it out of the glass dome. It hit an invisible wall as it flew to the edge.
Bang!
Thickly-dotted saintly way rules emerged on the light wall. They spread from the ground and connected with the glass dome in the sky.
The Nine Spirits Godly Bird’s body quickly shrunk and turned back into that of a human male. He looked at the saintly way rules in front of him and said, “Sky-Sealing Glass Dome.”
Su Jing turned around and yelled at Lord Liaosang, “There’s no way you obtain a valuable like Sky-Sealing Glass Dome. Who asked you to come kill us? Aren’t you afraid you’ll be punished by death for disobeying the heavenly rules?”
There was a layer of evil clouds around Lord Liaosang. He said sarcastically, “First of all, I came here to kill in order to avenge my son. The heavenly rules can’t do anything about it!
“Secondly, I have Sky-Sealing Glass Dome to block the sight. Who will know that it’s I who killed you?”
