A dozen of talismans became a talismanic wall that burned in the air. From the ground, it looked like a flaming star that was rapidly crashing towards Bao Lie.
“You’re courting death!”
Bao Lie’s muscles swelled up and became even stronger as he spat out a gout of flame from his mouth.
The flame was dark red, and its temperature was comparable to Zhang Ruochen’s Divine Purification Flames. Moreover, the flames contained a very powerful force, and shattered all of the talismans, turning them to ashes in the wind.
“So powerful, has he reached the realm of Heaven’s Reach?”
Shi Ren realized that he had underestimated Bao Lie’s strength, his eyes turned quickly, and his figure shrank as he hid behind Zhang Ruochen again, trying to use Zhang Ruochen to deal with Bao Lie.
However, the moment he got behind Zhang Ruochen, he felt a biting chill.
Zhang Ruochen glanced behind him and said with sharp eyes, “You are not Shi Ren. Who are you?”
“For him to see through me so quickly!”
Shi Ren was a little surprised, but he acted decisively.
A hundred and sixty thousand saint path precepts rushed out from his sea of Qi, as they flowed and converged around his fingers, then, they transformed into a powerful finger stab as it aimed for the back of Zhang Ruochen’s head.
Zhang Ruochen had long been prepared, his figure blurred and disappeared.
“Damn it, the power of space again!” Shi Ren cursed to himself.
Shi Ren blasted out a finger blast, piercing through Zhang Ruochen’s afterimage, and aimed it at Bao Lie that was facing him.
At the same time, beams of light shot out from Bao Lie towards him.
BOOOMMM!!!
The two forces collided, and Shi Ren was sent flying back like a paper cutout and spat saint blood while he was still in the air.
“How can he be so strong?”
Shi Ren had already overestimated Bao Lie’s strength by quite a bit, but when the two exchanged blows, it took only a single exchange for him to be heavily wounded, and that was hard for him to accept.
“Empyrean Tempest Fist.”
A crackling sound rang across Bao Lie’s body, and blasted out a fist imprint in the air, carrying with it the sound of wind and thunder that shook the land.
The fist imprint transformed into a dashing leopard.
WHOOSH!!
Shi Ren had seen Bao Lie’s power and dared not take the attack head-on. A vortex appeared around his body, and his person seemed to merge with the vortex and disappeared.
After hitting nothing, Bao Lie’s gaze turned grim, as he muttered. “Illusion?”
In the distance, Shi Qiankun frowned deeply and found it difficult to understand everything he saw. Even he felt that his son was a bit strange, how did Shi Ren’s cultivation become that strong?
What was going on?
Only Zhang Ruochen knew that was going on, so he used the Domain of Space to cover an area hundreds of miles wide, and found Shi Ren’s hiding place as he snorted. “Baihuan Shenzi, show yourself!”
Zhang Ruochen’s hand grabbed at the void.
BOOOMMM!!!
Thirty miles away, a large part of the void collapsed, forming a dimensional rift ten of feet wide.
Shi Ren was forced to completely show himself and quickly fled to the distance, as he laughed with a voice that was completely different from Shi Ren’s voice. “You’re quite something, the Scion of Time and Space, Zhang Ruochen.”
“Aren’t you quite something as well? As expected of Baihuan Shenzi, with your danger index of seven. I have underestimated earlier. Where is Shi Ren, and since when did you change into his appearance?” Zhang Ruochen said.
“Heh, since I’ve taken his form, he has naturally been sucked dry and is but a dead corpse.”
Since his cover was already blown, Baihuan Shenzi no longer kept his disguise, as his muscles and bones shifted, and changed into his own appearance, with silver growing on his back, and stood in the air about ten feet above ground.
Both Zhang Ruochen and Shi Qiankun showed anger.
“Anyone who kills my friends and brothers had never met a pleasant end.”
Zhang Ruochen’s saint Qi quickly circulated across his body, and gushed out from his palm, and surged into the Azuresky Pagoda. The pagoda grew bigger and bigger as it spun and flew into the air.
The powerful supreme power swept across thousands of miles.
The spars on the ground flew up one after another and revolved around the Azuresky Pagoda.
While Baihuan Shenzi possessed many bizarre and unpredictable abilities, and ever-changing illusions, but in the face of a Supreme Sacred Artifact, he still was somewhat fearful.
Since he had already come to the Dismemberment Prison Realm, he had achieved his goal, and there was no need to continue fighting with Zhang Ruochen, he needed to see to his main objective.
“Whooosh!!”
Baihuan Shenzi’s body disintegrated and became tens of thousands of blood-red light spots as they blasted out in extreme speed, like rays of light, as they shot into the distance.
“Run.”
“For an Immortal Vampires to appear before me, and you still want to escape?”
Bao Lie had once followed Emperor Ming to crusade against the Immortal Vampires, and he had lost count of how many comrades that had died in the hands of the Immortal Vampires. Naturally, he hated the Immortal Vampires to the bone.
Bao Lie’s claws blasted out at the same time, forming two flaming clouds dozens of miles away, and swept all of the blood-red light spots into it, and then suppressing it downwards.
BAM!
The blood-red light spots were constantly annihilated as they dissipated into the air.
But some of the light spots managed to escape and reformed into Baihuan Shenzi’s body.
Baihuan Shenzi was in a bad shape, and his aura had weakened a lot. He had obviously been seriously injured and continued to fly towards the horizon.
Baihuan Shenzi had already started regretting it. If he had known, he would have continued to keep his cover, and not blow it so soon.
In the end, it was because he had underestimated Bao Lie’s strength, and also Zhang Ruochen’s intelligence. He had not expected Zhang Ruochen to see through his guise so quickly.
BOOOMMM!!!
The Azuresky Pagoda carried with it a cyan cloud as it flew over and appeared above Baihuan Shenzi’s head.
“Sh*t!”
Baihuan Shenzi deployed a shield-shaped protective treasure and hung it above his head.
The pagoda itself did not fall, but instead, blasted out a stream of supreme power that shot right through the protective treasure, and landed on Baihuan Shenzi, smashing his body into a bloody pulp.
“If I managed to escape, and release Lord Ming, then the first thing I’ll do is to kill Zhang Ruochen and that Bao Lie person, and suck them dry of their saint blood.”
Baihuan Shenzi was furious, and his expression turned menacing.
He took out a phantom gem and used an illusion skill as he disappeared again.
Unfortunately for him, Zhang Ruochen possessed the Domain of Space, and easily saw through his illusions, and found him.
DUUUSHH!!
Another stream of supreme power blasted out, and struck Baihuan Shenzi’s back, puncturing through his body and sent him crashing onto the ground.
“It’s over!”
Zhang Ruochen controlled the Azuresky Pagoda remotely and aimed to slam it onto Baihuan Shenzi.
“If I die, your friend dies too.”
Baihuan Shenzi took out a blood tapestry and released Shi Ren from it.
Shi Ren’s face was pale, and his eyes looked glazed, the blood in his body was severely drained, but he was still alive.
Baihuan Shenzi grabbed Shi Ren’s head with his hand. His five fingers were as sharp as thorns, and once they sank into the latter’s scalp, crimson blood poured out profusely.
Baihuan Shenzi did not kill Shi Ren, and instead, kept him as a trump card.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes shrank, and immediately stopped the Azuresky Pagoda in the air, and did not slam it down.
“Let Shi Ren go, and I’ll spare you.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Baihuan Shenzi laughed. “You take me for a fool? If I release him, that Supreme Sacred Artifact of yours will fall on me immediately.”
Shi Qiankun looked nervous and anxious and flew to Zhang Ruochen’s side. Just as he was about to say something to Zhang Ruochen, he heard Zhang Ruochen’s in his ears. “Patriarch, don’t worry. Shi Ren is my friend, I will do my best to save him.”
Shi Qiankun cast a grateful look at him.
Zhang Ruochen stared at Baihuan Shenzi, saying. “Name your price, we can talk slowly.”
Baihuan Shenzi laughed. “If I want the Supreme Sacred Artifact in your hand, will you exchange it for your friend?”
“Sure, no problem.”
Zhang Ruochen agreed without any hesitation.
Baihuan Shenzi, Shi Qiankun, and even Bao Lie who was standing in the distance were all stunned when they heard Zhang Ruochen’s words.
There was someone who was willing to let go of a Supreme Sacred Artifact to rescue a friend?
Baihuan Shenzi laughed and said, “Decisive. I never thought Zhang Ruochen, the Scion of Time and Space would be someone who treasures relationships. I like to deal with people like you, however, don’t you dare play any tricks. With just a thought, your friend’s head will explode.”
“Don’t worry, compared to a Supreme Sacred Artifact, I’m much more concerned about my friend’s life.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Baihuan Shenzi was overjoyed, whether Zhang Ruochen was really willing to exchange Shi Ren with him or not, at the very least, he had a good chance of getting a Supreme Sacred Artifact.
And Zhang Ruochen, who will lose his Supreme Sacred Artifact, will be like a tiger without its claws and fangs.
Once he gets the Supreme Sacred Artifact, he would be even more powerful and could turn around and kill Zhang Ruochen and Bao Lie, turning defeat into victory. He could even use the Supreme Sacred Artifact to save Lord Ming, and that is an even greater achievement.
Zhang Ruochen called back the Azuresky Pagoda, and it became only nine inches high as he held it on his palm and walked towards Baihuan Shenzi.
“Stop.”
Baihuan Shenzi was wary of Zhang Ruochen. “Hand the Supreme Sacred Artifact to Patriarch Shi, and let him bring it to me.”
Although Shi Qiankun wanted to save Shi Ren very much, he could clearly see the situation, and immediately shook his head. “No, I’m only a spiritual cultivator of the fifty-seventh level, and I’m far from being your opponent. What if you get the Azuresky Pagoda and refuse to let Ren’er go?”
“You don’t have any right to bargain.”
Baihuan Shenzi laughed, as he exerted strength on his fingers, and bit deeper into Shi Ren’s scalp, pinching his head so hard that it deformed slightly, and could burst open at any moment.
Shi Ren woke up and let out a scream.
Zhang Ruochen forced the Azuresky Pagoda into Shi Qiankun’s hands and said, “Patriarch, take it to him. If he dares to go back on his words, then the Dismemberment Prison Realm will be his grave.”
Since Zhang Ruochen had said so, and with Shi Qiankun, who was eager to save his son, having no other ideas, so he took the Azuresky Pagoda and walked towards Baihuan Shenzi.
Baihuan Shenzi took the Azuresky Pagoda from Shi Qiankun’s hand, and his eyes were filled with excitement as the hand clutching Shi Ren’s head loosened a little.
It was at this moment Zhang Ruochen used the Dimensional Shift and appeared beside Baihuan Shenzi.
“You want to kill your friend?”
Baihuan Shenzi’s gaze sank as he saw Zhang Ruochen before him, and exerted force on his fingers, hoping to use Shi Ren’s life to threaten Zhang Ruochen.
However, his arm had lost its senses.
Baihuan Shenzi looked down and found that the arm holding Shi Ren’s head had been cut off by a dimensional rift, and was separated from his body.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen’s palm was burning with blazing flame, and smashed squarely against Baihuan Shenzi’s forehead, shattering his head into pieces, and turning it into a cloud of blood mist.
“Anyone who dares hurt my friend will not have a pleasant end.”
