Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
Boom!
Dozens of lightning bolts fell together and formed a blinding light shuttle to hit the Saint Soul Territory of Huo Yin, which pushed the Saint Soul Territory to shrink inward quickly.
Blackie’s strength today was as powerful as Huo Yin’s. With Seven-class Divine Thunder Formation, its attack was almost irresistible.
Huo Yin was powerful enough to have resisted for half an hour before his Saint Soul Territory broke into pieces.
Wham!
The Fire Marble floating over his head died out and was cracked with lines of pattern, and eventually became a broken crystal.
Seven rays of lightning fell on his body together, and crashed his head, back, abdomen and legs. He moaned painfully with a low voice.
Then Huo Yin fell from midair with his whole body in the black smoke.
The Six-Ear Monkey was also hit by a lightning bolt. Its hair turned as grey as coke. And it fell together with Huo Yin to the ground and passed out.
The body of a Half-Saint was powerful enough that even falling from thousand meters high in the sky, it was still complete. Huo Yin was still alive.
But his body had smashed a giant and deep pit in the ground. Densely arranged electric patterns in the pit made a hiss and turned the earth a burnt black.
Zhang Ruochen operated his spiritual power to transfer the thunder and lightning to wrap up his body, and landed on the ground. He walked to the side of the pit and gave a look at Huo Yin.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen, Huo Yin gave a frightened look and shuddered slightly with fear.
Even a Half-Saint would be afraid to face death.
Blackie chuckled, stretched out two claws and walked to Huo Yin, “You should dare to rob us by yourself. Aren’t you a little too proud of yourself?”
“Blackie.”
Zhang Ruochen called Blackie to stop, and shook his head, “He was just following orders. He doesn’t have to die. We’ll let him go.”
Blackie was a little surprised, and wondered since when Zhang Ruochen had begun to let go of the person who wanted to kill him.
Whether from Kong Family or Zhang Family, many in the Sacred Central Crypt used to be former subordinates of Sacred Central Empire.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t want to kill them if he had other options.
Huo Yin was a little surprised as well. It never occurred to him that Zhang Ruochen should let him go so easily. After all, he had killed the kings of the Ministry of War ruthlessly.
Huo Yin had planned to operate secret arts to explode his lower abdomen and kill Zhang Ruochen and him together. But now he changed his mind.
If he could live, why should he seek death?
Zhang Ruochen glanced at Li Min and Blackie, and said, “Since Huo Yin could trace us here, others from Sacred Central Crypt will also arrive here soon. We must leave now.”
Not long after Zhang Ruochen, Blackie and Li Min had left, two peacocks flew here from the clouds.
Their bodies were so giant that they each took up the space of dozens of square kilometers. Their feather gave out Six-Color Light and Five-Color Light like splendid saint clouds. They left two giant shadows on the mountains.
Incomparable Qi came out from the two peacocks and scared the savage beasts on the ground to prostrate.
Then the two peacocks landed quickly. They became smaller and smaller, and finally took the shape of two humans and stood at the side of Huo Yin.
One of them was a young man in beautifully embroidered blue robes, the other was a bony old man.
The young man was the young master of Sacred Central Crypt, Kong Hongbi.
Kong Hongbi looked very young and handsome with skin as fair as that of a woman and a pair of Six-color Wings on his back. He casually stood there, but gave off a breath-taking power of Qi.
Huo Yin bore his wound and climbed out of the pit with great difficulty. He cupped his hands and made obeisance. “Young master.”
Kong Hongbi touched the thumb ring on his finger softly, and said coldly, “Where is Zhang Ruochen?”
The face of Huo Yin turned pale. He keeled immediately, put his hands on the ground and lowered his head completely. “I was defeated by him, please punish me for my incompetence.”
The young master of Sacred Central Crypt had frightened a Half-Saint to kneel on one knee. Apparently he was a person of power and dignity.
Kong Hongbi furrowed his brow, and gave a cold look. “Zhang Ruochen has been severely wounded, and you were defeated by him?”
Huo Yin was so afraid that he immediately told everything that had happened to Kong Hongbi.
Kong Hongbi gave a sneer, for he thought it funny. “Do you mean, you, a saint general of Sacred Central Crypt, were hit like this by a savage beast of Zhang Ruochen?”
Huo Yin felt the fury of Kong Hongbi and couldn’t help trembling. Drops of sweat fell from his forehead.
The old man pleaded on Huo Yin’s behalf, and said, “I’ve seen the cat of Zhang Ruochen when he fought with kings of the Ministry of War. It surely didn’t look like an ordinary cat, for its speed was even faster than Jian Kongzi. It makes sense that Huo Yin should be defeated by it.”
Kong Hongbi kept changing his look and eventually calmed down. “Alright. Crypt of Sacred Central is now in need of talents, I will not punish you.”
Huo Yin was relieved, and cast a grateful look to the old man beside Kong Hongbi.
The old man just nodded to him, and said no more words.
Kong Hongbi put his hands behind his back and looked at the sky. “Once we let Zhang Ruochen run away, it would be extremely hard to find him again.”
The bony old man said, “I just heard that many powerful figures of the Immortal Vampires have appeared in Yuan Mansion. What could happen there?”
“Immortal Vampires? They’ve always stayed in the Northern Region, how dare they come to the Central Region? Could it be…”
Kong Hongbi squeezed his eyes. “Could it be that they had plans in Pluto Sword Tomb? It is said one of the elders of the Immortal Vampires was locked up in Pluto Sword Tomb.”
As the young master of Sacred Central Crypt, Kong Hongbi naturally knew a lot of the secrets, including the legend of “Pluto.”
After a moment of contemplation, Kong Hongbi put on a smile, and said, “Since Immortal Vampires were seen in Yuan Mansion, there would surely be a bloody gathering. We will go and join them to see what the Immortal Vampires could bring about.”
…
Zhang Ruochen sat on the back of Blackie with his legs crossed. He concentrated on nurturing his wounds while racing on the road.
Li Min kept frowning and was frightened constantly. She looked behind her from time to time, and worried deeply that strong enemies would trace them.
Elephant-swallowing Rabbit turned to the size of a palm. It sat on the shoulder of Li Min with its round belly, and held a silver ginseng which was as thick as a bowl to bite. A row of teeth prints was left on the ginseng.
It looked at Li Min leisurely. “What are you so afraid of?”
Li Min hummed. “You are all too reckless. Don’t you know that powerful figures from the Ministry of War and Sacred Central Crypt could be following behind us? Once they caught us, we would be sure to die.”
Elephant-swallowing Rabbit didn’t take her words seriously, and spit a rind of ginseng. “You have to trust Lord Chen. Seven powerful figures of the Ministry of War couldn’t stop him the night before last. And now he has reached the state of Half-Saint. Even if the powerful figures from the Ministry of War and Sacred Central Crypt could catch us, how could they deal with him?”
Li Min stared at Elephant-swallowing Rabbit, and said, “Zhang Ruochen was helped by the Divine Fire Jingmie to fight against the seven powerful figures of the imperial court that night. Without the Divine Fire Jingmie, Zhang Ruochen could never compete with seven powerful figures despite the fact that he has reached the state of Half-Saint now.”
Li Min had read many books, especially anecdotes and ancient books, therefore she knew something about the Divine Fire Jingmie.
She added, “And Jian Kongzi is no ordinary monk. Zhang Ruochen couldn’t hurt him even with Destruction of the Thousand-patterns. If he gave a full strike, I’m afraid Zhang Ruochen could only resist three blades at the best.”
“Besides Jian Kongzi, the young master of Sacred Central Crypt is a real scary threat.”
Elephant-swallowing Rabbit was still busy eating silver ginseng, and asked unclearly, “How scary is he?”
Li Min hated to speak to a rabbit, but since Zhang Ruochen was silent like a rock, she had to go on discussing things with Elephant-swallowing Rabbit.
“Have you heard about Half-Saint Rank?” she said with excitement.
Students in Confucianism Academy used to be super excited when they talked about Half-Saint Rank. And they could keep talking for a whole day without a break.
Figures in Half-Saint Rank were truly great figures. Each of them was highly likely to become a saint, and each had numerous legendary stories, which ordinary people could only look up to.
Elephant-swallowing Rabbit didn’t change its head, and said, “Never heard about it.”
Li Min was discouraged instantly and exhaled a long breathl. “I knew it, you, rabbit, know nothing other than food.”
“Half-Saint Rank was collected and edited by Saint Lady, one of the Maidens of Empress with great effort.”
Li Min’s eyes were filled with reverence and respect when she mentioned the name of Saint Lady. She had regarded Saint Lady as an idol and role model of hers for a long time, so naturally she felt excited to talk about her.
