Chapter 1103: Slay Gods, Kill Buddhas
All the Undying Blood Clan members of the Azure Heaven Tribe burst into excited laughter, convinced that victory was already decided and that the human Heir of Time and Space was doomed. Perhaps, they thought, they might even get to taste some of the Heir of Time and Space's blood, thereby enhancing their own physical constitutions.
"A legendary human is about to fall. I can't help but wonder how delicious his blood will taste?"
Princess Yan Xin lightly licked her red lips with her delicate tongue, her beautiful eyes gleaming with scorching light.
Zuo Tian Blood Saint stood with his hands clasped behind his back, looking utterly at ease, and chuckled, "It still takes His Highness the Crown Prince to kill Zhang Ruochen cleanly and decisively."
Chang Wan raised his four arms, every inch of his skin emitting a blood-red radiance, and said in a deep voice, "Just give me a little more time, and I could have suppressed Zhang Ruochen too."
Princess Yan Xin cast a dismissive glance at Chang Wan and said with disdain, "You still have the nerve to say that. You've already crossed your third Quasi-Saint Tribulation, yet you couldn't take down a Seventh-Step Half-Saint. Aren't you ashamed to be the future king personally appointed by Lord Azure Heaven Blood Emperor? Is that all the skill you have?"
If anyone else had dared to mock him like that, Chang Wan would have already thrown a punch at them.
But since it was Princess Yan Xin, Chang Wan couldn't make a move. Not to mention her immense background, even her own strength made Chang Wan quite wary.
In truth, Chang Wan felt quite speechless himself. After all, when he was a Seventh-Step Half-Saint, he could kill human Ninth-Step Half-Saints.
Yet now, having crossed his third Quasi-Saint Tribulation and being just one step away from the Saint Realm, he couldn't take down a Seventh-Step Half-Saint.
Was there anything more embarrassing than this?
"Why is there still a life fluctuation from Zhang Ruochen underground? Why isn't he dead yet?"
Zuo Tian Blood Saint sensed something was wrong, his forehead furrowing deeply.
Chang Wan had great confidence in Azure Heaven Crown Prince and said, "With His Highness the Crown Prince's strength, killing Zhang Ruochen is as easy as slaughtering a pig or a dog. There's nothing to worry about..."
"Boom!"
A thunderous roar erupted from underground, and the air in this entire region violently trembled.
Immediately after, a figure, bent over, flew backward out of the ground, shooting up to a height of a hundred meters before stopping.
Everyone looked over, fixing their gaze on that figure, and were all utterly shocked.
It was Azure Heaven Crown Prince.
A trace of blood hung at the corner of Azure Heaven Crown Prince's mouth.
On his abdomen, there was also a bloodstained shoe print, clearly showing that Azure Heaven Crown Prince had been kicked out of the ground by someone.
Who possessed such immense power to injure Azure Heaven Crown Prince and send him flying?
Zhang Ruochen?
Azure Heaven Crown Prince stood in midair, his expression extremely serious, staring intently at the pitch-black cave below.
From the cave, five-colored light surged forth, growing stronger and stronger, causing the entire oasis to radiate with five-colored chaotic light.
Footsteps sounded.
Zhang Ruochen walked out of the cave unhurriedly, with multiple bloodstains on his body, but all those bloodstains were concealed by the five-colored chaotic light.
Without any superfluous words, Azure Heaven Crown Prince's one hundred and twenty-two apertures all burst with dazzling light, as if carrying a starry sky. He erupted with full force, both palms striking downward simultaneously.
This time, Zhang Ruochen did not dodge. Instead, he charged upward against the heavens, silently reciting, "Dragon Soaring the Nine Heavens."
"Roar!"
A deafening dragon roar pierced through to a thousand miles away.
Around Zhang Ruochen's body, a dragon shadow dozens of miles long condensed, overlapping with his palm print, colliding head-on with the hand seal Azure Heaven Crown Prince had unleashed.
"Boom!"
The azure dragon shadow shattered Azure Heaven Crown Prince's hand seal into pieces. Zhang Ruochen's palm print struck Azure Heaven Crown Prince's body, sending him flying once again, hurling him to an even higher sky.
Blood spewed from Azure Heaven Crown Prince's mouth as he suffered severe injuries.
The entire world fell into a deathly silence, everyone staring dumbfounded at the scene before them.
It was too shocking!
Azure Heaven Crown Prince, ranked seventh on the "Half-Saint Outer List," had actually been beaten until he vomited blood.
How had Zhang Ruochen suddenly become so powerful?
He just stood calmly on the ground, yet even those Undying Blood Clan members were terrified into retreating repeatedly, giving off the impression of being invincible under heaven.
All smiles vanished from the Undying Blood Clan's faces, replaced by expressions of fear.
The Blood Ant Beast King and the Corpse Ancestor Bird King drew in a cold breath, feeling their scalps go numb. They immediately led the barbarian beasts present and retreated three hundred miles.
The pressure Zhang Ruochen now exerted on them was no less than that of the Devouring Demon Dragon. If they didn't retreat far enough, once Zhang Ruochen went on a killing spree, they might not be able to escape.
Wan Huayu was also momentarily stunned, then suddenly realized what was happening, revealing a rather excited smile: "I understand! The reason Zhang Ruochen attacked the Azure Heaven Tribe alone was entirely to use Azure Heaven Crown Prince's pressure on him to break through to a higher realm. Now it seems his realm has broken through, and the situation is about to reverse."
Learning that Zhang Ruochen had broken through, all the human cultivators were ecstatic beyond measure.
Because this meant that, aside from the few top-ranked Realm Sons, humanity had gained another top-tier powerhouse capable of intimidating all barbarian beast clans.
Finally, Azure Heaven Crown Prince stabilized his form and slowly descended to the ground.
Azure Heaven Crown Prince's yellow robe was mostly torn, his long hair disheveled, no longer bearing that noble and elegant aura. His eyes turned blood-red as he said, "Zhang Ruochen, you used this Crown Prince as a whetstone to help you successfully break through to a new realm. Are you feeling quite pleased with yourself now?"
Zhang Ruochen stood opposite Azure Heaven Crown Prince, his gaze calm as still water, and said, "It's not like I've become a Saint on the spot, so there's nothing to be pleased about. I can only say that from now on, I can finally fight you on equal terms. Why haven't you used your true strength yet? I don't believe that the one ranked seventh on the 'Half-Saint Outer List' only has this much power."
"Fine, this Crown Prince will grant your wish," Azure Heaven Crown Prince said.
Before Azure Heaven Crown Prince could make a move, from the Undying Blood Clan's camp, at the center of a large blood formation, a Ninth-Step Half-Saint of the Undying Blood Clan, who was presiding over the formation, combined its power to control a cauldron-shaped Thousand-Mark Sacred Artifact, sending it flying out. It triggered a Thousand Ripple Annihilation Force and pressed down toward Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen glanced at it, continuously channeling the Saint Qi within his body, then struck out with a palm, colliding with the cauldron-shaped Thousand-Mark Sacred Artifact.
"Boom!"
The Thousand-Mark Sacred Artifact flew off at an angle, crashing into a nearby blood pool, shattering it into pieces.
Over a hundred Undying Blood Clan members who had been sitting cross-legged around the blood pool, cultivating, were struck by the shockwave of that power and all screamed in agony.
Several dozen of them died on the spot.
Using a flesh-and-blood palm to send a Thousand-Mark Sacred Artifact flying, ignoring the Thousand Ripple Annihilation Force—before this, only the Devouring Demon Dragon had displayed such a technique.
This scene was utterly shocking, instilling fear in everyone.
"Attack together! Assist His Highness the Crown Prince in suppressing Zhang Ruochen."
Chang Wan's body radiated bright holy light, condensing a holy image over thirty zhang tall. He lifted two pitch-black long spears and was the first to attack Zhang Ruochen.
Following him, Zuo Tian Blood Saint, Princess Yan Xin, and Ghost Mist all made their moves.
Zuo Tian Blood Saint flicked his sleeve, rolling up the cauldron-shaped Thousand-Mark Sacred Artifact from the blood pool, holding it in his palm. He activated the Thousand Ripple Annihilation Force within the cauldron and struck horizontally at Zhang Ruochen.
Above Princess Yan Xin's head floated a crimson copper furnace, also surging with a Thousand Ripple Annihilation Force. In an instant, it incinerated all the golden trees in the oasis, turning this land into a plain of erupting flames.
Ghost Mist's body dissolved, turning into a mass of black mist that plunged into the ground, vanishing without a trace. No one knew when he might burst out and deliver a fatal blow to Zhang Ruochen.
These four experts of the Azure Heaven Tribe were all individuals capable of contending with Lower Realm Saints.
With the four of them joining forces, they were practically unstoppable, forcing even Azure Heaven Crown Prince to retreat.
Chang Wan's attack arrived first.
The two long spears in his hands grew as thick as pillars, one surging with lightning and the other with blood light, like divine pillars standing at the center of heaven and earth, pressing down toward Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen spat out two words: "Courting death."
At some point, the Abyssal Ancient Sword had already appeared in Zhang Ruochen's hand.
Zhang Ruochen swung his arm in a slash, dragging out a long sword light. With a bang, he cut through the two spears.
The sharp sword energy continued flying forward, tearing apart Chang Wan's holy image and landing directly on his body, leaving a deep sword wound on his chest, nearly splitting him in two.
Chang Wan was greatly alarmed. Suppressing his injuries, he immediately fled into the distance.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Zhang Ruochen stomped his foot on the ground, and a powerful spatial force surged from beneath his sole, shattering the space within a hundred zhang into fragments.
The attacks from Princess Yan Xin and Zuo Tian Blood Saint plunged into the shattered space, vanishing without a trace, failing to harm Zhang Ruochen at all.
Additionally, Ghost Mist, who had been hiding underground, immediately fled, retreating into the distance.
Princess Yan Xin and Zuo Tian Blood Saint withdrew their Thousand-Mark Sacred Artifacts, using movement techniques to put distance between themselves and Zhang Ruochen, afraid of being drawn into the shattered space.
But Chang Wan failed to escape. A spatial rift cut off his retreat.
"Damn it, how did Zhang Ruochen suddenly break through and become so strong?"
Chang Wan was extremely anxious, wanting to flee, because he knew that the current Zhang Ruochen was like one who would slay gods and kill Buddhas, someone he simply couldn't contend with.
"Sword Five!"
Zhang Ruochen's voice came from behind Chang Wan, growing closer.
Chang Wan sensed the danger and raised his holy image, but before he could launch any attack, a sword light flew over, piercing through both him and his holy image.
"Sizzle, sizzle."
Dense sword patterns appeared on Chang Wan's body, and then he exploded like a ceramic shard, turning into a cloud of blood mist, leaving blood-red spots on the ground.
Zhang Ruochen walked out of the blood mist, holding a blood-drenched sword, looking exceptionally cold. To those Undying Blood Clan members, he seemed like the God of Death himself.
A future king who had crossed three Quasi-Saint Tribulations and was destined to become a Saint—Chang Wan—had fallen. Who would still dare to challenge Zhang Ruochen?
All the Undying Blood Clan members' gazes turned to Azure Heaven Crown Prince. Now, perhaps only His Highness the Crown Prince could stop this god of slaughter.
Could he stop him?
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