# Chapter 1701: Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock
This ancient great mountain had one half that was sacred and majestic, with palaces and halls standing in rows; the other half was cold and dark, with lightning and thunder rumbling.
Zhang Ruochen and Mo Xiaogu stood at the boundary between light and darkness. Not far away in the darkness, lightning bolts continuously flashed through, producing tearing sounds that pierced the eardrums.
"Clatter."
Mo Xiaogu's small hand waved gently, and a talisman flew out, forming a light barrier that enveloped both her and Zhang Ruochen.
"Speak. How did you discover this princess's true identity?"
A powerful aura emanated from Mo Xiaogu's body, extremely sharp, completely different from the playful girl she had been before.
Mo Xiaogu's true cultivation had actually reached the Four-Step Saint King realm.
Zhang Ruochen did not release his Saintly Might to oppose her. "You used a spiritual power attack to kill Gu Feng, didn't you?"
"So, it was on Gu Feng's corpse that you found the clues."
Mo Xiaogu's eyes rolled slightly. "We've met before, haven't we? Where? Who exactly are you?"
Zhang Ruochen said unceremoniously, "I came here not to answer the questions in your heart, but to retrieve the *Space-Time Secret Scripture* and that scroll painting. If you still want to leave the Sealing God Platform alive, hand them over to me."
Mo Xiaogu sneered. "If I hand them over to you, what will this princess use to protect herself?"
"As long as you give me the items, I naturally won't reveal your identity." Zhang Ruochen said.
Mo Xiaogu rolled her eyes. "Why should this princess trust you? How about this: once we leave the Sealing God Platform, this princess will return everything you want to you. With this princess's status, my word is my bond."
"I don't believe you."
Zhang Ruochen shook his head. "Princess's transformation technique is superb. Once you leave the Sealing God Platform, I truly have no confidence in stopping you. By then, you'll take the scroll painting and *Space-Time Secret Scripture* and flee. Where would I go to find you?"
"Whoosh."
The space around Mo Xiaogu's body twisted violently, and her figure disappeared from where she stood.
Zhang Ruochen had been on guard against her the entire time, so he also employed spatial distortion techniques while shifting his steps to the right.
Mo Xiaogu's figure appeared behind Zhang Ruochen. A finger sword pierced through the skull of the afterimage he had left on the ground. Finding her attack had failed, she immediately launched a second strike.
Heavenly Beginning Fairy had gathered together with the cultivators of the Ancient Civilization Faction, watching from afar as Zhang Ruochen and Mo Xiaogu fought.
"So fast. Dozens of attack forms appear in an instant. Even with my cultivation, I might not be able to dodge them." A Divine Son at the Five-Step Saint King realm said, quite shocked.
"They're using space power to duel. Can't you see that the space around them has become extremely chaotic?"
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was very suspicious. She noticed that Heavenly Beginning Fairy's expression was different from usual, so she asked, "What exactly happened? Why are these two fighting? Especially that Mo Xiaogu—she's actually this strong, even deceiving my Origin Divine Eye."
Heavenly Beginning Fairy remained silent, her immortal eyes simply fixed on Zhang Ruochen and Mo Xiaogu as they fought, no one knew what she was thinking.
Wu Shen Tianzi walked over and asked, "Luo Ji, say something. If you don't speak, we don't even know who we should help right now."
Heavenly Beginning Fairy let out a soft sigh, then began to explain.
Of course, she completely omitted the matter of the Harmony Pill, not mentioning a single word about it.
After hearing her explanation, the cultivators of the Ancient Civilization Faction all wore grave expressions. A demoness who could control a Great Saint-level ferocious creature was absolutely a terrifying existence.
Below the Great Saint realm, who wouldn't be afraid?
Da Zun said, "Let's make a move. Rescue Lin Yue, and we must immediately rush to the mountaintop to seize the divine spring. Otherwise, by the time we get there, the divine spring will have already been divided up by the cultivators of the other factions."
Seeing that the top experts of the Ancient Civilization Faction were preparing to act, Heavenly Beginning Fairy grew secretly anxious.
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden stared at her and asked, "Sister, is there something you're hiding from us?"
"No." Heavenly Beginning Fairy said.
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden said, "But why, when we were preparing to deal with Mo Xiaogu, did your eyes show deep concern? What are you worried about? Are you thinking that even with all our experts combined, we can't handle her Great Saint ferocious creature?"
Just then, a voice rang out: "Look quickly, those two have stopped again."
Sure enough, Zhang Ruochen and Mo Xiaogu had ceased fighting and were now talking, apparently having reached some kind of agreement.
Mo Xiaogu tossed the *Space-Time Secret Scripture* to Zhang Ruochen. "What a useless book. Can't even open it. Returning it to you."
Zhang Ruochen quickly stored the *Space-Time Secret Scripture* away properly, then asked, "What is this Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock you mentioned?"
Rakshasa Princess took out a set of crimson red chains. "The so-called Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock uses chains to connect our fingers together, also linking them to our hearts and minds."
"Only when both of us want to open the lock will it truly open. If one side tries to break free from the chains and escape, or tries to harm the other, the power contained within the chains will incinerate and melt all the bones in their body, leaving them dead with no place for burial."
"With the Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock binding us together, are you reassured now?"
Zhang Ruochen took the chains and examined them. The forging technique was indeed extremely complex and bizarre. Inside the chains was contained a terrifying power that, once released, could burn even the most powerful cultivator to death.
Immediately, Zhang Ruochen sent a voice transmission to Heavenly Beginning Fairy, asking her about the "Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock."
Heavenly Beginning Fairy transmitted back to Zhang Ruochen some characteristics of the Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock, which were largely the same as what Mo Xiaogu had said.
"Alright, I agree."
Zhang Ruochen put one end of the Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock onto the five fingers of his left hand. Immediately, countless steel needles as thin as ox hair extended from the chains, piercing into the bones of his palm, arm, shoulder, and back.
Mo Xiaogu clearly knew that wearing the Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock was an excruciatingly painful experience, but there was no other choice. Who told Zhang Ruochen to stubbornly refuse to back down, forcing her to use this tactic?
First, she would bind this fellow to her side.
Mo Xiaogu put the Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock onto her right hand. After enduring the bone-piercing pain, a smile actually appeared on her pretty face. "At the same cultivation level, someone who can contend with this princess in both martial arts and the Way of Space is, to be honest, quite rare. This so-called Lin Yue—it's not a fake name, is it? Have you also used a transformation technique?"
"Don't bother probing me. It's useless." Zhang Ruochen said.
The more Mo Xiaogu looked, the more she felt that this so-called Lin Yue was very likely that bastard Zhang Ruochen. Otherwise, how could she, a dignified Space Controller, fail to subdue even a space cultivator?
Moreover, she and Zhang Ruochen had once cultivated their spiritual power together, and they were very familiar with each other's spiritual power attributes.
If Zhang Ruochen was Lin Yue, then it made perfect sense that he could detect her spiritual power fluctuations from Gu Feng's corpse.
On the Merit Battlefield, Zhang Ruochen had transformed into Ling Quan Shao Jun's appearance and, at a critical moment, attacked Rakshasa Princess from behind, stealing the Sundial, causing all her plans to fail and leaving her severely injured.
Rakshasa Princess had always remembered this debt.
This time, she had come to the Heavenly Court realm, her main purpose being to cultivate the Way of Space and the Way of Truth, but she also wanted to settle accounts with Zhang Ruochen.
"If this princess finds out that you are Zhang Ruochen, I will use a hundred methods to deal with you, make you suffer unbearably, and make you regret what you did back then." Mo Xiaogu thought to herself.
But at the same time, she somewhat hoped that Lin Yue was not Zhang Ruochen.
Because that fellow Zhang Ruochen was, after all, her destined person, and also the first one who had made her heart flutter.
This man could only belong to her.
When she thought about what Lin Yue and Heavenly Beginning Fairy had done in the sacred carriage, she felt a pang of annoyance, worried that the man who belonged to her had been slept with by another woman first.
Her Luo Sha's man—no other woman could touch even a single finger.
Mo Xiaogu set aside all kinds of thoughts, planning to confirm Lin Yue's identity after leaving the Sealing God Platform. "Let's join forces to seize the divine spring first, how about that?"
"Clank clank."
Zhang Ruochen raised the chains in his hand. "We're bound together now, so of course we can only act together."
Then, Zhang Ruochen's gaze turned toward Heavenly Beginning Fairy, who was dressed in a snow-white sacred robe, intending to say a few words to her.
Mo Xiaogu, however, showed a resentful expression and pulled on the Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock, scolding, "What are you looking at? She's a famous fairy with countless suitors around her. How could she possibly fancy you? Don't tell me you actually want to marry her?"
The pull of the Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock brought a piercing pain.
Zhang Ruochen had no choice but to follow Mo Xiaogu as they flew onto the shoulder of the Great Saint skeleton, rushing rapidly toward the summit of the ancient mountain.
The cultivators of the Ancient Civilization Faction, however, became restless, unsure whether they should act to rescue Lin Yue.
Heavenly Beginning Fairy said, "They've put on the Heart-Linked Bone-Melting Lock. They're now mutually restraining each other. This Heavenly Maiden believes there's no need to deal with that demoness for now. Let's go to the mountaintop first to seize the divine spring."
The vast majority of cultivators in the Ancient Civilization Faction were unwilling to provoke a Great Saint ferocious creature, so everyone nodded and rushed toward the summit.
At the summit of the ancient mountain was a depression nearly thirty miles in diameter, like an upward-facing giant basin.
From within the depression, purple-blue mist and clouds continuously spewed forth, drifting in all directions.
Within the mist grew various sacred medicines. Because this place was close to the divine spring, the sacred medicines grew extremely quickly. Sacred medicines of eighty thousand and ninety thousand years could be seen everywhere, and traces of hundred-thousand-year ancient sacred medicines could even be found.
By the time Zhang Ruochen and Mo Xiaogu arrived, quite a few cultivators had already gathered around the four sides of the depression, occupying advantageous positions.
Besides the cultivators of the Ancient Civilization Faction and the Heavenly Realm Faction, there were also cultivators from many other factions, all trying various methods to break into the depression to harvest sacred medicines and collect the divine spring.
Among them, Zhang Ruochen spotted Feng Yan, who had three heads and six arms, as well as Ji Fanxin, who was riding a nine-step dragon carriage... and so on.