Chapter 1820: Crushing Kill
Feng Chengdao was startled and immediately propped up layers of protective saint light.
At the same time, three shield seals flew out from between his eyebrows, each three feet in diameter, suspended in three directions around his body.
Bai Yuejun climbed up from the ground, his internal organs aching as if about to split, bloodstains at the corners of his mouth, his fingers mangled and bloody. He glared resentfully at the masked man.
"How dare you ambush me? Are you seeking death?"
The masked man laughed: "Ambush? I struck openly and aboveboard. You simply couldn't block it."
Bai Yuejun trembled with rage. He swallowed a healing sacred pill, and sacred qi surged rapidly through his body. Instantly, the iron chains coiled around him flew up, dancing in the air with a rumbling roar.
Tens of thousands of inscriptions emerged on each iron chain—some condensed into dragon shadows, some into ghostly figures, some into the forms of blades and swords...
In an instant, a domineering sacred force filled heaven and earth.
Feng Chengdao, deducing the masked man's identity from his use of spatial displacement, warned: "Be careful. He is the Heir of Time and Space, Zhang Ruochen, capable of manipulating space."
No sooner had he given this warning than spatial rules appeared in the space where Zhang Ruochen and Bai Yuejun stood, freezing the area.
The violently swinging iron chains halted midair, motionless.
"Boom."
Zhang Ruochen punched Bai Yuejun in the chest. His sacred robe shattered like paper, his body caved inward, and his tempered sacred physique showed dense blood cracks, like porcelain on the verge of breaking.
Bai Yuejun flew backward again, crashing into a snow mountain dozens of miles away.
Bai Yuejun had deep accumulation and numerous techniques. Even if Zhang Ruochen used time and space power, defeating him would not be easy.
But Bai Yuejun was too careless, so he seemed vulnerable against Zhang Ruochen's spatial power.
Now, severely injured, he no longer had the ability to contend with Zhang Ruochen.
Spatial and temporal power only exerted maximum force when used unexpectedly.
If an enemy knew their opponent was a master of time and space, they would be extremely vigilant, even preparing treasures to counter time and space. For Zhang Ruochen, this greatly weakened his advantage.
Zhang Ruochen formed a sword seal with two fingers and summoned the Abyssal Ancient Sword.
"Swoosh—"
The Abyssal Ancient Sword turned into a black streak, flying out to eliminate Bai Yuejun.
A shield seal spun out, striking the sword's blade, deflecting its trajectory.
The Abyssal Ancient Sword struck the other side of the snow mountain.
"Boom."
The snow mountain collapsed with tremendous force.
Zhang Ruochen's gaze shifted, glancing at Feng Chengdao.
Feng Chengdao withdrew his shield seal, his expression serious. "Zhang Ruochen, what secret lies within King Mountain? Why is your progress so fast?"
Feng Chengdao had only fought Zhang Ruochen three times, and each time, Zhang Ruochen's strength underwent earth-shattering changes. Most notably, less than a month had passed between encounters.
A month ago, even a finger strike from afar could severely wound Zhang Ruochen.
But now, before Zhang Ruochen had even attacked him, Feng Chengdao already felt immense pressure.
Thus, Feng Chengdao suspected that Zhang Ruochen's rapid progress might be related to the awakening site deep within King Mountain.
"King Mountain indeed hides a tremendous secret. Hand over the divine stone, and I'll tell you." Zhang Ruochen said with his hands behind his back, smiling.
Feng Chengdao sneered: "It seems your rapid advancement is likely related to the divine stone."
With a "bang," Bai Yuejun burst out of the snow mountain, hair disheveled, face cold and ferocious, letting out a piercing roar.
Mu Rongyue let out a muffled sound, kneeling on one knee. Her beautiful face alternated between pitch black and pale, her delicate body trembling slightly.
The black mist invading her body was ravaging her bloodline, meridians, and sacred veins.
"Excellent, a heaven-sent opportunity."
Feng Chengdao rejoiced inwardly and quickly said: "If you don't save her soon, the Yin Jue demonic qi will invade her sacred soul. Then she'll either become a mindless female demon or turn into a pool of black blood."
If Zhang Ruochen tried to save her, he and Bai Yuejun could surely kill him.
Without hesitation, Zhang Ruochen pressed his palm to the wound below Mu Rongyue's right shoulder, absorbing the invading black mist into his own body.
"Your Highness... don't... this demonic qi is extremely powerful... I cultivate demonic arts from the Heavenly Demon Stone Inscription but can't refine it..." Mu Rongyue worried Zhang Ruochen would fall into a trap and tried to dissuade him.
"Don't speak. Mere Yin Jue demonic qi can't harm me."
Zhang Ruochen's calm words sounded like a sacred decree to Mu Rongyue, carrying an unyielding will.
"Zhang Ruochen, you're asking for death. Don't blame others."
How could Feng Chengdao miss this rare opportunity? He mobilized a large number of sacred dao rules, gathering them at his fingertip, and pointed out, silently reciting: "Bright Daylight Finger."
The Bright Daylight Finger was the top-ranked mid-rank sacred art in the Nether God Hall's finger techniques. With Feng Chengdao's cultivation, it could kill a Saint King from ten thousand miles away.
Now, Zhang Ruochen and Feng Chengdao were only a few miles apart.
The power of the Bright Daylight Finger erupted like a falling sun, hurtling toward him.
Zhang Ruochen kept one hand on Mu Rongyue's right shoulder and formed a palm seal with the other, manifesting thirteen dragon soul shadows. He struck out with a palm.
The thirteen dragon soul shadows twisted together, forming a giant dragon.
As truth rules merged into it, the dragon unleashed six times the attack power, colliding with the surging finger force.
Both forces annihilated simultaneously.
"How is this possible?" Feng Chengdao's eyes widened.
Feng Chengdao was no ordinary Nine-Step Saint King; his cultivation was very close to the Rule Great Heaven. That finger strike had been his full power. How could a junior block it?
On the other side, Xie Chengzi controlled two battle corpses with Nine-Step Saint King strength, blocking Bai Yuejun and suppressing him.
Zhang Ruochen withdrew his hand from Mu Rongyue's right shoulder and took a deep breath.
The black mist flowed within his body and soon merged with him. With his Five Elements Chaos Body, Zhang Ruochen could accept all forces. The so-called Yin Jue demonic qi could not affect him.
Feng Chengdao's face turned ugly. He quickly sent a voice transmission to Bai Yuejun: "The situation is bad. Retreat first."
"Just a Zhang Ruochen, and you're this scared? If you want to flee, flee yourself. I was just too careless earlier and got hurt. In a real fight, I can suppress him with one hand." Bai Yuejun said.
Feng Chengdao felt Bai Yuejun was blinded by rage. Letting him continue fighting Zhang Ruochen would have disastrous consequences.
Forced to act, Feng Chengdao inscribed a message light talisman and sent it to a high-ranking figure of the Nether God Hall in the Eastern Domain Sacred City. That figure's cultivation had reached the Rule Great Heaven.
If he could arrive in time, Zhang Ruochen would have no escape today.
But Feng Chengdao's message light talisman had just been sent when Zhang Ruochen used spatial transport to intercept it.
"It seems the Nether God Hall still has experts in the Eastern Domain Sacred City."
Zhang Ruochen read the contents of the message light talisman and understood who Feng Chengdao was contacting—"Lai Wangren," one of the Nether God Hall's Six Ultimates.
For someone like Lai Wangren to appear in the Eastern Domain Sacred City was highly abnormal. Zhang Ruochen's brow furrowed deeply.
Feng Chengdao's sense of crisis intensified. Ignoring Bai Yuejun, he used an escape technique and fled alone toward the heavens.
Generally, if a Nine-Step Saint King wanted to leave, it was very hard to stop them. Even a Dao Domain realm expert couldn't guarantee a kill.
So Feng Chengdao was confident he could escape.
"Zhang Ruochen came to the Eastern Domain Sacred City in person and has greatly improved, able to contend with Nine-Step Saint Kings. I must immediately notify my uncles, Lai Wangren and Qu Xingzhe. Only if one of them acts can we be sure to suppress Zhang Ruochen."
Suddenly, Feng Chengdao's heart tightened.
An overwhelming supreme power landed on him, suppressing his sacred qi so it couldn't circulate, sending him plummeting straight to the ground.
After landing, Feng Chengdao looked up.
He saw a green pagoda descending from the sky, carrying boundless green currents, crashing down onto him. That was the last thing Feng Chengdao saw.
"Boom."
The earth shook violently. Half of the Snow Calamity Continent seemed to tremble.
Zhang Ruochen withdrew the Azure Heaven Floating Pagoda. On the ground, only a pile of bloody mud remained.
Not only Feng Chengdao's sacred body, but also the various sacred artifacts on him were shattered, unable to withstand a single blow from a supreme sacred artifact.
Bai Yuejun was stunned by the power of the Azure Heaven Floating Pagoda. Then he turned into a white light and fled into the distance.
Too terrifying!
Zhang Ruochen actually carried a supreme sacred artifact. How could he fight?
Zhang Ruochen used spatial displacement to catch up to Bai Yuejun, blocking his path. Holding the Azure Heaven Floating Pagoda in his palm, he said coldly: "Submit, or die."
"Kid, you want me to submit? Dream on."
Bai Yuejun spat a mouthful of sacred blood onto the silver bowl in his hand. Instantly, circles of sacred power light waves appeared on the bowl, emitting an increasingly powerful sacred dao might.
The silver bowl flew toward Zhang Ruochen. Wherever it passed, the earth collapsed, and heaven and earth rules shook violently.
At the same time, Bai Yuejun performed the sacred art "Mysterious Ice Snow Phoenix," transforming into a snow phoenix thousands of feet long. With a flap of its wings, it fled a hundred miles away.
Zhang Ruochen shook his head slightly and activated the Azure Heaven Floating Pagoda's power again.
"Bang."
The Azure Heaven Floating Pagoda shattered the silver bowl, caught up to the fleeing Mysterious Ice Snow Phoenix, and blasted it into a cloud of blood mist.
With just one strike, a deeply accumulated Nine-Step Saint King instantly fell, reduced to dust.
Zhang Ruochen collected the sacred sources of Feng Chengdao and Bai Yuejun. He searched their fall sites carefully but found no divine stone, leaving him deeply disappointed.
The battle had alarmed the entire Eastern Domain Sacred City.
Especially the might of the supreme sacred artifact, which could be sensed from ten thousand miles away and could not be hidden. It was certain that many experts were rushing toward this place.
Knowing this, Zhang Ruochen immediately fled with Mu Rongyue and Xie Chengzi.
For now, Zhang Ruochen did not want anyone to know he had come to the Eastern Domain Sacred City.
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