Chapter 2464: A Single Stomp to Kill
Zhang Ruochen felt a sense of guilt toward Luo Sha, and he knew she had genuine feelings for him—a woman he could trust.
However, Luo Sha’s tactic of threatening him with Mu Lingxi displeased Zhang Ruochen.
Sensing Zhang Ruochen’s displeasure, Luo Sha softened her tone and said, “I heard about what happened in Goddess City and realized you were in danger, so I immediately ended my seclusion and rushed over to help you. Don’t you trust me at all?”
“After all, I am your fiancée and will one day be a part of the Blood Absolute Family. Do you think I would harm you or the Blood Absolute Family’s interests for the sake of the Tianluo Divine Kingdom?”
“I know you’re searching for the Origin Divine Temple to use the power of the Origin to elevate your Sacred Intent to the next level—that’s exactly what I want to see. I hope my husband will be an unparalleled figure under heaven.”
Zhang Ruochen ignored her sweet talk, his gaze turning stern. “How did you know I was in danger?”
“The Tianluo Divine Kingdom’s influence spans the entire Hell Realm. Obtaining the information I need is effortless. Besides, my imperial brother is on Ice King Star—how much can escape his notice?” Luo Sha replied calmly.
Zhang Ruochen shook his head. “No. In that battle twenty days ago, only Wuma Jiuxing, Bai Qinger’s subordinates, and Guye Jing knew I was involved. By the time the Jifeng Saint Mansion’s formation shattered, Xiao Hei had already taken me and Guye Jing away. No outsider could have known.”
As he spoke, Zhang Ruochen channeled Truth Rules into his pupils and fixed his gaze on Luo Sha.
“Whoosh!”
The radiance of Truth shone forth.
In an instant, he saw through her disguise.
Luo Sha let out a charming laugh, spun around, and transformed into Guye Jing’s appearance. “Zhang Ruochen, even though you didn’t admit it, I already know the top-grade Origin Divine Crystal is on you.”
Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes and let out a long sigh. Truly, guard against day and night, but in the end, he had been careless and fallen for this demoness Guye Jing’s trick.
Fortunately, he hadn’t taken out the top-grade Origin Divine Crystal; otherwise, it might no longer be in his hands.
“Even without using the Truth Eye, I should have guessed. How could it be such a coincidence that I went to the Divine Maiden Tower, and Luo Sha just happened to be there too? Guye Jing went to see Luo Shengtian purely to mislead me and make me drop my guard,” Zhang Ruochen thought to himself.
Guye Jing smiled sweetly, sat down on Zhang Ruochen’s left thigh, and draped her jade-like arm around his neck again. “When I asked you where the top-grade Origin Divine Crystal was, you hesitated—that proves you’re the thief who stole it. You sly Zhang Ruochen, you deliberately used me to deal with Bai Qinger, didn’t you?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “I am Luo Sha’s fiancé. Being this intimate with me—don’t you think you’re betraying her?”
“What’s the big deal? Xiao Luoluo and I are like sisters; there’s nothing we can’t share. Sisters serving the same husband—maybe it’ll even become a beautiful story in the future. If you don’t want to marry me, I can be your secret lover. Sneaking around—wouldn’t that be more thrilling?” Guye Jing batted her eyelashes, her voice soft and alluring.
Zhang Ruochen remained expressionless. “For the top-grade Origin Divine Crystal, you’d sacrifice anything.”
“Who says it’s just for the top-grade Origin Divine Crystal? An Eon-level genius has the potential to become a king or a venerable after becoming a god. A weak woman like me throwing herself at you is only natural,” Guye Jing said with great seriousness.
“Fine. I, Zhang Ruochen, am no gentleman. A beauty willingly offering herself—what a joy in life. Tonight, I’ll take you.”
With that, Zhang Ruochen began to run his hands over Guye Jing’s curvaceous and voluptuous body.
“Bang!”
The next moment, Guye Jing turned into a red shadow and fled the room like she was escaping, straightening her disheveled robes. She looked back, stomped her foot, and said coldly, “I really don’t know what Luo Sha sees in you. A man as easily tempted as you, no matter how outstanding, I would never look up to.”
Guye Jing turned into a blur, rushed out of the saint mansion, and vanished into the snowy night.
Zhang Ruochen walked out of the room and let out a long laugh. “Weren’t you going to offer yourself? Why leave? I can do without you, but since your injuries are healed, shouldn’t you return the three-tenths of your Sacred Soul you owe me?”
Guye Jing was long gone.
Only the cold wind remained in the snowy night.
Zhang Ruochen curled his lips slightly. That demoness, seemingly seductive to the core, was still too naive in matters between men and women. A little trick, and she revealed her true colors and fled.
As for the three-tenths of Sacred Soul Guye Jing owed, Zhang Ruochen would collect it eventually—there was no rush for now.
“Guye Jing knows the top-grade Origin Divine Crystal is on me but didn’t try to seize it by force. It seems she’s figured out my character—she knows that even if she put a knife to my throat, I wouldn’t compromise.”
“And with a drop of my blood in her hands, she can find me anytime. As long as she follows me, she’ll naturally find the Origin Divine Temple.”
Zhang Ruochen felt a bit of a headache. His plan to use Guye Jing against Bai Qinger had apparently failed.
When it came to playing mind games, women were still more adept.
In the saint mansion, the two Cold Fiend Iron Emperors turned back into stone statues after Guye Jing left.
They were originally puppets Guye Jing had refined using secret techniques from the Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm.
“Huh!”
Zhang Ruochen hadn’t deactivated his Truth Eye and casually glanced at the tallest tower in the saint mansion. His expression changed.
“Show yourself.”
He condensed nine foot-long Space Rifts in his palm, combining them with Time Imprints to unleash unparalleled speed as they flew toward the top of the tower.
A strange bird perched on the tower’s peak.
When it saw Guye Jing rush out of the room, it was startled.
Then, seeing Zhang Ruochen emerge as well, it felt both puzzled and delighted. “The lady was right—following Luo Sha led me straight to Zhang Ruochen.”
It intended to immediately send a message to Bai Qinger, but then thought, since Guye Jing had already left and Zhang Ruochen was only in the Hundred Shackles Realm, it could capture him itself.
Such a great achievement was right before its eyes—why not seize it?
Just as its mind was racing, Zhang Ruochen spotted it, and the nine Space Rifts shot toward it like black lightning.
“So fast.”
The strange bird spread its black wings and shot out like an arrow from a bowstring.
Even so, one Space Rift grazed its left wing, cutting off three feathers.
“Fine, Zhang Ruochen. This old woman will test you today and see what you’re really made of.”
The strange bird exploded midair, turning into a cloud of black mist.
From the mist emerged a white-haired old crone, withered and hunchbacked, yet incredibly fast. In an instant, she was before Zhang Ruochen. Her five fingers curled into a claw, turning golden, with countless rule patterns swirling.
A seemingly ordinary claw strike was actually a Thousand Questions-level Sacred Art.
Venus Split Sky Claw.
As the claw came at him, Zhang Ruochen’s vision filled with starlight and countless illusions.
The claw’s sharp aura cut like sacred blades.
“Whoosh!”
Zhang Ruochen used Spatial Displacement to dodge.
But the sacred robe on his chest was torn, leaving a five-finger mark.
His sternum ached, his internal organs shook, and four bloody lines appeared on his skin.
“Such powerful physical defense! A Thousand Questions-level Sacred Art claw strike couldn’t even break your skin?” Danghu was momentarily stunned, finding it hard to believe.
Even a Supreme Realm Great Saint’s Supreme Dharma Body wouldn’t withstand her claw so easily.
Zhang Ruochen glanced at his chest and activated the Flame God Armor, wearing it. “I recognize you. I saw you in the Jifeng Saint Mansion. Initial stage of the Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm?”
“This old woman has served the Goddess Twelve Pavilions for over eighteen thousand years. My name is Danghu. Brat, if you still have a divine sword’s sword energy, just show it, and I’ll retreat immediately without fighting you,” Danghu said, testing him.
Zhang Ruochen unleashed his Space True Domain, Virtual Time Domain, and Truth Realm Form, deliberately creating confusion. “Dealing with you doesn’t require divine sword energy.”
“Hmph! In the Jifeng Saint Mansion, you wounded Lord Wuma with a single sword strike, but you must have been severely injured too. Your wounds haven’t healed yet, have they? What gives you the confidence to speak so arrogantly?”
Danghu was certain Zhang Ruochen was still gravely wounded. How could he have recovered in just twenty days?
Not knowing if Danghu had already sent word, Zhang Ruochen dared not linger. He took out the Divine Dragon White Bone Whip, pushed this Seven-Yuan Monarch Sacred Artifact to its limit, and lashed out.
In an instant, the sky was filled with dragon soul shadows, as Supreme Power and Divine Dragon Power surged toward Danghu.
“Such a terrifying strike—is Zhang Ruochen really still heavily injured?”
Danghu’s expression shifted slightly, and she immediately unleashed her Dao Domain.
Within the Dao Domain were thousands of birds, with a fiery phoenix circling in the sky, its cloud-sized talons blocking the Divine Dragon White Bone Whip.
“Boom, boom, boom!”
Zhang Ruochen lashed out over a hundred times, shattering the birds in the sky and dimming even the phoenix’s radiance.
“Divine Transformation Claw.”
Danghu charged into the air, merging with the fiery phoenix to unleash a heaven-splitting, earth-cleave claw strike.
This claw contained sixty billion rules—a Ten Thousand Deaths One Life-level Sacred Art.
Unable to borrow the power of the Qiankun Realm, Zhang Ruochen felt immense pressure facing this claw. His opponent was a Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm Great Saint, two realms above him.
“Zhang Ruochen, use whatever tricks you have, or this claw will annihilate both your body and soul,” the fiery phoenix spoke in human tongue.
“Boom!”
The claw struck, shattering all the Great Saint inscriptions and formation inscriptions in the saint mansion below.
The devastating destructive force collapsed every building in the mansion, which the phoenix’s high temperature then melted into molten lava.
The battle’s fluctuations could no longer be contained, spreading across Goddess City.
In the Divine Maiden Tower, Bai Qinger burst out of her room, landing on an observation platform to gaze into the distance. “That’s Danghu’s aura.”
Her form blurred, and the next moment, she vanished from the platform.
“Damn, I missed. How is that possible? I used a Ten Thousand Deaths One Life-level Sacred Art, with sixty billion rules locking onto him. How could a Hundred Shackles Realm Great Saint escape?” Danghu was shocked and baffled.
How could she, a mere cultivator, understand a Space Controller wielding Space Essence?
Zhang Ruochen emerged from the space above the fiery phoenix, his left leg shimmering with a hundred million Flame God patterns. He stomped down with immense force, divine might crashing down with it.
“Bang!”
The fiery phoenix exploded, and Danghu screamed as Zhang Ruochen crushed her into a bloody pulp with a single stomp.
After twenty years of cultivation, Zhang Ruochen could fully harness the power of the Blazing God Leg.
Now, his left leg was a divine leg, brimming with endless divine power. Killing an initial-stage Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm Great Saint required only one stomp.
By the time Bai Qinger arrived, Zhang Ruochen had already left, shifting his form several times to blend into the surging crowd.