God Emperor

This Saint-level battle lasted for an entire night. Shockwaves affected 30,000 miles of the vast land. The ground changed from the battle. Scorched earth was everywhere and the sky was covered in black dust. There was no light.

Only three Hell Blade Field Saints were still holding off. They hadn’t fallen down, but they were heavily injured.

The Absolute Saint who had six arms now only had one arm. He kept waving his sword, cutting a bright arc of light.

The other Absolute Saint had been forced into his original form—a huge red tiger. He was covered in bloody holes. Saintly blood transformed into streaks of blood Qi that kept scattering out.

There was also a True Saint. She was a middle-aged woman who’d been stabbed through the chest and abdomen. She looked tragic. “I will make you die with me!” she roared powerfully.

With a last burst of strength, extreme speed exploded from her. She rushed into an area where a dozen Luosha marquises were gathered.

Her body cracked apart. Beams of blinding light shot out.

“No, she’s going to deactivate her saintly source. Hurry and retreat.”

The Luosha marquises all used their fastest speed and retreated. Like a dozen laser beams, they charged in all directions.

Boom.

A True Saint’s suicide was honestly too destructive. The entire ground caved in.

Half of the dozen Luosha marquises were destroyed completely. Another half fell to the ground, heavily injured and incapacitated.

The eyes of the Absolute Saint with only one arm turned red. “Xue Ji!” he yelled.

All 850-some Saints had died. Only the two Absolute Saints were still alive. This was too tragic.

The third marquis with silver hair and a lion’s face walked out of the evil black mist and sneered. “You two are at a dead end already. Will you deactivate your saintly sources too?”

The two Absolute Saints of Hell Blade Field exchanged glances. Then they activated the remaining bits of power within them to attack the silver-haired Sphinx.

Boom!

The Sphinx took out a metal whip. Shaking his wrist, thousands of runes appeared on the whip. It cracked down on the two Absolute Saints, sending them flying back.

The whip contained terrifying power. It almost shattered the two Absolute Saints.

“Ha.”

The Sphinx scoffed. He was just about to attack and kill them completely, but he suddenly stopped. He lifted his eyes abruptly, looking behind the two Absolute Saints.

He saw a figure dressed in Ten Saints Blood Armor. He was standing above the lake of lava and striding over.

The Sphinx’s eyes darkened. Dark red ghostly flames appeared on the whip. “You finally appeared. I thought you would keep hiding in the shadows.”

“Whether I hide in the darkness or walk to the light, I’m still hunting,” Zhang Ruochen said indifferently. “What difference is there?”

The Sphinx scoffed. “Such big words.”

Whoosh!

Another third marquis hurried over. He flew in the sky, holding a dozen-meter-tall stone pagoda in his right hand. There were more than 10,000 patterns on the pagoda.

The other Luosha marquises approached too. They appeared within 1,000 miles, surrounding Zhang Ruochen and the two Absolute Saints.

Of course, the Luosha marquises didn’t dare to get too close. They worried that the two Absolute Saints would deactivate their saintly sources and kill them all.

Within a distance of 1,000 miles, they could both attack and retreat. They didn’t have to worry about desperate suicides.

Zhang Ruochen’s Spiritual Power enveloped the 1,000-mile area. He checked the amount of Luosha marquis. There were actually more than 170 and each one was filled with battle intent. They could attack him with saintly weapons and spells at any moment.

The third marquis in the air had eyes filled with murderous intent. “Did you already kill Ni Yue and the others?”

“Indeed,” Zhang Ruochen said.

“You should die!”

The third marquis activated the half-complete power of the stone pagoda. It grew bigger until it was 100 meters tall and slammed down.

Before the stone pagoda fell, the ground had already caved in.

Zhang Ruochen could dodge it, but he didn’t. Instead, he pulled out the Abyss Ancient Sword and also activated the half-complete power. He cut upward at the sky.

Kaboom!

The stone pagoda, a Ten-thousand-pattern Saint Weapon, was actually split in half.

Long beams of Sword Qi flew into the sky as if transforming into a heavenly road.

“How is this possible?”

The third marquis’ eyes bugged out. The ancient Nether-pass Stone Pagoda was actually destroyed with one strike. That sacred sword was too terrifying.

Zhang Ruochen flew out from between the two halves of the pagoda. He transformed into a streak of white light and stabbed at the third marquis.

“Sword Seven!”

The sword was 100 times faster than the speed of sound. It was impossible to dodge.

The third marquis’ stone pagoda was already destroyed. He’d lost his defensive weapon. He could only activate all the protective runes on him. More than 20 light shields appeared over his body. They protected him in the center like bronze walls.

Boom, boom.

The light shields kept exploding.

With every shield that shattered, the power from the Abyss Ancient Sword would weaken a bit.

By the time Zhang Ruochen broke through the 20-some light shields, the third marquis was actually able to stop the Abyss Ancient Sword with a print technique formed with all his Holy Qi.

Zhang Ruochen loosened his fingers. Then he formed a palm with both hands and slammed down on the sword hilt.

Boom!

Zhang Ruochen and the Abyss Ancient Sword sent the third marquis flying back.

He flew for a dozen miles and the Abyss Ancient Sword finally stabbed through the marquis’ print technique. It hit his body, penetrating him cleanly.

Poof.

A basin-sized hole appeared in the third marquis’ chest.

“Die!”

Zhang Ruochen formed a huge handprint and hit his head. The third marquis’ body was instantly turned into a pile of bloody mush.

It only took him the span of a breath to kill the third marquis. The other Luosha marquises didn’t even have time to help.

The two Absolute Saints of Hell Blade Field exchanged glances. They could see the shock in each other’s eyes.

He could kill a third marquis in just a few strikes and the marquis couldn’t even escape. Such skills could only be described as “frightening.”

The Sphinx was also shocked. He retreated into the distance while ordering, “Attack together. Use the composite formation to kill him.”

Of the more than 180 Luosha marquises, 81 rushed out and were within 100 miles of Zhang Ruochen.

They stood in 81 different spots and put their hands together before them. Holy Qi poured out of them wildly. They connected into one formation.

The power from 81 marquises combined. The strength was even stronger than a third marquis.

Kunlun’s Field, outside the Yunwu Commandery Palace

Zhang Shaochu stared at the battle in the air and slapped his forehead. “Oh no! Oh no! Ninth Junior Brother is too careless. He actually fell within the Luosha marquises’ combined formation! What will he do?”

The important figures of the Heaven World all shook their heads. They thought that Zhang Ruochen and the two Absolute Saints of the Hell Blade Field definitely couldn’t escape.

“This is the Nine Nine to One Formation formed by 81 Saints. Probably only the Heirs of the seven major worlds can destroy it.”

“Wu Hao, Sword Master Dongliu, White-robed Fang Yi, and Spiritual Flame Demonic Concubine are the only ones able to destroy the Nine Nine to One Formation. Probably not even the old guys from Kunlun’s Field can do it.”

…

Being trapped inside the Nine Nine to One Formation basically meant death. No more than 20 people among the Saints of the seven worlds could defeat it.

But just then, the people discovered with shock that the figure in the Ten Saints Blood Armor actually appeared outside the formation.

“How is that possible? How did he escape from the formation?”

“What the heck? What kind of creature is he?”

“Could he be a Qi spirit cultivator able to pass through formations at will?”

In legends, some special Qi forms could develop a mind and intelligence, forming a human body. These cultivators were known as Qi spirit cultivators.

Of course, they were extremely rare. Sometimes, not even a handful could be born in a major world. Those who could reach the Saint Realm were even rarer.

Only the cultivators of Kunlun’s Field knew that Zhang Ruochen had used a spatial tactic to move outside the Nine Nine to One Formation.

Free from the formation’s restrictions, Zhang Ruochen immediately started killing in return.

Poof, poof.

“No, hurry and dodge… So fast…”

“You…”

Holding the Abyss Ancient Sword, Zhang Ruochen seemed to be cutting down grass. In an instant, he’d killed more than 20 Luosha marquises in the formation.

However, the Luosha marquises also reacted quite quickly. Knowing that the formation was already destroyed, they hurried over to attack.

Unfortunately, not one was able to fend off one of Zhang Ruochen’s strikes. In a few minutes, another 20-some marquises were killed. The other 30-some were heavily injured.

Zhang Ruochen was practically undefeatable. The remaining Luosha marquises all ran for their lives, not daring to fight with him.

“He’s too strong. The wave tactic can’t stop him at all.”

“His cultivation must be at the pinnacle of the Absolute Saint Realm. He’s undefeatable under the Saint King Realm.”

…

With extreme speed, Zhang Ruochen pursued the Luosha marquises and killed seven in a row. Two of the marquises actually deactivated their saintly sources to make Zhang Ruochen die with them.

Zhang Ruochen used the Spatial Twist and moved the destructive power to somewhere else.

Deactivating saintly sources couldn’t threaten them at all.

“Such strong power waves.”

Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen detected a dangerous aura. He stopped killing and opened the Heavenly Eye in his forehead. He looked toward the eastern sky. He saw that the Luosha marquises had actually formed another Nine Nine to One Formation 400 miles away.

Under the full power of 81 marquises, the formation was operating and had sent out a thunder and lightning attack.

It was a dozen-meter-thick lightning bolt. Like a river formed by electricity, it shot at Zhang Ruochen 100 times faster than the speed of sound.

It was too fast. He didn’t have time to activate spatial power at all.

With a loud yell, Zhang Ruochen activated the Hundred Saint Blood Armor. Opening his arms, he moved into a bow stance. He grabbed the Monument Shield and activated all the Holy Qi within him, sending it into the shield. He activated the shield’s complete power.

Fiery thunder kept pouring out of the shield, clashing against the bolt of lightning.