Chapter 1221 - Death by Trial (1/2)
Chapter 1221: Death by Trial
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
Both Zhang Ruochen and the Death Knight wore Ten Saints Blood Armor, fighting each other, trembling the air around them and shaking the earth.
The Death Knight was way more powerful than Zhang Ruochen. After nine exchanges, he knocked Zhang Ruochen away.
Just as the Death Knight rushed forward to kill Zhang Ruochen, the seventy-seventh trial lightning hit both him and Zhang Ruochen.
The trial lightning was very fierce. Even the Death Knight was knocked down.
Zhang Ruochen took a long breath and rushed out of the mud, carrying the Abyss Ancient Sword and triggering thousand-patterns destruction, slas.h.i.+ng downwards.
Hong Long.
The Death Knight reached out his iron fist to ward off the attack from Abyss Ancient Sword.
They started to fight each other again.
Trial lightning kept hitting, seventy-eighth, seventy-ninth, eightieth.
Each lightning strike would force the Death Knight and Zhang Ruochen to the ground.
They were more and more wounded and spat blood, and their attacks became slower and milder.
The Death Knight had been severely injured before coming to Taiyin Ancient City, and after the lightning, he was even more so.
Originally, it was easy for him to kill a saint at Xuanhuang realm, but now, he couldn’t even defend himself against an upper-cla.s.s saint.
The eighty-first lightning was about to fall. The Death Knight put back his spear without hesitation and ran away.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t chase him as he was more wounded than the Death Knight. He had been powering through with his will.
Hong Long.
The trial cloud kept spinning, and then, the eighty-first trial lightning hit the head of Zhang Ruochen like a spear.
The ground under Zhang Ruochen’s feet immediately caved, leading to an abyss.
The temperature from the lightning melted all the rocks, forming crimson lava. There were electric inscriptions flowing in the lava.
The life or death trial was finished?
The trial clouds dissolved, and the stars and the moon showed themselves, giving out mild light.
The forces of sky and land were completely gone.
The human monks in Taiyin Ancient City were all relieved.
“Finally, it’s finished. Did Zhang Ruochen pa.s.s the third pre-saint trial?”
“Difficult to tell. Even the Death Knight fled at the last moment. Zhang Ruochen was just as injured. How can he still be alive?”
…
Qing Feng Saint flew to beside the abyss, releasing his mind power to investigate.
He didn’t detect any life forces.
“Zhang Ruochen failed to pa.s.s the life or death trial. He’s been killed by the trial lightning,” Qing Feng Saint concluded.
All the monks in Taiyin Ancient City sighed.
Some of the young monks who idolized Zhang Ruochen were in sorrow as they didn’t think Zhang Ruochen deserved this.
“Zhang Ruochen has unrivalled talents, and he’s able to kill an upper-cla.s.s saint. How could he fail the life or death trial?”
“The more potential someone has, the fiercer the life or death trial is. It’s normal for him to be killed by trial lightings.”
“Many talents in history were killed by life or death trials.” Many monks sighed.
Some of the monks spread the news using signal flares.
Both the news that ‘Zhang Ruochen is Gu Linfeng’ and the news of Zhang Ruochen’s death would lead to a sensation in Kunlun’s Field.
The Death Knight and Ya She Saint didn’t go far. They also paid attention to Zhang Ruochen’s life.
Ya She Saint’s mind power spread across the sky above Taiyin Ancient City. He didn’t detect the forces of Zhang Ruochen. He then retracted his mind power, smiled and said, “Zhang Ruochen must’ve been killed already. We’ve finished our job.”
“Zhang Ruochen’s dead?” the Death Knight asked.
“Even Qing Feng Saint from Yin and Yang Sect has confirmed this. This should be correct,” Ya She Saint said.
The Death Knight shook his head and said, “Doesn’t make sense. Even if Zhang Ruochen was annihilated by the trial lightning, his Abyss Sword and Ten Saints Blood Armor should still be there.”
Ya She Saint’s smile froze and he nodded. “You’re right.”
“Zhang Ruochen must be alive. That Qing Feng Saint from Yin and Yang Sect must be covering for him. He wants to seize this chance to get away and hide Zhang Ruochen somewhere,” the Death Knight said.