Chapter 1757 - Two Shang Ziyans (1/2)
Chapter 1757: Two Shang Ziyans
Boom!
The illusion formation platform, which was a few dozen meters tall, went up in flames, and black smoke billowed from it as it fell down from the clouds.
Xiao Qianji and Yun Bing, the disciples of Phantom Princess[1], plunged from the platform into the endless lake below, creating a giant splash. Immediately after, two patches of blood began to spread in all directions on the lake’s surface.
“The illusion formation has been defeated?”
“How could Phantom Princess not even protect the platform and her own disciples? Don’t forget how powerful her spiritual power and sorcery are!”
“Could something have happened to Phantom Princess ?”
The Saint Kings[2] from the Heavenly Realm[3] became nervous.
Phantom Princess was one of the ten most powerful figures from the Heavenly Realm in the Celestial Domain of Truth[4]. Even the Saint Kings at the scene had to salute her when they saw her.
If even Phantom Princess was defeated, one could imagine how powerful the attacker was.
Today’s battle turned out far more tragic than they had imagined.
It was nothing like Shang Ziyan’s description—they supposedly could wipe out the cultivators of the Kunlun Realm and still incur no casualty. Instead, the continuous accidents that happened got many of them killed.
Even the sons of the deity and emperor who had died on the Battlefield of Merits were not that high in number.
Above the island, Maiden of a Thousand Stars and Red Wish Emissary stood against the wind on a black-gold battles.h.i.+p. They looked heroic and captivatingly beautiful like two G.o.ddesses from heaven.
“Phantom Princess’ escape spells trouble. What a shame!” Maiden of a Thousand Stars sighed.
She had been too confident when she fought Phantom Princess, revealing her true form.
However, Phantom Princess was more powerful than she had imagined. Even though she deployed a talisman that was powerful enough to exterminate the Eight-step Saint King[5], she only managed to destroy the illusion formation platform but not kill Phantom Princess.
Phantom Princess might not have known Maiden of a Thousand Stars, but someone from the Heavenly Realm had seen Maiden of a Thousand Stars’ face.
Now, with Phantom Princess getting away, great troubles awaited Maiden of a Thousand Stars.
Looking at Maiden of Thousand Stars standing farther ahead, Red Wish Emissary could not be more amazed by her spiritual power, which was at Level 58 right then. Her achievements in sorcery had far surpa.s.sed that of Red Wish Emissary.
Even her master, the Phantom Saint, might not be more powerful than her.
What surprised Red Wish Emissary further was how the woman seemed to possess an endless number of precious articles, each of them beyond her reach.
Eight Pearls of Vanity, an illusory Death rune, and the talisman that she finally used, were valued over 100 million saint stones.
Not to mention, there was the out-of-this-world, black-gold battles.h.i.+p under their feet.
Who was she?
Much to Red Wish Emissary’s surprise, Zhang Ruochen had invited the powerful woman with a possible mysterious background. She needed to reexamine her understanding of Zhang Ruochen—she could not offend her at the very least.
If she could befriend Zhang Ruochen, she would have something to fall back on in case the Kunlun Realm was destroyed.
Shang Ziyan could not see Maiden of a Thousand Stars and Red Wish Emissary, but her expression turned grave when she noticed the floating black-gold battles.h.i.+p. It had numerous inscriptions of the Supreme Saints[6] on it, and the battles.h.i.+p looked like a living thing—it breathed and exhaled the Saint Qi of heaven and earth.
A battles.h.i.+p of that nature was uncommon. Its combat strength probably reached the level of a Supreme Saint. Of course, the probability was low because everything of the Supreme-Saint level would be sealed off upon entering the Celestial Domain of Truth.
“Zhang Ruochen, I have helped you defeat the illusion formation. As for saving yourself from Shang Ziyan, you are on your own now!”
After she communicated through telepathy, Maiden of a Thousand Stars flew the black-gold battles.h.i.+p and disappeared into the horizon faster than a Nine-step Saint King.
Since Phantom Princess had fled, Maiden of a Thousand Stars needed to return to make up an alibi. The last thing she wanted was to get in trouble with the behemoth forces from the Heavenly Realm and drag the Thousand-Star Civilization along.
The cultivators all wondered who had defeated the illusion formation. Why would the person leave just like that?
Red Wish Emissary descended behind Zhang Ruochen in a stream of red light. Her s.e.xy lips parted as she wanted to know who Maiden of a Thousand Stars was, but she choked back her words because it was not the right time to ask.
With the illusion formation gone, the actual Xumi Dojo finally revealed itself.
It was very close. Just over twenty miles ahead, there were plenty of temples and towering Buddha towers. The Buddha statue, which stood at one-thousand-feet-tall, was especially impressive.
Soothing singing in Sanskrit was coming from the hall even though there were no monks chanting in there.
“Go to Xumi Dojo,” Zhang Ruochen and Luo Xu ordered almost in unison.
In response, the cultivators of the Kunlun Realm[7] instantly leaped toward Xumi Dojo.
As long as they entered the dojo and activated equality for all beings, they might be able to match the kings of the Heavenly Realm.
The key, however, was to find the previous article that Saint Monk Xumi had left behind.
A fleeting sense of disdain flashed across Shang Ziyan’s eyes. With a wave of his hand, a large group of the Heavenly Realm’s Saint Kings advanced to pursue the cultivators from the Kunlun Realm.
Another brutal battle broke out.
A large swarm of dead souls intercepted those Saint Kings from the Heavenly Realm, and all they could do was watch as the Kunlun Realm’s cultivators approached Xumi Dojo.
“Few cultivators in the Heavenly Realm can attain the same achievement in the Path of Darkness[8] as you do.”
As Shang Ziyan drew his crimson sword and swung it toward the sky, a waterfall-like Sword Way Xuangang descended on Han Qiu, who was standing inside a dark sphere.
Han Qiu sensed the danger and summoned all the available dark forces.
Two intertwining dark air pillars shot out, increasing in intensity as they collided with the Sword Way Xuangang.