Chapter 1889 - First Encounter with Lord Ming (1/2)
Zhang Ruochen was a highly capable sword cultivator who had a special connection with swords that gave him the ability to sense the intensity of the sword path emitted by the six swords.
The sword path radiation revealed that they were of top-grade, definitely above Ten-Radiance Thousand-Inscription sacred artifact.
Looking into the distance, Zhang Ruochen saw a blood coc.o.o.n under the six sacred swords.
The coc.o.o.n was about 100 feet in diameter, made up of blood-red striations.
The blood-red striations descended and spread on the ground, dyeing tens of miles of land red.
The face of a man suddenly poked out from the blood coc.o.o.n. His hair was unkempt and he let out an evil smile at Zhang Ruochen.
“What is that?”
Zhang Ruochen felt a pain in his eyes, his body shuddering, followed by a sense of lightheadedness.
Before coming, Bao Lie had warned Zhang Ruochen that Lord Ming’s spiritual and soul powers were leaking, spreading as far as five hundred miles away, affecting cultivators to some extent. The cause of the leak was unknown; probably it was because of the loosening of the seal of the six sacred swords, or Lord Ming was growing stronger.
Right now, Zhang Ruochen and Bao Lie were about five hundred miles from Lord Ming, which should be a safe distance.
Zhang Ruochen knew that Lord Ming’s mind power would attack him and immediately gathered the spiritual power from his saint heart to form a defense perimeter.
“Zhang Ruochen, you are the son of Blood Empress, one of the Immortal Vampires. Why are you so afraid of me and resenting me? It is unbecoming of you!”
A good-looking figure appeared in front of Zhang Ruochen at the sound of the voice speaking.
The figure wore a glinting blood armor, having long arms, sharp facial features, his eyes bright. He was emanating an otherworldly air, unlike a blood-thirsty demon but more like a fairy on earth.
Hearing what might sound like sand flowing, Zhang Ruochen looked over at Bao Lie beside him and saw his body disappearing like quicksand.
In this barren heaven and earth, he and the stalwart man opposite were the only souls left.
“Who are you, and how do you know that I am the son of Blood Empress?”
Zhang Ruochen summoned the Azuresky PaG.o.da, carrying it in his right hand as he tried to trigger the Supreme Power. But his saint Qi seemed to have frozen inside his body; he could not use it, and this horrified him.
“If according to how the cultivators in the Kunlun Realm address me, you should call me Lord Ming.”
“How could it be, Lord Ming?”
Zhang Ruochen looked toward the mountain of swords formed by the six sacred swords. It had collapsed, the six sacred swords broken, and heaven and heart shattered.
Lord Ming looked at Zhang Ruochen with a smile. “Since I can read your mind, so I know that you are my young sister’s descendant. In fact, you should call me uncle.”
“You could read my mind? But I am not even sure if Blood Empress is my mother. Hold on a second. What did you just say? You are the elder brother of the Blood Empress?”
Zhang Ruochen could not calm himself down.
There had never been a record in the cla.s.sic literature and doc.u.ments about the relations.h.i.+p between Lord Ming and Blood Empress, who were ten thousand years apart in age. How could they be brother and sister?
There was an unquestionable look in Lord Ming’s eyes as he nodded lightly. “At my level of cultivation, there is no reason for me to lie to a junior like you.”
Lord Ming continued. “I could see what you have been through all these years. That G.o.d from the Kunlun Realm had killed you. You were forced to leave the Kunlun Realm in exile. There is bad blood between you two, yet you don’t have the ability to seek revenge.
“As long as you call me Uncle, I can help you kill her or emasculate her cultivation so you can deal with her however you want it.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed as he shook his head. “It is between her and me. I don’t need anyone to intervene. It is my business alone, even if I want to kill her. How could I ask a demon of the Immortal Vampires like you to do that? You are just trying to delude me, but you have got the wrong person.”
Lord Ming looked at him with a smile, as if he had seen through Zhang Ruochen. “You say the Immortal Vampires are demons, but deep down, you hate and are disappointed with the Celestial Court even more.
“If so, why don’t you join the Infernal Court to become one of the Immortal Vampires? You would not have to hold yourself back anymore. Instead, you can kill as many enemies from the Celestial Court as you wish, drink their blood, and make them your slaves. Isn’t that awesome?
“There is nothing for you to look forward to in the Kunlun Realm, Zhang Ruochen. Follow me to the Infernal Court, where you can get the highest right and power.
“If you want revenge against Empress Chi Yao, I can help you. Even the whole of Immortal Vampires can help you.”
Zhang Ruochen stared at Lord Ming in front of him with a cold expression. “The Celestial Court might have disappointed me and I want revenge against Chi Yao, but these are not my soft spots. You have underestimated me by trying to use them to attack my will.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes suddenly looked penetratingly sharp. He gathered his strength in his fingers to carry the Azuresky PaG.o.da as he lunged at Lord Ming at a steady pace.
Yet Lord Ming just smiled and nonchalantly stood on the spot. “You can’t hurt me with your current level of cultivation. Why bring destruction to yourself? You should know that I have my prestige, and I will not allow any cultivators to violate that.”
Speaking of which, Lord Ming’s smile faded and replaced by a frosty expression, an above-all, hegemonic aura.
At the same time, Lord Ming’s body was growing larger and large, the sky above him turning blood-red, the land under his feet breaking apart.
Facing the power of the Path emanating from Lord Ming, all living things except the Supreme Saints would quake in their boots.
But Zhang Ruochen gritted his teeth and launched himself into the air before smas.h.i.+ng down the Azuresky PaG.o.da at Lord Ming.
Lord Ming reached out a gigantic hand and struck at Zhang Ruochen as if he was just an ant.
When even Zhang Ruochen thought that he would surely die, he penetrated Lord Ming’s hand and hit Lord Ming with the Azuresky PaG.o.da, crus.h.i.+ng his body into pieces.