God Emperor - Chapter 829

Chapter 829

Whoosh—

They fell faster and faster .

Zhang Ruochen gritted his teeth and immediately activated the power of the dragon pearl . Golden dragon wings unfurled on his back . He used these wings to decelerate while falling .

The further he fell, the greater the weight Zhang Ruochen had to withstand . Soon, even the dragon wings weren’t very effective .

Plus, the space in the lower part of the abyss was even weaker . Every few meters would have one or two huge spatial cracks . Anyone who fell in would meet definite death .

There were many instances where Zhang Ruochen almost fell into the bottomless void .

“Haha! Zhang Ruochen, let’s die together!”

Feng Han was below Zhang Ruochen . His bloody face was twisted into a menacing laugh .

“Even if we die, you must die before me . ” Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were cold .

The next moment, he cast the Dragon and Elephant Prajna Palm . A dragon and elephant’s roars sounded inside him . Shadows of the animals surged out of his arms . They formed palm prints that kept hitting downward .

Boom, boom .

Seventeen palm prints consecutively landed on Feng Han .

Even with the Hundred Beast Tripod blocking it for him, blood still flowed out of Feng Han’s lips . Dozens of bloody veins appeared on his chest as if it was about to shatter .

Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to attack with his 18th palm, the dark ground appeared behind Feng Han . They were at the end of the abyss .

“Haha! Master, your favorite disciple is going to die as well! He can’t inherit your role . He won’t become a Sword Saint!”

Feng Han laughed even louder . Even if he was going to die here, Zhang Ruochen would accompany him . But under Feng Han’s shocked eyes, Zhang Ruochen took out the Universe Spiritual Map . He opened a spatial door and jumped into the scroll world .

As soon as the spatial door closed, the Universe Spiritual Map landed on the ground .

“No…” Feng Han roared .

He landed on the ground and shattered the hard rock . Of course, his strong Half-Saint body also turned into a mangled mess . Only the silver skeleton remained . It became embedded in the ground .

If it was only an abyss, even the highest heights wouldn’t have been able to kill a Half-Saint . However, the downward force and the Monk’s own gravity put together meant that the Half-Saint’s full power would hit himself when he reached the ground . Even a defensive treasure couldn’t help him .

The next moment, Zhang Ruochen walked out of the scroll world and landed on the ground . He took the Universe Spiritual Map out of the crater and brushed off the dust with his hand .

The scroll was undamaged .

“Unfortunately, I haven’t comprehended spatial rules yet . Otherwise, I wouldn’t have needed the Universe Spiritual Map to save me . ”

Zhang Ruochen put the Universe Spiritual Map back into his Sea of Qi, feeling grateful . No matter what, staying alive was still the luckiest thing .

Zhang Ruochen raised his head, looking up the cliff . He could see that various spatial cracks above him . The cracks opened and closed randomly . They were very unstable .

With his current cultivation, he could only jump 900 feet upward . When he landed, his legs sank into the ground . It was like his body was about to fall apart .

I wonder if Senior Sister Duanmu has returned to the top .

Zhang Ruochen calculated it in his mind . If nothing unexpected happened, it would take months to climb up the cliff . It was also filled with danger and the probability of nothing unexpected happening was too low .

In other words, it was practically impossible for Zhang Ruochen to return to the top with his current cultivation . This would make most people hopeless . But Zhang Ruochen was open-minded . He just shook his head and looked to the ground .

There were dozens of ditches on the ground . Each one had a skeleton in it . Most of them were human skeletons, but there were beastly bones too . Zhang Ruochen could even find broken silver ropes and chains at the edge of some of the ditches .

Evidently, they’d come to find the Pill of Resurrection and god’s corpse as well . They’d wanted to reach the bottom of the abyss, but something had happened, making them fall to their deaths .

What terrifying thing had happened to them? What kind of dangers were there on the cliff?

There were some complete skeletons on the ground . The weakest ones were Monks in the Ninth Change of the Fish-Dragon Realm with the Liuli Treasure Body . Some were even Half-Saints . They had definitely been powerful figures in Kunlun’s Field .

The rumor about the Pill of Resurrection has killed so many people . Who can the mastermind be? No…

Zhang Ruochen suddenly discovered something . He looked to the ditch again .

How come they’re all skeletons? Where is their flesh? Are there living creatures here?

Zhang Ruochen put up his guard . He cast both his Space Domain and Spiritual Power, just in case .

At that moment, he felt a pair of eyes staring at him through the darkness .

“Who is it?”

Zhang Ruochen pointed . A sword ripple burst from his finger like a pillar of fire, shooting into the direction of the eyes he felt . But as soon as the sword ripple burst out, it was shattered by the fragile space .

Zhang Ruochen had to collect his power and retreat hurriedly . Then he pursued even more quickly and disappeared into the darkness .

Not too long later, the ghostly fog above the abyss shook . A huge shadow of a phoenix descended . A few hundred feet from the ground, it transformed into a beautiful figure—it was Mu Lingxi’s delicate frame .

The beautiful phoenix wings disintegrated into bits of light and flew into her back .

Mu Lingxi first looked around . She walked to the edge of a crater and saw that it was filled with blood and mangled flesh . The blood hadn’t dried yet . It radiated with slight heat .

Her legs wobbled and she fell to her knees . Mu Lingxi felt pain in her chest as if knives were turning inside her heart .

“Why…why…why do I have to experience this…pain twice… . ” she sobbed .

Mu Lingxi pressed her hands onto the ground, her fingers digging into the rocks . She pressed her porcelain face, streaked with tears, against the dirt . The horrible sadness surged within her .

This pain made her want to die .

If she’d known this would happen, she wouldn’t have done something as stupid as jumping off the cliff . If Zhang Ruochen didn’t try to save her, he wouldn’t have died with Feng Han .

“It’s all my fault…it’s me… I killed you…I’m sorry…”

Entirely in a mess, Mu Lingxi sprawled out on the ground . Tears flowed out of her eyes and she gasped for breath . Her eyes grew dull . “Since you’ve died, my life has no more meaning . ”

She pushed off the ground and sat up . Taking out the Abyss Ancient Sword, she was about to stab herself . But when she raised her head, she saw a handsome figure across from the ditch . He was staring at her curiously .

It was none other than Zhang Ruchen .

Mu Lingxi froze as if fossilized . The sword stopped abruptly in the air .

Pursing his lips, Zhang Ruochen asked, “Senior Sister Duanmu, what are you doing?”

Fat drops of tears rolled out of Mu Lingxi’s eyes . She tossed down the Abyss Ancient Sword and rushed forward, throwing herself into Zhang Ruochen’s arms .

Zhang Ruochen looked at the Abyss Ancient Sword and then at the bloody dirt . He guessed what had happened; complicated feelings arose inside him .

He closed his eyes and lowered his head slightly . Breathing in at Mu Lingxi’s neck, he reached out and hugged her tightly . Mu Lingxi abruptly raised her head . Her soft lips pressed against Zhang Ruochen’s .

After a long kiss, they separated . Mu Lingxi breathed heavily and clenched her fists . Pounding against Zhang Ruochen’s chest with her soft hands, she asked pitifully, “Where did you go? I thought…”

“I ran into something strange, so I went to investigate, but it was too fast . I couldn’t catch it . ” Zhang Ruochen caressed Mu Lingxi’s cheeks and sighed . “Don’t do anything stupid again . If I had come back a bit later…I can’t imagine what would have happened . ”

“Okay . ” Mu Lingxi batted her lashes and giggled . “I won’t do anything stupid as long as you’re alive . ”

Zhang Ruochen made a soft sound as he stared at the point between Mu Lingxi’s eyebrows . There was a blood-red mark of a phoenix . It was small, but it was extremely vibrant and surged with saintly energy waves .

It was only a mark, but it seemed that it could come to life at any moment .

Mu Lingxi must have felt something too . She touched the spot and thought about how she’d suddenly turned into a phoenix earlier .

She immediately took her Spiritual Energy back into her and started investigating .

Holy Qi had formed a phoenix shape inside her Sea of Qi . It flapped its wings as if it was alive and made low sounds .

“Did I activate the Phoenix bloodline within me?”

Mu Lingxi didn’t know everything that had happened . Thankfully, she could use the meridian map of the Vast Universe Gong and control the movement of her Holy Qi .

Whoosh—

A pair of icy wings rushed out of her . The wingspan was more than ten meters long and the feathers were beautiful, shining with many colors . The rule of wind, speed, ice… hundreds of Rules of Saintly Way flowed through the two wings .

Mu Lingxi seemed extremely divine . Her porcelain-like skin shone with faint saintly light . It was as if she was a phoenix goddess that could fly into the sky at any moment and disappear .

Her phoenix wings were real; they weren’t illusory things made of Holy Qi .

Zhang Ruochen couldn’t believe this . “Is the Mu Family a Phoenix-Human Clan?”