Chapter 2075: The Seven Top Killers

After a quick battle, the sea calmed down, and the black fog that had dissipated earlier returned.

The ancient ship of the dead souls that suddenly appeared earlier had changed its direction and vanished into the thick black fog.

“Huh? You heard of Zhang Ruochen? I thought you knew nothing,” said Blackie in a strange tone of voice.

The looks in the eyes of the lady in a purple dress kept changing as she carefully studied Zhang Ruochen. It was only after a while that her expression was back to normality. “The situation in the Yin Yang Sea is complicated now. Let me first take you to see Princess Shenlong.”

“Princess Shenlong?”

The lady in purple no longer despised Zhang Ruochen as much as before. After all, those who possessed combat strength like Zhang Ruochen after ancient times must be exceptional figures. Now she was more patient. “Princess Shenlong is the princess of the Divine Dragon Halfling. She found favor with a big shot, who then taught her. Now, she has recovered her Divine Dragon bloodline, and her Divine Dragon body has fully developed.”

“I can’t believe that Ao Xinyan has become Princess Shenlong. I knew she was going to be somebody.” Blackie shot a smug look at Zhang Ruochen.

The Heaven-devourer Dragon appeared on the battleship, pleading as he stared at Zhang Ruochen. “All the dragons of Mount Zulong are captured and taken to True Dragon Island by the Netherkin and Bone Clan cultivators. Please help them.”

For the sake of his clan, he swallowed his pride and asked for help from his former enemy.

The other dragon kings also looked at Zhang Ruochen with a pleading look in their eyes. Since things had come to such a pass, Zhang Ruochen was the only person who could help them.

Zhang Ruochen’s eyes swept across the dragon kings of Mount Zulong and finally stopped on the Heaven-devourer Dragon. It really surprised him that the Heaven-devourer Dragon would ask him for help.

“True Dragon Island is a forbidden place in the Yin Yang Sea and the ancestral land of the Divine Dragons. It is not easy to invade. They could get themselves killed if they are not careful. So why do the Netherkin and Bone Clan cultivators want to take such a risk?” Zhang Ruochen looked puzzled.

The Heaven-devourer Dragon pondered for a while and then shook his head. “I don’t know. But I heard a Netherkin cultivator mention something: The Key to the World Gate, which seems to be their purpose of attacking True Dragon Island.”

“The Key to the World Gate? What is that exactly?” Zhang Ruochen was even more puzzled now.

Blackie’s face changed drastically. “How is it possible? How could the Key to the World Gate be on True Dragon Island? Shit! This is not good. My God! I didn’t know that the Infernal Court is after this thing. Zhang Ruochen, we will have to do something, and must never let them get the Key to the World Gate.”

“Huh? Why is that?” Zhang Ruochen had a curious look on his face.

As far as he remembered, Blackie rarely had such a serious look on its face. It seemed the Key to the World Gate was not that simple.

“Don’t ask for now. Let us go to True Dragon Island first,” said Blackie in a hurried tone of voice.

The lady in purple must have sensed something with her mighty spiritual power, her expression solemn. “The Netherkin cultivators are here.”

While speaking, her body vanished into the black fog. With the help of the Three-leaf Nine-life Flower, she made her body transparent to blend in with the seawater.

“She hid pretty fast.”

Blackie glanced with disdain at the spot where the lady in purple was hiding. She had the nerve to claim as a powerful being of ancient times when she hid at the first instance of danger. That made no sense at all.

The lady in purple ignored Blackie and concealed her energy so that the Infernal Court cultivators could not notice her.

Zhang Ruochen was now at his acme as a non-Supreme Saint cultivator. He had self-esteem, and so he did not flee. He was looking up ahead to the front of the battleship.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Three bursts of air sounded in succession.

The dimension shook violently as a strong dark force and curse energy spread in the air, the sky dim in an instant.

A powerful dark force emerged and almost covered the entire Ying Yang Sea in it, as if the source of darkness was opened.

“That’s a powerful energy release. It is stronger than those released earlier by the hundreds of Saint Kings from the Infernal Court combined.” Zhang Ruochen muttered softly with a cautious expression.

Three figures slowly appeared from the dark clouds. They were in different shapes, but all of them were wrapped in pure dark energy, as if they were three great demons.

The intense energy release from their bodies was so powerful that it turned the surrounding world into a whirlpool.

“Huh? It is you, Zhang Ruochen.” The person who spoke was the Infernal Court cultivator standing on the left.

He had a hideous face, with one eye, and a large mouth. Scales covered his head that had two soft tentacles.

The most striking thing was that he had four muscular arms with bulging muscles, as if four horned dragons.

His name was Night Sorrow.

Zhang Ruochen was well known throughout the Celestial Court and Infernal Court. Any well-informed cultivators surely knew who he was.

The stronger a cultivator, the more concerned the cultivator about Zhang Ruochen.

Zhang Ruochen was doing nothing but studying the three powerful beings right now.

The three cultivators in front of him were obviously from the Nether Clan. The tens of millions of Precepts appearing like spider web on their bodies were plain to see.

The one in the middle was relatively skinny. He had a sharp nose that looked like an eagle’s beak, a pair of eyes that were as sharp as eagle’s eyes, and a pair of black wings on his back that possessed a powerful dark energy.

He had no name. But every cultivator in the Infernal Court and the Celestial Court called him Never Die.

The one on the right was a woman. She was tall with attractive body curves and a pretty face; she was nearly perfect. Unfortunately, her expression was always icy, without a shred of emotion.

The most striking feature of her was the long scorpion tail on her back. The tail appeared dark gold with gleaming curse marks. People would shiver in fear by just looking at it.

Stung by her scorpion tail was the most horrible thing to happen to anyone.

She had no name, either. But people called her Bloody Ripples.

“I can’t believe that three of the Seven Top Killers from the Nether Clan are here: Night Sorrow, Never Die, and Bloody Ripples.”

There was finally a subtle change in Zhang Ruochen’s expression when he could see the three persons clearly.

As one of the three upper races in the Infernal Court, the Nether Clan produced many geniuses and powerful beings.

There were seven sub-Supreme Saint cultivators from the Nether Clan. They could definitely strike fear in the hearts of the cultivators in the Celestial Court. These seven powerful beings were known as the Seven Top Killers of the Nether Clan. They were Path’s Anterior cultivators, and each of them had defeated, or even killed, at least one Neverwither Supreme Saint previously.

More importantly, they were good at fighting as a team. They formed a Seven Killer formation, and together, they were invincible. Even Yan Wushen, who was known as the number one cultivator in the Infernal Court, would probably have to keep himself out of their way.

The Seven Top Killers operated in a team. Since Night Sorrow, Never Die, and Bloody Ripples were here, it meant that the other Four Top Killers had also come to the Ying Yang Sea.

“What the hell is the Key to the World Gate? Why are the Seven Top Killers of the Nether Clan here? Are the Three Emperors and Twelve Reverends of the Bone Clan here, too?” asked Zhang Ruochen through telepathy.

Blackie hemmed softly. “Like I said, that thing is of great importance. It is possible that the Nether Clan and Bone Clan have come all out to get it.”

The Heaven-devourer Dragon and several dragon kings trembled in fear when they sensed the powerful aura of the three powerful beings from the Infernal Court. The difference in strength between them was huge. The three powerful beings could kill them with the wink of an eye.

“Zhang Ruochen, since you have come here on your own, you can’t blame anyone but yourself.” Never Die, who had four arms, smirked.

While he spoke, four sabers glowing with cold light flew out of him. He gripped each saber with one hand.

These four war sabers were unusual. They were regal weapons, extremely sharp—so much so that

“Four-Season Sabers! Four sabers denote four seasons, and all four seasons represent death.”

As Never Die swung the four sabers in his hands, dark energy surged and poured in, activating the regal-class inscriptions in the sabers and the swords to appear in the surrounding air.

The four seasons of spring, summer, fall, and winter were like four big worlds floating around him.

Spring was full of vitality and blooming flowers.

In summer, the sun was blazing and melting the glaciers.

In fall, yellow leaves covered the mountains, everything withering.

In winter, snow and ice covered the world.

The four big worlds were all formed by the Precepts that Never Die had cultivated. They represented his attainment of the Path.

“Impressive! Never Die’s Path not only represents destruction and death but also symbolizes the power of life. Judging from this, his comprehension of life and death must have reached a very high realm, and is no lesser than Supreme Sainthood,” said Zhang Ruochen to himself.

Four sabers glinting with light struck out, each overlapping with the world’s shadow, its sharp edge seemingly capable of destroying a world and slaying all living beings.

Faced with a powerful opponent like Zhang Ruochen, Never Die was on a full-on attack.

Not wanting to underestimate his opponent, Zhang Ruochen willed the Ancient Abyssal Blade out of the Divine Light Sea of Qi and grabbed it with his hand.

The Ancient Abyssal Blade swung across the air in an amazing path with an absolutely sharp edge.

Where the sharp edge slit past, a long stretch of fissure formed in the dimension, from where a violent dimensional force escaped.

Woom!

The sharp edge instantly obliterated the shadows of the four worlds. It had become weaker, but its momentum remained as it struck toward Never Die.

After twenty-four years of closed-door cultivation, Zhang Ruochen’s attainments in sword’s path have improved. He wielded the long sword in his hand as if he was a sword god. Each move was unbeatable.

He combined his sword moves with Power of Dimensions to produce an even more powerful strike.

Besides, the Ancient Abyssal Blade had absorbed and refined many sacred artifacts in the past twenty-four years. It had reached the limit of Thousand-Inscription Sacred Artifacts with 129,599 inscriptions. It only needed one more inscription to become a regal weapon.

Of course, this was not a simple task. It needed to go through the baptism of tribulations, so that the inscriptions would be transformed.

If it passed the tribulation, it would become a regal weapon. If it failed, it would be destroyed.

Even the best weapon smith would find it difficult to forge a regal weapon.

The top regal weapons were something that even Supreme Saints coveted.

Zhang Ruochen had no intention of letting the Ancient Abyssal Blade to undergo the tribulation. Not that he was worried. He just wanted the Ancient Abyssal Blade to lay a better foundation for better future growth.

With the existing order of the Ancient Abyssal Blade and the boost from the Violet Godstone, it was no less powerful than an ordinary regal weapon.

Clunk!

Never Die wielded his saber and blocked the approaching attack with ease.

“A man who can be a god must not be underestimated. It’s no wonder that so many powerful beings have fallen at your hands.” Never Die sneered and his face turned stern. “Second and Seventh Brothers, let’s take him down.”

Night Sorrow and Bloody Ripples immediately struck.

The Seven Top Killers had once received an important inheritance from the Nether Temple. Each of them got one seventh of the inheritance. It was said that by making good use of this inheritance, they could become immortals together.

Since then, they worked as a team and created the unbeatable Seven Killer Formation.

There were only three of them here. But their combined combat strength was still formidable.

A long spear that was as dark as ink appeared in the hands of Night Sorrow. It had golden patterns engraved on the body, gleaming as if it had vitality.

Meanwhile, blood-red ripples were spreading into hundreds of miles from Bloody Ripples.

The strength of the three powerful beings rose. A Nether Lotus Flower with three petals appeared among them. It was this Nether Lotus Flower that combined the powers of the three, so that these three powers resonated and became one.

“Zhang Ruochen, something is wrong!” Blackie’s expression was grave.

But Zhang Ruochen was fearless. “This is a great opportunity. Let me see what the legendary Seven Top Killers have got.”

Night Sorrow flapped his wings and rapidly flew toward Zhang Ruochen. At the same time, he struck out the long spear in his hand like a bolt of lightning. Before the spear arrived, an all-destroying force had locked on Zhang Ruochen.

“Eat this!” Never Die shouted as he threw out his war saber.

Shhtaab!

The spear and the war saber pierced through Zhang Ruochen’s body in tandem.

But the next moment, Zhang Ruochen vanished, leaving only an afterimage behind.

He reappeared a hundred yards away and aimed his attack at Bloody Ripples.

Battling three of the Seven Top killers was putting a tremendous pressure on Zhang Ruochen. The best way was undoubtedly to drop one of them first.

“You could still perform a Dimensional Shift in the Ying Yang Sea. No wonder you have the guts to fight us.”

Bloody Ripples looked nonchalant. There was not the slightest fear on her face despite seeing Zhang Ruochen coming for her.

An enormous amount of poisonous mist was released from her slender body and drifted toward Zhang Ruochen. Her skin was fair as ice and jade, yet it was poisonous to the saints and fatal to any man.

The poisonous mist gushing out of Bloody Ripples’s body was so horrible that even the dimension was being corroded and became unstable.

Zhang Ruochen frowned, and his movement froze for a while.

It was during that moment of hesitation that Blood Ripples’s scorpion tail flicked across the void in a beautiful arc, slashing at Zhang Ruochen’s neck. It moved so quickly that it arrived almost instantaneously.

…

About fifty thousand miles from here, a ship was sailing on the Ying Yang Sea. This ship was so massive that if a person were to stand at the bow, that person would not see the stern.

The three iron-cloth divine sails on the ship were nearly 10,000 meters long and looked like three ancient mountains from a distance.

A woman in white clothes with bright eyes and white teeth, dressed in men’s clothing, holding a folding fan, was sitting on the bow of the ship. In front of her was a variety of fine wines and exquisite wine glasses.

Despite being in men’s attire, she still wore makeup. Her slender eyebrows, curvy eyelashes, and rosy lips were indescribably alluring.

She was guarded by a group of elders from the Thousand-Star Civilization.

The ship was filled with Saint-King cultivators of the Thousand-Star Civilization. It was a gathering of the aces. Of course, it was precisely because of the many powerful beings here that the Maiden of a Thousand Stars was still so calm when they entered the dangerous Yin Yang Sea.

Suddenly, there was a burst of powerful energy in the distance. Those cultivators might not have sensed it, but not Maiden of a Thousand Stars. She raised her eyebrows as she looked towards where the burst of energy came from with her Divine Eye of Origin.

There was a look of astonishment on her face, as if she had seen things from tens of thousands of miles away. “When such a major event happened, I told you Zhang Ruochen would surely come to the Ying Yang See. Now you believe me, don’t you?”

Opposite Maiden of a Thousand Stars were three guys and one girl, all of whom had amazing backgrounds.

The three guys were tianzis from three ancient civilizations, respectively. The girl was Fairy Linglong, one of the beauties on the Portrait of the Nine Beauties, a dragon girl from the Celestial Dragon Realm, which was one of the top ten realms in the Celestial Court.

One Tianzi with long golden hair with an extremely good look was looking at the direction of the energy burst. A golden sun mark appeared on his brow, illuminating the sea into sparkling gold.

He was the tianzi of the Sunshine Civilization. He shook his head and smiled after seeing the battle tens of thousands of miles away. “Zhang Ruochen should not have come to the Yin Yang Sea”

“What is that?” asked someone.

“He could have still lived for a little longer had he not come. At least, the two heaven-defying guys in the Heavenly Realm could not come to kill him just yet. But the Seven Top Killers of the Nether Clan will not let him live. This young god of war from the Kunlun Realm will probably die on the Ying Yang Sea,” said Sunshine tianzi.