"Huang Shijie, I'm impersonating Lei Gongzi's secret disciple. If it gets out, will it anger Lei Gongzi?" Zhang Ruochen pulled Huang Yanchen aside and asked in a low voice.

  "It shouldn't be."

  "Huang Yanchen said, 'You may not know that the Lord of Lei Pavilion has a high opinion of you. It was he who ordered that you be given the treatment of a top student, with all cultivation resources at your disposal. This matter caused quite a stir within the Inner Palace Academy.'"

  Zhang Ruochen looked puzzled and said: "I have never seen that Lord Lei before, why is he being so considerate of me?"

  Huang Yanchen said: "Lei Gezhong is in charge of the Silver Robe Elder Hall, with a high position and great power. Although he is not a Golden Robe Elder, his strength is stronger than many Golden Robe Elders. He must have seen your potential, so he wants to take you as his disciple. If you can enter his sect, it would be like having a powerful backer. From now on, in the 36 states of Tianmo Ridge, I'm afraid few people would dare to provoke you."

  "Of course, don't get too excited yet. Lord Lei has another sentence: if you can't become one of the top ten students in the Imperial Academy within a year, your treatment as a student will be cancelled."

  "I didn't care anyway." Zhang Ruochen smiled and said, "Getting the treatment of a top student is certainly a good thing. At the same time, it also pushes me to the forefront, making me an object that all students want to challenge."

  Huang Yanchen said, "Perhaps this is the trial set by Lei Ge for you. With your current martial arts cultivation, although it's already very strong, but after all, you're still too young. Compared to the top ten students in the inner palace academy, there's still a significant gap."

  "If you can enter the top ten of the Academy within a year, Lord Lei might even take you as his personal disciple and may even help you get into the Holy Institute in the future."

  "Whatever happens, happens. Cultivating martial arts is one step at a time, I don't know what level I'll reach in a year," Zhang Ruochen said with a smile.

  Chang Chen walked over, staring at Zhang Ruocheng and Huang Yanchen standing shoulder to shoulder, a hint of puzzlement in his eyes. He called out from afar: "Huang Shimei, Chen Shixiong, what are you two discussing?"

  Zhang Ruochen turned around and smiled: "We were discussing the recent situation in Yunwu County."

  Suddenly, Zhang Ruocheng saw the puzzled expression in Chang Qiqi's eyes and immediately understood. He shifted his feet and created some distance between himself and Huang Yanchen.

  It turns out that his current identity is Chen Ruo, the secret disciple of the Silver Robe Elder Hall's master, while Huang Yanchen's identity is Zhang Ruochen's fiancée. With his current identity, getting too close to Huang Yanchen is indeed not quite appropriate.

  He was short and lean, looking only about 1.6 meters tall, with dark skin, thick eyebrows, a high nose bridge, and eyes that seemed to be the size of green beans. On his back was an ancient bronze sword, giving off a sense of compactness and precision.

  His face always wore a smile, saying: "I understand the current situation of Yunwu Prefecture better than you. From a month ago, our Wushu Academy and Wushi Bank joined forces, with the assistance of the official power of Yunwu Prefecture, we defeated the black market and Baiyue Demon Sect's major branches, more than 30 branches were destroyed, and over 10,000 evil Taoist warriors were killed. It can be said that it was a bloody storm."

  "Except for some deeply hidden faction forces, all the other evil people fled towards the royal city."

  "I reckon the final showdown will definitely be in Wang City."

  Zhang Ruo dusted her eyebrows and said, "The Wu City Academy and the Wu City Money House have suppressed them too harshly. The black market and the Baiyue Demon Sect will definitely counterattack. The evil Taoist warriors from various counties and countries around us will definitely rush over. At that time, it's unknown how chaotic the situation will be. It's also unknown whether the army in Wang City can control the situation."

  Chang Qi smiled and said, "We only need to deal with the black market and the Baiyue Demon Sect's evil martial artists. As for the situation in the royal city, it is up to those in power among the royal family to worry about."

  Black Market, Wu Shi Xue Gong, Bai Yue Mo Jiao, even Yun Tai Zong Fu has intervened, the entire Wang City is definitely turned upside down. Even if the royal palace has many masters, it's probably not peaceful either.

  Zhang Ruochen was still a bit worried, after all, there were people he cared about in Wang City.

  "I must rush to Wang City immediately." Zhang Ruochen said.

  As soon as Zhang Ruochen's voice fell, a rustling sound came from the treetops, and a black shadow flashed by at an incredibly fast speed.

  A withered leaf floated down from above.

  "What kind of person"

  Zhang Ruochen's eyes turned sharp, his arm flashed out like lightning, and he pinched the withered leaf with two fingers.

  Ling fire true energy surged out from within his body, enveloping the withered leaves.

  With a flick of his finger, the withered leaves continued to spin in the spiritual fire and flew out, making a loud noise, cutting off the trunk of a large tree as thick as a bowl.

  A black shadow flew out from behind a tree trunk, leaped more than ten meters high, and landed on the branch of another large tree.

  He was wearing a black robe and a mask, with a tall and lean figure, his eyes were like torches, absolutely a master of martial arts.

  "Haha, you're really naive, thinking you can still make it to Wang City," the man in black laughed.

  "Who are you?" Zhang Ruochen asked.

  "The one who killed you." The man in black said coldly.

  Chang Qi rolled her eyes and said, "Cut the nonsense, anyone can talk big. With us three inner palace disciples here, you think you can take us down? Unless you're a legendary warrior at the Tianji boundary, but I don't see you as that kind of strong expert."

  "How about the Imperial Palace scholars over these years? It seems that we, the Black Market, have also killed quite a few of them." The man in black said disdainfully.

  "You are a black market person" Zhang Ruo Chen's eyes slightly raised, showing some doubt.

  Although his face was masked, just by listening to the sound, it could be heard that he was absolutely not over thirty years old. In the black market, when did another young master emerge?

  "That's right." The man in black said loudly.

  Zhang Ruochen continued to ask: "Which force in the black market are you a member of?"

  "You're all going to be dead men anyway, why bother telling you?" The man in black let out a sharp laugh.

  He infused his true energy into his voice, unleashing a sound wave-like martial skill, Da Yin Xuan Xu.

  Under the vibration of the sound wave, the air was like a wave, layer by layer, rushing towards Zhang Ruochen and the other two.

  At the moment when the sound wave started, all flying birds within dozens of meters were killed by the sound wave and fell from the trees.

  "Slap"

  A withered tree beside Zhang Ruochen's body had its trunk split open by sonic waves.

  Even with Zhang Ruochen's current cultivation, under the attack of sound waves, he felt his blood and energy surging throughout his body, and his eardrums ached. The sonic waves in the air were like sharp blades, cutting through the skin and causing pain.

  Huang Yanchen's face turned pale and he kept retreating under the sonic attack, seemingly injured.

  To know that her cultivation has reached the late stage of Di Ji, she still can't block sound waves. If it were a martial artist with a lower boundary of Di Ji, I estimate that they would already be severely injured at this moment.

  On the scene, with the highest martial arts cultivation of Chang Qianqian, he has already reached the extreme realm and is also a two-absolutely talented person, with extremely deep strength, can withstand the sonic attack of the black-clothed man.

  "I'll meet you for a while."

  He charged forward with a loud whoosh, the war knife on his back flying out of its scabbard and into his hand. With both hands grasping the knife, he slashed out a blade of air over ten meters long.

  The sword energy broke through the sound waves and slashed towards the man in black.

  Boom

  The knife energy cut off more than a dozen large trees around, clearing a large area of the mountain forest.

  The black-clad figure sprang up again, like a large black bird, lightly standing on the top of the tree branch, and laughed: "As expected, the 41st ranked master of Wushu Academy, your knife skills are not bad."

  "Ordinarily, a master of the Extreme Boundary Realm can only move at a speed of 120 meters per second. The speed he just burst out with is at least 140 meters per second. This person is not an ordinary one. Huang Shimei, Chen Shidi, you two go first, I'll hold him back." Chang Qi's face was solemn, standing with his sword held horizontally, staring intently at the black-robed man as if facing a great enemy.

  "Let's go first," Zhang Ruochen said.

  Zhang Ruochen also saw very clearly that the black-clothed man's strength was indeed quite powerful, and even if the three of them added up, they might not be his opponent.

  Huang Yanzhen was somewhat worried and said: "Can Brother Chang block that black-clothed man?"

  "Can't stop it."

  "But that black-clothed man was clearly targeting us two, his target wasn't Chang Shixiong."

  "How did you know his target was us?" Huang Yanchen became even more curious, her eyes fixed tightly on Zhang Ruochen.

  "Let's get out of here first."

  Zhang Ruochen turned his head and took a look, the black-clothed man and Chang Qi had already started fighting, and said: "Don't worry about Brother Chang, even if Hua Qingshan can't kill Brother Chang, it shows that Brother Chang's survival skills are absolutely top-notch."

  No longer delayed, Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yanchen simultaneously performed the Wind Dragon Shadow body technique, escaping at the fastest speed. Before long, they had already reached a hundred miles away.

  On the mountain path, only two illusory shadows can be seen, rushing forward rapidly.

  "Zhang Ruochen, what's going on? How did you know that he was coming for us?" Huang Yanchen asked again.

  "He is not an evil martial artist in the black market at all."

  Zhang Ruochen said: "That black-clothed person didn't ask for Brother Chang's name, yet he knew Brother Chang's ranking in the Wushang Academy, don't you think that's very strange?"

  Zhang Ruo Chen reminded him, and Huang Yan Chen also reacted, saying: "It's indeed very strange. It seems that the black-clothed person should have known Chang Shixiong before. Could it be that the black-clothed person is also a student of Wu Shi Xue Gong?"

  "It's not necessarily just the students of Wushi Academy who know Brother Chang."

  Zhang Ruochen said, "In the Tianmo Martial City, there are so many sects. Any disciple from any sect may have seen Chang Shixiong before. Although we can't determine the identity of that black-clothed person for now, since he claimed to be an evil martial artist from the black market, he must have had other purposes and it's not just as simple as wanting to kill three inner palace students from the Martial City Academy."

  Huang Yanchen said: "You and Chang Shixiong's identities are not special, the other party should not come to kill you specially, I guess it is also to deal with me."

  "Maybe"

  The two men rushed forward at high speed, exceeding one hundred meters per second, and didn't dare to stop for a moment.

  When night fell, they had already arrived seven hundred miles away. Only they could have such a fast pace, if it were another martial artist from the extreme regions, I estimate they would have collapsed from exhaustion long ago.

  After nightfall, Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yanchen temporarily stopped rushing on the road and stayed in a dilapidated mountain temple to recover their depleted true energy.

  Zhang Ruochen stood in front of the dilapidated temple gate, gazing out at the dark night sky, his eyes somewhat solemn.

  The air is cold and gloomy, dark clouds cover the sky, as if brewing a huge storm.

  After Huang Yanchen recovered his true energy, he also walked out and looked at Zhang Ruochen's expression, saying: "That black-clothed person shouldn't be able to catch up so quickly. Besides, even if he does catch up, with our strength, we might still have a chance to fight back. Oh right, I forgot, you can't use spatial powers casually."

  Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, "I have a bad premonition, tonight will definitely not be calm, maybe a great enemy will appear. There is a force that is preventing us from returning to the Imperial City, who exactly is it?"

  "Your mental strength is far beyond ordinary people, did you sense something?" Huang Yanchen said.

  She knew some people with strong spiritual power could predict some things that were about to be discovered, and Zhang Ruochen's spiritual power was just as abnormal.