No matter how chaotic the outside world was, it was quiet in the valley deep in Royal Mountain. Everyone was imrsed in self-cultivation. After all, in the world of cultivation, strength was the key to survival.
Swoosh!
Zhang Ruochen suddenly opened his eyes. Pure white flas rose from his body.
After refining the King Grade Sacred Pill and top-class Pyro divine object, Zhang Ruochen finally upgraded his Divine Purification Fla, advancing it to Emperor-level fla from Envoy-level fla.
The Emperor-level fla was fundantally different from the Envoy-level fla. Its power was incomparable. It could even refine a regal weapon.
The millions of Precepts of Divinity in Yanshen’s Leg had all been refined. The divine energy was terrifying.
Apart from that, Zhang Ruochen had also refined all five top-tier Five-elent Divine Objects into his body. He had practiced Five-elent Chaotic Body to the extre. Other than the weakest organs and brain, his body had almost completely beco immortal.
He just needed a little more ti to forge an immortal saint body and breakthrough to the Neverwither Supre Sainthood.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen could not do that now. The higher achievent he was within his Saint Kinghood, the stronger he would be when he stepped in Supre Sainthood. Zhang Ruochen followed his goal to maximize his cultivation attainnt for every aspect, including his cultivation of Precepts and forging of immortal saint body within his Saint Kinghood.
“The transformation of Divine Purification Fla is indeed not easy to acheive. Even with the help of King Grade Sacred Pill and the top-tier Pyro divine object, it still took 28 years. Fortunately, I gained enough Godstones on True Dragon Island. Otherwise, I might have to give up halfway,” Zhang Ruochen sighed.
According to his initial plan, he had thought that it would only take him about 10 years to upgrade the level of Divine Purification Fla to Emperor level. Never had he expected that it would take him nearly three tis the ti originally envisioned.
After retracting Divine Purification Fla into his body, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t help but whisper, “Unfortunately, I still haven’t succeeded in forming the Realm-fra of Truth. I’m still a little lacking. Without the secret techniques from Fane of Truth, it’s really difficult to achieve it.”
Over the years, the number of Precepts of Truth in Zhang Ruochen’s body had increased to 680,000. He still needed 200,000 more Precepts of Truth to enable tenfold amplification of attack power. However, if he failed to form the Realm-fra of Truth, tenfold amplification was not possible even if the number of his Precepts of Truth t the requirent.
The total number of Precepts one could practice in the Saint King realm was one million. The further one went, the harder the cultivation was.
And because of that, even if Zhang Ruochen was holding 0.0039 percent of Canon of Truth, his speed of cultivating Precepts of truth was far slower than before.
With the aid from all kinds of rare items and the effect of the key of the World Gate, Zhang Ruochen’s Precepts had increased by 15 million, totaling 60 million.
Among them, the total of the Precepts of Dinsion and Ti had reached 610,000 and 570,000 respectively; the Precepts of Swordsmanship had increased to 880,000; as for the Precepts of the Palm and Fist, they had increased to 790,000 and 770,000 respectively.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current strength, he should be able to defeat Supre Saint Jinhui without resorting to the power of Ti and Space.
Zhang Ruochen glanced over everybody and nodded in amazent.
As a result of 28-year cultivation and the ample resources he supplied, there was a great improvent in their cultivation base, especially Mastadon-Devouring Rabbit and Demon Ape. Both had reached the Path’s Anterior realm. With their current strength, they could be regarded as elites in any macroworlds.
In this period, Blackie had also finished setting up the array. It turned the valley into an ideal place for self-cultivation. At the sa ti, it could ensure the safety of the key to the world gate.
Zhang Ruochen did not interrupt their training session. He put away Sundial and left the valley alone.
He only had seven Godstones left. Instead of using them, he would keep them for now, thinking that they could serve other purposes.
A streak of blue holy light flew out of Zhang Ruochen’s sleeve. It then transford into a hundred-mile-long blue dragon, emitting a vast dragon aura.
It was the Azure Dragon that Zhou Yu had caught from Hidden Barrens after spending trendous efforts. This dragon was a descendant of ancient species with a powerful bloodline. It was no less than the Heaven-devourer Dragon; its cultivation and strength far surpassed that of the Heaven-devourer Dragon.
However, unlike Zhang Ruochen, Zhou Yu hadn’t been able to ta the Azure Dragon successfully.
There were two reasons why the Azure Dragon had submitted.
First, Zhang Ruochen was powerful enough to suppress the Azure Dragon’s urge to resist.
Second, the Dragonform Grass was a great temptation to the Azure Dragon.
After refining a Dragonform Grass, the Azure Dragon’s divine dragon bloodline was fully activated, and it was about to attain a True Dragon’s physique.
‘True Dragon’ referred to the divine dragon that had yet attained Godhood. Since the Middle Ages, Ao Xinyan was the only one in Kunlun who had cultivated a True Dragon’s pure physique, which was why she was favored by the unspeakable figure at Yin Yang Sea.
Although the Azure Dragon had yet attained True Dragon’s physique state, its strength improved significantly. If it fought Zhou Yu again, it might not lose.
Tap, tap
Footsteps sounded. A skinny old man appeared out of nowhere, his drooling eyes staring at the Azure Dragon.
“What a fat dragon. It must taste good.”
As he spoke, the old man licked his lips, saliva almost drooling out.
Hearing this, the Azure Dragon was enraged. It flew down from the sky, landed in front of the old man, and let out a terrifying dragon breath.
Although the old man looked half-dead, he was extrely agile. He retreated instantly and distanced himself from the Azure Dragon. At the sa ti, he looked at Zhang Ruochen and shouted, “Watch your dragon, Zhang Ruochen. It’s so scary.”
Zhang Ruochen frowned slightly. He looked at the old man with an unfriendly gaze. He wanted to beat him up, but he restrained himself in the end.
It was the third ti he had t this old man at Royal Mountain. The first ti was when Royal Mountain was awakening. This old man had co out of the ground and claid to be a grave robber. The second ti, he had attempted to drug the group of saintesses. Even Fairy of a Hundred Flowers was almost drugged.
Unfortunately, the old man was too elusive. Zhang Ruochen had tried all thods, but he couldn’t do anything to him.
Even now, Zhang Ruochen still could not see through the old man’s cultivation base. He knew nothing about the old man’s background and cultivation level.
“Hey old geezer, why are you still staying at Royal Mountain?” Zhang Ruochen asked with hostility.
The old man chuckled and said, “Didn’t I tell you last ti I am the guardian of Zhang clan? The ancestral land of Zhang clan is here. So of course, I have to stay here.”
“Since you refuse to tell the truth, you left no choice.”Zhang Ruochen’s eyes suddenly beca fierce.
As he spoke, Zhang Ruochen had already activated the Precepts of Dinsion and released the Spatial Domain. It completely imposed a lockdown on space within hundreds of miles.
His current cultivation base was different from before. He could even fight against a Supre Saint who was in the late Neverwither realm.
RAAAWRRR!
The Azure Dragon charged at the old man.
A huge and sharp dragon claw reached out like lightning. It condensed into a whirlpool of wind and cloud blocking all the old man’s escape routes.
“Wow, Zhang Ruochen, what are you trying to do?” the old man scread and dodged swiftly.
What surprised Zhang Ruochen was that the old man could still move freely even though he had completely locked down the space within hundreds of miles. It seed that the lockdown did not have any effect on him.
While he was surprised, Zhang Ruochen mobilized many Precepts of Dinsion and cast a Dinsional Storm rushing toward the old man.
The Dinsional Storm affected a wide area and imdiately approached, making it impossible for the old man to dodge.
Yet, the old man did not perform any Saint Techniques. Instead, he withstood the storm with his body of flesh and blood.
BANG!
The Dinsional Storm cald down after being torn apart by the old man.
When Zhang Ruochen saw this, his eyelids twitching. With his current cultivation attainnt in Path of Dinsion, even a Neverwither Supre Saint could not withstand the Dinsional Storm he cast. Yet, the old man was able to break it so easily.
‘How is this possible?’
Previously, he had suspected that the old man was a top-tier Nine-step Saint King. Now, it seed that he had seriously underestimated him.
No wonder the old man had said that he could not leave Royal Mountain for fear of being discovered. His cultivation base would not allow him to stay in Kunlun.
Zhang Ruochen stopped and asked solemnly, “You are not a Saint King at all, and you are not a person of the present ti. Tell , who are you?”
He had already figured out that the old man could be a Re-Awakener. When they first t, he should have just risen from underground.
The old man was not an ordinary Re-Awakener. He was very powerful, with the level of a Supre Saint, at least.
It was unbelievable that the once unremarkable Royal Mountain had beco an awakening place, where even a Re-Awakener had erged.
“Like you, I am a mber of Zhang clan. Let’s talk it out. Why do we have to fight? My old arms and legs can’t take it,” said the old man with a smile as he massaged his waist.
The Azure Dragon also witnessed the old man’s strength. It could not help but retreat to Zhang Ruochen’s side and watch him warily.
Rumble–
During the stalemate of both parties, a huge commotion suddenly was heard from the depths of Royal Mountain.
Zhang Ruochen imdiately turned and looked in the direction. His eyes couldn’t help but show a hint of surprise. “The folded dinsion is open further, and Royal Mountain has beco even wider.”
In the blink of an eye, the old man had disappeared into thin air. No one knew where he had gone.
Zhang Ruochen tried to track him with Spatial Domain, but to no avail.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Ruochen put the Azure Dragon into his sleeve. He then perford Great Dinsional Shift, traveling to the depths of Royal Mountain.
With his current strength, he had the ability to explore this folded dinsion. Even if there was any danger, he was confident that he could protect himself.
The Saint Qi of heavens and earth in the depths of Royal Mountain was even more potent to the extent that it was almost indispersible. Mixed with so Divine Qi of heavens and earth, it made the scenery looked spectacularly sacred.
As soon as he entered the depths of Royal Mountain, sothing had attracted him.
On a rocky wall, there was a huge green dragon of thousands of feet long. It was breathing Saint Qi of heavens and earth.
“This is a Dragonvine.” Zhang Ruochen’s eyes lit up.
The green dragon was not a real dragon but a sacred herb.
If it were an ordinary sacred herb, even if it were 100,000 years old, it would not have attracted Zhang Ruochen’s attention. But this Dragonvine was different. It was a Yuanhui Tribulation sacred herb.
As if sensing the aura of the Dragonvine, the Azure Dragon imdiately stuck its head out of Zhang Ruochen’s sleeve, staring at it with an intent gaze
“Master, I want it,” the Azure Dragon said excitedly.
Zhang Ruochen knew that a Dragonvine was the most useful to dragons. It could improve a dragon clan mber in all aspects.
However, a Dragonvine was an extrely aggressive Yuanhui Tribulation sacred herb. Ordinary cultivators couldn’t do anything to it.
Zhang Ruochen had already sensed that the aura of this Dragonvine. It was compelling and ferocious. It was definitely not an easy character to deal with.
ROAR!
At this mont, the Dragonvine suddenly let out an earth-shattering dragon roar. It revealed its fangs and struck out its claws as it pounced toward Zhang Ruochen.
Swoosh!
The Azure Dragon imdiately flew out of Zhang Ruochen’s sleeve. As its body expanded along with the wind, it collided with the incoming Dragonvine.
At the sa ti, Zhang Ruochen moved forward, continued walking toward the depths of the folded dinsion. He did not have the slightest worry whether the Azure Dragon could defeat that Dragonvine.
Many sacred herbs were growing everywhere. Most of them were very old. They were all of the top grade, which would be useful even for Saint Kings.
Zhang Ruochen even found three 100,000-year-old sacred herbs. Each of them was extrely rare and valuable that even a Nine-step Saint King would yearn for them.
However, Zhang Ruochen did not collect them. After all, Royal Mountain was sealed away, so he did not have to worry that they would be taken away.
Zhang Ruochen had handed Seven-dragon Cauldron over to Blackie. With these high-quality sacred herbs, Blackie should be able to make many high-grade pills.
After passing through a few Saint Mountains, Zhang Ruochen stopped.
In front of him, a special area appeared. A brilliant nona-colored divine light enveloped it. It looked spectacularly sacred, like a holy land.
Sohow, when Zhang Ruochen approached it, his heart beca very calm. He did not know the reason but he felt a sense of tranquility.
Through the nona-colored divine light, Zhang Ruochen saw many hills. They were densely scattered in the area that he couldn’t see the end. He didn’t know how many were there.
Each hill was unique, with huge gravestones before them. Ancient Supre-Saint Precepts clouded the gravestones, so he could not see their true shapes. They also gave off an extrely intimidating aura of Supre Saints.
“Are these the graves of Supre Saints?”
Zhang Ruochen was shocked.
In Shengming Royal’s gravesite of Zhang clan, nine graves were belonging to Supre-Saint level ancestors that looked similar to these low hills.
As Zhang Ruochen speculated, he couldn’t calm down anymore. There were thousands of graves within his sight. The actual number must be far higher.
‘Does this an at least thousands of Supre Saints were buried here?
‘Or could it be that all the Supre Saints in Kunlun had died at so ti and got buried here? But it was impossible.’
The aura of a Supre Saint was intimidating. Even after death, it remained strong and would not disappear even after a long ti.
Zhang Ruochen walked forward with puzzlent in his mind. However, as soon as he got close to that nona-colored divine light, circles of dinsional ripples appeared under his feet. Waves of terrifying Saint aura rushed over as if wanting to tear him into pieces.
Just as Zhang Ruochen wanted to fight back, he noticed sothing strange happened to his own blood, and the Saint aura rushing over just now dissipated with no reason.
Imdiately, Zhang Ruochen felt that the intimidating pressure was greatly reduced. He was more comfortable now.
“What’s going on? Why did the aura of Supre Saints recede like a tide? Just now, my bloodline seed to have an unprecedented throb,” Zhang Ruochen vaguely figured sothing out.
He took another step further into the depths. After a great effort, he finally arrived at the foot of a hill.
In front of this hill was a stone tablet. There were so complicated characters engraved on it. They did not belong to the current era.
“What an ancient aura. The characters on it should be from the Middle Ages. They contain rhys of Supre-Saint Path.
“However, there is an invisible force clouding the surface of the characters. Even with my Saint Eyes, I can only see a general outline. It’s a bit blurry and hardly visible.”
Looking at the stone tablet in front of him, Zhang Ruochen could not calm down.
Imdiately, he released a strong spiritual power, focusing on the characters engraved on the stone tablet. He began to decipher them.
What surprised Zhang Ruochen was that the characters were even more obscure than he had expected. Even with the current level of his spiritual power, it was extrely difficult for him to decipher them.
After fully utilizing his spiritual power, Zhang Ruochen finally managed to decipher the characters on the stone tablet.
“The grave of NorthBright Saint Lord, Zhang Lin.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes narrowed. “It really is the grave of a Supre Saint. This...”
Here lay thousands of graves of Supre Saints. It was an unbelievable, shocking scene.
“NorthBright Saint Lord, Zhang Lin. Why does this na sound so familiar?” Zhang Ruochen looked surprised.
Zhang Ruochen moved to a nearby grave. He mobilized his spiritual power to envelope the gravestone in front of him.
“The grave of Shadow Emperor, Zhang Tianshu ”
Zhang Ruochen was deep in thought. He murmured, “Zhang Lin, Zhang Tianshu, ...”
“Zhang Lin, Zhang Tianshu. Aren’t these the nas of the two Supre-Saint ancestors in the Middle Ages recorded in my family tree?” Zhang Ruochen suddenly recalled the nas.
Zhang clan of Central Region had an extrely glorious history, with Supre-Saint level elites born in every generation. Even now, there were dozens of statues of Supre-Saint level ancestors enshrined in the imperial ancestral halls.
With a flip of his hand, Zhang Ruochen took out an object. It was a record of Zhang clan’s long-standing family tree.
It was incomplete, with only half of it.
He did not take long to find the nas Zhang Lin and Zhang Tianshu on the family tree. Both had left an indelible mark in the history of Zhang clan.
“Is this really the legendary ancestral land of the Zhang clan?” Zhang Ruochen was shocked and could not remain calm.
He had read an ancient record that ntioned an ancestral land of Zhang clan. However, according to the record, the land was destroyed during the late Middle Ages and could not be found by the descendants.
‘Does this imply that Zhang clan of Yunwu Commandery really belongs to the sa lineage as Zhang clan of Shengming in Central Region?”
‘However, there were so many Supre Saints’ graves here. Could it be that all the deceased resting in peace here were the ancestors of Zhang clan?’
Reviews
All reviews (0)