As a Dancing Fairy, Qin Yutong owned a temple deep within the Phoenix Dance Palace.
The temple was suspended on top of a cliff in the valley, where the scenery was beautiful and one could have a glimpse of the entirety of the Phoenix Dance Palace, making it an excellent location.
Before this, no man had ever been able to step into this temple.
The fact that Zhang Ruochen was able to obtain Qin Yutong’s invitation to enter the temple had an extraordinary significance, making Yan Qi and Fu Goblet very jealous.
They felt that Qin Yutong was paying too much attention to this man of unknown origin, and such treatment did not match his status at all.
Entering the hall, Qin Yutong stepped out in some hidden locations with subtle footsteps, activating the formations in the hall to prevent anyone from breaking in and entering.
“Are you one of the Eldest Princess’ people?”Qin Yutong asked.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t understand the current pattern of the Zhang Clan and just said indifferently, “I don’t belong to any party, I only belong to myself.”
Qin Yutong’s two eyebrows, which were slightly knitted, no longer refrained from asking, and brought Zhang Ruochen to the lowest level of the temple, to the outside of a cultivation chamber, opening the stone door of the chamber.
“This secret cultivation room is arranged with a defense array that can only be opened and closed from the inside. Once the defense formation is opened, even a Saint realm giant would not be able to break the chamber open from the outside.”
Qin Yutong added, “If you need anything, you can instruct Xuanfeng and Xuanyu, and they can report your needs to me.”
“There’s nothing I need for now.”
Zhang Ruochen stepped into into the cultivation secret room and immediately closed the stone door, and at the same time, turned on the defense formation.
Outside the secret room, Bai Xuanfang was a bit curious and said, “Senior sister, when he said that he wasn’t someone sent here by the Eldest Princess, but belonged to himself, what exactly did he mean? Could it be that aside from the Twelfth Master and the Eldest Princess, there are other descendants of the Imperial Clan that could have produced a strong person like him?”
Qin Yutong gazed carefully and said, “During the war eight hundred years ago, many branches of the Imperial Clan, in order to escape the massacre of their enemies, some fled to the Barbarian Secret Realm, and some fled to the Extra-Terrestrial Market Realm. It is not ruled out that he is a descendant of a certain branch lineage, and has only just returned to the Kunlun Realm, which is why he intends to contact us.”
“The two of you stay here, and if he has any needs, you must notify me immediately. I’m going to discuss with Granny Bai Su, or I must investigate, his exact identity.”
Obviously, Qin Yutong still had some precautions against Zhang Ruochen, after all, with his unknown origin and such a powerful cultivation, he was really too mysterious.
Entering the Cultivation Chamber, Zhang Ruochen carefully inspected it again before taking out the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram and entering the world of the scroll.
In fact, Zhang Ruochen was not injured, he merely appeared quite weak because he had exhausted his entire body’s Saint Qi by using the Thousand Stripes Destruction Strength.
It didn’t take long for Zhang Ruochen to cultivate back to his peak state.
Afterward, he took out the Fifth Grade Sacred Elemental Pill and held it in the palm of his hand as he muttered to himself, “It’s about time, too, to impact the Fifth Order Half-Saint realm.”?Swallowing the Fifth Grade Sacred Elemental Pill into his mouth, Zhang Ruochen immediately revolved his gong methods and went all out to impact the realm.
“Boom!”
The power contained in the Fifth Grade Sacred Elemental Pill was so powerful that it immediately exploded into the abdomen, releasing a massive amount of energy that surged into the meridians and blood.
Zhang Ruochen hadn’t reached the peak of the Fourth Grade Semi-Saint yet, and with his current cultivation, impacting the Fifth Grade Semi-Saint was actually still quite a stretch, with a high failure rate.
However, he had to take a risk and immediately impact the Fifth Order Half-Saint.
With his current cultivation, it was true that he could already contend with a Ninth Order Half-Saint, however, when he encountered a powerhouse amongst the Ninth Order Half-Saints, there was still a considerable gap.
For example, against Cold Eagle, Zhang Ruochen was simply no match for him without utilizing the Thousand Stripes Destruction Strength, and at best, he only possessed the ability to defend himself.
In the final analysis, the realm was still too low.
While refining the Fifth Grade Sacred Yuan Dan, Zhang Ruochen was also refining the Divine Blood, hoping to make up for the shortfall above the realm.
The Divine Blood and Sacred Elemental Dan, two powerful forces, violently collided within Zhang Ruochen’s body, causing his internal organs to suffer severe trauma, and he was bleeding from the corners of his mouth and nostrils.
However, Zhang Ruochen continued to persevere and did not give up.
Spending two days and two nights in a row, Zhang Ruochen’s internal organs, meridians, and blood vessels all suffered varying degrees of injuries, as if there was a fiery flame burning in every part of his body, extremely painful and unbearable.
“Rumble.”?Finally, with his strong will, Zhang Ruochen tenaciously pulled through, breaking through the bottleneck and breaking through to the Fifth Order Half-Saint realm.
Immediately after, the spiritual qi of the heavens and earth surged over like a tidal wave, passing through the Divine Martial Seal in the center of the brow and entering the Qi Sea, nourishing every meridian and sacred vein in the body.
It was an extremely soothing feeling that masked the pain from the injuries within his body.
Only after completely stabilizing his realm did Zhang Ruochen take out a Withered Wood Pill and swallow it.
About an hour later, Zhang Ruochen’s injuries were healed, reaching an unprecedented peak state.
Zhang Ruochen revolved the Nine Heavenly Bright Emperor Scripture, and instantly, the Saint Qi in his body went crazy, causing the aura of heaven and earth within a radius of hundreds of miles to vibrate slightly.
“With my current cultivation level, when I face Cold Eagle again, even if I don’t use the Thousand Lines Destruction Strength, Time Force, or Space Force, it won’t be a difficult task to kill him.”Zhang Ruochen secretly said.
With his cultivation greatly increased, the killing intent on Zhang Ruochen’s body became even more intense.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen didn’t immediately step out of the Scroll World, preparing to continue to raise his strength. After all, among the Ten Commanders of the Canglong Army, there were some characters that were far more powerful than Cold Eagle.
Next, Zhang Ruochen took out the beast soul of the Green Armored Saint Elephant and prepared to refine it into his right arm.
This was a Sacred Realm beast soul that Zhang Ruochen had spent 7,000 Sacred Stones to get at auction, and by refining him, the power of his right arm and the strength of his body would increase by a large margin.
Moreover, only by refining the Saint realm’s dragon and elephant souls, Zhang Ruochen would have a chance to successfully cultivate the tenth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, and advance the grade of this one palm technique to the level of a Saint art.
Of course, even though Zhang Ruochen had only cultivated the ninth palm now, he could already make the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm explode with the power of a Saint Art level.
Zhang Ruochen had successfully refined a Saint realm dragon soul and had accumulated a lot of experience, thus, he did not encounter too much trouble when refining the elephant soul.
It only took half a day for him to refine the Elephant Soul into his right arm, and it was completely integrated with his bones, muscles, meridians, and blood.
Zhang Ruochen lifted his arms and mobilized his Saint Qi, entering the meridians and Saint veins of his arms to activate the Dragon Soul and Elephant Soul.
“咵咵.”
On the left arm, a piece of dragon scale the size of a fingernail cap grew out; on the right arm, green-colored armor grew out.
At the same time, there were deafening sounds of dragon roars and elephant whistles.
A huge cyan dragon shadow and a mountain-sized cyan holy elephant shadow were simultaneously presented behind Zhang Ruochen, reflecting the entire sky in cyan color and releasing two intimidating savage beasts’ auras.
Zhang Ruochen’s palms, simultaneously pressed forward.
Two gigantic handprints manifested in midair, causing the air and the earth to tremble violently.
“Worthy of being a Saint-level beast soul, it is truly extraordinary. If, at the same time, I mobilize the power of the Dragon Soul and the Elephant Soul and execute the ninth palm of the Dragon and Elephant Palm, I should be able to strike thirty-six times the attack.”
Before refining the Elephant Soul, Zhang Ruochen was only able to strike the ninth palm of the Dragon Elephant Like Palm and was only able to burst out thirty-four times the attack.
It seemed like a mere twofold increase in attack power, but the power of the palm had grown by a large margin.
Generally speaking, a martial art that could reach thirty times the attack could be called a “Saint Art”.
Moreover, even amongst the Ninth Order Half-Saints, there were very few people who were able to cultivate a Sacred Art to its full completion.
In other words, the vast majority of Ninth Order Half-Saints were only able to utilize more than twenty times their attack power.
Zhang Ruochen being able to erupt thirty-six times the attack meant that he had the ability to defeat, cultivation and power stronger than him, a Ninth Order Half-Saint.
Of course, after refining the Elephant Soul and Dragon Soul, the power of Zhang Ruochen’s punches had also increased to a certain extent.
“If I succeed in cultivating the tenth palm, I don’t know how many times the attack power of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm can be exploded?”
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was still quite expectant.
However, he also knew that even after refining the Elephant Soul and Dragon Soul, it wasn’t an easy task to successfully cultivate the tenth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm.
At least, in the short term, it was simply impossible to cultivate it successfully.
Zhang Ruochen did not go to impact the seventh aperture of the Seven Apertures Blood Underworld Palm for the time being, preparing to try again after his cultivation had stabilized a bit.
This time, impacting the Fifth Order Half-Saint was already quite risky, leaving behind some dark wounds that were very difficult to heal.
Before those dark injuries were recovered, Zhang Ruochen did not want to take a second risk.
Zhang Ruochen went to meet the Grand Sikong, Second Sikong, and Murong Yue, and seeing that they were all cultivating, he did not disturb them.
In fact, the Great Sikong and the Second Sikong were very powerful and strong, if he utilized their strength, it would be much easier for Zhang Ruochen to deal with the Ten Great Commanders of the Canglong Army.
However, Zhang Ruochen didn’t do so, after all, the two of them were monks, and it wasn’t suitable for them to get involved in too much blood and karma.
It was better to settle their own matters with their own hands.
Zhang Ruochen left the Scroll World, put away the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, and with a clatter, reopened the door to the cultivation chamber.
Bai Xuanshang and Bai Xuanyu waited outside the secret room and immediately greeted Zhang Ruochen when they saw him emerge.
Until now, this was the first time Zhang Ruochen had taken a closer look at the two of them, both of them were one-in-a-million beauties and looked quite similar, they should be related to their own sisters.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Both of you are descendants of the Zhang Family?”
Bai Xuanshang and Bai Xuanyu greatly admired Zhang Ruochen, and when they saw Zhang Ruochen take the initiative to speak to them, their hearts were naturally very joyful and they immediately nodded their heads.
Bai Xuanshang’s character, being a bit more cheerful, said, “My name is Bai Xuanshang, and she is my younger sister, Bai Xuanyu.”
Bai Xuan Yu’s expression, rather somber, sighed, “Our Bai family was once also a prestigious family of the Sacred Brightness Central Empire, that war eight hundred years ago, the empire was overthrown, and any family that did not submit to the First Central Empire, suffered a bloody purge.
“Some of the males in the family were killed, some were sent to the edge of the empire and forced to fight against savage beasts, and in the end, most of them died in the bellies of the savage beasts.”?
“The females in the family, on the other hand, were even worse, most of them were admitted into the mansions of the various generals of the Ministry of War for their pleasure. The rest, were filled as official prostitutes, some were bought into youth .House, and some were turned into slaves.”
