This matter was very difficult to explain, and Zhang Ruochen had no intention of explaining it himself, so he summoned out the Da Sikong and the Second Sikong, who had stayed in the world of the scrolls.
The two monks were considered to be quite reliable, and finally explained the cause and effect of the whole thing.
“So it’s like this.”
Qing Mo spat out her tongue with an apologetic look on her face, not daring to look Zhang Ruochen in the eyes.
From the beginning to the end, Princess Baili stood on the side, listening to the narration of the Grand Secretary and the Second Secretary, and nodded with a dawning realisation, saying, “Zhang Ruochen, since you’re doing this in order to stop the war between the Savage Beasts and the Human Race, it’s also considered to be a good thing. This Princess is not an unreasonable person and is able to understand your good intentions. How about you return the Memory Source Pearl to this Princess and the grudge between us will be cancelled?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “I will return the Memory Source Pearl to you when I leave the Green Dragon Market Realm, as for now, not yet.”
Princess Baili’s two eyebrows were tightly knitted together, and after careful thought, she agreed, saying, “That’s fine. However, in the Green Dragon Market Realm, this princess must stay with you in case you go back on your word and escape alone.”
The reason why Princess Baili chose to compromise was because she was forced to do so.
The other party was outnumbered and each one of them was a first-rate powerhouse, she was definitely no match for them and could only compromise now.
“Good, this Emperor agrees that you should stay. Hehehe!”
Little Black was the first to raise his claws, and then, in the dark, he transmitted a voice to Zhang Ruochen, saying, “Don’t worry about your secret being exposed, before you leave the Green Dragon Market Realm, you can erase her memories once again.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head noncommittally, not bothering to pay attention to Xiao Hei and Princess Baili, and entered the Scroll World first.
“Wait for me.”
Princess Bai Li immediately chased after her, and with Zhang Ruochen, she stepped into the Spatial Door first, breaking into the Scroll World.
Entering the Tutelary World, Zhang Ruochen immediately dispatched the six high-ranking Half-Saints of the Murong Family and told them to go and poke around.
Zhang Ruochen was curious to know if the Heaven Swallowing Demon Dragon, who had led a group of Beast Kings to go after the Immortal Blood Clan of the Qingtian Clan, had decimated the Qingtian Clan?
At the same time, the situation in the Green Dragon Market Realm could be described as changing, with big events occurring at any time, so Zhang Ruochen had to get hold of the first-hand news in order to respond in advance.
Only after instructing all of this did Zhang Ruochen come to the bottom of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood and began to consolidate the realm he had just broken through.
Princess Bai Li chased after Zhang Ruochen until she arrived at the bottom of the Heaven Receiving Divine Tree, and was immediately attracted by the branching and leafy Divine Tree in front of her, revealing a look of awe.
Little Black walked out from behind Princess Bai Li, standing up as a human and said, “This is the legendary Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, isn’t it shocking?”
“Yes!”Princess Baili nodded.
“Cultivating under the tree of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood is definitely more marvellous than cultivating in any holy land or spiritual mountain, allowing you to comprehend the most profound rules of the Holy Dao, and cultivating at a speed that exceeds that of other places by ten times. Do you want to cultivate here?”Little Black said with a smile.
“Of course I want to!”
After saying this, Princess Baili walked straight to Zhang Ruochen’s side, sat down on her knees, operated an extremely profound gong method, and instantly entered a state of meditation, cultivating.
“This ……”
Xiao Hei originally wanted to progress step by step, using the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood to tempt Princess Bai Li and keep her in the picture scroll world forever.
However, he didn’t expect that Princess Bai Li didn’t treat herself as an outsider at all, and directly sat down and began to cultivate, not giving Xiao Hei a chance to continue talking.
Half a month later.
A rich and exotic fragrance drifted over from afar.
Zhang Ruochen and Princess Baili woke up from their meditation at the same time and stood up, peering towards the northwest.
This piece of heaven and earth was filled with strands of seven-coloured haze. The strange fragrance was emanating from within the haze.
Zhang Ruochen stretched out a palm and captured a ray of haze light, capturing it in his hand and said, ”What a rich Dan Qi.
“This is Dan Qi?”
Princess Bai Li was extraordinarily surprised, having never seen such a dense Dan Qi before.
To know, looking forward from her position, the entire heaven and earth was filled with seven-coloured haze, it was just too shocking.
“It should be the kind of Dan that Little Black has refined that is about to come out.”
Zhang Ruochen’s figure shifted and disappeared in place.
A few moments later, Zhang Ruochen arrived at a mountain that burned with flames all year round, and at the top of that mountain was the place where Little Black had refined the pills.
Seven-coloured haze light was emanating from inside one of the pill furnaces at the top of the mountain, causing the clouds above the mountain to turn seven-coloured as well.
The scene in front of him was extremely astonishing, and vaguely, one could even see a purple thunderbolt coalescing in mid-air, emitting a deep and muddled sound.
“How did it cause such a great sound, could it be that a Holy Dan was refined?”Zhang Ruochen secretly smacked his lips, somewhat surprised.
Only when a Saint Pill came out, it would be able to attract amazing visions, or even, the appearance of a Pill Calamity.
Sacred pills were quite rare, and it could be said that a single one was hard to find.
The Saint Yuan Dan was the most basic Saint Dan, and even so, a Saint Yuan Dan could be sold for an astronomical price, and the average Half-Saint would not be able to afford it at all.
The vision in front of him was quite astonishing, it was obvious that there was a Saint Pill that was even more precious than the Saint Yuan Dan about to become a pill, filling people with anticipation.
Huang Yichen, Qing Mo, Zhao Shiqi, Sun Dadi, Da Si Kong, and Er Si Kong, had long since arrived at the Flame Mountain, each standing at a location close to the top of the mountain.
All of them were running their gong methods, absorbing the Dan Qi that filled the air with all their might.
Even if it was just the Dan Qi that escaped, it would be of great benefit to them.
Princess Bai Li also rushed over, reaching the halfway point of the mountain, and with a deep inhalation, she inhaled thousands of dan qi, into her body.
Gradually, on the surface of her skin, a faint layer of seven-coloured light emerged, and her entire body became crystal clear, as if it was a body cast in seven-coloured glass.
Zhang Ruochen ascended to the top of the mountain and asked Little Black, saying, “How much longer do we have to wait for this furnace of pills to become a pill?”
“At least two more days.”Little Black said.
This furnace of elixir, using the holy flower that carried the holy source spirit spring, and the divine dew condensed from the seven star divine ling as the main medicine, and adding twenty-eight auxiliary types of holy medicines and spirit medicines, had been refined in the world of picture scrolls for several months before it finally showed signs of becoming an elixir.
Having waited for months, he didn’t care to wait for two more days.
Using so many precious medicines, it was unknown how amazing the medicinal effects of the pills refined would be?
Zhang Ruochen had asked Xiao Hei about it, but, Xiao Hei told him that even it wasn’t quite sure what kind of effect the final refined elixir would have.
This was because, it was also its first time refining it.
Moreover, it was simply impossible to find the Sacred Flower and Divine Dew before, and Little Black had only refined this new type of Sacred Pill by merely matching it with the medicinal properties of various medicines.
“Don’t hold too much hope, the first time you refine it, there is a high possibility that it will fail.”
Xiao Hei was worried about losing face if he ended up failing to refine it after making a huge noise now, so he stated the worst possible outcome in advance.
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About eight hundred miles away from the Flame Mountain, there was originally a vast grassland.
Now, that piece of grassland was however covered with ice and snow, producing nine feet thick cold ice that covered a three hundred mile radius, causing the grassland to turn into a white, icy wilderness.
Nowadays, there were also some flying birds and beasts in the picture scroll world, all of which were captured in by Xiao Hei leading the Demon Ape and the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit.
At this very moment, there was a ten-metre long black eagle that broke into the edge of the ice plain.
“Puffing.”
In a split second, the black eagle was frozen and fell down from mid-air with a snap, shattering into a pile of ice slag.
In the next moment, a black silhouette broke through the ice at the centre of the ice sheet and flew all the way up to the dome of the sky, hundreds of feet high, before stopping.
She stood on top of the clouds and said to herself, “Finally, I’ve succeeded in cultivating the Extreme Yin Body.”
“Wow…”
The black silhouette transformed into a stream of light and crossed the sky, quickly arriving at the bottom of the flaming mountains and landing on the ground.
The very moment she landed on the ground, the mountain, with its perennial flames, was quickly extinguished, turning into a blackened stone mountain.
“Greetings, Your Highness.”
The black silhouette knelt on one knee and bowed to Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen stared at Murong Yue at the bottom of the mountain, revealing a smile as he said, “Looking at your current state, you should have already successfully cultivated the Extreme Yin Body.”
“It hasn’t come to a great completion yet.”Murong Yue said.
“Any physique needs to become a saint before it can be brought to great completion. You are already very good for being able to reach this point now. Get up!”Zhang Ruochen said.
“If it wasn’t for Your Highness granting my subordinate a large amount of Divine Dew, it would be impossible for my subordinate to cultivate the Extreme Yin Body successfully.”Murong Yue slowly stood up, collecting the cold aura that was spreading around back into her body.
Even so, with her body as the centre, the ground in a ten feet radius still formed a white frost, and an ordinary cultivator would instantly freeze into an ice sculpture if they approached the past.
Refining the Divine Dew not only allowed Murong Yue to cultivate into an Extreme Yin Body, it also allowed her cultivation to skyrocket, reaching the realm of a Seventh Order Half Saint.
Of course, at each realm, Zhang Ruochen provided her with Saint Elemental Pills of the corresponding grade, otherwise, her cultivation would not have risen so quickly.
“Not good, the robbing thunder is coming!”
Right at this moment, Sun Dadi, who was originally absorbing the dan qi, suddenly opened her eyes and crimson flames emerged from her entire body.
A very violent force was released from Sun Dadi’s body.
Subsequently, Sun Dadi rushed out of this big mountain and darted towards the ice plain where Murong Yue had previously closed for cultivation.
Still halfway there, above his head, a black thunder cloud condensed. There were dozens of purple lightning bolts travelling through the cloud, releasing a suffocating aura of destruction.
“Crack!”
A bolt of lightning, descending from the sky, struck the top of Sun Di Di’s head, spreading from his head all the way down to the soles of his feet, splitting the earth beneath his feet and turning it into a large, black pit.
Soon after, a second lightning coalesced out and once again landed on top of Sun Dadi’s head.
……
In that direction, the roar was unceasing, and the thunder and fire continued to fall, splitting the ice plain nine feet back and melting it.
Princess Baili woke up with a start and looked towards the distant thunderclouds, asking, “What happened?”
Zhang Ruochen narrowed his eyes and stared at Princess Baili with some surprise, saying, “His cultivation has broken through the limit of a Ninth Order Half-Saint, invoking the first Quasi-Saint Tribulation, the Forty-Nine Tribulation. You don’t even know about this? Could it be that you haven’t crossed a Quasi-Saint Tribulation?”
Princess Baili stretched out a white glistening finger and pointed to the top of her head, saying, “I’m afraid …… I’m about to cross the first Quasi Sacred Tribulation as well!”
Sure enough, above Princess Bai Li’s head, a piece of thundercloud also appeared.
This piece of thundercloud, emitting a destructive aura, was even more terrifying, and every single thunderbolt was twice as thick as the one above Sun Dadi’s head, resembling dozens of electric dragons.
