Reaching the peak realm of the Eighth Order Half-Saint, Zhang Ruochen’s strength was said to have skyrocketed.
At this moment, he closed his eyes and slowly rehearsed the Luoshui Fist Technique while sensing his newly grown strength.
While the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm was the most rigid and fierce palm technique, the attributes of the Luo Shui Fist Technique were the most yin and soft, and even if, Zhang Ruochen’s fist was only slowly pushed forwards, in the air, a circle of translucent energy ripples could be formed.
After the thirty-six strokes of Luo Shui Fist Technique, all of a sudden, Zhang Ruochen’s masculine energy that was crashing around in his body calmed down. All the flames at the location of his feet were also completely collected back into his body.
Zhang Ruochen exhaled a long breath of white qi, and the column of qi transformed into a dozens of miles long river of mist that crossed mid-air, forming nine curves and nine circles.
“Back then, when Senior Luo Xu passed on the Luo Water Fist Technique to me, could it be that he wanted me to be able to use the feminine power that the Luo Water Fist Technique possesses to balance out the masculinity produced by the cultivation of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm?”Zhang Ruochen secretly said.
Having reached Luo Xu’s realm and height, there were some things that he simply wouldn’t say directly, nor would he do too much explaining, yet, Zhang Ruochen secretly remembered this favour.
After only meeting him once, Luo Xu had passed on his mastery to Zhang Ruochen.
This magnanimity and broad-mindedness was already enough to convince many people.
“Rustle.”
The branches of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood gently shook, and from the trunk, a mental power fluctuation was transmitted to communicate with Zhang Ruochen.
“From the beginning of the heavens and earth to its demise, the Green Dragon Market Realm has experienced a total of twelve million nine hundred and sixty thousand years, which is exactly one hundred Yuan Sessions. In other words, the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm has survived a total of ninety-nine minor tribulations and is now about to survive the first major tribulation.”
Zhang Ruochen lifted his head and transmitted his spiritual energy, responding to the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, “What is senior trying to tell me?”
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood said, “Within the realm of time, a Yuan Session is 129,600 years. A world, for every Yuanhui that passes, will experience a minor calamity. For every hundred Yuanhui that passes, it will experience a major calamity.”
“Whether it is passing through a Minor Tribulation or a Major Tribulation, the space of the world will expand accordingly.”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit surprised, he did not expect that a world would also undergo a tribulation and also grow automatically, could it be that everything really has a spirit?
Zhang Ruochen asked, “If, the Green Dragon Market Realm passes through this great calamity, how much will the world space grow?”
“At least double.”
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood added, “However, with the Green Dragon Ruins Realm’s depth, it is impossible for it to survive this Great Tribulation, and it will be heading towards destruction.”
Obviously, the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood knew that Zhang Ruochen was going to compete for the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm, and that was why it had told him some information about the Green Dragon Market Realm.
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood continued, “The World Spirit and indigenous cultivators of the Green Dragon Ruins Realm will definitely not be willing to go to extinction like this, and will use some means to keep the Green Dragon Ruins Realm going.”
“What kind of means will they use?”Zhang Ruochen asked.
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood said, “Perhaps it’s to devour the world spirits of other market realms and evolve another market realm, into a new Green Dragon Market Realm.”
“It is also possible that the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Ruins Realm will elect a world-bearing Realm Son, and within the Realm Son’s body, evolve a newborn world again.”
A strange colour appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, “The World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm is able to select a boundary son to carry an entire world?”
“That’s right. That is a true World Son, with a world contained within its body, and can mobilise part of a world’s power, and is very different from the Kunlun Realm’s Nine Realm Sons.”
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood continued, “Of course, no matter what means are used to continue the continuation of the Green Dragon Market Realm, the first thing they must do is to preserve the Spirit of the World, and absolutely not allow it to be taken away by the Kunlun Realm’s cultivators.”
“Once the people selected by the Green Dragon Dynasty are integrated into the Spirit of the World and incarnate into the Boundary Sons, it’s likely that they will go on a killing spree. It will be a disaster for you all.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded gently, his expression growing serious as he said, “What you mean is that if you are going to compete for the World Spirit, you must succeed and not allow the Green Dragon Dynasty’s World Son to be born. If one fails in the scramble, it is likely that they will die.”
“That’s what it means.”
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood said, “The path is at your feet, how you choose is all up to you. If you don’t want to take that much risk, it’s best to leave the Green Dragon Market Realm now and not stay any longer.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly and asked, “Since, the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm is capable of devouring the World Spirits of other Market Realms, can Senior absorb the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm?”
“Of course you can.”
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood said, “Are you trying to seize the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm to make the Touhou World even wider and evolve into a great world comparable to the Superior Market Realm?”
Zhang Ruochen asked, “After absorbing the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm, what kind of changes will occur in the Tujia Scroll World?”
“Earth-shattering drastic changes will occur, the most obvious point is that the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram will not be able to continue to carry this world, the diagram scroll will shatter and the world will be revealed.
“Next, this world, must be carried by your body.”
“At that time, it will also no longer be called the Scroll World, but rather the Qian Kun Realm, and you will be the World Son of the Qian Kun Realm. This is both a heavenly good and a heavenly bad thing for you.”
Zhang Ruochen felt puzzled, being able to become a World Son of a world would allow you to mobilise part of the world’s power, it should be a good thing, how could it be a bad thing again?
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood seemed to see the doubts in Zhang Ruochen’s mind as the spiritual power fluctuations continued to come out, “The more things one carries, the greater the burden will be. Wanting to carry a world is not an easy task and requires something out of your imagination. Unless you are able to cultivate into a god in the future, you will be able to get rid of the drag that the Qiankun Realm has on you.”
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood didn’t explicitly say what exactly the disadvantages of carrying a world were, yet, Zhang Ruochen could feel that the kind of cost was definitely not something that an ordinary person could afford.
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood said, “There’s no need for you to think about it so much right now, after all, wanting to seize the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm isn’t an easy task. I can sense that there are roughly ten Indigenous Saints gathered in the royal capital.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “How is that possible? According to the information that came back from the Ministry of War, the Indigenous Saints of the Green Dragon Market Realm had long since fled and hid in other Market Realms. Moreover, a Saint realm figure staying in the Green Dragon Ruins Realm would cause an extensive spatial collapse.”
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood responded and said, “It is true that a portion of the Indigenous Saints have fled, however, there are some Indigenous Saints who have stayed behind. If they had stayed elsewhere, they would have definitely caused an extensive spatial collapse, but not in the royal capital, where there is the guardianship of the Green Dragon Market Realm’s World Spirit.”
“Of course, the Spirit of the World is also very weak right now, and is able to use very little power, and will probably only be able to carry ten Indigenous Saints. They will be the main force competing for the World Spirit, and the Sector Son elected by the World Spirit will most likely be between them as well.”
In the royal capital, there were actually ten saints, this was absolutely earth-shattering news.
Once word got out, there would definitely be many forces that would withdraw from the battle for the Spirit of the World.
“I hope that all of them are Lower Realm Saints, in that case, there is at least a fighting chance.”
With the current weak state of the Spirit of the World, even if it was able to carry ten Saints, it was estimated that they would all be Lower Realm Saints. After all, Lower Realm Saints were the weakest and easiest to carry.
Of course, even if they were also Lower Realm Saints, there were both strong and weak strengths.
It should be known that even cultivators with Saint Bodies who had cultivated to the realm of Lower Realm Saint were unable to fight across realms, and could at best only be considered strong amongst the Lower Realm Saints.
From this, it could also be seen how huge the span between a Lower Realm Saint and a Middle Realm Saint was.
“If there really are ten Indigenous Saints in the King’s Capital, then the Spirit of the World must also be underneath the King’s Capital’s ground. Otherwise, the space of the royal capital would have collapsed long ago.”
Zhang Ruochen finally had a definite goal, so he left from underneath the Heaven-receiving Divine Wood and arrived at a city in the Scrolls World, ascending a four-storey green-tiled restaurant and ordering some food and drinks.
Afterwards, he sent out a sound wave to notify everyone else to rush over immediately.
As early as many years ago, Xiao Hei had captured a lot of hard labourers to build cities. This city, which was one of them, had a wide urban area with a sizeable scale.
Half a year ago, Princess Bai Li approached Zhang Ruochen, hoping that Zhang Ruochen would promise her that she would place the survivors in the ancient city, inside the Scroll World.
Zhang Ruochen agreed, however, he also asked her for some conditions.
At that time, Princess Baili just felt that those survivors were very pitiful and wanted to save them, so she didn’t think much about it, and she agreed to all of the conditions Zhang Ruochen put forward and vowed that she wouldn’t break her promise no matter what the circumstances were.
As for what conditions she had agreed to, even she could not remember clearly.
It was millions of lives, what else was more important than saving them? Whatever the cost, she was willing to bear it.
No matter how one put it, Princess Baili’s nature was actually very kind and simple.
Of course, the reason why Zhang Ruochen agreed to Princess Bai Li was not just because she was valuable and worth pulling in.
More so, it was because, Dashekong, Ershekong, Sun Dadi, Qing Mo, and the others, actually had the same will, and very much hoped that Zhang Ruochen would be able to save those aboriginal humans.
If, Zhang Ruochen had seen death and saved them, they might not have grown discontented.
However, if Zhang Ruochen saved those indigenous humans, it would make them trust Zhang Ruochen more, making the entire Ming Sect more cohesive and centred.
Princess Baili was the first to arrive at the restaurant and flew to the fourth floor, appearing on Zhang Ruochen’s left side, a long snow-white tail dragging on the ground, living as a stunning female goblin.
“City Lord came really fast.”Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly.
“I live in Baili City, so I definitely came the fastest.”Princess Baili’s eyes blinked, her long eyelashes flickering with a crystalline lustre.
This city, inhabited by millions of indigenous humans, was named White Dawn City, with Princess White Dawn as the city lord, managing the city.
Right now, Zhang Ruochen was formally tying her to the top of the Ming Sect’s chariot, and in the future, even if she regained her memories and wanted to leave, there would still be some restraints.
Not long after, Little Black, Yellow Smoke Dust, Qing Mo, Da Sikong, Er Sikong, Murong Yue, including Sun Dadi and Zhao Shiqi, who had travelled to the royal capital to spy on the news, had also arrived at the restaurant and gathered with Zhang Ruochen.
“This trip to the royal capital is about to blow my lungs out.”Sun Dadi gritted his teeth in hatred, and all the red hairs on the top of his head stood up.
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