At the very beginning, when Zhang Ruochen decided to take in the Sacred Eating Flower, he had actually anticipated that it was very restless and had been trying to devour him.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen didn’t just use it as a combat aid, he also wanted to use it to force himself, forcing himself to have to accelerate his progress by degrees to ward off the threat from it.
After experiencing the baptism of the Heavenly and Earthly Tribulation, the virtual body of the Sacred Flower Eater was completely shattered, and even its true body was extremely shrunken, hidden in Zhang Ruochen’s spine and unable to move.
“The battle power of the Sacred Flower Eater is still quite powerful, and is able to play a not-so-small supporting role.”
Zhang Ruochen finally decided to awaken the life force of the Sacred Eating Flower after much deliberation.
Thus, he stretched out a pair of white palms, hovering above the corpse of the Devil Ran Princess, and released his spiritual energy. With a downward grasp of his fingers, the Devil Ran Princess’s holy soul automatically separated out.
Her Saint Soul, much like a fist-sized ball of light, emitted dense light and hovered between Zhang Ruochen’s hands. Vaguely, it could be seen that a faintly beautiful shadow stood at the centre of the ball of light, looking exactly like the Devil Ran Princess.
“I don’t know, what marvellous things will happen when I incorporate the Devil Ran Princess’s holy soul into the true body of the Sacred Eating Flower? Presumably, the hostility of the Sacred Flower Eater towards me will become even stronger.”
The corner of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth hooked into a smile, not taking that threat to heart.
“Wow.”
Zhang Ruochen inhaled deeply, and the Demon Ran Princess’s Sacred Soul, transforming into a stream of light, flew into his body.
He mobilised his holy qi to wrap up the holy soul and carried it within his body, driving it into his spine and grinding it against the true body of the Sacred Eating Flower.
The Devil Ran Princess’s holy soul was quite powerful, far from the virtual body of the Sacred Eating Flower.
However, the two were not of the same origin and had an exclusionary nature, making it difficult to truly merge in one.
“It seems like it’s better to use some means to do so.”
Zhang Ruochen raised his arms, and in the palms of his two hands, wisps of purple thunderbolts emerged, imprinting on his chest.
“Puffing.”
The power of the lightning travelled throughout Zhang Ruochen’s entire body, of which, more than seventy percent of it all surged towards his spine, stimulating the true body of the Sacred Flower Eater and the Holy Soul of the Demon Ran King Consort, causing them to speed up the degree of fusion.
As the two slowly fused, gradually, a black vine grew out of Zhang Ruochen’s vest, sprouting tender green leaves and releasing a faint holy qi.
The vines grew longer and thicker, growing all the way from the ground to above the clouds, radiating a strong aura of power.
By the time the Devil Ran Princess’s holy soul and the true body of the Sacred Eating Flower were completely fused, the Sacred Eating Flower once again returned to its peak state, emitting an incomparably majestic holy qi.
The vine shook gently, and the surrounding heaven and earth aura shook violently, forming a circle of energy ripples that spread outwards.
A voice much like that of the Demon Ran Princess came out from the Saint Eating Flower with an intense hatred, “Zhang Ruochen, you even dared to refine my Saint Soul into the Saint Eating Flower, then, this Saint will now devour you first.”
“Wow…”
On the vine as thick as a water tank, a sharp barb grew out, like a sharp sword, and attacked Zhang Ruochen.
Those barbs, which were condensed from the rules of the Saint Dao, carried an icy cold power.
Zhang Ruochen sat on the ground with a soft hum from his mouth, then with a thought, the Saint Qi in his body automatically transformed into crimson flames and surged towards the location of his spine.
The true body of the Sacred Flower Eater was the one that fused with Zhang Ruochen’s spine.
Suffering from the attack of the flames, the Sacred Eating Flower trembled and uttered a miserable cry.
“Puffing.”
Flames surged out from Zhang Ruochen’s back, burning all the way up the vine, burning the freshly grown leaves of the Sacred Flower Eater to ashes.
“Master, master, I know I’m wrong, I know I’m wrong, please put away the flames.”The Saint Eating Flower pleaded.
That voice, which was still very similar to that of the Demon Ran Princess, soft and glutinous, immediately gave birth to a strange feeling in Zhang Ruochen’s ears.
In fact, the battle power possessed by the Saint Eating Flower that had crossed into the Saint realm was quite powerful.
Unfortunately, it had already recognised Zhang Ruochen as its master, and Zhang Ruochen could cause it pain by casually using a little means.
Unless, the cultivation level of the Sacred Flower Eater was far greater than Zhang Ruochen’s, only then would it be possible to break away from Zhang Ruochen’s control.
Naturally, Zhang Ruochen would not let that happen and would definitely keep the strength of the Sacred Flower Eater within his control.
Zhang Ruochen slowly put away the flames and sent out a spiritual force to communicate with the Sacred Flower Eater, warning, ”Whether you are the Sacred Flower Eater or the Devil Ran Princess, you had better be honest. The next time, I will definitely exterminate you.”
Nowadays, the Eating Sacred Flower was partly its own consciousness as well as partly the consciousness of the Devil Ran Princess, and the two were grinding together.
When they were completely fused, they would not be separated.
Having seen Zhang Ruochen’s power, the Sacred Flower Eater did not want to be punished again and said in a loud voice, “Don’t worry, master, even if I were given a hundred guts, I wouldn’t dare to have any more dissenting thoughts.”
The character of the Sacred Flower Eater had indeed undergone some changes. In the past, its attitude was quite tough, and it definitely wouldn’t curry favour with Zhang Ruochen in such a manner.
Now, it was rather like it had accepted Zhang Ruochen as its master and was ready to help him willingly.
“Is it because of the fusion of the Demonic Ran Princess’s Holy Soul? Or was it because I had cultivated my physical body and spiritual power to the Saint realm, so that it had to choose to submit? Perhaps, it’s both!”
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head and stopped thinking about it.
He dug out a blood-red Sacred Source from inside the Demon Ran Princess’s corpse and handed it to the Sacred Flower Eater, saying, “You’ve only just crossed over to the Saint realm, so absorb this Sacred Source first to consolidate your realm.”
The Sacred Flower Eater rushed out from Zhang Ruochen’s body, stretching out densely-packed roots and rooting on top of the Devil Ran Princess’s corpse, wrapping up both the corpse and the Saint Source at the same time.
The Saint Eating Flower had only just crossed into the Saint realm only, and was still very unstable, so it needed a large amount of nutrients to consolidate its realm.
Moreover, absorbing the Demonic Ran Princess’s Saint Source, blood, and Saint Qi would also make the true body of the Saint Eating Flower and the Demonic Ran Princess’s Saint Soul more compatible, with endless benefits.
Zhang Ruochen dug the Green Dragon Emperor Seal back up from the ground and held it in the palm of his hand to study it.
“There are actually 8,747 inscriptions burned into it, it can definitely be ranked into the top 100 of the Thousand Stripes Saint Weapons list, it’s quite an extraordinary treasure.”Zhang Ruochen sighed in admiration.
To be able to forge such a powerful Thousand Lines Saint Weapon even in a Ruins Realm was really quite uncommon.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen didn’t have much interest in the Green Dragon Emperor Seal, so he might as well use the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword to refine it and use it to upgrade the grade of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
Zhang Ruochen took out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and swung it towards the Green Dragon Emperor Seal.
“Boom!”
The Green Dragon Emperor Seal radiated an eye-catching green light, manifesting a gigantic green dragon silhouette that flew out, avoiding the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
Zhang Ruochen let out a light eep.
The Artifact Spirit of the Green Dragon Emperor Seal was an ancient dragon soul with a high level of intelligence, so it naturally would not allow the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword to slaughter it.
“Human, what are you doing? Do you know or not, back then, the Green Dragon Dynasty consumed roughly half of the dynasty’s resources in order to forge the Green Dragon Emperor Seal. How dare you want to destroy me?”The artifact spirit of the Green Dragon Emperor Seal spat out human words and conversed to Zhang Ruochen.
“So what? All I need is a sword in my hand and I can sweep away everything in the world.”Zhang Ruochen said indifferently.
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword let out a sword roar, shedding a long stream of light and flying towards the Green Dragon Emperor Seal.
The two Thousand Lines Saint Weapons unexpectedly fought automatically, giving birth to a fierce collision, much like two Saints fighting.
The material of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was indeed far more powerful than the Green Dragon Emperor Seal, but it was of a much inferior grade, and was unable to suppress the Green Dragon Emperor Seal at all.
In the end, Zhang Ruochen joined into the battle, controlling the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, suppressing the Green Dragon Emperor Seal, and began to melt it bit by bit.
“After refining the Green Dragon Emperor Seal, the number of inscriptions in the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword should be able to reach five thousand, right?”Zhang Ruochen said to himself.
“Human …… do you even know the value of a …… Thousand Stripes Saint Weapon engraved with eight thousand inscription lines …… you even want to refine me……”
The Green Dragon Emperor Seal’s artifact spirit felt like it had encountered an idiot, if another Saint had obtained it, he would have already been ecstatic, how could he possibly refine it?
The Green Dragon Emperor Seal was trembling violently, and within it, low-pitched dragon roars continued to come out.
The Green Dragon Emperor Seal’s artifact spirit was very unwilling to suffer from the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword’s refining, but it was just a pity that, without the master’s control, the power of even the most powerful Saint Artifact coming out was quite limited.
In a miserable dragon roar, this Green Dragon Emperor Seal completely melted and turned into a green droplet, fusing with the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
Zhang Ruochen stretched out a white right hand, grabbed the hilt of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and raised it up, closing his eyes to sense it.
In the body of the sword, there were a total of five thousand one hundred and thirty-two inscriptions, arranged in an extremely subtle manner, very much as if they had been personally burnt on by a top refining Grand Master.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t use his Saint Qi, he just swung the sword across casually.
“Wow…”
Thousands of sword qi automatically condensed out in front of the sword blade, turning into a tens of metres high wall of sword qi that pushed out into the distance with ear-piercing whistling sounds.
“With every thousand additional inscriptions, the power of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword will cross a large step. Even if, there are only five thousand or so inscriptions in the sword body, it doesn’t seem to be any weaker than the Green Dragon Emperor Seal.”
Zhang Ruochen was still quite satisfied with the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, just by its sharpness, it had already far surpassed other Thousand Stripes Saint Weapons, and was even able to cut through other Thousand Stripes Saint Weapons.
The Sacred Eating Flower completely absorbed the Demonic Ran Princess’s Sacred Source, Sacred Liquid, and Sacred Qi, and at the top of the vine, a small cyan coloured flower skeleton grew.
“Is it going to bloom for the second time?”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Spiritual Energy of the Sacred Eating Flower transmitted into Zhang Ruochen’s mind and said, “Master, as long as I can absorb enough nutrients, within a year, I will be able to make the Sacred Flower bloom completely and reach its peak state. At that time, my cultivation level, too, will surpass the Tong Tian realm, enough to compete with True Saints, and I can help my master with more things.”
“If you want sustenance, it depends on whether you listen to me or not.”
Zhang Ruochen simply replied back, and then, sent out a spiritual force to enter the Tutelary World and communicate with the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
“I have already become a saint in the flesh, and I can carry the Qiankun Realm at any time.”
Not long after, the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood sent out a message, telling Zhang Ruochen that it was about to start refining the World Spirit of the Green Dragon Market Realm, and that in the next period of time, the Tutelary World would undergo earth-shattering changes.
In the end, the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram would shatter, and the Figure Scroll World would evolve into an even more expansive and stable world, the Qiankun Realm.
