Right now, the strength of the Sacred Eating Flower was comparable to a Saint realm being at the peak of the Xuan Huang realm. Zhang Ruochen was simply no match for it without using the power of time and space.
The Barbarian Dragon Young Monarch was indeed very strong, however, compared to the Sacred Flower Eater, it was a bit inferior, so naturally, it failed to block its attacks.
Zhang Ruochen nodded with satisfaction, his fingers caressing the leaves of the Sacred Eating Flower as he exclaimed in admiration, ”The Barbarian Dragon Young Junior Monarch is extremely strong, even if I were to go all out in my attack, I might not be able to defeat him, yet you were able to whip him away with a single strike. Now, you are considered to have truly grown into a great aid for me. Not bad.”
From the flower of the Sacred Eating Flower, a soft, gentle laugh came out, pleasingly saying, “Even if my strength surpasses the Xuanhuang Realm and reaches the level of the Thorough Earth Realm, am I still not at the mercy of my master? Even if I am powerful, I am still only a part of my master’s strength.”
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation, even if the strength of the Sacred Flower Eater reached the point where it could contend with the Earth-Thorizon Realm and Heaven-Transcending Realm Saints, it would still have to obediently follow orders with him.
Unless, the strength of the Sacred Flower Eater, entered the level of a True Saint, only then would it be able to backfire on Zhang Ruochen and break away from his control, turning into an independent and autonomous ferocious plant.
Of course, when the Saint Eating Flower possessed True Saint level strength, Zhang Ruochen was also sure that it was more than just the current cultivation realm and could still suppress it.
“Roar!”
A furious roar sounded once again.
The Barbarian Dragon Shaojun rushed out from the crimson magma, his muscles bulging with explosive strength as he waved his green coloured giant axe and slashed at Zhang Ruochen once again.
The seventy-two layers of holy light on Zhang Ruochen’s body squeezed the boiling hot magma ten feet away, forming a circular space.
He stood at the centre of the holy light, facing the Barbarian Dragon Young Sovereign’s battle axe, but he did not move at all, as steady as Mount Taishan.
“Wow.”
The Sacred Eating Flower flew out once again, like a thick electric dragon, rotating around Zhang Ruochen.
Immediately after, an ear-piercing whistling sound came out as the vines of the Sacred Flower Eater flew out and struck the side of the giant axe, creating a powerful shockwave of power.
The Barbarian Dragon Young Lord only felt that he could not control the giant axe, and his arm could not help but shift to the right.
The blade of the giant axe dragged out a circular arc of energy, from the edge of the seventy-two layers of holy light to slice through the magma layer, splitting the magma layer into two, separating a hundreds of metres long mouth.
As the giant axe’s vigour dispersed, the wide mouth reclosed.
“A vine is just a vine, and the power that erupted from it is so strong.”The Barbarian Dragon Young Lord felt heart-stopping.
If, for the first time, he had been jerked out by the vine, he could still consider it to be that he had been lightly defeated, and that was why he had been caught off guard.
However, the second time he exchanged blows, the vine unexpectedly still broke his attack.
It also showed that the vine did have the power to compete with him, and even, it was possible that it was still that much stronger than him.
“No, where would a normal plant being have such a powerful attack? Could it be the …… Sacred Eating Flower ……”
Barbarian Dragon Young Lord thought of the legendary ferocious plant that could absorb the light of the sun, moon, and stars, and use holy corpses as sustenance, with no realm limitations, and could reach the Great Sage realm.
It was said that Princess Bai Li of the Jiu Li Palace had obtained a Sacred Eating Flower, and in the Green Dragon Market Realm, it had been taken away by the human race’s wunderkind, Zhang Ruochen.
“You’re Time and Space Transmitter Zhang Ruochen?”
The Barbarian Dragon Young Lord’s pair of tiger eyes were firmly fixed on Zhang Ruochen’s body.
“That’s right.”
Zhang Ruochen was very decisive as he stretched out a finger and pointed it forwards.
Where the Barbarian Dragon Young Lord was, space collapsed inwards, and a piece of spatial debris appeared.
Inside that collapsed space, a pitch-black void space manifested, forming a terrifying sucking force that devoured all matter and energy in the material space.
The Barbarian Dragon Young Monarch was worthy of being a new-generation Outstanding Saint Beast cultivated by the Ancestral Dragon Mountain, and at the first moment it recognised Zhang Ruochen, it immediately shifted its orientation to avoid that piece of collapsed space.
The Barbarian Dragon Young Monarch looked at the collapsed piece of space, only to see that, in all directions, magma was pouring over in a steady stream, disappearing into the spatial cracks.
Even with his cultivation, in front of that suction force, surprisingly, he could only barely stabilise his body.
“Is this the legendary spatial power? It’s really quite terrifying. No wonder even with the mighty strength of the Heaven Swallowing Demon Dragon, he couldn’t suppress this son, and was instead left in the dust.”
The Barbarian Dragon Young Lord felt palpitations, his heart beating furiously.
“Wow…”
In the magma, a colourful flower in full bloom swirled and flew out.
The petals of the flower, which appeared crystal clear and luminous in colour, yet there was a circle of light filaments spreading out from the petals, completely covering the area above Barbaric Dragon Young Lord’s head.
The Barbarian Dragon Young Lord glanced upwards, only to see that, in the centre of the flower, there was a sharp thorn of light growing, and once engulfed in it, the consequences would be unimaginable.
“Zhang Ruochen has been assisted by the Sacred Eating Flower, even with my strength, it would be difficult to fight against them.”?
The Barbarian Dragon Young Monarch was quite decisive, and with a long whine emanating from his mouth, he transformed into his body, turning into a mountain-sized Barbarian Dragon Beast and rushed towards the bottom of the magma.
As the Young Monarch of the Barbarian Dragon Clan, but being forced to flee by a lower realm Saint, the Barbarian Dragon Young Monarch naturally felt stifled and ashamed, and thus, shouted out a vicious sentence, “Zhang Ruochen, when this Saint collects a single Bolt Spirit Dragon Flame and impacts to the Xuan Huang realm, that’s the time for you to die.”?
The Barbarian Dragon Young Sovereign was just one step away from the Xuan Huang Realm.
As long as he collected a Spirit Dragon Flame, tempered his flesh and holy qi, and condensed the rules of the holy dao, removing the dross and retaining the essence, he would immediately be able to cultivate the Xuanhuang Qi and cross over into the Xuanhuang Realm, becoming a first-rate powerhouse amongst the holy realm beings.
As long as he crossed into the Xuanhuang Realm, even if he encountered a living being of the Earth-Thorizon Realm, Barbarian Dragon Young Sovereign would still have the confidence to fight with him.
Once he crossed into the Xuan Huang Realm, Barbarian Dragon Young Sovereign only needed to casually chop down with an axe to kill both Zhang Ruochen and the Sacred Flower Eater at the same time.
Zhang Ruochen snorted lightly and summoned the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, resting it in the palm of his hand.
The pitch-black body of the sword rotated in his palm.
On the body of the sword, a single inscription pattern emerged, causing the strength emanating from the sword to grow stronger and stronger, transforming into the Thousand Stripes Destruction Strength.
“Wow.”
The Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword dragged out a black sword light over a hundred metres long, pointing towards the ground and catching up with the Barbarian Dragon Shaojun.
“Boom.”
The tip of the sword struck the top of the dragon scales on the Barbarian Dragon Young Monarch’s back, piercing through the scales and releasing a destructive power aura.
In the next moment, a large portion of the Barbarian Dragon Young Monarch’s back, a large portion of flesh and blood burst open, becoming a bloody and miserable mess.
Deep underground, the Barbarian Dragon Young Monarch let out a roar, “Zhang Ruochen, this Saint will definitely report the news of your arrival at the Yin Yang Sea to the Heaven Swallowing Demon Dragon, your death is not far off!”
Zhang Ruochen did not chase after him and stood in his original position as he raised his right arm, releasing a sword intent and retrieving the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
On the body of the sword, the blood of the Saint Dragon was still flowing, each drop of blood releasing a powerful Saint Force.
“Worthy of being a Sacred Realm Barbarian Dragon, its defensive strength far exceeds that of beings of the same realm, taking a hard hit from the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, it even only suffered some external injuries.”
Zhang Ruochen stretched out his finger and dabbed a drop of Holy Dragon’s Blood from the sword’s blade.
The blood of the Holy Dragon, like a round ruby, released heat that exceeded the surrounding magma, and one could even see an extremely fine Holy Dao Rule.
“What a pure dragon bloodline, if I can behead the Barbarian Dragon Young Sovereign and seize his Dragon Pearl, I can definitely impact the Middle Realm Saint realm in one go.”Zhang Ruochen secretly said.
Together with the Heaven Swallowing Demon Dragon, there were a total of twelve Saint Beasts from Ancestral Dragon Mountain that had entered the Yin Yang Sea.
Even though the Snow Chaste Demoness and the Xuan Hedgehog Sacred Beasts were killed, there were still ten Sacred Beasts.
Those ten Sacred Beasts were definitely all deep underground, and Zhang Ruochen was afraid that if he ventured after them, not only would he not be able to kill the Barbarian Dragon Shaojun, but instead, he would also put himself in a perilous situation where he would be besieged.
“Right now, I’m still a bit weak, I can’t venture forward, I must wait a bit longer. When the court and the Immortal Blood Race’s saints enter the volcano, the three forces will definitely engage in a melee. At that time, it won’t be too late for me to take advantage of the chaos and enter the ground to collect the Spirit Dragon Flame.”
Zhang Ruochen was in the magma and found a more secluded location, then, he took the Sacred Eating Flower back into his body, and collected the Seventy-two Layers of Sacred Light and the Ten Sacred Blood Armour.
All of a sudden, his body was completely exposed inside the magma.
One must know that even the seawater of the Yin Yang Sea, during the daytime, released heat that could burn Saint realm beings to death.
Dragonfire Island represented the yang eye of the Yin Yang Sea, and the magma here, naturally, wasn’t ordinary magma, releasing heat that was ten times more terrifying than seawater.
Losing the protection of his Saint Light and Blood Armour, Zhang Ruochen only felt flames surging over from all directions, calcining his body as if it was going to melt him.
“Flesh body sainthood is the ultimate goal for other cultivators, yet, for me, it is a starting point.”
Just now, competing with the Barbarian Dragon Young Lord in a contest of brute force made Zhang Ruochen realise that his power was not invincible, and that he was still weak compared to the truly powerful.
The next goal, fleshly body to become a great saint.
Since ancient times, beings who were able to cultivate their fleshly bodies to the level of Great Saints, all of them were world-defying and fierce, strong enough to dominate an era.
Although the goal was very distant, Zhang Ruochen believed that through his own efforts, he would definitely be able to reach it.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen was enduring great pain, using the flames in the magma to quench his flesh.
All one hundred and forty-four orifices in his body opened up, forming one hundred and forty-four tiny vortexes that absorbed the flames into his body, surging into the veins, meridians, and sacred veins, flowing throughout his body.
Zhang Ruochen’s body trembled as the pain emanating from his body continuously challenged the limits of his willpower. He felt like he was about to be burnt to ashes, yet he had to persevere.
“I’ve gone through the baptism of the Pure Destruction Divine Flame, and I’ve attained Flesh Body Sainthood, I don’t believe that I still can’t withstand the flames in the Yin Yang Sea.”
Zhang Ruochen clenched his teeth and tried to make himself forget all the pain on his body, and in his mind, two images surfaced: the Blood God Diagram and the meridian operation diagram of the seventh layer of the Nine Heavens Ming Emperor Scripture.
Comprehending the former, one could cultivate the physical body.
Viewing the latter, one could enhance one’s cultivation.
Zhang Ruochen used two things at once, quenching his fleshly body while operating his Saint Qi.
The flames in the magma, while quenching the physical body, were surprisingly also quenching the Saint Qi and Saint Dao Rules in Zhang Ruochen’s body, causing the Saint Qi to become more and more pure, and the Saint Dao Rules to become clearer and thicker.
