Zhang Ruochen was able to quickly cultivate from the early stages of the Lower Realm Saint to the peak of the Lower Realm Saint, mainly because he had absorbed the full power of a Holy Dragon Dragonball.
The power of the dragon pearl, while certainly thick, was not pure.
To give an example:
In the past, Zhang Ruochen was like a short and skinny little child.
After taking the Dragon Balls, he turned into a fat man with a huge physique, and compared to before, his power had indeed increased greatly. However, compared to a person of the same weight class, he was too bloated.
Nowadays, this huge-sized fatty had to go all out to exercise, removing the fat from his body and refining it into power-filled muscles to take his strength to the next level.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen was borrowing the flames in the magma to quench the Saint Qi in his body and condense the Saint Dao Rules, so that the Saint Qi and Saint Dao Rules released by the Dragon Pearl would completely merge with his own Saint Qi and Saint Dao Rules.
The Saint Dao Rules in Zhang Ruochen’s body became less and less, yet, the remaining Saint Dao Rules became exceptionally clear and full of magical dao rhythms.
Removing the dross, what remained was the essence.
About half an hour passed, and Zhang Ruochen felt that his control over the Saint Qi and Saint Dao Rules in his body became easier and easier.
With a slight movement of his mind, with a giggle, a strand of Saint Qi flew out of his body and condensed into a white battle sword.
Zhang Ruochen’s palm stretched out, and the white battle sword by disintegrated into a ball of Saint Qi and disappeared into his palm.
“My cultivation has not grown in the slightest, however, my cultivation realm is completely consolidated, as firm as a rock and refined as jade, and my battle power has also increased by a small margin. Now, it is finally time to start condensing the second Saint Origin.”
On Zhang Ruochen’s back, the Immovable Bright King Saint Phase manifested.
The Immovable Ming King Saint Phase’s body was enormous, standing in the middle of the magma, with densely-packed rules of the Holy Dao, intertwined within it, like a Giant Spirit God King.
The Immovable Ming King Saint Phase quickly contracted and turned into a fist-sized ball of white light, flying between Zhang Ruochen’s two palms.
The seven orifices of both hands emerged with bright light, and fourteen strands of holy qi surged out, like fourteen white bridges, connecting with the Immovable Ming King Sacred Phase.
As time passed, the Immovable Ming King Sacred Phase became more and more solid, turning from a gaseous state, to a liquid state, rushing into the centre of the eyebrows.
“Puffing.”
The liquid state of the holy phase and holy qi, after entering the sea of qi, quickly condensed and turned into an indestructible crystal.
“Ming King Saint Origin, condensed successfully.”
The corners of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth slightly turned upwards, but before he had time to be happy, in the Qi Sea, an earth-shattering roar resounded, causing his head to faint and ache, his eyes blackened, and he almost fainted.
“What the hell happened?”
Zhang Ruochen hurriedly detached a spiritual force that condensed into a tiny silhouette and rushed into the Sea of Qi to investigate the situation inside.
Only to see that the two Saint Sources were like two stars, suspended in the sky above the Qi Sea, emitting two very different power fluctuations.
At this moment, the two Saint Sources were colliding with each other, emitting a roar.
“Cultivating two Saint Sources at the same time will indeed cause problems.”
Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual energy condensed into a tiny silhouette that stood in the sea of smoky waves and misty qi, and was able to see that densely-packed rules of the Holy Dao were scattering out from the two Saint Sources, and were also crashing into each other.
“No, not only are they colliding, they seem to be grinding each other as well.”Zhang Ruochen said to himself.
Zhang Ruochen hurriedly withdrew his spiritual power, sat down on his knees, and went all out to run his gong methods to regain control of the two Saint Sources, and, help the two Saint Sources grind together.
Gradually, the two Saint Sources no longer collided, instead, they rotated around each other like twin stars.
“It has finally stabilised.”
Zhang Ruochen rubbed his temples to soothe the pain in his head, and at the same time, he was slightly relieved.
Just now, the two Saint Sources collided in the Qi Sea, nearly shattering his scalp.
The Saint Origin that he had cultivated himself had gone out of control and almost shook himself to death. That feeling made Zhang Ruochen quite unhappy.
Originally, Zhang Ruochen had planned to condense the third Saint Origin and the fourth Saint Origin …… in one go, but now he had to stop.
The more Saint Sources that were condensed out, the harder it would definitely be to control.
“It is said that the Spirit Dragon Flame is not only capable of quenching Saint Qi and Saint Dao rules, but it can also refine Saint Sources and enhance their quality. Collecting one Spirit Dragon Flame first should solve the problem of multiple Saint Sources contradicting each other.”Zhang Ruochen secretly said.
It wouldn’t be too late to wait until the Spirit Dragon Flame was collected before condensing other Saint Sources, there was no need to take the risk now.
Zhang Ruochen opened his eyes, only to see that eighty-one layers of Sacred Light were surprisingly floating on the outside of his body, like eighty-one light cocoons wrapping around him.
When he condensed the first Sword Dao Saint Source, Zhang Ruochen only possessed seventy-two layers of Saint Light.
When he condensed the second Ming King Saint Origin, he unexpectedly had nine more layers of Saint Light.
The more layers of holy light, the more powerful a cultivator’s defence and battle power must be in the same realm.
Not only did his cultivation grow by a large margin, but also, his fleshly body became even stronger, and even when he suffered from the calcination of the magma flames, the pain wasn’t as intense as before.
“With my current Saint Dao cultivation and physical body strength, I will definitely not fall into a disadvantage when I compete with the Barbarian Dragon Young Sovereign in terms of power once again.”
Zhang Ruochen was confident that even if he didn’t use the power of time and space, he would still be able to compete with a Saint of the Xuan Huang Realm.
“During this time when I was cultivating, the Immortal Blood Clan and the strong men of the imperial court should have already entered the volcano!”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes flashed with a brilliant aura, and a layer of blood-red light surged out from his waist as his metal belt transformed into an armour that wrapped around his entire body.
Afterwards, he collected his body’s aura, broke through the magma, and quietly and silently rushed into the ground.
After roughly 12,000 metres of diving, Zhang Ruochen sensed more than one strong fluctuation of holy qi, and thus, became more cautious, approaching the past without slowing down.
It wasn’t long before Zhang Ruochen realised that an empty underground space appeared ahead, with dozens of powerful Saint Qi fluctuations coming out from it.
Zhang Ruochen hurriedly retreated back and looked at the underground space through the half-metre thick magma.
The underground space, presented a spherical structure with a diameter of roughly three thousand metres, much like a large bubble in the magma.
At the centre of the underground space, there towered a square altar that was three hundred metres tall.
The altar was piled up with a kind of crimson red holy jade, and on each of the four sides of the altar, there was a divine dragon carved, which was lifelike and exuded an intimidating dragon might.
In the centre of the altar, there was an ancient well that led deep into the heart of the earth. At the location of the well’s mouth, a ghostly blue light emanated, reflecting the space above the altar into blue.
Dozens of figures with huge breaths stood on the four sides of the altar, divided into camps, swords drawn and murderous.
The camp of the human race, all of them were experts of the court, and among the Nine Great Realm Sons, Chi Banhuang and Agehan, stood at the forefront of the position.
Both of them had crossed into the Saint realm.
Empress Chi Yao had spent the cultivation resources of the entire Kunlun Realm to help the Nine Great Realm Sons temper their physiques and reshape their foundations, and that kind of resource cultivation was something that only the nine of them had been able to enjoy since the beginning of time.
After leaving the gate, the cultivation speed of the Nine Great Realm Sons was naturally like riding a rocket, and no living being could ever hope to compare with them.
The later it got, the faster they cultivated, the faster it would only get.
Zhang Ruochen and the Heaven Devouring Demon Dragon were able to keep up with their cultivation speed entirely by virtue of their own powerful physiques, and the strange encounters they had one after another.
Chi Huan Wang’s body was shrouded in sixty-four layers of golden holy light, wearing a golden battle armour and holding a long Qilin lance, as if he was a world-defying god of war.
Agehan wore a green coat, had long soft hair, delicate features, delicate skin, and exuded an elegant temperament.
His face was extremely beautiful, and he couldn’t find any flaws that would make a man’s heart flutter even if he looked at it.
If it wasn’t for the fact that all the cultivators in the world knew that he was a man, there would definitely be people who would think that he was a woman dressed as a man.
On top of that, the rising star of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Bu Qianfan, and the county princess of the Minor Sacred Heavenly King’s Mansion, Wan Huayu, stood behind Ji Hailan and Yearning Cold, respectively.
Bu Qianfan didn’t receive the same kind of favourable cultivation as the Sector Sons, however, he had seized the Qi Luck of the Emperor One Physique and possessed his own wonders, and compared to the two Sector Sons, he was only one step weaker.
Of course, apart from them, there was another person in the court’s camp that attracted Zhang Ruochen’s attention.
It was a white mist ……
To be exact, it should be a silhouette standing in the middle of the white mist, unable to see its gender or age, yet it made Zhang Ruochen feel unfathomable.
Just as Zhang Ruochen’s gaze, was fixed on the white mist, in the mist, a mountainous spiritual force suddenly surged out.
“Boom.”
Zhang Ruochen only felt that a sea appeared in front of him, and on the surface of the sea, huge waves hundreds of feet high were lifted up and surged towards him.?Behind the waves of water, a pair of eyes appeared.
It was a pair of incomparably beautiful eyes, black and white, full of spirituality, containing incomparably terrifying energy, much like the blazing sun and moon hanging in the sky.
It should be the eyes of a woman.
“What a powerful spiritual energy, just glancing towards her, and it was actually discovered by her.”
The space around him looked like it had become frozen, and Zhang Ruochen was locked by the other party’s spiritual power, unable to move all over, and could only watch as layers and layers of huge waves surged towards him.
Suddenly, a delicate jade hand reached out from inside the lava, grabbing Zhang Ruochen’s right hand and pulling it backwards.
Instantly, Zhang Ruochen entered the depths of the magma, detaching himself from the lock of that spiritual force, and the pressure on his body disappeared without a trace.
Zhang Ruochen stared towards the owner of that jade hand, revealing a strange expression, and then, smiled faintly, “You caught up after all, the Yin Yang Sea is quite dangerous, you shouldn’t have intruded.”
The woman who pulled Zhang Ruochen’s palm was none other than Huang Yichen.
Huang Yichen stared at Zhang Ruochen somewhat grudgingly and said, “Now is not the time to talk about this, do you know who the person who attacked you just now was?”
“Who?”
Zhang Ruochen was indeed a bit curious.
Huang Yichen said, “The Divine Goddess of the Earth God Temple, the Immortal Concubine, and at the same time, one of the Nine Heavenly Mysteries beside the Empress. Luckily, she only used her spiritual power to lock onto you just now, without spreading to the surrounding living beings, otherwise, it would have been impossible for me to save you from her hands.”
