Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power characteristic, which was to manipulate thunder and lightning, represented attack and combat amongst spiritual power cultivators.
However, Zhang Ruochen used to cultivate the lowest-grade lightning spells and only had low-grade spiritual power spells, so even if his spiritual power strength reached the fifty-second rank, he could only be considered the weakest amongst spiritual power cultivators of the same rank.
“Puffing.”
Zhang Ruochen’s right palm popped open, and a ray of lightning as thin as silk appeared in the palm of his hand, intertwining into the shape of a ball and radiating a purple light.
Level 1 Spell, Spherical Lightning.
Zhang Ruochen did not strike the spell out, under the control of his spiritual power, the lightning dissipated and spread out, turning into nothing.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Ruochen mobilised his spiritual power to check the state of the Sacred Eating Flower.
When the Middle Winning King shattered the three veins in Zhang Ruochen’s body, it also hit the Sacred Flower of Eating heavily, causing it to fall into a state of dormancy, and so far, it had not awakened.
It was fortunate that the Sacred Flower Eater had suffered a heavy blow, otherwise, with Zhang Ruochen’s current state, he might not be able to suppress it.
Huang Yichen had long since returned to the valley and stood not far away, seeing that Zhang Ruochen’s mental state was good, so a light smile appeared on her pretty face as well, saying, “Your injuries seem to have improved somewhat?”
“It’s alright, it’s just that my spiritual strength has improved a bit again.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t want to worry her, keeping an optimistic mindset, he asked, “According to what the wine madman said, that Saint Master of the Dan Dao, resides in the Black Wind County of the Hongchuan Prefecture, how far away is it from our current location?”
Zhang Ruochen’s mood was very urgent, wanting to renew the three veins as soon as possible.
Huang Yichen said, “The Northern Domain is divided into a total of thirty-six prefectures, and the Hongchuan Prefecture is located in the centre of the Northern Domain, the very prefectures where the Undying Blood Clan and the Imperial Court’s armies fought most fiercely. The place where we are now is Ningfengfu, located in the northern part of the Northern Domain, which has been fully captured by the Immortal Blood Clan.”
“An entire Prefecture has been captured?”
Hearing this, Zhang Ruochen’s mood became somewhat sombre.
After the establishment of the First Central Dynasty, it was the division of the world’s territories into prefectures and counties to govern. In the entire Northern Region, there were only thirty-six prefectures in total, and each prefecture was divided into thirty-six counties.
Just one county’s territory was also quite vast, exceeding 100,000 miles.
During the hundreds of years of peace and prosperity, humans were able to rest and recuperate, and as a result, the population surged. The population of a county was at least billions.
A prefecture was a million miles of territory with a population of over a hundred billion.
If the entire prefecture was captured by the Undying Blood Race, one could imagine how astonishing it would be, I don’t know how many humans died and turned into white bones. I don’t know how many humans turned into livestock raised by the Immortal Blood Clan, providing them with a constant supply of blood.
Huang Yichen’s expression was solemn as he said, ”In fact, in the Northern Domain, ten provinces have completely fallen, with each of the ten major clans of the Immortal Blood Clan occupying one province. At the same time, the ten tribes are still foddering their troops and mobilising their forces, preparing to continue capturing more prefectures. Right now, the most fiercely contested prefecture is the Hongchuan prefecture. It is said that the ten major passes of the Red River Prefecture have all been dyed red with blood, and the fight has been so intense that both the Immortal Blood Clan and the court’s cultivators have been killed and injured.”
“How long has it been, that ten prefectures have already fallen, what on earth are the imperial court’s armies doing?”Zhang Ruochen said in a cold voice.
Huang Yichen sighed, “The First Central Empire has been peaceful for hundreds of years, and those sons of the families and heirs of the sects have become extravagant, rarely experiencing life and death battles, so how can they be compared to the bloodthirsty Immortal Blood Race by nature? What’s more, the Immortal Blood Race’s life force is quite powerful and already has a great advantage, on the battlefield, they can constantly suck blood to recover from their injuries, and always maintain their abundant fighting strength.”
There was a pause before Huang Yichen added, “However, with the life and death battles over the past one or two years, the fighting strength of the human cultivators has obviously risen a notch, and they are already able to fight against the Undying Blood Race, and are no longer crushed in a single battle as they were in the past.”
Zhang Ruochen was a felon of the imperial court and a mortal enemy of the Empress, however, he was not a cold-blooded and heartless person, unable to remain indifferent when he saw humans being slaughtered and treated as food.
“Counting the time, the cleanup within the Confucian Way and the imperial court should already be over. Within the next few days, the Sacred Book Talented Lady will probably release the Blood Race Secret Scroll to the world.”
Zhang Ruochen’s mind pondered darkly, feeling that after the Blood Clan Secret Scroll was released, the battle situation would definitely change.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen was also thinking that he should brew the Six Saints Ascension Wine as soon as possible, so that the entire human race’s physique would become stronger and more powerful people would be cultivated.
Only Half-Saints and Saints were the pillars that supported a race and were the main force.
Soon after, a bitter smile appeared on Zhang Ruochen’s face again, he himself was only a half-wasted person right now, whether he could recover or not was still a big question, to think that he was still thinking about working for the entire Human Race, would it be a bit too self-conscious?
“Ignore this for now, amongst the Human Race, there are countless great figures who are more capable than me, these problems will be solved by them. Right now, reconnecting the three veins and restoring my cultivation is the most important thing.”Zhang Ruochen smiled to himself.
Then, Zhang Ruochen inquired, saying, “Has there been any result from the battle at the Yin Yang Sea?”
Huang Yichen nodded and said solemnly, “The Divine Dragon Sun and Moon Chaos Pagoda came out, and some of those beings at the top of the Kunlun Realm had set out to fight for it, and the Barbarian Secret Scrolls have become even more turbulent.”
Zhang Ruochen had already made some guesses, but when he heard that the Divine Dragon Sun Moon Chaos Tower had come out, he was still a bit shaken, and hurriedly asked, “Who finally captured the Divine Dragon Sun Moon Chaos Tower?”
“Remember that mysterious being who was frozen on the stone bridge? He came to life and grasped the Divine Dragon Sun Moon Chaos Tower, defeating all the major forces at the emperor level and becoming the master of the Yin Yang Sea.”Yellow Smokey said.
“So it’s him.”
Zhang Ruochen felt incredulous, and then, asked, “Is there any news about Little Black?”
Huang Yichen shook his head and said, “Little Black hasn’t contacted us, and there’s no news about it in the outside world.”
“What about the Immortal Bird?”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t believe that Xiao Hei had fallen, and somewhat suspected that the Immortal Bird was it.
Yellow Smoke Dust said, “Some witnesses claimed that the Immortal Bird was injured by that world-defying powerhouse from the Yin Yang Sea and fled into the barbaric wilderness, and since then, there has been no news about it.”
Zhang Ruochen lapsed into silence for a moment before he smiled again and asked, “Is there any news about me in the outside world? The news of me having my three veins abolished by the Central Winning King should have already spread all over the world, right?”
“Don’t worry about that much, feel at ease and recuperate from your injuries. Only after your injuries are healed can you go and do what you want to do.”
Huang Yichen didn’t tell Zhang Ruochen about those things in the outside world, worrying that he would be stimulated and lose his mind, which would be detrimental to his injuries.
Zhang Ruochen was able to detect that Huang Yichen was hiding something from him, yet, he didn’t continue to pursue the matter because Huang Yichen was right, with his current physical condition, he should indeed focus all his energy on recuperating his injuries.
Without his injuries healed, doing anything would be beyond his capabilities.
“Let’s go! Head to the Red River Mansion.”
Zhang Ruochen stood up and together with Huang Yichen and Qing Mo, they walked out of the cave made of dried corpses and stood in the middle of the valley where blood aura filled the air, their gazes staring towards the blood pool at the bottom of the valley.
About sixty Half-Saints of the Immortal Blood Race were sitting by the blood pool, cultivating and gulping down blood qi, the aura on their bodies constantly becoming stronger.
Huang Yichen felt the murderous aura escaping from Zhang Ruochen’s body and knew what Zhang Ruochen was thinking as he said, ”This valley, built in the vicinity of Langxin County City, and there are nearly a million Immortal Blood Race armies stationed in the periphery of the County City. There are a total of three Blood Saints, guarding the army. With our cultivation, as long as we are not surrounded by the army, we can easily retreat in one piece.”
“Before we leave, then let’s teach the Undying Blood Race another lesson, just to try out my current means of spiritual attacks”
Zhang Ruochen took light steps and travelled towards the bottom of the valley.
The Immortal Blood Race Half-Saints who were cultivating detected the human’s aura, and all of them stopped cultivating and looked towards Zhang Ruochen’s trio in great astonishment.
“Where did the humans come from to intrude into the Valley of Ten Thousand Hearts, don’t they know that this is a forbidden place?”
An Immortal Blood Race Half-Saint, stood up and grabbed a blood-red crystal lance, bursting out with lightning-like degrees, stabbing at Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen’s finger gently waved, mobilising his spiritual power and slashing out an electric blade, severing it into two. The two cut off bodies became charred black, all the life force was all lost, even if he was an Immortal Blood, they were all dead.
“Bold.”
All of the Immortal Blood Race’s Half-Saints, all of them were enraged, and they were operating their Saint Qi, some were performing Saint Arts, and some were mobilising their Saint Weapons.
Zhang Ruochen stretched out a finger and pointed it towards the sky, and all the aura between the heavens and earth converged into the air above his head, condensing a lightning light shuttle.
Before the Immortal Blood Race’s Semi-Saints could even strike their Saint Arts and Saint Weapons, those lightning light shuttles descended from the sky and landed on their bodies.
“Rumble.”
The entire valley was covered in lightning, and all of the dry corpses were all turned into robbed ash, and even the rocks and dirt melted into liquid droplets.
By the blood pool, a large number of Immortal Blood Race’s Half-Saints fell, twenty to thirty of them all went up in smoke, and the rest of the Half-Saints suffered heavy injuries and collapsed on the ground dying.
The advantage of a Spiritual Force Saint fighting a Martial Dao Saint of the same level was not particularly obvious.
However, the most powerful point of a Spiritual Force Saint was the ability to fight one against many, especially on the battlefield, with a destructive power that was not comparable to that of a Martial Dao Saint, and if the power was used well, it could even change the victory or defeat of a battle.
If a different Martial Dao Saint wanted to tackle dozens of Half-Saints, it would definitely not be as easy as Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen looked at the electric aura in his palm and then at the Immortal Blood Race Half-Saints who had fallen to the ground, and sighed softly, “It’s true that I still should have cultivated some advanced spells, and by using a level one spell, I actually failed to exterminate them all.”
“Which Spirit Power Saint is travelling to Langxin County, this Saint has come to meet you.”
Outside the Ten Thousand Heart Valley, an explosive cry rang out.
Immediately after, a vast blood mist surged over from afar, hovering in the sky above the valley. There was a powerful fluctuation of Saint Qi that emanated from the blood mist, and then, a Blood Saint with four wings walked out.
