Walking into the cultivation cave, Zhang Ruochen was the first to take out the Fengbei Shield and studied it.
The shield was shaped like a turtle’s back, with the centre bulging outwards, while the edges were inlaid with dozens of gems, each of which was extremely precious and contained special energy fluctuations.
Inside the shield, there were a total of more than twelve thousand inscriptions, both defence-type inscriptions, as well as electricity-type inscriptions and fire-type inscriptions.
Zhang Ruochen injected his Saint Qi into the Fengbei Shield, and an electric and fire intertwined light immediately surfaced on the surface of the shield.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t dig the Time and Space Crystal Stone out and still let it be set on top of the shield.
“Wow…”
Zhang Ruochen injected his Saint Qi into the Space-Time Crystal Stone, and then, his body disappeared from the Cultivation Cave and entered the inner space of the crystal stone.
“Previously, I treated the Space-Time Crystal Stone as a cultivator’s spiritual land, and constantly absorbed the crystal stone’s aura in the inner space, causing the energy of the Space-Time Crystal Stone to dry up and turn into flying dust. In the future, I cannot make such a mistake again.”
In the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, Zhang Ruochen mobilised his Sacred Qi and continuously injected it into the blood-red glove in his right hand, and immediately, the Hundred Sacred Blood Armour manifested and attached itself to his body.
In this instant, Zhang Ruochen could only feel a hundred powerful wills surging towards him and landing on his body.
The spiritual will of a hundred saints.
At the same time, there were another hundred huge strands of knowledge and Saint Dao insights that turned into a hundred torrents and rushed into Zhang Ruochen’s mind.
The knowledge of the Hundred Saints.
Even though Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation had already reached the Heavenly Realm and his spiritual strength was on the verge of reaching the fifty-fourth rank, at this moment, he was still unsteady and almost collapsed on the ground.
“So terrifying, so hard to support.”
Zhang Ruochen clenched his teeth and propped up the ground with his palms as he continued to inject his Saint Qi into the Hundred Saints’ Blood Armour, wanting to stir up the legendary Hundred Saints’ power.
The spiritual will of the Hundred Saints and the terrifying hostility that the blood armour possessed were both impacting Zhang Ruochen’s consciousness, as if they were trying to turn him into a slave of the armour.
“Ow!”
Zhang Ruochen’s will was so firm that his mind attainment was even comparable to that of a great saint, and finally, suppressing the Hundred Saints’ spiritual will, he roared and stood up again.
“Wow…”
The Hundred Saints Blood Armour dispersed ten thousand feet of blood light, and within the blood light, a hundred Saint Shadows of different forms appeared, crowding the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen’s mind was also presented with the figures of a hundred saints, who were rehearsing all sorts of different martial arts and holy arts, some performing sword techniques, some performing punches, some spitting out flames, and some shooting pillars of light from their eyes ……
This was the Hundred Saints’ Martial Exercise!
Right now, what Zhang Ruochen had stirred up was only the first strength of the Hundred Saints Blood Armour, and each Saint Shadow could only explode with the strength of a Lower Realm Saint.
Of course, the power of a hundred Lower Realm Saints superimposed on top of Zhang Ruochen’s own power was quite terrifying.
The second power of the Hundred Saints Blood Armour was the power of a hundred Middle Realm Saints.
The third power of the Hundred Saints Blood Armour was the power of a hundred Upper Realm Saint Masters.
……
“Wanting to control the power of the Hundred Saints really isn’t an easy task, with my current cultivation, I can only barely support the first power of the Hundred Saints Blood Armour.”
“If I break through to the True Saint realm, I can go ahead and try out the second strength of the Hundred Saint Blood Armour.”
Zhang Ruochen tested it, and with his current cultivation realm, he could only support the first strength of the Hundred Saint Blood Armour for half a quarter of an hour.
After half a quarter of an hour, a strong sense of weakness came from his entire body due to the huge consumption of Saint Qi.
“The consumption of Saint Qi is also too great, it’s better not to use the Hundred Saint Blood Armour until it has to be used, using the Ten Saint Blood Armour is already enough.”
Zhang Ruochen was now able to stir up the strongest form of the Ten Saint Blood Armour, and the power that exploded out was still quite considerable.
Moreover, the defensive power of the Ten Saint Blood Armour was also quite astonishing, and it was completely sufficient for battles under Saint Kings.
“Puffing.”
As Zhang Ruochen withdrew his Saint Qi, the Hundred Saints Blood Armour reappeared as a glove, attached to the top of his right palm.
Next, Zhang Ruochen went all out to refine the Condensed Truth Sacred Dew in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
Each day, Zhang Ruochen was able to refine roughly a hundred drops of Condensed Truth Sacred Dew, and his cultivation level was rising crazily, soon breaking through to the middle stage of the Tong Tian Realm.
In the next twenty days or so, Zhang Ruochen refined more than two thousand drops of Condensed Trueness Holy Dew in a row, and his cultivation impacted to the late stage of the Passing Heaven realm in one fell swoop.
There was no time to refine the Condensed Truth Sacred Dew again, and as the Saint Level Merit Battle was about to begin, Zhang Ruochen had no choice but to stop his seclusion and walk out of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
When he arrived at the Ancestral Spirit Realm, he would find another opportunity to raise his cultivation level.
Zhang Ruochen stepped out of the cultivation cave and soon felt the dense fluctuations of the Saint Dao in the surroundings, there were countless numbers of Saints that had gathered on this piece of earth.
The Saint Qi radiating from their bodies transformed into a beam of light that rushed straight above the clouds, causing a vast Saint Cloud to appear in the sky.
Zhang Ruochen released his spiritual power for an initial check, and found that the number of Saints in the Broad Cold Realm was actually 100,000 in number.
One hundred thousand Saints gathered.
Before Zhang Ruochen had come to the Heavenly Court Realm, this was a scene that he dared not imagine.
Mu Lingshi’s pretty face was a bit gloomy as she said, ”It’s too terrifying! The Guanghan Realm, which was ranked second to last among the seven realms of Shatuo, had 100,000 Saints… How powerful must the first-ranked Great Demon Ten Directions Realm be? The number of Saints in the Kunlun Realm is estimated to be less than half that of the Guanghan Realm, the difference in strength is too great, how should they fight in this merit war?”
After all, coming out from the Kunlun Realm, Mu Lingshi naturally still didn’t want the Kunlun Realm to be reduced to a battlefield, becoming a victim of the war between the Heavenly Court Realm and the Hell Realm.
However, the difference in strength was too great, and the Kunlun Realm simply didn’t have half a chance of being able to win.
Xiao Hei was indifferent, saying, “The half-saints of the Guanghan Realm, after all, are cultivating in the Heavenly Court Realm, the resources and environment are not on the same level, their breakthroughs to the Saint Realm, Saint King, and Great Saint are all definitely much easier than in the Kunlun Realm, and it’s quite normal to have twice as many, or a few times as many, in excess of the Kunlun Realm.”
Mu Lingshi looked over towards Zhang Ruochen, but saw that Zhang Ruochen was acting quite calmly, seemingly without any mental burden.
Zhang Ruochen walked over to Xiao Hei’s side and said, “Xiao Hei, you’re also going to participate in the Saint Merit Battle?”
Xiao Hei revealed a rather disdainful expression and said, “What kind of existence is this Emperor, his cultivation has already reached the level of lawlessness, how could he possibly participate in the Saint Merit Battle? Even if I were to participate, it would be in the Great Saint Merit War. However ……”
“But what?”Mu Lingshi asked.
Little Black arrogantly said, “However, the Moon God personally received this Emperor and told this Emperor that he doesn’t need to participate in the Merit War, and that he will stay in the Heavenly Court Realm along with the two old guys from Alchemy and Brewing. The main reason for this is because, this Emperor’s strength is too strong and is the biggest card of the Guanghan Realm, so it cannot be easily exposed.”
Zhang Ruochen and Mu Lingshi naturally did not believe Xiao Hei’s words and were roughly able to guess some of the reasons.
Most likely, Xiao Hei’s true cultivation was indeed past the Saint realm, but, by allowing it to participate in the higher level merit wars, and worrying that it would drag Guanghan Realm’s hind legs, they had allowed it to remain in the Heavenly Court Realm.
See through it, don’t say it.
Zhang Ruochen and Mu Lingshi glanced at each other before shaking their heads, both with a hopeless look on their faces.
“Quickly look, the mirror image of the battlefield of the Saints’ Merit War is revealed.”
Suddenly, an incomparably huge curtain of light appeared above the sky dome of the Tongyi Sacred Region, covering the entire sky.
On the curtain of light, what was revealed was precisely the scene of the Ancestral Spirit Market Realm.
It was a glorious great world that was once vibrant with all races, with billions of living beings living there.
But now, the entire great world had crumbled, and the vast majority of the world plates had turned into dust, each grain of dust being a dead, rocky planet.
Of course, there were also four huge world fragments, suspended in the starry sky, not completely shattered.
The length of each world fragment was roughly between 20 million and 30 million miles, as if they were four huge 6 lands suspended in the universe.
Zhang Ruochen mobilised his spiritual power to watch the mirror image of the Ancestral Spirit Realm, as the image got closer and closer, and the things he saw got tinier and tinier.
In the end, Zhang Ruochen’s gaze was fixed on a human city in the Western World. Only to see that the city had become dilapidated, and on the streets, a Rakshasa Clan cultivator was grasping a human head and gnawing on it, an extremely bloody and cruel image.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were a little red, and it was hard to control his emotions, wanting to kill like crazy.
“The Rakshasa Clan is also too cruel, when we go to the Ancestral Spirit Realm, we must kill them all.”
“Kill! Kill! Kill!”
“Dare to feed on humans, I will beat them to ashes.”
……
All the Saints present could see the war that was taking place in the Ancestral Spirit Realm as long as they mobilised their spiritual power. Of course, everyone’s sight was focused on the major major cities of the Ancestral Spirit Realm, and few people would pay attention to those wilderness places.
Wearing a holy armour, the Silent Emperor flew into the skies above the saints and stood below the mirror image of the battlefield, appearing majestic as he said, “The Saints’ Merit War is about to begin, and everyone has seen what happened to the Ancestral Spirit Realm, so if you don’t want the Broad Cold Realm to turn into this as well, you all have to put in all your efforts to kill the Rakshasa and earn more Merit Values.”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
Shocking killing sounds resounded throughout the Tongyi Sacred Domain.
The Silent Emperor continued, “See the mirror image of the battlefield above? A battlefield mirror image will appear in the sky above every holy realm in the entire Shatuo Seven Realms. On top of that, a battlefield mirror image will also appear in the skies above the seven great worlds of the Guanghan Realm, Kunlun Realm, and the Great Demon Tenfold Realm …….”
“So that means that all the living beings of the seven worlds are watching you. Including cultivators from some of the other worlds in the Heavenly Court Realm, and even some of the gods, they are all watching this meritocracy battle, and they are able to clearly see every single one of your battles. You absolutely cannot fail their expectations, kill, kill, kill, kill to bring out the majesty of the Guanghan Realm.”
“When the Broad Cold Realm wins the Merit War, this Emperor will definitely take out the best treasures and reward those brave warriors with the most merit.”
Just as the Silent Emperor was proclaiming, in a universe incomparably distant from the Heavenly Court Realm, the mirror image of the battlefield appeared in the sky above the Kunlun Realm.
The cultivators of the entire First Central Empire, as well as the savage beasts of all races in the Barbarian Secret Realm, all raised their heads and looked towards the heavens, looking at the Ancestral Spirit Realm that was filled with killing.
The mirror image of the battlefield also appeared in the sky above the Guanghan Realm.
……
Who was the saviour of a great world, and who was the nemesis of the Hell Realm, everything was based on hard power. And all of this was in the eyes of all the beings of the seven great worlds.
The Saint Merit War officially opened, and under the leadership of the three giants of the Guanghan Realm, an army of 100,000 Saints headed towards the Sacred Path leading to the Ancestral Spirit Realm.
