Zhang Ruochen brought the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and the Flashing Soul Sword to the front yard of the Qingxuan Pavilion, paid 31,000 silver coins, and returned to the royal palace with the two war swords.
Zi Yi’s side hall, in the courtyard full of snow.
Zhang Ruochen held the four-foot long broken sword in his hand, an inexplicable emotion in his heart.
Eight hundred years had passed, the sea had changed, the mountains and rivers had changed, things were different, and it was unexpected that even the once incomparably sharp Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword had broken!
Even the broken Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword was very heavy, and if Zhang Ruochen had not reached the late stage of the Yellow Extreme Realm, he might not have been able to hold it.
“The inscriptions in the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword are indeed all broken, and right now, it’s just sharper than other battle swords. If you want to renew the inscriptions in the sword’s body and restore the power of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, it would take at least a Fifth Grade Refiner to do so. Is there a Fifth Grade Refiner in the Yunwu County Kingdom?”
Zhang Ruochen put away the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
Even if this sword turned into a piece of scrap metal, he must still carry it with him. This was because it could always remind himself to cultivate hard, and only by cultivating until he was strong enough could he go and seek revenge on Empress Chi Yao.
Zhang Ruochen took out the Fourth Grade True Martial Artifact “Flashing Soul Sword”, gripped the hilt in his hand, and pulled out the scabbard, revealing the precious blue crystalline body of the sword.
Zhang Ruochen mobilized the true qi in his body and poured it into the body of the Soul Shining Sword through his palm.
In the Flash Soul Sword, the first inscription was catalyzed by the True Qi and revived.
It was a force system inscription! Once it was activated by the true qi, it could increase the weight of the Flash Soul Sword by a hundred pounds.
The Flash Soul Sword originally only weighed fifty-three jin, and with the first force system inscription revived, the weight of the sword body directly reached one hundred and fifty-three jin.
The weight skyrocketed.
Zhang Ruochen’s arm trembled slightly and had to re-stabilize his hand.
Clang!
A sword stabbed out.
However, the movement of the sword was not precise and was quite difficult to control.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation level, when he executed the Dragon Elephant Palm, he could indeed explode the strength of a brute bull. It could even lift up a three hundred pound stone plate and throw it ten meters away.
However, that was all an explosion of power in a split second!
If it were to be replaced by a three hundred jin heavy battle sword, with Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation, it would not even be easy to lift the battle sword flat, let alone having to execute a subtle sword technique.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation, executing a sword that weighed one hundred and fifty-three jin was already the limit of what he could withstand.
“Thrust!”
“Chop!”
……
It was only after a whole afternoon of cultivation that Zhang Ruochen initially adapted to the weight of the Flash Soul Sword.
Of course it was only a preliminary adaptation!
Those sword masters could easily kill a mosquito within three feet with their swords, controlling their swords with unparalleled subtlety, reaching the realm of “the sword follows the heart”.
Zhang Ruochen was still far from being able to reach that step, and compared to those Sword Dao experts, he was still too clumsy. The sword is too heavy!
“There are a total of four force system inscriptions in the Flash Soul Sword, and just by stimulating the first force system inscription, the Flash Soul Sword weighs one hundred and fifty-three pounds. If the second inscription were to be excited, how heavy would the Flash Soul Sword become?”
Zhang Ruochen mobilized the true qi in his body and continued to pour it into the second force system inscription.
However, the true qi in his body turned out to be thinner and thinner, but the second force system inscription did not change in the slightest, showing no signs of revival at all.
Zhang Ruochen had to give up.
“With the amount of true qi in my body right now, I simply can’t activate the second inscription, my cultivation is still not strong enough!”
Zhang Ruochen withdrew the true qi that had been injected into the sword body, and the Flash Soul Sword immediately reverted to weighing only fifty-three pounds. Having adapted to the weight of one hundred and fifty-three jin, the fifty-three jin Flash Soul Sword gave Zhang Ruochen a feeling of lightness.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen injected his True Qi into the Flash Soul Sword again and activated an ice-based inscription.
The Flashing Soul Sword, immediately emitted a piercingly cold aura, freezing Zhang Ruochen’s five fingers a little numb.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen swung out his sword, and a grain of crystal snow immediately appeared on the blade of the Flash Soul Sword. Those were tiny water droplets in the air that were frozen into frost grains by the sword Qi.
“Electricity Inscription!”
“Light System Inscription!”
Zhang Ruochen tried to activate another Electricity-based Inscription and another Light-based Inscription.
Immediately after the Electricity System Inscription was activated, strands of tiny electric wires appeared on the surface of the sword. When the sword stabbed out, it was almost like a bolt of lightning breaking through the air and flying out, emitting a loud “popping” sound.
After the light-based inscription was activated, the Soul Flash Sword was immediately wrapped in a layer of white light mist, becoming incomparably sharp. As the white light flashed by, the stone immediately cracked.
With the amount of true qi in Zhang Ruochen’s body right now, he could only support one inscription. By using the power of the force lineage inscription, he would not be able to use the power of the other three lineage inscriptions.
If he wanted to activate two inscription patterns at the same time, he would have to cultivate hard and raise his cultivation level.
“These 30,000 silver coins were not unjustly spent!”
Zhang Ruochen took the Flash Soul Sword back into its scabbard.
“There are a total of fourteen inscriptions in the Flashing Soul Sword, and if all fourteen inscriptions are activated, only then will the power of a fourth-stage True Martial Treasure Weapon be fully displayed. I must intensify my cultivation before I can do so!”
When he entered the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, Zhang Ruochen immediately took a Qi Gathering Pill and began to cultivate.
“Boom!”
The Qi Gathering Pill exploded inside his body, transforming into a huge ball of Dan Qi.
The six meridians immediately began to carry the dan qi, transforming it into true qi and storing it in the qi pool.
It took most of the day for Zhang Ruochen to absorb all the Dan Qi in his body and refine it.
Among them, only five layers of dan qi were absorbed and transformed into true qi.
The other five layers of Dan Qi, escaped from the pores and were all wasted!
If it was any other martial artist, he would have been very distressed. After all, wasting fifty percent of the Dan Qi was equivalent to wasting five hundred silver coins.
Zhang Ruochen, however, did not feel that it was wasted, he just felt that the true qi in his body had increased quite a bit more. If one were to cultivate in a gradual manner, it would take more than ten days to achieve the current effect.
Taking the Qi Gathering Pill only took half a day.
What was a mere thousand silver coins?
If the silver coins were gone, they could be earned again.
If time is wasted, you can’t earn it back.
For the next few days, Zhang Ruochen spent the vast majority of his time cultivating in the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
He used the “Qi Gathering Pill” to increase the amount of true qi in his body. He used the Body Refining Scatter to refine his body.
Other than that, he would also spend a lot of time practicing the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm and the Heavenly Heart Sword Technique.
In the first month of cultivating in the Space-Time Crystal Stone, the amount of True Qi in Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Pool had increased by five times.
In the second month of training in the Space-Time Crystal Stone, Zhang Ruochen could burst out with the “Force of Two Bulls”.
In the third month of cultivation in the Space-Time Crystal Stone, the amount of true qi in Zhang Ruochen’s qi pool reached ten times that of the late stage of the Yellow Extreme Realm that he had just broken through. The true qi in the qi pool was cultivated to perfection, reaching the limit of the late Huang Polarity Realm.
At this time, Zhang Ruochen was fully capable of starting to open up new meridians and impact the Yellow Extreme Realm Minor Extreme Position.
However, Zhang Ruochen did not do so, but suppressed his cultivation and continued to use the Body Refining Scatter to quench his body.
“With my current physique, if I want to impact to the Yellow Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position, I must open up four more meridians. In other words, I will have a total of ten meridians in my body at the Yellow Extreme Realm Small Extreme Position.”
It should be known that martial artists who cultivated the lower grade of the Human Grade could only open up a total of seven meridians in their bodies, and even if they cultivated to the Great Perfection of the Yellow Extreme Realm, the number of meridians in their bodies would still be seven.
To be able to open up ten meridians at the small pole position was definitely considered a top genius.
However, Zhang Ruochen felt that it was still far from enough.
One must know that in his previous life, when he was at the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Small Extreme Position, he had opened up a total of thirteen meridians.
“Although my current physique can’t be compared to my last life, I firmly believe that as long as I work hard to temper my physical body, it won’t be difficult to open up eleven meridians at the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Position.”
Zhang Ruochen’s biggest advantage in this life was that he possessed a Time and Space Crystal Stone, which allowed him to cultivate for three times as long as others. Since he had two times more time, he naturally had to utilize it wisely and strive to improve himself, even to do even better than in his last life.
In the fourth month of cultivating in the Space-Time Crystal Stone, Zhang Ruochen’s physique had undergone a drastic change, and when he executed the Dragon Elephant Prajna Fist, he was able to burst out with the “strength of three oxen”.
In the sixth month of training in the Space-Time Crystal, Zhang Ruochen’s strength had risen once again, and he was able to burst out with the power of “four oxen”.
After reaching this point, Zhang Ruochen finally felt that his physique had bottlenecked, reaching the limit of his physical body, and it was extremely difficult to raise his strength even a tiny bit further.
Even if he cultivated for another year, he would not be able to raise his strength to “Five Bulls’ Strength”.
After half a year of cultivation in the Space-Time Spirit Crystal, two months had passed in the outside world.
“To be able to cultivate the strength of a savage bull, one would be considered an upper-middle class powerhouse in the late Yellow Extreme Realm. Only a martial artist of the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Position can cultivate the power of four bulls.”
“I’m still at the late stage of the Yellow Extremity Realm, yet I’ve already cultivated the power of four bulls, which is enough to fight against an average Yellow Extremity Realm Small Extremity Position martial artist. If I break through to the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Position, how powerful can I explode?”
“Now that my body strength has reached the limit at this stage, I can start impacting the Yellow Extreme Realm Minor Extreme Position! I also wonder how many meridians can be opened up?”
As a precaution, Zhang Ruochen took out a total of six small jade bottles containing Marrow Cleansing Liquid and placed them neatly in front of his body.
“Work hard! At the same realm, the more meridians one opens up, the more powerful one’s physique and battle prowess will be. Put up a fight!”
Zhang Ruochen grabbed the first small jade vial, swallowed the Marrow Cleansing Liquid into his stomach, and immediately began to open up the seventh meridian.
