In the final battle, the Ninth Prince, Zhang Ruochen, faced off against, Situ Linjiang, the first genius of the Situ Clan.
Before the End of Year Examination, Zhang Ruochen was still treated by the crowd as a waste of space who had just opened the Divine Martial Seal, but now, no one dared to underestimate him, including Situ Linjiang who was standing opposite him.
“Battle!”
Situ Linjiang roared and immediately injected his True Qi into his spear.
The ebony black lance was wrapped in flames and transformed into a long flaming snake as it stabbed towards Zhang Ruochen.
Situ Linjiang was very clear that Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation and power was definitely inferior to his, however, Zhang Ruochen’s control of his true qi and power was very exquisite, making him a little scared.
If he wanted to win Zhang Ruochen, he had to attack furiously and make Zhang Ruochen have no power to fight back.
As long as Zhang Ruochen didn’t have a chance to strike, then he would win this battle!
Situ Linjiang was indeed much more powerful than Xue Kai, and was perfect in his use of gun techniques, but Zhang Ruochen remained calm, without the slightest bit of panic or timidity.
“Red Flame Spirit Snake!”
The spearhead of the long spear was like the head of a snake that transformed into a fiery serpent as it followed closely behind Zhang Ruochen and stabbed at Zhang Ruochen’s vest.
Zhang Ruochen’s body shortened to avoid the long spear, and the Aqua Sword in his hand violently stabbed out, directly at Situ Linjiang’s right hand that was carrying the spear.
Situ Linjiang took a step back, dodging that sword, and immediately struck out again, using the spear as a club, swinging down violently towards Zhang Ruochen’s head.
Before the spear could fall, drops of sparks had already landed on Zhang Ruochen’s body, burning small black holes in the Imperial Python Robe on Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Zhang Ruochen’s heart secretly said, “What a fast reaction speed!”
At this time, it was absolutely too late to dodge.
“Heavenly Heart Sword Bell!”
All eleven meridians in Zhang Ruochen’s body were revealed, and his true qi was unceasingly injected into the Bishui Sword, activating the two ice-type inscriptions in the Bishui Sword.
He twisted his body around and blocked the sword horizontally.
“Wow!”
A three-metre-high pale green-coloured bell shadow enveloped Zhang Ruochen’s body, spinning rapidly and emitting an icy cold aura.
Situ Linjiang’s shot slashed at the surface of the pale cyan-coloured bell shadow and was blocked by a powerful force, unexpectedly unable to shatter that one.
It was blocked!
“Boom!”
The force of that recoil shook Situ Linjiang’s arm.
Right at this moment, Zhang Ruochen took the initiative to rush out from inside the Sword Bell and swung his sword towards Situ Linjiang, swinging out an eight-metre-long sword qi.
“Heavenly Heart Pointing!”
It was another Spirit Grade Lower Grade Sword Technique!
Situ Linjiang’s face changed slightly as he immediately stepped back and dodged the sword aura, then, roaring once again, he stabbed towards Zhang Ruochen with another shot.
“Snap!”
Because the speed of the spear was too fast, the Red Flame Lance frictioned violently with the air, and the tip of the spear was burnt red, falling with a grain of sparks.
Zhang Ruochen did not clash with Situ Linjiang and immediately rose up in the air to dodge the shot just now.
“Stupidity! A person in the air can’t use his strength, he is simply a living target. Let’s see how you can dodge my second shot?”
Situ Linjiang’s reaction speed was extremely fast, his feet stomped on the ground and he also catapulted up, stabbing Zhang Ruochen’s chest with a shot.
“Who says you can’t borrow your strength? I’ll borrow your strength!”
Zhang Ruochen kept swinging his sword, clashing with the lance.
“Boom boom!”
Every time the Aqua Sword impacted on top of the lance, Zhang Ruochen’s orientation would change subtly once. In the blink of an eye, Zhang Ruochen slashed nine swords in a row, each of which slashed above the long spear.
When the ninth sword fell, Zhang Ruochen had already landed below Situ Linjiang, who was instead hanging in mid-air, becoming a living target for Zhang Ruochen.
The nine swords just now were all executed in a split second, and if one did not have enough eyesight, they could only see a series of sword shadows, and could not see the subtleties at all.
Oh no!
Situ Linjiang’s mind was in turmoil, not realising that Zhang Ruochen’s control over power had reached such a level.
Advantage and disadvantage, instantly switching.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen stabbed out with his sword.
The Aqua Sword was completely wrapped in cold, the surface of the sword body was wrapped in a layer of ice crystals, and white cold emanated from the blade.
At this moment, Situ Linjiang had not yet landed on the ground and was unable to use his strength, so naturally, he was unable to dodge.
“Fire Snake Eye Dot!”
Situ Linjiang clenched his teeth and also stabbed out with a gun, a crimson flame power erupted from the tip of the gun.
“Boom!”
The battle sword and the lance clashed together, the cold air and the flames impacting each other, letting out a loud sound of metal clashing.
A huge force travelled through the sword body and into the arm, shocking Zhang Ruochen backward by seven steps.
Situ Linjiang was even more wretched, throwing himself directly backwards and almost falling to the ground. Fortunately, at the last moment, a shot hit the ground, and with the power of the rebound, his feet landed smoothly on the ground.
It wasn’t until he stood firmly on his feet that he realised that the sleeve of his right hand was completely frozen in cold ice. By revolving the true qi in his body and shaking his arm, the sleeve immediately shattered and turned into a piece of broken ice, falling to the ground.
Without stopping, the two were once again in a fierce battle.
An old eunuch wearing a green turtledove coloured official robe stood behind Yunwu County King and said in awe, ”This is truly a battle between the geniuses of the young generation, it is just too wonderful! Your Highness, the Ninth Prince, deserves to be the bloodline of the Great King, even though he’s only at the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Realm, he was able to battle Situ Linjiang of the Situ Clan, it’s simply unbelievable.”
“That’s right! The Ninth Prince is a late bloomer with amazing natural talent, his future achievements are not something we can imagine. Congratulations Great King, congratulations Great King, the royal clan has given birth to another supreme heavenly pride.” Below, a great general in armour said respectfully.
Hearing the praise from the crowd, the Yunwu County King was naturally very happy. There was no way around it, the facts were in front of him, the Ninth Prince did have a heaven-defying martial talent, if he was in the same realm, I’m afraid that the Situ Family’s one of the first geniuses of the teenage generation would have already been defeated!
His own heir, possessing a supreme cultivation talent, what father would not be happy?
Yunwu County King laughed, “Jiu’er being able to possess such a strong battle power is by no means a coincidence, have you not noticed that although Jiu’er is only at the realm of the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Position, yet eleven meridians have already been opened up in his body.”
“What? A Yellow Extreme Realm Small Extreme Position is able to open up eleven meridians?”
Those concubines, eunuchs, princes and princesses, generals and ministers standing beside the Yunwu County King all fixed their gazes on Zhang Ruochen in the schoolyard.
If Zhang Ruochen did not run his true qi, naturally no one would be able to see the number of meridians in his body. However, after the battle with Situ Linjiang, Zhang Ruochen had to exert his full strength, and the number of meridians in his body was immediately exposed.
Of course, only those old generation martial artists with strong cultivation could see the number of meridians in his body.
“Eleven meridians! Really? Ninth Brother is actually this powerful? I remember when Seventh Brother was at the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Small Extreme Position, it seemed that he had only opened up ten meridians.” The Ninth County Mistress stared with wide eyes, her heart very shocked.
If not for the fact that the words had just come from the mouth of County King Yunwu, she would definitely not believe that there was anyone else in this world who was more talented than the seventh prince!
The more meridians a martial artist opened out, the stronger their martial body would be and the greater their potential would be.
Just like the Fifth Prince, whose cultivation had reached the Great Extreme Position of the Yellow Extreme Realm, had only opened up twelve meridians. Then, even if he cultivated to the Great Perfection of the Yellow Extreme Realm, he would only be able to open up a maximum of fifteen meridians in his body.
In other words, in the future, even if he cultivated to the Xuan Polarity Realm or Earth Polarity Realm, he would only have fifteen meridians in his body, so naturally, he would not be able to compare himself to those martial artists who had opened up sixteen meridians and seventeen meridians in their bodies.
In the Yellow Extreme Realm, a martial artist who opened up one more meridian would have one more potential.
Of course, opening up fifteen meridians in the body was already more powerful than many martial artists.
“Eleven meridians! He’s only at the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Position, but he’s opened up eleven meridians, how is this possible? Could it be that he has even more potential than the seventh prince?” Lin Fengxian’s heart was very shocked, he simply did not expect that Zhang Ruochen was so genius to such an extent.
This was no longer a genius, it was simply a wizard or a ghost.
Lin Mishan said, “Father! He really has opened up eleven meridians?”
Lin Fengxian nodded, a few moments of remorse arose in his heart, had he known that the Ninth Prince’s natural talent was surprisingly so amazing, he shouldn’t have put up such a bad attitude when Consort Lin went back to the Lin Mansion to beg him last time.
He shouldn’t have even let Lin Nianshan and the seventh prince get engaged, after all, even if Lin Nianshan married the seventh prince, she could at most become a side consort, it was simply impossible for her to be the main wife.
However, if Lin Mishan were to become engaged to the Ninth Prince, with the love that the Ninth Prince had once felt for her, and their mutual kinship as cousins, there was absolutely no doubt that she would be the first wife. If she could help the Ninth Prince become the heir to the throne, in the future, the Lin family’s say in the Yunwu County Kingdom would definitely be much greater than it is now.
Of course, it was too late to say anything now!
“Who says that the Ninth Prince is definitely not a match for Situ Linjiang? See, it’s still not clear who will win and who will lose! Hehe!” Qin Ya laughed.
Mo Hanlin nodded and said, “With the Ninth Prince displaying such powerful natural talent, his future achievements may not necessarily be lower than that one Seventh Prince. After this year’s year-end examination, the situation in the Yunwu County Kingdom is going to undergo another not-so-small change!”
