The State Master stood up from the ground and glanced towards Zhang Ruochen, who was standing behind him, revealing a displeased expression as he said, “Ninth Prince, why aren’t you kneeling down and bowing to Empress Chi Yao?”
“I only worship heaven and earth and my parents, not her.”
After Zhang Ruochen said this, he walked through the Shrine of the Emperors, passed through a secret door, and walked along the stone staircase behind the secret door, step by step, towards the Barbarian God Pool underneath the ground.
The Fifth Prince, Situ Linjiang, Xue Kai, and Lin Mishan stood up and glanced at Zhang Ruochen.
“Such an unruly character will harm him sooner or later!” Situ Linjiang gently shook his head.
After the battle with Zhang Ruochen, Situ Linjiang was still quite impressed with his natural talent in martial arts cultivation. However, Zhang Ruochen was just too arrogant, he actually didn’t even pay homage to the Empress, he would definitely cause great trouble in the future.
“What’s there to be proud of? Right now, he is only at the cultivation level of the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Small Extreme Position, he can only be considered to have just stepped into the martial arts path, it is still uncertain whether he can become a strong person in the future!” Lin Mishan said.
Subsequently, under the leadership of the State Master, the Fifth Prince, Situ Linjiang, Xue Kai, and Lin Mishan also walked down the stone staircase, entering an underground world filled with the smell of blood.
In the centre of the underground world, a huge blood-coloured divine pool was carved out, over a hundred metres long and wide.
The blood-red pool water was constantly rolling over, raising layers of blood waves.
In the centre of the blood pool, an ancient altar stood, square in shape and piled up with ten thousand kilograms of boulders, with ritual texts and diagrams engraved on the surface of each boulder.
The stone platform went all the way upwards, connecting with the altar on the ground.
“You all enter the Barbarian God Pool to cultivate now! You must remember that the power of the blood essence in the Barbarian God Pool is very overbearing, so if you really can’t hold on, leave the pool immediately and don’t hold on. Otherwise, I fear that my life will be in danger.” The State Master said seriously.
Zhang Ruochen, Lin Mishan, Situ Linjiang, the Five Princes, and Xue Kai, the five teenage geniuses, walked into the Barbarian God Pool in turn.
The water of the Barbarian God Pool was so hot that it was almost like boiling water, capable of cooking a person.
“Ugh!”
The five teenage geniuses all let out a muffled sound from their mouths just as they came into contact with the pool water, and their skin that came into contact with the pool water immediately melted, and their legs became a bloody mess.
They clenched their teeth and endured the pain, immediately revolving the true qi in their bodies, which they used to resist the power of the blood essence.
“If you guys use your true qi to resist the blood essence power, then the blood essence power will not be able to enter your body.” The State Master stood by the pool and said indifferently.
In order to obtain the power of the blood essence in the Barbarian God Pool, the five teenage geniuses had to retract their outwardly released true qi back into their bodies, and that wave of pain came back again, hurting so much that even the meridians in their bodies protruded out.
Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power was strong, and he clearly felt a trace of hot blood essence power drilling into the flesh from the broken wounds, integrating into the blood and bones.
“It’s really great that it’s Blood Essence Power! With the help of blood essence power, my physique can definitely be upgraded by a large margin, this opportunity, I must not waste it!”
Zhang Ruochen slowly closed his eyes and took a step towards the centre of the Barbarian God Pool.
The more he walked towards the centre, the deeper the pool water became.
Zhang Ruochen had only taken ten steps before the blood-red pool water reached his waist.
The more he came into contact with the pool water, the faster he naturally absorbed the blood essence power. At the same time, the pain in his body, the more intense it was.
The State Master standing by the pool flashed a look of surprise in his eyes and secretly sighed, ”So powerful! The willpower is surprisingly so firm that just after entering the Barbarian God Pool, he dared to walk to the Median Zone. When the Seventh Prince first entered the Barbarian God Pool to cultivate, he also spent an hour to adapt to the low zone before he dared to walk towards the middle zone.”
The Barbarian God Pool, was divided into three bit zones: the low bit zone, the middle bit zone, and the high bit zone.
The Low Bit Zone was the periphery of the Barbarian God Pool. The deepest part of the Low Bit Zone could only reach the position of a martial artist’s knees.
Generally speaking, martial artists who entered the Barbarian God Pool for the first time to cultivate only dared to cultivate in the low zone, and did not dare to enter the middle zone at all.
In the last ten years, only the Seventh Prince had entered the Savage God Pool to cultivate for the first time and walked into the Median Zone.
Zhang Ruochen had only just entered the Barbarian God Pool and walked directly into the Median Zone to cultivate, which indeed created quite a shockwave, causing the other four teenage martial artists to feel a tremendous amount of pressure.
The Fifth Prince was entering the Barbarian God Pool for the second time to cultivate, yet he still didn’t dare to walk into the Medium Zone, and could only hold on bitterly in the Low Zone, striving to absorb more Blood Essence Power to quench his flesh and strengthen his physique.
Two hours later, Lin Mishan was the first to be unable to hold on, and immediately withdrew from the Barbarian God Pool. After all, she was a woman, her fleshly physique could not be compared to that of a male martial artist.
She had just stepped out of the Barbarian God Pool, and the burnt skin on her legs recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon became as clean as jade, without even a single scar.
The pain that made her unbearable disappeared and was replaced by a cool sense of comfort, every inch of her body was like being immersed in an ice crystal milk bath, very comfortable.
“How did it recover so quickly?” Lin Mishan felt surprised.
“It’s the power of the blood essence you just absorbed that helped you recover the injuries in your legs! Cultivate immediately and strive to refine all the blood essence power and transform it into your own. Otherwise, the results of your cultivation just now will be greatly reduced.” The State Master said.
Lin Mishan immediately sat on the ground, mobilising her true qi and refining the residual blood essence power in her body.
Half an hour later, Xue Kai couldn’t hold on either and withdrew from the Savage God Pool.
Another two hours passed, and Situ Linjiang and the Fifth Prince walked out of the Savage God Pool almost simultaneously.
When they walked out of the Barbarian God Pool, they immediately sat down on the ground and began to refine the blood essence power as well.
At this moment, only Zhang Ruochen was still cultivating in the Barbarian God Pool and, moreover, was still in the Median Zone.
“It’s already been half a day, and he’s actually still able to cultivate in the Neutral Zone, it’s really unbelievable. Back then, the Seventh Prince also only lasted for a day in the Median Zone, could it be that he could also last for a day?” The State Master carried his hands behind his back, his eyes filled with an unbelievable expression.
In the Yunwu County Kingdom, the Seventh Prince could be considered a rare talent that would not come out for a hundred years, at the age of three, he had opened the Seventh Grade Divine Martial Seal, and since he was a child, he had been using all sorts of treasures to quench his body, his foundation was very solid, and his natural talent and enlightenment could be considered as superb.
The Ninth Prince only opened the Divine Martial Seal at the age of sixteen, could he be able to compare to him?
Lin Mishan, Xue Kai, Situ Linjiang, and the Fifth Prince refined the residual blood essence power in their bodies, and their physiques all strengthened quite a bit, gaining great benefits.
They did not leave the Barbarian God Pool and stood at the edge of the pool, looking at Zhang Ruochen in the pool.
“It’s the same that both entered the Barbarian God Pool for the first time, why is the difference so great?” Situ Linjiang felt unbelievable and his self-confidence was dealt a severe blow.
He thought that his willpower was very strong and he was able to withstand pains that ordinary people could not, but compared to Zhang Ruochen, the difference was so great.
A day later, Zhang Ruochen was still standing steadily in the middle zone in the Barbarian God Pool.
It wasn’t until noon on the third day that Zhang Ruochen stepped out of the Barbarian God Pool, and then, sitting cross-legged on the ground, he began to refine the residual Blood Essence power in his body.
Only after refining all the blood essence power in his body did Zhang Ruochen slowly open his eyes, a trace of blood light flowing in his eyes, then the blood light disappeared and converged back into his pupils.
“The physique has indeed increased by a large margin, with my current physique, if I were to impact the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Middle Extreme Position, I would definitely be able to open up nineteen meridians, or even have a chance to open up twenty meridians.” Zhang Ruochen secretly thought.
After the end of the year examination, Concubine Lin moved back to live in the Jade Rinse Palace.
When Zhang Ruochen returned to Yushu Palace, he immediately took out ten small jade vials containing Marrow Cleansing Liquid from the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and placed them neatly in a row.
“It’s time to start impacting the Yellow Extreme Realm Middle Extreme Position!”
Zhang Ruochen took the first portion of the Marrow Cleansing Liquid into his mouth and began to open up the twelfth meridian.
……
At this moment, the State Master came to Gongwan, where the Queen resided, and reported everything in the Barbarian God Pool to the Queen.
“Boom!”
White true qi emerged from the Queen’s five fingers, crushing a glazed cup into pieces.
“It’s really something, actually cultivating for two and a half days in the median zone of the Barbarian God Pool, he’s got a lot of talent! Doesn’t he understand the truth of ‘if the wood shows in the forest, the wind will destroy it’?” The Queen said in a deep voice.
The State Master reminded, “Queen Mother. The end of the year examination has just passed, if the Ninth Prince meets with anything untoward now, the Great King will definitely suspect you.”
The Queen sneered and said, “You think this Queen is that stupid? In the royal palace, naturally he cannot be touched. But once he is out of the royal palace, even if he is killed by someone, it has nothing to do with this queen.”
The State Master said, “In fact, even if the Ninth Prince’s natural talent is high, he is only at the cultivation level of the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Small Extreme Position, completely incomparable to the Seventh Prince, and it is still unknown whether he will be able to grow up in the future. Queen Mother, there is absolutely no need to ……”
The Queen interrupted the words of the State Master and said coldly, “Anyone who would pose a threat to the seventh child must all die! It is precisely because he has yet to grow up now that it is all the more important to get rid of him to eliminate future troubles.”
