“Finally breaking through to the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Middle Extreme Position, and sure enough, only nineteen meridians have been opened up!”
After three days of cultivation, Zhang Ruochen opened eight consecutive meridians, finally impacting the Yellow Extreme Realm Middle Extreme Position in one fell swoop.
The thick true qi, which was rapidly running through the nineteen meridians, filled the entire body and became one, as an unprecedentedly powerful force emanated from the meridians.
The Fifth Prince had only opened up twelve meridians even after cultivating to the Great Extreme Position.
Zhang Ruochen had only opened up nineteen meridians at the Middle Extreme Position, so it could be said that the martial body was already quite powerful.
However, Zhang Ruochen opened up twenty meridians in his last life at the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Middle Extreme Position, which was one more than he had now.
“Although I cultivated in the Barbarian God Pool once and absorbed a large amount of blood essence power, which increased the strength of my physical body by quite a bit, it’s still not as strong as my last life’s physical body. Of course, I also have an advantage that I didn’t have in my last life. That is, I now possess strong spiritual power and rich cultivation experience.”
“If I want to catch up with Chi Yao above my martial cultivation, or even surpass her, I have to do better than my last life and open up more meridians. Therefore, I must make my physical body even stronger and tougher than my last life, and open up all thirty-six meridians on the ‘Meridian Map’ of the Nine Heavens Ming Emperor Scripture.”
Zhang Ruochen walked out of the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and washed off the dirt that had been expelled from his body when he opened the meridians, and then began to practise his palms inside the courtyard.
“Boom! Boom!”
With every palm strike, the air would explode along with it.
Right now, even if he didn’t use the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, he could still strike with the power of sixteen oxen.
If he used out the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, with the explosive power of the palm imprint, he would even be able to reach the terrifying power of twenty-five oxen.
With his current power, he only needed three palms to defeat Situ Linjiang. Even if he encountered a martial artist of the Yellow Extreme Realm Grand Circle, he would still have the power to fight.
In just a few days, Zhang Ruochen’s battle power had risen to a new height.
Moving back to Yushu Palace, Consort Lin and Zhang Ruochen were naturally surrounded by many more palace maids and eunuchs.
Anyway, Zhang Ruochen had already exposed his martial arts talent during the end of the year examination, so he no longer hid it and directly practised his palms in the courtyard of the Jade Gargoyle Palace.
“The Ninth Prince is really powerful, it’s said that even the Fifth Prince and the Sixth Prince aren’t his opponents, and now the entire royal palace is saying that the Ninth Prince is a martial arts cultivation wizard, enough to be compared to the Seventh Prince.” A fifteen or sixteen year old palace maid, who was quite charming looking, stared at Zhang Ruochen, who was practising his palms in the courtyard with great fascination, and two faint dainty blushes surfaced on her snow-white cheeks.
As long as one was strong, they could naturally gain the respect of the crowd.
As long as it was a genius, of course, it would also become the object of worship for many young girls.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen, who was practising his palms, a trace of a strange colour flashed in the eyes of one of the slightly older palace maidens, who quietly left the Jade Gargoyle Palace and came to the back of a wigwam in the royal palace.
“Reporting to Miss Cold, the Ninth Prince has already come out of the gate! His cultivation should have broken through to the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Middle Extreme Position!” That one palace maid half-kneeled on the ground and said respectfully.
The young girl standing opposite her was also wearing the attire of a palace maid, a pale green palace dress, looking eighteen or nine years old, with a tall figure and slim waist and legs.
Her name was Han Qing Luo, one of the four close female guards beside the Queen.
The four close female guards were also the four disciples that the Queen had personally tuned/taught. They specialised in killing techniques, with powerful cultivation and ruthless methods, specialising in helping the Queen remove dissidents.
The task of assassinating the Ninth Prince was then handed over by the Queen to Han Qing Luo.
With her hands behind her back, the corners of her mouth gently ticked as she said, “When he was competing in the schoolyard, his cultivation reached the peak of the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Position, coupled with having absorbed the power of the Blood Essence in the Barbarian God’s Pool, with his natural talent, if he didn’t break through to the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Medium Extremity Position, that would be a strange thing to say!”
There was a faint murderous aura in Han Qing Luo’s eyes as she added, “You continue to keep an eye on him, and as soon as he leaves the royal palace, report back to me immediately.”
That one palace maid said, “Subordinate takes orders!”
After saying this, that one palace maid retreated and reentered the Yu Shu Palace.
After Zhang Ruochen finished practising his palm technique, he returned to his room and entered the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
Sitting in the centre of the inner space, he took out a Qi Gathering Pill, swallowed it into his abdomen and began to refine it.
With his current cultivation level, he could completely absorb all of the Dan Qi from the Qi Gathering Pill without wasting a single ounce.
It only took an hour to absorb all of the dan qi from one Qi Gathering Pill and transform it into true qi.
Only, when Zhang Ruochen broke through to the Middle Extreme Position, the capacity of the Qi Pool became ten times larger again. The Dan Qi of one Qi Gathering Pill did not increase the True Qi in the Qi Pool by much either.
There were only two Qi Gathering Pills left in his possession, and he spent another two hours to refine these two as well.
In total, after refining three Qi Gathering Dan, the true qi in his body was only one-fifth more than it was originally, and if he wanted to cultivate the true qi in the qi pool to perfection, it was estimated that he would need to take hundreds of Qi Gathering Dan.
“The effect of Qi Gathering Pills on me is getting weaker and weaker, when I cultivate to the Yellow Extremity Realm Great Extremity Position, it is estimated that it will be completely useless, it seems that I must purchase higher grade pills to be able to do so.”
Both the Qi Gathering Pill and the Body Refining Scatter were first grade elixirs, and the effects were naturally very obvious when taken and used by martial artists at lower realms.
As, the cultivation level of the martial artist increased, the effects of first grade pills would become lower and lower, and second grade pills must be taken in order to continue to maintain a rapid cultivation speed.
Just as Zhang Ruochen was planning to leave the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone to purchase a higher grade of elixir, suddenly, his gaze was fixed on top of the stone platform in the inner space.
On top of the stone platform, there was a picture scroll and a silver-coloured iron book, the Space-Time Mysterious Codex.
“My cultivation has reached the middle extreme position of the Yellow Extreme Realm, I should be able to open the scroll!”
The scroll was very heavy, and at the early stage of the Yellow Extreme Realm, Zhang Ruochen could not even pick it up.
According to the record above the first page of the Secret Code of Time and Space, as long as Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation reached the Yellow Extreme Realm Small Extreme Position, he would be able to open the scroll.
Zhang Ruochen mobilised the true qi in his body and gathered it towards his right arm, grabbing the scroll and slowly picking it up.
“What a heavy scroll, it weighs at least 800kg!”
Controlling his strength, Zhang Ruochen pinched the scroll and laid it flat on the ground, slowly opening it.
On top of the scroll, an imposing Record of Mangwu was painted, with tall mountains, rushing ancient rivers, steep cliffs, and in the centre of the scroll stood a huge ancient tree.
The ancient tree was taller than the clouds, each root was like a gnarled dragon, as huge as a mountain peak. Every leaf of the tree could cover a lake.
“How could there be such a tall tree in the world?” Zhang Ruochen gave a faint smile and gently shook his head.
Suddenly, a voice rang out, “Who says there isn’t? What a lack of insight, actually not even recognising the divine tree that holds up the Kunlun Realm, the ‘Heaven Receiving Divine Tree’, really disappointing to this seat.”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly startled and looked towards the inner space, however, he did not find any outsiders.
Where was the voice coming from?
“Who’s talking?” Zhang Ruochen asked in a deep voice as he was secretly on guard.
That one voice resounded once again, saying, “Don’t you see that I am in the painting?”
“In a painting?”
Zhang Ruochen was even more shocked and said, “You are the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood? However, it is recorded in the history books that the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was chopped off in the Middle Ages.”
“In the Middle Ages?” That voice sounded again.
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “The Middle Ancient Era was 100,000 years ago from now. That said, are you really the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood? The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood in the transmission really exists?”
The owner of that one voice let out a sigh and said, “How is that possible? Didn’t you all say that the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was severed, so how could I be a tree?”
“Then what exactly are you?” Zhang Ruochen stared at the scroll and asked again.
“I’m not a person!” That one voice said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “……”
That voice sounded again and said, “I’m a cat!”
Immediately after, the voice added, “Don’t underestimate this seat, this seat also has a resounding name, the Emperor of Slaughtering Heaven and Killing Earth. A great and powerful person like this seat is simply not something that can be worn away by time, even if a hundred thousand years have passed, it will still leave a colourful page in the history books. Junior Lang, you must have heard of my name, right?”
“No!” Zhang Ruochen thought for a moment, then, shook his head.
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen found something on the scroll, and underneath the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, there was indeed a black kitten the size of a grain of rice. If one didn’t look closely, it would be impossible to make it visible.
“Are you a cat or a painting?” Zhang Ruochen always felt weird.
That voice said, “Hey! I’ve told you all, I’m the Emperor of Slaughtering the Heavens and Killing the Earth, and I did something wrong back then, that’s why I’ve been sealed into the Painting Scroll World Space. Now, only you can let this seat out.”
“Why is it that only I can let you out?” Zhang Ruochen said.
“Because, you have opened the Space-Time Divine Martial Seal, you can use the power of space, and you can open the seal of the scroll world space. You have to know that from ancient times to the present, only so many three or five people have opened the Space-Time Divine Martial Seal. Junior Lang, you are very lucky!” That voice said.
Zhang Ruochen sort of roughly understood what was going on, smiled, and said, “But why did I release you from the scroll?”
