Nowadays, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t use many of his means, and could only use the power of the Seven Orifices Blood Underworld Palm and the Blood God Compass, and moreover, he had to keep his battle power within a certain range.
In this way, Zhang Ruochen was indeed a small difference compared to the other three Dharma King’s disciples, and it was not an easy task to win.
Fortunately, a total of three Flag Lords would be recruited by the Spectral Character Heavenly Palace this time, and apart from Yan Kongming, Bai Yu, and Ning Guihai, there wouldn’t be any formidable opponents.
As long as he could defeat one of them, he would naturally be able to take the position of Flag Lord.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Two Senior Uncles, the Senior Ancestor sent me to compete for the flag lord of the Pixie Character Heavenly Palace, so there should be a deeper purpose, right?”
“You are quite smart.”
Blue Night stared at Zhang Ruochen, still with an extremely cold face, and said, “You’ve already taken the Blood God Compass anyway, so there’s no harm in telling you.”
“The Spectral Character Heavenly Palace has been stationed in the Endless Abyss for three hundred years and is guarding a heavenly secret. By allowing you to compete for the position of Flag Master, Master wants you to be able to find out that one secret. If you fail in your bid, Master Teacher will definitely be quite disappointed.”
Hearing the truth, Zhang Ruochen was also slightly stunned.
Originally, he was still quite distressed, not knowing what to do, so that he could travel to the Endless Abyss unknowingly, but he didn’t realise that a perfect opportunity was placed right in front of him.
What secrets were hidden in the Endless Abyss that they had to send the Spectral Character Heavenly Palace to be stationed there?
It seemed that even the congregation of the Blood God Sect was unable to approach the past.
Most likely, the other three Dharma Kings had dispatched their own disciples and grandsons to go and compete for the position of Flag Lord, also to investigate the secrets of the Endless Abyss.
If one were to say that before this, Zhang Ruochen wasn’t too interested in competing for the position of Flag Lord. Now, then, even if it wasn’t for the sake of the Sea Underworld Dharma King, he had to put his best foot forward to pass tomorrow’s examination and enter the Pixie Character Heavenly Palace.
After telling Zhang Ruochen all the precautions, all of them, Ji Shui and Blue Night left the Dharma King Hall. Naturally, Zhang Ruochen did not stay here for long and immediately returned to Forgotten Primordial Island.
Entering the practice tower, Zhang Ruochen mobilised his spiritual power to observe the Blood God Compass that was coiled in the Qi Sea.
At this moment, the Blood God Compass, curled up, appeared calm and should be sleeping.
“Is the Blood God Compass really that strong?”
Slowly, Zhang Ruochen began to transform his Saint Qi into flames, forming a huge fireball and approaching the Blood God Compass, preparing to refine it.
Suddenly, the Blood God Compass awakened, exuding a tyrannical aura as it opened its mouth to devour the surrounding flames, all of them.
The blazing flames not only failed to refine the Blood God Compass, but instead became a tonic for it, causing it to become a dragon.
“Swish!”
The Blood God Compass lunged forward and rushed to Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Sea wall, using its sharp claws, it attacked.
Zhang Ruochen was secretly startled, and once again, he revolved his holy qi, causing all the marks of the Gods on the Qi Sea Wall to emerge, emitting a bright divine light to fend off the Blood God Compass’s attack.
The claws and teeth of the Blood God Compote were quite sharp, and in just a quarter of an hour, it pierced through seven divine seals in a row.
Only, after it pierced through the divine seals, those divine seals, again, quickly coalesced and took shape, continuing to block it.
The attack and defence continued for two hours in a row, and in the end, the Blood God Compass seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep once again because it had consumed too much power.
Zhang Ruochen also exhaled a long breath and muttered to himself, “What a powerful force, if, its cultivation level, reaches that of a Seventh Order Half-Saint, it is estimated that not even the Seal of the Gods would be able to withstand it.”
Although, the Blood God Compass was in slumber, it was absorbing the Saint Qi in Zhang Ruochen’s body all the time, constantly cultivating and becoming stronger and stronger.
According to its cultivation speed, it was estimated that it wouldn’t be long before it reached the level of a Seventh Order Half-Saint.
No matter what, it was necessary to rush to refine the Blood God Compass before it reached the Seventh Order Half-Saint. Otherwise, Zhang Ruochen was afraid that he would really be subject to the Sea Underworld Dharma King.
“What realm has the cultivation of the Sea Underworld Dharma King reached?”
So far, Zhang Ruochen had only seen the Sacred Soul Diversion of the Sea Underworld Dharma King, and had no idea where exactly his true body was?
The matter of the Sea Underworld Dharma King dispatching Zhang Ruochen to the Spectral Character Heavenly Palace was definitely a top secret; then, no matter if Zhang Ruochen could complete his mission or not, he would definitely be silenced in the end.
This was because, it was impossible for Dharma King Sea Underworld to keep using divine blood to renew his life.
Now, Zhang Ruochen had to prepare a strategy to get away beforehand. If he wanted to get away, naturally, he had to first figure out the strength of the Sea Underworld Dharma King, just how powerful was it?
“Wow!”
In Zhang Ruochen’s brow, light flickered, and then, the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram flew out and hovered in mid-air.
“Blood Moon Ghost King.”Zhang Ruochen called out.
A blood-red ghost qi rose up from the surface of the diagram, and in the practice tower, it coalesced into an extremely delicate figure.
Compared to when she was in the netherworld, the Blood Moon Ghost King’s cultivation level had risen quite a bit, and her body was permeated with an aura of death.
The unpredictable ghost aura condensed into a human form, transforming into a stunning beauty that stared at Zhang Ruochen and said, “Zhang Ruochen, what is the reason for you to call this king out?”
“To help me test someone’s cultivation.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Without the need for Zhang Ruochen to continue speaking, the Blood Moon Ghost King’s pair of eyes turned blood red, like two crystal clear rubies.
Immediately after, there were ninety-nine strands of invisible ghost qi that flowed out from the pupils of the eyes, surging out of the Forgotten Primordial Island, flying in a large circle over the water of the Immortal Underworld Sea, and finally locking onto the Kongcheng Island in the very centre.
Ninety-nine strands of ghost qi coalesced into a human form, transforming into a ghost qi doppelganger of the Blood Moon Ghost King. She stood on the surface of the water, releasing an astonishingly cold aura that froze the waters beneath her feet into ice.
“Huh!”
On Kongcheng Island, the Sacred Soul doppelganger of the Sea Underworld Dharma King noticed something and immediately flew up from the Plum Garden and stood in mid-air, looking out in the direction where the Bloodmoon Ghost King was, saying, “To actually be able to enter the hinterland of the Immortal Underworld Sea without a sound or a sound, Your Excellency’s cultivation is, indeed, somewhat remarkable.”
The Blood Moon Ghost King didn’t say a word, a pair of slender jade hands, slowly lifted up and pushed forward, only to hear a “rustling” sound.
Kongcheng Island as the centre, hundreds of miles in a radius, completely covered by ink-black ghost gas.
Within the ghostly aura, dense white bone shadows flew out, like an army of the undead, emitting ear-piercing hissing noises as they surged towards the Sea Underworld Dharma King.
“So Your Excellency is the Ghost King of the Netherworld.”
The Sea Underworld Dharma King snorted coldly as he raised one palm and slapped it forward, a large blood-red handprint shattering all the undead army.
Even the Blood Moon Ghost King’s ghost qi doppelganger flew backwards for dozens of miles before it was able to dissolve the power of the Sea Underworld Dharma King’s palm.
Without any hesitation, the Blood Moon Ghost King immediately disintegrated his doppelganger, turning it back into ghostly qi and dissipating in the sky above the Immortal Underworld Sea.
Meanwhile, in the practice tower, the Blood Moon Ghost King’s delicate body swayed slightly.
It was only after a long time that she fully recovered, and her eyes were very grave as she said, “This person’s cultivation is at least two realms higher than mine, and has most likely reached the Tong Tian realm. You’d better not provoke him, otherwise, it will only be a dead end. Even if you were to escape, you wouldn’t have any chance of escaping.”
Although, just now, the Blood Moon Ghost King and the Sea Underworld Dharma King had only used their doppelgangers to exchange blows, yet with their realms, their perception of power had reached an incomparably precise level, so naturally, they could surmise the other party’s true cultivation level.
Even the Blood Moon Ghost King had given such an appraisal of the Sea Underworld Dharma King, so then, this old fiend must also be a rather terrifying character.
While the Blood Moon Ghost King returned to the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, Zhang Ruochen once again fell into deep thought.
The strength of the Sea Underworld Dharma King’s cultivation was far beyond Zhang Ruochen’s expectations. Even if he went to the Endless Abyss and found out the secrets there, it would probably be difficult for him to retreat in one piece.
“At this point in time, we can only take one step at a time.”Zhang Ruochen looked rather bland, and before stepping into the Blood God Sect, in fact, he had already prepared for the worst.
That night, all of the formations in the entire Immortal Underworld Sea were turned on, and all of the congregation was dispatched out to look for traces of the Blood Moon Ghost King.
Until the next morning, nothing was found.
Zhang Ruochen pretended to be unaware of anything, changed into a blood-red robe, pulled up his hair in a bun, which gave him a somewhat dashing and handsome appearance, and walked out of the practice tower with big sleeves.
“Swish!”
“Swish!”
A black and a red, two light shuttles descended from the sky, coalescing two silhouettes, wearing black and blood robes respectively. It was none other than Sea Underworld Venerable Lord’s tenth disciple Ji Shui and thirteenth disciple Blue Night.
“Greetings to the two senior uncles.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Blue Night said, “Today is the time for the Recruitment of Flag Lords for the Pixie Character Heavenly Palace, and Master Teacher has asked the two of us to take you there.”
With that, the three of them simultaneously executed their body techniques, transforming into three beams of light as they flew out of Forgotten Primordial Island.
The examination place of the Pixie Character Heavenly Palace was located on Mount Pura.
The sun had only just risen above the horizon, yet there were already nearly dozens of blood-robed Half-Saints gathered under Mount Pura.
Characters who were able to cultivate to the level of Half-Saint were naturally all dragons and phoenixes amongst men, and each one of them could start a huge Half-Saint family, or a fourth-rate clan, and become an overlord on one side.
It wasn’t just the Four Great Dharma Kings who sent their descendants to compete for the position of Flag Lord. In the Blood God Sect, there were also some extremely powerful great figures who also sent out their disciples to participate in the examination of the Pixie Character Heavenly Palace.
Wearing heavy black armour, Savage Wild stood in a position of higher ground, his hands clasped in front of his chest as he sneered, “The number of Half-Saints participating in the Flag Lord’s examination this time should be the largest ever, right?”
Barbarian Wild was one of the six Flag Lords of the Phantom Word Heavenly Palace, coming from the Barbarian Clan, with a body as tall as five metres and arms as thick as pillars, he looked like a savage, and his cultivation was unfathomable.
Today, he and another Flag King, Zhao WuLiang, would be in charge of recruiting Flag Masters.
Zhao WuLiang’s gaze swept towards the half-saints participating in the examination and said, “Indeed, this is the largest number of people, and there are also a few quite powerful guys with extremely high qualifications, who are expected to impact the Saint realm in the future.”
