Zhang Ruochen said indifferently, “Wei Longxing’s strength is indeed very strong, but I’m afraid that there is still a considerable gap when compared to the characters on the Half-Saint List.”
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden had once said that the characters on the 『Half-Saint List』 all had the strength to fight against saints.
Obviously, Wei Longxing was not strong enough to that extent.
Wei Longxing’s cultivation level was indeed only half a step short of becoming a Saint.
However, it was not easy for him to break through the final half step.
That was a big hurdle.
Many people had paid the price of their lives in order to impact that barrier.
Wei Longxing’s strength shocked everyone present, and even those proud and unbeatable divine Son candidates kept uttering compliments, intent on pleasing the future divine Son.
Zhang Ruochen and the three of them, without going to swim in the lake, traveled straight down the mountain path towards the bottom of the mountain.
Returning to Ding Qiu’s cave, Ji Shui immediately turned the formation on.
The light of the formation blocked the entrance to the cave, turning the Ding Qiu Cave into a completely enclosed space.
Zhang Ruochen sensed that something was wrong and immediately asked, ”What is Senior Uncle doing? Could it be that you have finally decided to cultivate with your senior nephew, together?”
Her body was permeated with a chilling aura as she said in a cold voice, “Still want to continue pretending? It’s best to honestly explain how much else you’re hiding?”
Gu Linfeng had already been quite abnormal when he didn’t go to Her Highness the Holy Maiden’s banquet. Subsequently, he had actually realized the Blood God Diagram and cultivated ten blood spirit veins, becoming the second person in the Blood God Sect in a thousand years.
How could Ji Shui not be suspicious?
“In front of Senior Uncle, how would Senior Nephew dare to have the slightest bit of concealment?”
An evil smile hung on Zhang Ruochen’s face, appearing unbridled as he walked behind Ji Shui and stretched out a pair of hands, actually going to embrace her savage waist.
“Boom!”
From Ji Shui’s back, a ball of blood qi condensed and struck Zhang Ruochen’s heart, sending him flying.
Zhang Ruochen kept landing a few feet away, but he was not injured and smiled, saying, “Master Ancestor really couldn’t spare to hurt me, and his hand was so light.”
“Is that so? If, you dare to move against me again, I will chop off both your hands and feet.”
Ji Shui’s figure flickered and appeared in front of Zhang Ruochen, and a jade-white hand pinched Zhang Ruochen’s neck, warning Zhang Ruochen with her actions.
However, Zhang Ruochen was not the least bit afraid, not believing that Ji Shui dared to kill him at all.
He stretched out a pair of big hands, and in turn pinched that slender jade hand of Ji Shui, gently caressing it as he laughed, “Shifu’s hands are really delicate and soft, I just don’t know if the skin of other places on Shifu’s body is also so silky smooth?”
“You …… are looking for death ……”
Ji Shui drew out her finger, condensed it into a palm print, and printed it on Zhang Ruochen’s chest.
This strike was definitely a vicious blow, hitting Zhang Ruochen’s body with crackles and pops. His body, like a stringed arrow flew out with a bang, hitting the top of the stone wall.
Ji Shui was so angry that she was trembling, if she wasn’t afraid of the chastisement of the Sea Underworld Dharma King, she would have been able to break Gu Linfeng into pieces with that strike just now.
Opening the formation in the cave, Ji Shui immediately flew out of Ding Qiu’s cave, not wanting to stay for even a moment.
“Senior Uncle, wait until the day I become a Divine Son, I will definitely have my Senior Ancestor marry you to me, and at that time, let’s see how you can still escape me.”
In the cave, Gu Linfeng’s smug laughter was heard.
“Damnable fellow, how could such a person be able to realize the Blood God Diagram?”
Ji Shui was both a little unwilling and a little aggrieved.
Her cultivation, far surpassed Gu Linfeng’s, yet, after being molested by Gu Linfeng, she didn’t even dare to lay a harsh hand on him.
Even, in the future, it was very likely that she would have to commit herself to serving him and could only allow him to violate her. thinking of this, Ji Shui’s heart gave birth to a sense of sadness.
In the cave.
Zhang Ruochen stood up again, a fiery pain coming from his chest, and smiled to himself, “Indeed, the only way to force her away is to use this method.”
The palm that Ji Shui had just struck was indeed quite strong, if it was the Gu Linfeng of the past, he would definitely be seriously injured.
However, Zhang Ruochen had the Five Elements Chaotic Body and carried it off hard, only slightly painful.
Entering the Scroll World, Zhang Ruochen immediately entered a state of meditation, checking the Blood Spirit Vein that he had just cultivated.
Previously, within his body, there was only one Blood Spirit Vein, but now it had increased to ten.
All ten Blood Spirit Veins were connected to the blood and the Qi Sea, forming ten circumferential cycles that could constantly carry out the Holy Qi from the Qi Sea and nourish the blood, making the blood Qi in his body become stronger and stronger.
“With ten Blood Spirit Veins, as long as I keep refining high grade blood, my fleshly physique will become stronger and stronger, and eventually my fleshly body will become a saint.”
Comprehending the Blood God Diagram not only allowed Zhang Ruochen to cultivate ten Blood Spirit Veins, it also allowed him to know how to cultivate his physical body to the Saint realm.
Within the human body, not only the palms of the hands had seven major orifices.
In addition to that, there were orifices in the arms, feet, legs, waist and back, internal organs, head …… and all the tissues of the body.
All together, the human body has a total of one hundred and forty-four orifices.
Only by opening all of the one hundred and forty-four orifices, and, by absorbing the power of the divine blood and sanctifying all of the orifices, could the physical body become a saint.
Nowadays, Zhang Ruochen was only able to punch open six orifices in his left hand and six orifices in his right hand, which was less than one tenth of the orifices in his entire body.
“I can’t punch through the seventh orifices of my palms right now, but it is possible to absorb divine blood and sanctify the twelve orifices of both hands.”
Without further thought, Zhang Ruochen took out a drop of divine blood and began to try.
The meridians of his entire body revolved, absorbing the power of the divine blood.
Especially the ten Blood Spirit Veins, which operated at the fastest speed, carried the power of the divine blood towards the Wind Pool Acupuncture Point in his right hand in a steady stream.
After completely refining one drop of divine blood, the Wind Pool Acupuncture Point did not show any signs of sanctification.
Zhang Ruochen began to refine the second drop of divine blood, the third drop of divine blood ……
Until, Zhang Ruochen refined the seventh drop of divine blood, the right hand Wind Pool Acupuncture Point, finally changed, and actually condensed into a shining point of light, like a star.
Success!
“Indeed, Sanctification has occurred.”
Zhang Ruochen’s mood was very excited.
He could clearly feel that the strength of his physical body had increased by a hair, and the blood qi in his body had become even thicker.
For the next half year, Zhang Ruochen began to frantically absorb divine blood, quenching his blood and sanctifying the twelve orifices of his palms.
When he sanctified the first orifice, Zhang Ruochen had only refined seven drops of divine blood.
However, when he sanctified the twelfth orifices, he managed to refine nineteen drops of divine blood.
To completely sanctify the twelve orifices of both palms, a total of one hundred and fifty-six drops of divine Blood were consumed.
If one wanted to sanctify their physical body, they would definitely consume a large amount of divine blood.
That kind of consumption would be difficult for even a medieval family to withstand. Zhang Ruochen, however, appeared unconcerned, as long as he was able to become sainted in the flesh, consuming even more divine blood would be worth it.
Nowadays, Zhang Ruochen’s palms of his hands had six grains of light each, which were dazzling and radiant, emitting a shocking holy might.
“With my current hands, if I strike the Seven Orifices Blood Underworld Palm again, the power will be increased by at least seventy percent, and it will be even more powerful than normal Saint Arts.”
After this period of frantic cultivation, coupled with swallowing the Fourth Grade Saint Elemental Pill, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation level had already broken through to a Fourth Grade Half-Saint.
If he hadn’t cultivated ten Blood Spirit Veins, Zhang Ruochen wouldn’t have dared to imagine that he would be able to cultivate so fast.
“If I can punch open the seventh aperture of both palms and sanctify it, then the seven apertures will be connected into one, forming a small cycle. My palm power will become even more powerful, like holding seven stars in my hands.”
If he wanted to punch open the seventh orifice, Zhang Ruochen had to first find a Saint-level Elephant Soul to refine into his right arm.
However, with the Divine Son Contest already approaching, Zhang Ruochen simply didn’t have the time to search for an Elephant Soul, so he could only give up for the time being.
He was confident that with his current strength, seizing the position of the Blood God Sect’s Divine Son was no longer a difficult task.
“This Emperor has long wanted to pass on to you the secret method of becoming a saint in the flesh, but I didn’t expect that you would actually figure it out first.”
Little Black stood not far away and let out a long sigh.
Half a month ago, Little Black had returned to the Blood God Sect and told Zhang Ruochen one good news and one bad news.
The good news was that three of the four secret letters had been recovered.
The bad news was that the secret letter sent to Kong Lanyou was not recovered.
Everything was within Zhang Ruochen’s expectations, so naturally, he was quite frank.
He had planned that after the Divine Son Contest, he would make a trip to Sacred Brightness Imperial City, and it was time for him to use his cousin’s identity to meet her in person.
“You know the cultivation method of Flesh Body Sainthood?”Zhang Ruochen was quite surprised.
Xiao Hei’s big face, which was almost tilted to the sky, looked rather disdainful as he said, “This Emperor knows everything and everything.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, not believing Little Black’s words at all, and no longer paying attention to it, he walked out of the Tulip World and re-arrived at the Ding Qiu Cave Mansion.
Outside the cave mansion.
When Ji Shui saw Zhang Ruochen again, she felt quite heartbroken and said, “Your cultivation, you’ve already broken through to the Fourth Order Half-Saint?”
Zhang Ruochen followed Xiao Hei’s earlier appearance, with his hands behind his back and his chin tilted to the sky in a rather disdainful manner, and said, “After a month of closed-door cultivation, I finally managed to achieve a small success.”
Zhang Ruochen’s appearance at this moment was very beaten up.
“In just over a month’s time, you broke through from a Second Order Half-Saint to a Third Order Half-Saint, and then from a Third Order Half-Saint to a Fourth Order Half-Saint. Your cultivation speed, how could it be so fast?”
Ji Shui’s state of mind, which had received a huge shock, could not be calmed at all.
“If, Master Uncle agrees to marry me, I will tell Master Uncle the reason.”
Zhang Ruochen grinned, staring straight at Ji Shui’s shapely figure.
Ji Shui snorted, and her hands condensed two balls of blood mist, white cold ice, which spread from her feet, all the way to Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Seeing Ji Water’s anger, Zhang Ruochen immediately changed his words and said, ”It’s too much of a hardship to ask Senior Uncle to marry me, so I’ll change my request. How about …… senior uncle giving senior nephew a glimpse of your face?”
Ji Shui ended up not making a move and put the blood qi back.
“If you don’t say it, I’ll be able to guess that it must be related to the Blood God Diagram.”
Ji Shui didn’t unveil the blood-colored hood, nor did she reveal her true face, she just calmly said, “Master has already sent word that as long as you can take the position of Divine Son today, not only will you be able to see my true face. Even, I will also be yours. In that case, are you satisfied?”
That calmness in her body was tinged with a sadness that was a compromise with fate, no longer resisting and losing her anger.
Without being a saint, one was ultimately just an ant, and could only be at the mercy of others.
