Walking into the Divine Power Hall, all the trainees all remained quiet, without any noise or communication with each other. With only an hour to spare, everyone treasured it very much and didn’t want to waste every second.
On the walls of the ground floor of the Divine Power Hall, there were twelve gold foil pictures hanging in twelve directions.
When Xue Ling, Yuchi Tiancong, Hua Ren, and Ju Hailan entered the Divine Power Hall, they each chose a gold foil diagram, sat down on the bottom of the scroll, and began to cultivate.
They were all veteran students who had entered the Divine Power Hall more than once, and had long since become familiar with it, knowing very well the cultivation laws in the Divine Power Hall.
“Twelve Half-Saint Holy Intentions.”
Zhang Ruochen looked at the twelve gold foil diagrams hanging on the wall and was slightly shocked, his heart murmured, the Martial City School Palace was also too rich and generous, it was only an outer courtyard, it actually took out twelve Semi-Sacred Sacred Intentions at once for the students to comprehend.
Zhang Ruochen took a closer look and found something wrong again.
Those twelve Half-Saint Sacred Intentions didn’t seem to be authentic, but rather topographical scrolls.
That’s right, it was topography scrolls.
Each of the Half-Saint Holy Intentions represented a Half-Saint’s martial dao and a Half-Saint’s spiritual will.
By contemplating the Half-Saint Holy Intent, the trainee would be able to refine their spiritual power through the Half-Saint’s spiritual will, thus making their spiritual power stronger and stronger.
Of course, the trainee would also have the opportunity to refer to a half-saint’s martial dao, or even comprehend some special half-saint’s mastery.
The twelve Half-Saint Holy Intentions hanging on the wall were not real, but rather topographical scrolls. They could only simulate a half-saint’s spiritual will, not a half-saint’s martial dao.
The formation in the Hall of Divine Power could infuse spiritual qi into the topography scrolls, causing the topography scrolls to produce the spiritual will of a half-saint, which could be used to refine the trainee’s spiritual power.
When the Hall of Divine Power was opened for one hour, five thousand spirit crystals needed to be consumed to maintain the half-saintly spiritual will of the topography scroll.
Five thousand spirit crystals was five million silver coins.
Because of the huge consumption, the Divine Power Hall would only open once a month.
Zixi picked one of the twelve Half-Saint Sacred Intentions, sat down on the bottom of the Half-Saint Sacred Intentions, and began to enlighten herself. There was a small line engraved on the lower left corner of that one Half-Saint Holy Intent – “Blood Disciple Half-Saint Holy Intent”.
On the wall next to the scroll, an introduction about the life of the Blood Disciple Half-Saint was engraved, while at the same time clearly telling trainees entering the Hall of Divine Power that the Blood Disciple Half-Saint Sacred Intent was suitable for female martial artists, and suitable for martial artists who pursued speed and killing.
What Zixi pursued was speed and killing, and it was probably because she had seen that passage that she chose to use the Blood Apostle Half-Saint Holy Intent to refine her spiritual power.
Prince Huo Xing and Yao Qingtong also chose a Half-Saint Sacred Intent respectively.
Luo Shuihan, Tuo Muzi, Huang Yichen, and Duanmu Xingling, however, headed towards the first floor of the Divine Power Hall, and on the stairs, Duanmu Xingling gave Zhang Ruochen a look, seemingly signalling for him to follow.
Zhang Ruochen understood and followed.
Duanmu Xingling said in a low voice, “Trainees below the twentieth rank of Spiritual Strength, all of them will train on the ground floor. Trainees above the twentieth rank are to go to the second level to cultivate.”
“Also Half-Saint Holy Intent?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Duanmu Xingling said, “The Half-Saint Sacred Intentions in the Hall of Divine Power in the Western Academy are all topographical scrolls and are not authentic. The strength of the half-saint’s spiritual will in the holy intent is directly proportional to the aura injected into the holy intent.”
“Similarly they are all topography scrolls of Half-Saint Holy Intentions, the twelve Half-Saint Holy Intentions on the first level can only allow the trainee to reach the twentieth rank of spirituality. However, the six Half-Saint Sacred Intentions on the second tier can allow a trainee’s spiritual power to reach the thirtieth rank. It is said that on the third level of the Divine Power Hall, there is also a topography scroll of a Saint’s Holy Intent, but only Luo Shuihan is able to go forward to the third level of the Divine Power Hall.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and asked no more questions.
Arriving at the second level of the Divine Force Hall, Duo Mu Zi sat down underneath the Nine Truths Half-Saint’s Sacred Intent and began to scramble for time to cultivate.
Huang Yanduan cultivated underneath the Heavenly Wind Half-Saint Sacred Intent;Duanmu Xingling sat cross-legged underneath the Glacier Half-Saint Sacred Intent and cultivated.
Zhang Ruochen also chose a Half-Saint Sacred Intent, which had ten stars drawn on it, arranged in a line, like ten stars in a row.
A very ordinary picture scroll, if it wasn’t for the fact that it was placed in the Divine Power Hall, one wouldn’t even be able to tell that it was a Demi-Saint Sacred Intent.
“Half Saint Xue Wanjian, leaving behind the True Intent,” In the lower left corner of the scroll, ten small words were engraved.
Each word was filled with force, as if written with an iron sword.
Zhang Ruochen sat down on the bottom of the Half-Saint’s Sacred Intent, calming his mind and staring towards the scroll.
After about a minute, a boom rang out in Zhang Ruochen’s mind and his eyes went black.
When Zhang Ruochen regained his vision once again, he found himself on top of a pitch-black earth, the air was cold, the ground was full of weeds, and ten stars were suspended above his head. The ten stars were lined up in a row, identical to the arrangement above the Half-Saint Holy Intent.
“This is the painted world of the Half-Saint Holy Intent?”
A hint of a smile appeared on Zhang Ruochen’s face without a hint of panic as he had entered the Sacred Intent to cultivate his spiritual power before, so he was very clear that he wasn’t really entering the Sacred Intent, but only his spiritual power was entering the Sacred Intent.
“Boom!”
The ten stars suspended in the dome of the sky emitted eye-catching light, transforming into ten pillars of light that simultaneously fell from the sky above and shone on Zhang Ruochen’s body.
With each pillar of light falling on Zhang Ruochen’s body, Zhang Ruochen felt that the weight on his shoulders doubled. When ten pillars of light fell at the same time, it was simply like ten huge mountains pressing down on his head.
“What a strong spiritual will!”
Zhang Ruochen’s legs stepped on the ground and his centre of gravity sank, bearing the weight on his body in a standing horse stance. Both of his feet had sunk into the ground, thus showing how heavy the force he was bearing was.
Just as he stabilised his body, a white-robed man carrying a battle sword descended from the sky and swung his sword at him.
“Swish!”
The battle sword swung out, condensing thousands of sword shadows.
The sword shadows converged together to form a white sword of light that stabbed at Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
“Break!”
Zhang Ruochen mobilised his own spiritual energy and condensed a sword in his hand, stabbing out violently, shattering the white sword of light into a wisp of white smoke.
That one white-robed man revealed a heartfelt smile and said, ”Under the pressure of ten weights of star power, you are still able to strike out a sword to break my attack. Your spiritual power has reached at least the thirtieth rank, and this topography scroll can no longer help you. You go out!”
“Wow!”
There was a flash of white light.
Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual energy exited from the scroll.
“Your spiritual energy has reached the 30th rank!” A very pleasant woman’s voice came from behind him.
Zhang Ruochen was slightly startled and looked in the direction behind him, only to see a woman in white standing three steps away from him.
Her figure was tall, her eyebrows were pretty, and she stood behind Zhang Ruochen in a dignified manner, her pair of starry eyes staring at the picture of the Ten Star Semi-Saint True Intent, and she didn’t know what she was thinking about.
“Greetings, Senior Sister Luo.” Zhang Ruochen stood up.
Luo Shuihan stared into Zhang Ruochen’s eyes and said, “During your second test of spiritual power, I knew that you still hadn’t exerted your full strength. I’m really curious as to how many ranks your spiritual power has reached?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “Still can’t hide it from Senior Sister Luo.”
“Come with me to the third level of the Divine Power Hall!”
Luo Shuihan’s voice was flat as she walked towards the third level of the Divine Force Hall. Her back was flawless, her green silk swayed, and her faint fragrance seemed like it could stay in the air forever, intoxicating people.
Zhang Ruochen followed, walking up the ladder and asked, “Senior Sister Luo, it is said that only you can ascend to the third level, and no outsiders are allowed to do so.”
Luo Shuihan said, “Do you know why?”
“Why?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Luo Shuihan said, “It’s because the third floor of the Divine Power Hall holds an authentic painting of the Half-Saint’s Sacred Intent, and moreover, that authentic painting was brought to the Western Academy by me from the Luo Family.”
Zhang Ruochen stopped his steps and acted calmly as well, saying, “Since that one true painting of the Semi-Saintly Business Intent was brought out by Senior Sister Luo from her family, it is Senior Sister Luo’s personal treasure, so I’d better not go there!”
Luo Shuihan turned around and stared into Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, saying, “Zhang Ruochen, you have to understand one thing, since that is my personal treasure, I can naturally invite you to cultivate with me. Because, in the entire Western Academy, only you have that qualification.”
“Senior Sister Luo has a big heart, Senior Brother admires it.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Luo Shuihan and Zhang Ruochen arrived at the third floor of the Divine Power Hall, and with a glance, they saw the Half-Saint Sacred Intent that hung in the centre of the wall.
It was still a gold foil picture, but it was fundamentally different from those topography scrolls. Even just standing next to the picture scroll, one could feel an enormous pressure emanating from it, making it difficult to catch one’s breath.
Zhang Ruochen walked to the bottom of the Half-Saint Sacred Intent and looked up, only to see that the scroll outlined a stream of water, with a small stream connecting to a small river, a small river connecting to a large river, a large river connecting to a river, and a river merging into the sea.
The number of small streams on the scroll had to be at least a thousand. The number of small rivers had to be in the hundreds, the number of big rivers was in the tens, and the number of rivers was also in the nines.
Eventually, the nine rivers converged into the sea.
“This is the ancestor, Luo Xu, who left behind the Semi-Sacred Sacred Diagram when he was in the realm of the Semi-Sacred. It is said that the diagram not only contains the spiritual will of the ancestor, but also a powerful martial way. It’s a pity that over the past two hundred years, there have been many geniuses in the Luo family, but none of them have been able to comprehend that kind of martial way out of it.” Luo Shuihan looked a little regretful as he said.
