Under the attack of the forty-six cadets, the Evil Wood Palace, one of the five great mage sanctuaries, went up in smoke overnight. The indigenous mages in the palace were almost dead or wounded.
This battle allowed the vast majority of the cadets to accumulate enough one hundred points of military value.
Of course, there were also two cadets who died of serious injuries under the counterattacks of the indigenous mages, leaving their lives in the Evil Wood Palace forever.
In the battlefield of the Market Realm, casualties would always be inevitable.
If Zhang Ruochen hadn’t broken the Sacred Formation and killed three of the Evil Wood Palace’s Dharma Kings in a row, if those forty-six trainees had tried to annihilate the Evil Wood Palace with the power of those forty-six trainees, they would have definitely ended up with all of their troops destroyed.
Only two talented cadets had fallen, which was already a very low mortality rate.
After a great battle, the Evil Wood Palace was completely turned into ruins, almost razed to the ground, and even Huang Smoke Dust and Si Xingkong, who had high cultivation, suffered some light injuries.
Although there were a lot of injured people, but everyone also got an extremely large number of treasures. The treasures that the Evil Wood Palace had been accumulating for a thousand years were divided up and looted by everyone, and everyone had a huge harvest.
Among them, Chang Qiqi even found a staff left behind by a half-saint, which almost caused a looting, but fortunately, Zhang Ruochen came out of the underground palace in time to suppress those cadets who were planning to loot it.
In the end, those trainees cared more about their personal interests, and treasures like the Half-Saint Staff were already enough for them to desperately snatch them.
However, since Zhang Ruochen had stepped in, even if they wanted the Half-Saint Staff even more, they would have to back down honestly.
A king of the new generation, who would dare to provoke?
“This staff, is carved out of Purple Cloud Sinking Incense Wood, moreover, there is still Half-Saint’s mana residue in the staff, so before using the staff, as long as you inject your true qi into it, you will be able to exert an extremely powerful force. Although it is not comparable to a Saint Weapon, it is comparable to an eleventh rank True Martial Treasure.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded gently and said so, then returned the Half-Saint Staff to Chang Qi Qi.
That staff should be a relic of that ancestor of the Evil Wood Palace.
Because, the age was too long, much of the holy power in the staff had been lost, otherwise, it would definitely be a treasure close to a holy weapon.
“Comparable to an eleventh rank True Martial Treasure? Really, won’t I be rich!”
Chang Qi Qi was ecstatic, holding that one staff tightly as if it was her lifeblood.
It must be known that Zhang Ruochen had spent 370,000 Spirit Crystals on purchasing a tenth rank True Martial Treasure Artifact grade Violet Thunder Sword.
The power of this one Half Saint Staff was comparable to an eleventh rank True Martial Treasure Weapon, so how amazing was its value?
At least, with the spirit crystals available on Zhang Ruochen’s body, he couldn’t afford an eleventh rank True Martial Treasure Weapon.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen had things that were even more precious than eleventh rank True Martial Treasure Weapons, such as the Golden God Ganoderma, Black Water Glazed Crystal, and Purple Cloud Sinking Scented Wood, casually selling one of them would make him rich overnight.
Si Xingkong also obtained some precious treasures, however, he did not look sad or happy, and his expression was quite grave as he said, “The most powerful person in the Evil Wood Palace is the Divine Wreckage Dharma King, and once he realises that he has been tricked, he will definitely return as fast as he can. With Divine Wreckage Dharma King’s cultivation, with his one man power, he would be able to kill all of us. Zhang Ruochen, we should leave!”
Huang Yichen said, “Could it be that even with the strength of all of us performing a combined attack formation, we can’t deal with the Divine Wreckage Dharma King?”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “It’s difficult! The cultivation level of the Divine Wreckage Dharma King should be at the Fish Dragon Second Transformation ‘Refining Skin into Gold’, his own defensive power is quite terrifying, just like cultivating an Unbreakable Golden Body. Even if it’s a combined attack formation that is able to defeat him, he would be able to completely retreat with ease.”
“What’s more, the Combined Attack Formation is quite consuming of true qi and cannot last at all. Once the Combined Attack Formation can’t be sustained, then we might be broken by him individually, and all of us will end up dying here.”
Although Zhang Ruochen had the ability to pose a certain threat to the Divine Wreckage Dharma King, and could even join forces with the Demonic Ape to checkmate the Divine Wreckage Dharma King, he had to make the worst possible prediction first.
Si Xingkong nodded and said, “Moreover, I suspect that the Divine Wreckage Dharma King is likely to have cultivated into the Wood Spirit Treasure Body, in which case, we would have even less of a chance.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Eldest Brother, you lead the crowd to leave first, and I’ll break your back.”
“Just you alone? No, I’ll stay behind to help you. I have the Holy Sword, or I may be able to break through Divine Skeleton Dharma King’s defences.”Huang Yichen’s body had a sharp aura, and her pair of beautiful eyes were like two cold blue stars, containing a firm will.
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “That Holy Sword, you can temporarily lend it to me first, but, you must leave. Even though I am not a match for the Divine Wreckage Dharma King, I have absolute certainty that I can leave.”
Huang Yichen eventually agreed and took out the white jade hairpin from his head, handing it to Zhang Ruochen.
A Holy Sword, quite precious, was enough to cause a Half-Saint to make a move to snatch it, but she didn’t hesitate to take it out and lend it to Zhang Ruochen without a hint of a grudge in her heart.
Huang Yichen and Si Xingkong left with the crowd, leaving Zhang Ruochen alone in the entire Split Yin Mountain.
Being the holy land of the five great mages, Evil Wood Palace used to be full of experts, with countless people rushing to learn from the masters every year. Now, all the prosperity had been destroyed in a single torchlight, making it seem incomparably lonely.
Zhang Ruochen strolled through the mountains, unknowingly walking to the location of the Holy Formation’s eyelet.
The eye of the formation was torn apart by the sword qi, and on the ground, a huge sword-scarred fissure more than twenty metres long was revealed, severing the four most prominent formation inscriptions of the Sacred Formation.
Zhang Ruochen sighed and said, ”If only Little Black was there, with its attainments in formations, it would definitely be able to renew the four formation inscriptions and restore the Holy Formation to operation. With the power of the Sacred Formation, it could be said to be easy to deal with the Divine Skeleton Dharma King.”
Since Little Black was not present, he could only do it himself.
Zhang Ruochen began to recall some formation books he had once read and tried to repair the four formation inscriptions of the Sacred Formation.
Although, Zhang Ruochen hadn’t studied formation inscriptions, but he was now a Spiritual Power Master, and he was considered to have a certain level of attainment in the area of inscriptions.
As soon as he came into contact with the Sacred Formation, Zhang Ruochen realised that the Half-Saint who had set up the formation, the way he had burned the inscriptions, wasn’t very clever, and his spiritual power shouldn’t have reached the 40th rank.
The reason why the power of a Saint Formation was so powerful was mainly because the Saint Force left behind by the Half-Saint in the formation played a key role.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen was not a formation master, so repairing the inscriptions still seemed quite difficult, and three attempts in a row failed, instead making the three Saint Formation inscriptions completely obsolete.
The effort was not enough, and when it came to repairing the fourth formation inscription, Zhang Ruochen finally succeeded.
Zhang Ruochen stood up, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and laughed, “Finally, I managed to repair one of the Holy Formation Inscriptions, I should be able to make a corner of the Holy Formation work.”
Zhang Ruochen pressed his palm on the location of the formation’s eye and injected his True Qi into it.
Sure enough, a corner of the Sacred Formation surfaced and resumed operation, covering only the mountainside, roughly only one-tenth of the area of the entire Sacred Formation.
Moreover, the power of this corner of the Saint Formation had also dropped a lot.
“It’s roughly only one-tenth of the Holy Formation’s power, and it should be enough to be used to suppress the Divine Wreckage Dharma King. The key is how should I introduce the Divine Wreckage Dharma King into the range of that Horned Sacred Formation?”
Zhang Ruochen rested his chin on his hand, revealing a thoughtful expression.
“Ow.”
Under the ground, a long whistle resounded.
The Devil Ape broke through the Fish Dragon Second Transformation, passed through the stone layer, broke through the earth, flew above the halfway point of the sky, and then fell down violently, stepping on the ground to create a huge crater.
After the realm breakthrough, the devil ape’s aura changed greatly, even its body grew another metre taller out of thin air, and every hair was like a steel needle made of metal.
As if it was demonstrating its strength, it lifted a hard ten thousand jin boulder from the ground, opened its mouth, revealing its sharp teeth, biting the boulder to pieces and swallowing it into its stomach. As if, it was eating a piece of tofu.
Even a stone could be digested, I wonder, how strong was its fleshly body?
“Awesome.”
Zhang Ruochen beckoned to the Demonic Ape.
“Boom!”
The Devil Ape immediately fought to jump and landed in front of Zhang Ruochen, its back bending as it saluted Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen sized the Devil Ape up from close range, nodded, and from his storage ring, took out a ten-catty piece of Purple Cloud Sunken Fragrance Wood and threw it towards it.
The Demonic Ape’s neck flung out and swallowed the piece of Purple Cloud Sunken Incense Wood into its stomach and began to refine it.
Zhang Ruochen said, “I don’t expect you to cultivate into a Dual Spirit Treasure Body right now, but the stronger you are by one point, the more help you will be to me.”
The Devil Ape didn’t move a muscle and began to refine the Purple Cloud Sinking Scented Wood with all its might.
Every catty that was refined was equivalent to the fruits of a year of cultivation, and his strength would be able to increase by a large margin.
It could be said that the Devil Ape’s strength was increasing rapidly every moment.
Zhang Ruochen stood at the edge of one of the cliffs of the Split Yin Mountain, looking at the red sun rising in the sky, and muttered to himself, “The Divine Wreckage Dharma King should be returning soon as well!”
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At this moment, Divine Wreckage Dharma King and Nie Wenlong were indeed on their way back to Evil Wood Palace, both of them were strong men who burst out at speeds that reached twice the speed of sound.
Although Nie Wenlong hadn’t reached the Fish Dragon Realm, he was highly gifted, and in terms of strength alone, he was strong enough to compete with experts ranked in the top 1,000 of the Heavenly Ranking.
“Damn it, that bast*rd Zhang Ruochen dared to toy with this Palace Master, if I see him, I will definitely break him into pieces.”Divine Wreckage Venerable Lord’s old face twisted, his eyes filled with a ferocious light.
Nie Wenlong said, “If he had moved any slower, perhaps, we would have met him when we rushed back to Evil Wood Palace.”
“What are you saying? With that brat’s strength, even if he dared to attack Evil Wood Palace, there’s no way he could break the Sacred Formation. The Evil Wood Palace has Dharma King Aso in attendance, so it should be foolproof.”
In fact, Divine Wreckage Dharma King was also worried, but now he could only try to look on the bright side, after all, with the Sacred Formation defending it, even if Zhang Ruochen had three heads and six arms, he wouldn’t be able to attack it.
Nie Wenlong frowned and said, “I hope it’s as you say.”
Half an hour later, Divine Wreckage Dharma King and Nie Wenlong finally arrived at the foot of Split Yin Mountain, and just by glancing towards the top of the mountain, their hearts sank to the bottom.
The entire Evil Wood Palace, a thousand year old foundation, had been reduced to ruins. The temple, still smouldering with flames, a wisp of black smoke filled the air with a choking smell.
