Zhang Ruochen’s mansion covered a very vast area, constructed with pavilions, lakes and rockeries, martial arts practice grounds, savage beast gardens, spirit medicine gardens, and so on, everything was there.
In addition to that, there were many formations in the mansion, apart from defence formations, there were also some Spirit Gathering Formations and Attack Formations, so even if a Half Saint wanted to come and break in, he would have to pay a great price.
Such a mansion, even if compared to the ancestral homes of half saint families, it was not bad at all.
At this moment, Huang Yicun and County King Thousand Waters were in the lobby of the inner courtyard.
County King Thousand Waters looked to be in his forties, in high spirits, with an electric gaze and two neat beards above his lips, and even though he had deliberately suppressed his aura, he still exuded a powerful aura that only came from the higher-ups.
Concubine Lin was seated on the left side of the Thousand Water County King, but she also appeared quite calm, with a dignified manner and a calm expression, without the slightest bit of restraint.
Zhang Ruochen walked in from outside and immediately bowed, saying, “Greetings to Mother, greetings to Lord County King.”
A seemingly smiling expression appeared on the face of the Thousand Water County King as he said, “Lord County King’s funny joke, Zhang Ruochen, isn’t it time to change your mouth?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed and bowed once again, saying, “Greetings, Uncle.”
The Thousand Water County King knew that Zhang Ruochen would have difficulty changing his mouth for a while, so he did not make it difficult for him and opened the door, “Zhang Ruochen, do you know about the marriage contract four years ago?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Marriage contract is a major event in life, so I dare not forget it.”
The County King of Thousand Waters nodded and said, “This time, this King came to the Eastern Domain Sacred City for this major lifelong event between you and Smoke Dust. Your marriage contract, which has been postponed for a year, this king and your mother consort have already discussed that you should be allowed to finish your marriage as soon as possible. What do you think?”
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards Huang Yichen, who was sitting on the lower hand side of County King Thousand Waters, and said, “I have no opinion, everything will be done according to Uncle and Mother’s wishes.”
The County King of Thousand Waters nodded with satisfaction, he was still quite satisfied with this one future son-in-law, and it would naturally be best if the marriage could be finalised as soon as possible.
Back then, when Zhang Ruochen was still just a prince of a lower county, the Thousand Water County King was quite optimistic about him, thinking that this son, in the future, was bound to be extraordinary.
Now, only a few years had passed, and Zhang Ruochen was already famous all over the world.
Not only had he worshipped the Xuan Gui Sword Saint as his teacher, but also, he had become the head of the six kings of the new generation of the Eastern Domain, and recently, he had even become the number one on the Heavenly Ranking, reaching the Supreme Extreme Realm.
With such an outstanding hero, I don’t know how many great powers want to take him under their wing, and I don’t know how many proud daughters of the heavens have taken him as their dream lover.
Luckily for his daughter, she had long been betrothed to Zhang Ruochen. Otherwise, with his daughter’s natural talent and birth, how could she possibly compete with the Heaven’s Proud Daughters of the main veins of those Saint Sectors?
In the end, the Huang Family of the Thousand Waters County Kingdom was only an external clan of the Chen Family, not even a branch, and its status within the Chen Family was still very low.
The Chen Family was an ancient family, with a large family and clansmen throughout the Eastern Region, and within it, it was like an empire, with strict hierarchies and strict systems.
Among them, the clansmen of the main vein had the highest status in the family.
Inside their bodies, the purest Chen Clan bloodline flowed, and they were also the absolute rulers of the Chen Clan, with a noble bloodline that held the majority of the Chen Clan’s power of speech.
Below the mainline clansmen were the branch clansmen.
The branch clansmen were also surnamed “Chen”, however, their bloodline was a bit more distant. Even some of these branch families were only the descendants of the Chen Clan, and only became a branch of the Chen Clan when they later recognised their ancestors as their own.
Because of their large numbers, the branch clansmen also had a certain amount of say in the Chen Clan. Some powerful branch clansmen were even able to enter the Chen Clan’s top echelons.
Below the branch lineage were the foreign clans.
The Huang Clan of the Thousand Water County was one of the foreign clans that were dependent on the Chen Clan.
The Chen Family, also known as the “Eastern Domain Holy King’s House”, had control over the entire Eastern Domain’s court system, including more than twelve thousand counties, along with the thirty-six prefectures of the Eastern Domain’s Divine Soil, its power was quite huge, and it was called the uncrowned king of the Eastern Domain.
It was precisely because, of the Chen Family’s influence in the Eastern Domain that there were many families, clans, and county-states that joined with the Chen Family in marriage, becoming foreign clans of the Chen Family.
The so-called foreign clans were rather peripheral strengths that were dependent on the Chen Family.
The status of outsiders was not much different from that of the Chen Family’s family generals and family slaves, and even some of the family generals and family slaves had a more honourable status than that of outsiders.
Fortunately for Huang Yichen’s mother, she had reached the Half-Saint realm, raising her status in the Chen Clan by a large margin and leaping to the top of the Chen Clan. That was why Huang Yichen was qualified and returned to the Eastern Domain Sacred City to cultivate.
However, in the end, Huang Yichen and the Thousand Waters County were still just outsiders of the Chen Family, their status and position were quite awkward.
Now it was different, and their status would, in all likelihood, change like never before.
Because, Huang Yichen and Zhang Ruochen, were about to consummate their marriage.
Zhang Ruochen was the disciple of the Xuan Gui Sword Saint, and at the same time, was the number one heavenly pride of the new generation of the Eastern Region, his future achievements were surely unlimited.
The Chen Clan’s senior management, even if they no longer looked down on foreign clans, right now, they still had to desperately pull in the Thousand Water County King and Huang Yichen, showing the importance that their clan had placed on the Huang Clan.
Who told someone else to have a son-in-law with an unparalleled talent?
Thus, this time when they came to the Eastern Domain Sacred City, the Chen Clan’s attitude towards the Thousand Water County King had changed significantly.
Of course, the Thousand Water County King understood that the Chen Family’s initiative to show him goodwill wasn’t just because, Huang Yichen’s mother, had reached the Half-Saint realm.
It was even more because, Huang Yichen’s fiancé was Zhang Ruochen, the disciple of the Xuan Gui Sword Saint.
The Thousand Water County King stared at Zhang Ruochen and said, “The seventh day of the first month next month is an excellent day, this king has already discussed with your mother consort, and the date of marriage will be set on that day.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “I don’t have any opinions.”
The Thousand Water County King laughed, “Since that’s the case, then you must remember to pick a time to come over and place the bride price. Today, the night is already late, so this king will not bother you anymore, so I will take my leave.”
Zhang Ruochen sent the Thousand Water County King and Huang Yichen, all the way to the outside of the mansion before returning back to the inner courtyard.
He walked past the outside of the hall, but saw that the lamps and candles in the hall were still lit, so he walked in and saw Consort Lin sitting alone inside the hall.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Mother, you haven’t rested yet?”
Consort Lin sat up and looked at Zhang Ruochen carefully as she asked, “Dusty son, you seem to be quite dissatisfied with this marriage?”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly stunned and laughed, “Mother, you’re thinking too much! Child and Senior Sister, have always been on extremely good terms, so how could they be dissatisfied?”
Concubine Lin shook her head and said, “Then, why aren’t you even particularly happy?”
Zhang Ruochen said as if talking to himself, “Could it be that I wasn’t very happy just now?”
Concubine Lin said, “Dusty, Mother knows that you are now very capable and there are many women who like you and can have better choices. However, you must not renege on your promise… At first, if it wasn’t for the help of the Thousand Water County King and the Smokey Dust County Lord, our Yunwu County Kingdom would have been destroyed long ago, and it would be impossible for you and I to survive until now. Do you understand?”
Zhang Ruochen walked over to Concubine Lin’s side and said, “Mother, I’m really happy to be able to get married to Senior Sister, I’ll personally bring a big gift in a few days and go ahead to place the bet. Now you are relieved, right?”
A smile finally surfaced on Concubine Lin’s face.
She stretched out her hands and squeezed Zhang Ruochen’s hand tightly, a tear flowing from the corner of her eye, feeling for the first time that Zhang Ruochen had truly grown into an adult.
Zhang Ruochen accompanied Concubine Lin, chatting together, and then took out the Spiritual Crane Pear and watched Concubine Lin eat it with her own eyes.
It was not until late at night that Zhang Ruochen left.
Returning to his room, Zhang Ruochen’s mind was full of things about his marriage on the seventh day of the next month, and he was completely unable to calm his mind to comprehend Sword One.
Thus, Zhang Ruochen took out the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, unfolded the scroll and placed it flat on the table.
Afterwards, he opened the door of space and entered the world of the scroll.
Unable to comprehend Sword One, he could naturally do something else.
Zhang Ruochen sat on the bottom of the Qian Kun Divine Wood Diagram and first spent a day refining ten Ruyi Treasure Vases.
Afterwards, he came to the bottom of the corpses of the Wool Skeleton Jiao King and the Green Flame Xuanwu, lined up the ten Ruyi Treasure Vases, and began to collect the Jiao Blood, the Xuanwu Sacred Blood, and the Xuanwu Qi.
Collecting Jiao Blood and Xuanwu Qi was naturally easy.
However, collecting Xuanwu Sacred Blood was somewhat troublesome.
The blood qi of the Greenflame Xuanwu was quite vigorous, and each drop of blood contained an incomparably powerful force.
If one were to drop a drop of holy blood on top of a stone, it would be enough to smash through a ten thousand jin boulder.
Moreover, the Xuanwu Saint Blood was corroded by the evil aura of the Pillar of the Sinful Sea, so it could only be purified drop by drop and subsequently, it could only be loaded into the Ruyi Treasure Vase.
Zhang Ruochen spent three whole days, exhausted, before he was able to refine thirty drops of Xuanwu Sacred Blood.
“The power contained in the Xuanwu Sacred Blood is also too powerful, with my current cultivation, I can only purify ten drops a day. It’s too slow and a waste of time.”
Zhang Ruochen stopped purifying the Xuanwu Sacred Blood, intending to wait until his cultivation level was higher in the future before doing this.
“One bottle of Half Sacred Jiao Blood, eight bottles of Xuanwu Qi, and thirty drops of Xuanwu Sacred Blood should already be enough for a long time.”
The corpse of the Green Flame Xuanwu was a huge treasure mine.
Zhang Ruochen had only collected just one tenth of the Xuanwu Qi to fill eight entire Ruyi Treasure Bottles.
Inside each Ruyi Treasure Vase, there was a huge space.
In the beginning, Huang Yichen had only refined a small amount of Xuanwu Qi to break through from the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Middle Extremity Position to the Fish Dragon Second Transformation.
Now, the eight Ruyi Treasure Bottles in Zhang Ruochen’s hands each contained three thousand times the amount of Xuanwu Qi she had refined in the first place.
Of course, the higher the realm, the more Xuanwu Qi consumed would increase exponentially if one wanted to break through the realm.
Even a bottle of Xuanwu Qi might not be able to support a Fish Dragon First Transformation cultivator to cultivate to the Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation.
What’s more, each sub-realm of the Ninth Transformation of Fish Dragon was a bottleneck, and not everyone could transform a fish into a dragon.
“Eight bottles of Xuanwu Qi, one bottle for Senior Sister Smokey, one bottle for Senior Sister Duanmu, one bottle for Senior Brother Chang, one bottle for Senior Brother, one bottle for Senior Elder, one bottle for Senior Elder, one bottle for Cold Snow, and one bottle for Kong Xuan. There is one bottle left at the end to keep for now.”
Zhang Ruochen held the eight bottles of Xuanwu Qi in his hand, a smile of satisfaction appearing at the corner of his mouth.
