Duanmu Xingling was wearing a long pale green dress with a long hemline that trailed at her feet, her shoulders and back were wrapped in white savage bird feathers that flowed with colour, and her slender savage waist was tied with a snow silkworm silk belt, making her look rich and luxurious.
She had long black hair, crystal clear skin, long eyelashes, rosy lips, a long slender neck, and plump breasts and hips. Growing a thirteen or fourteen year old face, however, the delicate body was more concave and convex than a twenty year old woman, plump and shapely, it was simply a stunning beauty.
She seemed to have only just bathed before she came to Zhang Ruochen’s residence.
When Zhang Ruochen opened the door, he could smell a faint fragrance, and looking at Duanmu Xingling standing outside the door, he also felt quite astonished and said, “Senior Sister Duanmu, why are you dressed so gorgeously?”
“Don’t women like to dress beautifully? During the daytime, we can only wear the martial arts clothes prescribed by the Academy Palace, can’t we even dress ourselves up at night?”
Duanmu Xingling looked very playful, stretching out a catkin on Zhang Ruochen’s shoulder, deliberately flirting with him as she laughed, “Elder Brother, do you think Elder Sister is beautiful?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Beautiful!”
“Then do you think that Senior Sister is beautiful, or is that one Violet Senior Sister more beautiful?” Duanmu Xingling gently pursed her lips, revealing a pitiful appearance.
“Both are beautiful!” Zhang Ruochen said.
It had to be said that this Senior Sister Duanmu was truly a little demoness, with a charm that could tempt men to commit crimes.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t want to continue discussing the topic just now, so he twisted Duanmu Xingling’s jade hand that was resting on his shoulder and took out a jade translucent spatial bracelet, placing it in her hand and smilingly said, “Senior Sister Duanmu, a spatial jade bracelet for you. You will be able to open the inner space of the spatial jade bracelet by injecting your true qi into it.”
Although Duanmu Xingling had long been mentally prepared, when pinching the spatial jade bracelet, it still felt a little unreal.
Was it really a spatial treasure?
Duanmu Xingling took the spatial jade bracelet and injected her true qi, and indeed felt the vast space in the bracelet.
This spatial jade bracelet, although it is not like those spatial treasures in the legends, can be stored in heaven and earth, can form a small world of its own. But used to store personal treasures, is far enough, for martial artists, is still priceless treasure.
Duanmu Xingling put the spatial jade bracelet directly on her wrist and kept stroking it, her beautiful eyes carried a rippling lustre, obviously very fond of it, her voice delicately said: ”Senior brother, this is a spatial treasure, although the grade is very low, but as long as it is taken out to be sold, it will surely be madly snatched, and it can at least be sold for half a million silver coins. If it is targeted by two Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Myths at the same time, and they raise each other’s prices, even if it sells for five million silver coins, it is still possible. Are you really willing to give it to senior sister?”
Zhang Ruochen’s body stood straight, his aura honourable and elegant, showing the style of a prince as he smiled, “It’s just a storage bracelet, it’s not worth much to me.”
The aura on his body was not just the aura of a prince in this life, it was the aura of the son of Emperor Ming in the previous life. It was an elegant temperament that was like a spring breeze, honourable but aloof, confident but low-key. A prince of an ordinary county could not learn it at all.
Duanmu Xingling stared at Zhang Ruochen and shook her head, saying, “How about this! Senior Sister won’t accept your Spatial Jade Bracelet for nothing, so this drop of Semi-Saint True Liquid will be given to you!”
Duanmu Xingling took out a small delicate jade bottle and handed it to Zhang Ruochen. On the jade bottle, it still carried the faint body fragrance of her body.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes lit up and he did not refuse, putting the Half-Saint True Liquid away.
The Half-Saint True Liquid was quite an important treasure for him right now.
“The value of a single drop of Half-Saint True Liquid is still far less than the value of this single Spatial Jade Bracelet.” Duanmu Xingling’s two eyebrows wrinkled slightly as she said, “This time, let’s call it a favour that Senior Sister owes you, in the future, if you run into trouble in the Western Courtyard, feel free to tell Senior Sister. Whoever dares to be your enemy, I will be the first to not spare him.”
Zhang Ruochen knew that up until this moment, Duanmu Xingling truly regarded him as a friend.
Previously, at best, he could only be considered a classmate with a slightly better relationship.
As if she had thought of something else, Duanmu Xingling said, “There’s one more thing, the day after tomorrow in the morning, the Divine Power Hall’s will briefly open for an hour, so you mustn’t miss the time.”
“Thanks for reminding me, Senior Sister.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Duanmu Xingling’s smile was incredibly beautiful, the more she looked at Zhang Ruochen, the more she felt that the more she looked at him, the same were all princes, how come those other princes were so much different from him?
“The Hall of Divine Power, it only opens once a month, and it’s only for an hour at a time. Other trainees, don’t even have the chance to enter the Divine Power Hall to cultivate, only the number one freshman in each session is qualified to enter.” Duanmu Xingling reminded Zhang Ruochen again before leaving.
After Duanmu Starling left, Zhang Ruochen muttered, “The Divine Force Hall, it should be the place where the Martial City Academy Palace cultivates top geniuses.”
The resources enjoyed by top geniuses were much more than the average trainee.
As long as they were able to cultivate top talents, no matter how precious the cultivation resources were, the Martial City Chambers could take them out and share them.
For example: the Half Saint True Liquid, in other major powers, it was something quite precious. However, in the Martial City Palace of Learning, even the lowest ranked outer palace disciple would be able to obtain one drop a year.
Being rich and powerful was different.
Zhang Ruochen looked at the drop of Semi-Saint True Liquid in his hand, a delighted expression on his face as he opened the small jade bottle, a faint fragrance emanated from the bottle and filled the entire room.
In order to prevent the medicinal power of the Half-Saint True Liquid from being lost, Zhang Ruochen immediately released his Spatial Domain, controlling those escaping medicinal qi within three metres of the space.
Upon reaching the late Xuanji Realm, the Spatial Domain became even stronger and could cover a space of fifty metres in a radius.
Zhang Ruochen gently sucked in, and all of the escaping Half-Saint True Liquid was sucked into his body.
“Snap!”
The bones and muscles within Zhang Ruochen’s body rattled and made tiny popping sounds.
The true qi in the thirty-six meridians flowed rapidly and frantically, carrying the medicinal power of the Half-Saint True Liquid to every corner of his body.
After the medicinal power of the Half-Saint True Liquid had run through his body for a large circumference, Zhang Ruochen felt that his entire body’s meridians had become more pliable.
“Just by inhaling a single strand of medicinal energy, I’ve gained such a great benefit, if I were to consume the entire drop of the Half-Saint True Liquid, how powerful would my martial body be?”
Zhang Ruochen couldn’t wait to enter the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and take the drop of Half-Saint True Liquid.
Just after swallowing the Half-Saint True Liquid, an extremely cold aura travelled out from his abdomen, freezing Zhang Ruochen’s entire body and causing his entire body to shiver as a layer of frost formed on the surface of his skin.
That layer of frost continued to thicken, and after half an hour, Zhang Ruochen was completely frozen into a two-metre high ice crystal.
Zhang Ruochen sat in the centre of the ice crystal, his eyes closed tightly, his hands placed at the position of his knees, and the thirty-six meridians in his body operated at the same time, constantly absorbing the medicinal power of the Half-Saint True Liquid.
One day later.
The drop of Half-Saint True Liquid was absorbed by Zhang Ruochen into the Jade Pure True Qi in its entirety, and as the Jade Pure True Qi flowed, the medicinal power of the Half-Saint True Liquid began to surge towards the entire body.
The wave of coldness in the body disappeared and was replaced by a dry heat, as if there was a flame in the abdomen, the entire body looked as if it was about to burst into flames.
The ice crystals on the surface of Zhang Ruochen’s body began to melt, turning into ice water and finally being dried up by the heat.
Another two days passed.
While Zhang Ruochen’s body returned to normal, his skin radiated a faint white light. The entire body was wrapped in true qi, and strands of true qi kept drilling in and out of the pores as if they were a spirit snake.
When the fourth day came, Zhang Ruochen finally refined that drop of Half Saint True Liquid completely, the meridians in his body became even more expansive, and even the capacity of the Qi Lake increased by about one tenth.
For martial artists of the same realm, the capacity of the Qi Lake was almost always the same size.
Taking the Half-Saint True Liquid, however, caused the Qi Lake to increase in size.
In other words, at the same realm, Zhang Ruochen’s true qi would be deeper than other martial artists, and his body would be able to hold more true qi.
Like Duanmu Xingling and Huang Yichen, they were able to get close to ten drops of Half-Saint True Liquid every year, which they used to enhance their physique. The amount of true qi they were able to store in their qi lakes definitely far exceeded that of other Xuanji Realm Grand Circle martial artists.
Zhang Ruochen had only refined one drop of the Half-Saint True Liquid, and he had gained a huge benefit.
The bones, muscles, and organs, all of them were tempered, and Zhang Ruochen could clearly feel that his strength had become even stronger.
There was also a significant increase in his cultivation, and he was not far from the late Xuanji Realm’s Perfection Realm.
“The Semi-Saint True Liquid is indeed a good treasure, if only I could obtain more Semi-Saint True Liquids!” Zhang Ruochen exhaled a long breath, his limbs and bones were soothed.
The reason why Zhang Ruochen was able to completely refine a drop of Semi-Saint True Liquid in just four days was because, with his thirty-six meridians, the speed of refining was much faster than other martial artists.
If it were another martial artist at the late Xuanji Realm, it would have taken at least twenty days to completely refine a drop of Half-Saint True Liquid.
Zhang Ruochen counted the time, it was almost time for the Divine Power Hall to open, so he immediately stepped out of the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and rushed towards the Divine Power Hall.
Early in the morning, the sky had just brightened up.
Outside the Divine Force Hall, there were eight young trainees gathered, six of them were all women and only two were men.
These eight people were the Western Academy’s top freshmen of all years.
Zhang Ruochen was the ninth and last to arrive outside the Divine Force Hall.
Apart from Zhang Ruochen, the weakest cultivation of the other eight was at the Xuanji Realm’s Great Extreme Position, and that person was last year’s freshman first, Xue Ling.
The remaining seven were all at the Xuan Extremity Realm Great Extremity Realm.
This year’s freshman number one was Zhang Ruochen, last year’s freshman number one was Xue Ling, two years ago’s freshman number one was Yuchi Tiancong, and three years ago’s freshman number one was Duanmu Xingling. Three years ago, the top student was “Duanmu Xingling”, four years ago, the top student was “Luo Shuihan”, and five years ago, the top student was “Huang Yichen”.
Yuchi Tiancong was also a remarkable teenage genius, just two years after joining the Martial City Palace, he had reached the Xuanji Realm Grand Circle, which had shocked many of the elders.
There was also another male student, who was the number one freshman nine years ago, named Tuo Mu Zi, who had already stayed at the Xuanji Realm Grand Circle for six years.
This year, he was already twenty-nine years old, and if he couldn’t reach the Earth Extremity Realm before the age of thirty, then he would never have the chance to become an inner palace disciple of the Martial City Academy Palace.
The Xuanji Realm Great Completion to the Earth Extreme Realm was a big watershed, and many geniuses who originally had a very fast cultivation speed could be stuck in this realm for ten years, twenty years, or even for the rest of their lives.
So it wasn’t that Tuo Mu Zi’s talent was low, but that it was really too difficult to break through to the Earth Extreme Realm.
