How could Zhang Ruochen not be interested?
In the Martial City Academy, only Inner Palace students could spend Merit Value to exchange for a Half-Saint True Liquid.
Even if the outer palace trainees had merit value, they couldn’t exchange it for the Half-Saint True Liquid and could only receive the Half-Saint True Liquid that was distributed every year and every quarter.
If the outer palace students wanted to obtain the Half-Saint True Liquid, they had to spend a high price to buy it in the black market.
However, the black market is very dangerous, if there is no acquaintance to lead the way, it is very likely to attract the evil forces inside the black market, and in the end, people and money are lost.
Zixi was different, she was originally an assassin in the black market, so it would be the best thing for her to go to the black market to buy the Half-Saint True Liquid.
Zhang Ruochen stared at Zixi and said, ”Sad that your cultivation has risen so quickly, so it turns out that you have already refined five drops of the Half Saint True Liquid. How much is a drop of Half Saint True Liquid in the black market?”
Zixi didn’t hide anything from Zhang Ruochen and said, “If an outsider were to go and buy it, they would need at least 400,000 silver coins to buy one drop. However, our Hellmouth Sect has its own channels, so the price is much cheaper. To purchase one drop, you only need two hundred thousand silver coins.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and stuffed all three hundred bottles of pills to Zixi.
Afterwards, Zhang Ruochen took out all of the more than one hundred True Martial Treasure Weapons and handed them over to Zi Xi, saying, “After selling all of these pills and True Martial Treasure Weapons, purchase all of them for the Semi-Sacred True Liquid, and it would be even better if you are able to purchase the Sacred Liquid.”
“Alright! I’ll be back in three days, so wait for my good news.” Zixi stared Avray at Zhang Ruochen and walked forwards for more than ten steps before she suddenly stopped and turned around, smiling brightly at Zhang Ruochen and said, “After selling the pills and True Martial Treasures, the silver coins obtained will be split thirty to seventy?”
Zhang Ruochen knew that Zixi loved silver coins and spirit crystals, so he didn’t bother with her and nodded with a smile, saying, “Thirty-seven split.”
“Swish!”
Zixi transformed into a beautiful purple shadow and left the Western Courtyard, disappearing into the lofty mountains of the Heavenly Demon Ridge.
When he returned to the Dragon Martial Hall, Zhang Ruochen entered the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and prepared to start impacting the Xuan Extremity Realm’s Middle Extremity Position.
Taking out the eight drops of Semi-Saint True Liquid, he placed them in a row and arranged them in front of his body.
“There are still ten days to go before the Quarterly Examination, and in the Space-Time Crystal Stone is one month, which should be enough for me to impact to the Xuan Polarity Realm Middle Extreme Position.”
Taking the first drop of the Half-Saint True Liquid, a bone-piercing coldness appeared in the abdomen, and with the meridians, it spread to every corner of the body.
It was not the first time Zhang Ruochen had taken the Semi-Saint True Liquid, and he quickly adapted to it, spending only three and a half days to refine the drop of Semi-Saint True Liquid.
Subsequently, the second and third drops were refined ……
After refining the seventh drop of Half Saint True Liquid, Zhang Ruochen finally broke through the realm in one fell swoop, reaching the Xuanji Realm Mid Extreme Position.
Zhang Ruochen’s body let out a roar as the capacity of the Qi Lake expanded by thirteen times, and the thirty-six tendons in his body followed suit as the true qi in the tendons accelerated its flow, emitting a sound like the rushing of water.
After the realm breakthrough, Zhang Ruochen took the eighth drop of Semi-Saint True Liquid, and it only took three days to completely refine a drop of Semi-Saint True Liquid.
Refining the eighth drop of Half Saint True Liquid, Zhang Ruochen’s realm was completely consolidated.
“Reaching the middle pole position of the Xuanji Realm, what level of speed have I reached?” Zhang Ruochen could clearly feel that his cultivation level had risen by a large margin.
Whether it was strength or speed, it reached another level.
When he had cultivated the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow to a small level, Zhang Ruochen’s strongest burst speed had reached fifty-seven metres per second.
And now?
“Swoosh!”
Zhang Ruochen sprinted across the plaza of the Dragon Martial Hall, his speed as fast as the wind, if another martial artist at the middle extreme level of the Xuan Extreme Realm was here, he probably wouldn’t even be able to see his shadow.
After running ten laps around the square of the Dragon Martial Hall, Zhang Ruochen stopped and exhaled excitedly, saying, “Without using the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow and without stimulating my bloodline, my speed can reach fifty-eight metres per second. If I use all the power of the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow and the bloodline, my strongest burst speed can reach sixty-two metres per second.”
Those experts ranked low on the Xuan Rankings had a strongest burst speed of around sixty metres per second.
Although he hadn’t had any real battles with Xuan Ranking martial artists, Zhang Ruochen already had the confidence to fight against some weaker Xuan Ranking martial artists and even defeat them.
It could be said that Zhang Ruochen now had the initial power to battle with Earth Extreme Realm martial artists.
With his current strength, if he were to fight General Hongye again, even if he could not win, he would be able to retreat in one piece. There was no need to go through the power of Huang Yicun as he had done in the beginning.
“Reaching the middle pole position of the Xuan Extreme Realm will allow you to ‘blood qi condense soldiers’, let me see what kind of battle soldiers will be condensed?”
Zhang Ruochen stood in the centre of the square, blood qi surging out from his body, strands of blood qi gushing out from his pores, completely covering the space in a ten-metre radius, as if it had transformed into a gigantic blood cloud.
Within the blood cloud, the silhouettes of nine battle swords coalesced, hovering in Zhang Ruochen’s nine directions, emitting a powerful sword aura.
“How did nine swords appear?”
When martial artists reached the middle extreme position of the Xuan Extreme Realm, they were all capable of “blood qi condensing soldiers”, but all that was condensed was a single blood soldier.
Like Zhang Ruochen, condensing nine blood swords at the same time was simply unheard of and unseen.
Retracting the blood qi back into his body, Zhang Ruochen fell into deep thought and said to himself, “Could it be because I opened up all 36 meridians of the Nine Heavens Bright Emperor Scripture, that I found such a vision?”
Gathering nine blood swords was definitely a good thing.
It was only that condensing nine Blood Swords at the same time was too appalling, and if it was discovered by others, it might not be a good thing for Zhang Ruochen.
“Try not to use the power of the bloodline in the future.” Zhang Ruochen said in his heart.
Tomorrow was the time for the Quarterly Examination, and with Zhang Ruochen’s current strength, it wasn’t difficult for him to achieve first place among the freshmen of the four houses, so there was no pressure at all.
Zhang Ruochen headed to Zixi’s residence, intending to fetch the Half-Saint True Liquid.
Just as he arrived downstairs in the girls’ dormitory, he caused a sensation.
“Look, that’s the number one freshman of our Western Academy, it’s said that his spiritual power has reached the twenty-ninth rank, the number one spiritual power genius ever in the Martial City Academy.” An eighteen or nine year old female cadet screamed with great excitement, and those who didn’t know, thought that Zhang Ruochen was going to molest him.
Another beautiful senior sister of the Xuanji Realm Grand Circle, her beautiful eyes rippling as she stared at Zhang Ruochen, said, “It is said that if he chooses to cultivate spiritual power, he will have at least a fifty per cent chance of becoming a Spiritual Power Saint.”
Every Saint was a towering great being, worshipped by countless martial artists with disciples all over the world. Many martial artists had never even seen a Saint in their entire lives, yet Zhang Ruochen had a fifty percent chance of becoming a Saint, so how could those girls present not be excited?
“I want to give birth to his little prince so badly.” A rather beautiful young girl said with some flamboyance.
Before Zhang Ruochen could even see Zixi, he was surrounded by a group of those female trainees, unable to move a step at all. There were even bold girls who took the initiative to offer kisses, fortunately, Zhang Ruochen dodged in time, or else his face would have already been covered in kisses and lip prints.
Zixi naturally also heard the clamour, saw Zhang Ruochen standing under the attic, directly flew down, landed beside Zhang Ruochen, pulling Zhang Ruochen “kill” out of the siege.
“Change the place to talk.” Zixi said.
Zhang Ruochen knew that the matter of the Half-Saint True Liquid was of great importance, so he said, “Go to the Dragon Martial Hall, Senior Sister Huang and Senior Sister Duanmu are not here, so don’t worry about being overheard.”
Zhang Ruochen brought Zi Xi to the Dragon Martial Hall and returned to the Yellow Character Number One.
Closing the door behind him, Zhang Ruochen asked, “Senior Sister Zi, have you exchanged the Half Saint True Liquid yet?”
Zi Xi said, “The pills and True Martial Treasure Weapons you gave me were sold for a total of 5.8 million silver coins. According to the thirty-seven split we agreed upon at the very beginning, you got four million and six hundred thousand silver coins, and I got one million and seven hundred and forty-four thousand silver coins. I purchased a total of twenty drops of Half-Saint True Liquid for you, as for the remaining sixty thousand silver coins, do you still want them?”
Her meaning was obvious, it’s only sixty thousand silver coins, if you don’t want it, I’ll take it for you.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Since it’s my money, of course I want it.”
Zixi blankly glanced at Zhang Ruochen and took out the 60,000 silver coins and 20 tiny jade bottles, placing them on the table.
Zhang Ruochen opened one of the jade bottles and a fragrant medicinal aura emanated from the bottle, it was indeed the scent of the Half-Saint True Liquid.
Putting away the twenty bottles of Half-Saint True Liquid and 60,000 silver coins, Zhang Ruochen suddenly raised his head and stared Avray at Zi Xie as he said meaningfully, “Senior Sister Zi, in the future, will you be able to detach yourself from the Hellmouth Sect?”
Zi Xi’s face turned a few shades paler, not daring to look directly at Zhang Ruochen’s gaze as she said, “You simply don’t understand how powerful the Earthly Mansion Sect is, if I dare to break away from the Earthly Mansion Sect, I will surely die within ten days.
“Besides, I’m not a prince or a county lord, I don’t have a strong background or the support of a family. If I don’t kill, where will I get the money to buy cultivation resources?”
Zhang Ruochen also stopped advising her, knowing that she had her difficulties.
“If one day in the future, you have any difficulties, feel free to come to me.” Zhang Ruochen said.
“Hmm!”
Zixi gently nodded and said, “There’s one more thing that you might not know, the Four Directions County Kingdom and the Yunwu County Kingdom are going to war!”
Zhang Ruochen’s brows furrowed as he said, “Because of Prince Huo Xing’s death?”
“Prince Huo Xing was really killed by you? This time you’ve done too much of a risky thing, the Four Directions County Kingdom has been wanting to annex the Yunwu County Kingdom for not more than a day or two, it’s just short of an excuse.”
After thinking about it, Zixi added, “If you really wanted to kill Prince Huo Xing, why did you have to do it yourself? I can help you!”
Zhang Ruochen’s face was grave as he said, “Since Prince Huo Xing is already dead, there’s no use in talking about this.”
Zixi said, “The Four Directions County King faked Prince Huo Xing’s death to force the Yunwu County King to hand you over and compensate the Four Directions County Kingdom with 80 million silver coins. The Yunwu County King naturally resolutely disagreed, so the Four Directions County Kingdom has already begun to gather troops towards the borders, just waiting for the beginning of next year, wanting to capture the Yunwu County Kingdom in one fell swoop.”
“What about the interior of Yunwu County Kingdom?” Zhang Ruochen asked.
Zixi said, “It is said that Queen Mother and State Master Xue are in favour of handing you over to quell the anger of the four county kingdoms. However, the Yunwu County King and some of the army generals strongly disagree, and anyway, the internal of the Yunwu County Kingdom is now in a state of darkness, which is quite unfavourable to you.”
