There were only a hundred and seventy-odd Saints left alive in the Sacred Brightness Central Empire, all of them strong in the Sacred Realm.
They all knew that Zhang Ruochen had used Autumn Rain as a sacrifice, and it wasn’t Heaven and Earth that he had sacrificed, but rather the Qiankun Realm and the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
There were many commoners and cultivators in the Sacred Brightness Central Empire who lived in the Qiankun Realm, and as long as the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root, the Heaven Receiving Divine Tree, became even stronger, the environment of the Qiankun Realm would become better and more suitable for cultivation, and it would be able to be of immense benefit to their descendants and disciples.
Autumn Rain had inherited part of the power of the Sycamore Divine Tree and obtained the Great Sacred Tree Body of Qiao Zu, so naturally, it was the best sacrifice for the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
As such, the Holy Bright Central Empire’s saints were very excited.
In their hearts, they already had a certain sense of belonging to the Qiankun Realm.
“Puffing.”
More than a hundred channels of holy qi were continuously pumped into the Opening Yuan Deer Cauldron, causing the words on the Cauldron to become brighter and brighter, and an incomparably thick sacred power was then dispersed.
The Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron began to sacrifice Autumn Rain.
“Boom.”
“Boom.”
…… The huge
body of the tripod trembled violently.
A strong force was rampaging inside, trying to escape.
With every vibration, the sky and the earth would shake a little bit along with it, and a circle of watery strength spread outwards. The saints surrounding the area all had headaches and dizziness, their blood qi rolling around inside their bodies, as if they were about to be shaken out by that power.
“It’s surprising how strong it is even after being suppressed.”
“Autumn Rain has a Great Saint body and a trace of divine power from the Sycamore Divine Tree, it’s almost impossible to sacrifice him with our cultivation.”
There was a great deal of pressure on the Saints present, after all, what they were currently sacrificing was not an ordinary being. For a living being like Autumn Rain, it would be difficult for a great world to give birth to one.
Autumn Rain’s voice came out from the cauldron, “Zhang Ruochen, I’m the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root of the Kunlun Realm, and I’m blessed with great fortune, you can’t refine me.”
Autumn Rain continued to charge inside, and the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron shook even more.
Around the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron, the earth cracked open with some gaps, and the ground around it, which was still relatively solid, actually showed signs of collapsing.
Having already let Qiu Yu escape several times, this time, no matter what, Zhang Ruochen would have to suppress him.
“There is still one hour until the end of the Saint Merit Battle, there should be enough time.”
Zhang Ruochen muttered to himself, then, soaring up, he rushed to the top of the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron, hovering in mid-air, a large amount of holy qi gushing out from the one hundred and forty-four orifices on his body, transforming into one hundred and forty-four heaven and earth holy qi cloud bridges.
“Wow.”
The one hundred and forty-four heaven and earth holy qi cloud bridges, dropping down, fused together with the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron.
While the Opening Yuan Deer Cauldron gradually became stable, Qiu Yu’s voice was getting lower and lower, not as strong as it was just now, and even began to beg Zhang Ruochen.
Unfortunately, Zhang Ruochen simply ignored it.
“Wow-”
The Kaiyuan
Deer Cauldron spun up quickly, and one by one, the golden characters on the Cauldron fell off and soared into mid-air, echoing with the holy light radiating from Zhang Ruochen’s body.
In the centre of Zhang Ruochen’s brow, the Spatio-Temporal Divine Martial Seal emerged, as if the door to the Qiankun Realm had opened.
Wisps of crimson flame aerosol rose up along the one hundred and forty-four Heaven and Earth Sacred Qi Cloud Bridges, surging into Zhang Ruochen’s brow, entering the Qi Sea, and converging into the Qiankun Realm.
“Shasha.”
In the Qiankun Realm, a layer of holy light surfaced from the leaves of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, gently shaking as it quickly absorbed the flaming qi mist that surged out from the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron.
Inside the trunk of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, a “crackling” sound resounded, and with a degree visible to the naked eye, it gradually grew taller and thicker. On the ground within a radius of ten thousand miles, a strain of spiritual medicine grew, emitting a starry light.
The earth plates of the Qian Kun Realm were also extending outwards.
At the edge of the world, the Qi of the five elements gradually converted into the space of heaven and earth, causing the world to become more and more gigantic. If one were to stand in Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Sea and look towards the Qiankun Realm, one would only feel that a map was slowly unfolding, revealing more geographical illustrations.
………………
After the Rakshasa
Marquis army withdrew from the Ancestral Spirit Realm, losing their external enemies, the saints of the seven realms of Shatuo regrouped and divided into seven camps, converging in the direction of the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron .
The seven worlds all suffered varying degrees of losses, with some worlds suffering fifty percent casualties while others suffered eighty percent casualties.
Of course, whether it was fifty percent or eighty percent, it was all a sad song of blood and tears, and it was difficult to recover without a large amount of resources. Even if one survived this Saint Merit War, one might not be able to survive the next one.
For great worlds that ranked low, it was that they were always struggling to survive, unless a supreme celestial pride emerged, able to go forward and soar high, entering the Heavenly Court Realm’s Merit List at the Saint realm, Saint King realm, and Great Saint realm. Once such a character broke through to the God Realm, he possessed the power to kill gods.
One only needed to be able to kill a God of the Hell Realm in order to change the fate of hundreds of millions of living beings throughout the Mother Realm.
Therefore, the celestials and powerhouses on the Saint Merit List, Saint King Merit List, and Great Sage Merit List were each and every one of the figures that the major worlds fought to bring in.
Especially for those large worlds that ranked low, once a heavenly pride that was able to enter the Saint’s Merit List emerged from the mother world, it was definitely a great event that was able to startle the gods of the mother world.
Only a heavenly pride that had entered the Saint Merit List would be easier to cultivate, and in the future, it would have a higher probability of entering the Saint King Merit List, or even the Great Saint Merit List.
At this moment, all the Saints of the Kunlun Realm had gathered together, and there were just over 30,000 left, both humans and savage beasts, as well as some other foreign species.
They were looking out in the direction of the Enlightened Deer Cauldron, and in the eyes of many of the Saints, complex expressions were revealed.
A Saint from the Fire Race went forward to seek an audience with Ten Thousand Trillions and the Sacred Book Talented Maiden, saying, ”Qiu Yu is the future Spiritual Root of Heaven and Earth of the Kunlun Realm, and the Empress attaches quite a bit of importance to him. Although, on the battlefield, he did make some mistakes, but …… he is still very young after all, it’s only natural that his heart is not firm enough, as long as he is guided more in the future, he will still be able to stand on top of the heavens.”
“Top heaven and earth?”
Wan Zhaoyi’s pair of large hands were behind his back, a sneer appearing on his face, “If he had a tenth of Zhang Ruochen, I would believe that he would be able to stand on top of the heavens in the future. Unfortunately, he doesn’t.”
Chu Siyuan stood to the side and said in a deep voice, “Even ordinary Saints, when faced with a moment of deathly peril, are quite capable of blowing up their own Sacred Source and dying with their enemies. However, Qiu Yu only knows how to submit to the enemy, even defecting to the enemy and being a dog at the enemy’s feet. Such a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root, the Kunlun Realm doesn’t want it, it can’t afford to lose that face.”
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden knew very well that that Autumn Rain was only a pawn that the Empress had put in the open, and that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root that the Empress was truly cultivating was the Peach Tree.
Therefore, the death or life of Autumn Rain did not have much of an impact at all in terms of the Kunlun Realm.
Of course, the Empress’ purpose for arranging this pawn of Autumn Rain did make the Sacred Scripture Talented Lady a little puzzled. Perhaps it was because, an external enemy would be detrimental to the Kunlun Realm’s Heaven and Earth Spiritual Roots, so a pawn was used to confuse the enemy.
It was also possible that the Empress was trying to cultivate Qiu Yu into a sword to be used specifically against Zhang Ruochen.
Some of these great worlds, however, were plotting, wanting to take advantage of this moment when Zhang Ruochen was sacrificing Autumn Rain to seize the Wall of Merit Book.
However, Zhang Ruochen’s display of strength was too powerful, forcing the Marquis of Rakshasa’s army to retreat, thus not many people dared to provoke him.
“Let’s test it out first, I don’t believe that he can maintain that much battle power all the time.”
The Blade Prison Realm and the Violet Mansion Realm, sent out a ten-man squad to hide underneath a stealthy Saint Umbrella, collecting their auras and sneaking over quietly.
The ten-member squad were all first-rate powerhouses, and the Stealth Saint Umbrella was even able to conceal the aura on their bodies.
When they had just approached within a thousand miles of the Kaiyuan Deer Cauldron, Zhang Ruochen, who was standing in one of the golden ancient characters, suddenly opened his eyes.
“Wow-” The Sinking
Abyss Ancient Sword let out a sword sound and flew out.
On the body of the sword, a full 20,000 waves of holy power light emerged, bursting out with Second Flare Perfection power as it travelled through a thousand miles of land and blasted on top of the Stealthy Holy Umbrella.
“Rumble.”
The earth shook violently, and a large, bottomless pit appeared.
The Stealth Sacred Umbrella became tattered and torn, and ten beings with powerful cultivations collapsed at the bottom of the large pit, their flesh and blood blurred, all of them losing their breath of life.
Just one sword, killing ten experts.
“What kind of undercard does this fellow …… actually possess?”
The Blade Prison Realm’s Realm Son, Fang B, and the Violet Mansion Realm’s Realm Son, Dongliu Sword Sovereign, were all startled. Those Saints from the other two worlds even revealed a look of fear.
“Those who aren’t afraid of death, feel free to come and grab the Wall of Merit Book, I don’t believe that I won’t be able to kill all of you.” Zhang Ruochen’s mouth spat out sound waves, admonishing the Saints of the Shatuo Seven Realms.
All of those Saint Sages who were foolishly moving calmed down.
“Lord God-Emperor is really overbearing, but I like it.”
“With Lord God-Emperor’s guardianship, there shouldn’t be anyone who can still take away the Wall of Merit Books, and our Guanghan Realm will definitely be number one in the Saint’s Merit Battle.”
……
The saints of the Guanghan
Realm were all proud of themselves, and there was no doubt that having a Divine Envoy like Zhang Ruochen, who shone brightly on the Merit Book Battlefield, the Guanghan Realm’s popularity and status in the Celestial Court Realm would be raised somewhat.
The Moon God also had a notable reputation in the Heavenly Court Realm, but, after all, he was a god and definitely rarely showed his face.
Zhang Ruochen was different, now was the time to be sharp, and in the future, he would only make an even greater name for himself in the Heavenly Court Realm, becoming a mark that represented the Guanghan Realm.
In the future, when cultivators from the Guanghan Realm went out to explore the world, as long as they reported the name “Zhang Ruochen”, cultivators from other worlds would more or less show some admiration.
This was the influence of a supreme pride!
After about half an hour, the Deer Cauldron completely refined Autumn Rain, and the sacrifice was officially over.
Zhang Ruochen lifted this ancient bronze cauldron and poured out a large pile of carbon ash from it.
“After absorbing the power of the Autumn Rain, the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood has become a lot stronger again, and the Heaven and Earth Sacred Qi in the Qiankun Realm has become even thicker.” Zhang Ruochen was very satisfied.
Right at this moment, Zhang Ruochen raised his head and saw all the Saints of the Shatuo Seven Realms travelling in this direction.
At a distance of roughly 1,000 miles from Zhang Ruochen, they stopped in their tracks, and only the Sect Sons of each Realm, who had cast out their Body Techniques, came to the opposite side of Zhang Ruochen.
The Spirit Flame Demon Concubine’s feet stepped on petal shaped clouds of holy qi, appearing flirtatious as she let out a seductive laugh, “Zhang Ruochen, I won’t rob the wall of the Book of Merits, but this battlefield left behind a large number of corpses and bones of Great Demon Ten Realm Saints, and I would like to bring them back to their homeland to be buried.”
“To be buried in the earth, to return to one’s roots. No problem, I promise you.” Zhang Ruochen said.
“Many thanks.”
That pretty face of the Spirit Flame Demon Concubine smiled even more seductively.
In fact, what she wanted was not the bones, but the Saint Source inside the bones.
One must know that on this battlefield, hundreds of thousands, even millions of Saint realm beings had died in battle. At that time, the battle was so intense that neither side had the time to collect Saint Sources.
In other words, on this battlefield, there were a large number of Saint Sources left behind.
It was important to know that a Half-Saint would have a high probability of breaking through to the Saint realm after refining a Saint source. Now that all seven realms of Shatuo had suffered a great deal of damage, only by obtaining a large number of Saint Sources would they be able to recover quickly, or else there would be no way to cope with the next Merit War.
Of course, if they wanted to take the Saint Sources on the battlefield, the biggest obstacle was Zhang Ruochen. It wasn’t an easy task to get past this hurdle.
“The corpse bones, you can take them back. However, the Saint Source inside the corpse bones must be left behind.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Hearing this, the smile on the Spirit Flame Demon Concubine’s pretty face instantly became a bit frozen.
