When he became the number one freshman in the Western Academy, the Martial City Palace rewarded Zhang Ruochen with 3,000 points of Merit Value, which he hadn’t used until now.
In the past, he didn’t lack cultivation resources at all, so naturally, he didn’t spend the Merit Value.
The place to exchange Merit Value was at the Merit Tower.
When he walked into the Merit Tower, there were many trainees who recognised Zhang Ruochen, all of them staring at him with curious gazes.
“He’s Senior Brother Zhang, the number one freshman in the four houses of the Martial City Academy, and it’s said that he’s a wunderkind comparable to the three great female devils.” A young teenager, not too old, stared at Zhang Ruochen, who walked into the Tower of Merit, with an adoring gaze.
In his opinion, Zhang Ruochen was his idol, the goal he was striving for.
A rather pretty woman at the Xuanji Realm’s Great Extreme Position, with an excited light in her eyes, said, “Have you heard that not long ago, Senior Brother Zhang used a broken sword to defeat the heroes of various countries in the Thousand Waters Prefecture, and overnight, he became famous all over the world.”
“Senior Sister Xu, could it be that you’ve fallen for Senior Brother Zhang?” Another white-clothed girl laughed.
That woman called Senior Sister Xu looked at Zhang Ruochen with eyes like a nymphomaniac and said, “What woman wouldn’t be moved by a man as outstanding as Senior Brother Zhang? Even if it’s just a one-night dewy love with him, I’m willing.”
The one white-clothed girl next to her covered her mouth and laughed, “If you really had anything to do with Senior Brother Zhang, Senior Sister Huang would have to chase you to the ends of the earth.”
Those female trainees in the Western Academy were all very bold and spoke rather blatantly, making Zhang Ruochen a little embarrassed to hear them.
If it wasn’t for Huang Yichen’s intimidating power, I’m afraid that Zhang Ruochen would have already been surrounded by many female trainees once again.
Zhang Ruochen took a deep breath and tried to remain calm as he made his way through the Tower of Merit, selecting the items he needed.
The Merit Tower had a total of thirteen floors, each of which held various cultivation resources, and the higher up you went, the more Merit Value you needed.
The first layer of the Merit Tower was all low-grade cultivation resources. The cheapest was the Second Grade Blood Pills, one point of Merit Value could be exchanged for one hundred of them.
Zhang Ruochen wasn’t short of blood pills right now, so he didn’t exchange them.
The highest priced item on the first level was no more than five points of Merit Value, which was of little value to Zhang Ruochen, who didn’t stay for long before heading towards the higher levels.
All the way to the seventh level, Zhang Ruochen finally found the item he wanted to exchange.
Wind Wings.
The Wings of Wind looked like two pieces of silver-coloured iron that were connected together, with fine “wind” inscriptions engraved all over them.
As long as one injected true qi into the Wings of Wind, the Wings of Wind would be able to carry the martial artist up into the sky, erupting at a terrifying speed of one hundred metres per second.
One must know that even a normal martial artist at the early stage of the Earth Extreme Realm could only reach a speed of sixty metres per second. Only a martial powerhouse at the middle extreme position of the Earth Extreme Realm would be able to reach a speed of one hundred metres per second.
All martial artists who were able to enter the Xuan Ranking were all top geniuses, which was why their speed was comparable to that of an early Earth Extremity realm martial artist.
Zhang Ruochen was well aware that entering the Intermediate Level Ruins would definitely be extremely dangerous.
What was most important?
Saving one’s life is the most important.
Anyway, it is only to enter the intermediate level relics to explore, as long as you can save your life, there is no need to fight too hard.
Inferior Quality Wind Wings:
Flight speed, one hundred metres per second. Used three times. Redeeming Merit Value, five hundred points of Merit Value.
Medium quality wind wings:
Flight speed, two hundred metres per second. Used five times. Redeeming Merit Value, five thousand Merit Values.
Top quality wind wings:
Flight speed, three hundred metres per second. Number of uses, ten. Redeeming Merit Value, 50,000 points of Merit Value.
Zhang Ruochen had originally wanted to redeem a medium quality Wind Wings, in which case, even if he encountered a savage beast, monster, or evil person of the Earth Extremity Realm Great Perfection in the intermediate level relics, he would have a chance of escaping with his life.
But after seeing the exchange price on it, Zhang Ruochen resolutely broke off this idea.
It was too expensive!
Zhang Ruochen only had a total of 3,000 Merit Values, which was simply not enough to exchange for a medium quality Wind Wings.
“The lower quality Wind Wings are not bad, even though I can only use them three times, it’s enough to keep me alive for three times.”
Zhang Ruochen took out the Martial City Academy’s token and placed it inside the pit on top of the formation wall.
The inscriptions in the token lit up in circles, connecting with the inscriptions above the formation wall.
“Wow!”
The formation wall cracked out a gap, presenting a cyan-coloured spirit paper, which flowed with a white light text inscribed with the pattern of the Wings of the Wind.
Zhang Ruochen only needed to rely on this piece of spirit paper to receive the Wings of Wind in the main hall of the Tower of Merit.
Zhang Ruochen retrieved the token and found that five hundred points of Merit Value had already been deducted. In the token, there were only two thousand five hundred points of merit value left.
Continue to purchase other items.
Afterwards, Zhang Ruochen went to exchange five more Thunder Beads.
Each Thunder Bead was worth one hundred points of Merit Value, and once detonated, it was like a thunderbolt exploding.
Even if an Earth Extreme Realm martial artist was caught off guard and was attacked by a Thunder Bead, he might fall.
Of course, Earth Extreme Realm martial artists were all quite fast, and when they realised that Zhang Ruochen had thrown out the Thunder Beads, they could escape as fast as they could, and the Thunder Beads wouldn’t be able to injure them at all.
The only way to kill an Earth Extreme Realm martial artiste was to throw the Thunder Bead out by surprise.
Then Zhang Ruochen spent another hundred Merit Values to exchange for a Poison Avoidance Bead.
As long as the Poison Avoidance Bead was carried on the body, it would be able to withstand most of the poisonous mist and miasma. Just in case, Zhang Ruochen exchanged another bottle of Antidote Pill.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen exchanged some other cultivation resources and life-preserving treasures, spending the 3,000 Merit Value points cleanly.
Returning to the Dragon Martial Hall, Zhang Ruochen prepared enough drinking water to fill two spatial rings and a spatial jade bracelet.
The next morning, under the leadership of Vice Academy Master Qing Hua, the top ten ranked students of the Western Academy, riding on Vice Academy Master Qing Hua’s mount, left the Western Academy and flew towards the depths of the Heavenly Demon Ridge.
The top ten ranked trainees of the Western Academy were Luo Shuihan, Huang Yichen, Duanmu Xingling, Duo Mu Zi, Zhang Ruochen, Sikong Art, Ju Hailan, Mo Qinglong, Cai Chen, and Zixi.
The other eight trainees were all old session trainees who had been in the Western Academy for more than three years, and only Zhang Ruochen and Zixi were freshmen.
Sikong Art, who had a very bold personality, stood on the back of the griffin and inquired, “Vice Academy Master, is the intermediate level relic we are going to the Red Sky Secret Mansion?”
Vice Academy Master Qing Hua nodded and confirmed, “It is precisely the Red Sky Secret Mansion. Regarding the ferocity of the Red Sky Secret Mansion, there is no need for me to say more, I believe that all of you have already prepared for everything. Zhang Ruochen, Zixi, you two are both new students, are you ready?”
Zhang Ruochen and Zixie nodded at the same time.
The Western Courtyard was established on the outskirts of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, and although there were many savage beasts as well, they were basically first and second rank savage beasts, and the danger was very low.
However, the Red Sky Secret Mansion was in the depths of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, separated from the Western Courtyard by a great distance, with poor mountains, full of dangers, and surviving many powerful savage beasts, making it quite dangerous.
If a disciple of the Outer Palace dared to enter the depths of the Heavenly Demon Ridge alone, he would absolutely die. Even a Heavenly Extremity Realm Martial Myth would be in danger of falling if they entered the 10,000 mile depths of the Heavenly Demon Ridge.
The deeper one flew towards the depths of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, the mountain peaks became more and more towering and perilous, the trees became more and more thick, and some so thick that they were ancient vines that entwined the entire mountain peak, almost like a coiled dragon.
Some of these territories are covered by miasma all year round, and the average savage bird flying into the air above the miasma will be poisoned to death in a few moments, and fall to the ground, shattering to pieces.
In the midst of the mountains and hills, a huge river flowed.
In those rivers, powerful waterside savage beasts also survived. As Zhang Ruochen and the others flew above one of the great rivers, suddenly, in the river water, a long, earth-shattering whistle resounded.
The river was shaken to the point of breaking its flow.
The ten trainees sitting on the griffin’s back, all of them had their ears ringing from the sound, and their blood qi churning in their bodies; fortunately, their cultivation was strong, or else they would have surely fainted.
The ground around the great river was torn apart by the powerful surge of power, and a huge ancient tree was shattered into broken pieces of wood by the powerful waves of true qi.
A black Xuanjiao, flew up from the great river, its body more than sixty metres long, its neck as thick as a water tank, and a pair of fleshy wings growing on its back, rushing towards Ning Xiaochuan and the others in midair.
“Bold, even the disciples of the Martial City Palace dare to attack, you’re looking for death.”
Standing atop the griffin’s head with cold eyes, Vice Academy Master Qing Hua took out a roll of white formation diagrams and unfolded them, forming a huge spherical ball of light with a diameter of a hundred metres, protecting the griffin and all ten young trainees inside the ball of light.
“Rumble!”
Inside Xuan Jiao’s blood-red eyes, two columns of flaming light shot out, hitting the surface of the white sphere of light and shaking it violently.
Vice Academy Master Qing Hua’s eyes became even colder and sullen as he raised the wooden staff in his hand and injected his true qi into it.
The inscriptions in the wooden staff were activated, and the wooden staff, which was originally only two metres long, became as thick as a bowl and fifty-six metres long.
The pale body of the Qing Hua Vice Academy Master became very elite, the bones of his entire body seemed to be convex, his legs slightly bent, his body was like a bow and arrow **** out, jumping from the head of the griffin, swinging the wooden staff, smashing it on the top of Xuan Jiao s head.
“Rumble!”
Xuan Jiao’s huge body fell down in a straight line, falling into the large river three hundred metres below, splashing up huge waves more than ten metres high.
The river turned blood red, and it was clear that the strike that Vice Academy Master Qing Hua had just made had severely injured Xuan Jiao.
Vice Academy Master Qing Hua executed a body technique, his feet stomped in the void, his body rushed backwards and landed back on the griffin’s back.
The ten trainees on the griffin’s back all stared at Vice Academy Master Qing Hua with shocked eyes.
No one had expected that the old man, who looked like he was walking shakily, would be able to burst out with such a powerful martial power.
One had to know that that one Xuanjiao was a fourth-ranked savage beast, with a battle power that was comparable to a Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Dao Myth. However, with just a single strike, Vice Academy Master Qing Hua had severely injured the Xuan Jiao and fled back under the water.
Among the Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artists, the Qing Hua Vice Academy Master was probably one of the very powerful ones.
