The black monster was walking on the ground, searching for the next Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass.
Suddenly, it stopped and let out a wail as a crack appeared in the armour on the surface of its body, and bright electric light erupted from its body.
“Rumble!”
With a loud bang, the black monster’s body split into pieces, turning into pieces of charred flesh that flew in all directions.
Electricity flowed above each piece of charred flesh, and black smoke rose.
A powerful underground savage beast died beyond death just like that.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen flew out from within the Space-Time Crystal Stone and landed on the ground, and just as he took a breath of air, a sharp pain came from his abdomen, and a roar came from inside his head, and he immediately felt dizzy.
The toxicity of the miasma in the air was several times stronger than other places, even with the Poison Avoidance Pearls on his body, he could not resist the toxicity of the miasma.
“Space-Time Domain!”
Zhang Ruochen unleashed the Space-Time Domain, controlling it to within ten metres, blocking the miasma outside of the Space-Time Domain.
He took an Antidote Pill into his mouth and mobilised his Jade Pure True Qi, running it around his body for three weeks, finally refining the miasma gas that he had just sucked into his body.
Zhang Ruochen’s face regained its blood colour as he exhaled a long breath and said, “What a powerful poisonous miasma, if it were another Xuan Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position martial artist who breathed in a single mouthful, he would surely have already fainted and could only die here.”
Even if a Xuanji Realm Great Extremity martial artist broke into this place, if he did not have a special treasure to resist the miasma, he would still be dead.
The black monster was torn into pieces of charred and blackened remains by the power of the thunder bead. Between the pile of mutilated corpses, Zhang Ruochen could smell a faint aroma of meat.
Seeking the scent, he searched for it.
Zhang Ruochen stopped in front of the black monster’s charred corpse, took out the Snow Dragon Sword, and broke open the layer of hard black crust on the outside.
“Wow!”
A rich meaty aroma escaped from the charred black corpse.
Inside the crack that was broken open by Zhang Ruochen, a white light was revealed, a piece of snow-white jade-like spirit meat that emitted a soft glow.
Zhang Ruochen dug out the piece of spirit meat, a piece as big as a person’s head, weighing fifteen kilograms, crystal clear, with a strong aroma, it was almost like a beautiful jade inside a stone, without a trace of impurities.
“The spirit meat inside a third-rank savage beast is indeed more spiritual than the spirit meat inside a second-rank savage beast, if it is taken, it will definitely have a better effect.”
Zhang Ruochen took out a jade container and put a piece of spirit meat into it, sealing it for preservation.
Spirit meat, too, was divided into qualities. Spirit meat that was birthed from the body of a third-rank savage beast had a better taste, more aura, and was more beneficial to martial artists.
In the market, a catty of spirit meat birthed from the body of a third-order savage beast was worth ten, or even dozens of times more than spirit meat birthed from the body of a second-order savage beast.
Using the Space-Time Domain and wrapping his body, Zhang Ruochen began to search for the Three-Leaf Sacred Qi Grass.
Soon, Zhang Ruochen found a Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass that emitted white light in a tiny rock crevice a hundred metres away.
Digging out this Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass, he carefully placed it inside the jade box he had prepared long ago.
Only in places where Half-Saints and Saints had fallen would it be possible to find the Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass.
The power of Half-Saints and Saints was extremely powerful, and after they fell, even if a thousand years had passed, their holy qi would not dissipate.
At the place where the half-saints and saints fell, the holy qi merged into the soil, and after the accumulation of time and natural nurturing, the Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass would be able to grow.
The Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass was more precious than other elixirs in that, it could be taken directly and used to enhance a martial artist’s cultivation and strengthen his or her physical body.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t rush to take it, but continued to dig up other Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass.
It was necessary to rush to pick all the Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grasses before the other trainees arrived.
“This place already belongs to the Red Sky Secret Mansion’s hinterland, they shouldn’t be able to rush over that quickly.”
With that one big underground mountain as the centre, there were quite a few Triple Leaf Sacred Qi Grasses growing, and Zhang Ruochen had collected eight of them just in the periphery, spending close to an hour in total.
If he wanted to collect more Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass, he would have to head deeper into the great mountain.
Zhang Ruochen raised his head and looked towards the large mountain, only to see the colourful miasma wrapping the entire mountain, making it impossible to see the entirety of the mountain, only a vague outline could be seen.
Vaguely, Zhang Ruochen felt an extremely dangerous aura coming from the depths of the great mountain, causing him to shiver.
Taking out the tattered beast skin map, he spread it on the ground and carefully observed it.
The beast skin map had fallen off of Waveheart’s body, and it was unknown how he had obtained it, with the terrain of the Red Sky Secret Mansion sketched out in bits and pieces on it. The map was mutilated, and there were some places in it that were not recorded on it.
After Zhang Ruochen’s study, he finally determined his location, and his finger made a point on the map, “I should be here now …… Ghost Mist Mountain!”
On the map, there was a notation about the Ghost Mist Mountain, and below it, there was a small paragraph: Ghost Mist Mountain, the place where the Yunjin Half-Saint fell. Half Saints who die in battle, fall to the ground as a mountain, and their blood qi turns into Ghost Mist, which does not dissipate for five hundred years.”
Zhang Ruochen was a little moved and looked towards the distance once again, his heart throbbing a little, “No wonder a large mountain appeared under the ground, it turns out to be the tomb of a half-saint.”
That Yunjin Half-Saint was an extremely powerful figure who had fallen here five hundred years ago in a battle with a four-winged Earth Dragon. His body fell to the ground and directly transformed into a large mountain. His blood qi escaped and formed a perennial ghostly mist miasma.
“Will any weird creatures be born in the place where the Half-Saint fell?”
Zhang Ruochen put away the Remnant Map Beast Skin and stared at the Ghost Mist Mountain in the distance with some hesitation.
If Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation had reached the Heavenly Extremity Realm, he would definitely go and break into the Ghost Mist Mountain without any hesitation to search for the treasures left behind by the Half-Saint. However, he was only at the Xuan Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position right now, and barging into the Ghost Mist Mountain was almost indistinguishable from sending himself to his death.
Right at this moment, two trainees from the Northern Courtyard hurried towards the direction of the Ghost Mist Mountain.
Yue Linchong, who ranked seventh in the Northern Academy, looked to be in his twenties, with thick black eyebrows and a powerful body, holding a roll of animal skin map in his hand, he said with great joy, ”Sister Huan, according to the map, in front of us is the Ghost Mist Mountain, which is the place where the Cloud Gold Half-Saint fell. In the Ghost Mist Mountain, there are many Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grasses growing, if we can pick all of them, it will be comparable to the results of our several years of hard cultivation.”
Lu Han ranked tenth in the North Courtyard, with fair skin and a standard goose-egg face, although not as good as Huang Yichen and Duanmu Xingling, she was still considered a gorgeous beauty, and in the North Courtyard, there were a lot of talented trainees who were pursuing her.
In order to capture Lu Han’s heart, Yue Linchong told her the secret of Ghost Mist Mountain.
The two of them came to Ghost Mist Mountain together and prepared to pick the Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass.
As long as they obtained the Three Leafed Sacred Qi Grass, they would be able to become experts in the Inner Palace of the Martial City Palace even if they entered the Inner Palace.
“I’ve prepared the topmost Poison Avoidance Beads, which are ten times more powerful than normal Poison Avoidance Beads, and when you put them in your mouth, it’s enough to withstand the miasma of the Ghost Mist Mountain.”
Lu Han took out two white Poison Avoidance Beads, put one of them into his red lips and handed the other one to Yue Lin Chong.
Yue Linchong took the Poison Avoidance Beads and looked in the direction of Ghost Mist Mountain, suddenly, his eyes stared and said in a cold voice, “Someone has arrived one step ahead of us, and has already taken the Three Leafed Sacred Qi Grass from the periphery of Ghost Mist Mountain.”
Seeing the back of Zhang Ruochen standing in the miasma in the distance, Lu Han pulled out a slender battle sword, his eyes condensed, and he lightly shouted, “Who are you? Hand over the Three Leafed Sacred Qi Grass, and I can spare your life for the sake of all of us being trainees of the Martial City Academy.”
Yue Linchong took down the Barbarian Bone War Bow on his back, put a broken car arrow on top of the bowstring, and pulled the war bow apart, the arrow pointing straight at Zhang Ruochen who was one hundred and fifty paces away.
Zhang Ruochen turned around, glanced at Yue Linchong and Lu Han, and said, “The Three Leafed Sacred Qi Grass grows right here, and it’s not like you guys planted it, so why should I hand it over to you?”
Yue Linchong’s eyes narrowed slightly and said, “It’s you? You’re the number one freshman in the four courtyards, Zhang Ruochen?”
“You know me?” Zhang Ruochen searched the memories in his mind and realised that he did not know Yue Linchong.
Yue Linchong said, “Two months ago, I went to the West Courtyard with the freshmen from the North Courtyard and saw you fight on the challenge stage. With your strength at that time, you should be able to fight against Xuan Ranked martial artists. If you hand over the Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass, I can let you go.”
“What’s the point of talking so much nonsense with him? Even if he is Zhang Ruochen, so what if he is now in the Red Sky Secret Mansion, if we kill him, the elders of the Academy Palace won’t know about it.” Lu Xin stared at the jade box in Zhang Ruochen’s hand, a cold and sharp killing aura appeared in his eyes.m
Neither Yue Linchong nor Lu Han were Xuan Ranking martial artists, and if they hadn’t broken through the Earth Extremity Realm before, they would definitely not be Zhang Ruochen’s opponents.
However, when they entered the Red Sky Secret Mansion, they broke through the realm and reached the Earth Extreme Realm.
With their current strength, they naturally wouldn’t put Zhang Ruochen in their eyes.
Hearing Lu Han’s words, a hint of coldness also appeared in Yue Linchong’s eyes as he loosened his fingers, and the Broken Cart Arrow on the bowstring emitted a piercing wind-breaking sound like a ball of fire, dragging its long tail as it flew towards Zhang Ruochen in a hurry.
Zhang Ruochen’s brows furrowed as he immediately executed the Royal Wind Flying Dragon Shadow and moved seven steps sideways to the right, dodging the Car Breaker Arrow.
“Boom!”
The Car Breaker Arrow impacted the ground behind Zhang Ruochen, striking out a large crater, and the inscription on the arrowhead released a large amount of flame, causing the surrounding ground to burn.
Just as Yue Linchong shot an arrow, Lu Han immediately rushed out, her speed reaching sixty-six metres per second.
In just three seconds, she rushed to Zhang Ruochen’s face, dragging her icy sword aura as she stabbed her sword towards Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
Zhang Ruochen sunk his legs down to stabilise his body, holding his sword with both hands as he executed a move called “Heavenly Heart Broken Stream”.
“Boom!”
The Snow Dragon Sword carried an extreme cold aura as it slashed on top of Lu Han’s sword blade, unloading Lu Han’s attack to the side.
Lu Han was slightly stunned for a moment, stomping on the ground, her slender legs slightly bent, her body soared up, spinning in mid-air, stabbing out seventeen sword lights, stabbing at the major vitals of Zhang Ruochen’s entire body.
