The holy arts on the stone wall could make martial arts cultivators desperately snatch them; the Dan formula on the stone wall could make alchemists go crazy; the talisman refining techniques on the stone wall could make talisman masters waste their sleep and food ……
Zhang Ruochen, however, wasn’t that interested and withdrew his gaze, saying, “The Holy Fruits and Holy Pills I want, where are they?”
“Follow me.”
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden walked ahead, a charming fragrant breeze wafting from her purple clothes, a gentle sniff would bring out a charming feeling.
Following behind her, she came to an extremely cold hidden room, which contained various jade boxes, wooden boxes, and porcelain vases. Zhang Ruochen didn’t step into the room because he found that the room was densely engraved with formation inscriptions by stealthy means.
If he rushed in, he would definitely be attacked by the formation.
Zhang Ruochen had seen a Formation Saint Master before, and the Formation Inscriptions engraved here, compared to those engraved by Formation Saint Masters, could be considered comparable in terms of complexity and articulation skills.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation level, stepping in, he might not be able to retreat in one piece.
When the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden saw Zhang Ruochen stop, her red lips curled up slightly as she said, “The formation inscriptions that this Heavenly Maiden has burned here can still fall into your eyes, right?”
“You have already reached the level of a Formation Saint Master?”Zhang Ruochen said.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden stepped out in specific footsteps and walked to the bottom of the stone wall, removing one jade box and wooden box after another, and said arrogantly, “This Heavenly Maiden’s ambition is to become a god, and a mere Formation Saint Master is no great achievement. Zhang Ruochen, as controllers of the Eternal Ancient Way, we should look farther ahead.”
Formation Saint Masters were rarer than even Great Saints, and had a lofty status in any Great World.
Any sect, great sect, or a city could not be guarded without formations, and among them, Formation Saint Masters were even more important figures that they had to go and invite.
A Formation Saint Master was able to be on par with a Great Saint.
However, Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden said that this was not a great achievement, and how Zhang Ruochen heard it, he felt that there were some hints of bragging and complacency in it.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden walked out holding a tall stack of jade boxes and wooden boxes and handed them to Zhang Ruochen, not having a lofty Heavenly Maiden’s aura, but instead, a somewhat delicate aura of a small family. She said, ”The Saint Dao rules in your body already have twenty-one thousand, and your spiritual strength has reached the middle stage of the fifty-sixth rank. These holy pills and holy fruits should be enough to allow you to cultivate to the third step of Saint King and raise your spiritual strength to the fifty-seventh rank.”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s pair of Origin Divine Eyes gave Zhang Ruochen a huge headache, and in front of her, no mystery could be hidden.
There were times when Zhang Ruochen secretly wondered if he was standing in front of her eyes, was he naked/nude/nude in appearance?
Receiving the jade box and the wooden box, Zhang Ruochen opened and inspected them one by one.
It had to be said that these Thousand Star Celestial Maidens were still quite generous in their offerings, sending out a few more Holy Fruits and Holy Pills than Zhang Ruochen had expected. As long as there was no bottleneck, breaking through the realm was a sure thing.
Suddenly, the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden asked out, “Zhang Ruochen, do you drink?”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit surprised, then shook his head, “Not often.”
“How about having a drink with me?”
The Thousand Star Celestial Maiden walked to another hidden room, which was surprisingly filled with all sorts of famous wines and sacred brews, collected from various great worlds, each of which was hundreds of years old, and their value was hard to estimate with sacred stones.
Who would have thought that the soft and mysterious Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden would be a woman with a penchant for wine?”This Unbreakable Precepts was brewed by a Bodhisattva in the Western Heavenly Buddha Realm, and this Heavenly Maiden spent a great deal of effort to buy a bottle. All along, this Heavenly Maiden has not been able to find a friend who is worthy of drinking this wine, and as the controller of time and space, you have the qualifications to taste it.”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s slender hand unsealed the bottle of wine, and instantly a fresh fragrance filled out, filling the entire ancient vehicle.
Even Zhang Ruochen, who had always cautioned himself to drink less, was so mesmerised by the fragrance of the wine that he couldn’t help but give it a gentle sniff, and by the time he reopened his eyes, the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden had already poured a full glass into the wine cup in front of him.
She, on the other hand, used those near-perfect jade hands to pick up the wine cup, her red lips slightly pursing at the edge of the cup, “Not bad, worthy of not breaking the precepts, not letting this Heavenly Maiden down.”
Zhang Ruochen did not serve the cup, feeling that the current atmosphere was bizarre and made him feel incredible.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Are we friends or enemies?”
“Of course we are friends, otherwise how could this Heavenly Maiden invite you to board my carriage and take out the Unbreakable Ring for you to savour?”The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden sat on the opposite side of the room, her long skirt resembling a purple holy flower spreading on the ground, and her pair of rippling starry eyes were breathtakingly beautiful.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Then you’re going to kill your own friends in the future? Seize your friend’s Truth Upanishad?”
“There are many kinds of friends, and the two of us can only be considered wine and meat friends.”
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden lifted her wine cup and made an elegant gesture of toasting, smiling with bright eyes and white teeth, “Of course, within men, you are one of the few so many that this Heavenly Maiden doesn’t dislike, if you cherish this friendship, you can give the Truth Upanishad to this Heavenly Maiden on your own initiative at that time, and it’s not a certainty that, our friendship can be even further advanced. Drink, are you still afraid that this Heavenly Maiden will poison the wine?”
The aroma of Unbreakable Rings’ wine was just as strong and seductive to any living being as the dishes made by Qing Mo.
Zhang Ruochen picked up the wine cup and took a shallow taste, then drank it all in one go, saying, “Good wine. I know an old fellow who is addicted to wine and is also a master at brewing it, and this Unbreakable Precepts Wine can already be compared to the wine he brewed.”
After three rounds of wine, the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden finally asked the question that had been hanging in her heart, saying, “At the shore of the Sea of Truth, you and Feng Yan secretly discussed this Heavenly Maiden. At that time, you said that this woman is indeed very powerful and knows how to make trade-offs, able to make the most correct choices, smart is very smart, but unfortunately ……”
“The words that followed, you did not say again. This Heavenly Maiden is curious to know, what is the pity?”
“So you invited me for a drink because of this matter.”Zhang Ruochen came to a realisation.
Ever since she was a child, the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden had been better than any of her peers, learning everything at once and doing better than her teachers taught her, and she didn’t know how many praises and compliments she had received.
Everyone felt that she was perfect, without any flaws in her body, and that she would definitely be able to claim the title of Emperor in the future, and be able to be sealed as a god.
Only Zhang Ruochen said the word “pity” when commenting on her, which the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden naturally kept in her heart and kept thinking about Zhang Ruochen’s later words.
Next, Zhang Ruochen said something that made Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden very angry.
He said, ”Unfortunately, your character isn’t tough enough, and when you encounter a truly great calamity, you may not dare to rise to the occasion. Those with an emperor’s heart do not bend to others. Those who have the heart of a god are indomitable. Your state of mind is still far from indomitable.”
After saying this, Zhang Ruochen stopped craving for the cup, stood up, and walked out of the ancient vehicle.
Arriving at the Refining Pavilion where the cultivators of the Thousand Star Civilisation gathered, the carriage travelled in, and under the bearded man’s leadership, Zhang Ruochen was arranged to stay temporarily in a secret room for cultivation.
From start to finish, Zhang Ruochen did not see the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden again, and it was obvious that she was still staying inside the ancient carriage.
“The sky is about to brighten up, and there are still four hours until noon. With the help of the inner space of the Time and Space Crystal Stone, it should be enough for me to refine all of these Sacred Fruits and Sacred Medicines.”
On Zhang Ruochen’s body, there were actually some Saint Fruits and Saint Pills that had been seized from those Saint Kings of the Heavenly Realm Faction, and even if they weren’t enough to cultivate to the Third Step Saint King Realm, they weren’t far off.
Asking the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden for the Sacred Fruits and Sacred Pills was just wanting to rip her off.
Zhang Ruochen went inside the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and took out all the Sacred Fruits and Sacred Pills on his body that could enhance his cultivation and spiritual power, each taking out a strain and going all out to refine and absorb them.
Several hours passed, and Zhang Ruochen refined all the holy fruits and holy pills on the ground.
In the Qi Sea, the Tongtian River, which was composed of Saint Dao rules, became a few points wider, and the flow grew significantly.
The total number of Sacred Dao rules in the Tongtian River reached 40,760, almost doubling.
With such a huge number of rules, it was certain that one had already broken through to a three-step Saint King.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen was yet far from a Four-Step Saint King, according to many books, the number of Saint Dao Rules had to reach at least 100,000 before one could step into the Four-Step Saint King realm.
It was also only by reaching the four-step Saint King realm that a cultivator would be able to invoke the power of a middle-ranked Saint Art, flawlessly.
All of the middle-ranked Saint Arts that cultivators below the Four-Step Saint King level could unleash were only partially wielding their power, and were far from flawless power. It was like the difference between a Saint and a Half-Saint.
Thus, the difference between the battle power of a three-step Saint King and a four-step Saint King was quite huge, and many cultivators with extraordinary talent were unable to fight across realms.
At the Saint King realm, every step eliminated a large number of mediocre talents, and every cultivator who was able to make it to the back was not a weakling.
It was precisely for this reason that the further back one went, the tougher it became to fight across realms.
Zhang Ruochen muttered to himself, ”Since I entered the God Sealing Platform, I have already taken nearly a hundred types of Sacred Fruits and Sacred Pills, and even if there are other Sacred Fruits and Sacred Pills of different categories, they definitely won’t be able to allow me to break through to the four-step Sacred King realm. Unless I find a few wondrous treasures of the True Myriad Sacred Fruit’s kind of level, or a hundred thousand year old Ancient Sacred Pill, I will be able to break through quickly. In that temple at the top of the Wind Dome, it is said that there may not necessarily be such a chance.”
With a breakthrough in realm and a huge increase in strength, Zhang Ruochen’s mood was still quite pleasant.
However, Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power, however, had a bottleneck and was stuck at the peak of the fifty-sixth rank, and even after swallowing a dozen or so sacred pills to enhance his spiritual power in a row, he was unable to go any further.
Zhang Ruochen developed a sense of crisis and was a little worried that the peak of the fifty-sixth rank was the limit of his lifetime.
I don’t know how many gifted spiritual cultivators had the talent to become a Great Saint of Spiritual Power when they were young, but they were stuck in a bottleneck, unable to move forward for hundreds of years, and eventually died of old age.
This kind of “lack of successor strength” of great geniuses abounded.
Zhang Ruochen quickly calmed himself down and summarised the reason: “It should be because I’ve been swallowing pills lately, and my spiritual power has broken through too quickly, but I lacked insight and experience.”
Zhang Ruochen was still too young and had experienced too little compared to those old guys who had lived for hundreds of years, and the fact that he was able to break through all the way to the peak of the 56th rank before a bottleneck appeared was also due to the seven lives he had experienced in the Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Diagram, which had grown his experience and refined his spirit.
Otherwise, with his cultivation degree, the bottleneck would have arrived long ago, how could he wait until now?
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen sensed something and then walked out of the Space Crystal Stone. Only to see that a little fellow had appeared in the cultivation chamber, wearing a Taoist robe, with a disc shaped cheese leaf hat on his head.
It was none other than the Tongling Sacred Cheese, the True Myriad Little Taoist.
Zhang Ruochen observed the cultivation chamber, and now that the formation inscriptions in the chamber hadn’t been destroyed, his heart moved with quite a bit of surprise as he said, ”How did you find your way here? Moreover, there are formations laid out in the cultivation chamber, so how did you break in?”
