In the depths of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, the surface of the barren earth revealed a huge crack that was thousands of metres long. In the crack in the earth, highly poisonous miasma gushed out all year round, turning the surrounding territory of thousands of miles into a forbidden zone of life.
This place was the entrance to the Red Sky Secret Mansion.
Zhang Ruochen and the others had just escaped from the ground, and had not yet had the time, to report the situation in the ground, to the four Vice Academy Masters.
Suddenly, a long whistle came from the underground.
A man whose entire body was wrapped in electric light rushed out from the crack in the ground and leapt up tens of metres high.
That one man wrapped in electric light was none other than Han Sanfu.
He had opened up the Thunderbolt Divine Martial Seal, and his true qi contained the power of thunder and lightning. Therefore, by running his true qi with all his might, he was able to stimulate the power of thunder and lightning.
Han Sanfu had once been the Chief Helmsman of the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult’s Jingyue County Kingdom, leading the entire county’s Demon Cult congregation, and could be considered a formidable figure. However, right now, he appeared to be in a sorry state, with at least five scars on his body, suffering from extremely heavy injuries.
On his face, a look of panic appeared, and after escaping the earth’s cracks, he hurriedly fled to the east.
“Han Sanfu, you still want to escape the Red Sky Secret Mansion?”
The East Courtyard’s Vice Lord was sitting on the east side of the earth crack, wearing silver robes, seeing Han Sanfu rushing over, a cold smile appeared on his face as he stood up with a sudden burst of energy, striking a palm towards Han Sanfu.
Although Han Sanfu was powerful, but after all, he was only at the Earth Extreme Realm’s Great Circle realm, but the East Courtyard’s Vice Lord was at the Heavenly Extreme Realm’s martial arts cultivation, and quickly intercepted Han Sanfu.
The other three Vice Courtyard Masters were about to make a move and join forces to suppress Han Sanfu when an even more ear-piercing long whistle came from the ground, and even the ground shook slightly along with it.
Wisps of scarlet blood Qi rose up from the ground, transforming into a blood cloud.
In the blood cloud, a slender silhouette stood, emitting a terrifying power fluctuation.
Looking closely, within that blood cloud, there was actually a beautiful woman standing with a bloody body, dragging her long bloody hair, her skin crystal clear as if it was carved out of white jade.
Seeing this one beautiful woman who had rushed out from the ground, the three Vice Courtyard Masters were all slightly stunned.
The Northern Courtyard Vice Lord recognised the appearance of that one woman and said, “Lu Han, is that you?”
That one blood-haired woman beautifully replied to the North Courtyard Vice-Master and turned into a blood aura, charging towards the North Courtyard Vice-Master, a piercing laughter coming out of her mouth, “What a rich blood aura, it must be delicious!”
“Vice-Master Jing Hong be careful, she’s been taken over by the Half-Saint’s Light and has turned into a blood-sucking evil creature.”
The West Courtyard Vice-Master and the South Courtyard Vice-Master simultaneously struck out martial arts masterpieces and attacked the blood-haired woman.
A battle between Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artists was incredibly destructive, even just a flying sword Qi was enough to kill an Earth Extremity Realm martial artist.
Zhang Ruochen and the others quickly retreated and hid in the distance.
It didn’t take long for the battle to end.
Han Sanfu was captured by the East Courtyard’s Vice Lords and imprisoned into the Red Sky Secret Mansion once again.
Lu Han, however, escaped, and the three Vice Courtyard Masters joined forces and couldn’t stop her.
Her body was protected by the Half-Saint’s Light, and the attacks of the three Vice Courtyard Masters couldn’t hurt her at all.
Lu Han had already reached the Heavenly Extremity Realm and was incredibly fast, turning into a bloody light and rushing into the vast and boundless Heavenly Demon Ridge.
The West Courtyard Vice-Master and the North Courtyard Vice-Master immediately chased after her, while the East Courtyard Vice-Master rushed back to the Martial City Academy Palace to notify more great masters and prepare to join forces against Lu Han.
The last remaining Southern Courtyard Vice Lord entered the Red Sky Secret Mansion and suppressed all the escaped prisoners, imprisoning them once more.
The trainees in the Red Sky Secret Mansion returned to the ground one after another, when they entered it was forty people, but only twenty-four of them came out alive, nearly half of them dead or injured.
Some of them were killed by the underground savage beasts, and some others died in the fight for the treasures.
That one lurker who had released the black market prisoners was also uncovered, and was actually the second ranked cadet of the North Courtyard, Wang Kun, ranked ninety-ninth on the Xuan Ranking, a very powerful heavenly pride.
The Deputy Head of the South Courtyard personally put Wang Kun to death, cut off his head, and threw the body into the crack of the ground, wrestling it into bloody mud.
The Martial City Academy would never be merciful when dealing with lurkers, and once discovered, they would be killed on sight.
Of the ten students from the Western Academy, a total of seven survived, namely Luo Shuihan, Huang Yichen, Duanmu Xingling, Duo Mu Zi, Zhang Ruochen, Sikong Art, and Zixi.
This was how the Intermediate Secret Exploration Examination ended, and everyone’s cultivation increased greatly, obtaining many precious cultivation resources.
As long as these cultivation resources were refined, their martial cultivation was bound to skyrocket, and even if they entered the Inner Palace, they would soon be able to become experts in the Inner Palace.
What’s more, all of them were geniuses among geniuses, and since they had passed the Intermediate Ruins Exploration Exam, they would definitely receive the key cultivation of the Martial City Academy Palace in the future.
Under the escort of the Southern Courtyard’s Vice Courtyard Master, Zhang Ruochen and the others returned to the Western Courtyard.
Luo Shuihan, Huang Yichen, Duanmu Xingling, Duo Mu Zi, and Sikong Technique had all broken through to the Earth Level Realm and became Inner Palace disciples. They stayed in the Western Courtyard for three days before they received orders from the Inner Palace to leave the Western Courtyard and truly step into the Inner Palace Academy of the Martial City Palace.
In the entire Dragon Martial Hall, Zhang Ruochen was the only one left.
The Dragon Martial Hall, appeared to be quite quiet, neither could one hear Duanmu Xingling’s laughter, nor did one have to worry about Huang Yichen coming to demolish the building.
Zhang Ruochen began to cultivate in seclusion, preparing to refine the cultivation resources he had obtained in the Red Sky Secret Mansion to raise his cultivation level.
Sitting cross-legged in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, Zhang Ruochen took out a foot-long jade box and placed it on the ground in front of him.
Opening the jade box, a rich holy energy and medicinal qi emanated from the box.
Each of the sixty-eight Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grasses contained powerful medicinal properties, and for a martial artist at the early stage of the Xuanji Realm, refining even just one of them could break through a realm.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t rush to completely refine the Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass, instead, he refined one plant every day and spent all the other time cultivating the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm.
He didn’t just just want to refine the Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass, but he also wanted to completely absorb the medicinal power of the Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grass and transform it into a power that belonged to himself.
Half a month had passed, Zhang Ruochen had refined fifteen Three Leaf Sacred Qi Grasses, his cultivation had risen once again, and the true qi in the Qi Lake had reached 60% of the Qi Lake’s capacity, which was twice as much as it was half a month ago.
The increase in cultivation was only secondary.
More importantly, Zhang Ruochen’s physique had improved.
Zhang Ruochen’s fastest burst speed now reached seventy-seven metres per second. In terms of speed, he had already far surpassed the one martial artist who was number one on the Xuan Ranking.
However, Zhang Ruochen’s goal was not the number one in The Xuan Ranking, but the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Xuan Extreme Realm.
A speed of eighty-one metres per second was the mark of the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Xuan Extreme Realm.
Zhang Ruochen appeared to be not far from the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Xuan Extreme Realm, but in reality, the gap was huge, and it was even possible that he would never reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Xuan Extreme Realm.
“According to my current rate of progress, when I cultivate to the peak of the Xuan Extremity Realm’s Great Perfection, I can only reach a speed of seventy-nine metres per second, and it is simply impossible to reach the Xuan Extremity Realm’s Supreme Extremity Realm.”
In Zhang Ruochen’s hand, he held a huge ancient book that was one metre long and half a metre thick.
In the Near Ancient Era, in the Xuan Extreme Realm, geniuses who had cultivated their speed to more than seventy-five metres per second were all recorded on top of the book.
The Near Ancient Era referred to the time period between ten thousand years ago and five hundred years ago.
In the Near Ancient Era, in the Kunlun Realm, no one had reached the supreme extremity of the Xuan Extreme Realm. Nine geniuses, who cultivated their speed to eighty metres per second at the Xuan Extreme Realm;seventy-eight geniuses, who cultivated their speed to seventy-nine metres per second at the Xuan Extreme Realm;seven hundred and sixty geniuses, who cultivated their speed to seventy-eight metres per second at the Xuan Extreme Realm ……
On the books, the records were very detailed, recording a total of more than seven hundred and fifty thousand names, with each name representing a legend behind it.
The first genius of the thirty-six counties of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, Zhang Tiangui, had only reached a speed of seventy-three metres per second at the Xuanji Realm.
It could be said that every single one of the more than seven hundred and fifty thousand individuals recorded in the books was more outstanding than Zhang Tiangui.
However, with so many talented and handsome individuals, not a single one of them had reached the supreme extremity of the Xuan Extremity Realm.
In particular, those nine geniuses who had increased their speed to eighty metres per second were even more astonishing, and their performances at the Xuan Extreme Realm were even more dazzling and shocking than even Zhang Ruochen’s current performance. However, even they all failed, none of them succeeded.
Zhang Ruochen closed the thick book and exhaled a long breath, saying, “In the Near Ancient Era, in just 10,000 years, so many great heroes were born, in the even more ancient Middle Ages, Upper Ages, and Ancient Ages, even more great heroes were born, but how many were able to cultivate to the Supreme Extreme Realm?”
Zhang Ruochen Avray perceived how difficult it was to reach the Supreme Extremity Realm of the Xuan Extremity Realm, but of course, once he succeeded, he would be able to invoke the Second Resonance of the Gods, and the benefits he would receive would be just as great.
“Perhaps there are people in the recent past who have also reached the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Xuan Extreme Realm, only that they were not recorded in this book. How vast is the Kunlun Realm, even if the Martial Market Palace is vastly powerful, it is impossible to record information on just about every martial artist. At least when I reached the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Supreme Extremity Realm, the Martial City Academic Palace didn’t have any record of it.”
Zhang Ruochen gradually regained his confidence, his eyes becoming incomparably determined.
Just because other people couldn’t do it didn’t mean that he couldn’t do it as well.
“Zhang Ruochen, Vice Academy Qing Hua wants to see you.” Little Black’s voice came from outside the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
“Vice Academy Master Qing Hua is back! She went after Lu Han, and I don’t know what the result is?” Zhang Ruochen was quite preoccupied with the matter of Lu Han and immediately walked out of the inner space to go and greet Vice Academy Master Qing Hua.
