“The technique that the Bright Light Half-Saint cultivates is not as good as the Nine Heavens Bright Emperor Scripture, but his understanding of the martial path is far better than mine, and comprehending the Half-Saint Holy Intentions he left behind will also be of considerable help to me.”
As Zhang Ruochen comprehended the Sun, Moon, and Stars Diagram, the true qi in his body continued to merge into his bones, causing them to give birth to a faint layer of starry light.
The strength of the fleshly body, continuously increased.
The Bright Light Half-Saint’s martial dao was different from the one Zhang Ruochen was currently cultivating, the Bright Light Half-Saint paid more attention to the cultivation of the physical body physique, especially the shin bones.
A martial artist, once they chose a certain martial art, it would be very difficult to change to another.
However, even if two martial artists who cultivated the same technique, their martial paths were completely different, with some having high achievements and others having low achievements.
To refer to a half-saint’s holy intent was to go and learn the half-saint’s martial dao, thus changing one’s own martial dao to a certain extent and breaking through the limitations of the gong method.
Some of these extremely gifted martial artists were even able to create their own martial dao, an independent gong method, after comprehending the martial dao of a number of half saints and saints.
Just like the Nine Heavenly Bright Emperor Scripture and the Peac*ck Sacred Canon weren’t also created by sages?
Zhang Ruochen had high expectations of himself and naturally didn’t want to be limited by the Nine Heavens Bright Emperor Sutra, but also wanted to comprehend the martial dao of more half-saints and saints, striving to use the Nine Heavens Bright Emperor Sutra as a foundation to create an even more powerful martial dao.
“With my current martial dao cultivation, I’m already able to fight against some Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artists with weaker cultivation levels, but there aren’t many martial techniques that I can use.”
“It’s time to cultivate the fifth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, the ‘Nine Stacks of Elephant Power’, to a grand completion, increasing the attack power on the palm.”
The Nine Stacks of Elephant Power, Zhang Ruochen had already cultivated it to six stacks, which could explode six times the attack power.
The further it went, the harder it was to cultivate.
It was already difficult to progress further by only cultivating in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
Therefore, it was necessary to go to Tong Sheng Mountain and borrow the special environment of the gravity cultivation chamber to help him cultivate the “Nine Stacks of Elephant Power”.
The Gravity Cultivation Chamber could create an environment with ten times gravity, or even a hundred times gravity. Under that kind of environment, not only could he better cultivate his palm techniques, but he could also enhance his physical body, making Zhang Ruochen’s physical body even stronger.
The four realms of martial arts, “Yellow, Xuan, Earth, and Heaven”, paid more attention to the refining of the physical body.
The physical body is the foundation of all martial arts!
Before travelling to Tong Sheng Mountain, Zhang Ruochen planned to make a trip to the Merit Tower to exchange his Merit Value.
Zhang Ruochen had just arrived at the Merit Tower and there were many people that recognised him.
“Isn’t he the Zhang Ruochen who has recently risen to fame? It is said that the Poison Spider Young Master, one of the seven young masters of the Black Market, died in his hands.”
“Not only the Poison Spider Young Master, but there were also two Black Market Heavenly Extremity Realm experts who were also killed by him.”
“What? He was able to kill experts of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, doesn’t that mean that he already possesses the strength to enter the Earth Ranking, and is estimated to be able to rank in the top five in the Inner Palace Academy.”
“He’s only that young, not even twenty years old, and he possesses such terrifying strength, it’s estimated that in the future, even Eldest Senior Brother won’t be his opponent.”
“Having killed the Poison Spider Young Master and the two Heavenly Extreme Realm Black Market experts, I don’t know how much merit value I’ll be able to get, at least 30,000 points of merit value.”
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Those who were able to enter the Inner Palace Academy were all top geniuses of the younger generation, none of them were mediocre. Even so, when they saw Zhang Ruochen, they still felt exceptionally excited, and had a feeling of looking up to mountains.
That was a teenage king who was capable of killing martial arts myths!
A heavenly pride like Zhang Ruochen, not to mention in the Heavenly Demon Ridge, even if he was placed in those Half-Saint Families and Saint Sects, he would be considered a figure of the young generation.
Right at this moment, a man wearing a silver-coloured robe walked out of the Tower of Merit. He was seven feet tall, his temperament was like ice, and every expression carried a powerful might.
Four or five Inner Palace trainees, like his followers, walked behind him.
There were only three Inner Palace cadets who were qualified to wear silver robes, and each of them was an expert of the 《Earth Ranking》, which could be called the three great overlords of the Inner Palace Academy.
All the other Inner Palace cadets had to look up to them.
This one silver-robed man, named Qiu Lin, the second ranked cadet of the Inner Palace Academy, ranked 27,861st on the 《Earth Ranking》, and at the same time, one of the Ten Heavenly Demon Shows, who possessed an extremely high reputation in the 36 counties of the Heavenly Demon Ridge.
Two years ago, Qiu Lin fought against a fourth-ranked barbarian beast, the Leech King, in the Tongming River, killing the Leech King, and then fought against aquatic barbarian beasts for three days in a row in the Tongming River, killing thousands of barbarian beasts and colouring all the sections of the river within a hundred miles red.
It was that battle that made him famous all over the world.
Qiu Lin stared at Zhang Ruochen from afar, revealing a hint of disdain as he asked one of the Inner Palace trainees beside him, “Is he the prince of that inferior county kingdom that flattered County Lord Smoky Dust and Senior Sister Chen Xi’er?”
Xun Guihai stood behind Qiu Lin, revealing a hint of coldness as he said, “Reporting back to Senior Brother Qiu, he is Zhang Ruochen.”
Although Xun Guihai was a first-class man of the hour in the Outer Courtyard, he couldn’t even make it into the top one hundred when it came to the Inner Palace Academy, so he naturally looked respectful in front of Qiu Lin.
Not to mention that Xun Huihai hadn’t grown up yet, even if he did in the future, he might not be able to reach Qiu Lin’s height.
Qiu Lin’s strength was able to fight and kill a fourth-order savage beast, so besides Si Xingkong in the Inner Palace Academy, who would dare to be disrespectful to him?
When Xun Guihai saw Qiu Lin walking towards Zhang Ruochen, he immediately revealed a gloating expression.
“Wow! It’s Senior Brother Qiu Lin, he’s actually in the Merit Tower as well.” A rather attractive female cadet said excitedly.
“Sure enough, it’s Senior Brother Qiu Lin, it’s said that some time ago, he took on a mission to deal with a demonic sect’s rudder within the Jingyue County Kingdom, and it’s assumed that he’s already completed the mission and returned to redeem the merit value.”
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Qiu Lin had long since become accustomed to the screams of those Inner Palace trainees, and a hint of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
In the Inner Palace Academy, he was the true king, and Zhang Ruochen was still too young!
Qiu Lin walked up to Zhang Ruochen, not even hiding his hostility in the slightest, and said in an imposing manner, “Zhang Ruochen, I heard that you killed the Poison Spider Young Lord?”
Zhang Ruochen glanced at Qiu Lin and said, “May I ask who you are?”
“Qiu Lin.” Qiu Lin said arrogantly.
Zhang Ruochen said, “So it’s Senior Brother Qiu, I’ve heard a lot about you.”
After saying that, Zhang Ruochen bypassed Qiu Lin and walked towards the Tower of Merit.
Qiu Lin ranked sixth among the Ten Heavenly Demon Xiu, so naturally, Zhang Ruochen had heard of him.
However, Zhang Ruochen still had to exchange his Merit Value and rush to Tong Sheng Mountain for cultivation, so he simply didn’t have the time to exchange pleasantries with Qiu Lin, so he would reply back and leave directly.
Qiu Lin, however, did not intend to let Zhang Ruochen leave so easily, and let out a cold smile, “Senior Brother Zhang, Mister Qiu is still the Second Senior Brother of the Martial City Palace no matter what, you have not disrespected me too much, have you?”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes stared as he stopped in his tracks and said, “Senior Brother Qiu, you’re talking too seriously! Where have I disrespected you?”
Qiu Lin said, “You respect me? Did you salute me when you saw me?”
Zhang Ruochen sort of understood that Qiu Lin was trying to deliberately stir up trouble.
Only that Zhang Ruochen couldn’t figure out where he had offended him.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t like to cause trouble, but when it came, he was never afraid of it.
Xun Guihai, who stood behind Qiu Lin, let out a cold laugh, “Zhang Ruochen, do you really think that after killing the Poison Spider Young Lord, you are already invincible in the younger generation and can have no one else in your sight?”
Another female trainee who worshipped Qiu Lin also said, “Even in front of Senior Brother Qiu, he dares to be so arrogant, I really don’t know where he gets his confidence from?”
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze sank as his eyes sharpened towards Xun Guihai and the others.
Xun Guihai did not fear Zhang Ruochen in the slightest and said, “Stared? Did I say something wrong? It’s just that you’re young and reckless, I can understand that, after all, you’re the fiancé of County Lord Smoky Dust, and with the Thousand Waters County Kingdom as your backer, everyone wouldn’t dare to mess with you. But for you to meet your senior brother and not even have the slightest bit of basic courtesy, I, Xun, really can’t see past it.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed back in anger and said, “Xun Guihai, then what do you think I should do to be considered polite?”
Xun Guihai revealed a sinister smile, he felt that today was a good opportunity, since Qiu Lin wanted to find trouble with Zhang Ruochen, it was just the right time to teach Zhang Ruochen how to behave.
Xun Guihai said, ”Senior Brother Qiu entered the Inner Palace Academy ten years ago, not only is he our senior brother, he is our senior. You’ve only just entered the Inner Palace Academy, you’re just a newcomer, at the very least, you should bow, right?”
In this world, the strong were honoured, and the weak were the strongest anywhere.
Only the strong could be respected, and the weak could only be trampled on.
Even if they were the same Inner Palace trainees, they were divided into three, six, nine classes.
As powerful as Qiu Lin, he was the king of the inner palace trainees, standing at the top of the hierarchy. As long as he said a word, other trainees had to unconditionally offer their cultivation resources to him in order to get his shelter.
It was because of this cruel law of the jungle that Qiu Lin had become accustomed to the feeling of being on top, and those other trainees would naturally show their awe when they saw him.
If someone did not fear him, he would be very unhappy.
For example, Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen glanced at Qiu Lin and said, “We are all Inner Palace trainees, and we came to the Martial City Palace just to practice martial arts, so why do we need to make so many rules?”
The few Inner Palace Cadets standing behind Qiu Lin all burst out laughing, thinking that Zhang Ruochen was just rash.
“The world is so big, how can it work without rules? Wouldn’t the world be in chaos? The weak should learn to obey, they should serve the strong, and they should be in awe when they see the strong.”
Xun Guihai grabbed an Inner Palace Cadet at the early stage of the Earth Extreme Realm from the crowd, clasped that one Inner Palace Cadet’s meridians, and dragged him to Qiu Lin’s face.
“Do you think you should salute Senior Brother Qiu Lin?” Xun Guihai said grimly.
That one Inner Palace Cadet had already entered the Inner Palace Academy for half a year, and was very clear about the rules of the Inner Palace Academy, a cadet like him who was not even considered outstanding in the Outer Palace Academy could only look up to Qiu Lin’s kind of level of existence when he entered the Inner Palace Academy even more so.
Because, if Qiu Lin wanted to deal with him, it would be as simple as crushing an ant.
