Qiu Lin lost in a very unconvincing manner, after nearly ten years of cultivation in the Inner Palace Academy, he was defeated by a freshman who had just become a student of the Inner Palace, so one could imagine the humiliation, unwillingness, and shameful anger.
Moreover, he had previously put out a word for Zhang Ruochen to instruct him for a moment, but he didn’t expect Zhang Ruochen to actually instruct him now.
Zhang Ruochen said, “The Nine Spirit Beast King Form is actually called the ‘Ten Spirit Beast King Form’, and the tenth stance is named ‘Human King Invincible’. Man, in the end, is actually one of the hundred beasts. Therefore, you simply haven’t cultivated this kind of martial skill to its great completion. If you were able to successfully cultivate the tenth style, this kind of Spirit Grade Intermediate Martial Skill would be enough to explode with the power of a Spirit Grade Upper Grade Martial Skill.”
“You lied to me, you lied to me, the Nine Spirit Beast King Form only has nine stances, where is the tenth stance?” Qiu Lin growled.
“There’s no need to lie to you, the Ten Spirit Beast King Forms from the Martial City Academy is just a remnant scroll, it’s not complete at all. Of course, just based on the first nine stances, this one martial skill is already more powerful than a normal Spirit Grade mid-grade martial skill.”
Zhang Ruochen saw that Qiu Lin still didn’t believe it, so he shook his head and stopped paying attention to him.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen’s gaze turned towards Xun Guihai and the others, revealing a hint of a smile, and without saying anything, he directly walked towards the Merit Tower.
Xun Guihai and those Inner Palace trainees who had followed Qiu Lin earlier, all of their faces changed drastically, with great fear in their hearts, fearing that Zhang Ruochen would find them to settle the score.
It was only when they saw Zhang Ruochen walk into the Merit Tower that they breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly fled, not daring to stay outside of the Merit Tower any longer.
Even the expert on the Earth Ranking, Qiu Lin, had lost to Zhang Ruochen, so naturally, they were even more inadequate, so how could they still dare to be enemies with Zhang Ruochen in the future?
“Boom!”
The entire Inner Palace Academy, boiled over.
“Did you guys know? Zhang Ruochen, who just entered the Inner Palace Academy, defeated Qiu Lin, one of the Ten Heavenly Demon Shows.”
“What? Senior Brother Qiu is so powerful, how could he lose to a teenager in his teens?”
“I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be false?”
“With Zhang Ruochen’s strength, I’m afraid that even Eldest Senior Brother might not be his opponent.”
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Zhang Ruochen walked to a counter in the Tower of Merit and said, “Elder, I want to make up a token of the Academy Palace, and by the way, I also want to exchange the Merit Value.”
The one elder in the Merit Tower had seen Zhang Ruochen defeat Qiu Lin with his own eyes and knew Zhang Ruochen’s powerful strength, even he might not be Zhang Ruochen’s opponent.
Therefore, he was very polite to Zhang Ruochen and said, “Your Merit Value, the Academy Palace has already calculated it long ago, a total of 82,000 points. You lost the token of the Academic Palace, deducting ten points, there are still 81,990 points of merit value left.”
“That much?” Zhang Ruochen was a little surprised.
That one silver-robed elder laughed, “Killing a Black Market’s Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artiste rewards at least 10,000 points of merit value. Mu Qing, Hua Ming Gong, and Hua Qingshan of the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce all died at your hands, and just them alone can be exchanged for more than 40,000 points of merit value.”
“Moreover, you found evidence of the cooperation between the Four Directions County Kingdom and the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce, and Pavilion Master Lei has already explained it in advance, counting 30,000 points of merit value for you. Plus, you killed some other black market powerhouses, for a total of eighty-two thousand points of merit value, only less.”
“I see.” Zhang Ruochen said.
That one silver-robed Elder smiled panderingly, “You are the secret disciple of Pavilion Master Lei, how would we dare to tamper with your merit value? In the future, there might be many other places that I need to look up to you.”
“Definitely.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled, collected the newly minted token, and left the Merit Tower.
“With Pavilion Master Lei as a backer, I reckon that I will save a lot of unnecessary trouble in the future.”
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards the token in his hand, and a trace of an arc appeared at the corner of his mouth as he prepared to go to Tong Sheng Mountain now.
“Zhang Ruochen.”
Chen Xi’er walked head on, like a white orchid in the wind, fresh and unassuming, with a sweet smile on her face, “I really didn’t expect that in just a few short months, your cultivation has already reached such a powerful realm, should I say ‘congratulations’?”
Earlier, Zhang Ruochen’s battle with Qiu Lin had indeed made Chen Xi’er feel somewhat shocked.
However, she knew better than anyone else that a few months ago, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation had not yet broken through the Earth Extremity Realm. In just a few months’ time, Zhang Ruochen already possessed the strength to enter the Earth Ranking.
Previously, Zhang Ruochen still had a good feeling about Chen Xi’er, having a noble status yet being approachable, but when he saw her treat Zixi like that in the dungeon last time, he knew that she was a woman who was polished and beautiful on the outside, but ruthless on the inside.
Although there was nothing wrong with her doing that, Zhang Ruochen didn’t like her kind of dark character.
For some reason, seeing Chen Xi’er’s smile at this moment, Zhang Ruochen always felt that it was a bit false.
“Senior Sister Chen, I still have to go cultivate, so I’ll leave first. Sorry!”
Zhang Ruochen slightly arched his hand at Chen Xi’er, appearing polite, and then, left straight away, not even looking at Chen Xi’er’s astonished eyes.
Chen Xier stared at Zhang Ruochen’s departing back, her heart was very puzzled as to where exactly she had offended Zhang Ruochen, causing him to suddenly be so cold towards her.
“It must be that one of my cousins who spoke ill of me in front of Zhang Ruochen again.”
Chen Xi’er gently shook her head, appearing unconcerned as she mumbled to herself, “Although Zhang Ruochen’s natural talent is very good, it’s only considered a top genius in the Heavenly Demon Ridge, and when put into the entire Eastern Region, it can only be considered as an upper-middle level.”
Chen Xi’er’s status was noble and her eyes were high, so naturally, her gaze would not just be limited to the district’s Heavenly Demon Ridge.
The reason why she had taken the initiative to show her favour to Zhang Ruochen was also just to go against Huang Yicun and deliberately piss off Huang Yicun.
To say that she really had her eyes on Zhang Ruochen would be impossible. At least a genius who ranked in the top 100 of the Earth Ranking would be able to enter her eyes, and Zhang Ruochen was estimated to still have a considerable gap from the top 100 of the Earth Ranking.
Zhang Ruochen’s attitude only stirred a small ripple in Chen Xi’er’s heart, which quickly subsided.
Her heart was secretly plotting whether she should invite one or two teenage heavenly prides who were pursuing her and ranked in the top one hundred on the Earth Ranking to come to the Heavenly Demon Ridge and defeat Zhang Ruochen in front of Huang Yichen?
It seemed to be quite an interesting thing to do!
Arriving at the Tong Sheng Mountain, Zhang Ruochen paid a hundred points of Merit Value and directly entered an Earth Grade Gravity Cultivation Chamber.
This one Earth Grade Gravity Cultivation Chamber was a thirty metre long square gravity space.
Zhang Ruochen only stepped into the first step and already felt the gravity on his body enhance to double the level of gravity.
When he walked to the five-metre position, the gravity on Zhang Ruochen’s body reached five times.
When he walked to the ten metre position, the gravity on Zhang Ruochen’s body reached ten times, and he could vaguely feel the pressure, and his footsteps became heavier and heavier, as if his entire body was hung with lead.
When he walked to a distance of twenty metres, the gravity borne by him reached twenty times, the pressure borne by Zhang Ruochen was already quite high, and breathing became a little difficult.
He slowly raised his arms, his arms were like hanging ten thousand kilograms of boulders, he attempted to strike a palm, but found it quite a struggle, the bones of his arms made snapping sounds, like they would break at any moment.
“Twenty times gravity, that should be enough for now!”
Zhang Ruochen’s legs were slightly bent, making a dragon image step as his entire body’s true qi revolved.
“Boom!”
A palm struck out, striking the top of the stone wall.
On the stone wall, a palm-shaped mark roughly one millimetre deep appeared.
Affected by the tenfold gravity, his palm power appeared weak, and his movements were very slow, unable to be as fast as the outside at all.
Continue ……
“Boom Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen frantically cultivated, constantly swinging his arms and palming the stone walls to hone his palm techniques.
After just 500 palm strikes, Zhang Ruochen’s arms were numb with pain, and a blood-coloured line appeared on his arms, as if his skin was about to crack.
Taking a Third Grade Healing Pill, Zhang Ruochen sat in the twenty times gravity space, and after only half an hour had passed, the injuries on his body were healed and his arms were full of strength again.
In the Gravity Cultivation Chamber, Zhang Ruochen continued to cultivate, sweating, exercising his fleshly body, refining his palm techniques, and striking out palm after palm as he slowly adapted to the twenty times gravity.
Under normal gravity, Zhang Ruochen could strike six palms in a row, six palms overlapping and exploding with six times the power.
Under twenty times gravity, Zhang Ruochen could also strike six palms, but the six palms could not be overlapped, and he could not burst out the true power of the “Nine Stacks of Elephant Power”.
After spending ten days in constant cultivation, Zhang Ruochen was finally able to strike twice the power of his palms.
“Elephant Power Nine Stacks!”
Zhang Ruochen struck out two palms in a row, the palm prints overlapping and erupting with twice the power, leaving a one inch deep palm print crater on the wall.
“Finally, some achievement!”
Zhang Ruochen revealed a joyful expression and looked at his bloody hands, the high intensity palm practice had caused his arms to suffer great damage.
However, compared to the previous few days, they were already much better, and it took a thousand palm prints to injure his arms as they were now.
For the next five days, Zhang Ruochen continued to cultivate, but was never able to make another breakthrough.
Of course, his resistance to the Gravity Cultivation Chamber grew stronger and stronger, and at his best, he almost had to strike two thousand palm seals before he would stop to heal his injury.
This was also considered an improvement!
Half a month of cultivation time ended, and Zhang Ruochen left the Gravity Cultivation Chamber.
Returning to his cultivation mansion, Zhang Ruochen immediately began to test the results of his half-month cultivation.
“Elephant Power Nine Stacks!”
The true qi in Zhang Ruochen’s body completely erupted as he struck out seven palms in a row.
The seven palm imprints, connected in a straight line in the void, coalesced into a gigantic palm imprint with a diameter of seven metres.
“Boom!”
Twenty feet apart, the huge palm print shattered a fake mountain, turning it into pieces of debris that flew out.
“Seven times the power, it’s not a small improvement.”
Zhang Ruochen withdrew his true qi, and the martial aura on his body gradually dissipated.
After half a month of gruelling training in the gravity chamber, the sacrificial power in Zhang Ruochen’s body was completely refined and transformed into a power that belonged to him, and his martial arts cultivation seemed to have improved a little more.
Kong Xuan came from afar, and when he saw Zhang Ruochen standing by the pool, he immediately bowed and saluted, saying, “Greetings to Master.”
Zhang Ruochen turned to look at Kong Xuan, a hint of brightness appeared in his pupils as he said, “Your cultivation has reached the late Xuanji Realm?”
