How sharp was the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, just in an instant it pierced through the Black Wind Python’s protective heavenly deities, passed through the teeth and the snake’s letter, and flew into the Black Wind Python’s belly.
The Black Wind Python suffered pain and its body rolled violently, its mouth emitting a strange whistling sound.
A wind-attribute true qi power surged out from its body, turning into a wind blade that flew in all directions.
The waves on the surface of the water became even more turbulent and surging.
Zhang Ruochen stood in the middle of the storm, calm as water, appearing unperturbed.
“Swish swish!”
Under Zhang Ruochen’s control, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword chopped off all of the Black Wind Python’s organs, carrying a piece of blood that once again flew out of the Black Wind Python’s mouth and landed in Zhang Ruochen’s hands.
“Rumble!”
The body of the Black Wind Python fell down heavily, splashing a huge splash.
A moment later, the huge corpse, surfaced on the water surface, more than seventy metres long, its body was frighteningly thick, hideous and jagged, and every piece of its scales looked like it was made of arcane iron, reflecting a metal-like luster.
The entire waters, were dyed red with blood, emitting a strong bloody aura.
If Zhang Ruochen did not possess the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and the Sword Mind Realm, it would never have been easy to kill the Black Wind Python.
Just its scales alone were not something that an ordinary True Martial Treasure Weapon could break through.
This fourth stage medium savage beast had finally died under Zhang Ruochen’s sword, and from then on, the surrounding hundred miles of waters would have to be much more peaceful.
Zhang Ruochen’s toes tiptoed on the water surface, his body was as light as a swallow as he leapt up, spanning a distance of tens of zhang, and landed lightly on the corpse of the Black Wind Python.
There were extremely many treasures on the Black Wind Python’s body, such as snake skin, which could be used to make soft armour.
Another example was the snake teeth, which could be used to refine a poison weapon.
Even the blood and flesh of the Black Wind Python, after being processed, would be given to martial artists to take, able to increase their physique and enhance their resistance to poison.
However, to Zhang Ruochen, the snake skin, snake teeth, and snake meat of the Black Wind Python were certainly all good things, but he could no longer look at them.
Knowing that he now had millions of spirit crystals on him, what treasures could he not buy if he wanted them?
The higher one’s cultivation level, the more wealth one had, and the higher one’s eyesight.
Of course, there were still some things on the Black Wind Python’s body that Zhang Ruochen could see.
For example, the snake gall bladder
“Giggle!”
Zhang Ruochen carefully cut open the snake’s skin and dug out a three-coloured snake gallbladder and a piece of spirit meat weighing over two hundred pounds.
A rich fragrance emanated from the spirit meat, like a blood and flesh elixir, just a single sniff made one feel refreshed.
“A fourth rank medium savage beast is many times more powerful than a fourth rank inferior savage beast, its spirit meat is a great tonic food.”
The Black Wind Python, which was almost equivalent to the strength of a martial artist at the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm and the Small Extremity Position of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, was naturally quite a powerful savage beast.
Don’t look at the fact that it was only a little over two hundred jin of spirit meat, its value was tens of times more precious than the Black Wind Python’s entire body’s blood and flesh combined.
Even if a martial artist at the early stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm took it, it would have quite a few benefits.
Zhang Ruochen split the spirit meat into ten portions and put them into ten jade containers and carefully put them away.
His gaze, then, fixed on the fist-sized snake gall bladder, and his eyes lit up, more excited than when he had looked at the piece of spirit meat just now.
That one snake gallbladder, showed black, white and yellow, three colours.
“Three colours, this Black Wind Python, has actually cultivated for three hundred years. Its snake gallbladder is comparable to a six hundred year old spirit medicine. Good stuff!”
Putting away the snake gall, Zhang Ruochen returned to the shore.
He raised his head and looked at the sky.
The setting sun was hanging down, and the sky looked like flames were burning, even the water turned golden.
“It looks like we won’t be able to make it to Death City today.”
Zhang Ruochen wasn’t in a hurry to rush, even if he was going to open the Underwater Dragon Palace, he wasn’t in a hurry. He had waited for three months, but he was still in a hurry for one night?
“Tonight, let’s first refine the Tricolour Snake Gallbladder and see how much we can raise our cultivation level.”
Zhang Ruochen found a rather hidden valley and set up a fire.
He sat down next to the fire and took out the one Tricolour Snake Gallbladder, and after going through the power of de-poisoning treatment, he took it into his mouth and began to refine it.
The energy contained in the tricoloured snake gall bladder was very cold, and Zhang Ruochen felt like he had swallowed a piece of Xuan Ice, fortunately, he had refined many Ice Vein Pills in the past, so he could easily withstand that wave of coldness.
While refining the Tricoloured Snake Gallbladder, Zhang Ruochen also caught the chilly power of the Tricoloured Snake Gallbladder and began to cultivate the Five Sword Waves in his right hand.
“Tai Yin Vein Sword Wave!”
Zhang Ruochen’s thumb formed a sword and quickly pointed out.
“Wow!”
The air around him became violently cold.
A light green-coloured sword wave flew out from his thumb and struck above the stone wall at the back of the valley with a rumbling sound, leaving a huge crater three metres in diameter on the stone wall, as if it had been struck by a meteorite.
The surrounding stone wall, followed by cracking, issued a “giggling” sound, was a layer of cold ice seal.
The “Tai Yin Pulse Sword Wave” of his left thumb had officially reached the small completion level.
“Tai Yin Vein Sword Wave!”
Zhang Ruochen’s hand seals changed as his right index finger pointed out.
A sword qi flew out from the fingertip, leaving an icy path on the ground.
“Boom!”
On the stone wall, a huge crater appeared once again, causing a destructive force that was comparable to that previous sword wave.
Zhang Ruochen struck again, and this time, he retracted his index finger and thumb, leaving only the middle, ring, and little fingers of his right hand.
Three fingers, striking out at the same time.
“Middle Spirit Vein Sword Wave! ”
“Tai Yuan Vein Sword Wave! ”
“Shaoyue Pulse Sword Wave!”
The three sword qi, which flew out almost simultaneously, once again left three large craters on the distant stone wall.
Two of the large pits were the same size as the two pits caused by the previous two, and only the destructive force caused by the “Lesser Moon Pulse Sword Wave” only left a small pit with a diameter of one metre on the stone wall.
“The snake bile of the Black Wind Python is indeed a good thing, it actually helped me cultivate the Tai Yin Vein Sword Wave, Tai Vein Sword Wave, Middle Spirit Vein Sword Wave, and Tai Abyssal Vein Sword Wave to a small level of success at the same time, with only the Lesser Moon Vein Sword Wave remaining, still stuck at the introductory realm.”
Zhang Ruochen was still quite satisfied, before he came to Tongming River, he had never expected to cultivate the four Sword Waves to the Minor Achievement Realm within a short period of time.
Sword Waves that reached the Minor Achievement Realm had their power increased by several times.
After refining the three-coloured snake gall bladder, Zhang Ruochen felt that his martial cultivation had risen quite a bit more, and was already very close to the peak of the Earth Extremity Realm’s Great Extremity Position.
On top of that, even his eyes, ears, and spiritual power had slightly improved, his five senses were sharp, and the entire world became clearer.
In the middle of the night, Zhang Ruochen suddenly woke up from his cultivation, his ears twitched slightly, and his mouth muttered to himself, “I’m actually surrounded! Or were they chasing after us, I just don’t know which side they are on?”
He could already hear the other side’s footsteps, breathing, and even the sound of their heartbeat. Although the enemies were still far away from him, Zhang Ruochen already knew them like the back of his hand.
The enemies in the darkness, a few of them were quite powerful, even a few points more powerful than the current Zhang Ruochen, and only by using all of his cards would Zhang Ruochen be able to defeat them.
The strong enemies gradually approached, but Zhang Ruochen still looked very calm, picking up the branches on the ground and adding firewood inside the fire.
“Pah-pah!”
The firewood of the fire pile made a slight popping sound, splashing out wisps of sparks.
“Shasha!”
A foot deep from the ground, a long metal whip full of sharp barbs, like a metal snake, surged forward sharply and rushed towards Zhang Ruochen.
Just when the long metal whip was still three metres away from Zhang Ruochen, it rushed out from the ground with a “wow” sound, holding a barb, spinning without stopping, and winding towards Zhang Ruochen’s neck.
At the tip of the metal whip was a three-inch-long spike that emitted a purple glow, clearly quenched with a strong poison.
The corner of Zhang Ruochen’s mouth ticked as he grabbed a branch and held it between his two fingers.
Spirit Flame True Qi, spat out from his fingertips, completely wrapped the branch and struck at the long metal whip.
“Ding!”
The tree branch spread with spirit fire accurately struck the metal whip four feet away, dispersing the true qi contained on top of the metal whip.
A split second later, the metal whip flew up again, emitting a swish-swish metallic sound, striking at Zhang Ruochen’s vest.
At the same time, the owner of the metal whip appeared and flew out from the darkness.
It was a woman who appeared to be almost thirty years old, wearing golden armour that tightly wrapped around her chest and hips, revealing her long, snow-white waist and legs.
Her mouth let out a chirping sound, like a phantom shadow, as she continuously struck out her long metal whip, executing a set of exquisite whip techniques, completely wrapping Zhang Ruochen within the range of the whip.
The entire valley was filled with constantly flying golden awnings.
Zhang Ruochen sat on the ground, looking very dashing and written, constantly striking the branches out, and each time, he was able to accurately repel the long metal whip.
“Swoosh!”
Suddenly, a flaming arrow holding a phoenix’s tail, holding its long tail, flew out from the distant darkness and struck at Zhang Ruochen.
In just the blink of an eye, the arrow of flame traversed a distance of more than ten miles and flew into the valley, striking Zhang Ruochen’s brow with unerring accuracy.
With an arrow that shot out over ten miles and still managed to keep its power undiminished, the other party was definitely a top-notch archery expert. Not only was his arm strength amazing, even his eyesight was not comparable to ordinary martial artists.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes sank as he immediately grabbed the hilt of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
“Wow!”
The ancient sword left its sheath, dragging out a brilliant sword light, and in mid-air, it formed a crescent-shaped sword Qi with a diameter of more than ten metres.
“Boom!”
The arrow of flame that held the phoenix’s tail clashed with the sword qi with a loud bang, shaking the aura of the entire valley violently.
The phoenix feather arrow immediately exploded, turning into a large rain of fire that shot out sharply in all directions.
That one woman holding a long metal whip immediately retreated, dodging the onslaught of the rain of fire.
The rain of fire, naturally, also flew towards Zhang Ruochen.
However, at a distance of one metre away from Zhang Ruochen, it was blocked by a layer of true qi shield, so the rain of fire all fell to the ground and turned into grains of iron sand.
“Swish!”
A man holding a large crimson bow and carrying a quiver of arrows on his back, like a large bird, also flew out of the darkness.
