The Beast Soul, is the soul of the Silver Light Shark.
Whether it was a human, or a savage beast, if the soul was broken, it was definitely a dead end.
Generally speaking, the soul of a savage beast could only stay within the body of the savage beast. However, when the soul grew to the level of a beast soul, it would be able to leave the body and could even be sent elsewhere.
The Silver Light Shark was now planning to send its beast soul, to Zhang Ruochen, thus exchanging it for a chance to live.
Zhang Ruochen pondered for a moment, weighing the pros and cons, and finally decided to collect the Silver Light Shark’s beast soul.
The Silver Light Shark was powerful and a waterside overlord, controlling such a savage beast would have many benefits for Zhang Ruochen, and he could even use the Silver Light Shark to deal with the Black Market’s experts.
“Alright! Since that’s the case, you’ll first place the beast soul, into this scroll.”
A halo of light appeared in Zhang Ruochen’s brow, and the Divine Martial Seal emerged, while at the same time, a scroll flew out from the Divine Martial Seal and fell into Zhang Ruochen’s hand.
The scroll unfolded, and on it, a Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was painted, emitting a majestic might, causing the Silver Light Shark to become even more fearful, feeling even more that the human in front of him was unfathomable.
This scroll was precisely the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram that had once sealed Xiao Hei.
With the power of the Qian Kun Divine Wood Diagram, it would be able to easily suppress the beast soul of the Silver Light Shark, and there was no need for Zhang Ruochen to beware of it anymore.
Putting the beast soul of the Silver Light Shark into the Qian Kun Divine Wood Diagram, Zhang Ruochen rolled the scroll back up and took it back to the Qi Sea in his brow once again.
Since he had already taken control of the Silver Light Shark’s beast soul, Zhang Ruochen didn’t have to continue staying in the Silver Light Shark’s belly.
Zhang Ruochen flew out of the Silver Light Shark’s mouth and landed on the Silver Light Shark’s back.
The Silver Light Shark immediately rushed up from the water, carrying Zhang Ruochen, to the surface.
At this moment, the sky was nearly evening, and a light moon, hanging in the dome of the sky, was like a mark of the sky.
In the sky, the evening sunlight was like fire.
The reddish sun was about to set on the horizontal plane.
Zhang Ruochen took out a fourth grade healing elixir, White Bone Breeding Pill, and threw it to the Silver Light Shark, allowing it to take it and heal itself.
“Thank you master for the reward.” The Silver Light Shark let out a human voice and said in awe.
Now, its beast soul was under Zhang Ruochen’s control, so it naturally feared and respected Zhang Ruochen, not daring to be the slightest bit rebellious.
Fourth-stage savage beasts already possessed a high level of intelligence and were able to learn human language very quickly.
This was still only the fourth rank savage beasts, the legendary seventh rank savage beasts were even able to cultivate a human form.
Zhang Ruochen looked at the remnants of the sun in the sky and said, “You should be quite familiar with the Death River section, do you know where the Four-Winged Earth Dragon’s Underwater Dragon Palace was located back then?”
“Master is going to the Underwater Dragon Palace?” The Silver Light Shark exclaimed.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Don’t tell me that you don’t know the location of the Underwater Dragon Palace.”
“Of course not, it’s just …… just that the Underwater Dragon Palace is located in the deepest part of the Death River section, and it’s also the territory of the Three Clawed Dragon Jiao, once the human race breaks in there, it’s a dead end.” The silver light shark said.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Is the Three Clawed Dragon Jiao very powerful?”
The Silver Light Shark said, “Five hundred years ago, the human race’s army, massacred in the Death River section, and nearly decimated all the powerful savage beasts, all of them. Even the overlord above this land, the Four-Winged Earth Dragon, was killed. However, a son of the Four-Winged Earth Dragon survived. It is the current Three-clawed Dragon Jiao.”
“I once went on a pilgrimage to worship the Three-Clawed Dragon Jiao, it was an incomparably terrifying master of the waters, just the aura that emanated from it made me tremble in fear and not dare to move. Master, you mustn’t go to the underwater dragon palace, if we startle the Three-clawed Dragon Jiao, we’ll all die.”
Underwater Dragon Palace, Zhang Ruochen was definitely going.
The Buddha Relic, to him, was too important.
Zhang Ruochen gently stroked his chin, revealing a thoughtful expression as he said, “Silver Light Shark, since you honour me as your master, is it true that you will obey any order I give?”
“That’s natural.” The Silver Light Shark said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Good! Then you should go and pay a visit to the Three-clawed Dragon Jiao right now and tell it that a large number of human races have entered the Death River section, wanting to break into the Underwater Dragon Palace and seize the treasures left behind by the Four-winged Earth Dragon.”
“Master, what kind of people are they that want to break into the Underwater Dragon Palace?” The Silver Light Shark asked.
“Questions that shouldn’t be asked, then you’d better not ask more.” Zhang Ruochen said.
The Silverlight Shark hurriedly shut up and rushed to inform the Three-clawed Dragon Jiao as Zhang Ruochen commanded.
Before leaving, the Silverlight Shark told Zhang Ruochen the directions to the Underwater Dragon Palace.
“Since I’m going to the Underwater Dragon Palace, I’ll just take this opportunity to test the fastest burst of speed that I appear to have.”
Zhang Ruochen stood on the surface of the water as if he was walking on a flat surface, took a deep breath, and immediately unfolded his stance and violently rushed out.
As time passed, Zhang Ruochen’s speed became faster and faster, soon breaking through the three hundred metres per second boundary, followed by three hundred and ten metres per second, three hundred and twenty metres per second, three hundred and thirty metres per second, three hundred and thirty-one metres per second, three hundred and thirty-two metres per second ……
As it got closer to the speed of sound, the resistance of the air, became greater and greater.
“Puffing!”
The clothes on Zhang Ruochen’s body burst into flames, instantly burning into flying ash.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen’s body experienced all sorts of uncomfortable symptoms, the upper half of his body became heavier and the lower half became lighter, and his eardrums were propped up by the powerful hedging force, emitting tinnitus.
“Poof!”
Zhang Ruochen plunged headlong into the water, and that powerful impact force, on the surface of the water, formed a huge wave.
After a long time, Zhang Ruochen leapt up from the water and stood on the surface again, his long wet hair draped over his face as he panted heavily.
“The closer we get to the speed of sound, the greater the resistance of the air, if not for the fact that my physical physique has already reached the level of a late stage Heaven’s Extreme Realm martial artist, I’m afraid that my body would’ve long since been torn apart by that powerful force of hedging.”
Wearing the Flying Fish Armour and reaching the speed of sound, Zhang Ruochen didn’t feel that powerful pressure.
However, it was only when he truly used his cultivation at the Earth Extreme Realm to hit the speed of sound that he realised that it was surprisingly so difficult.
The distance to the speed of sound was obviously only a little bit short, but the closer one got to the speed of sound, the pressure on the body increased exponentially, and even with a late stage Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist’s body, he was somewhat unable to hold on.
A Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist possessed a body shielding heavenly astral, which could withstand that pressure.
However, Zhang Ruochen did not have a Body Protecting Heavenly Deity and could only use his physical body to resist it, which naturally led to various discomforts.
“No wonder it would be so difficult to reach the Earth Extreme Realm Supreme Extreme Realm, with my various conditions, I can’t even cross that one hurdle. Could it be that I really have to be at the Earth Extremity Realm and raise my physical body physique to the level of the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Boundary before I have a chance to reach the Supreme Extremity Realm?”
For an Earth Extremity Realm martial artist to be able to reach the physical body strength of an early Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist was already quite a remarkable achievement.
Reaching the physical body strength of a mid Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist was even more rare.
Like Zhang Ruochen, reaching the physical body strength of a late Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist at the Earth Extremity Realm’s Great Perfection Realm was even more rare, each one of them was a heavenly prodigy, and it also required a large amount of piles of body refining precious pills, coupled with one’s own hard work of cultivation, and all kinds of conditions reaching their extremes, in order to be able to do so.
As for, in the Earth Extreme Realm to achieve the physical strength of the Heavenly Extreme Realm’s Small Extreme Position, that was simply a shocking thing that only existed in legends.
According to Zhang Ruochen’s understanding, only eight hundred years ago, amongst the Nine Emperors, the strongest physical body of the “Martial Emperor” had reached the strength of a small physical body of the Heavenly Extremity Realm at the Earth Extremity Realm’s Great Completion.
Zhang Ruochen was now only a thread away from the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Earth Extreme Realm, and perhaps, it would only be possible to break through that thread by raising his physical body physique to the level of a Heavenly Extreme Realm Minor Extreme Position Martial Artist.
“Only by obtaining a dragon relic, or dragon’s blood, can I raise my physical body physique to another level and reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Earth Extreme Realm.”
The robes on Zhang Ruochen’s body had long since burnt to ashes, and his entire body was naked, a hint of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth as he mumbled to himself, “It’s no wonder that in the Martial City Palace of Learning, the elders who have reached the Heavenly Extremity Realm are all required to wear silver robes that have been specially refined. Ordinary clothes would definitely spontaneously combust when a martial artist is running at high speed.”
Although Zhang Ruochen was only a trainee of the Inner Palace, he enjoyed the treatment of the Silver Robe Elder level, so he had already received three sets of silver robes a long time ago.
From the spatial ring, he took out a set of silver robes and put them on his body. Zhang Ruochen continued to rush, his feet treading on the water, travelling quickly in the direction of the Underwater Dragon Palace.
Entering the waters where the Underwater Dragon Palace was located, Zhang Ruochen detected the scent left behind by a human martial artist.
Thus, he slowed down, put on the Flying Fish Armour, entered the water, and used his spatial power to hide his body as he carefully moved forward.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen released his Martial Soul and began to probe the waters.
Before long, Zhang Ruochen spotted six Red Spider Giant Ships a hundred miles away.
Despite using his Martial Soul, he was still only probing from afar, fearing that his aura would be detected by the powerhouses on the giant ships.
“So many powerful auras, it’s true as Ah Le said, the black market has mobilised a large number of Earth Extreme Realm Great Perfection martial artists, it’s estimated that there are really thousands of martial powerhouses.”
The black market’s energy could not be underestimated, thousands of Earth Extremity Realm Great Perfection martial artists, just thinking about it was terrifying.
Zhang Ruochen’s martial soul, shadowless and invisible, was like a wisp of fresh wind, flying in mid-air, observing the six Red Spider Giant Ships from afar.
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen spotted two familiar silhouettes on top of one of the Red Spider Giant Ships, it was none other than Si Xingkong and Chang Qiqi.
Both of their hands were tied with chains, their legs were shackled, and their necks, chests, backs, and bellies had many wounds made by whips, dripping with blood, very miserable.
Apart from the two of them, there were hundreds of ragged Earth Extreme Realm martial artists on that one Red Spider Giant Ship, all wearing chains as well, all tied to the top of the ship’s pole.
“The two of them, they were actually captured by black market experts, and I don’t know if Senior Sister Huang and Senior Sister Duanmu escaped.”
Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul checked around the six Red Spider Giant Ships and did not find the scent of Huang Yichen and Duanmu Xingling, and his heart let out a slight sigh of relief.
“It’s still understandable for the Black Market to capture Si Xingkong and Chang Qiqi, after all, the Black Market and the Martial Market Palace have always had a hostile relationship. However, why did the Black Market capture other Earth Extreme Realm martial artists, and moreover, in such large numbers?”
