Because, of that clear sky thunder, the martial artists of the entire Heavenly Demon Martial City tensed up, thinking that there was a great enemy coming, and at the first moment, all the defence formations, all of them, were opened.
Firstly, they were worried that there were fifth-ranked savage beasts coming to attack the city, or even a beast tide.
Secondly, they were worried that an evil expert from the Fish Dragon Realm would come to the Heavenly Demon Martial City to cause trouble.
Whether it was a fifth-order savage beast or a Fish Dragon Realm evil experts both had considerable destructive power, all the major forces were treating it with caution, if they were not careful, a huge disaster would occur in the Heavenly Demon Martial City.
Once, a fifth-ranked savage beast from the depths of the Heavenly Demon Ridge had intruded into the Heavenly Demon Martial City, causing thousands of casualties, and, that was only because the Patriarch of the Yuntai Sect Mansion had intervened in time to suppress it. Otherwise, the casualties would have been even greater.
“What a powerful lightning strike, definitely not natural lightning.”
“Could it be that a Golden Crowned Thunder Eagle King has come to Sky Demon Martial City?”
“Not necessarily, it’s said that the sect master of the Hellmouth Sect opened the Thunder Fiend Divine Martial Seal and cultivated the Heavenly Thunder Spirit Skill, which also possesses this kind of strength.”
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Various speculations circulated in the Heavenly Demon Martial City.
Being the originator of this incident, Zhang Ruochen, however, appeared to be on cloud nine as he gently nodded his head, indicating that he was satisfied with the power of the strike just now.
It was enough to rival the full force of a cultivator of the First Transformation of the Fish Dragon.
“Legend has it that a Spiritual Power Master can compete with a Fish Dragon Realm martial artist, and it is indeed true.”Zhang Ruochen said.
When one’s spiritual power reached above the fortieth rank, they were known as ‘Spiritual Power Masters’.
Spiritual power above the forty-fifth rank was known as a “Spiritual Power Half-Saint”.
Spiritual power above the fiftieth rank was known as a “Spiritual Power Saint”.
Spiritual power and martial arts were actually two very different cultivation paths.
For example, even if a scholar who had read a lot of poetry and books had not practiced martial arts, as long as his spiritual power reached the fortieth rank, he could still become a top powerhouse.
Of course, spiritual power and martial arts had a lot in common and could be cultivated at the same time.
Zhang Ruochen’s talent above spiritual power far exceeded his talent in martial dao, however, he didn’t only cultivate spiritual power, instead, he chose to cultivate both spiritual and martial dao.
In his last life, this was how he insisted.
In this life, he was still adamant.
In the event that spiritual power did not reach above the fortieth rank, the advantages of spiritual power cultivators were not obvious, and if they fought, they were far inferior to martial artists.
Only when spiritual power reached above the fortieth rank, the advantages of spiritual power cultivators, would gradually show themselves.
Below, a young girl’s delicate laughter rang out like a wind chime, very pleasant to the ears.
“Zhang Ruochen, what are you climbing so high for? Not afraid of rolling down and falling to your death?”
Hearing Na young girl’s laughter, Zhang Ruochen looked down, only to see that in the centre of the courtyard, there stood a graceful and charming woman, looking like a teenage girl, but her figure was amazingly good, with snow-white skin, a long slender neck, full breasts, a slender waist like a willow, a flat belly, a delicate navel, and below …… amount……
“How could this be?”
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen’s eyes stared straight at Duanmu Xingling’s body, gulping slightly, as if he had seen some astonishing image.
“Why would Senior Sister Duanmu …… come to my cultivation mansion naked?”
For a moment, Zhang Ruochen didn’t react to the fact that he had also turned on his Heavenly Eyes, and could easily see through the clothes on Duanmu Xingling’s body and her close-fitting muslin bellyband.
That image, how fragrant it had to be. Erotic, just how erotic. Erotic, simply enticing to the extreme.
Even when she was clothed, I’m afraid that no man would be able to remove his gaze from her.
Not to mention, her flawless and delicate body was completely exposed in front of Zhang Ruochen right now.
Of course, the reason why Zhang Ruochen couldn’t avert his gaze wasn’t that he was completely infatuated with Duanmu Xingling’s body, but more so, he was shocked, shocked as to why she had come to his cultivation mansion without any clothes on.
Seeing that Zhang Ruochen had been staring at her, and that her eyes were getting hotter and hotter and more and more eccentric, Duanmu Xingling blinked her eyes with a smiling face and softly said: ”We haven’t seen each other for a long time, why do you need to look at me with that kind of eyes? Could it be that I’m prettier than Sister Dust?”
Zhang Ruochen finally reacted, very embarrassed, and hurriedly put away his Heavenly Eyes.
Once again, he looked at Duanmu Xingling …… Everything was normal!
Only to see that Duanmu Xingling was wearing a silver-coloured robe that reflected her extraordinarily fair skin, with a green jade belt tied around her waist and a butterfly shaped ring pendant hanging from it.
It was as if she would never grow up, always looking like a young girl of fourteen or five years old, only that figure was developing more and more perfectly, becoming more and more sexy, and was simply a fascinatingly beautiful thing.
Suddenly, the beautiful image Zhang Ruochen had just seen surfaced in his mind again, and he couldn’t help but blush a little unnaturally.
Duanmu Xingling was quite surprised and widened her round eyes as she approached Zhang Ruochen and said, ”Zhang Ruochen, what’s wrong with you today?
Luckily, Duanmu Xingling didn’t know the truth, otherwise, she probably wouldn’t be as calm as she was now, and would have to force Zhang Ruochen to be responsible for her.
Zhang Ruochen dryly coughed twice to hide his inner embarrassment and said, “Nothing, I guess I was injured some time ago and haven’t healed yet.”
Duanmu Xingling had long heard that Zhang Ruochen had been injured, only that every time she came to visit Zhang Ruochen, Kong Xuan had told her that Zhang Ruochen was in death seclusion.
It wasn’t until today that she finally met Zhang Ruochen.
Duanmu Xingling said with concern, ”In a few days, we will be travelling to the Eastern Divine Lands to participate in the Holy Academy Examination. You must recover as soon as possible, and strive to overpower the various heavenly prides of the Eastern Domain and achieve the first place, so that the entire Eastern Domain’s geniuses and jokers can take a look at the elegance of our Heavenly Demon Ridge’s martial artists.”
Afterwards, from inside her storage bracelet, she took out a half-foot long cold jade box and handed it over to Zhang Ruochen’s hand, saying, “This is a fifth grade healing elixir, ‘Dragon Bone Elixir’, take it first.”
Zhang Ruochen shrugged it off, “My injuries don’t matter, Senior Sister Duanmu doesn’t need to be so kind to me.”
Zhang Ruochen’s injuries had long since healed, and he had only said that just now because of the embarrassment in his heart, not even thinking that Duanmu Xingling would be so enthusiastic.
Duanmu Xingling rolled her eyes at Zhang Ruochen and said, “Sister Dust is away, as her best sister, I certainly have to take care of you for her.”
Seemingly feeling that it was a bit inappropriate to say this, Duanmu Xingling immediately added, “It’s also true that you have millions of spirit crystals of wealth right now, and a fifth-grade healing elixir is probably too much for you to look at.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head with a bitter smile and hurriedly took the jade box containing the Dragon Bone Pill.
If he didn’t take it again, he was afraid that he would offend this senior sister.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen accept the Dragon Bone Dan, Duanmu Xingling’s heart was slightly delighted, and even she didn’t quite understand why she was so happy. It seemed that she was ten times happier than if she had received a Dragon Bone Pill herself.
“Earlier, you said that the Sacred Academy Examination, could it be that Senior Sister Duanmu is also going to the Eastern Divine Soil?”Zhang Ruochen asked.
Duanmu Xingling laughed, “Of course. The Sacred Academy of the Martial City School Palace has produced many Saints, with a long history and deep roots, I don’t know how many geniuses and juniors dream of entering the Sacred Academy to further their studies. Only, the threshold of the Sacred Academy is very high, at least a cultivation of the Heavenly Extreme Realm is required, and above the age, there is also a certain restriction. There isn’t a single martial artist who is able to enter the Sacred Academy that isn’t a top-notch human genius.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t have a single worry about the Holy Academy Examination, with his strength and natural talent, it could almost be said that he could pass it with certainty, and he could even be admitted by breaking the rules.
As for Duanmu Xingling, there shouldn’t be much of a problem either.
In recent times, Duanmu Xingling had been refining that drop of dragon’s blood, and Zhang Ruochen could tell, even without using his Heavenly Eyes, that her strength had refined again.
However, Zhang Ruochen always felt that Duanmu Xingling’s body seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist, making it difficult to see the real her.
It seemed that her strength was far more than what she had shown on the surface. Even her body and appearance didn’t seem too real, even though Zhang Ruochen had seen it very clearly earlier.
In the past, Zhang Ruochen had never had such a feeling.
It wasn’t until his spiritual power, after reaching the fortieth rank, that such a feeling appeared.
Duanmu Xingling’s true identity was the Holy Daughter of the Demon Sect, and even more so, she was the representative of the younger generation of the Demon Sect, handpicked by the Demon Sect’s Saint.
With her qualifications, not to say that she was invincible in the world, she was at least among the top ones of her generation.
Her true strength was naturally more than what Zhang Ruochen saw.
It was only that her body had a legal seal personally arranged by the High Priestess of the Demon Sect, so not to mention Zhang Ruochen, even if it was the topmost Spiritual Power Saint of the Martial City School Palace, it was probably impossible to see through her disguise.
If there wasn’t a sure thing, how would the Demon Sect dare to send the Holy Maiden into the Martial City Academic Palace?
Duanmu Xingling was going to pay her respects to Concubine Lin, so Zhang Ruochen naturally brought her along.
Duanmu Xingling personally delivered a gift that she had carefully prepared long ago to Consort Lin. It was a spirit medicine capable of prolonging one’s life, called the Five Coloured Begonia.
When Consort Lin saw that Duanmu Xingling was well-behaved and understanding, and that she had a sweet smile, she liked it very much and pulled Duanmu Xingling to sit by her side.
In the end, she also left Duanmu Xingling behind to have lunch together.
For this lunch, apart from Duanmu Xingling, there was another guest, and that was the Nine Counties Lord.
As early as ten days ago, the Nine County Lord had already been picked up at the Martial City Academy Palace, only that Zhang Ruochen had been in seclusion at that time, so he hadn’t seen her until today.
After lunch, Duanmu Xingling left.
Zhang Ruochen and the Nine County Lord also left Concubine Lin’s compound and came to the secret room where Zhang Ruochen usually cultivated.
Closing the stone door behind them, they opened the formation.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen being so careful and cautious, the Nine County Lord’s eyes gradually became grave, guessing in her heart that Zhang Ruochen must have something important to explain to her when he brought her to the secret room alone.
Zhang Ruochen took out a Light Spirit Crystal and placed it on top of the stone table, illuminating the secret room.
The Ninth County Lord said, “Ninth Brother, what exactly is the matter, why are you making it so cautious?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “There’s nothing of great importance, only that, in a few days, I’ll be travelling to the Eastern Divine Soil, and I don’t expect to return to the Heavenly Demon Ridge for a short period of time. Therefore, before I leave, there are some words I want to explain to you, and there are also some things I want to hand over to you.”
“Oh!”
For some reason, seeing Zhang Ruochen’s so powerful aura, the Nine Counties Lord always felt like she was the younger sister while he was the older brother.
Zhang Ruochen solemnly said, “When a martial artist’s cultivation reaches the Heavenly Extremity Realm, their ear and eyesight will increase greatly, so there are some things that cannot be said outside, and there are some things that cannot be done outside, just in case they are overheard and seen by someone who has the intention to do so. This is something that you must also bear in mind in the future. In the Martial Dao Realm, one must be incomparably careful and prudent, and if one is not careful, one could be doomed.”
