A few moments later, apart from Snow Shadow Rou, there were seven more genius trainees that converged on Zhang Ruochen’s side.
“Many thanks to this senior brother, may I ask your name?”One of the trainees asked gratefully.
The trainees of the Martial City Academic Palace were spread all over the world, and although they didn’t know Zhang Ruochen, they recognised the one Academic Palace Seal on Zhang Ruochen’s robes.
Since they were all trainees of the Martial City Academic Palace, they were naturally masters and brothers.
Moreover, Zhang Ruochen’s strength, was still so powerful that no matter how old he really was, he would have to shout, senior brother.
“Let’s kill off the Red Blazing Crow first.”
Zhang Ruochen frowned slightly and added, “Since you are all trainees of the Martial City Palace, don’t you have a combined attack formation?”
“There is!”
Snow Shadow Rou stood right beside Zhang Ruochen, and with a touch in her sleeve, she immediately took out a fist-sized formation jade.
It was not until this time that Zhang Ruochen looked squarely at Xue Yingrui, and without looking, his eyes actually lit up with a feeling of amazement.
A thought surfaced in his mind, “What a beautiful woman.”
Regardless of how strong one’s spiritual power was and how profound one’s cultivation was, one’s appreciation for beauty would never change.
Snow Shadow Rou could be called the number one beauty of the younger generation in South Cloud County, naturally, she was already beautiful to a degree that made it impossible for people to be picky, whether it was her delicate features, her perfect figure, or even her elegant temperament, it was enough to make countless men obsessed with her.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen had seen quite a few beautiful women, so he was only stunned for a moment before he immediately withdrew his gaze and continued to kill the Red Blazing Crow.
After Zhang Ruochen’s mention, those other talented trainees had taken out formation jade stones, and together with Snow Shadow Rou, they set up a combined attack formation.
Earlier, when the Red Incandescent Crow King had breached the Silver Moon Ship’s defensive formation, they had all been caught off guard, and were even more separated by the endless flocks of Red Incandescent Crows, so they had no chance to use a combined attack formation.
There was also a second point, they were all first class geniuses, one more than the other with high aspirations, apart from having some admiration for their eldest senior brother, Zi Han Sha, other geniuses, they simply couldn’t look at them.
Therefore, even though they all belonged to the South Cloud County Martial City Palace, but usually there was not much communication, that is to say, seldom united against the enemy, the co-operation was very strange.
When they encountered danger, they continued to fight alone, and their first thought was to save their own lives, rather than using the Combined Attack Formation.
It wasn’t until this time that the Combined Strike Formation truly worked.
It had to be said that their natural talent was indeed extraordinary, and all of them were at the cultivation level of the Heavenly Extreme Realm, and the power that erupted after forming the Combined Attack Formation was terrifying.
In just a few moments, they dispersed the surrounding Red Blazing Crows, temporarily lifting the crisis of the siege.
In the other direction, with Eldest Senior Brother Zi Hansha as the centre, seventeen genius trainees had also gathered.
“Right! How did we forget to use the Combined Attack Formation?”
“By executing a combined attack formation, how can those Red Blazing Crows be our opponents? They can combine their attacks and we can combine our defences.”
Zi Han Sha glanced towards Zhang Ruochen in the distance, feeling a sense of being robbed of the limelight, especially when he saw Snow Shadow Rou by Zhang Ruochen’s side, a chilling aura appeared in his eyes.
He didn’t show any emotion, but instead ordered, saying, “Set up a Combined Attack Formation.”
Just as those genius trainees took out their formation jades and prepared to set up a Combined Attack Formation, the Red Blazing Crows retreated like a tidal wave, turning into a fiery cloud and disappearing into the sky.
At that moment, those talented students all froze.
How did it suddenly retreat?
No matter what the reason was, since the Red Blazing Crow had retreated, then it proved that they had completely, thoroughly survived!
Those genius trainees, naturally, were very excited and let out a long sigh of relief, finally surviving. It was definitely counted as survival after the calamity, and it was worth celebrating.
“Swish!”
Two silhouettes, descended from the sky.
It was none other than Lei Jing and Crane Yunlou, who landed on the Silver Moon Ship almost simultaneously, the aura on their bodies, which had yet to be fully restrained, was like two large mountains smashing down, causing the talented trainees on the Silver Moon Ship to choke.
“Greetings to Elder Crane.”
All of the cadets, all of them respectfully bowed to He Yunlou.
Although the genius trainees present were all very arrogant, and there were even many whose natural talent was above He Yunlou’s, but so what?
He Yunlou was a strong person of the Fish Dragon Realm, who had already transcended the Martial Dao, and with that alone, he deserved the respect of all of them.
Besides, a high natural talent might not necessarily be able to reach the Fish Dragon Realm, even with Purple Cold Sand’s natural talent, he didn’t dare to pat his chest to guarantee that he would definitely be able to become a Fish Dragon Realm powerhouse.
Since ancient times, I don’t know how many so-called five absolute geniuses and six absolute geniuses have been stuck at the level of the Fish Dragon Realm, and could only be mortals, unable to surpass.
On the contrary, some “mediocre geniuses” who had once performed in a mediocre manner had soared to the heavens at the Fish Dragon Realm, transforming fish into dragons, becoming saints, and becoming great emperors.
Therefore, even with Zi Han Sha’s talent, when he saw He Yunlou, he had to lower his head and bow.
He Yunlou slightly raised his hand, signalling that there was no need for them to bow.
Then, He Yunlou took the initiative to walk over to Lei Jing, clasped his hands and said gratefully, “Southern Cloud County, Martial City Academy, Gold-robed Elder He Yunlou, thank you for Brother Ren’s hand in defeating the Red Blazing Crow King. If it wasn’t for Brother Ren’s hand, I’m afraid that all of our genius trainees from Southern Cloud County would have all folded here.”
Those genius cadets from Southern Cloud County finally understood that someone had defeated the Red Blazing Crow King, which was why those Red Blazing Crows immediately retreated.
They had all seen the terrifying power of the Red Incandescent Crow King, and there was actually someone who could defeat it, this person was truly remarkable, and I wonder which county’s Martial City Academy they were from?
Or, could they possibly be someone from the Martial City School Palace of a certain prefecture?
In the Eastern Domain Divine Soil, it was divided into thirty-six prefectures, and each prefecture was divided into thirty-six counties, with each county having a Martial Market Academy Palace.
The counties and prefectures, however, were establishments that were truly affiliated with the First Central Empire, rather than county states and prefectural states.
The magistrate of a county is called the “county governor”.
The magistrate of a prefecture was called the “Prefect”.
In terms of size, a county in the Eastern Region Divine Lands was about the same size as the territory of a superior county state.
However, because this was the Divine Soil, the land was fertile, the spiritual mountains were everywhere, and it had a long history, so the population of a county was more than ten times larger than that of a superior county.
Only, the rights of a county governor were however much smaller than those of a county king, and they were also subject to the direct jurisdiction of the imperial centre, and could not do whatever they wanted.
Of course, it was also because of the Eastern Region Divine Soil’s flourishing martial arts, so there were many deep-rooted half-saint families, ten-thousand year old sects, and saint families, which led to young disciples having more choices, and they didn’t necessarily have to join the Martial Market Palace in order to have a future.
Even so, this time around, the Martial City School Palace in Southern Cloud County had selected thirty-seven geniuses who had a chance to enter the Holy Academy, all of them at least three and a half great geniuses.
If they were to go to the Heavenly Demon Ridge, any one of them would have the capital to become the first genius of the Heavenly Demon Ridge.
Lei Jing’s gaze glanced towards those talented students and sighed in his heart, “This is the Eastern Region Divine Soil, geniuses are like clouds, even just one county’s Martial City Academy can select dozens of top-notch talents, in the Heavenly Demon Ridge, it’s simply unimaginable.”
When Lei Jing’s gaze looked at Zhang Ruochen, he instantly hardened again, what was there to feel inferior about, just because the Heavenly Demon Ridge was not able to do so before, it did not mean that it was not able to do so now.
Not to mention Zhang Ruochen, even if Si Xingkong and Duanmu Xingling after refining the dragon’s blood, when put between those talented trainees in the Southern Cloud County, they are still at the top level.
This year, I’m going to let those old guys from the Martial City Academy in the Eastern Region Divine Soil see clearly that the Heavenly Demon Ridge is also full of talents.
Lei Jing and He Yunlou exchanged pleasantries, after learning that Lei Jing was once a saint of the Holy Academy, He Yunlou was even more respectful and sighed, “No wonder Brother Lei’s cultivation is so powerful, it’s surprising that he’s a powerhouse that came out from the Holy Academy, old brother I’m far inferior to you, and so far I haven’t been able to even set foot in the gates of the Holy Academy.”
Those genius trainees from Southern Cloud County heard this and worshipped Lei Jing even more.
What was the Holy Academy?
It was the cradle of saints, and it was said that the lecturers inside were all half saints.
Any cultivator who walked out of the Holy Academy was not a weakling.
Moreover, as a former Saint of the Holy Academy, he definitely had a lot of connections in the Holy Academy, and with him leading the team, the chances of being admitted to the Holy Academy would have to be much higher.
Snow Shadow Rou’s beautiful eyes glanced towards Zhang Ruochen, and a soft smile appeared on her pretty face, envious, “No wonder he’s so powerful, his leading teacher is actually a former Saint Academy Saint.”
Afterwards, Snow Shadow Rou glanced towards Zi Hansha again and couldn’t help but gently shake her head, although Zi Hansha was also a genius, but when compared to Zhang Ruochen, he seemed to dim and lose colour.
In Xue Ying Rou’s eyes, she only felt that Zhang Ruochen was really too perfect and was becoming more and more heartwarming.
In her mind, when she recalled the scene where Zhang Ruochen rushed out from the flock of Red Blazing Crows and saved her, she felt her cheeks burning, her heart beating faster, and she fell even more in love with the man in front of her, feeling even more that Zi Hansha couldn’t compare to Zhang Ruochen.
Under Crane Cloud Tower’s gracious invitation, Lei Jing finally agreed to join them, travelling on the Silver Moon Boat and heading to the Eastern Domain Sacred City.
Subsequently, the Dragon Eagle carried Duanmu Xingling, Si Xingkong, Chang Qiqi and the others to the Silver Moon Boat.
He Yunlou was quite surprised and said, “Brother Lei, why did you bring only these few cadets?”
In fact, He Yunlou also took Lei Jing as a big shot, thinking that he was an elder of a certain prefecture’s Martial City Academy, after all, the other party’s strength was there, how could he not have brought only so few cadets, there should at least be hundreds.
Lei Jing just smiled and said, “Of course there are other trainees, it’s just that they’ve already gone to the Eastern Domain Sacred City first.”
In fact, Lei Jing wasn’t wrong, there was indeed another group of trainees that had already gone to the Eastern Domain Sacred City first, such as Huang Yichen, Chen Xi’er, and Luo Shuihan.
He Yunlou nodded with a sudden realisation, thinking that most of the trainees had already gone to the Eastern Domain Sacred City, and that these few were now just the missing trainees, so he did not ask any more questions.
Afterwards, his gaze glanced faintly towards Si Xingkong, Duanmu Xingling, and Chang Qiqi, only to see a dragon aura lingering on their bodies, definitely all extraordinary prides of heaven.
Instantly, He Yunlou’s heart was shaken, and he became even more convinced of his suspicions.
