After the banquet, Zhang Ruochen left the Border Moon Lake Saint King’s Mansion, and while passing by a Martial Market Money Bank, he purchased a copy of the latest edition of the Eastern Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper in passing.
The cover of the Eastern Region Wind and Cloud News sketched the mountains and rivers of one of the Holy Lands in the Eastern Region, with vivid brushwork that was clearly from the hand of a master of the Dao of Painting.
It was said that on the cover of every issue of the East Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper, a famous monument in the East Region would be drawn, promoting the culture and history of the East Region, making countless martial artists yearn for it.
In the lower right corner of the cover, six tiny, elegant words were printed:
Edited by Sacred Book Talent.
Zhang Ruochen had heard many legends about that one Sacred Book Talented Lady, but all of them were vague, and it seemed that no one had actually seen her at all.
Some people said that the Sacred Book Talented Woman did not cultivate martial arts, but she grew up reading a lot of books and was proficient in zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and used “zither” to enter the Dao, “chess” to enter the Dao, “books” to enter the Dao, and “painting” to enter the Dao.With “qin” into the Tao, “chess” into the Tao, “book” into the Tao, and “painting” into the Tao, all four paths are holy.
Although she is young, her spiritual power has already reached over 50 steps, transcending the ordinary and becoming a spiritual saint.
It was said that she was able to observe the stars and spirits, and could speculate on the world’s events, and there was almost nothing in the world that she didn’t know, and no one that she didn’t know.
Since she had been penning the East Domain Wind and Cloud Newspaper, there had never been any slip-ups, and she was always able to be the first to know about the big events that happened in the East Domain.
Moreover, she was also on good terms with the saints of the Eastern Domain, often sitting and discussing with them, inviting the saints to comment on the great events of the world, while at the same time recording all of the saints’ comments in the Eastern Domain Winds and Clouds Newspaper as well.
There were simply too many rumours about that one Sacred Book Talented Lady, but Zhang Ruochen didn’t take it completely seriously.
Without mentioning anything else, to try to gain insight into the large and small affairs of the entire Eastern Domain with just one person’s power, even a Saint would not be able to do so.
If she wanted to write the East Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper, she must have mastered the huge intelligence agency of the Martial Market Money Bank, and there must be countless intelligence personnel working under her, so all she needed to do was to collate and summarise them.
No matter what, that one Sacred Book Talented Lady must also be a remarkable figure, and if there was a chance, Zhang Ruochen was prepared to go and meet her for a while.
If she was truly omniscient, Zhang Ruochen would like to go and ask her what all happened eight hundred years ago, and were all the Nine Emperors really killed by Chi Yao?
Flipping through the first page of the Eastern Domain Wind and Cloud News, on the front page, there was a line of large, eye-catching words written – “Six Young Kings of the New Generation of the Eastern Domain.”
Next, there was the Sacred Book Talent Lady, taking great length to dish out the six top geniuses of the Eastern Domain.
The ages of the six were almost all between sixteen and twenty-two, and were truly young martial artists.
Before taking stock of these six people, there was another large paragraph of rendering, such as:
“The era of the Four Great Sacred Bodies, has already passed, and the six young kings will become the new carrying figures of the young generation of the Eastern Domain. The next ten years will belong to them, and after a hundred years, the Eastern Domain will be dominated by them.”
In the Eastern Domain, pretty much, ten years was a generation.
Ten years ago, the Eastern Domain gave birth to the four great Saint Bodies that dominated the younger generation, and no one among their peers could match them. Thus, they could only look for opponents within martial artists who were a generation or even two or three generations above them.
Now, the age of the Four Great Sacred Bodies had almost reached thirty years old, and had long since transcended into the extraordinary, with unfathomable martial arts cultivation. Although they were still young, they were no longer enough to represent an era.
The six young kings came out of nowhere and would replace them, becoming the leaders of the young generation of the Eastern Domain in the next decade.
The six young kings were:
Yunwu County King “Zhang Ruochen”.
Golden Light Saint Body “Luo Shuihan”.
Zhen Army Sword God “Bu Qianfan”.
Heartless Saint Body “Emperor Yi”.
Devil Sect Holy Maiden “Mu Lingxi”.
Two-Yi Yang Spirit “Gai Hao”.
Zhang Ruochen read it carefully and realised that that one Sacred Book Talented Lady was indeed very powerful, writing Zhang Ruochen’s deeds in great detail.
For example, it was written that Zhang Ruochen had opened the Divine Martial Seal at the age of sixteen, started cultivating, and reached his current achievement in just three years, which was mind-boggling.
It also recorded several of Zhang Ruochen’s major battles, which, among them, included the battle with Emperor Yi at the Tongming River;there was also the defeat of the heirs of the four great Sage Sect Clans at the Pilgrimage Heavenly Staircase with the power of one man.
On top of that, the Sacred Book Talented Lady also invited a Saint to analyse the martial arts that Zhang Ruochen cultivated, trying to find out Zhang Ruochen’s true master’s lineage.
They believed that Zhang Ruochen’s preaching master was not Lei Jing.
Rather, it was someone else.
Lei Jing couldn’t teach a disciple like Zhang Ruochen.
That Saint analysed that Zhang Ruochen had cultivated the “Dragon Image Prajna Palm”, a mastery of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Dao, and the “Yin-Yang Two-Yi Sword Formation” and “Ten Veins Sword Wave”, masteries of the Two Dimensions Sect.
In the end, that Saint came to the conclusion that Zhang Ruochen’s master should be the Buddhist Sect powerhouse, Golden Dragon.
Eight hundred years ago, the Golden Dragon most likely did not die, but had been hiding in the Heavenly Demon Ridge, and it was only in the last few years that it accepted Zhang Ruochen as its disciple. It was only when it was about to die that it gave Zhang Ruochen his Dragon Pearl and the legendary Buddha Emperor’s Relic.
Of course, these were all the speculations of that one Saint, and even the Sacred Book Talented Lady was very cautious when writing this paragraph, putting a question mark after it.
“There really are many smart people in the Eastern Region, although they haven’t completely surmised correctly, they have already guessed the truth by three points.”
Zhang Ruochen’s heart secretly said that in the future, he must be doubly careful not to slip up any more.
It was within Zhang Ruochen’s expectation that the Dragon Pearl would be exposed.
As long as Zhang Ruochen entered the Sacred Courtyard, with the cultivation of a Half-Saint, he would be able to see that the Dragon Pearl was inside his body.
The key was still Zhang Ruochen’s identity, and he absolutely couldn’t let Empress Chi Yao notice it, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Of course, with Empress Chi Yao’s identity, there were many great matters to deal with, so it was expected that she wouldn’t notice a young genius from the Eastern Domain for the time being.
Zhang Ruochen proceeded to look down, and after seeing the name of the Holy Maiden of the Demon Sect, he secretly guessed, ”The Holy Maiden of the Demon Sect, Mu Lingxi, should be referring to Duanmu Xingling. I also wonder which one is her real name, ‘Wood Lingxi’ or ‘Duanmu Xingling’?”
Zhang Ruochen paused again when he saw Di Yi’s introduction.
“The evaluation of Di Yi, why is it ‘Heartless Saint Body’?”
Zhang Ruochen clearly remembered that Di Yi was born with a Five Elements Saint Body and also had an Inferno Devil Heart.
Of course, that one devil’s heart had already been dug out by Zhang Ruochen, and was also swallowed by the rabbit Potpourri.
Since the Sacred Script Talent Maiden dared to write on the front page of the Eastern Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper, she must have absolute certainty.
In that case, after losing his heart, Di Yi actually remained alive and instead cultivated into the Heartless Saint Body.
“Heartless Sacred Body, representing an immortal body, it seems that Emperor Yi is likely to become even more terrifying.”
Learning this news, Zhang Ruochen did not have a trace of fear in his heart, since he was able to defeat him once, he would be able to defeat him a second time.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen was also under a lot of pressure, he had to cultivate harder in the future in order to stay ahead. The slightest slacking off could result in being surpassed.
Among the six new generation kings, Luo Shuihan, Di Yi, Mu Lingshi, and Gai Hao were all Sacred Body, and only Zhang Ruochen and Bu Qianfan were not Sacred Body.
However, in the Holy Book Talented Lady’s writing, none of the four Saint Bodies seemed to have reached the Supreme Extremity Realm, and only Bu Qianfan reached the Supreme Extremity Realm at the Yellow Extremity Realm.
At the same time, the Sacred Book Talented Maiden also boldly guessed that Zhang Ruochen had most likely reached the Supreme Extremity Realm twice.
This was because, three years ago, Zhang Ruochen’s physique was sickly and weak, and the gap between him and an ordinary person was huge, and the gap between him and a Sacred Body was even bigger.
Only by reaching the Supreme Extreme Realm twice could he bridge the gap with the Saint Body.
Just like Bu Qianfan, it was by reaching the Supreme Extreme Realm once that he was able to bridge the gap with the Saint Body. Otherwise, a non-Sacred Body, would simply be no match for a Sacred Body.
Of course, those were the Holy Book Talented Lady’s words of speculation and could not be confirmed, so it did not cause too much of a stir.
At the same time, the Sacred Book Talented Woman also made an analysis that the reason why the four Sacred Bodies hadn’t reached the Supreme Extreme Realm was most likely because the Sacred Bodies themselves were heaven-defying physiques that had been suppressed by the Heavenly Dao, and the difficulty of cultivating to the Supreme Extreme Realm was much more difficult than that of the non-Sacred Bodies.
Since ancient times, there had been analyses of the “Saint Body” and the “Supreme Extreme Realm”, and many Saints had spent their entire lives researching them, but had not gained any results at all.
At the end, the Sacred Book Talented Woman also predicted that with the birth of the six new generation kings, a great era of storm clouds was coming, and in the future, not only would there be fierce collisions between geniuses and geniuses, but also between saints and saints. Saints and Saints would also clash fiercely with each other.
Previously, in the Eastern Domain, if a Saint Body could be born in a certain generation, it would already be able to lead a great age.
One had to know that after a Saint Body became a Saint, it represented invincible battle power.
However, nowadays, there were many geniuses, with four Sacred Bodies born in the previous generation, and six young kings born in this generation, which indeed gave off a meteorological impression that a flourishing era of martial arts would be arriving.
After reading the Eastern Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper, Zhang Ruochen also had some admiration for that one Sacred Book Talented Lady, who was indeed very talented and knew many secrets that ordinary people did not know.
Some of these secrets were not something that could be pried out by possessing an intelligence network, but rather, they needed to be analysed with an overpowering intelligence.
Perhaps, she really was able to project the world’s events.
“It’s no wonder that when the East Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper came out, it caused such a big stir, causing everyone to want to come and challenge me. Defeating the six young kings of the new generation is indeed the fastest way to become famous in one fell swoop.”
“The East Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper must have already spread throughout the entire East Region through the Earth Ranking’s Artifact Spirit, and I’m afraid that the name Zhang Ruochen has already become a target for many young martial artists to strive to surpass.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled and put away the Eastern Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper.
When he returned to the Martial City Stage House, Zhang Ruochen continued to absorb the power of the Holy Dragon from the Dragon Pearl and worked hard to improve his cultivation.
The next day, Zhang Ruochen, Duanmu Xingling, Si Xingkong, and Chang Qiqi, left the Martial City Stage House and travelled together to the Sacred Courtyard to participate in the upcoming third round of examinations.
All the trainees who had passed the first two rounds of examination arrived in droves, assembling in the middle of the martial arena below the Pilgrimage Heavenly Staircase, amounting to more than 35,000 people.
According to the different departments they belonged to, the trainees stood in different squads, preparing to head to the Five Elements Market Realm.
Of course, before that, they had to go to the camp of the Ruins Realm Battlefield, the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.
Only there was the passageway into the Five Elements Ruins Realm.
