The Chaos Mountain of Ten Thousand Boundaries had a stone statue with a height of 874 metres, a woman with a stunningly beautiful face, wearing a dragon robe, pressing a huge sword with one hand, and a pair of holy eyes looking out at the endless sky.
Although, just a stone statue of Queen Chi Yao, but let a person feel, stone statue, seems to nurture the soul, let pass the stone statue of martial artists can not help but give birth to the fear of the heart.
It was no wonder that the trainees of the Martial City Palace, when they arrived at the Chaotic World Mountain, immediately bowed to the stone statue as if they were bowing to a god.
Zhang Ruochen stared at the stone statue, and especially when he came into contact with the eyes of the stone statue, he immediately felt an electric shock, as if he was being seen through by the other party at a glance.
There was no way to hide any secrets.
“Amazing, just a stone statue is already so terrifying, I really don’t know, eight hundred years have passed, just how far has Chi Yao’s cultivation reached?”
As long as one became a half-saint, one would be able to establish, one’s own holy temple, in which one would enshrine a stone body, a clay body, or a golden body.
A half-saint would automatically detach a trace of his holy soul and host it in the holy temple, absorbing the spiritual qi of the heaven and earth around the holy temple.
When Chi Yao placed her stone statue here, she was also sure to place a strand of her holy soul in the statue, absorbing the heaven and earth aura of the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.
At the same time, the holy soul could also be used to supervise the various market realms in the underworld.
When something big happened in the major market realms, Chi Yao could know about it in the first instance.
On top of the stone statue’s head, it wore a crown, and at the centre of the crown, there was a golden circular roulette wheel inlaid.
At the centre of the wheel disc, a ruddy glow emanated, like a flame was burning inside.
Zhang Ruochen felt strong spatial fluctuations on top of that one golden wheel disc.
As the roulette wheel rotated, the entire heaven and earth, it seemed, was slowly spinning.
“That is …… could that be the legendary spatial treasure, the Heavenly Wheel Seal.”
In the Kunlun Realm, there were only a few spatial treasures that had been preserved, and each one of them was a terrific Saint Artifact.
The Heavenly Wheel Seal, was one of them.
It was said that the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain, this piece of the world, was held up by the spatial power of the Heavenly Wheel Seal.
Moreover, the reason why the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain had passages to the major market realms was also borrowed from the power of the Heavenly Wheel Seal.
The Heavenly Wheel Seal, was the true spatial treasure, bursting out with power that could take in a small world, and also destroy a small world.
The spatial ring that Zhang Ruochen had refined could only be considered the most basic and low-grade spatial treasure, and could not even be compared to the Heavenly Wheel Seal.
“The Heavenly Wheel Seal, which was refined by the Sacred Monk of Sumeru, according to the Secret Code of Space and Time, the Heavenly Wheel Seal also has an inner space, and only a martial artist who cultivates the power of space and time can open the inner space.”
The inner space of the Heavenly Wheel Seal had a thirty to one ratio of time to the outside world.
In other words, a month of cultivation in the inner space of the Heavenly Wheel Seal would only result in one day passing in the outside world.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen wanted to obtain the Heavenly Wheel Seal very much, and only he would be able to utilise the true power of the Heavenly Wheel Seal.
However, he also knew that with just his current strength, it was impossible for him to have the opportunity, to touch the Heavenly Wheel Seal. He could only work hard to raise his cultivation first, and then make plans.
Entering the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain, the ten Silver Moon Ships stopped.
More than thirty-five thousand trainees, from the silver moon ships, stepped down in order and stood underneath a giant monument.
This piece of giant stele, which was six hundred and seventy-six metres tall, took on a milky white colour, like a huge piece of jade carved into an inscription.
It was another terrific Saint Artifact.
Without even needing an introduction from the Martial City School Palace’s Half-Saint, the crowd could already see that at the top of the stele, there were two huge characters – The Heavenly Ranking.
This jade stele was The Heavenly Ranking.
On top of the jade stele, the names of each Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist were written, and behind the names of the Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artists, there was a number.
For example, at the top of the “Heavenly Ranking”, the first place, Huang Shenyi.
Behind “Huang Shenyi”, there was a series of numbers, 6,786,000 military merit points.
Second place, Hua Li.
Behind “Hua Li”, there was also a series of numbers, two million four hundred and sixty three thousand four hundred and one points of military service value.
Some of the trainees were a bit puzzled, “Military merit value, how did it appear on the Heavenly Ranking?”
“Swoosh!”
Right at this moment, a white light descended from the sky.
When the white light dissipated, one could only see a white-haired, white-bearded old man wearing purple robes, with a white cloud under his feet, standing in the void, his body emitting a divine aura.
The white-haired old man’s voice was very vast, clearly reaching into the ears of each and every trainee, saying, “I am the Artifact Spirit of the Heavenly Ranking, and right now, the jade stele that stands in front of you is the Heavenly Ranking’s own body. For the next month, as long as you guys can accumulate enough military service value of one hundred points, you will be considered to have passed the third round of examination.”
As soon as the Artifact Spirit of The Heavenly Ranking finished speaking, those trainees below began to whisper and talk amongst themselves.
“The third round of assessment is surprisingly so simple, a mere hundred points of military merit value, needing to spend a month?”
“Only a hundred points of military merit value, it’s too easy!”
……
Right at this moment, the right arm of the Artifact Spirit of the Heavenly Ranking waved, and in front of him, a wisp of white light mist formed. The white mist gathered together and coalesced into lines of text.
It was an introduction to the military merit value.
The first line: killing ten Earthly Extreme Realm Great Perfection or one early Heavenly Extreme Realm Market Realm natives would earn one point of Military Merit Value.
Seeing the first line, those students who felt that the third round of the examination was simple immediately stopped smiling, and even held their breath as they secretly calculated in their hearts.
In order to accumulate one hundred points, wouldn’t it be necessary to kill one thousand Earthly Extreme Realm natives in the great circle, or one hundred Heavenly Extreme Realm natives in the early stage?
It was also too difficult!
Second line: kill a mid Heavenly Extreme Realm Market Realm Aborigine, gain “two points” of military merit value.
Line 3: Kill a late Heavenly Extreme Realm Market Realm Native and gain five points of Military Merit.
Row 4: Killing an indigenous of the Market Realm in the Small Extreme Realm earns you ten points of military merit.
Row 5: Killing a native of the Market Realm who is at the middle level of the Heavenly Extremity Realm earns you twenty points of military honours.
Row 6: Killing a native of the Market Realm who is in the Large Pole position of the Heavenly Extremity Realm earns you 50 points of military service value.
Seventh line: killing a market realm aborigine of the Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Perfection realm would earn one hundred points of military merit value.
After reading the first seven lines, those trainees finally let out a small sigh of relief.
As long as they killed a Heavenly Extremity realm aborigine, they would be able to accumulate one hundred points of military service value in one go.
Otherwise, if they really went to kill Earth Extremity Realm Great Perfection and early Heavenly Extremity Realm Market Realm natives, a month’s time would simply not be enough.
For trainees with higher realms, of course it was not too difficult, as long as they were able to survive for a month in the Market Realm, they could easily complete the assessment.
However, for the trainees of lower realms, they all had sullen faces and felt a huge pressure. Only by constantly striving to fight and kill would it be possible to accumulate enough military merit value.
The Artifact Spirit of The Heavenly Ranking smiled, “Next, if you have any doubts, you can ask me now.”
A slightly chubby cadet bowed to the Artifact Spirit of The Heavenly Ranking and said aloud, “May I ask Lord Heavenly Ranking, how many points of merit value do I need to accumulate before I can keep my name on top of The Heavenly Ranking?”
“Ten thousand points.”
Hearing this number, those trainees were startled.
It really wasn’t that easy to become a martial artist on The Heavenly Ranking, with their current strength, even if they spent a lot of time going to the Ruins Realm Battlefield to kill their enemies, it would still be difficult to accumulate enough 10,000 points of military merit value.
Instead, there was still a high possibility of dying in the Market Realm Battlefield.
Zhang Ruochen stood out and asked aloud, ”It is said that accumulating a certain amount of Military Merit Value will lead to the resonance of the Gods and reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm. I wonder, how many points of military merit value need to be accumulated?”
The Artifact Spirit of The Heavenly List nodded and said, “The very body of The Heavenly List is, in fact, a huge altar. The natives of the Market Realm that are killed will become sacrifices, and will be offered to the gods through The Heavenly List. As long as one kills enough Market Realm natives, one can indeed communicate with the gods, invoke the resonance of the gods, and be rewarded by the gods to reach the legendary Supreme Extreme Realm.”
“Since it’s the Supreme Extreme Realm, of course it’s not something anyone can do, the difficulty is far beyond your imagination. One needs to accumulate thirty million points of military merit value to reach the Supreme Extreme Realm.”
“Over the past five hundred years, amongst the martial artists of the Heavenly Extreme Realm, there were only five people who were able to accumulate ten million points of military merit value. It can be said that they are all once-in-a-century talents.
“Right now, there are only eighteen martial artists on the Heavenly Ranking who have accumulated enough military merit values to reach one million points.”
“No matter what, it’s almost impossible to accumulate thirty million points of merit value.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded gently, wanting to reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm was indeed even more difficult than it was eight hundred years ago.
Eight hundred years ago, one only needed to accumulate enough 20 million Merit Values to reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extremity Realm.
However, the environment of the Market Realm Battlefield now was much better than before.
It made sense that The Heavenly List would raise the difficulty for the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
The Artifact Spirit of the Heavenly Ranking answered some more questions for the other trainees until all of the trainees stopped asking questions before continuing, “Before you travel to the Five Elements Ruins Realm, you will need to place a drop of blood on the Heavenly Ranking’s main body. Through the power of the blood, I can see each of your battles in the Ruins Realm, and thus the General Merit Value, recorded in the Heavenly Ranking.”
The trainees of the Martial City Academy, in turn, walked over, crossed their fingers, and dropped a drop of blood, on top of the jade tablet of The Heavenly Ranking, before being sent by the Artifact Spirit of The Heavenly Ranking, to the location of the third round of the examination, the Five Elements Ruins Realm.
When it was Zhang Ruochen’s turn, Zhang Ruochen frowned and hesitated slightly before finally spreading out his palm and condensing a True Qi Small Sword.
With a wave of his arm, the small sword of true qi cut open the index finger of his left hand and placed a drop of blood, dripping onto the surface of the jade tablet of The Heavenly Ranking.
“Wow!”
There was a flash of white light.
The blood was absorbed by the Jade Tablet of The Heavenly Ranking and immersed into it, disappearing.
