Of course, Zhang Ruochen would not easily barge into the depths of the valley, first stimulating the Heavenly Eye in his brow and using his spiritual power to probe, he passed through the layers of poisonous miasma and saw that there was a black cold pool at the bottom of the deep valley.
An extremely dangerous power emanated from the cold pool, forcing Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power back.
“What a powerful force, could it be that a powerful savage beast survives in the cold pool?”
Zhang Ruochen tackled the two disciples of Archmage Longze and prepared to ask something from their mouths first.
The two disciples of Archmage Longze were called Venerable Oono and Venerable Oono.
At this moment, both Venerable Master Ono and Venerable Master Ono were kneeling on the ground as if they were looking up to a god, constantly kowtowing to Zhang Ruochen.
Venerable Master Ono said, ”Venerable Master Long Ze has done many evil deeds, and his death at the hands of you, Young Warrior, is what he deserved. In the future, we are willing to swear to follow the Young Warrior to the death and be his servants.”
Venerable Master Ono said in a trembling voice, “I am also willing to follow the Young Warrior, saddle up and never have second thoughts.”
After seeing Zhang Ruochen’s formidable power, how could the two of them dare to call Zhang Ruochen’s bluff, only by honestly submitting would they have a chance to live.
Even Archmage Longze had been slapped to death with a single move, would it not be a breeze for Zhang Ruochen to kill them?
Zhang Ruochen said, ”Tell me, what exactly is in that cold pool at the bottom of the valley? And where did Grand Venerable Longze get the Black Water Glazed Crystal from?”
In order to curry favour with Zhang Ruochen, Venerable Oono hastened to say, “In the cold pool, there is a Demonic Ape that survives, and it is the master of the entire Demonic Ape Ridge, and we and Grand Venerable Longze are just its servants.”
Venerable Xiaono also followed, “That one Black Water Glazed Crystal of Archmage Longze was rewarded to him by the Demon Ape. I heard that recently, it was the critical period for the Demonic Ape to break through its realm, and it had to swallow the blood and flesh of two women every day to increase the Yin Cold Qi in its body.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes turned cold as a powerful aura emanated out, and he said in a deep voice, “Those are the women imprisoned in the dungeon?”
That aura was like a mountain pressing down on Venerable Master Ono and Venerable Master Ono, making the two of them feel suffocated, as if they were about to be crushed to death by that force.
“Young warrior spare your life, we also went to capture those women on the orders of old pimp Long Ze. If we don’t do what he wants, we can’t escape death either.”Venerable Ohno begged.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Tell me, how strong is that one Demonic Ape?”
Venerable Ohno’s heart was startled, could it be that this lord still wanted to go against that one demonic ape?
That one devil ape, in the entire Five Elements Continent, was also a ferocious existence.
Although his heart was shocked, he still said honestly, ”The strength of that devil ape is quite terrifying, just the ice magic aura on his body can press down our master and brothers and we can’t lift our heads, we can only lie on the ground. Even that one old pipsqueak, Long Ze, probably wouldn’t be able to block a single blow from it.”
Venerable Master Ono’s face turned a little white as he said, “Young Warrior, I advise you not to mess with it, once it is angered, the entire Five Elements Continent will be in turmoil.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Didn’t you guys say that it is in the critical period of its breakthrough, perhaps, I’ll just take this opportunity to get rid of it.”
For the Black Water Glazed Crystal, Zhang Ruochen was determined to get it.
In that black cold pool at the bottom of the valley, there was likely a large amount of Black Water Glazed Crystals, otherwise, the Demonic Ape wouldn’t have been entrenched there.
Moreover, Zhang Ruochen found that the black water glazed crystals contained the purest water attribute power. If he could refine a large number of black water glazed crystals, he might be able to cultivate into a “Water Spirit Treasure Body”.
Although the Treasure Body was a level below the Sacred Body, it was much more powerful than an ordinary body.
By cultivating the Water Spirit Treasure Body, Zhang Ruochen would be able to further advance in his martial arts.
Zhang Ruochen summoned the Violet Thunder Sword and travelled deeper into the valley step by step.
Looking at Zhang Ruochen’s back, Venerable Ono and Venerable Ono glanced at each other and were able to see the fear in each other’s eyes.
“We’d better run away, the farther away we run the better, once the Demon Ape gets angry, all the hundred miles in a radius will probably be razed to the ground.”
“That person is too conceited, against the Demon Ape, there is no way to live.”
The two of them immediately rushed out of the valley and rushed into the dense forest, hastily fleeing into the distance.
The deeper they went into the valley, the colder it became.
As they approached the black cold pool, Zhang Ruochen released his Spatial Domain and mobilised the power of spatial distortion, and in an instant, Zhang Ruochen disappeared from the ground.
Under the wrapping of the Spatial Domain, Zhang Ruochen collected his body’s aura and dived into the black cold pool, searching for the Demonic Ape’s nest.
That cold pool, although the surface was very narrow, the further down it went, the wider the waters became.
At the bottom of the cold pool, the temperature was strangely low, a weaker Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist who dived below a hundred metres would definitely freeze to death.
In the water, however, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth was very dense, exceeding the outside by tens of times, even in the Kunlun Realm, it was still considered a cultivation treasure.
“It’s really strange that the bottom of the pool didn’t freeze at such a low temperature.”
Zhang Ruochen vaguely felt that there was a faint power of Black Water Glazed Crystal in the black cold pool.
Even if Zhang Ruochen didn’t actively run his gong methods, that power was constantly being injected into his body, integrating into his blood and meridians.
“Even if I didn’t obtain the Black Water Glazed Crystal, if I could cultivate in the cold pool for ten years, I would still be able to cultivate into a Water Spirit Treasure Body.”
Now, Zhang Ruochen was certain that there must be a large number of Black Water Glazed Crystals at the bottom of the pool.
After diving down for about two hundred metres, the water had long since lost any light, and Zhang Ruochen could only see the water with his Heavenly Eyes.
Below, a huge black shadow appeared, thirty metres tall, covered in long black hair, and from afar, it took the form of a huge ape.
“Wow!”
The demonic ape was breathing in and out, with each inhalation, a large amount of water waves surged towards it, passing through the two nostrils the size of a cave, and entering the abdomen.
With every exhale, the water flowed back up again like a giant wave.
In its body, it exuded a powerful and unrivalled strength, as if it could pierce through mountains once it punched out.
“Black Water Glazed Crystal.”
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze was fixed on a stone wall below the Demonic Ape.
On top of the stone wall, a piece of black crystal was revealed, the smallest was only the size of a finger and the largest was as huge as a face basin.
Earlier, the Black Water Glazed Crystal that Zhang Ruochen had refined, in there, was probably only the smallest piece.
Suddenly, the Demonic Ape, who was cultivating, noticed Zhang Ruochen’s aura and let out a loud roar from its mouth.
A pair of huge eyes opened and shot out two golden pillars of light, which pierced through Zhang Ruochen’s spatial domain and crashed into Zhang Ruochen’s body.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen flew backwards, violently hitting the top of the distant stone wall, his entire body sinking into the stone wall, forming a large pit.
Fortunately, he had mobilised the power of the Dragon Pearl in the first instance, forming a golden light shield to guard his body, otherwise, the strike that the Demonic Ape had just made would definitely have seriously injured him.
To think that someone could actually break into the Black Water Cold Pool unknowingly, the Devil Ape’s heart exploded with rage as he threw out a punch that was so fast that it almost reached twice the speed of sound, and in an instant, the fist struck Zhang Ruochen’s body.
“So fast!”
Zhang Ruochen had just tried to dodge before he could mobilise his true qi, and the Demonic Ape’s fist, which had already landed on his body, was just short of piercing through the Dragon Pearl’s defence.
The Devil Ape was like a world-defying giant devil, with a fierce face and infinite power, and immediately threw a second punch.
However, the moment its fist landed, Zhang Ruochen’s body disappeared.
Almost wordlessly, Zhang Ruochen appeared above the Demonic Ape’s head, and just now, it was the Spatial Shift that was performed.
“Clang!”
The Violet Thunder Sword flew out and was cupped by Zhang Ruochen’s hands as he fiercely chopped down.
“Soul Destruction Kill Break!”
Zhang Ruochen executed the last and most powerful of the Thirteen Soul Pursuing Swords.
Dozens of purple lightning bolts, the thickness of a wine glass, converged at the tip of the sword, emitting a loud sound of wind and thunder, intent on cleaving the Demonic Ape in half.
“Pa pa pa!”
The Devil Ape stretched out a palm to block the Purple Thunder Sword.
Its arm flung out, and a huge huge force erupted out, sending Zhang Ruochen flying.
Zhang Ruochen’s sword just now only left a half-metre long bloody gash in the palm of its hand. It wasn’t too much of a trauma for it.
“So powerful, this Demonic Ape, it must have cultivated into the Water Spirit Treasure Body.”
Zhang Ruochen used his Heavenly Eyes to observe and could tell that the cultivation level of the Demonic Ape was at the peak of the Fish Dragon First Transformation.
Similarly, they were both at the cultivation level of the Fish Dragon First Transformation, but the strength of the Demonic Ape was unknown how many times higher than the General Master of the Poisonous Spider Chamber of Commerce at the time.
The biggest reason for this was because, the Demonic Ape had cultivated into the Water Spirit Treasure Body.
Zhang Ruochen immediately released his Martial Soul, and a piercing white light emanated from his body.
Above his head, a soul shadow appeared.
Absorbing the Half-Saint’s Light, Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul had become so powerful that it could be compared to the Martial Soul of a cultivator of the Fourth Transformation of the Fish Dragon.
The martial soul began to mobilise the spiritual qi of the heavens and earth and transformed it into its own power, instantly allowing Zhang Ruochen’s strength to increase by a large margin.
The fact that the Martial Soul was comparable to the Fourth Transformation of the Fish Dragon did not mean that Zhang Ruochen was able to exert the strength of a cultivator of the Fourth Transformation of the Fish Dragon, after all, Zhang Ruochen was still only at the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm.
Of course, with the assistance of the Martial Soul, which had already surpassed the limits of mortal martial cultivators, with Zhang Ruochen’s current strength, he was only one step weaker than the Demonic Ape, and was fully capable of fighting.
“Battle.”
Zhang Ruochen stimulated the power of the Dragon Pearl, a layer of golden dragon scales appeared on the surface of his body, and a pair of huge dragon wings rushed out from his back, holding the Purple Thunder Sword, he met the Devil Ape head on.
The spiritual qi of the heaven and earth continued to converge towards Zhang Ruochen and was constantly injected into the Violet Thunder Sword, and the seventy-two basic inscriptions and three intermediate inscriptions in the sword were fully activated, erupting the full power of this 10th rank True Martial Treasure Weapon.
Zhang Ruochen’s dragon wings flapped on his back as he pushed away the water of the pool and took the initiative to kill towards the Demonic Ape. He carried his battle sword in his hand, and the electric light emanating from the sword looked like it had transformed into a long river of thunder and lightning.
