Zhang Ruochen sent the seventeen women held in the dungeon out of the Demon Ape Ridge as promised, spending half a day before arriving at the official road built by the Gilded Federation.
All of them knelt on the ground and saluted Zhang Ruochen.
“Thank you for saving our lives, please ask for your name, we will definitely remember it in the future.”
Zhang Ruochen stood atop the head of the Demon Ape with a handsome posture, the aura emanating from his body was extraordinarily ethereal, as if he were a teenage sage, saying, “I’m just an outsider, I’ll be leaving this world very soon, and my name doesn’t have any significance to you guys.”
After thinking about it, Zhang Ruochen added, “In addition, the Five Elements Continent nowadays should have fallen into great chaos, and your homeland may have already been destroyed. It would be best for you all to stay at the outskirts of the Demon Ape Ridge for a month, and after that, go back!”
The seventeen women were all stunned, not quite understanding Zhang Ruochen’s words.
Saving someone to the end, sending the Buddha to the west.
The vast majority of them were ordinary people with no power in their hands, and given the current current situation in the Five Elements Ruins Realm, their return to their homeland would only be a dead end.
Since they had already rescued them from the Demon Ape Ridge, of course they could not just watch them go back to die.
Zhang Ruochen’s finger gently touched the top of his storage ring and took out two hundred second-grade blood pills, and with a swish, he waved his hand and scattered them out, falling into their hands.
Each of them was allocated ten blood pills, or eleven.
Mage Ono and Mage Ono stood on the left and right sides of the Devil Ape, staring at the blood pills in their hands, licking their lips and revealing envious eyes.
This master, even the Demon Ape could be subdued, the pills he rewarded them with, even if they were bad, they must be terrific divine pills.
The two of them had wanted to escape, but they were tackled by the Demonic Ape and captured back.
Zhang Ruochen kept them and still had a use for them, so he took the two of them with him.
Zhang Ruochen stared at the seventeen women and said, “Take a Second Grade Blood Pill, it will allow you to not be hungry for three days, not only that, but it will also enhance your physique to a certain extent, remember, don’t waste it.”
The Second Grade Blood Pills were no longer useful to Zhang Ruochen.
To ordinary people who did not cultivate martial arts, however, it was still a precious treasure. After refining the ten blood pills, it was by no means difficult for them to beat two or three strong men with their strength.
In the future, the girls would also have some ability to defend themselves.
To Zhang Ruochen, it was just a matter of raising his hand. To them, I’m afraid it would change the course of their lives.
As the ancients said, doing one good deed a day was better than earning money every day.
All seventeen women were so moved that they knelt on the ground once again, squeezing the blood pills tightly in their hands, almost as if they were squeezing an immortal elixir.
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards Xue Yi Yi and said, ”Your qualifications are good, I found a copy of the Five Elements Codex in Archmage Long Ze’s cave, it should be a pretty good cultivation secret, so I’ll give it to you, take it and comprehend it. The safety of their lives will be your responsibility to protect.”
After saying that, Zhang Ruochen took out an ancient book cast in metal and threw it to Xue Yi Yi.
The Codex of the Five Elements was a top-tier spell cultivation secret book, and it was only by a strange encounter that Archmage Longze had obtained this one.
Even though Xue Yi Yi was the daughter of the Snow Leaf City’s City Lord, she was overjoyed to obtain the Codex of the Five Elements and held it tightly in her arms, loving it.
“May I ask, Your Excellency, will the Five Elements Continent really suffer a catastrophe?”
Xue Yi Yi hugged the Codex of the Five Elements, put away her smile and asked worriedly.
“To be exact, the cataclysm arrived five days ago. If my guess is correct, Snowleaf City is probably no longer in existence, and you should not go back for the time being. Hide between the barren mountains and perhaps you can still escape!”
Although Zhang Ruochen didn’t like to kill innocents indiscriminately, it didn’t mean that other trainees would do the same, one world invading another would always be very cruel.
The weaker one world would only be slaughtered, enslaved, and ravaged. Ravaged, called out to the heavens, called out to the earth.
The conquest of worlds against worlds, that was truly a great power that could not be reversed by the power of a single person.
If there was a more powerful one world that invaded the Kunlun Realm, Zhang Ruochen and the humans of the Kunlun Realm would not be able to avoid such a tragic fate.
Therefore, one could only keep forging ahead and cultivating.
Zhang Ruochen sat on top of the Demonic Ape’s head and soon disappeared into the horizon, stepping onto the Five Elements Market Realm, a Market Realm Battlefield. He was a member of the Kunlun Realm, with his own camp and stance.
Battle!
His cultivation had reached the Small Extreme Position of the Heavenly Extreme Realm, and his strength had increased greatly, so it was just the right time to go and meet the top experts of the Five Elements Ruins Realm.
Venerable Ono and Venerable Ono walked ahead of the Demonic Ape, leading Zhang Ruochen and rushing to the Evil Wood Palace.
One of the five spiritual treasures, the “Purple Cloud Sinking Incense Wood”, was the most precious treasure of the Evil Wood Palace.
Moreover, according to Venerable Ono, among the Five Great Venerable Sacred Grounds of the Five Elements Continent, the Evil Wood Palace was relatively the weakest. Therefore, it was a bit more certain to strike at the Evil Wood Palace.
Zhang Ruochen had also enquired from Xue Yi Yi that the Evil Wood Palace’s strength was indeed ranked at the bottom.
Of course, it did not mean that the Evil Wood Palace was a soft persimmon, being the topmost force in a Ruins Realm, its own strength could not be worse even if it was worse.
Venerable Oono said, “Nowadays, the Evil Wood Palace has a total of four Mage Kings that have transcended above mortals, with terrifying strengths, each of which is an old monster that has lived for hundreds of years.”
The Mage King of the Five Elements Continent was actually a strong person of the Fish Dragon Realm.
“With your strength, Master, when you encounter one or two Mage Kings, you can naturally be easily disposed of. However, if the four Mage Kings of the Evil Wood Palace were to strike together, even if you, Master, are strong through and through, it would be inevitable that your two fists would not be able to defeat four hands.”
“Moreover, in the Evil Wood Palace, it is said that there are spell formations left behind by Saint-level mages. Three hundred years ago, when the ten Mage Kings of the Holy Fire Palace went to break into the Evil Wood Palace, they would also be crushed by the formation. The formations set up by Saint-level mages are quite terrifying.”
Zhang Ruochen secretly said that when they said yes, Saint-level Mages, they should be referring to Half-Saints.
The Five Elements Market Realm had been born for tens of thousands of years after all, and even if the spiritual qi was thin, there must have been some heaven-defying human masters who broke the shackles and cultivated to the Half-Saint realm.
It was said that the five great mage sanctuaries were all founded by half-saints and had a history of thousands of years in the Five Elements Ruins Realm.
Although the Half-Saints had died for many years, the formations they left behind were still very powerful and not something that could be breached by ordinary people.
Venerable Ono bowed to Zhang Ruochen and said, “Master, I have a plan that might be able to take away the Purple Cloud Sunken Fragrance Wood from the Evil Wood Palace.”
“Tell me.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Venerable Master Ono said, “The Evil Wood Palace once sent an emissary to the Demon Ape Ridge, wanting to ask Long Ze to be a guest elder. At that time, Long Ze rejected them.”
“If you, Master, can go and visit the Evil Wood Palace as Long Ze, they will definitely treat you as a guest. In this way, not only will you be able to avoid being attacked by the formation, but you will also be able to sneak into the Evil Wood Hall with ease. If your lordship decides to do so, I can go and contact the messengers of the Evil Wood Hall right now.”
It had to be said that Venerable Ono’s words did move Zhang Ruochen a little.
However, Zhang Ruochen did not trust Venerable Ono and Venerable Ono.
The two of them were the disciples of Venerable Longze, and they didn’t even have the slightest bit of respect for Venerable Longze, so how could they possibly work wholeheartedly for Zhang Ruochen.
In case Zhang Ruochen entered the Evil Wood Hall alone, Venerable Master Ono and Venerable Master Ono would immediately join forces with the experts of the Evil Wood Hall to deal with him together, wouldn’t they put themselves in a desperate situation?
Just as Zhang Ruochen was still pondering, not far away, two silver-coloured flying daggers shot out from the water of a large river.
The speed of the flying daggers exceeded the speed of sound.
Without even a hint of wind sound trying to ring out, the flying knives pierced into the eyebrows of Venerable Ono and Venerable Ono.
“Pfft!”
“Wow!”
Two silhouettes, rushed out of the water.
Their bodies were wrapped in a layer of true qi, their feet stepped in mid-air, and they leapt, landing right in front of Zhang Ruochen who was only ten feet away.
Xujiali stretched out a pair of slim jade hands, controlling her true qi, retrieving the two flying daggers, and laughed, “Killing two more indigenous experts, my military merit value, which is already seventy-seven points, will soon reach one hundred points.”
Xu Jia Li was a genius student of the Xu Sheng Clan, her cultivation had already reached the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, so it was naturally easy to kill two early stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm natives.
What’s more, it was a sneak attack, so it was a one-hit kill.
Xu Qing carried his hands behind his back as he walked forward, never looking at the two corpses that fell on the ground from the beginning to the end, his gaze coldly and sharply staring at Zhang Ruochen, who was sitting on top of the devil ape’s head, and laughed, “Truly a narrow escape, Zhang Ruochen, I didn’t think that we’d meet up again so soon, did we!”
Zhang Ruochen had been calm and unperturbed as he said, “Indeed, I didn’t expect it.”
Xu Qing straightened his back, tilted his chin, and said rather proudly, “Do you know why I didn’t make a sneak attack on you just now?”
“Why?”
Xu Qing’s eyes gradually became resolute and filled with battle intent as he said, “At the Pilgrimage Heavenly Staircase, losing to you was the greatest shame of my life. Only by defeating you head-on can I clear the shame.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “You think you have the strength to fight me head-on now?”
The corner of Xu Qing’s mouth hooked as he smiled confidently, “You should know that before I entered the Five Elements Ruins Realm, I had already reached the Mid Extreme Position of the Heavenly Extreme Realm. At that time, my strength was already not weaker than yours. Now, I have already broken through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Extremity Position, how many moves do you think it will take for me to defeat you?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “In just a few days, you have broken through from the Heavenly Extremity Realm Middle Extremity to the Great Extremity Realm, it seems that you have received a great encounter.”
Xu Qing let out a loud laugh and said, “You won’t live to see today anyway, so there’s no harm in telling you. On the second day after coming to the Five Elements Market Realm, I found the Golden God Chi among the five spiritual treasures.”
“I just took a small piece of it, and it pretty much saved me ten years of hard cultivation, impacting the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Great Extremity Position in one fell swoop, and I believe that within a month, breaking through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Great Circle won’t be difficult.”
“Not only that, I’m already on the verge of cultivating a Golden Spirit Treasure Body. As long as I break through to the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, I reckon I’ll succeed. At that time, with my strength, it will never be difficult to kill my way into the top 10,000 positions of the Heavenly Ranking.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “So you found the Golden God Chi, it seems like you also have great luck.”
“Now, do you still dare to fight me?”Xu Qing laughed.
Xu Qing wanted to break Zhang Ruochen mentally first, only, he didn’t realise that Zhang Ruochen had obtained the Black Water Glazed Crystal and his cultivation had also broken through again.
His condescending stance looked ridiculous in Zhang Ruochen’s eyes.
