Thousands of miles away.
The Evil Wood Palace’s Palace Master, the Divine Wreckage Dharma King, stood at the edge of a cliff face, looking far into the distance with his extreme eyes, just in time to see the pillar of purple light that rose up into the sky in the southeast.
The pupils of Divine Wreckage Dharma King’s eyes shrunk as he muttered to himself, “How could this happen?”
Nie Wenlong, sitting on top of a stone platform not far away, also glanced in the direction of the pillar of light, the corner of his mouth hooked slightly as he laughed, “Divine Wreckage Dharma King, it seems that Qing Mu Dharma King has encountered some trouble, do you need me to make a move?”
Divine Wreckage Dharma King’s face, a little cold and heavy, said, “It’s just a little thing, Lord Nie doesn’t need to take it to heart, I’ll send someone to assist right now.”
A few moments later, another Mage King from the Evil Wood Palace received an order from the Divine Wreckage Venerable King and immediately rushed to the direction from which the light pillar had come.
Nie Wenlong was a bit curious and said, “Logically, now that the young experts of the Kunlun Realm have descended on the Five Elements Ruins Realm on a large scale, all the major forces of the Five Elements Ruins Realm should be defending with all their might. How could someone dare to hit the Evil Wood Palace?”
Divine Wreckage Dharma King also revealed a puzzled expression as he said, “Lord Nie, do you think it could be an expert from the Kunlun Realm?”
Nie Wenlong immediately shook his head and said, “Impossible, this time, those who have come to the Five Elements Market Realm are all trainees of the younger generation, and other than me, none of them are true experts. There is no one, at all, who can threaten a Dharma King level powerhouse. Unless …… dozens of cadets gather together and form a combined attack formation, it will be able to make the Greenwood Dharma King send out a distress signal. However, this is even less likely.”
Nie Wenlong had already been cultivating in the Sacred Academy for ten years to have the strength he had now.
Those other trainees, who hadn’t yet entered the Sacred Academy, even if some of them had a higher cultivation level, there was still a huge gap between them and him.
In ten years’ time, what had grown was not only cultivation, but also profound martial arts skills, the accumulation of combat experience and understanding of the martial arts path.
Even if some people, with their genius treasures, forced their cultivation up, they didn’t have that much time to cultivate their martial skills. Such a martial artist’s ability in actual combat would probably be a cut below some people at a lower realm.
Therefore, Nie Wenlong could be certain that it was impossible for any of those trainees to be able to threaten Dharma King Qingmu. Even if it was the Buddha Emperor’s heir, Zhang Ruochen, and the Golden Light Saint Body, Luo Shuihan, they were far from having that ability.
“Puffing!”
Nie Wenlong took a deep breath as a purple aura, rushed out from the top of his head. The wood-attribute aura between heaven and earth converged towards him crazily.
The ground around the stone platform made rustling noises and grew an emerald green blade of grass that grew a hundred times its normal speed, quickly growing to over ten inches tall.
When the Divine Wreckage Dharma King saw this scene, a look of astonishment appeared on his face, “Amazing, in just a few days, he actually cultivated into the Wood Spirit Treasure Body.”
The Divine Wreckage Venerable Lord had also broken through to the Realm of the Mage King (Fish Dragon Realm) before cultivating the Wood Spirit Treasure Body successfully.
This Lord Nie, who clearly hadn’t reached the Mage King realm, actually succeeded in cultivating the Wood Spirit Treasure Body with ease. Were all the cultivators of the Kunlun Realm this powerful?
He didn’t know that Nie Wenlong was able to become a Saint and, moreover, enter the top 10,000 of the Heavenly Rankings, so he was a supreme genius himself, and it wasn’t difficult to successfully cultivate a type of Treasure Body.
Nie Wenlong stood up, took a deep breath, and a faint smile appeared on his face, “It’s true that I’ve saved ten years of hard cultivation, my martial cultivation seems to have refined again, and I’ve already touched the threshold of the Fish Dragon Realm, so I believe that it won’t be long until I’ll be able to break through the realm.”
Not only that, cultivating into the Wood Spirit Treasure Body, Nie Wenlong’s strength had also risen by a huge step, and he should already be able to fight with experts in the top 1,000 of The Heavenly Ranking.
In other words, in the same realm, Nie Wenlong was already among the top group of experts under the Saint Body.
After all, in the entire Kunlun Realm, there weren’t too many young martial artists who could cultivate into a Treasure Body.
“Divine Wreckage Dharma King, thank you for the Purple Cloud Sinking Wood. You’d better prepare some more of these treasures, if you can offer them to the Half-Saint Ancestors of the Xu Sheng Clan, your future will be brighter in the future.”Nie Wenlong said.
The Divine Wreckage Venerable Lord smiled somewhat bitterly, “Purple Cloud Sediment Wood, it takes 10,000 years to deposit a catty. The entire Evil Wood Palace, after collecting it for thousands of years, has only been able to collect the few bits that have survived, and with the consumption of each generation, the Evil Wood Palace has less than a hundred pounds of Purple Cloud Sunken Incense Wood.”
Nie Wen Long didn’t believe the words of the Divine Wreckage Dharma King at all, the Evil Wood Palace’s Purple Cloud Sunken Incense Wood, was definitely more than a hundred pounds, it was just that the Divine Wreckage Dharma King wasn’t willing to offer it up.
Of course, Nie Wenlong was too lazy to pay attention to these things, anyway, now that he had cultivated into the Wood Spirit Treasure Body, he had a bright future ahead of him, and he definitely wouldn’t stay in a small place like the Five Elements Market Realm.
If he killed Zhang Ruochen again, it would be another great achievement.
……
The battle between the Devil Ape and the Greenwood Dharma King only went on for a quarter of an hour before the Greenwood Dharma King was struck by the Devil Ape’s punch on his body and suffered a heavy blow.
Originally, he was trying to escape, but he was held back by Zhang Ruochen using the Holy Sword, and was soon caught up by the Demon Ape again.
Dharma King Qingmu was cloaked and covered in blood as he continuously waved his Crystal Divine Staff, thinking in his mind that as long as he could delay for a few moments, reinforcements might arrive, and by then, the situation would be reversed.
Zhang Ruochen of course saw that Dharma King Qingmu was stalling for time, so he didn’t give him a chance to continue pestering him.
“It’s almost time, we should send him on his way as well.”
Zhang Ruochen held the Holy Sword and rushed to the left side of the Greenwood Dharma King, executing a move called “Soul Suppressing Standing Shadow”.
How could the heavily injured and, moreover, exhausted Dharma King Qing Mu be able to block the Holy Sword?
“No……”
The Greenwood Dharma King cried out mournfully.
The Holy Sword, severed the Crystal God Staff. The icy cold blade of the sword landed on top of the head of the Greenwood Dharma King, tearing the body of the Greenwood Dharma King into two halves.
Zhang Ruochen retrieved the sword, and on the sword, there was not a single drop of blood.
“The Greenwood Dharma King is almost at the cultivation level of Fish Dragon First Transformation, killing him should earn him a thousand points of Military Merit Value.”
Zhang Ruochen picked up the Greenwood Dharma King’s divine staff that was broken into two pieces, and inside the staff, there was a purple cloud patterned wooden strip inlaid.
Taking that small section of wooden strip and pinching it in his hand, he was able to smell a faint fragrance.
Just a gentle sniff would make one’s body and mind incomparably soothed.
Zhang Ruochen opened his Heavenly Eyes and saw a strand of wood attribute aura radiating out from the wooden strip in a continuous stream.
“This should be the Purple Cloud Incense Wood, it’s a pity that it only weighs half a catty, far from being able to be used to cultivate the Wood Spirit Treasure Body.”
Zhang Ruochen put away the section of wooden strip and stood up again, returning the Holy Sword to Huang Yichen, saying, “The experts from the Evil Wood Palace should be arriving soon, Senior Sister Huang, we must leave as soon as possible.”
Huang Yichen retrieved the Saint Sword and stared coldly at Zhang Ruochen, saying, “You still haven’t answered, my earlier question, are you intentionally watching me being pursued by them or not, wanting to stand by and watch?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “If I really did stand by and watch, how could I have made a move just now? Senior Sister Huang ……”
“Call me Yellow Smoke Dust.”Yellow Smoke Dust said.
Zhang Ruochen put away his smile, and after a moment of silence, he said, “It shouldn’t be long before the three-year period, right?”
Yellow Smoke Dust nodded, not daring to look directly into Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, slightly lowering his head, and said, “It should be soon! When the third round of examination is over, it is estimated that we will have to start preparing for the marriage.”
“Hmm!”
Zhang Ruochen said.
Huang Yichen raised her head, her eyes somewhat cold as she said, “If you really don’t want to, I won’t force you, it’s not like I don’t have suitors anyway. Xu Qing, from the Xu Sheng Sect Valve, has been pursuing me, and I haven’t even bothered with him yet.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “He has already been killed by me!”
Huang Yichen’s eyes glazed over with delight and curiosity as she tentatively asked, “It couldn’t be because, he was pursuing me, so, you killed him?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “How could that be? He was the one who wanted to kill me first. Even if I don’t kill him, in the future, he will still invite someone stronger to kill me.”
Huang Yichen was a little disappointed and said, “So that’s how it is.”
Zhang Ruochen added, “Of course, there are also reasons for you, after all, he was the one who first united with the Evil Wood Palace to deal with you, so in order to prevent him from continuing to hit on you in the future, of course, I can’t let him live.”
Hearing these words, Huang Yichen’s heart was so beautiful that it was like drinking honey.
For the first time, she felt that talking about killing people could be so romantic.
In fact, Zhang Ruochen still had some feelings for Huang Yichen, and was not completely devoid of feelings.
It was only that he couldn’t accurately judge whether it was Huang Yichen or Chi Yao’s shadow that he liked right now.
Back then, Chi Yao was just as cold and arrogant as Huang Yichen, just as haughty, and above certain personalities, the two had a lot in common.
Only, although Chi Yao was cold and arrogant and did not put any man in her eyes, she was very gentle with Zhang Ruochen. The two had grown up together since they were young, childhood sweethearts, and had a spiritual connection, definitely Zhang Ruochen’s ideal divine couple.
It was precisely because of this that when Chi Yao made a move to kill Zhang Ruochen, Zhang Ruochen still couldn’t believe that it was really her.
When Zhang Ruochen came back to life, he thought of countless possibilities, perhaps someone was impersonating Chi Yao, or he could have been blinded in that last moment.
However, in the end, they were all dismissed by him.
Zhang Ruochen could only think that perhaps he never understood Chi Yao.
Collecting his thoughts, Zhang Ruochen exhaled a long breath and looked at Huang Yichen’s beautiful pair of cold, icy eyes as he said, “Senior Sister Yichen, we really should leave!”
Hearing the title “Senior Sister Smoke Dust”, Huang Yichen was still a bit dissatisfied, however, she did not force Zhang Ruochen. She knew clearly that it was really hard to ask Zhang Ruochen to change his words immediately.
Being able to let him call him “Sister Smokey” was already a great improvement, at least it proved that Zhang Ruochen still had her in his heart.
If Zhang Ruochen didn’t have any feelings for her at all, with his character, he wouldn’t have changed his words at all.
“Listen to you.”
Huang Yichen said as softly as she could.
Only, after saying it, she still felt very awkward and couldn’t help but purse her two red lips.
Suddenly, as if he sensed something, Zhang Ruochen raised his head and glanced into the distance.
The one Heavenly Eye at the centre of his brow emerged with a wow.
“What’s wrong?”
Huang Yichen inquired when he saw that there was something wrong with Zhang Ruochen’s face.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Earlier, when I told you to leave, you didn’t. Now, it’s probably not that easy to leave. Another Fish Dragon Realm powerhouse is arriving, and, with a strength that exceeds that of the Greenwood Dharma King, it should also be an expert from the Evil Wood Palace.”
