Si Xingkong took out a half-metre long metal cylinder and injected his True Qi into it.
On the surface of the metal cylinder, strands of light silk inscriptions emerged, surging towards the bottom of the cylinder.
“Wow!”
A white pillar of light, rushed out from the metal cylinder, flying off the ground and straight into the clouds.
Generally speaking, once a martial artist sent out a signal, within half an hour, the Ministry of War’s warships would arrive and pick up the martial artist out of the Market Realm Battlefield.
Taking advantage of the crowd’s inattention, Zhang Ruochen took the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram and stowed it into the Qi Sea in his brow.
Although Zhang Ruochen trusted Huang Yichen, Si Xingkong, and Chang Qiqi, yet, he still had to be careful, and try not to expose some major secrets that could not be exposed.
Once exposed, it would not be beneficial to Zhang Ruochen, and it would not be beneficial to them him either.
Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes and released his spiritual energy, clearly sensing that the aura between heaven and earth was weakening.
The entire Five Elements Market Realm seemed to be gradually dying out.
“The Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram has absorbed the Wood Spirit Origin Qi of the Five Elements Ruins Realm, I’m afraid that after a hundred years, the Five Elements Ruins Realm will turn into a dead world without any life.”
With the loss of the Wood Spirit Origin Qi, the Five Elements Ruins Realm would not immediately die out, there would be a long process of dying out.
At first, there would definitely be flowers, plants, and trees that would gradually wither and eventually become completely extinct.
Immediately after that, the environment would become so harsh that countless humans and savage beasts would starve to death until they became completely extinct.
In the end, the Five Elements Market Realm would become completely desolate, and perhaps only some fae creatures that did not rely on wood-attribute auras would be able to survive. For example: rock life, metal life, water spirit life, and flame life.
Zhang Ruochen naturally hated to see this happen, knowing that it was an entire world’s living beings that had died because of him, even though they were not killed by his own hands.
“The Saint of the Kunlun Realm will surely notice the difference in the Five Elements Ruins Realm, and with the Saint’s powerful cultivation, he should be able to forcibly change the Five Elements Ruins Realm’s Origin Qi, allowing the Five Elements Ruins Realm’s living beings to continue surviving.”
The First Central Empire only wanted to rule the Five Elemental Ruins Realm, it did not want to exterminate the Five Elemental Ruins Realm, and it would definitely find a way to make up for the lack of the wood spirit’s origin qi.
Moreover, over the years, the Five Elements Ruins Realm would also give birth to new Wood Spirit Origin Qi on its own.
After all, the five elements were born from each other, and it was originally a great cycle.
Only, by virtue of the rules of nature to contain the Wood Spirit Origin Qi, it would take at least a hundred thousand years, or even a million years. At that time, the living beings of the Five Elements Market Realm were probably already extinct.
Only saints could use great magical powers to make the wood spirit origin qi be born out quickly, so that the aura of the Five Elements Ruins Realm, would not collapse.
“The Sacred Academy’s Heavenly Ranking expert, Nie Wenlong, would actually appear in the Five Elements Ruins Realm, it must be the Xu Sacred Sect Valve that’s up to no good, I must report to the Sacred Academy and find out what’s going on.”Huang Yichen said in a cold voice.
Huang Yichen had already frozen Nie Wenlong’s corpse inside a thick layer of cold ice, preparing to use it as evidence to bring back to the Sacred Courtyard to find out the one behind it.
Anyone could see that Nie Wenlong had come to the Five Elements Market Realm to kill Zhang Ruochen.
It was only that Zhang Ruochen’s strength was far stronger than he had imagined, so he died under Zhang Ruochen’s palm instead.
To be able to send a Heavenly Ranking expert, to the Five Elements Ruins Realm, it had to be at least a Half-Saint to be able to do so.
In the Sacred Courtyard, there was actually a Half-Saint who was making every effort to deal with Zhang Ruochen, just thinking about it made people shudder.
Si Xingkong’s face was solemn as he said, “Even if it was really the Xu Sheng Sect Valve that instructed Nie Wenlong to kill Zhang Ruochen, it must have already made preparations for the assassination to fail, and even if they went to investigate, they wouldn’t be able to find out any results.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “This matter involves the Sacred Sect Valves, so it’s best for you guys to stay out of it. Moreover, even if I were to bring Nie Wenlong’s corpse, back to the Holy Academy, I wouldn’t be able to do anything at all to help the Sacred Sect Valves of Xuxu, and instead, I would also startle the snakes.”
“Boom!”
Walking up to Nie Wenlong’s corpse, Zhang Ruochen struck down with a palm, and with a snap, along with the cold ice on the surface, it broke Nie Wenlong’s corpse into pieces.
Huang Yichen had wanted to stop it, but he was still a step too late.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t want Huang Yanduan to get involved, with the power behind her, although she wasn’t afraid of the Xu Sheng Sect. However, Zhang Ruochen was worried that the Xuxing Sage Sect Valve would make a secret move, in that case, there would be no defence and it would not do her any good.
Since the Xu Sheng Sect Valve wanted to play, Zhang Ruochen would play with them slowly.
Roughly a quarter of an hour passed, and a huge metal warship that was over 130 metres long flew in from the sky and stopped above the heads of the crowd.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint, wearing a red garment and carrying a holy sword on his back, flew down from above the metal warship and laughed, “Zhang Ruochen, congratulations, the first time you entered the Ruins Realm Battlefield, you became a 《The Heavenly Ranking》 martial artist, and in the third round of the examination, the Military Merit Value ranked number one, the Master has indeed not misjudged you.”
Killing the Divine Wreckage Dharma King would give Zhang Ruochen 10,000 points of Military Merit Value, enough to enter The Heavenly Ranking.
“Greetings to the Half-Saint.”
Huang Yichen, Si Xingkong, and Chang Qiqi, all of them respectfully bowed to the Spiritual Pivot Half-Saint as a sign of respect.
Zhang Ruochen clasped his hands together and also saluted the Spiritual Pivot Half-Saint as he humbly said, “I’ve only just entered The Heavenly Ranking, the road to the future is still far away.”
Other Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artists would have to fight in the Market Realm Battlefield for several years, or even decades, before they could accumulate enough 10,000 military merit points to become a 《Tian List》 martial artist.
Zhang Ruochen, however, only used one month.
However, Zhang Ruochen’s goal was to accumulate thirty million points of military merit value and impact the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
Over ten thousand points of military merit value was only just a start for him.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint said, ”There is no need to be modest in front of me, your powerful strength and extraordinary natural talent is obvious to everyone, even the Evil Wood Palace was annihilated by you, no other cadet is able to achieve this kind of strength. Of course, amongst this batch of cadets, besides you, there is another person who has also accumulated enough 10,000 points to enter The Heavenly Ranking.”
“Oh! Who is it?”Zhang Ruochen asked curiously.
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint said, “It’s also a trainee from your Heavenly Demon Ridge, named Duanmu Xingling.”
“Surprisingly, it’s her.”
Although Zhang Ruochen’s face acted quite surprised, in reality, his heart was not surprised at all.
Zhang Ruochen, Duanmu Xingling, and Luo Shuihan were all one of the six kings of the new generation.
Zhang Ruochen possessed an undercard and was able to kill cultivators of the Fish Dragon Realm. Duanmu Xingling and Luo Shuihan definitely had undercards as well, and were also able to kill cultivators of the Fish Dragon Realm.
The difference was that Luo Shuihan’s character was gentle, idle, and ethereal, and didn’t like killing, and definitely wouldn’t go on a large-scale hunt for natives. After accumulating enough military merit value, she should stop.
Other than her, only Duanmu Xingling would have that strength to accumulate enough 10,000 points of military merit value.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Lord Half-Saint, I’ve subdued a savage beast in the Five Elements Market Realm and I want to bring it back to the Kunlun Realm. ……”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint glanced towards the demonic ape and said, “There’s no need to say more, it’s a trivial matter, I’ll bring it back to the Sacred Courtyard for you. You should stop calling me Half-Saint Lord, when you return to the Sacred Courtyard, presumably, you’ll have to call me Senior Sister. In the future, we are our own people.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled slightly bitterly, originally, he didn’t want to worship Elder Xuan Gui as his master, but since the Spiritual Pivot Half-Saint had already said his words to this extent, it meant that Elder Xuan Gui really appreciated him.
If he continued to refuse, he would appear to be too arrogant.
Of course, worshipping Elder Xuan Gui as his teacher was also a good thing, and the benefits outweighed the disadvantages for Zhang Ruochen.
Under the leadership of the Spirit Pivot Half-Saint, the crowd rode the warship to the Five Elements Ruins Realm’s Ruins Realm Passage.
At the Ruin Realm Passage, they waited for another day.
The trainees who had come for the examination were all picked up one after another, and only then did the crowd of trainees take the warship, pass through the Ruin Realm Passage, and return to the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.
The trainees who went to the Five Elements Ruins Realm to participate in the third round of assessment, there were more than 35,000 in total, and only about 30,000 returned, with more than 5,000 talented trainees losing their lives.
The vast majority of them died in the bellies of the indigenous savage beasts.
In the Five Elements Market Realm, the barbarian beast communities were much more powerful than the humans.
The human race only occupied a small piece of territory, and was far from being able to compete with the savage beasts, and could only survive in the cracks.
In the third round of examination, only fourteen thousand three hundred and seventy-eight people had accumulated enough military merit value of one hundred points to formally become Saints of the Sacred Academy.
The rest, all eliminated.
In the Chaotic Ten Thousand Boundaries Mountain, they didn’t stay for long, and all of them were picked up again and returned to the Eastern Region Holy City, returning to the Holy Academy.
All the trainees who had become Saints were overjoyed, and after receiving their tokens and robes, they went in groups to celebrate with a banquet.
Becoming a Saint was an incomparable honour, and the future was boundless.
Those students who did not enter the Holy Academy, although they were quite sad, they were not discouraged.
Since they couldn’t enter the Holy Academy, they could still apply for other academies and martial arts schools, and could even enter the Ministry of War.
In the Seventh Urban District, there weren’t just the Holy Academy, there were many other academies such as:
The “Royal Academy” founded by the court of the First Central Empire, although its history was not as long as that of the Holy Academy, there were still Half-Saints and Saints teaching there, and in some aspects, their treatment even exceeded that of the Holy Academy.
Moreover, the students of the Royal Academy have the opportunity to enter the imperial court in the future, and become lords and vassals.
In the Chen Family of the Eastern Region Saint King’s House, there were many talented sons and daughters who were training in the Royal Academy, preparing to enter the court in the future.
On top of that, all the major Saint Valves had also opened martial arts halls in the Seventh City District, recruiting the world’s talents.
These martial schools, although not as good as the Sacred Academy and the Royal Academy, were still a good choice, and one could still obtain Saint Cultivation Techniques.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t go to Huang Yichen’s celebration banquet, and after receiving the Saints’ robes and tokens, he took the Demon Ape and left the Sacred Courtyard, returning to the Martial City Stage House.
After gathering with his mother briefly and saying goodbye, Zhang Ruochen immediately entered the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and continued to study the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram.
It was imperative to study the secrets of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, which would be of immense help to his cultivation.
