“If you can come up with a cultivation technique that surpasses the Divine Meteor Sutra, I can certainly accept it with pleasure.”
Zhang Ruochen idly walked over.
Xiao Hei of course couldn’t produce a cultivation technique secret that exceeded the Divine Meteor Scripture, so he no longer continued to mention about accepting Zhang Ruochen as his disciple, and said indifferently, “You’ve come to look for me, there should be something you want to do, shouldn’t there?”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and opened the door, “I want to ask you something, about the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram.”
As if he had expected it, Little Black followed Zhang Ruochen and left, leaving only Potpourri and the Devil Ape, in the courtyard, to continue to study the cultivation technique they had just obtained.
Entering the room, Zhang Ruochen activated the inscriptions of an array formation, and with a clatter, a white shield of light emerged, immediately enveloping the room.
The matter he was about to discuss with Little Black was quite important, so of course, he had to be a bit more careful in case he was overheard by someone with an axe to grind.
Zhang Ruochen asked, ”You should already know that the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, absorbed a large amount of Wood Spirit Origin Qi. I just want to know, why is that? Why was the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram able to absorb the Wood Spirit Origin Qi?”
Little Black rolled his eyelids and said in a slow voice, “You really want to know the answer? Lol! There’s no harm in telling you. Have you seen that Heaven Receiving Divine Wood on the scroll?”
“Of course I saw it!”
Little Black said, “The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood is growing within the inner world of the picture scroll.”
“How is that possible?”Zhang Ruochen didn’t believe it at all.
Little Black snorted coldly, “This Emperor was painted on top of the picture scroll, and his true body was sealed in the inner world of the picture scroll. The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was drawn on top of the scroll, so why couldn’t it be born in the inner world of the scroll?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Legend has it that the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was chopped off by a ferocious man in the Middle Ages.”
“That’s right.”
Xiao Hei nodded and added, “However, Saint Monk Sumeru dug out the roots of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood and transplanted it to the inner world of the picture scroll. He then used his great magical power to revive the tree root, resurrecting it from the dead and bringing it back to nirvana. After millions of years, the root of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, which grew new seedlings, had turned into a heavenly tree again.”
“Of course, that new seedling is still far from being comparable to the once Heaven Receiving Divine Wood. One must know that the once Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was born in the ancient times, and was the oldest living being in the Kunlun Realm.”
Zhang Ruochen found another wrong place, always feeling that what Little Black said was far from the truth, so he said, “Are you sure that the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood has really been growing for a million years? Wasn’t Saint Monk Sumeru a hundred thousand years ago?”
Little Black widened his eyes and said, “Do you think this Emperor is bragging again? Zhang Ruochen, this Emperor is telling you that ever since we met, I have never said a single big word.”
“To tell you the truth, the inner world of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram was originally a temporal and spatial treasure that was refined by the Sacred Monk of Sumeru in order to allow the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood to recover its vitality as quickly as possible. Therefore, when one day passes in the outside world, ten days have passed in the inner world of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram. When a hundred thousand years have passed in the outside world, a million years have naturally passed in the inner world.”
Zhang Ruochen drifted off and said, “I see.”
Little Black continued, “However, the Inner World of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram is not stable enough, and can only allow some martial souls and beast souls to be hosted within it. A living person that enters it will only die.”
“Only when the new seedling of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, grows to a certain level, can it become the root of the world, allowing that world to completely stabilise and transform into a cave world.”
“At that time, you will be able to open the picture world of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram and enter it to cultivate.”
Zhang Ruochen asked, “To what extent does the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood need to grow before it can hold up the Cave World within the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram?”
Little Black said, “In the Five Elements Ruins Realm, the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood absorbed a large amount of Wood Spirit Origin Qi, recovered some of its vitality, and grew a lot more. If it can still absorb ten times the Wood Spirit Origin Qi of the Five Elements Ruins Realm, the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood should be able to hold up that Cave World.”
“Of course, if the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood is allowed to grow on its own, and given another million years, it will also be able to hold up that world.
“A million years? I can’t wait that long.”
Zhang Ruochen frowned slightly and said, “Ten times the amount of wood spirit origin qi of the Five Elements Market Realm isn’t too difficult, so as long as I can find a subordinate market realm with strong wood spirit origin qi and absorb it, I guess I’ll be able to achieve a great success.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t even consider collecting the Origin Qi of a Medium Ruins Realm, knowing that the Medium Ruins Realm had many powerful people and experts, it wasn’t something that he could cope with right now.
Moreover, once the Origin Qi of the Market Realm sensed the hostility in Zhang Ruochen’s body, it would change the rules of the world in a subtle way, making the strong people in that kind of world to stop Zhang Ruochen and kill him, thus protecting itself.
Of course, those powerhouses, not knowing that they were driven by the Origin Qi, would only produce murderous thoughts towards Zhang Ruochen under all coincidental circumstances.
In the end, the Qi of Origin was, in fact, the Heavenly Dao and Qi of that world, which could only change the people and things in the world in an invisible manner, and could not give direct orders.
Little Black asked, “When are you going to set off?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Let’s wait a little longer! Letting your cultivation level rise a bit more to go to the Market Realm Battlefield will also be much safer. Besides, I still have some things left to take care of.”
“Alright! You continue to go and deal with your matters, and I’ll continue to tune in as well. Teach those two fellows and try to cultivate them, they should be able to come in handy in the future.”
Little Black flew out, turning into a black shadow and disappearing inside the room.
“Its strength, indeed, has risen again and is no longer below me.”Zhang Ruochen stared at Little Black and said to himself.
Little Black’s power had always been there, it was just sealed inside the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram and could not be exerted.
Zhang Ruochen had already pledged his blood with the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, and as long as his cultivation increased, he would be able to unlock more seals, and Xiao Hei’s strength would follow.
Therefore, Xiao Hei’s strength was always comparable to Zhang Ruochen’s.
Zhang Ruochen took out the Purple Cloud Sunken Fragrance Wood and glanced at it, then, entered the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
He was going to absorb the Violet Cloud Sunken Fragrance Wood and cultivate the Wood Spirit Treasure Body.
Among the five elements, water and wood, were mutually exclusive attributes.
Since he had cultivated the Water Spirit Treasure Body, it would definitely be easier to choose the Wood Spirit Treasure Body to cultivate the second Treasure Body.
……
As Zhang Ruochen began to refine the Purple Cloud Sinking Incense Wood, the Divine Sword Holy Ground in the Eastern Domain Sacred City welcomed an honourable guest.
This person, from the Central Domain, was a Saint Ancestor of the Hall of Brightness, flying in the sky on a piece of nine-coloured auspicious clouds.
She was wearing an emerald green palace dress, with a graceful figure and a very clear and beautiful face, with long and slender eyebrows, bright red lips like vermilion dan, and delicate skin like water, giving off an aura of a female immortal from beyond the heavens.
It was a pity that such a young and beautiful fairy face had a head of long white hair.
That pair of beautiful eyes also seemed to be full of vicissitudes, as if they had already experienced countless sweet and sour moments in life and were full of infinite wisdom.
The owner of the Divine Sword Holy Land, the Jade Sage, personally came out to greet her, like a junior, treating her with great respect.
