As the realm broke through, Zhang Ruochen’s body trembled violently.
Subsequently, the pores of his entire body opened completely, emitting a force of absorption, absorbing the aura between the heavens and the earth.
Zhang Ruochen’s body was completely wrapped in a vortex of aura, which did not dissipate until several days later.
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen let out a loud laugh and roared, ”Captured it, captured it! Finally captured the Time Mark.”
“Sword of Time, Shakura without a trace.”
His eyes, did not open, as if he was still in a deep sleep.
His arm was pinched into a sword technique and swung violently, transforming into a ray of light that chopped out.
“Swish!”
That ray of sword light chopped through the spatial realm, tearing out an opening.
Immediately, blood gushed in, completely submerging Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes opened as his hands turned into palm seals and pushed out in both the left and right directions, once again holding up the spatial domain.
He looked at his hands and then at the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram on the ground and said to himself, “What a powerful Sword of Time, it can actually break through the spatial domain. But how did I succeed in cultivating the Sword of Time?”
Zhang Ruochen rubbed his temples and tried hard to recall.
Just a moment ago, when he pressed his palm on top of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, he seemed to see a huge ancient tree and an old man who was rehearsing his sword technique.
He felt as if he had been with that one old man, practising sword techniques for several months.
But then again, it seemed like only a split second had passed.
“It’s that same feeling from last time again, like a long time has passed, and like only a moment of time has passed. This time, however, it is much clearer than the last time. I’m sure that indeed, I’m learning the sword with an old man, learning the sword of time. The first move is called Shakura Without Trace.”
Zhang Ruochen tried his best to recall, however, he could not recall what exactly happened, in his mind, there were only some vague images.
“Could it be that the one place I went to, was the inner world of the Qian Kun Divine Wood Diagram?”
The Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram had absorbed the Essence Qi of the Wood Essence Market Realm, and the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood should have grown up enough to support the inner world of the scroll.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ruochen immediately injected his True Qi into the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, and with a wow sound, a haze of light rose from the surface of the scroll.
Those haze lights, so slender that they were like silk threads, converged together and transformed into a spatial door.
Zhang Ruochen took a step out and entered the door of space as if he had passed through a curtain of light, and in the next moment, his feet stepped on top of an emerald green grass.
As Zhang Ruochen looked around, the entire world was lush and green, and even further away, one could vaguely see, a huge mountain range towering into the clouds, surrounded by clouds and mists, with deep mountains and ancient forests, giving a general scene of a mangy swamp.
One moment, it was still in the dimly lit blood pool.
The next moment, it was a separate world, as if it was a paradise, isolated from the world.
“This this is the picture world of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, what’s the difference between it and the real world? So powerful, I don’t know how far the cultivation of the Sumerian Saint Monk back then had reached, to be able to create a world of his own.”
Zhang Ruochen marvelled, and instantly thought of the Buddhist saying, “A flower is a world, a leaf is a bodhi.”
He took a deep breath, and in the air, there was a fresh scent of earth, flowers and grass, and a powerful aura that surged into his body, rushing around in his meridians.
“The concentration of aura is comparable to a remote place like the Heavenly Demon Ridge, but it’s far from being comparable to the Eastern Domain Sacred City.”
The concentration of aura determined the strengths and weaknesses of the cultivation environment.
However, it was not absolute.
As long as Zhang Ruochen had enough Spirit Crystals, he could set up a Spirit Gathering Array.
In this way, even in the Touhou World, which was relatively barren in terms of spiritual Qi, cultivation would not be affected in the slightest.
The main thing was that ten days passed inside the Tutelary World, and only one day passed in the outside world.
This was what helped Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation the most!
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards the sky and soon saw the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, so he unfolded his stance and flew off the ground.
Before long, he arrived at the top of a small mountain closest to the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
Looking over from afar, he only saw that on the ground, there stood a withered stump that was thirty feet tall.
That one stump, which looked like a huge, flat circular platform, could not be seen at the edge as far as one could see.
On the stump, there was a circle of yearly marks, densely packed and uncountable, and there was no telling how many thousands of yearly wheels there were. Each wheel of the year was like the pages of a scroll, recording an ancient story.
An ancient and surging power came from above the stump, giving the impression that it was like an ancient book that recorded endless secrets.
Zhang Ruochen was shocked to the core and read, “Could this be the legendary Heaven Receiving Divine Wood?”
The Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was a legend that no one in the Kunlun Realm knew about, it was said to be a divine tree that connected heaven and earth, and was also known as the “Root of the Kunlun Realm”.
A hundred thousand years ago, in the Middle Ages, the Divine Tree was chopped off, and since then, no one in the Kunlun Realm has been able to become a god. At the same time, historians also characterised the “severing of the Divine Wood” as a sign of the end of the Middle Ages.
According to Xiao Hei, the Sacred Monk Sumeru had transplanted the roots of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood to the inner world of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram.
What it was referring to should be, this huge stump in front of Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen’s arms unfolded and he travelled on the wind, coming to the top of the tree stump and landing lightly.
“Worthy of being the stump of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, such a long time has passed, and it actually still exudes such a rich aura. Within the spiritual qi, there seems to be an even higher grade of qi flow, it should be the legendary Sacred Qi.”Zhang Ruochen was very much in awe.
In the inner world of the scroll, the closer one got to the stump of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, the denser the aura became.
Especially when one stood on top of the stump, the richness of the aura was simply comparable to that holy mountain in the Holy Academy. Even, it was even better than that.
The stump under Zhang Ruochen’s feet was like a flat, gigantic martial arts practice ground that stretched out, and he didn’t know how long he had walked before arriving at the centre of the stump.
At the centre of the stump, a new seedling grew.
Only, this new sapling, which had been growing for many years, was already very thick, with a trunk that was over a hundred metres in diameter, like a mountain peak that plunged straight into the clouds, with a majestic atmosphere that shook one’s soul.
He could clearly feel the huge vitality that the new seedling contained.
“This is it, the place I came to in my dream, this is it. This is the new sapling of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, which has already supported this inner world of the scroll.”
Zhang Ruochen searched under the tree, but he couldn’t find that one old man.
“Little Black has been sealed in the Tou Shu World, it must know this world very well. Since we can’t find the reason, let’s leave this place first, and after we go out, we’ll question it, and we should get something.”
Zhang Ruochen looked up with a look of awe in his eyes as he folded his hands and bowed to that new seedling of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood before immediately turning around to leave.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t know exactly how long he had been cultivating earlier, and fearing that he would miss the ten-day appointment, he hurriedly exited the Tulip World.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen stepped out of the spatial door and re-entered the bottom of the blood pool.
The light of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram flickered and transformed into a point of light that flew into Zhang Ruochen’s brow and was suspended in the Qi Sea again.
Zhang Ruochen took a deep breath and gradually calmed the emotions in his heart.
It was not until this time that he realised that his martial cultivation had unexpectedly broken through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm Grand Completion without him even realising it, and his spiritual power had also reached the forty-second rank.
The spiritual power reaching forty-two steps was originally expected by Zhang Ruochen.
After all, if his spiritual power hadn’t broken through, he wouldn’t have been able to learn the first sword of the Sword of Time, Shakeless.
However, how did the Martial Dao Realm also break through?
After all, Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Dao Realm had only broken through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Extremity Position not long ago. According to his prediction, in order to break through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Extremity, he would need to cultivate for at least another half a year.
“Could it be that when I was comprehending the Sword of Time, my Martial Soul transformed into the body of a False God and absorbed the power of the sacrifice in the blood pool?”Zhang Ruochen could only think of such a possibility.
He released his spiritual energy into the blood pool, and indeed, he found that the sacrificial power in the blood pool had become much lighter.
“So it seems that I have been in the blood pool for a long time, otherwise, it would be impossible for me to break through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm Grand Circle.”
Zhang Ruochen’s face was grave as he muttered to himself, “I hope it hasn’t been longer than ten days.”
He channelled his True Qi into his legs and stepped on the bottom of the blood pool, using the force of that recoil, he was like a stringed arrow, charging upwards.
