Zhang Ruochen channelled his true qi into his right arm, squeezed his five fingers into a fist, and punched the ground.
“Boom!”
With a loud bang, the ground shook violently and a large pit with a diameter of three metres appeared!
All around the large pit were traces of shattering.
Observing the extent of the damage caused to the ground by this punch, Zhang Ruochen was probably able to predict his current power and said to himself, “Without using the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, I was able to burst out with seventy-eight bulls of force! If I were to use the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, I should be able to burst out with eighty-eight oxen of strength.”
“I’ve only just reached the great circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm now, there’s still quite a bit of room for improvement, there might be a chance to reach the limit of one hundred oxen’s power.”
At the Yellow Extreme Realm, no one could surpass the limit power of one hundred oxen.
However, as long as the martial body was heaven-defying enough, one could infinitely approach one hundred oxen, or even reach one hundred oxen of power.
In his last life, Zhang Ruochen’s strongest explosive power in the Yellow Extreme Realm reached ninety-four oxen. In that era eight hundred years ago, it represented the invincibility of the Yellow Extreme Realm.
Since he had already reached the Great Perfection of the Yellow Extreme Realm, next, it would be extremely tough to still want to raise his power. Every time one ox of power was raised, it was not an easy task!
“With my current strength, I should be able to sweep away those Yellow Ranking martial artists!”
“I’ll try the power of the Soul Vein!”
Soul Vein, the most special of the thirty-six meridians, connected the physical body and the soul.
To the average martial artist, the soul was something quite mysterious, real, yet invisible and untouchable.
Zhang Ruochen sat on the ground, breathing in and out, calming his heart and mind, and wholeheartedly feeling the power of that sacrifice in the Qi Pool.
That wave of sacrificial power, separated from the power of blood essence, was like a tiny blood-red river that travelled through the Qi Pool.
This was the soul vein!
“Wow!”
Injecting his true qi into that one blood-red soul vein, the soul vein began to tremble and broke through the top of his head, like a seven or eight feet tall red pillar of light.
A soul silhouette that looked exactly like Zhang Ruochen appeared above his head, completely wrapped in red light, seemingly breathing and exhaling as well.
Of course, such a sight could only be seen by Zhang Ruochen himself.
If it was an outsider, they could only see Zhang Ruochen sitting on the ground and cultivating, and they could not see the red light pillar or the soul shadow at all.
Receiving the influence of the soul power, the entire compound hung a gust of gloomy wind, emitting a whistling sound.
“It’s actually possible to really communicate with the soul, it’s too marvellous!”
“Only martial artists of the Heavenly Extreme Realm can have their souls go out of their bodies, and I’ve done it when I’m only at the great circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm!”
Zhang Ruochen’s physical body and soul were linked together by the Soul Vein, and as long as the Soul Vein was, how far the soul could leave the body. Martial artists of the Heavenly Extreme Realm were not bound in such a way.
Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation was simply too weak, and his soul vein was only eight zhang long. In other words, his soul could only leave his body a maximum of eight zhang away.
One had to know that the soul of a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist could leave their body up to a hundred miles away. With just a thought, one could know what was happening dozens of miles away.
Moreover, a martial artist of the Heavenly Extremity Realm could also mobilise his true qi to quench his soul, causing it to grow and turn into a martial soul.
By mobilising the power of the martial soul, they were able to manipulate the heavens and earth, borrowing the aura of the heavens and earth to launch attacks on their enemies.
Therefore, every Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist was a martial arts myth!
Knowing that Zhang Ruochen was once a Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Perfection powerhouse, he had naturally cultivated his soul into a martial soul. Moreover, it was still the rare Thunderbolt Martial Soul.
It could transform the aura of heaven and earth, into the power of thunder and lightning.
In other words, Zhang Ruochen was now able to mobilise the spiritual qi of the heavens and earth and cast the power of thunder and lightning. Of course, it could only mobilise the heaven and earth aura within a radius of eight feet. The aura from further away would not be able to be mobilised!
“Thunderbolt Go!”
Zhang Ruochen followed the technique of his previous life, mobilising the aura of the heavens and earth, trying to cast the power of thunder and lightning.
Unfortunately, it failed!
“How could this happen? Even though I was reborn eight hundred years later, the power of my soul, hasn’t weakened, so how could I be unable to cast the power of thunder and lightning?”
Zhang Ruochen fell into bitter thoughts, and suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he said, “Could it be that …… my Divine Martial Seal has turned into a Spatio-Temporal Divine Martial Seal, and my martial soul has changed with it?”
In order to solve the doubts in his heart, Zhang Ruochen released Xiao Hei, who was sealed in the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram, and voiced out the doubts in his heart, asking it.
“At the great circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm, one can have their soul go out of their body? Moreover, it has also cultivated its soul into a martial soul? Who are you fooling?” Little Black didn’t believe Zhang Ruochen’s words.
It then added, “Only a martial artist of the Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Perfection can cultivate their soul into a martial soul, do you think that this seat doesn’t have common sense?”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t explain and directly sat on the ground, injecting his True Qi into his soul vein.
“Wow!”
An eight feet long red pillar of light rushed out from the top of Zhang Ruochen’s head.
The soul silhouette, suspended in the light pillar, looked exactly like Zhang Ruochen.
The soul came out of the body!
Other martial artists were indeed unable to see Zhang Ruochen’s soul shadow. However, Xiao Hei was different, his eyes were different from normal people, his eyesight was extraordinary, and he was actually able to see the soul silhouette suspended in the light pillar.
“You …… your soul …… has actually reached the level of a martial soul! How is this possible?” Xiao Hei’s eyes kept flickering as he said, “You must be hiding some secret, it’s impossible for a normal person to cultivate a martial soul at the great circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Don’t ask about anything else, just tell me, my martial soul, what kind of martial soul is it?”
“You’ve opened the Space-Time Divine Martial Seal, what you cultivate is naturally the Space-Time Martial Soul!” Little Black shook his head, feeling that Zhang Ruochen’s natural talent was too perverse, making it feel hard to accept.
“Space-Time Martial Soul?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Little Black said, “You take out the Space-Time Secret Codex and turn to the third page, there is an explanation about the Space-Time Martial Soul on it.”
Zhang Ruochen immediately took out the Space-Time Secret Codex and flipped to the third page, and saw four ancient characters written at the top – Space-Time Martial Soul.
On the third page, it was densely filled with tiny words, recording a lot about the Space-Time Martial Soul.
After reading for an entire afternoon, Zhang Ruochen was able to memorise all those contents.
Only, he was able to understand less than a tenth of the content.
“After cultivating the Space-Time Martial Soul, you can start cultivating the Spatial Domain and Time Seal.” Zhang Ruochen closed the Spatio-Temporal Mysteries and continued to go on thinking about the related knowledge he had just jotted down.
Little Black said, “Junior Lang! This seat has to remind you that your current cultivation level is still too weak, and with the True Qi reserves in your body, it is impossible to support a Spatial Domain or condense a Time Seal. It’s best to wait until you break through to the Xuanji realm before you start cultivating the spatial domain.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “I don’t need you to remind me of this. The forces of space and time are too profound and powerful, and with my current cultivation level, it’s difficult to harness those two forces.”
Zhang Ruochen put away the Space and Time Mysteries and said, “Wait until I break through the Xuan Extreme Realm, then I will cultivate the Spatial Domain. My cultivation has already reached the Great Perfection of the Yellow Extreme Realm, but I’ve only cultivated two palms of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, so I can start cultivating the third palm!”
Cultivating a technique and cultivating a martial skill had to strike a balance.
Only by successfully cultivating the third palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm could the power of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm be raised to the level of a Human Grade Upper Grade.
In the next few days, Zhang Ruochen spent the vast majority of his time cultivating the third palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm.
At the same time, he would also spend a lot of time continuing to practice the “Zhang Type Inscription” and “Shrink Type Inscription”, wanting to learn all eight basic spatial inscriptions as soon as possible.
If he learnt all eight basic spatial inscriptions, he would be able to refine a spatial ring with a larger inner space. As long as he sold the spatial ring, he would be able to solve his dilemma of lacking money.
At that time, he would be able to use a large amount of silver coins to purchase pills and quickly raise his martial cultivation.
Knowing that he had spent all of his savings in order to purchase the smithing furnace, he was now so poor that he couldn’t even take out a thousand silver coins.
If he still couldn’t learn all eight basic spatial inscriptions after another period of time, he wouldn’t even be able to afford to take the Blood Pills anymore!
On this day, the Nine Sheriff Lords came to Yushu Palace again.
When she saw Zhang Ruochen practising his palms in the garden, she immediately rushed over and said, ”Ninth Brother, you’re still in the mood to refine your palms? Don’t you know that that heavenly daughter of the Lin Family is engaged to Seventh Brother?”
Zhang Ruochen withdrew the True Qi in his body and stopped, asking, “Which one of the Lin Family’s Heaven’s Proud Daughter?”
The Ninth County Lord revealed a speechless expression and said, “Of course it’s your cousin, Lin Mishan! The news has just spread from the palace, it is said that Father and Queen Mother have agreed, and the wedding date is set for next year’s Dan Autumn Festival!”
“Oh!”
Zhang Ruochen nodded gently without any change in emotion and walked towards his room.
“Hello? What do you mean? Muddy Shan is about to marry Seventh Brother, and you’re not sad at all? In the future, you’ll be calling her sister-in-law!” The Ninth Sheriff Lord chased after her.
Zhang Ruochen changed into a brand new martial arts uniform and wore the Ice Fire Qilin Armour on the inside of his martial arts uniform as he said, “What has it got to do with me if they, the Lin Family, are engaged to the Seventh Prince? Why should I be sad? Ninth sister, since you’re here, come with me again to the Yellow Grade Martial Arts Palace.”
“What’s the point of going to the Yellow Grade Martial Arts Palace? Could it be ……”
A trace of astonishment appeared on the Ninth County Lord’s pretty face, a slender jade hand covered her lips, and she said with some trembling, “I’ve heard that you’ve been cultivating in the Barbarian God Pool for twenty-four days in a row, could it be that your cultivation has broken through to the Great Circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm?”
Zhang Ruochen nodded with a smile.
“What a pervert, how can you cultivate so fast?” The Nine Counties Lord’s beautiful eyes were dripping with astonishment, and her jaw was about to drop to the ground.
One must know that she was also a martial arts genius, reaching the Yellow Extreme Realm Middle Extreme Position at the tender age of sixteen. However, compared to Zhang Ruochen, she felt like a mediocrity.
Zhang Ruochen and the Nine County Lord drove a magnificent ancient car and drove out of the palace gates, heading towards the Yellow Ranked Martial Combat Palace.
The Yellow Grade Martial Combat Palace was a good place to make money, and if they were able to win ten more matches in a row, they would be rewarded with one million silver coins.
Such a large amount of silver coins would be enough for Zhang Ruochen to purchase a large amount of pills to use to impact the Xuanji Realm.
As for, the eight basic spatial inscriptions, it was better to learn to inscribe them slowly. ,
The more anxious one is, the harder it will be to carve them successfully.
“Your Highness the Ninth Prince, you’ve finally left the palace again. This time, you won’t be as lucky as last time!” Han Qing Luo walked out from behind one of the palace walls, her hands behind her back, staring at the distant carriages, a hint of cold chilliness on her face.
Zhang Ruochen and the Nine County Lord had just left the royal palace, and one of the Queen Mother’s Four Great Disciples, Cold Qing Luo, followed suit and left the royal palace, rushing towards the direction of the Yellow Ranked Martial Combat Palace.
