“What? You actually know that part of history as well?”
Zhang Ruochen was a little surprised and stared over towards the Orange Moon Star Envoy, not expecting at all that she would actually be so erudite and knowledgeable.
After all, it had been eight hundred years since then, and things had long since changed. The son of the Ming Emperor wasn’t some kind of supreme expert either, just a young genius less than twenty years old, apart from those who were particularly concerned about that period of history, who would know that the son of the Ming Emperor was called Zhang Ruochen?
Seeing Zhang Ruochen’s expression, the Orange Moon Star Envoy became even more certain of the conjecture in his heart and hurriedly said, “Could it be that Your Excellency really has some connection with that one Sacred Brightness Imperial Crown Prince from 800 years ago?”
The so-called Sacred Brightness Crown Prince was of course referring to Zhang Ruochen.
Originally, the Orange Moon Star Envoy wouldn’t believe that Zhang Ruochen would have any connection with that person from eight hundred years ago no matter what.
However, when she thought that Zhang Ruochen was able to manipulate the power of space, an odd thought arose in her heart.
What if he really was that person from eight hundred years ago?
If Zhang Ruochen was really the one from eight hundred years ago, then, no matter what, she would have to serve him.
Because, the Orange Moon Star Ambassador’s family was once a courtier of the Sacred Brightness Central Empire as well.
Her family’s old ancestor had once been ranked as one of the three dukes in the Sacred Brightness Central Empire, possessing the power of one person and ten thousand people.
Only, her family, like what happened to Huo Sheng Mountain Villa, had to hide in the black market.
Zhang Ruochen, of course, could not possibly tell the Orange Moon Star Envoy his secret, saying, “How could that be? I just happen to have the same name as him.”
After saying this, Zhang Ruochen leapt and flew back down onto the top of the battleship fragment.
A disappointed look appeared in the Orange Moon Star Envoy’s eyes as he gently shook his head and sighed, “The Sacred Brightness Central Empire has long since been destroyed, and only the Great Grandfather and the others are still oblivious to it, so how could I have thought that he was the Sacred Brightness Crown Prince?”
“No the Sacred Ming Imperial Crown Prince at the time was the number one person on the Heavenly Ranking. Such a Zhang Ruochen is also number one on the Heavenly Ranking.”
“Two Zhang Ruochen, reaching number one on the Heavenly Ranking at the same time, it’s too much of a coincidence, isn’t it?”
“Furthermore, Huo Wuji and Huo Guangming clearly wanted to kill him and seize the treasures on his body, yet he returned the favour with a grudge instead, this is not his style of doing things at all.”
The Orange Moon Star Envoy turned around violently and stared Avray towards Zhang Ruochen, a strong suspicion arose in his heart, “Could it be that Zhang Ruochen really has some ulterior hidden connection with the Sacred Brightness Imperial Crown Prince from 800 years ago.”
The Orange Moon Star Envoy secretly decided in his heart that he must investigate this matter clearly.
The battleship fragments continued to sail forward, but Zhang Ruochen’s heart was very unsettled as he secretly said in his heart, “Even the Orange Moon Star Envoy would have suspicions, how could those old people from back then not have suspicions if they were still alive? Chi Yao, do you know that I have returned?”
Zhang Ruochen knew that he would, for sure, be facing even tougher challenges next, and his situation would become increasingly dangerous.
No matter what, he must, also, immediately break through his cultivation to the Fish Dragon Realm.
Only when he reached the Fish Dragon Realm would he be able to possess a certain level of self-protection. Otherwise, once Chi Yao dispatched a strong person to capture him, he would be powerless to fight back.
Fish Dragon Realm!
Zhang Ruochen squeezed his fingers tightly, the five knuckles of his hands emitting a “cackling” sound as his eyes became more determined.
On the surface of the sea, he sailed for seven days in a row.
During the seven days, Zhang Ruochen’s four people always encountered different numbers of Red Trevally Beasts and Red Cloud Python Scalps, experiencing more than a dozen vicious battles.
There was one time when more than seventy Red Snail Beasts appeared in a row, and even though the four of them were strong, they still fought fiercely for a whole day and night before they were able to repel the group of Red Snail Beasts.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen also had a huge harvest, accumulating millions of military merit points in seven days, and was one step closer to the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
In reality, after killing so many Market Realm Native Savage Beasts, Zhang Ruochen was simply unable to accurately calculate the exact amount of Military Merit Values he had accumulated.
As long as he hadn’t attracted the resonance of the Gods yet, it meant that his Military Merit Value, hadn’t reached 30 million points yet.
One must continue to fight.
In the past few months since he came to the Xuanwu Ruins Realm, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation hadn’t risen much, but his actual battle experience had risen by a large margin, gradually shedding the youthfulness in his body and becoming more seasoned, cold, and introverted.
The Orange Moon Star Envoy sat on top of the battleship fragments, his hands clasped together, and the skin that was exposed outside of his robes became crystal clear, as if it was jade porcelain, emitting bright moonlight. Those moonlights, forming a white circle, enveloped her body.
From a distance, that circle of white moonlight was like a bright moon suspended over the sea.
After refining six auger beads, her cultivation had finally broken through again, reaching the third transformation of the fish dragon, “Bone Refining and Jade Transformation”.
Apart from the Orange Moon Star Envoy, Huang Yichen’s cultivation had also refined a lot.
After breaking through to the Fish Dragon realm, Huang Yichen had already discarded his original technique and switched to the Xuanwu Sacred Canon.
Huang Yichen had already refined the Xuanwu Qi, completely, and had cultivated the Xuanwu Sacred Canon to the third layer. Although, her realm was still quite far away from the Third Transformation of the Fish Dragon, it was many times more powerful than before.
Zhang Ruochen stood right beside Huang Yichen and asked, “Senior sister, how is it?”
Huang Yichen opened her eyes, glanced towards the sea shrouded in white mist, and said, “That sense, it’s still very weak, but I’m sure that the direction we’re heading in isn’t wrong.”
Because she was cultivating the Xuanwu Sacred Canon, Huang Yichen had some faint sense of the Xuanwu’s aura.
It was with the power of this sense of hers that Zhang Ruochen and the others did not lose their way and had gradually approached the Xuanwu Inheritance Land.
“Team Leader, look, how did the seawater turn red?”Ao Xinyan said.
Not only the seawater, but even the mist on the surface of the sea had turned into a faint blood mist.
“So it seems that we are close to reaching the Blood Spring Sea Trench.”
A smile appeared on Zhang Ruochen’s face as he walked over and glanced into the water, saying, “It is said that the Blood Spring Sea Trench is ten thousand feet deep, and is one of the deepest seas in the Xixuan Sea. In the depths of the trench, there is a spring that constantly gushes out blood, turning the seawater in a radius of hundreds of miles into a blood-like colour. The Blood Spring Sea Trench, is thus named after it.”
Ao Xin Yan was a little surprised and said, “A blood-like spring?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “That’s right.”
As the battleship fragments continued to travel forwards, the seawater became brighter and brighter red, and in the end, it was almost like blood plasma, emitting a strong fishy odour.
On the surface of the water, there were white bones floating, both human bones and many huge savage beast bones.
“Gah!”
A flock of black monstrous birds, resting on top of the white bones, with their long sharp teeth, devoured the rotting flesh on top of the bones, emitting piercing cries like the cries of ghosts.
In this area of the sea, in the air, an aura of death filled the air.
This place was like a sea of Shura blood, with no life in sight.
“Wow!”
The fragments of the battleship cut through the water, raising a wave of water.
Zhang Ruochen stood in front of the warship fragment, holding a sword in his hand as he looked at the scene of death on the surface of the sea and said, “It’s too quiet! So many Market Realm warriors entered this sea, how come not a single one of them can be seen?”
Huang Yichen stared at the white bones and said, “Could it be that they have all died in battle?”
Huang Yichen’s words made the atmosphere even more oppressive, and everyone remained silent and stopped talking.
It wasn’t long before they were on the surface of the sea, and they spotted a Half-Saint level battleship.
Only, that one battleship was in tatters, tipped on its side on the sea surface, seemingly ready to sink at any moment.
On the front of the battleship, there was a claw mark that was tens of metres long, striking out a large hole in the battleship, and seawater was constantly pouring in.
Zhang Ruochen stood underneath that one claw mark and observed it for a moment, saying, “What a strong aura of death, even a Half-Saint level battleship couldn’t stop its attack, and I don’t know what kind of creature’s claws could cause such a terrifying destructive force.”
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen’s toes gently stood on tiptoe and soared up, flying to the top of that one Half-Saint Grade Battleship, standing on top of the railing and looking downwards, the battleship was full of corpses strewn all over the place.
All of the Market Realm warriors on the battleship were dead, none of them alive.
Huang Yichen, Ao Xinyan, and the Orange Moon Star Envoy followed behind Zhang Ruochen and also boarded the warship. Seeing the scene in front of them, all of them sucked in a breath of cool air as their heartbeats couldn’t help but speed up.
“The sea where the Blood Spring Trench is located is truly a murderous place, even a Half-Saint level battleship sailing in would not be able to escape its fate.”The Orange Moon Star Envoy said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “The blood on their bodies hasn’t dried, so they obviously haven’t been dead for long. It’s better for us to leave this place as soon as possible, lest that one terrifying creature returns again, and if we were to meet up with it, it would definitely be quite troublesome.”
An entire battleship of Market Realm warriors, all of whom had died cleanly, was truly frightening, and one did not dare to stay here for long.
After leaving, they continued on their way, and another three hours passed before they finally encountered some other Ruin Realm warriors at sea.
These Market Realm warriors, on their way to the Blood Spring Sea Trench, were all attacked by strong enemies, but fortunately, they were extremely lucky, so they survived.
The crowd gathered together in increasing numbers, and in the end, there were actually more than six hundred people gathered.
Zhang Ruochen said, “A total of thousands of people set out from Divine Turtle Island, are we the only ones who survived?”
A Market Realm warrior of the First Transformation of the Fish Dragon, sighed, “Our Semi-Saint level warship was attacked by a swarm of Jiao led by the King of the Ursine Wreckage Jiao, and although a large portion of the warriors on board managed to escape, the one Semi-Saint warship was taken by the King of the Ursine Wreckage Jiao.”
Another Market Realm warrior said, “What happened to us was even worse, we encountered a monstrous beast with flames burning all over its body, sinking the Half-Saint-class battleship and killing countless people by it. If I hadn’t escaped fast enough, I would probably have died on top of the battleship.”
Everyone was telling their respective encounters, and Zhang Ruochen listened for a long time, finally understanding one thing:
Of the four Half-Saint level warships that had set out from Divine Turtle Island, three of them had sunk or been damaged, while the other one had been seized by the Jiao Clan.
The shadow of the Xuanwu Inheritance hadn’t even been seen yet, and a large portion of the Market Realm warriors had already died.
