Red Desire Star Envoy’s pair of black and white distinct starry eyes swept a glance towards the group of Blood Cloud Sect disciples kneeling in the main hall and said, “All of you should retreat first!”
The Blood Cloud Sect disciples in the main hall, all of them stared at the Red Desire Star Envoy with grateful eyes, as if they had been pardoned, and scrambled out.
Fortunately, the Red Lust Star Envoy’s sudden arrival had finally allowed them to escape.
The Red Desire Star Envoy stood in mid-air, took a step, and flew forwards, landing next to the skeleton seat at the very top of the great hall, and sat down unceremoniously.
Her eyelids lifted, glancing towards the already deformed bronze table in front of her, and she smiled, “Patriarch Xu, what’s going on?”
Xu Hong’s face was very cold and sullen as he said, “Receiving the decree from above, today, I dispatched Fang Jie and Cao Ying to assassinate the Demon Sect’s General Rudder Master in Qing Yun County. However, not only did the two of them fail in their assassination, they instead died in the hands of a mysterious person, truly two losers.”
The Red Desire Star Envoy nodded, the corner of his mouth tickling as he sort of understood what was going on.
Fang Jie and Cao Ying were both top ten ranked assassins of the Blood Cloud Sect, and they were actually killed in their own territory, so it was no wonder Xu Hong was so angry.
It wasn’t easy to cultivate a killer, and it was even more difficult to cultivate top killers like Fang Jie and Cao Ying.
“Just settle your own affairs.”
The Red Desire Star Envoy’s fingers gently curled her ebony hair as she added, “This Star Envoy has come here to inform you of two things. Firstly, temporarily stop your actions against the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult.”
Xu Hong was very puzzled and asked, “Why?”
The Red Desire Star Envoy said, “The battle in the Eastern Region’s Sacred City has angered the Chen Family and the Martial Market Money Bank. In the name of the imperial court, the Chen Family has deployed two million eight hundred thousand elite troops, which have already assembled on the other side of the Fallen God Mountain Range, ready to attack the Eastern Domain Evil Soil Soil at any time. If the Eastern Domain Evil Soil is not allowed to pay some price, the army is probably not going to retreat.”
“At the same time, the Martial Market Money Bank has also deployed a large group of top experts into the Eastern Domain Evil Soil, wanting to return the favour to the Black Market.”
“Thus, the above decided to suppress the actions against the Demon Cult for a while, and focus on repelling the imperial court and the Martial Market Money Bank’s men.”
Xu Hong pondered for a moment and said, “We can temporarily stop dealing with the Devil Cult, but that one person who killed Fang Jie and Cao Ying must die.”
“Who you want to kill, I won’t care, but it must not delay the big event.”
The Red Desire Star Envoy said seriously, “There is a second thing, because, because of the battle in the Eastern Domain Holy City, many of the forces of the Black Market that were lurking in the Eastern Domain Divine Soil have been exposed. Now, they are about to move back to the Eastern Domain Evil Soil, how to resettle them is not a small problem.”
“Master’s intention is to have a portion of them, merge into the Blood Cloud Sect, and have you govern them.”
Xu Hong instantly revealed a joyful expression and hurriedly bowed to the Red Desire Star Envoy once again, saying, “Many thanks to the Illusory Saint. Please ask the Red Desire Star Envoy to greet Lord Illusory Saint for this Sect, and on another day, this Sect will definitely prepare a generous gift and personally send it to Illusory Valley.”
The Red Desire Star Envoy smiled, stood up and walked outwards in a graceful figure, her voice very sweet and seductive, softly saying, “Patriarch Xu, your filial piety will definitely be remembered by the Master. Of course, if the Blood Cloud Sect develops into a third-rate sect in the future, don’t forget who is lifting you up today.”
“Won’t forget, definitely won’t forget.”
The Red Desire Star Envoy said without looking back, “In the recent period of time, the twenty-seven counties close to the Falling God Mountain Ridge will definitely see a situation where dragons and tigers fight. I will stay in Qing Yun County for the time being, if there are any new changes, you can always come to the county to find me.”
Xu Hong watched the Red Desire Star Envoy leave the grand hall, but his heart was still very excited.
The black market forces that had withdrawn back from the Eastern Domain Divine Soil would definitely have a large batch that would be subsumed into the Blood Cloud Sect, which would be enough to make the Blood Cloud Sect’s strength increase by several times in a short period of time.
Developing the Blood Cloud Sect into a third-rate sect was already within reach.
However, the imperial army was quite a big headache. If the court’s army crossed the God Fall Mountain Range, then the first to be attacked would be the Blood Cloud Sect.
I just don’t know, how much determination did the court have this time?
Xu Hong gradually calmed down, and remembering the deaths of Fang Jie and Cao Ying, his eyes once again became very cold, and he said in a deep voice, “Come on, go and invite Luo Shi to the great hall for this clan, this clan has a task to give him.”
“Yes.”
Outside the great hall, a black silhouette, immediately retreated.
Luo Shi, the Blood Cloud Sect’s number four assassin, his cultivation had reached the seventh transformation of the Fish Dragon Realm, he had once assassinated a cultivator of the eighth transformation of the Fish Dragon and had successfully completed the mission.
Xu Hong had analysed the strength of the mysterious person who had killed Fang Jie and Cao Ying, and that person was a spiritual power master.
Spiritual power masters were indeed very powerful, however, assassins who were good at hiding their breath were the nemesis of spiritual power masters.
Luo Shi’s cultivation was not the strongest within all the killers of the Blood Cloud Sect.
However, his aura-containment technique was one of the most brilliant.
For an assassin, as long as he was able to get close to a spiritual power master, it wouldn’t be a breeze to kill him?
“Having Luo Shi take the shot is enough to complete the mission.”
Xu Hong snorted coldly, that old face, becoming a little more hideous, his hands couldn’t help but clench together.
Zhang Ruochen walked out of Liyuan City and didn’t immediately head to the County City, but, instead, found a hidden barren mountain, and then he entered the world of the picture scrolls.
The time agreed with Duanmu Ya was still three days away.
It was just the right time to use these three days to raise his own strength, another notch.
If he entered the Figure Scroll World to cultivate, Zhang Ruochen would have ten times more time, or one month.
“The identity of a Spiritual Strength Master is a good way to hide one’s identity. Since that’s the case, let’s raise our Spiritual Strength first. Within a month, can you raise your mental strength to the forty-fourth rank?”
Zhang Ruochen sat on the underside of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, gulping in spiritual qi and endeavouring to adjust his state, striving to reach the realm of the state where he could forget both things and himself.
Right now, his mental strength, reaching the peak of the forty-third rank, was just one step away from breaking through to the forty-fourth rank.
As long as he was able to raise his spiritual power strength to the forty-fourth rank, then, his strength would be able to battle with the Fish Dragon Eighth Transformation cultivators.
Spiritual power cultivation was quite difficult. Sometimes, it seemed like there was only a one-step difference, but that one step was like a heavenly moat that could not be crossed over.
Of course, every time the spiritual power was raised by one step, the strength would change drastically.
After adjusting his state of mind, Zhang Ruochen took out a nine-metre diameter Red Crown Flesh Ganoderma and placed it in front of him.
The Red Crown Flesh Ganoderma was very huge, standing at four metres tall, like a blooming fire lotus, and Zhang Ruochen’s body looked very small compared to it.
The Red Crowned Meat Ganoderma, in fact, was the meat crown on top of the Red Cloud Python Jiao’s head, which could be called a supreme treasure for enhancing spiritual power.
The Red Crown Flesh Ganoderma that an ordinary Red Cloud Python Jiao had birthed, of course, could not possibly help Zhang Ruochen raise his mental strength from the forty-third to the forty-fourth rank.
However, this Red Crowned Flesh Ganoderma, which was birthed by the King of the Ursus Jiao, had almost condensed the lifetime spirit and wisdom of the King of the Ursus Jiao.
As long as he refined it and swallowed the Half-Saint Jiao Blood, Zhang Ruochen would have a nine-layer certainty of raising his spiritual power to the forty-fourth rank.
Zhang Ruochen soared up and flew down to the centre of the Red Crowned Flesh Ganoderma and sat down, running his true qi in accordance with the fifth layer of the Nine Heavens Bright Emperor Scripture’s cultivation method.
“Xuan Tire Flat Demon Heaven.”
The true qi in the Qi Sea surged out from the thirty-six meridians, and then, it converged to Zhang Ruochen’s navel position, forming a cyclone.
The navel was known as the “Root of Innate Heaven”.
When a person is an infant, the umbilical cord is connected to the mother’s bloodline so that they can survive and grow.
After leaving the mother, although the umbilical cord is cut, the role of the navel does not disappear completely.
Cultivators can use some special methods to open up a second sea of qi below the navel, which is called the “Xuan Fetus”.
As long as one cultivated the fifth layer of the Nine Heavenly Bright Emperor Sutra to a certain realm, one would be able to open up the second Qi Sea and cultivate the Xuan Fetus.
Only now, Zhang Ruochen had only just started cultivating the fifth layer of the Nine Heavenly Bright Emperor Sutra, and was only able to condense a True Qi vortex below his navel.
“Boom!”
The vortex split apart, and the true qi, like pillars of qi, surged out from the 100,000 pores of his body, transforming into green flames, forming a fire cloud that completely wrapped around the nine-metre-diameter Red Crown Flesh Ganoderma.
Subsequently, the true qi refined the Red Crown Flesh Ganoderma into pieces, carried into the navel and surged into the thirty-six meridians of the body.
It was only after fifteen days of refining in a row that Zhang Ruochen completely absorbed the Red Crown Flesh Ganoderma into his body, incorporating it into his blood, true qi, sinews and bones, transforming it into a part of his body.
At the same time, he also swallowed and drank a large amount of Half-Saint Jiao blood as a way to stabilise, the impact of the Red Crown Flesh Ganoderma’s powerful force, on his physical body.
What Zhang Ruochen did not expect was that a large portion of the essence from the Red Crown Meat Ganoderma and the Half-Saint Jiao Blood had actually integrated into his bones, causing his Martial Dao cultivation to break through first, reaching the Fish Dragon Third Transformation.
The Third Transformation of the Fish Dragon was known as “Bone Refining and Jade Transformation”.
When he reached the Third Transformation of the Fish Dragon, the bones in Zhang Ruochen’s body were as if they had all turned into white jade, crystal clear and emitting a hidden glittering white light.
Even through a layer of skin and flesh, the form of the bones could still be seen.
His entire body, the two hundred and six bones, all seemed like they possessed life, and were actually swallowing aura.
The white jade-like bones continuously inhaled the spiritual qi into them and repeatedly hammered them, causing the bones to become even tougher. Even the marrow inside the bones seemed to have turned into chalcedony.
Zhang Ruochen could clearly feel that the strength of his fleshly body had increased by at least two times.
After another five days of refining, Zhang Ruochen finally completely absorbed the Red Crown Flesh Ganoderma that was inhaled into his body, and not surprisingly, his spiritual strength hit the forty-fourth rank in one fell swoop.
Zhang Ruochen stood up and stretched out a palm, and with a giggle, a pigeon egg sized purple ball of electricity appeared right above his palm.
A rank one spell, Spherical Lightning.
Before this, Zhang Ruochen had not cultivated this type of spell.
However, with his current mental strength, he only needed to recall the principles about first level spells in his mind once before he was able to cast a first level spell out of his hand.
