Zhang Ruochen had been cultivating in the King’s Mountain in order to sharpen his Palm Technique, and as ten days passed, he had killed two more second-ranked savage beasts and seventeen first-ranked upper savage beasts.
The second rank savage beasts and first rank upper savage beasts in the King Mountain were almost cleanly killed by him.
Those lower class savage beasts in the King Mountain seemed to know that a killing star had come to the mountain. Once they saw Zhang Ruochen, they immediately fled as if they had seen the Demon King.
“Clatter!”
A seven to eight metre wide river surged down from the top of the mountain with a turbulent flow, emitting a roaring sound of water. Throwing a stone in, it would instantly be knocked away by the strong current, rolling over and over in the water.
Zhang Ruochen came to the river’s edge and looked at the rushing river, his heart was also surging.
After a recent meal of cultivation, Zhang Ruochen could clearly feel that his Palm Technique had reached the edge of a breakthrough.
“Plop!”
He leapt into the river, using his body’s strength to resist the river’s impact.
“Boom!”
His entire body’s true qi surged as he struck out with a palm.
The river water in the river channel was even slightly stopped by the blow.
But soon more ferocious currents swooped over and knocked him out. The strong current knocked Zhang Ruochen to the ground and slapped him directly to the bank.
Zhang Ruochen spat out a mouthful of river water and jumped into the river once again, swimming upstream against the current as he kept striking palm techniques in his hands.
This time, he struck three palms in a row before he was once again slapped out by the river.
When he was slapped away, he impacted up again.
Again and again, he was repelled, but Zhang Ruochen held on to the river for longer and longer.
A whole day passed, and Zhang Ruochen was exhausted and covered in wounds.
After nightfall, he took out a piece of spirit meat that he had dug out from the body of the second-stage savage beast, the Green-eyed Serpent, and after taking the meat, he began to meditate and cultivate, absorbing the spirit qi and recovering his strength.
The next morning, Zhang Ruochen’s injuries were healed, his true qi was abundant, and he was full of energy, so he jumped into the river again and continued to cultivate.
On the fifth day, in the river, a long whistle rang out, “The Dragon Elephant Returns to the Field.”
Zhang Ruochen struck out with both of his palms at the same time, and a surging palm force surged out, emitting the sound of a dragon and elephant merging, surprisingly knocking the water waves in the river channel backward.
The third palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, “Dragon Elephant Returning to the Field”, was successfully cultivated.
Zhang Ruochen erupted with the power of a hundred oxen, reaching the supreme extreme of the Yellow Extreme Realm.
Right at this moment, the aura in the entire King Mountain surged and gathered towards Zhang Ruochen, forming a white pillar of light that rushed towards the hundred feet high void.
Around the pillar of light, an ancient silhouette appeared, some in the shape of a human, some in the shape of a dragon, some like an ancient phoenix, and some like a qilin.
Each of the silhouettes was incomparably holy, emitting a powerful and incomparable aura, almost like a deity manifesting itself.
“The gods have manifested, all beings kneel and worship.”
In the distance, General Ge Qian and a pair of forbidden guards all kneeled on the ground reverently, worshipping the gods’ shadows.
Generally speaking, the phenomenon of the gods manifesting their saints would only occur during large-scale sacrifices.
Right now, the silhouettes of the gods, appearing in the middle of the king’s mountain, suspended above the head of His Highness, the Ninth Prince, was definitely a divine miracle for the Yunwu County Kingdom.
“Reaching the Supreme Extreme Realm will indeed attract the resonance of the gods.” Zhang Ruochen stared at the God Punisher’s shadow above the sky, his heart very excited.
Finally, he had taken the first step on the path to power.
“Wow!”
The silhouettes of the gods transformed into points of light that flew towards Zhang Ruochen’s brow, drilling into his Qi pool.
“Boom!”
The points of light entered Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Pool and immediately exploded, emitting a white divine aura.
The Qi Pool was almost bursting with support, and the blood in his body rolled over and over.
“Since this is the case, let’s impact to the Xuan Extreme Realm in one go!”
Zhang Ruochen naturally wouldn’t let go of this excellent opportunity and sat down in the water, speedily revolving the thirty-six meridians in his body, crazily absorbing the power of the Gods and starting to impact the Xuan Extreme Realm.
Zhang Ruochen had already reached the supreme extremity of the Yellow Extremity Realm, and with the divine power of the Gods, reaching the Xuan Extremity Realm was almost a matter of course, without encountering any bottlenecks.
Half an hour later, Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Pool shook violently, cracking out a gap.
“Boom!”
The Qi Pool shattered and turned into pieces.
Afterwards, these fragments began to rapidly reorganise again, coalescing into a larger pool of qi!
No, it wasn’t a pool of qi.
It was a lake of qi.
Zhang Ruochen broke through the Xuan Polarity Realm, and the Qi Pool in the centre of his eyebrows transformed into a Qi Lake, expanding a hundred times more than when he was in the Great Circle of the Yellow Polarity Realm.
The imprints of a single deity were imprinted on the walls of the Qi Lake, emitting a divine light.
Only, the imprints of those deities were very shallow, and if one didn’t look closely, one wouldn’t be able to see them clearly at all.
One must know that Zhang Ruochen had only reached the Yellow Extreme Realm’s Supreme Extreme Realm right now, invoking the first resonance of the Gods, and the divine Spirit imprints were naturally very shallow.
If Zhang Ruochen was able to reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Xuan Extreme Realm, he would be able to invoke the second Resonance of the Gods, and the Divine Spirit Imprint in the Qi Lake would definitely deepen.
After the Ancient Era, although there were very few people who had cultivated into the Supreme Extreme Realm, it wasn’t that there were absolutely none. A very few of these saints and great emperors with outstanding talent had actually cultivated the Supreme Extreme Realm when they were young and had attracted the resonance of the gods.
It was only that the events of the saints and great emperors when they were young were so obscure that it was impossible to record them in the history books, and that was why no one knew about them.
Of course, being able to invoke the resonance of the gods once was already quite remarkable, wanting to invoke the resonance of the gods a second time was almost impossible, even those great emperors and saints would find it difficult to do so.
The Supreme Extremity of the Xuan Extremity Realm was even more difficult to cultivate than the Supreme Extremity of the Yellow Extremity Realm.
Even if Zhang Ruochen reached the Yellow Extremity Realm’s Supreme Extremity Realm, however, there was not the slightest certainty that he would be able to reach the Xuan Extremity Realm’s Supreme Extremity Realm.
“Dazzling divine light, the gods take refuge. Is this the legendary Divine Light Qi Lake?”
In Zhang Ruochen’s previous life, he heard Emperor Ming mention the Divine Light Qi Lake.
It was said that when Emperor Ming was young, he had attracted the resonance of the gods once and was sheltered by the gods’ divine power, and the Qi Lake transformed into the Divine Light Qi Lake.
Once cultivated into the Divine Light Qi Lake, the Qi Lake would become so tough that even a strong person of the Earth Extreme Realm would not be able to pierce Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Lake.
Moreover, when Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation level was higher, the advantages brought by the Divine Light Qi Lake would be even more obvious.
It took a whole day and night for Zhang Ruochen to completely digest the power of the Gods’ Resonance.
The True Qi in the Qi Lake was almost about to be complete.
In other words, Zhang Ruochen’s current realm had reached the peak of the early Xuanji Realm, and it wouldn’t be long before he could break through to the mid Xuanji Realm.
“Worthy of being a Divine Light Qi Lake, the capacity of the Qi Lake is ten times larger than other early Xuan Extreme Realm martial artists. Moreover, I feel that the purity of my true qi far exceeds that of an early Xuanji realm martial artist, and it’s not much worse even when compared to a Xuanji realm great circle martial artist.”
For an average martial artist, when they broke through from the Yellow Extremity Realm Great Circle to the Xuan Extremity Realm Early Stage, the capacity of the Qi Pool would only expand by ten times.
However, when Zhang Ruochen cultivated the Supreme Extremity Realm and cultivated one more minor realm than an average martial artist, the Qi Pool expanded twice.
Therefore, the capacity of his Qi Lake was ten times larger than other martial artists at the early stage of the Xuan Polarity Realm.
While Zhang Ruochen was breaking through the realm in the water, General Ge Qian immediately rushed back to the royal palace, to report the news to County King Yunwu immediately.
“The last general has something important to report to the king, please kindly ask Eunuch Cao to pass on the news to the county king.” Ge Qian said with some urgency.
Eunuch Cao was one of the Queen Mother’s people and knew that Ge Qian was now in charge of protecting the Ninth Prince, so he naturally did not have a good face for Ge Qian, and said in a conspiratorial manner, “The Great King is taking a rest, so I’m afraid he won’t be able to see the General. General, please return! Protecting His Highness the Ninth Prince is the right thing to do.”
Ge Qian’s eyes sank, and his aura erupted as he said, “Cao Shiren, it’s best to go and pass on the message to the Great King immediately, if you delay the big event, ten of your heads won’t be enough to chop it off.”
Eunuch Cao was a strong person of the Xuan Extreme Realm’s Small Extreme Position, although he was not Ge Qian’s opponent, he was not afraid of Ge Qian’s aura in the slightest.
At this moment, Yunwu County King’s voice came from the hall, saying, “Who is making noise outside?”
Eunuch Cao glared fiercely at Ge Qian and said, “If you disturb the king, let’s see how you can afford it?”
Ge Qian didn’t even look at Eunuch Cao, and made a bow in the direction of the great hall, saying, “Great King, my general Ge Qian, has something important to report.”
In the hall, Yunwu County King’s voice was heard, saying, “Ge Qian? You’re not protecting the Ninth Prince, what important matter can you have? Did someone assassinate the Ninth Prince again?”
“It’s more important than that.” Ge Qian said.
The Yunwu County King also seemed to realise that something big might have happened, so he immediately summoned Ge Qian.
Hearing Ge Qian’s words, a strange glint appeared in Eunuch Cao’s eyes and he followed him into the main hall.
Ge Qian slightly glanced at Eunuch Cao and said, “Your Majesty, the matter that I am about to report is very important and can only be told to Your Majesty, outsiders must not hear it.”
Yunwu County King sat above, holding a golden-coloured volume in his hands, his eyes narrowed, stared Avray at Ge Qian, and said, “Everyone retreat!”
Although Eunuch Cao was unwilling, he didn’t dare to disobey County King Yunwu’s order and immediately withdrew outside the hall.
Yunwu County King faintly said, “Ge Qian, what is so important that you can say now?”
Ge Qian knelt down on one knee and immediately told County King Yunwu word for word about what happened in the King’s Mountain.
“Resonance of the Gods!”
Yunwu County King couldn’t remain calm and collected, his body shook and he stood up boldly.
Ge Qian nodded and said, “That’s right. His Highness the Ninth Prince must have reached the legendary Supreme Extreme Realm, which is why he was able to attract the resonance of the gods.”
Yunwu County King’s face kept changing, realising the seriousness of the matter, he said in a deep voice, “How many people know about this?”
Ge Qian said, “Apart from my subordinates, there are also the ten forbidden soldiers accompanying me.”
Yunwu County King said, “The resonance of the gods is not trivial. This matter, must be sealed. Ge Qian, what do you think should be done with those ten people?”
How to dispose of those ten people was actually how to dispose of Ge Qian.
Ge Qian understood this. He contemplated for a moment, and with a hint of determination in his eyes, he said, “Kill!”
Yunwu County King nodded and said, “Ge Qian, this king knows that you are loyal, however, this matter is of great importance, once it is leaked out, the Ninth Prince’s life will definitely be in jeopardy. How about this! Starting tomorrow, you and those ten forbidden soldiers will go and guard the ancestral temple on Tianzi Mountain, and you will never be allowed to leave the ancestral temple for an eternity.”
“I will take orders.” Ge Qian said.
Afterwards, County King Yunwu and Ge Qian immediately rushed to Wang Mountain to personally confirm if the Ninth Prince had really attracted the resonance of the gods.
