Lin Mishan stood up and didn’t look at the Nine County Lords anymore, but instead fixed her gaze on Zhang Ruochen and said, “Cousin, within a month, remember to deliver one million silver coins, to the Lin Mansion.”
After saying this, Lin Mishan and Lin Chenyu took the three guards of the Lin Family and left the Royal Clan’s martial arts practicing ground in disgrace.
Walking out of the royal palace, tears of humiliation dripped from Lin Mishan’s eyes as she said in a cold voice, “The Ninth County Lord actually insulted me like that, she must die, as well as Zhang Ruochen. In this life, I don’t even want to see these two again.”
A cold light flashed in Lin Chenyu’s eyes as he said, “Don’t worry! I have already gone to the black market and spent a lot of money to offer a bounty for Zhang Ruochen’s head. As long as Zhang Ruochen dares to take a step away from the royal palace, it will be his death.”
“As for the Nine County Lord, it’s even easier to kill her.”
“Muddy Shan, the most important thing for you to do now is to cultivate hard and strive to reach the Xuanji Realm as soon as possible, at that time, you won’t even need to use other people’s hands, and you will be able to kill the Nine County Lord by your own strength.”
A cold voice flashed in Lin Mishan’s eyes as she said, “Right! I must personally kill the Nine County Lords by a thousand cuts to fulfill my heart’s hatred.”
Lin Chenyu took out a red copper box from his sleeve and handed it to Lin Nianshan, saying, “This is a third-grade elixir Xuan Blood Pill, when you are impacting the Xuan Extreme Realm, take it and it will increase your success rate by three layers. When you break through the Xuan Extreme Realm, you can take you to the Yuntai Sect House, with your natural talent, it won’t be difficult to pass the Yuntai Sect House exam.”
Lin Mishan accepted the Xuan Blood Pill, a hint of joy appeared in her eyes as she said, “If you break through the Xuan Extreme Realm, you can go to the Yuntai Sect House? That’s really great, I’ll definitely be able to meet His Highness the Seventh Prince at that time.”
“That’s for sure.”
A hint of a smile appeared at the corner of Lin Chenyu’s mouth as he said, “His Highness the Seventh Prince is now a disciple of the Inner Mansion, and has a supreme status. If you are able to gain the favor of His Highness the Seventh Prince, in the future, there will be no shortage of benefits for you.”
Hearing Lin Chenyu’s words, Lin Mishan immediately forgot about the humiliation she had just suffered and a trace of anticipation arose in her heart. What a stunning talent His Highness the Seventh Prince was, in front of him, Zhang Ruochen was nothing more than a minor character.
The royal family martial arts practicing ground.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Ninth sister, if you humiliated Lin Mishan so much today and made her kneel in front of everyone, in the future, I’m afraid she’ll use extreme methods to retaliate against you.”
The Ninth County Mistress retracted her Aqua Sword back into its scabbard and said, “I didn’t intend to humiliate her either, I just wanted to help you get back one million silver coins. Besides, how would this County Mistress be afraid of her? Even if I borrowed her guts, she wouldn’t dare to touch one of our royal family.”
“I hope that’s the case!” Zhang Ruochen took out a bronze box and handed it to the Ninth County Mistress, saying, “Ninth sister, inside is a Xuan Blood Pill, when you are impacting the Xuan Extremity Realm, take it and it will increase your success rate by 30%.”
Zhang Ruochen purchased the Xuan Blood Pill, originally intending to take it himself and impact the Xuan Extreme Realm. However, he had not used the Xuan Blood Pill since he had cultivated to the Supreme Extreme Realm in the King’s Mountain, attracting the resonance of the Gods, and had directly broken through to the Xuan Extreme Realm under the power of the Gods.
Now, he gave the Xuan Blood Pill, to the Nine County Lords.
The Nine County Lord was not the least bit polite with Zhang Ruochen, and very gladly accepted the Xuan Blood Pill.
Those other princes and county lords were envious, knowing that the Xuan Blood Pill was a third-grade elixir, worth 120,000 silver coins, and could save a year of cultivation time.
Ordinary princes and county lords could not afford to buy it at all.
After leaving the royal family’s martial arts practicing ground, Ah Le resigned from Zhang Ruochen and wanted to go forward to the black market.
“Ah Le!”
Zhang Ruochen called out to the departing Ah Le and said in a meaningful manner, “In a month’s time, I will be leaving the Royal City and heading to the Martial City Academy. However, there’s one thing I can’t rest assured about.”
Ah Le stared at Zhang Ruochen and said, “Nine County Lord?”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “Lin Mishan will definitely retaliate against the Ninth Sister after receiving such a great insult, and may even kill her.”
Ah Le said, “As long as I’m still in the King City, I will definitely secretly guard the Ninth County Lord and won’t let the Lin family harm her.”
“Getting a promise from you, I am relieved!” Zhang Ruochen laughed.
Without saying another word, Ah Le walked towards the outside of the royal palace, leaving behind only a lonely and proud back.
Zhang Ruochen had always felt that spending one million silver coins to buy Ah Le from Lin Mishan’s hands was the most cost-effective deal he had ever made.
But one million silver coins was not a small amount of money.
He only had a total of eight hundred and ninety thousand silver coins right now, and he was still 110,000 silver coins short, so how could he come up with this amount of money?
“It seems that I can only pin my hopes on the Time and Space Ring, as long as I can refine a Time and Space Ring, I can definitely easily earn enough for 110,000 silver coins.”
“I’ve now reached the Xuanji realm, my true qi is even thicker, and there’s even a faint power of the Gods in my body, so I should be able to carve out the Zhang-type inscriptions and shrink-type inscriptions.”
Of the eight basic spatial inscriptions, the first six inscriptions, Zhang Ruochen had long been able to inscribe them. Only the Zhang-type Inscription and Shrink-type Inscription were very difficult to inscribe, and he had never been able to inscribe them successfully.
One had to know that Zhang Ruochen’s mental power was very powerful, reaching the thirty-second rank.
Therefore, it was not because his mental power was not strong enough that he could not inscribe the Zhang-type Spatial Inscription and Shrinking Spatial Inscription before, but rather, the true qi in his body was not deep enough.
Now that his cultivation had reached the Xuanji Realm and his true qi had soared, he naturally had a greater grasp of inscribing the Zhang-type Spatial Inscription and Shrink-type Spatial Inscription.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t wait to get up and immediately rushed back to the Jade Soul Palace.
Just outside the palace gates of Yushu Palace, General Gan Li greeted him with his axe and bowed to Zhang Ruochen, saying, “Greetings to Your Highness, the Ninth Prince.”
“General Gan Li, what is your business?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Gan Li hemmed and hawed and handed Zhang Ruochen a bundle, saying, “This is the silver coins and spirit crystals sent over by the Finance House, which are said to be the money exchanged for the savage beasts that His Royal Highness, the Ninth Prince, hunted and killed in the King’s Mountain.”
“Oh!”
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was overjoyed as he immediately took the bundle, feeling that it was still quite heavy.
Opening the bag and seeing the silver coins and spirit crystals inside, Zhang Ruochen instantly cracked a smile.
Inside the package were one hundred and forty-three spirit crystals and six hundred and seventy silver coins, which added up to one hundred and forty-three thousand six hundred and seventy silver coins.
One should know that Zhang Ruochen had killed a total of three Second Order Savage Beasts, thirty First Order Upper Savage Beasts, thirty or more First Order Medium Savage Beasts, and some of the First Order Lower Savage Beasts in the King’s Mountain.
The price of a second rank savage beast was almost always above twenty thousand silver coins. For example, the second rank savage beast Silver Dragon Lion, its entire body was a treasure, if it was taken to the martial market to be sold, it could usually be bought for thirty to forty thousand silver coins.
The price of a first rank upper class savage beast was between five thousand silver coins and ten thousand silver coins.
The price of a first rank medium savage beast was usually around one thousand silver coins.
“I earned fourteen hundred and thirty-three thousand six hundred and seventy silver coins after spending half a month in the King’s Mountain. This is still because the prices are all on the low side due to exchanging in the Finance House, if I were to take it to sell in the Martial Market, the price would probably reach over two hundred thousand silver coins.”
Hunting savage beasts, which seemed quite lucrative, was actually not that easy.
The reason why Zhang Ruochen was able to hunt so many savage beasts was because, the King’s Mountain was originally the hunting ground of the King’s Clan, and the savage beasts that were captive in the King’s Mountain were not considered to be strong in terms of attacking power, and there would also be no upper second-ranked savage beasts or third-ranked savage beasts at all, and the level of danger was relatively low.
If it were to be the Heavenly Demon Ridge, or the Tongming River, not to mention the early Xuanji realm martial artists, even if it was the Xuanji realm great circle of martial artists to break in, wanting to hunt and kill savage beasts to make money inside, it would definitely be a matter of nine deaths and one life.
If a martial artist of the Earth Extreme Realm and Heaven Extreme Realm dared to enter the depths of the Heavenly Demon Ridge or the deathly section of the Tongming River alone, 10** would also fall.
Therefore, being able to obtain 143,670 silver coins, Zhang Ruochen was already quite satisfied, or at least, he was able to make up for the million silver coins that he had handed over to Lin Mishan.
Returning to his residence, Zhang Ruochen immediately entered the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
He took out an inscription pen and placed another piece of spirit paper on the ground.
“Make sure to carve it successfully!”
Zhang Ruochen injected his true qi into the inscription pen and quickly carved Zhang-shaped spatial inscriptions on top of the spirit paper.
Having reached the Xuanji Realm, Zhang Ruochen clearly felt that his movements were more fluid and his strokes were imprinted, and it only took him ten breaths to successfully inscribe the Zhang-type Spatial Inscription.
“Haha! It’s successful, it’s finally successful!”
Zhang Ruochen began to inscribe the Shrinking Type Spatial Inscription again.
This time, he carved it even faster, and it only took him eight breaths of time to carve it successfully.
Zhang Ruochen continued practicing on top of the spirit paper, and when he practiced for the tenth time, it only took him three breaths to successfully inscribe the Zhang-type Inscription and the Shrink-type Inscription.
“It’s great to have successfully inscribed all eight basic spatial inscriptions! Invoking the first resonance of the gods, my spiritual power seems to have increased quite a bit as well. I also wonder, how many ranks has my spiritual power reached?”
Zhang Ruochen was in a great mood and was ready to start refining the spatial ring.
Last time, although he had refined a spatial ring, at that time, he hadn’t learned the Zhang-type inscription and was unable to expand the inner space of the spatial ring.
Therefore, that one spatial ring was merely a basic spatial ring with a rather small inner space of only one cubic meter, which could only store a small amount of items.
Now that he had learned the Zhang-type inscription pattern and the Shrinking-type inscription pattern, how large an inner space spatial ring would he refine?
Zhang Ruochen’s anticipation rose somewhat and he immediately took out a white ring engraved with a phoenix pattern and cupped it in his hand.
The first step was to first carve the spatial inscription on top of the white ring.
Zhang Ruochen spent less than a quarter of an hour to carve six spatial inscriptions in one breath, and without a single failure, they all succeeded.
Inside the white ring, a one cubic meter inner space was constructed.
The next step was the most crucial place, carving Zhang-type inscriptions to expand the size of the inner space.
Zhang Ruochen held the inscription pen and carefully engraved on top of the white phoenix ring, the strokes were very smooth, like flowing clouds and water.
“Boom!”
The inner space of the spatial ring immediately began to expand just as the Zhang-type inscription was successfully carved.
One cubic meter, two cubic meters, three cubic meters ……
Soon, the inner space of the spatial ring reached a capacity of eight cubic meters, and moreover, it was still increasing.
Zhang Ruochen poured his entire body’s true qi into the spatial ring in a continuous stream, using all his cultivation to try to expand the size of the inner space to the extreme.
