Reaching the middle stage of the Xuanji Realm, Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Lake capacity expanded tenfold, allowing him to store more True Qi.
The true qi in his body, which was originally consumed in large quantities, quickly recovered and became even thicker as it flowed rapidly through the thirty-six meridians, completing a large circumference in a few moments.
“Wow…”
Zhang Ruochen released his Martial Soul and utilised it to cast a Spatial Domain.
At the early stage of the Xuan Extreme Realm, the spatial domain could only encompass a space of ten metres in a circle. Upon reaching the middle stage of the Xuan Extreme Realm, the size of the spatial domain reached thirty metres in a circle.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen’s control of the spatial domain became even more skilful.
An Illusory Poison Bee flew into the spatial domain and attacked towards Zhang Ruochen, Zhang Ruochen just moved his thoughts and immediately formed a spatial distortion force to change the Illusory Poison Bee’s flight trajectory.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current mastery of the spatial domain, even if he stood still and ten Illusory Poison Wasps attacked him at the same time, they could not help him.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen waved his sword and that one Illusory Poison Wasp was broken into two and fell to the ground.
Qing You stood not far away, revealing a contemptuous smile as he said, “So what if the realm breaks through, it won’t change the ending at all.”
“Is that so?” Zhang Ruochen said.
“Blood Qi is like a rainbow!”
A faint layer of blood rainbow surrounded Zhang Ruochen’s body, and on top of the excitement of the blood rainbow, he rushed out violently, erupting at a speed of thirty-eight metres per second as he attacked towards Qing Yu.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current speed, he had already surpassed the vast majority of Xuan Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position martial artists.
“Barbarian Elephant Chi Earth!”
All the true qi within Zhang Ruochen’s body surged into his arm, his palm was completely wrapped in true qi, even the air currents in space surged following the palm print.
“Green Demon Hand!”
Qing Yu was fearless, even if Zhang Ruochen reached the middle stage of the Xuanji Realm, so what, when he met him, he would still be dead.
“Boom!”
The two powerful forces clashed together with a loud bang.
A powerful gust of wind surged out with the two people at the centre, shaking the surrounding trees to the point that they kept shaking and dropping leaves.
“Poof!”
Qing Yu spat out a mouthful of blood, feeling a powerful force that travelled to his arm, shaking his five viscera and six bowels.
Zhang Ruochen’s palm pressed on top of Qing You’s palm, and the power became stronger and stronger, pressing Qing You to keep sliding backwards.
“Boom!”
Qing You fell back more than ten metres away, his body slamming into the trunk of a large tree as he spat out a mouthful of blood once again.
“Your strength, it’s even stronger than mine! You will definitely die today!” Qing Yu’s face became hideously twisted as he roared, “Blood Qi Condensing Beast!”
The blood in Qing Yu’s body felt like it was burning, and a large blood mist presented itself behind him, and within the blood mist, it coalesced into a two-metre tall giant wolf shadow.
The mark of the Xuan Extremity Realm’s Minor Extremity Position was the Blood Qi Condensing Beast.
Blood qi boiling, blood qi like a rainbow, blood qi rushing to the sky, blood qi condensing beast ……
Every time a martial artist of the Xuan Extremity Realm advanced to a higher realm, the blood qi in his body would rise by a large margin and undergo different degrees of divine changes.
For example, a martial artist at the early stage of the Xuanji realm could increase his battle power by 10% when he exploded the power of his blood qi to reach “boiling blood qi”.
A martial artist in the middle Xuanji realm can increase his battle power by 30% when his blood qi power reaches “blood qi like rainbow”.
Late Xuanji realm martial artists can increase their combat power by 50% when they reach the power of “Blood Qi Rushing to the Heavens”.
Upon reaching the Xuanji Realm Minor Extreme Position, the blood qi in the martial artist’s body would be able to condense into a beast shadow, and the power would become even more violent. Once the power of blood qi erupted, the martial artist’s battle power could be doubled in a short period of time.
Therefore, a martial artist in the late Xuanji Realm, even if they were exceptionally talented, would still find it difficult to defeat a martial artist in the Xuanji Realm’s Small Extreme Position.
It was said that when one reached the level of “Blood Qi Transforming God” at the Grand Completion of the Xuanji Realm, and the power of Blood Qi broke out, the martial artist’s combat power could be increased by two times in a short period of time.
At this moment, Qing You’s power was doubled, and the blood veins in his entire body were highlighted as he struck out with a palm, sending Zhang Ruochen flying seven feet away.
“Wow!”
Qing You didn’t even give Zhang Ruochen a chance to catch his breath as he once again took out his sharp scythe. His speed was even faster than before, and in a flash, he rushed to Zhang Ruochen.
The inscription in the scythe was activated, emitting a piercing blood light, carrying a sharp blade aura as it swung over towards Zhang Ruochen’s neck.
“Space Distortion!”
Space distorted once again as the scythe swung past Zhang Ruochen’s head.
This time, Qing Yu finally noticed that something was wrong and her face changed as she said, “How is it possible? What kind of stance did you use? No, it’s not that you escaped the attack of the Sorrowful Scythe, but that space was distorted.”
“It was finally discovered by you! Unfortunately, it’s over!”
Zhang Ruochen stabbed out with a backhanded sword, and the tip of the sword passed through Qing You’s throat, piercing through Qing You’s body.
Qing You’s eyes widened in dismay as his body trembled violently, and blood kept gushing out of his mouth.
“With a bang, he fell to the ground.
The Qing Family, the most outstanding genius in a hundred years, fell just like that.
If he hadn’t met Zhang Ruochen, with Qing You’s talent, in another twenty years, he would have definitely reached the Heavenly Extreme Realm and become a martial arts myth.
Fortunately, Zhang Ruochen had broken through to the middle stage of the Xuan Polarity Realm, otherwise, it was still unclear who would live and who would die.
After killing Qing You, Zhang Ruochen finally let out a long sigh of relief, a sense of weakness came over him, his eyes slightly darkened, and he almost fainted.
“It’s still too heavily injured, and moreover, there’s too much blood loss.”
Zhang Ruochen half-kneeled on the ground, propping up the ground with his palms, trying to keep himself awake.
Taking a Sacred Nirvana Dan for healing, Zhang Ruochen sat on the ground, running the true qi in his body to refine the Sacred Nirvana Dan’s dan qi.
Within a quarter of an hour, Zhang Ruochen’s injuries recovered by 20%, but he was still weak.
If he met another martial artist, or a savage beast at this time, it would be quite dangerous.
Suddenly, above his head, there was a sound of breaking wind.
A huge black shadow swooped down from mid-air and landed in front of Zhang Ruochen.
Fixing his eyes on it, it turned out to be a huge black cat as big as a lion, with a pair of black feathered wings on its back.
“Meow!”
Xiao Hei let out a cat cry, his body gradually shrinking, becoming only the size of a normal cat, his mouth emitting a human voice, “Exhausted! Exhausted! That guy’s cultivation is very unusual, he is actually an Imperial Beast Master, summoning a large group of Corpse Eating Crows, otherwise, this Emperor would have definitely finished him off.”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly relieved to see that it was Little Black and said, “Prince Huo Xing escaped?”
“Yes!”
Little Black said, “The battle with him almost drained the already small amount of True Qi in my body. Junior Lang, give me a Spirit Crystal, I need to recover my True Qi.”
Zhang Ruochen took out a Spirit Crystal and threw it to Little Black, curiously saying, “How did your cultivation grow so much?”
One had to know that when Zhang Ruochen was at the Yellow Extreme Realm Middle Extremity, Xiao Hei’s battle power was only at the Yellow Extremity Realm Middle Extremity, and moreover, he was slightly weaker than Zhang Ruochen.
However, just now, the battle power displayed by Little Black was able to fight against a Xuan Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position martial artiste, and had actually beaten Prince Huo Xing to the point of fleeing.
Little Black said, ”I told you a long time ago, all of this seat’s power is sealed within the Qian Kun Divine Wood Diagram, and only you can open the seal. The stronger your cultivation, the more seals you can open, and the stronger my power will naturally be.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “What if I unlock your seals completely?”
Little Black tilted his huge head and said, “That would be the time when this Emperor would reappear in the world, slaughtering the heavens and killing the earth, and I would be the only one. All you need to do is follow me and be my slave, and this Emperor guarantees to let you walk sideways in the Kunlun Realm.”
Then, Little Black sighed again and said, “It’s a pity that Monk Sumeru, that old bald donkey, had planned this long ago, and with your cultivation, it’s impossible for you to unlock all the seals. Without further ado, this Emperor will first go to the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone to recover his true qi. Junior Lang, give me a spirit crystal.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “There are a large number of Spirit Crystals stored in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, so go get it yourself. How long will it take you to recover your True Qi?”
“With the help of Spirit Crystals, it will only take half a day to recover!” Little Black said.
Zhang Ruochen put Little Black into the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal, then stood up and went forward to clean up the battlefield. He could sort of see that it was impossible for Little Black to escape the seal of the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram.
Moreover, it would definitely not dare to turn against Zhang Ruochen, and once Zhang Ruochen died, it would once again be sealed within the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram.
Qing Yu died, the other seven martial artists from the Four Direction County Kingdom also died, and only Prince Huo Xing escaped.
Zhang Ruochen had seized eighteen Beast Eyes from Qing Yu’s body, which was equivalent to hunting nine Second Stage Inferior Savage Beasts.
Qing You also had a 2-star Noble Card on her body, as well as thirty-eight Spirit Crystals and three hundred silver coins.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t hold much hope for that one 2-star Noble Card, if he couldn’t find the blood of Qing You’s immediate family, he wouldn’t be able to withdraw it even if the Noble Card had a large amount of silver coins stored on it.
Zhang Ruochen picked up the Sole Scythe in Qing You’s hand and injected his True Qi into the Sole Scythe, finding that there were actually twenty-three inscriptions in the Sole Scythe, a fifth-ranked True Martial Treasure Weapon, which could be sold for at least 100,000 silver coins.
The life-supporting scythe was a good thing, it was worth a lot of money, and once it was sold, it would be a large fortune.
Afterwards, Zhang Ruochen went on to collect the beast eyes, weapons, spirit crystals, and silver coins from the other seven young martial artists, all of which were collected into the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
Now was not the time to count the treasures, Prince Huo Xing could come back at any time, and with Zhang Ruochen’s current state of serious injuries, he was certainly no match for him.
It was imperative to leave this place immediately, find a safe location, and then slowly count the harvest of this time.
Zhang Ruochen suddenly thought of Zixi, so he immediately entered the dense forest where he had first gone to fight Qingyue and searched for Zixi’s traces.
“Hmm …… ah …… hmm ……”
It wasn’t long before Zhang Ruochen’s ears heard a woman’s sharp gasp, and seemed to let out a seductive/magical moan/chant.
Zhang Ruochen parted the dense grass and saw Zixi lying on the ground, a pair of jade hands clasped on her chest, her body trembling, and after seeing Zhang Ruochen, a hint of redness appeared on her pretty face, and she said in a trembling voice, “I …… I’m poisoned . . save …… save …… me ……”
It was not like asking for help, that seductive/human voice was more like a petulant chant!
Her state was very wrong, her eyes were misty, her eyelashes fluttered gently, her red lips were slightly open, her snow-white skin was covered with a layer of pink, escaping a grain of fragrant sweat.
“Poisoned? Poisoned by what?”
Zhang Ruochen saw a greenish-black palm print on Zixi’s right shoulder, which was precisely the injury inflicted by Qing You’s Green Demon Hand.
The poison of the Green Devil Hand!
“No, it seems to be more than just the poison of the Green Devil Hand!”
Zhang Ruochen found blood marks at the location of Zixi’s belly, which had been stabbed by the Illusory Poison Bee’s tail stinger.
On Zixi’s body, there were a total of three sting marks, on the neck, the lower abdomen, and the root of the left thigh.
Her pair of slender beauty/legs were gently trembling, stirring together with each other, rubbing hard, even the trouser skirt seemed to be breaking, and it was not known whether it was because of the pain, or because of something else?
