Zhang Ruochen once again tried to break open the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin, this time, even borrowing Cold Snow’s Void Sword as well, but he was still unable to shake it.
In the end, Zhang Ruochen had no choice but to give up and did not continue to toss it.
“It is recorded in the ancient books that the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin is a sacred artefact of the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect, with an extremely long heritage and many wonderful uses. After this woman’s death, she could even use the Sun Moon Crystal Coffin to hold her corpse, when she was alive, she was at least at the level of a Palace Master or a Holy Maiden, or even, possibly, an Ancient Sect Master.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Zhang Ruochen and Xiao Hei didn’t know much specific information about the Sun Moon Crystal Coffin, and the only way to find out her identity was to wait until they returned to the Kunlun Realm and go through the dossiers about the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect.
A character like her could never be a nameless person, and it shouldn’t be difficult to find out her identity.
Although Mu Lingshi and the Divine Demon Mouse were in the Demon Cult, they had gone through many of these volumes, and even, it was the first time they had heard of the name of the Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin, and they were even more unclear about the identity of the woman in the coffin.
Cold snow inclined his head, curiously said: ”Master how to determine, she has died? Isn’t there a possibility that she is still alive and just fell into a deep sleep.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head with a smile and said, “From the Middle Ages, to now, at least 100,000 years have passed. Even the great saints have all been turned into withered bones. Unless it’s a god, there’s only that slight possibility that one has lived until now.”
“What if it’s really a god?”Cold Snow said.
Zhang Ruochen stroked Coldsnow’s head and explained, “After the Middle Ages, no one was able to become a god anymore, and all the gods have long since disappeared from the Kunlun Realm.”
Han Xue added, “Didn’t Master just say that this Sun and Moon Crystal Coffin was a holy artefact from before the Middle Ancient Period? Since this is the case, why is it impossible for a God to be lying in the coffin?”
Hearing this, Zhang Ruochen was somewhat speechless.
What he didn’t dare to imagine, Cold Snow dared to imagine, could it be that he had really turned into an old curmudgeon?
Zhang Ruochen said, “If I’m right in my speculation, she should have already died, otherwise, the Blood Moon Ghost King wouldn’t have been born out of the Blood Lake.”
Cold Snow said with a sudden realisation, “What Master means is that the Blood Moon Ghost King is her ghost?”
“That should be the case.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Coldsnow’s eyes, which became a little dim, said, “In that case, she should indeed be dead. Senior, do you think that Senior Gong will come back to life?
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze, towards the remains of the Xuan Gui Sword Saint, his eyes were very grave as he shook his head and said, “I don’t know.”
How could Zhang Ruochen not hope that the Xuan Gui Sword Saint would come back to life, only that even though the injuries on his body had healed, he was still dead and lifeless.
The soul had already dispersed, how could there be any possibility of living?
Unless it was really as Xiao Hei had said, one could find a Spiritual Power Great Saint to use his powerful spiritual power to help summon the soul back.
Only, spiritual power great saint is really too rare, in the legend, in the last ten thousand years, only one of the nine emperors, Emperor Wen, reached that realm.
Emperor Wen was the leader of the Confucian Way, and back then, he had assisted Emperor Qing and Chi Yao in unifying the Kunlun Realm. It was this achievement that had led Chi Yao to vigorously support the Confucian Way after the establishment of the First Central Empire, making the power of the Confucian Way reach a level where it could compete with the Buddhist Way and the Taiji Way.
Unfortunately, after the establishment of the First Central Empire, Emperor Wen retired and disappeared into the Kunlun Realm, never showing up again, and no one knew if he was still alive.
Even if Emperor Wen was still alive, even if Zhang Ruochen was able to find him, what could he do?
Could Emperor Wen be able to step in to save the Xuan Gui Sword Saint?
It was clearly something impossible.
Even if it was a Great Sage of Spirituality, there was still a small price to pay if he wanted to summon back the souls of the departed. Why should he help Zhang Ruochen?
What was the difference between Zhang Ruochen and a mole cricket in his eyes?
For now, Zhang Ruochen could only place the remains of the Xuan Gui Sword Saint, temporarily underneath the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, and continue to receive the nourishment of the two Life Qi. What if a miracle would happen?
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When the Blood Moon Ghost King came to the Scroll World, she felt that the earth and sky were filled with the breath of life, and any place was vibrant and green, completely different from the deadly netherworld.
However, she didn’t like such a world because she was an undead spirit, and needed a constant supply of death Qi, souls, and netherworlds in order to survive.
Otherwise, even if Zhang Ruochen didn’t kill her, it wouldn’t be long before she would die due to the loss of her ghostly Qi.
Just today, however, she had discovered an incomparably powerful Qi of Death. That Death Qi was emanating from the place where the Life Qi was the densest.
It was for this reason that the Blood Moon Ghost King had been looking for the location where the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was located.
Standing at the top of the mountain, looking downwards, before her eyes was a picture that made her feel incomparably shocked. One could only see a huge stump of rotten wood, situated on the ground, roughly thirty feet tall.
The tree stump, as if it was a huge and flat round platform, could not be seen at all. On the circular platform, there were densely-packed annual wheels, an unknown number of ten thousand of them. Each wheel of the year was like a scroll of history, recording the winds and rains that had transformed the entire heaven and earth from ancient times to the present.
It was hard to imagine how huge that tree would have to be if it was still alive.
This stump was none other than the root of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
According to the Blood Moon Ghost King’s visual estimation, the diameter of the tree root reached more than two hundred miles, that is, more than one hundred thousand metres. If this tree was still alive, an ordinary person would need to spend a month to walk around its trunk.
Other cultivators, when they came to this place, they could only feel the rich aura of life emanating from the new sapling. However, the Blood Moon Ghost King found an incomparably surging aura of death in the roots of the tree.
That was the power that remained after the death of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, hidden inside the roots of the tree, intermingling with the Qi of Life.
The Blood Moon Ghost King had never seen such a huge amount of death qi before, and moreover, the quality was frighteningly high.
“If I can absorb all of the death qi from the tree roots, I don’t know to what extent my cultivation, too, will climb? Even the Divine Primordial Ghost King may not be my opponent, enough to become one of the few most powerful existences in the outer reaches of the netherworld.”
In the Blood Moon Ghost King’s eyes, two flames emerged, and his arms unfolded, transforming into a large, lightweight bird as he flew towards the roots of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood.
Only, before the Blood Moon Ghost King even landed on the surface of the tree root, a human shadow shifted and appeared at the edge of the tree root first, coalescing into a valiant young man with his hands behind his back, staring at her with a smirk on his face precisely.
“Zhang Ruochen.”
The joy on the Blood Moon Ghost King’s face dissipated without a trace as he flew down and stood opposite Zhang Ruochen, saying, “This king has already figured it out, so he can submit to you.”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly surprised and said, “How did you suddenly figure it out?”
The Blood Moon Ghost King asked rhetorically, saying, “Other than this path, do I have any other choice? Even if you don’t kill me and imprison me in this world, I will soon die completely. At the moment, I don’t want to die.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “A very wise decision.”
“However, your cultivation is simply too weak, so if I submit to you, I will definitely be laughed at by the other Ghost Kings, so you must agree to my two conditions.”
The Blood Moon Ghost King had already thought of what to say a long time ago, so, he appeared rather calm.
It was also within Zhang Ruochen’s expectation that the Blood Moon Ghost King would put forth conditions. As long as her conditions, were not too excessive, Zhang Ruochen would agree.
After all, for a Ghost King to choose to submit was already quite something. Pressuring her too hard would be counterproductive.
Whether it was a Royal Human or a Royal Ghost, one had to be both harsh and merciful. If one is too harsh, one will inevitably force their subordinates to rebel. If one was too merciful, the same would be true.
Regardless of whether the Blood Moon Ghost King was truly submissive or falsely submissive, as long as Zhang Ruochen was able to become her master first, in the future, she could naturally use many methods to temper .Teach her and make her truly submissive.
One day, Zhang Ruochen would make her understand how wise her decision today was.
Zhang Ruochen said, “You say.”
“Firstly, even if I submit to you now, before your cultivation surpasses mine, we must be on equal footing. I can carry out the orders you give me, however, I can also choose not to carry out orders that are unreasonable. If, you cannot agree to this condition, the second condition, I do not need to mention it again.”The Blood Moon Ghost King tilted his chin, looking rather arrogant.
“Want equal status?”
A powerful masculine aura erupted from Zhang Ruochen’s body, as if it had transformed into a blazing sun, pressing the Blood Moon Ghost King into a constant retreat, saying, “What is a reasonable order? What is an unreasonable order? If there isn’t a clear boundary, then what is the meaning of your so-called submission? If you are playing tricks with me, there seems to be no point in me keeping you around.”
The powerful masculine aura evaporated the ghostly aura on the Blood Moon Ghost King’s body continuously, causing her face, to turn incomparably pale. However, she still refused to admit defeat, saying, “If your order, has a huge danger, I certainly won’t carry it out.”
Only, the words she uttered were no longer as strong as earlier.
Carrying a powerful masculine aura, Zhang Ruochen walked towards the Blood Moon Ghost King, forcing her to continue retreating.
At this moment, the Blood Moon Ghost King, how did she look like a powerful king, she was simply like a weak girl who had been forced into a corner by a brawny man. Who knew what would happen next?
The Blood Moon Ghost King was already very weak, suffering from the close range shock of the masculine Qi, it was simply unable to resist, and would generally go up in smoke at any time.
After a long time, Zhang Ruochen felt that it was about time before he collected the masculine aura from his body and said, ”Don’t worry, if it’s something that even you feel is dangerous, I definitely won’t do it either. The first condition, I’ll agree to it first. Speak! What is your second condition?”
The Blood Moon Ghost King let out a long sigh of relief, glanced towards his feet, and said, “I want to absorb all the death qi in the roots of this tree as a way to raise my cultivation.”
One must know that the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood was known as the last god of the Kunlun Realm, living from the beginning of the birth of the Kunlun Realm until the end of the Middle Ages.
When the Heaven Receiving God Wood was chopped off, it was as if a god had fallen, naturally, a massive amount of death qi was left behind.
Zhang Ruochen suddenly came to a realisation and said in his heart, no wonder the Blood Moon Ghost King suddenly changed his mind and chose to submit to him, so he was playing with the idea of this Death Qi.
