Zhang Ruochen’s answer to Zixi’s question was, of course, no.
Who would admit to being an arsehole?
For the next day, Zhang Ruochen and Zixie both hid in the cave to recuperate.
With the aid of the healing pills, Zhang Ruochen recovered seventy to eighty percent of his injuries by the time it was dark. With his current time, even if he met up with Prince Huo Xing, he had full confidence that he could suppress the other party.
This time, although Zhang Ruochen and Zixi had survived nine deaths, the rewards were also great.
From the eighteen Beast Eyes collected from Qing Yu’s body, and the other seven martial artists, a total of twenty-six Beast Eyes were collected, plus the fourteen Beast Eyes that Zhang Ruochen already had on him.
Zhang Ruochen now had a total of fifty-eight beast eyes, which was equivalent to hunting twenty-nine Second Stage Inferior Savage Beasts.
“My current cultivation level is in the middle Xuanji Realm, so I only need to hunt and kill ten Second Order Lower Grade Savage Beasts to pass the test. In other words, I have now exceeded my quota.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly and stared over towards Zi Xi, saying, “Miss Zi, how many beast eyes do you have there?”
Zi Xi sat down on the ground and collected her True Qi, saying, “A total of sixty-eight, which is equivalent to hunting thirty-four Second Stage Inferior Savage Beasts.”
At the Xuanji Realm’s Small Extreme Position, one had to hunt and kill forty Second Order Lower Grade Savage Beasts.
Zhang Ruochen took out twelve beast eyes and handed them to Zixi, saying, “Here you go.”
Zi Xi was not polite and took the twelve beast eyes and put them away.
She said, “Are you really not afraid that I will step in and kill you? Do you know the price of your head, in the black market?”
Zhang Ruochen continued to count the spirit crystals, silver coins, and True Martial Treasures on the ground, and asked without looking back, “How much?”
“One hundred and fifty spirit crystals, equivalent to 150,000 silver coins.”
Zixi’s face wore a smile as she said, “You know that 150,000 silver coins can already invite an expert of the Earth Extreme Realm to personally kill you.”
Zhang Ruochen turned around and handed a bag to Zixi, saying, “One hundred and fifty spirit crystals, here, keep it!”
“What do you mean?”
Zixie was slightly stunned as she took the bundle in Zhang Ruochen’s hands and opened it.
Within the bundle, colourful colours emanated, and a rich aura gushed out from within, causing the concentration of aura in the air to climb dramatically.
Surprisingly, it really was one hundred and fifty Spirit Crystals.
Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly and said, ”These are the treasures recovered from Qing You and the bodies of the seven dead martial artists! The old rules, the spirit crystals go to you, and the True Martial Treasures and pills go to me.”
Zixi gently bit her lower lip, staring at Zhang Ruochen with a deadly stare, and without any hesitation, she collected all of the one hundred and fifty Spirit Crystals, all of them.
The young martial artists who were able to come to participate in the Martial City Academy Palace Examination, each and every one of them was a martial dao genius, either coming from one of the big clans, or from one of the large sects.
The cultivation resources and possessions they had with them were naturally quite generous, ten of them combined would be comparable to the family fortune of an Earth Extremity Realm expert.
Zhang Ruochen put away all the True Martial Treasure Weapons and dozens of dan bottles and asked, “Now that we have completed our mission, we can end the first round of exams early, so let’s go back now!”
“No way! We’ve only killed twenty-four Sifang County Kingdom’s martial artists now, and we haven’t even hurt the Sifang County Kingdom’s foundation at all. Feng Zhiyi and Qingyue both died in our hands, so in the next two days, we can strike even more without fear and kill the martial artists of the Four Directions County Kingdom without leaving a single piece of armour behind.” Zixi’s eyes glowed with coldness, not intending to end the first round of exams now.
Zhang Ruochen gently stroked his chin and said, “You are thinking that hunting martial artists from the Four Directions County Kingdom is more profitable than being an assassin, right?”
“So what if it is?”
Zixi admitted without any concealment, then added, “As the Ninth Prince of the Yunwu County Kingdom, don’t you want to do your part for the Yunwu County Kingdom? If you and I both leave the Heavenly Demon Ridge, how will those other young martial artists from the Yunwu County Kingdom be able to withstand the killings of the martial artists from the Four Direction County Kingdom?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “When you say it like that, it seems like I really can’t just stand by and watch!”
A beautiful smile appeared on Zixi’s face, her long eyelashes, gently fluttering as she softly said, “That’s natural. It is in the midst of a battle that one’s cultivation can rise the fastest. Moreover, the more cultivation resources we plunder, the faster our cultivation speed will be after entering the Martial City Academy.”
“For the sake of Yunwu County Kingdom being able to have a few less deaths, then I will accompany you in your madness once.” Zhang Ruochen said.
As the night was dim, Zhang Ruochen and Zixi turned into two residual shadows and rushed into the Sky Demon Ridge. ,
Zhang Ruochen’s current speed, which reached thirty-eight metres per second, was equal to Zixi’s speed, and was neck and neck.
Throughout the night, there was a bloody rain.
Thirty-five more martial artists from the Four Direction County Kingdom died under Zixi’s sword.
The two of them received a large amount of cultivation resources again, not only beast eyes, spirit crystals, and silver coins, but also dozens of True Martial Treasure Weapons, a large amount of pills, and more than ten pounds of spirit meat.
During the daytime, they hid in the cave to rest and recover their True Qi.
Zhang Ruochen refined seven Sanqing True Qi Pills in a row, finally consolidating his cultivation at the middle Xuanji Realm, the injuries on his body were healed, and moreover, his Essence became fuller.
Without realising it, dusk had come again.
The sky gradually darkened and soon entered darkness again.
This was the last night of the first round of exams!
On this night, the Heavenly Demon Ridge once again resounded with screams one after another, and there were even candidates who crushed the Qilin ball and raised Qilin smoke.
But of course by the time the inspectors arrived, that one candidate was already dead and the murderer fled without a trace.
“It’s really strange! This year’s Academy Palace Examination was so tragic that at least twenty young martial artists from the Four Direction Prefectures have already died.” That one inspector with a hand cupping his lance said.
Another inspector clasped his hands and stood next to that one corpse, saying, “I’m afraid it’s far more than twenty people.”
“Anyway, the Four Direction County Kingdom has suffered heavy losses this time, and I don’t know what kind of people they have messed with.”
“Let’s go! It’s the last night anyway, and the exams will be over by noon tomorrow!”
The two inspectors rode their double-headed snow vultures and turned into two huge shadows, flying away from this place.
This killing continued until noon the next day, and the number of martial artists who died at the hands of Zixi reached forty-nine.
Facing the Xuan Extreme Realm Small Extreme Position’s Zixi, those early Xuan Extreme Realm, middle Xuan Extreme Realm martial artists were completely powerless to fight back, and all of them were killed in a single move.
Zhang Ruochen followed behind, not having to do anything.
Because, the matter of cleaning up the battlefield and scavenging for treasures, there was already someone else to do it, moreover, that person was still happy to do it.
To be exact, it wasn’t a person, but a cat.
“Haha! Two catties of spirit meat, earned, earned!”
Xiao Hei searched out a jade box from a mid Xuanji realm martial artist and opened it, a rich and fragrant aroma emanated out.
In the jade box, what was contained was precisely spirit meat.
“Twenty-one spirit crystals and three hundred silver coins. This martial artist is too poor!”
Xiao Hei shook his head and threw the bag containing the spirit crystals and silver coins to Zhang Ruochen, then, chased after Zixi.
Zixi continued to hunt those Four Directions County martial artists, and Little Black continued to scavenge for treasures. One person and one cat, they worked together quite well.
Zhang Ruochen followed behind unhurriedly, looked up at the sun in the sky, and said, “It’s almost noon, we should go back, if we don’t, it’ll be too late!”
“Go back for what? This Emperor also wants to kill two people to try.” Little Black revealed his sharp teeth and claws, looking very fierce.
Zhang Ruochen gave a cold glance and said, “Do you believe that I will seal you back now?”
“It was just a joke, why are you taking it seriously?” Immediately, Little Black changed back to a very docile appearance and put away his teeth and claws.
When she initially saw Little Black, Zixie was also very curious. Now, she had already seen it and was not surprised, and only gently glanced at Little Black before withdrawing her gaze.
As long as savage beasts were taught human language from a young age, some savage beasts with high intelligence could indeed spit out human language.
Of course, savage beasts that could speak human language were still very rare.
“Those treasures will be placed at your place first, and we will slowly distribute them after entering the Martial City Academy.” Using a silk cloth, Zixi dried the blood on her sword and took it back to the scabbard.
Zhang Ruochen could clearly feel that after three days of killing, Zixi’s Sword Dao Realm had risen a few more points, and was not far from the Sword Follows the Heart Higher Level Realm.
According to her cultivation speed like this, she would be able to reach the Sword Follows Heart High Stage before the Earth Extreme Realm.
“She should be cultivating the Killing Sword Dao!” Zhang Ruochen’s mind secretly said.
“Meow!”
Xiao Hei’s body became smaller, becoming only the size of a fist, and with a long leap on the ground, he jumped into Zhang Ruochen’s hands and was placed inside his coat pocket.
Zhang Ruochen and Zixie, left the Heavenly Demon Ridge and headed out of the mountain range.
It wasn’t long before the two of them walked out of the mountain range and encountered an Outer Palace trainee of the Martial City Academy.
That one Outer Palace Cadet of the Martial City Academy Palace took Zhang Ruochen and Zi Xi and sat on the back of the Two-Headed Snow Vulture as they flew in the direction of the Martial City Academy Palace.
That one Outer Palace Cadet, named Wang Qi, had a cultivation level that reached the Xuan Extremity Realm’s Great Extremity Position.
Wang Qi looked at Zhang Ruochen and Zixi, and when he saw Zixi, his eyes lit up slightly. Zixi was indeed very pretty and had an excellent temperament, definitely an iceberg beauty.
A beauty like Zixi wasn’t far behind even when compared to the three beauties of the Western Academy.
Wang Qi leaned towards Zi Xi’s side and said, ”I entered the Martial City Palace of Learning three years ago to cultivate, and ranked two hundred and thirty-eighth amongst the Western Academy’s Outer Palace Cadets. Which county king’s martial artist are the two of you?”
Zixi’s eyes were icy cold, just holding her sword as she stood on the back of the Two-Headed Snow Vulture, not paying any attention to Wang Qi. She had seen too many men like Wang Qi who took the initiative to accost her.
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “Yunwu County King.”
“Yunwu County King.”
Wang Qi gently shook his head, his gaze still fixed on Zi Xi, and sighed, “The martial artists of the Yunwu County Kingdom are in a very bad situation in the Martial City Academy, and have always suffered from the suppression of the four quadrant counties. Especially the new students, if they don’t have strong people to shelter them, they are often bullied. In previous years, there were also strange disappearances of freshmen from the Yunwu County Kingdom, and it was said that they were secretly killed by trainees from the Four Directions County Kingdom. Senior sister, if you run into trouble in the future, you only need to report my name, Wang Qi, and in the Western Academy, those people will more or less still give me face.”
“Thank you Senior Brother Wang Qi for your concern, we will definitely be careful.” Zhang Ruochen laughed.
As they spoke, they had already flown to the sky above the Western Academy of the Martial City Academy.
