The space in this place was quite fragile and dangerous.
However, it was precisely for this reason that it became an excellent place to comprehend the spatial rules.
As long as he was able to comprehend the spatial rules, then Zhang Ruochen would also have more than 50% certainty of passing through the broken space above the magma ocean and reaching the black volcano in the centre of the ocean.
On Zhang Ruochen’s back, a pair of golden dragon wings stretched out. He mobilised the Speed Rule again and merged it into the wings, then, with one foot on top of the black stone, he leapt forward with the force of the recoil.
After landing on the surface of the magma and taking five steps in a row, Zhang Ruochen’s feet, landed on top of a black reef roughly twenty feet from the shore.
It was said to be a reef, but it was actually quite hot, harder than Xuan iron.
All around the reef, there were spatial cracks that looked like huge black mouths, and even from afar, it made people feel very palpitating.
Zhang Ruochen sat on the top of the reef, and his spatial domain and spiritual power were released, enveloping one of the spatial cracks into the spatial domain.
At the same time, in both eyes, two divine seals emerged.
In front of Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, densely-packed Saint Dao rules appeared as if they were thousands of threads, intertwining with each other. The only thing was, the location of the spatial crack was a black void.
With the Eye of Divine Seal, Zhang Ruochen’s speed of comprehending the Saint Dao Rules became extremely fast.
This was because the various Saint Dao rules were presented right in front of his eyes, and he only needed to copy them.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen’s martial soul rushed out from the top of his head and hovered in midair.
In the Martial Soul, there were a total of seventeen Saint Dao Rules, with the thickest of them running from the top of the Martial Soul’s head, all the way through to the soles of his feet.
That was the rule of the Sword Dao, one of the seventy-two Supreme Saint Dao, and it was also the only type of Supreme Saint Dao that Zhang Ruochen had comprehended.
As the day passed, Zhang Ruochen’s martial soul had two more Saint Dao rules, the Fire Dao rule and the Wind Dao rule, which belonged to the second of the Three Thousand Great Dao.
After observing for three days in a row, Zhang Ruochen then entered the Scroll World and closed his door, spending all of his time, all of it, on enlightenment.
Two months later, when Zhang Ruochen once again stepped out from the Tulip World, in his Martial Soul, the total number of Saint Dao Rules reached thirty-nine.
It included one Supreme Saint Dao, five Great Dao, and thirty-three Minor Dao.
The martial soul became even more solid and emitted an aura that was quite powerful.
Zhang Ruochen’s current martial soul strength was not the slightest bit weaker when compared to a First Grade Half Saint, and could mobilise the heaven and earth aura of hundreds of miles in a radius and transform it into his own power.
After all, a normal Fish Dragon Ninth Transformation cultivator only needed to comprehend the twelve rules of the Sacred Dao to attempt to impact the Half-Saint realm.
Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul contained Saint Dao Rules that had exceeded them by several times.
In the Scroll World, after two months of seclusion, only six or seven days had passed in the outside world, adding up successively, only about ten days had passed in the outside world.
“The Space Rules are worthy of being the Nine Constant Ancient Ways, it really isn’t that easy to be able to comprehend them.”
Zhang Ruochen, i.e. possessing the Spatio-Temporal Divine Martial Seal, drinking the Great Sage Tongtian Tea, and opening the Eye of Divine Seal, and having the assistance of this piece of shattered space, could be said to have taken advantage of heaven’s timing, location, and people’s harmony.
Even so, it only made his understanding of the Saint Dao a little deeper, but did not touch the rules of space.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze condensed and glanced deeper into the magma ocean, only to see that, roughly thirty feet away from him, there was another relatively large reef.
That reef, shaped much like a human palm, was further away from the shore, with more spatial cracks around it, and the fluctuations of spatial power, more active.
The more active the spatial fluctuations were, the more helpful it would be to him, as well.
“There are a total of four landing points, carefully controlling your stance, you should be able to reach there.”
Zhang Ruochen took a deep breath and waited for the spatial fluctuations to become relatively smooth before making a quick dash forward, changing his stance five times in a row.
By the time he steadied his stance, he finally landed on top of that reef.
“Puffing.”
Because of Zhang Ruochen’s stance, the Saint Qi in his body escaped, shattering the space around the reef and causing more than a dozen tiny cracks to appear.
The surrounding space was like a broken eggshell, and Zhang Ruochen was inside the eggshell.
At this time, if the space shattered and damaged the reef underneath Zhang Ruochen’s feet, then, Zhang Ruochen would definitely fall into the magma ocean. Even his body, too, would be torn apart by the space.
Zhang Ruochen’s hands propped up and fully unleashed the Spatial Domain, working hard to consolidate the space around him, finally allowing the shattered space to close back up.
“Whew.”
Zhang Ruochen exhaled a long breath, “That was too close, fortunately, I was able to hold the space together……. Since I was able to hold the space together, then, my control over space should have improved quite a bit.”
Thinking of this, Zhang Ruochen’s confidence increased greatly as he sat on top of the reef, observing the spatial rules wholeheartedly.
In the magma ocean, a fiery baleful wind would blow up from time to time, churning the hot magma and forming waves that were several metres high.
No matter how dangerous the external conditions were, Zhang Ruochen always remained calm as if he had fused with the reef.
At first, Mu Lingshi stood on the shore, alerting the surroundings in case anyone was unfavourable to Zhang Ruochen.
However, as time passed and no danger appeared, she also began to cultivate.
An Ice Phoenix, suspended in the centre of the Qi Sea.
As the gong method operated, in the sky above the magma ocean, the remaining divine power, like a wisp of mist, unexpectedly converged towards her brow, and a steady stream of it surged into the Qi Sea and into the Ice Phoenix’s body.
In ten days’ time, two divine seals coalesced in a row on the Ice Phoenix’s body. The Ice Phoenix’s size, too, increased by two times in a row, emitting an astonishingly cold aura.
Together with the one divine mark that Mu Lingshi had condensed out from refining divine blood before, in her body, there were now three divine marks.
Moreover, the Ice Phoenix was continuing to absorb divine energy to condense a fourth divine mark.
……
For half a month in a row, Zhang Ruochen sat on top of the reef, not moving at all, the only thing he had was a pair of God Seal Eyes, observing the spatial rules between heaven and earth, and comprehending the subtleties of them.
Right at this moment, Zhang Ruochen slowly raised one hand, his palm pressed towards a spatial crack dozens of feet away, and then, with a move to the right, the spatial crack unexpectedly slowly moved to the right side as well.
It must be known that before this, even if Zhang Ruochen was able to execute a spatial rift, the rift could only appear in a fixed position, and there was no way to move it at all.
It was precisely for this reason that, previously, the power exerted by the spatial rift was quite limited.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen’s hands closed, and the spatial rift, too, began to slowly close, and in the end, it was completely restored into a complete space.
Zhang Ruochen continued to unleash his spatial power, and his control over space grew stronger and stronger.
At the same time, there was a spatial rule in his martial soul that slowly coalesced out and, moreover, became thicker and thicker.
In the martial soul, even the Sword Dao rule, which was one of the seventy-two supreme holy paths, was only as thick as a small finger, yet, the spatial rule was as thick as a wrist, and it was still growing.
The thicker the rule, the greater the potential and the more powerful the might that erupted.
Those dozens of small Dao rules that Zhang Ruochen cultivated were even thinner than a hairline, as if they were spiderwebs, entangled within the interior of the Martial Soul, and could not be compared to the Sword Dao rules and the Space rules at all.
As the spatial rules continued to improve, Zhang Ruochen’s martial soul, too, became stronger and stronger, emitting a very majestic aura as if it was the controller of heaven and earth.
Zhang Ruochen’s body also emitted a “giggling” sound, as if it was about to break through a certain critical point.
This was the omen that the Martial Soul was about to metamorphose into a Sacred Soul, and his cultivation was about to break through to the Half-Sacred Realm.
Zhang Ruochen snapped out of his oblivious cultivation state and immediately took his entire body’s Saint Qi and withdrew it to the Qi Sea, suppressing the realm.
Before he had comprehended the rules of time, he absolutely could not break through to the Half-Saint realm.
Moreover, Zhang Ruochen’s accumulation in the Fish Dragon Realm was also still far from enough, and he had only comprehended forty of the Sacred Dao Rules, which was still a long way off compared to the top level human geniuses.
Geniuses at the level of the Nine Great Realm Sons were almost all those who had comprehended close to a hundred Sacred Dao Rules, or even more than a hundred Sacred Dao Rules.
Zhang Ruochen’s time of comprehending the Saint Dao Rules was still short, so naturally, he was not yet able to compare to them.
Of course, being able to comprehend the Space Rule, one of the Nine Constant Ancient Ways, was already a very great achievement.
With this one, it was enough to crush the Ten Thousand Ways.
Zhang Ruochen stood up and felt everything around him in detail, then, stamping his feet rapidly, he returned to the shore and landed beside Mu Lingshi.
The magma ocean emitted a scorching wave of air that was enough to melt iron, but the heat wave that blew beside Mu Lingshi was cancelled out by an icy cold aura.
Underneath her, the hot black stone, cooled down and even, knitted a layer of white cold ice.
Suddenly, Mu Lingshi’s eyes opened and she exhaled a deep breath, saying, “After the awakening of the phoenix bloodline, I found that I can absorb the residual divine power here and condense a divine seal.”
Zhang Ruochen was also slightly surprised for a moment and said, “How many divine seals have you condensed in total?”
“Six.”Mu Lingshi said.
One had to know that those Boundary Sons, even after drinking the Divine Spring, had only condensed five or six divine seals. Mu Lingshi, however, had condensed six divine seals with his own power, and was already able to compete with the Boundary Sons.
Mu Lingshi’s eyebrows, again, gently knitted as she said, “However, I’ve also reached my limit, if I don’t break through to Half-Saint and continue to absorb divine power, my body will likely not be able to withstand that power and, eventually, burst apart.”
Zhang Ruochen said thoughtfully, “This place, the residual divine power, is quite valuable to you, once you miss it, I’m afraid that in the future, you will never be able to encounter such an opportunity again.”
The two deliberated for a while, and in the end, Mu Lingshi entered the Scroll World to impact the Half-Saint realm.
Zhang Ruochen, on the other hand, stayed on the shore of the magma ocean and continued to consolidate the spatial rules.
