The difficulty of refining the ninth drop of divine blood was far higher than the eighth drop, and even though Zhang Ruochen possessed the Five Elements Chaotic Body, he still felt unusually overwhelmed, his face becoming red and white at one time.
The five-coloured Chaotic Qi surged out from his body, spreading out rapidly and enveloping the entire valley.
Even standing hundreds of miles away, one could see, in the valley, the multicoloured light rushing out.
As, continuously absorbing the power of the divine blood, into his body, Zhang Ruochen’s Saint Soul and physical body were undergoing some subtle changes, and vaguely, it seemed like they were about to shed their transformation.
The Holy Soul became more solid, suspended in mid-air, emitting a light as bright as the blazing sun, and there was also a star-like point of light rotating around the Holy Soul, as if it was merging with the sky.
Zhang Ruochen’s physical body, a hundreds of metres long Saint Qi tentacle grew, like a tree root, drilling into the soil and connecting with the earth.
The soul transformed into the sky, and the body transformed into the earth.
This marvellous feeling grew stronger and stronger, causing the Seal of the Gods in the sea of qi to become abnormally active.
“Wow!”
The two divine imprints absorbed enough divine energy and fell off the walls of the Qi Sea, following the meridians and travelling downstream, like two balls of fire travelling through the body.
It wasn’t until the two divine seals, reached the bottom of Zhang Ruochen’s feet that they stopped, overlapping with the two acupoints on the bottom of his feet.
It was when Zhang Ruochen wanted to make a surge of energy to impact a higher realm that he realised that the ninth drop of Divine Blood, had already been completely refined.
Thus, Zhang Ruochen immediately took out the tenth drop of Divine Blood, wanting to strike while the iron was hot and build on it.
Only, this time, it ended in failure.
Zhang Ruochen’s physical body, which had reached saturation, had only just begun to absorb the tenth drop of divine blood when his skin and muscles gave out giggling noises and serious cracks appeared because he couldn’t withstand the powerful divine force.
It was as if his body was about to burst.
Fortunately, Zhang Ruochen quickly severed his body’s connection with the divine blood and stopped immediately, saving his life.
“So close.”
Zhang Ruochen exhaled a long breath and immediately took a healing elixir, running his Saint Qi, refining the elixir and healing the injuries in his body.
Cultivating into the Five Elements Chaotic Body, Zhang Ruochen’s body was very powerful and had an extremely strong self-healing ability, and it didn’t take long for the injuries that had been propped up by the divine power to be healed.
“I should be very close to the Fish Dragon Tenth Transformation, it’s very likely that, by refining the tenth drop of divine blood, I’ll be able to break through to that realm.”
Zhang Ruochen felt quite regretful that he was clearly only one step away, yet he was simply unable to cross over.
It could be said that Zhang Ruochen was the closest human cultivator to the Fish Dragon’s Tenth Transformation after the Medieval Era.
However, the Five Elements Chaotic Body was unable to refine even the tenth drop of divine blood, so what should be done to make the physique go even further and cross over the final step?
Zhang Ruochen fell into deep thought and thought of two ways that should be of some help in refining the tenth drop of divine blood.
Firstly, cultivate the ninth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm.
The Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm was the topmost martial art used by Buddhist cultivators to refine their bodies, and the more profound one cultivated it to, the more powerful the increase in one’s physique would definitely be.
Taking elixirs and medicines can only strengthen the body, that is “nourishing the body”.
Cultivating Palm Techniques was “refining the body”.
Zhang Ruochen had taken many elixirs that enhanced his body, and that was why he had cultivated into the Five Elements Chaotic Body. However, in terms of Body Refining, he was still a bit short.
If this gap could be bridged, Zhang Ruochen’s physique would be able to reach a more perfect level.
Only, after cultivating the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm to the seventh palm, the difficulty of cultivation would increase exponentially, and the masculine energy in the body would increase tenfold.
If one wanted to successfully cultivate the ninth palm of the Dragon Image Prajna Palm, the difficulty would be no less than that of cultivating a holy art, and would require a great deal of time and effort.
Secondly, through sacrifices, with the help of divine power.
All along, Zhang Ruochen had been refining the divine blood with his own strength, rarely resorting to external forces.
However, when other Fish Dragon Realm cultivators refined divine blood, all of them succeeded only when they borrowed the power of the gods during the sacrifice.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen was also eager to try it out, perhaps borrowing the power of a deity during the sacrificial ritual should be of considerable help in impacting to the Fish Dragon Tenth Transformation.
Zhang Ruochen decided that both options would be carried out at the same time.
Firstly, of course, it was to cultivate the ninth palm of the Dragon Image Prajna Palm, to produce scales and transform into a dragon.
Only, cultivating this palm also required the assistance of external forces, and one had to swallow a large amount of dragon blood and elephant blood to succeed.
For dragon blood, Zhang Ruochen could use the blood of the Dragon Emperor as a substitute, which was fine.
However, elephant blood was not so easy to find.
The blood of an ordinary Barbarian Elephant would definitely not be able to satisfy Zhang Ruochen’s needs, and it would at least require the blood of the Silver Moon Dragon Elephant and the Pantheon Sacred Elephant.
“Those holy shops opened by those medieval families should be selling elephant blood, so after we go to the Central Domain, we can take a look.”
The Silver Moon Dragon Elephant and the Coiling Sky Sacred Elephant were both sixth rank savage beasts that were comparable to a Half-Saint, so if Zhang Ruochen went to look for them personally, he didn’t know how much time he would have to spend.
Moreover, the sixth rank savage beasts were both very cunning, and their escape speed far exceeded that of human cultivators, so even if they were found, they might not be able to be captured.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen was not in a hurry to search for the Elephant Blood right now, but, instead, began to consolidate the cultivation he had just raised.
The resources in the Central Domain were even richer than the Eastern Domain, and once there, it should be even more convenient to search for high grade Elephant Blood.
Refining two drops of divine blood in a row, although, he failed to reach the Fish Dragon Tenth Transformation, Zhang Ruochen still had huge gains.
Firstly, the rules in the Sacred Soul had increased by eighteen in a row, which were three Great Dao rules and fifteen Minor Dao rules.
Secondly, the divine seals on the walls of the Qi Sea shed four more, converging on both ears and both feet.
The wonderful use of these four divine seals, Zhang Ruochen hadn’t carefully explored for the time being, and thought that they were also very extraordinary.
There was another point, and that was, the power of the divine blood propelled Zhang Ruochen’s mental strength to the forty-sixth rank in one fell swoop.
One had to know that raising mental strength by one rank was more difficult than raising martial arts by one rank, and the growth in strength was also greater.
Nowadays, Zhang Ruochen was able to compete with Third Order Half-Saints even if he only used his spiritual power. Moreover, he rarely deliberately cultivated his spiritual power, and only used it as an aid.
Next, Zhang Ruochen began to test the power of the four divine seals that were coiled in both ears and both feet.
The two divine seals in the both ears appeared to be rather ribald, merely allowing Zhang Ruochen’s sense of hearing, to improve a bit. Even the spiritual power, which formed the sense of hearing, was more sensitive than the dual ears.
However, the two divine seals on both feet brought Zhang Ruochen a great surprise.
As he directed his Saint Qi, to the soles of his feet, the two divine seals emerged and began to operate rapidly.
The forms of the two divine seals were a Green Luan and a Fire Phoenix, which were ancient divine beasts known for their speed.
With a giggling sound, Zhang Ruochen’s feet surged with blazing flames, transforming into two clouds of fire. It was as if he had two divine birds on his feet as he flew into mid-air.
“Swish.”
Immediately after, Zhang Ruochen erupted with unrivalled speed and disappeared into the valley.
When he stood firmly on his feet again, he had already arrived at the bottom of the flaming mountain where Xiao Hei had refined his battle corpse, and the flames in his legs gradually collected back into his body.
“Exciting the divine seals of my legs, coupled with the increase of the Meteor Invisibility Clothes, with my current speed, I should already be able to compete with a Ninth Order Half-Saint.”
Zhang Ruochen’s mood was still quite excited.
Having mastered the divine seal of bipedalism meant that even if he didn’t use the holy decree and encountered a powerhouse like Wan Ji, he would be able to leave gracefully even if he couldn’t defeat the other party.
Speed, was the capital to save one’s life.
“Luanfeng Divine Seal Sprint.”
Zhang Ruochen gave this kind of stance, a name.
Right now, he was still only in the initial stages of mastering this kind of Blistering Speed, and he needed to continue to grope and practice in order to maximise the power of the body technique.
For the next month, Zhang Ruochen continued to practice the Luan Feng Divine Seal Blistering Speed, and at the same time, comprehending the Sacred Dao, and practicing palm and sword techniques, his cultivation became even more profound, and he was able to break through to the Semi-Sacred Realm at any time as long as his mind moved.
Only, however, he was suppressing his realm, still wanting to accumulate even more depth, and it would be best if he could reach the Fish Dragon Tenth Transformation first.
