Four months later, Zhang Ruochen refined three drops of the Dragon Emperor’s blood in a row and drank a large amount of the Silver Moon Dragon Elephant’s blood, and finally succeeded in cultivating the ninth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm.
His fleshly physique took a step further and became even stronger.
It could be said that even in the ancient times, a divine dragon’s cub with a physical body might not be comparable to Zhang Ruochen of today.
“Ow!”
Zhang Ruochen stood on the ground, revolving his gong method, and the holy qi in his body, transformed into the form of a golden gnarled dragon, spurting out from his pores and swirling around his body in flight.
When he pressed his palm towards the ground, thousands of dragon shadows, simultaneously impacted downwards, collapsing the earth and forming a huge palm print.
Immediately afterwards, he withdrew his holy qi, and all the dragon shadows, in an instant, all disappeared without a trace.
“With my current physique, I should have already reached the limit of the Fish Dragon Realm, and it will be difficult to improve any further, so I can start refining the tenth drop of divine blood.”
For other cultivators, only when they broke through to the Half-Saint realm could they complete the fish to dragon transformation. Although Zhang Ruochen was still at the Fish to Dragon Realm, he had already completed his transformation and transformed into a dragon among men, with an extraordinary aura between his hands and feet.
Zhang Ruochen walked out of the scroll world and once again appeared in that abandoned ancient city.
In the Scroll World, although four months had passed, only ten days had actually passed in the outside world.
In the centre of the ancient city, the altar that had been abandoned for hundreds of years had been repaired by Xiao Hei, who had re-inscribed the complete sacrificial pattern and was ready to start the sacrificial ceremony at any time.
The Elephant Swallowing Rabbit and Devil Ape had captured a large number of savage beasts from the periphery of the ancient city, thousands of them, and all of them were bound with chains and stacked on top of the altar.
“Zhang Ruochen, you have successfully cultivated the ninth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm?”When Li Min saw Zhang Ruochen emerge from the gate, she immediately greeted him.
Ri Min didn’t know where Zhang Ruochen had gone to cultivate, however, since he was a Time Successor, he must have some extraordinary means.
With his hands behind his back, Zhang Ruochen stared at her and was able to clearly feel the strength of her Spiritual Force, which had reached the thirty-first rank.
The medicinal effect of the Red Crown Meat Ganoderma was still very obvious, and in just a few days, it was able to raise her mental strength by one rank. By the time she fully absorbed the medicinal properties of the Red Crown Flesh Ganoderma, I’m afraid that she would be able to break through to the thirty-second rank.
“Hmm.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Li-Min stood in front of Zhang Ruochen, a full head shorter, with a pair of beautiful eyes, revealing a rippling lustre as she said, “Then, you should be able to transform into a dragon body, right? It was recorded in the books that there was once a Buddhist monk who executed the ninth palm of the Dragon Elephant Palm, and his body transformed into a hundred-foot-long fiery dragon, striking out with both claws at the same time, tearing apart the earth in a thousand-mile radius and turning it into a canyon. Is it really that strong?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “The strength of a palm strike depends not only on the palm strike itself, but also on the cultivation level of the cultivator who executed it. The power that erupts from a Half-Saint and a Saint, who similarly execute the ninth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, is surely also vastly different.”?Ri Min inclined her head in thought for a moment and muttered to herself, “The book didn’t mention how high the cultivation level of that Buddhist monk was. Zhang Ruochen, can you demonstrate the Ninth Palm once, that humans can really transform into dragons?”
“Can’t.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t want to continue pestering her and marched towards the top of the altar.
Li-Min immediately caught up and followed behind Zhang Ruochen, saying, “Tomorrow night, is the night of the full moon, so when we start the sacrifice then, we will be able to more easily open the door to the divine Realm and borrow the divine power of the gods.”
Zhang Ruochen stopped and said, “Tomorrow night is the night of the full moon?”
“That’s right, so you should wait a little longer, even if you want to refine the divine blood, you don’t have to rush. Right?”Ri Min said.
Zhang Ruochen raised his head and glanced towards the sky, using his spiritual power to make some projections.
As long as one was a cultivator who had read a lot of books, it was clear that not all times were suitable for rituals, and among them, the winter solstice and the night of the full moon were the best times.
As Li-Min said, tomorrow night, was even more suitable for the sacrifice.
“Just as well, let’s wait a little longer then.”Zhang Ruochen said.
On Li-Min’s pretty face, a touch of joy appeared, “Zhang Ruochen, you gave me the Red Crowned Flesh Ganoderma, so I won’t take advantage of you and give you something.”
Immediately after, she took out a scroll of bamboo slips from her sleeve and handed it to Zhang Ruochen.
“What?”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t reach out to receive it, and only asked indifferently.
“Sacrifices of course require a sacrificial text. This sacrificial text is the one that took me countless hours of effort to carve out, and it is also the first sacrificial text that I have written.”
Li-Min looked extremely excited, raising her head and staring at Zhang Ruochen, revealing a look of anticipation.
“Is it? No need.”
After saying this, Zhang Ruochen walked down the altar, sat down on the ground, closed his eyes, and began to regulate his breathing.
Any Ru Dao disciple naturally wished that the sacrificial text he wrote could be used on top of the sacrificial ceremony, used to communicate with the deities and also accumulate qi luck for himself.
However, most of the rituals were written and recited by highly respected sages, so young students simply didn’t have the opportunity to participate in them.
It was so hard to come across an opportunity, so naturally, Ri Min immediately wrote down a sacrificial text. In the past few days, she was quite excited whenever she thought that she would soon be reciting her own written sacrificial text at the sacrificial ceremony.
Who could have expected that Zhang Ruochen would have such an attitude?
Li-Min was very unwilling and walked over to Zhang Ruochen’s side, continuing to harp on, saying, “How can there be no sacrificial text for the ritual? Without a sacrificial text, how can the gods know what you are asking for? Zhang Ruochen, if you don’t even have the sincerity to read out the sacrificial text, how could the deity send down divine power to help you refine the divine blood?”
Throughout the whole day and night, Li Min had approached Zhang Ruochen a total of five times to talk to him, quite serious and rousing, almost as if she was trying to grind Zhang Ruochen’s ears to a disc.
In the end, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t stand her and agreed.
The sky gradually darkened, and the imprint of the moon could already be seen in the sky.
The temperature of the entire world began to drop rapidly, with howling cold winds that blew into this dilapidated, ancient city, emitting ghostly cry-like sounds.
Zhang Ruochen sat on the top of the altar, his hands flat on the position of his knees as he began to adjust his state, preparing to refine the tenth drop of divine blood and impact the legendary Fish Dragon Tenth Transformation.
To him, this was a rather important moment that had to be treated with caution.
Li Min stood at the bottom of the altar, holding a bamboo slip, and began to read out the sacrificial text: ”There are ancient and modern times, and all worlds are governed by the law. The human heart is also different, look up to the Holy Spirit.”
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A whole hour passed before she finished reciting the ritual, apparently quite satisfied, and pinched her somewhat dry and sore throat. Finally, she endeavoured to puff up her breath and said, “The sacrifice begins.”
“Boom boom.”
On the altar, the bodies of all the savage beasts completely burst open, gushing out scarlet blood that turned into blood-coloured streams that converged into the grooves in the altar.
Immediately after, the heaven and earth aura in the ancient city shook violently and surged out in all directions.
A pillar of blood-red light, from the centre of the altar, rose up into the sky, piercing through the clouds and reaching straight to the outer reaches of the universe.
The entire dome of the sky was completely transformed into a blood red colour. Only a huge bright moon still hung between the blood clouds, shedding bright light.
There was a mysterious force in the sky that descended down and entered Zhang Ruochen’s body, connecting with the Seal of the Gods in the Qi Sea.
“Wow…”
The Seals of the Gods flew out of their bodies one after another, hovering above the altar, emitting a divine light.
It was at this moment that Zhang Ruochen took out a drop of divine blood and held it between his hands, and with the help of divine power, he began to refine and absorb it.
“Zhang Ruochen is only at the Fish Dragon Realm, but he’s so powerful that he’s able to defeat a half-saint, could it be that he’s really going to impact the legendary Fish Dragon Tenth Transformation.”Ri Min tugged tightly on a pair of jade-white small hands, holding her breath as she stared at the top of the altar without blinking.
It could be imagined that if, Zhang Ruochen broke through to the Fish Dragon Tenth Transformation, it would surely cause even more shocks than when he reached the Heavenly Extreme Realm’s Supreme Extreme Realm.
Six hundred miles away from this abandoned ancient city, a group of soldiers riding barbarian elephants spotted the blood-red clouds in the sky, and could faintly feel that the aura between heaven and earth only slightly vibrated.
They were an army of elephants sent out by the Ten Thousand Elephant King to search for Zhang Ruochen, and they happened to find this area.
“In that direction, it should be the former Yan Gui City, hasn’t it long since been reduced to ruins, how could such an amazing vision occur?”
“It feels like someone is making a sacrifice, it’s really strange, how could someone choose to make a sacrifice there?”
“Anomalies must be demons, report to the king first.”
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After this team of soldiers, reported the news up, the Wanxiang King sensed the anomaly and immediately rushed over.
The Wanxiang King stood in the centre of the wilderness, his hand resting on the Octagonal Sacred Eye, only to see Zhang Ruochen’s figure emerge from one of the facets of the Sacred Eye. Moreover, at this moment, Zhang Ruochen, who happened to be sitting at the centre of the altar, was actually refining divine blood.
“Haha! In today’s Qingli County, all parties are looking for him, and he even dares to make a big show of sacrificing a deity and refining divine blood, he is really looking for death.”?The King of Ten Thousand Elephants knew that Zhang Ruochen’s strength was very strong, moreover, under his seat, there were several powerful savage beast battle pets. Although he also wanted to take the battle merit alone, yet, he knew very well that with his strength alone, it would be difficult to capture Zhang Ruochen.
Therefore, the Wanxiang King immediately shot out several Transmission Light Talismans to pass on the news that Zhang Ruochen had appeared again.
In order to prevent spooking the snakes, the Wanxiang King did not strike out rashly, but, instead, stayed in place and quietly observed Zhang Ruochen.
Gradually, he discovered something wrong.
The aura emanating from Zhang Ruochen was rapidly becoming stronger, and some of the Marks of the Gods that were originally suspended in mid-air, even flew into Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Above the dome of the sky, the blood clouds spread outwards, becoming wider and wider, as if it had turned into a sea of blood.
“Your Highness, why do I hear a faint divine sound coming from beyond the heavens?”
In an instant, the soldiers around the Wanxiang King were affected by a strange force, and they unexpectedly fell to their knees in a large swath, bowing in the direction of the ancient city.
“How could this happen? Even if Zhang Ruochen impacted the Half-Saint realm, it would be impossible to cause such a vision. Could it be ……”
The sturdy body of the Wanxiang King shook violently, guessing a possibility.
Thinking of this, a scorching light surged in the eyes of the Ten Thousand Elephant King, and no longer continuing to wait for other experts to arrive, he rode a Silver Moon Dragon Elephant and furiously dashed in the direction of the ancient city first.
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