Ling Fei Yu was slightly surprised, not expecting that Zhang Ruochen would be ready to sell the divine blood so soon.
To her, it was naturally a good thing.
“What do you want from you? A holy stone? Sacred Decree? Holy Dan? Or perhaps a Saint level guardian?”
Ling Fei Yu had been cultivating for three hundred years and was one of the nine Palace Masters of the Demon Sect, so naturally, she had accumulated very huge resources and wealth, which was not something that could be compared to an ordinary Saint.
Of course, in her opinion, Zhang Ruochen was now making enemies everywhere and was surrounded by enemies, making it all the more necessary for a Saint level guardian to protect him in the shadows and defend his path. That was why this point was raised.
As long as Zhang Ruochen could afford the Divine Blood, with Ling Fei Yu’s status, it would never be difficult to invite a Saint specifically to protect him.
“Those things that can be bought, or exchanged, from elsewhere, why would I need to exchange divine blood with you?”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “I want the Sword Saint to accompany me to practice with my sword, and exchange ten drops of divine blood for one exchange. How?”
Ling Feiyu naturally understood that Zhang Ruochen’s purpose of asking her to practise with him was definitely because he wanted to understand the sword in the process of exchanging hands.
Crossing swords with a Sword Saint was the fastest way to comprehend the Way of the Sword.
As long as Zhang Ruochen’s enlightenment was high enough, he would be able to steal Ling Fei Yu’s sword dao in the process of sparring.
One had to know that even the personal disciples of the Sword Saint rarely had the opportunity to be able to spar with the Sword Saint. From this, it could be seen how rare such an opportunity was.
“Ten drops of divine blood for one handfight, that’s a fair price.”
Ling Fei Yu gently nodded and added, “You must be clear about one thing, when this Saint fights with you, it is not to feed you moves or teach you the Way of the Sword. Rather, it’s a fight in the true sense of the word, and there will be absolutely no mercy.”
For a Sword Saint to actually agree to accompany a low ranked Half-Saint for sword practice was definitely a great honour for that low ranked Half-Saint.
Zhang Ruochen was naturally quite pleased and said, “That’s natural, only when you go all out against each other will you be able to reveal your true abilities.”
Seeing Zhang Ruochen’s confident appearance, Ling Fei Yu was quite unhappy in his heart and said, “Even if, this Saint suppresses his cultivation, to the same realm as you, how many moves can you block me?”
“To tell you the truth, last time at the Sword Mound, this Saint didn’t even exert 50% of his strength. If it was, and it exerted ten per cent of its strength, I’m afraid you wouldn’t even be able to block a single move.”
Zhang Ruochen was very clear about the gap between him and the Sword Saint, and thus, rather frankly said, “A single move of the Sword Saint’s Sword Technique is also enough for some Sword Cultivators to comprehend for a lifetime.”
The Way of Time and the Way of Space were simply too profound, and with Zhang Ruochen’s current realm, if he went deeper into his cultivation, he would most likely get lost in the chaos of time and the space of reality and emptiness.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen decided to major in the Way of the Sword at the Half-Saint realm.
In the future, when his cultivation had entered Sainthood and his spiritual power had become stronger, it would not be too late for him to comprehend the Way of Time and the Way of Space.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation of the Spatial Realm and the Time Sword Dao was actually laying the foundation for the future.
The reason why Ling Fei Yu had agreed and accompanied Zhang Ruochen in his sword practice was actually for two reasons.
The first was naturally for the divine blood.
The value of divine blood was already extremely high, and, on the market, it was simply impossible to buy it. Any drop of divine blood was also quite precious to her.
Secondly, Ling Fei Yu still remembered the Time Sword Technique that Zhang Ruochen had performed at the Sword Mound.
Zhang Ruochen wanted to steal lessons from her, and why would she not want to steal lessons from Zhang Ruochen?
If, she was able to comprehend something from within the Sword of Time, her Sword Dao would definitely be taken to the next level.
It was because each of them had their own needs, so the two of them came to an agreement.
Zhang Ruochen naturally wasn’t about to fight Ling Fei Yu right now, after all, it wasn’t long ago that the two of them had only fought once. If they fought again now, it was expected that there wouldn’t be much change.
Therefore, Zhang Ruochen was prepared to go to the Sword Mound first, to improve his cultivation and Sword Dao.
After he had improved, he would come back to fight her again.
Seeing that Zhang Ruochen was going to the Sword Mound, Ling Feiyu said, “Earlier, this Saint brought Xiang Zhengfeng to the Sword Mound as well and met the Ancestral Yin Spirit of the Heaven Executing Sword lineage for verification. The Sword Spirit of the Heaven Executing Sword, did not discover that Xiang Zhengfeng was in contact with the Immortal Blood Clan.”
A puzzled look appeared on Zhang Ruochen’s face as he said, “How could this be? Could it be that Xiang Zhengfeng had already been in contact with the Immortal Blood Race before he obtained the Heaven Execution Sword?”
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen thought of the Xuan Gui Sword Saint’s fourth disciple, Feng Han.
Wasn’t Feng Han a pawn that the Immortal Blood Clan had placed beside the Xuan Gui Sword Saint? If, Feng Han obtained the Monstrous Sky Sword. The sword spirit of the Monstrous Heavenly Sword wouldn’t know that he had been in contact with the Immortal Blood Clan.
“Comparatively speaking, this Saint trusts you more. Therefore, this Saint has activated the rights of the sword bearer and imprisoned Xiang Zhengfeng in the Underworld Dungeon.”Ling Feiyu said.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t ask why Ling Feiyu trusted him so much, he just stared deeply at her. With that, he left the cave and headed to the Sword Mound.
Ling Fei Yu was quite domineering in her actions, and this was not the first time Zhang Ruochen had seen this.
Thus, it was not at all surprising that she had locked Xiang Zhengfeng in the Underworld Dungeon.
Ling Fei Yu did not enter the Sword Mound to guard Zhang Ruochen, she only took away the Monstrous Sword and kept it at her place temporarily.
Entering the Sword Mound, Zhang Ruochen did not immediately go to pay homage to the Yin Spirit of the successive ancestors of the Monstrous Sky Sword, but, instead, came to the top of a volcano.
He released Little Black and had it set up a rather profound concealment formation, in the crater of the volcano.
Only when the formation was successfully set up did Zhang Ruochen enter the Qiankun Divine Wood Diagram and came to the bottom of the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, taking out the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
“Sinking Abyss.”
Zhang Ruochen called out.
On the surface of the black sword body, a three-inch tall humanoid shadow with a pair of black feathered wings emerged, quite handsome in appearance, resembling Zhang Ruochen by seven points.
The sword spirit said, ”I know that in your mind, there must be a lot of doubts and a lot of things you want to ask me. However, I’m sorry, I’m afraid I can’t answer you.”
“Why?”Zhang Ruochen asked.
The Sword Spirit said, “Because, not long after you died, the body of the Sinking Abyss Sword was chopped off, and I fell into a deep slumber until today when I woke up.”
Zhang Ruochen’s brows deepened as he said, “Chi Yao used the Sinking Abyss Sword and chopped you off?”
The Sword Spirit shook its head, its voice seeming rather despondent as it said, “My feelings with Dripping Blood are by no means below yours and Chi Yao’s. The feelings of a sword are more sincere than humans. While Chi Yao will kill you, Dripping Blood will never cut me off.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, “Could there be any other battle weapon in the world that could cut you off?”
“Of course there is, for example, the Infernal Divine Sword.”The sword spirit said.
“The legendary Infernal Divine Sword has actually appeared in the Kunlun Realm?”Even with Zhang Ruochen’s state of mind, he revealed a shocked expression.
The Sword Spirit said, “That’s right.”
The Infernal Divine Sword, one of the Ten Great Divine Weapons of the Ancient Era, was said to be a sword that was forged using the originating substance of space.
Even an ordinary person holding the Infernal Divine Sword would be able to cut a hole in space with a single swing without using any holy qi.
The so-called “Infernal” meant that there was no spatial boundary.
The Ten Great Divine Weapons were already legends of a long time ago, and even in the Middle Ages, they rarely appeared. Eight hundred years ago, how could the Infernal Divine Sword come out of nowhere and, moreover, cut off the Sinking Abyss Sword?
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Who is the owner of the Infernal Divine Sword?”
The Sword Spirit shook its head and said, “The Infernal Divine Sword flew in from beyond the heavens, and I tried to escape but failed to do so. After the sword broke, I fell into a deep sleep and lost consciousness. This slumber was eight hundred years.”
Zhang Ruochen put the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword back away, his heart was quite disappointed, not only did he fail to ask something useful from the Sword Spirit, but instead, he added more doubts.
In the next few moments, Zhang Ruochen took the Withered Wood Dan and prepared to nurse his wounds first.
After taking the Withered Wood Pill, Zhang Ruochen’s injuries were healed in just one night.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t immediately cultivate the second level realm of the Time Sword Technique, instead, he began to refine the divine blood, preparing to raise his cultivation to the peak of the First Order Half-Saint first.
When he fought with the Wind Bird, Zhang Ruochen profoundly realised how suffocating it was to fight with a strong person whose realm difference was too great.
If, at that time, Zhang Ruochen had possessed the cultivation of a peak First Order Half-Saint, he would have coped with it quite comfortably and would not have suffered such heavy injuries.
For the next month, Zhang Ruochen refined the divine blood while simultaneously cultivating the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm and Sword III.
By cultivating the Palm and Sword Techniques, he promoted himself to absorb the divine blood faster.
One month later.
Zhang Ruochen was sitting underneath the Heaven Receiving Divine Wood, completely wrapped in clouds of holy qi as if he was sitting in the centre of chaos, with a sword-shaped sword qi that revolved around his body.
His cultivation, which had already reached the peak of a First Order Half-Saint, had increased his power by at least seventy percent compared to the early stages of a First Order Half-Saint.
On top of that, Zhang Ruochen’s Sword Dao had also made some progress, cultivating Sword III to the fourth level of the realm.
Nowadays, Zhang Ruochen’s strength had increased drastically. If he were to fight the Wind Bird again, even without using the Thousand Stripes Destruction Strength, he would have complete certainty that he would defeat him.
Having reached the peak of the First Order Half-Saint, it was already difficult to break through again.
Thus, Zhang Ruochen did not continue to cultivate, but left the Tulip World and returned to the top of that volcano in the Sword Mound.
A month in the picture scroll world, but in fact, in the outside world, only three days had passed.
For three days, Little Black had been on guard outside.
Of course, it hadn’t been idle, but had been setting up all sorts of formations around this volcano, defence formations, attack formations, illusion formations, hidden formations ……, and by careful count, it had actually set up nine large formations.
Zhang Ruochen was a little curious and asked, “Little Black, what are you going to do so?”
“The situation in the Underworld Sword Mound is becoming more and more unstable, so this Emperor naturally wants to save for a rainy day and establish a hiding place in advance. It can be attacked in advance and defended in retreat. In the future, if the Undying Blood Race really kills its way in, howdy, we can still hide here.”
Xiao Hei’s two paws kept busy and asked, “What about you? Planning to pay homage to the successive ancestors of the Monstrous Sword lineage?”
Zhang Ruochen pondered for a moment and said, “There’s no rush in this matter, I’ve made some progress in my cultivation and sword dao, so I’ll first go to fight Ling Fei Yu once to try it out. I also wonder, how strong is she when she goes all out?”
