Zhang Ruochen sat down in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, and from inside a jade vessel, he took out a kilogram of spirit meat and began to take it.
Spirit meat, which condensed the essence of the aura and blood within the body of a savage beast, possessed countless benefits for martial artists: increasing strength, strengthening bones and flesh, slowing down aging, and prolonging one’s life.
Generally speaking, a martial artist in the middle Xuanji Realm, taking ten catties of spirit meat, coupled with diligent cultivation, would be able to break through to the late Xuanji Realm within half a month.
Zhang Ruochen’s martial body was much stronger than other mid Xuan Extreme Realm martial artists, and if he wanted to break through to the late Xuan Extreme Realm, he would need to take at least forty jin of spirit meat.
“Forty-eight jin of spirit meat is enough for me to cultivate to the late Xuan Extreme Realm within a short period of time.”
The forty-eight catties of spirit meat were all collected from the bodies of those dead martial artists from the Four Directions County during the first round of the Academy Palace Examination.
Such a large amount of spirit meat, if it was taken out and sold, it could be sold for at least 200,000 silver coins, definitely a huge fortune.
Spirit meat was so precious that ordinary martial artists could not afford to take it at all. Zhang Ruochen, however, didn’t care in the slightest and quickly took all of the one catty of spirit meat.
After taking the spirit meat, Zhang Ruochen felt that his entire body was filled with strength, both the blood flow rate and the speed of the true qi had accelerated a lot.
Zhang Ruochen stood up and began to practice the fourth palm of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm. While practising the palm, he was also accelerating the essence of the spirit meat, absorbing it into his body and transforming it into his strength.
The fourth palm of the Dragon Image Prajna Palm was called “Dragon Image Shadow”.
Zhang Ruochen took one step in front of his body, his body was slightly bent, and his hands both looked like they were cupping into palm imprints and claw imprints.
“Boom Boom!”
The palms kept striking out, extremely fast, with palm prints all around.
He had only cultivated into three palms only now, Savage Beast Chasing the Ground, Flying Dragon in the Sky, and Dragon Elephant Returning to the Field, which were only equivalent to the power of an upper-grade human grade martial art. Of course, it definitely belonged to the top amongst human grade upper grade martial arts, and could even compete with some weaker spirit grade lower grade martial arts.
However, only when the fourth palm was successfully cultivated would the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm undergo a metamorphosis and turn into a true Spirit Grade Lower Grade martial skill. At that time, the power of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm would definitely be comparable to some weaker Spirit Grade Middle Grade martial skills.
Time passed extremely quickly, and in the Space-Time Crystal Stone, Zhang Ruochen cultivated for half a month in a row.
Every day, he would spend most of his time cultivating the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, and after half a month of hard cultivation, he was already able to strike the fourth palm “Dragon Image Shadow” very smoothly.
A palm was struck, and true qi surged.
In the palm print, the sound of a dragon and elephant roaring was emitted.
However, there was still a big gap between the fourth palm, “Dragon Image Shadow”, and its completion.
If he was able to cultivate it to a grand completion, once he struck out the palm print, Zhang Ruochen’s body would be able to turn into two shadows, one striking out a dragon claw, and the other striking out an elephant paw, and the power that erupted from it would instantly be doubled.
Although he had yet to cultivate the fourth palm of the Dragon Elephant Palm to its grand completion, his cultivation level had increased by a large margin.
For half a month, Zhang Ruochen had taken one kilogram of spirit meat every day, a total of fifteen kilograms of spirit meat, and his martial realm had improved by leaps and bounds.
Half a month ago, Zhang Ruochen had only just entered the middle stage of the Xuanji Realm, and his true qi reserves were only 20% of the qi lake’s capacity. Now, the Jade Pure True Qi in his Qi Lake had become even thicker, with his True Qi reserves reaching 70% of the Qi Lake’s capacity, and he was not far from the True Qi Perfection of the middle Xuanji Realm.
With his current cultivation, he could completely defeat Nie Xuan with ease.
Of course, half a month in the Time and Space Crystal Stone, only five days had passed in the outside world.
Zhang Ruochen stepped out of the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and re-entered the room of the Yellow Character Number One.
“Meow!”
Little Black was like a black ball of fur, sitting on top of a copper chair, his two cat paws holding a yellowed book that he was reading intently.
On the cover of the book, there were seven words written, “Kunlun Realm Ancient History”.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen walk out from the Space-Time Crystal Stone, Xiao Hei closed the book in his hands, and his cat eyes were as bright as stars as he asked, “Junior Lang, have you broken through to the late Xuanji Realm?”
“Not that fast, I guess it will take some more time!” Zhang Ruochen stared curiously at Little Black and asked, “Where did you steal the books from?”
“Steal?”
Little Black had an unhappy look on his face as he said, “This Emperor just went to the Martial City Academy Palace’s Scripture Collection Tower and casually took a book out of it, and when he was done reading it, this Emperor would still replace it back. How can it be considered stealing?”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t bother to argue with it and said, “How is Fourth Brother’s injury recovery going?”
“That dead fatso’s cultivation is sparse, however, the recovery speed is fast. A pair of arms can already be lifted up, and after ten more days at most, it will definitely be healed.” Xiao Hei said.
Zhang Ruochen added, “Where is he now?”
“Gone!” Little Blackie said.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Gone? Why did he leave?”
“He heard that this is the Dragon Martial Hall, so he rolled and escaped.” Xiao Hei said.
For the male martial artists of the Western Academy, the Dragon Martial Hall was definitely a forbidden place, using many horrifying legends. When Zhang Shaochu heard that he was in the Dragon Martial Hall, he turned green with fear and immediately fled.
Zhang Ruochen dared to stay in the Dragon Martial Hall, but Zhang Shaochu didn’t dare.
“Let him go!”
Zhang Ruochen planned to continue his closed-door cultivation, striving to reach the late Xuanji Realm as soon as possible.
Next, Zhang Ruochen cultivated in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone for another half a month, still taking one kilogram of spirit meat every day, and spending most of his time every day cultivating the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, as well as a small amount of time cultivating the Heavenly Heart Sword Technique.
Cultivation steadily increased, and finally, the True Qi in Zhang Ruochen’s Qi Lake reached the Perfection Realm, allowing him to start impacting the late Xuanji Realm.
However, Zhang Ruochen was not in a hurry to impact the realm, and planned to continue taking Spirit Flesh, so that he could accumulate even more, and when the time came, he would be able to break through the realm in one fell swoop.
The two closed-door cultivation sessions added up to a total of one month that Zhang Ruochen had cultivated in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, and ten days had passed in the outside world.
There were still twenty days to go before the duel with Feng Zhilin.
“The fourth palm of the Dragon Image Prajna Palm has never been able to break through, it seems that it always lacks some fire. Only by fighting against an expert could one discover what exactly is lacking?”
Zhang Ruochen stopped his closed-door cultivation and planned to look for Xiao Hei and fight with it to find the reason why he was unable to cultivate into the fourth palm.
Just as he stepped out from the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, Zhang Ruochen heard Huang Yichen’s icy voice from outside the door, “Fat Cat, if you don’t get out of the way, I’ll even kill you together!”
Little Black stood outside the door, his tail c*cked high as he said in an old-fashioned manner, “Zhang Ruochen is in closed-door cultivation, so even if you barge in, it’s impossible for you to see him. Little girl, this Emperor advises you to retreat quickly, if you provoke this Emperor to anger, no one in heaven or on earth will be able to save you.”
“Is that so? Then I’ll split you to try!”
When Huang Yichen’s injuries were healed, he immediately came to find Zhang Ruochen to settle the score, his heart was already full of fire, but when he came to the door of Zhang Ruochen’s room, he was stopped by a talking fat cat.
The fire in her heart was even greater, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that that one fat cat was as bad as Zhang Ruochen, so she gripped the hilt of her sword in her hand, drew out a precious blue ancient sword, and slashed it towards Xiao Hei.
“Swish!”
Xiao Hei’s speed was very fast, transforming into a black shadow, dodging Huang Yicun’s sword and pouncing towards her.
Huang Yichen’s face was slightly surprised for a moment, not expecting Little Black’s speed to be so fast. To be able to dodge one of her swords, his speed was at least comparable to a second stage medium savage beast.
However, for her, Xiao Hei’s speed was still too slow.
With a cold smile, she slapped out a palm, sending Little Black flying over ten feet away. Xiao Hei’s body crashed into the wall, falling dizzily and straight to the ground.
“Stinking b*tch, you …… you hit too hard!”
Xiao Hei climbed up from the ground, his mouth revealing sharp teeth, his heart was very angry, if it wasn’t unable to beat Huang Yichen, it would definitely want to ruthlessly teach her a lesson.
Huang Yichen was so angry that his teeth itched, this time the dead fat cat was too without a mouth, if he caught it, he would have cut out its tongue first.
Zhang Ruochen pushed the door and walked out, glancing towards Huang Yichen and smiling, “Senior Sister Huang, your injuries have healed?”
Seeing Zhang Ruochen, Huang Yichen’s eyes became even colder, not wanting to say a word more to Zhang Ruochen at all, she directly stabbed her sword over.
One must know that Huang Yichen was a Xuan Ranked Martial Artist, able to fight against the top experts of the Earth Extreme Realm.
The sword she stabbed out was enough to kill an average Xuan Extremity Realm Grand Circle martial artist in seconds.
Zhang Ruochen’s face changed slightly as he looked at the sword that stabbed over rapidly, and he said in his heart, Duanmu Xingling was right, Huang Yichen hated him to the bone, and would not listen to his explanation at all.
Zhang Ruochen glanced towards Duanmu Xingling, who was not far away, and Duanmu Xingling nodded in understanding.
“Swish!”
Duanmu Xingling transformed into a petite and beautiful residual shadow and rushed to Zhang Ruochen’s front, stopping Huang Yicun.
With two snowy onion jade fingers, Duanmu Xingling clamped down on the tip of Huang Yichen’s sword and said, “Sister Dust, you have to calm down, Zhang Ruochen is the number one freshman, if you kill him, you will surely be heavily punished by the Academic Palace as well.”
Huang Yichen said, “Starling, get out of the way. Today, I must kill this lecherous thief!”
Huang Yichen’s five fingers twisted and the blade of his sword spun, emitting a spinning sword qi that shook two of Duanmu Xingling’s fingers away.
Immediately, Huang Yichen slashed his sword again, dragging out a four-metre long white sword Qi.
Duanmu Xingling and Zhang Ruochen had long ago agreed in secret, so naturally, it was impossible for Huang Yichen to really kill Zhang Ruochen.
Thus, Duanmu Xingling also drew out a sword and once again blocked Huang Yichen’s attack.
“Starling, do you have to stop me from killing him?”
Huang Yichen stabbed out nine swords in a row, nine sword shadows appearing in the air at the same time, stabbing at Zhang Ruochen’s nine vital points.
Huang Yichen’s true qi was somewhat special, surprisingly carrying the Blast Wind attribute. Once she stabbed out her sword strokes, a seven-metre diameter stormy wind vortex automatically formed around her, and a wind blade flew out from the vortex.
“Swoosh!”
One of the wind blades flew past Zhang Ruochen’s armpit and chopped on top of the pillar, leaving a two-inch deep sword mark on the pillar.
“The one she opened up should be the Blistering Wind Divine Martial Seal, and that’s why the true qi cultivated carries the wind attribute.”
Zhang Ruochen stood on top of the ladder and looked at Huang Yichen and Duanmu Xingling who were having a sword fight below, carefully observing the sword moves they were using while also pondering over the breaks and weaknesses within their moves.
