The impact of the assassination of the Eighth Prince in the royal city, where even his head was cut off, was so bad that if the murderer was not found and severely punished, wouldn’t anyone dare to kill members of the royal family in the future?
The King of Yunwu County was thunderously furious, and summoned the ten generals guarding the royal city to the palace overnight, closing the city gates and blocking the martial arts market, preferring to arrest a hundred by mistake, rather than letting one go.
“How many years has it been, there is actually someone who dares to assassinate a member of the royal family in the royal city again, the guts are really not small.” The Yunwu County King let out a cold snort.
In the great hall, the ten generals felt as if they had heard a muffled thunderclap, their eardrums felt as if they were about to shatter, their bodies trembled and they immediately fell to their knees.
The ten of them, each one of them held tens of thousands of troops and horses, with high positions of power, and their own martial cultivation was even more powerful. However, the Yunwu County King only coldly grunted and shocked them all into kneeling on the ground.
There was no way, who called Yunwu County King was a Heavenly Extreme Realm powerhouse, which could be called a myth of martial arts, and amongst the martial artists, it was an existence like “heaven”.
State Master Xue Jingtian stood respectfully at the bottom and said, “Your Majesty, could this matter be related to the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult? In the Yunwu County Kingdom, the only ones who dare to go against the royal family are the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult and the Black Market.”
“Although the black market also gathers a lot of vicious and evil characters, they generally do things linked to profit. Killing the eighth prince is something completely without benefits, not like their style of doing things.”
“On the contrary, it’s the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult, they believe in the Demon God and do things in a misbehaving manner, it’s entirely possible that they killed the eighth prince as a way to provoke the majesty of the royal family.”
“Moon Worshipping Demon Cult?” County King Yunwu’s eyes sank slightly.
In the Yunwu County Kingdom, the most powerful force was naturally the royal family, holding the world’s troops and horses, with strong men like clouds, ruling the entire kingdom.
Those other clans and families, in front of the royal family, could only be considered as small families, there was no comparison at all.
However, there were also some forces that could call the shots with the royal family, for example, the Inscription Guild, the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult, the Black Market, and the Martial Market Money Bank.
The Inscription Guild and the Martial Market Money Bank, one held all the alchemists, artefact smiths, beast masters, and strange people in the world; the other almost controlled more than 30% of the entire kingdom’s property.
The Inscription Guild and the Martial Market Money Bank were spread throughout the entire Kunlun Realm, and a single word from them was enough to influence the decision made by the Yunwu County King.
Of course, the Inscription Guild and the Martial Market Money Bank complemented and mutually benefited the official forces, and under normal circumstances, they would never go against the official forces.
In times of peace, the Inscription Guild and the Martial Market Money Bank were symbolically subservient to the official forces, and to a certain extent, accepted the management of the official forces.
However, matters that truly involved core interests were all managed by the Inscription Guild and the Martial City Money Bank themselves, and even the official forces would never want to meddle in them.
The black market, like the Inscription Guild and the Martial Market Money Bank, had existed since ancient times, and was completely unmanaged by official forces.
The black market, specialising in all sorts of dirty underground transactions, belongs to the dark side of the world.
They controlled most of the killers, prostitutes/girls, thieves, wanted murderers, and even a large number of slave traders and dark mercenaries in the world.
The Black Market, to a certain extent, could rival the Martial Market Money Bank, and its power was quite huge.
The official forces could suppress the black market to a certain extent, but they were never able to eliminate them. Even in some other counties, the black market had taken control of the entire county’s government and army, turning that county into a dark paradise.
As for the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult, they are even more terrifying, they believe in the Demon God, they have many powerful people, and they have set up a rudder in every county and every city, specialising in working against the official forces.
They even wanted to overthrow the rule of the First Central Empire and take control of the entire Kunlun Realm.
The Moon Worshipping Demon Sect would establish a general rudder in every county state, setting up a general rudder master. In every city under the flag of the county state, a sub-rudder is established and a rudder master is set up.
In the Yunwu County State, there were naturally forces of the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect as well.
It was said that the one Moon Worshipping Demon Sect’s chief helmsman in the Yunwu County Country was also at the cultivation level of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, a martial arts myth.
“If it was really someone from the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult that killed the eighth prince, then it is definitely a sign of a threat. They are testing the Yunwu County Kingdom’s depths, to say the least, and a large number of Devil Cult experts are gathering towards the Yunwu County Kingdom, preparing to make a move on it.” State Master Xue Jingtian said
The State Master was the Queen’s elder brother, so he naturally knew that the Eighth Prince had been accidentally killed by the people sent by the Queen.
In order to prevent the Yunwu County King from suspecting the Queen, he could only divert the Yunwu County King’s attention to the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult.
A prince being assassinated was a big deal, however, the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult was a much bigger deal.
One must know that over the past eight hundred years, the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult had exterminated more than one county, and for many rulers, it was like a nightmare existence.
If the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect really wanted to attack Yunwu County Kingdom in a big way, even if other matters were more important, Yunwu County King would definitely put them aside first.
Hearing the words of the State Master, the Yunwu County King’s complexion indeed became serious.
The State Master glanced towards the Yunwu County King and let out a slight sigh of relief.
Finally, he had made the Yunwu County King divert his attention, and if the Yunwu County King ordered a thorough investigation into the cause of the eighth prince’s death, there might really be a possibility that it would be investigated on the Queen’s body.
“It’s impossible that the eighth prince was killed by the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult!” Zhang Ruochen said aloud as he walked in from outside the hall.
The State Master’s eyes stared as he said, “Your Highness, the Ninth Prince, has another opinion?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “The Eighth Prince was travelling in my carriage, which is why he was killed on his way back to the palace. Obviously, those assassins targeted me in their assassination, and the Eighth Prince was only killed by mistake!”
County King Yunwu nodded and said, “Jiu’er has a point. The Moon Worshipping Demon Cult has always done things in a high-profile manner, and if they really had the intention to provoke the royal family, it would definitely not be as simple as assassinating the eighth child. This matter must be thoroughly investigated! In addition, just in case, Ge Qian, you immediately leave the palace and secretly dispatch the recent movements of the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult.”
“Subordinate, lead the way!”
Yunwu County King’s personal guard chief, Ge Qian, bowed his hand and then, retreated. He left the palace in the night and went forward to investigate the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen and the Ten Great Generals also left the grand hall.
The Ten Generals immediately rushed to investigate the death of the Eighth Prince and capture the murderer.
Zhang Ruochen, on the other hand, returned to the Jade Gargoyle Palace and went to check on Yun’er’s injuries before entering the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone and continuing his cultivation.
“The person those killers wanted to kill was definitely me. Tonight’s incident was really dangerous enough, if it wasn’t for the eighth prince forcing Yun’er to send him back to the palace, the person who died would probably be me. Who on earth could it be?”
During the end of the year examination, he had performed really dazzlingly and would definitely be envied.
The people in the palace were the most suspicious.
Of course, the Black Market and the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult were not completely without possibilities, after all, the birth of a top genius in the royal family was no small threat to them. The best way was to wipe out that one genius, in the cradle.
“What’s the point of thinking so much? As long as my cultivation is strong enough, naturally no one can kill me. Besides, the noise caused by the assassination of the eighth prince is just too great, and within a short period of time, it’s unlikely that the other party will launch a second assassination.”
Zhang Ruochen stopped thinking about it and took out a Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill, holding it in the palm of his hand.
The Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Dan, which was as big as a dragon’s eye, was simply like a burning flame, emitting a very scorching aura.
A third-grade elixir, it was really different, the elixir qi it contained was just too thick.
One must know that the price of a Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill was simply comparable to a fifth rank True Martial Treasure. With such an extravagant elixir, only Zhang Ruochen would purchase seven of them at once.
Only a fleshly body as powerful as Zhang Ruochen’s would dare to swallow the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill. If it was any other martial artist in the middle extreme position of the Yellow Extreme Realm, not only would they not be able to refine the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill, they would even be in danger of having their body incinerated by the fire of the Pill.
Swallowing the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill into the abdomen was simply like swallowing a small round of blazing sun, the pain was definitely no less than the pain of cultivating in the Barbarian God Pool.
“Puffing!”
A trace of dan fire and dan qi surged out from the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Dan, drilling into Zhang Ruochen’s meridians, flesh, bones, and organs, continuously quenching his physical body.
It took three whole days for Zhang Ruochen to completely refine the Dan Flame of the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Dan, and the strength of his fleshly body increased by a large margin. Not only that, the True Qi in the Qi Pool had unexpectedly doubled.
In these three days, Zhang Ruochen had only refined all of the Dan Flame, and the Dan Qi had only been refined by 30%.
After spending another five days, Zhang Ruochen refined all of the Dan Qi from the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Dan. The true qi in the qi pool had been raised quite a bit more.
“At this rate, if I refine two more Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Dan, I will be able to cultivate the True Qi in the Qi Pool to perfection, reaching the peak of the middle stage of the Yellow Extreme Realm.”
The function of the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill was not to raise the true qi, but to temper the physical body.
However, the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill was too heaven-defying, and while tempering the fleshly body, it also allowed Zhang Ruochen to increase the amount of True Qi by a lot.
Zhang Ruochen did not rush to refine the second Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill, after all, the medicinal power of the Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Pill was just too violent, if he took it one after another, even with Zhang Ruochen’s powerful physique, he would definitely not be able to consume it.
“Practice inscribing basic spatial inscriptions first!”
Zhang Ruochen took out the inscription pen and spirit paper, injected his true qi into the inscription pen, and inscribed on top of the spirit paper over and over again.
After practising for a whole day and wasting more than one hundred and thirty sheets of spirit paper, he did not succeed in inscribing a single inscription.
He wasn’t discouraged, and continued to practice and carve.
For the next month, Zhang Ruochen almost always stayed in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, only going out once every three days.
The rest of the time was mostly spent on cultivating the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, the Heavenly Heart Sword Skill and practising engraving the eight basic spatial inscriptions.
A month in the outside world would be three months in the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone.
In three months’ time, Zhang Ruochen refined three Heavenly Elephant Red Flame Dan and finally cultivated the True Qi in the Qi Pool to perfection, reaching the peak of the Yellow Extremity Realm Middle Extremity Position, so that he could begin to impact the Yellow Extremity Realm Great Extremity Position.
“With my current physique, even if I compare it to my last life, it’s still comparable. After all, I was only six years old when I broke through the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position in my last life.” Zhang Ruochen said.
Zhang Ruochen was ready to start impacting the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position.
“I also wonder how many meridians can be opened up? In my last life, when I was at the Yellow Extreme Realm Great Extreme Position, I opened up twenty-seven meridians. In this life, will I be able to surpass that?”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes became incredibly determined, no matter what, it had to be done.
