The Yellow Extreme Realm, Xuan Extreme Realm, Earth Extreme Realm, and Heaven Extreme Realm were known as the “Four Realms of the Martial Dao”.
The so-called Martial Dao, even if your cultivation level is high, you can only be called a martial artist.
For example, a martial artist in the Heavenly Extreme Realm could only be referred to as, at most, a Peak of Martial Dao or a Myth of Martial Dao.
Only after breaking through the Martial Dao could one enter the Sacred Dao.
Without stepping into the Holy Dao, one was ultimately a mortal.
If you want to cross into the Sacred Dao, you have to go through the Nine Changes of the Fish and Dragon, and each change is a heavy heaven and earth:
The first transformation: innate foetal breath.
The second change: refining skin into gold.
Third Change: Refining Bone into Jade.
The fourth change: Yin massage holy vein.
Fifth change: Yangwei Sacred Vein.
Sixth Change: Yin Dimension Sacred Chakra.
Seventh change: Yang Dimension Sacred Vein.
Eighth change: the Chushing Spirit Sacred Chakra.
Ninth change: glazed precious body.
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Once one crossed into the Fish Dragon Realm, with each completed change, the martial artist would undergo a radical transformation, their strength would increase exponentially, and they would constantly approach the Holy Dao.
Only after opening up five Saint Veins, after the Nine Changes of the Fish Dragon, and cultivating into a glazed treasure body, with a fleshly body that was incorruptible and immortal, would one be qualified to impact the Half Saint realm.
The difficulty of trying to reach the Half-Saint realm was far beyond the imagination of a martial artist.
Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce’s Hua Qing Ye, natural capital is not good, cultivation for nearly a hundred years, only to reach the first change of the fish and dragon “innate foetal breath”.
The so-called “innate foetal breath”, self-serving internal gas, holding a fixed one, can mobilise the heaven and earth spirit for their own food, to achieve the realm of grain.
To reach this realm cultivator, even if lying underwater to sleep for a year, will not suffocate, will not starve to death.
Therefore, by crossing into the Fish Dragon Realm, one had already transcended mortals and was no longer considered a martial artist.
Zhang Ruochen was still very far away from the Fish Dragon Realm.
At this moment, he was refining the Half Sacred Light in his Qi Sea.
The Half-Saint’s Light, divine and flawless, was suspended in the Qi Sea like a Xuan Radiant Light flying in the sky, containing an incomparably huge amount of soul power.
Even if it was only one percent of the Half-Saint’s Light, the soul power it contained was comparable to the martial soul of a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation or above.
Zhang Ruochen’s own martial soul appeared incomparably weak in front of that mass of Half-Saint’s Light, like a star and the sun comparing whose light was brighter.
If Zhang Ruochen was able to completely refine that mass of Half-Saint Light, his martial soul, naturally, could be upgraded by a large margin. Of course, it was impossible to grow to the terrifying extent of the Fish Dragon’s Seventh Transformation.
It was like a person that ate a catty of meat, could a catty of meat grow on the difficult body?
Obviously not.
Even if Zhang Ruochen completely refined the Half-Saint’s Light, the Martial Soul would only be able to absorb at most one-tenth of it, that is, one-thousandth of the soul power of the Half-Saint’s Light.
Never underestimate the one-thousandth part of the soul power of the Half-Saint’s Light, it could definitely make Zhang Ruochen’s martial soul three or four times stronger.
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen’s hands closed, and the Martial Soul was released from his body and suspended above his head.
As the Martial Soul breathed in and out, it continuously absorbed the Half-Saint’s Light into the past, causing Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul to become more and more solid and taller, filled with a sense of divine majesty.
The stronger one’s martial soul was, the more one’s spiritual power would grow along with it, only that the rate of growth would be very slow.
Only when the martial soul was raised by a large amount would the spiritual power be raised by one rank.
According to Zhang Ruochen’s prediction, it would take at least three months to refine all of the Half-Saint’s Light in the Sea of Qi.
However, it might not be necessary to completely refine the Half-Saint’s Light in order to raise his spiritual power to the 40th rank. This was because, Zhang Ruochen’s current spiritual power was already very close to the fortieth rank, and it was just a final sprint away from breaking through.
Getting the Half-Saint’s Light was giving Zhang Ruochen the opportunity to make a sprint breakthrough.
In the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, after roughly a month of cultivation and refining almost a third of the Half-Saint’s Light, Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul Strength had almost doubled, and his Spiritual Strength had finally impacted to the fortieth rank in a single stroke.
Right at this moment, Zhang Ruochen only felt that his soul, which seemed to have undergone a brand new deformation, formed a fit with a certain rule in the heaven and earth.
Wisps of invisible spiritual energy automatically converged towards Zhang Ruochen’s brow centre, forming a speck of light that became brighter and brighter.
Zhang Ruochen only felt a burning heat that came from the centre of his eyebrows, as if it was going to tear his body apart.
“Open the Heavenly Eye.”
At the centre of his eyebrows, a pattern of light indeed cracked open, forming the shape of a vertical eye, and at the centre, a pupil like a ball of fire coalesced.
The Eye of Spiritual Power.
Only when one’s spiritual power reached the fortieth rank could one open up such a heavenly eye, which could see many things that normal people couldn’t see.
“Haha! Spiritual power has finally reached the fortieth rank and opened up the Spiritual Power Heavenly Eye, which can see into all kinds of mysteries.”
Zhang Ruochen stopped continuing to refine the Half-Saint’s Light, walked out of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, and came to the outside of the cultivation chamber, feeling the mysteries of the Heavenly Eye in detail.
With his toes, gently pointing, Zhang Ruochen soared up and landed on top of the tallest floor of the tower in the cultivation mansion, his feet stepping on the glazed tiles as he gazed into the distance.
When he hadn’t opened up his Heavenly Eyes, Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were also able to see farther than normal people, which could be described as amazing eyesight.
However, when Zhang Ruochen used his Heavenly Eyes to look into the distance, he actually penetrated the walls of the Heavenly Demon Martial City and directly saw the mountains eight hundred miles away.
The main thing was that the image he saw was quite clear.
Eight hundred miles away, two savage beasts were fighting, one of them was a three-metre tall golden-furred thunder tiger, and the other was a purple-crowned golden python.
They fought fiercely, knocking down a large tree.
In the end, it was the violet-crested golden python that won, swallowing the golden-haired thunder tiger into its stomach with one bite.
“Too subtle, too amazing! This should be considered ‘Thousand Miles Eyes’, right?”
The Heavenly Eye in Zhang Ruochen’s brow kept flickering, emitting a light that was even brighter.
Not only that, Zhang Ruochen realised that the Heavenly Eye’s penetrating power was also extremely strong, and even if there was an obstruction, it couldn’t block his gaze.
Just like the walls of the Heavenly Demon Martial City, not only were they wide and thick, but they were also engraved with formation inscriptions, but Zhang Ruochen barely spent much of his mental energy before he looked through them.
His eyes turned and looked down at the ground, but he could easily see the landforms and underground creatures a hundred miles deep underground, the deeply buried war soldiers, the decaying white bones, the tattered armour ……, all of which were presented before Zhang Ruochen’s eyes.
That was the scene of the Heavenly Demon Martial City’s underground, other martial artists, could not see it at all.
“With the Heavenly Eyes and the Royal Sword Technique, with my current cultivation, even if I want to take the head of someone a hundred miles away, it should be a breeze.”
The reason why it was a hundred miles away and not a thousand miles away was because, Zhang Ruochen was still only in the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, and the true qi in his body was not deep enough.
A sword that flew a hundred miles away would already be difficult to control.
Unless he could break through to a higher realm.
Although his cultivation still remained at the Fourth Realm of the Martial Dao, however, his current strength had already surpassed the Martial Dao and reached another level.
Even if it was compared to the legendary Nine Extreme Geniuses, it should already be on par.
The so-called Nine Extreme Geniuses were not as simple as being able to fight across nine realms.
Why was it so powerful?
Firstly, at less than twenty years old, cultivating spiritual power to the fortieth rank, since ancient times, one would not be able to find a few such divine beings.
Second, a powerful martial soul. With Zhang Ruochen’s current martial soul strength, it could already be compared to a Fish Dragon Realm martial artist.
Third, the realm of the Sword Mind.
These three conditions, if any one of them appeared in a mid Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artist, it could make that one martial artist a heavenly prodigy of fame.
What’s more, Zhang Ruochen had brought all three conditions together in one place, and with a strength like his, it would be a strange thing if he still couldn’t transcend the Martial Dao.
After absorbing the Half-Saint’s Light, Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul strength had doubled, allowing him to mobilise more Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
If, now, he were to face Hua Qing Ye again, Zhang Ruochen had full confidence that he would defeat him.
“Generally speaking, when spiritual power reaches the fortieth rank, some special abilities can be born, and I wonder what my special abilities are?”
When one’s spiritual power reached the fortieth rank, in the Kunlun Realm, they were generally known as “Spiritual Power Masters”.
Some of them could use their spiritual power to summon thunder and lightning, and were called “Thunder Masters” or “Electricity Masters”.
There are also people who can use their spiritual power to call the wind and rain, known as “rain masters” or “wind masters”.
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Zhang Ruochen guessed that the special ability he was born with should be related to thunder and lightning, after all, his Martial Soul had the attribute of thunder and lightning.
Thus, Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes and stretched out a finger, pointing it towards the sky.
In an instant, a purple lightning bolt shot out from the originally clear sky, like a large dragon, crossing the sky and striking above the square in the centre of the Heavenly Demon Martial City.
Immediately after, a loud exclamation erupted, and the entire Heavenly Demon Martial City seemed to tremble.
In an instant, all of the formation inscriptions of the Heavenly Demon Martial City activated, and a pillar of light shot up, forming a defensive formation that covered the entire city.
“Rumble!”
Being struck by lightning, in the centre of the square, a huge pit with a diameter of more than ten metres appeared.
Around the giant pit, it was scorched black and extended a terrifying crack, some of which were as wide as a metre, as if the earth had been torn apart.
Countless fine electric lines, like a purple dragon, covered the entire square, emitting a “giggling” sound.
The terrifying destructive power of the lightning caused the martial artists around the square to be scared silly.
A true thunderbolt from a clear sky!
“Swish!”
“Swish!”
The experts from the Martial City Academy and the Cloud Tower Sect Mansion all thought that a supreme expert had come to the Heavenly Demon Martial City to cause trouble, and rushed over at the first opportunity.
Among them, naturally, they also included the Silver-robed Elder Pavilion’s Pavilion Master, Lei Jing.
Lei Jing radiated his true qi out, and with a bang, he descended from the sky and landed on the edge of the large pit, his mighty body appeared to be very upright, and with his hands on his back, he looked at the square before him that had been completely destroyed, and a worried look arose in his heart, and he mumbled to himself, “What a powerful force, could it be that the Blood Spirit King had come to the Heavenly Demon Martial City?”
Naturally, he couldn’t possibly associate it with Zhang Ruochen, after all, Zhang Ruochen was only at the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, even if he was even better, it was impossible for him to cause such a powerful might.
