After three days of training in the King’s Mountain, the number of First Order Upper Grade Savage Beasts that died in Zhang Ruochen’s hands reached thirteen, and the number of First Order Medium Savage Beasts reached twenty-five.
Finally, he encountered the first second rank savage beast, the Silver Dragon Lion.
A second rank savage beast was at least at the Xuanji Realm martial artist level.
The Silver Dragon Lion’s attack power was comparable to a late Xuanji Realm martial artist, its speed was comparable to a late Xuanji Realm martial artist, and its defence was comparable to an early Xuanji Realm martial artist.
In terms of overall strength, the Silver Dragon Lion was quite powerful, and a mid Xuanji realm martial artist would almost be dead if they encountered it.
Apart from Zhang Ruochen, even if any other Yellow Extremity Realm Grand Circle martial artists formed a twenty-member elite battle team, they would be wiped out if they encountered the Silver Dragon Lion.
“Ow!”
The Silver Dragon Lion let out a long roar, and the sound wave formed a raging hurricane that was spat out from its mouth. On the ground, sand flew and the surrounding trees were blown sideways, leaves fell off and only bare branches remained.
Just a single roar could shock martial artists below the late Huangji realm into fainting.
The Silver Dragon Lion’s body was four metres tall and six metres long, several times more massive than the body of a normal fierce lion, and it was almost like a silver-coloured mountain standing in front of Zhang Ruochen.
Its pair of silver lion eyes were as big as Zhang Ruochen’s head, emitting a bloodthirsty ferocious might!
“Boom!”
The ground shook slightly when it took a step on the ground.
Zhang Ruochen’s feet stood on tiptoe, pranced up, and landed on the back of the Silver Dragon Lion, condensed his true qi, and struck the top of the Silver Dragon Lion’s head with a palm strike.
The Silver Dragon Lion’s intelligence was surprisingly extremely high, noticing the crisis.
Thus, its four hooves fired at the same time, sprinting forward and charging out at a speed of almost thirty metres per second, astonishingly fast.
Unable to defend himself, Zhang Ruochen’s centre of gravity was unsteady, and he was thrown off his back.
Zhang Ruochen struck the ground with a palm strike and immediately rolled over and fell backwards, retreating until he was ten feet away before stopping. However, he remained on guard, his legs bent and his thick true qi condensed in his palms.
“Worthy of being an adult Silver Dragon Lion, its speed has reached thirty metres per second.”
The speed of an average Huangji Realm Great Perfection martial artist could only reach about twenty metres per second. A gifted Huang Polarity Realm Great Perfection martial artist could reach twenty-two metres per second.
Even Zhang Ruochen could only reach twenty-seven metres per second, which was already considered quite heaven-defying.
Thirty metres per second and twenty-seven metres per second might not seem like a big difference, but in reality, it was a far cry.
If Zhang Ruochen and the Silver Dragon Lion were to have a 100-metre race, the Silver Dragon Lion would be enough to throw Zhang Ruochen out by a distance of ten metres by the time it reached the finish line.
It could be said that if Zhang Ruochen’s strength was no match for the Silver Dragon Lion, then he would only be dead, unable to escape.
At the moment, Zhang Ruochen and the Silver Dragon Lion were ten feet apart, but with the Silver Dragon Lion’s speed, it would only take a second for it to rush in front of Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen was staring at the Silver Dragon Lion’s every move, once the Silver Dragon Lion was ready to launch an attack, he would have to strike first in order to have a chance of winning.
“Ow!”
The Silver Dragon Lion let out a long roar and transformed into a silver-coloured residual shadow as it lunged up towards Zhang Ruochen.
The silver-coloured claws, which slashed through the void, emitted four razor-sharp lines of power.
Zhang Ruochen shifted a step sideways, dodging the attack.
“Snap!”
The Silver Dragon Lion struck a claw on top of a big tree that was the thickness of a bucket, clawing the trunk of that one big tree to pieces and sending wood chips flying.
The trunk of the tree was cut off at the waist and collapsed with a loud bang.
“Barbarian Elephant Chi Earth!”
Zhang Ruochen took advantage of this opportunity and immediately struck, carrying the power of his entire body as he slammed his palm onto the Silver Dragon Lion’s abdomen, sending it flying.
The Silver Dragon Lion was very angry and rose from the ground, about to attack Zhang Ruochen.
However, Zhang Ruochen attacked first, with another “Savage Elephant Chasing the Ground” palm.
The Silver Dragon Lion flew out again.
“Barbarian Elephant Chi-Ti!”
“Barbarian Elephant Chi-Di!”
……
Zhang Ruochen struck twelve palms in a row, each of which managed to send the Silver Dragon Lion crashing out. When Zhang Ruochen struck the thirteenth palm, the Silver Dragon Lion was finally traumatised and blood dripped out from inside its nostrils.
The Silver Dragon Lion finally became angry!
A layer of silver light emanated from its body, and it opened its mouth to spit out a pillar of silver light. Like a radiant sword, it stabbed at Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
Not good!
With a stomp of his legs, Zhang Ruochen leapt up more than ten metres and landed on top of the branch of a thousand year old tree, dodging the Silver Dragon Lion’s attack.
“Boom!”
The silver-coloured lightsaber impacted on the ground where Zhang Ruochen had just stood with a loud bang, leaving a large pit with a diameter of one metre on the ground.
“Flying Dragon in the Sky.”
Zhang Ruochen flew down from the top of the tree branch, his entire body’s true qi surging through the thirty-six meridians, his strength completely surging towards his arms, emitting a low-pitched sound like a dragon’s roar.
“Boom!”
A palm strike struck the back of the Silver Dragon Lion, only a sound of bones breaking could be heard as the Silver Dragon Lion wailed and fell heavily to the ground.
Its spine was broken by Zhang Ruochen’s palm and suffered a heavy blow as it slumped to the ground, unable to even crawl.
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was very excited, just by using the strength of his physical body, he was able to seriously injure the Silver Dragon Lion.
If he were to use his sword technique, I’m afraid that he would only need ten swords at most to kill the Silver Dragon Lion.
“With my current strength, even if I’m not yet a match for late Xuanji Realm martial artists, I’ll at least be able to fight them.”
After the battle with the Silver Dragon Lion, Zhang Ruochen was able to clearly feel that his control over the Dragon Elephant Palm had increased by another point.
Zhang Ruochen took out the Flash Soul Sword and swung it out, cutting the Silver Dragon Lion’s throat.
It didn’t take long for the Silver Dragon Lion to completely die.
Afterwards, Zhang Ruochen cut a foot-long slit in the Silver Dragon Lion’s abdomen and dug out a fist-sized piece of flesh and blood from inside.
This piece of flesh was very hard and heavy like iron, emitting a silver-coloured light and carrying a faint foreign fragrance.
It was not like flesh and blood, but rather like a spiritual medicine.
“The Silver Dragon Lion is worthy of being a Second Stage Savage Beast, it actually grew half a kilogram of spirit meat.” Zhang Ruochen held the silver-coloured spirit meat in his hand and revealed a hint of a smile.
Spirit meat was the most precious treasure inside a savage beast.
When a martial artist consumed spirit meat, they could increase their physical strength and cultivation realm. Ordinary people who consumed Spirit Meat could enhance their physique and prolong their lives.
The piece of spirit meat weighing half a catty in Zhang Ruochen’s hand could be sold for at least three thousand silver coins if he were to take it to the Martial Market.
Moreover, most of the spirit meat would contain spirit stone crystals inside.
The price of a spirit crystal of the worst quality was also one thousand silver coins.
For Zhang Ruochen, this piece of spirit meat was not very useful. He planned to bring it back and give it to Concubine Lin to take.
As long as the spirit meat was stored in a jade container, even if it was stored for a month, the spirit meat would not rot and spoil.
Zhang Ruochen had purchased quite a few jade containers in order to refine the spatial ring. So he took out a jade box from the inner space of the Time Crystal Stone and put the spirit meat inside.
The Silver Dragon Lion’s entire body was a treasure, its skin, blood, and bones could all be used as medicine and could be sold for a considerable price. However, Zhang Ruochen’s main purpose of coming to Wang Mountain was to cultivate the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, so he did not take away the Silver Dragon Lion’s corpse.
Not long after Zhang Ruochen left, a group of soldiers in armour came to the front of the Silver Dragon Lion’s corpse.
General Ge Qian walked out from the soldiers and looked at the Silver Dragon Lion in the pool of blood and said, ”Really powerful, he actually killed even the Silver Dragon Lion, if he breaks through to the Xuan Extremity Realm, I wonder how powerful he will reach? Not to mention the Great King, even I have some expectations!”
Those forbidden soldiers accompanying him also sighed in awe, finding it unbelievable.
It had never been heard that a martial artist in the great circle of the Yellow Extreme Realm could kill a Silver Dragon Lion. This impossible thing was actually happening before their eyes.
General Ge Qian said, ”Like those barbarian beast corpses in front of us, carry the Silver Dragon Lion’s corpse back as well and send it to the Finance House to be exchanged for silver coins. When His Highness the Ninth Prince finishes his cultivation, this general will personally hand over all the silver coins to him.”
