The group of women who were locked up in the dungeon were curled up in a corner, and among them, a young girl who was dressed quite neatly, carefully stood up and walked over to Zhang Ruochen.
She still looked somewhat fearful as she whispered, “You …… are not a disciple of Grand Master Longze, are you?”
Zhang Ruochen stared towards her, looking fifteen or sixteen years old, with snow-white skin and a clear face, amongst that group of women, she was definitely considered one of the most beautiful.
Moreover, the clothes on her body, at a glance, were made of top-grade materials, so she should be a young lady of some noble clan.
Most of all, on her body, there was a faint fluctuation of mana, and she was not an ordinary person.
Zhang Ruochen said, “No.”
That one young girl was instantly relieved and said, “I am the daughter of the Gilded Confederation, Snowleaf City’s City Lord, Xue Yi Yi, who was captured by Grand Master Longze’s great disciple, Grand Master Oono, yesterday, and has requested that Your Excellency be able to save us from this place.”
Xue Yi Yi was able to tell that Zhang Ruochen was very strong.
He was trapped in the dungeon, but he still did not change his face, such a character was definitely not simple.
Although, Xue Yi Yi didn’t think that Zhang Ruochen could defeat Archmage Longze.
With her strength, it was impossible for her to escape, and having such an expert by her side was always a ray of hope.
If she was to stay in the dungeon and serve the old and ugly Archmage Longze, it would be better to headbutt her head on top of the wall and end her life on her own, instead, she would be able to suffer less abuse.
Zhang Ruochen stared at the young girl called Xue Yi Yi, pondered for a moment, and said, ”Since you’re the daughter of the City Lord, you should have more knowledge! As long as you answer some of my questions, I can promise to save you from this place.”
Next, Zhang Ruochen asked Xue Yi Yi carefully about some news about the Five Elements Market Realm.
After half an hour of detailed conversation, Zhang Ruochen had some general knowledge about the Five Elements Market Realm.
The Five Elements Market Realm was a continent suspended in the void, equivalent to the ‘Heavenly Circle’, and did not give birth to a country, only city federations.
There were ten federations in total, and the Gilt Federation was one of them.
The Gilt Confederation was made up of twelve cities that were allied with each other and did business with each other, while at the same time building up armies to resist the attacks of savage beasts on the human race.
In addition to the three major federations, the Five Elements Market Realm also had three holy temples and two evil palaces, namely: the Holy Fire Palace, the Holy Water Palace, the Holy Earth Palace, the Evil Gold Palace, and the Evil Wood Palace.
Among the five spiritual treasures mentioned by the Spirit of the Heavenly Ranking, the “Source of Spiritual Fire” was the holy object of the Holy Fire Palace.
The “Purple Cloud Incense Wood” was the Evil Wood Palace’s greatest treasure.
As for the other three spiritual treasures, Xue Yi Yi had only heard of the names and did not know where they were.
“The Heavenly Ranking is really good at making things difficult, the Source of Spiritual Flame and the Violet Cloud Sunken Incense Wood are both placed in the Sacred Hall and Evil Palace, how easy is it to get them? The other three Spiritual Treasures, I guess none of them are that easy to obtain either.”
Zhang Ruochen was very confident in his own strength but not arrogant, it was simply impossible for him to single-handedly take on the strongest force of a Lower Ruins Realm with just his own strength.
It was said that the Sacred Fire Hall’s Hall Master was known as the number one expert in the Five Elements Market Realm.
Based on Xue Yi Yi’s description, Zhang Ruochen roughly guessed that the strength of the Sacred Flame Hall Master was comparable to that of a Fish Dragon Realm Fourth Transformation powerhouse, or possibly even stronger.
Moreover, the history of the three great Sacred Temples had given birth to Half-Saint level existences, and although the Half-Saints had died, they had definitely left behind some powerful means. A Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist would only die if they dared to go through it.
“The Artifact Spirit of the Heavenly Ranking said that those five spiritual treasures, which even Half-Saints would fight over if they encountered them, could save ten years of bitter cultivation. If I were to obtain one of them, I might be able to break through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm Small Extremity, or even the Heavenly Extremity Realm Middle Extremity in a short period of time. Even if it’s dangerous, I still have to put up a fight.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, gradually becoming firm, secretly resolved that even if it was dangerous, he would still go through it.
Xue Yi Yi sat on the side, seeing that Zhang Ruochen did not speak for a long time, she said, “Young Master Zhang, if we can escape, you can make a trip to Snow Leaf City, with my father’s insights, he will surely know the whereabouts of the other three spiritual treasures.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “If there is an opportunity, I will definitely make a trip to Snow Leaf City.”
Zhang Ruochen stood up and stared at the metal walls of the dungeon, the corners of his mouth hooked slightly as he smiled, “I’ve already thought of a way to break the Five Elemental Spell Formation, and since I can’t ‘use fire to break gold’, then I’ll ‘use gold to break gold’. ”
To break gold with gold is to compete in strength, to overcome strength with strength, to break strength with strength.
Whoever had more power would be able to break the opponent.
Zhang Ruochen mobilised his true qi and injected it into the dragon pearl in his heart.
Immediately, a large swathe of dragon qi surged out from the dragon pearl, passing through the meridians and surging into the blood and flesh.
Zhang Ruochen’s body was immediately wrapped in a layer of golden dragon scales, and his pair of arms, turned into sharp dragon claws.
“Wow!”
Swinging his dragon claws, he struck at the metal wall.
Under the attack of the golden dragon claws, the metal wall was like tofu, and a large piece was easily grabbed off.
Seeing this scene, Xue Yi Yi’s face was shocked, she couldn’t help but take two steps back, the strength of this young man in front of her was so terrifying, waving his hand, piercing through gold and breaking through stone, what kind of powerful force was this?
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Magic Ape Ridge, poisonous miasma deep valley.
The yellow-robed man and the green-robed man were kneeling at the feet of Archmage Long Ze, their whole body trembling, very fearful, afraid that Archmage Long Ze would strike them both down in a violent rage.
The yellow-robed man covered his intensely painful chest with one hand, his face was pale as he said, “Disciple was incompetent and failed to block that one young man, please punish Master.”
Archmage Long Ze sat cross-legged on top of the stone chair, his eyes gloomy, saying, “I don’t blame you guys, this person is most likely that one unparalleled genius from the Holy Fire Hall, the two of you are not even close to him yet……. Cough cough.”
As he spoke, Archmage Long Ze lightly coughed twice, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.
The yellow-robed man and the green-robed man quietly glanced at each other, their hearts were horrified, the strength of that one young man was also too terrifying, actually injuring the Master.
The yellow-robed man said, ”Senior, what now? That man’s strength, so powerful, he may not be able to kill him with just the Five Elemental Formation.”
Archmage Long Ze sneered and said, “The Five Elemental Formation is incredibly subtle, right now it is only ‘stone begets gold’, a few moments later, it will be ‘gold begets water’. At that time, the dungeon will be filled with extremely cold water, even if his cultivation is high, he will be frozen to death in the water ……”
“Boom!”
Before Archmage Longze’s words fell, a muffled sound came from the ground.
The Miasma Deep Valley trembled violently, and the Five Elements Formation was torn through a gap by a surge of golden dragon qi.
Archmage Long Ze’s face changed as he exclaimed, ”Not good! That brat’s strength is surprisingly so powerful to escape from the Five Elemental Spell Formation.”
Knowing that he was no match for Zhang Ruochen, Archmage Longze immediately mobilised his magical power and added it to his body, and he rushed towards the depths of the valley.
“Wow!”
A golden pillar of light shot up from the deep well, straight to a hundred metres in the air, and when the light dissipated, a man’s figure was revealed.
It was none other than Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen unleashed his Heavenly Eyes, and in a split second, he saw the fleeing Archmage Longze and roared, “Where to escape?”
“Swish!”
Executing his Body Technique, Zhang Ruochen rushed to the sky above Archmage Longze’s head in a moment, striking a golden dragon claw with five sharp claws that were like five sharp swords.
Archmage Longze only felt that all the scenery around him disappeared, all four sides of his body were walled with wind, his entire body was unable to move, and in the sky above his head, a golden claw the size of a mountain slapped down, shocking his mind and causing it to tremble.
“No……”
The dragon’s claw fell without stopping, smashing Archmage Longze’s head to smithereens. Blood-red cracks extended down from the neck, through the chest and back, thighs, feet and legs.
With a bang, the entire body, turned into pieces of flesh and blood.
Zhang Ruochen landed on the ground, looked at the bloody golden dragon claw, and muttered to himself, “Another hundred points of military merit value in hand, maybe, in the Five Elemental Ruins Realm, I will be able to accumulate enough 10,000 points of military merit value to enter The Heavenly Ranking.”
Coming to the Five Elements Ruins Realm, it had only been less than half a day, and already one hundred and forty-two points of military merit value.
Zhang Ruochen had accumulated military merit value not only to enter The Heavenly Ranking, but also to impact the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
Archmage Longze’s body turned into pieces, leaving only the Crystal God Staff with a skull inlay still intact.
Zhang Ruochen picked up the Crystal Divine Staff and used his spiritual power to investigate, sensing an odd icy cold aura in that one skull.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen used his true qi and smashed the skull with a palm, turning it into white powder, and at the top of the Crystal God Staff was actually a thumb-sized black crystal.
Vaguely, one could see that within the black crystal, there seemed to be a trace of golden flowing light flickering.
That strange icy cold aura was released from that small piece of black crystal.
“What a pure power fluctuation of the water attribute.”
Zhang Ruochen lightly eeped, and using his Green Void True Qi, wrapped around his finger, he carefully removed that piece of black crystal and used his True Qi to refine it.
“Wow…”
The black crystal transformed into a strand of black cold Qi, fusing with the Green Void True Qi and surging into Zhang Ruochen’s palm, entering the meridians and Qi Sea.
“Pah-pah!”
Zhang Ruochen’s entire body emitted a series of popping sounds as his bones, blood, and meridians were cleansed by a wave of cold qi, and a significant enhancement occurred.
“Amazing, just by absorbing such a small piece of black crystal, it made my cultivation increase by a large margin, comparable to the results of a month’s hard cultivation. Moreover, my physique, it seems, has also strengthened a bit, with a trace of black cold ice patterns appearing on top of my bones, and my strength has increased quite a bit.”
“Could it be that this is one of the five spiritual treasures that the Artifact Spirit of the Heavenly Ranking said, the Black Water Glazed Crystal.”
Zhang Ruochen became excited, and was certain that what he had just absorbed was the Black Water Glazed Crystal, and it was the only one in the Five Elements Ruins Realm that had such a wonderful use.
Just now, he had only absorbed roughly one or two of them, if he could find more, it would never be difficult to break through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Minor Extremity Position.
“After seeing me rush out of the dungeon, a normal person would choose to flee out of the valley, but Archmage Longze chose to escape deeper into the valley. Could it be that there is some secret hidden in the depths of the valley?”
Associating it with the Black Water Glazed Crystal that he had just refined, Zhang Ruochen’s heart stirred as he prepared to head to the depths of the valley to find out what was going on.
