The Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain, suspended in the vast, dark, chaotic space, was like a mountain shaped planet, eternally wrapped in a cloud of atmosphere.
Today, below the stone monument of the Heavenly Ranking List, countless martial artists had gathered, among them, there were both young talents of the younger generation as well as powerful people of the older generation. Among them, some had hearts higher than the heavens, some were flamboyant, and some had even crossed over into the Holy Dao and achieved the body of a Half Saint.
However, they all fell into silence at this moment, their gazes fixed on the Heavenly Ranking Stone Tablet.
On the stone monument, behind Zhang Ruochen’s name, the number representing the Military Merit Value continued to rise rapidly, from twenty-six million, to twenty-seven million.
Every time the Military Merit Value rose, the eyelids of the crowd, could not help but jump a little.
Everyone held their breath and tensed up, as if the person who was going to impact the Heavenly Extreme Realm Supreme Extreme Realm was themselves. They were all speculating in their hearts, would Zhang Ruochen reach the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Supreme Extremity Realm?
Historically, many supreme heavenly prides were the ones who were about to reach the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Supreme Extremity Realm when they met with doom and were killed, ultimately becoming a skeleton on the Ruins Realm Battlefield.
Would Zhang Ruochen follow in their footsteps?
Even some of the prestigious Half-Saints and Saints in the Sacred Courtyard were gathered below the Heavenly Ranking Stone Monument at this moment.
“Wow!”
Finally, in the next moment, the number of military merit value behind Zhang Ruochen’s name broke through the 30 million point boundary in one fell swoop.
The entire Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain was in an uproar, and a large portion of the Market Realm warriors among them cheered.
The birth of a Heavenly Extremity Realm Supreme Extremity Realm’s heavenly pride was the pride of the entire human race.
Of course, there were also many people who were not happy, either jealous or hateful, especially the evil martial practitioners of the black market that was antagonistic to the Martial Market’s money bank, who fell into a collective silence.
Inside a palace suspended in mid-air, a Soldier Saint from the Ministry of Military Affairs, immediately laughed and said, “Congratulations Master, Junior Brother has impacted the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, and has become the second genius in a hundred years.”
This one Soldier Saint, the eldest disciple of the Xuan Gui Sword Saint, had now reached the Saint realm, and was the high-level commander of the Ministry of War, sitting at the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.
The Xuan Gui Sword Saint smiled heartily, being able to take in a disciple as outstanding as Zhang Ruochen was certainly something to be happy about.
The Xuan Gui Sword Saint regarded Zhang Ruochen as his own shut-in disciple, otherwise, he wouldn’t have personally rushed to sit at the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.
“Since the training has ended, Ling Shu, you personally go to the Xuanwu Ruins Realm and fetch your Junior Brother back, lest the evil experts of the Black Market and the Devil Sect make trouble out of this.”Sword Saint Xuan Gui said.
“As you command.”
The Spirit Pivot Half-Saint immediately rushed to the Market Realm Ferry and headed to the Xuanwu Market Realm.
The Xuan Gui Sword Saint glanced towards the distant Heavenly Ranking Stone Monument, and a more pleased smile appeared on his aged face as he said, “The sacrifice, it should be about to begin!”
The hundreds of metres tall Heavenly Ranking Stone Monument suddenly emitted a bright and piercing white light.
Wisps of light, converging together, transformed into a thick pillar of light that rushed upwards, striking through the heaven and earth barrier.
“Rumble!”
The entire void, it seemed, shook.
At the end of the pillar of light, the pitch-black space emitted a circle of water-like ripples, forming a hidden door of light.
At this moment, it was as if the door to the Divine Realm had opened, and a vast and sacred power descended upon the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.
The Heavenly Ranking Artifact Spirit, standing at the top of the stone monument, said aloud, “The power of sacrifice has opened the Gate of the Divine Realm, and the will of the gods is about to descend upon the Market Realm Battlefield.”
The Heavenly Ranking Stone Monument, as if it had transformed into an altar, became a bridge connecting the Divine Realm and the Chaotic Ten Thousand Realms Mountain.
Below, all the cultivators, all of them knelt on the ground reverently, with looks of awe on their faces, looking up at the sky, not daring to have the slightest evil thought.
Such a sacrifice was rarely encountered once in a hundred years.
The last time, it had to be traced back to sixty years ago, when Empress Chi Yao had led thirty thousand courtiers and eight thousand royal knights of the First Central Empire to behead hundreds of millions of natives at the Chaos Ten Thousand Realms Mountain, sacrificing their blood to the gods, burning incense and praying for the blessings of the human warriors on the battlefield of the Ruins Realm.
The blood qi of the Xuanwu Market Realm, Wood Essence Market Realm, and Five Elements Market Realm, the natives of the Market Realm who had once been killed by Zhang Ruochen, all rose up and passed through the spatial passageway, converging to the Heavenly Ranking Stone Monument.
Along with that, these blood qi, surged into the light gate in the sky.
“Rumble!”
Behind that door of light, grains of light fell, converging into a river of light, flying towards the Xuanwu Market Realm.
Zhang Ruochen stood at the bottom of the seawater with his eyes closed, only feeling the power within his body expanding, his body as if it had transformed into a universe. Suddenly, breaking through a certain layer of boundaries, the true qi in his body, transformed into a pillar of light, rushing up from the top of his head.
The pillar of light, passing through the seawater, shot straight up into the sky, piercing through the atmosphere of the Xuanwu Market Realm.
The rivers of light points that flew out from the Gate of the Divine Realm, circled around that single pillar of light, spinning ceaselessly, coalescing into the silhouettes of a strange and weirdly shaped deity, some with three heads and six arms, some with human bodies and snake tails, some like Buddhas, and some like the Dao.
The entire sky above the Western Xuan Sea resounded with faint divine sounds.
In the clouds, strands of golden streams of light continuously poured down and fell into the sea, turning the sea in a radius of ten thousand miles or something like that into gold.
Such a vast heaven and earth vision caused the Wool Wreck Jiao King to be greatly alarmed in his heart as well, and with a pair of sharp eyes, he stared downwards, only to see a single divine shadow with a huge breath that was rotating around Zhang Ruochen.
Even though the strength of the Wreckage Jiao King was comparable to that of a Half Saint, he still felt his body trembling at the sight of those divine shadows, giving birth to a wave of awe and scorn. It could be imagined that at this time, if he dared to strike at Zhang Ruochen, he was afraid that he would be obliterated by those divine shadows in a split second.
“This is this is the Resonance of the Gods?”
The surviving Red Cloud Python Jiao and the Market Realm warriors were all stunned by the heaven and earth vision before them.
“Gimme!”
Those God Shadows, wrapped in one bubble after another, kept flying towards Zhang Ruochen’s, fusing with Zhang Ruochen’s body.
With every divine shadow that fused together, Zhang Ruochen’s power would be one point stronger.
“Boom!”
When he had fused all the divine shadows, finally, in one fell swoop, he broke through the boundaries of the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Great Perfection and reached a new realm, the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Supreme Extremity Realm.
The Yellow Extreme Realm, Xuan Extreme Realm, and Earth Extreme Realm all reached the Supreme Extreme Realm first before invoking the resonance of the gods.
However, the Heavenly Extreme Realm was different in that it had to first invoke the resonance of the gods before reaching the Supreme Extreme Realm.
In the seawater, strands of aura, quickly converged towards Zhang Ruochen, forming a vortex of aura that continuously rushed towards the Divine Martial Seal on Zhang Ruochen’s brow, entering the Qi Sea.
Zhang Ruochen broke through to the Supreme Extreme Realm, and the gods’ shadows disappeared.
The Crow Wrecked Jiao King finally exhaled a long breath and felt that, the divine power that had suppressed him from moving had dispersed.
As the Wrecked Jiao King regathered the aura on his body, his eyes towards Zhang Ruochen changed a bit as he said, “To actually be able to attract the resonance of the Gods, in that case, it seems that this King must get rid of you before he can do so.”
“I’m afraid it’s not that easy to kill me.”Zhang Ruochen said.
After absorbing the divine shadows of the Gods, Zhang Ruochen’s injuries, which had already been healed, not only had his cultivation increased greatly, even his spiritual power and the strength of his Martial Soul seemed to have risen quite a bit.
“Arrogant! Even if you invoke the resonance of the gods, you are still just a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist after all.”
The body of the Wreckage Jiao King shifted, and with lightning speed, he rushed to Zhang Ruochen’s face and struck his palm at the top of Zhang Ruochen’s head.
Just as his palm struck out, the bones of his hand immediately emitted a “giggling” sound, and a piece of scale emerged from the palm and the back of his hand, and his five fingers elongated and became as sharp as a lance, surprisingly transforming into a gigantic Jiao Claw.
Zhang Ruochen only felt that his entire body was filled with power, his blood and true qi were boiling as he looked upwards and roared, “Good timing!”
The realm had just broken through and Zhang Ruochen was looking forward to a painful battle, so what if the other party was a Half Saint?
He grabbed the hilt of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword and raised it above his head, releasing his Martial Soul and mobilising the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
A steady stream of heaven and earth spiritual qi converged over, passing through Zhang Ruochen’s palm and injecting into the sword body.
Invoking the fourth resonance of the Gods, Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul strength had increased by a large margin and was already comparable to a cultivator of the Ninth Transformation of the Fish Dragon, so naturally, he was able to mobilise more Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for his own use.
The inscriptions in the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword were activated by the spiritual qi, and the sword qi emanating from it became denser and denser.
“Boom!”
The aura on Zhang Ruochen’s body continued to increase as he charged upwards, holding the sword with both hands and swinging a chop, colliding with the jiao claws struck by the King of the Ursus Skeleton Jiao.
Even in the water, a large shower of sparks still emerged as the sword blade clashed with the Jiao Scale.
With a hard impact, Zhang Ruochen’s arms ached, and his internal organs shook violently as his body sank uncontrollably downwards, falling more than a hundred metres before he regained his centre of gravity and stood still.
The body of the Wrecked Jiao King only swayed slightly.
In this exchange, Zhang Ruochen was still at a disadvantage, and there was still a huge gap between him and the Wrecked Jiao King.
However, compared to before the breakthrough, it was already much better, at least Zhang Ruochen wasn’t injured that badly this time. One had to know that earlier, the Wreckless Jiao King had only casually struck Zhang Ruochen with a single blow, almost killing him miserably.
Now, Zhang Ruochen was able to fight against the Wreckless Jiao King, and was not completely powerless to fight back.
The Wreckless Jiao King looked at his palm, only to see that a shallow blood scar had actually appeared in the centre of his palm.
A mere human of the Heavenly Extreme Realm was actually able to break through his defence?
The eyes of the Wreckage Jiao King chilled, and he said with a murderous aura, “Your strength, has actually grown so much?”
“If you’re afraid, it’s still not too late to escape.”
Zhang Ruochen took out the Ruyi Treasure Vase and drank a mouthful of Wood Spirit Red Stillwater.
The Wood Spirit Red Still entered his throat and flowed into his abdomen, exuding a trace of cool medicinal power that surged into Zhang Ruochen’s internal organs, meridians, and blood vessels, quickly allowing Zhang Ruochen’s injuries to heal again.
“Junior who doesn’t know the heights of heaven, do you really think that with this amount of power you have, you can fight with this king?”
The Wreckage Jiao King stretched out his palm, and holy light flickered in his palm for a moment.
The bloody scar that had been cut out by the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword instantly disappeared.
Afterwards, the Wreckless Jiao King charged downwards and attacked Zhang Ruochen once again.
Zhang Ruochen was undaunted and met the attack.
