Chapter 1651 - Surprising Discovery (1/2)

Outer South Yard

There was an old eerie stone house. Moss grew all over the walls and two of the walls had cracks and holes. The bronze door had long since turned into a piece of rusted metal.

Inside the house, the smoky Holy Qi contracted inwardly and poured back into Zhang Ruochen from the 144 apertures.

Phew.

Zhang Ruochen opened his mouth and exhaled a long breath.

Qi condensed into a thin thread and hit the rusted bronze door. It actually penetrated the door with a soft sound.

After eating six different saint fruits, I have 3,700 more Rules of Saintly Way in me. I now have more than 8,200 rules.

Because of his great improvement, his breath could penetrate a thick bronze door within ten feet.

In the Sea of Qi, the Heaven Pa.s.s River flowed much faster than before.

After cultivating 8,200 Rules of Saintly Way, Zhang Ruochen was sure that he was a second step Saint King now, even without going through the Nine Steps to the Sky Test.

Feng Yan was right. The G.o.d-Naming Platform Conference indeed is an unprecedented opportunity. If I continue searching for saint fruits, I can try to reach the third step here.

With the great improvement, Zhang Ruochen was feeling great and very confident.

Beside him, Mu Lingxi was still refining the saint fruit. The light s.h.i.+ning from her grew brighter and brighter. Her pure figure seemed to have been carved from jade.

Zhang Ruochen took out the fruits that he’d collected earlier. Some were preserved in saint wood jars while others were in jade caskets. There were hundreds in total.

Including the Heartmoon Saint Fruit, Zhang Ruochen had eaten all seven types of fruit that could improve cultivation.

Of the remaining 12 types, some could cleanse the Saintly Meridian, some could increase longevity, some could strengthen the saint soul, some could help cultivators learn special techniques and spells…

Anyway, they were all top treasures that were difficult to find outside.

Zhang Ruochen didn’t eat these fruits now. After all, the G.o.d-Naming Platform Conference was only three days long. He had to use the time to find other treasures.

Mu Lingxi’s cultivation technique wasn’t like the Emperor Ming Nine-Sky Scripture, so she wasn’t as fast as Zhang Ruochen in refining the fruit.

An hour pa.s.sed before she woke up. She opened her eyes and looked forward.

She saw Zhang Ruochen hold a broad sword, studying it. He would sometimes wave it or perform a complete sword technique.

Seeing that Mu Lingxi was awake, Zhang Ruochen stabbed the sword into the ground. He turned around and studied her. He nodded and smiled, saying, “Not bad. You should be at the second step Saint King Realm now.”

“Eating the seven fruits helped me gain close to 4,000 Rules of Saintly Way. Isn’t it normal for me to reach the second step now?”

Mu Lingxi stood up slowly and walked out of the stone house. A ball of Extreme Yin Pluto Ice Qi spread from her palm. She waved her arm back.

Crackle, crackle.

The Qi landed in the house. The house was instantly frozen inside a small ice mountain. As Mu Lingxi clenched her fist, the mountain and house both exploded into fist-sized shards.

She studied the sword in the ground with surprised eyes. “That’s a Third Yao sword. The material is very special and it must be extremely heavy.”

Zhang Ruochen picked up the heavy sword with one hand and shrunk it to the size of a dagger. Placing it in his sleeves, he said, “It’s not good to expose your ident.i.ty at the G.o.d-Naming Platform. You could lure over the enemies. I’m using this sword for now to replace Abyss. Earlier, I tamed the sword spirit. I can use it as I wish now.”

After that, Zhang Ruochen and Mu Lingxi continued searching the Outer South Yard. They went to places they didn’t go to before, wanting to pick more fruits.

The Outer South Yard was very wide. They walked around 100 miles in one direction before reaching the edge.

Here, they saw a lot of rubble, canyons, walls, ancient forests… The saint trees grew in very dangerous environments with different types of risks.

However, because so many cultivators joined the conference and many hours had pa.s.sed, when Zhang Ruochen and Mu Lingxi reached those dangerous places, they discovered that most of the fruits had been picked clean.

This was a compet.i.tion. Those who were stronger and faster could pick more fruits.

After spending two full hours, they had gained practically nothing.

“Other than the zone above the White Bone Hill, we’ve searched practically the entire Outer South Yard. Even if there are some saint trees hidden inside hallucinations or formations, it’ll take a lot of time to find them.” Mu Lingxi suggested, “How about we go to the Outer East Yard and pick some saint flowers and gra.s.s?”

The G.o.d-Naming Platform Conference had ten different yards: four outer yards, four inner yards, the Central Royal Yard and Free Trade Yard.

According to the rules, other than the leaders of each world, all other cultivators below 1000 on the Ten Thousand Fields Merit Rank could only stay in the four outer yards.

The cultivators who pa.s.sed the qualification test could only stay in those yards too.

Of course, the cultivators of fields in the top 1000 of the Ten Thousand Fields Merit Rank could also fight for treasures in the outer yards. This was the advantage of the strong fields. The others could only watch with jealousy.