Chapter 1787 - News About the Godstones. (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Vajra Snowsea Ape was crushed to the brink of death by the Bagua Seal, but it continued to struggle and wanted to get back up. Its willpower was something to behold.

“I am the Snowsea King. I am not someone to be taken out by the likes of you…”

Boom!! Boom!!

Zhang Ruochen flew down from the sky and stomped heavily on the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s head, pus.h.i.+ng it back into the ground.

Following that, Zhang Ruochen pressed his right palm against the center of its eyebrows and blasted a thunderous surge of spiritual power into its head.

The only way Zhang Ruochen could stop the Vajra Snowsea Ape from self-destructing its Sea of Qi was to suppress it with his spiritual powers.

Otherwise, the destructive power of the Nine-step Saint King’s self-destruction would be enough to easily raze the Yunwu Royal City in the distance to the ground.

Duhff!

The Vajra Snowsea Ape fought Zhang Ruochen with its spiritual will, but it ended up for naught.

Zhang Ruochen used his spiritual powers to extract the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s memories to look for information that he was interested in. Then, a steady stream of memory bubbles flooded Zhang Ruochen’s mind.

However, just as he was about to explore some special memories, Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual powers were repelled, and that part of the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s memories was automatically destroyed.

Now, both the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s cultivated skills and Saint techniques were no longer obtainable by Zhang Ruochen.

“A Supreme-Saint existence has locked down parts of the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s memories.”

In the end, Zhang Ruochen’s discoveries were rather limited.

Whoos.h.!.+

Zhang Ruochen directly extracted the Saint Source from the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s Sea of Qi.

A small sword, formed by Saint Path precepts, floated within the Saint Source. It was the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s Saint Precept Artifact.

The ape had a Saint Source that contained a Rank 9 Saint Precept Artifact, which was equivalent to a Nine-step Saint King’s inheritance. Its value was far beyond any ordinary Saint Source and could be sold for sky-high prices.

“Let me have a look.”

Awesome, the Little Taoist rushed over and stared at the small sword inside the Saint Source with its mung bean-like eyes. “This Saint Precept Artifact is made out of more than seven hundred and forty thousand precepts.”

Immediately after, Awesome, the Little Taoist inspected the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s corpse and hypothesized, “This Ape King is probably in the realm of the Lesser Precept World within the Nine-Step Saint King rank.”

Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “There is indeed a big gap between its cultivation level and the realm of the Greater Precept World.”

A Nine-step Saint King was quite close to becoming a Supreme Saint and was just a step away from being immortal. Yet, that single step was fraught with difficulties, which had blocked countless talented individuals from becoming Supreme Saints.

The Nine-step Saint King rank was divided into the Lesser Precept World and Greater Precept World.

The realm of the Lesser Precept World was the most common among Nine-step Saint Kings, just like the Vajra Snowsea Ape, who was still in that realm even after cultivating for over two thousand years.

Creatures of the Greater Precept World were elites amongst Nine-step Saint Kings, and their strength was far superior to those of the Lesser Precept World. The precepts they possessed exceeded ten million in number and would even flow into their body as well as various meridians.

Supposedly, above the Greater Precept World, there was a realm called the Precept Dominion.

Those of the Precept Dominion were even more powerful and had a taste of the mysteries of Supreme Sainthood.

In short, there was a gulf the size of Heaven between a Nine-step Saint King and a Supreme Saint. Only by crossing that gulf would one obtain a Saint Emperor’s power.

Zhang Ruochen’s face was solemn as he slowly said, “The Fane of Youshen has a Nine-step Saint King with a cultivation level close to the Greater Precept World within Yunwu Commandery.”

Awesome, the Little Taoist’s expression changed drastically as he replied, “Someone on that level is beyond our current abilities. Forget those mortals in Yunwu Commandery, and let us find a place to hide. Once I have broken through to the Nine-step Saint King rank, we will come out again and begin the slaughter.”

Why would Zhang Ruochen not want to break through to the Six-step Saint King rank or even the Seven-step Saint King rank as soon as possible?

But, it was impossible to ask him to forsake the people of Yunwu Commandery.

Moreover, from the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s memories, Zhang Ruochen learned that the cultivators from the Fane of Youshen had somehow found out about the Supreme Saint dragon corpse at the bottom of the Tongming River.

They wanted to dig up the dragon corpse buried at the depths of the river and refine it into a Wyrmlord Abomination.

That dragon corpse was obviously the remains of the Golden Dragon.

Zhang Ruochen owed a debt to the Golden Dragon. If it had not handed Zhang Ruochen the Dragon Pearl and Bodhi Emperor’s sarira, he might not have been able to achieve what he had today.

Although the Golden Dragon’s remains had sunk to the depths of the earth and were extremely difficult to find, there was a legendary Nine-step Saint King in the Fane of Youshen who sought out dragons to refine their corpses. There was a possibility that the person would find and dig up the Golden Dragon’s remains.

“If you want to dig up the Golden Dragon’s remains, you will have to step over my dead body.”

Whether it was out of respect for the Golden Dragon or for self-preservation, Zhang Ruochen had to stop the Fane of Youshen’s cultivators.

Of course, many of the Fane of Youshen’s elites were gathered at the Tongming River. Among them were two Nine-step Saint Kings, so Zhang Ruochen was not going to rush in to fight them. He would need to plan things out first.

The Kunlun Realm had forbidden the cultivators from the various macroworlds in the Celestial Court to kill one another on its battlefield. Therefore, Zhang Ruochen immediately dragged the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s body back to Royal Mountain.

A strange force surrounded Royal Mountain, allowing them to avoid the detection of the Emissaries Vigilant.

The evil spirit that had taken the form of a black skeleton had already gathered the Saint Souls of several slain elites from the Fane of Youshen. It swallowed them whole and stored them within its bones to slowly refine them.

Seeing Zhang Ruochen drag the corpse of a thousand-feet-tall giant ape to the mountain, the black skeleton immediately rushed over and siphoned all of the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s remaining soul into its mouth.