Chapter 1972: Insight of Sword Ten

“As far as I know, there is still a time and space artifact in the Demonic Sect of the Moon, right?” asked Zhang Ruochen.

“There is indeed another artifact called the Ten-Directions Chaotic Element Pearl made by the late Saint Monk Xumi. It contains a Chaotic Element World with a time ratio of seven to one. This is not a secret. Many people know about it.” Ling Feiyu nodded.

“However, the Ten-Directions Chaotic Element Pearl is not on Peakless Mountain right now. It has been taken away by Shi Qianjue. That’s the reason why many sect members left with Shi Qianjue.”

As Ling Feiyu talked about this, she could not help but feel a little angry. The Ten-Directions Chaotic Element Pearl was the most precious artifact of the Demonic Sect of the Moon. It should have stayed in Peakless Mountain. By taking it away, Shi Qianjue had breached the rules of the sect.

It was a pity that Shi Qianjue was too strong for even her father to defeat. For the time being, it was impossible to force Shi Qianjue to return the Ten-Directions Chaotic Element Pearl to the sect.

“It’s a shame since the Kunlun Realm is reviving now. If the Ten-Directions Chaotic Element Pearl is still on Peakless Mountain, it will definitely be able to increase the Demonic Sect of the Moon’s strength in a short period.” Zhang Ruochen sighed.

Although the Bronze Furnace of Life and Death had a higher time ratio, it possessed a limitation—only a tiny number of people had the opportunity to use it. It was far from comparable to the Ten-Directions Chaotic Element Pearl.

There was a glint in Ling Feiyu’s eyes. “Once I attain Supreme Sainthood, I will definitely take back the Ten-Directions Chaotic Element Pearl from Shi Qianjue. How can he be allowed to take the sect’s artifact as his own property?”

Ling Feiyu’s eyes softened again as she looked at Zhang Ruochen. “You may enter the Bronze Furnace of Life and Death now. I will let it run for ten days, which will be 100 days inside. I believe it will help you.”

“There’s no hurry. Wait until I have talked with Cang Long. Only then I will enter the Bronze Furnace of Life and Death to practice self-cultivation.” Zhang Ruochen smiled. He did not reject Ling Feiyu’s kindness.

Since Ling Feiyu said that the combination of the Bronze Furnace of Life and Death and the Moon Soul Pearl would produce an amazing effect, he was eager to try it out. After all, such an opportunity was extremely rare. He wanted to seize it while it came along.

After a slight hesitation, Ling Feiyu took out a brocade box. “Although there are Godstones in the sect, there are few, and I can’t appropriate them all for myself. There are four of them here.”

Zhang Ruochen could not help being a little surprised upon hearing that. He did not expect that Ling Feiyu would actually give four Godstones to him. He still remembered when he had only got two Godstones from Kong Lanyou and Luo Xu each when he contacted them earlier.

Reaching out to take the brocade box, Zhang Ruochen looked at Ling Feiyu. “How many Saint Stones are needed for the four Godstones?”

“Is my life not worthy of these four Godstones?” Ling Feiyu raised an eyebrow.

“No amount of Godstones can be as good as you,” Zhang Ruochen hurriedly explained.

After a pause, Zhang Ruochen reached out to hold one of Ling Feiyu’s hands. “Thank you very much, Feiyu.”

Ling Feiyu quickly pulled her hand away before she turned around. The corners of her mouth rose slightly in a smile as she walked outside.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Ruochen thought Ling Feiyu that Ling Feiyu was angry, he quickly caught up with her.

As soon as he walked out of the hidden cave, he received two communication talismans—one was from Cang Long, and the other was from Moyin.

He read Moyin’s message first, and a smile suddenly broke out on his face. The discovery of Godstones in the mysterious ancient veins was indeed great news.

Immediately after, he sent out a communication talisman so that Moyin would come as soon as possible to join him on Peakless Mountain. It happened that he had collected a large number of Infernal Court cultivator corpses, which Moyin could absorb as a nutrient.

Then Zhang Ruochen checked the message from Cang Long. As expected, Cang Long did not agree with the condition he had put forward.

His condition was for Cang Long to prepare five types of Five-Element fetishes, which were a lot.

“I really have a good appetite there, demanding for the Five-Element fetishes! Let’s not talk about whether the Fane of Youshen could collect all five Five-Element fetishes. Even if they can, they won’t use them all in exchange for Ruan Ling.” Ling Feiyu shook her head.

“I know. It is just a tactic of negotiation. It is normal to set a higher bar higher first. Otherwise, it is pointless to negotiate.”

After saying so, he engraved a communication talisman again and cast it out.

This time, he lowered his demand slightly, just asking for four Five-Element fetishes.

Before long, Cang Long responded but still did not give in to his demand.

After continuous bargaining, Zhang Ruochen sent a message, asking the Fane of Youshen to prepare no less than two fetishes.

Atop a mountain that was ten of thousands of miles away from Peakless Mountain, Cang Long was sitting on its peak. He reached out to catch the communication talisman sent by Zhang Ruochen.

“Damn Zhang Ruochen!” Cang Long could not hold back his anger after he read the contents of the communication talisman.

At least two fetishes and no room for negotiation were too much.

Cang Long did not even feel like giving out a strand of hair, much less the fetishes. How he wished he could rip Zhang Ruochen into pieces right then.

Sadly, he had no choice. Ruan Ling was still in Zhang Ruochen’s hands. In any case, it was impossible for him not to save Ruan Ling.

Previously, he had been convinced that Zhang Ruochen had violated Ruan Ling. After thinking long and hard about it, he figured that it was impossible. After all, Ling Feiyu had been with Zhang Ruochen at the time, and it would have been impossible for Zhang Ruochen to do anything to Ruan Ling in front of Ling Feiyu.

Furthermore, he also believed that Ruan Ling would never let Zhang Ruochen violate her dignity.

Still feeling angry, Cang Long engraved another communication talisman and sent it back to the Fane of Youshen.

He could not decide on this matter, and so he could only ask Youshen.

He knew Youshen’s temper very well. Even if Youshen loved Ruan Ling very much, it was probably impossible for him to give away two fetishes. One was already the limit.

Sure enough, as he had expected, Youshen replied that he would only take out one fetish. He also told Cang Long that if he and Ruan Ling could not bring Zhang Ruochen back to the Fane of Youshen, the two of them would not have to go back anymore.

“Zhang Ruochen’s demand for the Five-Element fetishes must be for the preparation to form an immortal body. At this stage, he still can’t use them. Screw it! I will give him the two Five-Element fetishes first, then find a chance to kill him and take back the Five-Element fetishes,” said Cang Long to himself.

With a flip of his hand, Cang Long took out a piece of divine gold that was the color of blood. It was Heavenly Blood Raw Gold, an extremely precious metallic fetish. It was something he had stumbled upon in a macroworld that had been on the verge of collapse many years ago. At first, he had planned to use it to forge the strongest immortal body for himself.

Now, Youshen was only willing to part with one fetish. So, to get Ruan Ling back, he had no choice but to temporarily bring this Heavenly Blood Raw Gold out.

He meant for it to be temporary because he would take the Heavenly Blood Raw Gold from Zhang Ruochen later. By then, he would definitely make Zhang Ruochen suffer, so much so that Zhang Ruochen would wish he was already dead.

Saint Golden Peak, Peakless Mountain.

Zhang Ruochen could not hold back his laughter when he received Cang Long’s message. “It looks like the Fane of Youshen values Ruan Ling very much; they are willing to use two Five-Element fetishes in exchange for her.”

Zhang Ruochen quickly engraved a communication talisman and send it out at once.

Cang Long told him that it would take some time for the Five-Element fetishes to be sent to the Kunlun Realm. As such, Zhang Ruochen agreed for the exchange to be held at the Sub-Terminal of Merits nearest to Peakless Mountain half a month from now.

Before the exchange, Zhang Ruochen could first enter the Bronze Furnace of Life and Death to practice his self-cultivation.

“You are planning to forge the strongest Five-Element chaotic immortal body in the future, right? But it is difficult to gather all the Five-Element fetishes. Even if you have gotten them all, it will be very difficult to succeed. It will only be more difficult than when you cultivated the Five-Element Chaotic Body last time,” said Ling Feiyu.

“I know, of course. But if you want to be powerful enough, work harder than everyone else.” Zhang Ruochen let out a smile.

Ling Feiyu looked at Zhang Ruochen for a moment and then took out a quaint animal skin from a dimensional artifact. “You have practiced Sword Nine to the Completion Stage. You may find this thing useful.”

“What is this?” Zhang Ruochen took the animal skin in his hand.

The next moment, his attention was completely captured by the animal skin. He could not take his eyes off it.

After a long while, Zhang Ruochen finally came out of his little world, his eyes full of surprise. “How did you get this personal insight of Sword Ten, Feiyu?”

He had practiced Sword Nine to the Completion Stage, and what he desired most was to get the personal insights of Sword Ten so he could begin to comprehend Sword Ten.

However, as far as he knew, apart from the Sword Pavilion and Wanxiang City, there seemed to be no place where personal insights of Sword Ten existed—not even in the Wang Clan, which was known as the House of Swordsmanship.

“In the Heaven’s Fall Blade lineage, there once was a grand master who attained Supreme Sainthood and comprehended the mystery of Sword Ten from the Wordless Sword Manual. Few people know this. Legend has it that Sword Ten has five levels. It is a pity that this grand master of Heaven’s Fall Blade has only attained the fourth level, which is far from the Completion Stage.”

For nearly ten thousand years, it seemed that only Sword Emperor Xue Hongchen had practiced Sword Ten to the Completion Stage. Others could not even find the entry to Sword Ten practice.

“How far have your comprehension of Sword Ten gone, Feiyu?” asked Zhang Ruochen curiously.

Ling Feiyu shook her head. “Sword Ten is too mysterious. I have been studying it for a while but have only reached the second level. I guess the Sword Soul has a great deal to do with Sword Ten’s practice. The stronger the Sword Soul, the easier it will be to master Sword Ten.”

“The Sword Soul? It appears that I have to use up all the Meritorious Sword-cleansing Essence that I have exchanged for as soon as possible,” whispered Zhang Ruochen.

His Sword Soul was extremely powerful, not far from a qualitative transformation.

If Ling Feiyu’s guess was anything to go by, he could comprehend Sword Ten in half the time once his Sword Soul completed the transformation.

After waiting for nearly a day, Moyin, through the teleportation array at Sub-Terminal of Merits, finally arrived at the Bronze Furnace Plains in Central Region from Dark Wasteland in the Eastern Region.

Zhang Ruochen studied Moyin for a while and smiled. “Not half bad at all. Your cultivation base has reached the Lesser Precept World. You must have benefited a lot from the ancient veins.”

“I have indeed benefited from the ancient veins to improve my cultivation level. Master, please take a look at these four Godstone that I excavated from the ancient veins.” Moyin handed a brocade box to Zhang Ruochen with both hands.

Zhang Ruochen reached to take the brocade box and opened it. A dazzling divine light burst out while the four Godstones neatly sat in the box.

“Well done, Moyin. You will get your reward. There are many corpses of the Infernal Court cultivators in the Qiankun Realm. You may have them as many as you want.” Zhang Ruochen sounded excited.

Ling Feiyu had given him four Godstones, and Moyin had brought him four more. Plus the eight unused ones he got from under the Cliff of Doom, that made it a total of sixteen Godstones. When the sundial was turned on, he could practice for sixteen years. And who knows, maybe he could successfully attain the realm of Precept Domain?

Once he was in the Precept Domain realm, his strength would increase tremendously. By then, there would be few Non-Supreme Saint beings who could pose a threat to him.