The huge Blood God Cult became empty, and everyone gathered at the top of Qianyuan Mountain, including Du Mosheng, Pei Linhu, He Yuan and other demonic monks who had surrendered.
Previously, the Dark Demon Realm was coming fiercely, but for whatever reason, Du Mosheng and others did not back down and performed quite well, which made Zhang Ruochen quite satisfied.
Now that the Blood God Sect is employing people, Zhang Ruochen plans to train the three of them well. The three of them are bound by the Blood God's curse seal and are absolutely loyal, so they can safely invest various resources in them.
Du Mosheng practiced the Demon Swallowing God Picture, which happened to be one of the four stone carvings of the Heavenly Demon collected by the Blood God Sect. Pei Linhu practiced the Picture of the Howling Tiger of the Heavenly Demon, which was also in the hands of Zhang Ruochen, but through a gambling battle.
Won from the Dark Demon Realm.
The Black Demon Realm had just obtained the authentic work of the Heavenly Demon Tiger Roaring Picture not long ago, so Pei Linhu had not yet had time to understand it. If he had not surrendered to the Blood God Cult, he would have been destined to miss this Heavenly Demon Stone Carving.
For the monks who practice the Demonic Stone Carvings, the significance of directly comprehending the authentic relics is extremely huge. Only by comprehending the authentic relics can they hope to cultivate the powerful world-destroying demonic energy.
He Yuannai is a monk in the Shadow Demon Realm. Although he does not practice the Heavenly Demon Stone Carving, Zhang Ruochen has a Heavenly Demon Stone Carving in his hand, which is very consistent with the demonic skills he practices. This is also the reason why he agreed to cooperate with Pei Linhu and others in the first place.
Being able to be cultivated by Zhang Ruochen, Du Mosheng, Pei Linhu and He Yuan were naturally very excited. They were secretly glad that they had made a wise choice, which not only saved their lives, but also received such good treatment.
In the second year of his retreat, Zhang Ruochen's cultivation reached the peak of the Dao Realm. The number of Holy Dao rules in his body reached one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, with only one missing.
You can reach 20 million Dao, and if you successfully condense it, you can enter the realm of heaven.
However, Zhang Ruochen has encountered a bottleneck after his cultivation has reached this point, and he cannot break through in one go like before.
The realm of receiving heaven is no small matter, it is to attract the power of heaven and earth into the body, temper the form and spirit, and prepare for the subsequent casting of the immortal body.
After most people reach the peak of the Lin Dao realm, they need to accumulate for a long time, and then rely on their accumulation to break through to the Heaven Realm.
Like Du Mosheng, Pei Linhu and He Yuan, the time it took to reach the peak of the Dao Realm was not short, but they were always stuck at the bottleneck, and they were not sure when they would be able to break through.
However, now that they have the opportunity to comprehend the Heavenly Demon Stone Carvings, they may be able to find an opportunity to break through in their cultivation.
"It seems that I only focused on increasing the quantity of Holy Dao rules in the past, but did not pay attention to quality, and this buried hidden dangers. Of the nearly 20 million Holy Dao rules in my body, 70% were obtained by meditating on 100,000 small paths and cultivating them.
The proportion is too large.”
Zhang Ruochen frowned and quickly found the problem.
With Zhang Ruochen's basic qualifications, if the rules of the holy way are strong enough, the Heaven Connecting Realm will not become a bottleneck and he can easily break through.
Since returning to the Kunlun Realm, Zhang Ruochen has faced an endless stream of powerful enemies and has been under great pressure. He has had to find ways to quickly improve his strength.
In comparison, it is undoubtedly the fastest to comprehend the Hundred Thousand Little Paths and add the rules of the Holy Path.
As a result, as his cultivation level improved, the proportion of small path rules in Zhang Ruochen's body became larger and larger, which was already difficult to reverse.
The most troublesome thing is that once the rules of the holy way are cultivated, it is not only impossible but also extremely difficult to change them.
"All the rules of the Holy Dao in my body are extremely tightly integrated. If I rashly extract some of them, problems will easily arise, and the Tongtian River will inevitably collapse."
Zhang Ruochen couldn't help but feel a headache and felt helpless.
The rules of the holy way can be forcibly extracted from the body, but if you do so rashly, the consequences will be very serious. If you are not careful, you will destroy your future and the path of cultivation will end.
But if this problem is not solved, as the controller of time and space, the time it will take for Zhang Ruochen to break through to the Heaven Realm will definitely not be short, which will also be a huge trouble.
Many thoughts flashed through Zhang Ruochen's mind, thinking of various ways. This was just a small twist in his cultivation path. If he couldn't solve it, how could he become a god?
"This method may work."
Zhang Ruochen whispered, reaching out and gently touching the Vulcan armor on his body.
The next moment, he mobilized all the secrets of truth in his body, mixed the holy energy, and injected it into the Vulcan Armor.
A large number of mysterious patterns suddenly appeared on the surface of the Vulcan armor, and terrifying flames rose up.
With the help of the thirty-nine percent truth, Zhang Ruochen undoubtedly further inspired the power of the Vulcan Armor.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen extracted the ten rules of the Holy Path from Tongtian River and emerged outside his body.
These rules of the holy way are all small rules. They look very delicate, and the power they contain is also very weak.
Zhang Ruochen placed these ten rules of the holy way in the flames and burned them carefully.
The Vulcan Armor is left behind by the former Vulcan. The divine fire contained within it is extremely terrifying and can burn all living things.
It didn't take too long before a trail of rules showed signs of dissolving.
Zhang Ruochen had a solemn expression and carefully controlled the flames released by the Vulcan Armor, allowing the ten small rules to merge with each other.
It is obviously not easy to accomplish this. If it is not done well, these ten rules of the holy path will be destroyed.
"Bang."
A rule of the holy way exploded into pieces and dissipated directly into nothingness.
Involuntarily, Zhang Ruochen's expression became solemn, but he did not stop because of this, he just looked more cautious.
But even so, these ten rules of the Holy Path still exploded one after another and disappeared into thin air.
"Come again."
After thinking for a moment, Zhang Ruochen once again extracted ten small rules from the Tongtian River.
Just like before, he was still burning with the flames released by the Vulcan Armor.
Unfortunately, the result this time was still the same as before.
However, Zhang Ruochen obviously had no intention of giving up. After a pause, he started again.
In this way, hundreds of consecutive attempts were made and thousands of Holy Path rules were lost, so that even the Tianhe River experienced slight vibrations and became slightly unstable.
Finally, combined with the experience summarized time and time again, the rules of the small path showed signs of merging, and the ten rules merged into one, turning into an incomplete and strong rule.
Seeing this, Zhang Ruochen did not hesitate, and immediately summoned dozens more rules of the holy way from his body and smelted them in the same way.
In this process, Zhang Ruochen used his mental power to the extreme and clearly grasped every detail.
After a long time, a relatively thick rule of the holy way appeared in the blazing flames. It was completely different in nature.
Seeing this brand new rule of the holy way, Zhang Ruochen suddenly smiled, "It is finally worth losing thousands of rules of the holy way. Thirty-three small rules are merged into one big rule. Although this method is difficult,
But it does work.”
The ancient way, the supreme holy way, the great road and the small road have extremely wonderful connections with each other.
The nine eternal Tao are the most fundamental Tao, which give rise to the seventy-two Supreme Holy Tao, and then derive three thousand avenues and one hundred thousand minor ways.
On the contrary, dozens of small roads of the same type can be restored to form a great road.
If we continue to deduce, dozens of avenues of the same type can theoretically form one supreme holy path.
Of course, although this is the theory, it is extremely difficult to actually do it.
From what Zhang Ruochen thought about, it would probably only work if the small roads merged into the main road, and there was no need to think about the rest.
"Next, I will do my best to merge the rules of the small road into the rules of the big road, and fundamentally solve the hidden dangers."
Now that he has found a solution, Zhang Ruochen naturally wants to complete the matter as quickly as possible.
Integrating rules is not an easy task and requires extreme care. Even if you find the trick, it will be difficult to achieve efficiency quickly.
As the number of rules in the trail decreases, Zhang Ruochen will undoubtedly be able to cultivate more powerful rules.
In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed.
The minor rules in Zhang Ruochen's body were reduced by 7 million, and merged into more than 200,000 major rules.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen also cultivated another three million powerful rules of the Holy Way in the past ten years. The total number of rules of the Holy Way in his body is more than 16 million, but it has not caused any regression in his cultivation.
Now calculated, there are less than 7 million small Tao rules in Zhang Ruochen's body, accounting for 40% of the total number.
At this point, Zhang Ruochen stopped and no longer continued to integrate the rules of the trail.
It is impossible for any monk not to have the existence of minor Tao rules, which are an important foundation and indispensable.
"Next, practice according to this ratio. If the number of small path rules is smaller, Tongtian River will become unstable."
Zhang Ruochen whispered, he already knew what he would do in the future.
Although the total number of rules has been reduced, the scale of Tongtian River has become significantly larger.
There is no other reason. There are more strong and powerful rules in Tongtian River, and the power contained is far more powerful than before.
With the current power of Tongtian River, if we mobilize the rules of heaven and earth and the power of heaven and earth, both the scope and quantity will be greatly increased.
Correspondingly, Zhang Ruochen's own strength actually rose instead of falling.
As long as he raises his cultivation to the peak of the Dao Realm again, his strength will definitely be greatly improved.
However, Zhang Ruochen also discovered a problem, that is, any kind of holy way rules, when the total number reaches more than 500,000, it will become very difficult to continue to increase.
The largest number of holy rules in Zhang Ruochen's body are the rules of swordsmanship. Before the retreat, he had already reached 700,000 rules, which can be said to be a very remarkable achievement.
This retreat lasted almost twelve years, and the rules of kendo increased by about 70,000. Zhang Ruochen's understanding of kendo became more and more profound, and he became more confident in creating his own unique swordsmanship.
After the adjustment of the rules of the holy way in his body was completed, Zhang Ruochen once again devoted himself wholeheartedly to his cultivation. He wanted to improve his cultivation and at the same time complete the four goals he set before retreating.
In the fifteenth year of seclusion, Du Mosheng broke through the bottleneck and broke through to the realm of heaven as he wished.
More importantly, the blood-sea demonic energy in Du Mosheng's body transformed. At the moment of breakthrough, the first ray of world-destroying demonic energy appeared in his body.
After more than a year, Pei Linhu and He Yuan successively broke through to the Heaven Realm. However, they were not as lucky as Du Mosheng. They didn't know how long they would have to wait before they could hope to cultivate the world-destroying demonic energy.
"Uh-huh."
The extremely solid sword soul flew out of Zhang Ruochen's body.
A wisp of sword energy spurted out, condensing into a holy sword, which was held by the sword soul.
The sword soul held the sword and waved it in the air. The sword skills displayed were not very brilliant. They were all the most basic sword styles, but they gave people the feeling of being extremely sophisticated and spiritual.
As time went by, the sword skills performed by the sword soul became more and more advanced, and Zhang Ruochen practiced all the sword skills he had learned.
When the last move of True Thunder Fire Sword Technique was performed, the sword intent emanating from the sword soul changed in vain.
I saw the holy sword drawing a strange trajectory, slight ripples in the space, and subtle changes in the flow of time.
A crystal clear strange flower appeared out of thin air, bloomed slowly, and was magnificent. And at the moment when this strange flower bloomed, the surrounding space and time showed obvious fluctuations.
A sacred weapon with seven rays and ten thousand patterns flew out of Zhang Ruochen's body and disappeared into the area enveloped by the sword intent.
"Buzz."
In an instant, thousands of tiny cracks appeared on the surface of this seven-ray and ten-thousand-pattern sacred instrument, and then it directly shattered and turned into powder.
Seeing this scene, a smile suddenly appeared on Zhang Ruochen's face.
"I successfully created a sword technique, and now I have finally taken another big step forward in the way of swordsmanship."
Zhang Ruochen couldn't help but feel a surge of heroism in his heart as his sword skills were just beginning to be perfected.
Although this sword technique has just been created and is not very perfect yet, in terms of power, it should barely reach the level of high-level holy arts.
As long as it is further improved, its power can be greatly improved.
Zhang Ruochen combined what he had learned and integrated the principles of time and space into his sword skills. Once used, a special time and space can be formed to envelop the enemy, trapping and killing them.
Although the power of this move may not be as powerful as the Time Sword Technique, it is easier to perform and can be coordinated with the Time Sword Technique.
Speaking of which, it is also because Zhang Ruochen has cultivated a large number of time rules and space rules over the years, and has deepened his understanding of the ways of time and space rules, so that he was able to successfully create sword techniques.
"Let's name this sword technique Yi Nian Hua Kai!"
After thinking for a moment, Zhang Ruochen decided on the name of the sword technique.
One thought represents time, and the Buddha said that one flower represents one world, and the flower represents space. The name is undoubtedly very appropriate.
"Boom."
At this moment, the flow speed of Tongtian River suddenly accelerated and rushed out of Zhang Ruochen's body in an instant.
"I never thought that the creation of swordsmanship would be an opportunity for me to break through to the realm of heaven."
Seeing this change, the smile on Zhang Ruochen's face couldn't help but become even brighter.
The Tongtian River is entangled around Zhang Ruochen, flowing at an astonishing speed. The rules of the holy path are in it, like swimming fish, full of spirituality.
Drawn by the Tongtian River, waves of power from heaven and earth came through the air and poured into Zhang Ruochen's body.
Originally, Zhang Ruochen's physical body had reached its limit and it was difficult to improve further.
But at this moment, the power of heaven and earth entered his body, and he clearly felt that the limits of his physical body were broken, and he became more powerful bit by bit.
The effect of using the power of heaven and earth to temper the body for the first time was the best, so Zhang Ruochen immediately calmed down his mind and devoted himself to training wholeheartedly.
Zhang Ruochen's physical body is already extremely powerful. At this time, the benefits he gets are naturally far better than those of ordinary people.
Zhang Ruochen didn't stop until his physical body was completely saturated and could no longer hold any trace of the power of heaven and earth.
Next, he needs to settle down a bit before he can continue to use the power of heaven and earth to temper his body.
At this time, Tongtian River also returned to calm and submerged into Zhang Ruochen's body again.
At this point, Zhang Ruochen has truly entered the realm of heaven.
Facing Zhou Yu and a strong person at the level of Mo Sheng again, the battle will no longer be as difficult as before.
"The rules of space have reached 280,000, the rules of time have reached 210,000, and the rules of truth have reached 480,000. Compared with before the retreat, they have all doubled, which is consistent with my current cultivation level. "
Zhang Ruochen seemed quite satisfied with the results of his cultivation over the years.
Before going into seclusion, he set four goals for himself, and now he has completed three of them, leaving only the second layer of seal on Yan Shen's leg to be unlocked.
"My cultivation has reached the Heaven-Connecting Realm. I should be confident that I can unlock the second layer of seal on Yan Shen's leg. I hope you won't be disappointed."
Zhang Ruochen whispered, full of expectations for completing this matter.
The Divine Yan Leg is a real divine leg, containing extremely majestic power. If the Moon God had not set four layers of seals in it, Zhang Ruochen would not be able to control it.
Just by breaking the first layer of seals, you can have the power to threaten the Immortal Monkey King. I don't know how powerful it will be if you break the second layer of seals.
The "Nine Heavens Ming Emperor Sutra" was operating, and Zhang Ruochen gathered all the holy energy in his body into his left leg.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen also mobilized the energy of Shenyang in the sea of divine light to melt into his left leg.
Inspired by the holy energy and Shenyang essence, Zhang Ruochen's left leg instantly turned red, like a red-hot black iron pillar, and thick divine rules emerged one after another.
"Break it for me."
When the strength was accumulated to the extreme, Zhang Ruochen let out a loud shout in his throat.
"boom."
Like a star falling, a powerful force crazily impacted on the second seal of Yanshen's leg.
Even though it was a seal set by the Moon God, it was extremely strong, but under the impact of this force, it quickly shattered.
The seal was broken, an extremely violent force emerged crazily, and the surrounding space was immediately shattered.
Zhang Ruochen reacted very quickly and immediately used the Hidden Mountain Magic Mirror to block the space around him to prevent the power of Yan Shen's legs from spreading out.
This power is really too terrifying. If it is allowed to spread, it will be a catastrophe.
"There are millions of Taoist rules, no wonder they are so terrifying."
Looking at the thick rules emerging from his left leg, Zhang Ruochen couldn't help but have a look of surprise in his eyes.
He had known for a long time that there could not be only one hundred thousand Taoist rules in Yan Shen's legs, most of them were sealed by the Moon God.
Only when all four layers of seals are broken, will the divine rules in Yan Shen's legs be fully revealed.
And when that time comes, the power possessed by Yan Shen's legs will probably be able to destroy the world.
"My current holy energy foundation is not enough to fully activate the rules of these millions of gods. It seems that my cultivation strength needs to be further improved in order to fully unleash the power of the Yan Shen Leg that has unlocked the two layers of seals.
come out."
Zhang Ruochen's heart was shocked, and he felt the power of Yan Shen's legs very clearly.
The holy energy converged, Yan Shen's legs gradually returned to calm, and the rules of millions of gods were hidden again.
After some breath adjustment, the holy energy in Zhang Ruochen's body was completely restored, and his energy and spirit reached its peak again.
The four goals have been achieved, so Zhang Ruochen plans to leave the country.
In total, he has been in seclusion for twenty-four years this time and has consumed twenty-four sacred stones, which is longer than any previous retreat.
"It's time to leave seclusion. Let's keep the remaining nine sacred stones. They may be of great use."
Zhang Ruochen turned his gaze to the sundial and couldn't help but think deeply.
As the energy of the two inlaid sacred stones was exhausted, the sundial fell silent and was caught in Zhang Ruochen's hand.
After staring at the sundial for a moment, Zhang Ruochen put it away.
Then, Zhang Ruochen was about to stand up, but as soon as he moved, his expression changed drastically. The reason was that his left leg became extremely heavy, making it difficult for him to stand up.
"I didn't expect that after unlocking the second layer of seal, it would be the same as when I first got Yanshen's legs. It seems that I will inevitably be lame for a while."
After finding out the condition of his left leg, Zhang Ruochen couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.