Zhang Ruochen retracted the Flash Soul Sword and quickly stabbed out again, passing through the gap between the claws, striking the black giant cats brow, producing a metallic collision sound, splashing out sparks.

  "Boom"

  A four-star True Martial Treasure-rank Flash Soul Sword was actually unable to break through its physical defense.

  The cultivation of the black giant cat is not strong, equivalent to the small extreme boundary of the yellow extreme realm. How can its defensive power be so terrifying?

  "Haha, although my cultivation is one minor realm weaker than yours, I possess a body thats indestructible like diamond, with superior martial skills and ruthless tactics. This allows me to transcend three minor realms in battle. With my current strength, even if I were to fight against a Yellow Extreme Realm warrior at the peak of their power, I could still hold my own. Youngster, come and meet your death!"

  The black giant cat rushed towards Zhang Ruochen again, its body leaping two meters high, opening its big mouth and biting towards Zhang Ruochens shoulder.

  "Plum Blossom in Heavens Heart"

  Zhang Ruochens true energy circulated throughout his body, and with one sword strike, seven sword auras burst out.

  When the Flash Soul Sword stabbed in front of the black giant cat, seven sword auras converged into one and struck the lower jaw of the black giant cat.

  The black giant cat let out a miserable cry, heavily falling to the ground, and shouted: "So painful, Im going to die! Young man, how can you be so strong? Youre just at the extreme yellow boundary of cultivation, how can you burst forth with the power of the great perfection of the extreme yellow boundary?"

  "You have a strong physique, but Im not weak either. Even if we were in the same realm, perhaps Id be slightly weaker than you. But now that Ive surpassed you by one realm, youre absolutely no match for me." Zhang Ruochen walked forward with his sword.

  The black giant cat is indeed very powerful, and if it were in the same realm, Zhang Ruo Chen might not be its opponent. After all, it has an immortal body, and its simply impervious to swords and guns.

  The black giant cat saw Zhang Ruochen walking over and hastily said, "Young master, I think that since neither of us can do anything to the other, why must we continue fighting? Even if we keep fighting, its just a waste of time. Why dont we sit down and have a good talk?"

  The defensive power of the black giant cat was indeed very strong, and even the Flash Soul Sword couldnt break through its physical defense. If Zhang Ruo Chen continued to fight, even if he could defeat it, he would absolutely not be able to kill it.

  Zhang Ruochen stopped in his tracks and said, "If you can answer a few questions for me, I might be willing to negotiate with you temporarily."

  A black giant cat sat on the ground, with its round belly protruding, and said leisurely: "Ask me. I know ten million years before and after, heaven and earth, the world of mortals, theres almost nothing that I dont know."

  Zhang Ruochen asked: "Why did the Xumi Sacred Monk seal you within the Qiankun Divine Wood Chart?"

  "Thats a long story, to make it short, I committed an unforgivable sin back then, and the Saintly Monk felt that my guilt was too deep, so he sealed me in the Divine Wood of Heaven and Earth." The black giant cats ears slightly shook, its eyes rolling around.

  "What is this heinous crime"

  "Killing as easily as cutting grass, slaughtering the innocent, bringing disaster to humanity, killing dragons and taking their gallbladders, burning the sky and boiling the sea... thats about it." said the black giant cat.

  Zhang Ruochen stared at the black giant cats plump body and said, "It doesnt look like it"

  "Exactly, I also think its not like that at all. From this, we can see that the monk is very unreasonable, randomly assigning crimes to me and even sealing me in the painting scroll world space. Alas, I dont know where to reason with him." The black giant cat lay on its back, propping up a big belly, shaking its head and sighing.

  "People who dont look like bad people can be thoroughly bad. People who dont look like good people can sometimes do great and righteous things."

  "This throne is just a cat, dont think of me as that bad, little one, what are you doing?" said the black giant cat.

  With a "whoosh", the giant black cat was sucked back into the Qiankun Divine Wood Map.

  "As I expected, the power of the Qiankun Divine Wood Map can suppress you. Now that I am the master of the Qiankun Divine Wood Map, with just a thought, I can send you back to the painting world space." Zhang Ruochen smiled slightly as he pinched the Qiankun Divine Wood Map.

  "Young man, you must remain calm. Let me out quickly and I guarantee to be loyal to you from now on, with no second thoughts. If you let me go catch fish, I absolutely wont dare to catch a mouse." The black giant cat said somewhat anxiously.

  It has been trapped in the Qiankun Divine Wood Map for 100,000 years. Now that it has finally regained its freedom, it is naturally unwilling to be collected back into the painting again.

  Zhang Ruochen no longer paid attention to it, putting the Qiankun Divine Wood Map aside and starting to study the Eight Trigrams Basic Space Inscription.

  "The young man wants to engrave the basic space pattern, at least he needs to cultivate his spiritual power to the 20th level. How old are you now? Its impossible for you to have such strong spiritual power, let me teach you how to cultivate your spiritual power." The voice of the black giant cat came from the painting.

  "Twenty levels? My spiritual power has already reached thirty-two levels. Basic seals are not difficult for me."

  Zhang Ruochen sat cross-legged on the ground, opened the Space-Time Secret Manual, placed it in front of him, and began to study it carefully.

  "How can it be possible that an ordinary adults spiritual power is only around ten stages, and for a young man like you, having spiritual power of eight stages is already very good? Even for those born with strong spiritual power, before the age of twenty, they can at most reach fifteen stages. How can your spiritual power possibly reach the height of thirty-two stages?" The black giant cat said in a disbelieving tone.

  Zhang Ruochen was too lazy to deal with it and began to study the first basic spatial rune, the dot-type rune.

  The voice of the black giant cat sounded again from the painting, saying: "Could it be that youve been cultivating your spiritual power since childhood? With your age, even if youve been cultivating your spiritual power since childhood, its already very impressive to reach the 20th level. How is it possible to reach the height of the 32nd level? Young man, how can you be more boastful than me?"

  Generally, basic talismans can be successfully inscribed once spiritual power is cultivated to the 15th rank.

  However, the spatial foundation pattern is particularly special, more complex and unstable than ordinary foundation patterns. It must be cultivated to spiritual power cultivation at the 20th level before it can be inscribed.

  "Whoosh"

  Zhang Ruochen condensed his true energy to the tip of his finger, pointing it out and forming a light point, wanting to engrave a dot-shaped mark in the air.

  He tried more than thirty times in a row, all ending in failure.

  "Haha, I knew you were bragging. Wanting to cultivate spiritual power above the 20th level is simply as difficult as ascending to heaven for an ordinary martial artist. And wanting to engrave a spatial foundation rune is even more not an easy thing." The black giant cat sneered.

  Zhang Ruochen stopped and muttered to himself, "The first time engraving a tattoo is indeed very difficult. Ill practice with spiritual paper and an engraving brush first."

  Alchemists and artifact refiners initially learn talismans by practicing with a talisman pen on spiritual paper. To successfully draw the first talisman on spiritual paper, it takes at least over a year of practice.

  Zhang Ruochens first attempt at learning Seal Script was to try and draw the characters in mid-air with his fingers, which naturally ended in failure.

  Zhang Ruochen stood up and decided to go buy a pen and some tracing paper.

  "Hey young man, take me out with you! I promise I wont cause any trouble, Ill listen to whatever you say."

  Hei se ju mao de hua hai mei shuo wan, Zhang Ruo Chen bian jiang qian kun shen mu tu chong xin quan qi, shou jin mei xin, zou chu le shi kong jing shi de nei kong jian.

  Then Zhang Ruochen left the palace and headed towards Wucheng.

  Zhang Ruochen had just left the palace when a palace maid immediately rushed to the palace where Queen Wang lived and passed on the news to Han Qingluo.

  "Hes finally leaving the palace, what a wonderful thing. Arrange a team of people to follow me out of the palace, tonight will be the night of the downfall of a young genius." Han Qingluos eyes emitted a cold glow, and her beautiful mouth revealed some eerie smile.

  Zhang Ruochen arrived in Wu City and headed straight for the direction of the Mingwen Guild.

  Mingwen Association, one of the most powerful organizations in Kunlun Realm, has a history that is unparalleled. The First Central Empire had not yet been born when Mingwen Association was already born.

  Under the banner of Mingtu Guild, there are four major alliances: Alchemist Alliance, Artifact Refiner Alliance, Beast Tamer Alliance, and Eccentric Alliance.

  Only in the Mingyu Guild can you buy "Mingbi" and "Lingpian".

  These two items are completely monopolized by the Guild of Engravers and cannot be bought anywhere else.

  In the Kunlun Realm, every city had a branch of the Tattooed Skeleton Guild. As the royal capital of Yunwu Commandery, the guild hall was naturally built on a grand scale, resembling a fortress.

  Outside the Miao Fu Association, there are always people and horses coming and going, with a constant flow of people. Not only can you see warriors, but also alchemists wearing green robes.

  The back of an alchemists robe is generally embroidered with a dan tripod.

  The back of a Refiners robe is generally embroidered with an iron hammer.

  Apart from alchemists and artifact craftsmen, there were also some beast tamers, who rode their fierce beasts into the Seal Script Hall with an air of grandeur.

  A middle-aged man wearing a Alchemists robe, looking like he was in his thirties, puffed out his chest and walked proudly towards the Guild of Engravers.

  "Greetings, Honorable Master Sauron the Smith"

  The guards standing outside the Meng Fu Guild all bowed to him with respectful expressions in their eyes.

  "Hmm" Zuo nodded and walked straight into the entrance of the Mysterious Engraving Guild without even looking at the guards.

  "Its actually Lord Zhaoren, the Refining Master. Its said that his spiritual power has already reached the 26th rank and he is a very formidable second-grade Refining Master."

  "Master Sauron had a total of seventeen apprentices, eight of whom became first-rate equipment refiners. In the royal city, there were countless warriors who wanted to become Master Saurons apprentice."

  "I heard that Lord Saons requirements for accepting disciples are quite high. Those whose spiritual power does not reach the twelfth rank will not be accepted. Those who exceed twenty years of age will also not be accepted."

  "Its easy to talk about cultivating spiritual power to the twelfth level before the age of twenty, but only those who are truly gifted can achieve it."

  At this time, Zhang Ruochen saw two familiar figures, who were none other than the Eighth Prince Zhang Ji and Shan Xiangqian, the daughter of the Red Cloud Sects sect master.

  They also came outside the Mingyu Guild.

  After the year-end assessment, Hachiojis position in the palace plummeted.

  His birth mother, Consort Xiao, was deposed and sent to the Cold Palace. At the same time, he also became the lowest-ranking of the nine princes. Under the double blow, the eighth prince became disheartened.

  Today, he accompanied Shan Xiangqian to Minglun Guild to pay respects and become a disciple of Saoers second-rate equipment refiner.

  Martial arts talent, he cant compare with Zhang Ruochen.

  So he wanted to surpass Zhang Ruochen in another way and regain his status.