How could Zhang Ruochen possibly have no interest?

  In Wushi Academy, only inner palace students can exchange their merit points for Semi-Holy Elixir.

  Outer Palace disciples, even if they have meritorious deeds, cannot exchange them for Half-Saint True Liquid and can only receive the Half-Saint True Liquid issued every year and every quarter.

  Outer Palace disciples who want to obtain Semi-Holy Liquid must spend a high price to buy it on the black market.

  But the black market is very dangerous. If you don't have a familiar person to guide you, you may be secretly calculated by the evil forces in the black market and lose both your life and money.

  Zi Yan was different, she was originally an assassin in the black market, so having her buy the Semi-Holy Liquid in the black market was the best option.

  Zhang Ruochen stared at Zi Cai and said, "It's hard to believe that your cultivation has improved so quickly. It turns out you've already refined five and a half Sacred True Liquids. How much does a drop of Semi-Sacred True Liquid cost on the black market?"

  Zi Yan did not hide from Zhang Ruochen, saying: "If it were an outsider who went to buy it, at least 4 million silver coins would be needed to buy a single drop. However, our Netherworld Gate has its own channels, so the price is much cheaper. Buying one drop only requires 2 million silver coins."

  Zhang Ruochen nodded and handed over more than 300 bottles of elixir to Zi Cai.

  Then, Zhang Ruochen took out more than a hundred true martial treasures and handed them over to Zi Yan, saying: "After selling these elixirs and true martial treasures, use all the money to buy Semi-Holy True Liquid. If you can buy Holy Liquid, that would be even better."

  "Alright, I'll be back in three days. Wait for my good news." Zi Cen gazed deeply at Zhang Ruochen, took more than ten steps forward, suddenly stopped, turned around and smiled brightly at Zhang Ruochen, saying: "After selling the Dan medicine and the Zhenwu treasure, we will divide the silver coins into a ratio of three to seven."

  Zhang Ruochen knew that Zichen liked silver coins and ling crystals very much, so he didn't bother to keep track of them. He smiled and nodded, saying: "Thirty-seven layered distribution."

  "Hiss"

  Zi Yan transformed into a beautiful purple shadow and left the Western Courtyard, disappearing into the majestic mountains of Tianmo Ridge.

  Back at Longwudian, Zhang Ruochen entered the inner space of the Time and Space Crystal Stone, preparing to start his breakthrough to the Extreme Realm's extreme position.

  Take out eight and a half drops of sacred true liquid, arrange them in a row, and place them in front of you.

  "There are still ten days until the quarterly assessment. In the Time-Space Crystal, it's just a month, which should be enough for me to break through to the Extreme Realm's extreme position."

  As soon as he swallowed the first drop of the Semi-Holy True Liquid, a chill ran down his spine, appearing in his abdomen and spreading throughout his entire body along the meridians.

  Zhang Ruochen was not the first time to take the Semi-Holy Liquid, and soon adapted, spending only three and a half days to refine the Semi-Holy Liquid drop by drop.

  Then refine the second drop, the third drop

  After refining the Seventh Drop of Sacred True Liquid, Zhang Ruochen finally broke through the boundary and reached the Extreme Position in the Xuanji Realm.

  Zhang Ruochen's body emitted a loud rumble, and the capacity of his Qi Lake expanded thirteenfold. The thirty-six meridians in his body also expanded, causing the true energy within them to flow faster, producing a sound similar to that of rushing water.

  After breaking through the boundary, Zhang Ruochen took down the eighth drop of Semi-Holy True Liquid and spent only three days to fully refine a drop of Semi-Holy True Liquid.

  Refining the eighth drop of Semi-Holy True Liquid, Zhang Ruochen's realm was completely consolidated.

  "Upon reaching the extreme boundary of the Mystic Realm, my speed has reached what extent now?" Zhang Ruochen could clearly feel that his cultivation had increased by a huge margin.

  Whether it's power or speed, reaching another height.

  When he cultivated the Wind Dragon Shadow to a small success, Zhang Ruochen's strongest explosive speed had already reached fifty-seven meters per second.

  Now?

  "Hiss"

  Zhang Ruochen sprinted across the square in front of Longwu Hall, his speed as swift as a gust of wind. If another extreme realm warrior were here, they probably wouldn't even be able to see his shadow.

  Running around the Longwu Hall square for ten laps, Zhang Ruochen stopped and excitedly spat out a mouthful of air, saying: "Without using the Wind Dragon Shadow and not triggering the bloodline, my speed can reach 58 meters per second. If I use the power of the Wind Dragon Shadow and the bloodline to its fullest extent, my strongest explosive speed can reach 62 meters per second."

  Those masters who ranked lower on the Mystic Board had a maximum explosive speed of about sixty meters per second.

  Although he had never fought against a true Xuanbang warrior, Zhang Ruochen already had the confidence to contend with some of the weaker Xuanbang warriors and even defeat them.

  It can be said that Zhang Ruochen now has the power to fight against a warrior at the Earth Pole Boundary.

  With his current strength, if he were to fight General Hong Ye again, even if he couldn't win, he could still retreat unscathed. He wouldn't need to rely on Huang Yanchen's power like before.

  "Upon reaching the extreme boundary of the Mystic Realm, one can condense their blood and energy into a soldier. Let me see what kind of battle soldier will be condensed."

  Zhang Ruochen stood in the center of the square, with blood and energy surging out of his body. Strands of blood and energy burst forth from his pores, completely enveloping a space of about ten meters in diameter, as if transforming into a massive cloud of blood.

  In the bloody cloud, nine war sword silhouettes condensed and floated in Zhang Ruochen's nine positions, emitting a strong sword aura.

  "How can there be nine swords"

  Martial artists who reach the extreme boundary of the mysterious extreme realm can all "condense blood energy into soldiers", but they can only condense one soldier.

  Like Zhang Ruochen, at the same time, nine blood swords condensed out, it's simply unheard of and unseen.

  He withdrew his aura and sank into deep thought, muttering to himself: "Could it be because I've opened up all 36 meridians of the Nine Heavens Emperor Scripture that I discovered this strange phenomenon?"

  Condensing into nine blood swords is definitely a good thing.

  It's just that gathering nine Blood Soldiers at the same time is really too shocking, if others were to find out, it might not be a good thing for Zhang Ruochen.

  "From now on, try not to use the power of blood vessels." Zhang Ruochen thought to himself.

  Tomorrow is the quarterly assessment. With Zhang Ruochen's current strength, it shouldn't be difficult to become the first among new students in the Fourth Academy, so there's no pressure at all.

  Zhang Ruochen went to Ziyan's residence, intending to retrieve the Semi-Holy Elixir.

  As soon as I arrived at the girls' dormitory building, it caused a sensation.

  "Look, that's the new first-year student of our Western Academy. It's said that his spiritual power has already reached the 29th rank, and he's the number one spiritual power genius in the history of Wushang Academy." A female student around eighteen or nineteen years old shouted excitedly, and those who didn't know thought Zhang Ruochen was going to do something improper to her.

  Another beautiful female cultivator in the Profound Extreme Realm, gazed at Zhang Ruochen with her beautiful eyes and said: "It's said that if he chooses to cultivate spiritual power, he has at least a 50% chance of becoming a Spiritual Power Saint."

  Every saint is a great being high above, worshiped by countless warriors, with disciples all over the world. Many warriors have never seen the face of a saint in their lifetime, but Zhang Ruochen has a 50% chance of becoming a saint, and how can those girls present not be excited?

  "I really want to have a little prince with him." A rather beautiful girl said somewhat dazedly.

  Zhang Ruochen hadn't even seen Zi Xian yet, but was already surrounded by a group of female students, unable to move an inch. There were even bold girls who took the initiative to offer kisses, fortunately Zhang Ruochen dodged in time, otherwise his face would have been covered with lip prints.

  Zi Yan naturally also heard the commotion and saw Zhang Ruochen standing under the pavilion, so she flew down directly and landed beside him, pulling Zhang Ruochen to "kill" his way out of the encirclement.

  "Let's talk somewhere else," said Zi Yan.

  Zhang Ruochen knew about the Half Sacred Liquid, it was a big deal, so he said: "Go to Longwu Hall, Huang Shijie and Duanmu Shijie are not there, don't worry about being overheard."

  Zhang Ruochen brought Zi Yan to Longwu Hall and returned to Huangzi No. 1.

  Close the door and Zhang Ruocheng asked: "Zi Shimei, has the Half-Saint True Liquid been exchanged?"

  Zi Yan said: "The elixir and the true martial treasure you gave me, together they were sold for 58 million silver coins. According to our initial agreement of a 3:7 split, you get 40.6 million silver coins, and I get 17.4 million silver coins. I helped you buy 20 and a half sacred true liquids in total, as for the remaining 600,000 silver coins, do you want them?"

  Her meaning is very clear, it's just 600,000 silver coins, if you don't want them, I'll help you take them.

  "Since it's my money, I certainly want it."

  Zi Yanbai took out 600,000 silver coins and twenty small jade bottles from Zhang Ruochen's gaze, placing them on the table.

  Zhang Ruochen opened one of the jade bottles, and a fragrant medicinal gas was emitted from it, which was indeed the aura of the Semi-Holy Elixir.

  After putting away the twenty bottles of Half Sacred True Liquid and sixty thousand silver coins, Zhang Ruocheng suddenly lifted his head, deeply staring at Ziyun with a profound gaze, saying: "Zi Shimei, from now on, can you leave the Gate of Earth Prison?"

  Zi Yan's face turned a few shades paler, not daring to meet Zhang Ruochen's gaze directly, saying: "You simply don't understand how powerful the Netherworld Sect is. If I were to dare leave the Netherworld Sect, within ten days, I would definitely die an unnatural death."

  "Besides, I'm not a prince or a noble lady, I don't have a strong background or family support. If I don't kill people, where would I get the money to buy cultivation resources?"

  Zhang Ruochen no longer persuaded her, knowing she had her own difficulties.

  "If in the future one day you have any difficulties, just come find me." Zhang Ruochen said.

  "Uh-huh"

  Zi Yan lightly nodded and said: "There's one more thing, you might not know yet, the Four Sides Kingdom and Yunwu Kingdom are going to war."

  Zhang Ruochen's eyebrows furrowed, saying: "Because of Prince Huo Xing's death"

  "Huo Xing Prince was really killed by you this time, you were too reckless. The four-party state has been wanting to annex Yunwu State for a long time, it's just a matter of finding an excuse."

  "After some thought, Zǐ Qiān said: 'If you really want to kill Prince Huò Xīng, why do you need to take action yourself? I can help you.'"

  Zhang Ruochen's face was solemn and he said, "Since Prince Huo Xing has already died, there is no point in saying these things anymore."

  Zi Yan said: "The Four Sides Kingdom is using the death of Huo Xing Wangzi as an excuse to force Yunwu Kingdom to hand you over and pay 80 million silver coins in compensation. Naturally, Yunwu Kingdom refused, so the Four Sides Kingdom has already begun gathering troops at the border, waiting for the beginning of next year to launch a surprise attack on Yunwu Kingdom."

  "What's going on inside Yunwu County?" Zhang Ruochen asked.

  Zi Yan said: "It is said that Queen Wang and Xue Guo Shi both advocate handing you over to appease the anger of the four directions. However, King Yunwu and some high-ranking generals in the army strongly disagree. Anyway, within the state of Yunwu, there are undercurrents surging, which is quite unfavorable to you."