Qiu Lin was extremely disgruntled, having cultivated in the Imperial Palace Academy for nearly ten years, only to be defeated by a newcomer who had just become an inner palace disciple. It's easy to imagine the humiliation, resentment, and indignant anger he felt.

  Moreover, he had previously boasted that Zhang Ruochen would give him some pointers, but he didn't expect Zhang Ruochen to actually do so now.

  Jiǎo Ruò Chén said: "The Nine Spirit Beast King Form, in fact, is called the Ten Spirit Beast King Form. The tenth style is called Ren Wang Wu Di (Invincible Human King). Humans, after all, are also one of the hundred beasts. Therefore, you have not actually cultivated this martial skill to perfection. If you can successfully cultivate the tenth style, this spirit-level mid-grade martial skill will be able to unleash the power of a spirit-level high-grade martial skill."

  "You deceived me, you deceived me! The Nine Spirits Beast King form only has nine styles, where did the tenth style come from?" Ju Lin roared.

  "No need to deceive you, the Ten Spirit Beast King Form of Wushu Academy is just a fragmentary volume and is not complete at all. Of course, with just the first nine forms, this martial skill is already more powerful than ordinary mid-grade spirit-level martial skills."

  Zhang Ruochen saw Qiu Lin still didn't believe him, so he shook his head and stopped paying attention to him.

  Then, Zhang Ruochen's gaze turned towards Xun Guihai and others, revealing a hint of a smile. Without saying anything, he walked directly towards the Gongxun Tower.

  Xun Guihai and the inner courtyard students who followed Ju Lin earlier all changed their faces, extremely fearful in their hearts, afraid that Zhang Ruochen would settle accounts with them.

  When they saw Zhang Ruochen enter the Merit Tower, they finally let out a breath of relief and hastily escaped, not daring to stay outside the Merit Tower again.

  Even the strong players on the ground, Qiu Lin, were defeated by Zhang Ruochen. They naturally became even less worthy of attention, and from now on, how could they still dare to be enemies with Zhang Ruochen?

  Boom

  The entire Imperial Academy was in an uproar.

  "Do you know that Zhang Ruochen, who just entered Nei Gong Xue Fu, defeated Qiu Lin, one of the Ten Outstanding Youths of Tian Mo?"

  "How can Master Qi be so powerful and yet lose to a teenager?"

  "I saw it with my own eyes, how can it be fake?"

  "With Zhang Ruochen's strength, even if it were the Great Master, he might not necessarily be his opponent."

  Zhang Ruochen walked up to a counter in the Merit Tower and said, "Elder, I'd like to replace an Academy Token and also exchange some merit points."

  The elder in the Meritorious Deeds Tower, who had personally witnessed Zhang Ruochen defeat Jiao Lin, knew that Zhang Ruochen was incredibly powerful and even he might not be a match for him.

  So, he was very polite to Zhang Ruochen and said: "Your contribution value has been calculated by the Imperial Academy, a total of 820,000 points. You lost the Imperial Academy token, deducting 10 points, leaving 819,990 points of contribution value."

  "Really?" Zhang Ruochen was somewhat surprised.

  That silver-robed elder smiled and said, "Killing a Tianji boundary warrior from the black market is worth at least 10,000 merit points. Mu Qing, Hua Ming Gong, and Hua Qing Shan of the Poisonous Spider Merchant Association all died at your hands, just them alone can be exchanged for over 40,000 merit points."

  "Moreover, you found evidence of the Four-sided County and Poisonous Spider Merchant Guild's collaboration. The Lord of Thunder has already confessed in advance, which counts as 30,000 points of merit for you. In addition to that, you killed some other black market strongmen, totaling 82,000 points of merit, not a small amount."

  "So it was." Zhang Ruochen said.

  That silver-robed elder smiled obsequiously and said, "You are the secret disciple of the Lord of the Thunder Pavilion. How dare we tamper with your merits? In the future, perhaps I will still have many places where I need to rely on you."

  "Definitely."

  Zhang Ruochen smiled and put away the newly forged token, then left the Merit Tower.

  "With Lord Lei as a backer, I estimate that many unnecessary troubles will be avoided from now on."

  Zhang Ruochen glanced at the token in his hand, a hint of a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he prepared to head to Tongsheng Mountain immediately.

  "Zhang Ruochen."

  Chen Xier walked towards him, just like a white orchid in the wind, refreshing and elegant, with a sweet smile on her face: "I really didn't expect that after just a few short months, your cultivation has already reached such a powerful realm, should I say congratulations or not"

  Earlier, Zhang Ruochen and Qiu Lin had a fierce battle, which indeed made Chen Xier feel somewhat shocked.

  She was clearer than anyone else that Zhang Ruochen's cultivation had not broken through the Earthly Boundary several months ago. In just a few months, Zhang Ruochen already possessed the strength to enter the Earth List.

  Previously, Zhang Ruochen still had a good impression of Chen Xier, who was noble but approachable. However, after seeing how she treated Ziyan in the dungeon last time, he realized that she was a woman with a beautiful appearance but ruthless means inside.

  Although she did nothing wrong in doing so, Zhang Ruochen didn't like her sinister personality.

  For some reason, at this moment, seeing Chen Xier's smile, Zhang Ruochen always felt a bit fake.

  "Master Chen, I still need to cultivate, so I'll take my leave first. Sorry."

  Zhang Ruochen slightly bowed to Chen Xier, looking very polite, and then left directly, without even looking at Chen Xier's surprised eyes.

  Chen Xier stared at Zhang Ruochen's departing back, feeling very puzzled. What had she done to offend Zhang Ruochen, causing him to suddenly become so cold towards her?

  "It must be my cousin again, speaking ill of me in front of Zhang Ruochen."

  Chen Xier lightly shook her head, seeming indifferent, and muttered to herself: "Zhang Ruochen's innate talent is quite good, but it's only considered top-notch in the Tianmo Ridge. In the entire Eastern Domain, he can only be considered mid-to-high level."

  Chen Xier's status is noble, her eyes are above the top, and her gaze will naturally not be limited to just a Tianmo Ridge.

  She took the initiative to show kindness to Zhang Ruochen just to oppose Huang Yanchen and deliberately provoke Huang Yanchen.

  It's impossible that she really took a liking to Zhang Ruochen. At the very least, one would have to be a genius ranked in the top 100 of the Earth Ranking to enter her line of sight, and Zhang Ruochen is still quite far from being ranked in the top 100.

  Zhang Ruochen's attitude only stirred up a small ripple in Chen Xier's heart, which quickly subsided.

  In her heart, she was secretly planning whether to invite one or two of the young prodigies who were pursuing her and ranked in the top 100 on the earth list to come to Tianmo Ridge, in front of Huang Yanchen, and defeat Zhang Ruochen.

  It seems like a pretty interesting thing too.

  Arriving at Tongsheng Mountain, Zhang Ruochen collected a hundred points of merit value and directly entered a ground-level gravity cultivation secret room.

  This is a terrestrial-level gravity training secret room, which is a 30-meter-long cubic gravitational space.

  Zhang Ruochen had just taken his first step when he felt a surge of gravity on his body, reaching the level of double gravity.

  When he walked to a position of five meters, Zhang Ruochen's body bore a gravitational force that was five times stronger.

  At the ten-meter mark, Zhang Ruochen's body was subjected to a gravitational force of ten times that of normal, and he could faintly feel the pressure. His footsteps became increasingly heavy, as if his entire body was laden with lead blocks.

  When he walked twenty meters away, the gravity he bore reached twenty times that of normal, and Zhang Ruochen was already under tremendous pressure, his breathing becoming somewhat difficult.

  He slowly raised his arm, and both arms were like hanging with a weight of ten thousand catties, trying to strike out a palm, but found it quite laborious. The bones in his arm made a cracking sound, as if they would break at any moment.

  "Twenty times gravity should be enough for now."

  Zhang Ruochen's legs slightly bent, forming a dragon-shaped stance, and his true energy began to circulate throughout his body.

  "Boom"

  One palm struck out and hit the stone wall.

  On the stone wall, a palm-shaped mark about one millimeter deep appeared.

  Affected by ten times gravity, his palm strength seemed very weak and his movements were extremely slow, unable to be as agile as outside.

  Continue

  "Humming"

  Zhang Ruochen went crazy with his training, constantly swinging his arms and striking the stone wall to hone his palm technique.

  Just by pounding out five hundred palm prints, Zhang Ruochen's arms were numb with pain, and blood-colored stripes appeared on his arms, as if the skin was about to crack open.

  After taking a pill of Sanpin Liangyao, Zhang Ruochen sat cross-legged in the space with twenty times gravity. Just half an hour later, his injuries were healed and his arms were filled with strength again.

  In the gravity training chamber, Zhang Ruochen continued to practice, sweating and tempering his body, refining his palm technique, one palm after another, he slowly adapted to the twenty-fold gravitational environment.

  Under normal gravity, Zhang Ruochen can strike six palms in a row, with the six palms overlapping and exploding with six times the power.

  Even under twenty times gravity, Zhang Ruochen could still throw out six palms, but the six palms couldn't overlap, and fundamentally couldn't explode with the true power of "Elephant Force Ninefold".

  After spending ten days of continuous practice, Zhang Ruochen was finally able to unleash double his palm strength.

  "Ninefold Strength of an Elephant"

  Zhang Ruochen struck out with two palms in a row, the palm prints overlapping, exploding with twice the power, leaving a one-inch deep palm print depression on the wall.

  "Finally achieved something"

  Zhang Ruochen's face lit up with joy, and he looked at his own blood-stained hands. His high-intensity palm training had caused extreme damage to his arms.

  But compared to a few days ago, it's much better now. It would take 1,000 palm prints to injure my arm like this.

  For the next five days, Zhang Ruochen continued his cultivation but was unable to make another breakthrough.

  Of course, he became more and more resistant to the Gravity Training Chamber, and at his best, he could withstand nearly two thousand palm prints before stopping to recover.

  I suppose this is also a kind of progress

  Half a month of cultivation time ended, Zhang Ruochen left the gravity cultivation chamber.

  Returning to his own practice mansion, Zhang Ruochen immediately began testing the results of his half-month practice.

  "Ninefold Strength of an Elephant"

  Zhang Ruochen's internal Qi completely burst out, and he struck seven palms in a row.

  Seven palm prints, in the empty space connected into a straight line, condensed into a huge palm print with a diameter of seven meters.

  "Boom"

  Twenty zhang away, a huge palm print collapsed a fake mountain, turning it into pieces of flying rubble.

  "Seven times the power, is no small progress."

  Zhang Ruochen retracted his true energy, and the martial aura on his body gradually dissipated.

  After a half-month of arduous training in the Gravity Chamber, Zhang Ruochen's sacrificial power was fully refined and transformed into his own strength. His martial arts cultivation seemed to have improved once again.

  Kong Xuan walked over from a distance and saw Zhang Ruochen standing by the pool. He immediately bowed his head and saluted, saying: "Greetings to the master."

  Zhang Ruochen turned around and glanced at Kong Xuan, with a hint of brightness in his pupils, saying: "Your cultivation has already reached the late stage of the Mystic Extreme Realm."