Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
“Rules Emperor Weapon, come out.”
Time and Space Martial Way Deity Print flew out of Zhang Ruochen’s forehead, forming bizarre engravings while giving out gleaming light.
A cluster of blue Divine Fire Jingmie flew out.
At the center of the flame floated a golden palace, and there were thirty-six pillars around the palace. The palace looked delicate, containing terrific supreme saints’ forces.
Fortunately, Zhang Ruochen had refined the Rules Emperor Weapon using Divine Fire Jingmie so that the supreme saints’ forces were less fierce, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to handle it that easily.
“This is a Rules Emperor Weapon that’s craved for even by supreme saints! It’s made of hundreds of millions of saintly way rules.”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit excited. He held the golden palace in his hand and released his mind power to feel the palace.
He then smiled. “Wujin Ancestor has also comprehended sword way before, and comparatively, he didn’t attain much on it. There’re only one hundred and twenty thousand sword way rules in it.”
However, even if a supreme saint barely refined a saint way, it was still far superior to an absolute saint.
There was only one sword way rule in Zhang Ruochen’s body, yet there were one hundred and twenty thousand sword way rules in Wujin Ancestor’s Rules Emperor Weapon.
This was the gap between the power of an absolute saint and a supreme saint.
Wujin Ancestor majored in Blazing Fire Way, so there were more than ten billion of those rules in the golden palace, which were the major components of the golden palace.
“Supreme saints are like the sun, while I’m just a firefly compared to that.” Zhang Ruochen sighed.
When he got back to Mount Yuanxu Sacred Land, he received invitations from Supreme Saint Nine Spirits and Emperor Jimie, which actually made him proud. After all, he was qualified to be a guest of a supreme saint.
Yet after inspecting the Rules Emperor Weapon of Wujin Ancestor, Zhang Ruochen had a deeper understanding of the power of supreme saints, which made him realize how weak he was.
“Those supreme saints invited me to their banquets because I helped Guanghan Field win the Saints Merits Battle, which saved Guanghan Field from becoming the next battlefield. They might also recognize my talents and potential.
“But there’s no way they approbate my power.
“I’m far from rivaling a supreme saint yet. I need to keep practicing.”
Zhang Ruochen had a better understanding of himself. He calmed himself down, released mind power and started to comprehend the first sword way rule on the Rules Emperor Weapon.
Even if he had the Rules Emperor Weapon, he needed to comprehend the saintly way rules first.
Only after fully comprehending the saintly way rules could he transform them into his own saintly way rules.
If we treated the sword way rules in the Rules Emperor Weapon as one hundred and twenty thousand characters, Zhang Ruochen needed to choose a character to study and comprehend until he could write it in his own way and explain what it meant. Only after this would that character belong to Zhang Ruochen.
Every sword way rule was a character.
“As long as I can comprehend three sword way rules and transfer them into Heaven Pass River, then I’ll have four sword way rules in my body, making me a half-step saint king.”
It was way easier said than done.
Zhang Ruochen devoted all his time to refining.
Aside from the Rules Emperor Weapon, he also took out three scrolls to comprehend Sword Eight.
They were ‘Sword Saint Xuanji Sword Eight Notebook,”Sword Emperor Hongchen Sword Eight Notebook,’ and ‘Empress Chi Yao Sword Eight Notebook.’
They represented the understandings of Sword Eight of Sword Saint Xuanji, Sword Emperor Xue Hongchen, and Chi Yao. They documented their perceptions when they were refining Sword Eight, and Zhang Ruochen had copied them when he was in Yin and Yang Sect.
He studied Sword Saint Xuanji because he was his disciple, and he was Zhang Ruochen’s most influential teacher when he started sword way.
He studied Xue Hongchen because he was the most gifted sword warrior since the ancient times, and his attainment in sword way had peaked.
No other sword warriors were called ‘sword emperors.’
He studied Chi Yao because he wanted to defeat her.
Sword Eight was the eighth level of ‘Wordless Sword Manual.’ Different people had different understandings of them, and they would follow every different path of sword way in the end.
Sword Saint Xuanji was influenced by Taoism, so he thought Sword Eight represented ‘Qian, Kun, Xun, Zhen, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui,’ which were the eight trigrams, representing eight different locations. The eight trigrams evolved from his sword techniques, and the eight trigrams formed sword intent. In the end, he mobilized the power of heaven and earth, forming Sword Way Xuangang, which could break the land a thousand miles away.”
As for Xue Hongchen, he decomposed Sword eight as eight moves: wind, rain, thunder, lightning, star, moon, cloud, and light, including them in ‘Flying Fairy Sword Technique.’
He used sword intent to perform his techniques, and he deduced sword intent using sword techniques.
As for Chi Yao, she thought of Sword Eight as six directions, east, south, west, north, up, down, with herself and the sword in her hand. They were the eight poles. When she performed it, it would be like an entire earth crushing the enemies, who couldn’t dodge it at all. If they couldn’t ward it off, they would be killed.
They comprehended their sword way from ‘Wordless Sword Manual’ and perceptions of their seniors, and they transformed them into their own Sword Eight after mixing them with their own understandings.
Right now, Zhang Ruochen was studying their perceptions, trying to create his own Sword Eight.
“Although they have different understandings of Sword Eight, they all divide Sword Eight into six levels. Only after completing all the six levels can someone form Sword Way Xuangang.”
Zhang Ruochen saw Sword Saint Jiuyou perform Sword Way Xuangang before, and the power was irresistible and invincible. He craved that power.
Even though Zhang Ruochen managed to defeat Sword Saint Jiuyou, he still wasn’t able to ward off his Sword Way Xuangang.
Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes, mobilized saint Qi, and formed a being in his lower abdomen, practicing sword techniques.
This time, Zhang Ruochen decided to start with the notebook of Sword Emperor Xue Hongchen to deduce the sword intent in Sword Eight.
…
Time flew, and Zhang Ruochen had refined in the inner space in Time and Space Crystal for two months.
“I did it! Haha!’
Zhang Ruochen guffawed while holding the Rules Emperor Weapon.
It took Zhang Ruochen two months to add another sword way rule to his lower abdomen.
This seemingly easy part was actually the most difficult, and once he succeeded, whatever followed would be much easier.
If he added two more sword way rules, then the seed of rules would be rooted in his lower abdomen, which would mean he had become a half-step saint king.
Zhang Ruochen was close to becoming a half-step saint king.
“It seems I’ve made some breakthrough on Sword Eight. Perhaps I’ll have some better understandings if I perform the sword techniques again?”
Zhang Ruochen walked out of Time and Space Crystal, drew the Abyss Ancient Sword, and dived down the cliff like a trace of light.
He came to the saint spring under the cliff where there were all sorts of bizarre-looking plants of all colors with a pleasant scent. The saint light coming out of the petals made this space look like a wonderland.
Whoosh!
Just as Zhang Ruochen raised his sword, he felt a wind being formed, making whining-like sounds.
“Wind.”
Sword Emperor Xue Hongchen understood the first technique of Sword Eight as ‘wind.’
The wind would carry the sword.
Zhang Ruochen took a step and wielded his sword.
He didn’t activate the inscriptions on the sword, yet a trace of sword light flew out, trailing a curve, and it didn’t vanish until a breath of time had passed.
“Rain.”
He then changed his sword technique, then the space was twisted. The mist formed thousands of drops of rain floating in the air, glowing.
The raindrops also flowed as Zhang Ruochen changed his sword technique.
“Thunder.”
…
Zhang Ruochen performed all the eight sword techniques, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, star, moon, cloud, and light.
The eight sword techniques he comprehended were different from those of Sword Emperor Xue Hongchen.
Zhang Ruochen didn’t land back on the ground after performing the complete sword techniques.
Whoosh!
The petals flew from the ground, forming a trigram print, surrounding Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen put back his sword, smiled and thought, Now I’ve finally finished the elementary level of Sword Eight. This should be the first level.
It was terrific that he managed to finish the first level of Sword Eight.
It took Sword Saint Jiuyou two hundred years to complete Sword Eight.
Blackie showed up behind Zhang Ruochen with its wings covering its body, showing only its cat head. “Not bad. You’ve improved a lot.”
“Then let’s have a fight. I want to see how much I’ve improved,” Zhang Ruochen said.
“No need to rush. I’m here to tell you that Moon Goddess has sent all the half saints from Sacred Central Empire here.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “I still need to spend time becoming a half-step saint king. You’ll be in charge of them. I’ll give you some refining resources. Cultivate them in the best way possible.”
Zhang Ruochen spent four months refining in the Time and Space Crystal, and it was one month outside.
“Don’t you want to meet them? Don’t you want to know who brought them here?” Blackie blinked, smiled, and dropped a hint to Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen suddenly looked gentle. He flicked away the petals on his head and shoulders. “Let’s go, bring me to them.”
