God Emperor - Chapter 1787

Chapter 1787: News About the Godstones.

The Vajra Snowsea Ape was crushed to the point of dying by the Bagua Seal, yet it still struggled and wanted to get back up, its willpower was something to behold.

“I am the King of the Snowsea, I’m not someone to be taken out by the likes of you…”

BOOM!! BOOM!!

Zhang Ruochen flew down from the sky and stamped heavily against the head of the Vajra Snowsea Ape, and pressing it back into the ground.

Immediately following that, Zhang Ruochen’s right palm pressed against the center of its eyebrows and blasted a powerful surge of spiritual power into its head.

Only by using his spiritual powers to suppress it can Zhang Ruochen stop the Vajra Snowsea Ape from self-destructing its sea of Qi.

Otherwise, the destructive power of a Nine-step Saint King self-destructing was enough to easily raze the Yunwu royal city in the distance to the ground.

DUHFF!

The Vajra Snowsea Ape’s spiritual will fought against Zhang Ruochen, but it ended up for naught.

Zhang Ruochen used his spiritual powers to extract the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s memories, to look for the information that he wanted to know. A steady stream of memory bubbles flooded Zhang Ruochen’s mind.

But, just as he was about to explore some special memories, Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual powers were repulsed and that part of the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s memories was automatically destroyed.

For example, both the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s cultivated skills and saint techniques were no longer obtainable by Zhang Ruochen.

“There’s a Supreme Saint level existence that had locked down parts of the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s memories.”

In the end, what Zhang Ruochen found was rather limited.

WHOOSH!!

Zhang Ruochen directly pulled the saint source from the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s sea of Qi.

Within the Saint source floated a small sword. The small sword was formed by the Saint Path precepts and was the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s Saint Precept Artifact.

Within it was the saint source with a rank-nine Saint Precept Artifact, and was equivalent to the legacy of a Nine-step Saint King. Its value was far beyond any ordinary Saint source and could be sold for sky-high prices.

“Let me have a look.”

Awesome the Little Taoist rushed over, and its two mung bean-sized eyes stared at the small sword within the saint source. “This Saint Precept Artifact is made out of more than seven hundred and forty thousand precepts.”

Immediately afterward, Awesome the Little Taoist inspected the Vajra Snowsea Ape’s corpse and made a judgment. “This Ape King is probably in the Realm of Lesser Precept World, within the Nine-Steps Saint King realm.”

Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “There is indeed still a big gap between its cultivation level and the realm of Greater Precept World.”

A Nine-step Saint King is quite close to becoming a Supreme Saint and was just a step away from being immortal. Yet, that single step was fraught with difficulties and had blocked countless talented persons from becoming a Supreme Saint.

The Nine-step Saint King realm was divided into the Lesser Precept World, and Greater Precept World.

The realm of Lesser Precept World was the most common among the Nine-step Saint Kings, and just like how this Vajra Snowsea Ape, was still in this realm even after cultivating for over two thousand years.

Creatures of the Greater Percept-World are the elites amongst the Nine-step Saint King, and their strength was far superior to those of the Lesser Precept-World, and the precepts within them exceeded ten million and would even flow into their body and various meridians.

It was said that above the Greater Precept World, there was a realm called the Precept Dominion.

Those of the Precept Dominion were even more powerful and had already touched the trace of the mysteries of the Supreme Sainthood.

In short, there was a gulf the size of the heaven between a Nine-step Saint King and a Supreme Saint, and only by crossing that gulf would one obtain powers that of a saint emperor.

Zhang Ruochen’s face was solemn as he said slowly. “The Fane of Youshen has a Nine-step Saint King with a cultivation level close to the Greater Precept-World within Yunwu Commandery.”

Awesome the Little Taoist’s expression changed drastically as it said. “Someone of that level is beyond our abilities to deal with right now. Forget those mortals in Yunwu Commandery, and let’s find a place to hide. Once I’ve broken through to the realm of a Nine-step Saint King, we’ll come out again and start the slaughter.”

Why wouldn’t Zhang Ruochen want to break through to the realm of a Six-step Saint King or even a Seven-step Saint King as soon as possible?

But, it was impossible to ask him to forsake the people of Yunwu Commandery.

Moreover, from the memory of the Vajra Snowsea Ape, Zhang Ruochen learned that the cultivators from the Fane of Youshen had somehow found out about the Supreme Saint-level dragon corpse at the bottom of Tongming River.

They wanted to dig out the dragon corpse buried deep under the river and refine it into a Wyrmlord Abomination.

And that dragon corpse was obviously the remains of the Golden Dragon.

Zhang Ruochen owed a debt to the Golden Dragon, and if it was not for it handing the Dragon Pearl and the Bodhi Emperor’s sariras to Zhang Ruochen, Zhang Ruochen may not have been able to achieve what he had today.

Although the remains of the Golden Dragon had sunk into the depths of the earth and was extremely difficult to find, there was a legendary figure in the Fane of Youshen that sought out dragons to refine their corpses that were of a Nine-step Saint King. And there was a possibility of that person finding and digging Golden Dragon’s remains out.

“If you want to dig out the remains of the Golden Dragon, you’ll take to step over my dead body.”

Whether it was out of respect for the Golden Dragon, or for self-preservation, Zhang Ruochen must stop the cultivators of the Fane of Youshen.

Of course, there were many elites of the Fane of Youshen that were gathered at Tongming River, and among them were two Nine-step Saint King, so Zhang Ruochen would not rush in to fight them, and would need to plan things out.

The Kunlun Realm battlefield had forbidden the cultivators from the various macroworlds in the Celestial Court to kill one another. Therefore, Zhang Ruochen immediately dragged the body of the Vajra Snowsea Ape back into the Royal Mountains.

A strange force surrounded the Royal Mountains and could avoid the detection of the Emissaries Vigilant.

The evil spirit that had taken the form of a black skeleton had already gathered the saint souls of several other slain elites of the Fane of Youshen and swallowed them whole, storing them within the bones to slowly refine them.

Seeing that Zhang Ruochen dragging the corpse of a thousand feet tall giant ape into the mountain, the black skeleton immediately rushed over, and siphoned all of the remaining soul of the Vajra Snowsea Ape into its mouth.

Immediately after, the black skeleton transformed into the Emperor Yi Bone Staff, and planted itself on the top of a mountain, and began to refine the souls.

BOOM!! BOOM!!

The process of refinement was terrifying as lightning came crashing down continuously, rocks were melted into droplets, and vegetation turned into ash upon the wind as ordinary Saint King creatures could not even get close.

A moment later, Saint Devourer, the Mastadon-Devouring Rabbit, and the Demon Ape all rushed into the Royal Mountains one after another, some wanted nutrients, the others wanted food.

But the moment it saw the corpse of the Vajra Snowsea Ape, Demon Ape suddenly lost interest. The Mastadon-Devouring Rabbit too had been together with Demon Ape for a long time now and was not interested in the meat of ape-like beasts, so it was the Saint Devourer who got her hands on the corpse.

“After completely assimilating this great ape, my cultivation level will definitely be able to reach the realm of a Seven-step Saint King. ”

The Saint Devourer planted her roots into the corpse of the Vajra Snowsea Ape and began to absorb it.

Both the Mastadon-Devouring Rabbit and Demon Ape, having discovered that there were a large number of sacred medicines and holy springs in the Royal Mountains immediately drooled as they rushed into the forest and gorged themselves in food and drinks.

Zhang Ruochen’s expression was solemn, as he thought about how to break through to the realm of a Six-step Saint King.

He was different from the Mastadon-Devouring Rabbit and Demon Ape, who can increase their cultivation base just by eating.

He needed enlightenment.

The path he had to walk was different from the Mastadon-Devouring Rabbit and the Demon Ape. Not only did he have to fight invincible foes from the same realm, but he also needed to plan for the long term. Not only did he need to become a Supreme Saint, but he had to also cultivate himself to be a god against the heavens.

Only by him reaching the supreme path would the Mastadon-Devouring Rabbit, the Demon Ape, and the Saint Devourer can follow him and get stronger.

If he wanted to be their master, he naturally had to work much, much harder.

“Things are already so tense here in just Yunwu Commandery. I don’t have the time to understand the saint path precepts. Sigh, time…”

Zhang Ruochen’s eyes lit up as he thought of the Sundial. “If I could find a Godstone, I could activate the Sundial.”

Zhang Ruochen immediately wrote something on a Communication Talisman and send it away.

This talisman was intended for Luo Xu.

In the Kunlun Realm today, apart from the imperial court, the strongest factions with the most means available to them were probably the Martial Market Bank, and the Black Market.

Both markets have very deep backgrounds with a long history and may have Godstones in their inventory.

Luo Xu was one of the principals of the Eastern Region Saint Court and had a high status in the Martial Market Bank. Should he step forward, he probably could help Zhang Ruochen find out about the Godstones. Immediately afterward, Zhang Ruochen sent out a second Communication Talisman to the Hundred Flower Fairy, Ji Fanxin.

Ji Fanxin was the disciple of the Mandala Flower God, and had a lofty position within the Qianhui Relm, and there was a chance she might be able to get a Godstone there. Most importantly, she had something she wanted from Zhang Ruochen, and would definitely do her best to help him.

In fact, Zhang Ruochen also wanted to send a talisman to the Thousand Star Maiden. This heavenly maiden was powerful, and any treasure she pulled out will be one that commanded a heavenly sum.

Obtaining the Godstone would probably not be a difficult task for the Thousand Star Maiden.

But Zhang Ruochen held back and did not send her the message.

After all, Zhang Ruochen and the Thousand Star Maiden are not allies, but mortal enemies. While the two are not yet hostile towards each other, but a battle for life and death will come sooner or later because of the Canon of Truth.

Not long after, Luo Xu was the first in resending back a reply talisman.

“The Martial Market Bank has Godstones, but even I must spend merit points to buy them. With my current merit points, I can only buy two of them. Where are you now? I’ll send someone over right away.” Luo Xu’s own handwriting flowed on the talisman made out of light.

From the beginning to the end, Luo Xu did not mention anything about Zhang Ruochen paying for the Godstones.

But Zhang Ruochen knew that the price of the Godstones was extremely steep, and even if Luo Xu were to exhaust all of his wealth, he could only buy two of them.

Zhang Ruochen once again blasted out another Communication Talisman to inform Luo Xu of his location.

“WHOOSH!!”

Another Communication Talisman flew over, it was Ji Fanxin’s reply.

“Where are you now? I’ll come to look for you.”

The writing on the talisman was beautiful, and the message succinct.

Zhang Ruochen hesitated for a moment and thought to himself. “It’s not a secret that I’m in Yunwu Commandery, and this news will probably spread across the Kunlun Realm soon anyway, so it’s fine to tell her.”

No longer thinking about it, Zhang Ruochen blasted out another talisman, and send his current position to Ji Fanxin.

At last, there was some news about the Godstone, but two Godstones was still too few. If Ji Fanxin could bring another two, that would be great.

“Where did that old man went to?”

Zhang Ruochen thought about the old man who had crawled out of the tomb and immediately used his Heavenly Eyes and spiritual powers to search around. However, even after searching most of the Royal Mountains, he could not even find a trace of that old man.

Awesome the Little Taoist’s tiny body walked to Zhang Ruochen’s side and said very seriously. “The Royal Mountains is very likely an awakened sacred ground, and perhaps even awakened divine grounds. I explored deep into the mountains earlier, and found that the dimension inside is still very vast, as if it was borderless, and there are many heavenly treasures growing all around.”

“I dare to say that this was probably a great sect or an ancient family that had occupied this land in the past. However, afterward, something had happened that it was hidden inside the folded dimension.”

The fissure within the Royal Mountains was still spitting saint Qi and heavenly and earthly precepts, making the cultivation environment within the Royal Mountains more and more wondrous.

The battle earlier had caused great damage to the Royal Mountains, yet in just an hour, all of the destroyed areas were automatically healed as dense vegetation grew again.