Divine Brilliance

In the deep parts of the cloud ocean, outside a palace surrounded by clouds. Long Ruo was sitting on top of a high mountain, fully focused. This place was from beneath the cloud ocean, stabbing up into the heavens. However, only a small part of it stuck out of the cloud ocean.

In front of him, there was a silver sword which hung 3 inches around his body, circling.

Long Ruo’s brows were tightly furrowed. He stared at the sword in front of him in deep thought.

If there was a spiritual cultivator here, one would notice that there were 3 bright and dazzling golden runes in his soul ocean. It was reflecting out light and shining on the sword.

The light was bright and destructive like it was about to cut a hole through the sword.

Just as this silver-white sword was about to turn transparent in Long Ruo’s eyes, suddenly, thin sword energy broke out from the sword body.

Long Ruo was astonished, retracting his soul consciousness and keeping the 3 golden talismans in his soul. His right finger flicked out only to hear a “ding” before this broken blade sword was tossed hundreds of feet out. It was then restrained by certain power and didn’t fall beneath the cloud ocean.

“What a good broken metal sword intent. In the end, it was all for nothing…”

Frowning his brows, Long Ruo looked at his right-hand only to see there was a thin wound at his fingertip.

His martial cultivation wasn’t as good as his spiritual cultivation and was only at the martial ancestor realm. However, His body along with his vast soul power wasn’t something a normal grade 3 spiritual weapon could hurt.

The sword just now just very easily left this wound on his fingertip.

He couldn’t help but frown. It has been 8 months since he comprehended this broken metal sword intent. At the start, he was improving with leaps and bounds, but in the next half a year, he was stuck at this final step.

It shouldn’t be only because of his comprehension of the martial path. There was also because of natural barriers between spirit and martial arts.

This sword cultivation path was, as expected, not an easy one.

Just as he was deep in thought, Long Ruo suddenly picked up something. He looked down only to see a person climbing up from below. He wasn’t stepping on the mountain rocks, but on air.

The person was not well trained, his body shaking and wobbly, their speed was also really slow. However, each step was stable.

The 3 thousand feet high hill wasn’t a cliff, but this person used close to 15 minutes before he got to the peak.

Sweat formed on the forehead. However, this young man’s face was filled with satisfaction.

Long Ruo also felt happy for him, smiling, “Congratulations junior brother, you are at the ascended realm. Your lifespan has reached a thousand years, no longer the same as normal people.”

That Zu Renkuang laughed out loud when he heard that, “I have cultivated 7 years in the world and then spent a year in the cloud palace to be able to take this step. However, my realm isn’t stable, so who knows, I might drop back down tomorrow.”

Then, he looked at the silver sword in front of Long Ruo, “Senior Brother is still comprehending this broken metal sword intent? It seems like you want to embark on sword cultivation, making a second soul and form a sword embryo sword intent? How’s your progress now?”

“I do want to make a 2nd soul. I have to thank Junior brother for this matter! Thanks to you for helping me find this broken blade sword. Although I haven’t made much progress, within 2-3 months I will have some progress.”

Long Ruo smiled, casually keeping the silver sword into his sleeves. Then he asked curiously, “Junior brother didn’t come here to ask me about my progress in this broken metal sword intent. What matter do you have? You can say directly? Our relationship is great, so you don’t need to be shy.”

“I really can stop asking you how the comprehension of your sword intent is going. There are 3 more months to the dragon gate opening. The martial saint remnant image day, which was why senior master asked me to ask you how your progress is if you could breakthrough within 3 months…”

Zu Renkuang laughed, following which his tone changed, “I also have one matter to inform you. Did you once order a 4th generation disciple to pay attention to news about Gantian Mountain prince Zong Shou? That person told me to tell you that 3 days ago he killed Zong Shi, Zong Ming, and Zong Hao, officially taking the throne and becoming the 2nd Gantian Mountain Monster king.”

Long Ruo’s eyes immediately constructed, his eyes filled with shock, “You mean Zong Shi and Zong Ming all died in his hands?”

Even Zu Renkuang saying Zong Shou inheriting the throne wasn’t as shocking as the deaths of these few people.

In the past, he had understood things about Gantian Mountain. He knew that the direct bloodline disciples of the Zong family were deeply rooted and strong in Gantian Mountain.

If Zong Shou wanted to make them give up the Monster king position, he had to rely on his subordinates to have a chance of succeeding.

However, to remove them was extremely difficult.

“It’s not only that. Junior brother, have you heard of Xue Moyan? I heard he’s the most outstanding junior of the Xue family in the cloud world.”

He saw Long Ruo’s eyes light up. Long Rou had heard of that person before. Zu Renkuang didn’t bother introducing him, saying expressionlessly, “3 days ago, this person and Daoming Sect Wuye Zhenren, Xuansu Sect Lihu Jichang, and a few Xuanwu ancestors and return to sun spirit masters all died on the altar of Gantian mountain. It was said that Zong Shou killed them all personally. Even the sky fox Zong family Zong Zhen lost to Zong Shou…”

“That’s impossible!”

Long Ruo stood up immediately as he heard that, his eyes filled with shock and surprise. How did trash who had barriers from heaven and was unable to cultivate kill Xue Moyan?

Even if he saw wrongly, 10 months ago Zong Shou had just reached the martial master realm. He definitely couldn’t reach such a strong level in less than a year.

Daoming Sect Wuye, Xuansu Sect Jichang were all relatively strong people. Not to mention those 3, any Xuanwu ancestor should be able to squish him easily with one finger.

“I was this shocked that day! Even the sect leader had sent a talisman asking.”

Zu Renkuang wasn’t surprised by Long Ruo’s outburst, shaking his head with a smile, “Then I asked people to investigate and found that people there at the altar all weren’t detailed or they were bragging all out. They said he was extremely strong, and ascended ancestors were not his match. Or they were extremely wary and didn’t want to say more. What was more surprising was that in the market there was a mysterious rumor. They said he killed 4 grade 6 beasts at 8 years old, 10 years old forcing back a Ying serpent in the evil spirit moat. There was also a lot of other stuff. Forget about it, take a look at yourself…”

As he said that Zu Renkuang directly threw a jade tube over. Long Ruo accepted it and halfway through he smiled, “so it seems like when the prince was 10 he was as strong as us now…”

The Ying serpent in the evil spirit moat was the same grade as his spiritual pet, the grade 7 black flood dragon, gathered from Ying energy. Normal grade 7 experts were easy meat for it, so to be able to force it back, one had to be strong.

However, his eyes showed some care,” the way he did things that night he is indeed decisive and ruthless. Making his race and also showing his extraordinary decision making. I underestimated him in the past. Behind this prince, there has to be someone smart…”

“He is indeed amazing. At such a young age, he’s scheming already. Before this, in Cloud Saint City I saw some glimpses. Unfortunately, he has barriers from heaven and can’t cultivate.”

Zu Renkuang shook his head and sighed, feeling slightly unfortunate. Following which he thought, “As for the person behind him! After the situation on the altar, there was another weird matter. Be it Yunxia, Blazing Flame Mountain, Xue family, Daomin Sect, or Xuansu Sect, the news they got were all from the rumors from the city. None of them knew exactly what happened on the altar. It was like all the hidden pieces in Gantian mountain were all ripped out. I guess not only is this person strong, but he is also able to suppress that Zong Zhen. The power must be extremely strong, who knows they might be planning to act for the item in Ying dragon valley. As for this Zong Shou, he does have some ability. But the deaths of Xue Moyan and the others probably didn’t have much to do with him. Those rumors are most probably to misdirect people. Speaking of which, Senior Brother are we not going to bother about this Ying dragon valley?”

Long Ruo couldn’t help but nod slightly, he agreed with what Zu Renkuang guesses as that was his thoughts too. Hearing that he smiled, “why will we care? It is in our territory, no matter how those many of the sects make noise, we still will have a part of the spoils. Why should we jump out and be a target? Everything we shall wait for the dragon gathering mountain dragon gate matter to end before we speak. If we can see the remnant images, we will both have huge gains.”

“Martial Saint remnant image? I might not be able to get a spot to enter. I might not be able to see it.”

Zu Renkuang touched his nose and revealed a bitter expression. He stood up, just as he was about to take his leave he remembered something.

“Oh right! Senior Brother Long, I heard that you have some relationship recently with Mysterious Cloud Sect Han Nishui. Recently this person was demoralized because of his marriage matter. He wanted to borrow the strength of mysterious cloud Sect and pill fountain Sect to suppress Xuan Mountain City. However, I heard that 2 days ago that Xuanyuan Tong from Xuan Mountain City also broke into the ascended realm. I heard that 2 big sects want to recruit the person.”

Long Ruo was startled, following which his expression sunk and turned dark.

The matter that they had discussed had such a change. He was out of sorts, directly sending Long Ruo away but was unable to calm himself down.

The anxiousness and bad feeling got thicker and thicker. He felled annoyed and was unable to compose himself.

It was Zong Shou again. He felt that this person’s matters were getting more and more out of his control.

Even when he released that broken blade sword out in front of his body, he was unable to calm down to comprehend.

Speaking of which this broken blade sword was also obtained by that Gantian Mountain prince, how annoying and hateful.