Chapter 1962: Divine Wood Heart
"Merit Dustless Water, washes away impurities, purifying the physical body and saint soul to be bright and flawless, suitable for condensing an indestructible saintly body, one portion for one hundred million merit points."
"Purple Mansion Merit Liquid, enhances spiritual power, improves spiritual power quality, can help become a Spiritual Power Great Saint, one portion for three hundred million merit points."
"Merit Taiyi Water, top-grade water attribute sacred object, can assist in cultivating a top-grade water attribute indestructible saintly body and cultivating high-grade water attribute sacred arts, one portion for five hundred million merit points."
"Merit Blood Soul Wood, top-grade wood attribute sacred object, can assist in cultivating a top-grade wood attribute indestructible saintly body and cultivating high-grade wood attribute sacred arts, one portion for five hundred million merit points."
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"Merit Feather Transformation Earth, earth attribute divine object, can assist in cultivating a supreme earth attribute indestructible saintly body and cultivating earth attribute divine abilities, one portion for five billion merit points."
"Merit Nine Nether Fire, fire attribute divine object, can assist in cultivating a supreme fire attribute indestructible saintly body and cultivating fire attribute divine abilities, one portion for five billion merit points."
"Merit Chaos Stone, ultimate divine object, with endless wondrous uses, one piece for fifty billion merit points."
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Zhang Ruochen's gaze continuously swept over the introductions of various merit treasures, inwardly shocked. He realized that with his current merit points, he really couldn't exchange for much.
The merit treasures he was looking at were all of the merit spiritual object category, with a wide variety, and the merit points required for exchange were vastly different.
Any decent merit spiritual object required over a hundred million merit points to exchange, and the most top-grade ones required tens of billions of merit points, truly out of reach.
The reason he was examining these merit spiritual objects was that Zhang Ruochen wanted to prepare for forging an indestructible saintly body.
Although cultivating to the Approach Dao Realm would allow one to easily forge an indestructible saintly body and step into the Indestructible Great Saint Realm, indestructible saintly bodies also had differences in strength. The stronger the indestructible saintly body forged, the stronger one's strength would be upon breaking through to the Great Saint Realm, and the greater one's future achievements would be.
If one forged the most ordinary indestructible saintly body, their strength would be very weak, with little hope of further advancement, only able to stop at the first level of the Great Saint Realm.
This type of Indestructible Great Saint might not even be able to defeat a top-tier Approach Dao Realm powerhouse.
Zhang Ruochen naturally would not be satisfied with forging an ordinary indestructible saintly body. His goal was to become a god, so he had to forge the strongest indestructible saintly body, laying a solid foundation for future godhood.
To forge the strongest indestructible saintly body, one undoubtedly needed the most top-grade heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Zhang Ruochen currently possessed the Innate Five Elements Chaos Body, one of the most powerful physiques in the world. Therefore, he wanted to forge the most powerful Innate Five Elements Chaos Indestructible Saintly Body.
However, this would be very difficult, requiring Five Elements rare treasures even more precious than Five Elements Essence.
A second-rate Innate Five Elements Chaos Indestructible Saintly Body could be barely forged using top-grade sacred objects like Merit Taiyi Water and Merit Blood Soul Wood.
Five types of top-grade sacred objects would require two and a half billion merit points, which Zhang Ruochen currently had enough merit points to exchange for.
But Zhang Ruochen was not satisfied with this. He wanted to forge a perfect Innate Five Elements Chaos Indestructible Saintly Body, so he had his eyes on the Five Elements divine objects like Merit Feather Transformation Earth and Merit Nine Nether Fire.
Each type of Five Elements divine object required five billion merit points, and all five together would be twenty-five billion merit points, an astronomical figure.
At this stage, he only had two point seven billion merit points left, not even enough to exchange for one type of Five Elements divine object.
The person ranked first on the Saint King Merit Ranking currently had just over thirty billion merit points, accumulated over who knows how long.
Unless they hadn't spent any merit points, otherwise they wouldn't be able to exchange for all five types of Five Elements divine objects at once.
In fact, most people accumulated merit points while also exchanging for various merit treasures to enhance their own strength. Few people would keep accumulating merit points without using them.
"Big Brother, I've finished my exchanges. Haven't you decided what merit treasures to exchange for yet?" Feng Yan asked with a smile.
Zhang Ruochen shook his head. "The merit treasures I want to exchange for require too many merit points. I can't exchange for them right now. By the way, Second Brother, what did you exchange for?"
"It seems Big Brother has set his sights on something good. I exchanged for wind and thunder attribute merit treasures to assist in cultivating the 'Nuwa Dao Art.' But these merit treasures are too expensive, so with my few hundred million merit points, I couldn't exchange for many wind and thunder attribute merit treasures," Feng Yan said somewhat helplessly.
Zhang Ruochen reached out and patted Feng Yan on the shoulder, smiling. "Don't worry, take it slow. There are plenty of merit points to be earned on the battlefield. I'll also slowly save up merit points to exchange for a few precious merit treasures."
He was now determined to forge the strongest indestructible saintly body. Obtaining Five Elements divine objects through other channels was too difficult. Using merit points to exchange for merit treasures was relatively easier, at least he could gather them all.
"Big Brother, I plan to return to the Northern Domain Merit Battlefield for more training and to earn some merit points. What are your plans?" Feng Yan asked.
Zhang Ruochen thought for a moment. "I should go to the Central Domain first. There are some matters I need to handle."
"Then I'll temporarily go to the Northern Domain with Second Brother to train on the merit battlefield. I feel like I need to fight more on the battlefield to condense my Dao Domain," Xiang Chunan said.
Zhang Ruochen nodded. "Alright, that's good. You two can look out for each other. If anything happens, just send me a message directly."
He wasn't worried about Feng Yan and Xiang Chunan having trouble in the Northern Domain. Feng Yan had the backing of the Feng Clan and the Truth Divine Temple. Even Xuan Yuan Liekong would have to be cautious.
There was nothing else to do at the Merit Main Station, so Feng Yan and Xiang Chunan immediately headed back, and Pei Yutian left with them.
Pei Yutian's roots were in the Northern Domain. Unless necessary, he wouldn't leave.
"Zhang Ruochen, give me a Divine Wood Heart. After I finish comprehending it, I'll return it to you," Ji Fanxin said.
Zhang Ruochen didn't speak. He immediately extended his spiritual power into the Qiankun Realm to communicate with the new sapling of the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood.
To retrieve something from the trunk of the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood was impossible even for him. He had to rely on the new sapling.
The Divine Wood Heart was the essence condensed from the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood itself, containing the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood's insights into the Way of Life, and was extremely precious.
Condensing a Divine Wood Heart was extremely difficult. The Sky-Connecting Divine Wood only condensed one every eon.
The Sky-Connecting Divine Wood had existed since the beginning of the Kunlun Realm until one hundred thousand years ago, surviving an incredibly long time. Even the Kunlun Realm's former strongest ruler, the Ten Calamities Wen Tianjun, was just a junior before the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood.
Over such a long time, many Divine Wood Hearts had condensed within the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood's trunk, at least several dozen.
However, after the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood was cut down by a fierce person in the late Middle Ages, most of the Divine Wood Hearts condensed in the trunk were taken by someone unknown.
Now, only seven Divine Wood Hearts remained inside the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood's trunk.
Although the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood had been cut down for one hundred thousand years, these Divine Wood Hearts were still full of vitality, containing abundant divine wood essence. If one were refined, even the most severe injuries could be healed, making it comparable to an undying divine medicine.
Possessing seven Divine Wood Hearts was almost like having seven extra lives.
After some time, the Sky-Connecting Divine Wood sapling finally managed to extract one Divine Wood Heart and placed it in a box made from Sky-Connecting Divine Wood material.
With a flip of his hand, Zhang Ruochen took out the box containing the Divine Wood Heart and handed it directly to Ji Fanxin. "This Divine Wood Heart is a gift for you, Fairy. I hope it can be of some help."
For a top-tier powerhouse like Ji Fanxin, he was very willing to build a connection. Giving away one Divine Wood Heart was completely worth it.
Ji Fanxin looked deeply at Zhang Ruochen, reached out to take the box, and said, "Then thank you very much. I should leave now. I hope there will be opportunities to cooperate in the future."
"It is I who should thank you for all the help you've given me during this time. In the future, if you need anything, as long as I can do it, I will never refuse," Zhang Ruochen said with a smile.
His relationship with Ji Fanxin was one of cooperation. Since the cooperation was over, Ji Fanxin would naturally leave, so he wasn't surprised.
Ji Fanxin nodded. "Alright, until we meet again."
"Take care, Fairy." Zhang Ruochen cupped his hands.
Ji Fanxin didn't delay any further and immediately left through the Space Teleportation Array at the Merit Main Station.
Where Ji Fanxin was going, Zhang Ruochen didn't know. The only thing he could be sure of was that she was still in the Kunlun Realm and hadn't withdrawn.
Presumably, Ji Fanxin was going to reunite with the cultivators of the Thousand Petal Realm. As the leader of the Thousand Petal Realm, she couldn't keep abandoning the many cultivators of her realm to act alone.
"Did you hear? The Azure Dragon is going to strike at the Moon Worship Demon Sect!"
"Why would the Azure Dragon strike at the Moon Worship Demon Sect?"
"The Moon Worship Demon Sect has a very deep connection with the Moon God, and there is considerable conflict between the Nether God and the Moon God. It's only natural for the Azure Dragon to strike at the Moon Worship Demon Sect. I heard the Azure Dragon wants to seize a treasure that the Moon God left behind in the Moon Worship Demon Sect."
"I see. The Moon Worship Demon Sect has long since declined and has no strong experts. If the Azure Dragon makes a move, the Moon Worship Demon Sect will surely be unable to resist. It seems that treasure will definitely fall into the Azure Dragon's hands."
Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to leave through the Space Teleportation Array, he suddenly heard some discussions and his expression changed slightly.
The Azure Dragon was a disciple of the Nether God, reputed to be the number one expert below the Great Saint level in the Nether God Divine Temple.
Zhang Ruochen had already seen four of the Six Ultimates of the Nether God Divine Temple, all of whom were extremely powerful. The Azure Dragon was many times stronger than them. If he truly attacked the Moon Worship Demon Sect, with the Moon Worship Demon Sect's current strength, it would be almost impossible to resist.
He had already planned to go to Wuding Mountain and had even prepared a gift.
Now, it seemed this trip was even more necessary.
"I hope it's not too late."
Zhang Ruochen silently prayed in his heart.
The Moon Worship Demon Sect had deep connections with Mu Lingxi, Ling Feiyu, and even the Moon God. Nothing could go wrong.
Without further delay, he immediately used the Space Teleportation Array to rush to the nearest Merit Branch Station to Wuding Mountain.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen leave, the two who had been discussing earlier both revealed eerie smiles, then sent out a Message Light Talisman.