New of mother's death!
"No comment!" Qin Xuan actually had a good impression of Cheng Shan. He didn't feel any need to spread his personal information.
Standing inside the merit hall, Cheng Shan walked towards the martial arts exchange section first.
He needed to confirm the contribution points required to exchange for essence of high level dragon elephant.
"Excuse me! How can I help you?"
After hearing this question, he realized he was already standing before the merit hall.
'I currently only have 1213 contribution points. The second half of the Dragon Elephant technique will cost about nine hundred contribution points and blood of even the weakest fifth heaven dragon elephant essence is about 1000 contribution points.'
Cheng Shan checked the token he had on him and realized the contributions he had gathered were not enough to meet his needs.
He indeed was lacking greatly if he wanted to get a seventh heaven and above dragon elephant essence.
Without the essence of a dragon elephant, he would find it difficult to cross the fourth heaven barrier to the fifth heaven even with the Dragon Elephant technique.
The practice of martial arts was not easy, and in the heaven realm, practitioners where transforming their bodies to gain part of the power of some legendary creatures.
This transformation didn't just happen from nothing. The essence of mythical creatures was used. But it was difficult to get essence of mythical creatures, but numerous creatures with similar features existed as such the essence was extracted and sold.
Having a technique alone was not enough. He needed the essence to be able to advance and the results of such a breakthrough is terifying transformation.
For Cheng Shan, what was required was the dragon elephant essence.
He required it's essence to be able to slowly absorb it and fuse with his body to gain the characteristics of this creature.
When he cultivated to the seventh heaven, he would then be able to resonate with will of the creature and start grasping even a fraction of its innate abilities.
With this, his strength would transform as such, it was important to gather the essence.
The talent is also what allows humans to breakthrough the limits and even slowly comprehend the world.
In the essence of this creatures, endless mysteries exist and can only be obtained based on one's own perception.
It was also why he was unwilling to exchange for a higher level technique at this moment without essence.
The stronger the essence he used the better his resonance with an ability when trying to obtain a talent.
"I'm just observing! No need to bother you!" As he said this, he continued to check out the good things on the exchange list and eventually obtained knowledge of what could be exchanged.
It was just a shame that none of the good things were cheap.
"Let's go and order for an armour and sword first, before visiting the information hall. My sister and mom should have sent me a message this time." He walked away under the sharp gaze of the lady sitting in the exchange hall.
"Poor ghosts! I thought I had met someone that would spend some contributions. Turns out he also just wants to see but not buy." Even though she was complaining, she said it lightly.
What she failed to realize was that Cheng Shan had very sharp ears.
Even though he heard this words, he didn't show any reaction. It was not that he didn't want to do anything, but he was just too weak.
Walking into another hall, he saw swords hang on the wall. Most of them where just too dazling, and he didn't focus much on them.
He looked around and focused on a black sword about 0.75 meter tall.
The sword was within his range of affordability unlike the long two meter swords. He didn't have any interest in walking around with a long sword. The sword had one particular feature that interested him, it was tough.
In other words, it was difficult to destroy. The points required to purchase it only about three hundred and seventy. He met the requirements for purchase of this sword, and then looked through the armors.
They were in many varieties and he saw one black with slight golden patterns of dragon and phoenixes. It was covered in geers and this made it look more ugly as such the price was about 750 contributions.
Even though this was an armor that could evolve as long as resources were add to it, and his cultivation rose, it's current appearance wasn't acceptable for most young and hot-blooded youth.
His situation wasn't ideal and he could only take what he could afford. Besides, armors that could evolve were not cheap, and in most cases even go as far as 1500 contribution points.
He didn't even think twice about it and exchange.
"I'll take that hard sword 0.75meters tall and black armor with golden patterns. It should be about 1120 contribution points right?" He didn't waste time on this place.
Keeping the points wouldn't be any use, and after collecting them, he offered the token he had been holding all this time over and his contributions reduced to about 93.
"My combat power is no longer the same. After putting on the armor and new sword they should be able to boost me as long as I refine them." He walked outside heading for the information hall.
The Information hall just as is called, was not just able to gather information but also send and receive letters.
An old man was in charge in this place, and the moment Cheng Shan appeared, the old man looked at him weirdly.
He could see immense killing intent and demonic resentment accumulating around this young man.
From his perspective it was as though demons were roaring at him not just with resentment but also fear.
He couldn't help but look at the young man strangely. Other than the overbeari aura that could rival a sixth heaven expert, his cultivation of early fourth heaven was very clear.
If one looked closely, they would be able to discover that a massive dragon elephant phantom was standing high in the void, oppressing this demonic resentment.
"What a talent!" The old man thought secretly in his heart.
"Senior! I want to check if any letters have been sent to me and also some news." He went straight to the point.
"Oh! What name?" The old man cooperated.
"Cheng Shan!"
"Wait a moment!" The old man stood up and walked along the drawers with difficulty, but Cheng Shan ignored this.
He had already called the old man senior, because he wasn't ordinary.
"Oh! I have one here! Five contribution points!" The old man didn't care about the letter but wanted the contribution points.
"Sure!" He put the token on the table with less than a hundred contribution points.
After the old man took it, he swiped another token over and handed the letter.
"What information do you want?" He then asked again.
When Cheng Shan heard this, he just shook his head and walked off. The letter was enough, and information wasn't cheap amyway.
After walking out of the merit hall, he opened the letter and started reading it.
"Cheng Zhen Bing!" He suddenly mentioned this name with anger and strong killing intent. He stopped in place and his eyes turned blood red, with blood red aura that had condensed into substance leaking out from his body.
Cheng Zhen Bing was that Bright Moon King. The strongest person in the Cheng clan and also his father.
From the later he had obtained from his adapted sister, his mother had passed away and this was from cold and malnutrition. The information might not be a lot, but it allowed him to understand his father sat by and did nothing.
He had married a new wife and due to her background does everything to please her. He just calmed down after she mentioned she had successfully escaped from the Chen clan and he should worry about her.
But the helplessness made him angry, he was incapable of shaking the Chen clan to seek justice for his mother.
Before he joined the army he has always thought his father was strong, but only after joining the army did he learn alot.
For someone to have the title of king a behind their name, their cultivation was already in the middle stages of Celestial realm.
Before the celestial realm, he was an ant. From the letter, his mother asked him never to go back to the Chen clan in this life.
Scenes flashed in his eyes of the kind hearted woman that did everything to try and make everything in the hellish Cheng clan seem bearable.
He then burst out into strange laughter that had those watching near retreat away from him.
He just looked coldly at all this, as he walked as though he had lost his soul.
If not for the fact killing demons over the year had tempered him, and made him slightly less impulsive, he might have left already to confront the Chen clan without any care.
But at the moment, he only had one thought in mind. Reach the Celestial realm and settle scores.
The way to accomplish this was actually simple, going to the battlefield and accumulating enough contribution points.
With his mind clouded by anger, he might have not gone to the Chen clan to settle scores, but he walked towards the battlefield.
The armor he had just bought was directely put on. He but his tongue and spit on the armor as well as sword.
Blood red light flashed on the armor and the sword, before he felt a connection with them. But he didn't bother with this things at the moment.
With how abnormal his blood red aura was, everyone he met avoided him.
By the time he reached the battlefield, he rushed directly towards the demons in the first heaven before him.
He didn't even pull a sword out, just pointed out casually and dark red sword Qi was flying severing the lives of demons easily.
Boom!
Blood mist spluttered in all directions, as his figure rampaged through the devils.
He felt the strange invisible energy slowly gathering towards him and the blood red killing intent that was suppressed was unleashed bringing about strong pressure.
Phantoms of demons could be seen wailing in the blood red mist gathering behind him five metres high.