"HAHAHA!"
The lean youth's eyes brimmed with delight as he laughed wildly without end.
Because he had obtained a sword art from within that stone man!
And the grade of that sword art had actually reached Yellow-tier seventh-grade!
"What?"
"Yellow-tier seventh-grade?!"
At once, the surrounding martial artists erupted into waves of commotion.
A Yellow-tier seventh-grade martial art!
Martial arts of such a grade were rare even in the Martial Arts Pavilion. If measured in Spirit Stones, it would be worth at least a thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones!
That youth had bought it for five hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones and obtained a Yellow-tier seventh-grade sword art. He had truly made a killing!
"I'll buy one too!"
In an instant, the other martial artists began scrambling to buy them as well. Before long, dozens of stone men had been snatched clean.
Lu Changsheng had also wanted to join the excitement, but there were too many people fighting over them. By the time he looked again, only one stone man remained on the stall.
This final stone man looked smaller than the others, and the patterns on its surface were incomplete. It seemed like a defective product, so no one chose it.
Lu Changsheng glanced at it, doubts stirring in his heart. This stone man looked defective, so the martial art hidden inside was probably defective too.
Thus, Lu Changsheng had no intention of buying this stone man. Yet just as he was about to give up, the Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron within his dantian suddenly trembled faintly.
"What's going on?"
The unusual movement of the Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron puzzled Lu Changsheng. Could it be that the Sky Swallowing Cauldron had sensed something and wanted him to buy this last stone man?
"Then I'll buy it!"
After pondering for a moment, Lu Changsheng decided to purchase this defective stone man.
"This stone man looks somewhat flawed, so I'll sell it to you for just three hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones."
The mysterious black-clothed girl said with a smile.
"Alright!"
Lu Changsheng nodded.
He immediately handed over three hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones and took the stone man into his hand.
At this moment, several nearby martial artists cast disdainful looks at him. Clearly, they all thought Lu Changsheng was too foolish. He had actually bought this defective item. At a glance, this stone man was inferior goods, and the martial art hidden inside had to be incomplete as well.
Lu Changsheng said nothing. Holding the stone man, he squeezed out of the crowd and went to a secluded corner. Looking at the stone man in his hand, he wondered what martial art was hidden inside.
Why had the Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron signaled for him to buy this stone man?
With such doubts in mind, Lu Changsheng did not hesitate. He immediately poured spiritual power into the defective stone man.
Crack~
The surface of the stone man began splitting apart bit by bit. The instant its stone shell cracked open, streaks of dazzling emerald light shot out from the fissures!
Hiss!
Lu Changsheng's expression changed.
He remembered that when the lean youth's stone man had cracked open earlier, it had released a light like black jade. Yet the stone man in his hand was actually emitting a rich emerald glow.
Could this stone man truly contain an even higher-grade martial art?
Lu Changsheng grew anxious.
Before long, the outer stone shell completely fell away. What appeared in Lu Changsheng's hand was a jade-green stone man, as green as emerald.
Ancient patterns ran across the jade-green stone man's body, and lines of characters covered its surface.
Boom!
At that moment, those characters transformed into an emerald beam of light, rushing out of the Emerald Stone Man and drilling into Lu Changsheng's forehead.
Lu Changsheng felt a faint stabbing pain in his head. Immediately afterward, a dense scripture appeared in his mind.
At the same time, he vaguely heard the resonant chant of dragons and elephants in his mind.
"This is..."
"The Dragon Elephant Golden Body Art!"
Lu Changsheng sucked in a sharp breath.
Yet what shocked Lu Changsheng even more was that the Dragon Elephant Golden Body Art was actually a Black-tier Martial Art!
"Damn!"
"A Black-tier Martial Art?!"
Lu Changsheng stood dumbstruck, like a wooden chicken.
He was utterly stunned, and his mind even went blank.
A Black-tier Martial Art!
Only Inner Disciples could cultivate martial arts of this level!
Of course, an extremely small number of Outer Disciples might also possess Black-tier Martial Arts, but such people were absolutely rare beyond rare!
Who would have thought that this stone man, which looked so flawed, actually hid a Black-tier Martial Art within it!
Lu Changsheng hurriedly put away the Emerald Stone Man, then looked around vigilantly. Only after confirming that no one had noticed him did he secretly breathe a sigh of relief. If others learned that he had obtained a Black-tier Martial Art, it might bring about a fatal disaster!
A martial art of this level was enough to drive countless Outer Disciples mad.
Lu Changsheng's heart was still thumping wildly as he desperately suppressed the ecstasy within him.
Thankfully, the Sky Swallowing Cauldron had reminded him. Otherwise, he might have missed out on this Black-tier Martial Art.
And he had spent only three hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones to obtain this Black-tier Martial Art. It was simply like a pie falling from the heavens!
Only after a long while did Lu Changsheng gradually calm his excited emotions.
He settled his mind and carefully studied the Dragon Elephant Golden Body Art in his mind.
This Dragon Elephant Golden Body Art was actually an exceptionally unique martial art.
Cultivating this martial art allowed one to condense a Dragon Elephant Golden Body, making the physical body incomparably powerful, as though imbued with Dragon Elephant Power—overbearing beyond compare.
Not only could it condense the Dragon Elephant Golden Body, it also contained a move called the Dragon Elephant Divine Fist. Its power could shatter mountains and was immensely formidable.
And when the Dragon Elephant Golden Body was stacked with the power of the Dragon Elephant Divine Fist, there was naturally no need to say more about its tremendous might.
The Dragon Elephant Golden Body Art was far more powerful than the three martial arts he had obtained from the Martial Arts Pavilion. After all, the strongest among those three martial arts, the Wind Thunder Fist, was only Yellow-tier fifth-grade.
The Dragon Elephant Golden Body Art, however, was a genuine Black-tier Martial Art!
Coming back to his senses, Lu Changsheng returned to the canyon. He did not immediately leave Spirit Mist Canyon. Instead, he wandered around for several more hours and bought some Spirit Nurturing Pills as well.
Lu Changsheng placed all of these Spirit Nurturing Pills into the Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron. The longer they were left inside, the more greatly the quality of the Spirit Nurturing Pills would improve.
Lu Changsheng then turned and left Spirit Mist Canyon. However, just as he exited the valley, he suddenly encountered a group of disciples dressed in red. They looked like members of some faction.
"Wow! So cute! Could this be a Purple Crystal Thunderwing Lion cub?"
At the front of the red-clothed disciples stood a girl of seventeen or eighteen with long jet-black hair. Her gaze fell upon the Lion Cub in Lu Changsheng's arms.
This girl was named Liu Qingqing.
"Name your price. This young lady has taken a liking to this Lion Cub!"
Liu Qingqing blocked Lu Changsheng's path.
"Sorry, it's not for sale."
Lu Changsheng refused directly.
"Not for sale? If this young lady has taken a liking to something, you have to sell it whether you want to or not!"
Liu Qingqing said arrogantly.
"Kid, having our Flame Alliance's young miss take a liking to it is a blessing you cultivated for lifetimes. If you know what's good for you, hand over that Lion Cub now!"
A red-clothed disciple said.
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