Stone Tablet Martial Arts (Monthly Ticket 1,000 Bonus Chapter)

Xiang Yang had been guessing at the shady dealings between Sand River and the Blade Testing Hall when he saw nine burly men lumbering in through the main gates with heavy breaths.

Their upper bodies were bare, their muscles bulging like rocks. Red sashes were wrapped around their waists above wide-legged trousers, and each of them carried a weighty stone tablet in his hands.

When they reached the center of the red carpet, the nine men assumed horse stances and circulated their qi, gently setting down the immensely heavy stone tablets. The tablets stood upright on the ground, facing Xiang Yang and forming an arc. They had clearly been brought specifically for him to see.

At the sight of the tablets, Xiang Yang's heart stirred. His eyesight was extraordinary and his mind quick; he could make out stance techniques, cultivation methods, and methods for wielding a saber and channeling force, all illustrated with both diagrams and text. He guessed that these were martial arts obtained from the Divine Saber Sect.

"These are the martial arts we had specially copied down from Stonewall Mountain. Little Xiang, your saber path is exceptional, and your attainments in martial arts have long carried the air of a grandmaster. Can you see the mysteries hidden within them?"

Wan Tiancheng studied Xiang Yang with amusement, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest of his chair. His eyes were full of appraisal. Though he had already gleaned from the wooden saber that Xiang Yang's cultivation was no longer what it had once been, he still wanted to witness it with his own eyes.

These nine stone tablets had all been copied from the cliff face without the slightest discrepancy. Their dimensions had been reduced, but their proportions remained identical.

Ren Xiu, his foremost saber master, had spent an