Secret Scroll, Mighty Bull Shakes Mountain Diagram!

At this moment, Niu Hanshan seemed to think of something and suddenly said, "Although I do not have the cultivation technique Brother Lu wants, I do have a Secret Scroll. I wonder if Brother Lu might be interested?"

"A Secret Scroll?" Lu Yang's heart stirred slightly.

Secret Scrolls were generally existences that recorded secret arts, and both their cultivation difficulty and their value were far higher than ordinary martial arts.

As if thinking of something, Lu Yang said, "Could it be that Senior Niu Haocheng's terrifying right-arm strength was not innate?"

Niu Hanshan nodded, his expression showing a little surprise, and praised, "Brother Lu has a keen mind, seeing through it at a glance."

With that said, Niu Hanshan rummaged around in the secret chamber for a while, and finally took out a long wooden case from a hidden compartment.

Niu Hanshan's expression was solemn as he slowly opened the wooden case, and a scroll a full two meters long entered their eyes.

And in the instant he saw that scroll, Lu Yang seemed to see a gigantic Bull Demon about to surge out from within it.

That kind of might was more than several dozen times stronger than the Bull Demon he had killed earlier!

"This is... force?!" Lu Yang blurted out.

"Correct!" Niu Hanshan slowly said, "This Secret Scroll is called the Mighty Bull Shakes Mountain Diagram. There are five styles in all. If all five styles are fully mastered, one has the chance to comprehend the 'Shaking Mountain' force contained within the Secret Scroll!"

In an instant, a hundred thoughts turned through Lu Yang's mind, and he hurriedly asked, "May I ask how many styles Senior Niu Haocheng mastered back then?"

Niu Hanshan said with emotion, "My ancestor obtained this scroll by chance back then, but through his entire life, he only mastered the first style. Even so, the strength of his right arm was increased by several times, and among those of the same realm, he rarely had opponents!"

"Just one style has such an effect?" When Lu Yang looked at the Secret Scroll again, he could not help but regard it with a few more degrees of importance.

Niu Hanshan nodded. "If Brother Lu is willing to hand those two Demon Treasures and the corpses of those three Second-Order Demons over to me, I am willing to gift this diagram to Brother Lu."

This action was already an enormous display of trust.

After all, Niu Hanshan knew very well that he was absolutely no match for Lu Yang right now.

Taking out such a precious treasure face-to-face—if Lu Yang were to harbor evil intentions, not only would the Secret Scroll be lost, even his, Niu Hanshan's, life would not be preserved.

Lu Yang naturally understood. Warmth rose in his heart, and he immediately said, "In that case, wouldn't Brother Niu be taking a loss?"

Niu Hanshan laughed despite himself. "To tell Brother Lu the truth, I have comprehended this diagram for nearly forty years, and still gained nothing at all. Aside from my ancestor, not a single person across several generations of my family has been able to master even one style. Rather than let the Secret Scroll gather dust, it would be better to exchange it for things that are useful right now. Mountain rain is about to come; if my Niushi Fort is destroyed, what future is there to speak of?"

Lu Yang understood.

This time, the swarm of demons had charged into Niushi Town, clearly as retaliation from the demons of Black Mountain.

A single failure would absolutely not extinguish the blazing flames of the Demon Race's vengeance.

Before long, the Demon Race would launch an even fiercer counterattack.

Just as Niu Hanshan had said, if they did not raise their strength as quickly as possible, Niushi Fort truly might be destroyed.

At that time, that Secret Scroll could only remain hidden forever in the dark, sunless secret chamber, and it would probably take ten years, a hundred years, before it might be discovered by later generations.

"I can't let you suffer a loss!" Lu Yang took out those two Demon Treasures and handed them to Niu Hanshan, then immediately said, "I'll accept this Secret Scroll. I, Lu Yang, promise that in the future, I will do everything within my ability to help Brother Niu break into the Xiantian Realm!"

"Hahahaha!" Niu Hanshan laughed loudly.

In his view, Lu Yang still had some hope of advancing to Xiantian, but he knew his own aptitude clearly.

In the Houtian Realm, one could still rely on Demon Treasures to pile up True Qi, but to advance to Xiantian was as difficult as a thousand hardships and ten thousand trials.

But since Lu Yang said this, he could feel the sincerity within it, so he naturally would not refuse this goodwill. He cupped his hands and said with a smile, "Then many thanks, Brother Lu!"

Having obtained two Second-Order Demon Treasures, Niu Hanshan hurriedly left the secret chamber to circulate his cultivation and absorb them.

Lu Yang estimated that, with the cultivation technique Niu Hanshan practiced, after swallowing these two Second-Order Demon Treasures, his realm should be pushed up to the seventh or eighth layer of the Houtian Realm.

In the future, if they hunted a few more Second-Order Demon Treasures, then once he himself achieved Xiantian, using Xiantian True Qi to help him break into Xiantian should not be difficult.

If it truly did not work, he would go to the Qianfeng Merchant Association and buy a Xiantian Pill.

Although the price would not be cheap, compared to the value of the Mighty Bull Shakes Mountain Diagram, in the end, he, Lu Yang, had still profited.

Once only he remained in the secret chamber, Lu Yang sat down cross-legged, placed the Secret Scroll on his legs, and slowly unfurled it.

All the details of the "Five Styles of Shaking Mountain" immediately entered Lu Yang's eyes, bit by bit.

He silently rehearsed the first style in his mind several times, yet still failed to grasp the essentials.

Lu Yang was not discouraged.

The difficulty of a Secret Scroll was already extremely high to begin with. With Niu Haocheng's talent back then, through his entire life, he had only comprehended the first style. Lu Yang had never expected to gain anything by relying on himself in the time it took to drink a cup of tea.

Of course, that was under normal circumstances.

As for now...

System! Let me see your limits!

Ding! It has been detected that the host's Experience Points meet the conditions to improve the Mighty Bull Shakes Mountain Diagram. Consume 1,000 Experience Points to comprehend the first style of the "Five Styles of Shaking Mountain"?

"Hiss!" Lu Yang sucked in a breath of cold air.

Merely comprehending the first style required 1,000 Experience Points. This kind of cost seemed no lower than the Experience Points he would need to break through to the Xiantian Realm in the future.

It was conceivable that every style after that in the Five Styles of Shaking Mountain would only be harder to comprehend than the first!

No wonder Niu Haocheng had failed to comprehend the second style even by the time he died.

With such difficulty, if he had been able to live and achieve the Grandmaster Realm back then, perhaps he would have had a chance to comprehend the second style! Lu Yang thought.

"Upgrade." The greater the price, the greater the benefits after mastering it; Lu Yang naturally would not hesitate.

Watching the Experience Points he had painstakingly saved shrink by more than half in an instant, Lu Yang did feel somewhat pained.

However, as a mass of red light spread through his body, turning into warm, trickling streams that continuously poured into his right arm, Lu Yang's heartache turned into wild joy.

He could clearly sense that under the red light's constant transformation, his right arm had become several times stronger than before!

Judging from the surface, there seemed to be no difference between his left and right arms.

But Lu Yang knew very well that if his right hand erupted with its full strength at this moment, its power would absolutely exceed ten thousand jin!

The strength of ten thousand jin was, in the outside world, the hallmark of a warrior of the Xiantian Realm!

Below the Xiantian Realm, very few people could erupt with such tyrannical strength.

"Mighty Bull Charge Fist, First Form of Mountain-Shaking!"

Lu Yang swung his right arm and exhaled with a shout.

That overbearing punch smashed into the floor of the secret chamber. With a rumbling boom, a pit more than one zhang wide immediately appeared in the ground.

Cracks spread all around the pit, extending all the way to the base of the secret chamber's walls.

"Haha, this punch truly has Xiantian might!" Seeing this scene, Lu Yang could not help rejoicing inwardly.

If he swung a saber with such arm strength, its killing power could absolutely no longer be mentioned in the same breath as before.

Early the next morning, Niu Hanshan arrived at the secret chamber.

He looked full of vigor, and the ashen-gray strands on his head had already begun turning a deep black.

"Houtian Eighth Level. Brother Niu's gains really are not small," Lu Yang said with a smile.

Niu Hanshan laughed. "Hahaha, it is all thanks to Brother Lu that I could have this day."

Lu Yang immediately grew serious. "Brother Niu, what do you think about yesterday's matter?"

Hearing this, Niu Hanshan furrowed his brows and said, "We wiped out White Crane Ridge and killed Black Tiger. Behind them is the master of the Black Mountain demons, Lord Black Mountain. It absolutely won't let this go. Before long, I fear even stronger demons will come attacking!"

"Mm." Lu Yang nodded and said in a deep voice, "Is there any way to relocate the people of Niushi Town?"

Niu Hanshan shook his head. "The wilderness is full of demons everywhere. This place was only occupied after our ancestors swept away the swarms of demons here. They have lived here for generations, with their families in tow—where else could they move?"

"In that case, there is only battle!"