"Eight Desolations and Six Directions Art? Earth Tier martial arts?!"
As he read today's evaluation, Chen Mu's eyes blazed with excitement.
Yesterday, he had been focused entirely on breaking through formations and killing enemies. He had never expected his evaluation to reach yet another new high.
Earth Tier arts were already considered profound arts in the martial world.
Any one of them was a legacy sufficient to found a sect.
Even the Azure Dragon Body Tempering Art was only Profound Tier. This far surpassed every martial art Chen Mu currently possessed.
Across all of Everlasting Prosperity Town, probably only a direct heir of an orthodox Mystic Sect lineage like Li Huanzhen might have seen one.
These thoughts flashed through his mind. Unable to wait, Chen Mu drew the manual out of the void.
An ancient, dark-yellow book landed in his hand, its cover blank.
Yet it felt heavy, faintly exuding a vast, weighty aura.
He opened the first page and saw several large characters:
"Eight Desolations and Six Directions Art"
Turning farther, he found human diagrams on every page, marked with acupuncture points and meridian pathways.
Chen Mu's expression changed after just one quick scan.
This art was unlike any martial art he had learned before.
It actually cultivated both the internal and the external!
The external art was called the Eight Desolations Tyrant Body Formula. It tempered the flesh with eight external forces of heaven and earth, breaking through the eight gates within the body in sequence.
With each gate opened, the physique underwent a corresponding transformation and gained a wondrous ability.
The more Chen Mu read, the more astonished he became.
The first gate was called the Opening Gate, and it required heavenly lightning to temper the body.
Once the Opening Gate was breached, lightning patterns formed across