Still shaken, he did not dare touch it for a while.
He had not touched this Stone Box yet. He wanted to see whether it contained the cultivation method the Patriarch had mentioned, "Essence Blood Annihilation."
Huang Xiao reached the Stone Box with ease. There truly were no defensive formations around it anymore.
It seems some of the formations here dispersed because that person came out, Huang Xiao thought.
Perhaps that person had also believed he was already dead and, with no one else here, had not bothered about such things.
He certainly could not have imagined that Huang Xiao could come back to life. Otherwise, he could not possibly have been so careless.
Drawing a deep breath, Huang Xiao opened the Stone Box.
"Cultivation methods!" Huang Xiao saw quite a few cultivation manuals inside, along with some Little Jade Vials that probably contained pills or the like.
Huang Xiao first took out the cultivation manuals one by one.
"No, no 'Essence Blood Annihilation.'" After reading the titles on their covers, Huang Xiao did not find the cultivation method the Patriarch had mentioned.
There were ten cultivation methods here in all, but the one he needed was missing. Huang Xiao felt somewhat disappointed.
Even if some of these cultivation methods were immensely powerful or extraordinary, they meant little if they could not counteract the Demon Refining Formula.
To Huang Xiao, however good the other cultivation methods were, he probably did not have the energy to practice them.
After all, the contest for the Hall Master's Seat was approaching. He could only practice cultivation methods suited to his specific needs.
If he could live a thousand years like the Patriarch and the others, he could then slowly study other cultivation methods, drawing on their strengths to remedy his shortcomings.
"I might