The Supreme God of Martial Arts

After smore hugs and honeyed words with Caroline, Austin retreated back into his own hovel. It was tto cultivate.

He sat down cross-legged in the middle of the room, and brought out three jade slips. They talked about three forms of martial arts.

He had sifted through all possible jade slips in the library back at the base and had selected these three at last. Although he had put a cursory glance over them, he was still not sure whether he had made the right choice or not, and wanted to know if he had.

The first one of these was a fist skill, called the Mysterious Dragon Fist.

The second one was a swordsmanship--the Glorious Swordsmanship.

The third one was a body-refining formula, named the Grand Body Refining Skill.

While making his choices, Austin had been careful to pick martial arts from different categories and of various functions. He wanted to increase his arsenal in power, in range, and in function. Most of the skills he knew for the moment were not strong enough to help him win a fight.

The most powerful thing he knew was the Dominant Spiritual Sense Swordsmanship and that was becoming old now.

What was more, his version of this swordsmanship was still incomplete. He could only practice the first half, but the second half was still unknown to him, which meant that there was no way for him to improve this skill any further.

There was an added problem. From his past experiences, he had discovered that the skill had reached its limit already. Having applied the skill in numerous battles, he had found that even at the peak capabilities of this swordsmanship, it was only enough to finish off a warrior below the Semi-emperor Realm. Anything more and there would be trouble.

The skill was far from enough for a warrior more powerful than that, especially to defeat those above the Emperor Realm.

And since this was the most powerful weapon among his arsenal, and it had reached its limit, so all the other skills he had, which were less impressive than this one, would obviously be of no use whatsoever.

This meant that he was in desperate need of snew martial arts to equip himself with.

Having already mastered one half of a swordsmanship, he decided to pick up the jade slip of the Glorious Swordsmanship first. This was related to his most powerful skill and seemed like the obvious place to start. He began to read it with his spiritual sense, wanting to see what this new swordsmanship could do that the old Dominant Spiritual Sense Swordsmanship could not.

It seemed disappointing on its face though. The Glorious Swordsmanship only had three moves in it.

However, inside those moves was terrible power. Simple as it seemed, when fully mastered, this swordsmanship would enable the user to unleash sword auras full of a glorious and overwhelming power. It was so truly powerful that at its peak, a cultivator could use the energy of the heavens and the earth in every single one of his sword strike. This was a peak cultivation skill: beautiful, deadly, like an angry stare from god himself.

Austin was fairly intrigued by this swordsmanship after quickly browsing through its effects and usage. After all, he had mastered the level six sword potential, and was eager to find a swordsmanship that could match his level. This seemed to be the one! Next, he shifted his attention towards the fist skill, and drove his spiritual sense into the jade slip of the Mysterious Dragon Fist.

In essence, the Mysterious Dragon Fist was what it sounded like--a kind of vital energy-fueled martial art, et which required the user to form streams of vital energy and then use them to fuel his strikes. The vital energy would take the form of dragons because of the unique way in which it was controlled-through dragon energy. Obviously, the more vital energy a user could control and refine into the dragon energy, the more fuel his fists would get, and the more powerful they would become. So one way of looking at it was that the attack was rather primate, utilizing only vital energy to increase power.

However, there were eight different kinds of attacks in this fist skill, each of which was totally unique and extremely violent.

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This was rather dangerous, because the vital energy was what guaranteed a warrior's movements and actions. If one ran it out, he would actually be unable to even move properly, let alone defend himself or attack the enemy.

The upside was that Austin did not have to worry about this at all. With the help of the vital energy stone embedded inside his body, he could simply store an enormous reserve beforehand and squander it in the fight. In theory at least, this skill didn't have a shortcoming as far as he was concerned.

"Wonderful! This Mysterious Dragon Fist is made just for me. I am definitely going to practice and master it!" He exclaimed in excitement.

Now, all fired up after the first two slips, Austin brought out the third jade slip of the Grand Body Refining Skill with a lot of anticipation and began to explore it through his spiritual sense.

The Grand Body Refining Skill was of earth nature; it utilized the energy of the earth, and showed earth-like capabilities. This meant that its forte lay in its ability to withstand and shield the user from strikes.

Like most of the treasures and skills of earth nature, it was made for defensive purposes.

When a warrior had mastered it, he could use it to form a thick and resilient armor of earth on the surface of his body. That armor would get enhanced even further et when the runes of the gods of earth, which were embedded on it, shone. It was powerful enough to withstand even the most violent of Strikes from one's enemies. And finally, when a warrior had reached the top level of this formula, he could give off a kind of yellowish brown holy light, which would enhance his ability to attack, move, and inside him, enhance the very fabrics that made his flesh on a cellular level.

This meant that the warrior's physical capabilities alone would be boosted dozens of folds.

"Wow! This is crazy!" Austin murmured in excitement. This beautiful piece of jade slip was making his blood boil. His physical strength was already formidable and he was proud of it. To think that it would get enhanced by a dozen times! Crazy! "Damn it! This is certainly going to be one of my weapons soon. No kidding!" he rattled aloud with determination.