After Austin mastered the fifth stage of the Grand Body Refining Skill, he left the valley. Later that day, he found a clean, secret cave and went in. He needed the silence the cave was offering. He took out the half of the coffin and sat cross-legged on it.
He took out more than ten million ruling crystals that the Earth Hermit had given him and began his work on refining them.
Drawing the energy from the crystals, he tried making a breakthrough.
Austin worked on and on and on, refining the ruling crystals.
A month had easily passed by.
One day, he released the powerful vital energy, which made the mountain shake. It moved violently until cracks started to show up.
With an earsplitting sound, the entire mountain collapsed.
But in disbelief and amazement, Austin flew out of a heap of earth, unscathed.
With the use of his new vital energy to defend himself, he remained clean without bruises from the fall of the mountain.
"I have finally reached the preliminary stage of Emperor Realm,"
Austin gushed. Everything he had done was worth it.
To break into his current realm, it cost him about three million ruling crystals.
For the most common cultivators, three million ruling crystals were awfully a lot. Most of them couldn't afford it, let alone see one first hand.
Austin had improved the quality of his vital energy by practicing the Golden Sun Scripture. In terms of vital energy force, he was much stronger than most cultivators at his realm.
'The only problem is learning the Golden Sun Scripture requires a big sum of cultivation resources, ' Austin remarked, thinking by himself.
"All right," he said, finally after thinking through things.
"I'm going to study this Infernal Sword."
He then took out the white sword, excitement and expectancy flaring from his eyes.
According to the Earth Hermit, the Infernal Scripture might be hidden inside the Infernal Sword he was now holding. If Austin could get the ancient scripture from the sword, his battle force could improve dramatically and that could help him a lot.
Thinking about the upgrade he could have, Austin began working on the Infernal Sword.
For the second time, he took out the half of the coffin and sat on it cross-legged.
The white Infernal Sword, as magical as it was, was floating in front of him.
Austin cleared his mind, and observed the Infernal Sword.
The place fell into dead silence, and so did Austin.
Days had passed.
When he thought nothing was going on anymore and he was just wasting his time and energy, brilliant light emitted from the Infernal Sword.
The light enveloped his surroundings. Austin did his best to let his eyes stay open as the light flashed, almost blinding him.
"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"
One by one, white figures rushed out from the Infernal Sword.
The white figures seemed to be living in the ancient times and wearing clothes of their era. Some of them were men, while some were women. They each had a sword or was unarmed.
They were either floating around Austin or above his head.
Some were displaying sword skills, some were practicing palm skills and some were exhibiting fist skills.
A few hundred people were unleashing all kinds of skills all at once. He couldn't feel anything but overwhelmed.
Sitting in meditation, Austin had no idea of what was going on. He was focused on communicating with the Infernal Sword.
As he didn't give up, he finally found the Infernal Scripture inside the sword.
The Infernal Scripture entered his head.
For a long time in the East Mainland, everyone had thought that the ancient scripture had been missing. But now, Austin had it.
He could now read the formulas and secret skills recorded on it.
While he was working on the ancient scripture, things crossed through his mind.
If he could master all of the skills and formulas in the ancient scripture, he could be more powerful.
He finally understood why the principal disciples of the three holy lands and the three prominent clans were so incredible that they could beat the cultivators of their realm effortlessly.
It was because of this. One of the reasons was that they had the privilege to learn martial skills and formulas on the ancient scriptures.
Ancient scriptures were written by eminent masters living in the ancient time. Each ancient scripture had a long history which was preserve through many generations that had passed. And each recorded strong skills and formulas that could make someone terrifyingly powerful.
The Infernal Scripture had the records of the best skills and formulas that only excellent members of the Infernal Sect could cultivate. It all made sense, and the sense he had realized made him more motivated to do his best.
Another month had passed. Austin had memorized the recorded martial art skills and formulas from the Infernal Scripture.
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