The Supreme God of Martial Arts novel Chapter 496

"Clump...Clump..."

A person looking black and blue and covered in a mass of bruises showed up staggering into a narrow battle room. It was none other than Austin.

After struggling for a while to gain his bearing and stand still, Austin finally felt nothing but a concurrent rush of blood and energy in all his internal organs, he felt disoriented, as if his organs were about to shift from their usual positions, which made him choke in discomfort.

Suddenly, He felt a chill on his back as if he was naked. It took him a while to realize that the cloth on his back was torn apart from the attack he had encountered. The only remaining cloth on his body was the piece of slip covering his chest.

The cultivators of the Sky Realm were way powerful than the cultivators of the Mysterious Realm. A powerful cultivator like Austin who was already invincible among his peers still could not withstand a single blow from the cultivators of the Sky Realm.

Austin was in great pain, he spit a mouthful of blood in an attempt to clear his airway.

However, since he had already mastered the fifth level of the Overlord Body-refining Formula and washed his body with three drops of the Ancient Magic Liquid, Austin now possessed a stronger physical quality than most of the ordinary cultivators. After a short while, he felt better since his blood and energy were now circulating smoothly while the operation of his vital energy went back to normal.

It looked like having a strong body was extremely beneficial. The powerful impact resistant capability that Austin possessed highly increased his possibility for survival.

Any other cultivator of the Mysterious Realm would have suffered a body explosion and died right away under the attack of five cultivators of the Sky Realm. Austin was lucky to only have some minor injuries.

'So...this is the third floor of the Emperor Library?' Austin thought.

After doing a full body scan and realizing that there were no fatal injuries on his body, Austin focused his attention to the third floor of this space where he had just broken into.

The narrow space only covered an area of a dozen square meters. It was surprisingly empty!

Austin had thought that there would definitely be books illustrating the seventh grade or even the eighth grade martial arts. However, after searching every corner of the place carefully, he still got nothing. It was just an empty space.

The only thing in Austin's sight was a painting which looked old and had become yellow with the passage of time on the wall.

There was a middle-aged man with a graceful and elegant appearance on the painting. The man had his hands crossed behind his back with a thoughtful look in his eyes, giving Austin the feeling that the man could see into his soul.

'So, that painting was the only thing on the third floor?' He wondered.

Austin finally accepted that fact, although he was still puzzled. According to what Angus had told him that the third floor was where the most precious treasure of the Emperor Library was stored!

'So, could the painting right in front of me be the treasure that Angus was referring to?' Austin wondered.

Although Austin had only spent a short time with Angus, he was good at reading people and he felt that Angus was a sane and credible person and would not joke about such matters.

Since Angus had said that the most precious thing was in the third floor, then there should be a puzzle, riddle or mystery hidden in this painting, maybe a secret passage. And the key to solving the mystery or finding secret passage must be the painting in front of him.

Therefore, Austin decided to walk patiently towards the painting and study it in detail.

This painting was pretty but simple in style and it had only a few ink marks indicating that the painter was very economical with the ink. However, the painter had still depicted a vivid figure of the middle-aged man making him seem almost real, especially his eyes which had a special charm.

After a thorough inspection, Austin still failed to find anything significant from the painting.