16 Chapter 16 Second Spirit Ring!

Cultivation Technique: [Holy Shadow Blackening Art]!

Martial Movement Technique: [Thirteen Shadow Transformations]!

Inscription Encyclopedia: [Heavenly Inscription Chronicle]!

"These three manuals are my only remaining treasures in the world. Their grade far exceeds any technique or manual you'll find in this world. They are the main reason I thought my Clan would come and look for me....".

Xiao An's brow furrowed but he shook his head and continued.

"The [Holy Shadow Blackening Art] is a cultivation technique with 11 stages. At the 11th stage one would be able to reach the Divine Lord Realm. It is a Darkness attributed technique. In addition, it allows a cultivator create a [True Shadow Seed] in their body and undergo [Blackening] to taint their true essence with Darkness Laws. It can boost a cultivators battle prowess and allow them to fight with martial artists of a higher cultivation!".

Both Bing Xian and the silly crane's mouths dropped when they heard Xiao An's words.

Divine Lord Realm?

True Shadow Seed?

Blackening?

These words puzzled Bing Xian, but his teachers final words were the ones that he truly understood!

Beating a martial artist with a higher cultivation!?

That is heaven-defying!

"I only practiced the [Holy Shadow Blackening Art] to the Grand Completion of the 9th Stage. If I practiced it to the 10th or even 11th Stage I definitely would not be stuck in this place". Xiao An said confidently.

The six year old disciple nodded.

If someone like Xiao An, whose Clan created the technique, only reached the 9th Stage, it would definitely be harder for Bing Xian, who was a human.

But never underestimate humanities potential for growth! It wasn't the myriad beast race that ruled the majority of the 33 Heavens.... it was the human race!

They may not have the greatest population, nor the greatest affinities towards the Dao and cultivation.... but it was their ability to grow and adapt that was frightening!

They could ascertain Laws from the Dao and create techniques by observing the heavens and the earth.

It would be no exaggeration to say that the majority of battle techniques and cultivation techniques were created by the human race. The quality may be different to the [Holy Shadow] Beasts for instance, but the sheer amount would dwarf most other civilizations.

"You shall start cultivating this as soon as possible! It'll be easier to cultivate the second manual after reaching Houtian".

Xiao An gestured to the second book on the table.

"The [Thirteen Shadow Transformations] is a martial movement technique, focused on silence and agility. It compliments the [Holy Shadow Blackening Art], and has 13 transformations. They are, "lightness", "darkness", "silence", "invisibility", "shifting", "transforming", "absence", "formless", "presence", "swiftness", "smoke", "shadows" and "death". Each of these is core concept which come together to form the entire [Third Shadow Transformations]. At its peak, I saw another [Holy Shadow] beast of the Divine Sea Realm outrun another of the Divine Transformation Realm".

Bing Xian nodded but the silly crane gulped loudly.

'A Divine Transformation beast couldn't catch a Divine Sea Realm one!? That's ridiculous!'.

The silly crane was aware that after Life Destruction was the Divine Sea Realm. To reach the Divine Sea Realm one must destroy their Dantian and form the basis for an inner world, using the Laws the cultivator has comprehended.

Their bodies were filled with True Essence, like water in the sea, and they finally reached the starting point for cultivating in the Divine Realm. To the silly bird who's power was primarily its speed, it couldn't imagine outrunning another with a higher cultivation than it.

"The first two are my treasures but would only be able to create a small Sect in the Divine Realm.... the third however, would be a treasure even for an a Holy Land level Sect like the Ancient Dragon Clan!".

Bing Xian's gaze was turned to the [Heavenly Inscription Chronicle] on the table.

Despite all three of the books being incredibly old, this one looked primordial.

It was thicker and larger than the other two combined, but the cover was a thick looking beast hide and the paper was tougher than sand paper. The writing inside was almost illegible, but just looking at the cuneiform lettering and ancient runes dotting every page made Bing Xian feel as though his head was going to explode.

"This [Heavenly Inscription Chronicle] is something I got out of exploring the ruins of an ancient Sect. They were well known for their attainments in the Law of Inscriptions and even had a World King as its Sect Head. For unknown reasons the Sect was destroyed and any memory of it erased from the world".

Xiao An opened the book to a specific page and showed it the Bing Xian.

"This book has over a million different inscriptions within it. This one for example can be applied to a weapon and increases the cutting power by 70% and piercing power by 50%. In addition it has two inscription skills which can multiply attack power by 150%!".

Bing Xian's eyes widened and his haze turned downward towards the inscription manual.

'Inscriptions on the Douluo Continent could create Spirit Weapons and Mecha! I don't know how to create them but maybe with these I can at least try to learn how.....'.

Xiao An saw how enraptured Bing Xian was with the [Heavenly Inscription Chronicle] and inwardly nodded.

Even if Bing Xian was untalented in the Dao of Inscriptions, with just the [Heavenly Inscription Chronicle] he would stand a head above the rest of the so-called Inscription Masters of the world. Even in the Divine Realm he may make a name for himself.

"Anyway, you must take care of these manuals. I can provide assistance with any of them, but do not ask me for any of my personal insights. You should not rely on others, but on your own strength".

The six year old nodded resolutely.

"I think it's time for us to leave now....", the [Holy Shadow] beast took a deep breath before looking at Bing Xian, "I think I'm ready to become your Spirit Ring".

From the outside of nine story pagoda, a huge number of Spirit Beasts with cultivations exceed ten thousand years appeared.

Houtian Beasts. Xiantian Beasts. Revolving Core Beasts....

All of them gathered around the pagoda, confused at the swirl of Yin and Darkness attributed energy gathering around the peak. They all looked on both eagerly and fearfully, most knowing full well, what demon lurked within the broken pagoda.

"Ahahaha! I'm finally free!".

With a massive explosion of cold black murky energy, the entirety of the Demon Grotto exploded and massive true essence stones filled with Dark attributed true essence were sent flying out.

All of the beasts originally surrounding the broken pagoda looked at these true essence stones and immediately went running after them.

For them, beasts with low intelligence that only cared about its own cultivation, were instantly overcome with greed at the sight of the true essence stones, not caring to focus on the small human boy running away, a large shiny claw bone in his arms.