Chapter 404 - Nine Toughness

Without harming the surface of the stone tablet, an inscription was imprinted inside it. This method was not something that Yang Junshan could do, and it was not even something that the ordinary Great Divine Cultivator s could do. Otherwise, this stone tablet would not be able to stand at the entrance to the Heaven-Shaking Peak for thousands of years without anyone knowing the secret behind it.

Yang Junshan carefully used a piece of fine grindstone stained by the Spirit Spring Water to grind the stone tablet little by little. The stone powder was continuously being washed away by the Spirit Spring Water, and the stone tablet slowly became thinner, until a few depressions appeared on the stone tablet.

Yang Junshan was elated, but his hands became even more meticulous. Every time he ground a little of the stone powder, he would use his spirit spring water to wash it over and over again, afraid that he would destroy the secret hidden within the stone slabs.

Aesult, after spending more than half a day’s time, the three feet wide and two and a half feet long half feet of the stone slabs had been grinded down to nearly half their original thickness, and the secret hidden within finally surfaced in front of Yang Junshan.

This half of the stone board had abouhousand words on it, while the other half had about three thousand words. In addition, there were three simple diagrams that marked out the routes for the circulation of spiritual energy as well as the things to take note of.

Seeing that all the things inside the half stone tablet was still intact, Yang Junshan heaved a sigh of relief, before turning his gaze to the remaining half of the stone tablet.

Just like that, Yang Junshan meticulously grinded the remaining half of the stone tablet, and it quickly revealed its true appearance. There were alshousand big and three thousand small words, as well as three different sculptures.

Yang Junshan then combined the two slabs into one, the words written on the half stone tablet combined into one, the main text was 2000, the annotation was 6000, and there were even six diagrams as well, with the words “Mountain Nine Toughness Spell” written on it!

“For the Nine Toughness of the Mountain, all efforts fail.” The name of this inheritance did not seem auspicious!

As this thought flashed through Yang Junshan’s mind, the six thousand words that were written beside the two thousand words written on the main text read: “Cultivation is like going against the flow of the water, one will retreat if one does not advance, and it is also like falling short of one mountain after the Nine Toughness Technique. Cultivating this technique is something that the younger generation should take aroof not to be complacent, and not move forward.

The elder who had inscribed this skill on the stone slab was truly bold!

In his previous life, he had only occasionally heard this piece of information from disciples of the Heaven-Shaken Sect, saying that the cultivation methods recorded on the stone tablet were compatible with the [Wutu Earth Treasure Law], and his face was filled with regret and unwillingness. However, the disciple of the Heaven-Shaken Sect did not elaborate any further, and looking at his expression at the time, it seemed as if he was not too clear about the details.

However, there was one thing without a doubt. That was, the grade of the Qi Method hidden within the stone board must be higher than the « Five Earth Treasured Arts ». And the so called line of descent was the extension of the Five Earth Treasure Arts from the former’s body.

Yang Junshan studied it carefully, and discovered that the contents of the book did indeed have a lot to do with the [Wutu Spiritual Art] he was cultivating, but its profoundness and profundity was countless times better than the [Wutu Spiritual Art], the two were like the heavens and earth.

The [Wutu Treasure Formula] was a low rank treasure in itself. If the [Wutu Treasure Formula] originated from the [Mountain Nine Toughness Technique], then what rank should the latter be at? A middle, high rank treasure technique, or perhaps even higher …

Even if there were six thousand notes and six pictures that explained it to him, he still wouldn’t dare say that he had completely studied it. It could only be said that he could already understand the meaning on the surface, but the deeper meaning, perhaps due to the influence of his own cultivation and experience, had many difficulties.

However, at the very least, after mastering the entire technique, Yang Junshan was already able to start training in it. Furthermore, because the Wutu Spiritual Art was originally from the Mountain Nine Toughness Secret Art, directly training in it did not cause any conflict with the former. Furthermore, he was able to easily convert the Wutu Earth Spiritual Energy the former cultivated into the source Spiritual Energy that the latter condensed.

The essence energy in his dantian was being compressed time and time again, and originally, after advancing to the Great Perfection Stage, Yang Junshan already had a certain amount of accumulation, but with the transformation of the cultivation technique, he almost suspected that his current cultivation was not at the Great Perfection Stage, but rather, not at the Great Perfection Stage.

Yang Junshan had only spent half a month studying the Mountain Nine Toughness Secret Art and he had not even spent two months researching the skill. This time could be considered as extremely short.

Originally, Yang Junshan was extremely proud of his own cultivation, but after the spirit energy in his body had been completely transformed, he realized that he was just a frog in the well, the essence energy in his dantian was not even ten percent of it. From this, didn’t it mean that Yang Junshan would need at least ten times more time to be able to catch up to the progress of his [Wutu Spiritual Art] cultivation?

For a moment, Yang Junshan was somewhat regretful that he had cultivated the Mountain Nine Toughness Formula, and was hesitating whether he should change it back to the Wutu Spiritual Art.

It had to be known that the Wutu Spiritual Art placed emphasis on the vigorous and heavy spirit energy, so the speed at which he cultivated it was already extremely slow. If his cultivation speed were to be ten times slower based on the Mountain Nine Toughness Spell, then when would Yang Junshan be able to level up to the realms of life?

After trying to cultivate the Mountain Nine Toughness Secret Art for another month, Yang Junshan’s Spirit Sense observed the trace of Essence Qi inside his dantian and sighed helplessly. Although the speed of cultivation was not ten times slower than before, it was still at least three to five times slower, and the efficiency of the Nine Toughness Secret Art in absorbing spirit energy was also several times faster than that of theWutu Spiritual Art.

However, the spiritual energy supplied by half of the spiritual veins in the Western Mountain’s Spirit Origin was clearly unable to satisfy the full circulation of the Nine-Toughness Mantra .

Inadvertently, he remembered that day in the stone room at the top of Heaven-Shaking Peak, because of the entire Spirit River in Heaven-Shaking Peak, the dense and vigorous spirit energy there seemed to have condensed into a flowing liquid, and perhaps, it was the only place suitable for the cultivation of the Nine Toughness Mountain Technique, if he were to cultivate there, Yang Junshan would be like a fish in water, and he would not die of fatigue from just two months of cultivation.

The slow pace of cultivation of the Nine Bones Arts filled Yang Junshan with a sense of urgency. He had originally wanted to hurry up and continue cultivating, but the situation in the Mengyu County had changed drastically in a short period of time, forcing him to be called out from closed door cultivation.

“What, the Heaven-Shaken Sect was defeated, and the Sandtown lost?”

When Yang Junshan heard the news, his face was filled with shock, and he said: “What’s going on, could it be that the Sirius Gate and the Sirius Gate have sent more Spiritual Masters to assist them in the battle?”

Han Xiusheng said helplessly: “No, according to the news that came from the Yao County and the Zhang County, the two sects also have scruples, and do not dare to focus all of their energy to compete for the Mengyu County.”

“Is it because of the other sects in the two counties?”

Han Xiusheng nodded his head: “That’s right, Zhang County and Yao County are the two most small counties in the entire Yuzhou, two counties havotal of five sects, of which the Seven Spirit Sect’s area of influence is similar to the Sirius Gate’s, they are both considered Yao County’s, while the Seven Luan Sect spans the border of two counties.”

“In this war of the Heaven-Shaken Sect’s destruction, the other three sects from the two counties had also sent their cultivators to participate, but after the Heaven-Shaking Peak had collapsed, the other three sects had been forced into a corner by the combined forces of the Sirius Gate and the Sirius Gate. This caused the other three sects to be unhappy, for example, the Wolf and Spirit Opening Sects today had focused more than half of their energy into the south to guard against the three large sects, so the power that invaded the Mengyu County could be said to have reached the pinnacle of the two sects’ ability to draw out energy.”

After listening to Han Xiusheng’s explanation of the situation in the Zhang and Yao counties, he still did not speak of the reason behind the loss of the Sandtown. Yang Junshan asked somewhat irritably: “Since that’s the case, then the two sides should have continued to form a show at the border.

It was the Tian Clan. When the Sandtown’s Prominent Class Tian Clan was facing off against them, they suddenly turned against them, causing one of the Heaven-Shaken Sect to be defeated and two teams of Dream Yoga Guards to be destroyed. It is said that only the head disciple of Spiritual Master Chen Ji, Song Wei and a few others managed to escape.

To a certain extent, these two teams of Dream Guards could even be considered as two Adept Realm Cultivator s, yet they were broken just like that!

Han Xiusheng continued, “That Tian Zhenggang declared that he was an outer disciple of the Opening Spirit School in the first place. Right now, he is only bringing his family back to the Opening Spirit School, and in the future, the Sandtown will also join them.”

Yang Junshan frowned, and said: “Then what about Sirius Gate, could it be that Sirius Gate watched as Sandtown fell into Opening Spirit School’s hands?”

Han Xiusheng muttered to himself for a moment, then said: “There is another piece of news that came from the Wangshan Town, because it happened very quickly, so I am not too sure, and do not know if it is related to today’s matter.”

Seeing that Yang Junshan was looking at himself, Han Xiusheng said: “According to the information that I received from the informants in Wangshan Town, it is said that the Wangshan Town’s Guardian Center suddenly erupted with a large amount of Spiritual Energy fluctuations yesterday, it seems to be a battle between people, but the Spiritual Energy fluctuation quickly disappeared, and then it was said that there was a large group of Sirius Gate cultivators appearing, but for some reason, they quickly retreated.”

Yang Junshan’s expression suddenly changed, and said: “I already said it, these two sects cannot move alone, since Opening Spirit School has set up a chess piece in Sandtown, Sirius Gate cannot be indifferent, it’s just that Opening Spirit School has succeeded, and Sirius Gate’s chess pieces were obviously discovered by the Ning Family and removed in time!”

“Xiaoshan, now that the Sandtown has fallen, it is basically equivalent to cutting off all connections with the other cities, and the neighboring Wasteland Town is probably going to facuge battle soon. Then, it’s time for our Wasteland Town to go on, your father has been in closed-door training, and we, the Western Mountain Madame Yang, have been waiting for this moment.”