Chapter 1803: Chapter 1797: Treating Trash as Treasure

"This is their Divine Profound Hall’s Tianxuan Scripture, only core disciples have the privilege to learn it. It’s said to have a total of eleven levels, each step allows you to make nine paces forward. With each additional step, your strength increases, up to a maximum of 99 paces. If mastered, it can multiply your power by more than tenfold!"

"Hmph, it’s only said to be that powerful. Rumor has it that the Tianxuan Scripture is just an incomplete secret technique. It seems like they only have the methods for the first three levels left. If someone truly could cultivate it to the eleventh level, they’d be invincible. Would they really let those core disciples learn it?"

"It’s not just them; many of our heritage secrets were lost during that era. Honestly, having three levels left is already quite good."

"But didn’t you notice? Though Gu Xiao and Wan Ning have both stepped out nine paces, the increase in their aura is significantly different. Wan Ning only managed a three-fold increase, while Gu Xiao’s strength quadrupled. It seems that he has gained a deeper understanding."

"But how did he learn it?"

"It definitely wasn’t someone from the Divine Profound Hall teaching him. Based on his attitude, he doesn’t seem to have much affection for them."

"Could it be an opportunity from the Ancient Cave Heaven?"

"That’s most likely the case."

The elders of the seventeen other superpowers whispered amongst themselves. For any sect, having their martial arts techniques leak out is a disgrace, irrespective of the reason. They were curious to see how the Divine Profound Hall would handle this situation.

"This..." The elders from the Divine Profound Hall also wore grave expressions.

Indeed, these eleven layers of the ultimate technique only had three layers passed down. Although a powerful secret technique, it’s not considered precious, as those core disciples have all learned it. Techniques that amplify power by more than threefold are rather common throughout the Divine Profound Hall.

Nevertheless, the general guideline left behind in the three levels mentioned that if this martial art reaches great achievement, there will be a distinct change—it will have a higher amplification than those who haven’t fully cultivated it.

With identical steps, Zhang Menglong’s aura notably outpaced Wan Ning’s, which indicated that he likely obtained remnants of the Tianxuan Scripture in the Ancient Cave Heaven, perhaps even the complete version!

If it’s the full version... the current secret techniques in the Divine Profound Hall don’t even come close to this Tianxuan Scripture!

Their current hall’s secret technique, though complete, is technically inferior to the Tianxuan Scripture, served merely because it’s complete, while more advanced techniques either got lost or only fragments remain.

Wan Ning could naturally feel that Zhang Menglong’s aura was increasing significantly more than his, but the fundamental gap between them was indisputable. Even with the Tianxuan Scripture, the realm difference between them was like heaven and earth.

"Gu Xiao, I know you haven’t exerted your full strength," Wan Ning recalled the match between Zhang Menglong and Lin Yuan, "show your Qilin Arm, I know it’s your greatest asset."

"There’s no need," Zhang Menglong shook his head, "I aim to defeat you with my own methods; otherwise, you’d find all kinds of excuses. But if I beat you with your own Divine Profound Hall’s technique, you won’t have much to say, will you?"

Zhang Menglong continued forward, taking another nine paces, his aura doubling again to four times its original strength! 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Another nine paces, Zhang Menglong’s aura surged to six times his normal state!

Zhang Menglong had naturally mastered the complete version of the Tianxuan Scripture. Among the dead, he not only learned the full Tianxuan Scripture but also many more advanced secret techniques from the Divine Profound Hall. To be honest, that ancient Divine Profound Hall was formidable; even this complete Tianxuan Scripture was only a mid-level secret technique!

Without mastering the last Chapter of the Tianxuan Scripture, each set of nine steps would boost basic strength by 100%, but after mastering it, the enhancement is 100% more!

In other words, if Zhang Menglong completed 99 steps, his power could surge over twentyfold!

But for the current Divine Profound Hall, such a technique was already defying the heavens!

"He has already taken 27 steps," the elders of the Divine Profound Hall, watching Zhang Menglong, could no longer maintain their calm little," "they were practically certain that Zhang Menglong had mastered the entire Tianxuan Scripture!

"We can’t let him continue!" The elder ordered Wan Ning, "This kid has mastered the full version of the Tianxuan Scripture; if he takes 99 steps, you won’t be his match!"

Wan Ning realized now as well, Zhang Menglong’s aura had almost reached the God Cultivator’s first-grade level now; if he fully deployed the Tianxuan Scripture, the outcome would be in doubt.

Wan Ning had no choice but to ignore the facade; using one’s full power to beat a junior is better than losing, right?

"Great Annihilation Palm!"

Wan Ning knew that when faced with someone like Zhang Menglong, holding back was foolish, so he unleashed his signature move.

This Great Annihilation Palm is an extremely advanced martial art in the Divine Profound Hall, learned only by core disciples and even favored by many elders as their preferred attack!

A red, bloody palm strike shot towards Zhang Menglong; the strike was akin to a giant’s blow, capable of smashing a mountain peak in one swoop.

With this move, Wan Ning had once severely injured a core disciple at the God Cultivator sixth-grade level during a sparring match!

"Great Annihilation Palm?" Zhang Menglong murmured to himself, "They actually used this move, it seems the current Divine Profound Hall doesn’t have many tricks left."

Zhang Menglong shook his head in disappointment; this martial art was mid-low ranked within the entire Divine Profound Hall, something that outer sect disciples learned, and even core disciples scornfully disregarded.

"These eighteen superpowers today, could they all have been established by the outer sect disciples of those superpowers?" Zhang Menglong’s expression turned disdainful, "At most inner sect disciples, nothing more!"

To Zhang Menglong, even any martial arts techniques core disciples learned at that time were stronger than the most essential techniques of these superpowers now.

"What a decline indeed," Zhang Menglong sighed.

Within that Bell Tower space, there indeed was a methodology to counter the Great Annihilation Palm, but this technique was so low-grade that no one bothered to dismantle it, leaving only two or three methods remained. Had Zhang Menglong not paid special attention to various methods of countering the Divine Profound Hall’s techniques, he might not have even remembered!

Zhang Menglong concentrated energy on his fingertips, pointing at the center of the red palm print. The enormous palm was directly torn apart from that point by Zhang Menglong.

"What?" Wan Ning’s expression froze as his ultimate technique was easily nullified by Zhang Menglong.

"The Great Annihilation Palm was created by an ancient Divine Profound Hall elder. When he devised this martial technique, his palm was wounded, leaving this trait permanently, becoming the biggest flaw of this palm technique. Yet you actually hold this incomplete waste as a treasure?"

"How does he know so much?" The Divine Profound Hall elders were shocked by Zhang Menglong’s description, as they, too, had never heard of this anecdote about the Great Annihilation Palm!

"Watch closely, this is the true Great Annihilation Palm!" Zhang Menglong crossed his hands, the palms emanating immense boiling energy...