Chapter 67 - 64: A Monster-Like Setting!

Chapter 67: Chapter 64: A Monster-Like Setting!

"DING~ Congratulations... Player... Tanzi... has touched an Emperor Level Cultivation Technique..."

PFFT!

Hearing this announcement again, the Monk stumbled, almost face-planting into the ground. He barely managed to steady himself. With a bitter expression, he beat his chest and stomped his feet. His face contorted into the ugliest expression imaginable.

SLAP SLAP SLAP!

"What is wrong with my big mouth!"

He viciously slapped himself across the face a few times. He felt awful! Utterly miserable! It felt like a heavy lump of air was clogging his chest, suffocating him.

He had just been feeling incredibly smug and complacent about inciting numerous players to crusade against Su Tan. He had genuinely thought he was being so rational and calculating. Yet, who could have expected that in the blink of an eye, the very boasts he had made up would all come true! Most importantly... he never intended for Su Tan to obtain so many fortuitous encounters and opportunities!

His original goal was to make it impossible for Su Tan to take a single step in the Void God Realm. He wanted to teach Su Tan that offending a Monk would never end well and to make sure he faced retribution.

Great...

Now, Su Tan had actually created a myth, and he—along with the many people he had incited—had all become witnesses to that myth.

Watching his enemy get buffed by his own jinx and actually become a badass dealt a ton of emotional damage. It was even more agonizing than when Su Tan had wiped the floor with him earlier.

He thought, "This isn’t the result I wanted..."

Was that guy’s character setting on the level of a monster?

Not only was he immune to realm suppression within the Void God Realm, allowing him to use power that could easily crush the Qi Condensation realm, but he could even utterly beat down someone like the Monk, who was basically using cheats. He could obtain numerous Martial Arts Techniques with a mere wave of his hand, and he casually touched Emperor Level Martial Techniques! Emperor Level Cultivation Techniques!

What kind of monstrous setting was this?

Just because Su Tan could casually hammer out Cultivation Techniques didn’t mean that the Secret Manuals in the Cemetery of Cultivation Techniques were easy to get. In reality, even someone with exceptional comprehension would find it extremely difficult to pry a single Cultivation Technique out of those stone pillars. If it weren’t for the system’s blessing, given Su Tan’s own comprehension, his chances of acquiring a Cultivation Method Manual in the Cemetery of Cultivation Techniques would have been virtually zero!

Because of this very fact, the Monk’s shock was entirely justified. It would be one thing if it were just ordinary Cultivation Method Manuals, but getting Emperor Level Cultivation Techniques and Martial Techniques so casually?

Did he think they were as cheap as a dime a dozen?

The Monk felt incredibly sour.

He was jealous!

"This Monk refuses to believe your luck is that good! I have my own trump cards, and I am the true Child of Destiny. I don’t believe I can’t beat you!" the Monk scoffed, utterly unconvinced.

They would just have to see who the real Child of Destiny was. Cultivation inherently meant defying the heavens. It was a path of fierce competition. Dragging down those stronger than oneself, snatching the luck and opportunities of the prosperous, and adding them to one’s own body—this was the true nature of a cultivator’s competition.

Simply put, it was survival of the fittest. Only the final victor who managed to crawl to the top had the right to be called the strongest!

The Monk and a massive crowd of people marched imposingly toward Su Tan’s coordinates.

Meanwhile, on Su Tan’s side.

He naturally had no idea about any of this. He was busy collecting Elixir Medicine Skills in the Stone Forest, followed by Cultivation Techniques, and then Martial Techniques. He hadn’t expected his luck to be this good today; it was as if someone had secretly blessed him. Everything went incredibly smoothly, and an abundance of items dropped for him.

Emperor Level Cultivation Techniques and Emperor Level Martial Techniques were actually hidden extremely deep. Finding them and hammering them out should have been incredibly difficult! Even with Su Tan’s mindless, simple, and crude methods, trying to uncover Emperor Level Abnormal Skills within the Stone Forest should have been like finding a needle in a haystack!

But today...

For some unknown reason, everything was surprisingly smooth! It was so smooth that he couldn’t even refuse the loot if he tried.

"What kind of luck is this... dropping two Emperor Level Abnormal Skills in a row?" Even the Little White Wolf felt that Su Tan had hit the jackpot.

Emperor Level Abnormal Skills were different from other skills. They didn’t just depend on comprehension; they also relied on fate! They would actively choose a suitable person to impart their Dao. This was the unique spirituality that Emperor Level Abnormal Skills possessed.

Yet, despite such harsh conditions, Su Tan still stumbled upon them. What else could he do?

Su Tan was thrilled! This certainly wasn’t a bad thing.

"A server-wide announcement will easily draw attention. People will definitely get jealous or just come to join the spectacle, which will be bad for us!" Su Tan said. "We need to get it out quickly, exit the Void God Realm, and make a clean getaway!"

He had only touched it previously. To completely extract the Emperor Level Abnormal Skill, he still needed a little more time.

According to the past records of the Void God Realm, touching an Emperor Level Cultivation Technique was merely the first step. Truly acquiring one usually required far more time for comprehension, often taking ten days or even half a month. The longest record ever held was by a lucky individual who spent three whole years going from touching to fully inheriting an Emperor Level Abnormal Skill! They had logged in every single time just to study it, taking three long years to finally obtain it.

However, Su Tan was different from the rest. Others had to painstakingly study and comprehend the techniques.

As for him?

He simply smashed his fists against the stone pillar, hammering the Cultivation Technique right out of the stone. Then, the system would store the Cultivation Technique in his Warehouse. If he wanted to learn it...

Equip! Done!

RUMBLE!

Su Tan threw a punch at the stone pillar. The power of the forty-seventh layer of Body Refinement was enough to shatter a man-sized block of solid iron into dust. Its might was naturally not to be underestimated. It was as if an entire mountain was crashing against the stone pillar.

CRACK!

Fragments of stone went flying in all directions. With every punch, Su Tan could feel a bit of the Emperor Level Dao Principle spilling out. This stone pillar had originally looked no different from the others, but now, with the emergence of an Emperor Level Abnormal Skill, it stood out from the rest among the thousands of pillars like a sore thumb!

Myriad visions fluttered through the air. Auspicious Beasts offered signs of prosperity. The chants of the Great Dao echoed out.

"Who could have imagined that a single stone pillar would simultaneously hold the dual miracles of an Emperor Level Cultivation Technique and an Emperor Level Martial Technique?" The Little White Wolf looked slightly excited as it watched the two Emperor Level visions wrapping around the pillar. "But why do these visions and the chants of the Great Dao feel a bit... different?"

Initially, when Su Tan’s punch struck the stone pillar and triggered the flurry of visions, its first reaction was that Su Tan’s Dao had resonated with the Emperor Dao. It thought the Emperor Dao within the pillar was cheering—celebrating that a qualified inheritor had finally arrived.

But the longer it listened and the more it watched, the more bizarre the Little White Wolf found the situation.

Cheering, my foot!

It clearly looked like the Dao was wailing in agony!

Why did it feel like this guy wasn’t trying to comprehend the Dao and earn the recognition of the Emperor Level Abnormal Skill, but rather... plundering it?

That was it! It was a plunder! A tyrannical plunder!

What normal person trying to comprehend the Dao would repeatedly punch the stone pillar like this?

This guy... was truly a piece of work!

One punch, two punches... three punches...

Su Tan tirelessly poured all his physical strength into the stone pillar. He struck faster and faster! Su Tan could feel that he was about to get it—the Emperor Level Martial Technique was coming out!

He hammered out over a hundred punches!

"DING~ Detected one Emperor Level Martial Technique, [Celestial Emperor Fist (Body Refinement Stage)]. Would you like to store it in the Warehouse?" The system prompt rang out the very instant Su Tan smashed the Emperor Level Martial Technique out of the stone.

"Store it!"

"DING~ Successfully stored!"

In the system Warehouse, the Celestial Emperor Fist now lay quietly.

At that moment, the Cemetery of Cultivation Techniques triggered another server-wide announcement.

"DING~ Congratulations... Player... Tanzi... has obtained the Emperor Level Martial Technique, [Celestial Emperor Fist]!"

ROAR!

This announcement instantly caused the countless cultivators on the first layer of the Void God Realm to boil over with excitement!

"So fast... The last announcement saying he touched an Emperor Level Martial Technique was only about ten minutes ago..."

"What kind of monster is this?" The Monk, who was still rushing over, felt his heart turn ice-cold once again when he heard the announcement! "I need to hurry up... That guy isn’t human!"

He wanted revenge, but he also wanted to get his hands on the Emperor Level Abnormal Skill. There wasn’t a single person who wouldn’t be tempted by an Emperor Level Abnormal Skill, and the Monk was no exception.

"What an absolute monster!"