The Supreme God of Martial Arts

However, after reading all the instructions on how to master the Grand Body Refining Skill, Austin immediately lost his excitement. He even wanted to curse whoever invented this skill.

He found out that mastering the Grand Body Refining Skill cost a fortune. This was not for ordinary cultivators. Only those who were from affluent backgrounds would be able to practice it.

A lot of superior herbs of the earth's attribute and other precious natural resources were required for this Grand Body Refining Skill. And these ingredients were needed to be eaten.

The more superior and precious the herbs and other precious natural resources were, the better cultivation could be achieved. "Damn! Why should all body refining skills cost too much?" he exclaimed in frustration.

He felt so thwarted that he couldn't help but laugh bitterly.

Before, when Austin practiced the Overlord Body-refining Formula and the Beast Energy-extracting Skill, he also needed an abundant supply of resources.

When he was learning the Overlord Body-refining Formula, he needed to collect a lot of elixirs and made them into juice. He needed to immerse his body into the juice to refine his body.

When it cto mastering the Beast Energy-extracting Skill, he needed to absorb a great amount of blood essence from diabolic beasts to build up his physical strength.

This time, the Grand Body Refining Skill that he was reading needed a great many superior herbs and other precious natural resources. And it would be best if all the elixirs were superior.

No doubt about it, if Austin could learn this Grand Body Refining Skill successfully, his ability would greatly improve. Currently, Austin's physical strength was already about four million pounds.

If he could master the Grand Body Refining Skill, his physical strength would definitely improve a dozen times. If this happened, he could be able to fight with really great power.

Austin creased his eyebrows as he was thinking about the huge amount of elixirs, superior herbs, and other precious natural resources.

When suddenly, something cto his mind.

"Right! The Wild Herb Valley!" he exclaimed. His eyes lit in excitement.

He remembered that Steward Nolan said before that there were numerous superior herbs and precious natural resources in the Wild Herb Valley.

"There must be plenty of herbs of earth's attribute and other precious natural resources there," he murmured as he was talking to himself.

"If I can enter the Wild Herb Valley, I can look for all the necessary herbs and natural resources that I need for the Grand Body Refining Skill. Although going there is too risky and fatal, I think it's worth it." Austin was deep in thought. He was trying to weigh the pros and cons of going there.

"I will go there!" He made the final decision. He was willing to do everything just to improve his fighting skills.

Austin was a determined man.

He had always focused on cultivating himself. When in training, he always worked hard and spared no effort.

He was fully aware of the countless obstacles in the martial arts road. So if he wanted to break through continuously, he must overcthese obstacles by himself. If he could achieve everything effortlessly and risk-free, he couldn't consider it a real way of cultivating himself. He wouldn't consider himself a true warrior.

Only when he stuck to trials, practical fights and challenges, he could move to a higher level and beca real strong cultivator. After making his final decision, Austin put away the three jade slip of martial art skills and went to look for Caroline.

Then he told Caroline everything about his plan.

Caroline was anxious after listening to Austin but she didn't try to stop him.

They had been together long enough for her to know him very well. She knew that she couldn't stop Austin from cultivating himself so the best she could do was to support him all the way.

Anyway, she also wanted her lover to grow stronger.

After discussing with Caroline, Austin immediately signed up for the task of picking herbs and collecting precious natural resources in the Wild Herb Valley.

Signing up was very easy to do. He just needed to send Steward Nolan a message through the Contact Jade Slip.

During the next two days, Austin busied himself with keeping Caroline company as well as practicing the Mysterious Dragon Fist and the Glorious Swordsmanship.

In two days, he managed to understand these two martial arts and mastered sbasic skills. However, he was still far from using these two skills into fights.

On the third day, all the disciples who signed up for the task in the Wild Herb Valley gathered in the square.

More or less, there were 50 disciples who signed up.

The reason why there were not so many of them was because of the high fatality rate.

Many disciples got scared of losing their lives during the task.

Only a few cultivators were courageous enough to risk their lives.

Austin noticed that most of the disciples in the square were at the Semi-emperor Realm or higher.

Around fifteen of them were at the Emperor Realm.

Those whose cultivation bases was lower than the Holy Realm were the minority. Austin was one of them.

Of course, Austin was at the weakest and the lowest cultivation level because he was only at the Medium stage of Semi-holy Realm.

Because of it, Austin was really conspicuous among the more than fifty disciples in the square.

Almost all of the disciples were looking at Austin with curious eyes. Swere even staring at him from head to toe. Even Steward Nolan's attention was caught by him.

"If I'm not mistaken, your nis Austin, right?" Steward Nolan wasn't able to restrain his curiosity anymore.

He was interested to know about Austin.

Austin was first stunned when he heard Steward Nolan's question. He didn't expect that the steward would talk to him.

When he regained his composure, he then answered, "Yes, sir. My nis Austin Lin." "I admire your courage, young man. That's actually a very good attitude," said Steward Nolan.

"But are you really sure you want to be involved in this task? You should know that most cultivators who enter the Wild Herb Valley are at the Emperor Realm of each sect." Steward Nolan's voice was full of doubt.

"Since you are still weak, once they start to fight inside the valley, I think you will..." Steward Nolan seemed to find it difficult to finish what he wanted to say.

Instead, he said, "I suggest you think about it again." "Is that so?" Austin asked.

He couldn't help but raise an eyebrow after hearing what Steward Nolan had said. He didn't feel good that Steward Nolan was obviously doubting his capabilities.

"Sir, I hope you don't mindasking. Am I not qualified to join this task?" Austin's question surprised Steward Nolan.

"No, it's not like that. According to Elder Brendan, any disciples even with the cultivation base lower than the Emperor Realm can sign up for the task as long as they are willing to. But..." Again, Steward Nolan was not able to finish his last sentence. He was somehow dumbfounded by Austin's audacity.

Since Elder Brendan said that, I am the villing to participate in this task. I now you are just worried aboutand I really appreciate it, sir. But now what I'm doing. I have already repared myself for any possibilities am fully aware that the martial arts ead has a lot of obstacles and isks." >wSteward Nolan didn't realize how determined a person Austin was.

"Well, that's good! I like what you said. Since you have already made up your mind, I won't stop you from joining this task anymore." Steward Nolan gave Austin an admiring look.

It was not every day that he could meet someone like Austin.

He really hoped that this young man would succeed in his endeavor.

He then turned his attention to the group of disciples gathered in the area.

All right, everyone!" he started. "I wil how send an illustrated handbook bout all the herbs and other recious natural resources to your Contact Jade Slips. In this andbook, you will see detailed nformation about each herb and recious natural resources. You can efer to this information in picking erbs and collecting natural esources in the Wild Herb Valley." He then closed his eyes and through his mental power, more than fifty white beam of lights emerged from his Soul Sea and entered into the Contact Jade Slip of each disciple present in the area.

When Austin received his handbook,he looked over it a bit. Just like what Steward Nolan said, there were pictures introductions, and other information about spiritual herbs, superior herbs, and other precious natural resources. It was even noted that sof them could only be found in the Wild Herb Valley.

The pictures were fine and vivid. Anyone could easily find those herbs and precious natural resources as long as they read the information and studied the pictures carefully.

The illustrated handbook was a very good reference especially if the herbs were not familiar to the disciples.

"Alright! I'm done sending you all the illustrated handbook. You can now go and start your task," Steward Nolan instructed. "I hope that all of you guys will unite and help each other. You'd better try your best to reduce the death rate of our FlHoly Land. Am I understood?" "Yes, sir!" All the disciples answered in chorus.

"I'm glad to hear that." Steward Nolan smiled.

"Everyone, set out!" That was Steward Nolan's last sentence before the disciples dispersed.