The Supreme God of Martial Arts

"Clump...Clump..." A person looking black and blue and covered in a mass of bruises showed up staggering into a narrow battle room. It was none other than Austin.

After struggling for a while to gain his bearing and stand still, Austin finally felt nothing but a concurrent rush of blood and energy in all his internal organs, he felt disoriented, as if his organs were about to shift from their usual positions, which made him choke in discomfort.

Suddenly, He felt a chill on his back as if he was naked. It took him a while to realize that the cloth on his back was torn apart from the attack he had encountered. The only remaining cloth on his body was the piece of slip covering his chest.

The cultivators of the Sky Realm were way powerful than the cultivators of the Mysterious Realm. A powerful cultivator like Austin who was already invincible among his peers still could not withstand a single blow from the cultivators of the Sky Realm.

Austin was in great pain, he spit a mouthful of blood in an attempt to clear his airway.

However, since he had already mastered the fifth level of the Overlord Body-refining Formula and washed his body with three drops of the Ancient Magic Liquid, Austin now possessed a stronger physical quality than most of the ordinary cultivators. After a short while, he felt better since his blood and energy were now circulating smoothly while the operation of his vital energy went back to normal.

It looked like having a strong body was extremely beneficial. The powerful impact resistant capability that Austin possessed highly increased his possibility for survival.

Any other cultivator of the Mysterious Realm would have suffered a body explosion and died right away under the attack of five cultivators of the Sky Realm. Austin was lucky to only have sminor injuries.

'So...this is the third floor of the Emperor Library?" Austin thought.

After doing a full body scan and realizing that there were no fatal injuries on his body, Austin focused his attention to the third floor of this space where he had just broken into.

The narrow space only covered an area of a dozen square meters. It was surprisingly empty! Austin had thought that there would definitely be books illustrating the seventh grade or even the eighth grade martial arts.

However, after searching every corner of the place carefully, he still got nothing. It was just an empty space.

The only thing in Austin's sight was a painting which looked old and had becyellow with the passage of ton the wall.

There was a middle-aged man with a graceful and elegant appearance on the painting. The man had his hands crossed behind his back with a thoughtful look in his eyes, giving Austin the feeling that the man could see into his soul.

'So, that painting was the only thing on the third floor?' He wondered.

Austin finally accepted that fact, although he was still puzzled. According to what Angus had told him that the third floor was where the most precious treasure of the Emperor Library was stored! 'So, could the painting right in front ofbe the treasure that Angus was referring to?" Austin wondered.

Although Austin had only spent a short twith Angus, he was good at reading people and he felt that Angus was a sane and credible person and would not joke about such matters.

Since Angus had said that the most precious thing was in the third floor, then there should be a puzzle, riddle or mystery hidden in this painting, maybe a secret passage. And the key to solving the mystery or finding secret passage must be the painting in front of him.

Therefore, Austin decided to walk patiently towards the painting and study it in detail.

This painting was pretty but simple in style and it had only a few ink marks indicating that the painter was very economical with the ink. However, the painter had still depicted a vivid figure of the middle-aged man making him seem almost real, especially his eyes which had a special charm.

After a thorough inspection, Austin still failed to find anything significant from the painting.

He started getting anxious about the situation when suddenly a thought popped up in his mind. ‘Maybe this painting is like a Space Ring which contains room to hide precious things. The precious treasure may be hidden inside.

Then, Austin infiltrated the painting with his spiritual sense power. But after exploring it for a while, he still found no secret space inside.

However, in the process of exploring the painting, Austin detected a peculiar fluctuation from the painting from tto time.

After further exploration of the fluctuation with a more focus of his spiritual sense power, Austin found that the peculiar fluctuation was transmitted from the eyes of the man in the painting.

Austin was overjoyed with the new discovery. He focused his spiritual sense to specifically search the two points that were the man's eyes.

"Buzz..." A few moments after Austin had transmitted a steady flow of spiritual sense to the eyes of the man, the whole room began to shake slightly, rippling with optical waves. The light waves spread quickly from the points of the man's eyes. Then Austin's body was shrouded by the light.

"There really is a secret passage!" Excitement flashing in Austin's eyes, he realized that he must have triggered skey component of the painting. Although he didn't know what the transformation meant, he still had a feeling that it must have something to do with the precious treasure that Angus had told him about, which was stored on the third floor.

The optical waves becmore and more intense. At last, they formed a black vortex in the space in front of Austin, with a faint suction force coming from the vortex.

Austin's spiritual sense reached into the black vortex the moment it was formed. After searching for a moment, he found that the black vortex seemed to have a teleporting power and might be a teleportation array.

After pondering for a short while, Austin gritted his teeth in determination then stepped into the black vortex directly.

There were still five enemies who possessed the cultivation base chasing after him. So he had nothing to lose, there was no turning back.

Austin felt his world spinning around in darkness, after he went into the black vortex. He then realized that he had made the right assumption. This black vortex had teleportation properties.

The darkness in his eyes only lasted for a short while. After that, a beam of light dazzled Austin's eyes and he had a feeling that he could finally stand steadily.

When he looked closely inspecting the place around him and found himself standing on a plush and luxurious carpet of grass. The lush and vibrant grass grew above his waist.

In front of the grassland was a dense forest filled with a hazelnut bush, the dark shadows of the voluminous trees and the surrounding bushes had becthe backbone of the forest. The pathways were twisted and snaking around the ancient trees that looked centuries old evidenced by twisted and crisscrossing roots and gnarled branches.

There was a ray of light flowing between the trees. That endless light added a sacred flavor to the forest.

"That's..." Austin walked around curiously, trying to familiarize himself with his surroundings, when at the junction of the grassland and the dense forest he suddenly found a huge red stone pillar. There seemed to be a shadow of a person sitting cross-legged right on the top of the pillar.

"What the hell is this place? Why would there be someone staying here?" Mumbled Austin.

He was aware that he had already left the third floor of the Emperor Library and had been teleported to another place.

However, there was no way he could figure out where he had been teleported to.