The Supreme God of Martial Arts

Chapter 56 The Vital Energy Stone

If one were to see things from the monkey's point of view, Austin was only at level six of Energy

Gathering Realm with a weak spiritual soul, so it should have been a childish affair to take over his

body. Forget about taking over his body, even defeating him should have been as easy as pie.

If it could eliminate Austin's spiritual sense, it would become the new owner of his body. With a brand

new healthy body, it could start anew in its cultivation path and soon perhaps could return to the Grand

Desolation Mountain and take its revenge one day.

However, it realized that it was gravely at a disadvantage when fighting with Austin's soul. To its

surprise, the soul of this mere mortal was much stronger than its own. Perhaps this was because it had

lost most of its former power and had been forced into Earth Realm.

Its disadvantage was noticed by Austin as well and he thought that revenge this time, would be best

served hot!

Now, he could punish the little bastard for eating his vital energy. Sneering, he chided it, "Aha! Where's

your confidence now?

You were quite confident just a while ago. Was it all just banter? Can you do anything but show off and

exaggerate? Didn't you just say that you can easily kill thousands of martial cultivators like me?"

It took just a short while to tip the scale completely in Austin's favour. Pinning the monkey down as the

fight fell into his dominion, he punched it furiously in the face multiple times.

The violent attack it had sustained had weakened the power of the monkey's soul quickly, and pretty

soon, it was in extremely low spirits.

"Try to kill me like you said just now! Didn't you say you could do that without striking a blow? Oh wait!

With just a breath! Would you like to blow some air now?"

Austin teased as he continued with his beating.

He had been scared to death when this monkey had suddenly appeared in his Elixir Field, so he was

giving full vent to his grudges now that he was in dominion.

Finally giving up to Austin, the monkey suddenly shouted out with resentment.

"No! This is impossible! You are very low in your refining level, but your spiritual sense is as strong as

those in the Mysterious Realm. I can't believe it!

I'm the Immortal Monkey King! I can't lose to a weak human scum like you!"

With one burst of what little energy that remained inside it, the monkey struggled and pushed Austin's

soul away. The latter lost his balance and fell headlong.

After it had managed to free itself, the monkey quickly jumped into a corner and tried to gather its

strength.

'Maybe I could try my Spiritual Sense Flying Needle.'

An idea appeared in Austin's mind. He controlled his spiritual power and produced a flying needle ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

which shot towards the monkey at an extremely high speed.

The monkey was shocked to see Austin's new attack. It had never expected that Austin would not only

possess a strong soul but would also have a grasp of spiritual-sense martial skills.

It decided to fight this fire with fire. A flying knife appeared in front of the monkey and collided with the

flying needle.

The monkey had been a mighty creature before it had lost its power, so it was no surprise that it could

also employ spiritual-sense martial skills.

However, its skill could no longer achieve the same effect as in the past. The flying knife it had

produced was knocked aside after it hit the flying needle, while the latter kept flying on its track for

some distance before it vanished completely. Obviously, Austin was the one who had prevailed in this

round.

He sat down in the lotus position and shot out another flying needle.

The monkey had no other choice but to repeat its previous counterattack, but the flying knife it

produced looked visually weaker this time.

The monkey's soul had received a brutal beating from Austin, and it was almost at the end of its

strengths.

After a few rounds of this same game, which felt like an eternity to the monkey, it finally ran out of its

power and could no longer produce any defense against Austin's attack.

Choosing hopeless flight over a hopeless fight, it ran around in Austin's Soul Sea, all the while chased

by a flying needle. It tried to escape several times, only to be forced back by the flying needle

appearing in front of it and forcing it to change direction.

After the needle had poked him multiple times, the monkey's soul became pallid and was left with very

little vitality, not even enough to let him run.

"Stop! I'm the Immortal Monkey King! Please don't kill me!"

The monkey begged for mercy. Its arrogance had yielded in the face of life-and-death danger.

"The Immortal Monkey King? Oh, is that supposed to impress me? You've irritated me instead! And I

kill anyone who dares to trouble me no matter who he or she is!"

Austin sneered, showing no intention of making any concessions.

"If you let me go, I'll give you everything you want after I regain my strength. Wealth, power, a higher

social standing... You can't imagine how much you will get in return! Can't we strike a bargain?"

The monkey suggested in a grovelling tone.

The flying needle hovering in front of its face would have stabbed it at any time, putting it under great

pressure; its soul could not have taken any more pokes or stabs.

"After you regain your strength, huh? Will you really have to keep your promise at that moment?

I'm afraid that I'll be the first to get killed after you bounce back! Do you think you can trick me with

such a naive promise? I have half a... no wait! I totally want to kill you.

So you just cut the crap and tell me what on earth that fucking stuff inside my elixir field is."

Austin asked the question that he most wanted to know. At the very beginning of this event, it was a

strange stone that had appeared in his elixir field out of the blue. After that, the monkey's soul had

suddenly come out of that stone and panicked him.

He didn't know what that stone really was and was curious to know. If it were not so, the monkey would

have been dead in the first round.

"Okay, I'll tell you the truth, and you let me go. Do you agree?"

The monkey tried to bargain.

Austin ordered the flying needle to slightly stab at the monkey with his mind.

With a scream of pain, the monkey's soul weakened further. Already, some parts of it had turned into a

void.

"You have no other choice right now!"

Austin announced in a cold voice.

"Tell me what it is now, or I'll send you to hell!"

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you whatever you want to know. Keep your shirt on!"

The monkey cried in alarm. Its soul was already very weak, and it would vanish in thin air if it fell to any

more harm.

Although it had been one of the most powerful creatures in this world in the past, it dared not challenge

Austin any more now that it was facing a life-and-death situation.

"That 'stuff' you mentioned is a treasure from a fairy grave in the Grand Desolation Mountain. I found it

in that place a month ago. I didn't know what it was at the moment. However, very recently, I found out

that it was made of a special kind of stone—the vital energy stone which was produced only in the

ancient times."

A fairy grave? The vital energy stone?

Austin was totally confused. He had never heard about those things in the past. The monkey

continued, "The vital energy stone is an extremely rare treasure. Many martial cultivators are eager to

own it but never have the chance to even see one. The amazing part of it is that it can serve as a

storage space of the martial cultivators' vital energy.

You know, a martial cultivator will run out of his vital energy if he fights with others for a long time. If you

could integrate such a stone into your body and reserve some vital energy inside it, you will be able to

replenish yourself whenever you consume too much of your vital energy.

In other words, if you reserve abundant vital energy inside the stone, It's going to come in handy for

replenishing all of the energy spent during a fight, and you won't have to worry about running out. Just

imagine how convenient that could be!"

The monkey explained everything in detail. He was trying hard to please Austin.

Austin's eyes lit up with pleasure when he heard the monkey's words. If the vital energy stone really did

function that way, it would be of great help to him.

"Another question, was it the vital energy stone or you that sucked away all the energy from my body?"

The monkey cleared its throat before replying with an embarrassed look. "Emm... Both, actually. My

soul was hurt severely. In order to employ a kind of soul-recovering magic which requires an

environment with rich vital energy, I absorbed your vital energy into the stone to heal my soul.

Otherwise, I would have died.

And before you kill me, you should know... That entire amount of vital energy is still reserved in the

stone. I only borrowed it a bit to nourish my soul but didn't consume any of it. If you want to use it, you

can take it out of the stone any time you like."

The monkey explained cautiously, afraid that Austin would get angry at it.

After all, it had controlled the vital energy stone to absorb all of the vital energy inside Austin's body

and had almost ruined his cultivation.

"You mean that all of the energy from the seven earth spirit fruits is inside the stone and I can use it at

any time?"

Austin asked with a surprised look. God, those were seven earth spirit fruits he had consumed! Just

imagine how much energy they could produce in total!

When he had eaten a single earth spirit fruit in the Beast Mountain last time, he had almost failed to

take in the enormous amount of energy it had released into his meridians. But now, he had the energy

of seven earth spirit fruits stored in the vital energy stone, and he could use it at any moment. It was

such a big surprise that Austin felt like he was in a dream.

"Is there anything else about the stone? Tell me everything you know about it."

Austin commanded in an icy cold tone as he threatened the monkey with the flying needle.

"There is a cultivation method inside it."

The monkey answered with a weak voice.

"A cultivation method? What grade? What does it do?"

"I know its name is Golden Sun Scripture, but I don't know what grade it is."

"And anything else? Don't try to conceal anything from me!"

Austin threatened mercilessly.