Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 982: The Martial Arts Techniques on the Stone Pillar

Chapter 982: Chapter 982: The Martial Arts Techniques on the Stone Pillar

Hou Ziping’s words made Huang Miao feel somewhat guilty, and she sighed, "It’s also my fault. As the captain, I should have been the last to retreat. Thankfully, all of you are safe, otherwise..."

Fang Bai waved his hand and said, "Senior Sister Huang, that’s in the past now, let’s not bring it up. We should think about how to deal with the spirit beasts outside!"

Huang Miao realized that, indeed, even though the five of them had entered the Stone Forest and were temporarily safe, with dozens of spirit beasts surrounding them, leaving would not be easy.

All being martial artists, being trapped for three to five days was bearable. However, if those spirit beasts outside the Stone Forest refused to disperse, they would be in trouble.

After all, though they were martial artists far surpassing ordinary people, they hadn’t cultivated to the realm where they could go without food and water.

If they were trapped for ten to fifteen days, even if the spirit beasts couldn’t harm them, they would struggle to survive due to hunger and thirst.

Thus, they could only pray that the dozens of Antlered Silver Lions wouldn’t be able to break through the Stone Forest and would eventually lose patience and leave.

However, Huang Miao didn’t believe the thick and sturdy stone pillars forming the Stone Forest could withstand the continuous ramming of the Antlered Silver Lions.

Listening to the constant roars of spirit beasts from outside the Stone Forest and feeling the vibrations from their impacts on the stone pillars, Huang Miao and the others looked solemn, remaining silent, contemplating a way to escape.

Upon entering the Stone Forest, Fang Bai discovered that it was actually a defensive formation. Although it wasn’t a high-rank formation, it was more than sufficient to counter the attacks of the dozens of spirit beasts outside.

Fang Bai knew that this defensive formation hadn’t been set up by the Bitao Martial Academy, as even Ren Jingbo, the dean of the academy, lacked the ability to set up such a formation.

The formation was made up of one hundred and eight stone pillars, most of which were covered with a thick layer of moss, clearly indicating their ancient age.

From this, one could deduce that the formation was set up many years ago by a powerful expert knowledgeable in formations.

And the expert who had set up this formation had to be at least of Vast Level in terms of cultivation realm.

Once the formation was set up, those stone pillars, which could have been easily knocked down by the Antlered Silver Lions, seemed to have been endowed with magical power, becoming incredibly sturdy.

Fang Bai’s gaze soon fell on a few stone pillars within the Stone Forest.

He walked up to one of them, extended his right hand, and gently exerted effort to scrape off a layer of moss from the pillar.

Beneath the moss, many inscriptions were engraved.

As his gaze swept over these inscriptions, Fang Bai realized that they comprised a set of martial arts techniques suitable for cultivation by Vast Level martial artists.

Looking at other pillars, each pillar bore a set of martial arts techniques for the cultivation of Vast Level martial artists.

Noticing Fang Bai’s unusual behavior, Huang Miao and the others stood behind him and also looked at the stone pillars. As they did so, they quickly became captivated by the martial arts techniques, utterly enchanted and irresistibly drawn in.

"These... these martial arts techniques are so profound..."

After a long while, Huang Miao murmured to herself, yet her eyes couldn’t bear to move away from the stone pillar in front of her.

"Indeed profound. I only understand a little, but I have already benefited greatly. I wonder who engraved these martial arts techniques here."

Hou Ziping interjected.

"Senior Brother Hou, just like you, I only have a vague understanding. The person who engraved these Martial Arts Techniques must have been an incredibly powerful Martial Artist."

Liu Liehu scratched his head as he spoke.

Although Liu Liehu’s talent was significantly stronger than Hou Ziping’s, having received Fang Bai’s guidance in Liuhu Village, his strength was the weakest among the five. However, his comprehension of the Martial Arts Techniques on the stone pillar was no less than that of Huang Miao and Hou Ziping.

Speaking of which, he glanced at Liu Qingqing beside him and asked with hope, "Sister, you must have understood a lot, right?"

"Yes, I understood quite a bit..."

Liu Qingqing said.

Liu Qingqing was naturally intelligent and possessed an Innate Spiritual Root. Moreover, having received careful instruction from Fang Bai, her understanding and perception of the Martial Dao were incomparable to ordinary Martial Artists, so it was natural for her to understand a large part of the Martial Arts Techniques on the stone pillar.

Fang Bai had merely glanced over the techniques inscribed on the stone pillar, completely uninterested.

For Fang Bai, who was once the Immortal Emperor and knew thousands of Martial Arts Techniques, the techniques left by the Vast Level Martial Artist simply did not catch his eye.

Seeing that Huang Miao and the others were immersed in the techniques on the stone pillar, Fang Bai did not disturb them and walked alone towards the center of the Stone Forest.

Since the Stone Forest was a Defensive Array, the center of it was likely the location of the Array Eye.

Right as Fang Bai entered the Stone Forest, he sensed fluctuations of Spiritual Energy from the Array Eye, indicating that there could be Cultivation Resources there, and it was possible that the Vast Level Martial Artist who left the techniques on the stone pillar had fallen there.

The Martial Artist who set up the Stone Forest array clearly did not want anyone approaching the central area. Inside the array, a Mini Confusion Array was also set up.

If a Martial Artist who did not understand formations approached the center of the Stone Forest, they would feel dizzy and lose their direction, wandering in circles and ending up back where they started.

This Mini Confusion Array seemed merely like a decoration in Fang Bai’s eyes, having no effect whatsoever. He walked slowly, bypassing the stout stone pillars, and soon arrived at the central area of the Stone Forest.

As Fang Bai had predicted, at the center of the forest was a circular space about ten feet in diameter, upon which was built a Cultivation Platform about three feet high.

Around the Cultivation Platform, thousands of Essence Stones were piled into a Mini Gathering Array, designed to gather the Essence Energy from Heaven and Earth, thus making this small platform the place with the richest Essence Energy in the entire Stone Array.

On the Cultivation Platform, an elderly man dressed in hemp sat cross-legged.

Though the vitality of this elderly man in hemp had long ceased, because he was situated on the Cultivation Platform, bathed in ample Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, his facial features still looked vivid, as though he had not died but had simply entered a state of forgetful Cultivation.

Fang Bai walked up to the Cultivation Platform, eyed the man in hemp for a moment, then examined the Mini Gathering Array and roughly estimated that the man in hemp had died about a hundred years ago.

Over these one hundred years, disciples from the Bitao Martial Academy entered the mountain annually for practice, yet none had managed to reach the center of the Stone Forest, hence no one had discovered the demise of the man in hemp.

Otherwise, the thousands of Essence Stones piled around the Cultivation Platform would have been divided up by those practicing disciples, and even the body of the man in hemp might have been destroyed.

Currently in dire need of Cultivation Resources, Fang Bai would not let go of even the limited number of Essence Stones.

However, Fang Bai did not take away all the Essence Stones; instead, he took most of them and used the small portion left to re-establish a Mini Gathering Array, to prevent the body of the man in hemp from decaying too quickly.