663 Desolate Demon Eye

The black coloured stone tablet quietly stood within the light and it lookedjust like a fearsome ancient beast. A wave of shocking evil aura was faintlyemitted by it before it rippled across the air and causing one to feelpressured.

These four stone tablets were extremely tall and large, and they were evenlarger than the other stone tablets that Lin Dong saw in the Martial Arts Hallpreviously. Moreover, the fluctuation that the stone tablets possessed wassomething that those stone tablets did not have…

“Each of these four stone tablets contains an extremely powerful martial art.From a certain point of view, they can be considered as the strongest martialarts other than the Great Desolated Scripture.” The blind old man placed hishands behind his back. His grayish-white eyes looked towards the four stonetablets as he spoke faintly.

“Ordinary disciples will not get to learn these four martial arts. Currently,only the four senior direct disciples in Desolate Hall have learnt the martialart on the first stone tablet. As for the remaining three, no one hassuccessfully mastered them yet.”

Lin Dong’s face changed a little. The Desolate Hall was brimming with talentedgeniuses. It was unexpected that only four people had learnt one of these fourmartial arts.

“Is there any ranking amongst these four martial arts?” Lin Dong suddenlyasked.

“If one must really rank them, the martial arts on the first stone tablet isindeed a little easier to learn. The second is a little trickier. As for thethird and fourth, it would not be overboard to say that they are the strongest.”

“Back then, Zhou Tong mastered the martial art on the third stone tablet. Asfor the fourth… he did not successfully master it the first time he was here.”The blind old man slowly said.

“Oh?”

Lin Dong was slightly moved. The martial art on the fourth stone tablet wasactually this abnormally difficult? Even that senior Zhou Tong failed to masterit?

“It is not because his talent is lacking. Rather, the martial art on thefourth stone tablet has some peculiar requirements.”

The blind old man paused when he spoke until this point. As he briefly glancedat Lin Dong, he finally continued “This martial art requires someone who isgood at both Yuan Power and Mental Energy.”

Lin Dong heart suddenly jumped. Was… was this directed at him?

“You can observe first before you decide on the stone tablet martial arts thatyou wish to learn.” The blind old man waved his hand and spoke in anindifferent manner.

“Understood.”

Lin Dong hurriedly replied in a respectful manner upon hearing this. Afterwhich, he swiftly stepped forward. His eyes swept across the first stonetablet. The stone tablet’s body was as black as a piece of metal. Four ancientwords that were seemingly carved by a dremel appeared on the tablet in aglaring fashion.

“Great Star Majestic Fist.”

Lin Dong’s eyes stared at those ancient words. He could sense a majestic wildand violent sensation pouncing from those words. It was likely that thismartial art was best suited for a direct brute force practitioner.

“Is this the martial arts that Jiang Hao and the rest learnt…” Lin Dong’s eyesflickered slightly. He mused for a moment before taking another step and walkedtowards the second stone tablet.

The second stone tablet had a dark black longsword carved onto it. Black foglingered on the longsword. There was a dark and cold aura seeping from it andeven Lin Dong felt his skin turn chilly.

Great Dark Erosion Sword

These simple four words were permeated with a chilling aura. This martial artwas different from the Great Star Majestic Fist, which relied on might andbrute force. However, that dark and cold feeling felt just like having maggotsin one’s bones, causing one to be unable to dodge them.

Lin Dong stood in front of this stone tablet and mused for a moment. Finally,he shook his head. This martial arts was far too dark and cold and it wasunsuitable for him. Immediately, he ceased hesitating, turned around and walkedtowards the third stone tablet.

The third stone tablet appeared a lot more ordinary than the first two. It wasalso dark greyish in colour. There was a human figure seated on the tablet.However, that person’s body looked shrivelled and dry. At a glance, it appearedas though it was a shrivelled land. However, it was vaguely possible to feel ashocking energy being emitted from within his carcass..

Lin Dong’s eyes stared at the human figure. After which, his eyes were liftedslightly. He saw three ancient words on the human figure drawing.

Great Desolate Body

That name was ordinary without any fancy aspect to it. However, it possessed amajestic aura.

“This is the martial art that senior Zhou Tong chose huh…”

Lin Dong curled his mouth while his brows also frowned a little. GreatDesolate Body should be a martial art that strengthened one’s body. For LinDong, there was a clear conflict since he had already cultivated in the GreenHeaven Materialized Dragon Skill. Currently, he had already spent quite a lotof effort on learning the Green Heaven Materialized Dragon Skill. If he was todivert his attention and practice another body tempering martial arts, he mightend up failing at both instead.

Based on what that blind old man previously said, Lin Dong knew that the GreatDesolate Body was one of the best amongst the four martial arts. Only thefourth martial art, which Lin Dong had yet to see, could be compared with it.From this, one could tell just how powerful this martial art was. However, LinDong already had the Green Heaven Materialized Dragon Skill…

Lin Dong hesitated in front of the stone tablet for a long while. Finally, heshook his head and decisively turned away. The Great Desolate Body might bepowerful, but if given a choice, Lin Dong would choose the Green HeavenMaterialized Dragon Skill, which he was more familiar with..,

At a short distance away, the blind old man’s wrinkled face twitched when hesaw this scene. Immediately, his greyish-white eyes stared intently at LinDong’s footsteps.

Flop.

Lin Dong’s legs paused in front of the final stone tablet. He inhaled a deepbreath of air before raising his head and looking at the stone tablet in frontof him.

There were no words on the stone tablet. However, there was a large black eyeon the dark black tablet’s surface.

Lin Dong was startled when he saw that black coloured eye. At this moment, thelatter also appeared to be staring at him. This sensation caused all the hairon Lin Dong’s body to involuntarily stand.

This martial art is a little creepy…

Although Lin Dong felt creeped out, he still forcefully stared back at thatblack coloured eye. The atmosphere quietened down instantly. After thisface-off lasted for a couple of minutes, Lin Dong suddenly discovered that theblack eye on the stone tablet had actually blinked.

This discovery directly caused the skin on Lin Dong’s face to turn numb.However, before he could do anything, a slight black light shot out from thatblack eye. The light entered Lin Dong’s opened eyes.

This sudden action startled Lin Dong. Immediately, the Yuan Power within hisbody began to swirl as a reflex action. However, he immediately discovered thatthe black light did not cause him any harm. Instead, some information flowedthrough his mind.

There was a unique beast in ancient times called Huang and it had one eye.Whenever it opened its eye, everything within thousands of kilometres wouldturn into waste. As time passed, it will erode one’s vitality…

Wave after wave of ancient information swiftly flashed across Lin Dong’s mind.This also allowed him to have a better understanding of this martial art.

Based on the information that he obtained, the martial art on this stonetablet was called the “Desolate Demon Eye”. This martial art was seeminglyderived from the unique ancient beast called “Huang”. Although Lin Dong wasunaware if the complete mastery of this martial art would enable him to reachthe terrifying stage of turning everything within thousands of kilometres intowasteland, it was still possible to see just how powerful this martial art was …

Those previous messages did not contain any information regarding itscultivation methods. Clearly, this martial art was very demanding on itspractitioners.

Lin Dong’s footsteps paused in front of the stone tablet. He raised his eyesand stared intently at the black coloured eye in front of him. His eyesflickered. Clearly, there was quite a huge struggle going on in his heart.

The “Desolate Demon Eye” was quite sinister and even Lin Dong did not possessthe confidence that he could successfully master it. If he was unable to learnit, he would have wasted a great amount of time for nothing…

The blind old man remained quiet as he looked at Lin Dong, who had fell intosilence. He did not know which martial art Lin Dong would choose…

This quiet and tense atmosphere continued for half an hour. After which, theblind old man saw Lin Dong take a step back.

“He has given up huh…”

The blind old man’s greyish-white eyes lowered slightly upon seeing this. Hefelt a little disappointed for some unknown reason. His shrivelled hand gentlyrubbed his eyes.

Pa.

The sudden sound of someone sitting down rang out just as the blind old manfelt a little disappointed. He raised his eyes. After which, he was surprisedto see that Lin Dong had already sat down in front of a stone tablet.

“Elder, I shall choose this martial art.”

Lin Dong’s voice was also transmitted over at this moment. It landed into theears of the blind old man.

The blind old man was quiet for a moment upon hearing this. Suddenly, hisvoice became hoarse as he said, “There is a risk in learning this martial art.If anything goes wrong, your eyes might end up like mine.”

Lin Dong’s heart was shaken slightly. Based on what he said, it seems likethis blind old man had also practiced the “Desolate Demon Eye” before. However,it seems like he failed…

“There is no free lunch is this world.”

Lin Dong inhaled a deep breath of air. One must pay the price for any reward.This concept was something that he understood right from the start.

After his words sounded out, Lin Dong’s eyes slowly shut, in front of thecomplicated expression of the blind old man.