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The nine forms of the Divine Stele were an absolute art of the Ancient Stele Clan and could only be imparted to disciples. Even if Zhou Qing was a guest elder in name, he still wasn't qualified.

However, Zhou Qing's weapon was a monolith, and he had also contributed greatly to the ancient monolith gate. Thus, Su Mu had considered breaking the rules and passed down the《 Nine Styles of the Mystical Tablet》 to Zhou Qing as a reward.

Cai Yuanhu and the others shook their heads.

The ultimate art of the sect was undoubtedly important, but the fact that the ancient monolith gate was as glorious as it was today was all thanks to Zhou Qing. In consideration of reason, it wasn't excessive for him to impart the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》 to him.

Zhou Qing was also very happy when he heard this.

He had seen Su Mu use the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》 at the Ranking Tournament.

The power of the ninth form, "Star Fragment", was incomparably strong. It had definitely reached the level of a top-grade magic technique.

A single tablet could tear apart space!

If he could learn the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》, coupled with the broken monolith, then his combat strength would definitely rise to another level!

After obtaining everyone's opinion, Su Mu did not waste any time. With a slight intention of his will, a jade slip emitting a faint golden light appeared in his palm.

"This is the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》. Take it as the reward for this year's Ranking Tournament, and pass it down to little friend Song!"

Su Mu smiled and the pale golden jade slip flew towards Zhou Qing.

After a moment of thought, he continued, "In addition, after the Lan family has handed over their properties to the Ancient Tablet Sect, they will grant you the jurisdiction of a small city. How about that?"

Zhou Qing received the jade slip and his eyes lit up when he heard this.

There were a thousand cities in the Profound Heaven Continent. In addition to the nine major cities, there were also five hundred major cities like White Ridge City. The remaining cities were all small cities.

The managers of the major cities were the Mysterious Sky Sect and the Thousand An Merchant Guild. As for the smaller cities, these two giant monsters didn't even catch the eye and were under the direct control of the hundreds of immortal sects.

The Lan family alone had more than sixty small cities under their jurisdiction. After the ranking competition this time, they would have to split them into thirty ancient monument sects.

Now that Su Mu had given Zhou Qing the authority to rule one of them, it was no small feat!

Although small cities could not be compared with large cities and major cities, all kinds of industries were available.

The benefits obtained by governing a small city were of great value to a sect.

Up until now, Zhou Qing had obtained all of his cultivation resources by fighting for them. It was not easy to obtain these resources.

However, if he could obtain the authority of a small city, then at least before he broke through to the Mortal Realm, he would no longer have to worry about resources!

"Then I shall accept your request. Thank you, Sect Leader Su!"

With that thought in mind, Zhou Qing smiled and cupped his hands in acknowledgement.

Seeing that he agreed, Su Mu's face also lit up.

Su Mu was well aware of what it meant for a cultivator to rule a small city.

However, this was also an investment!

Since Zhou Qing wasn't willing to join the sect, then he would invest in him!

If such a genius were to succeed in the future, then all the investments made today would receive a hundred times the returns.

Su Mu waved his hand. As his Fa Li surged out, a screen of light was formed in front of him. On the screen of light, there was a map of the Mysterious Sky Continent.

This map was extremely detailed, to the point that the names of every single city were marked.

On the map, the names of 60 small cities were glowing faintly. Obviously, these small cities were the loot from this trip.

"Little friend Song, you can choose which one you want!"

Su Mu smiled.

Zhou Qing nodded slightly and looked at the map. After a moment, he suddenly had a thought.

"Clan Master Su, is Spirit Head City okay?"

Su Mu was startled when he heard this. However, his eyebrows slowly knitted together.

"It's not impossible. "But this city is extremely close to where the main residence of the Lan family is located …"

"It's fine."

Zhou Qing broke into a smile. "The Lan family is nothing to worry about!"

Su Mu knew that Su Hao must have his own reasons for his insistence. Thus, he didn't try to dissuade him and nodded in agreement.

Then, he thought of something and said seriously, "Little friend Song, if the Lan Family causes trouble for you, inform me. The Ancient Tablet Sect will do everything in their power to protect you!"

Zhou Qing's heart warmed. He hurriedly expressed his thanks, "Thank you, Sect Leader Su!"

After exiting the Procedural Hall, Zhou Qing headed straight for his own courtyard.

The Ancient Tablet Gate held a grand banquet to celebrate. Su Mu initially wanted to invite Zhou Qing to join them, but after considering how tired he had been recently and needing to rest, he didn't urge him to stay.

After returning to his room, Zhou Qing waved his hand and the hundred storage rings he had obtained from the spatial realm appeared on the table, piled up like a small mountain.

Looking at the storage rings, Zhou Qing was in an excellent mood.

During this trip to the ranking tournament, his gains could be said to be enormous.

After two hours, Zhou Qing finally finished counting all the spoils.

In this pile of storage rings, just the gold and silver alone had brought in 1.2 million gold to Zhou Qing!

In addition, there were more than 5000 Soul Concentrating Pills, nearly 500 of all kinds of healing pills, and even more so for extremely precious pills like the Body Nourishing Pill.

Amongst the personal belongings of these heaven's pride level cultivators, there were only a few spiritual herbs and pills. Although most of them were quite precious, they were not priceless treasures like the True Blood Lotus or the Thousand Spirit Buddha Lotus.

Finally, there were the martial arts techniques of the various immortal sects.

Zhou Qing directly ignored the low and middle grade martial arts. His goals were high grade and top-grade. It would be great if he could find a few ultimate skills like the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》.

However, the sect's absolute arts were of great importance to the sect. If there were no special circumstances, these Chosen would not have brought them with them.

After a round of screening, Zhou Qing finally acquired ten high-grade martial arts, two top-grade martial arts.

With such a large harvest, the space within the Fate Stone simply couldn't fit inside. Zhou Qing simply picked two of the larger rings from a large pile of storage rings and placed them all in, filling them to the brim.

After counting the spoils of his battle, Zhou Qing muttered to himself for a moment. Two jade slips the size of a palm appeared in his palm.

The cyan jade slip was obtained from the Sumeru world and recorded down a top-grade magic of the Mysterious Sky Sect.

The faint golden jade slip was gifted by Su Mu just now, and recorded the Ancient Tablet Sect's ultimate technique, the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》.

Looking at the two jade slips, Zhou Qing's eyes couldn't help but burn.

If he could control all of the things recorded in the two jade slips, his battle strength would rise again!

With a thought, the Golden Soul Pill in his mind began to revolve slowly. Zhou Qing released his Spiritual Sense and slowly submerged it into the green jade slip.

In the next moment, a large amount of information flooded his mind.

Closing his eyes, Zhou Qing began to digest the information.

Exquisite grade magic techniques were profound and profound. Zhou Qing had to spend nearly two hours before he was able to finish digesting them.

The moment he opened his eyes, the corners of Zhou Qing's mouth curled up and a happy expression emerged on his face.

This top-grade magic art called "Soaring Dragon Heaven Palm" was very strong!

The Soaring Dragon Heaven Palm was divided into five stages.

When he used it, the shadow of the True Dragon spiraled with a weak dragon's aura. It had a natural suppressive effect on demons and demons, and its might was tyrannical.

If he could cultivate to the fifth level, a single palm would cause five dragons to rise, mountains to split, and seas to churn!

Also, according to the records in the jade slip, if one could consume the blood essence of a True Dragon and let their blood carry the might of a dragon, the power of this spell could be multiplied by several times!

Seeing this record, Zhou Qing couldn't help but be taken aback.

True dragon blood essence?

Let alone the fact that a True Dragon was a legendary God Beast, one might not even know if it existed. Even if one could obtain the blood essence of a True Dragon, would they dare to swallow it?

Ordinary fiendish demons' blood essence contained a vast amount of life essence.

Back when Zhou Qing had used the demonic blood essence to temper his special meridians, he still remembered the heart-wrenching pain.

If ordinary demonic blood essence was this terrifying, then how terrifying would a True Dragon blood essence be?

If consumed, it might cause his body to explode!

At this point, Zhou Qing's heart palpitated, not daring to think any further.

After pondering for a moment, Zhou Qing walked into the courtyard and started circulating his spiritual power along the lines recorded in the jade slip.

Even though top-grade techniques required one to reach the Spirit Realm in order to display their true power, they could still be used as a top-grade martial art.

In the next moment, Zhou Qing gave a low shout as he struck out with his palm!

"Roar!"

A deep dragon roar sounded out, and a one meter wide golden palm shadow instantly condensed in front of him.

On the thumb of the golden palm, there was a shadow of a True Dragon hovering, faintly discernible!

As the True Dragon phantom appeared, even Zhou Qing himself could feel a powerful pressure pressing down on him!

Zhou Qing pushed out his palm, and the giant golden palm slammed down on the fake mountain in front of him with a loud bang, producing a series of sonic booms.

Boom.

In that instant, the fake mountain shattered into fine powder!

Such a terrifying destructive power caused Zhou Qing's brow to twitch, and the joy on his face grew even stronger.

Just now, he was only testing it out randomly and didn't use much spirit energy. Its power was already this strong.

When facing an enemy, if he were to use his full strength, the power would definitely increase several times over!

Moreover, this was only one dragon soaring through the sky.

After that, how strong would the Second, Third, and even Fifth Dragon Soars be?

The top-grade magic technique was so terrifying!

After completely imprinting the cultivation method of the 'Soaring Dragon Heaven Palm' into his mind, the green jade chip also dimmed completely. Soon, it began to crack and finally shattered into fine powder.

With a shake of his hand, Zhou Qing took out the faint golden colored jade slip that contained the《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》 and immersed his Spiritual Sense into it before starting to comprehend it.

This time, Zhou Qing took six hours. When he opened his eyes again, the sky was already dark.

The nine forms of the Profound Tablet was created by the founder of the Ancient Tablet Sect, Cang Yunhe. It had a total of nine forms.

Heavy Xuan, Heavy Xuan, Rumbling Heaven, Wave Breaking, Mountain Splitting, Sea Immersion, Earth Splitting, Heaven Shaking, and Star Fragmentation!

That day in the arena, Su Mu had used the ninth move, Broken Stars, to tear through space and smash apart the Navy Tide Sword Formation. With his initial strength of four cycles of the Golden Body, he had severely injured Lan Yuan, an expert with a 5-cycle Golden Body!

The terrifying power of this inscription technique could be clearly seen!

The joy in his eyes could not be concealed. Zhou Qing rotated his hand, and a huge broken monument appeared in a flash.

Putting the monument on his shoulder, he headed straight for the martial arena.

Standing silently on the training field, Zhou Qing closed his eyes and pondered for a moment. Suddenly, he opened his eyes, held the monolith with one hand, and brazenly threw it.

The moment the tablet was thrown out, a black light flickered around his body. It was even heavier than before, as if a small mountain was smashing down on him!

Dong!

A deep, muffled sound could be heard as the Destruction Monument sunk into the ground, directly smashing a hole half the height of a human into the ground!

Ka-cha.

The sound of something shattering continuously rang out. Dozens of cracks rapidly spread out in all directions with the Law Breaking Monument as the center point. It only stopped after it had extended ten meters out into the distance.

Looking at the cracks on the ground, Zhou Qing gave a low shout as he channeled the spiritual energy in his body and poured it into the Destruction Monument.

A black light lit up on the Destruction Monument, and the body of the Monument trembled.

Boom!

The cracks that had already spread out instantly shattered like a mirror that had fallen to the ground.

The ground collapsed with a loud rumble, and instantly, smoke and dust rose in all directions.

Zhou Qing pushed off the ground with the tip of his feet, jumped up with the broken monolith in his hand, and landed steadily on the ground.

Staring at the one meter wide hole, half a person deep, a look of shock also appeared in Zhou Qing's eyes. He couldn't help but smack his lips.

The《 Nine Styles of the Profound Tablet》, was far more tyrannical than he could imagine!