Chapter 378

All the way down the Heavenly Pivot Peak, the way all the disciples looked at Xu Yang was different, all carrying awe and flattery. Some even took the initiative to step aside and make way when they saw him appear.

When he returned to the Heavenly Pivot Peak, it was already evening. After eating, Xu Yang entered the quiet room to cultivate, and the night passed quickly.

"Knock, knock..."

"Is Junior Brother Xu there?"

Gao Lin's voice came from outside, and Xu Yang walked quickly to open the door.

"Master has summoned you; go to the main hall," Gao Lin said concisely.

Xu Yang cupped his hands: "Sorry to trouble you, Senior Brother Gao."

Gao Lin smiled and shook his head, leaving quickly.

Xu Yang changed out of his training clothes, put on formal attire, and before long arrived at Elder Huoyun's main hall.

"Disciple Xu Yang, requests an audience with Master!" He cupped his hands outside the hall.

"Come in." Elder Huoyun's gentle voice rang out in the hall.

Xu Yang remembered the first time he saw Elder Huoyun, he only felt that Elder Huoyun was unspeakably majestic, but now he had actually become amiable.

"Yes!"

Adjusting his clothes, Xu Yang stepped into the main hall.

It was still the familiar layout and sandalwood scent. Elder Huoyun sat on the gilded chair, his face full of smiles.

"Disciple pays respects to Master!" Xu Yang stepped forward and cupped his hands.

Elder Huoyun nodded and laughed: "You are very good, gaining great face for your master. Yesterday you turned the tide and preserved the reputation of my Purple Sun Gate."

"This is the disciple's duty; I dare not take credit," Xu Yang said solemnly.

Elder Huoyun's mouth twitched. What duty? If it weren't for that Lin Jingyu specifically naming him to spar yesterday, Xu Yang wouldn't have stood out even if the Purple Sun Gate had been overturned.

He was clearly forced onto the stage, yet now he was talking about duty.

"You defeated Lin Jingyu yesterday; the Sect Master has already sent word to reward you with five hundred contribution points. You can go to the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall to collect them later," Elder Huoyun said.

"Disciple thanks Master, thanks Sect Master." Xu Yang was happy, not expecting such benefits from defeating Lin Jingyu.

Elder Huoyun waved his hand: "In yesterday's battle, I observed that you lack superior martial arts. I originally intended to pass on my Departing Fire Peak's Extreme Prison Heaven-Slicing Art, but the Sect Master disagreed, asking me to pass on the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy.

I have thought about it, and I will let you decide for yourself."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yang's face lit up with joy.

He hadn't heard of the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy, but he had heard of the Extreme Prison Heaven-Slicing Art. Among the many sword techniques of the Purple Sun Gate, this Extreme Prison Heaven-Slicing Art could be ranked in the top three.

Fighting Lin Jingyu yesterday, he had used the Mountain-Bearing Bear King Palm over and over again; it seemed it had had an effect.

For a genius like him to only have one Mountain-Bearing Bear King Palm, he was embarrassed to say it, and the Purple Sun Gate was embarrassed to let others know.

"Can't I learn both martial arts?" Xu Yang said.

He wasn't a child; naturally, he wanted all the good things.

Elder Huoyun's face sank: "Greed leads to poor digestion. Passing on both the Extreme Prison Heaven-Slicing Art and the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy to you at the same time is not a good thing. In the vast Purple Sun Gate, there are hundreds of inner sect disciples; how many have you seen who know both?"

Others can't, but I can!

However, Xu Yang knew that with these old guys, you couldn't go against them; no matter what they said, they were always right.

"Master's lesson is correct, but the disciple only knows the Extreme Prison Heaven-Slicing Art and has never heard of the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy. Please, Master, enlighten me so the disciple can consider it," Xu Yang cupped his hands and said.

"The Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy is a top-tier attack secret technique, and in terms of rarity, it is even above the Extreme Prison Heaven-Slicing Art. It's just that my Purple Sun Gate only has part of the mental formula for the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy, and it is not complete.

In the future, if you want to complete the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy, you will need to find the complete version yourself at the Heavenly Strategy Academy," Elder Huoyun said.

So it was an incomplete technique; no wonder Elder Huoyun wanted him to choose.

One was a complete technique, but the grade was a bit worse.

The other was powerful, but incomplete.

"Disciple chooses the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy!" After a moment of thought, Xu Yang made his choice.

He had already cultivated the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture, so cultivating the Extreme Prison Heaven-Slicing Art would just be icing on the cake, adding one more stronger blade technique.

The Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy, however, was an attack secret technique he had never had before. If he had to choose, naturally he would choose what he didn't have.

Elder Huoyun nodded with a smile, reached out to pick up a book from the table in front of him, and threw it to Xu Yang.

"Catch!"

Xu Yang reached out and caught it, seeing that on the cover of the book, eight powerful exotic beasts from the ancient, wild times were drawn.

Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy!

"Disciple thanks Master for bestowing the technique." Xu Yang cupped his hands.

Elder Huoyun nodded: "This technique is profound and peerless. You can contemplate it slowly. As long as you have some achievement before the Dragon-Ascending, it can increase your chances of winning the Dragon-Ascending by thirty or forty percent."

Xu Yang was moved!

There were still two years until the second Dragon-Ascending. According to Elder Huoyun's meaning, if he could make some name for himself in the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy within two years, that would be very impressive.

This kind of technique should be very difficult to cultivate.

Because until now, he had only seen similar secret techniques on Jiang Fan; no one else had displayed them, including Li Chuyang and Qi Xuancheng, who hadn't displayed any secret techniques similar to the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy.

Xu Yang estimated it wasn't that these people didn't have such secret techniques, but that they had cultivated them but lacked the comprehension, and hadn't been able to master the basics of the secret technique yet.

"Disciple will strictly follow Master's teachings!" Xu Yang put away the secret manual.

Elder Huoyun sipped his tea and said: "Regarding your temperament, I am at ease. One last point: if you enter or leave the Purple Sun Gate recently, you must not be careless."

Xu Yang's gaze tightened. Were Song Yushao and Liu Qingyuan going to make a move on him?

"Please, Master, enlighten me."

He quickly realized it shouldn't have anything to do with Song Yushao and Liu Qingyuan. With the talent he had displayed, these two might indeed want to kill him, but they would definitely not dare to show it openly.

"Yesterday, the Yellow Maple Valley Master brought a piece of news: the Formless Demon Art is suspected to have appeared in the territory under the Yellow Maple Valley's jurisdiction," Elder Huoyun said with a grave expression.

Xu Yang frowned, his face showing confusion: "Formless Demon Art?"

If the Formless Demon Art appeared, why did he need to be careful? He wouldn't go to fight for a demon art.

Seeing this, Elder Huoyun knew Xu Yang didn't know about the Formless Demon Art and immediately explained: "The Formless Demon Art is a top-tier demonic art of the demonic path. It is said that it can change into thousands of forms, imitating anyone's aura, techniques, energy, etc., and can also absorb a martial artist's energy and essence. It is domineering and vicious.

Every time this art appears, it stirs up a storm of blood, especially among young geniuses, who always die the most, because the essence of young geniuses is the most vigorous, and the benefits after refining it are the greatest.

So, whenever a demon who cultivates the Formless Demon Art appears, geniuses like you must be careful."

Xu Yang felt a chill in his heart. This was the true demonic art. At the same time, he also noticed some loopholes in Elder Huoyun's words.

Although Elder Huoyun described the Formless Demon Art a lot, he kept using the word "it is said," which meant that what Elder Huoyun said was likely hearsay.

Setting aside the identity of the demon art, the Formless Demon Art really made him somewhat tempted. It could change into thousands of forms, imitate anyone's aura, techniques, and energy, and could also absorb people's essence and energy to increase cultivation.

Strictly speaking, Xu Yang didn't hate this kind of technique; what he hated was slaughtering the innocent.

"Master, rest assured, the disciple will not leave the sect without reason." Xu Yang cupped his hands and didn't continue thinking about it.

The Formless Demon Art was only suspected to have appeared, and he didn't know if it was true or false. Even if it were true, he probably wouldn't have the chance to obtain such a demonic art.

Elder Huoyun waved his hand: "Go down, do not be slack in your cultivation."

Xu Yang nodded, turned, and left Elder Huoyun's main hall, quickly returning to his courtyard.

Closing the quiet room, he took out the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy and began to read and contemplate. After only a little while, he felt the technique was obscure and difficult to understand, very profound. Even with his perfect comprehension, he felt a bit at a loss.

"The Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy is not a martial art, but a secret technique to increase combat power. Mastering the basics of the technique can slightly increase combat power; at minor completion, it can increase combat power by one fold; at major completion, it increases it by two folds; and at perfection, it can increase it by four folds!"

Xu Yang was moved.

If his current combat power were increased by four folds, he would dare to clash a few rounds with a Heavenly Origin expert. It was worthy of being a secret technique more precious than the Extreme Prison Heaven-Slicing Art.

He continued reading, only to feel that the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy was very broad and profound. Mastering the basics at the Marrow Cleansing stage was already very difficult, let alone major completion or perfection. Under normal circumstances, only Heavenly Origin experts could master the basics of this secret technique.

Zhang Jingyuan asking Elder Huoyun to pass the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy to him was to prepare him for breaking through to the Heavenly Origin stage in the future, allowing him to contemplate it in advance.

Many things required sensing the nature of heaven and earth to work. Fortunately, he had already begun to sense the nature of heaven and earth.

"The Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy requires sensing the eight ancient fierce beasts to truly reach perfection. The part I have only reaches the major completion stage; the perfection part is collected at the Heavenly Strategy Academy."

Once finished, a faint light flickered before his eyes.

[Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy · Not Mastered (0/1000)]

Heavenly Strategy Academy!

Now Xu Yang was no longer a novice in cultivation and knew many secrets of the martial arts world. It was said that the heritage of the Purple Sun Gate originated from the Heavenly Strategy Academy.

The founder of the Purple Sun Gate was a student of the Heavenly Strategy Academy.

In the following days, in addition to his cultivation, Xu Yang had one more thing to do: contemplate the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy.

Although the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy was broad and profound, with his perfect comprehension, he gained something every day. After spending nearly a month, he finally mastered the basics of the Eight Fiends Dragon-Subduing Energy.