Chapter 725: Latter Half of the Dragon-Shaking Classic

Yan Buji arrived in the Heavenly Spirit Realm, inquired about Yang Sui's shop, and went over intending to see what sort of person he was.

Upon arrival, Yan Buji saw the shop filled with all kinds of strange ores, some he recognized, others he had never heard of.

Sir, do you have any particular ore you're looking for?

May I ask who you are?

I am the owner of this shop, Yang Sui. Yang Sui said with a smile.

Yang Sui looked much older than Yan Buji had imagined, though he appeared only slightly younger than himself; his true age was hard to tell.

Observing the fluctuations of his spiritual power, it was vast as a sea of smoke, far surpassing his own. Yan Buji clasped his hands and said, "I am Hall Master Yan Buji of the Lian Dan Tang of the Great Sinful Sect; I pay my respects, Senior."

"Great Sinful Sect?" Upon hearing that, Yang Sui showed no disgust; instead his eyes lit up and he asked, "Does your sect possess any strange ores from the Youming Jie?"

"There are some..." Yan Buji smiled, "but I came this time to ask for your advice. I've heard you have profound research on ores; do you know about Vajra Ore?"

"Of course I do." Saying that, Yang Sui led Yan Buji to a piece of ore on the shelf; this ore looked much like ordinary mined gold, with some golden powder on its surface, but overall it was dull gray and had some pits.

"Look, this is Vajra Ore as mined. This metallic ore is extremely hard; ordinary mining methods struggle to extract it. Moreover, Vajra Ore usually extends vertically rather than horizontally, so to mine it one must dig deeper and deeper; it's hard to say that after reaching a certain depth in zhang it can be easily extracted."

Yan Buji listened attentively and nodded: "I see, that's how it is."

"Therefore, mining Vajra Ore underground via shafts requires a large amount of explosives as assistance. Seeing Hall Master Yan here, could it be that the Great Sinful Sect has found a Vajra Ore vein?"

"Not bad."

Yan Buji nodded: "I have come to ask, Senior, whether you could formulate a suitable explosive for our sect to mine Vajra Ore."

Yang Sui thought: "No problem, though I don't want spiritual stones; if you can give me enough Youming Jie ores, I can make them for you."

"No problem!"

Yan Buji readily agreed; not mentioning the sect, he recalled having picked up many Youming Jie ore spiritual materials during his travels in the Youming Jie, and took out a portion to trade with Yang Sui.

Yang Sui was delighted, immediately embracing those Youming Jie ores and began researching them.

Yan Buji did not understand and asked: "Senior, why are you so enthusiastic about these ore spiritual materials?"

"Haha, it's also just my personal hobby. Besides that, my own cultivation art is earth-attributed; studying these ores is also greatly beneficial to me."

Earth-attributed cultivation art?

Yan Buji recalled that he also knew an earth-attributed art, the Dragon-Shaking Classic; back during his Lianqi Phase he had considered breaking through to Foundation Establishment using the theory of the Three Powers of Heaven, Earth, and Man, but it came to nothing.

Yan Buji asked: "Senior, do you know the Dragon-Shaking Classic?"

"Dragon-Shaking Classic!" Yang Sui's pupils contracted: "How do you know this art?"

"Back when I wandered the Nan Ting Mountain Region, I happened to see this art."

Yang Sui sized up Yan Buji and asked: "Hall Master Yan, have you studied the Dragon-Shaking Classic?"

"Indeed." Yan Buji had nothing to hide; although his spiritual power now carried barely any earth attribute, that was because he had completed the Dragon-Shaking Classic but had not studied it deeply, nor was it his primary art, so he had not paid it much heed.

Yang Sui took a deep breath: "Hall Master Yan, would you be willing to show me what you have learned of the Dragon-Shaking Classic?"

"Why?" Yan Buji looked at Yang Sui, puzzled.

"Just look." Yang Sui extended his hand; his spiritual power surged mighty and turbulent, yet it was deeply turbid, with a chilling killer aura.

Yan Buji stared, then glanced at Yang Sui's cheek.

He had thought the age spots on his face were traces of time, but it seemed not so; rather, it looked as if his flesh had been eroded by killer aura.

Practicing an earth-attributed art easily causes killer aura to erode the flesh, forcing one to turn to turbid cultivation.

Yan Buji observed carefully and found that the nature of his spiritual power was extremely similar to that of the Dragon-Shaking Classic he had studied!

Then he heard Yang Sui chant: "Mount Sumeru is the bone of heaven and earth, centrally stabilizing heaven and earth as a mighty object...."

"Like a person's spine and back, giving rise to four limbs and a dragon's abrupt protrusion!" Yan Buji continued.

Yang Sui laughed: "Sure enough, you have obtained the upper half of the Dragon-Shaking Classic!"

"Then Senior, you cultivate the lower half of the Dragon-Shaking Classic?" Yan Buji exclaimed in surprise.

Yang Sui nodded: "Not bad; when I first stepped onto the path of cultivation, I happened to obtain the lower half of the Dragon-Shaking Classic, which allowed me to enter the cultivation world. But lacking the guidance of the upper half, even though I can cultivate to this day, my body is filled with irremovable killer and turbid aura, and the originally pure doctrine has been practiced by me into deep turbidity."

Afterward, Yang Sui looked at Yan Buji: "Hall Master Yan, I am deeply troubled by this art's deficiency; would you be willing to trade with me? Let us exchange the upper and lower portions of the art; that would be mutually beneficial."

Yan Buji did not refuse either, nodding: "All right."

"Excellent!" Yang Sui laughed, somewhat excitedly.

Although Yang Sui's current path may not be exactly that of the half‑scripture he originally obtained, after long years of cultivation it has surely changed, yet the foundation of his art remains based on the Dragon-Shaking Classic.

Although Yan Buji obtaining the complete Dragon-Shaking Classic would be of little use to him, he could still study it.

As Yang Sui said, it is a win‑win.

"Then Hall Master Yan, please wait a moment; I will go inside to prepare some explosives for you!" Yang Sui laughed.

"Thank you for the trouble, Senior."

Yan Buji sat down, his divine sense sweeping over the jade slip, studying the latter half of the Dragon-Shaking Classic.

Back when he was in the Nan Ting Mountain Region, Yan Buji practiced the Dragon-Shaking Classic to break through by uniting the Three Powers; although he later did not follow that path, he still used its method to condense an Earth Origin Golden Core.

To this day, Yan Buji has not conducted any deep study of the Dragon-Shaking Classic, but upon seeing its latter half he was suddenly shocked!

"This Dragon-Shaking Classic is actually a Unity Stage art!"

The latter half of the Dragon-Shaking Classic given by Yang Sui details all cultivation methods after Golden Core, as well as various complementary art selection paths.

Such detailed information is like the inheritance of a major sect.

"Technique of Drawing in the Fiend, Heavenly Fiend Armor?!" Yan Buji's eyes lit up.

This Heavenly Fiend Armor is an upgraded version of the Murderous Qi Armor that Yan Buji has learned; likewise, it is a secret art that only Nascent Soul cultivators can practice.

Although there is no need to further cultivate the Dragon-Shaking Classic, the secret arts contained herein are truly useful!

Yan Buji researched for a while, after which Yang Sui emerged from the room and handed him the explosive specially prepared for blasting Vajra Ore.