Chapter 1123: One Hundred Points

Seeing that the two experts of the War Master Hall had become like this, the surrounding people all frowned and gathered around.

Creak!

The door to the passage was pushed open, and then the scene inside was revealed.

“This…”

Many war masters all shrank their necks, looking as if they had seen a ghost.

After who knows how long, Xiao Bo swallowed his saliva, and a slightly dry voice sounded: “Just now… when you came out, were you sure… the passage was restored?”

“Yes, when I left, the passage was intact, meaning it was him…”

Shi Hao smiled bitterly.

The Inner Breath Passage tested inner breath. The test content, to put it simply, was to stand in a fixed position, mobilize true essence, and use all strength to attack a stone tablet dozens of meters away.

This stone tablet was not real but formed by a formation, which greatly obstructed true qi. Without sufficiently abundant true qi, it was impossible to penetrate.

Under normal circumstances, to penetrate one, even a war master at the decurion level would need to use all their strength.

Shi Hao scored thirty-eight points, representing extremely strong true qi, penetrating nearly four stone tablets before it was exhausted.

This was already the undisputed first among those at the peak of the Saint Domain first level in the history of the Qingyuan Empire War Master Hall.

But before them…

All ten stone tablets in the room lay on the ground, the entire Inner Breath Passage shattered like a garbage dump.

“Is this deliberate destruction?”

A war master couldn’t help but say.

The Inner Breath Passage was the most important place in the Inner Breath Hall and a key basis for the War Master Hall to assess strength… destroying it like this was a bit too much!

“It’s not destruction…”

Taking a few steps forward, Xiao Bo came to the stone tablet, his pupils contracting to the size of a wheat awn: “The formation in the passage was arranged by an eight-star formation master sent by headquarters. Even if one wanted to deliberately destroy it, they couldn’t!”

This was a place to test the abundance of true qi. Any cultivator who entered and attacked with full force couldn’t destroy it… Even if they wanted to make it look like this, it would certainly be impossible!

“Then how…”

The war master who had just spoken was puzzled.

“This was… struck out with one palm!”

This time it was Shi Hao who spoke, his eyes narrowed, his expression indescribably grave.

“One palm?”

The crowd was confused.

“That is to say, the other party conducted the test according to the rules, but… the true qi in his body was too abundant. With one palm strike, the ten stone tablets were instantly pierced, and the formation couldn’t withstand such violent power… so it became like this!”

Shi Hao said.

“The formation… couldn’t withstand it?”

“Pierced all ten stone tablets at once?”

Everyone swallowed their saliva.

This was too shocking, beyond the scope of imagination.

“Shi Hao is right. You are all experts. Looking at the cross-sections of these stone tablets, you should be able to see something!”

Xiao Bo nodded and pointed forward.

Everyone looked at the cross-sections of the stone tablets. With just one glance, their pupils suddenly contracted.

They saw that at the broken point, a palm print was clearly visible. In front of this palm print, the stone tablet was as fragile as glass meeting a hammer.

“This is the first stone tablet. Look at the others one by one, and you’ll understand why Shi Hao said what he did…” Xiao Bo nodded.

Everyone looked again.

They saw that the nine stone tablets behind each had a palm print of the same size, one after another, forming a straight line when carefully observed.

That is to say… to shatter all ten stone tablets in the passage at once, the other party used only… one move!

Shi Hao, as the only one in the Inner Breath Hall in ten thousand years to score thirty-eight points, had his true qi exhausted before it could penetrate even four stone tablets… That person just now pierced ten with one palm, with such force that even the formation couldn’t withstand it…

How did he do it?

“Just now I thought that War Master Shi’s record would stand for at least three hundred years…”

“I thought so too. Who would have thought it wouldn’t last even two minutes before being broken, and most crucially, broken so thoroughly…”

Everyone trembled slightly.

Just now they had mocked him as merely a spirit awakener, saying the standard for the war master assessment was extremely difficult. Never in their dreams did they expect that with a casual slap, he passed smoothly… and most crucially, his power was so great that he broke the assessment itself…

“How can someone at the Saint Domain first level have such abundant true qi? I don’t believe it. Do you think he used some powerful treasure?”

A war master couldn’t help but say.

They had all been to the Inner Breath Passage and knew its difficulty. As war masters, geniuses among geniuses, it was extremely hard for them to pass… How did this guy do it?

“Treasure? You’re overthinking it… Look over there!”

Shi Hao shook his head and pointed in a direction.

The war master frowned, looked over, and trembled again.

On the wall, a line of writing was clearly visible… one hundred!

The outer wall of the Inner Breath Passage could display the test score, and the inside could also display it, so those taking the test inside could know their own score.

“One hundred…” The war master’s throat went dry: “Since it’s one hundred, why… didn’t it show outside?”

The others also looked over.

Since it was a normal test, if a score appeared inside, it should also appear outside.

But outside, it had flickered for a while and showed nothing, which led them to think… he hadn’t passed.

“His power was too strong, the formation broke on the spot, and the information never transmitted…” Shi Hao smiled bitterly.

“This…”

Looking at the ruins on the ground, everyone finally understood.

No wonder it flickered outside but didn’t show a number… So that was it!

“One punch pierced all ten stone tablets… How abundant is this Master Sun’s true qi?”

Standing there, everyone was speechless.

…

“This is our library. Although it falls short of the Master Hall, it has the advantage that all techniques have been thoroughly refined and are problem-free to cultivate!”

The two entered the library, and pointing at the dazzling array of books before them, Hall Master Wei said.

The books in the Master Hall were mostly self-created by masters of past generations, many of which were contradictory and hard to justify. For this reason, masters most tabooed randomly reading techniques.

The more one read, the more confused one became. Without the ability to discern, it would only lead to a disturbed Dao heart, breeding inner demons, making cultivation progress even harder.

The War Master Hall’s library was different.

The techniques within had all been tested many times and were guaranteed to be problem-free. As long as one chose a suitable one to cultivate, their strength would rapidly improve, and their combat power would grow stronger!

Zhang Xuan nodded and looked ahead. After a glance, he couldn’t help feeling somewhat disappointed.

As the other had said before, there were indeed not many techniques here, only a few hundred, not even reaching a thousand.

Of course, there were few techniques, but there were extremely many insights on introducing techniques and annotating how to cultivate them, densely packed in countless layers, adding up to hundreds of thousands.

“These are the insights of war masters from past generations… Of course, everyone’s physique is different, and cultivation methods are not all the same. If you read them all, you might end up mentally confused!”

Hall Master Wei pointed: “These few books here are the notes left by Hall Master Xing. If you really want to read, studying his will suffice!”

Acknowledging, Zhang Xuan looked at the hundreds of secret manuals the other had mentioned.

So-called insights and realizations could be read or not; the most important thing was still the techniques.

Whoosh!

With just a sweep of his eyes, the hundreds of books were all absorbed into his sea of consciousness.

“Correct!”

He exclaimed softly.

In the blink of an eye, a book appeared, and with a touch of his finger, the knowledge contained within flowed into his mind.

“Hmm? Not bad, although it formed a Heavenly Dao technique, there are… three flaws!”

After browsing the content of the book, Zhang Xuan frowned.

Although there were only a few hundred books, these secret manuals were of high grade. Fusing them did form a Saint Domain second level Heavenly Dao technique, but it also had three flaws.

“Too many flaws. I’ll wait until I find other secret manuals!”

Zhang Xuan shook his head.

For martial techniques, some flaws could be tolerated.

But for cultivation techniques, he always cultivated Heavenly Dao level ones. Even the Saint Liberation had one or two flaws, but they were supplemented with treasures. Having so many at the Saint Domain second level… was hard to accept.

If it really didn’t work, he would find some other Saint Domain second level cultivation techniques and fuse them until there were no flaws.

He glanced over the many insights and realizations, found that they didn’t help much in eliminating technique flaws, and stopped collecting them.

“Are there any Saint Domain third level techniques here?”

Putting aside his thoughts, Zhang Xuan looked at Hall Master Wei beside him again.

“There are third level ones too… Follow me!”

The hall master of the War Master Hall had reached the peak of the Primordial Spirit realm; not to mention third level, even fourth level techniques were available.

Soon they arrived at the place where third level techniques were stored. As expected, there were even fewer.

In no time, he had recorded them all into his mind.

Zhang Xuan was even more disappointed.

For the third level, not even a Heavenly Dao technique was formed.

He had Hall Master Wei take him to scan the fourth level techniques as well, but again no secret manual formed.

“Master Sun… have you found the books you were looking for? Have you gained any inspiration?”

Seeing that the young man had followed him around the library without picking up any book or even reading, Hall Master Wei couldn’t help asking.

“I haven’t found anything suitable…”

Zhang Xuan shook his head.

Anyway, he had just swept his eyes over them, and the other didn’t know what he was thinking.

“By the way, do you have any Saint Domain second level cultivation techniques here? It doesn’t matter how high the grade is; the more the better…”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Xuan said.

For him, advanced cultivation techniques were no different from ordinary ones.

What he needed was quantity, not quality.

High quality, though with fewer flaws and easier to fuse, still had many flaws if the quantity was insufficient.

“Our Inner Breath Hall probably doesn’t have any… However, Hall Master Feng of the Martial Technique Hall came from the Master Hall. He is learned and knowledgeable, not only knowing a lot about martial techniques but also having collected many kinds of techniques. If anyone in the War Master Hall has these things, it’s probably him!”

Hall Master Wei said.

“Oh? Could you trouble the hall master to take me to the Martial Technique Hall for a look?”

Zhang Xuan quickly said.

“That’s simple!”

With a smile, Hall Master Wei led Zhang Xuan out of the library.

Just as they reached the door, he suddenly twitched and stopped.