Chapter 363 - 270: The Secret of the Divine Statue Cultivation Technique

Chapter 363: Chapter 270: The Secret of the Divine Statue Cultivation Technique

The moment he hesitated, Tang Wen lost his patience. His eyes turned pure black as he unleashed lash after lash of Spiritual Power.

The giant, his Sea of Consciousness already sealed, was powerless to resist.

After a few minutes, like a fish gasping for air in a bathtub, his eyes rolled back in his head.

The Heart Stone was thrust into his hand.

Suddenly, something changed!

A phantom image erupted from the giant’s body. A massive Ox Demon Statue flickered into view, its eyes flaring with brilliant light.

The two Extraordinarys nearby were instantly struck, clutching their temples and stumbling as if hit by lightning.

Tang Wen grunted. In his Sea of Consciousness, characters of Spiritual Power flared like motes of light, blocking the sudden counterattack.

’He still has some fight left in him?’

He flashed over, grabbed the two Extraordinarys, and used Instant Step to quickly exit the bedroom.

"Wait outside!"

WHOOSH!

Tang Wen was back inside the room.

The Ox Demon Statue flickered in and out of existence, clearly a spent force.

He breathed a sigh of relief but made a mental note to be more cautious.

’Next time I encounter an Alien Ability User, I have to be careful.’

’Who knows how many strange abilities they have.’

In his Sea of Consciousness, thirty-nine hieroglyphic characters lit up. Behind Tang Wen, the giant form of a White Tiger appeared, and his Spiritual Power crashed down like a tidal wave.

With a POP, the Ox Demon Statue burst like a balloon and vanished.

The giant, like a dead fish, suddenly went rigid, his whole body stiffening.

He shoved the Heart Stone into the man’s hand again. This time, it finally worked.

Alone in the room, Tang Wen began to ask the questions he had prepared long ago.

With his prior experience interrogating Huang the Seventeenth Lang, he knew that time was precious...

After a dozen or so minutes, the man on the bed began to convulse violently, and the light in his pupils slowly faded.

"Young Master?" The two Extraordinarys heard the commotion and looked toward the inner room.

"He’s brain-dead. While he’s still warm, send him to the Five Great Clans. Let them use him to mourn their kinsmen."

The two men carried the giant away, and Tang Wen began to process the information he had just extracted.

The giant’s name was Niu Ben. He grew up in a small town in Ganshan City, near the Four Seas Camp.

He was a Second Generation Wu.

His father had joined the Four Seas Camp and was a Four-star Hunter.

He was primarily active in the east. Tang Wen didn’t ask about his specific achievements.

But from the proud tone that Niu Ben couldn’t help but reveal, his father was likely at least a Sixth-Grade Powerhouse.

It was with his father’s help that Niu Ben had obtained a Secret Technique Stone Carving.

[Strong Ox Demon Statue]

It was a Contemplation Method, and also a Spiritual Meditation Method.

With this Cultivation Technique, Niu Ben became an expert.

Unfortunately, this kind of Meditation Technique was only effective for three years.

The Martial Dao Will within it had long since dissipated.

And Niu Ben’s father, Niu Qun, had been missing for many years.

Niu Ben’s knowledge was limited. He only knew that his father had taken on a major job and gone to a place even more distant than Sanlian City.

He left and, for decades, never returned.

Following in his father’s footsteps, Niu Ben became a Hunter when he was an Eighth-Grade Martial Artist.

After knocking around for a few years, he once gave in to temptation, killed his client, and seized the man’s wives, concubines, and daughters.

This enraged the Four Seas Commerce Association, forcing him to seek refuge with the Huang Family. He went to the Flesh Factory to get a new face and change his build, which was the only way he saved his life.

Even so, he no longer dared to loiter around the Four Seas Camp and voluntarily applied for a transfer to the barren lands of the Northwest, far from Ganshan City.

However, this [Strong Ox Demon Statue] Meditation Technique actually had a massive hidden danger.

According to Niu Ben’s father, although this Meditation Technique cultivated both spirit and soul, one should diligently practice the Contemplation Method and sparingly practice the Meditation Technique.

This was within Tang Wen’s expectations.

First of all, this "Ox Demon Superpower" could be cultivated.

If there were no hidden dangers, this kind of Superpower, which integrated offense and defense and cultivated both spirit and soul, would have definitely become the primary Cultivation Technique for all the major powers.

Yet within the major powers of Ganshan City, all the Direct Lineage members followed the common awakening paths of the "Water Division," "Wind Division," and "Dark Division."

These types of alien abilities had been almost completely phased out.

However, according to Bai You Ruo, there were many such Alien Extraordinarys, like the Ox Demon Statue users, in Sanlian City.

Moreover, some people had a very high degree of compatibility with these types of alien abilities.

Once mastered, they were practically invincible among those of the same rank.

An idea sparked in Tang Wen’s mind. He murmured to himself, "Just because they can’t practice it doesn’t mean I can’t. My combat methods are lacking; I just use Shocking Fist over and over again. It would be good to learn another technique. I can ask the Four Seas Commerce Association about it later."

Hu Qi, who was eating a roasted chicken, was suddenly speechless. ’You brat, you’re not even eighteen, and you have everything from Hard Skills to long-range techniques. The crucial part is that every single one is profound!’

’If this counts as lacking combat methods, then everyone else—no, all the other geniuses should just go and die!’

"You want to practice a [Divine Statue Technique]?"

Cultivation Techniques like the [Strong Ox Demon Statue] were collectively known as Divine Statue Techniques.

Tang Wen turned his head, sensing the hidden meaning in its words.

Hu Qi’s tone was mocking. "You brat, if you’re looking to die, you don’t need to practice some third-rate Ox Demon Statue. Our White Tiger Race has the White Tiger Sacred Beast Technique. You’ll go crazy faster and die a more miserable death after practicing it! It all depends on whether you dare."

’Faster and more miserable?’

’Niu Ben practiced a third-rate Divine Statue Technique and had nearly half my strength.’

’If I complete the [White Tiger Sacred Beast Technique], wouldn’t the improvement be even greater?’

Tang Wen’s eyes lit up. "Ah Qi, no, Sister Qi, are you serious?! There’s such a good thing?! I mean, there’s such a good Cultivation Technique?"

Hu Qi was left speechless. ’Does this kid have cotton in his ears?’