The Supreme God of Martial Arts
Chapter 659 The Ancient Stone Carving

Austin was quite surprised. He hadn't expected the creature to be able to release vital energy to attack, just like cultivators did. He became more cautious and thrust his sword again.

"Clang! Clang..."

As the vital energy sword and the white light collided, the space around vibrated slightly.

Austin had figured out that the creature's competence was similar to that of a level nine diabolic beast. For him, it wasn't a threat at all. But in the beginning, he was shocked by the creature's attack. He wasn't familiar with the surroundings and knew nothing about the creature, so he fought it for a while unaware of its abilities

Now, he knew the creature's real competence, and that meant he knew how to end the battle soon.

Austin immediately used the Brutal Blast Fist and punched the creature with a stroke of explosive fist force. The creature was going to take the hit. It struggled for quite a while and flapped its wings wildly, trying to fly away towards the depth of the mine.

In moments after it was hit by Austin’s fist, it slowed down.

With a dumb thud, the explosive fist force exploded in its body. The creature swayed unsteadily and then fell to the ground, motionless. Austin went closer to it. He observed the creature and stretched its wings carefully. He wanted to know more about this creature that had scared him out of his wits.

The beast was more than two meters high and covered with gray fur. It had no feathers on its wings. Rather the wings had a rugged skin membrane, making it look more like a huge bat.

"Master, this demonic beast is called the diabolic bat. It's a subterranean species, and hardly seen around. It's one of the rare species.

It's believed that the diabolic bats originate from ancient times. Their power and strength increases as time passes. An adult diabolic bat's competence is much higher than a level ten diabolic beast.”

Violet gave him the information he needed.

"Violet, do you know how the power levels of the diabolic beasts are divided? What's the level above level ten diabolic beast?"

Austin asked, filled with curiosity.

He had never heard of the creature and was anxious to know more about the powers of a diabolic beast, especially about the diabolic bat. "Above the level ten diabolic beast is the Beast Master. According to their competence, the Beast Masters can be divided into three levels, the preliminary level, the medium level and the premium level," Violet answered

Austin nodded trying to save it all in his memory.

"When a diabolic bat grows up, it will have the adeptness of a preliminary stage Beast Master,"

Violet continued.

"So, a preliminary stage Beast Master's capabilities are similar to a human at the Master Realm, right?"

Austin asked.

"Probably! Master, the one you killed just now seems to be a baby diabolic bat, and its prowess is like a level nine diabolic beast,”

Violet informed him.

"Its capabilities can be similar to a cultivator at Master Realm! Does that mean if there is an adult diabolic bat in the mine, the only thing I can do is run away and escape?”

Austin was shocked. He would have no advantage if he was pushed into such a fight and he could get killed if he wasn't careful enough.

Austin still remembered how difficult it was for him when he had to fight the castellan of the Full Moon City. If he hadn't escaped in time, he would already have been dead.

"Ha-ha! Master, the method we calculate age is different from that of humans.

Many of the diabolic beasts are born to live a long life, especially the ones of rare species like the diabolic bat. I guess, they are still babies even if they are several hundred or even thousand years old. And an adult diabolic bat can live for at least four or five thousand years. Master, do you think this mine has existed for thousands of years?

I think, it's unlikely that you will meet an adult diabolic bat here,”

Violet explained it all to Austin with a soothing smile.

"Oh, now I understood,”

Austin said nodding his head as things became clearer to him.

When he met Angus and the Flame Emperor in the Mysterious Nether World, they had told him that a human cultivator would be able to live longer if he reached the Imperial Realm in vital energy cultivation and their life span would get extended with the improvement in their vital energy cultivation base.

However, compared with the natural longevity of the diabolic beast, this was unworthy of being mentioned.

Without hesitation, Austin continued to move forward. When he had walked a dozen miles, he got into big trouble! He saw more than a hundred diabolic bats rushing towards him.

Fortunately, the most powerful diabolic bats among them were only at level nine. Austin had stored sufficient vital energy in his body, so he didn't worry about the vital energy consumption. He summoned the Brutal Blast Fist, and the moving skill which enabled him to disappear shortly. In a short span he was able to kill all the diabolic bats.

The last one he killed was a huge diabolic bat which was about five meters high, and its wings were about ten meters long when fully extended. Austin crushed it with the Purple Vital Stone. After that it became eerily silent in the ancient mine.

After moving forward for another twenty miles, there was still dead silence, and inside the mine everything was dark. Austin felt that the aura within was very eerie. "Does this mine have no end?" he murmured.

He walked about eight miles further. That was when he saw many stone patterns on the wall of the cave which were probably carved with a knife or an axe.

These patterns were plain and concise. They seemed to convey some stories about mining vital energy crystals. Instead of ignoring them, Austin observed them carefully.

The first several patterns described the lives of the miners, mainly about the hardships they went through during mining.

However, in the patterns that followed, he saw drawings of many miners lying on the ground, dead.

“What caused their death? Was it because they were too tired?" Austin wondered.

He became more surprised when he continued to watch these patterns. They seemed to be narrating a complete story. When he got closer to the last few patterns, he saw that when more abnormal things were unearthed, more miners had died.

Then in the patterns he saw a strange thing. There was a creature with a human frame but had a horn in the middle of its brows. It seemed to be surrounded by an evil aura. It had been locked in a huge crystal before the miners broke it. Once it was released, it killed all the miners.

The creature had six arms and a pair of wings too. It looked so mighty and sinister. The pattern now showed it roaring while the ground under its feet cracked. The mine collapsed and the underground magma gushed out. The patterns were so realistic that Austin could understand every bit easily.

Austin gasped. “What the hell is this creature?" he wondered.

'It looks so powerful! Its roar could shake the ground. It's no wonder so many people died,” he thought.

In the next pattern, Austin saw a group of people, probably the cultivators who had arrived at the mine after the destruction.

The patterns showed how they began to fight the one-horned creature with human frame.

Although it was alone, it had been able to defeat those cultivators. Each time it attacked, thousands of human cultivators had fallen to the ground.

The patterns that followed were gruesome. They depicted how more and more corpses of cultivators piled up around it and their blood converged into a river, flowing into the distance. The scene looked like one from hell.

It's surprising that such a thrilling story has been carved on the wall in the mine! The monster was brought out by the miners. Once unleashed, it killed so many human cultivators, * Austin thought.

He was attracted to the stone carvings in the mine.

He moved ahead and looked at the next picture.

He saw a sturdy man floating down from the sky, and the situation seemed to be reversed.

This man was big and strong with bulging muscles. He looked like a superman!

His eyes shone with a brilliant light and his face looked determined. Auspicious clouds lingered around him.

“Emperor?

“Emperor? Was this man a cultivator at the Emperor Realm, like the Flame Emperor?*

Austin was taken aback.

“But the Flame Emperor was not from Prime Martial World. He was from the Divine Continent.

I never thought that the Emperor Realm masters also existed in the Prime Martial World, * he thought. It was something he had not expected.

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