Chapter 221: Fist Art – Dragon Elephant (1/2)

Chapter 221: Fist Art – Dragon Elephant

Translator: SherylEditor: Hitesh

The reason Ye Chen headed to the trading palace was not only because he wanted to disguise the true purpose of his trip, but he was actually looking for a Fist Art manual.

During the fight against the ghost head, his Star Scar Sword was bitten and controlled by his opponent. He, who was bare-handed, had no way of escaping the situation. If it were not for that Tornado Broken Clouds Art which was performed by his legs at that critical moment, he would have already been another dead soul under the ghost head’s claws. If he had trained a powerful fist art, then maybe he could kill the ghost head with one punch, or at least badly wound him and allow himself to escape that trap.

“Right now, I am not powerful enough. Only training the sword arts is obviously not going to fit into all kinds of fights. Therefore, the fist art must be powerful as well. As for the other kinds of martial arts, I will not look into it… I don’t think I have enough time.” The Void Shattering Finger Art was powerful, but it was too broad of an art. With Ye Chen’s current cultivation, he would not be able to fully understand all of it.

To be able to enter the trading palace, one would have to have enough of wealth. Ye Chen took out a storage ring that he had prepared beforehand and handed to the warrior that was guarding the palace. After checking the contents of the storage ring, he returned the ring back to Ye Chen and allowed him to proceed.

Inside the palace, it was crowded with people. Clasping Yuan Realm warriors were everywhere.

“Burning Wind Godly Fist… No, it is too low in rank!”

“Mountain Cracker… Nah, it is not even comparable to the Tyrant Fist!”

“Small Planet Fist… It is indeed interesting, but I need powerful fighting power.”

“…”

Along the way, Ye Chen realized that among all of the fist art manuals that were being sold, more than ninety percent were low-rank Earth Realm fist arts. The mid-rank Earth Realm Fist Art was really rare. As for top rank Earth Realm fist arts or even higher, they were nowhere to be found. However, it was not hard to understand why. The high-rank Earth Realm martial arts would be even considered as exclusive manuals for a rank 6 martial institutions. No matter how many great treasures were in the trading palace, there would still not be top rank Earth Realm martial art manuals.

Lowering his requirement, Ye Chen started to look at mid-rank Earth Realm fist art manuals.

After walking around the whole trading palace that covered few miles of ground, Ye Chen had only found two fist art manuals that satisfied him. One of them was “Three Colors Fire Fist,” and the other one was “Five Mountains Godly Fist Art.” The Three Colors Fire Fist had three movements, the first movement would create fist power that had a red color, the second one would be purple, while the third one being gold. It was perfect for warriors that had trained fire factor zhen qi. However, there was no certain characteristic for his Mysterious zhen qi, so it did not matter what kind of martial skill it was, he would still be able to train. The Five Mountain Godly Fist was a bit more brutal. There were five movements in total. Each one of them would be more powerful than the one before. Performing each movement, it required a high quality of the body. Otherwise, it would have the opposite effect of hurting oneself.

For the Three Color Fire Fist, it cost one hundred seventy thousand low rank soul stones while the Five Mountain Godly Fist would be two hundred and ten thousand low-rank soul stones. With both being the same mid-rank Earth Realm martial arts, there was a forty thousand price difference between them.

“Hey, I want to take this Three Color Fire Fist manual.”

As Ye Chen was still thinking, the Three Color Fire Fist manual was taken by another peak level Late Clasping Yuan Realm warrior.

Ye Chen forced a smile and walked over to the crystal counter that stored the Five Mountain Godly Fist manual.

‘Eh?’

Stopping where he was going, Ye Chen’s eyes were caught by the corner of a crystal counter.

Inside that clear counter, only two or three treasures were waiting to be sold. And one of them was indeed a fist art manual. It was labeled “Top rank Earth Realm Fist Manual (Incomplete)”

“Let’s go check it out.” Before, he had searched too fast, so he had probably missed this crystal counter. Otherwise, he would not have walked away.

There were quite a lot of warriors standing in front of the counter.

“Too bad. Normally an incomplete secret art manual would still have one or two movements that were full. But this fist art has none of it, how am I going to train with this?”

“And it is still that expensive. Selling it for three hundred thousand low-rank soul stones, which warrior that was below Astral Reaching Realm could afford it?”

“Maybe it was just put here to tease us.”

“What’s to tease? If it were only thirty thousand low rank soul stones, I would still not buy it.”

“Let’s go! Let’s go! What a shame!”

The crowd had come and gone. Soon, only three people were standing there chatting.

“Hey, is there a way to lower the price? If it is fifty thousand low-rank soul stones, I will take it!” suggested a Late Clasping Yuan Realm warrior who seemed to be quite interested in it.

The owner of the counter was an elder with gray hair. He wore brown robes, siting on the croutons behind the counter with his feet tugged under his body. He did not move at all and said, “If you are really interested, maybe you can have a discount of ten or twenty thousand.”

“Ten or twenty thousand, are you joking?” That warrior left as he swore. The other two had also lost their interest in watching, and eventually, they had also scattered away.

In the end, there was only Ye Chen.

He did not start with bargaining. Instead, he picked up the manual and started to read it carefully.

The fist art manual had been separated into halves by someone. There was only the top part, but there was no bottom part. Therefore, unlike normal incomplete manuals, this manual could not be more broken. It was almost impossible to train. Unless someone was willing to spend decades studying this, there might be some discoveries. However, dozens of years were way too long a time. No one would be happy to spend their precious time on this, even if it was a top rank Earth Realm art.

After all, with dozens of years of time, anyone with a brain would agree that it would be better to train and try to reach for a higher cultivation.

Because it had been separated, that was why its name was also incomplete. Ye Chen could only see the two characters in the beginning – “Dragon Elephant.” As for the rest of the title, there would be no way of finding it out right now.

“Can I take it out to see a bit more?” Ye Chen asked.

The elder in gray asked, “Are you sure you are going to buy it?”

Ye Chen laughed, “If I like it, I will buy it; if I don’t, then I won’t… simple as that.”

“Alright! You have three breaths of time. Do not go beyond that time.”

The owner opened the crystal counter, took out the half manual and handed it to Ye Chen. His eyes were full of distrust, it was like he was afraid that Ye Chen would see too much.