Chapter 422 - Attack & Weapon (2/2)

”You can ask him, or my senior sister, Luo Mei, or my senior brother, the Guard leader, Liu Xun,” Alex said.

The elder's eyes suddenly went wide. He had indeed heard about the Sect Leader's elder coming back. ”I see, wait a second for me to confirm,” the elder said and pulled out a talisman to send and receive messages.

The elder talked in the talisman for a few moments and made a weird face as he put it down. ”Did you beat any core disciples before today?” he asked.

”Oh yes, I beat Huo Tu about 2 months ago. He was… 18th rank at that time if I remember correctly,” Alex said.

”I see. I have confirmed it is you, disciple Yu. Welcome back,” the elder said as he brought out a set of robes and a few other talismans that told him about the rules and regulations the core disciples had to follow.

”Thank you, Elder,” Alex said and walked away. He put the robes into his storage bags and made his way to the fighting hall.

As he was walking there, he stopped and turned left.

Just as he remembered, it stood there in all of its glory and magnificence. It was still unknown to everyone what it was, but Alex knew that most probably, this was the most important thing in the entire Tiger sect.

The Black Stele.

The Black Stele stood there in the middle of the crater as if it was the one that caused it. Looking at the shape of the crater, it most likely did.

The Black Stele didn't have anything guarding it or any perimeter around it to stop the disciples from walking in. Alex slowly walked up to the stele and placed his hands on it.

The last time he was here, he had hastily used his spiritual sense to read it and was traumatized when his spiritual sense had been nearly depleted. After that, he had always been afraid of the stele and stayed away from it.

But now, he was a different person. Not only had he learned more about the world and was more mature than he was last time, his spiritual sense was also at least 3 times more in quantity and a bit stronger than last time.

He also had the added benefit of knowing what would happen if he didn't put his spiritual sense under control.

”Oh, it's not metal,” Alex thought as he touched the black stele. Although it did look like stone, Alex still believed that the black stele was totally made out of metal due to the iridescent colors that the letters in it shined in.

”What sort of rock it this?” Alex thought as he knocked on it. He didn't have much knowledge about stones so he was totally blank on the answer.

”Should I test it once more?” he thought. He still had some lingering fear from last time, but he was confident he wouldn't lose all of his spiritual sense this time.

”Here goes nothing,” he thought and spread out his spiritual sense. Slowly, he approached the text on the stone and started reading it.

Immediately, as if retaliating, something grabbed onto his spiritual sense and followed the thread back to attack his spiritual sea.

Alex read as much as he could and immediately stopped his connection to that thread of spiritual sense. When he was done and safe, he quickly checked his spiritual sea and saw that nearly half of it had been destroyed.

'Damn, that's truly terrifying. If I had spent a second longer reading, I would have lost it all again,' he thought. Spending all of his spiritual sense while he was outside of this spiritual sea wasn't dangerous at all.

However, it still hurt like a god damn b*tch.

He didn't dare try it again and tried to remember what he had just read. ”… weapon?” Alex thought. He didn't know what words meant, so he could only go off of what information his mind got.

Most of the words seemed normal everyday words, but two of them gave an idea of what the thing is written on the stele was about.

One of them said 'weapon' and another one said  'attack'.

”So, it's an offensive technique that requires you to use a weapon?” Alex thought and was a little disappointed. Similar to Heaven's Impact, he also wanted this technique to be a spiritual technique.

Alas, it wasn't. ”I shouldn't have got my hopes up so much. At least, since this language came from the Immortals or whatever, this should be a pretty good technique, right?” Alex thought.

”Whatever, I will think about this once again when I eat those mental pills and enter or maybe even exceed the Mind tempering realm. My spiritual sense should get a little stronger after that,” Alex thought.

He left the black stele and went towards the Fighting hall. By now, the fighting hall had fully opened up and so Alex got in line.

He didn't bother changing his robes as he would do that after the fight. The queue was already long so he had to wait for a few minutes before he could register a fight.

Finally, it was his turn and so he spoke to the elder.

”Good Morning, Elder.. I would like to register a fight with the disciple at rank 50.