The Supreme God of Martial Arts
Chapter 245 More Than One Big Breakthrough!

With the vital energy unleashed from the point of the sword and in arespectful manner, Austin moved the bones of the Great Sage Cloudinto the grave he had just dug. He then buried the shell of this oncepowerful cultivator with sand and soil from the cave. A pile of moundwas made to serve as his tomb.

To further show his respect for the dead, Austin stepped back andbowed to the heap for a few moments, before he turned his attentionto the little silver ball on the bed

“Could this be some kind of treasure?’ he wondered. This might explainwhy the Great Sage Cloud kept it hidden under his body even duringhis final moments.

After hesitating for a while, Austin went up and took the ball in hishand, studying it carefully.

However, the very instant when his breath touched the ball, it suddenlystarted vibrating. A burst of silver light emanated from within. Austinnarrowed his eyes in order to see through the dazzling light, anddiscovered some words hovering in the air.

"He who would help me rest in peace must uphold honesty and faith.All my life I have appreciated the honorable and despise the opposite.An honorarium is thus waiting for you." Austin read the words as thesilver light kept illuminating the space.

"This silver ball is a crystallization of my lifetime's achievements. Take itas a reward and use it well.”

Before Austin could even digest the words, the words slowlydisappeared after lingering in the air for a few more seconds.

“What does he mean, the crystallization of what he has achieved? Doesit have something to do with cultivation?"

Questions began erupting inside Austin's head like fireworks. He stillstared blankly at the place where those words once rested after theywere gone.

The next instant, instead of being enlightened with the words he justsaw, Austin was struck by a refreshing wave of light. In his surprise,Austin saw the fist-sized silver ball shake more violently, and suddenly itexploded with a light but clear sound.

The light did not fade away, but the ball turned into a cloud of thicksilver smoke that rushed towards Austin, surrounding him andeventually enveloping him.

The next thing he knew, a refined force surged rapidly through hisentire body. He could feel that it was a high-quality vital energy forcewhich enveloped him. In the blink of an eye, Austin was unable to movea single muscle.

Then, as Austin struggled to free himself, the silver smoke began toflow, and seeped in his body through his pores and acupoints.

At the same time, Austin felt that the vital energy quickly accumulatedwithin him before it suddenly permeated into his energy meridians likea river rushing through. Austin started to breathe deeply while the vitalenergy flushed into him like the rivers pouring into the sea.

As the vital energy filled him, streams of it met and converged in hismeridians. They formed a strong tidal current and began to open andenlarge his energy meridians as they pushed through.

This process was accompanied by the crackle of his body.

Austin was no stranger to the sound of body transformation, and heknew that the sound he heard now indicated that his energy meridianswere expanding. They were growing so fast that he felt they wouldburst if they continued expanding. But they didn't stop there, instead,the speed of expansion kept accelerating all over his body.

And what was even more amazing was that his organs were beingrefashioned at the same time! After he mastered the Overlord Body-refining Formula, his organs were refined to a hardened state, whichenabled him to take other cultivators’ attacks without getting hisorgans ruptured easily.

Now, with the large amount of vital energy he inherited from the GreatSage Cloud coursing through his veins, the shields that had beenprotecting his body seemed to have been more enhanced. He couldfeel that the outer layer of his organs were turning hard as iron, andthey even made clicking sounds every time he took a deep breath.“What? Wait a second ..." Austin sensed that a rush was coming overhim. "I'm close to a breakthrough, right now!"

It took him only a few seconds to realize that this was a sign that hewas about to make a breakthrough in his cultivation level.

Austin was ecstatic, and he was definitely not gonna let this opportunitypass. After all, the higher the cultivation level a cultivator had achieved,the harder it would be for him to make another breakthrough.

So ever since Austin had refined at the Earth Realm, he found that hiscultivation speed had slowed dramatically. It was much slower thanwhen he was still at the Energy Gathering Realm.

Of course, he would not pass up such a rare chance to progress evenfurther!

There was no time to waste, so he sat immediately with his legscrossed. He placed his hands in front of him closer to his Elixir Field,with palms facing but not touching each other. He closed his eyes,quieted his mind as he prepared for his meditation.

Slowly and steadily, he allowed his consciousness to enter his body, andguide the silver vital energy in order to make a breakthrough.

As he kept absorbing the silver smoke from his surroundings, theremaining smoke turned a lighter shade and became thinner. It lookedlike that all of the smoke was about to infiltrate inside of him.

But Austin became indifferent about the things happening around him.He channeled all of his focus and attention on the cultivation process.Inside, the flooding of vital energy was finally under control, and wentfrom a disorderly state to an orderly one. Following Austin’sinstructions, they began to flow in specified paths within his body.

To be specific, with Austin's command, the strong vital energy hadturned into a fierce and ruthless army marching through his meridians,defeating all that was in the way of gaining another breakthrough. Andit seemed like they would come out victorious.

Within less than half an hour of workout, Austin suddenly sensed cracksfrom his body, and then he heard a dull sound as a wave of vital energyforce rushed out of him. The vital energy was so powerful that Austin'sbody as well as the air shook due to its force. Even Violet, who hadbeen watching carefully a few feet away, was pushed back by the shockwave.

It happened so suddenly, but Austin was sure that he had just refined atthe medium stage of Earth Realm!

Violet was stunned at Austin's huge progress in just a short time. Shemight be a demon fox, but she could tell from his vital energy forcethat he was at the medium stage of Earth Realm!

What amazing speed it was!

Generally speaking, it could take an ordinary cultivator two to threeyears to promote his refinement level from the preliminary stage ofEarth Realm to the medium stage of Earth Realm. And for those lesstalented ones, it might even take five or six years of hard work just toget there.

But this man made a huge leap in less than half an hour. Surely, Violetrealized that he made such breakthrough thanks to the mysterioussilver ball that the Great Sage Cloud had left him.

Anyway, Austin was delighted. He beamed with a satisfied smile whenhe checked his state.

But he wasn't going to stop there!

From what he could sense, the deluge of powerful vital energy from thesilver ball was still pouring into his body, and while he was catching hisbreath, it had helped him consolidate the realm he had just reached.From how well the vital energy in his meridians had been refined,Austin was aware that he had accomplished more than he couldimagine—Although he had just made the breakthrough, he couldalready control the vital energy inside him easily, as if he had been atthe medium stage of Earth Realm for years! It seemed like his highcultivation speed didn't come at the cost of a solid foundation.

And while he was overwhelmed with excitement and joy, the cultivationdidn't stop there. And he found himself already at the peak of themedium stage of Earth Realm in the turn of a hand!

Austin was lost for words. In fact, he never imagined that reaching thehighest level of the medium stage of Earth Realm could be this easy,not even in his wildest dream!

Yet the vital energy inside him was shouting the truth, and his body hadeasily adapted to this high cultivation base, even better than his mindcould.

What came next, however, was something even crazier.

To his astonishment, Austin had again sensed that anotherbreakthrough was about to happen!

"How could this be?" Austin was half amazed, half pleasantly surprisednow. If this was true, then he was going to reach the premium stage ofEarth Realm just like that! 1 I!

This was no doubt a momentous occasion!

But Austin immediately tried to contain his excitement, for he knewvery well that strong emotions could get in the way of cultivating. If acultivator was too emotional during his refining, then bad things mighthappen when he tried to make a breakthrough. The worst case scenariowas that one's cultivation base could become dangerously unstable,and he or she might end up with energy deviation, just like whathappened to the Great Sage Cloud.

So it was critical for Austin to get a hold of himself and clear his mindduring this critical stage. He was experienced enough to know that bynow.

To get rid of all the negative emotions, Austin quickly took some timeto regulate his breathing. Being a strong-willed cultivator, he was ableto calm down and diminish the distracting thoughts in his mind rightaway.

In an instant, he had driven all worldly distractions and all of his internaldemons away. He became so dedicated that he had forgotten all aboutthe outside world and even himself. His sole attention was focused ondirecting the silver vital energy to run through his body, and to helphim with the breakthrough

Violet, on the other hand, felt ill at ease at that moment. But seeing thatAustin was practicing steadily like a monk sitting in meditation, shedared not say a single word which might disturb him, however anxiousshe was.

Because she knew that this kind of opportunity was hard to come by,therefore Austin would definitely not give it up easily.

But she had every reason to feel worried. Those five powerfulcultivators at the Mysterious Realm were at their heels, and could breakin the cave any minute. The two of them were still in a precarioussituation anyway.