Realm-Hopping Martial Master

Su Mingchun slowed his steps and walked over.

He bowed to the old man and received a key before walking inside.

"This is our chamber of commerce's Hidden Technique Pavilion, and you could exchange contribution value from the chamber for anything in here. The first and second floors held top-tier entry-level cultivation techniques and martial arts. The third and fourth floors, those were for middle grade disciplines, reserved for those we enshrined. For example, the mace technique of Zhou Heng, Zhou the honored, came from here. But for you, this Hidden Technique Pavilion felt rather useless. The real good stuff had never been kept on this side."

He turned back and gave a brief introduction.

Even an ordinary genius,

He was a Refining Internal Realm at eighteen.

Unless something unexpected happened, he would surely step into the Blood Exchange Realm.

A first-class genius, their potential surpassed even that!

There was always a chance, they would make it onto the Little Dragon Tiger List!

*How could ordinary middle-grade techniques possibly satisfy someone like that?*

The Hidden Technique Pavilion was enormous.

Right at the entrance stood ten rows of bookshelves, and at the rear, stairs led straight up to the second floor.

Su Mingchun walked to the staircase and turned, facing the wall. Suddenly, he reached out and pushed. A secret door appeared, and dozens of steps led down beneath. On the handrail next to him, night-luminescent pearls carved with dragons and tigers cast light everywhere, with an imposing presence.

"People outside all knew our Danxia chamber of commerce possessed a treasure vault, yet no one had ever known where it actually was."

"Hidden beneath the Hidden Technique Pavilion, that was the real treasure vault."

Jiang Shu followed Su Mingchun all the way down.

This was the first time he truly felt the foundation of the Danxia chamber of commerce.

These night-luminescent pearls, on Xuanxing, were not considered all that rare.

But in the Da Jing Dynasty,

in the city of Yongning County, where even moissanite could spark a consumer frenzy,

night-luminescent pearls were absolutely the very pinnacle of luxury goods!

*Just these pearls lining the staircase—one could imagine how outrageous the true strength of the Danxia chamber of commerce was!*

*No wonder even the ten biggest local clans had to rank beneath the Danxia chamber of commerce!*

What's more, according to what Chief Zhang had revealed, this Vice Chairman Su in front of him was a Blood Exchange Realm expert.

And even so, Vice Chairman Su had still paid respects to the old man upon entering the Hidden Technique Pavilion. Clearly, the old man's strength absolutely had to be at the Blood Exchange Realm as well!

*Only such experts could safeguard this place and guarantee the true security of the vault.*

The staircase was not especially long.

It descended only four or five meters before Jiang Shu set foot on solid ground, where a thick iron wall loomed before him.

Su Mingchun stepped forward, first pulling a key from inside his coat, sliding it into the lock, and turning it slightly.

Immediately after, he then inserted the key he'd gotten from the old man into another slot.

In just a moment, the center of the iron wall vibrated, and a door slowly materialized.

Su Mingchun gathered strength in his hands and gave it a powerful push.

"Alright, this is our Danxia chamber of commerce's treasure vault. The vault was divided into three areas: martial arts techniques, rare treasures, and Da Jing secrets."

"No need to elaborate on the martial arts. Elixirs and weapons were sorted under rare treasures. The Da Jing secrets section was by far the most unique of the three, home to things your average county-city martial artist could never know. Some were the hiding places of fourth-rank mutant beasts, some the flaws in the major family martial arts, and some the detailed dossiers on each genius from the Little Dragon Tiger List."

"No matter which area you looked at, everything displayed was merely a sample and an introduction. If you wanted the real item, once you'd decided, you would report to me, and I would retrieve it."

Su Mingchun offered hints with his gaze, looked once at Jiang Shu, then stood by with his hands behind his back, showing no sign of stepping forward himself.

Jiang Shu took a deep breath and headed straight for the martial arts zone.

He had caught the subtext in Su Mingchun's words: the Da Jing secrets were the most important thing here in the vault.

Such as the detailed dossiers on the Little Dragon Tiger List's geniuses.

In a provincial city, or even a county capital, he would surely be able to obtain the rankings of the Little Dragon Tiger List's geniuses.

But those rankings meant nothing at all.

He would only know who the first was, and who had ranked at the very bottom.

He would have no way of learning anything more specific from it.

But the vault's secrets were different.

He could infer the distribution of power across the Da Jing Dynasty just from these geniuses' identities!

He might even target their martial arts methods and select opponents for strategic challenges.

*That really mattered.*

But, what mattered most right now was the cultivation technique!

*A man knew his own limits best.*

He was not from a major clan, and unlike the sons of such families, he had no access to the family's top inheritance.

All he had now was the Famished Tiger Roar Mountain Strength, forced from entry-level to barely reach middle grade.

If he couldn't acquire a stronger technique,

sure, he could keep using the Famished Tiger Roar Mountain Strength and cultivated force to temper his remaining organs slowly.

*But how much time would that take?*

*Fall behind once, and you will fall behind at every step!*

Secrets, those could wait.

*In this world, only your realm was truly real.*

Inside, Jiang Shu's resolve was firm.

This time, he would only choose a technique and martial art.

As for the Da Jing Dynasty's secrets,

the detailed profiles on the geniuses of the Little Dragon Tiger List—

Since he had entered the vault once, he was bound to get another shot at entering it again.

Compared to the ten huge shelves on the first floor of the Hidden Technique Pavilion,

the martial arts section of the vault looked far more streamlined.

After all, anything kept in the treasure vault had to be the very best among middle-grade techniques.

At a glance, there were four shelves, each with five tiers.

Each one labeled: cultivation techniques, weapons, fist and palm, movement technique.

"Five Dragons Internal Fusion Energy."

Jiang Shu scanned from top to bottom, and the very first technique in the first row caught his eye.

He took it down.

Opening it, the first page introduction read: Five Dragons Internal Fusion Energy. Practitioners must meditate upon five separate visualization diagrams, each: the Gangjin Dragon, Venomwood Dragon, Seadrake Dragon, Flame Dragon, and Mountainseal Dragon. Upon entry, true strength flowed, and the Gangjin Dragon force would infuse one's weapons, further raising their might; the Venomwood Dragon force...