From a country cook to a master chef

The stone tablet is covered with different mountain beast patterns. Upon closer inspection, there are more than thirty different ferocious beast images in various shapes.

Blood continued to flow from the man's cut palm, now staining the mountain beast images on more than ten stone tablets red.

This includes the black-backed rock bull and the golden mantis that Lin Jue encountered.

As he watched the Four Symbols Stele being dyed red, the man's fanaticism grew even stronger.

"Faster, faster!"

The man's face was contorted with rage. Disliking the slow flow of blood from his palm, he simply slashed his wrist with a knife.

As large amounts of blood completely stained the entire stone tablet crimson, faint red and blue fluorescent light emanated from the thirty-two mountain beast carvings on it.

In an instant, the roars of various mountain beasts echoed throughout the outer perimeter of the Ten Thousand Bones Mountain Range.

A look of satisfaction appeared in the man's eyes. As the last drop of blood drained from his body, everything went black, and his body went limp as he collapsed.

The red and blue fluorescent light from the stone tablet enveloped him, and suddenly a huge suction force came from the stone tablet, pulling the man's body into it.

……

Hearing the roars of mountain beasts constantly ringing in his ears, Lin Jue, who had just dealt with the Golden Knife Mantis, did not want to encounter any more mountain beasts.

He took a deep breath and carefully put the animal skin containing the Four Symbols Beast God Technique into his storage bag.

Then he quickly used the Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada technique and ran towards the direction of Golden Valley Plain, intending to get away from the Ten Thousand Bones Mountain Range as soon as possible.

Before long, two mountain beasts followed the scent of blood and found Lin Jue, which greatly surprised Lin Jue.

It seemed that these mountain beasts had come specifically to target him, and their appearance was not accidental.

"Could it really be because of those animal hides that record the Four-Phase Beast God Technique?"

At this moment, Lin Jue's face was extremely ugly.

The Four Symbols Beast God Technique is related to the Divine Symbol Realm, and he really doesn't want to give it up.

Driven by a gamble, Lin Jue frantically unleashed the Eight Steps to Catch the Cicada technique, attempting to escape the two mountain beasts.

A moment later, not only did he fail to shake off the two beasts, but he was also targeted by two other mountain beasts.

The four mountain beasts, one crouching and the other thrusting, blocked Lin Jue from four directions as if by prior arrangement.

Seeing this, even though he was extremely reluctant, Lin Jue decisively threw out those animal hides.

As he had expected, the four beasts, after obtaining the animal hides, did not continue to pester him. Instead, they all carried the hides and ran towards Black Tiger Cliff.

Lin Jue was secretly taken aback, his expression a mixture of curiosity and relief at surviving a close call.

In retrospect, all of this is closely related to the Black Tiger Cult.

The Four Symbols Beast God Technique concerns the Divine Phase Realm, which is comparable to the Nascent Soul stage. Lin Jue couldn't help but hesitate, as two paths lay before him.

One option is to leave the Ten Thousand Bones Mountain Range now, return to Golden Valley Plain, and inform Master Zhong Liang of the matter so that he can make the decision.

The other option is to go up Black Tiger Cliff again to see who is secretly plotting against them and to find an opportunity to reclaim the Four Symbols Beast God Technique.

After much deliberation, Lin Jue decided to risk returning to Black Tiger Cliff to give it a try.

He still possesses many imperial edict talismans, so he is not entirely powerless against those ferocious mountain beasts.

If used properly, and combined with the mutated black snake, it might be possible to kill a few more mountain beasts, just like it killed the Golden Knife Mantis.

Thinking of this, Lin Jue quickened his pace.

Soon, he followed a mountain beast back to Black Tiger Cliff.

As soon as the mountain beast arrived at Black Tiger Cliff, its body aged rapidly at a visible speed. In the blink of an eye, it had aged to nothing but skin and bones.

This scene sent chills down Lin Jue's spine, but he still mustered his courage and quietly followed.

The ancient mountain beast finally collapsed in a misty mountain area. There were no trees, only small hills resembling tombs, and an endless cloud of blood mist drifted around it.

Seeing the mountain beast that had followed him suddenly collapse, Lin Jue did not dare to make any rash moves. He sent the mutated black snake forward to check on it. Only after confirming that the mountain beast was dead did he feel at ease to approach and observe it.

Blood flowed continuously from its body, turning into barely perceptible streaks of blood that merged into the surrounding blood mist. A gust of cold wind blew by, and the once fleshy mountain beast corpse suddenly turned into a pile of gray rocks.

"this……"

Lin Jue was startled and retreated repeatedly.

Upon seeing this, he quickly took out the mantis limbs from his storage bag and found that they had indeed turned into rocks, which filled him with horror.

Just then, a violent coughing sound suddenly came from the misty distance ahead.

It was a man's voice.

Lin Jue immediately became alert, not expecting that there was someone here.

After walking for a while in the direction of the sound, Lin Jue's gaze pierced through the hazy blood mist and saw a middle-aged man dressed in the robes of the Tianwu Inner Academy, who was squatting in front of the stone tablet.

On the flat ground in front of the man, there were piles of petrified mountain beast corpses.

The man also noticed Lin Jue at this moment, and was momentarily stunned, then sneered with disdain:

Do you know what these mountain beast corpses have transformed into?

"I don't know."

After another bout of violent coughing, the man suddenly stood up, turned around, leaned against the stone tablet, and laughed resentfully:

"Hahaha, I never thought that all my scheming would end up stopping here."

After a long sigh, the man suddenly turned around and stared at Lin Jue, his expression dejected. He said, "The gray rocks that these mountain beasts turned into are all black crystal stones that those Nascent Soul stage monsters outside value. You didn't expect that a single black crystal stone could attract the attention of a Nascent Soul stage monster outside, but here they are piled up into a mountain."

"Who exactly are you? You can't just be a disciple of Tianwu Mountain."

Lin Jue intently watched the man's every move.

Not only did he appear here, but he also seemed to know this place inside and out, so his identity could not be as simple as a traitor from the inner court of Tianwu Mountain.

The man dismissed Lin Jue's question with disdain, and chuckled helplessly to himself, "Who I am is no longer important. For a dying man, nothing matters anymore."

As soon as he finished speaking, the man glanced at Lin Jue with a half-smile, then suddenly turned into dust and drifted away with the wind.

"Did he just die like that?"

Lin Jue was taken aback and paused for a moment.

Suddenly, after the man died, the surrounding blood mist instantly rolled towards Lin Jue like a ghost.

The moment these blood mists touched his body, they immediately merged into it, recklessly devouring the vital energy within him.

In a short while, Lin Jue felt as if his body had been hollowed out, as if he were about to become a dried-up corpse and be buried in a foreign land.

Just when he thought he was doomed, the mysterious scroll suddenly burst out of his storage bag, then floated in the air and slowly unfurled.

In an instant, the surrounding blood mist was absorbed into the scroll. Even the blood mist that had originally merged into Lin Jue's body was forcibly drawn out of his body by a mysterious force, and finally merged into the scroll, into the house in the painting, and into that piece of broken chess.

Once he had recovered, Lin Jue immediately focused his mind on the painting and walked towards the house depicted in it.

Just like last time, yet different in that the game situation changed once again.

In the endgame, with the addition of another black stone, white has fallen into a disadvantageous position.

As Lin Jue gazed at the changing chessboard in the stone pavilion, amidst his confusion, he vaguely recalled some things, and some memories that didn't seem to belong to him surfaced in his mind.

Just as he was still immersed in those hazy memories, the scroll closed automatically, forcing him out of the picture.

Cracks have appeared on the surface of the stone tablet that the man had been leaning against.

Soon, piece after piece of stone peel began to fall off the surface of the stone tablet.

The stone tablet, originally bronze in color, has now become white and translucent, with lines of tiny characters faintly visible on its surface.

Lin Jue took a closer look and suddenly became overjoyed.

"The Four Symbols Beast God Technique!"

Unexpectedly, the stone tablet was inscribed with the Four Symbols Beast God Technique Manual, and not just the Eastern Azure Dragon, but the complete Four Symbols.

Besides the Four Phases Cultivation Method, there is also an ancient talisman inheritance: the Great Teleportation Talisman!

Simply draw this talisman on your body and combine it with the black crystal to instantly move several miles in one direction, comparable to the teleportation ability of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Lin Jue's eyes flashed with an unusual light, and everything before him made him speculate about the man's behavior earlier.

Thinking of how this person had meticulously planned and schemed, yet the Great Teleportation Talisman and the Four Symbols Beast God Technique had ended up benefiting him, Lin Jue couldn't help but feel a surge of secret joy.

With a long sigh, Lin Jue couldn't help but reach out and touch the stone tablet. Just as he was feeling sentimental, he saw the entire stone tablet suddenly turn into a beam of red light and enter his body along his arm.

Lin Jue was shocked, but after a moment's thought, his expression became somewhat strange.

The stone tablet was now floating quietly in his mind's eye, just like a spirit seal.

The two do not disturb each other, each occupying a region in the divine sea.