Stellar Martial Arts

5. Mysterious old man

Ling Chen continued wandering around, looking around if he can get some good cultivation art in 5 gold but even after 2 hours of going through every stall and every shop, he couldn't find any. He sighed ruefully " without sufficient money I can't even buy a basic cultivation art much less stellar martial cultivation art."

....

Just when he was about to go home he saw an old man in black clothing, he also had some weapons and ancient-looking scrolls and was signalling him to go there, his hair was white and his face has wrinkles and a sword scar on his face that went from his left eye to his right jaw. He was a terrifying-looking old man, seeing his face Ling Chen shivered but after gulping down he went to him asked politely 

"Old man, do you need anything?"

The old man smiled but his smile was like the opening of a demon's mouth. The old man said

"Don't be an afraid young lad. I just look bad, I won't do anything to you." 

Ling Chen smiled and said " old man, it's not that you look bad, but you look terrifying. It is natural for a weak little boy like me to be afraid."

The old man frowned then suddenly burst out laughing "Good, you little rascal, I never had anyone say this in front of me, you are very courageous. good, good. "

Ling Chen suddenly felt like his heart was going to stop from the old man's aura and he took a step back.

'This old man's aura is so strong, I can feel it pressing me down, even though he isn't using any of his strength or actively releasing his aura. I'm sure, his cultivation is beyond Houtian or even the Xiantian realm. With this much strength, why is this old man sitting here selling his wares like any other ordinary man.' Ling Chen heavily gulped and tried to calm down. 

While he was thinking this, the old man glanced at him from head to toe and smiled when he saw Ling Chen's anxious expression.

"Little boy don't worry. I won't eat you, haha....." The old man laughed and asked in a curious tone " I saw you running around and asking for Steller martial cultivation art when you have only 5 gold. You should know that you can't get a cultivation art like that in 5 gold right? And even if you can, what is the point of a weak boy like you who has already cultivated to 2nd layer with yuan Qi*, to cultivate in it.....it won't do you any good and judging from your cultivation speed and how you only have this cultivation, your talent isn't any good when it comes to cultivation."

[ Qi of heaven and earth is yuan Qi from now on.]

Ling Chen chuckled when he saw that a mysterious old man like him was so interested in knowing his reason for finding steller cultivation art. Well, when it comes to cultivation speed, he was undoubtedly slower and his cultivation realm, on average, was about 3 realms behind his age group's martial artists.

He then said " old man, you are looking down on me too much...., I still have a chance to cultivate in steller Martial Arts, when my cultivation is only 2nd layer of body tempering realm, I just have to destroy my cultivation and expel the accumulated Yuan Qi. And while it is true that my cultivation realm and speed is much lower than others of my age group, it is only because I didn't cultivate using any cultivation art. Seeing you are an 'almighty' old man, you should know that without any cultivation art, one's speed would naturally be slower."

The old man was stunned but it wasn't because Ling Chen was slightly disrespectful to him knowing he was a lot weaker than the old man, it was because without excellent talent and strong enough willpower, not no child of his age can cultivate without any cultivation art. Without cultivation art one would find himself cultivating with the speed of 1/10th of normal cultivators and would get bored to death even before reaching 1st layer not to mention 2nd layer and even after that, still able to think of cultivating from scratch.

The old man then glanced at Ling Chen deeply and said " little boy, I apologize for looking down on you. Your talent is indeed outstanding when you have reached this level without any cultivation art and you also have a firm mindset."

Now it was time for Ling Chen to be stunned. No powerful expert will admit his mistake and apologize to someone who is an ant in his eyes, but just now this old man did so. 

' even though this old man looks terrible....what, no... terrifying, he is indeed worthy to be admired when he has such forbearance even after being so powerful. I should learn this from him, maybe when I'm this powerful... Some beautiful chicks might get hooked because of this quality.....hehe'

Ling Chen lost himself in his weird imagination.

Then the old man said " let me ask you something. If I give you a powerful steller cultivation art, will you do something for me when you become a strong expert?"

Ling Chen was startled '' old man if it is something I can help you with I'll help you, no doubt. But I won't be doing anything weird, it is up to you if you want to give that 'powerful' steller cultivation art or not."