Crack!

The void was like a glass mirror, suddenly bursting with thick cracks, as Chen Xing’s seemingly unremarkable Black Tiger Heart Strike encompassed the heavens and earth within sixty yards, tightly grasped in his palm!

This scene left Bai Qi shocked; the master’s initial move was ordinary, showing no signs of mystery, yet once executed, its power seemed boundless!

It really is the "Black Tiger Heart Strike"!

Boom!

The night seemed like a torn curtain, with large areas of cloud matter swirling out, accompanied by a violent crackling sound!

As the array concealing the senses was broken, a series of straight rising smoke towers came into view.

"Five or six experts are spying on the Inheritance Hall! They’ve set up a Taoist Cultivation Array to hide!"

Bai Qi’s eyelid twitched, but he wasn’t surprised; Yihai Prefecture was a colossal city that swallowed Fulong Mountain’s three thousand miles, home to Daoist Temples, Pai Bang, and many elite professions, a breeding ground for talent.

As Ninghai Zen’s direct disciple, his arrival in the city was like a boulder dropped in a calm lake; the waves it stirred up won’t be small!

It’s impossible for only the weakened Hundred Rings Square Martial Guild from ten years ago to emerge.

Looking at it this way, other forces are watching and waiting for their chance to act!

If it weren’t for Bai Qi crossing long streets, fighting martial guilds, being nearly unbeatable, and acting too easily,

perhaps these scoundrels would have launched attacks from the shadows and used underhanded tricks by now!

"Master..."

Bai Qi’s brow jumped, crystal-clear thoughts rubbing against each other revealed smoke towers large and small.

A stern look appeared between his brows; are these the blood debts and feuds suppressed under the plaque of Tongwen Hall?

"Don’t worry, they can’t escape. I told you, the master is taking you to kill some people as a welcome ritual."

Chen Xing stood under the big willow tree, his physical shell surging with Qi blood like a fiery sea spreading out, evaporating the dense water vapor thrown at him.

His eyes glimmered, easily locking onto the obscure aura no more than a hundred miles away.

Immediately, his raised hand grabbed onto something, his fingers tightly clenched.

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...

"Bad! Who exposed us, letting Chen find us!"

"He’s just a Martial Artist; how is his spiritual sense so acute?"

"Quickly retreat! Old Weng might not survive, Chen Xing is difficult to deal with!"

"Even after being deprived of true power roots, he’s this strong; what kind of monsters are in the Tongwen Hall!"

"It’s unfortunate, letting a lousy fisherman from Black River County ride on our heads..."

Puff!

Approximately seventy to eighty miles away in a private courtyard, a man in embroidered robes, hidden within the formation, suddenly changed his complexion.

The heart hidden inside his body violently pulsed, emitting drumbeats like torrential rain.

The thread of aura with entangled essence and divine intent suddenly pulled tight.

Before he could react, the thick chest was pierced by invisible hands, brutally crushed!

"What sinister true skill is this?"

The embroidered robe man’s eyes lost focus, his entire being devoid of life, falling back.

Until his death, he hadn’t figured out the origin of this move!

His eyes were full of confusion and reluctance!

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...

Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff—

Chen Xing called out names, tracing the locked auras one by one.

Then, using the simple Black Tiger Heart Strike, smashed each vital point, ending lives.

"How about it, does this move catch your eye?"

Master was majestic and domineering!

With a flick, he casually killed one Four Cultivation Grandmaster, five Three Training Great Successes!

Bai Qi gasped, trying hard to let his gaze show more reverence.

Who would have thought the ordinary Black Tiger Heart Strike, in the master’s hands, could be so terrifying?

This martial arts talent is no lesser than Master Ninghai Zen’s monstrous comprehension!

Even in some aspects, it surpasses it!

You know, whether low or high-handed inheritance secret manuals were developed by predecessors through observing, imitating mountain-walking beasts and various birds, or perceiving nature, harmonizing with heaven and earth to invent martial arts techniques.

They were limited by the predecessors’ shackles and naturally had limitations.

This point is indisputable.

Like the once useful Eight Section Skills and Golden Core Great Strength Skills for Bai Qi, becoming insignificant now with his breakthrough past the Second Bone Training Barrier.

Once breaking through Divine Power Secret Realm, true skills also fall short, requiring a more superior absolute learning as support to advance realms.

Precisely because of this, the seven martial arts Upper Sects, five Taoist orthodox sects, hold such extraordinary standing, even being called "Worldly Holy Lands."

Only those mastering complete paths to the absolute peak, monopolizing ways to become Divine Power Giants, qualify to stand equal with the Dragon Court, overlooking the Divine Land.

But master’s so-called "transforming rot into magical" martial arts talent seems unbounded?

"Master’s way equates pushing a crude and poor Black Tiger Heart Strike with limitless potential to the ninety-ninth level!

From subpar to true skill grade, hence possessing such incredible unmatched power!"

Bai Qi pondered silently, speculating, then wasn’t surprised.

After all, being Ninghai Zen’s master couldn’t be ordinary.

Even those listed on the transmission tablet, capturing the Sect Leader position, must possess some astonishing skills.

"Excellent! Truly, our Tongwen Hall is flourishing, teeming with talent!

With two Grandmasters as backers, I’ll act more.... righteously when venturing out, assured by extra measures!"

Bai Qi felt more settled, the tension and vigilance upon entering Yihai Prefecture eased somewhat.

"A bunch of cowardly bandits collaborating with that old dog Weng Xiusheng, looking to stir troubles."