Dream of the Red Chamber: Starting from Immortal Martial Arts

The large hand was enveloped in a rich, incense-like spiritual energy, seemingly covering the sky and the earth, as it reached out to grab Jia Tang.

Jia Tang neither dodged nor avoided, but a dazzling golden light surged around him, forming a golden cocoon that protected him.

The next instant, the cocoon of light shattered, coalescing into a majestic golden tiger.

"Supernatural Power - Golden Tiger Suppressing the Mountain"

A large brown hand reached out to grab the giant tiger. Where the two touched, white steam began to rise with a hissing sound. The giant hand was completely worn away, but the giant tiger remained unharmed.

The next instant, Jia Tang stepped out of the giant tiger's body with a blank expression, only to see another giant object emerge from Shugang behind him. It was a twelve-zhang-long foot wearing hemp shoes, which descended from the sky and stomped towards Jia and the others.

Jia Tang sneered twice, his voice echoing through heaven and earth: "Two mere second-level Incense Dao cultivators with only six miles of divine consciousness, who haven't even grasped any supernatural powers, kill them."

The range of first-order Qi, literary Qi, and evil Qi leaving the body corresponds to the number of times the internal organs have been tempered. The size of the void condensed by second-order martial cultivators, literary cultivators, and evil cultivators in the early, middle, and late stages corresponds to two, three, and four times the distance of divine sense, respectively. If the distance is exceeded, the divine sense cannot connect with the primordial Qi, and it cannot be used even if one wants to.

The third-tier Divine Transformation is based on this foundation, multiplied by a factor of two, and calculated separately.

Furthermore, martial arts supernatural powers are enhanced by Dao traces, giving them extraordinary phenomena, which disappear when the Qi condenses in the void.

As soon as he finished speaking, the martial blood flowing through Jia Tang's body surged like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and even the hair on his body was filled with golden light.

The next instant, he opened his mouth and spat out a ray of light that pierced through space and vanished in an instant.

In the shade of a tree six miles north of the river below, a middle-aged Taoist priest's originally calm face gradually turned ugly. He felt an overwhelming and powerful divine sense enveloping him, making it difficult to mobilize his vital energy.

Then he suddenly heard thunder roaring from the other person's body, and a shadow instantly fell over his heart.

A sudden, faint golden glint appeared in the Taoist's eyes and shot rapidly toward his brow.

A small bell flew out from the middle-aged Taoist priest's arms and hovered above his head, casting wisps of azure-gold energy that formed a protective shield around him.

It was originally a second-tier low-grade Yuan weapon. Then, with a "ding", the golden light collided with the light shield. Although the golden light was blocked, the cyan-gold light shield was also shattered, turning into star-like fragments that dissipated in the wind.

"Body born of thunderous sound? Body and blood refined nine times? You actually broke through to the second tier after nine refinements and even comprehended divine abilities!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a pair of tiger eyes that blotted out the sky appear behind Jia Tang, whose eyes were slightly closed, and even the sky was dyed golden.

As Jia Tang slowly raised his eyelids, his tiger eyes opened, and two beams of divine light shot out, disappearing in an instant.

Supernatural Power - Golden Eyes of Destruction

It is one of the supernatural powers that Jia Tang comprehended from the Divine Tiger Covering the Mountain Painting, which can detect and dispel illusions, discover weaknesses, and shoot out divine light to break through enemy formations.

"puff!"

The divine light burst through the middle-aged cultivator's head, splattering brain matter and blood in all directions. His headless body crashed heavily into the forest, the divine light even piercing through the ground behind him, creating two deep craters that slowly emitted wisps of smoke.

While Luo Miao and Luo Ze were still in a daze, they saw Jia Tang turn and fly away. Before they could even feel happy, a huge tiger head appeared behind them, its upper and lower jaws closing and biting them. Then the tiger head gently spat out the two of them, and they fell straight down from mid-air, making two deep thuds on the riverbank and turning into a puddle of mud.

As Jia Tang was flying on the Qi, he suddenly noticed something strange. He turned his head and saw white light spots appearing on a small island in Zhuyu Bay behind him. Waves of spatial ripples spread outwards, and the space appeared with jagged cracks like a mirror. In a short while, they all disappeared as if they had never happened.

"The starting point of the secret realm? Hopefully, it's complete."

When this world was just beginning to recover, all that emerged were broken and incomplete secret realms. Whether one lived or died inside, and what one obtained, depended entirely on luck. The further one progressed, the richer the energy became, the more complete the secret realms became, and the more valuable the treasures appeared.

The signs of the secret realm appearing in the world were just as Jia Tang had seen, and this continued every day thereafter, with the entrance to the secret realm appearing directly in the world.

Once activated, the sky inside the secret realm is the same as the outside world, the reason for which is unknown.

According to the patterns summarized by our predecessors, the shortest time for birth is nine days, and the longest is five times nine. The longer the time, the more complete the secret realm.

Nine days after the secret realm opens, the mountains, buildings, and items inside will gradually disappear, and the secret realm will collapse after eighteen days.

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On the other side, Jia and the other four, who had just shattered the giant foot, heard Jia Tang's words and their divine senses locked onto the Taoist five miles away on the northwest side of the mountain forest below. Their qi spread along their divine senses and condensed into two fists and two feet, each fourteen feet in size, in the void above the Taoist's head.

"Four second-tier martial artists with divine senses at the seventh level?"

Amidst the old Taoist's horrified cries, fists and feet swooped down, shattering the Taoist's protective evil aura, crushing his body, smashing rocks, and shattering the ground. A thunderous roar resounded throughout the heavens and earth, causing the ground to sink and the river to split.

In the nearby city of Yangzhou, the Yangzhou garrison soldiers had already quickly assembled upon seeing the trapped enemy formation and were now setting off to provide reinforcements.

The leader, Wang Dahu, and the two commanders behind him, both at the Inner Strength Realm, recalled the four tiger heads that had just killed the enemy, and thought they had used all their trump cards.

Then, hearing a thunderous roar, imposing and indifferent tiger eyes, and earth-shattering fists and feet, he was overjoyed and struggled to float into the air, heading straight for the black-clad thief in the forest without a care in the world.

Damn, those thighs are really thick; the family retainers are all second-tier master cultivators.

When Jia Tang returned to Shugang, there were only sporadic shouts of killing around him. A large number of Yangzhou guards, wearing armor, with scabbards hanging on their sides and powerful bows on their backs, were beheaded by Wang Dahu and his two companions.

As soon as Jia Tang appeared, Jia He and the others surrounded him and reported, "General, the sorcerers have been almost all killed. Our troops suffered more than thirty wounds, but no one was seriously injured."

The arrows were all blocked by Jia and the other three, who were first-level Inner Strength commanders. The Tiger Guards, personal guards, and martial soldiers engaged in close combat with the bandits, who were mainly in the first three stages of the Refining Mortal Realm, and there were no significant losses.

Jia Tang looked around and saw that most of the seriously wounded were bronze-bone warriors, and they had all been bandaged up. They were now scanning their surroundings with great interest. When they saw their commander's gaze, they quickly bowed their heads.

Upon seeing Jia Tang return, Wang Dahu and his two companions hurriedly ran over to pay their respects, kneeling on one knee and clasping their hands in greeting: "Greetings, Commander."

When Wang Dahu heard his old brothers call him "General," he cursed them inwardly. "Shameless! I am a disciple of Ningguo Mansion. What are you two? How dare you call me 'General'?"

Jia Tang waved his hand: "Get up. It's all thanks to your help to the Lin family."

Wang Dahu looked ashamed and said, "This humble general is incompetent and failed to protect the noble lady."

"It's not your fault."

Jia Tang narrowed his eyes, looking at the massive city of Yangzhou ahead, and said indifferently, "Enter the city."

"only!"

Jia Tang led his team to the west gate of Yangzhou Prefecture. After entering the city, the Yangzhou Guard immediately dispatched three centurions to the east, south, and north gates to take over the city's defenses.

Upon seeing this, Jia He roared "Beat the drum!" and dispatched the garrison's scouts to scatter. He himself flew into the sky above the city, where a lifelike tiger head, fourteen feet tall, appeared above his head, roaring to the sky. He mustered his strength and shouted, "By order of Marquis Wu Ying, Yangzhou is to be sealed off immediately, and no one is allowed to enter or leave."

Pedestrians on the street were to immediately return home. A patrol of the entire city was to be conducted shortly, and anyone who disobeyed was to be executed on the spot. Furthermore, the pursuit of clues regarding the traitors of the Fragrance Sect and the Inaction Sect was to be undertaken; those who provided information were to be richly rewarded, while those who harbored or concealed them were to be executed along with their entire families.