Holy body, start with the Five Animal Exercises

231: Millions of soldiers from heaven are coming against the dark windInside Black Wind Cave, Tang Sanzang sat before a campfire, looking completely despondent.

Draped in his kasaya, he occasionally flipped the grilled fish over the campfire in front of him.

”Wukong, Ba Jie, why haven’t you come yet? Hurry and rescue Master out of here.”

At the cave entrance, Qin Jiang leaned against the wall with a somewhat surprised expression, holding a skewer of grilled fish.

”Strange, this Tang Sanzang doesn’t feel particularly special at all.”

”How is he the Man of Destiny?”

He frowned slightly; with his current Immortal Sense, there should be no methods capable of hiding anything from him.

Unless an existence at the Immortal King level had intervened, or perhaps there was something special about the power of Karma?

Or could it be that his own strength was truly insufficient?

At this thought, his gaze fell upon his status panel.

[Current Martial arts]

Immortal - Ten Directions Overlord Record (initial realm) (1500/120000) [99%]

Immortal - Azure Emperor Longevity Record (initial realm) (1000/80000) [95%]

[Branches]

Array Dao: Grand Sage of Array Dao (8000/100000)

Artifact Dao: Grandmaster of Crafting (4000/100000)

[Potential Points: 93264.6]

His Potential Points had increased by about fifty thousand. After all, Longevity City was an Immortal City; although the time spent there was short, the harvest was quite bountiful.

However, ninety thousand Potential Points was a bit of an awkward amount. There was currently no necessity to upgrade Array Dao or Artifact Dao.

While he had enough to upgrade the Azure Emperor Longevity Record, his experience during the Immortal Ascension Tribulation clearly showed that the Azure Emperor Longevity Record was not that simple.

Therefore, he wouldn’t consider it in the short term.

Moreover, he had a premonition that even if he studied other health-preserving techniques later, they would be assimilated by the Azure Emperor Longevity Record once he became an Immortal Martial Artist.

As for upgrading the Ten Directions Overlord Record, it wasn’t enough to reach the Middle Stage, so it wouldn’t cause a qualitative leap in his strength.

However, when he left in a few days, he should be able to collect some more Potential Points from Hua Junlan’s side, which would be enough for an upgrade.

’Potential, add points, Immortal - Ten Directions Overlord Record.’

[Immortal - Ten Directions Overlord Record (initial realm) (1500/120000) [99%], Potential Points +90000]

[Immortal - Ten Directions Overlord Record (initial realm) [99%] (91500/120000)]

[Potential Points: 3264.6]

A light breeze brushed past as Qin Jiang slowly opened his eyes. A platinum phantom flashed and vanished above Black Wind Ridge.

Clenching his fist slightly, his power had increased by about twofold. According to the Realm divisions, he could now be considered at the Peak of the initial realm, though he was still a bit short of the Initial Stage Limit.

As for his actual combat strength, he estimated it was now no weaker than the Middle Stage of an Immortal Lord.

However, that wasn’t the most important part. The most important thing was that his comprehension of the Law of Time had improved significantly.

Perhaps he wouldn’t need to wait until he was a Late-Stage Saint Lord; he might only need to reach the Middle Stage True Immortal Realm to walk within the River of Time.

Though he wouldn’t be able to change established facts—something even an Immortal King couldn’t do—

Simply walking into the past and speaking with people from back then should no longer be difficult.

He wanted to go back and see the First Ancestor of the Xia Emperor again, and even more, he wanted to go back hundreds of thousands of years to see the Human Emperor of that era.

He was also curious why, looking through a million years of ancient history, he could find no trace of Human Emperor Jiang, nor any trace of the Yellow Sky Divine Mother’s descent.

Was there something special about the land of Shenzhou?

Or was it that upon reaching the ultimate Realm of Immortal King, one transcended the restrictions of the River of Time, stepping onto the riverbank and remaining untouched by Karma?

Could such existences leave no trace of their presence even within the River of Time?

But then, who created the mist in the upper reaches? Surely the history of this world couldn’t be just a mere few million years?

Exactly who possessed such immense power to obscure that segment of ancient history?

As he pondered, a golden light suddenly flared on the horizon, and vast five-colored auspicious clouds spread across the sky.

Arriving with them was the rumbling sound of war drums, and the faint, overlapping shouts of battle cries could be heard.

Qin Jiang looked over and saw golden-armored soldiers standing across the sky in numbers that stretched beyond the horizon, each with an aura no weaker than an ordinary Secret Martial Artist.

At the front, dozens of golden-armored generals rode strange beasts that resembled tigers but had a pair of curved horns; all of them radiated the aura of True Gods.

Further ahead, several True Immortals led the way. One among them was a white-robed man holding a sword, possessing an air of transcendent immortality.

Beside him, Sun Xingzhe stood tall, carrying his heavenly immortal staff on his shoulder.

At this moment, Sun Xingzhe was in high spirits. In truth, he hadn’t believed from the start that this Elder Qin possessed strength comparable to an Immortal Lord.

What kind of existence was an Immortal Lord? Currently, there were only seven in the entire Zhongyuan Continent, and every single one was the leader of a major power.

How could some Elder Qin who just popped out of nowhere be at the Immortal Lord level? Especially when he had only just passed his Immortal Ascension Tribulation!

He, Sun Xingzhe, was born of the earth and heavens, condensing the essence accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years from the ten provinces and nine veins, yet he could only contend with the Peak of the Middle Stage while at the initial realm.

If he hadn’t been taught a lesson by this Elder Qin earlier, he would have even doubted if Qin Jiang’s strength had reached the Saint Lord Level.

”Old man, do we really need to deploy the Golden-Armored Heavenly Soldiers to deal with that Elder Qin? Couldn’t you just handle it yourself with the spirit slaughtering sword?”

Sun Xingzhe spoke to the Imperial Preceptor. These Golden-Armored Heavenly Soldiers were one of the foundations of the Emperor Ancestor Dynasty.

These golden-armored soldiers had life-bound array diagrams etched onto their bodies from a young age. Once they formed a battle array, a small unit of just a hundred was enough to contend with high-rank Divine Warriors.

An array of a thousand could contend with top-tier experts among True Gods, and ten thousand were enough to clash with a Middle Stage True Immortal.

As for the million brought this time, even a Peak figure among the Saint Lord Level wouldn’t necessarily be their match.

Under the command of the Imperial Preceptor, they truly possessed power comparable to an Immortal Lord!

He still felt that the Imperial Preceptor was being a bit too cautious.

The Imperial Preceptor shook his head slightly upon hearing this. ”Monkey, you are still too green.”

Back then, the Imperial Venerable had him hide his identity to teach this monkey. Although he had taught him many skills, the time had ultimately been too short, and he hadn’t yet taught him how to conduct himself in the world.

Thus, there was still some animalistic nature left in him that was hard to remove.

Sun Xingzhe scratched his head. If anyone else had said those words, he certainly would have been displeased.

But for some reason, just as he didn’t want to see the Emperor Ancestor Sovereign, he would always unconsciously relax in front of this Imperial Preceptor, and even the Innate hostility in his heart would be soothed.

At Black Wind Ridge, two figures appeared before Black Wind Cave; they were Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing.

”It’s Master! Why has the old man come?” Zhu Bajie looked up at the horizon, his eyes filled with surprise and also heartache.

His Master’s lifespan was nearing its end, yet he still had to personally lead an army into battle. If he hadn’t been so lazy in his younger years, perhaps he would have already reached the Saint Lord Great Realm by now, and there would be no need for his Master to step forward.

The Imperial Preceptor?

Sha Wujing looked up at the figure in the sky, a rare flicker of emotion appearing in his eyes.

Zhu Bajie looked toward Black Wind Cave, and Qin Jiang also withdrew his gaze to look at him and Sha Wujing.

Almost instantly, a chill climbed up their spines, causing cold sweat to break out on the backs of their necks.

”Not bad. As expected of the Nine-Treasure Zhu Ganglie, you truly are thick-skinned and sturdy,”

Qin Jiang said with a smile. Although that one sub-sword from his sword marrow only had the power level of a Half-step Saint Lord Level, it contained his Overlord Power.

Ordinary Saint Lords couldn’t erase his power; it could only be slowly worn away over time.

Hearing this, Zhu Bajie hurriedly cupped his hands. ”Senior overpraises me. I was only able to recover after taking the Seventh-Revolution Immortal Pill bestowed by my Master.”

He didn’t dare admit to being ’thick-skinned.’ If this person got interested and beat him up again, it would be a huge loss.

Seventh-Revolution Immortal Pills were extremely precious; it was only because his Master could refine them himself that he was able to get a bottle.

Otherwise, even a Middle Stage Immortal Artifact might not be enough to trade for one!

In the sky, auspicious clouds enveloped Black Wind Ridge, and a million Heavenly Soldiers stood with spears in hand.

Sun Xingzhe stood proudly on the clouds, leaning on his immortal staff, just about to shout some harsh words to challenge them, when he saw the Imperial Preceptor beside him already descending on a cloud.

”Immortal Lord, Immortal Lord, this old man is the Imperial Preceptor of the Emperor Ancestor Dynasty. I have come by order of the Imperial Venerable specifically to apologize.”