Don't let Yu Ding take on any more disciples.

Chapter 427 The Primordial Qi Moves Heaven and Earth
Jiang Ziya's loud shout immediately silenced the entire place; you could hear a pin drop.

When everyone came to their senses and looked closely at the woman, their expressions were filled with surprise and uncertainty.

Upon seeing this, the woman frowned and cried out, "What are you doing, Taoist priest? I'm not some kind of monster! You're hurting me! Let go! What kind of logic is it to hold a woman's hand in public like this?"

Unaware of the situation, the others whispered amongst themselves upon seeing this.

Suddenly someone shouted, "Jiang Ziya, quickly release this girl! She's not some kind of monster; you're the one who looks like a sorcerer."

Someone else chimed in, "How could you do something so shameless in public at your age? This is under the King's feet! Let go! We can't tolerate your insolence here."

Jiang Ziya turned his head and saw a middle-aged man. Upon seeing him, he immediately retreated to the back of the crowd.

He had some impression of this person and had been coming to watch him tell fortunes lately, calling him "immortal master" and "old immortal" repeatedly.

Jiang Ziya said loudly, "Fellow villagers, please listen to me. It is not that I, Jiang Shang, am disrespectful to my elders, but this woman is a demon, and I have just subdued her."

Someone shouted, "You're talking nonsense! This is clearly a perfectly normal person, how can you call him a demon? Let go!"

The crowd refused to believe it and shouted angrily, their emotions running high.

"Let go!"

"Release them immediately!"

The crowd roared angrily and surrounded him, throwing eggs and vegetable leaves at him. Some men even tried to pry his hands off the female demon.

Alas, mortals... Jiang Ziya shook his head helplessly, but in his heart he was thinking about how to deal with the current situation.

As far as he knew, there was a department in Chaoge City called the Xuan Niao Division, which was composed of Qi cultivators and was dedicated to capturing and dealing with demons and evil spirits.

"Demon! I'll expose your true form!"

Suddenly, a fierce glint flashed in Jiang Ziya's eyes. He made a decision, shouted loudly, and with his right hand forming a sword gesture that emitted golden light, he pointed a finger at the woman's brow.

The woman screamed and flew through the air. As she slowly got up, blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.

"Jiang Ziya, how dare you commit violence in the street?"

The crowd immediately erupted in anger and began to denounce Jiang Ziya, but Jiang Ziya shouted, "Run! Demon, don't you dare hurt people!"

Before he could finish speaking, two panicked cries rang out from the crowd.

Everyone turned to look and saw the woman in mourning clothes grabbing two burly men by the neck with both hands. Her body radiated a jade-colored demonic light, and her expression was resentful and vicious, making her look even more ferocious.

"You filthy Taoist priest, how dare you ambush me?! I'll take your life!"

The succubus gritted her teeth and then opened her mouth to inhale. Wisps of white mist emerged from the seven orifices of the two men and entered her mouth and nose.

She was caught off guard when the Taoist priest grabbed her vital point, and then his magic power froze her demonic light, rendering her unable to use her skills. Only then did she give in, thanks to the help of these mortals.

At this moment, she could tell that although the Taoist priest had some skill, it was not very high.

"Monster...monster!"

Upon seeing this, the initially angry crowd fell silent, panicked, and scattered in all directions, creating a chaotic scene.

"Five Thunder Technique!"

Jiang Ziya shouted loudly, raised his hand, bit his left middle finger, drew the Five Thunder Talisman on his right palm, and unleashed a palm strike while circulating his innate primordial energy.

With a series of booming sounds, the talisman flew out from the palm, transforming into golden lightning that shot towards the female demon.

The female demon's expression changed drastically. She abandoned the two men and went to the top of a restaurant, where she said sternly, "You stinking Taoist priest, I'll remember you. I'll make sure you suffer... no good."

Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Ziya unleashed another Five Thunderbolts spell at her, startling her so much that she forgot all her threats and flew into the sky, heading towards the distance.

"Monster, where are you going?"

Jiang Ziya stared at the departing demonic figure. His originally cloudy, old-man-like gaze suddenly became intense. After taking a long breath, he pushed his hands forward, causing his clothes to burst open.

His originally gray hair began to turn black, the wrinkles on his face disappeared, and a rumbling sound came from his body, like a dry riverbed suddenly flooded. His body and muscles swelled up as if inflated, his muscles bulged and the lines were distinct, and he grew a foot taller.

In the blink of an eye, he transformed from a white-haired old man in his seventies into a burly man with jet-black hair, eight feet tall, in his prime in his forties, and with astonishing muscles.

"Primordial Qi..."

Jiang Ziya circulated his primordial energy in his hands, and his hands, radiating golden light, moved three times in front of him to draw a Tai Chi diagram.

Then he gathered and condensed the energy of Tai Chi into a fist-sized golden ball of light with both palms.

Jiang Ziya looked up at the fleeing female demon, his eyes gleaming with golden light, and roared, "Shake the heavens and earth!"

He pulled the ball of light back with both hands and then pushed it out violently. The intense radiance it emitted drew an arc in the sky like a sun, striking the fleeing banshee at an incredible speed.

"Ah...ah...ah..."

Immediately, explosions and the banshee's screams rang out continuously. Then, with a loud bang, the ball of light exploded with a 'boom,' and the violent shockwave spread in all directions, the dazzling light illuminating the world and making it impossible to look directly at it.

A small mushroom cloud appeared in the sky!
"The one who grants boundless blessings... Heavenly Venerable?!"

Jiang Ziya stood there dumbfounded, muttering to himself, unable to even pronounce his Taoist name properly, and looked down at his hands in shock.

Was that earth-shattering attack really delivered by him?
The primordial energy that moves heaven and earth has such power?
This move is the ultimate technique of his "One Qi Divine Skill," but he has only ever practiced it and has never actually fought anyone with it.

He had no idea that the "One Qi Divine Skill" was so powerful!

He had only taken advantage of the demon's unpreparedness to launch a sneak attack, intending to teach the demon a lesson so that it would never again cause trouble in the human world.

who knows……

"Divine skill, haha, Senior Brother Yu Ding truly had foresight in choosing this name. No, perhaps Senior Brother's discerning eyes had already seen the extraordinary nature of this skill." Jiang Ziya couldn't help but get excited.

He let out a long breath, and his body deflated as if air had leaked out, returning to its original emaciated state. His hair turned gray again, and wrinkles began to appear.

What extraordinary talent and brilliance this senior brother must possess to have created such a divine skill!

A millennium-old being was reduced to nothing but bones by this one move... Hmm?

His gaze shifted, and he saw an object emitting a spiritual light falling from the distant sky.

"There's a treasure!" Jiang Ziya immediately leaped into the air and chased after the object.

As soon as he left, only the lingering fear of the crowd remained, as they emerged from behind the objects they had been hiding, feeling as if everything that had just happened was a dream.

only……

The two men lying on the ground, whose hair had turned gray and wrinkles had appeared on their faces after the demon had drained their life force, and who had aged nearly twenty years in an instant, told them that it was all true.

Just then, a group of people escorted a bright carriage and hurriedly arrived.

A guard stepped forward and said, "The Prime Minister has something to ask you. You few, come with me to answer."

The guards designated several men to come forward to the carriage.

The carriage curtain was lifted, and Bi Gan, still showing signs of shock, glanced at the mushroom cloud that had not yet disappeared in the sky and asked, "What just happened here?"

Several commoners exchanged glances, and one of them mustered his courage and stepped forward, saying, "Your Excellency, a woman came here to have her fortune told, and the fortune teller insisted that she was a monster..."

The group recounted what had just happened in vivid detail.

“So that woman really is a demon. If the fortune teller has such supernatural powers, he must be a living god. Where is he now?” Bigan quickly asked.

To be able to make such a commotion is already a skill akin to that of an immortal.

Apart from Grand Tutor Wen, no one else in the entire Chaoge possessed such abilities and methods, which made him appreciate talent.

One of the common people said, "He just flew up and disappeared somewhere."

Upon hearing this, Bi Gan's face showed disappointment, but he suddenly asked, "By the way, do you know the stall owner's name and where he lives?"

One person said, "Reporting to the Prime Minister, the fortune teller's surname is Jiang, given name Shang, courtesy name Ziya, and he seems to live in Songjiazhuang outside the city."

“Songjiazhuang?!” Bigan noted down this information.

At this time, the other side.

"Is this what just fell down?" Jiang Ziya frowned as he looked at the jade pipa in his hand.

Five different colored ghosts surrounded him. These were five mischievous spirits he had subdued from Song Yi's family. It was only after dealing with these guys that he returned to his old profession and began to change his luck.

He had just summoned five ghosts to help him find the lost item, and in the end, as expected, he obtained it.

Upon hearing this, the five ghosts nodded hastily.

"This jade pipa has absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and has been cultivated for a thousand years, making it a truly rare treasure."

Jiang Ziya pondered and said, "This demon has had its cultivation scattered and its true form revealed by me, but it still has a glimmer of hope. However, I have no grudge against it, and we should not go too far in everything. Since it is a piece of jade... it is destined to be given to Senior Brother Yu Ding. It would be appropriate to give it to him when we meet again in the future."

He immediately handed the jade pipa to the five ghosts and told them to take it home.

As for him... sigh, he had bad luck going out and ran into a monster who overturned his stall. Where can one go to seek justice?

He just wants to earn some money to go back and deal with his shrewish wife.

Why did he hesitate to refuse in the first place? If he had refused, none of this mess would have happened.
As a result, after getting married, she was scolded every day for being useless, incompetent, unable to earn money, and good for nothing. She was constantly beaten and verbally abused.

He was a worldly man who was tolerant and didn't want to argue with that short-sighted woman.

But sometimes, when that shrew's insults were too harsh or her blows too hard, he would instinctively want to fight back.

If Jiang Ziya had to choose the decision he would never regret in his life, he would definitely choose to go to Yuxu Palace. As for the decision he would regret the most...

"I regret it so much!"

"Ahem, is that... the immortal Jiang Ziya ahead?"

Just as Jiang Ziya was cleaning up his mess, a voice suddenly sounded behind him.

Jiang Ziya turned around awkwardly, only to see several heavily armed men. He couldn't help but feel uneasy and asked, "That's me. Do you gentlemen have something to discuss with me?"

The soldiers stood on either side, raised their hands in a gesture of invitation, and behind them was a carriage.

"Master Jiang, Uncle Wang requests your presence!"

At this moment, in a small courtyard outside the palace.

"Is the 'One Qi Divine Skill' really that powerful?"

The old Taoist priest, who was the clone of Yu Ding, looked at the sky in astonishment. Little Jiang has not wasted his years of training!
In addition...

"Is this kid using innate Qi to lock in his blood and slow his heartbeat to delay aging and stay at his peak?" the old Taoist sighed.

His "One Qi Divine Skill" involves cultivating one's inner Qi and externally strengthening muscles, bones, and skin; one of these Qi is actually the innate One Qi.

As we all know, as people age, their vital energy and blood gradually dry up and deplete until they die. But Jiang Ziya came up with this solution.

This allows him to recover to his peak condition when he was young and full of energy, and to fight against powerful enemies at any time.

For example... this time.

Unlike the original story, this time Xiao Jiang used his Qi Divine Skill to revert the Pipa Spirit to her original form.

Instead of taking the Pipa Spirit to the palace as before, and burning her true form with Samadhi Fire in front of the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Based on the subsequent developments, it seems that Xiao Jiang will be entering the imperial court in Chaoge to serve as an official.

For the next few days, Jiang Ziya did not come to the street to set up a fortune-telling stall.

This disappointed some people who came specifically to have their fortunes told, until one day, a piece of news came out.

Jiang Ziya was rewarded for his meritorious service in eliminating the demon and was recommended to the king by Bi Gan, who appointed him as a lower-ranking official.

Meanwhile, deep within the royal palace, in the Longevity Palace.

"Elder sister, you must stand up for your third sister!" the pheasant spirit cried out in anguish.

Daji gritted her teeth and said, "Jiang Ziya, we have no grudge against you, yet you harmed my third sister. We are sworn enemies with you!"

The pheasant spirit said, "Also, eldest sister, I can't find the true form of my third sister no matter how hard I look. I asked my clansmen, and they said it fell into the hands of Jiang Ziya."

"Jiang Ziya! Jiang Ziya! Why is this person opposing us..." The nine-tailed fox was also somewhat frantic.

The pheasant spirit said dejectedly, "We came here with a heavy mission, but we never expected that our eldest sister would be 'slept with' by the King of Shang, and our third sister would die before she could even begin her mission. What am I supposed to do?"

Upon hearing this, the nine-tailed fox coughed awkwardly and said, "There will be a way, there will be a way. Alas, I underestimated the methods of this Shang king."

She had cultivated for a thousand years and never took a mortal seriously, even if that person was the king of the human race.

But when she actually got close to the man, his eyes seemed to see through everything, and the slightest movement from her made her feel like she had been discovered.

Furthermore, the other party seemed to possess a dual cultivation technique far more powerful than that of their fox clan; instead of absorbing her vital energy, she was the one having it absorbed...

Who would have thought that she, a powerful and influential demon outside, would now live such a precarious life in this palace?

Time flies.

Three years passed quickly.

It's another sweltering summer, with the blazing sun scorching like fire.

"Third Young Master, wait for me!"

A servant shouted, chasing after the third young master ahead.

The so-called Third Young Master was a boy of about seven years old, dressed in gorgeous clothes, with a hint of red visible at the collar, and a gold bracelet hanging on his right hand.

To his dismay, no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer catch up with the boy.

The boy, his face covered in sweat from the sun, asked, "Erhu, how far is the river you mentioned that we used to swim in as kids?"

The servant pointed ahead and said, "Young master, do you see those two rows of willow trees ahead? That's the river. The water is very cool and refreshing, perfect for escaping the summer heat. We've been swimming there since we were little."

The boy looked up and saw that it wasn't far away. His face lit up with joy, and he ran excitedly toward the shade of the trees.

"La la la, I love taking baths and my skin feels so good, but my father can't do anything about it and I don't have a master."

Just as the boy approached, he heard a humming sound coming from behind the shade, and he was surprised and reached out to lift the shade.

But just as his hand approached, the dense green shade was torn apart by a claw.

As soon as the lid was lifted, two pairs of eyes stared at each other in disbelief.

"People!"

"Dragon!"

Two equally startled voices rang out, and instantly, the two figures recoiled as if springs were attached to their legs, creating distance between them.

The young master's left hand had already touched the gold bracelet on his right hand.

But what he saw opposite him was a white dragon with scales over ten feet long, its right claws outstretched in a defensive stance, its expression equally wary.

"Where did this dragon come from, daring to bathe in the river of my Chentang Pass? State your name!" the young master shouted.

Honestly, the moment he leaned in and pressed his dragon face against me... anyone would be terrified.

However, once he calmed down, he wasn't afraid anymore. What's there to be afraid of about a dragon?

His father slaughtered one and ate it for a long time but still couldn't finish it. In the end, his master boiled it into a pot of medicine to temper his body.

The dragon shouted, "You brat, this river is the mouth of the East Sea, clearly within the territory of the East Sea. Who said it belongs to Chen Tang Pass?"

The boy scoffed, "That's what my father said."

The white dragon laughed: "If your father says so, then it is."

The boy stared at the white dragon and said seriously, "Yes, what my father says goes!"

After the man and the dragon finished speaking, they stared at each other and frowned simultaneously.

They both sensed that the other was not someone to be trifled with.

For a moment, the atmosphere between them became extremely tense, and even the cicadas in the trees and the frogs in the river wisely kept quiet.

(End of this chapter)