One person said: The essence of Wuhou Qimen lies not in Qimen, but in Wuhou.

The mountain wind suddenly stopped.

The clamor and emotions of the day were completely stripped away at this moment, leaving only two calm and composed figures in the entire training ground.

There was no unnecessary talk, and no unnecessary preamble.

The old Celestial Master Zhang Zhiwei slowly withdrew his hands from his wide sleeves, his face solemn and dignified, and solemnly performed the highest Taoist Tai Chi Meridian Incantation for Zhuge Ming.

Zhuge Ming remained calm, his hands clasped together, his fingers interlaced like dragon claws, forming the ancient Yin-Yang Qimen greeting card ceremony passed down for thousands of years by the Zhuge Wuhou School.

This is an ancient tradition respecting another ancient tradition, and a contemporary supreme being recognizing a future supreme being!

The ceremony is over.

"boom!"

A muffled thud, like the beating of a heart, suddenly exploded from the void beneath their feet without warning!

Moved!

Without any pre-casting animation, and without even drawing upon the slightest bit of the Qi of Heaven and Earth, the originally towering figure of the Celestial Master Zhang Zhiwei broke free from the constraints of physical inertia in an instant, transforming into a blurry black line that tore through space, directly traversing a distance of thirty steps, and appearing directly in front of Zhuge Ming!

Simple and unadorned, returning to the essence of things!

The old master's large, age-spotted hand, like a dragon reaching out with its claws, swept down with a gust of wind as it seemingly struck Zhuge Ming's face without any apparent difficulty!

That was the world-famous "Celestial Master's Slap"!

This palm strike once effortlessly shattered Lu Jin's rampaging Reverse Life Triple Force, and once casually suppressed the two heroes Ding Shian!

Before the palm strike even arrived, the air around Zhuge Ming was already emitting a sharp, unbearable wail. The stone chips on the ground didn't even have time to fly before they were crushed into dust by the terrifying wind pressure unleashed by this pure physical body!

Faced with a strike capable of instantly annihilating 99% of the extraordinary individuals in the world, Zhuge Ming showed no panic. He slightly shifted his stance, his palms flying like flowers and willows in flight—

"Wuhou Baguazhang: Turning the Tide!"

Zhuge Ming's hands precisely landed on the old master's wrists and elbows, his five fingers snapping like steel hooks, his muscles and bones resonating and bursting with a series of crisp, popping sounds like popping beans! He didn't try to meet this immense force head-on, but instead followed the old master's violent forward momentum, using a masterful method of deflecting the force, his arms suddenly pulling outwards like dragons playing in water!

Use someone's strength against them, and go with the flow!

"Bang!!"

The two bodies passed each other in a flash. The old master's palm strike, which was originally aimed at the center, was forcibly deflected by three inches by Zhuge Ming. The violent palm wind whistled past Zhuge Ming's ear and slammed into the blue stone stands dozens of meters away, directly blasting half of the stands into a terrifying hole with a diameter of three zhang!

However, what level of cultivation did the Old Celestial Master possess? In the fraction of a second that the palm force was deflected, the Old Celestial Master subtly flicked his wrist, turning his palm into a blade and slashing horizontally towards Zhuge Ming's throat. The speed of his change of move was so fast that even a nerve reflex could not catch it!

Zhuge Ming's pupils contracted slightly. Instead of retreating, he advanced, his left hand slamming down to seal the edge of the old Celestial Master's palm, while his right hand, with its five fingers shaped like an eagle's claw, gripped the three major acupoints under the old Celestial Master's ribs with a piercing, tearing sound.

"Wuhou School - Dislocating Tendons and Bones Technique!"

"clang!!"

A tremendous metallic clang, like the sound of an ancient temple bell being struck by a heavy hammer, suddenly tore apart the entire training ground!

Zhang Chulan, standing in the stands, clutched his ears in pain, his eardrums throbbing with agony.

In the very center of the training ground, Zhuge Ming's eagle claws, powerful enough to shatter gold and split rocks, gripped the old master's waist and ribs, but they did not touch the texture of flesh. Instead, they were blocked in mid-air by a layer of warm, flowing light as thin as a cicada's wing but indestructible!

Divine radiance concealed within, flawless golden body!

The old master's body didn't even emit a dazzling golden light. He simply relied on the flawless golden light that flowed instinctively under his skin to forcefully repel Zhuge Ming's bone-dislocating hand, which was full of extreme internal energy!

The violent recoil force flowed upwards along the bones of his hand, and Zhuge Ming's body flipped in mid-air like a roc spreading its wings, sliding backwards for more than ten feet before lightly touching the ground with his toes to stop his momentum.

Looking down, his right hand's five fingers were slightly red, and a faint burning numbness came from his palm.

The old celestial master opposite him slowly withdrew his hand, stood with his hands behind his back, glanced down at his black Taoist robe, which had been torn half an inch by the force of the energy, and a hint of surprise and admiration finally appeared in his cloudy eyes:

"What superb skills... seemingly simple yet incredibly skillful, combining strength and gentleness."

Young friend, your cultivation of life force and your skill in close combat have probably already surpassed the threshold of a grandmaster from a prestigious family.

With your skill in hand and foot alone, there are few in the world who can reliably defeat you.

"You flatter me, Master."

Zhuge Ming flicked his wrist lightly, a smug and fiery smile spreading across his lips: "To show off my skills in front of you is like trying to teach a fish to swim."

"If I don't demonstrate some real skill, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to decipher your Taoist robe today."

The moment the words left his mouth, Zhuge Ming's eyes suddenly darkened!

He slightly lifted his left foot, and then... stomped heavily on the bluestone slab beneath his feet!

"Thump!"

It was a dull tremor, like the thunder of a god beating a heavenly drum!

"Buzz—!!"

In an instant, with Zhuge Ming's left foot as the absolute center, a dazzling blue and pale purple-gold light, so bright it made the world lose its color, spread wildly from the bottom of his feet like a raging tide!

In the void, light distorts.

A massive, semi-transparent Tai Chi Bagua disc, so large it completely obscured the entire training ground, rose from nothingness with layers upon layers of rapidly rotating Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and Zhou Tian runes!

The Earthly Plate has eight trigrams! The Heavenly Plate has nine stars! The Human Plate has eight gates! The Divine Plate has eight gods!

Four plates unite as one, heaven and earth enter the game!

"Set the center...arrange the four plates!!"

Zhuge Qing, standing on the stands, suddenly slumped against the protective barrier, his eyes bloodshot, and muttered hoarsely, "Four Great Perfections... the Qimen Formation's coverage area... it actually encompassed the entire back mountain of the main peak within the formation?! How is this possible?!"

An ordinary Wuhou School sorcerer who can set up a divination formation that covers an area of ​​several feet is already considered a genius among geniuses. Even Zhuge Qing could only set up a divination formation of more than ten feet at the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony.

But with this step Zhuge Ming took advantage of the power of heaven and earth, he forcefully turned the entire world into his own absolute home ground!

"Master, please enlighten me!"

Zhuge Ming stood in the central palace, his eyes blazing with a deep blue light. He made a sword-finger gesture with one hand and drew it out in mid-air!

"Earthly Bagua - Kun Character · Earth River Chariot!!"

Rumble, rumble, rumble—!!

The training ground went completely wild in that instant!

The once solid granite surface began to churn violently, like boiling oil in a pot.

Accompanied by a deafening roar of the Earthly Fiends, three ferocious stone dragons, each several meters in diameter and formed entirely from countless hard rocks and earth vein energy, roared and burst forth from the ground beneath the Old Celestial Master's feet with overwhelming ferocity that could tear the earth apart!

The stone dragon opened its bottomless maw and, from the top, middle and bottom, with terrifying kinetic energy capable of crushing everything, fiercely bit down!

However, faced with the earth's divine power that was churning up the seas, the old celestial master remained calm and did not even move his feet an inch.

"Transformation".

The old master uttered two words calmly.

"boom!!"

A dazzling, pure yang golden light erupted from the Old Celestial Master's body!

It was no longer a protective light membrane as thin as a cicada's wing, but rather a blazing sun that had fallen to earth! The vast primordial energy, as boundless as the ocean, was compressed and materialized to an extreme degree, instantly condensing into two giant crimson-gold hands, each over ten feet long, with strong, powerful fingers, resembling divine sculptures, in front of the old Celestial Master!

"Transforming Qi into Form: Giant Spirit Golden Hand!"