Cultivation System: Stronger with Age

At this moment, facing the formidable power of the Black Tiger Gang's Four Great Stewards, Hu Shuo and the others had already retreated at great speed. Hu Shuo, the red-faced Steward, was indeed kind-hearted. Seeing the pie-seller Old Zhang had fainted on the ground, he picked up the old man and urged his disciples to carry the other unconscious civilians, continuing to retreat further back!

At the street entrance, the Black Tiger Gang members who had retreated tens of zhang were initially filled with fear. But seeing the Four Great Stewards approaching, their expressions relaxed, and they looked on with hope.

Li Hu Wu Sanlang walked towards Lin Xuankong. The other three followed closely, circulating their Qi and Blood as they surrounded him. Among them, Li Hu Wu Sanlang and Shihu Hu Qing both began to emit low tiger roars from within their bones. Their already tall statures suddenly grew even larger. Wu Sanlang became over four meters tall, his entire body swelling enormously, and his fierce claws extended over sixty centimeters, pitch black as ink! Beside him, Hu Qing's aura was equally ferocious. Their Mad Roar Bone Technique had clearly reached a profound level, vastly more formidable than Bearded and Zhao Dalong!

Sima Liuyun took a deep breath, his abdomen inflating like a balloon. Pang Hu Daxiong's whole body swelled up. He was already round and balloon-like, and now, using his Fierce Roar Technique, he became as round as if drawn with a compass, his limbs retracting! His Celestial Tiger Ferocious Roar Skill of the Transcendence Realm was evidently even deeper than Sima Liuyun's.

Standing not far away, Ma Jiang observed this scene with deep apprehension. He couldn't defeat any of these four Grand Chief Stewards individually. A careless mistake could lead to certain death! He looked worriedly at the Conical Hat Guest. Even if the guest is at the Early or Mid-grade of the Fourth Layer, this time will be hard to handle without expertly using his Twin Vine Demon Pearl! Otherwise, he will be defeated in an instant! Unfortunately, I came too hastily and should have notified the Chief Steward first...

At this very moment, "ROAR! ROAR!" Two terrible tiger roars exploded. Countless ripples instantly assaulted Lin Xuankong. If Lin Xuankong hadn't recently gained a fortune and replaced all his clothing with black python skin, merely these two tiger roars would have shattered all his clothes, mask, and conical hat, leaving him stark naked on the spot!

Simultaneously, Wu Sanlang and Hu Qing charged towards Lin Xuankong, each step they took leaving large pits in the ground! The Four Great Stewards' eyes showed determination. The Conical Hat Guest indeed had a great reputation, but his power and speed just now were only at the Late Stage of the Third Layer, not the Fourth Layer as the Hall Master had guessed. With such strength, if not for his Twin Vine Demon Pearl, any of the four were confident they could defeat him alone.

Charging forward, Wu Sanlang's leopard-like eyes widened. He swung his claws towards Lin Xuankong's already raised iron rod, shouting, "Die!"

At that exact instant, he saw the iron rod in the Conical Hat Guest's hand, over four chi long, suddenly extend, becoming fully five zhang long, its head swelling to the thickness of a waist! It smashed down on him like a giant mountain or a falling star, sending countless ripples through the air!

"Damn—" Originally over a zhang tall and formidable, Wu Sanlang's pupils contracted violently. He only had time to utter one word before the five-thousand-jin Ruyi Golden Cudgel smashed down on his head! His strong defense and the terrifying power of his Fierce Tiger Roar Bone offered no resistance whatsoever... He simply disappeared from the spot!

BOOM!

The Ruyi Rod smashed deep into the ground, a full three to four zhang deep. Where Wu Sanlang had stood, a large pit suddenly appeared, four to five zhang deep and several zhang wide! The pit was so large that a two-story wooden building from the side of the street could have been thrown into it. The entire long street shook violently, and a huge crack appeared, extending nearly a hundred zhang! The nearby Piaoxiang Tower shook a few times and then, with a crash, half of it collapsed!

This terrible tremor caused pots, bowls, cups, and rice bowls in restaurants and taverns several li away to jump and clatter. The diners stumbled, their faces changing drastically as they grabbed their heads and fled outside.

At the street entrance, in the pit, Wu Sanlang lay with severed tendons and fractured bones, a mangled mess. His upper body had vanished!

At the pit's edge, Lin Xuankong gripped his iron rod tightly and looked at Shihu Hu Qing behind him.

"..." Having rushed to within a zhang of Lin Xuankong's back, Shihu's eyes widened in shock. He suddenly stopped, not daring to move another step forward!

On either side, Pang Hu and Sima Liuyun, who had just finished their tiger roars and were inhaling, found their Qi in disarray, nearly choking! Wu Sanlang, a Grand Chief Steward at the Early Stage of the Fourth Layer, killed with one blow, and the long street had collapsed? What kind of weapon is this iron rod? Its power is so terrifying! The faces of the three Grand Chief Stewards changed dramatically; the determination in their eyes vanished, replaced entirely by horror!

"Retreat!" The three decisively retreated rapidly in different directions.

WHOOSH! The sound of the Ruyi Profound Iron Rod breaking through the air rose again. This time, Lin Xuankong didn't smash from above but unleashed all his power, sweeping the five-zhang-long Ruyi Profound Iron Rod horizontally!

SMACK! Shihu Hu Qing, the closest, was entangled by the Twin Vine Demon Pearl at his feet. Unable to dodge, he took the hit directly. After the man-thick iron rod swung past, his tough body bent grotesquely, snapping in two, his head touching his ankles!

Immediately after, the Twin Vine Demon Pearl entangling Shihu vanished, reappearing under the feet of the fleeing Sima Liuyun. On the other side, Pang Hu frantically swung his claws, attacking the Twin Vine Demon Pearl that had already entwined him! Lin Xuankong stared at the two and raised the iron rod.

"AWOOO~~~~" The two screamed wildly, channeling all their Qi and Blood to protect every part of their bodies.

BOOM! BOOM! After two more strikes, the two were completely silent, and two more huge pits appeared on the ground! Two enormous fissures reappeared, almost turning the whole long street into ruins. Piaoxiang Tower, already more than half collapsed, overturned completely into one of the huge pits, burying Pang Hu Daxiong!

At this moment, throughout the entire Great Marsh Prefecture, countless civilians and Martial Cultivators felt the continuous tremors under their feet. Countless people showed fear in their eyes, and those who reacted quickly had already started shouting, "It's an earthquake, run!" Some abandoned their wives and daughters, rushing out of their houses without a backward glance. People on the streets rushed into houses to rescue their children. Others dashed into their houses to retrieve hidden silver taels. Especially in the dozen or so streets near Yangchang Street, where the shaking was strongest, countless civilians fled in panic, as if the end of the world had arrived!

And at the entrance of Yangchang Street, it was deathly silent! In the middle of the street entrance, only the figure holding the iron rod reversed remained!

The fight, from beginning to end: Lin Xuankong, four strikes, one breath of time! In just one breath, of the Black Tiger Gang's Four Great Stewards, who had dominated Great Marsh for years, three were dead and one severely wounded. The latter was only because Lin Xuankong intended to leave a living witness! The powerful bodies and defensive strength of Martial Cultivators at Third Layer Perfection and Fourth Layer Early Stage, even with the Demon Vine's assistance, were surprisingly fragile under the absolute terrifying might of the Ruyi Golden Armor!

In the next moment, Lin Xuankong retrieved his iron rod. He took Sima Liuyun's Exorcism Boots, then landed beside Shihu, who was bent in two. Lifting him, Lin Xuankong looked towards the trembling Black Tiger Gang members. "Tell Zhao Renxiong to stop searching for me everywhere. Otherwise, for every person he captures, I will kill one Black Tiger Gang Leader. I will kill until the Black Tiger Gang has no one left! Four months from now, on the eighth of September, I will go to Hill City to find him. If he wants revenge for his son, I will seek him out to settle the score for the commoners he has killed! We will clear all accounts then!"

The hundreds of Black Tiger Gang members and Leaders, along with Qian Liu and the other four Stewards, trembled upon hearing this, utterly at a loss. Some of the more timid ones even retreated, inadvertently falling into the huge fissures created by the Ruyi Rod.

Lin Xuankong then leaped up and floated away.

Now, the street entrance was left in shambles, along with those few enormous pits! Ma Jiang stood nearby, looking at the scene, speechless for a long time.

Standing afar, Lin Jiao and the more than two hundred Yin Talisman Sect disciples were all dumbstruck. Even those disciples who had previously been clutching their heads in pain now lowered their hands, staring blankly at the three large pits at the street entrance and the remnants of Piaoxiang Tower that had fallen into one of them!

Steward Hu Shuo quickly ran to Ma Jiang's side. Recalling his earlier remarks about the Conical Hat Guest being in danger, he was overwhelmed with mixed emotions. "The Black Tiger Gang's Four Great Stewards... just... just gone like that? They were the Four Great Stewards, second only to the Vice Hall Master of the Black Tiger Gang! From now on, the Black Tiger Gang Great Marsh Hall will only have one Grand Chief Steward left?"

"What kind of damned weapon was that iron rod! It was monstrously powerful, incredibly fierce, utterly insane!" Lin Jiao, also snapping back to reality, couldn't help but shout loudly.

In the distance, Jiang Yuran, clad in a moon-white Daoist robe, led four Yin Talisman Sect Grand Chief Stewards and six Stewards, leaping towards them. Jiang Yuran frowned slightly at the ruined streets and the pits that looked as if created by meteor strikes. "What happened? Didn't Sima Liuyun bring people here to cause trouble?"

"Sima Liuyun? Not just Sima Liuyun. Wu Sanlang and Shan Xiong also died in those pits!" Hu Shuo mumbled.

Xu Bei glanced at Ma Jiang, who had walked to the edge of a pit, his expression changing. "All dead? Steward Ma... he actually managed to kill three Black Tiger Gang Grand Chief Stewards all by himself?"

Several Yin Talisman Sect Grand Chief Stewards, and Stewards like Zhao Yufei, immediately turned to look at Ma Jiang upon hearing this.

Ma Jiang's face was a picture of disbelief. "Xu Bei, I'll bet ten thousand silver taels that you're deliberately trying to humiliate me!" He then added, "However, I can tell you all one thing: come the eighth of September this year, there's going to be a massive spectacle! It will absolutely be a sensational, world-shaking event, watched by countless millions!"