Heavenly Dipper Tiger-Dragon Force

That night.

Deep within the dense forests of Spirit Peak Mountain, several dozen bandits had gathered together, each armed with blades and spears at their waists or in their hands, discussing something.

Another figure stood motionless amid the shadowy woods.

He was broad and towering, his entire body covered in thick, heavy black iron armor.

He looked like a colossal beast of steel. A thousand-jin heavy saber was strapped across his back, its edge hidden in the night, emanating ferocious menace.

Not far away, a man hurried over. He was a fellow with triangular eyes.

With a fawning smile on his face, he quickly approached the armored man and bowed as he reported.

"Boss Bai, I've thoroughly investigated Spirit Peak County!"

"As long as you lead the brothers into action, taking the county seat will be as easy as turning over your hand."

"Let me see."

Bai Wei accepted the intelligence booklet handed to him and read through it carefully. His bright, sharp eyes swept over every sentence and every word, as though unwilling to overlook a single useful detail.

After a while, he gave a disdainful snort. "So after all that, the entire county can't even produce one first-rate fighter.

"And they still dream of gathering a bunch of young men who've never practiced martial arts to stop us?"

"They're simply courting death."

Bai Wei sneered, his blazing gaze fixed on Spirit Peak County in the distance.

The strongest person in the city was merely a second-rate patrol captain.

It seemed they could directly plunder the whole county seat this time. As long as they pulled off this job, they would have enough to spend extravagantly for years without a care.

"You handled this well." Bai Wei patted the triangular-eyed man's shoulder.

His blood and brute strength were terrifying. With just that light pat, the man immediately grimaced in pain, yet clenched his teeth tightly and dared not cry out.

"The rewards I promised you before still stand. Tell me, who should we make an example of first once we enter the city?"

The triangular-eyed man was overjoyed upon hearing this and hurriedly offered his advice. "Boss, get rid of Lin Shan first!"

"He's the deputy captain of the patrol, his family has quite a bit of savings, and he holds great prestige within the county.

"As long as we take his life, the other patrolmen will surely lose heart. Then we'll display his head for all to see, and Spirit Peak County will collapse without us even needing to storm it!"

The triangular-eyed man had once been a member of Spirit Peak County's patrol. But after Lin Shan caught him abusing a young woman, he was severely punished and thrown into prison.

After his release, he was completely expelled from the patrol. From then on, he hated Lin Shan to the bone and waited day and night for a chance to take revenge.

Now that a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity lay before him, he had to take Lin Shan's head and vent the resentment he had bottled up for so long.

Bai Wei shot him a sidelong glance and nodded faintly. "Fine. We'll do as you say."

"And... and..." A gleam appeared in the triangular-eyed man's eyes as he greedily said, "And Boss, those two young ladies from the Lin Family we spoke about before..."

"Mhm, mhm." Bai Wei waved a hand carelessly. "Don't worry. You won't be left out. Just wait."

Before his words had faded—

Crack!

With a thunderous boom, Bai Wei's pupils contracted.

He only felt a massive gale of force explode beside his ear. Immediately afterward, the triangular-eyed man's head burst apart with a bang.

Red and white matter mixed with shattered bone sprayed seven or eight zhang away, while the black earth was instantly soaked through with streaming blood.

All the bandits fell silent.

Bai Wei did not even glance at the corpse before him. The heavy armor over his body tightened as he stared like a hawk toward the path through the forest.

"Who hides in the shadows? Show yourself!" he shouted in a deep voice.

At his command, the bandits immediately scattered into the woods. Some even drew crossbows, aiming their bolts toward the path ahead, poised to fire.

These bandits advanced and retreated in orderly formation, moving with crisp efficiency. Their discipline far surpassed that of ordinary mountain brigands. They were likely veteran soldiers scattered from a battlefield, having formed their own vicious private army.

Far up the mountain, a human figure appeared.

Like a dragon striding across the earth, he stepped through the forest one pace at a time until he arrived before them.

He was clearly alone, yet the entire mountain seemed to tremble faintly. Birds and beasts in the forest, the chirping of insects and rustling of grass, all fell silent, as though they did not dare breathe.

Only silence remained between heaven and earth, as if they had fallen into the Avici Hell.

The bandits all grew tense. A chilling dread surged through their hearts, and even the hands gripping their crossbows trembled uncontrollably. Yet they still aimed at the young man ahead as if facing a deadly enemy.

"Who are you?"

Bai Wei slowly spoke, his voice like thunder rolling through the forest and beyond.

"You don't need to know..."

"I'm only here to send you on your way today. Begging is pointless. You may try to resist, or you may try to run..."

Su Qingyang spoke indifferently as he approached the bandits step by step.

Every step he took seemed to resound like an evening drum and morning bell, carrying a heaven-shaking might that boomed and crashed down upon their hearts.

An invisible momentum blanketed the entire scene.

It was as though an unseen giant hand had clenched every heart tight. Suffocating terror spread across every inch of their skin.

Overwhelming momentum descended!

Strength crushing all!

The pressure was terrifying. Even Bai Wei's pupils shrank slightly as he said in a low voice, "Innate Realm..."

Boom!

Bai Wei did not dare let the man continue building momentum. The powerful blood and qi around him exploded forth. As an Internal Forging martial artist who had reached the Houtian realm, his body was no weak thing either.

The next moment.

He abruptly gripped the heavy saber on his back and drew it with a flash. At that instant, terrifying inner force condensed, transforming into an invisible force.

The force twisted and coiled around the massive saber, spreading over it in dense, web-like strands. It made the heavy blade vibrate, emitting a low hum that faintly resembled the roar of dragons and tigers.

Heavenly Dipper Tiger-Dragon Force, Peak Acquired Realm!

In this world, once Internal Forging martial arts reached the Houtian realm, inner force could be released beyond the body. It could advance to split mountains and kill foes, or retreat to protect the body and ward off weapons.

The Heavenly Dipper Tiger-Dragon Force was the cultivation of inner force to an exquisitely refined extreme, allowing it to divide into hundreds or thousands of fine threads of force.

Once unleashed, this force could spread onto weapons and armor.

It could make them indestructible and vastly increase their power. With a casual swing, it could tear through steel and shatter stone.

Force circulated throughout Bai Wei's body. Every movement of his hands and feet carried tremendous destructive power, like dragon roars and tiger howls, destroying everything in its path.

As he took one step forward, the earth itself rumbled.

Dragging the heavy saber, Bai Wei crossed a hundred meters in a single stride and hacked toward Su Qingyang with a thunderous crash.

His momentum was so terrifying that the surrounding air seemed to sink into a hundred-zhang-deep abyss. The force of roaring dragons and tigers swept in from all directions, bearing down head-on.

But!

Su Qingyang neither dodged nor retreated. He merely clenched his five fingers into a fist and threw a punch.

Seeing this, Bai Wei furrowed his brow, yet a burst of wild delight suddenly rose within him.

Even if his opponent was an Innate Expert, he was still flesh and blood.

Bai Wei wore a thousand-jin suit of indestructible heavy armor. Its defense was such that even Divine Might Cannons on the battlefield could scarcely harm it in the slightest. Combined with this heavy saber infused with Heavenly Dipper Tiger-Dragon Force, he possessed both offense and defense.

He had the confidence to contend even against an Innate Warrior.

Yet this man actually intended to use a pair of flesh-and-blood fists to directly meet his fully empowered saber...

He was simply courting death.

"So what if you're Innate? Houtian isn't necessarily inferior to Innate!"