I Can Replicate Martial Arts

At his words, everyone was horrified and quickly unleashed their fastest movement techniques to retreat.

The civilians on the ground erupted into chaos, and the air filled with the sounds of them falling and crying out in despair.

"This old monk has done his best. Amitabha Buddha!"

Blood was beginning to seep from the corners of Zen Master Zhisheng’s eyes. His Power was only at the High Tier of Dharma, and even giving it his all with the help of the Emei Sect’s Exotic Treasure, he could only hold on for a short while.

"O, glorious heavenly might, wielded by thunder! Divine thunder of the heavens, heed my command! Strike!"

Just then, a bolt of divine lightning as thick as a barrel crashed down from the clear sky with a thunderous roar, smashing squarely into the dragon-shaped Exotic Beast.

It scorched a single one of its scales black. That’s right, just one.

"..."

Daoist Yun Hao, who had rushed in as reinforcements, froze, his face a mask of utter disbelief.

Even a True Dharma Master wouldn’t dare to take a direct hit from his Thunderbolt Swordsmanship.

’This Exotic Beast...’

Before he could even begin his next Sword Technique, the Red Flame Ice Dragon opened its massive maw, and a black light flashed.

A massive, pitch-black orb shot straight toward him.

"This is bad!"

Greatly alarmed, Yun Hao unleashed a relentless barrage of sword glints, sending them whizzing toward the pitch-black orb.

At the same time, his body flashed as he retreated with extreme speed.

Unfortunately, the difference in their Power was too vast. No matter how many sword glints he fired, they failed to slow the pitch-black orb in the slightest.

Just then, a Heaven-Covering Dust smashed down, instantly ensnaring the orb within its silken strands.

Yun Hao breathed a long sigh of relief and turned to see Cang Zhenzi of the Qingcheng Sword Sect.

The two belonged to the same sect, so no words were needed.

Knowing his own strength was limited, Yun Hao swiftly retreated.

"Daoist Brother, you came just in time. Otherwise, this monk would have been done for."

Zhi Sheng spat out a mouthful of foul blood as the golden light from the Buddha Beads in his hand flared, holding back the torrent of Dragon Flame.

"This Exotic Beast is too powerful! Nothing short of the Domain Realm can match it!"

The Floating Dust in Cang Zhenzi’s hand fluctuated in size; evidently, the pitch-black orb was struggling fiercely to break free.

It was not so easily controlled.

"I’ve already sent a transmission calling for our sect’s Uncle Master."

Zen Master Zhisheng’s feet sank deep into the concrete, carving two deep pits into the ground.

Seeing its two attacks blocked by a pair of ants, the Red Flame Ice Dragon flew into a rage, and a blazing inferno erupted around its body.

Then, like a wave of radiation, the inferno suddenly expanded outward.

With a great WHOOSH, the flames surged outward, blanketing an area for miles around.

"This is bad!"

Everyone cried out in alarm.

Those who couldn’t escape in time were instantly incinerated, without even a chance to resist.

Zhi Sheng and Cang Zhenzi could no longer withstand the assault. They were sent flying backward like a pair of cannonballs.

Had they not both been protected by Exotic Treasures, they likely would not have survived.

"Vile beast! How dare you!"

The arriving reinforcements from the Qingcheng and Emei sects saw the apocalyptic devastation on the ground from a distance.

Their expressions changed drastically, their faces twisting with grief and fury.

The Qingcheng and Emei sects were responsible for all security during this hunting event.

Of course, this "security" didn’t mean acting as conventional guards or standing post.

Rather, it referred to the practice of assigning masters from Martial Arts Sects to provide on-site protection during large-scale events, preventing disruption from high-level combatants.

The Qingcheng and Emei sects had taken this matter very seriously. Each had dispatched one Domain Realm master, one Dharma Master, and several elite disciples from the Divine Void and Grandmaster Realms.

But they had never imagined that this Divine Dragon would appear so suddenly. Not even the Divine Soul Consciousness of a Domain Realm master—or the coastal defense radar—had detected the slightest hint of its approach.

It was as if it had fallen from the heavens.

The first two layers of their defenses had been utterly shattered.

Master Weiyang of the Qingcheng Sect and Zen Master Puyuan of the Emei Sect, who had just arrived, immediately unleashed their sects’ most profound Cultivation Techniques, attacking the Red Flame Ice Dragon.

Both were powerful masters who had just entered the Domain Realm. They rarely took action, so few outsiders knew the true extent of their power.

If Young Master Muyang hadn’t caused such a major disturbance, raising concerns about a potential plot from a Domain Realm master of the Evil Dao, they would never have been present at the scene.

They never expected that Young Master Muyang would turn out to be a non-issue, only for a dragon-shaped Exotic Beast to appear out of nowhere.

As visitors from Gui Xu, they had, in fact, heard of dragon-shaped Exotic Beasts before.

Ancient Jianghu legends told of peerless masters who had traveled the Pangu Continent and encountered all sorts of mystical creatures.

But in the last hundred years, as the Gui Xu Spiritual Qi dissipated and Blue Star’s Spiritual Qi increased, the strength of Song Realm Martial Artists had improved slowly, and peerless masters had become a rarity.

Since no living person had had such experiences, these tales were naturally no longer mentioned.

However, major sects like theirs possessed some records of them, though these accounts read more like travelogues.

Most disciples simply read them as works of fiction.

When the Red Flame Ice Dragon last appeared, the various sects had been put on alert. They all scoured their sect’s archives and re-compiled all available information on top-tier Exotic Beasts.

Although the information was fragmentary, they had managed to piece some things together.

It was said that deep within the Gui Xu Pangu Continent, in places even the Manghuang Race had never explored, lived Exotic Beasts that transcended the ordinary.

They could fly through the heavens and burrow through the earth, possessed immense Divine Techniques, and could roam the Cosmos freely, unbound to any single location. They rarely appeared within Gui Xu.

These Exotic Beasts were collectively known as Divine Beasts.

Correspondingly, there were also Magic Beasts and Demon Beasts, which had already transcended the category of ordinary Exotic Beasts.