My Co-renting Lady Boss

"Damn, what’s going on?"

Yun Potian swallowed, also confused. When the Tang Family was annihilated, he hadn’t yet encountered any trouble, so he was somewhat aware of it.

It’s said that the Ancient Tang Sect and the Mo Family joined forces to destroy the Tang Family. At that time, Tang Cha was still with the Ancient Tang Sect and naturally participated in that great battle. So when he heard Tang Ming was from the Tang Family, he was quite shocked.

"I wish I was lying, but this is the truth. Although I followed orders back then with the Ancient Tang Sect to eliminate the Tang Family, in the end, I was one of the participants, and my hands were stained with the blood of many from the Tang Family."

Tang Cha looked at his hands, his face filled with pain and helplessness.

"But you didn’t kill me in the end, and even raised me. Why is that?"

Tang Ming clenched his fists tightly, glaring at Tang Cha with a bitter expression.

"Because our target for attacking the Tang Family was originally you, we never intended to kill you. And I owed your parents my life. To repay that debt, I hid my identity and secretly raised you to adulthood. This is the only way I could repay your parents."

Tang Cha sighed deeply, having met many heroes in his life.

But he had never met anyone like Tang Ming’s parents, and was truly moved, leading to today’s events. Otherwise, Tang Ming might have grown up in the Ancient Tang Sect’s dungeons.

"Master, what really happened here?"

Tang Ming clenched his fists tightly, staring intently at Tang Cha.

"Hoo, it’s a long story."

Tang Cha took a deep breath, gazing absently at Yun Potian, "Brother Yun, do you know what the ultimate level of Martial Arts cultivation is? What’s beyond Martial General?"

"This..."

Yun Potian was slightly taken aback, then shook his head, "I’m not really sure. But according to ancient texts, those who surpass the Martial General can shatter the void and become immortal. But my ancestor, who had already reached the peak of a Martial General long ago, could never shatter the void and finally perished when his life ran out, leaving only his spirit in the world.

That’s already very powerful. An ordinary person would have long vanished, so I think there shouldn’t be anything beyond a Martial General."

"Wrong! What’s beyond a Martial General truly exists, but it’s something from long, long ago in legends."

Tang Cha refuted Yun Potian’s speculation with conviction, "Many records in human history describe what’s beyond a Martial General, and there should be many levels beyond it. But it’s a being beyond our imagination."

"Myth? Immortals?"

Yun Potian looked at Tang Cha with a strange expression.

"Yes! According to ancient texts, among the four ancient civilizations that existed worldwide, there were many super beings beyond Martial Generals. Yet, with the passage of history, only our civilization remains. But our Martial Arts civilization has also been endlessly weakened."

Tang Cha nodded, looking towards the distance with a complex expression, "Based on some verifiable information, we’ve been told that all the legends in Huaxia civilization are true. The ancient Gods Era truly existed. Even now, historical documents in urban civilization recognize that the Yao, Shun, Yu era existed before the Xia and Shang dynasties. In our eyes, those were beings of immortal level."

"Sounds a bit reasonable."

Yun Potian frowned.

Tang Ming, however, had his brows knitted, wondering what relation these matters had with his background and the destruction of the Tang Family?

"After the Gods Era, at the end of the Shang Dynasty, there was a great Conferred Gods battle, which you might have heard of. The various figures recorded there were capable of summoning wind and rain, like Jiang Ziya, Daji, Three Pure Ones, and Yuanshi Tianzun, etc."

Tang Cha continued to introduce, finally summarizing, "But aren’t you curious why after the Conferred Gods battle, later historical figures did not have such exaggerated records and descriptions?"

"It seems like it! Since the Conferred Gods battle ended, there haven’t been such large-scale mythical legends."

Yun Potian nodded repeatedly.

"Does ’Journey to the West’ count?"

Tang Ming moved his lips, uncertainly interjecting.

"Smart, a word to the wise."

Tang Cha praised Tang Ming.

"Damn it, are you telling me ’Journey to the West’ is real too?"

Yun Potian twitched his mouth.

"I don’t know if ’Journey to the West’ is real, but do you think if Wu Cheng’en was just an ordinary person, how could he construct such a grand mythology attached to real historical events?"

Tang Cha asked earnestly.

"This..."

Yun Potian was once again speechless.

"There’s a high possibility that ’Journey to the West’ is real."

Tang Ming frowned, explaining, "Before, Zhang Baobao also mentioned that she was killed three times during the Tang Dynasty by four monks on a pilgrimage. Later, it was recorded in ’Journey to the West’ as the ’Three Strikes of the White Bone Spirit’, indicating that even if ’Journey to the West’ has exaggerations, it was adapted from real cases.

Even if Zhang Baobao wasn’t as powerful back then as she is now, she definitely wasn’t someone ordinary people could easily kill. That only means those four monks who killed her were really formidable."

"I think that’s about right. Then think about it, after the Tang Dynasty, weren’t there fewer oddities like this?"

Tang Cha asked again.

Tang Ming and Yun Potian exchanged glances, then eagerly looked at Tang Cha, both knowing there must be some secret and connection within, a secret only a few could ever know.

"What I’m about to tell you is the key. Ever since the Conferred Gods battle, because the divine powers displayed by various gods were too immense, the ordinary people before them were like ants. All the real celestial mighty figures did not want to see these beings continue to linger in the human world. Using heavenly means, they imposed a sealing on the Huaxia land’s environment, isolating a certain level of super beings from the human world.

Those who surpassed a certain level were sent to specific spaces and realms, not allowed to disrupt the order of the world."

"The heavenly court? Hell?"

Tang Ming and Yun Potian exclaimed in unison, surprised and suspicious.

"Something like that! To be precise, that realm is called the Spirit Realm. Those isolated within it are super beings with earth-shaking capabilities."

Tang Cha nodded, his expression complex as he sighed, "But that was just the first sealing, diluting the Spiritual Energy of the human world significantly, making it very difficult for people to cultivate to break through to the Spirit Realm. Yet, at that time, the Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth was still countless times more abundant than now. Over time, some were able to cultivate powerful strengths.

For instance, in the Warring States Period, there were countless beings with world-shaking abilities. Gui Guzi is one such representative. In the Three Kingdoms Period, there were cloud-like warriors and a plethora of strategists. Martial figures like Lv Fengxian and Heavenly Mechanism Sect’s founder Zhuge Wolong are representatives of that era. Even the revered Martial Saint became famous during that time..."