Holy body, start with the Five Animal Exercises

54: The storm is comingQin Jiang’s eyes lit up, ”Five days from now? That urgent?”

Elder Chen bit into a grape, chewing and swallowing it skin and all, ”The Gang Leader’s orders.”

Saying that, he leaned forward slightly, ”Something big might happen soon, so we need to consolidate the Red Tiger Gang’s strength.

After all, in terms of power, our Red Tiger Gang is the largest force in Black Mountain City.”

As he spoke, a hint of undetectable arrogance appeared on his face.

The Gang Leader is a Grandmaster-level figure at the Peak of the Divine Sense, and there are nearly ten other Divine Intent Realm experts within the gang, almost a third of all Divine Sense experts in Black Mountain City!

In contrast, the County Lieutenant’s side, apart from the County Lieutenant himself being powerful, only has two Divine Sense experts under his command.

Although the County Soldiers belong to the Qianyu Army and are formidable in combat, this is only true for groups of less than a hundred.

If you remove the Divine Sense level combat power, and if the Red Tiger Gang members swarmed them, even if the entire Qianyu Army fought to the death, they absolutely wouldn’t be able to kill all of the Red Tiger Gang members.

They’d be exhausted to death!

The only entity that could somewhat contend with the Red Tiger Gang was the local Family Alliance.

But among the four major local Families, the Lin Family is largely uninvolved, and the Li Family currently has no notable experts. Only the Song Family, to which the County Magistrate belongs, and the Zhao Family still have some influence.

As for the rest, they are just a bunch of rabble, mere cannon fodder, only acting powerful by relying on the name of the alliance.

”Something big? What big thing? Is it related to the anomalies?” Qin Jiang asked.

Currently, in Black Mountain City, anything that could be called a ’big event,’ besides the possible appearance of Huai Country troops, would only be the increasing number of anomalies.

Elder Chen nodded, ”You’ve sensed it too, haven’t you? Now, anomalies are starting to appear in the Inner City as well.

These past few days, the gang has been continuously searching various places that might give birth to anomalies, and even the Gang Leader has frequently gone out to eliminate them.”

Qin Jiang frowned slightly, not expecting the anomaly crisis within the city to have reached such a degree.

”I understand. Five days from now, I will certainly secure the Hall Master position.”

Elder Chen nodded, ”It’s best if you’re confident, but you still need to be careful of that old fellow Nie Dongsheng. I don’t think he’ll let go of the Fourth Hall so easily.”

Qin Jiang smiled at that, ”It doesn’t matter, I will make my Move.”

Three days later, Anxin Villa.

Qin Jiang looked at the large collection of dilapidated antiques displayed in the courtyard, at least three to five hundred pieces.

”Boss, this is just a portion. These past few days, we’ve only scoured the southern area of the Outer City.” Meng An, standing beside Qin Jiang, said, then pulled out an account book, ”These are the ones recorded with a price exceeding one tael of silver, about twenty-odd pieces.”

Qin Jiang nodded, feeling a surge of excitement. It’s truly easier to get things done when you have a powerful backing.

If he had to acquire these items himself, not only would it take an immense amount of time, but he probably wouldn’t even gather half the quantity here.

”Good, well done. For those over one tael, just note them down for now. We’ll revisit them after we’ve scoured all of Black Mountain City,” he said.

”Understood! Boss, rest assured, no one would dare to sell anything recorded here to someone else!” Meng An guaranteed.

How could anything my boss sets his eyes on escape?

If it weren’t for the boss repeatedly instructing him to pay for them, he would have found a way to get them long ago!

”Oh, and come back this afternoon to pick these up. Take them to the Li Family’s antique shop and sell all of them,” Qin Jiang said.

After all, he only needed Potential Points, and selling them would recoup some of the capital.

Meng An was stunned, then slapped his forehead and grinned, ”Understood! Boss, don’t worry! Old Meng will definitely sell them for a high price! No losses!”

”Alright, then continue with your work,” Qin Jiang said.

”Going now, there’s another batch in a few days.”

After Meng An left, Qin Jiang immediately began touching the antiques in the courtyard.

It must be said that Meng An indeed had some connections. Some of these antiques still had dirt on them.

The ’another batch’ he mentioned, wasn’t it freshly dug?

In the afternoon, Qin Jiang sat in the pavilion in the courtyard, holding an ice pop.

He looked at his panel:

【Current Martial arts】

Longevity Five Qi Skill (Third Level) (15/550)

Iron Arm Fist (Perfection)

Earth Dragon Body (Third Level) (40/400)

Red Tiger Fist (Third Level) (55/1100)

【Potential Points: 14.7】

A total increase of 4.2. Compared to professional antique shops and pawn shops, the quality of these folk items was still quite a bit lower.

Roughly only one or two out of a hundred contained Potential Points, and the amount wasn’t much either.

But thankfully, this was only a portion of the Outer City. Compared to the Outer City, the quality of items collected from the Inner City would surely be higher.

Calculating this, by the time Black Mountain City was fully scoured, he would likely have around two hundred Potential Points.

If all went well, he would not only be able to advance the Red Tiger Fist to a higher Realm but also cultivate several other high-level true Martial arts.

His strength would undergo a great leap!

By then, even if the Gang Leader, County Lieutenant, and County Magistrate joined forces, plus three to five Divine Intent Realm experts, they would not be his opponents!

An uncontrollable surge of heroic spirit welled up from his heart. Even the Evil Qi within him was stirred, unconsciously dissipating like clouds and mist, flowing in all directions and filling the entire courtyard.

He stood up, clenching his fist slightly.

He walked into the courtyard and casually practiced the Red Tiger Fist. Each Move was not fast, but it had an indescribable feeling.

As the Moves changed, a black-red fierce tiger appeared behind him, dominating the air, like a tiger king on patrol.

A moment later, he retracted his fist and stood still, the surrounding Evil Qi gradually gathering back.

”Boss is amazing!”

Meng An’s voice came from outside, his eyes filled with excitement and shock.

He knew the boss was powerful, but he never expected him to be this powerful!

He had never seen this level of Evil Qi on anyone in the gang, not even the Gang Leader!

Though, he hadn’t seen the Gang Leader many times either.

”Boss, you’re too amazing! You’re like... like that thing in the sky, the sun! Yes! The sun! Radiating boundless light!”

He ran over quickly, bowing beside Qin Jiang, laughing obsequiously with an uneven row of large teeth.

Qin Jiang smiled, pushed him away, and walked towards the pavilion, ”You and that mouth of yours, always full of empty talk. Speak, why have you come?”

The two sat in the pavilion, and Qin Jiang pushed a plate of iced snow pears towards Meng An.

Meng An didn’t stand on ceremony, immediately picked one up and bit into it, taking off half of it in one go.

Eating the snow pear, he mumbled indistinctly, ”Boss, didn’t you say you wanted me to come this afternoon? To sell these junk—uh, no, no, treasures—to the Li Family’s antique shop.”

Qin Jiang suddenly remembered that he had indeed said that, ”Alright then, take them away now. Sell them for whatever you can get.”

Gulp~

Meng An swallowed a mouthful of snow pear, ”Boss, what are you saying? The Li Family is very rich. They even bought a batch of antiques before. I got a few from outside back then and made a good profit!”

He took another bite and continued, ”If you ask me, that Li Family, they’re just plain stupid with too much money. If we don’t fleece them, who will?”

At this point, he couldn’t help but give Qin Jiang a thumbs up, ”I still say Boss is amazing! I never thought of this Move!

This way, we didn’t spend any money collecting these treasures, and we can even make a profit!”

”Alright, hurry and eat. Once you’re done, take them away.”

”Understood, understood, I’ll do it right away!”

With that, Meng An ate the pear core and all, grabbed a few more snow pears, and left directly.

As evening approached, Qin Jiang sat in the pavilion. The antiques in the courtyard were almost all transported away.

Meng An, while directing people to Move things out, spoke to a middle-aged man beside him, ”I say, Old Liu, have you figured it out yet? And you call yourself Master Liu? Aren’t you ashamed?”