Da Xuan Martial Saint

The strongest among the Seventh Rank Demon Venerables, it was very difficult for a single one to contend with an ordinary Grandmaster.

Yet once one cultivated a Demon Body of the Eighth Rank, they could vie with top Grandmasters, able to contend with existences like Jiang Changsheng!

The strike from the Ink Jade Demon Venerable was terrifyingly potent.

Demonic power, Demon Corpse, brute strength—almost all were solidified to the utmost limit, perfectly fused together, with such incredible speed and dreadful power that a single strike could tear apart and outright kill two or three beings like him!

For Chen Mu to dare face the Ink Jade Demon Venerable at close range was undoubtedly a mistake. Even if he mastered Qiankun and held the momentum of Earth Pulse's Power, if he failed to react and mobilize his prowess in time, and the Ink Jade Demon Venerable broke through directly, that move could leave him dead on the spot!

Just as the Yellow Earth Demon Venerable had predicted.

The Ink Jade Demon Venerable's strike was exceedingly fast and vigorously condensed. In the confined pathways of the underground where movement was restricted, avoidance was impossible. Chen Mu indeed had no time to mobilize the Earth Pulse's Power at first notice, merely meeting the incoming faint gloom with a Fist Seal.

Boom!!!

The Fist Seal collided with the faint gloom. Two majestic forces erupted deep within the Earth's Veins, shaking nearby mud and stones as if tsunamis were rolling over them. The Earth Pulse's Power surged like a torrential river and exploded in patches.

The upheaved mud and stones obscured visibility, preventing the Yellow Earth Demon Venerable from seeing clearly. At this moment, he was too weakened to move. Engulfed by the chaotic mud and stones, he coughed up another mouthful of fresh blood, and his complexion grew even paler.

Until the commotion subsided.

He directed his gaze toward where Chen Mu and the Ink Jade Demon Venerable were located, but his entire being froze, his eyes revealing a look of surprise and incredulity. What he saw in the center of the field was Chen Mu still in the posture of releasing the Fist Seal, the Fist Seal and the Ink Jade Demon Venerable's dark claws clashing in midair. To his disbelief, it caused the demonic power on the Ink Jade Demon Venerable to continuously fluctuate, unable to advance an inch!

Not only the Yellow Earth Demon Venerable but even the Ink Jade Demon Venerable himself showed a trace of astonishment.

Certainly, his strike was a full-force outbreak, attempting to seize Chen Mu's moment of carelessness to decide the victor in one blow, directly killing Chen Mu on the spot to avoid further trouble.

Yet such an all-out attack, the physique of a Demon Corpse, the demonic power, and all his might condensed together, even preventing Chen Mu from mobilizing the Earth's Veins power, still failed to affect Chen Mu's Fist Seal upon a direct collision!

This move,

was a pure contest of physical bodies!

Chen Mu, relying solely on the physique of a human and the Yuan Gang True Essence within him, withstood the strike from his Eighth Rank Demon King body!

How is this possible?!

The Ink Jade Demon Venerable, feeling the immense and unshakeable force within Chen Mu's Fist Seal, was shocked and found it hard to believe the thought that came to mind.

This kind of physique, this kind of strength, definitely was not something the Six Viscera Realm could possess.

It was a Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster, a Grandmaster Martial Body!

Chen Mu...

Has he actually cultivated a Martial Body?

For a moment, the Ink Jade Demon Venerable's gaze toward Chen Mu completely changed, filled with disbelief and added horror. He himself had once been a Martial Arts Grandmaster of a Foreign Race before he turned to cultivate the Heavenly Demon lineage. He knew very well how difficult it was to break through the Mysterious Pass and step into the Grandmaster Realm; even the youngest Grandmaster in the history of the Da Xuan Calendar was over thirty-five years old.

And how old was Chen Mu this year?

Most crucially, Chen Mu practiced the way of Qiankun, the most difficult path of Martial Arts under the heavens!

A thirty-one-year-old Martial Arts Grandmaster, Qiankun Martial Body, and even just recently had made a breakthrough, was able to stand firm against his nearly a hundred years of cultivation of the Eighth Rank Demon Corpse. Both the physique and Gang True Energy condensed to the extreme, what kind of monster was this!

"Is this the level of a top Grandmaster?"

At that moment, Chen Mu held his Fist Seal in one hand, suppressing the Ink Jade Demon Venerable's strike, standing firm on the spot without a shake in his form, calmly sensing the power behind the Ink Jade Demon Venerable's move while briefly evaluating in his heart.

It seemed his judgment was not wrong; in terms of strength, he was indeed far above top Grandmasters now. The Ink Jade Demon Venerable's all-out attack was not much of an impact to him now.

"Mysterious Scales True Method!"

The Ink Jade Demon Venerable, upon hearing Chen Mu's words, instinctively felt ominous. His pupils contracted sharply, and he dared not hold anything back anymore. Suddenly, demonic power surged around his body, and faint glows vibrated like ripples. His scale armor began to overflow with threads of blood, mobilizing demonic power to the limit, pushing out with one strike, trying to use this momentum to create an opportunity to retreat.

He no longer dared to hope that he could defeat Chen Mu!

To think that earlier strike was almost his best effort, while Chen Mu did not even mobilize the Power of Heaven and Earth, relying only on the power of the Qiankun Martial Body to take it head on. Once Chen Mu mobilized the might of the Earth's Veins, the demon would be utterly defeated!

A Grandmaster from the line of Qiankun was indeed the topmost Grandmaster of the age, this was an undoubted fact, the true path of the invincible!

Hum!!

But as the Ink Jade Demon Venerable made this desperate move, his body's inky-black demonic power churned tumultuously, as if transforming into a likeness of an Ink Jade Qilin with a demonic aspect. Then it all retracted into his body, sharpening his claws to an extreme, trying to forcefully suppress with one mark.

However, facing this strike, Chen Mu merely maintained the Fist Seal, pressing down once.

The grand light of the Qiankun Eight Phases burst forth, an immense force from all directions converging, solidifying in his Fist Seal, gathering a Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal surrounded by the light of Eight Phases on his fist.

This Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal pressed forward, its momentum irresistible, crushing the limit-surpassing demonic power of the Ink Jade Demon Venerable that erupted in desperation. It grinded down, little by little, rolling over.