Chapter 415 - 245: The Might of the Divine Weapon

Chapter 415: Chapter 245: The Might of the Divine Weapon

Taishi Tianbi wasn’t in the Rebirth Realm at all. Even among those in the True Essence Realm, he was an absolute powerhouse.

Su Mu’s attacks were ferocious, but they barely managed to inflict any significant damage on Taishi Tianbi.

By now, Taishi Tianbi’s clothes had been completely incinerated by the raging fire.

He stood naked, his bronze skin covered in a series of white marks.

They were the remnants of Su Mu’s attacks.

But that was all they were.

Even the power of an attack at Perfect Realm couldn’t break through his physical defenses.

Su Mu’s expression turned grim. ’The Body Tempering Limit couldn’t possibly grant such defensive power. Unless... this is one of his Physical Divine Techniques!’

Su Mu himself possessed the Indestructible Golden Body, a Physical Divine Technique. It was clear that Taishi Tianbi had a similar ability, which was why the Thunder Shocking Saber couldn’t pierce his flesh.

"So, you’re Su Mu, the rising star of the Taiping Bureau. A truly exceptional talent, I see."

Taishi Tianbi knocked the Thunder Shocking Saber aside with a single punch, a savage grin spreading across his face. "If I had met you sooner, I might have chosen you instead."

"This current body is strong enough, but its aptitude is somewhat lacking. Otherwise, I wouldn’t still be in the True Essence Realm at this point."

"Still, the True Essence Realm is more than enough to kill you."

"What I despise most is someone with more talent than me. So, you can die."

Suddenly, Taishi Tianbi opened his mouth and let out a piercing shriek.

A visible shockwave appeared in the air, instantly turning everything in its path to dust.

Su Mu’s expression shifted slightly as he held his long saber horizontally before him.

With a deafening BOOM, he felt a tremendous force slam into him, sending his body flying backward uncontrollably.

A tightness constricted his chest, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

The shockwaves hammered against him relentlessly. Su Mu felt as if countless experts were attacking him from all sides. Even with his powerful physique, he felt he was on the verge of collapsing.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Muffled thuds echoed from behind him. The miners who hadn’t escaped in time were being blasted into clouds of blood mist by the shockwaves.

Yang Yungzhong and the others were also coughing up blood, desperately trying to resist. It was clear they couldn’t hold on for much longer.

As Su Mu continued to slide backward, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes.

’This Taishi Tianbi is too strong!’

He was the strongest opponent Su Mu had faced since he began his journey on the Martial Dao.

’Even at the same realm, I feel like I’m no match for him.’

It was important to remember that Su Mu had cultivated every realm to its absolute limit: the Body Tempering Limit, an eleven-fold Blood Exchange, the Four Symbols Divine Body...

Martial Artists in the same realm were almost never a match for him, not even for a single exchange.

Yet this Taishi Tianbi had managed to push him to such a degree.

Su Mu could also sense that Taishi Tianbi’s cultivation was at the Peak of True Essence Realm. But more importantly, his mastery of Martial Arts was exceptionally high. While he hadn’t reached the level of manifesting phenomena, he had definitely achieved Realm Perfection—and in more than one discipline.

Furthermore, the realms he cultivated were all from the Qimen Realm, something Su Mu had never encountered before.

These thoughts flashed through Su Mu’s mind in an instant.

He bent his knees slightly, his feet sinking into the ground to halt his backward momentum.

The shockwaves continued to slam into him. Even the blade of the Thunder Shocking Saber began to bend, as if it couldn’t withstand the force of the assault.

"Then let’s see you handle this!"

Su Mu roared.

Suddenly, a dazzling light burst forth from his body.

In an instant, his body seemed to swell with the wind, growing several times his original size in the blink of an eye.

BOOM!

His body trembled, and his True Essence erupted outward, colliding with the shockwave and creating a visible ripple in the air.

A look of shock, mixed with a hint of fear, crossed Taishi Tianbi’s face.

"Heaven and Earth?"

He subconsciously took a step back.

Just then, Su Mu’s now-enormous body abruptly vanished.

The next moment, he reappeared in front of Taishi Tianbi with incredible speed.

With a thunderous CRACK...

...Taishi Tianbi was sent flying like a broken ragdoll.

The arm he had raised to block was clearly broken, twisted at an impossible angle.

Taishi Tianbi, who had just been overwhelming Su Mu, was now utterly powerless before his giant form.

Although Su Mu’s body had grown immense, it hadn’t become clumsy. On the contrary, he was now several times faster.

His figure flickered, disappearing and reappearing in an instant.

Taishi Tianbi was repeatedly struck into the air, unable to even touch the ground again.

With Taishi Tianbi’s sonic attack broken, Yang Yungzhong and the others finally had a chance to breathe. They looked up at the awesomely powerful Su Mu and let out a cheer.

"You think you can kill me?!"

Just then, Taishi Tianbi let out a furious roar. "Go to hell!"

Suddenly, an indescribable sense of crisis welled up in Su Mu’s heart.

He abandoned his pursuit of Taishi Tianbi and shot backward.

He saw Taishi Tianbi reach out his hand. The mountain rumbled and began to collapse, and a streak of blood-red light shot into Taishi Tianbi’s grasp.

Before Su Mu could even see what the red light was, Taishi Tianbi had already waved his hand.

A beam of blood-red light, a full hundred zhang long, sliced through the air toward him.

Su Mu let out a great roar, unleashing all the True Essence in his body without reservation.

It all happened in a flash.

The blood-red light had already struck Su Mu.

Instantly, Su Mu’s flesh began to melt away, revealing the stark white bone of his arm.

The power of his Indestructible Golden Body activated, keeping his body from collapsing completely.

Su Mu’s feet gouged trenches in the earth as he was forced back, the flesh on his body continuing to melt away under the blood-red light.

He was nearly reduced to a skeleton.

Wherever the bloody light passed, everything dissolved. Even the stones were vaporized.

A deep trench several hundred zhang long was carved into the ground. The power of the bloody light spread out, reducing the entire mountain to ruins.

Yang Yungzhong and the others screamed in agony.

Even though they weren’t in the direct path of the beam, the residual energy alone was more than they could bear.

After an unknown amount of time, Su Mu’s body shrank back to its normal size.

He was in a half-squat, maintaining a bracing posture. His body was a bloody mess, his bones clearly visible through the torn flesh.

Yang Yungzhong and the others struggled to their feet. Seeing Su Mu’s condition, they all cried out in alarm.

"No!"

They scrambled toward him in a panic.

Just then, a faint light began to glow from Su Mu’s body. The melted flesh and blood began to regenerate at a visible rate.

A few moments later, Su Mu was restored to his original state, though his official uniform was gone and his face was a little pale.

Su Mu looked up. Taishi Tianbi had vanished.

And along with him, the entire mountain was gone.

A look of shock and lingering fear flashed in Su Mu’s eyes.

’A single attack had obliterated an entire mountain.’

’If it weren’t for my Indestructible Golden Body, a Physical Divine Technique, I would have died from that last attack, even in my giant form.’

"A Divine Weapon..."

Su Mu muttered to himself.

In that final moment, he had seen the short blade in Taishi Tianbi’s hand, only about a foot long.

’That was definitely a Divine Weapon!’

’The power of a Divine Weapon... it’s this terrifying.’

At this moment, however, his thoughts turned to the Heavenly Craft Refining Technique.

He had previously thought that the Heavenly Craft Refining Technique was too expensive. It required a million Points just to go from introduction to minor accomplishment, and even more to go from minor to major, and from major to Perfection.

But now, Su Mu felt that the cost wasn’t high at all!

The Heavenly Craft Refining Technique was the only known method in the world capable of creating an Immortal Soldier!

’A Divine Weapon already possesses such might. What about an Immortal Soldier?’

’No,’ Su Mu thought, ’the Divine Weapon in Taishi Tianbi’s hand wasn’t even in its complete form!’

’If it had been a complete Divine Weapon, I wouldn’t have survived, even with the Indestructible Golden Body.’

’Is ten million Points too much for a method that can create such a weapon?’

’Not at all!’

In the words of his past life, would the knowledge to build an atomic or hydrogen bomb be expensive at a billion?

’Not at all!’

Su Mu finally understood the true value of the Heavenly Craft Refining Technique. Even the Xuanhuang Blood Exchange Technique, the Four Symbols Rebirth Technique, and the Unlimited True Essence Technique of Heaven and Earth combined couldn’t compare to it.

This was a path that led to the heavens!

Just as Su Mu was lost in thought, staring at the devastation before him, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly echoed from all around.