Chapter 654 - 354: Mortal Flesh Rivals Limit Break, Ascends to Fifth Rank!

"Tsk tsk, that little White Dragon is quite sensible to choose to fulfill this boy; the burden of this karma will need to be repaid by him in the future..."

"However, this boy’s aptitude in the Martial Dao, especially in comprehension, is outstanding. He barely managed to achieve success without much preparation."

The Sun Family Ancestor sighed, emitting tsk tsks, while a penetrating gaze from the fish-shaped Jade Pendant thoroughly examined Su Mu inside and out.

His gaze paused slightly on the spot where a dark mist and Gu insect resided in the young man’s chest, with a flash of disgust and complex emotion.

It seemed not to be ignorance of the Gu insect’s origin but something hidden beneath.

"When this boy steps into the capital of Great Yan, he will certainly stir the winds and clouds; some matters will need to be concluded. But this boy..."

The voice of the Sun Family Ancestor was calm, yet hidden within was indescribable danger and a touch of anticipation, as his voice in the latter half became extremely faint, transformed into a different tone than usual.

Su Mu has a significant secret, sometimes even the Sun Family Ancestor finds it hard to see through, but the Sun Family Ancestor has secrets of his own.

Both Su Mu and the unconscious Sun Family Ancestor are well aware of this fact. Su Mu trusts the Sun Family Ancestor greatly at the moment, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t cautious.

Su Mu knows the strength of the Sun Family Ancestor, yet he is aware that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. He doesn’t wholly believe that he merely fits the Ancestor’s tastes, and that the Ancestor would guide his cultivation and protect him for nothing.

Cause and effect are inevitable; Su Mu understands that the Sun Family Ancestor carries a great secret, seemingly needing his assistance, while Su Mu also needs to become stronger faster to achieve his five-year plan.

For this reason, helping Su Mu to grow stronger now benefits the Sun Family Ancestor greatly without any harm, as their interests are mutually aligned at this stage, making them refrain from guarding against each other.

"Roar!"

A low, roaring sound of dragons echoed from the brow of the young man lying in a pool of blood. Upon reaching the summit of Bai Jiao Mountain, the White Dragon energy entered Su Mu’s body, and now it surged entirely from Su Mu’s Mind Sea, decisively choosing to merge into Su Mu’s meridians.

With the integration of White Dragon Power, the extremely unstable meridians finally stabilized completely, and the dull dragon patterns began to shine, transforming into White Dragon patterns.

With this, the transformation was wholly completed, Su Mu’s aura settled into tranquility, leaving only the long breath and strong heartbeat resonating within the martial arts arena.

Who knows how much time had passed.

The sound of tiger roars, deer calls, bear growls, ape cries, and bird chirps rang out together, as five demon shadows converged into the young man’s body. Moments later, the boy in the pool of blood woke up leisurely, with eyes showing not a hint of weakness but two sparkling gleams.

The mind quickly turned; everything that happened before fainting rapidly flashed through the mind, and Su Mu instantly came awake.

"Boom boom boom——!"

Su Mu lowered his head, simply reaching out with his right fist, and immediately felt a terrifying volcanic power from muscles and bones. The flesh of the right arm trembled slightly, causing the air in the palm to produce a continuous burst of exploding sounds.

"Hmm?"

Merely attempting this felt like opening a new world’s door before Su Mu, just a casual clenching of his fist unexpectedly made his heart feel dazed, as if the power within was endless, possessing unmatched Divine Power!

This was clearly the feedback from the Limit-Breaking State entered previously.

"Swish!"

With a shift in mind, the flow rate of Qi and Blood within the body accelerated instantly beyond previous extremes, yet this time Su Mu didn’t feel the shackles of the body, allowing the Qi Blood of over nine feet to rage wildly. The dragon tendons that had undergone ten transformations remained unmoved, the former sense of restraint completely vanished!

The Qi Blood surged like a mighty river within the transformed dragon tendons, immediately evaporating the mixed sweat blood on the body, with the heart pounding below the chest, like a giant hammer repeatedly striking heavily on the ground of the Martial Arts Arena, causing the surrounding air to undulate.

"Let’s try it!"

Su Mu’s eyes grew increasingly fiery, as the flow rate of Qi and Blood within continued to soar, with dark red blood mixed with some powdered being expelled from the body, the impurities and decayed blood from the transformation.

The blood mist, solid as blood-colored silk, gathered on Su Mu’s body surface, rising and rolling, rendering the Martial Arts Arena entirely blood-red, a heavy sense of pressure filled the area, enough to make Martial Artists of the Sixth Grade dread in fear or suffer direct injuries.

Su Mu felt the changes within his body, slowly raising his fist.

The next breath, the three-color glazed bone within the body subtly twisted, a string of dragon tendons slightly tensed and then released, as the fist struck out with simplicity.

"Boom!"

The air in front of the fist compressed suddenly, then melted into an invisible force that lashed out, the casual punch collapsed the air dramatically, forming rolling white waves, instantly creating a thundering sound of sonic boom!

"Bang!"

Almost simultaneously, a corner of the Martial Arts Arena, clothed in palms-thick Iron Armor, a metal stake abruptly issued the sound of metal clashing, the stake shivering as if it had suffered a violent strike.

Looking closely, there was a fresh fist imprint appeared on the thick Iron Armor wrapped around the stake.

Although the Iron Armor wasn’t of a high-grade Dharma Artifact, its thickness speaks of its solidity, knowing this, Su Mu’s casual punch from a distance left a fist imprint.

Such is the terror of the three-color glazed bone and dragon tendons!

"This is the glazed bone and ten-transformed dragon tendons, truly extraordinarily powerful!"

Su Mu lowered his gaze at his right fist, a look of amazement surfaced, even he felt quite astounded by that punch, knowing he hadn’t used Qi Blood or Gang Force earlier, this was purely the raw power of the body under the glazed bone and ten-transformed dragon tendons, without any external force.

"Right now, my physical body in its normal state can probably match fifty percent of the combat strength in the previous Limit-Breaking State!"

At this moment, Su Mu was suddenly enlightened, realizing that the previous perception was not mistaken. The physical body after five Bone Forgings and five Yijin was completely reborn, with the normal physical state faintly comparable to fifty percent of the Limit Break.

Limit Break is a powerful Secret Technique comprehended by Su Mu from the Five Animals Qigong, it is a desperate Secret Technique. Once activated, it can temporarily elevate the control of the physical body to some incredible realm, and comprehensively amplify one’s combat strength.

Under the amplification of Limit Break, Su Mu’s strength could easily double, or even explode to several times the combat strength, but right now Su Mu was overjoyed to find that he could make this desperate Secret Technique permanent, using just the ordinary physical body comparable to Limit Break!

This unreasonable strength completely exceeded Su Mu’s previous expectations.

At the moment, Su Mu is confident that even without using any Qi and Blood Power or Gang Force, ordinary Martial Artist in the Fifth to Sixth Grade would not be his match. He could easily break bones and muscles with just his Glazed Bone and Ten Dragon Tendons, severely injuring or even killing them.

If one of the thirteen great bandits, Gongsun Liang, were to be resurrected before him, Su Mu reckons he wouldn’t need to use Limit Break, White Dragon Power, Dragon Elephant Pattern, and Fist Momentum, just a portion of Qi and Gang Force would be enough to easily kill him.

Having personally experienced the before and after of the Glazed Bone and Ten Dragon Tendons, Su Mu couldn’t help but feel overjoyed, and just then, the power in Su Mu’s body that had just been settled became restless again.

"Hmm?"

Su Mu then noticed that at some point his six viscera were flowing with Yin Evil Power, and the Fifth Grade realm had completed the ascension naturally, as simple as eating and drinking.

The current restlessness was due to the six viscera craving Yin Evil Power. In the previous transformation, the three-colored Glazed Bone and Ten Dragon Tendons were too domineering, snatching away more than half of the Yin Evil Power intended for refining the six viscera, leaving only a small portion for the six viscera, thus naturally presenting some hollowness.

"I see."

Su Mu smiled wryly, casually integrating the remaining half-box of Yin Evil Power into his body. Afterwards, Su Mu felt it wasn’t enough, so he took out another iron box and a Blood Tempering Ancient Pill for cultivation.

Three days later.

The young man exhaled with satisfaction. This breakthrough and consolidation of realm consumed nine strands of Yin Evil Power in total. Of the ten portions of Yin Evil Power handed to him by Great Elder Qiu Mountain, only one portion was left.

"Apart from strengthening the six viscera, after refining with Yin Evil Power, the Gangjin Pill is also three parts more solid than before."

Su Mu casually stretched out a finger, and a pure Gang Force appeared at the fingertip. As soon as this Gang Force appeared, the surrounding temperature dropped sharply, and a biting cold surged in the martial arts field.

The water vapor in the air quickly condensed into ice crystals. Su Mu lost himself for a moment as he looked at the ice crystals forming at his fingertip. In his daze, he saw the scene of Yuan Qing taking the Little Doctor away on the ice crystal.

"Crack!"

Su Mu lightly tapped his fingertip, and the ice crystal shattered into powder, flying everywhere. With a thought, Su Mu summoned his current comprehension panel for a look.

[Name: Su Mu (19 years old)]

[Lifespan: 1180 years]

[Skill: Nurturing Vast Qi (Perfection), Seven Dominating Spear Forms (Perfection), Thunder Shock Fist (Perfection), Blazing Fire Saber Technique (Perfection), Qingfeng Swordsmanship (Perfection), Gale Triple Arrows (Perfection), Blood Transformation Technique (Perfection), Tiger Subduing Fist (Perfection), Torrential Rain Spear Technique (Perfection), Demon Subduing Fist (Perfection), Hundred Battle Fist (Great Success 97%), Calligraphy (Great Success 96%), Molten Fire Golden Body (Great Success 91%), Five Elements Technique (Great Success 45%), Three-Turn Dragon Elephant Skill (Great Success 41%), Gu Technique (Great Success 38%), Profound Demon Five Transformations (Great Success 23%), Pill Technique (Great Success 21%), Qingfeng Crossing Cicada (Small Success 99%), Purple Sun Qi Observing Technique (Small Success 97%), Artifact Refining (Small Success 41%), Myriad Phenomena Concentration Divine Technique (Small Success 29%), Flood Dragon Shocking Skill (Small Success 21%), Life-Attracting Technique (Small Success 16%), Small Wuxiang Profound Breath Technique (Small Success 9%), Immortal Body (entry-level 87%), Three Profound Forging Lungs Technique (entry-level 75%), Musical Arts (entry-level 43%), Talisman (entry-level 33%)]

[Comprehension: 230 (Descending Star)]

He opened the panel for a glance, quite a change!

First is lifespan. Through this fusion of Yin Evil Power, refining the six viscera, ascending Fifth Grade, and completing five Bone Forgings and five Yijins consecutively, Su Mu’s lifespan directly soared by eighty years.

Martial Artist will recreate a cycle upon ascending to Upper Three Grade Martial Arts Grandmaster. Simply put, after ascending to Martial Arts Grandmaster, a Martial Artist’s lifespan will see at least one cycle of enormous growth.

A cycle is sixty years, but the lifespan growth in Su Mu’s transformation was directly comparable to a typical Martial Artist ascending to Upper Third Grade Grandmaster Realm!

Now Su Mu’s body in this world is only nineteen years old, and his remaining lifespan has already exceeded a thousand years, enough to witness the rise and fall of several unified dynasties in his past life.

"The ordinary mortals of this world are actually no different from those in my past life. In fact, their lifespan is even shorter due to wars and plagues, living through one hundred years is extremely rare."

"But people in this world can break racial limitations through postnatal cultivation. If they continue to cultivate like this...one day, they might truly reach the legendary realm of immortality!"

Su Mu was thrilled, for this held great significance for him.

In his view, a strong person doesn’t necessarily live long, but those who live long are certainly strong!

This rebirth of his physical body and elevation of his realm brought him a lifespan increase exceeding one cycle, making Su Mu even more convinced that the physical body is an endless treasure trove, Martial Dao is infinite, and his path in Martial Dao was not mistaken!

As long as he continues moving forward, breaking through repeatedly, he can transcend species limits, live longer, and eventually achieve immortality!

Su Mu also knows that it is exceedingly difficult to achieve this. Anything in the world, once it reaches a certain point, any further growth is extremely challenging, lifespan included.

To reach immortality, doing what even figures like First Emperor and Martial Emperor couldn’t accomplish is understandably difficult, with no precursors nor successors on this path.

"The road is long and endless, I will seek it high and low!"

All Su Mu can do is continue cultivating, continuously strengthening himself, advancing on this path, and if obstructed, he would use his supreme comprehension to break through!

"Gongyang Jue...we should bring this to an end, let’s see if your skull is tougher or my fists are harder!"