Chapter 161 Such Might Deserves Divine Weapon Art!
The instant Li Mu entered the circle of light, his vision brightened, and he found himself inside an enormous circular passage.
Li Mu transformed back into human form, drew out the Ghostface Cudgel and his cloak, then looked ahead and behind him.
This was an incredibly spacious circular passage. The walls around him were uneven and knotted, like the inside of a cavern.
Li Mu reached out and knocked on it. It was wood.
But it was exceptionally hard wood. There seemed to be some kind of Restriction on it. Li Mu struck it twice with the Ghostface Cudgel, producing two heavy thuds, but it did not move in the slightest.
However, the two knocks carried very far through the wooden tunnel.
Energy fluctuations immediately began to appear ahead of him.
Along with waves of monster roars, several monsters revealed themselves from the front and charged toward him.
“ROAR!”
“AWOOO!”
Different beastly roars echoed through the wooden tunnel, shaking one’s mind and making one’s eardrums throb.
In this sealed space, even retreating backward did not seem safe. He could only meet them head-on.
This was indeed an excellent place to temper one’s killing instincts.
Li Mu shouted, “Perfect timing!”
Then, without the slightest panic, he took out the Dragon-Phoenix Gourd and drank deeply.
Wine-Borrowed Might activated. His aura erupted around him, and Li Mu charged forward with the Ghostface Cudgel held backward in his hand.
All the monsters coming at him were Eighth Grade monsters.
There was a giant wolf with three tails and six claws, a giant ape with an abnormally muscular upper body, and a brilliantly colored spider whose every leg was tipped with a sharp blade.
Six monsters attacked Li Mu from the ground, the side walls, and even the ceiling of the tunnel.
Eighth Grade monsters already had quite a few methods at their disposal.
The demon race was known for its physiques, and the most terrifying thing about them was their strength.
When the giant ape smashed down with both fists, Li Mu deftly dodged aside.
The huge fists struck the ground, shaking the earth and making the entire passage tremble. The shockwave alone made Li Mu’s whole body go numb.
If an ordinary First or Second Grade Martial Artist had taken that shockwave at close range, it would have been enough to shatter their internal organs.
But to Li Mu, it felt no worse than a mosquito bite.
Li Mu passed by the giant ape and struck the giant wolf with his cudgel.
The mutated wolf’s sharp claws raked past Li Mu.
But its body was folded in half by Li Mu’s strike.
It was flung straight into the tunnel wall.
The reason he had passed through the giant ape to attack the wolf was so he could place himself in the middle of all the monsters.
Sure enough, after he killed the giant wolf, the surrounding monsters instantly entered the circular range centered on Li Mu.
Attacks slashed toward him from every direction.
Out of caution, Li Mu still used Bronze Head and Iron Arms.
But it was clearly unnecessary.
Listen Close activated!
The moment all the attacks reached Li Mu, they crashed into the golden characters that appeared with a thunderous force—Lin!
In an instant, four golden “Lin” character shields blocked every attack.
The shields were terrifyingly strong. Even the Eighth Grade spider, which excelled at sharpness, only managed to cut a few millimeters into the Lin character when it slashed it.
And those few millimeters were not because the spider had broken through the Lin character shield.
It was because the Lin character shield had a method of absorbing attacks.
After all, even the giant ape’s blunt fist, which possessed no sharp edge, was also embedded a few millimeters into the Lin character shield.
Its fist had been absorbed onto the Lin character shield in an instant.
That was the truly terrifying part.
Li Mu shouted, “Dou!”
Bang!
With a thunderous impact, the Lin character vanished, and an enormous golden “Dou” character blasted out like an air cannon from the position where the Lin character had disappeared.
The monsters struck by the Dou character were sent smashing backward into the tunnel wall, their bones broken and tendons torn.
The ones without a wall behind them were blasted nearly a dozen meters away.
At that moment, the giant ape that had flashed past at the very front also turned back and smashed a fist down at him.
Once again, it struck the Lin character shield.
“Zhen!”
Li Mu switched to the Zhen-Character Seal.
The Lin character vanished, and a Zhen-Character Seal appeared at the giant ape’s wrist before violently driving downward into the ground.
Like a staple, it firmly pinned the giant ape’s arm into the gap beneath the Zhen character.
The giant ape’s entire arm seemed as though its True Qi had been sealed, and it could no longer move.
No matter how wildly its upper body roared and struggled, it could not break free of the Zhen-Character Seal.
Li Mu sensed the Zhen-Character Seal.
It seemed that as long as his True Qi did not run out, the Zhen-Character Seal could continue to exist indefinitely.
Defying the heavens!
Li Mu no longer hesitated. He smashed the giant ape’s head apart with one strike of his cudgel, then went to finish off the other heavily injured monsters.
Li Mu was still puzzled. These monsters were easy for him, but for those of the same grade, fighting six of them alone would be extremely difficult.
How had the people outside dared to enter wooden tunnels of their own grade?
The most likely possibility was that those people had entered circles of light one grade lower than themselves.
Fifth Grade entered Fourth Grade, and Seventh Grade entered Sixth Grade.
As for the few who had entered the Eighth Grade circle of light, it seemed some of them really were Ninth Grade.
However, once one reached the Eighth or Ninth Grade, everyone had their own trump cards. Even at worst, they could still run.
WHOOSH!~~
After he dealt with the monsters, waves of pure spiritual energy swiftly rose from their corpses and surged madly into Li Mu’s body.
The spiritual energy was so pure that it felt as though it did not need to be refined at all. It seemed to belong to him from the start.
It made him feel extraordinarily full.
However, spiritual energy was not the same as True Qi. After spiritual energy was compressed and refined, it could strengthen the Dantian Sea and the physique.
But True Qi was produced by the Dantian Sea and could not be replenished directly.
Li Mu praised it inwardly. Indeed, killing just these six monsters already felt like it had achieved the effect of a full day of training.
No wonder this Sub-Profound Spirit Tree was so popular.
It was indeed a sacred place for leveling up.
[Victory! Triumph Points +1985]
Six monsters had been calculated at nearly two thousand points in total.
Not bad!
Very good indeed.
Li Mu quickly drew his saber and dismembered the monsters.
For monsters he did not understand, he followed the principle of checking the brain first, then the heart, searching for something like a “core.”
If there was no core, he would look for anything that glowed, contained energy, or any body part that displayed the monster’s special traits.
For example, when this mutated wolf attacked, its eyes instantly glowed red.
That meant there was a high probability that its eyes were useful materials.
This was why schools absolutely required students to study the Monster Bestiary.
Li Mu was only in his senior year of high school. He had not yet gone to university, and he had not even come into contact with many kinds of Abysses, so he naturally had not learned the Monster Bestiary of the Verdant Abyss.
All he could do was dismember them randomly.
After collecting several things that looked useful, Li Mu placed the internal organs and some decent-looking meat into the Blessed Field Art.
Yaogu, who had been drinking water, looked at the monster meat that had fallen from the sky.
It immediately cried out happily and ran all over the ground, as if it wished it could shout its thanks to its master and elder brother for sending it feed.
Just as Li Mu put away his saber, three more monsters came after hearing the noise.
Li Mu folded two of them in half with his cudgel, then unexpectedly drew his saber and beheaded the other one.
Looking at the 3,740 Triumph Points in the system, Li Mu felt that he could now completely add points to Divine Weapon Art.
He had already been close to the mid-stage of Eighth Grade today. After killing only nine monsters, he had already reached the mid-stage.
He could completely withstand a weight of 13,500 jin now.
Without another word, Li Mu threw all his Triumph Points into Divine Weapon Art.
But Divine Weapon Art sent a notification!
[Consumed 1500 Triumph Points. Successfully strengthened “Divine Weapon Art.”]
[Divine Weapon Art: Grants weight to a weapon. Current weight: 13,500 jin (maxed).]
Hmm???
Li Mu’s eyes lit up.
This situation had appeared when Listen Close was strengthened. This was the rhythm of a qualitative transformation.
“Add another 2000 points to Divine Weapon Art!”
[Consumed 2000 Triumph Points. Successfully strengthened “Divine Weapon Art.”]
[Divine Weapon Art: Grants weight to a weapon. Current weight: 13,500 jin (maxed). The Divine Weapon has awakened intelligence and can fly out to strike enemies within a certain range according to your will. When flying out to strike, it can adapt to all Cultivation Arts, Mountain-Bearing Art, External Incarnation, and Safe-Haven Method. Current flying strike range: 2 meters.]
“I have already said the word ‘incredible’ more than enough times.”
“But...”
Li Mu was so excited that his breathing grew slightly hurried. He carefully opened his hand.
The Ghostface Cudgel actually floated up from his palm.
It was like a baby just learning to walk, wobbling as it flew several circles around Li Mu.
It fluttered up and down in the air, and very soon, it went from a toddling infant to a young man striding swiftly forward.
With a thought from Li Mu, the Ghostface Cudgel immediately spun wildly through the air, whipping and slashing with tremendous force.
The howling wind sounded like ghosts wailing and wolves crying.
With another thought from Li Mu, Divine Weapon Art released a whoosh, and the cudgel actually split into five additional copies.
A total of six Ghostface Cudgels spun wildly around Li Mu.
Li Mu checked his External Incarnation and found that it had not entered cooldown.
In other words, the External Incarnation of Divine Weapon Art and Li Mu’s own External Incarnation did not share a cooldown timer!
Powerful!
Only this was worthy of the words “Divine Weapon”!
At present, the only shortcoming was distance. It was only two meters.
If it struck a monster and rebounded, it could bounce back into Li Mu’s own face. This had to be improved as soon as possible.
Based on the current calculation, it should be one meter for every 1000 Triumph Points.
There was nothing else to say. He had to kill!
Perhaps the ghostly howls of the Ghostface Cudgel just now had been too loud, because five more monsters were soon drawn over.
This was perfect for Li Mu to test the technique.
With a thought, the six Ghostface Cudgels flew to the two-meter limit in front of him and lined up in a row, directly clashing head-on with the five monsters.
With the support of Mountain-Bearing Art, Iron-Cleaving Form, and Flowing Cloud Fleeting Shadow, even after leaving Li Mu’s hand, the Ghostface Cudgels could still instantly kill Eighth Grade monsters.
If they struck the body, the body would fold.
If they struck the head, the head would explode.
After instantly killing these monsters, Li Mu was no longer satisfied with waiting in place.
Instead, he sprinted in the direction the monsters had come from.
As he ran, he did not forget to make the Ghostface Cudgels continuously strike the tunnel walls with heavy thuds.
A large number of monsters were drawn toward Li Mu...