Chapter 162 Successfully Reaching the Bottom, Preparing to Dig Up the Roots
Li Mu went deeper along the wooden tunnel at extremely high speed.
The width of the wooden tunnel was also constantly increasing.
Previously, the wooden tunnel had only been twenty or thirty meters wide.
As Li Mu advanced, the diameter of the wooden tunnel had already reached over a hundred meters.
Li Mu could even summon the Somersault Cloud inside it.
Taking the initiative to meet the enemy also allowed Li Mu to slaughter his way to over eight thousand points in just a dozen minutes.
And this had only been a dozen minutes. Under normal circumstances, in Ironhand City, Li Mu would have had to fight for most of the day to gain this many Triumph Points!
Of course, most of that time would have been spent searching for monsters.
But now, as long as he followed this wooden tunnel, the monsters would come and deliver themselves to him.
However, many of the monsters among them were below Eighth Grade. They made up at least two-thirds of the hundred or so monsters he had just killed.
Li Mu was now Eighth Grade, so killing Seventh Grade monsters gave him no Triumph Points.
Still, the large amount of spiritual energy released by all the monsters was quite powerful.
In just this short while, Li Mu had already stabilized himself at the mid-stage of Eighth Grade.
He put all eight thousand Triumph Points into Divine Weapon Art.
The flying strike range of Divine Weapon Art was now ten meters.
However, to Li Mu, that was still not enough.
It was far from enough.
Putting aside Divine Weapon Art, Li Mu intended to at least first raise his Divine Weapon to the point where it could come and go freely within a hundred meters.
After all, he was about to advance to Ninth Grade.
When that happened, Mid-Grade Heavenly Immortal Art could be upgraded to Great Heavenly Immortal Art.
That required one million Triumph Points.
One could say that his demand for Triumph Points was extraordinarily huge.
And that was not even mentioning Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation, which still had a pile of question marks waiting for him.
Therefore, Li Mu was not satisfied with this monster-killing speed. He directly rode the Somersault Cloud and continued deeper inside.
Wherever he passed, as long as he encountered monsters, the eleven Ghostface Cudgels that he maintained with External Incarnation would instantly kill them without exception.
Li Mu could no longer be bothered to collect any materials and simply swept past them.
At the same time, a massive rumbling noise began to appear ahead.
When the diameter of the wooden tunnel expanded to several hundred meters, an exit actually appeared ahead of him.
The noise had also grown to an ear-splitting level.
After turning out through the exit, Li Mu felt his heart tremble.
Before him was an enormous wooden tunnel several thousand meters in diameter!
And along the circular walls of this wooden tunnel, countless monsters were densely packed together as they raced rapidly forward!
The rolling thunder-like rumble was formed by the intertwined roars of all kinds of monsters, shaking the mind and soul.
These monsters charged behind Li Mu and burrowed into the entrances of countless wooden tunnels.
The stronger monsters entered the larger openings, while the lower-grade monsters entered the smaller ones!
Li Mu understood in an instant.
The tree trunk!
The inner Mystic Realm of this Sub-Profound Spirit Tree had been designed according to the structure of a tree.
The monsters surged out from the tree roots, then climbed along the inner wall of the tree trunk and entered the wooden tunnels of those branches.
Monsters of each grade climbed into wooden tunnels of the corresponding grade. The division of labor was extremely clear.
But the miraculous thing was that when Li Mu walked over from the branch, it was flat ground, and after he turned into the trunk, it was still flat ground rather than suspended vertically in the air.
It gave him a feeling of space being inverted.
In the instant Li Mu stood stunned, more than a dozen Eighth Grade and Seventh Grade monsters had already pounced toward him.
They were about to drown him in an instant.
Li Mu suddenly drew the Safe-Haven Method on the ground while releasing External Incarnation!
Li Mu himself recalled the main body of the Ghostface Cudgel into his hand.
Then there were five incarnations, ten Divine Weapons, and Li Mu’s main body, all beginning to slaughter to their hearts’ content.
The relatively lower-grade monsters completely ignored the battle on Li Mu’s side.
They rapidly crawled over the tunnel walls above him or in the distance on both sides.
Like flowing water, they streamed toward the other wooden tunnels.
Li Mu was like a stone blocking the flow of water.
Just the portion blocked by Li Mu alone had dozens or even hundreds of monsters joining the siege at every moment.
He was truly surrounded so tightly that not even water could pass through.
The monsters were practically drowning Li Mu.
If Li Mu had not been constantly using the Dou-Character Seal to blast the monsters back and scatter them, the monster corpses alone would have already pressed him down until he could no longer move!
In just a dozen minutes, Li Mu actually slaughtered his way to thirty thousand Triumph Points!
The vast amount of spiritual energy gathered around him, nearly bursting Li Mu apart!
Li Mu once again left five clones in place, then leaped up and summoned the Somersault Cloud.
With a whoosh, he broke out from above the monsters surrounding him.
He hovered in midair above the monster horde inside the wooden tunnel.
Li Mu looked around, panting heavily, but a sharp gleam shot from his eyes as he looked toward the direction the monsters were surging from.
Since the monsters were flowing out like water, there had to be a source!
Merely blocking one small section of the tunnel wall had already produced this many monsters.
If he could block the source...Looking at the clones below him that had already been drowned by monsters, Li Mu beckoned, and ten Divine Weapon incarnations flew to his left and right.
They flew out to strike the monsters that occasionally leaped toward Li Mu from the tunnel walls.
Meanwhile, Li Mu flew toward the source.
At the same time, he opened the system and directly put twenty thousand points into Divine Weapon Art, increasing its flying strike range to thirty meters.
He assigned ten thousand points directly to “A Touch of Heavenly Might.”
Heavenly Might, this Divine Ability, had only cost five hundred points to light up. After that, he had strengthened its controllable range once.
Now, exactly two thousand, three thousand, and five thousand points allowed Li Mu to light up three entries.
[The weight of the pressure has increased to 15 times the current Divine Weapon Art.]
[Cooldown reduced to 1 minute.]
[For 30 seconds after using A Touch of Heavenly Might, Divine Weapon Art carries 10% of Heavenly Might’s power.]
The current Heavenly Might weighed 202,500 jin.
Ten percent of two hundred thousand jin was twenty thousand jin.
In other words, within thirty seconds after Li Mu used Heavenly Might, when Divine Weapon Art attacked, it would carry more than thirty-three thousand jin of immense force...
Li Mu immediately cast Heavenly Might toward the place ahead where the monsters were most densely packed.
BOOM!
Countless monsters were instantly crushed apart! Regardless of their grade, they turned into countless lumps of rotten flesh on the spot!
After Heavenly Might, when Li Mu swung the weapon in his hand, its weight did not increase and remained at 13,500 jin.
However, when the Divine Weapon incarnations flew out and struck the monsters, they were different.
Previously, the monsters had been folded in half on the spot. Now, they were folded first, then smashed away like cannonballs.
Every monster corpse became a giant cannonball, blasting into the monster horde with enormous destructive power.
In other words, the Heavenly Might carried by the attack did not need to be borne by Li Mu. It was released directly through the attacks of Divine Weapon Art!
Terrifying!
Li Mu soon flew into the Ninth Grade monster area.
The Ninth Grade monsters that appeared were still no match for Li Mu’s Divine Weapon Art.
Perhaps they had some methods once they got close, and Li Mu would have to defend at the start.
Unfortunately, Divine Weapon Art now had a flying strike range of thirty meters, so they were instantly killed from a distance.
The rare few that suddenly got close were blocked by the Lin-Character Seal, then slain by Li Mu with a single cudgel strike.
As Li Mu advanced, the diameter of the wooden tunnel actually became smaller and smaller.
The monsters also became increasingly dense.
Very soon, it narrowed back down to a diameter of a hundred meters.
At last, when Li Mu reached a section of the wooden tunnel only several dozen meters in diameter, he saw an exit ahead that was glowing with white light!
All the monsters were passing through this white exit in single file... no!
They were erupting out of it like a geyser!
Many monsters were truly being sprayed out by a terrifying force!
They slammed heavily onto the ground, then quickly climbed up and merged into the monster current.
“I have to think of a way to pass through it!”
Li Mu looked at the size of this entrance. Its diameter was around ten or twenty meters.
If he forced his way through, even with Bronze Head and Iron Arms activated, he would only last two seconds.
Moreover, based on the monsters’ impact force, wanting to resist the brute strength of all the monsters and push through was simply a fool’s dream.
But if he wanted to block the monsters’ eruption from this side, it would be as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
Li Mu looked at the Ghostface Cudgels flying in midair, and his eyes suddenly lit up!
He tossed the Ghostface Cudgel in his hand into the air.
First, he casually released Heavenly Might toward the entrance.
Then Li Mu put away the Somersault Cloud, transformed into a flying mosquito, and flew into a crevice between the patterns of the Ghostface Cudgel!
Afterward, the Ghostface Cudgel in which Li Mu was hiding swiftly flew toward the exit.
Immediately after that, the other Ghostface Cudgel incarnations arrived behind the main Ghostface Cudgel.
They swung at the same time, striking the tail end of the main Ghostface Cudgel as if they were hitting a baseball!
The main Ghostface Cudgel shot out like a steel needle fired at terrifying speed.
It directly pierced through the gaps between a pile of monsters and passed through the exit where the monsters were erupting...