Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 790: Chapter 435 Da Xuan Shaken_2

“It’s news from the Peak Master…”

Jin Ling’er’s chest heaved as she began to speak.

She had also pushed the first three realms of Body Tempering Martial Arts to their limits and was an Inner Sect genius disciple who had achieved the ‘Tiger and Leopard Thunder Sound.’ However, her panting wasn’t due to the run here; the heaving of her chest was more a reflection of the inner tumult.

As soon as Chen Yue heard that the message was about Chen Mu, her expression instantly changed. She looked at Jin Ling’er, her eyes filled with three parts anxiety, three parts hope, and three parts unease, but she couldn’t help asking, “What happened to my brother?”

Jin Ling’er took a deep breath, as if forcibly calming her mind, and then addressed Chen Yue, “The Peak Master has been ambushed in the Outer Sea by the Pavilion Master of Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion and the Master of Blood Hidden Pavilion… by seven individuals from the Blood Exchange Realm.”

At this point,

even she couldn’t help but shiver slightly.

Although she was always ready to step into the Bone Tempering Realm, she was still far from reaching the state that encompassed the Five Viscera and Six Viscera, not to mention the Marrow Cleansing and Blood Exchange. She knew well what it meant to be in the Blood Exchange Realm—that was a standing at the peak of Martial Arts!

In one state of the land, hundreds of millions of common people could only produce one being in the Blood Exchange Realm in a hundred years. The cultivation required for this was incredibly difficult, and those people held such high status.

Pavilion Master of the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion!

Master of the Blood Hidden Pavilion!

Those names, in the entire Cold North, were enough to cause a stir, each being a leader of a sect!

Such figures, seven in total, ambushing a single Chen Mu, was an unprecedented trap of epic proportions. This kind of formation, any master in the Blood Exchange Realm who fell into an ambush would likely only have a slim chance of survival!

“What?”

Upon hearing Jin Ling’er’s words, Chen Yue was shocked, her face turning pale.

Although her own realm wasn’t high, she was well aware of just how formidable individuals like the Pavilion Master of the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion and the Master of the Blood Hidden Pavilion were. The presence of seven such individuals ambushing together was enough to pale the heavens and the earth!

Chen Mu had not yet stepped into the Blood Exchange Realm, yet these figures acted so recklessly regardless of their status!

Although she knew that Chen Mu’s path ahead would be extremely perilous, perilous to the point of him having to retreat to the Outer Sea to avoid entangling them, she had not imagined that it would be dangerously to this extent, and so soon had such news arrived!

“…How is my brother doing?”

Chen Yue forcibly calmed her emotions and continued to ask Jin Ling’er. However, a slight tremor could still be heard in her voice.

Jin Ling’er took a deep breath, and a trace of astonishment appeared on her face as she said, “It is said that the Peak Master, facing seven opponents, forcibly broke through the ambush and even killed three on the spot!”

“This…”

Upon hearing Jin Ling’er’s words, Chen Yue found herself momentarily lost in thought.

Facing seven Blood Exchange Realm opponents, battling and killing three among them… such feats sounded almost like legends!

The Blood Exchange Realm denoted not just any individual, but like the Pavilion Master of the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion and the Master of Blood Hidden Pavilion, they were figures who could make the Cold North tremble, true Grandmasters who had reached the pinnacle of Body Tempering Martial Arts!

These near apex Martial Arts masters, seven joining hands to ambush, and under Chen Mu’s command, three fell and four fled!

It seemed beyond belief!

So much so that upon hearing it from Jin Ling’er’s mouth, Chen Yue’s first reaction was to question the veracity of the news.

“Has my brother… stepped into the Blood Exchange Realm?”

Chen Yue looked at Jin Ling’er, unable to suppress the quiver in her voice.

Although she was incredibly distant from the Blood Exchange Realm, she knew many things about that realm, such as Qin Mengjun being ambushed when attempting to reach the Blood Exchange Realm, taking ten-plus years to recover. He then broke through and stepped into that realm.

And like the Supreme Elder Yin Heng of the Seven Profound Sect, who had entered closed-door cultivation in front of the Seven Profound Wall in the back mountain of the sect, sitting there for ten years before finally taking that step into the Blood Exchange Realm, becoming a legendary figure who would control the Seven Profound Sect for a hundred years.

Some said it would take Chen Mu ten to twenty years to step into the Blood Exchange Realm.

She knew with Chen Mu’s peerless talent, perhaps it wouldn’t take that long, but in her view, Chen Mu would still need at least a few years to touch the level of the Blood Exchange Realm, to step within its bounds.

By the time Chen Mu had left the Seven Profound Sect, only less than half a year had passed!

Less than half a year to reach the Blood Exchange Realm?

Even Chen Yue found it bizarre, impossible, and inconsistent with the norms of the world.

“That, I do not know.”

Jin Ling’er, upon hearing Chen Yue’s words, also shook her head. The information was indeed not very detailed, but when she had heard it, she too was immensely shocked. It took her a long time to recover before she rushed to find Chen Yue to share the news.

As Chen Yue listened to Jin Ling’er, the tumult in her heart gradually subsided. She took a deep breath and asked solemnly, “Is this news true? Who did you hear it from?”

“It was Elder Chu who mentioned it.”

Jin Ling’er responded.

Upon hearing Jin Ling’er’s words, Chen Yue nodded slightly.

Chu Jingsui.

A fellow disciple of Qin Mengjun, like Chen Mu, and his senior brother. Now a grandmaster of the Marrow Cleansing Realm, and the Vice Peak Master of Spirit Profound Peak, managing all affairs of the peak. If the news came from Chu Jingsui, it was mostly likely true.

But had Chen Mu truly attained the Blood Exchange Realm in such a short period?

Yet, if not, how could he fight against seven, break out of an ambush by seven Blood Exchange Realm experts, and even kill three on the spot?

Chen Yue still harbored some doubts, but she quickly cast them aside. Instead, a sense of relief washed over her; knowing Chen Mu possessed such means, there were very few left in the whole world who could threaten him.

Now.

The entire Da Xuan Dynasty, across the Ninety-Nine States, was likely shaken by the news of Chen Mu!

…

Indeed, as Chen Yue had expected.

The news of Chen Mu fighting against the Pavilion Master of the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion, the Master of Xue Yin Tower, and five other Blood Exchange Realm experts in the Outer Sea spread from the seas to the mainland at the fastest speed and swiftly dispersed in all directions.

Wherever the news reached, it caused a massive stir.

From the Cold North Path to the Southern Ridge Path, and the Central Jingji Road… The Nine Paths and Ninety-Nine States of Da Xuan were all terrified!

The fall of Blood Exchange Realm experts was a significant event, enough to shake the entire world.

Not to mention, the simultaneous fall of three Blood Exchange Realm experts, all killed by the same man, in the same battle, where they were ambushed by seven and counter-killed—it was an event unprecedented in the entire millennium history of Da Xuan.

Even more so,

Chen Mu, who killed three Blood Exchange Realm experts, was rumored to have not yet stepped into the Blood Exchange, merely possessing a Marrow Cleansing Physique!

However, this news seemed somewhat false to the rest of the world because, even with Chen Mu’s unparalleled talent and his following of the invincible path of Martial Arts, only after stepping into the Blood Exchange could he potentially fight seven of the same realm and kill three. To combat seven great Blood Exchange experts with merely a Marrow Cleansing Physique seemed utterly like a myth.

But that Chen Mu could advance to the Blood Exchange in such a short time also felt shocking, itself somewhat beyond normal comprehension, an inexplicable event that felt as unreal as legends, as if, just as some people said, he was blessed by the Heavenly Mandate, embodying the will of this world!

As the news spread.

In various parts of Da Xuan, from the commoners to the many suffering people, Chen Mu was seen as a savior born of the will of heaven, and all around, the world felt a sense of turmoil.

Meanwhile, at the center of Jingji Road, the heart of Da Xuan where the Imperial City was located, ever since the news of the battle in the Outer Sea had arrived, the entire Imperial Court and Imperial Capital had fallen into complete silence.

No one knew what was happening inside the Imperial City.

It was only known that on the day the news arrived, an uncontrollable aura had erupted from both King Han’s residence and King Liang’s abode, an aura filled with shock, disarray, and even panic.

“How could this be?!”

This was the thought that surfaced in the minds of King Han Ji Xuanfei and King Liang Ji Xuanzhen, and even all of The Eight Princes, upon hearing the news.