Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 793: Chapter 437: Snap of the Fingers Annihilates the Heavenly Demon

Outer Sea.

Beneath the surging waves, where dark currents flowed, lay an eerily quiet and profound ocean bed, rarely frequented by living beings.

Amidst this stillness, a figure in a long robe wandered the seabed. With each step spanning hundreds of feet, they progressed through the depths like an undercurrent, continuously moving forward.

The figure was none other than Chen Mu.

Since leaving the Xunmu Cave Heaven and thwarting the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion Master and others’ delusional plot to kill him, he hadn’t lingered long. He plunged directly into the Outer Sea, and nearly half a month later, he had reached an unfathomable depth.

The Outer Sea was rumored to be almost limitless, and it is said that no one had ever explored its end. However, at Chen Mu’s current Realm, he was relatively certain that while the Outer Sea was indeed vast—far larger than the combined lands of the Da Xuan Ninety-Nine States—it still had its boundaries.

The further one ventured, the farther from Da Xuan’s inland territories, the more mottled and mixed the Yuan Qi and Spiritual Power scattered between heaven and earth became, the less suitable it was for life to flourish, and the fewer the living beings there were.

Clearly.

If one kept traveling in one direction, they would eventually reach a place where the Heaven and Earth’s Yuan Qi was so thin it almost didn’t exist, a complete void of silence and death. This place was known as the Sea of Silence, one of the forbidden zones in the Da Xuan World.

Because the Heaven and Earth’s Yuan Qi was nearly nonexistent, even Martial Artists at the Marrow Cleansing and Blood Exchange Realm couldn’t draw Yuan Qi from the surroundings to replenish themselves, and due to the chaotic environmental conditions of heaven and earth, even masters at the Blood Exchange Realm couldn’t survive there for long—not even Chen Mu. Although his Qiankun Martial Body was unparalleled and capable of evolving into the Eight Phases, the rotation of Qiankun was still within the confines of heaven and earth.

If he were to leave heaven and earth, without the replenishment of Heaven and Earth’s Yuan Qi, he couldn’t achieve eternal life.

For someone like Xunmu to open up a realm like the Xunmu Cave Heaven in the vast emptiness, creating his own cycle of heaven and earth, and even nurturing the propagation of living beings, seemed to Chen Mu an incredible power far beyond the reach of “Martial Arts.”

Perhaps in the future he could reach such a Realm, but the present Chen Mu didn’t aim beyond his grasp. All he needed was a safe place to enter closed-door Cultivation, and then take the plunge to Blood Exchange, entering the Eighth Realm of the Body Tempering Martial Arts.

“This far should be enough,”

Chen Mu muttered to himself, walking across the seabed while determining his position.

He had journeyed a considerable distance into the Outer Sea from the Ruins Sea, venturing to its vast depths, where he was now hundreds of thousands of miles deep. This area was long devoid of human presence, even rare for living beings, and he had concealed his tracks along the way, covered by the Qiankun Path, leaving no trace behind.

Finding his current location in the vast Outer Sea was akin to finding a needle in a haystack, almost impossible even for a Celestial Master unless they relied on mystical methods such as divination of Heavenly Mechanism, and even then, they couldn’t do so without paying a price.

Moreover.

For him at this time, breaking through to the Blood Exchange Realm didn’t require much time in closed-door Cultivation. With his Marrow Cleansing Realm at the limit of Extreme Tempering, the bottleneck for Blood Exchange simply didn’t exist; he could almost at any time draw The Power of Heaven and Earth into his body and start breaking through to the Blood Exchange Realm!

“Still, I should find a place where The Power of Heaven and Earth is more robust.”

Chen Mu walked along the seabed, simultaneously searching for a suitable area. He traversed several thousand miles and eventually came to a region inordinately hot and tumultuous.

The seawater in this range was significantly hotter than elsewhere, with rising temperatures that increased the deeper one went. Looking into the deepest parts, one could see red light shimmering through the pitch-black seabed.

This was an underwater volcano!

Chen Mu didn’t venture too deep; he stopped on the periphery of the underwater volcano, gazing into the distant scenery, feeling the mingling and changing of The Power of Heaven and Earth, and couldn’t help but exclaim, “A marvel of heaven and earth.”

Underwater volcanoes were nothing new to him, having known many such regions in his previous life. But then, his body was frail, and he explored those areas using other means; now, he stood at the bottom of the sea, experiencing this display of mighty forces of nature at close range, inevitably stirring some awe within him.

Even at this point, having cultivated his physique to the limit of Marrow Cleansing and on the cusp of Blood Exchange, the vastness before him made him feel small, a vastness still beyond the reach of human effort.

The Power of Earth Fiend, the power of Separating Fire, and the force of the Vast Ocean—all different forces of heaven and earth collided here, conflicting and merging with each other, rendering the entire region hazardous, almost like a land of utter extinction.

Pausing in this place,

Chen Mu felt a subtle sensation within him; his location for the closed-door breakthrough to Blood Exchange would be right here!

This underwater volcano, while exceedingly dangerous, posed little threat to him at present, as long as he didn’t enter its core. Moreover, the chaotic and robust The Power of Heaven and Earth here was ideal for tempering Martial Blood, making cultivation doubly effective.

Furthermore…

Chen Mu’s gaze was drawn to a certain direction ahead, his eyes flashing with an intrigued light.

Following Chen Mu’s gaze about twenty miles ahead, the dark seabed’s rocky layer was cracked, revealing strands of red light within, and the seawater almost boiled vigorously.