To break through to the Earth Martial Realm, one had to ascend the Martial Dao Divine Mountain and draw upon its earthfire to temper one's cultivation.
And to set foot in the Heavenly Martial Realm in the future, one would have to blast open the Heavenly Gate of Martial Dao.
These two barriers were the martial bottlenecks of the Earth Martial Realm and the Heavenly Martial Realm.
Lin Chen had only gradually learned of them after borrowing numerous books from the Four Seas Merchant Guild.
Of course, information on the Earth Martial Realm was plentiful, while details about the Heavenly Martial Realm appeared only as rare fragments in ancient texts.
But the Heavenly Martial Realm was still far too distant.
At this moment, Lin Chen simply stilled his mind and began his assault on the Earth Martial Realm in earnest.
Rumble—
As he began to break through the barrier.
Deep within Lin Chen's sea of consciousness, a tremendous crash seemed to ring out, and the earth split apart to either side amid a thunderous rumbling!
A terrifying, bottomless chasm stretched across his path.
Below the chasm lay a void. On the far shore, shrouded in mist, the outline of a majestic divine mountain flickered in and out of sight. It did not tower into the clouds, yet it radiated a weighty, ancient aura, as though it bore the burden of all creation.
The Martial Dao Divine Mountain...
Lin Chen murmured inwardly.
Perhaps a Martial Dao Divine Mountain truly existed somewhere in the world, but what stood before him was merely its manifested phantom.
Even so, the chasm blocking his path could not be crossed through brute force.
The only way forward was to use his lifetime of cultivation and martial foundation as materials to construct a martial dao bridge.
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