Elsewhere, Li Chen and the others were also locked in fierce combat with the Core Formation martial artists.
Li Chen faced a rugged-looking Martial Dao expert with a dark-red scar across his face. Under the combined assault of Xiao Die and Xiao Ying, he swung a steel-whip-like magical treasure, sending gang gales spilling in all directions.
This expert displayed strength far beyond that of an ordinary five-star battle puppet. Beyond his cultivation on paper, he possessed sophisticated cultivation arts and knew how to make snap decisions, judging how best to respond to the battle before him.
What particularly amazed Li Chen was that he seemed to possess an exceptionally powerful flesh-and-blood Dao fruit. His muscles were incredibly tough, surpassing even black gold.
This was the fruit of cultivation that gathered the mighty power of divine abilities into oneself. Outer Dao cultivators placed great emphasis on cultivating themselves. Whether body or mind, both could be combined with all manner of divine abilities and spells to wield tremendous power. Once unleashed, moving mountains and overturning seas became mere trifles.
"Whip the Mountain!"
"Drive the Sea!"
Primordial energy surged, vast as the tide. Heaven and earth seemed to shudder and sway with each lash and sweep, as though a raging sea had truly been stirred into terrifying waves that swept over everything, intent on swallowing the Puppet Sisters.
This was a method of attaining divine power through the Martial Dao, born of driving blood and qi to their utmost limits and linking them with transformations of the mind. The people of the Righteous Qi Continent called it the True Martial Dao, also known as black tortoise. It belonged to the fantastical martial arts of mortal imagination, utterly different from mundane martial arts that could only shatter stone tablets and wield internal force.
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