Boom! Boom! Boom!
Chen Mu pressed his advantage relentlessly, unleashing over a hundred punches in a single instant. Each punch was accompanied by the illusory image of the Five Elements Ring, forcing A Huo to dodge left and right, leaving him in a sorry state.
Just as Chen Mu was about to put in more effort to knock A Huo down, he noticed that A Huo had suddenly closed his eyes.
Clang!
A terrifying Sword Qi burst forth from A Huo's body. In an instant, A Huo seemed to transform into a long sword, and the terrifying Sword Qi instantly tore everything around him to shreds.
Unity of Man and Sword?
Chen Mu was taken aback. Fortunately, his Eye of the Seer played a crucial role at this moment. He sensed something was wrong before A Huo erupted and distanced himself from A Huo in advance.
The Unity of Man and Sword is an extremely high level of Sword Dao. Once you enter this state, you become the sword and the sword becomes you, which can raise your combat power to a whole new level.
This was the first time Chen Mu had ever encountered the Unity of Man and Sword in battle; he had only ever seen it in books before.
Thump! Clang clang clang...!
After A Huo Unity of Man and Sword, the sword fingers he swung were extremely sharp. Chen Mu dared not use his fists to block them and could only take out his Dharma-Breaking Staff.
As Chen Mu's mastery of runes deepened, his Dharma-Breaking Staff was now far more powerful than before. The Dharma-Breaking Staff was now imbued with numerous auxiliary rune effects, such as weakness, slowing, and corrosion. If it were an ordinary Core Formation Realm, a single strike would be enough to cripple most of their combat power.
However, in the face of A Huo's sword intent, these rune effects became meaningless. As the saying goes, one force can overcome all laws. A Huo's Sword Dao had touched the Rules of Heaven and Earth, and he could completely isolate himself from the negative effects that Chen Mu brought him.
Boom! Bang bang bang!
The battle between the two gradually intensified. Neither of them were ordinary Core Formation Realm. The aftershocks of the battle dispersed the surrounding clouds, leaving only dazzling silver sword light and colorful patterns colliding violently in the air.
"That's enough, let's settle this with one decisive move!"
Chen Mu knew that ordinary moves would hardly defeat A Huo, so he gathered the Five Elements Ring in his palm for a final desperate attempt.
Cellular Runes, Super Five Elements Ring, Go!
When Chen Mu broke through to the Core Formation Realm, some of his body's cells had already completed the absorption of the runes. After this period of refinement, Chen Mu was able to control the use of these cells.
At this moment, he condensed the runic power of these cells into the Five Elements Ring in his palm. The power it could bring was much greater than that of an ordinary Five Elements Ring. This is because the principle of the Five Elements Ring is to amplify a power dozens of times through the mutual generation and circulation of the five elements. The number of cells in the human body is very large. With so much power being transformed and amplified by the Five Elements Ring, the power immediately increases exponentially.
The Justice True Heart Sword!
A Huo could sense the terrifying power of Chen Mu's move, and he was not to be outdone. He gripped the sword hilt with both hands and slashed fiercely at the flying Five Elements Ring pattern.
A massive, silver-white sword flew from its tip. This time, the sword was no longer an illusion, but a solid piece of steel.
This is the Mass-Energy Conversion effect, converting energy into actual matter, which is much more difficult than matter releasing energy.
The silver-white giant sword slammed into the Five Elements pattern emitted by Chen Mu, producing a loud clang, and the Five Elements Ring was actually knocked backward.
"The five elements generate each other, turn!"
Chen Mu changed hand seals, and the Five Elements Ring that were locked in a stalemate with the giant sword began to rotate, reversing the situation.
Bang! Bang!
Under the pressure of the Five Elements Ring, the tip of the silver-white greatsword began to shatter, and then the shattering spread backward little by little.
"Our swordsmanship and fighting spirit will never be extinguished!"
A Huo shouted, and the shattered fragments of the giant sword flew back to his side, reforming into a new giant sword, which then charged towards the Five Elements Ring once more.
Thump! Thump! Thump...!
Each time the giant sword struck the Five Elements Ring, it would shatter, then return to A Huo's side and reform, before launching another attack on the Five Elements Ring.
After repeating this cycle more than ten times, the Five Elements Ring finally gave way and shattered with a crash.
But at this point, A Huo was too weak to launch another attack and sheathed his greatsword.
"I lost!"
He sighed, pointed, and the longsword in the distance flew back into its scabbard on his back.
"Haha, serves you right for not training your body properly! Now your body can't take it anymore!"
Chen Mu laughed heartily.
In fact, if it were a life-or-death struggle, the outcome of this battle would be hard to say, but if the fight continued, A Huo might damage his foundation, so he would have no choice but to stop.
Chen Mu's Dharma Power is still quite abundant after fighting for so long. After all, Dharma Power is a combination of Spiritual Power and Soul Power, which is more enduring and of higher quality than pure Spiritual Power Spiritual Power.
I'll challenge you again in a few days!
A Huo was not discouraged at all; his eyes still held a surging fighting spirit as he looked at Chen Mu.
"Okay! I'll be waiting anytime."
In Chen Village now, apart from White Turtle, that lazybones who sleeps all day, only the two of them have broken through to the Core Formation Realm. If they want to spar, they can only find each other.
In the afternoon, Chen Mu went to watch Nangong Tong transform her Runic Body. The process went relatively smoothly, but Nangong Tong's rune foundation was still too weak. The final Runic Body was much weaker than Chen Mu's first transformation back then.
However, this was within his expectations. There is a big difference between cultivating alone and becoming a member of a cultivation system. Observing the formation of Runic Body in other people is also of great benefit to his own design of Runic Body development.
After Nangong Tong's successful transformation, it's believed that the remaining nine Ancient Desolate Race will also transform into Runic Body soon. The future growth of this lineage will depend on Nangong Tong, and Chen Mu doesn't want to spend too much time teaching others.
Chen Village is thriving, Rune Research Institute has ample research funding, allowing him to put many previously shelved research projects back on the agenda.
For example, the Illusory Silver Water that Chen Mu bought back from the Kuiming Auction House is an important material for Chen Mu's research on 'liquid metal robots'. After his simple planning, he has now had Landuo set up a group to conduct research on it.
In addition, Chen Mu also began to conceive of the realization of ultra-long-range missiles and the possibility of realizing space satellites, etc. However, since the environment of the Pan Emperor Continent is very different from that of Earth, there is too much data to analyze for these ideas, and it is impossible to make great progress in a year or two.
He wasn't in a hurry. Back on Earth, the return on investment in scientific research was always a long process, and many forces were unwilling to invest too much in it.
Because most leaders are replaced by the next leader before they have seen any results while in office, which is not in the interests of those in power. After all, leaders with a long-term vision are only a minority.
However, the leaders of Chen Village did not care about this. They were all cultivators with long lives, and they knew with certainty that they would reap the rewards. Therefore, they never spared any effort in investing in the Rune Research Institute.