Chen Mu could feel that his Divine Soul was stronger than ever before.
With a slight Thought, Chen Mu's fist, with its purple skin, transformed into a glassy color. He threw a punch, causing the space to tremble. The powerful force formed a shockwave that flew hundreds of meters away before gradually weakening.
Chen Mu felt that even his current physical strength might not be able to match the strength of this physical Divine Soul.
However, Chen Mu is currently only at the Solid Realm First Stage, and the time he can transform his Divine Soul into a physical form cannot be too long, so he can only use it as a trump card in critical moments.
There are nine levels of the Solid Realm. With each breakthrough, the Divine Soul becomes stronger, and in the later stages, it can be used as a true body.
However, the path of cultivation becomes increasingly difficult as one progresses. Reaching the late stage of the Solid Realm is still a long way off. For now, the right path is to focus on accumulating foundational knowledge and skills.
This time, his breakthrough into the Solid Realm seemed simple, but it was actually extremely dangerous.
Chen Mu's Life-Bound Talisman is the Five Elements Chaos Talisman, one of the most powerful Life-Bound Talisman since ancient times, so its foundation must be excellent, at the very least attracting white Yang Fire.
As for what level of Yang Fire it can actually attract, no one can estimate that.
Therefore, Elder Ming made many preparations, even the worst-case scenario, which was to attract the golden Yang Fire.
In order to deal with the golden Yang Fire, Elder Ming chose to come to this Lava Peak to Fire Essence Crystal for Chen Mu's breakthrough.
Chen Mu's Five Elements Chaos Talisman can maximize the power of the Fire Essence Crystal, so Elder Ming believes that if he can absorb the Fire Essence Crystal, he is confident that he can withstand even the Golden Yang Fire.
That's why he was so bold as to throw away materials ahead of time to upgrade Yang Fire.
But to his utter surprise, at the last moment, purple Yang Fire appeared.
The purple Yang Fire was something he had never even seen before, and he was completely helpless against it. If it weren't for the sacrifice of the Fire Essence Spirit in the end, Chen Mu would have had a very high chance of not making it to the end.
This is the horror of a cataclysmic event; there is a master in the dark, and even if you are fully prepared, unexpected events may still occur.
" Little Mu, let's go back!"
Now that they had successfully broken through, there was no need for them to stay there any longer, so they prepared to return to their lodgings.
The shuttle-shaped spaceship built by Elder Ming was completely destroyed after landing and could no longer be started.
However, there were still many valuable parts to the ship's materials, Elder Ming simply picked it up and carried it back.
Two weeks later.
At this moment, over a thousand disciples of the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion had gathered in the plaza in front of the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion.
On both sides of the square, there were seven or eight huge ships. These ships looked no different from sailboats on the sea, except that they could fly.
"Disciples, this is the basic situation of the training mission. This mission will be somewhat dangerous, so everyone must not be careless!"
Finally, I hope you all return safely...
After An Ruhai finished speaking on the high platform, the disciples, under the arrangement of the discipline disciples, entered the surrounding ship hull in an orderly manner.
"Haha! Bro, we can finally go out! I'm so bored staying here every day."
Chen Duo skipped and hopped along behind Chen Mu, appearing extremely excited.
" Duoduo, this time we're going to kill Otherworldly Demon, not go on a trip. What's there to be excited about?"
"Hehe, I hear my teacher talk about how terrifying the Otherworldly Demon are every day. I've always wanted to see them for myself, so of course I'm happy."
Chen Mu shook his head speechlessly, ignored him, and walked straight into the wooden boat.
The wooden boat was very large, but simply decorated and divided into hundreds of rooms, each containing only a simple bed and a futon.
" A Mu, Duoduo, over here!"
From afar, Chen Mu heard Mingye's voice. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw Mingye and A Huo already standing outside a house waiting for them.
Because they lived quite far apart, they set off separately, agreeing to wait for each other on the same boat.
He immediately pulled Duoduo over there.
A year has passed, and Mingye and A Huo have both grown a year older and taller.
Mingye has grown into a graceful young woman with a fuller figure. She loves wearing black and always exudes a mysterious and aloof aura.
Every time Chen Mu sees her now, he recalls the shadow on the wall that night and can't help but touch his nose.
Fortunately, he hasn't had a nosebleed in a long time, so it seems that the advice in the popular science articles about eating more vegetables and drinking more water is indeed helpful.
"This is the room we'll take?"
Chen Mu glanced at the room. It was quite tidy, with four wooden beds, each with only a futon and no blankets. It was extremely simple.
The rooms here are all pretty much like this. Those who can go out on missions are all cultivators, and since they spend most of their time meditating on the ship anyway, he doesn't have much to choose from.
"Okay, this is fine!"
The four of them each chose a bed and sat down.
Their destination this time was the westernmost border of the Haotian Empire.
Ten thousand years ago, demons from another world invaded this world, bringing countless disasters to the Pan Emperor Continent.
Afterwards, the Heavenly Emperor rose to power, leading the Heavenly Court Army to defeat the evil spirits from another world, thus unifying the Central Land, establishing the Haotian Empire, and becoming the ruler of the Central Land.
After being defeated, the otherworldly demons entrenched themselves in the westernmost part of the Pan Emperor Continent, constantly plotting their return.
The Otherworldly Demon are incredibly resilient and difficult to eradicate, and they can replenish themselves continuously in another world. Therefore, although the Heavenly Court has achieved occasional victories over the years, it has never been able to completely expel them.
Chen Mu and his group's mission this time was to assist in the defense of the Haotian Empire's border.
They did not join the army, but formed their own organization, responsible for clearing out the scattered Otherworldly Demon that had invaded the Haotian Empire.
The Haotian Empire has an extremely long border, and the army simply cannot defend all locations. Even with the construction of city walls, scattered Otherworldly Demon still frequently manage to break in.
The Otherworldly Demon are not beings of this world and are subject to the suppression of its rules. To evolve, they need to consume human flesh and blood, making humans and Otherworldly Demon destined to be mortal enemies.
It is especially beneficial to humans with Spiritual Power cultivation, so Otherworldly Demon often risk entering the territory of the Haotian Empire to raid human villages or small towns.
These scattered Otherworldly Demon are often quite strong individually and are very mobile. After charging in and wreaking havoc, they escape back to the border.
The imperial army loathed these scattered Otherworldly Demon, but had no way to deal with them.
Armies are suited for frontal combat, but these scattered Otherworldly Demon are swift and difficult to capture.
The empire's current approach is to encourage cultivators to form demon-hunting groups and offer substantial rewards to free cultivators who hunt down Otherworldly Demon. This has effectively curbed the arrogance of the Otherworldly Demon.
Inviting new Heaven-Questioning Pavilion to assist in clearing out the Otherworldly Demon is also a form of cooperation between the military and the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion.