"Boom!" A loud noise erupted, and Mu Jinyu's vision went black. His whole body was wracked with unbearable pain, feeling as if his tendons and bones had all been broken.
He had been suppressed at the bottom of the Sword Mountain!
Luckily, just as the Sword Mountain was about to fully suppress him, he managed to punch a hole at the base of the mountain, allowing him to still move despite being crushed by the enormous mountain.
Otherwise, if he were really trapped like a monkey under the Five Finger Mountain and could barely move his head, he would be completely finished!
"Damn it, what kind of crappy thing is this?!"
Mu Jinyu lay on the ground, and after a long while, his severely injured body finally began to recover its original state with the help of Life Source Energy.
He stood up, looking at the stone walls all around, knowing that if he wanted to get out now, he had three options: commit suicide and give up this torturous challenge, dig his way out, or punch his way through the Sword Mountain!
"Hmph! You think this can trap me?!"
Mu Jinyu snorted coldly. Naturally, he wouldn't choose suicide or digging his way out. Instead, he started throwing punches again, pounding the mountain wall overhead!
"Boom! Boom!!"
"Swish! Swish!!"
The Sword Mountain trembled tremendously. The internal mountain walls collapsed significantly under Mu Jinyu's punch, with rubble constantly falling!
Mu Jinyu avoided the falling debris, throwing another punch, continuing to hammer at the mountain walls, determined to force out a path with his bare fists!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
In an instant, Mu Jinyu had punched and smashed out a hundred-meter-high tunnel inside the Sword Mountain!
Mu Jinyu couldn't use True Essence Power to blow up the entire Sword Mountain in one punch, so he had to rely on pure physical strength. Currently, his pure physical strength amounted to the Strength of One Elephant, which wasn't incredibly powerful, but even water droplets can wear away stone, let alone the Strength of One Elephant?
As long as he persisted, he believed he could punch through the entire Sword Mountain, letting him see the daylight again!
"Boom! Boom!!"
In the conference room, everyone watched as Mu Jinyu continued to pound the mountain wall inside the Sword Mountain, their faces filled with shock!
"This guy is quite fierce!"
"Once suppressed by the Sword Mountain, he can't use True Essence Power or Divine Sense to drive Magic Treasures. Most challengers who manage to climb the Sword Mountain will still fail at this stage. We didn't expect that not only did he survive, but he also plans to punch through the entire Sword Mountain!"
"His pure physical strength definitely exceeds the Strength of One Elephant. It's unimaginable that someone his age, who has reached the Ninth Layer of the Divine Transformation Realm, has also refined his physical body to this extent!"
"I'm starting to worry if Dao Wuming can still surpass this guy!"
"For now, he should be able to suppress him, right? But judging by this young man's talent, in a few years, Dao Wuming might truly be overtaken by him!"
The elders present were all discussing fervently, even the elders from the Blood Sword Sect present were showing concern for Dao Wuming.
Meanwhile, Fang Xiuyuan, who had wagered a Spiritual Treasure, was looking very upset, and began doubting if Di Shitian, who had recently advanced to the Ninth Layer of the Divine Transformation Realm, could surpass Mu Jinyu.
He started to regret being goaded into this bet by Xie Chenkun and Zhou Taiping!
Only Zhou Taiping, for some reason, even after witnessing Mu Jinyu's terrifying potential, still didn't take him seriously and remained full of confidence.
"Boom! Boom!!"
Another five or six minutes passed.
Finally, the entire towering nearly five hundred meters high Sword Mountain had been punched through by Mu Jinyu's bare fists!
Standing on the steep stone wall, Mu Jinyu waited for the debris to completely settle before lightly leaping and easily jumping out of the Sword Mountain!
With Mu Jinyu's departure, the Sword Mountain that had intended to suppress him disappeared with a loud crash!
Back in the conference room, observing through the Water Screen Mysterious Light Mirror, many from the Heavenly Sword Faction had started passing the Sword Mountain, but even though they knew what the subsequent trials entailed and were prepared, their bodies couldn't immediately react, and they were crushed into pulp by the mountain!
Among them were Wei Qingfeng, Nie Chu, and others.
Only Yun Ge and Wei Ziping, having comprehended the Intent Domain, responded quicker than Wei Qingfeng and the others. Like Mu Jinyu, they made a timely move, punching a several-meter-large hole in the mountain base, which provided them a hiding place and prevented them from being crushed to death on the spot!
Even so, they were severely injured, with their Five Viscera and Six Bowels feeling like they were on fire. They lay in the gap, unable to move.
Even if they survived, escaping the suppression of Sword Mountain would be highly difficult!
In comparison, Mu Jinyu's speed in passing through was far quicker!
"How long was that? Just over twenty minutes to pass the Sword Mountain?!"
"Let's see if he can make it through the upcoming Sea of Fire!"
"Sigh..."
Mu Jinyu, after leaping out from the suppression of the Sword Mountain, saw the Sword Mountain disappear completely.
What appeared before him was an endless plain.
The dense green grass shimmered. Just as Mu Jinyu was thinking of taking a deep breath of the fragrant fresh air, suddenly, a spark ignited, setting the vast grassland ablaze.
"Damn, the Sea of Fire is already here?"
Seeing this, Mu Jinyu cursed peevishly before immediately sprinting away with the "Ten Steps Move" cultivation technique!
The fire behind him blazed quickly, within moments, it reached his backside.
At this moment, Mu Jinyu felt a scorching heat, realizing that if he didn't get out of the Sea of Fire, he would be burned alive and meet his end in failure.
He certainly didn't want to experience being burned alive!
Thus, he dared not pause for a second, continually using the "Ten Steps Move" to flee!
Minutes later.
Mu Jinyu estimated that he had run at least dozens of miles. How come this speed test still hadn't ended? How long will this sea of fire last?
In the conference room.
Everyone stared blankly at Mu Jinyu, who had spent only five or six minutes to escape the first stage of the Sea of Fire, finding it incredible.
Someone then looked at Xie Chenkun and asked, "What kind of movement technique is this little guy using? Is it an Earth Rank movement technique? Why is he so fast?"
"It shouldn't be. Even with an Earth Level movement technique, at his Ninth Layer of Divine Transformation Realm cultivation, it's impossible to sustain it for so long!"
Xie Chenkun was also puzzled why Mu Jinyu had enough True Essence to sustain "Ten Steps Move" for such a long time.
However, seeing that Mu Jinyu hadn't displayed a teleportation-like speed at the transcendence level, he felt relieved.
If Mu Jinyu showed that kind of teleportation speed now, it wouldn't be interesting. At least hold off showing that until the Four Sects Martial Meeting tomorrow.
Then, with a nonchalant cough, Xie Chenkun lied without a change in expression, "Because I had him practice an Earth Level Inferior Quality Cultivation Technique, his amount of True Essence is relatively higher than others, by about one or two times!"