Chapter 79: Breaking Through the Ninth Forbidden

Roar!

Feeling the terrifying waterfall pressure and savage impact as if it would tear his whole body apart, Li Mu threw his head back and roared in pain!

His teeth were almost being crushed!

Yet Li Mu remained steadfast, like an old monk in meditation, sitting cross‑legged beneath the raging torrent, unmoving!

The terrifying falling force of seven million kilograms descending from the heavens was single‑handedly held up by Li Mu!

His back stood perfectly straight, as if he were supporting the heavens and earth!

But.

At this moment Li Mu was clearly nearing his limit, his face flushed scarlet, blood vessels flashing in his eyes, and blue veins bulging all over his body!

From a distance, this left no doubt.

One second later, would Li Mu be crushed alive into pulp and flattened by the waterfall's terrifying falling force?

But Li Mu gritted his teeth and strained to hold on, while the Landmine Dao Technique roared wildly at that moment!

At the same time, within Li Mu's sea of consciousness, the Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll's golden names flickered rapidly, flashing one after another!

Obviously!

The torment Li Mu endures now, the nearly two hundred enemies of Li Mu listed on the Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll also endure silently, sharing the same bitterness, though they taste different.

Whenever Li Mu feels he has reached a limit,

a name on the Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll suddenly bursts apart, turning into a handful of golden specks that scatter.

Eventually they coalesce into delicate warm currents that begin to nourish Li Mu himself!

As the names on the Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll explode one after another like fireworks, Li Mu harbors no thought of giving up or fleeing!

He continues to confront the massive waterfall above him in his own way, while the Landmine Dao Technique runs wildly, drawing the earth Qi beneath him!

But at that moment!

Directly above Li Mu's head, the blood‑Qi torrent surging from the Thunder Tiger's inner core suddenly quivered intensely!

An ultimate, powerful yet gentle and mellow force rushed into Li Mu's body, as if countless rivers were merging into the sea.

In an instant!

The power filled Li Mu's limbs, bones, and every part of his body, causing boundless strength to surge from within!

At the same time, perhaps it was just Li Mu's illusion!

He now actually felt that.

The waterfall that fell from the sky and hammered him no longer seemed as unbearable as at the start.

He even felt his back was straighter than before!

Noticing the changes within his body, Li Mu's face broke into ecstatic joy.

"This endless brink of death, this ultimate tempering between life and death, truly works!"

At this moment, Li Mu is not passively enduring the waterfall's pounding.

Instead, he continuously adjusts his sitting posture and direction throughout the process!

It's as if the plunging waterfall were a blacksmith's hammer.

Striking repeatedly, it forges and hammers Li Mu's flesh.

However, each time this forging of flesh reaches a quarter of an hour, it pushes Li Mu to his limit!

A name on the Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll then explosively bursts!

Yet the shattered golden fragments turn into a trickle of flow that nourishes Li Mu's flesh.

And they revive Li Mu's already near‑limit body, filling it with fresh blood.

But this very act of squeezing his endurance, spirit, strength, even life to an extreme, a near‑death threshold, almost becomes unbearable.

Only then can Li Mu absorb the Thunder Tiger's inner core's Qi‑blood power more thoroughly.

Simultaneously, his flesh is forged by the torrent's massive water curtain into greater strength, allowing him to reach the true limit of the Forbidden Realm: the Ninth Forbidden!

Amid this endless pain and torment, Li Mu's martial will shines flawless and as strong as a diamond!

His spirit is as unbreakable as steel!

Moreover, with Li Mu's fearless spirit that places life and death beyond measure,

He becomes like an ascetic, constantly roaming the edge of life and death, repeatedly testing how close he can get to death's limit!

Through this extreme crushing and squeezing, he awakens the greater potential hidden within his body!

It is precisely because this terrifying potential is continuously being triggered!

Thus Li Mu becomes like a sponge, constantly absorbing these newly‑born forces into his bloodline, muscles, and even bones!

The Landmine Dao Technique runs wildly, endless blood‑Qi and massive energy being drawn into his body continuously.

These thick blood‑Qi and massive energy repeatedly wash through Li Mu's extraordinary eight meridians, limbs, and bones!

Impurities in his body are gradually expelled, making his physique ever more refined, robust, unmatched!

At the same time, the gate that has long sealed Li Mu's path to the Forbidden Realm: the Ninth Forbidden, is completely opened by the dual impact of blood‑Qi and earth‑Qi!

This causes the 900,000‑kilogram ceiling that once bound Li Mu's power to rise again, step by step!

910,000 kilograms!

920,000 kilograms!!

930,000 kilograms!!!

……

Thus, this cycle repeats five times!

Li Mu squeezes his potential to the limit!

A full five times!

Now!

That endless river of blood and Qi is probably only about half left!

Finally, the ninth time has arrived!

Physical strength: nine hundred ninety thousand kilograms!

At this moment, Li Mu truly feels he has reached a limit!

This limit is not a physical one, but a mental one!

He now has no energy to care how many times the names of those sacrificial victims on the Heavenly Dao Scroll have exploded during this period!

Li Mu only feels his vision darkening, his head heavy and his feet light.

A strong sense of vertigo and weightlessness rushes at him like a tide, as if to drown him!

A pungent sweetness spreads continuously within his chest!

The next moment!

He seems about to lose his footing, struck by wave after wave of the waterfall torrent, slamming him into the endless deep pool below.

"Is this where it ends?"

"Is this where we must stop?"

"Indeed..."

"Nine Bans Flying Immortal!"

"Taking this final step truly is too hard, too hard..."

The names on the Heavenly Dao Scroll explode into golden radiance, continuously feeding back into Li Mu, pulling him back from the brink of death again and again.

But the Heavenly Dao Scroll can only repair Li Mu's physical body, not his mind or soul!

At this moment, Li Mu's consciousness begins to blur, vaguely recalling.

"No!"

"Thirteen years!"

"I have struggled alone for thirteen years in that cannibalistic chaotic world, never thinking of giving up!"

"Back then I never thought of giving up!"

"Now even more so!"

"I, Li Mu!"

"Never admit defeat!"

The next moment!

Li Mu forcefully swallows the blood surging from his chest, letting out a roar like a dying beast!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

At that instant, Li Mu feels as if the shackles that have long bound him are being torn apart!

Inside his body, it seems a deity is beating a divine drum, causing his flesh to rumble and burst into dazzling flashes of light!

When the drumming ceases, the blood light rushes into Li Mu's body like a torrent of enlightenment, leaving him indescribably refreshed!

At the same time.

An extremely fierce force erupts from Li Mu's body, permeating his limbs and every part of him!

This time!

It is no longer the overwhelming Earth Qi force!

It is not the blood Qi power from the inner core!

But rather, the true physical power that belongs to Li Mu himself!

This is the Forbidden Realm: Ninth Forbidden's power!

A brand-new power courses through Li Mu's entire body!

At the same time, a new Byte Entry pops up on the virtual screen of Li Mu's system.

【Ding!】

【System has detected that the host is cultivating Landmine Dao Technique, triggering Hundredfold Heavenly Dao Blessing!】

【Congratulations, host, you have gained Hundredfold Gain!】

【Ding!】

【Level Up!】

【Level Up!!】

【Level Up!!!】

【Congratulations, host, successfully upgraded Landmine Dao Technique to lv: 12!】

【Ding!】

【Congratulations, host, successfully reached Forbidden Realm: Ninth Forbidden!】

Seeing the system's prompts one after another, Li Mu lets out a burst of exhilarated laughter!

"I finally reached Nine Bans Flying Immortal!"

Li Mu howls to the heavens, his voice shaking the four corners, feeling utmost exhilaration.

He clenches his fists, feeling as if a volcano dormant for years has suddenly revived within him, surging powerful, unmatched forces that erupt continuously!

"Kara!"

Li Mu's fist clenches, and the waterfall behind him suddenly explodes, sending countless fish and shrimp soaring into the sky!

Inside his body it seems a deity is beating a drum, emitting a muffled "Boom, Boom, Boom…" sound!

A smile flickers at Li Mu's mouth corner.

Legend says the Forbidden Realm: Nine Bans is also called the Flying Immortal Taboo!

It means that mortals find it hard to enter, and only immortals are qualified to be among it!

So, is this the Nine Bans Flying Immortal?

One million kilograms of force!

Truly terrifying indeed!

Now, if we speak only of physical strength, I am no longer inferior to any practitioner of the Concentration Realm Great Perfection!

Li Mu looks inward at himself.

He finds that his current state resembles a perfectly forged pill, with his whole body exuding a sense of complete dantian embrace.

After successfully stepping into the Forbidden Realm: Ninth Forbidden!

Li Mu's mortal body has undergone a perfect metamorphosis and sublimation!

After the sublimation, his qi and blood and sinews shine together, granting his six consciousnesses and five senses an earth‑shattering improvement over before.

Especially when Li Mu raises his eyes to look around, he immediately feels that the surroundings seem different from before.

Things that are normally invisible at a distance he can now see clearly at a glance, even the rustling of leaves in the distant wind.

Even the sound of ants crawling, Li Mu can capture all of it in his ears.

He has reached the terrifying level of "Not a single feather can be added, not a fly or insect can settle"!

This Forbidden Realm: Nine Bans Flying Immortal, which has trapped countless cultivators of the Qian Kun Realm for centuries and millennia without anyone stepping foot in it!

And now Li Mu has actually broken through it!

"Huh…"

Li Mu's thoughts stir.

His consciousness sinks into the Sea of Awareness, and looking at the individual names on the Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll, he can't help but gasp a cold breath.

Who would have thought!

He merely advanced the Forbidden Realm from the Eighth Forbidden to the Ninth Forbidden, and in less than a single night, the Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll lost a full twelve names!

This is just too…

Terrifying, right?

"No wonder, the Dao Robe Elder who first informed us about the Forbidden Realm."

"Even a senior like him from the Nascent Soul realm sighs deeply when discussing the Forbidden Realm: Ninth Forbidden."

"He called it a Forbidden Realm that only immortals can tread, not a domain that mortals can easily step into."

At that time, when Li Mu heard the Dao Robe Elder speak, he had no clear understanding of this Nine Bans Flying Immortal.

He thought this realm was very difficult!

But he reasoned it shouldn't be that hard, right?

After all, as a golden, dazzling transmigrator, he possesses the Heaven Dao Identification System as a system cheat.

You Qian Kun Realm natives can't reach this realm, could I still be unable to cultivate it?

Laugh to death!

Yet when Li Mu actually began practicing, he only then deeply realized why the Forbidden Realm: Ninth Forbidden is called a mortal's forbidden land and an immortal's domain!

You damn it!

With the dual blessings of the Heaven Dao Identification System and the divine Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll, he endured near death nine times, paying the price of twelve sacrificial souls!

It was only after much difficulty that he luckily broke through to the Forbidden Realm: Ninth Forbidden.

If the Qian Kun Realm natives tried to cultivate it, even if their ancestors smashed their heads in the underworld, they still couldn't reach this realm, right?

This damn…

It's simply not meant for ordinary people to cultivate!

Li Mu watches the names disappear from the Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll and feels a lingering fear, his heart still trembling.

"Fortunately, fortunately!"

"My Heaven Dao Treasure Scroll has stored enough sacrificial souls; after using this batch, there's another, so it won't run out of usable ones."

Li Mu lets out a long sigh and gazes into the distance.

At this moment, the horizon begins to turn a pale fish‑belly white, a faint dawn.

Li Mu stands up, his fists slightly clenched.

"Next!"

"We should go attend the Inner Peak entrance examination!"