Chapter 275: The Power of Water Intent

Hum—

Bu Nantian surged forward, carrying a torrent of bloody demonic energy; the terrifying pressure of his Earth Altar Realm's Divine Bridge shattered down like a solid mountain!

Di Chunlei, Zhang Shaochong, and Shi Yilan felt the air around them freeze, their blood circulation sluggish; a fear originating from the depths of their souls froze them rigid, barely able to move.

Yet Chen Mu, standing at the very core of the pressure, remained unmoved like a reef in a raging current.

Chen Mu's true cultivation was already at the Earth Altar Realm's Divine Bridge; facing pressure from an equal level, he felt nothing.

At this moment, Chen Mu still concealed his outward cultivation at the Peak of Primordial Stage.

As the blood shadow drew near, Chen Mu's gaze sharpened, and his Duan Tianhe true qi instantly transformed via the Five Elements Spirit Transformation Scripture into the supremely soft yet resilient "Soft Water True Qi."

He lifted his hands slightly, performing a pulling motion; an invisible force of intent instantly spread over three hundred meters beyond the valley entrance!

There, a mountain stream about two meters wide flowed gently.

Under Chen Mu's pull, every drop of water along the hundreds-of-meters-long stretch of the stream, as if seized by an invisible giant hand, defied nature and rose into the air, forming a crystalline water dragon that crossed the void and converged before Chen Mu in an instant!

"Condense!"

Chen Mu uttered a low command; his Soft Water True Qi surged wildly into the mass, instantly solidifying and compressing it into a water giant-blade ten meters long, thin as a cicada's wing yet brimming with terrifying power!

Upon the blade's surface, ripples flowed, reflecting the sky's light, radiating an incomparably sharp aura.

Ninefold Wave Force

"Slice!"

The water giant-blade, carrying unstoppable force, whipped up a storm of mist and met head-on the hurtling blood-shadow!

Boom—

The water giant-blade slammed into the blood demonic energy coiled around Bu Nantian, unleashing a deafening explosion!

Instantly, vapor erupted, force radiated outward, and the blood and demonic energy were violently shattered and detonated midair by the ferocious water element force!

The violent shockwave spread outward like ripples, hurling countless stones and sand from the ground.

Di Chunlei and the others were pushed backward by the shockwave, their horror deepening.

"Interesting!"

Bu Nantian's form hesitated slightly; he let out a strange laugh, clearly unprepared for Chen Mu's exquisite mastery of Water Intent.

He clapped his hands together; the blood aura swirling around him instantly condensed into a monstrous, grotesque greatsword dripping thick, viscous bloodlight!

"Blood Butchery Blade Art—"

Bu Nantian swung the blood aura greatsword; a sharp, furious, murderous and despairing blade intent surged skyward!

This intent power reached the Second Heaven level!

Before the blade even arrived, the terrifying intent attempted to invade Chen Mu's spirit.

Chen Mu felt this powerful Second Heaven blade intent; his eyes flashed with brilliance, and he no longer held back.

Hum!

Water vapor around him surged violently; the previously flowing Water Intent shattered some invisible barrier and instantly ascended to a deeper, more mysterious level—

Water Intent, Third Heaven!

Simultaneously, the essence of Ninefold Wave Force flowed through Chen Mu's mind.

Stacking, spiraling, exploding… nine distinct yet mutually reinforcing methods of force generation, at this moment, rooted in the power of Water Intent's Third Heaven, merged seamlessly and erupted!

"Ninefold Wave Force—Slice!"

The water giant-blade suddenly exploded in length, reaching an astonishing thirty meters.

Its form became denser, as if countless torrents churned, stacked, and compressed within it; at the blade's edge, extreme speed and force warped the very light!

The aura radiating from the giant-blade was more than double that of Bu Nantian's blood aura greatsword.

The two clashed again in midair!

Boom—rumble—

This collision far surpassed the previous one.

It was as if the Thunder God of the Nine Heavens roared in fury, unleashing a punishment bolt.

A terrifying energy storm exploded instantly, blinding light making direct gaze impossible.

The raging force surged like countless invisible blades, carving the ground at the valley entrance into a thousand holes; tons of shattered rock and soil were flung skyward, like a rain of mud and stone.

The violent shockwave expanded outward in a ring; in the dense forests on both sides, entire stands of trees were crushed and snapped, falling flat on the ground with crackling sounds.

Under the horrified gazes of Di Chunlei, Zhang Shaochong, Shi Yilan, and Liu Xianbo and Liu Xiankang inside the Mechanized Tiger—

Bu Nantian's arrogant blood-shadow, his condensed blood aura greatsword, shattered piece by piece upon contact; his protective blood demonic aura tore like paper; his entire body was struck head-on by a water mountain moving at high speed, spewing a jet of blood from his mouth, and flew backward faster than he had charged, in utter disarray!

Bang!!

Bu Nantian's body crashed into the dense forest behind like a sack of rags, smashing through over a dozen large trees before embedding itself deeply into the mountain cliff farther back, leaving a clear human-shaped depression, as rocks rained down around him.

But this "Blood Hand Bodhisattva" reacted with astonishing speed.

Within half a breath of hitting the cliff, blood light flared again around him; he forcibly tore himself free, transforming into a streak of piercing crimson light that shot upward along the steep cliff face like a gecko scaling a wall, vanishing at a speed too swift for the eye to track!

In a few leaps, the crimson streak had crossed the ridge and vanished beyond the horizon.

He fled!

From Bu Nantian's appearance and attack to his current desperate escape, only three exchanges had occurred.

This former No. 6 on the Qianlong List, a notorious true disciple of the Xuemo Sect, had been defeated and driven off so cleanly!

Di Chunlei, Zhang Shaochong, and Shi Yilan stared, dumbfounded, barely believing their eyes.

Far away, inside the Mechanized Tiger, Liu Xianbo and Liu Xiankang were utterly stunned; through the observation crystal, they watched the devastated battlefield and the empty cliff, their minds blank.

Could Chen Mu have defeated Bu Nantian so easily?

This completely exceeded their expectations!

They knew Chen Mu's strength must be extraordinary to reach the Qianlong List, but Chen Mu's outward cultivation was clearly only Peak of Primordial Stage!

Bu Nantian, a notorious figure long renowned, had already broken through to the Earth Altar Realm and neared the completion of his Divine Bridge for nearly a year—he was once the sixth-ranked contender on the Potential Dragon List!

Chen Mu didn't just win—he won with utter decisiveness; this strength was simply terrifying…

After a brief, deathly silence.

"Excellent!"

Di Di Chunlei let out a loud roar.

Zhang Shaochong and Shi Yilan snapped out of their shock, their faces flooded with immense joy and excitement, and they hurried over to Chen Mu's side.

"Brother Chen! You… your strength is truly…"

Di Di Chunlei, too overcome with emotion to speak coherently, gave Chen Mu a heavy clap on the shoulder—words were unnecessary.

Zhang Shaochong, his face filled with admiration, bowed and said, "Brother Chen, you're truly incredible! If not for you today, we would surely have perished!"

Shi Yilan's beautiful eyes sparkled with awe as she sincerely praised, "A Potential Dragon prodigy—your reputation is well-deserved! Only now do I understand what it means when there are always higher heavens beyond!"

Their praise jolted Liu's brothers, who had been frozen in stunned silence at a distance.

Liu Xianbo and Liu Xiankang exchanged a glance, each seeing fear and horror in the other's eyes.