Chapter 79: Ascension to Primordial!

Before breaking through, Chen Mu used the skill card containing the "Qing Yuan Yi Qi Jue."

Within a few breaths, he mastered this primordial technique and understood how to sense heaven and earth.

Then, he took out all his internal force cards and used four to five at once, generating energy within his body to propel the "Juan Yun Gong," intensifying the vortex.

The vortex, once reduced to a mere thread, rapidly strengthened under the boost of newly generated internal force.

After using all the internal force cards, the vortex expanded to fill the entire dantian space.

Huah~ huah~~

Chen Mu sat motionless, and faintly, he seemed to hear the sound of the vortex spinning.

Maintain the vortex, self-rotation.

A muddled aura slowly condensed and formed, encircling his body.

Time passed.

In the blink of an eye, evening arrived.

A light rain suddenly began to fall from the sky.

Chen Mu rose, felt the flow of the wind, walked into the mountains for a short while, and entered a cave.

"Ao~!"

A beast's roar echoed from within the cave.

Chen Mu looked up and saw an adult black bear stepping forward, menacingly emerging from the depths.

"Ao!!"

The black bear opened its mouth and roared, slapping its paws against the ground in a threatening posture.

It sensed a threat from Chen Mu and did not approach, only trying to drive him away.

Chen Mu's hand flicked, and a steel-hide bow and an arrow appeared.

"Ao..."

Shh!

A sound of piercing wind rang out, and the black bear's roar cut off abruptly.

The arrow shot forth, striking the bear's head precisely; half its shaft sank in, killing it instantly.

Throughout the entire process, Chen Mu's aura leaked not a single trace.

He put away the steel-hide bow, stepped forward, seized one of the bear's arms with one hand, dragged the corpse outside the cave, over a hundred meters away, cut off its paws, extracted its gallbladder, and stored them in his palm space.

Returning to the cave, he tidied it slightly, sat cross-legged on the ground, and gazed at the forest beneath the rain.

In the dantian space, the vortex formed from vast internal force rotated steadily on its own.

One day, two days, three days...

For three full days, the vortex remained stable, not dissipating even a fraction.

The time had come!

"Hu~"

Taking a deep breath, Chen Mu took out the Primordial Pill and the True Qi card, held them in his hands, then halted the "Juan Yun Gong" and switched to practicing the "Qing Yuan Yi Qi Jue!"

As soon as the primordial technique activated, the vortex in the dantian space was pulled by an invisible force, spinning rapidly, refining, and compressing!

Chen Mu's mind became crystal clear; his consciousness seemed ready to leave his body and sense the external heaven and earth.

The world beyond his body was vast and boundless.

Threads of heavenly energy drifted, faint and elusive.

They seemed right before his eyes, yet also as distant as the horizon.

It felt as if he could reach out and touch them, but when he extended his hand, he encountered only emptiness.

To connect with heaven and earth—he was just a thread away!

Realizing this, Chen Mu decisively swallowed the Primordial Pill.

The pill entered his belly, first transforming into a warm energy, then turning cool, rising from his abdomen straight to his brain, instantly invigorating and activating his spirit and consciousness.

In that moment of spiritual awakening, Chen Mu felt it—he connected his consciousness with the external world and touched a thread of heavenly energy!

Weng weng~

His body trembled; his spirit swayed.

Sitting motionless, he repeatedly practiced the "Qing Yuan Yi Qi Jue."

After fifteen minutes, his body and mind regained calmness; the Primordial Pill's effects were fully expended.

Maintaining continuous practice of the "Qing Yuan Yi Qi Jue," the thread of heavenly energy he had touched was drawn into his body, entering the dantian space and merging into the vortex.

Shh~

He used the True Qi card; a powerful force, purer, thicker, denser, and more solid than internal force, spontaneously arose, enveloping the vortex.

The "Qing Yuan Yi Qi Jue" continued to run, driving the violently spinning vortex to compress and refine repeatedly.

The transformation from internal force to true qi!

Shh~ shh~

Day and night, the dantian space saw the vortex's coverage shrink ever smaller, the transformation toward solidity accelerating.

Under the impetus of existing true qi, a brand-new true qi rapidly formed.

Finally, with a crisp snap, the vortex vanished—and true qi took shape!

In that instant, the true qi exploded violently, transforming into pure energy that spread from the dantian throughout his entire body; this overflowed energy effortlessly drew in the still-connected heavenly energy, initiating a transformation of his physical form.

A transformation from head to toe, from inside to outside.

An invisible aura slowly spiraled around Chen Mu.

When all transformation ceased, Chen Mu completed his transition from post-heaven to primordial.

Success!

In his dantian, new true Qi quietly spiraled.

His seated, motionless body slowly rose three chi off the ground, hovering in midair.

Innate Realm!

He stepped into it in a single breakthrough!

……

……

Wuji Ridge.

"Big Brother, that bandit hasn't shown his face in four days. He must have left."

The burly Fourth Head wiped a hand across his whiskers and said in a muffled voice, "The brothers who pulled out of the Shanzhai — I think we can call them back."

"Wait a bit longer." Zhou Shaoan spoke calmly.

"Ah, still waiting?" The Fourth Head sighed. "What if the bandit just never shows up? Are we supposed to keep waiting like this forever?"

"Wait three more days," Zhou Shaoan said evenly, his expression unchanged.

"Three more days?" The Fourth Head wiped his whiskers again and let out a breath. "Fine, three days it is. I'm going to step outside — it's stuffy in here."

So saying, he shook his head and walked toward the door.

Whoosh!

A streak of cold light shot in from outside the door at almost the same instant.

It was so fast that the Fourth Head barely sensed it before he was hit. With a "pssh," blood sprayed from his chest. His burly body stiffened for an instant, then toppled backward rigidly.

Thud~

A muffled crash, dust flying.

The Fourth Head stared with startled eyes, dead but unclosed.

【Corpse detected. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

Under a tree some ninety-plus meters away, Chen Mu held an iron-bow and remotely picked up a card.

An internal force card of just over five months.

After reaching Innate Realm, his pickup range expanded once more, reaching a hundred meters!

After advancing to Innate, Chen Mu had originally planned to return to Wulong Fucheng, but remembering that half the bandits still remained at Wuji Ridge, he changed his mind on the spot and came back this way.

As a result, he wandered the mountain forest for most of the time without spotting a single bandit.

Until "Listening Wind" picked up the Fourth Head's words.

The remaining half of the bandits, scared off by his last killing, had pulled out of Wuji Ridge.

With one arrow killing the Fourth Head, only two people remained in this vast stretch of mountain forest.

Chen Mu!

The Boss, Zhou Shaoan!

……

"You've finally come."

Inside the wooden cabin, Zhou Shaoan slowly rose to his feet, walked step by step to the door, and his calm gaze crossed several dozen meters, locking onto Chen Mu with an icy stare.

Whoosh~

Chen Mu drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and loosed.

In one go, he fired ten arrows.

Whoosh~ whoosh~ whoosh~

"Boom!"

Zhou Shaoan raised his hand and struck out with a palm. The palm wind howled, a wave of yin-cold Qi swept forth, and amid a muffled crash, shattered every arrow.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh~

Chen Mu's hands never stopped — another ten arrows loosed in rapid succession.

Zhou Shaoan gave a cold shout, raised his palm, the wind howled, and every arrow snapped apart.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~

A dense volley of arrows continued to pour out.

"Is that all you've got?"

Zhou Shaoan sneered, raised his hand and struck out with a palm, blasting apart every arrow.

But in the instant the arrows shattered, a piercing shriek of something tearing through the air suddenly rang out.

Swoosh!

Cold light flared, arriving in a blink, and was reflected in Zhou Shaoan's contracting pupils!