Chapter 561 Divine Bridge
To some extent, he could be said to be “invulnerable”.
Soaking in the Green Lotus Spirit Liquid and entering the Void-breaking Realm represented a change in the essence of life. His natural qi, flesh, as well as Divine Consciousness, had all undergone a qualitative change. Thus, for the girl in the black gauze who was at the early stage of the Mortal Realm, it was now difficult to hurt Li Mu even if she had a Taoist Treasure at hand.
Certainly, Li Mu would not dare to be so arrogant if his opponent were an expert at a higher level of the Mortal Realm or in the Soldier Realm.
But at least in the face of the girl in the black gauze, Li Mu was absolutely unbeatable.
Li Mu’s robes billowed as the wind blew, which were strewn with holes created after the stabs. But on the skin beneath, there was not even a trace of a scar.
The countenance of the girl in the black gauze changed from green to red. Despite her every appearance of bitterness, she could do nothing to Li Mu, as though a tiger did not know how to take the first bite of a hedgehog.
This result made all of her plans and schemes she hatched since she came to this world look like a joke.
She felt like a clown doing a show. She thought she was toying with the audience, but in the end, she realized that the only one who had been played was herself.
“It’s still too early for you to celebrate.” Having composed herself, she looked at Li Mu, slowly stepped back, saying, “Even though I can’t kill you, you can’t do anything to me either. The hiding skill of the Black Killing Tower is not something that you can fend off. I’ve changed my mind. I want to spread the news about you in this world. Then, the experts in the entire Brilliance Immortal Star Region will come and hunt you down without stop. It’s only a matter of time before you get killed.”
Since she couldn’t kill Li Mu, she figured she’d leave first.
Anyway, as long as she sold the news that Li Mu was on the Bitter Star, she could still get a big sum of money.
She had to opt for the second best.
Hearing that, Li Mu chuckled and said, “Leave? Where can you go?”
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As soon as he finished speaking, rings of light spread out under Li Mu’s feet. Then, as if some kind of power had been activated, a strange power suddenly surged from the inside of the whole floating fighting ring. With a burst of brilliance, beams of light spread out from the periphery of the ring and converged to form a huge cage, enveloping the entire floating fighting ring, making it a birdcage.
“What?”
The expression of the girl in the black gauze changed greatly, and it struck her that something was wrong.
Her figure gradually faded as she turned into a stream of air, trying to escape. But in an instant, she bounced off the cage, for she was thrown back by the power of the light-forged cage.
There was nowhere to escape.
That was the power of a tactical deployment.
The tactical deployment contained the power of heaven and earth as well as the swirling Qi of the Great Way.
Even experts in the Soldier Realm or above would face lethal dangers once they were trapped in this tactical deployment.
“When, when did you…” The girl in the black gauze stared at Li Mu, shock and panic in her eyes.
Li Mu was good at tactical deployments, which had been verified during the battle in the Tomb of the G.o.d of Sin back then.
Even the people of the Heavenly Deployment Sect coveted his skill of casting tactical deployments.
But no matter how powerful the tactical deployment master was, they still needed time to set up a deployment. But when on earth did Li Mu manage to set up such a horrible prisoning tactical deployment without anyone noticing?
Considering that this tactical deployment successfully trapped the girl in the black gauze, it was definitely an extremely brilliant one. Yet, the more brilliant the deployment was, the more time and energy it would take to set up one. It was impossible for any to place a deployment like this with a mere stir of mind.
Li Mu said blandly, “Zhu Nong, Head of the Zhu family famous for their tactical deployments, mentioned that this ring was built under his supervision, but in fact, he was wrong.”
Enlightenment flashed across the girl’s mind and she suddenly realized what this was about.
“d.a.m.n it!
“Stupid!
“b.a.s.t.a.r.d!”
She cried out all the swear words she knew in her mind.
Those good-for-nothings from the Western Sea Sword Sect!
Previously, Li Mu was mixed in the Western Sea Sword Sect as a handyman, and he lugged stones every day to build the floating fighting ring.
Who was Li Mu anyway?
He was a man who had mangled almost all the major sects in the Brilliance Immortal Star Region.
Those idiots of the Western Sea Sword Sect actually a.s.signed him to construct the floating fighting ring. Their last resort to deal with the demonic Mount Shu had now become a great killing weapon in Li Mu’s hands. What should they do? The girl in the black gauze was fuming and anxious but also extremely frightened. Nonetheless, she didn’t get around to asking herself that with Li Mu’s means, how the Western Sea Sword Sect could prevent this from happening.
“I wanted to catch a few more fish, but I didn’t expect that because of your greed, everything I prepared was ruined. You now have to compensate me with your life.”
As he spoke, Li Mu launched his attack directly.
He had set up this tactical deployment just to deal with the cultivators from outer s.p.a.ce.
At that time, Li Mu had not entered the Void-breaking Realm, so he was rather afraid of the extraterrestrial cultivators.
At that time, Li Mu sneaked into the Western Sea Sword Sect solely to collect some information and secretly do some preparations to handle the extraterrestrial cultivators before they landed on this planet. Unexpectedly, because of the girl in the black gauze’s avarice, the news about him was deliberately cut off, so that the extraterrestrial cultivators did not come. So, when the net was closed, the girl in the black gauze was the only one who got caught.
The girl in the black gauze was terrified. She performed the art of disappearance and tried feverishly to escape.
However, with the help of the power of the tactical deployment, Li Mu was incredibly powerful. Everything in the tactical deployment had nowhere to hide. Li Mu stretched out his hand and easily grabbed the girl in the black gauze in the air. He held her neck, twisted it gently, and the girl’s white neck was directly twisted off.
“You… hehe…” The girl in the black gauze struggled and kicked, but she couldn’t break free.
At this moment, she felt that time had ticked back to the battle in the Tomb of the G.o.d of Sin. At that time, she was also under the impression that Li Mu was unbelievably powerful as if he was practically invincible.
Things went at Li Mu’s familiar pace again.
The tactical deployment on the floating fighting ring had been triggered. In such a tactical deployment, Li Mu was simply a G.o.d.
The girl in the black gauze kept casting the power of the Life and Death Bridge to break free. Yet, in the face of the pure physical power of Li Mu’s monster-like body, her struggle was as negligible as a baby animal falling in a trap. She was pale and powerless, unable to even bend Li Mu’s fingers.
The power of Emperors’ Fire driven by the primitive natural qi began to surge in Li Mu’s palm.
A look of horror surfaced in the eyes of the girl in the black gauze.
This flame made her feel threatened.
“No, Li Mu, we can negotiate. Let go of me…” she began to implore, “don’t kill me. I’m more valuable to you if you keep me alive. I know a lot of information and secrets about the Brilliance Immortal Star Region. We can exchange information and make a deal…”
“Crack!”
Li Mu once again twisted off her neck, which had just recovered, and said, “It’s too much bother.”
This woman had plotted so much in the dark that she could be said to be behind the casualties of all the heads of the major branches of Mount Shu. So, how could Li Mu make any deal with her?
As the flames swirled, the recovery speed of the girl in the black gauze gradually slowed down.
The Emperors’ Fire continued invading her through her meridians, destroying her body. Under the suppression of Li Mu’s iron hand, even the power and recovery speed of the Life and Death Bridge gradually declined.
“How on earth will you let me go?” The girl in the black sari was now desperate.
Li Mu did not answer her.
She shouted again, “I am an a.s.sa.s.sin of the Black Killing Tower. If you kill me, the Black Killing Tower will never let you off the hook. There will be countless killers chasing after you when you eat, sleep, drink water, or doze off… No matter how strong you are, you can’t always be vigilant. If you kill me, you will lose more than you gain.”
Li Mu felt it was too much bother to talk with this woman.
If he let her go, he would be looking for more trouble.
The Emperors’ Fire marched into and circulated in her body, burning her natural qi along her meridians, which allowed Li Mu to perceive the mystery of the cultivation of the Life and Death Bridge Realm. At this time, many meridians that couldn’t be detected and opened in the Void-breaking Realm could be seen clearly.
“Li Mu, you’re so cruel… I’ll wait for you in the netherworld. You won’t live much longer. The entire Brilliance Immortal Star Region is hunting you down, hahaha…”
The girl in the black gauze was also a ruthless person. Seeing that there was no hope of begging for mercy, she cursed loudly, her eyes filled with spite.
In the end, her body was burned into ashes by the Emperors’ Fire, dissipating into the void.
At the very last moment, Li Mu vaguely saw in her Sea of Consciousness that a stone bridge, which was about to take shape, was placed just in front of the Mud-pill Palace. It connected the Mud-pill Palace and the above of the Sea of Consciousness. It looked grand and solemn. As for the black mist lingering on the bridge, it probably had something to do with the Cultivation Method the girl in the black gauze had practiced.
Li Mu had a small revelation. He now knew that it was very likely that this was the sign in the Sea of Consciousness of a mortal expert pa.s.sing through the Life and Death Bridge.
In the martial arts theories of the pract.i.tioners in outer s.p.a.ce, the Sea of Consciousness was also called the Sea of Bitterness.
As a saying in the martial art world went, the vast secular world was like a sea of bitterness, and martial art cultivators had to cross the Sea of Bitterness before they could reverse life and death. The martial arts cultivation system the predecessors had established to solve the problem of crossing the Sea of Bitterness was very simple and practical, which is to build bridges.
Of course, building this bridge was quite different from building a real bridge in the mundane world.
The cultivators called this bridge the Divine Bridge.
Because those who had crossed this bridge could open the door of life and death, step out of the Sea of Bitterness, and reverse life and death, it was also called the Life and Death Bridge.
At the last moment before the body of the girl in the black gauze was destroyed, Li Mu saw the bridge. Although it disappeared in a flash, it gave Li Mu great inspiration. The one thing that he found pitiful was that the girl in the black gauze’s “divine bridge” had not been completed. She had only built half of it. The other end of the bridge had not really landed on the other side of the Sea of Bitterness. This was obviously because her cultivation had not been high enough as she was still at the early stage of the Life and Death Bridge Realm.
For Li Mu, this was the first time he had seen a cultivator’s divine bridge, and it was a significant reference for his cultivation ahead.
To reverse one’s life and death was actually the mortal’s way of saying it regarding the essence of life.
But to cross the Life and Death Bridge did not mean that one would never be killed.
He could still be slaughtered if he encountered someone stronger.
As the dark light flowed, the girl in the black gauze’s soul appeared. The soul turned into a stream of light, attempting to flee. However, in the tactical deployment of the floating ring that Li Mu had secretly set up, her soul couldn’t escape at all.
Li Mu cast his Taoist magic arts and directly imprisoned the girl’s soul in a jade medallion, preparing to interrogate her for more information about the Brilliance Immortal Star Region later.
“Kill!”
Holding his broadsword, Li Mu rushed straight toward the scattered formation of the nine sects.
Broadsword light flashed.
Lu Tianhua, Gongsun Libie, and the other masters and experts of the nine major sects were killed one after another. Not a single one of them managed to escape.