CHAPTER 173: CHAPTER 174 KUNLUN EXOTIC REALM (3000 WORDS)

Not to mention just opening up the underground space of hundreds of miles back then, the casualties of those martial artists as vanguard teams were indeed enormous.

Although quite a few figures emerged from it, everyone ultimately lived in peaceful times, leisurely without the urgency to venture inside.

Those who entered mostly did so to take a risk, with aspirations in mind.

After a while, someone in the team spoke up.

"Did you see that guy? He has a semi-automatic rifle and a pistol."

"Huh? Doesn’t he know that if a martial artist’s fist technique intention isn’t pure, they won’t be able to comprehend the true essence of the technique and progress further?"

It must be understood that a top martial artist aiming to achieve the Great Perfection Realm of Fist Technique, needs to maintain the courage of aggressive and persistent diligence for spiritual purity to advance further.

And modern firearms always provide a sense of security.

Everyone looked at each other, and finally, Li Tianxing emphasized.

"Have you selectively forgotten? The counterpart is a Great Perfectionist of Fist Technique."

Everyone was speechless again.

"Has this era changed too quickly? Can anyone tell me how people who trust guns can reach the Great Perfection Realm of Fist Technique!"

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Lu Ren sped all the way without pause. With his now incredibly enduring physical strength, he could maintain full-speed running for three days and nights without rest and still sustain vibrant vitality.

This hole should have been drilled out with large underground machinery, yet it’s uncertain how Huaxia’s engineering team managed to bypass the ’Celestial Palace’ to transport the large construction machinery here.

Why not immediately destroy the Celestial Palace arranged by Xu Fu? That’s a question.

Perhaps they are waiting for something.

Subodhi’s mentioned Elixir of Immortality?

No, it’s not likely. It’s probably due to the terrain arranged by Xu Fu.

In that flesh chamber, it is uncertain whether it’s indeed the ancient Pre-Qin Xu Fu inside.

Although he could clearly sense a dormant yet massive and restrained spiritual intention inside, it seemed to be in a state of hibernation.

Just like Ksitigarbha, using some method to extend his spirit, ensuring it doesn’t disperse into the world.

Such a grand setup, such terrifying magnetic fields, likely only masters within the Bright Awakening Realm dare to set foot into it.

Unfortunately, if not for the west’s White Tiger being used to deter external realms, he couldn’t take reckless actions due to various constraints, otherwise, it should have been resolved already.

System Martial Path practitioners when confronting same-tier Qi Cultivation Cultivators are not exactly dominant, but definitely hold great advantage; their spirits concentrate to a point like a diamond which won’t be controlled by same-tier Qi Cultivation Cultivators.

But Xu Fu used countless beings as fuel, as resources, seeking to ignite himself, producing such a shocking Corpse Forest as proof of the lengths some Qi Cultivation Cultivators will go to advance further, showing their madness.

He even wonders if Subodhi, when alive, did similar things.

He has sentenced Subodhi to death, based on his attitude towards the Corpse Forest.

Only Lu Ren, stepping into the Realm of Awakened, can see the truth of the Celestial Palace. Even for a Great Perfectionist of Fist Technique, they can only sense an overall hell-like scene.

This Celestial Palace formed by magnetic fields is actually a colossal Corpse Forest.

Lu Ren also realized why the Military Department expended great costs to send elites wearing full-covering power armor to execute this task.

Looking at the unexpectedly bright spot ahead, Lu Ren’s heart was uplifted.

The system once hinted, the Kunlun Realm is boundless, he wonders how vast this Kunlun Realm truly is.

As the cave opening’s light grew brighter and larger, Lu Ren suddenly stepped out, bursting out of the opening, his expression abruptly changed.

This was an area suspended mid-air, neither touching heaven nor earth.

Under Mad’s covered sight, the intense light and dark interleaving, this was a cliff!

Too impulsive!

Just as his gaze could rapidly sweep around, Lu Ren was startled to see some stationed people beside him, witnessing his leap from the cave, looking equally dumbfounded.

Lu Ren twisted in mid-air, generating a thread of force out of thin air, twisting his body to reach out an arm to pierce the rock wall, then with a light supported push, lifting himself and equipment weighing seven or eight hundred pounds effortlessly as if like a feather gently landing.

This scene of moving so lightly yet firmly further stunned the temporarily stationed people here.

A master has arrived!

Lu Ren glanced around, finding this place merely a natural small platform turned into a temporary resting place by explorers, scattered with at least forty to fifty people resting here.

It appears Huaxia is indeed ready to open this Kunlun Exotic Realm for exploration, if ordinary people gathered as a military force were to push through, they would likely pay a substantial price.

Though modern heavy weaponry is beneficial, the expanse of the forest here is unknown, with endless threats inside.

Surely not going to drop nuclear bombs one by one.

Then no need to develop the resources of this new world, just play with destruction.

Many people’s looks seemed quite miserable, with bloodstains everywhere on their bodies.

His gaze shifted, finally looking into the distance.

The place where Lu Ren stood was the midsection of a towering peak that pierced the sky.

Below his feet was a cliff that could almost be described as ten thousand feet high, with countless strange peaks rising not far away, layer upon layer.

Above the nine heavens, exotic birds flew, cutting through clouds and fog.

On the earth below, strange creatures howled, their sounds piercing the sky and splitting stone.

Everything exuded an extremely wild atmosphere.

This boundless land was evidently a new place that had never been carved by human hands!

What surprised him most was that, looking from here, the ground should theoretically have a slight curvature, but from here, it appeared flat and boundless.

This revealed just how vast and enormous this world truly was.

After a long while, Lu Ren retracted his gaze, then raised his eyebrows and walked towards a group of people gathered together.

"Yo, isn’t this Captain Chen Daoli of the third team, along with various colleagues? It’s been so long, what’s gotten into you all, look at the mess you’re in."

Lu Ren had a slight smile on his face. Meeting familiar people in this place, the rarely unfriendly him felt a sense of closeness when encountering colleagues from the Security Bureau, even though he had beaten them up before, but that was all in the past, wasn’t it?

After all, one should always look forward.

However, the smile on Lu Ren’s face, who had always maintained a cold persona, looked like a smirking tiger to the people from the Security Bureau, sending chills through them.

Chen Daoli’s heart trembled slightly at this. He stood in front of the third team’s members, suppressing his extreme fatigue.

"Lu Ren, what do you want to do?"

"What do I want to do? I was just greeting a few colleagues with whom I had an unfriendly past."

Seeing Lu Ren’s tiger-like stride and his body standing tall like a dragon, a female member of the third team almost cried out.

"Don’t come over here!"

Lu Ren paused upon hearing this, feeling a little puzzled.

He took a closer look at the other party’s frightened face and understood they were scared of him.

This was a side effect of showing off too much...

The smile on Lu Ren’s face gradually disappeared, and in the eyes of the third team’s members, it seemed as if he was about to tear off his last mask of hypocrisy and become a vicious beast.

"Hmph, boring."

Lu Ren could only dryly utter those words before turning to leave, pausing, then turning back and calmly saying.

"If you need any support, you can call the internal rescue code of the Security Bureau."

As he spoke, he lifted the wrist-mounted LCD communication device on his arm.

After all, they’re not mortal enemies. Even though there was some conflict, it was just a clash of egos. He would later knock out their teeth with his fists.

The main thing is that fighting these small fries is really meaningless, and it doesn’t gain him any skill level. He had to beat up those old guys after visiting the mountain.

Chen Daoli hesitated for a moment, finally speaking, "About three days ago, in the southeast direction below, I encountered Li Ziqing and faced him; he was in quite a hurry, and I couldn’t contact him in time."

Lu Ren waved his hand, "Very important information, I’ll remember it."

Pulling on the steel rope that fell straight down the cliff, Lu Ren nodded slightly to the military personnel.

"Thank you."

With that, he grabbed the steel rope with one hand and rapidly descended.

Although the power armor he was wearing had thruster nozzles, such high-power output consumes a lot of energy, and in this situation without further supplies, using it as little as possible is best.

For ten full minutes, the rapidly descending Lu Ren finally saw the road below continuously enlarging in his sight.

What concerned him the most was that after leaving the cave, the mysterious particles he gathered with each breath of his Breathing and Exhaling Technique were twice as many as before.

Integrating these mysterious particles into his body was not only enhancing his physique but also strengthening his mental resilience.

What surprised him even more was that with these mysterious particles’ infusion, his body’s supply of food seemed to be drawing nutrients from another channel to maintain his physical vitality.

But where did it come from?

Lu Ren had a hunch that this might be the direction for the next step of advancement for a Martial Path cultivator of the Bright Awakening Realm. Without relying solely on external food to supplement his astonishing physique, progressing would be extremely difficult.

His first task was to figure out where these particles originated from.

It was strange; they seemed to appear out of nowhere within his body and then integrate into his being.

If it weren’t for his possession of the Breathing and Exhaling Technique, he wouldn’t have been able to perceive these things at all.

The enhancement the world brought to his Breathing and Exhaling Technique made him realize that the Kunlun Realm might hold secrets that were highly advantageous to him.

Thud!

Upon landing, his heavy weight combined with the armor punched two deep pits in the ground.

The scattered people gathered below the cliff couldn’t help but look over at the sound.