Achieving physical sainthood begins with the Iron Shirt technique!

"BOOM—!!!"

A deafening explosion, powerful enough to rip off the rooftops of buildings ten feet in the vicinity, resounded through the heart of Blood Rock Market!

The commotion was so great that it resembled a giant thunderbolt rolling and cracking across the flat ground without warning.

The city-suppressing stele, weighing over 30,000 jin and covered with demon-locking runes, collided solidly with the massive Qingxiao Suppressing Seal, which was over ten zhang in size.

The destructive power of the dual extreme impact forces is instantly maximized.

Blindingly hot light waves flashed wildly at the point of impact, illuminating the sky in a ghastly white light.

The thousands of rogue cultivators lying paralyzed in the mud below were stung by the intense light. Their eyes went black, their vision was temporarily out of focus, and they could see nothing but a white blur.

The violent high-pressure shockwave spread outwards along the long street in a wave-like motion.

The shops and doors along the road, originally built from the bones of giant monsters, were instantly shattered into a cloud of gray dust by this devastating shockwave.

The torrential black rain pouring down from the sky was instantly transformed into towering water vapor that shot straight into the clouds before it even reached the ground!

In mid-air at the very center of the explosion, an incredible scene unfolded.

The Azure Sky Suppressing Seal, which had been worshipped by the Azure Sky Sword Sect for over a thousand years and was more than ten feet in size, was now trembling violently.

A piercing, metallic clang emanated from the depths of the seal, a sound that resembled the scream of a living person being hacked to pieces.

On the base of the Dharma Seal, the rows of pure blue runes that were usually used to suppress the ancient demons were subjected to an absolutely unreasonable physical crushing.

That was a fierce, brute force of 100,000 jin, carrying the wild momentum of 30,000 jin of top-grade black iron rock!

There was no mystical clash of magical arts whatsoever.

Lu Chen used his purest, most powerful blood and qi to forcefully push against the thick, solid iron block, without losing even a fraction of his strength.

The complex and proud array of runes on the surface of the Suppressing Evil Seal were completely rubbed and torn off on the spot by this blood energy and immense weight!

The flowing blue light above couldn't even last a second, and it all fled and scattered in all directions with mournful cries.

With a teeth-grinding "crack" sound, the supreme artifact of this major sect was completely shattered, losing all its original essence.

The original seal, which was over ten feet long, lost its support from the laws and shrank in mid-air, plummeting back to the size of a palm.

Immediately afterwards, following the violent sweeping trajectory of the 30,000-jin black stele, Xiao Fangyin flew diagonally upwards.

It went off extremely fast, like a small pebble that had been violently headbutted by a raging wild bull.

"Bang!"

The shrunken seal blasted through the remains of a great demon skull in the far distance, carrying a cloud of black soil with it, and buried itself deep in a bottomless pit, never to be heard from again.

The Azure Sky Envoy, suspended in the air above, felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

The natal seal had most of its true light forcibly broken by a mere mortal, and its heart and chest suffered the extreme backlash of a Core Formation stage technique on the spot.

He suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, and with a "whoosh," a large amount of dark red blood gushed out.

The thick blood contained a few fragments of a shattered heart, which dripped onto his magnificent Taoist robe.

The envoy's steps swayed wildly on the broad, top-grade flying sword, and he stumbled backward two steps, nearly falling headfirst into the mud below.

That facade, which once held people high above and treated them like ants, has now completely distorted.

His eyes were filled with extreme fear, his hands were trembling, and he screamed and cried out in a shrill voice.

"How could such a mortal body possibly shatter my Azure Sky Great Golden Core Suppressing Formation?!"

The envoy's voice cracked, echoing sharply through the long street, filled with a sense of impending collapse.

"Impossible! This is clearly the eternal body of a demonic incarnation!"

Lu Chen, standing firmly on the ground, was also in great pain at the moment he swung the Suppressing Evil Seal.

To directly confront a powerful artifact of the Core Formation stage is bound to cause excruciating pain, with the terrifying mechanical shock violently surging into the bones and meridians of his hands along the 30,000-jin (approximately 15,000 kg) monument.

On his two arms, which were thicker than a normal person's thighs and covered with extremely thick, dark, hard skin, the skin was peeling off piece by piece.

Hot blood gushed out from the crack, staining the muddy water all around him a dark red.

Lu Chen gripped the edge of the broken monument with his right hand, his thumb and forefinger, and the terrifying downward pressure tore a large, gruesome crater in the flesh, revealing the bare, white finger bone fragments.

The nails on all ten of his thick fingers were violently blasted off by the immense pressure, leaving more than a dozen long streaks of blood in mid-air.

The extremely heavy recoil pressed down layer by layer, forcing his large feet, clad in iron boots, more than three feet into the ground.

The hard granite beneath him was crushed on the spot, and several dark, deep trenches, each several feet wide, split open from his heels.

Because of this great rebound, the twelve layers of extremely yang qi and blood in the body began to flow uncontrollably in reverse.

The fiery and violent extreme energy was about to break through the barrier and tear apart his most vital organs.

At this critical moment.

A-Nan, who had been bound in Lu Chen's arms by the thick, dark wolf skin, suddenly reacted automatically with her thin little body.

The little girl's body suddenly radiated a warm, translucent jade-like glow.

This radiance emanated from her refined bones, carrying the pure aura of being of the same lineage and blood as Lu Chen, and clung to her chest.

The jade-like radiance locked firmly around the outer edge of Lu Chen's furious artery, precisely transforming into the most solid and stable ballast stone for calming him down.

The violent, extremely yang meridians were gently soothed by this gentle force, and the fatal pain that was about to completely rupture the major tendons was instantly suppressed by a level.

During this brief respite, the abnormal regeneration and self-healing array of the thousand layers of "Iron Shirt" within Lu Chen's body, taking advantage of the calming effect, roared and exerted its full power!

An enormous and astonishing vitality of flesh and blood was running wildly throughout the body.

The intense heat of the blood and qi at the site of the torn skin acted like a spider spinning its web, rapidly unraveling its cocoon.

The blood and qi forcibly pulled and glued together the broken tendons, and the gushing blood from the tiger's mouth and arms was stopped.

The astonishing healing and resilience of the Extreme Martial Arts were on full display at this moment, managing to hold up Lu Chen's critically damaged body.

Outside the ruins.

Lying deep in the muddy swamp, the Lord of Xuanni City, who had just regained some of his vitality by absorbing the blood of rogue cultivators, saw through the cracks in the broken bricks and tiles the entire tragic process of Lu Chen risking his life to fight for the Core Formation Seal.

Old Yinbi was so scared that his scalp tingled.

He gripped the stinking mud beneath him with all ten fingers, using all four limbs like a madman, crawling along the ground towards the outermost culvert.

He didn't dare to breathe loudly, afraid that the blood-covered monster would catch a glimpse of him out of the corner of his eye.

The city lord's greedy thoughts of seizing treasures and devouring spirits were shattered by fear, and he became determined to remain in the shadows and play the role of the cunning mantis.

In the deep pit of the long street.

Lu Chen straightened his back, bit his numb gums hard, and spat a mouthful of bloody, heart-blood-stained froth into the muddy ground.

He didn't even look up at the old Core Formation dog in mid-air, who was being beaten and screaming in agony.

This fiercely protective beast, who had been through the wretched alleys, was perfectly clear-headed.

He wouldn't try to force himself on a powerful cultivator just for the sake of vanity.

Beneath those dark, murky eyes, only an extreme, unbridled killing intent for survival was erupting with extreme clarity.

Escape and survive with Ah-Nan.

Lu Chen didn't even wipe away the sticky blood still seeping from the back of his hand. He used his strong feet to exert tremendous force in the mud that was above his knees.

With an explosive force of 100,000 jin, he stomped down, sending up a large amount of flying gravel and mud, and his huge and burly body suddenly shot outwards!

Immediately afterwards, without wasting a single bit of the residual force from the impact, he thrust his thick right palm forcefully onto his broad back.

"Bang—!"

He wildly and forcefully hoisted the heavy, dark, broken monument, weighing 30,000 jin, onto his left shoulder.

With his feet firmly planted in the south, Lu Chen pounded the ground repeatedly like iron hammers as he sprinted forward!

Driven by his brute force, the battle situation shifted and shifted at an alarming pace, leaving the envoy in the sky no time to even catch his breath and call for help.

The steps of the charge were wide and sweeping.

Lu Chen poured all the remaining pure Yang energy in his body, as well as the elasticity of his tendons that had been squeezed to their limits but had not been damaged, into the heavy Dao stele he was carrying on his shoulder.

With his upper body bare and covered in blood, he charged wildly towards the inverted red crystal sealing light wall that trapped thousands of cultivators in the Blood Rock Street. He aimed at the very center of the light wall and charged down!