Achieving physical sainthood begins with the Iron Shirt technique!

The outer perimeter of the cave.

Li Laosi was forcefully ripped away by the second-tier insect king's massive mandible, spitting out a mouthful of blood as he crashed backward at an incredibly terrifying speed towards the hard rock wall.

If this hits hard, his newly formed little blood furnace body will instantly shatter into a pile of minced meat.

Just as his back was about to touch the dead end of the rock face.

A broad, powerful, thick hand with a dark black background suddenly emerged from behind.

The massive iron palm landed squarely and firmly on Li Laosi's back as he was sent flying backward. Lu Chen's Great Circulation of Qi had completely ended, and this great demon god emerged from seclusion to take over the entire battlefield.

The moment the giant iron palm touched his back, a surge of pure yang energy, as hot as a furnace, burst forth from Lu Chen's palm. This domineering and unparalleled power of hot blood flowed directly into Li Laosi's body, instantly dissipating the terrifying force that sent him flying backward and protecting his vital acupoints that were on the verge of being severed.

Li Laosi stopped in mid-air, his feet landing back on the ground. His rough face was covered in horrifying bloodstains, and he still gripped the broken handle of the pig-slaughtering knife tightly in his hand.

"My benefactor..." Li Laosi gurgled in his throat, swallowing mouthfuls of blood and foam as he turned to look at the massive, ferocious body radiating astonishing heat behind him.

"The bones are quite strong."

With a single arm movement, Lu Chen gently pushed the reckless butcher towards the large stone slab behind him.

"The rest is up to me."

The voice wasn't loud, but the murderous intent it conveyed was extremely fierce.

Li Laosi dragged his feet along the ground, gently pushed by the force to the dry stone slab where A-Nan was. A-Nan stretched out her small hands, which shone with a faint light, and precisely grabbed Li Laosi's thick, scarred arm, pulling him to her side to protect him.

Everything was in place. Lu Chen stomped his large iron boots heavily forward.

He was shirtless, and on the thousand layers of black iron skin that had just broken through and transformed, intricate dark gold patterns were flashing wildly with the rise and fall of his chest.

Lu Chen strode out of the deepest part of the cave.

His gaze pierced through the faint embers of the fire wall. He saw directly the mutilated miners scattered across the ground.

More than a hundred men, to protect him, used their own bodies to fill the gaping wound torn open by the poisonous insects. More than a dozen incomplete corpses lay scattered in the green, rotten mud. Some had half their shoulders corroded by the venom, yet their hands still clung tightly to the insects' heads; others had their tongues burned off, bloody holes torn in their chests, and the broken iron spears in their hands were still stuck straight in the mud.

Lu Chen's two large black eyes were instantly filled with a brutal, crimson light.

Even a second-tier beast in the Great Wilderness dares to eat these tough guys who risk their lives for him!

Lu Chen paused. He turned around, his chest bulging, and the Thousand-Layer Extreme Blood Furnace emitted a low, suppressed rumble.

Lu Chen opened his mouth wide, and a mouthful of scalding pure yang blood mixed with immense internal energy suddenly spewed forward.

Large swaths of crimson blood and qi rapidly intertwined and took shape in mid-air, directly condensing into an extremely thick 'Crimson Fire Pure Yang Blood and Qi Canopy' above the large opening in the cave.

This massive, radiant canopy of blazing heat completely sealed off the cave entrance, instantly distorting and warping the fierce winds blowing outside. This was a foolproof, top-tier protective measure, enough to last for half an incense stick's time.

Several black venomous centipedes, unable to dodge in time, just crashed into the outermost edge of the Blood and Qi Canopy.

"Sizzle!"

The extremely high and abnormal heat instantly reduced them to ashes, not even a drop of venom managed to seep into the hole. Any poisonous insects or evil spirits that touched this blazing heat were instantly incinerated, completely eliminating any risk of being raided.

With all worries gone, Lu Chen turned around again to reveal the Great Xuan Black Membrane Body.

The purple-striped insect king, as large as a buffalo, had just broken through the defenses when its compound eyes glowed bright red. It raised its body, the front half of which was covered in poisonous armor, and let out an extremely sharp and piercing screech.

Two massive, barbed mandibles suddenly opened, sending a stench that was nauseating and foul. Using the momentum of its charge, the Insect King's enormous body slammed down to bite down hard on Lu Chen's broad, thick neck.

Faced with the second-tier leader's deadly attack, Lu Chen stood rooted to the spot, too lazy to make any dodging movements.

The thick, dark veins on his right thigh bulged out, and his entire right leg suddenly lifted upwards.

The peak strength of 100,000 jin burst forth from his waist and gathered without reservation under that heavy black iron boot.

The Insect King's enormous head, covered in hard purple armor, had barely reached mid-air before it didn't even touch Lu Chen's clothes.

Lu Chen's massive iron boots, carrying an overwhelming force of gravity, stomped down hard on the Insect King's arrogant head.

"Boom!"

A deafening, earth-shattering roar erupted in the poisonous forest.

The insect king's head, the size of a buffalo, simply couldn't withstand such terrifying, brute force. Its prized second-tier purple-patterned poison armor was less than a thin sheet of paper in the face of 100,000 jin of brute force.

His head shattered and collapsed on the spot, his entire head crushed by Lu Chen's kick.

Large amounts of yellowish-green venom mixed with bits of flesh and bones sprayed wildly in all directions. The thick green liquid splashed onto Lu Chenxuan's black skin membrane, but was directly evaporated into wisps of white smoke by his extremely high body temperature, unable to break through his thousand layers of Iron Shirt defense.

With a single stomp, Lu Chen crushed the Insect King. His massive iron boot slammed heavily into the ground, creating several large cracks in the granite surface beneath him.

His legs were firmly rooted to the ground.

Within Lu Chen's chest, the ultimate blood furnace of the Thousand-Layer Iron Shirt technique erupted in full force. The frantic pounding of his heart was transmitted through his chest cavity into the air, directly unleashing a true thunderous war drumbeat.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Extremely powerful and domineering pure yang qi and blood surged wildly out through the major acupoints of the body.

A crimson pure yang evil wind, which had condensed into a substantial form, spread and swept outwards in all directions with Lu Chen's body as the absolute center.

This terrifying clearing maneuver had just swept through the muddy ground.

The tens of thousands of bone-eating venomous centipedes that had been fearlessly pressing forward in layers all around were now directly confronted by this extremely fierce heat wave.

The moment the poisonous insects in the front row touched the pure yang evil wind, their hard black carapaces were instantly scalded through by the intense heat.

Large plumes of acrid smoke rose from the jungle. Thousands upon thousands of poisonous insects writhed and twisted violently in the mud, their limbs clawing frantically.

The once invincible swarm of insects collapsed completely in an instant.

The surviving poisonous insects felt the extreme crushing force emanating from the Yin and Yang attributes, and desperately turned half of their bodies around, rushing to burrow deeper into the ground.

These treacherous guests from the wilderness departed in a great hurry, causing a massive stampede among the insect swarm. In less than ten breaths, the receding black water completely disappeared into the crevices beneath the ground.

The large muddy area in front of the cave, which had been filled in, fell silent, now littered with thousands of charred and withered corpses emitting black smoke.

The crisis has been completely resolved.

Lu Chen stood in the very center of this mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood filled with green blood and black smoke.

He slowly closed his large, dark red eyes.

The Extreme Blood Furnace in the center of his chest slowed its rotation. He quietly searched for that fleeting, extremely special sensation he had just experienced when he was removing the strange energy from his Core Formation and undergoing the Great Circulation healing.

That is a forced pull on the same bloodline unique to the orthodox body cultivators of the ultimate path.

Lu Chen suddenly opened his eyes.

Two terrifying, savage beams of light shot from his dark eyes. His gaze pierced through miles of foul-smelling miasma, crossed dilapidated forests, and locked onto a seemingly calm, deep black swamp a dozen feet away.

That's the spot. The giant rat that stole the fragmented blood of the barbarians is shivering underneath.

At this moment, they were in the deepest part of the muddy swamp.

The old fox Lord of Xuanni City is desperately trying to burrow into the deepest, most foul-smelling mud.

He gripped the top-grade concealment array plate tightly. This thing could block the detection of all divine senses below the Nascent Soul stage in the cultivation world.

However, when faced with the orthodox ancient forbidden body, any attempt to use concealment techniques is futile. Under the overwhelming and unparalleled perception of the extreme bloodline, such formation-breaking methods are nothing but gaping holes, no different from standing naked in the street.

The city lord could even feel that extremely violent gaze piercing through the thick mud and firmly nailing itself to the top of his head. Extreme panic completely gripped the old man's heart.

Cave entrance.

Lu Chen reached back with his left arm and grabbed the edge of the broken town monument that was leaning against the ground with his large hand.

He suddenly pulled his right arm back.

"Splash!"

He yanked up the thick, heavy, century-old black iron chain and violently coiled it tightly around his right forearm. The rough iron rings got stuck in the gaps of the protruding dark gold veins, emitting a piercing metallic scraping sound.

He dragged the massive black monument, weighing 30,000 jin (approximately 15,000 kg), backwards with one hand and pulled it out of the mud.

All the refitting is complete. This weapon of mass destruction is about to drink blood.

Lu Chen's leg muscles clenched violently.

He stomped his foot down suddenly.

"Bang!"

The solid granite foundation beneath their feet was instantly blasted into a deep crater by this extremely abnormal reaction force, with rubble flying everywhere.

Lu Chen left behind a dark and violent afterimage, his huge body pulling the 30,000-pound heavy monument as he burst out of the deep pit.

Several ancient trees, each as thick as two people could hug, blocked his path, only to be smashed into large pieces of wood by his rampaging body. Lu Chen, imbued with the terrifying pressure of a hundred thousand jin of iron, created a massive vacuum tunnel and hurtled straight towards the muddy swamp!