Achieving physical sainthood begins with the Iron Shirt technique!

The underground river completely collapsed, and grayish-white quicksand rushed back down the pit walls.

Li Laosi stood on the edge of a crumbling crevice in the black gold stone. Five zhang below, three miners, their bodies mostly swallowed by quicksand, were struggling desperately.

All around were the harsh howls of bone wolves and hyenas.

Li Laosi kicked off the rocks with both legs, his body soaring into the air, and he jumped straight down from a height of five zhang.

His feet slammed heavily into the sand pit. He exerted force with both of his swollen right arms at the same time, his thick fingers precisely gripping the tattered crocodile skins worn by the miners.

"Get out here, you bastard!"

The small blood furnace in his chest roared violently. Relying solely on the brute force of a mortal body, Li Laosi forcefully pulled these three living people out of the vortex of despairing quicksand.

He swung his arms and flung the three men back into the hard underground trench behind them.

On the sand dune ahead, hundreds of pale, bony wolves charged wildly down the surging sand. These beasts all had their blood-red mouths agape, their sharp teeth covered in foul-smelling saliva.

Li Laosi refused to take a step back.

He dug his feet deep into the rubble at the front of the trench. With his bare, scarred arms, he single-handedly built an iron door through the collapsed tunnel with his massive frame.

"Fourth Brother! Back up! We can't stop them!" The miner who had just been thrown back fell to the ground and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Shut up, all of you!"

Li Laosi turned his head, veins bulging on his forehead, and roared fiercely.

"Our benefactor gave us our lives, and today I'll lead you all to eat the soil of the Western Wilderness alive! No one is allowed to die!" He turned his neck, gripping his nicked, broken machete tightly, and roared at the approaching horde of beasts, "If you want meat, trade your heads for it!"

In the trenches behind, the sixty Blood Disciples who had been freed from their chains heard these words, and the red blood lines on their chests, ignited by Lu Chenhuang's blood, all began to burn.

No one called for retreat anymore.

These grown men bit their tongues, carried short, rough spears made from the bones of poisonous crocodiles, and charged forward with bloodshot eyes.

Shoulders pressed together, backs pressed tightly together, they formed a crimson human wall behind Li Laosi with their flesh.

The first wave of bone wolves crashed into the human wall.

"Bang!"

The dull thuds of flesh colliding echoed through the trenches. Several men in the front row had their breastbones cracked on the spot, spitting out large amounts of blood, but their legs remained firmly planted on the ground, refusing to budge an inch.

"Shoot these bastards in the back!"

The bloodthirsty thugs in the back row frantically stabbed forward through the gaps in the human wall. There were no magical techniques involved; it was all just the desperate, brute force of peasants.

The crude bone spear pierced the bone wolf's belly and throat. Pure blood and bone clashed, producing a series of piercing screams and the crisp sound of bones breaking.

In just a dozen breaths, the pierced monster corpses had filled the entire cave entrance. The green beast blood had turned the gray sand on the ground into black mud.

Just as the wolf pack's offensive paused.

Above the sand dune, a colossal creature, comparable in size to an old water buffalo, leaped out. This was a leader of bone wolves with mid-tier second-order strength, its back covered in sharp, gray stone spikes.

Using its downward momentum, it leaped directly over the pile of corpses in front of it, bringing with it a nauseating, foul stench, and bit down hard on Li Laosi's forehead.

The two rows of serrated edges were almost touching the skin.

Li Laosi didn't dodge at all. The "Prototype of the Extreme Iron Body Realm" that had just reached the threshold within him erupted completely at this moment.

He tossed aside the dull, broken cleaver. He reached out with both hands, gripping tightly the ancient broken spear that had been stuck in the black gold rock.

The muscles on my upper arm suddenly bulged, and my veins throbbed.

"Break it for me!"

With his legs slightly bent, Li Laosi used the force of pulling out the spear to raise it with both hands and fiercely thrust it upwards at the beast's mouth in mid-air.

This rough ancient spear has long lost its edge and is now just a blunt iron rod.

However, under the immense and unparalleled power of death, the blunt spear unleashed terrifying destructive force.

The spearhead struck the bone wolf leader squarely in the chin. The hard jawbone was shattered by the immense force.

The spear continued its momentum, piercing straight through the upper jaw and emerging from the skull of this second-tier ferocious beast.

The scalding beast blood poured down the spear, instantly soaking Li Laosi's entire body and turning him into a terrifying blood-soaked figure.

"Who else is coming!"

Li Laosi exerted his arm muscles again. He lifted the leader's mangled corpse into the air and then slammed it back into the middle of the outer herd of beasts.

The massive carcass smashed over a dozen maddened bone wolves.

This utterly unreasonable and tyrannical ferocity completely shattered the remaining monsters' morale.

The remaining bone wolves, tails between their legs, whimpered and retreated. A few breaths later, the beasts tumbled and crawled away from the sand dune, disappearing completely into the gray mist.

The beasts dispersed, the collapse of the underground river came to an end, and the quicksand finally stopped flowing back.

Li Laosi spat out blood and led the group, stepping over the corpses scattered on the ground, out of the ancient underground trench that had almost become a graveyard.

Outside, there was a thick, gray fog, and the air smelled of dry sand.

Li Laosi walked to the skeleton of the wolf leader and used his broken cleaver to cleave open its abdomen. He rummaged through the pile of rotten flesh for a long time and dug out a green inner core that exuded a strong demonic aura.

He clutched the inner core, turned around, and walked back to the group.

The two henchmen who had been at the forefront were now lying on the ground, panting heavily. Their thighs and chests had been ripped open with several deep gashes, exposing the bone, their flesh torn open. Their carotid arteries were completely severed, and blood was gushing out uncontrollably. Their faces were as white as paper.

"Fourth Brother... I'm afraid we brothers won't be able to leave this Western Wilderness." A henchman said, his lips trembling, his hand weakly clutching his stomach.

"Bullshit! With me here, it's none of your business to recruit people!"

Without saying a word, Li Laosi stuffed the second-tier inner core into his mouth.

He skipped the swallowing motion and directly chewed the hard inner core to pieces with his teeth.

The violent demonic energy of the inner core mixed with the pure yang energy exploded in his abdomen.

Li Laosi grabbed the machete with his backhand. The sharp blade slashed fiercely across his thick right palm.

A deep, bloody gash appeared. Scalding hot blood, mixed with pure Yang energy, gushed out from his palm.

He strode over to his severely wounded underling. Raising his large, bloodied hand, he pressed down hard on the two men's deep, bone-revealing wounds without reservation.

"Slap! Slap!"

His large, broad hand slammed directly onto the rotten flesh.

Li Laosi forcefully injected the scalding hot, extreme yang blood, mixed with pure yang pill energy, into the deepest part of the two men's wounds.

The intense heat directly scalded the area around the severed blood vessels. This extreme and violent method forcefully sealed the two people's broken meridians. There were no superfluous magical elixirs; it was pure, hardcore aesthetics.

The two henchmen let out agonizing screams in agony.

Their skin instantly turned bright red, veins bulging, and their bodies writhed wildly on the ground. This forcibly injected foreign power was clashing violently with the faint trace of wild blood within their bodies.

"Grit your teeth and get through this! If you get through this, you'll live!" Old Li pressed hard on their wounds, refusing to let go.

A full half-incense stick's time had passed.

The two stopped convulsing. The crimson color on their bodies slowly faded, and not only did they survive this violent backlash, but the membranes on their skin even took on a slightly reddish hue.

These two overcame a life-or-death crisis and directly entered the initial stage of Extreme Body Cultivation, the "Blood Transfer Stage".

"Fourth Brother... I... I feel strong again." One of the underlings opened his eyes wide, feeling the surging life force within him. The wound on his leg had completely stopped bleeding and scabbed over.

"If you're not dead, get up!" Li Laosi stood up and pointed at the wolf carcasses scattered on the ground.

"These beasts are tough. Everyone, get to work and smash the bone wolves' spines to make knives. We still have a long way to go!"

The sixty Bloodthirsty Bloodthirsty Men were filled with overwhelming momentum. Their near-death experience had completely unleashed the savagery within them.

The group picked up stones and smashed off the bone wolf's hardest spine. After a simple polishing, each person was equipped with a heavy cleaver with bone spikes.

The team reorganized and, following the remnants of the ancient trenches, continued to advance deeper into the gray fog of the western wilderness.

After about half an hour, the terrain ahead became open.

An ancient megalithic temple, half-buried in the loess soil, suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes. The temple's outer walls were entirely constructed of unidentified black boulders, and even after millions of years of weathering, they still exuded a heavy sense of oppression.

At the main entrance of the temple, two colossal ancient statues, each ten feet tall, stand on either side.

The two colossal statues pounded the ground with their fists, their muscles incredibly rugged. But above their necks, their heads had long been severed cleanly by the immortal's high-ranking weapon.

The headless colossus stood there in the desolate western wilderness, exuding a sense of sorrow and indomitable majesty.

Li Laosi stopped and looked up at the two colossal statues. The Supreme Blood Furnace in his chest resonated and pulsated once more.

"Fourth Brother, this place is huge, it must be hiding something good." A subordinate carrying a bone knife approached and whispered.

"Keep your eyes peeled, there's no peaceful place in this western wilderness." Old Li gripped the ancient war spear in his hand tightly.

The team had just taken two steps forward, trying to get closer to the perimeter of the ruins.

Suddenly, a dozen pairs of emerald green eyes lit up in the previously peaceful, dark corner.

These eyes were definitely not those of a beast like a bone wolf, driven mad by mere instinct. They hid quietly behind the broken walls and ruins, their expressions revealing a clear intelligence and calculation as they coldly scrutinized the two-legged creatures that had intruded into their territory.

A hidden crisis suddenly surrounded the entire team.