Da Xuan Martial Saint

Upon the boundless hills,

one could see a straight official road made of yellow earth, winding and twisting, circling around each of the rising hills, leading all the way to the end of one's sight where mountains and rivers connected, and the horizon filled with vast white clouds.

On this road, a caravan was slowly moving along. The caravan was neither too large nor too small, with dozens of galloping horses, approximately over a hundred people, some carriages carrying goods, while others bore people.

Among them,

the carriage at the very front of the caravan, drawn by three blood-red horses mixed with demon blood lineage, belonged to a type of horse easiest to tame among those mixed with demon blood. Each horse was nearly ten feet tall and weighed thousands of pounds. Even without rampaging freely, merely pulling the carriage steadily along, they still conveyed an extraordinarily majestic and mighty presence.

In fact, these blood-red horses were also widely used as 'war horses.' If a few hundred martial men practicing body refinement to the extent of Tendon Changing Realm were to control these blood-red horses for charging and attacking, even tens of martial artists in the Bone Tempering Realm would find it difficult to confront their edge directly.

The carriage drawn by these three blood-red horses was also quite luxurious, with an elaborate internal layout, even divided into several nested structures. The farthest inside was an elegant and spacious room, which even had a bed set up.

By the bed,

Chen Mu was sitting quietly.

This line of the caravan was exactly the one he was leading with Xu Hongyu, Chen Yue, and others towards the State Government Office of Yu State, and in the caravan, there was also a group of blood-related clan members of the Yu Family following him to settle in the state office.
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It had only been three days since he and Yan Jingqing had joined hands to destroy the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion branch in Yu County. He did not stay long in Yu City; after presiding over and waiting for Yan Jingqing to handle various affairs of the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion, he set off with his family.

This departure was not to never return to Yu County; with his current level of strength, traveling alone between the state government and prefectural government would only take a day or two. Inside Yu State, no distance was significant to him.

However,

compared to the incessantly turbulent Yu County, the state government of Yu State was much more stable and very close to the Seven Profound Sect. Having settled Xu Hongyu, Chen Yue, and the others in the state office, he felt much more at ease.

Although the era of chaos and conflict was unending, like the current state of Ice State, which had completely fallen into the midst of war, it was possible that Yu State might one day fall as well, but at least before then, the state government was a much steadier place.

"Being born in Yu State, indeed, is a fortunate thing,"

Chen Mu put down a piece of intelligence from Ice State and shook his head.

Yu State was chaotic as well, but among the eleven states of the Cold North Path, it could be considered one of the most stable states. Even though he once lived at the bottom rungs of society in Yu City, amidst rampaging gangs and corrupt bureaucracy, leading a life of constant fear and uncertainty about the future, it was still much more stable compared to real warfare.

If he had arrived in this world not in the Prefecture City of Yu County but in a war-torn area like Ice State, perhaps he would have died in the chaos before he had the chance to acquire the Blade Technique or activate the system panel.

Yu State was relatively stable, providing him ample space for growth, allowing him to steadily climb the ranks of martial arts, cultivating up to this day, mastering the Qiankun Artistic Conception, and advancing to the level of the Six Viscera Realm.

However,

the battle with Situ Shu also made him realize his own deficiencies. Although Qin Mengjun had elaborated many things to him, some things ultimately needed to be understood through actual combat experience.

Take Situ Shu, for example, ranked twenty-third on the Wind Cloud List. The Heaven and Earth's Might mobilized by his Winter Domain along with the Cold Soul Spirit Blade reached at least 'forty parts.' The gap between him and his previous self was not that significant.

Moreover, the Martial Arts Domain is an extremely profound realm, and its mastery over the usage of Heaven and Earth's Might was much stronger than his, who still did not possess a 'Domain.' Even if he mobilized 'fifty parts' of Heaven and Earth's Might, it would have been very difficult for him to achieve victory previously.

The real key was the further advancement of his martial will!

This advancement in martial will, although it did not significantly increase his mastery over the Power of Heaven and Earth, allowed him to control the power more skillfully, drastically closing the gap between himself and those in the Martial Arts Domain and the Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters!

With the martial will that had entered the 'Third Layer,' combined with techniques like Falling Flowers without Trace and Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal, he was able to dominate in his confrontation with Situ Shu.

Actually,

even though he was at an advantage, had Situ Shu chosen not to clash head-on from the beginning but to retreat immediately, it would have been difficult for Chen Mu to hold him back. Although he practiced the Abyssal Ground Shrink movement technique, matching the speed of a Grandmaster, as long as Situ Shu maintained his 'Winter Domain,' it would greatly hinder his movement technique.

This would have led to a pursuit battle.

However, at the time, he took the initiative to attack Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion's branch, and Situ Shu could not simply abandon the branch immediately nor flee upon facing someone ranked lower than himself. Once he got entangled in a bloody battle, withdrawing would become difficult, especially after his 'Winter Domain' was forcefully shattered in the end, making it impossible for Situ Shu to continue exerting his domain's might in his presence. He became utterly vulnerable, unable to even withstand a single hit from his Heaven and Earth Wheel Seal, and was directly killed on the spot.

"The master said it quite rightly; reaching the level of the Wind Cloud List or even a Martial Arts Grandmaster, the 'amount' of Heaven and Earth's Might a martial artist can control is only one of the key factors that determine the outcome. Without forming an absolute gap, it cannot completely dictate the strength and outcome of a martial artist,"