Chapter 222
Chapter 222: Power of Mountains and Seas!
Everyone was indeed intimidated!
Especially the officers of the Abyss-Suppression Army!
Chu Ying and the others truly had not expected that everything Li Mu had done today had served his own purpose.
And that purpose was this.
Establishing authority!
Li Mu’s sweet dates had been sweet enough.
First, he had won over the vast majority of family clans and martial arts experts.
His big stick had also been ruthless enough!
He had directly intimidated the remaining portion.
From today onward, the entire Linyuan City would probably become a place where the Abyss-Suppression Army had the final say.
Before all the family clans, it would possess absolute authority. Many things would become extremely simple!
But what truly shocked Chu Ying and the others was the depth of Li Mu’s thinking!
When had this entire series of moves from Li Mu begun?
It had begun when more than twenty thousand soldiers of the Abyss-Suppression Army were trapped!
Under such chaotic circumstances, Li Mu had not only been able to analyze the battle situation and give the order to reinforce them.
He had even had An Xing record the names of the experts who came to assist.
How could the nearby family clans and experts who were watching fail to understand Li Mu’s methods?
Their hearts all trembled fiercely.
They immediately began arranging for people to seek out the military and express goodwill.
There was no helping it.
The situation was stronger than any individual!
As for the other Profound Rank martial artists who had come to support them...After seeing this scene, they did not have any thoughts about it.
They had originally stood on the same side as Li Mu, and their hearts were clear.
Moreover, what Li Mu had taken out was no ordinary item.
From this, it could be seen that Li Mu’s domineering ruthlessness was only directed at outsiders.
Toward his own people, he was generous enough.
Looking at the corpse on the ground, Liu Shun’s underling, who was hidden in the crowd, covered his wildly pounding heart and secretly rejoiced.
Thank goodness I hid far away.
Someone went forward to clean up the corpse, while Li Mu used his anger as an excuse and said to An Xing, “Deputy Commander-in-Chief An, I will have to trouble you to distribute the rest.”
“Commander Chu!”
Li Mu called out to Chu Ying.
“Ah! Speak.” Chu Ying came back to his senses.
“Commander Hong died on the battlefield to protect the soldiers...”
Chu Ying raised a hand and said, “Do not worry. I will arrange the ceremony to honor Commander Hong and the fallen soldiers.”
“It will be held here tonight.”
The scene of Hong Liangpeng dying in battle was something everyone could see from the footage.
Li Mu nodded.
Then he left the scene.
Just as Li Mu descended from the plaza, a figure rushed into his arms like a young swallow returning to the nest.
It was Wang Yinhuan.
Li Mu held Wang Yinhuan and asked softly, “Did Old Bai return to Ironhand City?”
“Mm!”
Wang Yinhuan nodded.
As soon as Li Mu returned, he had called Bai Shouheng and told him how to return to Ironhand City.
Li Mu did not even need to worry about notifying Bloodpool City.
Because he did not have a Return Stone from the Bloodsea Military District.
Wang Longcheng would naturally handle that matter.
Earlier, Li Mu had also called Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Chenfeng.
Zhang Zhiwei was currently following Lu Chenfeng around to enforce the law.
Because the Military District had fallen into chaos and the soldiers had retreated, all the prisoners in the death row camps had escaped.
Ordinary criminals could not enter the death row camps. They were all martial artists.
The death row camps of the three Military Districts had more than ten thousand prisoners combined.
Most of these criminals had immediately run back into Linyuan City.
Whether it was to survive or to see family members they had not seen in a long time, they had already scattered everywhere.
Lu Chenfeng was already utterly overwhelmed!
The moment Li Mu called him, he began complaining that being a leader was damn hard!
There were far too many troublesome matters!
Before he could finish roaring, Li Mu hung up.
Otherwise, he might be dragged into forced labor.
As long as these martial artists had not killed people or plundered goods, Li Mu had no need to follow them everywhere to arrest people.
With so many people in the Law Enforcement Bureau, this was the perfect chance for a major training exercise.
“Let’s go. I promised I would find a house for you, but I still haven’t done it.”
“Right now, we do not even have a place to live in Linyuan City.”
“Let’s go look at houses by the sea.”
Li Mu pinched Wang Yinhuan’s cheek as he spoke.
He had already resolved the Abyss-Suppression Army’s most difficult matter.
The next matters would be overseen by the various major figures from the Military District and the Municipal Administration.
Linyuan City would inevitably return to normal step by step.
In any case, for the next period of time, the city definitely would not take the initiative to dispatch troops outward. It would focus mainly on reconnaissance.
They needed to understand the situation of Stage Three first.
And as long as the city did not fall...
The common people still had to live their lives.
Society still had to keep functioning.
They could not stop eating sliced cake just because they feared the knife.
So Li Mu and Wang Yinhuan found a villa complex by the sea with an excellent view.
It came with luxurious renovations.
More than ten villas were built in a terraced layout. Li Mu directly found the developer and bought all fourteen villas.
That evening.
Fortress Plaza.
Li Mu and Wang Yinhuan attended an extremely solemn and heavy memorial ceremony.
Countless citizens were also affected by the mood. Grief filled the air, and many people cried as though their hearts had been torn apart.
Among them, many were the family members of the fallen soldiers.
After the memorial ceremony ended...
Li Mu opened his system and took stock of the resources he currently had on hand.
He now had more than five thousand high-grade pills alone.
Added to that were forty-two S-Grade Ghost-Axe Destiny Pills.
There were also 185 S-Grade Destiny Spirit Crystals that he had not yet had time to refine into pills!
All of them had come from the people he had killed from Eden and the Demon-Human Nation.
There were also more than thirty crystals that had come from the green-furred men.
After that came Triumph Points!
1.27 million!
From Eden and the Demon-Human Nation alone, Li Mu had killed at least more than a hundred Profound Rank experts.
Li Mu was now Profound Rank First Grade.
As long as the opponent was a Profound Rank, they were basically higher than Li Mu and would provide him with at least several thousand to more than ten thousand Triumph Points.
Together with the points provided by the Profound Rank green-furred men...
Li Mu was now outrageously wealthy.
So Li Mu began crazily assigning points without the slightest stinginess.
First, he spent 100,000 on Blessed Field Art.
【Blessing Field increased to 3,000 mu.】
【Spiritual Spring quality increased tenfold!】
【Five Immortal Apes added.】
【Blessing Field increased to 10,000 mu.】
Li Mu had to admit that ever since he obtained these Immortal Apes, things had become far more convenient!
As long as the Blessing Field had planted a medicinal herb before, Li Mu no longer needed to search for seeds again.
The Immortal Apes would collect and process the seeds themselves.
Afterward, four bonus entries were granted.
【External Incarnation: The number of External Incarnations increases to 50!】
【External Incarnation: External Incarnation duration increases to 1 hour.】
【Alchemy Art: Supreme-Grade Spirit-Gathering Pill.】
【Mountain-Bearing Art: Increases strength by the power of seven dragons and two tigers.】
When Li Mu saw the final seven dragons of strength, a thought stirred in his mind.
The essence of his Profound Transformation trait was that the stronger his strength was, the stronger his overall power became!
This was comprehensive suppression, built above all Divine Abilities!
Ten oxen made one tiger. Ten tigers made one dragon.
Then what was above a dragon?
So Li Mu directly put the remaining odd amount, 170,000, entirely into Mountain-Bearing Art!
【Increases strength by the power of two seas and four dragons!】
Li Mu raised an eyebrow.
Above dragon was sea?
Bearing mountains and overturning seas, flipping heaven and earth...
Li Mu understood!
Although Li Mu very much wanted to leave the remaining one million points for Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation...
But!
If he gave all of them to Mountain-Bearing Art now, Li Mu felt that he should have the power to fight an Earth Rank!
Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation had not arrived yet. Triumph Points could be earned again.
But Stage Three had already begun.
An Earth Rank battle could descend at any time.
Ever since Old Shui returned, he had gone into seclusion. He could not even casually leak his aura.
This included Liang Tianqiong of the Liang Family as well. He had also hidden his aura so that the otherworldly beings outside would not know Linyuan City’s true strength.
Li Mu gritted his teeth.
“Add them!”
All one million points were added to Mountain-Bearing Art!
【Increases strength by the power of one mountain and two seas!】
Li Mu had never felt such terrifying and vast power before!
Li Mu felt that he could truly overturn a mountain with his bare hands now!
Although this was merely a breakthrough in raw strength...
It had nothing to do with True Qi or cultivation arts.
But the confidence it brought was incomparable.
No matter what kind of Earth Rank expert the opponent was...
As long as their strength was weaker than his, they would have to suffer the fifty-percent weakening from his Profound Transformation trait!
He would win half the battle on sight!
Immediately afterward...
Seven bonus entries arrived.
Logically speaking, more than one million points should have granted more than seven entries.
But after seeing the first entry, Li Mu knew that these seven entries had been integrated by the system, and the integrated effects were absurdly powerful!
【Gather Form and Scatter Qi: Cooldown reduced to 5 minutes.】
The previous cooldown had been 60 minutes...
【Undying Hairs: When an Undying Hair activates, Divine Sense can descend upon the incarnation regardless of distance.】
【External Incarnation: Incarnations can now use all Divine Abilities except External Incarnation.】
【Listen Close: The effectiveness of activated defensive cultivation arts increases to 1000%.】
【A Touch of Heavenly Might: Weight is 100 times that of Divine Weapon Art.】
【External Incarnation: Number increases to 200!】
【Alchemy Art: Body-Casting Golden Pill!】
Leaving everything else aside...
The two newly unlocked pills alone were impressive.
The Supreme-Grade Spirit-Gathering Pill was a super version of the High-Grade Qi-Gathering Pill.
The Body-Casting Golden Pill was a super-super version of the High-Grade Body-Fortifying Pill!
Because the description of the Body-Casting Golden Pill clearly stated: Those below the Profound Rank are forbidden from taking this pill, as there is a risk of bodily explosion!
Li Mu felt that he now absolutely had the ability to contend against an Earth Rank.
After attending the memorial ceremony...
Li Mu and Wang Yinhuan had just left the plaza, preparing to return to their new home and continue tidying up.
Then thirty mute women found Li Mu.