The Great Ruler: Reborn as Mu Chen, sweeping across the vast world!

The light in the forest grew dimmer, and the scent of decaying leaves mixed with the fresh smell of blood slowly permeated the damp air.

Wu Yingying's face was flushed, and her chest heaved slightly; she was clearly very angry.

She bit her lip, finally turned and left, the hem of her blue outfit drawing a clean arc in the air.

"You just wait, I'll make you beg for mercy sooner or later!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she had already disappeared into the deep shadows of the intertwined ancient trees.

Upon hearing this, Mu Chen couldn't help but chuckle. A prodigy with an unfair advantage, he couldn't imagine who could surpass him!

For the next month, Mu Chen traversed this ancient forest.

There were no paths in the forest, only tangled tree roots and ubiquitous vines and poisonous insects.

But for Mu Chen, who had already forged the innate chaotic holy body and Dao embryo, these obstacles were meaningless.

One evening, Mu Chen crossed a raised ridge, and a bright and open view suddenly appeared before him.

It was a valley surrounded by a ring of mountain walls, with a deep, dark pool of water in the center of the valley.

At the edge of the pool, seven gray-white ape-like creatures with arms reaching past their knees were bending down to drink water.

Intermediate-level spirit beast, Iron-Armed Ape.

The leading ape king was a size larger than the others of its kind, with a shoulder height of over ten feet. When its arms were hanging down, its knuckles almost touched the ground, and its aura had reached that of a high-level spirit beast!

Looks interesting. I wonder how many punches it can withstand!

Mu Chen slowly emerged from the shadows of the mountain ridge, his footsteps finally startling the group of apes drinking water.

The Iron-Armed Ape King, the leader, was the first to raise its head, its crimson eyes instantly locking onto Mu Chen.

It stood up and pounded its chest with its long arms that reached past its knees, producing a dull, drum-like sound.

The other seven iron-armed apes stopped drinking, spread out in a fan shape, and bared their sharp fangs.

Mu Chen walked straight toward them.

This action thoroughly enraged the ape troop.

The three-headed gibbon pounced first, running on all fours, leaving a gray-white afterimage in the forest.

A sharp whistling sound rang out as six iron-gray arms reached out from different angles to grab Mu Chen's vital points.

Mu Chen took half a step forward, casually reaching out with his right hand to grasp the arm of an Iron-Armed Ape.

The next instant, Mu Chen slightly turned his waist and exerted force with his arms!

call--!

The iron-armed ape that had been captured was swung up with one hand, drawing an arc in the air before slamming it down into two other apes that were rushing towards it!

"Bang!!!"

A dull thud echoed through the valley.

The iron-armed ape, used as a weapon, collided solidly with two other apes.

The sound of bones shattering was as dense as rain. The three-headed iron-armed ape was deformed almost instantly, its chest cavity caved in, its spine broke, and blood gushed from its mouth and nose.

One strike, and all three apes are dead!

Mu Chen shook off the bloodstains on his hands and looked calmly at the Ape King.

"Your turn."

"Awooo—!!!"

The ape king roared to the sky, its roar filled with rage and madness. Its eyes were completely bloodshot, and its muscles were bulging, with blood-red patterns flowing around them.

boom!

It pushed off the ground with both feet, and the rocks beneath its feet shattered with a crash. Its entire body transformed into a gray afterimage, rushing straight towards Mu Chen.

Those arms, reaching past the knees, were raised high, then clenched into fists and slammed down!

Mu Chen also clenched his fist and punched straight at the Ape King.

No fancy techniques, just pure numbers!

Boom-! ! !

The instant their fists collided, a visible shockwave exploded outwards from the two men, whipping up pebbles and fallen leaves that scatter wildly in all directions.

Click.

A clear cracking sound rang out.

The ferocious expression on the Ape King's face froze instantly, then twisted into extreme pain.

"Waaaaah—!!"

The ape king let out a mournful howl, its massive body staggering backward from the force of the recoil.

But Mu Chen didn't give it a chance to catch its breath.

He took a step forward, and his left fist shot out like lightning, aiming straight for the ape king's head.

This punch was faster and heavier than the last one!

The Ape King instinctively raised his intact left arm to block, but that iron arm, strong enough to withstand sword strikes, was as fragile as paper in the face of this punch.

The moment their fists collided, the bones in Mu Chen's left arm snapped. Mu Chen's fist continued its momentum, landing squarely on the Ape King's forehead.

puff.

The sound was soft, like a ripe watermelon being gently tapped open.

The ape king's body suddenly stiffened, and its crimson eyes quickly dimmed. A fist-shaped indentation appeared on its forehead, while a corresponding shape bulged out on the back of its head.

This punch shattered its skull and brain along with its skull.

The ape king's massive body swayed, then crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

The remaining three iron-armed apes recovered from their shock, but fear overwhelmed them.

They let out terrified screams, turned and fled, running wildly toward the crack on the east side of the valley.

Mu Chen glanced at them, then bent down and picked up three pebbles from his feet.

A slight tremor of the wrist.

call out!call out!call out!

Three pebbles shot through the air with a piercing shriek.

The three iron-armed apes, which were running wildly, froze almost at the same time. Each of them had a bloody hole in the back of its head, from which red and white blood slowly seeped.

The three corpses collapsed to the ground one after another, twitched twice, and then stopped moving.

The valley returned to silence.

Mu Chen slowly exhaled, and the blood and qi in his chest gradually calmed down before they even began to boil.

The spirit beasts here are all too weak!

He walked to the corpse and collected its essence one by one. Warm currents emanated from the token and flowed throughout his body.

He could clearly feel that his physical strength had increased slightly.

"A level three spirit body, and this increase isn't that significant..."

"Killing these low-level spirit beasts is pointless. Let's go to the Guardian Land and try out the Chaos Divine Mill Visualization Technique first."

……

Half a month later.

On the distant horizon, the outline of a town appeared.

At first it was just a blurry shadow, but as the distance closed, the outline gradually became clearer.

The city walls stand tall, their watchtowers silently bathed in the twilight.

Mu Chen stopped and squinted at the scene.

The city wall, tens of feet high, rises abruptly from the ground. Standing at the base of the wall and looking up, the top of the wall almost disappears into the darkening sky.

A cold light gleamed atop the city wall.

Those were rows of crossbows mounted behind the battlements.

Suddenly, a flash of silver caught Mu Chen's eye, and he turned his head to look.

A young girl approached, sword in hand. Her long, silver hair cascaded down her shoulders like a waterfall, almost reaching her waist, and swayed gently in the evening breeze.

The girl was slender, with a dark belt around her waist, and her black dress accentuated her slim figure, which was not yet fully mature.

Although only her profile can be seen, her features are exquisitely sculpted like jade, her skin is as white as snow, and her eyebrows are curved like the moon, light and delicate, yet enough to captivate the heart!

She seemed to notice Mu Chen's gaze and turned her face slightly to the side.

Eyes facing each other.

Those were a pair of extremely clear, glassy eyes.

His eyes were very light in color, like crystal immersed in a clear spring. His gaze was calm and undisturbed, devoid of any emotion, as serene as a deep pool.

Simply looking at it is like looking at a stone on the side of the road.

Her beauty far surpassed that of Wu Yingying, causing Mu Chen's heart to stir slightly.

Could it be... that she is Luo Li?