1556 Battling The Prince

The prince felt his nose cracking, as tears appeared in his eyes automatically.

The pain from a broken nose momentarily overwhelmed his senses, allowing a few more attacks to strike his body.

~THUD~THUD~THUD~

~CRACK~

Lin Mu gave the man no chance to react as he punched non stop, his fist striking the prince several times on his face and his chest, before finally cracking a rib.

'His fists are like cannon balls… how are they so heavy…' The prince could not understand it.

The weight Lin Mu's punches was simply from the denseness of his golden body. Normally he would counteract the weight of his body, so that he wouldn't break everything he walked on, but when he fought, he could momentarily let go of the weight control.

This would allow his fists to hit with their true weight.

But even if Lin Mu was heavy hitting and had struck the prince several times, he was not pleased.

'This prince… he's actually a body cultivator.' Lin Mu realized.

He understood this because of the damage he had inflicted on the man.

'If it were any Qi cultivator, they would have already crumpled to the ground. And yet, he's only had a few cracked bones.' Lin Mu was surprised.

His Immortal sense turned into a tendril and tried to probe the prince, trying to see what else he was hiding. It helped that the prince was actually not good with Immortal sense, thus couldn't resist Lin Mu's immortal sense that easily overpowered him.

'His Immortal Sense has barely been refined. Even his range is limited to just a kilometer… he has neglected it.' Lin Mu thought to himself.

This was also the reason why he had called the prince pathetic. The man had power, but he did not develop other aspects of his abilities. This had led to him having weaknesses that could be taken care off.

Lin Mu had paid quite a lot of attention to his Immortal sense, and had refined it quite a lot too. It was after all necessary for a lot of his spatial skills, as well as for formation creations.

At the same time, it improved his proficiency of cultivation and allowed him to control the energies better.

Immortal Sense was one of the core abilities of any cultivator, and yet the prince had not worked on it, giving Lin Mu another advantage.

~SHUA~

Lin Mu's immoral sense quickly drilled into the man's body and revealed the secrets hidden within.

'He's at the Third Tribulation Stage of the Immortal Realm… and his body cultivation is roughly equivalent to that of the Second Tribulation Stage of the Immortal realm.' Lin Mu discovered. 'But his body cultivation… it's strange…' he discovered that the technique the man used to be using for body cultivation was unlike anything he had seen.

Lin Mu couldn't figure out if it was any of the body cultivation techniques he had seen so far since he couldn't even estimate the amount of Immortal Essence within the man!

'His Immortal Essence is isolated… blocked inside his body by those elemental energies.' Lin Mu noticed next.

Within the prince's body the seven elemental energies were flying. These seemed to be the source of his power and how he was using his skills. Lin Mu wanted to take a deeper look at them, but the time to do that had run out.

"YOU! I'LL KILL YOU! I SWEAR UPON MY NAME!" The Prince roared in fury.

~HONG~

Lin Mu sensed the prince's aura spike and quickly retreated. And as soon as he did, and a wave of energy spread out from the Prince's body. The seven elements seemed to have fused together creating a highly unstable mixture that merely lasted a moment before exploding.

~BOOM~

Lin Mu's eyes constricted as he sensed the intensity of the explosion.

FADE!

He directly entered the parallel world to evade the explosion, knowing that Blink wouldn't be enough to get him far enough and entering the ground using Phase was not an option either, as it would be shattered as well.

"The Prince seems to lack some battle experience and was caught off guard, but now he's getting hold of himself." Lin Mu muttered to himself.

The initial advantage he had was now gone, and he would need to fight the prince on his full term.

Lin Mu had also understood that this was not going to be an easy battle, as the prince had actually withstood all of his attacks till now or blocked them. Just that alone was a testament to his skills, as no other cultivator that Lin Mu had fought managed to last against him.

This made Lin Mu wonder if the prince's power was what was behind his desire.

"It brought me all the way here… there must be more to it!" Lin Mu said with fervor.

The desire was still burning within his heart and the urge was only getting stronger. Lin Mu was already using Calming Heart Sutra to keep control on himself by now.

With all this in mind, he flew though the parallel world, getting as far as possible from his initial location so as to avoid the explosion. A few seconds later, the duration of Fade ended and Lin Mu returned to the real world.

His immortal sense immediately spread around and observed the situation.

"It's dangerous…" In front of Lin Mu now stood a devastated land.

The ground had caved in, and a hole that was nearly four hundred meters deep was present. It was equally as wide and parts of it were still burning with some having melted into hot lava!

The power of the attack was on the same level as some of Lin Mu's best skills.

'Sky Falling Lance might be able to exceed this, but aiming will not be easy.' Lin Mu understood.

"You… you're alive?" The Prince had not expected this. "You survived my Seven Elemental Outburst? Impossible!" The man was shocked as well.

~SHING~

Lin Mu didn't miss this chance either though, as a sword struck the prince from the back!