1607 A Reference Of Strength

General Niu Juo stood up from the table and cupped his hands.

"Thank you for your information, Daoist Mu Lin. I'll have to continue my search now." General Niu Juo spoke.

"It was a simple thing. Besides, I also got to learn some things from you." Lin Mu replied.

"Though I hope you had gained what you wanted from the Desolate Blood Battlefield." General Niu Juo said.

"Of course. I obtained plenty of things and your advice to visit the Blood Strewn Plains was good too." Lin Mu said before releasing a bit of his aura.

General Niu Juo felt it and instantly understood that Lin Mu had broken through.

"Looks like you really did have quite a bit of progress." General Niu Juo was pleased.

After all, to him, it was the same as having a stronger opponent to fight in the future.

"I should have more later once I can utilize the resources I've obtained." Lin Mu replied.

"That's good." General Niu Juo said before taking a pause. "How about you give me a reference for that?" he suddenly said.

"Reference? For what?" Lin Mu questioned.

"A reference for your strength. I want to compare you from today and the future. It is much better when I know just how strong you grew." General Niu Juo answered.

"Oh?" Lin Mu was surprised by this, but didn't know how the man wanted a reference. "How would I give you that?" he asked.

"It's simple… attack me with your body cultivation. With as much power as you can muster." General Niu Juo stated.

"You want me to attack you?" Lin Mu raised his brow.

"Yes… Just you attack me. I won't attack and simply defend." General Niu Juo clarified. "Don't worry, I will be fine."

Lin Mu thought over it for a bit before making a decision.

"Fine… We can do that." Lin Mu said before storing the table and chairs away. "So I just attack with the full power of my body cultivation, right?" he asked again.

"Yes." General Niu Juo said while getting ready.

"Very well…" Lin Mu was also a bit interested to see just how he compared against Niu Juo who not only had the bloodline of a Steel Horned Barbaric Ogre but also was a body cultivator.

Then there was the fact that he still didn't know what was Niu Juo's cultivation base. It was said that he was at the Sixth Tribulation Stage of the Immortal realm, but that was just the Qi cultivation.

His actual body cultivation was still unknown. Plus, it was even said that the man was actually close to a breakthrough.

If anything, Lin Mu would be clashing against one of the strongest immortals so far.

~Huu~

Lin Mu took a deep breath, and activated the Three Apertures Invoking Technique. The immortal essence wisps within his Apertures became active and he quickly drew them out into his arm.

He amplified the strength of his arm and pulled it back, preparing for the attack.

"Here I come!" Lin Mu said before he lunged forward.

His fist move like a blur before it punched towards General Niu Juo.

The giant of a man also responded with similar speed, his arm moving to block the punch.

~THUD~

Surprisingly, the impact was rather muffled. General Niu Juo had stopped the attack with his bare palm!

"This…" Lin Mu was not expecting such a response.

"Are you holding back?" General Niu Juo could tell that this was not Lin Mu's full strength.

"Partially yes." Lin Mu had not used his full weight behind the attack technically.

"Don't hold back. Do it again." General Niu Juo urged.

"Alright." Lin Mu stepped back and gathered the Immortal Essence within his arm again before punching forth.

~HONG~

But this time, he released the weight control on his body, leveraging it all in the punch by twisting.

~DENG~

The increased weight multiplied the force of the punch by several times, actually making a louder sound. General Niu Juo also had to clasp Lin Mu's fist this time, while his elbow bent a little bit.

"That was better… several times stronger too." General Niu Juo was surprised, as he knew something like this could not be done easily. "Did you use some skill to increase your weight?" he guessed.

"No… the opposite." Lin Mu replied.

"Opposite?" General Niu Juo furrowed his brows, but then saw Lin Mu do something.

~CRACK~

The ground underneath him directly cracked as his body sank into it.

"I didn't increase my weight. I simply stopped reducing it." Lin Mu answered.

Hearing this, General Niu Juo was surprised. But several things started to make sense to him.

'If he has such great body weight, then moving around will be an inconvenience. Is he constantly counteracting it by using the flying technique?' it didn't take long for General Niu Juo to grasp Lin Mu's method.

After all, the man had a high cultivation base and thousands of years of experience. Though it was also the fact that the method Lin Mu using wasn't anything special.

"The high weight is a side effect of your body cultivation technique?" General Niu Juo questioned.

"Yes. You can say that." Lin Mu replied, not telling him that he could actually multiply his weight further.

But then it didn't come under the scope of his body cultivation, but rather immortal cultivation. The Aspect of Heaviness was a Dao Skill after all. Then there was the fact that General Niu Juo had only asked him to use his body cultivation.

Lin Mu also didn't wish to use any of his other skills like the Boulder Collapsing fist, as exposing them was not a wise option.

"Your weight should be hundreds of times more than mine… Hmm… I've heard of something like this before." General Niu Juo said, gaining Lin Mu's intrigue.

"What do you mean?" Lin Mu questioned.

"I've seen other practitioners who have high body weight too." Niu Juo revealed. "They also have normal bodies, but their weight is simply exponentially high."