Da Xuan Martial Saint

Crack! Crack!

Accompanied by the crackling sounds, a large, intact block of wood from the center of the ancient tree's trunk was lifted into the sky and fell far into the water, leaving the main bodies of two ancient trees unexpectedly transformed into two hollow wooden boats!

Yet Chen Mu's task was still not finished. His entire body leaped onto the slope's edge. With an outstretched hand, he grabbed the edge of one of the boats and then, with a sudden exertion of strength, he literally lifted the nearly ten-meter-long wooden boat out of the water. Then, a strand of red light burst forth from the palm of his hand, pouring into the entire wooden boat in an instant.

Boom!

In an instant, the moist wooden boat burst into blazing flames, which spread rapidly, engulfing the whole boat. It was as if he was holding aloft a giant pillar of fire nearly ten meters high!

The scorching of the fire pillar did not last long, quickly fading away after just a moment, but nearly all the moisture inside the boat had been driven out by the heat. When Chen Mu put it back into the water, it had become a large, somewhat rough, but serviceable dragon boat, which drew very little water and could carry dozens or even hundreds of people!

Thereafter,

Chen Mu treated the other dragon boat in the same manner, finally bringing the two boats together and nailing pieces of branches in between them, creating an even more stable connected vessel.

Yu Jun watched as Chen Mu created a large boat in the blink of an eye, his eyes bulging with shock.

The elderly and children among the villagers didn't understand and were amazed by the scene. They witnessed Chen Mu almost create a huge boat out of nothing, muttering about immortals. But Yu Jun, as the Deputy Governor of the Demon-Slaying Office and a figure of the Bone Tempering Realm, could not possibly lack discernment.

Let alone the sheer strength that he felt was overwhelming, far beyond his reach, just the intense flames that covered the dragon boat at the end left him somewhat incredulous.

Separating Fire Artistic Conception!

That was doubtlessly the power of the Separating Fire Artistic Conception, and he feared it might have even surpassed the first step!

Weren't Chen Mu's two known Artistic Conceptions the Xun Wind and Thunderbolt?

And when had he realized the Separating Fire, even stepping into the second realm of the Separating Fire Artistic Conception? This was the second step of the Artistic Conception, a level comparable to the presence of the Five Viscera Realm!

Whoosh.

Chen Mu leaped aboard the boat, positioning the new vessel against the slope's edge, and without paying much attention to the shock of Yu Jun and the others, he loudly ordered, "All people orderly board the boat, no scrambling allowed!"

The numerous villagers on the hillside were still in shock. To them, the feats Chen Mu had just performed were no different from those of a true immortal, even the well-informed elders, who knew Chen Mu to be a powerful Martial Artist, were now doubting whether Chen Mu was perhaps truly an Immortal descended to earth.

Chen Mu was unaware that the deeds of today would be passed on by word of mouth among the villagers, eventually becoming a folk story of an 'Immortal Building a Boat' as part of local legends. Even if he knew, he would probably just laugh it off, for there are no immortals in this world, only those who have reached the pinnacle in Martial Arts.

The various strange and mystic stories and legends of immortals that circulate in the world are mostly concocted by commoners with limited vision, who, upon witnessing Martial Arts Realms beyond their comprehension, mistake them for immortal techniques, which then evolve into bizarre tales over time.

Soon,

there was a stir and commotion on the small hillside.

However, thanks to the deterrence and control by Yu Jun and others, it quickly returned to order, and soon the villagers nearest started to board the boats one after another, carefully taking their seats.

Chen Mu issued no orders like 'children first,' for in these times, children separated from their parents or those become orphans had little chance of survival. Such actions would be meaningless and serve only to create chaos.

Moments later,

hundreds of people got on board, crowding the boat to its full capacity.

The villagers who couldn't board the boat all showed worried expressions, and those who had narrowly missed out showed impatient looks. However, faced with the nearby members of the Demon-Slaying Office and the Inspectorate, they dared not rush forward or vie for a place.

"All right, I will first take away a group, you all stay and guard this place,"

said Chen Mu, seeing the boat was full, and he gave his command to the many members of the Inspectorate behind him.

"Yes!"

The officers of the Inspectorate and the White-Clothed Guards of the Demon-Slaying Office responded in unison.

Just as Yu Jun hesitated, wondering if he should ask Chen Mu to make room for a few White-Clothed Guards to help steer the boat, he saw Chen Mu standing at the prow of the boat without any apparent movement. Yet in an instant, the wild wind howled, forcing the entire giant boat to rapidly leave the hillside and cut through the winds and waves.

Yu Jun swallowed back what he had wanted to say.

Xun Wind Artistic Conception—Yu Jun was aware that Chen Mu had mastered this conception. But the current spectacle, where the boat was driven by the wind without any visible action from Chen Mu, was probably not something achievable by the first step of that conception.

Another conception that had entered the second step!

Watching the boat sail away swiftly with the wind, Chen Mu's silhouette soon becoming a mere pinprick in the distance, Yu Jun's thoughts churned wildly like the raging flood below.

The shock of this moment even surpassed that of when Chen Mu single-handedly destroyed the He Family in one day.

Red Jade's future husband, his own niece's fiancé, what kind of person was he, really?