Mythical Three Kingdoms: Martial Arts Reach Divine Ranks, I Alone Rule the World

The black blood entered Zhang Mu's body too quickly; by the time Tong Yuan noticed, it was too late to stop it.

To be more precise...

There was no way Tong Yuan could stop it.

Tong Yuan instinctively wanted to reach out and stop him, but an indescribable, terrifying pressure erupted from the drop of black blood inside Zhang Mu's body like a tidal wave.

The pressure was not deliberately released; rather, it could be said to carry a degree of unconscious overflow originating from the essence of life.

But even so.

Its imposing aura remained as heavy as a divine mountain pressing down, directly stunning Tong Yuan, a veteran half-step Emperor Realm expert, and pinning him to the spot!

It's not just Tong Yuan.

The moment his three disciples behind him, Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Yun, saw that drop of black blood, all that remained before them was a darkness that swallowed up all light.

Immediately, a booming sound echoed in their minds.

It was as if an ancient demon was roaring in their ears, and the three people's wills shattered instantly. They lost consciousness before they could even utter a groan and fell backward to the ground.

Compared to Zhao Yun and the other two.

Having just endured the pain of a heart transplant and whose will had been tempered to the point of being as hard as refined steel, Lü Bu was in slightly better condition.

He was immersed in the vibrant life and strange sensations brought by the newborn heart, but the unconscious pressure emanating from that drop of black blood was like an invisible giant hammer that slammed into his soul.

Lu Bu, the tough guy who hadn't uttered a sound during the heart transplant, suddenly let out a muffled groan of extreme pain, his body trembling violently.

"Zhang Gongzhi!"

Lu Bu's deep roar carried a hint of panic.

He struggled, disregarding the danger that his newly healed wounds on his chest and abdomen might burst open, and forced himself to sit up from the bed, reaching out to grab Zhang Mu's arm to check on his condition.

Zhang Mu's behavior at this moment was extremely strange.

In Lu Bu's perception, after that drop of black blood merged into Zhang Mu's body, it was as if it had instantly drained all of Zhang Mu's consciousness.

The person stood silently in place, his eyes empty and unfocused, like a sculpture that had lost its soul, or as if his body had been possessed by some unknown entity.

At that moment, Lü Bu's heart sank!

He was unwilling to let Zhang Gongzhi, who had given him a second chance at life and even sacrificed his own blood to replace his heart, fall into an abyss because of his own actions.

If that's really the case...

This debt of gratitude is something that Lü Bu could never repay, even if he spent his entire life doing so.

"I... am... fine!"

Just as Lü Bu was at a loss and was about to forcefully shatter the invisible restraints...

Zhang Mu's voice, tinged with an undeniable weakness and ethereal quality, suddenly rang out in the silent room.

The sound wasn't loud, but it was like a thunderclap, instantly dispelling the gloom in Lü Bu's heart and making him suddenly look up.

however.

When Lü Bu saw Zhang Mu's current appearance, his heart, which had just been at ease, jumped into his throat again.

What came into Lü Bu's view.

It wasn't Zhang Mu's familiar, gentle yet resolute eyes, but a pure darkness that swallowed all light!

Zhang Mu's pupils seemed to be dyed by the deepest night, so black that they completely swallowed the whites of his eyes.

Only two pools of eerie darkness remained, as if they reflected the endless abyss!

"you……"

Lu Bu's voice was somewhat hoarse. He could sense that some earth-shattering change was taking place within Zhang Mu's body, and a terrifying power that even he found unsettling was awakening and brewing.

Zhang Mu did not answer him.

Because the moment Lu Bu asked the question, Zhang Mu closed his dark, unfathomable eyes again.

It wasn't that he didn't want to explain in detail to Lü Bu, nor was he deliberately being mysterious.

At this moment, however, his mind was already stretched to its limit, and he dared not be careless or distracted in the slightest.

Outsiders only saw his strange behavior after the black blood entered his body, but they didn't know that a tremendous change was taking place inside him.

Under Zhang Mu's divine sense, the drop of black blood that had been quietly lurking in the chaotic world within his body seemed to have finally found its home, and began to undergo incredible changes within his returning heart.

It was no longer silent, but began to wriggle like a living thing, exuding an ancient, vast, and supremely majestic aura.

Faced with this scene, Zhang Mu used his divine sense as fine as silk to carefully probe the heart area.

Zhang Mu "saw":

The surface of that drop of black blood began to slowly melt away, as if the seal was being peeled away layer by layer.

After the black blood dissolved, it did not dissipate, but instead differentiated into thousands of fine, hair-like, blood-red threads that were invisible to the naked eye. As if they were alive, they precisely spread towards the mysterious black patterns around the heart meridian.

When the blood threads that the drop of black blood separated were injected into it, it was like pouring a torrent into a dried-up riverbed, or like igniting a dormant volcano!

"Buzz!"

Zhang Mu's body trembled violently, and an indescribable feeling of fullness and power instantly filled his heart.

The black veins seemed to have taken a supreme tonic, suddenly emitting a deep, dark light, and began to radiate, spread, and erode other areas of the heart at an unprecedented speed!

It was a domineering and irresistible assimilation!

Wherever the black lines passed, the originally beating heart muscle seemed to be covered by a deep, dark membrane, transforming into another mysterious and terrifying form.

In the blink of an eye.

Under Zhang Mu's horrified divine gaze, a third of his powerful heart, brimming with vitality, was already covered with these strange, blackened patterns.

This is just the beginning!

What shocked Zhang Mu even more was that he suddenly discovered that a strange black flame had ignited on the surface of his physical body without any warning.

The flames were silent, yet they emitted a terrifyingly high temperature that burned everything and even distorted the void.

The flames were ethereal, seemingly unreal yet undeniably real, burning ceaselessly around Zhang Mu's body.

Simultaneously.

At the very center of his brow, wisps of black energy gathered and naturally condensed into a black lotus flower, both budding and eerie yet sacred!

When the black lotus fully took shape and emitted its first ray of light...

An unimaginable, immense power, like a torrent bursting through a dam, suddenly erupted within Zhang Mu's body!

"boom!"

This force is filled with a primal, violent, and almost destructive will!

Its power was so great that it was no less than when Zhang Mu used the vast and mysterious purple energy in the Chaos World to unleash the peak power of the Emperor!

However, the purple energy is balanced and peaceful, like the workings of the heavens, following order.

However, the imperial power that was born from the black flames and black lotus at this moment was completely the opposite.

It is full of aggression and invasiveness, like an ancient ferocious beast that has broken free from the deepest hell, with a madness and violence that can tear the heavens and the earth apart!

"The power of the imperial way? No... this is... another kind of imperial way? Stronger? More domineering?"

A storm raged in Zhang Mu's heart.

He could clearly feel that his strength was soaring at an unimaginable speed.

In this regard.

His divine sense dared not relax for a moment, remaining firmly locked on the drop of black blood in his heart that was still slowly dissolving, and the ever-expanding black lines.

Nothing more!

As the black blood continued to dissolve and the black flames on his body grew increasingly intense, Zhang Mu was horrified to discover that the violent power within him was increasing at an almost limitless rate!

The pleasure derived from this surge of power is enough to make anyone fall for it.

But Zhang Mu's mind had already been tempered by countless life-and-death experiences, making him as hard as a rock. He keenly sensed a tremendous crisis:

As that destructive power increased, a cold, bloodthirsty, and savage desire for killing, like a maggot clinging to his bones, quietly grew and spread in the deepest part of his heart!

That desire, like a venomous snake, coiled around his soul, trying to devour his reason.

"Becoming evil makes you three times stronger, becoming good makes you three times weaker... Could this be the legendary price of cheating?"

Zhang Mu's consciousness was fiercely resisting. He desperately held onto a sliver of clarity in his mind, forcibly manipulating his will to try and suppress this sudden urge to kill.

but.

He soon realized he was wrong, terribly wrong!

Although his will was strong, the source of his bloodlust seemed to be the same as that drop of black blood, or even part of that terrifying power itself!

No matter how he suppresses or resists.

The tyranny and murderous intent in his heart was like a hellfire doused with oil; it not only did not diminish in the slightest, but instead intensified!

It was as if it wanted to completely burn away his soul and his will, leaving only pure destructive instincts!

The black flames on his body, as if stimulated by the tyranny in his heart, burned even more fiercely.

It seemed to want to devour him completely and turn him to ashes!

"You want to turn Maki into a puppet of power?!"

"That's wishful thinking."

Fighting against his negative emotions, Zhang Mu diverted a portion of his divine sense to forcibly observe the changes in his heart.

Upon seeing this, his heart sank!

Because those mysterious black patterns had actually covered half of his heart!

With half of his heart corrupted, he already felt he could barely contain the overwhelming killing intent and tyranny!

What if the heart were completely "blackened"...

The consequences would be unimaginable!

At that time...

Zhang Mu's heart tightened. He was afraid that he would completely lose himself and become a bloodthirsty demon god of the royal realm who only knew how to kill and had no reason.

In a flash, Zhang Mu thought of the figure that had appeared in his dream, the one who was shrouded in dense, irresistible demonic energy, like a world-destroying demon god descending upon him.

It was as if I could sense the strongest resistance deep within his heart...

Just as the black markings were about to erode the other half of his heart, the vast and boundless chaotic world deep within Zhang Mu's body suddenly surged with wind and clouds!

"Boom!"

A deafening roar, like the creation of the world, reverberated within his body, and endless, mysterious purple energy, like a loyal legion summoned, surged forth from the core of that chaotic world!

A purple aura, with thousands of auspicious rays, carrying an aura of supreme divinity and unfathomable mystery, instantly traversed endless distances and converged on Zhang Mu's half of heart, which had not yet been completely eroded by the black patterns!

Purple aura enters the heart!

It was as if a clear spring had been poured into a muddy stream, or as if light was fighting against darkness!

As soon as the vast and mysterious purple energy entered the heart area, it displayed an incredible power of order.

They built their own defensive line, forming a clear standoff with the ever-spreading black stripes!

It's unbelievable.

Faced with the mysterious purple energy that seemed to be inherently opposed to and represented another supreme principle entering its heart, the drop of black blood that was dissolving actually seemed to have intelligence and did not have any excessive reaction!

It seemed to accept this situation implicitly, even revealing a kind of indifference and detachment like an outsider, maintaining a strange and brief balance with the purple aura!

next moment.

An even more mysterious and miraculous scene unfolded!

When the black blood and the mysterious purple aura each occupied half of the heart, Zhang Mu's heart, which had been transformed by the two supreme powers, seemed to trigger the ultimate truth of heaven and earth with every beat!

With each contraction and relaxation, there will be one or two drops... then faster and faster, eventually turning into a trickle.

Hundreds of drops, thousands of drops... strange blood carrying the two extreme colors of black and purple was born from the depths of the heart!

The blood was pitch black with a touch of sacred purple, and within that purple lay endless depth!

They are no longer just blood, but more like crystals formed by the condensation of some supreme power!

Every drop exudes a breathtaking vitality and the aura of the Great Dao!

This new blood, flowing like a rushing river along Zhang Mu's original blood vessels, quickly spread throughout his limbs and bones, replacing the original blood and energy in his body!

"This is... pure... imperial blood that spontaneously arose within Mu's body?!"

Zhang Mu was completely stunned by the terrifying vitality contained within this purplish-black blood!

The intense vitality contained in that blood was even greater than the purple blood that he painstakingly extracted and refined from the chaotic world every day!

Gazing at the surging purplish-black blood within my body, I felt every cell cheering and greedily absorbing this immense power…

Zhang Mu couldn't help but have a strange feeling.

His life is undergoing an unprecedented sublimation and leap that reaches the very essence of life!

at the same time.

As the purplish-black blood is born and circulated, the layer of black flames burning on the body surface also begins to transform.

The purple aura merged into it, causing the black flames that represented destruction to gradually transform into a deeper and more mysterious purple-black fire!

This purplish-black flame has lost some of its initial ferocity and destruction, but has gained an indescribable sacred aura that encompasses all things.

The transformed purplish-black flames, as if they were alive, began to converge towards the eerie black lotus flower between Zhang Mu's eyebrows!

Wisps of flame merged into the lotus, making the lotus petals clearer and the textures more mysterious, as if they carried some kind of law of heaven and earth!

When the last wisp of purplish-black flame completely merged into the lotus between Zhang Mu's brows and disappeared from his body...

"Snap!"

It was as if an invisible shackle had been broken, or as if some kind of barrier between heaven and earth had been instantly pierced!

Zhang Mu suddenly felt a thud between his eyebrows.

An immense and unparalleled imperial pressure, far surpassing any previous one, erupted like a volcano that had been dormant for billions of years!

"Boom—!"

This terrifying pressure emanated from Zhang Mu, forming tangible ripples that instantly swept across the entire Phoenix Perch Mountain!

The clouds and mist on the mountaintop were torn apart in an instant, and the stars in the sky seemed to lose their luster at that moment!

Countless birds and beasts in the mountains, regardless of their strength, prostrated themselves on the ground under this oppressive force, trembling and not daring to utter even a mournful cry!

inside the room.

Tong Yuan and Lü Bu were the first to be hit, feeling as if an invisible sky was pressing down on them, making it difficult to even breathe!

"Whoosh!"

A flash of lightning appeared, and Zhang Mu suddenly opened his eyes!

Those eyes were no longer pure darkness, nor were they the peaceful ones they once held.

At this moment, it seemed that each of his eyes contained a universe within it!

The left eye is filled with a deep purple aura, while the right eye is an endless vortex of darkness. Purple and black intertwine and evolve within it, ultimately settling into a transcendent tranquility.

Zhang Mu slowly clenched his fist, feeling the immense power in his palm that truly belonged to him, completely fused with his flesh and soul, and surpassing the alternative imperial path. A knowing smile finally appeared on his face.

"Although Maki had a premonition that something extraordinary would happen when the heart returned, he never expected..."

"He has actually propelled Mu into the true realm of imperial power in one fell swoop!"

Zhang Mu's voice was soft, yet it carried an undeniable imperial majesty.

If he were to face Liu Zhao, the Emperor of the Realm, in the Golden Palace...

Zhang Mu was absolutely confident that he could kill him with a single punch!

Even when facing the self before the transformation...

Zhang Mu felt that he could now fight three opponents at the same time without being at a disadvantage!

however.

When Zhang Mu's almost godlike gaze finally landed on Lu Bu, who was staring at him in disbelief on the bed...

Zhang Mu's lips twitched slightly, and two words almost uncontrollably slipped from his mouth:

"So weak!"

This is not contempt.

Rather, it was Zhang Mu's most direct... well... overview-like feeling when he looked at his old friend Lü Bu again after achieving this leap in his life level!

next moment.

Zhang Mu extended his right finger and gently touched Lü Bu's heart!

This is like activating the new heart within Lü Bu's body that had just been nurtured and reshaped by Zhang Mu using purple blood.

Suddenly, boundless purple light burst forth from Lü Bu's left heart!

"boom!"

A terrifying aura, no weaker than Tong Yuan's, and perhaps even stronger, erupted from Lü Bu like a sleeping dragon awakening!

This aura has reached the level of a half-step emperor!