The thunder qi gathered in Mu-Gun’s dantian immediately flowed from his hoe-eum point to his chong-maek vessel, then soared to the Mud Pill Palace[1]in a straight line. Having achieved 180 years’ worth, it struck the Mud Pill Palace directly, causing a loud roar to ring within Baek Mu-Gun’s head. The impact was tremendous.

Mu-Gun endured it with superhuman endurance even though it was great enough to cause one to scream. When his thunder qi failed to break through the Mud Pill Palace and was blasted away, he condensed it again.

The Mud Pill Palace was also called the Life and Death Gateway or the final physical gateway. The Absolute Realm referred to a practitioner opening this Life and Death Gateway and achieving Mortal-Celestial Harmony. In fact, one could somehow successfully open the Life and Death Gateway for as long as they had a lot of internal energy. However, achieving Mortal-Celestial Harmony and undergoing metamorphosis required profound enlightenment.

Mu-Gun already possessed such enlightenment. Hence, all he had to do now was open the Life and Death Gateway. It naturally wasn’t that difficult for him. After all, he had already obtained 180 years’ worth of internal energy. He compressed the thunder qi and increased its resilience to the maximum, then flushed it into the Mud Pill Palace in a single strike.

A loud roar resonated in his head once more. He still didn’t break through the Mud Pill Palace, but the...