The courtyard trembled under Lin Mu's feet.
He stood in the open stone plaza that the monks of the Great Burden Monastery had prepared for him—one reinforced with formation arrays meant to withstand the seismic pressures of gravity-based combat. Yet even those humbling defenses groaned under the presence of his body.
The Burdenless Dominator Physique.
A form not just cultivated, but forged from the convergence of three forces—Metal, Earth, and Gravity—tempered through Dao and elevated by will. It wasn't just a defensive physique. It was a fortress of flesh.
Still, Lin Mu did not understand its limits.
He needed to know what this new body could truly endure.
He called forth one of the senior monks— VenerableElder Shan, a cultivator equal to the Sixth Tribulation Stage of the Immortal realm and the monastery's strongest monk in residence aside from the abbot.
"Strike me with your strongest blow," Lin Mu said calmly.
