Nobody Believes It

Xu Mu answered the call and walked toward the distance. “What’s wrong?”

“I feel like I may have gotten myself into trouble.”

Li Chenshuang’s voice came from the other end. “There isn’t a single person in the Jiuli Clan whom I can trust right now. You’re the only one I could call.”

Hearing this, Xu Mu asked curiously, “You have two more powerful corpses now. Who could possibly cause trouble for you?”

“They haven’t come after me yet. They’re targeting my second tribe. Two of the Boundary-Breaking experts in our clan have already gone missing.”

Li Chenshuang’s voice was filled with gravity. “Now, aside from me, only one Boundary-Breaking expert remains.”

“Didn’t you go to the First Tribe to find your clan’s ancestor?”

Xu Mu asked.

“I did, but the ancestor is currently in seclusion, and I don’t have a good relationship with the leader of the First Tribe.”

Li Chenshuang finally revealed her intention. “It isn’t convenient for me to leave right now. Could you come here?”

Xu Mu hesitated slightly. He remembered that when he had dealt with the Baishi Clan before, he had only needed to make a single phone call to summon her.

Although she had her own motives, she had still come as soon as he called.

Thinking of this, Xu Mu agreed. “All right. I’m still out of town, so I’ll set out tomorrow. Send me the address.”

“Thanks. We’ll discuss the details when we meet.”

Li Chenshuang hung up after saying this.

Xu Mu put away his phone and looked toward Fu Jinyu.

She had already been surrounded by the people nearby, but she still met Xu Mu’s gaze at once.

Fu Jinyu walked straight over to him and asked, “What happened?”

“Nothing. The crisis here has been temporarily resolved, so I’ll be leaving first.”

Xu Mu did not mention Li Chenshuang. “Be careful these next few days. The Xiangliu Clan is connected to the Immortality Research Institute, and some of their people have escaped. Be careful of their retaliation.”

“Don’t worry. I have my own plans. Besides, you’ve set up a formation for our people. Anyone who wants to deal with us will have to think twice.”

Fu Jinyu suddenly asked, “Can this illusion formation trap a powerful expert for several days?”

“Of course. Even an expert who understands formations would need several days to break through it, unless they’re a top-level expert capable of forcing their way out.”

Xu Mu was extremely confident in his formation.

He might have set it up quickly, but that was not because he had cut corners. He was simply so familiar with the process that it had become pure muscle memory.

“That’s good. If an expert breaks in and gets trapped, that will give me enough time to rush back. And if I can’t deal with them, don’t I still have you?”

Fu Jinyu looked at Xu Mu as she spoke.

“You’re right.”

Xu Mu smiled. “Then I’ll be off. I have a feeling you’re going to be rather busy over the next few days. You might have quite a few people coming to flatter you.”

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Fu Jinyu knew very well that everything she had gained was because of Xu Mu.

The Boundary-Breaking Realm was something she had once only dreamed of reaching. She had originally thought it would take her at least several decades.

She never expected that after meeting Xu Mu, she would reach it so quickly.

…

Xu Mu arrived at a flat area and took the helicopter out of his storage space.

His storage space now had plenty of room left even after storing both the helicopter and his Escalade. It was indeed extremely convenient for him.

Since he had decided to leave tomorrow, Xu Mu still chose to return home.

This time, he parked the helicopter in his own courtyard.

He normally did not park it there because the courtyard of his villa was not very large. A helicopter would take up a huge amount of space and make it inconvenient to move around.

But now that he could store it in his storage space, there was no need for him to go to the Xu family estate.

There was still some time before Ye Tong got off work, so Xu Mu returned to the underground illusion formation and continued refining pills.

He still had ten Divine Tonic Pills left from this batch. For the time being, he could not give them to Ye Tong, Ye Yu, and the others.

The medicinal effects were simply too potent. With their low cultivation levels, taking them recklessly might damage their bodies instead.

As for Tong Guoguo, Meng Wanyue, and Dai Xingluo, they were all capable of taking them.

Xu Mu took out Xiang Teng’s spatial ring and emptied everything inside.

His face lit up with delight when he discovered a ninth-grade heavenly treasure and three eighth-grade ones.

As for the remaining heavenly treasures, Xu Mu no longer considered them worth much.

Besides those items, he also found a large number of wooden boxes.

The boxes were rectangular, roughly the size of an adult’s palm.

Xu Mu casually picked up one of them, only to discover a formation carved onto its surface.

The formation was extremely low-level, but very practical.

It was a second-level formation that had to be unraveled properly. If someone tried to break it by force, the formation would explode.

The blast would be powerful enough to blow the small wooden box to pieces.

But to Xu Mu, unraveling it was as easy as breathing.

He placed his hand against the box, and within a few seconds, he had undone the formation. He opened the box and found a piece of letter paper folded into a square.

Xu Mu unfolded the paper and read the writing on it. His expression grew increasingly solemn.

He took out all the remaining boxes and opened them one by one, examining their contents.

He never would have expected that there was also a Xiangliu Clan in the Inner Realm—and that Xiang Teng had been working for them.

One of the orders surprised Xu Mu greatly.

The Xiangliu Clan of the Inner Realm had instructed Xiang Teng to deliver a letter to a senior cleaner.

The paper had yellowed somewhat, and it was clearly quite old.

Judging from the other missions, the Xiangliu Clan of the Inner Realm was no different from Xiang Teng.

They had ordered Xiang Teng to wipe out sects and seize their treasures.

Yet at the same time, they had instructed him to deliver a message to a senior cleaner.

That meant the two sides were definitely connected.

The earlier storyline had already mentioned that the senior cleaners of the Sanitation Office were connected to the Immortality Research Institute.

Now it seemed that among the senior cleaners of the Sanitation Office, there was more than one hidden villain.

Xu Mu took a deep breath. “Only becoming stronger yourself is the true answer. You can’t trust anyone.”

He focused his mind once more and began refining pills again.

…

At dusk.

Ye Tong returned home and saw Xu Mu sitting on the sofa.

“Husband, you’re back.”

“Yeah. Though I’ll have to leave again tomorrow.”

Xu Mu smiled and waved at Ye Tong.

Ye Tong sat down beside him, turned slightly, and leaned against his shoulder. “Joining a national organization really has made you much busier.”

“There’s nothing I can do. The villains are forcing me to become stronger. Otherwise, they’ll kill me.”

Xu Mu took a deep breath. “But don’t worry. I’ll be fine.”

Ye Tong nodded firmly. “I’m going to make dinner. Feng Yue seems to be home too. You can go keep her company for now.”

“Keep her company? Wife, you’re not jealous, are you?”

Xu Mu asked suddenly.

“How could I be? Feng Yue is my good friend.”

Ye Tong leaned close to Xu Mu’s ear and whispered, “Even if the two of us slept in the same bed, I wouldn’t mind.”

As soon as she said this, her cheeks flushed bright red. She hurriedly stood up and went into the kitchen.

Xu Mu scratched his head. Ye Tong had been getting bolder and bolder lately. It seemed she had finally worked things out.

After dinner, Xu Mu pulled Ye Tong upstairs to rest.

But suddenly, a woman wearing a baseball cap began pacing suspiciously back and forth beside the wall behind his villa. Then she jumped over it and climbed inside.