The woman was dressed in black sportswear and wore a baseball cap, her curly golden hair tied into a ponytail.
She had wide hips and a voluptuous, alluring figure. With her current outfit, she looked like someone out for a late-night jog.
Using his perception, Xu Mu shifted his gaze beneath the brim of her cap and saw her face.
She was a Westerner. Xu Mu was somewhat face-blind when it came to Westerners, but he still recognized her at once.
Amelia—the woman from the Evil God’s harem whom he had rescued before Wu Tian could get to her.
He remembered that she was a member of the Church, and a cardinal at that.
Xu Mu kept his perception focused on her, wanting to see what she was up to.
Amelia raised her head and stared upward, checking the surroundings for surveillance cameras.
After a moment of hesitation, Xu Mu activated the formation. To save time, he decided that directly interrogating her would be better.
Amelia cautiously made her way toward the front courtyard of the villa. But after taking only a few steps, she noticed flashes of light all around her.
Her expression suddenly changed.
“A formation!”
She immediately turned around and prepared to escape, only to discover that she had already been transported into a church.
There was no way out.
Xu Mu told Ye Tong to rest while he came over to Amelia’s side.
He did not disturb her. Instead, he wanted to see what a member of the Church dreamed of deep within her heart.
Inside the church, Amelia looked around and found that she was completely alone.
At last, she saw the cross high above the church.
Amelia walked over to it, knelt reverently before it, and began to pray.
Suddenly, holy light appeared on the cross before her.
She quickly raised her head, her blue eyes widening.
The light slowly coalesced into the shape of a person—a blond, middle-aged man with a full beard.
The middle-aged man also had blue eyes, but the pupils within them were not round. They were golden crosses.
Xu Mu was somewhat surprised when he saw this. He had not expected Amelia to imagine a member of the Holy Light race. That meant she had most likely seen one before.
“Amelia, take off your clothes. I’m going to baptize you.”
The illusory middle-aged man looked down at her and spoke.
Amelia’s expression turned somewhat unpleasant. She devoutly closed her eyes.
“Lord Emissary, I am the Lord’s most loyal believer.”
“Then why aren’t you doing as I say? Since you refuse, I’ll do it for you!”
The middle-aged man suddenly revealed a lecherous grin and forcibly grabbed Amelia.
“No! No!”
Amelia struggled desperately.
If Xu Mu had been watching from outside her dream, he would have seen Amelia writhing on the ground and tearing off her own sportswear.
But after stepping into her dream, he saw an illusory middle-aged man instead.
Amelia struggled continuously. In the end, she tore off her sportswear, along with her undergarments.
That terrifying beast leaped out with them.
Xu Mu had rescued her before and had already seen that terrifying thing. To put it bluntly, it was indeed quite impressive.
At that moment, she was clutching the beast she had raised while struggling on the ground.
“No! Lord Emissary!”
“I’m not the Lord Emissary. Have you mistaken me for someone else?”
Xu Mu had now arrived in front of the woman.
Another person’s voice suddenly rang out, causing Amelia’s body to jolt. Her vision also became clearer.
The emissary who had been assaulting her vanished, and the person standing before her was none other than Xu Mu.
“I… I think… This is a formation!”
Amelia finally came to her senses. She quickly stood up and retreated.
The beast she had released bounded after her.
Only then did she realize her condition. She lowered her head and looked down, her face and upper body turning bright red.
She hurriedly took a black robe from her spatial ring and slipped it on for the moment.
“Xu Mu! You’re shameless!”
Amelia pointed at Xu Mu and shouted.
“Damn it, that’s unreasonable. You trespassed into my house, triggered the formation here, and had the deepest thoughts in your heart transformed into a dream and projected before your eyes. And now you’re calling me shameless?”
Xu Mu looked at Amelia.
“I think you’re the shameless one.”
“You…”
“This formation only projects what a person is thinking deep down into reality. So either you’re shameless and spend all day thinking about this sort of thing, or your faith has wavered, and you believe that the one you worship is exactly this kind of shameless bastard.”
Xu Mu paused, then smiled.
“So tell me—which is it? The former or the latter?”
“Neither! You’re talking nonsense!”
Amelia angrily denied it, though her expression was flustered.
“It’s a true reflection of what’s in your heart. Whether you admit it or not, there’s nothing I can do about that.”
Xu Mu shrugged.
“Now tell me. Why did you sneak into my house? Were you planning to kill me?”
“I…”
Amelia looked around before continuing.
“You wouldn’t kill me, would you?”
“That depends on your answer.”
Xu Mu’s expression remained calm.
“The Church issued an order saying that your wife, Ye Tong, had been tainted by corruption and needed to be purified.”
Amelia hesitated before continuing.
“I accepted the mission immediately because you once saved me.”
When Xu Mu heard this, he remembered Hathaway, whom he had encountered previously.
She was a member of the Holy Light race, so her status was certainly far above Amelia’s.
During their confrontation, he had drawn a little pig on top of her lightning strike. He had even made full use of the terrain, using fire dates as the pig’s snout to create a three-dimensional effect.
He had also spat on it, wiped the saliva clean with his hand, and drawn two little circles.
Hathaway must have hated him to the bone by now.
“Did your superiors tell you the name Ye Tong, or did you investigate it yourself?”
Xu Mu asked with a frown.
“My superiors told me. Ye Tong’s name was mentioned directly.”
Amelia explained.
Hearing this, Xu Mu gave a cold smile. He did not need to think about it to know that Ye Chen was behind this.
He must have been the one who told Hathaway.
“So in the end, you still snuck into my house intending to take my wife away?”
Xu Mu folded his arms and asked indifferently.
“No. As a cardinal, I only wanted to come by at night and check whether she truly had been tainted by corruption.”
Amelia spoke solemnly.
Xu Mu let out a cold laugh.
“How were you planning to determine that?”
“I… I can’t determine it. Only the pope of the Church and several heads of the College of Cardinals can make that judgment.”
Amelia lowered her head as she explained.
“And how do they make that judgment? Based on a single statement, right?”
Xu Mu’s voice turned cold.
“If you dare offend me, or if I simply take a dislike to you, then you can be declared tainted by corruption.”
“Impossible! Our Church would never do such a thing!”
“Wouldn’t it? Then let me tell you the truth. I once encountered a woman from the Holy Light race in an inner world. I fought her, and she lost.”
Xu Mu stared at Amelia.
“Unable to let go of her grudge, she began using this underhanded method to target my family.”
Amelia clenched her fists and fell silent.
“You should have known this for a long time, right? The god you worship is what our Dragon Kingdom calls an alien race.”
Xu Mu continued.
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
