Moon Reading

“Don’t worry. I may not be able to defeat a fourth-tier expert, but I can definitely escape. Unless it’s a sealed space that traps me completely, I’ll be able to get out.”

Xu Mu explained.

“Brother Mu, how about I go with you? We can both pretend to be captured. If something really happens, at least we can look out for each other.”

Chen Xuan looked at Xu Mu.

“No. Leave this mission to me. One person is safer. If there are two of us, they might kill one to intimidate the other, which would put one of us at a disadvantage.”

Xu Mu took Chen Xuan’s hand. “I’ll first inscribe a voice-transmitting formation on you. As long as we’re within a certain range, we’ll be able to communicate whenever we want.”

After finishing, Xu Mu reached for Li Hongdou’s hand as well.

Almost instinctively, Li Hongdou pulled her hand away. Only afterward did she realize how she had reacted.

“Sorry. I once suffered from a strange illness. My body isn’t suitable for having formations inscribed on it.”

“Senior, Brother Mu is a miracle doctor. Since you’re ill, why not let him treat you?”

Chen Xuan spoke from the side.

“This isn’t an illness. It’s a congenital defect caused by my body itself. It can’t be cured.”

Li Hongdou shook her head slightly.

Xu Mu said to Chen Xuan, “Everyone has their own difficulties. Since Senior doesn’t want treatment, she must have her reasons. It’ll be enough for the two of us to communicate.”

As he spoke, he took a teleportation token from his body and handed it to Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan glanced at Li Hongdou, then nodded with a smile. “Brother Mu is right.”

As they approached the stone, Li Hongdou took out a Boundary Fire.

The three of them entered the inner realm smoothly.

Time here was almost synchronized with the outside world, and even the sky looked the same.

The moment they arrived in the inner realm, they found themselves in a world of stone.

There wasn’t a single blade of grass. The area was covered entirely by stones of all sizes.

When Xu Mu arrived, he turned around and looked back at the area they had come through.

A huge stone stood there, its color identical to the stones around it. If one didn’t examine it carefully, it would be impossible to notice.

Li Hongdou took out her phone and glanced at it. It displayed a map leading to the Yusheng family’s residence. All the information was stored on her phone.

She led Xu Mu and Chen Xuan forward. After walking for roughly two kilometers, they finally left the field of stones.

After crossing the mountain ahead, they found the other side covered in greenery.

From there, they could see a massive city in the distance.

Several smaller cities were scattered within dozens of kilometers around it.

The nearest city was only about five or six kilometers away by visual estimate.

As for its size, it was roughly equivalent to a medium-sized village.

Li Hongdou looked at the map on her phone and explained, “The large city in the very center is where the Snow Woman clan’s main family lives. As for those smaller cities around it, they all belong to branch families.”

Xu Mu and Chen Xuan gazed into the distance and noticed that even the smaller cities varied in size.

“The Yusheng family should be the one nearest to us, right?”

Xu Mu looked at Li Hongdou.

“That’s right.”

Li Hongdou nodded. “You have to be careful.”

“Don’t worry.”

Xu Mu and the others set off together toward the nearest city.

After walking another two or three kilometers, seven or eight people appeared within Xu Mu’s range of perception.

As they continued forward, the mountain path gradually widened.

Up ahead, two middle-aged men dressed in white robes stood in the center of the road, waiting respectfully.

When Xu Mu and the others approached, the two men bowed deeply.

Then the older-looking middle-aged man spoke. “Welcome, our honored guests.”

He spoke in the Dragon Kingdom’s language, without even the slightest accent.

“We came here to rescue our people. What exactly happened?”

Li Hongdou asked in a solemn voice.

“It’s a long story. Come back with me first. Once we’re home, we can discuss everything in detail.”

The middle-aged man stepped aside and gestured for them to proceed.

Xu Mu walked ahead of the others. But after he had gone only about a meter, his expression suddenly changed.

“Careful! There’s a formation here!”

The middle-aged man’s face filled with disbelief. Their formation hadn’t even been activated, yet this young man had already detected it.

Boom!

The older middle-aged man suddenly unleashed his power. He had originally intended to knock all three of them into the center of the formation.

However, Li Hongdou grabbed Chen Xuan by the arm ahead of time and flew into the sky.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man could only strike Xu Mu with one palm, sending him flying into the center of the formation.

At the same time, the formation activated.

The others hidden nearby all sprang into action.

They shot into the air and attacked Li Hongdou.

Li Hongdou first glanced at Xu Mu below. Then she took Chen Xuan with her and fled deeper into the inner realm.

Xu Mu stood in the center of the formation and discovered that both his legs had already sunk into it.

With one glance, he realized that it was a seventh-level formation—the Swamp Formation.

Once someone stepped into it, they would sink down. The terrifying suction force beneath them made it impossible for ordinary people to break free.

“At least we’ll capture one of them.”

The middle-aged man flew toward Xu Mu and punched him in the chest.

Boom!

A tremendous boom echoed through the air.

The force felt a little like the sensation of getting a foot massage when the technician suddenly applied extra pressure.

Although it hadn’t hurt him in the slightest, his body still felt the sensation of pain.

Xu Mu suddenly rolled his eyes back and collapsed.

“Disperse the formation. He’s only in the early Transcendent stage. After taking eighty percent of my strength as a second-level Boundary Breaker, even if he doesn’t die, he should at least be seriously injured.”

The middle-aged man smiled at the people around him.

As the surrounding formations were deactivated, Xu Mu’s entire body fell to the ground.

A bald man approached from the distance, grinning as he said, “Looks like you didn’t hit him very hard. He didn’t even spit up blood.”

“What the hell do you know? That’s internal injury. I can feel that his bones are broken.”

The middle-aged man spoke indifferently. “Take him away.”

“Got it.”

The bald man hoisted Xu Mu over his shoulder and flew into the sky.

…

Although Xu Mu had his eyes closed, his perception clearly revealed everything happening around him.

He discovered that they weren’t taking him to the Yusheng family. Instead, they had changed direction and were flying somewhere else.

Xu Mu swept his perception across the surroundings and realized that they weren’t heading toward the main family either.

Could it be that this incident had nothing to do with the Snow Woman clan alone?

After flying for nearly an hour, Xu Mu arrived on an island by the sea.

The island also had a city, but it was far more grand and imposing than the Snow Woman clan’s main city. It was both larger and more magnificent.

The bald man landed on the peak of a massive mountain at the center of the island. Through an entrance there, he entered a ruin.

At the entrance to the ruin stood a stone tablet taller than a person. Two large characters were carved into it:

Tsukuyomi.

Xu Mu’s expression suddenly froze.

Where the hell have they taken me?

The bald man carried Xu Mu all the way to an underground prison deep within the ruin.

The moment he stepped inside, Xu Mu felt his qi being restrained.

He hadn’t expected it to be a ninth-level formation—the Spirit-Scattering Formation.

Then wouldn’t that make him invincible here?