Xu Mu looked toward the woman. She was dressed in hanfu and had a head of silver hair, with a faint touch of purple eyeshadow that made her look extraordinarily alluring.
She had a voluptuous figure, but what drew the most attention were her breasts—terrifyingly large.
Aside from that, the other eye-catching feature was her eyes.
One was the red eye of the Jiuli Tribe.
The other was the red eye of the Heavenly Demon Tribe, though its sclera was black.
It was none other than Nalan Shisan.
“Xu Mu!”
The moment Nalan Shisan saw the man before her, her face lit up with delight.
She hurried over, grabbed Xu Mu by the shoulders, and pulled him into a tight embrace.
Xu Mu was immediately smothered against her breasts.
Lin Ruoshi, who was standing nearby, hurriedly raised her hands. She wanted to stop them, but didn’t know what to say, so she could only stand there anxiously.
“Huff!”
Xu Mu finally broke free. He greedily gulped down air, nearly suffocating to death.
[Affection +20]
“Xu Mu, did you come to save me?”
Nalan Shisan asked in delighted surprise.
Xu Mu was speechless. He hadn’t even known she was here, so how could he possibly have come specifically to save her?
Still, there was no reason to turn down the Justice Points right in front of him.
“My mission this time was to rescue Lin Ruoshi. She’s with the Sanitation Bureau. But while investigating, I heard that a half-breed of the Jiuli Tribe and the Heavenly Demon Tribe had also been captured and brought here, so I guessed it was you.”
Xu Mu didn’t say that he had come especially to save her, but he also didn’t say that he hadn’t.
[Affection +10]
A smile spread across Nalan Shisan’s face. She had originally thought she would die here, but she never expected Xu Mu to rescue her instead.
“How did you end up here?”
Xu Mu looked at Nalan Shisan and asked.
“After you became the champion of the Martial Tournament, didn’t you tell me to keep a low profile for a while and avoid being found by the people from the Abyss Chapel? So I went to an inner realm to train, hoping to break through to the next level.”
Nalan Shisan explained, “After entering the inner realm, I happened to receive news that there was a divine medicine in one of its ruins.”
“So you went there?” Xu Mu asked with a smile.
“That’s right. Some things happened afterward, and I was captured.”
Nalan Shisan gave a bitter laugh.
“All right, we’re wasting time.”
Xu Mu grabbed Lin Ruoshi’s and Nalan Shisan’s hands and led them quickly away.
Lin Ruoshi’s eyes remained fixed on Xu Mu’s hand, and her face began to flush again.
As for the other women behind them, they all followed.
Their steps were steady, clearly showing that none of them were ordinary people.
After leaving the underground palace and reaching the outside, Xu Mu looked toward the distant entrance to the palace.
As long as they left this place, they should be safe.
On the way here with Mikazuki Koto, Xu Mu had sensed that many of the people in these ruins were weaker than Lin Ruoshi and Nalan Shisan.
Neither of the two women was foolish. If they mixed into the crowd, they shouldn’t be caught easily.
However, just as they were about to leave through the gates, an elderly white-haired man with a black beard appeared at the entrance.
Xu Mu had already sensed earlier that this man was Susanoo.
“You…”
Susanoo’s gaze instantly fell on Xu Mu, the only man among them.
“Looking for death!”
His power erupted abruptly. With a thunderous boom, he shot toward Xu Mu in the blink of an eye.
“Get out of here!”
Demonic protection appeared around Xu Mu’s body as he took the initiative to meet the attack. “Don’t waste your breath!”
Nalan Shisan had originally planned to help Xu Mu, but upon hearing his order, she immediately moved away.
Lin Ruoshi also ran swiftly in another direction.
Boom!
With a deafening explosion, the demonic protection around Xu Mu shattered instantly.
The power of the fourth stage of the World-Breaking Realm was simply too great. With his current cultivation, he couldn’t withstand it head-on.
However, thanks to the protection of the demonic barrier, the attack only caused him a little pain. He wasn’t seriously injured.
Whoosh!
Xu Mu used the force of the blow to propel himself backward.
Susanoo pursued him closely, intending to finish him off in one strike.
By then, Nalan Shisan, Lin Ruoshi, and the others had already taken advantage of the opportunity to reach the palace entrance.
They all turned around at the same time, seemingly wanting to say something, but Xu Mu cut them off with a single sentence.
“Go! I can handle this!”
Hearing that, they quickly fled the palace.
Swish!
Just as Susanoo was about to seize Xu Mu by the throat, he suddenly realized that Xu Mu had vanished.
He paused for a moment before noticing that he was standing in the exact spot where Xu Mu had been.
He immediately turned around and caught the sword aura flying toward him with one hand.
He had intended to crush it, but the sword aura proved incredibly tough, forcing his body backward.
Xu Mu hurled three more sword auras in succession, then quickly fled toward the palace exit.
“Bastard!”
Susanoo suddenly unleashed his power to its limit. Blue water vapor began to spiral around him.
Rumble!
In an instant, the water filled the entire palace, and the sword auras were swallowed by the enormous waves.
“Trying to escape? Not one of you is getting away!”
He immediately flew toward the depths of the palace.
After emerging from the palace, Xu Mu shouted, “I’m out! Run!”
Nalan Shisan and Lin Ruoshi both heard him.
They sighed in relief and continued fleeing toward the outside.
Just then, the scenery around them began to change.
The sky high above the ruins grew darker and darker, resembling a vast ocean.
Then, an endless amount of seawater began pouring down from the sky.
In a matter of seconds, Xu Mu found himself surrounded by an ocean.
Seawater filled every direction, and the previous view of the ruins had completely vanished.
Mikazuki Koto, who had been at the ruins’ entrance, was also submerged in the seawater.
She discovered that the exit had disappeared.
However, she had never intended to leave in the first place. This gave her the perfect opportunity to witness the ruins’ protective formation.
Rumble!
Far away, the seawater formed a gigantic waterspout.
Susanoo stood atop it.
Bang!
His body broke through the sound barrier, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared before Xu Mu.
“Insignificant mortal! How dare you act recklessly before a god? Die!”
A long sword appeared in his hand, and he swung it at Xu Mu.
A terrifying sword aura, accompanied by a raging wave, surged toward Xu Mu.
Xu Mu activated his Spirit Vein Armament and infused it with the Heaven-Burning Sword Aura.
A sword aura dozens of meters long collided with the enormous sword aura rushing toward him.
The moment the two sword auras touched, Xu Mu’s Heaven-Burning Sword Aura was severed.
The enemy’s sword aura continued advancing toward him.
“Ignorant fool! My Kusanagi Sword is a divine weapon capable of cutting through all things. You think the sword aura of an insect like you can stop me?”
Susanoo sneered disdainfully, but a moment later, his smile abruptly froze.
The instant the sword aura touched Xu Mu, it vanished without a trace.
Then, the seawater below erupted into enormous waves, and the sword aura completely swallowed a person beneath it.
Xu Mu’s expression turned solemn. This race truly wasn’t simple. Even someone who wasn’t their leader possessed a divine weapon. No wonder the Sanitation Bureau had to treat them with such caution.
Susanoo stared at Xu Mu in shock. Then he threw his head back and laughed.
“How interesting! Then let’s really get moving!”
Swish!
He transformed into a streak of light and launched a close-range assault on Xu Mu.
Xu Mu immediately drew his black sword to block.
Clang, clang, clang…
Their attacks collided again and again. Susanoo grew increasingly incredulous.
What exactly was this sword in the other man’s hand? It could actually withstand his divine weapon.
At the same time, two more people appeared out of thin air and plunged into the seawater.
It was Chen Xuan and Li Hongdou.
“Brother Mu, you should be here, right?”
The moment Chen Xuan sent out a telepathic message, he spotted the two people battling in the distance. “Damn! Brother Mu is incredible! His opponent is a fourth-order powerhouse!”
“Stop damn-well admiring him! At this rate, Xu Mu is going to die!”
As Li Hongdou spoke, she suddenly caught sight of Tsukimirizato Koto nearby to the side. “You’re Tsukuyomi!”
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
