“Great! Brother Mu, Senior, I’ll head over first.”
Chen Xuan nodded.
Wei Jingzhi used the Boundary Flame to distort the barrier before them, allowing a small amount of seawater to flow from the inner realm to the outside.
Chen Xuan immediately leaped up, passed through the barrier, entered the inner realm, and disappeared from their sight.
Wei Jingzhi withdrew the Boundary Flame and turned around. “All right, let’s go.”
“Mm.”
Xu Mu kept his hands in his pockets and suddenly asked, “Senior, are there many people carrying out missions in the inner realm?”
“Very many. To cultivators, the inner realm is the true battlefield for becoming stronger.”
Wei Jingzhi pointed toward the inner realm behind them. “Although Qingqiu isn’t a main continent, it’s far from a backwater. Several powerful races reside there. By the way, the Baishi Clan you encountered during your previous mission is in Qingqiu.”
“What? The Baishi Clan is actually in Qingqiu? Then doesn’t that mean the Jiao Clan is there too?”
Xu Mu had heard before that the Jiao Clan and the Baishi Clan were allied.
“More or less. The Jiao Clan’s main territory is on the Northern Dark Continent, but they’re located near Qingqiu, and their influence extends into it.”
Wei Jingzhi explained, “To put it simply, their territory spans two inner realms.”
“Since the Jiao Clan is so powerful, why don’t they simply wipe out all the other races in Qingqiu and become its rulers?”
Xu Mu asked, puzzled.
“You’ve asked a very important question. This is the difference between minor races that bicker among themselves and top-tier races.”
Wei Jingzhi raised one finger. “The top-tier races of the inner realm kill one another on sight and practically wish the others dead. Yet they share one unspoken rule: maintain the status quo.”
Xu Mu nodded inwardly. “I think I understand what you mean.”
“Heh, you really are clever. This is the true nature of their struggle. Since their races stand at the pinnacle, the last thing they want to see is a new race growing powerful. So they generally don’t interfere in battles between ordinary races. But if a race reaches the brink of extinction, those great races will step in to help.”
As he spoke, Wei Jingzhi left the small ruin with Xu Mu.
Xu Mu already understood their methods.
Take the Jiao Clan, for example. If they truly tried to conquer Qingqiu, the great races of the Northern Dark Continent definitely wouldn’t stand by and do nothing. Instead, they would help the other races deal with the Jiao Clan.
They didn’t want to see the Jiao Clan swallow up the other races. If the Jiao Clan obtained all those cultivation techniques, inheritances, and heavenly treasures, its overall strength would increase tremendously.
That was something none of the great races were willing to see.
Xu Mu chatted with Wei Jingzhi for a while longer before driving home.
Beneath the villa was an underground illusion formation. Tong Guoguo, Meng Wanyue, and Dai Xingluo were cultivating there.
After greeting them, Xu Mu headed to the deepest part of the formation.
First, he took out the heavenly treasures. Then he retrieved the shikigami techniques.
After that, he lay down and opened his status panel.
Including yesterday, this mission had earned Xu Mu another five ten-pulls.
Today, he planned to spend all his Justice Points on draws. If his luck was good, he might be able to advance to the mid-stage of Transcendence.
Xu Mu opened the wheel and began his ten-pull.
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained 30 Cultivation Points.]
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained the God-tier ability: Advanced Focus.]
…
Xu Mu nodded to himself. The Focus ability was indeed powerful.
Whether he was refining pills or cultivating techniques, it could double his efficiency with half the effort.
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained a Grade-Seven Qi-Sea Pill Gift Box.]
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained 20 Cultivation Points.]
…
The first ten-pull ended. Nine of the results were guaranteed rewards, including one God-tier ability and one piece of junk.
Next, Xu Mu began his second ten-pull.
His luck was decent this time. They were all guaranteed rewards.
For Xu Mu now, guaranteed rewards were precisely what he needed most.
The third ten-pull began, and once again, every result was a guaranteed reward.
Xu Mu immediately started the fourth ten-pull.
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained a Storage Space.]
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained one ton of Spirit Stones.]
…
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained the divine medicine, Everlasting Stone Flower.]
The fourth ten-pull ended, yielding three notable items.
When Xu Mu saw the divine medicine, he felt a brief flicker of excitement. But when he saw that it was the Everlasting Stone Flower, his entire mood collapsed.
This divine medicine was actually a deadly poison. Normally, whenever it appeared, not a single blade of grass would grow within a radius of ten thousand meters.
For the flower to work against powerful cultivators, it had to be swallowed whole.
Unfortunately, it was insoluble in water and as hard as stone. Even if it was ground into powder, its texture was like chewing shards of glass. No one would ever fall for such a poison.
Yet the spiritual energy contained inside it was genuine. It was even superior to that of many other divine medicines.
Xu Mu decisively began the final ten-pull.
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained a Grade-Six Heavenly Treasure Gift Box.]
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained a Storage Space.]
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained the divine medicine, Everlasting Stone Flower.]
…
Xu Mu was completely stunned.
“One isn’t enough? You had to give me two? Is this system doing it on purpose?”
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained 30 Cultivation Points.]
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have obtained 20 Attribute Points.]
…
All five ten-pulls were finally complete. Aside from Advanced Focus, Xu Mu hadn’t received anything particularly useful.
However, his Cultivation Points had increased considerably, by a total of 810 points, while his Attribute Points had increased by 400.
That was enough to take him another step forward, so he added all the points.
The power within his body suddenly surged. Then, a string of black words appeared before his eyes.
[Congratulations, host. You have reached the mid-stage of Transcendence.]
“Excellent!”
Xu Mu clenched his fists, a smile spreading across his face. Reaching Worldbreaker was now just a matter of time.
After everything was over, he checked his current status panel.
Name: Xu Mu
Character: Villain’s Sacred Physique, President of the Xu Group
Realm: Mid-Stage of Transcendence
Physique: 3,590
Spirit: 3,590
Cultivation Value: 260/3,200
Heaven’s Mandate Power: 3,572
After looking over the panel, Xu Mu entered a state of intense focus and began studying the shikigami techniques in his possession.
He discovered that the so-called shikigami were simply adaptations of formations and talismans.
As an eighth-level formation master, he possessed a solid foundation.
…
For the next few days, Xu Mu did not go out on any missions.
Apart from eating and sleeping, he devoted himself entirely to studying the techniques.
Finally, after several days, Xu Mu completely mastered both shikigami techniques.
Suddenly, he raised his head and looked upward. Through his senses, he detected a woman standing outside the gate of his villa.
It was Miyako Fuka, the woman he had encountered on the plane.
“How strange. What is she doing at my house?”
Curious, Xu Mu left the illusion formation.
The villa’s doorbell rang. Xu Mu walked over and opened the gate.
“Why are you here?”
Xu Mu looked at the woman before him, whose bearing was exceptionally elegant.
“I… I’ll be straightforward. Lady Tsukuyomi sent me.”
Miyako Fuka got straight to the point.
Xu Mu pretended not to know. “What did she send you here for? To kill me?”
“I know my own limits.”
Miyako Fuka gave a bitter laugh. “Lady Tsukuyomi wants you to return her ring and remove the parasite from her body.”
“Why did she send you? Do you really have that much influence?”
Xu Mu sized up Miyako Fuka with a smile. “Or are you planning to pay some other price?”
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.”
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transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
saw a female celebrity tied up and stuffed in the trunk! Little did he know, countless cameras were aimed at him at this moment - this was a new type of reality show. The first randomly selected passerby was caught in less than an hour. But when Xu Moru was selected, things started to take an unexpected turn. "Damn, this isn't how the script goes. This Xu Moru is too bold, he's not following the rules at all." "Crap, is this guy taking it seriously?" "The female celebrity has been scared to tears!"
