Xianling Nan continued glancing left and right, constantly keeping watch on her surroundings.
But inside this Heavenly Dao-grade formation, with her Transcendent cultivation, there was no way she could see through it.
Xu Mu continued walking toward her openly. Since she couldn’t detect him, there was no need for him to be cautious.
After circling back to her side, he decided to make one final attempt. Since physical objects could come into contact with her, he would try using a silver needle to restrain Xianling Nan.
The long sword in his hand lightly landed on her shoulder. Xianling Nan immediately burst out with qi, sending dozens of white orbs of light flying outward from around her body.
Xu Mu instinctively raised a defense, only to discover that the orbs passed straight through him.
This proved that another person’s qi could not attack him.
That left Xu Mu in a difficult position. Since qi could not affect other people, he could not inscribe a voice-transmission formation onto Xianling Nan.
Unless they left the formation first, he had no way to inscribe the formation on her.
However, entering this place clearly meant they could not leave easily.
After thinking for a moment, Xu Mu realized that physical objects could be touched, and that the blue-faced, fanged monsters over there could also see them.
Suddenly, Xu Mu took a fist-sized spirit stone from his spatial ring and tossed it onto the ground.
Sure enough, Xianling Nan, who was standing in the distance, saw the spirit stone.
However, she did not come over. She remained where she was, one foot trembling continuously. She had clearly been bitten earlier.
When Xu Mu saw that she could see the spirit stone, he knew what to do.
He opened his storage space and took out a handful of spatial rings. After searching through them one by one, he finally found a cellphone.
He did not dare use his own phone. What if Xianling Nan destroyed it immediately?
Xu Mu opened the video-recording function and spoke into the phone, “Xianling Nan, it’s me, Xu Mu. I’m right beside you. I understand formations, so I can see you, and I can hear you speaking.”
After recording the message, Xu Mu placed the phone on the ground.
Only after his hand left the phone did Xianling Nan notice it.
It seemed that as long as someone held an object, the other person could not see it.
Xianling Nan had not moved when she saw the spirit stone, but when she noticed the phone, she limped over.
She crouched down to examine it and discovered that the phone was displaying a video. She bent over, picked it up, and tapped the screen. The video Xu Mu had just recorded began playing.
“Xu Mu, is that you?”
After watching the video, a trace of ecstatic joy appeared on Xianling Nan’s face.
[Affection +10]
Xu Mu took the phone back and filmed himself again. “It’s me. Your foot is injured, so I’ll give you a simple dressing. While I’m at it, tell me how you got here and what you encountered along the way.”
This time, he placed the phone in Xianling Nan’s hand. Then he took out a healing pill and put it into her mouth.
Afterward, he supported her and helped her sit down before removing her shoe.
Xu Mu applied some heavenly materials and earthly treasures to the wound, then wrapped a bandage around her ankle.
Xianling Nan could not see Xu Mu. She could only watch as the bandage wound itself around her injury, one layer after another.
[Affection +10]
She revealed a radiant smile and began telling Xu Mu about what had happened to her.
The White Stone Clan had now largely stabilized, but the remnants of the Lao Jie Clan’s forces had not been completely wiped out.
Xianling Nan had been leading two World-Breaking experts in an operation to eliminate them.
Who could have known that, during the pursuit, they would discover this ancient ruin?
After entering, they realized that this place was very likely the battlefield of the gods, and so they ventured farther inside.
They had now been trapped for roughly seven or eight days and had been completely unable to leave.
After finishing her treatment, Xu Mu sat down beside Xianling Nan, took the phone, and continued, “How much do you know about the formation here?”
As soon as Xianling Nan heard this, she immediately said, “Be careful of the blue-faced, fanged monsters around you. They’re very weak, but if you kill nine of them in succession, an extremely powerful red-faced monster will appear. No one else can see this monster. It will only pursue and kill the person who slaughtered the nine blue-faced monsters.”
“How do you know that? You can’t see the other people.”
Xu Mu continued using the phone to transmit his voice.
“Because whenever I keep running, most of those blue-faced, fanged monsters eventually collapse on their own. They must have been dealt with by someone else. But the red-faced monster is different. I’ve fled to many places, and it has never once been attacked.”
Xianling Nan explained her reasoning.
“Pretty clever. I’ll carry you for now. I have other companions, so I’ll go find them first.”
After saying this, Xu Mu carried Xianling Nan on his back.
He immediately felt an overwhelming threat like terrifying thunder and did not dare move recklessly.
Although Xianling Nan could not see Xu Mu, the sensation of embracing him was transmitted to her clearly, giving her a far greater sense of security.
“Old Chen, Weiyang, what’s your situation? I’ve found out some information here.”
Xu Mu sent voice transmissions to the two of them, warning them that they must not kill too many of the blue-faced, fanged monsters.
“Brother Mu, you should’ve said that earlier. I’ve already killed more than ten.”
Chen Xuan sounded helpless. A moment later, his voice suddenly rose several pitches.
“Holy crap! It’s really here!”
“What realm is it?”
Xu Mu immediately asked.
“I’ll test it with one exchange.”
Chen Xuan’s voice disappeared as soon as he finished speaking.
“Xu Mu! Where are you? Boo-hoo! There are so many monsters!”
Ying Weiyang’s sobbing voice came through as well.
“Don’t worry. There’s no need to panic. As long as you don’t fight those monsters, you’ll be safe.”
Xu Mu sent another voice transmission to Ying Weiyang. “Find a conspicuous location, crouch down, and cover your head.”
He had just experienced the strength of these minor monsters himself. At most, they could cause him a little pain.
They were completely incapable of harming him, so naturally they could not inflict a fatal injury on Ying Weiyang.
“Okay.”
Ying Weiyang agreed. “There’s a white stone palace here. Half of it has collapsed. I’ll wait for you here.”
“Got it.”
After Xu Mu finished speaking, he spread out his perception and continued walking into the distance.
Suddenly, he froze. He remembered that there had been someone not far from Xianling Nan earlier.
But that person was no longer within the range of his perception.
His perception could only detect living beings. This proved that the person was already dead.
“Brother Mu, I tested it roughly. Its cultivation is three levels higher than mine, around the peak of the Transcendent realm.”
Chen Xuan’s voice transmission entered Xu Mu’s ears. “It’s still manageable for me.”
“I understand.”
Xu Mu continued toward the distance. His top priority now was finding Ying Weiyang.
As he walked farther ahead, the blue-faced, fanged monsters began charging at him.
Xu Mu raised his hand and used only ice to freeze them to the ground without killing them.
Suddenly, Xu Mu saw a black-robed figure in the distance wielding a golden greatsword and striking at something invisible.
The power the opponent unleashed was at least at the World-Breaking level. Golden light continued expanding until it instantly swallowed Xu Mu.
Yet it did not injure him in the slightest.
If nothing unexpected had happened, the person was currently fighting the red-faced monster.
But that person was a World-Breaking expert. He had been slashing for such a long time and still had not managed to cut the monster down.
Xu Mu roughly guessed the reason. After all, he had already experienced quite a few large-scale formations.
The red-faced monster probably increased its strength according to the cultivation of its opponent.
In other words, it was always three levels higher than the person it fought.
If that was the case, it would be disadvantageous for experts—the higher the level, the wider the gap.
If Raife, who was at the sixth tier, had encountered a ninth-tier monster earlier, his life would have been in danger.
“Hm?”
Xu Mu suddenly noticed two more people approaching the black-robed figure in the distance.
One of them was Hathaway.
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
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.”
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
