Just a Meaningful Gesture, One Thousand-Year Kill Will Do

Beside Hathaway stood an old man in a black robe. His hood was raised high, yet his face could still be seen clearly. It was none other than the elder, Raife.

Xu Mu looked somewhat surprised. Could they also possess some strange technique that allowed them to sense one another’s locations?

The man wielding the golden greatsword was Sharp, the Third Captain.

Xu Mu decided to stay where he was and wait quietly.

“Why have you stopped?”

Seeing that Xianling Nan was no longer moving, Xu Mu held his phone out in front of her.

He said, “I’ve spotted members of the Holy Light Clan. They may know how to escape, so let’s wait here for a while.”

With that, he walked over to a broken tree and set Xianling Nan down beside it.

His senses remained focused on the distance, observing the three members of the Holy Light Clan.

When the three gathered together, Raife suddenly raised his hand.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In an instant, a line of text appeared on the ground, asking what Sharp was doing.

While dodging, Sharp carved out another message.

He told them that he was being pursued by a red-faced monster, one whose strength was roughly equivalent to the fifth level of the World-Breaking Realm.

Seeing this, Xu Mu smiled. He had completely forgotten that they could communicate through writing. It was much faster than recording a video.

Following their example, he used qi to carve words into the ground:

“Wait here for me. I’ll be back shortly.”

Afterward, he headed toward the three members of the Holy Light Clan. Perhaps Raife really did know something.

When Xu Mu arrived beside them, he first tried releasing his qi, but none of them reacted.

Clearly, there was something on their bodies that allowed them to locate one another.

Raife began releasing his power. Large swathes of golden runes poured out from his body.

The golden runes landed on the ground and eventually formed a square-shaped formation.

Raife immediately retreated, then carved a square around the formation, enclosing it.

Next, he carved another message:

“Lure that monster into the square. Don’t go inside.”

Sharp understood and began flashing back and forth around the edges of the square.

Suddenly, the red-faced monster appeared above the formation.

Boom!

Golden light spread outward like a sun exploding.

The area where Xu Mu stood was easily swallowed up.

However, the force did not harm Xu Mu in the slightest. After all, within this formation, the qi of others could not injure him.

Sharp, who was standing in the distance, finally stopped moving. Clearly, the red-faced monster had disappeared.

Xu Mu had learned another piece of information. Although he could not see other people’s red-faced monsters, he could still attack them.

Sharp continued carving words into the ground:

“The red-faced monster really is dead.”

Raife followed up:

“It was recorded in the ancient chronicles of our Holy Light Clan.”

He then began writing line after line on the ground, explaining the formation in broad terms.

This was a Heavenly Dao-level formation, designed primarily to kill powerful experts.

After several blue-faced, tusked monsters were killed in succession, a red-faced, tusked monster would appear.

The monster’s strength was bound to that of its target, and its cultivation level would always be several realms higher.

Above the World-Breaking Realm, the difference between each level was enormous.

Those with lower cultivation levels, however, were much easier to deal with.

“Finished reading?”

Raife continued writing.

“Finished.”

Hathaway and Sharp each carved a response.

Seeing this, Raife immediately destroyed all the words he had written earlier.

He continued:

“Next, I’ll explain how to break through this formation. Once you’ve finished reading, tell me immediately so I can erase it.”

Hathaway and Sharp continued carving messages into the ground, indicating that they understood.

Xu Mu walked toward them. He had not expected Raife to be so cautious. Unfortunately for him, Xu Mu was right there beside them.

Raife continued writing. To leave the formation, the same person had to kill two red-faced monsters in succession within ten seconds.

There was one other condition: at least one of those monsters had to be one that the killer could not see.

If someone tried to kill twenty monsters themselves and then simultaneously kill the two red-faced monsters pursuing them, they would be unable to pass.

When he reached this point, Hathaway and Sharp indicated at the same time that they had finished reading, so Raife immediately destroyed the message.

He continued:

“So it will be simple for us. The two of you should each kill several blue-faced, tusked monsters, then lure them together and kill them simultaneously using the method I just described.”

Hathaway and Sharp once again carved “Understood” into the ground.

Raife immediately erased the words. In the end, he wrote only three characters:

“Let’s go.”

Xu Mu was standing right in front of them by then. Now that he knew how to escape, things would be much easier on his side.

After all, the people he had brought with him were relatively weak.

Since he had obtained this information from the Holy Light Clan, Xu Mu could not bring himself to punish Hathaway too severely.

One Thousand Years of Death would be enough—just a little reminder.

If he could make them turn against one another, it would also buy his side some time.

He quickly moved behind Hathaway and discovered that the silver armor she wore covered her buttocks, making it inconvenient to strike there.

Xu Mu had no choice but to move his target lower.

Whoosh!

One attack sent Hathaway flying into the air.

The sudden pain brought tears to her eyes.

“Sharp! Are you looking to die? How dare you touch me!”

She instinctively let out a furious roar, then carved those words into the ground.

Sharp stared at the message, completely bewildered.

Although he did harbor some selfish desires, Hathaway had always held an exalted position within the Holy Light Clan. He had also wanted to take advantage of her inability to see him and do something naughty.

Unfortunately, since he could not see Hathaway, it was not convenient for him to make a move.

Xu Mu smiled. This was exactly what he wanted. It would buy him some time.

Before leaving, he gave Hathaway another poke.

Xu Mu returned to Xianling Nan’s side, carried her on his back, and used Cloudstep to leap to a high vantage point, surveying the surrounding terrain.

To his front left, he spotted a ruined white palace.

Xu Mu immediately hurried over. Along the way, he sent another voice transmission to Chen Xuan, telling him how to leave.

He instructed Chen Xuan to kill several more monsters. Once the red-faced monster appeared, Chen Xuan was to head toward the vicinity of the white palace, where they would kill it together.

Xu Mu arrived at the palace first.

Using his senses, he quickly discovered Ying Weiyang.

At that moment, Ying Weiyang was clutching her head and curled up beside a damaged palace wall.

The blue-faced, tusked monsters surrounding her repeatedly attacked.

However, many of their tusks had already shattered, and they had still failed to cause her any real harm.

“There are so many monsters. It looks like they’re attacking someone!”

Xianling Nan pointed into the distance.

“There is someone there.”

Xu Mu drew his longsword and released a single Blazing Heaven Sword Qi, killing all the monsters in that area.

Since the sword qi could not strike Ying Weiyang, he had no need to hold back.

“Did you kill them?”

Xianling Nan noticed that the monsters in the distance had suddenly shattered and vanished, and asked curiously.

Xu Mu did not explain. He simply wrote three words on the ground:

“Wait patiently.”

Before long, red energy began to emerge from the air around them.

The energy condensed into a monster that was completely crimson from head to toe.

The monster opened its enormous mouth and lunged at Xu Mu.

Xu Mu raised his longsword to block the attack. After sensing its cultivation level, he determined that it was at the peak of the Soul-Complete Realm and had not yet entered the World-Breaking Realm.

This level was easy for him to withstand.

“Brother Mu! I’m here! Where are you?”

Chen Xuan’s voice rang out.

“Jump somewhere high. I’ll draw a cross on the ground.”

Xu Mu drew a huge cross in the dirt with his sword.

Chen Xuan spotted it in the distance and immediately headed over. The monster behind him followed close on his heels.

“Brother Mu, I’m here!”

Chen Xuan continued transmitting his voice.

By then, Xu Mu had already raised his hand and slammed a red orb of light, no bigger than a marble, onto the ground.

Boom…

Red flames erupted in an instant, swallowing both red-faced monsters.

The next moment, everyone there saw a passage marked by a red circle appear before them.

“Weiyang! Are you still clutching your head? Do you see the red circle? Move!”

After calling out a reminder, Xu Mu stepped into the red circle first.

He used his senses to scout ahead, then muttered, “Still too late!”