“Is This... a Legendary Artifact”

Xu Mu was afraid that the man might come back to life. After all, he had been an incredibly powerful expert.

Dealing with these protagonists alone had already left him overwhelmed. He really didn’t want to have another enemy like this on his hands.

Li Yang didn’t even know what expression to make when he saw this scene.

In the end, however, he didn’t lose his temper. He simply walked over and hoisted Li Han up from the ground.

Through his perception, Xu Mu detected Wang Hun’s presence.

Wang Hun was currently approaching them, clearly having noticed the battle just now.

Xu Mu chose not to engage him. There were simply too many burdens weighing him down this time.

Wang Hun was powerful, and, more importantly, he loved scheming.

If he used Xianling Nan and Ying Weiyang against him, Xu Mu would be placed at a serious disadvantage.

He pulled up the hood of his black robe and left the area.

“Brother Mu! Come quickly—I found something good!”

Chen Xuan’s voice entered Xu Mu’s mind through telepathy. “I’ll jump up. Watch where I am.”

Xu Mu first used his perception to search, but he couldn’t detect Chen Xuan. That meant Chen Xuan was outside his two-kilometer range.

He looked around. Suddenly, a figure radiating golden light leaped high into the air to his left.

“I see you.”

After sending the message telepathically, Xu Mu immediately headed over.

With the formation surrounding the towering pagoda gone, the area had once again become a wasteland covered in devastation.

Pits of all sizes covered the ground, bearing witness to the battles that had once taken place there.

Xu Mu traveled about a kilometer before his perception finally detected Chen Xuan’s location. He immediately increased his speed.

At last, he spotted Chen Xuan at the bottom of a massive crater.

The crater was more than twenty meters deep and nearly a hundred meters across.

Chen Xuan was standing at the very bottom.

Xu Mu leaped down beside him and asked, “Old Chen, what did you find?”

Chen Xuan pointed to the side. “Brother Mu, take a look. Do you notice anything different here?”

Xu Mu followed his indication. The surrounding earth was scorched black, but in the middle of the soil was a patch of stone bricks.

More importantly, the bricks were arranged in a rectangle, resembling a doorway—or perhaps the entrance to a passage.

However, the rectangular opening had long since been blocked by the surrounding earth.

Xu Mu walked over and summoned the White Emperor Sacred Sword.

A dark-red sword of light easily pierced into the soil.

“Just as I thought. It’s hollow.”

Xu Mu handed Chen Xuan a teleportation token. A black shadow slipped inside, and Xu Mu vanished from Chen Xuan’s sight.

Chen Xuan activated his own token and followed him inside.

The two of them looked around. Everything was covered in stone bricks—there was indeed a passage here.

The walls, floor, and ceiling of the passage were all paved with stone bricks. The reason they had seen traces of them earlier was that the passage had been blasted open by the attacks.

As he walked forward, Xu Mu said with a smile, “Old Chen, you really are something. Luck follows you everywhere. I have a feeling there’s a treasure ahead.”

“Stop joking around. I just have sharp eyes and noticed that this place was unusual.”

Chen Xuan followed behind him as he spoke.

The two continued down the passage. After walking nearly a hundred meters, they finally emerged from the narrow tunnel.

They had entered another cavern.

Xu Mu placed his hand against the ground and carefully sensed the surroundings. Then he said, “There doesn’t seem to be a formation here.”

“So does that mean we’ve only truly set foot on this land now, after coming all this way?” Chen Xuan exclaimed in amazement.

He then looked around and pointed upward. “Brother Mu, look! There’s light.”

“Let’s go take a look.”

Xu Mu grabbed Chen Xuan by the arm and used Cloud Step to leap to the higher ground.

Sure enough, it was an exit.

When they stepped out of the cave, the scene before them left both men stunned.

Their pupils trembled violently. The sight was simply too shocking.

They had emerged from a cave halfway up a mountain. The scene before them was almost identical to what they had seen earlier.

The barren earth had all been reduced to scorched soil. The ground was riddled with craters, resembling the surface of the moon.

The only difference was that dry bones covered the land. Most of them were not even recognizable as human remains, having been shattered into fragments.

Besides that, there were all kinds of weapons, spirit stones, dried medicinal herbs, and heavenly treasures that had been burned to charcoal.

This was the true battlefield—a single victor built upon countless fallen bones.

“Brother Mu, why are all the spirit stones scattered across the ground?”

Chen Xuan stared at the scene before him, so shocked that he could barely speak.

“If I’m not mistaken, the force released by the attacks was so powerful that even their spatial rings were destroyed. Everything stored inside them was scattered across the ground.”

Xu Mu stroked his chin as he made his guess.

“I see. Then what are we waiting for? Let’s collect everything!”

Chen Xuan said with a laugh, “The spirit stones alone are enough to make us rich!”

Xu Mu opened his storage space and pulled out a handful of spatial rings.

“Here. Remember to prioritize anything you think might be a treasure. Collect the spirit stones afterward.”

After all, Chen Xuan was a protagonist. Perhaps he would be able to discover some hidden treasure.

As for Xu Mu, he didn’t rely on luck or mysticism. He relied on his divine-grade Appraisal Mastery ability.

He could judge an item’s value by sensing the spiritual aura contained within it.

“Got it!”

Chen Xuan took the spatial rings and rushed down toward the battlefield.

Xu Mu followed, landing on the battlefield as well. Then he used Cloud Step to hover twenty or thirty meters above the ground.

From there, he could see far more items at once.

Xu Mu searched for nearly a minute, but he still hadn’t found anything particularly valuable.

The land had been destroyed far too thoroughly. It was barren to the point that not a blade of grass remained. The heavenly treasures scattered across the ground had been weathered for so many years that they had almost completely lost their medicinal properties.

As for the weapons around them, although they had been forged from high-grade heavenly materials, none of them could be considered a top-tier treasure.

“No, this won’t do. Seeing so many spirit stones lying around without collecting them is making me uncomfortable.”

Xu Mu opened his storage space and began stuffing every spirit stone he encountered along the way inside.

His storage space was now enormous—large enough to hold one or two hundred tons of spirit stones.

“Now this is good stuff!”

Xu Mu suddenly spotted a coil of silver thread wrapped around a black metal rod on the ground.

It was a divine-grade material known as Unbreakable Heaven Silk.

Armor made from it could be considered one of the most powerful defensive treasures in the world.

Even piercing attacks from high-level Boundary-Breaking experts—such as blades or swords—could not penetrate it.

Of course, nothing was perfect. Unbreakable Heaven Silk had a very obvious weakness:

It could not block vibrational attacks.

For example, if an ordinary person wore armor made from this material, even a Boundary-Breaking expert would be unable to pierce his body with a weapon.

But if the sword were replaced with a hammer, or if the expert simply used vibrating qi energy, the ordinary person could be killed with ease.

Even so, it was still a top-tier treasure. Xu Mu planned to find time to have it made into soft armor and prepare a set for Ye Tong and each of the others.

After storing it away, Xu Mu continued collecting spirit stones while searching the surrounding area for other treasures.

“Brother Mu, come quickly!”

Chen Xuan shouted from a distance.

Xu Mu immediately used a teleportation token and transferred to his side.

“Look at this short sword. I can’t put it into a spatial ring.”

Chen Xuan was holding a pure-white short sword less than half a meter long.

“Could this be… a divine weapon?”

Before Xu Mu could finish speaking, a vibration of qi energy suddenly came from the distance.

“Not good! Other people have arrived too!”