“Senior, I really don’t have anything valuable on me.”
Chen Xuan held his woodcutter’s knife and spoke with a smile.
“If you don’t have any treasures, then why won’t you let me inspect your spatial ring?”
Wang Hun drew his sword. “I’ve always felt that you look familiar. You must know Xu Mu, right?”
“I don’t.”
Chen Xuan shook his head.
“I remember now. I was wondering before how someone of your cultivation level managed to come here. Thinking back to the helicopter I saw earlier, if I’m not mistaken, you must be from the Environmental Sanitation Department.”
A smile spread across Wang Hun’s face. “Now, even if you hand over your spatial ring, I still can’t let you go. I hate street sweepers like you the most.”
Boom!
The air around Wang Hun suddenly exploded, followed by the appearance of a cloud of white mist.
Both Xu Mu and Chen Xuan were startled. They had not expected Wang Hun to advance another rank. He was now at the fourth level.
Chen Xuan stomped on the ground, and golden currents of electricity began to drift through the surrounding air.
Whoosh!
Wang Hun’s sword slashed toward Chen Xuan’s neck.
But just before the blade reached him, Chen Xuan’s body transformed into golden lightning and passed straight through the sword.
“Mountain Splitter!”
Chen Xuan swung his blade down at Wang Hun with all his strength.
Wang Hun did not overreact. He merely unleashed his qi.
“Heavenly Thunder Armor!”
His qi transformed into armor, easily blocking Chen Xuan’s attack without forcing him back even a single step.
Suddenly, Wang Hun whipped around. Xu Mu’s sword was stabbing toward him as well.
Boom!
With a thunderous crash, Xu Mu’s black sword pierced into the other man’s lightning armor.
However, the armor was roughly twenty centimeters thick, and Xu Mu’s sword had only penetrated about one-third of the way.
Wang Hun looked at the red threads drifting around Xu Mu’s body, and a glint flashed in his eyes. “A mid-stage Transcendent actually managed to pierce my heaven-grade defensive technique. You’re Xu Mu!”
Boom!
Wang Hun swung his sword at Xu Mu.
Xu Mu immediately raised his own sword to block. The enormous impact sent him flying backward.
Wang Hun grinned and continued pursuing him.
Moving faster than sound, he caught up with Xu Mu in the blink of an eye.
“Thunder Rush!”
Lightning coiled around Wang Hun’s sword as he brought it down toward Xu Mu.
Just as the sword was about to strike, Xu Mu’s body suddenly switched places with the black-robed man in the distance.
Wang Hun immediately tried to stop, but it was already too late.
Boom!
The attack struck, splitting and collapsing the earth around them. The destruction spread a full hundred meters in every direction.
When the light faded, the black-robed man was lying on the ground, blood already seeping out from beneath his robe.
“Wang Hun! Have you gone mad?”
“Sorry! I couldn’t stop in time. But this also reminded me that I’d completely forgotten about Xu Mu’s strange technique.”
Chen Xuan recalled the siege against Xu Mu earlier.
Xu Mu could not only switch places with other people; he had also cultivated the legendary heaven-grade technique, Starshift. It allowed him to transfer attacks aimed at him onto someone else.
However, Wang Hun had now reached the fourth level. He truly had a way to kill Xu Mu.
He simply had to fight him alone.
Starshift required a third party to transfer the damage to. As long as there was no one else nearby, Xu Mu would have to endure any attack Wang Hun launched himself.
The same principle applied to switching places. With only the two of them around, the only person Xu Mu could switch places with was Wang Hun himself—and that was entirely within Wang Hun’s control.
At present, aside from them, the only people in this area were members of the Owl Clan and the Holy Light Clan.
If Xu Mu dared to transfer an attack onto them, he would only die faster.
With that thought, Wang Hun turned to the people nearby and said, “Go find the treasures. I’ll kill Xu Mu myself!”
“Brother Mu…”
“You leave too! I want to see exactly how Wang Hun plans to kill me.”
Xu Mu dispelled the illusion array, revealing his true appearance.
“Hahaha! You really are arrogant. But I like you much better this way. Before, you ran the moment you saw me!”
Wang Hun suddenly broke the sound barrier again and charged toward Xu Mu.
Xu Mu activated Demon’s Protection, enveloping his body in a shield.
Boom!
When their powers collided, the terrifying pressure instantly sent Xu Mu flying.
Wang Hun’s strength was far greater than Hathaway’s had been earlier.
After all, he was a fourth-level expert, and he likewise possessed the ability to fight above his level.
But Xu Mu was no longer the same as before.
When he had faced Wang Hun in the past, Wang Hun’s terrifying speed had been too much for him to react to.
Now, however, he could see the trajectory of Wang Hun’s attacks and defend against them accordingly.
Bang, bang, bang…
Wang Hun was already incredibly fast. In just two seconds, Xu Mu was struck more than a dozen times.
Only after exchanging blows could one truly understand the difference.
Xu Mu could already tell that his current strength was nowhere near Wang Hun’s level.
Moreover, this area was extremely vast. Even if he used his final Spark to self-destruct, Wang Hun would most likely be able to escape the central area. At most, he would suffer minor injuries.
Whoosh!
Xu Mu swiftly fled into the distance.
“Xu Mu! Weren’t you acting so arrogant just now? Why are you running away again? Did I scare you off?”
Wang Hun chased after him, not forgetting to taunt him.
“You alone aren’t enough to defeat me. I’m going to fight ten!”
Xu Mu’s senses had already detected the two black-robed men who had come with Wang Hun, along with Zi Wangyou.
When the two black-robed men saw Xu Mu approaching, they immediately split up.
Xu Mu naturally went after the black-robed man who had been injured earlier.
Whoosh!
That black-robed man was also above the fourth level, and he immediately fled at supersonic speed.
Although Xu Mu could not catch up with him at once, he stayed close behind.
The old man could not maintain supersonic speed indefinitely, but Xu Mu’s physique was far stronger than theirs. He had no fear of wearing them down in a battle of attrition.
For a time, the three of them became a spectacular sight in the sky.
Raife raised his head and watched the chase overhead. He murmured, “This is the first time I’ve ever seen something like this. A mid-stage Transcendent chasing a fifth-level expert, while a fourth-level expert is chasing a mid-stage Transcendent.”
Hathaway looked up at the sky, feeling an itch in her fists. Why did Xu Mu always get into such high-quality battles while she never did?
Still, finding the treasures was the top priority. That was what mattered most.
…
Everyone else was searching for treasures, while Xu Mu and the others continued their chase.
Wang Hun was beginning to feel confused. He had originally assumed that Xu Mu’s qi would be nearly depleted after maintaining such a high-intensity output for so long.
But Wang Hun himself had already used up nearly half his qi, while Xu Mu’s speed and strength had not diminished in the slightest.
If this continued, the others would claim all the treasures.
“Xu Mu! I’ll let you off for now!”
Furious, Wang Hun stopped and charged toward the treasures on the ground.
Xu Mu likewise abandoned the chase and descended.
As for the fifth-level black-robed elder, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Brother Mu, I’ve searched almost the entire area. There shouldn’t be many treasures left. I put spirit stones into the remaining rings.”
Chen Xuan’s voice came from nearby.
“Good. Since that’s settled, let’s go!”
Xu Mu also felt that the two divine artifacts they had found were probably the most valuable items here.
He used the teleportation token to return, then extended a hand toward Chen Xuan.
“Keep the ring containing the spirit stones. Give me the rings with the techniques and materials. I’ll hide them away.”
“All right.”
Chen Xuan took out three rings and handed them to Xu Mu.
Xu Mu placed them in his storage space, then sent a message to Ying Weiyang, telling her that it was time to leave.
They hurried back, but Raife stopped them on the way.
“Sorry, but neither of you can leave yet,” Raife said calmly.
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…
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
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.”
