The woman wore heavy makeup, and her hair was tied up in a bun. Judging by her age, she was probably around thirty-five.
She was somewhat plump, especially around the chest, which was quite ample.
Overall, she still had considerable charm. In the eyes of ordinary people, she would definitely be considered a mature beauty.
Unfortunately, she fell far short of Fu Jinyu, Nalan Shisan, and the other women around Xu Mu.
“Let’s go. I never come to places like this in the Inner Realm.”
Nalan Shisan glanced at Xu Mu.
“We’re not in any hurry anyway.”
After saying that, Xu Mu walked over to the woman. “How much are you charging?”
The woman immediately beamed when she saw she had business. “If you only want a meal, three jin of spirit stones for the three of you. If you want a room too, that’ll be another three jin.”
“Damn! Is your food made of gold, or are your beds made of gold?”
Xu Mu asked with a hint of mockery.
“Look around. Do you see any other shops nearby?”
The woman smiled. “There are only barren mountains for hundreds of miles in every direction. It takes a great deal of effort to transport fresh ingredients here. You think it’s expensive? I think it’s expensive too.”
“All right, then. We’ll just have one meal.”
Xu Mu glanced at the two women beside him. “Let’s go.”
Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan both nodded. Since Xu Mu had decided to stay, they had no choice but to go along with it.
Besides, the two of them were no longer what they had once been. As experts at the World-Breaking Realm, they could practically do whatever they wanted in a wilderness like this.
After all, nearly every expert above the World-Breaking Realm had already been recruited by the major races.
Led by the woman, Xu Mu and the others entered the large wooden building.
They discovered that it was an inn, furnished with several square wooden tables and benches.
Xu Mu and the others sat at a table by the window. He took the initiative to remove the hood of his black robe.
Fu Jinyu did the same and murmured, “Xu Mu, this place…”
Xu Mu winked at her.
Fu Jinyu secretly nodded. She had always believed that Xu Mu was smarter than she was.
If she could sense that something was wrong here, Xu Mu certainly could too. Clearly, he had come here on purpose.
“Customers, you two really are a perfect match,” the woman said, her eyes fixed on Fu Jinyu. “Especially this young lady. I’ve never seen such a beautiful woman before.”
“Stop wasting time. We’re in a hurry. Bring out the meal that costs three jin of spirit stones.”
Xu Mu spoke indifferently.
“I’ll have the kitchen start cooking right away.”
The woman smiled and nodded before heading toward the back.
At that moment, Nalan Shisan took Xu Mu’s hand and asked in a low voice, “You did that on purpose?”
Xu Mu nodded, then asked, “How much farther to our destination?”
“About three hundred kilometers.”
Nalan Shisan took out the map and studied it briefly. “The destination on the map doesn’t have any towns marked nearby. They may be hiding in some uninhabited area.”
Xu Mu nodded lightly. In a moment, he would ask the people here. Perhaps they knew something.
About ten minutes later, the woman from earlier carried several large plates of food over.
“Sorry to keep you waiting, customers.”
She smiled as she placed the dishes on the table. “This meat is local red wild boar, and its flavor is exceptional. This chicken soup is our house specialty, stewed with heavenly treasures. Go on, give it a try.”
Xu Mu lowered his head and looked at the two dishes before him. “The food’s good, is it?”
“I run a restaurant. Would I serve you food that doesn’t taste good?”
The woman winked at Xu Mu. “If you don’t believe me, you can try it first.”
Xu Mu picked up a small bowl, ladled some chicken soup into it, and held it beneath his nose to smell.
He then handed the bowl to the woman. “You drink it first. Help me test for poison.”
“Customer, how could my little shop possibly harm you?”
“Then drink it.”
Xu Mu pressed her.
“Customer, it wouldn’t be proper for me to drink the soup. How about I have a piece of wild boar instead?”
The woman stepped up to the table. Just as she was about to reach for the chopsticks, a short sword suddenly appeared in her hand and slashed toward Xu Mu’s neck.
Whoosh!
Fu Jinyu suddenly released her power and blocked the short sword with the back of her hand.
Boom!
With a thunderous crash, the woman was sent flying backward, smashing through a hole in the wooden building.
“Damn it! You filthy bastards! Kill them!”
The woman landed in the street, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and snarled.
The next moment, the cook from the kitchen and dozens of other residents rushed out from all around them, charging toward Xu Mu and the others.
Fu Jinyu snorted coldly and rose from the bench.
Xu Mu had just begun to stand when Fu Jinyu pressed a hand against his shoulder. “Stay seated. Don’t move.”
“All right.”
Xu Mu nodded.
A black sword appeared in Fu Jinyu’s hand.
Whoosh!
The sword swung sideways on its own, and a sword aura instantly spread in every direction.
The sword aura flew over Xu Mu’s head.
The middle-aged man who had leaped out of the kitchen was suddenly sliced in two.
He was not the only one. The surrounding buildings and the dozens of attackers were all cut in half by the sword aura.
Rumble!
The buildings began collapsing, including the one where Xu Mu and the others had been sitting.
But before the falling timber could touch them, Fu Jinyu’s qi blasted it away.
Only then did Xu Mu walk outside and approach the woman.
Because she had remained seated on the ground, the sword aura had passed above her and left her unharmed.
Her eyes were now filled with terror. She had never imagined that more than a dozen people at the Transcendent Realm would be killed in the blink of an eye.
That meant the woman before her was at least at the World-Breaking Realm.
But why would a World-Breaking Realm expert be wandering through the mountains? Shouldn’t she have been flying through the sky?
“Tell me. Why did you attack us?”
Xu Mu had already examined the woman with his Divine Eye. She was a hybrid, but he could not determine anything more specific.
“I… We only wanted to capture people and sell them as slaves,” the woman stammered.
“I see. You wanted to capture us and sell us, right?”
Xu Mu asked calmly.
“Yes. Beautiful women, especially, usually fetch a high price.”
The woman nodded and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy. “Big brother, please let me go. I know I was wrong. I’m willing to become your woman. I’ll definitely serve you better than they will. I’m very good at pleasing men.”
“Go to hell!”
Another blade appeared in Fu Jinyu’s hand.
But Xu Mu stopped her and said, “Take me to the ruins here.”
“The ruins? There are no ruins here.”
The woman looked at him in confusion.
“You really won’t shed a tear until you see the coffin.”
Xu Mu raised his hand. Two dark-red swords appeared above his head.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The swords transformed into streaks of light and instantly pierced through the woman’s shoulders. Blood sprayed from the wounds.
When he had scanned the village with his perception, he had already seen someone dragging a woman into the ruins.
“Are there ruins here or not?”
“There are! Please spare me! I’ll take you there right now!”
The woman frantically begged for mercy. She had no idea how the man before her had known that the ruins existed.
She took out a low-grade hemostatic pill and swallowed it. Only after that did she stand up and walk toward a house in the distance.
The house here had already collapsed. She unleashed her power, blasting away the surrounding timber and revealing a tunnel beneath the ruins.
“Get inside,” Xu Mu urged.
The woman had no choice but to jump into the tunnel first.
Xu Mu glanced at the two people beside him. “Follow me.”
“Strange. How did you know there was a ruin here?”
Nalan Shisan looked at Xu Mu in confusion.
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…
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.”
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
