If the person in front of Xu Mu had been an enemy, he would have used this move right from the start.
But this person was Hathaway, and he knew she had pulled him inside out of kindness.
Because of that, he was unable to use several of his deadly techniques.
Take Shattered Mirror Sword, for example. Its purpose was simple: stun the opponent, then deliver a fatal strike.
He definitely couldn’t use that.
But what if Final Spark killed her?
The sealed space was especially small, and Final Spark would certainly cover the entire area.
Yet he had no other choice. Besides, after using Final Spark several times in succession just now, the power he had left should not be enough to kill her.
Hathaway didn’t react at first. It wasn’t until the red orb of light exploded that she realized what was happening.
The entire world lost its color. Everything in her field of vision was replaced by blood-red light.
Boom!
The blood-red light filled the entire space in an instant. Hathaway had no chance to dodge; all she could do was defend herself.
But her layers of defenses were blasted to pieces on the spot.
The violent shock severed her consciousness, and she fainted.
Crack!
The space around them suddenly split apart, and Xu Mu and Hathaway reappeared in the desert.
“Hathaway!”
Beckett, an eighth-rank powerhouse of the Holy Light Clan, immediately flew over and caught Hathaway in his arms.
He looked at Xu Mu in disbelief. That kid had actually defeated Hathaway in a one-on-one battle.
How was that possible?
Xu Mu immediately released his perception and surveyed the battlefield. Sure enough, without him there, the Great Wilderness Clan was being crushed from all sides. The gap in strength between the two sides was simply too great.
At present, the Great Wilderness Clan had only one eighth-rank powerhouse left. The strongest among the rest was An Ce, a seventh-rank Sky Demon.
As for the Sky Demon Clan’s Second Elder, he was already dead.
Aside from them, Sheng Qiu had only just reached the second rank, while Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan were merely first-rank.
Yet their opponents were four eighth-rank powerhouses from the four great clans.
Even if no one else intervened, those four alone were more than they could handle.
Xu Mu’s perception instantly took everyone into account. Every single one of them was injured, with An Ce suffering the most severe wounds.
However, the battle had not devolved into a one-sided slaughter.
Instead, the people on Fu Jinyu’s side had become whetstones for the younger generation of the four great clans.
The eighth-rank powerhouses of the four great clans took turns fighting Fan Yingjie.
As for An Ce of the Sky Demon Clan, he was struggling to hold out. His entire body was covered in blood, and he was breathing heavily. Clearly, he had reached his limit.
When these people saw Xu Mu reappear, they gathered around him in unspoken agreement.
In the distance, Wu Tian and Xiao Gui watched the spectacle from afar with smiles on their faces.
Given the situation today, Xu Mu was sure to die.
He had sided with the Great Wilderness Clan and even knocked out the only person standing on his side, Hathaway. How could he possibly survive?
“Xu Mu! I’ve brought shame upon you!”
Fu Jinyu had already activated her second-stage restriction release, but her body was still covered in blood.
“How could you have brought shame upon me? Every one of these people you faced is a top-tier genius, and all of them are at a higher cultivation rank than you.”
Xu Mu took out a handful of pills and distributed them among everyone present.
Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan knew how effective Xu Mu’s pills were, so they weren’t particularly surprised.
[Favorability +10]
[Favorability +10]
After Sheng Qiu swallowed hers, her eyes widened. Not only were her injuries healing, but even the qi she had expended was rapidly recovering.
[Favorability +15]
“What a powerful effect. I only just swallowed it, and the bleeding from my wounds has already stopped.”
Although An Ce still looked extremely weak, he was so shocked that he could barely speak.
“Young friend! We’re the ones who dragged you into this. Unfortunately, they have too many experts, and we can’t escape this formation. Even if I sacrificed my life, I still wouldn’t be able to save you. I’m sorry.”
Fan Yingjie gave a bitter smile. “No one expected us to run into a formation like this. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have come.”
“Senior, do you have a way to protect my people?”
Xu Mu looked at Fan Yingjie as he asked the question.
“Yes. It will consume quite a bit of qi, but your pills have eased the burden considerably.”
Fan Yingjie nodded lightly.
“Protect them. The two of us will deal with these people.”
Xu Mu spoke decisively.
“No!”
Fu Jinyu immediately objected.
“I want to fight too!”
After hearing Xu Mu’s words, Sheng Qiu followed up.
“Hahaha!”
Fan Yingjie threw his head back and laughed. “We’re going to die here today anyway! I might as well fight them alongside you!”
Buzz!
In an instant, the black oracle-bone inscriptions covering Fan Yingjie’s body suddenly spread outward.
Countless black characters formed a sphere more than ten meters in diameter, enveloping the people around him.
“Let’s go!”
Fan Yingjie grabbed Xu Mu and leaped out of the black sphere formed by the oracle-bone inscriptions.
Fu Jinyu immediately followed behind Xu Mu, but her body slammed into the oracle-bone barrier. She was completely unable to leave.
“This is the Great Wilderness Clan’s heavenly-grade technique, the Myriad Spirits Realm of Mountains and Seas. We can’t get out.”
Through the gaps between the oracle-bone inscriptions, Sheng Qiu watched Xu Mu outside.
For some reason, she felt deeply moved.
Xu Mu clearly knew that standing together with the Great Wilderness Clan would put his life in danger, yet for the sake of the two women inside, he had still bravely stepped forward.
“Senior, have a few more.”
Xu Mu tossed Fan Yingjie several more pills that restored qi, then swallowed a few himself.
Although the qi within his body was continuously recovering, the speed was still far too slow.
Given the current situation, Xu Mu had no other choice but to use the power of destiny.
He opened the system and checked his status panel.
Xu Mu tapped the option to restore his depleted qi.
[Power of Destiny consumed: 30]
In the blink of an eye, the strength he had lost was fully restored.
With more than three thousand points of the power of destiny, he felt that he had enough to threaten the lives of these geniuses.
He refused to believe that the four great clans would dare to keep fighting him indefinitely.
“Senior, how do you compare to the eighth-rank powerhouses of the four great clans?”
Xu Mu stood above the barrier and asked the question.
“When our Great Wilderness Clan was fighting for supremacy, what were they? I could easily face two of them at once. However, the death qi of the Netherworld Clan might allow them to launch a successful sneak attack.”
Fan Yingjie glanced at Xu Mu as he spoke.
“I have a god-tier technique that can temporarily grant someone else the ability to use it.”
Xu Mu grabbed Fan Yingjie by the wrist and transferred the Spirit Vein Armament to him.
As long as someone’s favorability toward him was positive, he could transfer it to them.
However, Xu Mu himself could no longer use it. But since he intended to use Final Spark, he had no need for it anyway.
Fan Yingjie suddenly stared wide-eyed in shock. Although no qi had entered his body, an entire technique had appeared in his mind. It felt as though he had known how to use it all along.
He skillfully circulated the technique, and thin red lines began to drift outward from his body.
“This… is incredibly powerful!”
Fan Yingjie’s eyes widened in astonishment. His strength had suddenly undergone a qualitative leap.
“Little brother, you really don’t know the immensity of heaven and earth.”
Zilan Yin shook her head slightly. “Do you really think the two of you can defeat all of us?”
“Then let’s find out!”
Xu Mu launched himself toward them in the distance.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
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.
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
