Fan Yingjie nodded.
“Xu Mu, you’d better not listen to our conversation. Take your people inside first.”
Jiang Mingzhuo pointed toward the opening that had been blasted through.
Xu Mu looked surprised. They had found the treasures first, so if he went in now, wouldn’t everything he got be secondhand?
There were surely plenty of treasures left behind.
However, since Jiang Mingzhuo had taken the initiative to make the offer, Xu Mu could guess his intentions. He probably wanted to find the treasures and give them to Jiang Huihui.
No matter how bad Jiang Mingzhuo was, he was still Jiang Huihui’s biological uncle.
“Thank you, Senior!”
Xu Mu glanced at Fu Jinyu, Nalan Shisan, and An Linghui. “Let’s go!”
He hadn’t expected the seals he had painstakingly collected to end up being useless. It seemed that even the best-laid plans could not keep up with changing circumstances.
“Shouxin, aren’t you being a little biased? You deliberately held me back so that your descendants of Yanhuang could search for the treasures first?”
Fan Yingjie jokingly patted Sheng Qiu on the shoulder. “At the very least, we should send one person inside as well.”
Xu Shou nodded slightly. “Fine.”
“Go on.”
Fan Yingjie pushed Sheng Qiu lightly on the shoulder.
Sheng Qiu immediately flew toward the distant opening.
“An Ce, we owe you one this time. The two of us will wait a little longer.”
Fan Yingjie turned back to look at An Ce, who was leaning against the wall of the building.
“Right now, I just want to sit down.”
An Ce sighed. His opponent earlier had been an eighth-stage expert. The fact that he had survived was already quite an achievement.
…
Xu Mu and the others passed through the opening in the formation and arrived in the true fragment of the inner world.
Just as before, this place was also a desert. The difference was that bones were scattered everywhere.
Many of the dried bones were buried beneath the yellow sand.
Like the battlefield of the gods they had seen earlier, spiritual stones and long-weathered heavenly treasures were scattered densely across the surroundings.
It looked just like the rewards for clearing a level in a game.
Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan both widened their eyes in astonishment. It was their first time seeing anything like this. Spiritual stones, hard currency in the inner world, were everywhere.
“All right, hurry up and search for the treasures.”
Xu Mu grabbed a handful of storage rings from his storage space and handed several to each of the three of them. “Remember, prioritize cultivation techniques. Only collect spiritual stones if you can’t find anything better.”
“Got it.”
They spread out immediately.
Xu Mu first headed in the direction where he had previously seen the greatest concentration of spiritual stones and heavenly treasures.
However, after searching a large area, he still found no sign of the so-called divine artifact.
Perhaps there was none here, or perhaps Redemption had already taken it.
Since that approach was useless, Xu Mu could only rely on his divine ability to examine the spiritual resonance of the treasures beneath the ground.
He went from one place to another and discovered another divine-grade material—Unbroken Heavenly Silk. There was even more of it than last time.
The two batches together should be enough to make several sets of soft armor.
He planned to give one to each of the people close to him.
Continuing his search, he found two more earth-grade cultivation techniques.
Suddenly, Xu Mu landed beside a pile of spiritual stones. Among some withered heavenly treasures, he spotted a seal.
“An heaven-grade cultivation technique?”
He picked up the golden seal, a smile appearing on his face. At least this trip hadn’t been in vain.
This time, he had no intention of handing it over. He would prioritize improving the strength of the people around him.
Just then, he noticed that Sheng Qiu had also made his way over.
After hesitating for a moment, Xu Mu took the initiative to greet him. “Sheng Qiu, the battle was too dangerous earlier, so I didn’t get the chance to say hello.”
[Affection +5]
“Thank you… If it hadn’t been for you this time, we might all have been wiped out.”
Sheng Qiu glanced at Xu Mu with his youthful, adorable face, then immediately lowered his head.
“So we’re friends now, right?” Xu Mu asked with a smile. “Can I ask you a question? You said last time that your master likes me. What did you mean by that? Do I know her?”
“I don’t know.”
Sheng Qiu shook his head.
“Then how do you know she likes me? Did she tell you?”
“No! Someone as lowly as me has no right to hear my master’s private thoughts.”
Sheng Qiu hurriedly shook his head. “My master is dignified and imposing, and she never shows her emotions. But I noticed that she often watches videos of you dominating the martial arts rankings. She watches them while eating, before going to sleep, and sometimes she even smiles. So I guessed that my master likes you.”
“What the hell?”
Xu Mu looked disgusted. Is that old woman a pervert?
Why did she keep staring at his videos and grinning like an idiot?
He was about to ask a few more questions when he noticed that Fan Yingjie and An Ce had also entered.
After seeing them, Xu Mu walked over, collecting all the spiritual stones along the way and putting them into his storage space.
By the time he reached them, his storage space was already full.
“Are Redemption and the others gone?” Xu Mu asked with a smile.
“That’s right. They’ve already left.”
Fan Yingjie nodded.
“Then we should get ready to leave as well.”
Xu Mu had already taken a rough look around the entire area. He had found only one heaven-grade cultivation technique and two earth-grade cultivation techniques.
After all, they had been the first ones to arrive. If they kept lingering here, it would be difficult to justify themselves.
As for the treasures that remained, if the others managed to find anything, Xu Mu could only consider it bad luck on his part.
“All right. Be careful on the way out. There may be other experts guarding the entrance, waiting to seize your treasures.”
Fan Yingjie warned him.
“I know.”
Xu Mu acknowledged it. He had thought of that possibility as well, but staying here would be even more dangerous.
For example, the people from the four great races might very well return to seek out the top experts of their clans.
Now that Redemption had left, Xu Mu’s side had no way to deal with them—especially with three women beside him.
Xu Mu sent a voice transmission to the others. The three women quickly came to his side.
“Xu Mu, I…”
“We’ll talk outside.”
Xu Mu interrupted Fu Jinyu. It was obvious that she had probably found some treasure.
However, the Great Wilderness Clan still did not know whether they were friends or foes, so they definitely could not flaunt their gains too much.
Fu Jinyu nodded slightly and fell silent.
“Senior, we’ll be heading out first.”
As Xu Mu spoke, he looked at An Ce again. “The two people beside me should be able to learn the Heavenly Demon Clan’s cultivation techniques this time, right?”
“Of course. They can choose any earth-grade technique they want. I’ll also petition the old ancestor and ask him to let them study a heaven-grade technique.”
An Ce nodded solemnly.
He had never gotten along with the Great Elder. Now that the Second Elder had also died, the Great Elder’s arrogance would only grow worse.
He needed to cultivate some powerful allies. He had already seen the combat abilities of Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan.
They were simply geniuses among geniuses.
Fu Jinyu in particular had an understanding of battle that even surpassed his own.
She was only at the first level of the World-Breaking Realm, yet when facing the prodigies of the four great races—whose cultivation realms were even higher than hers—she had still been able to fight them without falling behind.
If an ordinary first-level World-Breaking expert from the Heavenly Demon Clan had faced those prodigies, they might have been killed in an instant.
“All right, that puts my mind at ease.”
Xu Mu looked at the people beside him. “Let’s go!”
Just as they were about to leave, the new king of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, Bai Qi, appeared.
Because they had progressed too slowly, they had instead avoided the crisis from earlier.
“Xu Mu?”
Bai Qi greeted Xu Mu after spotting him.
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.
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uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
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."
