Xu Mu looked at the text message. After a moment’s thought, he dialed Wang Biao’s number.
It had been a long time since he had seen his former driver and bodyguard.
In the original plot, Wang Biao had been killed by the Dragon King’s men while trying to save Xu Mu. But since Xu Mu had resolved that crisis, Wang Biao was still alive and well.
“Young Master Xu, what can I do for you?”
Wang Biao answered immediately, his voice respectful.
“Find out who’s staying in the presidential suite at the Spring Breeze Hotel. Don’t alert them.”
Xu Mu spoke into his phone. After all, the five-star hotel belonged to the Xu family.
“Understood. I’ll take care of it right away.”
Wang Biao hung up after speaking.
Xu Mu went to the refrigerator and took out an apple at random.
At present, he had indeed become a target of various factions’ attempts to win him over.
For example, Redemption. He felt that Nalan Shisan and An Linghui’s guesses were probably correct. They might be planning to invite him to join them in the future.
Dantai Quan was the same. At first, the only use she had for him was his ability to refine pills.
But after witnessing his formidable strength, she had begun looking for ways to recruit him.
About five minutes later, Wang Biao sent Xu Mu the relevant information along with a video.
Xu Mu opened the video first. It showed a man in a suit and sunglasses registering at the front desk.
He was the guest staying in the presidential suite.
The information below contained the details he had provided when checking in. It stated that he was from Yanjing and that his name was Li Wei.
There was no other information.
Xu Mu glanced at the time. Ye Tong still had several hours before she got off work.
He might as well go over and take a look. Given his current strength, he truly did not believe anyone would dare move against him.
Especially in a city under the outside world’s control. If they really dared to make a move, Wei Jingzhi certainly would not stand by and do nothing.
Chewing on the apple, Xu Mu drove to the hotel.
After parking, he released his perception and scanned the top floor.
There were only two people in the suite, but Li Wei was nowhere to be seen.
Clearly, the other party had merely borrowed his identity.
Inside the enormous top-floor suite, one of the men was a middle-aged man in a suit. Judging from his appearance, he was Western.
He had orange-colored eyes, a crew cut, and a full beard, all of which were streaked with black and white.
At that moment, he was sitting on the sofa with one leg crossed over the other, looking down at his phone.
There was also a woman.
She had fair skin and delicate features as exquisite as an elf’s.
Her long hair was pale gold, and her eyes were a deep emerald green.
“So it’s her!”
Xu Mu remembered her. She was Youyoufan, the woman who had broken into Kunlun Mountain during the Martial Arts Championship.
She was also a member of the Abyss Chapel.
Xu Mu recalled that, besides her, there had been another person who was likewise one of the Abyss Chapel’s bishops.
At the time, the two of them had rescued several people from the Realm Within a Realm.
Nalan Shisan had once told him that the Abyss Chapel was unfathomably deep, having gathered experts from various races.
Faced with such an opponent, Xu Mu had to determine their intentions. Otherwise, with the enemy hidden and himself exposed, he would be at a serious disadvantage.
Xu Mu waited there for several more minutes, but the two people on the top floor did not exchange a single word.
Since he could not overhear any useful information, he had no choice but to go in himself.
Xu Mu got out of the car and walked toward the hotel lobby.
When the receptionist saw him, she hurriedly stood up.
“President.”
The lobby manager immediately jogged over when he saw Xu Mu and bowed his head.
“President, what brings you here?”
“I’m here to meet a guest in the top-floor suite.”
As he spoke, Xu Mu headed toward the private elevator at the back of the lobby.
It led directly to the first floor and the top floor. Guests staying on the other floors had no right to use it.
The lobby manager signaled the security guards on duty to open the elevator. Xu Mu stepped inside.
“You don’t need to come with me.”
After saying this to the lobby manager, Xu Mu closed the elevator doors.
When he reached the top floor, he found that the entire level was covered in patterned carpeting.
Several pieces of exercise equipment stood beside the glass windows in the distance, and beyond them he could see the river stretching across Jiang City.
Xu Mu arrived at the suite’s entrance and pushed the door open.
Youyoufan, who had been standing beside the window, turned around. Upon seeing Xu Mu, she took the initiative to sit down in a nearby armchair.
Xu Mu used the Eye of God to inspect the middle-aged man.
Name: Uce
Identity: Bishop of Pain of the Abyss Chapel
Favorability: -9
Fate Level: 4 (Maximum Level: 10)
Xu Mu nodded inwardly. So this was the man who had infiltrated Kunlun Mountain alongside Youyoufan last time.
He had heard Youyoufan mention his name before.
It seemed that the Abyss Chapel truly was not simple.
Youyoufan was only at the peak of the first stage of the World-Breaking Realm, yet she had already become one of the Four Great Bishops.
Previously, Xu Mu had suspected that their overall strength was mediocre and that Nalan Shisan had exaggerated their capabilities.
But after seeing Uce’s cultivation level, things were clearly different.
The sixth stage of the World-Breaking Realm—and he did not look particularly old. Judging from his appearance, he seemed to be around sixty.
Although he was a member of another race, reaching the sixth stage of the World-Breaking Realm at that age still made him a prodigy.
Take Chi Ting of the Jiuli Clan, for example. He was also at the sixth stage, but he looked much older than Uce.
“Gentlemen—or should I say, both of you—what brings you here?”
Xu Mu asked with a smile.
“I don’t like wasting words, so I’ll get straight to the point. Wu Tian was killed by you, wasn’t he?”
Uce looked at Xu Mu without expression.
“Wu Tian? No. He was always trying to kill me, so naturally I wanted him dead, but I wasn’t the one who killed him.”
Although Xu Mu had no idea what this was about, he had to deny it first.
After all, Youyoufan, who stood before him, had been part of Wu Tian’s harem and possessed a Fate Level of nine.
It was possible that Wu Tian had some connection with the Abyss Chapel.
“Are you sure? Wu Tian kept targeting you on the Battlefield of the Gods, but now he’s dead while you’re still alive. If you didn’t kill him, then who did?”
Uce stared into Xu Mu’s eyes and asked again.
Xu Mu shrugged.
“I have no idea.”
“You’re lying. You killed him!”
At this point, Uce suddenly turned toward Youyoufan.
With both hands in the pockets of her casual jacket, Youyoufan approached Xu Mu.
She blinked at him twice. Then her emerald-green eyes began to glow with a strange green light.
Xu Mu remembered the mental-control technique Youyoufan used to control others, so he deliberately let his expression go blank.
“Answer me. Were you the one who killed Wu Tian?”
Youyoufan asked calmly.
“No.”
Xu Mu answered mechanically.
“When was the last time you saw him?”
Youyoufan continued questioning him.
“On the Battlefield of the Gods. After Redemption appeared, I chased him, but he managed to escape.”
When Xu Mu had killed Wu Tian, he had been absolutely certain that no one else was nearby.
Therefore, other than Fu Jinyu and the others, no outsiders could possibly know what had happened.
At this, Youyoufan turned to Uce.
“Perhaps he really wasn’t the one who killed him.”
“Impossible! Iron Wall of the Ironclad Clan told us himself that after Redemption appeared, Xu Mu was the only one who chased Wu Tian.”
Uce frowned.
“His elder brother died, and he lost an arm as well. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn’t have any reason to lie.”
Youyoufan asked Xu Mu again, “Who do you think killed Wu Tian?”
“Xiao Gui. The two of them had a falling-out over a woman before,” Xu Mu replied woodenly.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
