“Me?”
Dan Tai Quan pointed at herself, then shook her head vigorously. “I can’t do it! Almost everyone knows me. I’m wanted by the Flood Dragon Clan.”
“You don’t need to show your face. You only need to prove that you’re a woman.”
Xu Mu pointed toward the building halfway up the mountain. “We’ll go to that building first. There are two people inside. Just follow my instructions.”
“Okay.”
Dan Tai Quan nodded slightly. She was quite good at reading the situation and acting accordingly.
The three of them wore black robes and walked toward the mountain together. As they approached the entrance to the ruins, several guards took the initiative to come over.
“Who are you? Why are you wearing black robes?” the leader asked.
Xu Mu raised one finger to his lips and said softly, “Shh! Just stay at your posts.”
With that, he led the other two straight into the building.
Seeing them go to find the captain, the guards returned to their positions.
Inside the stone building, two middle-aged men were drinking. When they saw someone enter, one of them, a burly man with a large beard, frowned.
“Who are you?”
Xu Mu walked over with a smile. “This is the beauty Young Master Hei Shen requested. The young master ordered me to deliver her today.”
“Oh? Let me see what kind of taste the young master has.”
The bearded man put down his wine cup and ogled Dan Tai Quan.
“I never expected mere gate guards to be so bold. When I see the young master, I’ll be sure to report this to him in detail.”
As she spoke, Dan Tai Quan slowly removed the hood of her black robe.
“We have to see her face, too. What if you’re—”
Crack!
Just as the two men’s gazes fell on Dan Tai Quan, Xu Mu suddenly drew a short sword from the side and unleashed his Mirror-Breaking Sword technique on them.
The two men’s eyes immediately became vacant.
“This woman was personally ordered by Hei Shen to be delivered to you. She must be taken to his bedchamber. If you dare to delay even a moment, both of you will lose your lives.”
Xu Mu spoke to the two men before him.
“Yes!”
The two men hurriedly nodded.
They quickly put down their things and led the way.
Dan Tai Quan pulled her hood back over her head, then tugged at Xu Mu’s arm and asked in a low voice, “You even know a mental technique?”
“I know a little,” Xu Mu replied with a quiet smile.
Both men were at the early Transcendent Stage. Relying on his god-tier technique, Xu Mu possessed absolute suppression over them.
They certainly couldn’t compare to those top experts. At most, they would only be dazed for a moment.
When the guards saw the captain leading the group, they all stepped aside and dared not stop them.
After entering the ruins, they encountered another patrol farther in.
When the guards saw them, one of the middle-aged men asked with a smile, “Old Fatty, Old Weng, why are you in such a hurry? Where are you going?”
“Tell them,” Xu Mu instructed the two men.
One of the bearded men hurried over and said, “This is the woman Young Master Hei Shen personally named. If we’re even one step late, we’ll all die!”
“Damn! What are you waiting for, then? Hurry up and take them there!”
The middle-aged man glanced at the black-robed group. Although the woman’s black robe concealed her face, her figure and the faintly visible curve of her chin clearly marked her as a beauty.
Hei Shen was addicted to beautiful women, falling for practically every one he saw.
It was said that he had previously tried to take the queen of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan for himself, but she rejected him. In a fit of anger, he had taken three concubines in this short span of time.
“Understood.”
The two men immediately led Xu Mu and the others deeper into the ruins.
When they reached an empty mountain path, the bearded man suddenly froze.
“Wait, that’s not right. When did Young Master Hei Shen ever tell me to bring him a beauty?”
“That’s right. What standing do we have? If Lord Hei Shen wanted a woman, wouldn’t he simply have his bodyguards bring one to him?”
As soon as they finished speaking, the two men turned around.
“You…”
Slash! Slash!
Almost simultaneously, Xu Mu and Chen Xuan cut open their throats with their weapons.
The two men collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Xu Mu immediately activated the Devouring Spirit Sacred Gu, which swallowed the two corpses until not even their remains were left.
“So amazing! I can’t believe we managed to get in this way.”
Dan Tai Quan now worshiped Xu Mu completely. “Xu Mu, you’re my idol!”
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“Brother Mu, you manage to refresh my understanding of you almost every time.”
Chen Xuan gave him a thumbs-up from the side.
“Stop praising me. I’m already arrogant enough as it is.”
Xu Mu looked at Dan Tai Quan. “You’re more familiar with the layout here. Which way should we go?”
“Follow me. We’ll go to the right.”
Dan Tai Quan immediately led Xu Mu and Chen Xuan toward the depths of the mountains.
The palace where the leader lived was directly behind the ruins, while the elders’ council was located on the left.
As for the right side, that was where the leader’s descendants lived. Sneaking in from there was the best choice.
Xu Mu released his senses and constantly monitored everyone in the vicinity.
With his assistance, the three of them avoided the guards they might have encountered along the way and finally reached the side of the palace at the deepest part of the ruins.
“Once we’re here, there’s no other choice. We have to enter through the main gate.”
Dan Tai Quan looked up at the guards stationed in front of the palace.
These guards were nothing like those at the entrance. The strongest among them had already reached the World-Breaking Realm, and Xu Mu’s Mirror-Breaking Sword could not control him for very long.
“How long will it take to reach the place where the treasure is hidden from here?” Xu Mu asked.
“When the palace’s defensive formation isn’t active, it’ll take about ten minutes,” Dan Tai Quan explained. “After passing through the main gate, we’ll reach the council chamber. Deeper inside is the illusion formation surrounding the leader’s harem. Once we pass through the illusion formation, we’ll reach the entrance.”
“Good. Since it only takes ten minutes, let’s make our move.”
Xu Mu removed his black robe and used an illusion formation to alter his appearance.
He was now wearing black armor, and his pupils had also turned into vertical slits.
“You come with me. Old Chen, pay attention to my telepathic message.”
After saying this, Xu Mu led Dan Tai Quan around to the main gate and climbed the stone steps.
At last, the two of them arrived in front of the palace gates.
The palace was likewise built from piled stones. It was grand and imposing, and the stones were not all the same color.
Instead, stones of countless colors had been pieced together, creating a dazzling and bewildering sight.
Xu Mu and Dan Tai Quan arrived before the leading guard.
The man wore black armor and had several scars across his face. His hair was already more than half gray, and he was a powerful expert at the second level of the World-Breaking Realm.
There were more than a dozen guards around him as well.
“You look unfamiliar. Who are you?” the middle-aged man asked as he stepped forward.
“The woman behind me is the one the leader wants. I believe you’ve seen her before.”
As Xu Mu spoke, he turned and gestured to Dan Tai Quan, while secretly sending a telepathic message to Chen Xuan.
Dan Tai Quan gripped the hood of her black robe and slowly pulled it down, revealing her eyes and the lower half of her face.
The middle-aged man suddenly froze.
“You are…”
Whoosh!
Chen Xuan suddenly used the teleportation token to appear beside Xu Mu. The white-bone dagger in his hand slashed toward the middle-aged man’s neck.
“Hahaha! I never thought you’d come here to throw your life away! This great achievement is mine!”
The middle-aged man let out a loud laugh and instantly unleashed his strength to the limit.
The qi of a second-tier cultivator transformed into thick armor, covering his entire body.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
A sound like water splashing onto red-hot steel suddenly rang out.
The man’s thick qi defense was completely sliced open.
“What the hell?”
The middle-aged man was stunned.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
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?"
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.
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."
