Hei Shen had long wished he could tear Xu Mu limb from limb. That brat had actually dared to destroy his arm.
At present, Hei Shen was only at the first level of the Boundary-Breaking Realm. He would have to reach the ninth level before he could break free of his shackles.
Those shackles were limitations imposed on the human body by the Heavenly Dao.
The Heavenly Dao allowed ordinary people to recover from wounds, but they could not regrow severed limbs.
Losing a limb represented a loss of vitality and damage to one’s origin.
Only upon reaching the ninth level could one break through the limitations imposed by the Heavenly Dao.
Even if one’s entire lower body were severed, as long as the brain and organs continued functioning, the body could regrow it just as it would heal a wound.
But Hei Shen had no idea how many years it would take him to reach the ninth level. He might not even achieve it in his entire lifetime.
If that happened, he would have to live with his severed arm for the rest of his life.
“Xu Mu, I’ll cut off his other arm.”
As Dantai Quan spoke, her fingers transformed into sharp spikes.
“No! I’ll take you there right now!”
Hei Shen hurriedly spoke up.
Dantai Quan was even younger than he was, but Hei Shen knew very well that when she had still been a princess, she had been hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the Jiao Clan, possessing the ability to fight opponents above her level.
Although they were both in the Boundary-Breaking Realm, he firmly believed that he could never defeat Dantai Quan.
He immediately sped up. Hei Shen did not want to die. As the clan leader’s eldest son, he was also considered a genius and had been placed under his father’s high expectations.
Even with only one arm, he could still become a formidable expert.
For example, the Inner Realm had recently been abuzz with rumors that the legendary Redemption had gained another member—and that person had lost an arm.
“This is bad.”
Xu Mu suddenly looked behind him and saw that the Jiao Clan elders had already begun pursuing them.
They were not chasing them along the ground. Every one of them was flying through the sky.
Even from a distance of a thousand meters, the people below could see the black dots in the sky.
“Help!”
Hei Shen suddenly burst forth with power.
Boom!
Dantai Quan struck Hei Shen in the back with a punch. The terrifying force sent him flying instantly.
He spat out blood, and the clothes on his back split apart, revealing a black-purple mark.
Hei Shen crashed into the ground. He tried to take the opportunity to escape, but he was already seriously injured and could not move at all.
Chen Xuan took out his woodcutter’s knife and turned to face the people flying toward them.
Xu Mu smiled and waved his hand. “Old Chen, don’t rush. With this hostage in our hands, there’s no need to fight.”
As he spoke, he returned to Hei Shen’s side and lifted him by the collar as easily as if he were a chick.
“How dare you, you criminals! You actually broke into the Jiao Clan! Release the eldest young master at once!”
The old man at the head of the group pointed at Xu Mu and shouted.
“Tell them to stay right there. If anyone takes even one more step forward, I’ll kill him.”
Xu Mu smiled at Hei Shen. “You can take a gamble and see whether I dare to do it.”
Looking at Xu Mu’s smile, Hei Shen felt the hairs on his body stand on end. He did not know why, but he had the distinct feeling that Xu Mu truly would kill him.
“Don’t come any closer! Stay where you are!”
Hei Shen immediately shouted at the people in the distance.
“Eldest young master!”
“Don’t move!”
Hei Shen let out a roar, then continued leading them forward.
“See? You originally only had to lose an arm, but you just had to shout like that. What good did it do you?”
Chen Xuan shook his head with a laugh.
Hei Shen wished he could cut the people before him into a thousand pieces, but staying alive was his priority for now.
Finally, under his guidance, they arrived at a stretch of grassland.
Once they reached the area, they saw a circular stone slab lying flat on the ground.
Dantai Quan’s face lit up, and she said to Xu Mu, “This is the place!”
“I’ve brought you here as promised. I hope you’ll keep your word. Otherwise, you may bring down Heaven’s retribution upon yourselves.”
Hei Shen looked at Xu Mu and the others. “Give me the phone, then let me go!”
“I agreed to give you the phone, but I never agreed to let you leave.”
Xu Mu smiled.
“You…”
Hei Shen was so furious that he nearly vomited blood. After carefully thinking it over, he realized that Xu Mu had indeed only agreed to give him the phone.
“Forget the phone. I’ll send you to the afterlife first.”
Dantai Quan raised her hand and reached for Hei Shen’s neck.
“No! I don’t want the phone anymore! Let me go!”
Terrified, Hei Shen immediately unleashed his power to defend himself. “You can’t kill me! If you do, you’ll die too!”
“Don’t attack him. Let him go for now. There’s always a need to leave some room for maneuver.”
Xu Mu smiled as he stopped Dantai Quan. At the same time, he transmitted his voice to her. “There’s no need to rush. If we run into danger, the video in his hands may still be useful for threatening him.”
Hearing this, Dantai Quan nodded. “Get lost!”
She then pressed her hand against the stone slab in the grass, and her body vanished from the area.
Xu Mu and Chen Xuan followed her inside.
“Just you wait! Just you wait! I’ll grind your bones to dust!”
Hei Shen transformed directly into his Jiao form, though he was missing one claw in this form.
He roared toward the distance, “All of you, get over here!”
…
Xu Mu and the others arrived in a cave. The passageways around them were extremely narrow, only a little more than two meters wide.
“You should be familiar with this place by now, right?”
Xu Mu touched the wall beside him. “There’s a formation here, and its level isn’t low.”
“Don’t worry. I used to play here all the time when I was young. I know it like the back of my hand.”
Dantai Quan strode forward.
After traveling roughly a hundred meters, they came upon three branching paths. Without hesitation, Dantai Quan chose the one in the middle.
As they entered the cave, the world before them suddenly changed.
They found themselves on a battlefield.
More than a dozen formation constructs in the distance charged toward them.
Dantai Quan said to the two of them, “Stay here and don’t move.”
As she spoke, she flew into the sky. After dodging the attacks of several figures from above, she deliberately spread her arms and allowed a long-haired formation construct to stab her through the chest with a longsword.
Boom!
The long-haired man immediately released his weapon and retreated into the distance.
Dantai Quan also descended beside the two men, the longsword still embedded in her body.
“Damn! Are you all right?”
Xu Mu asked.
“I’m fine. This weapon is the key to passing through this place.”
Dantai Quan grabbed Xu Mu and Chen Xuan and flew toward the deepest part of the area.
Because the weapon was still lodged in her body, none of the surrounding formation constructs dared approach her.
In the end, they arrived at a building at the very heart of the area.
After stepping into the building, they found themselves in another illusionary formation.
This time, it was a solemn and austere tomb.
As soon as they entered, more than a dozen skeletons emerged from the distant graves.
All of the skeletons looked exactly alike. They unleashed terrifying power and charged at the group without hesitation.
Dantai Quan pulled the longsword from her body and darted between the skeletons. In the end, she drove the sword into one of them.
The skeleton shattered on the spot and transformed into a golden formation token.
After grabbing the token, Dantai Quan once again took the two men into the sky, arriving inside a white cloud high above.
The formation token automatically dissolved, revealing a black hole within it.
The three of them stepped inside together. After walking only a few steps, they arrived in a gigantic cavern.
When they saw the treasures before them, none of them could believe their eyes.
And this was only the third tribe of a first-rate race. What would the stronghold of that first-rate race look like? And what about the strongholds of the four great races?
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
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."
