“Damn it! Who dares make a move? Huang Pei! You think I don’t know what you’re planning? You’ve always looked down on me and wanted the second brother to become the successor, haven’t you?”
Hei Shen shouted furiously.
“Members of the Council of Elders, listen up! Continue the attack and capture them!”
Huang Pei glanced at the many elders behind him. “Whatever happens, I’ll take full responsibility!”
Hearing this, the elders moved once more. Ignoring Hei Shen’s safety, they all charged toward them.
Seeing this, Xu Mu kicked Hei Shen away. He hadn’t expected that even a mere Third Tribe would have so much infighting.
Still, dealing with this mess was quite simple.
He immediately sent a voice transmission to Chen Xuan. “Old Chen, let’s work together and kill the Grand Elder.”
The old man was also a Sixth-Stage expert. As long as Chen Xuan’s divine artifact caught him off guard, Xu Mu could kill him in a single move.
“Okay.”
Chen Xuan flew toward Xu Mu once again.
As for Tan Tai Quan, she spread her arms, and her body suddenly froze into a block of ice.
Crack!
The ice shattered abruptly, and a blue flood dragon burst out from within, soaring toward the sky.
Two ice horns resembling those of a sika deer grew from the top of its head, while its entire body was covered in icy scales.
Whoosh!
Tan Tai Quan’s form suddenly shot into the air. Vast waves of blue qi energy coiled around her enormous body.
Rumble!
All of a sudden, a massive ice tornado flew out from her body.
The terrifying chill caused the temperature throughout the entire space to plummet.
In the blink of an eye, the ice tornado swept several elders who had transformed into flood dragons into its depths.
Countless icicles churned wildly within the tornado, turning it into a giant meat grinder.
Whoosh!
Tan Tai Quan suddenly landed and lashed out with her tail. The air shook violently, and the ground collapsed inward. Several elders were sent flying by the blow.
“A flood-dragon technique?”
Huang Pei’s eyes filled with disbelief.
After all, when members of the flood-dragon clan transformed, they had no long-range attacks apart from spewing qi. Their remaining options were biting, whipping with their bodies, and clawing.
Only the top geniuses of the royal clan were qualified to learn flood-dragon techniques—martial arts that could be used while in flood-dragon form.
While Huang Pei was still stunned, Xu Mu suddenly appeared in front of him and swung his black sword, unleashing a heaven-burning sword aura.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
Three enormous sword auras, each over ten meters long, reached Huang Pei in the blink of an eye.
“Pathetic tricks! A mere Transcendent dares show off in front of me?”
Yellow light flashed across Huang Pei’s body. The three sword auras collided with the qi he had released and could not penetrate even an inch.
“Break!”
He pulled both hands apart with force, shattering all three sword auras.
“Die!”
The next moment, a gigantic yellow javelin appeared above Huang Pei’s head. It was over ten meters long.
Whoosh!
The javelin transformed into a streak of light and instantly arrived in front of Xu Mu.
Xu Mu immediately used Stars Shift, absorbing the attack before redirecting it toward the other elders.
“Mountain-Splitting!”
Chen Xuan took advantage of the opening to flash behind Huang Pei and brought his woodcutter’s knife down with all his strength.
Boom!
Huang Pei released his full power and instead sent Chen Xuan flying backward.
“You’re nothing but a fly! With your level of cultivation, even if I stood still and let you hit me, you couldn’t break through my defenses! Die!”
He immediately turned around. Two javelins appeared above his head and shot toward Chen Xuan at the same time.
Chen Xuan quickly activated his domain, transforming his body into a stream of golden lightning that passed straight through the javelins.
But the two javelins seemed to have eyes of their own. After flying into the distance, they turned around and once again shot toward Chen Xuan.
Buzz!
At that moment, Xu Mu and Chen Xuan switched positions. Xu Mu redirected the two javelins toward the other elders.
Boom! Boom!
The terrifying power erupted into a ball of light that spread in every direction.
Seeing the destructive force, Chen Xuan was secretly shocked. If he had been alone, facing the Sixth-Stage expert before him, he would have died miserably.
Whoosh!
Chen Xuan charged toward Huang Pei once more.
“Mountain-Splitting!”
“How many times do I have to tell you? An attack at your level couldn’t even—what?”
Huang Pei’s expression suddenly changed. This time, Chen Xuan’s attack had actually cut through his qi.
“Brat! Could the weapon in your hand be a divine artifact?”
Huang Pei sneered. “Even if you can cut through my defenses, so what?”
Whoosh!
Just then, Xu Mu and Chen Xuan switched positions again.
The black sword in Xu Mu’s hand seemed to have been heated until it glowed red. This time, he gathered half of his total qi.
The sword suddenly came crashing down.
“You’re only a Transcendent. Even without qi protecting me, what can you possibly do to me?”
Slash!
A blood-red radiance seemed to split the heavens and earth apart, leaving a red mark hundreds of meters long in the sky.
Huang Pei was so terrified that his hair stood on end. What kind of power was this? How could a Transcendent unleash such might?
He looked down at his body and discovered that the man had actually cut him in half at the waist.
“I remember now. You’re… Xu Mu.”
Huang Pei’s body fell uncontrollably from the sky.
The hundreds-of-meters-long red mark drew everyone’s attention. They stared at the Grand Elder’s severed body, all scared out of their wits.
The Grand Elder had actually been killed by two Transcendents. How was that possible?
Seeing this, Hei Shen was first shocked by Xu Mu and the others’ abilities. But the next moment, he shouted at the top of his lungs, “All of you, stop right damn now! The Grand Elder is dead! Do you want our entire army wiped out?”
Hearing this, the remaining elders finally stopped and retreated to Hei Shen’s side.
Tan Tai Quan had also returned to human form by then and landed behind Xu Mu and the others.
Only then did the elders clearly see Tan Tai Quan’s appearance. She was actually the Former Princess who had been wanted throughout the clan. No wonder she knew how to use flood-dragon techniques.
“Dispel the formation! Let them leave!”
Hei Shen shouted. “The Grand Elder was a Sixth-Stage expert, and he’s already dead. What do you think you can use to fight them?”
The surrounding elders could only obey.
One of the old men hurried over to the Grand Elder’s corpse, removed his ring, and took a formation key from within.
After he activated it, the formations inside the palace vanished without a trace.
“Give me his ring,” Xu Mu said, extending his hand.
The old man hesitated for a moment before throwing the ring toward Xu Mu.
Xu Mu caught it in one hand and said to the other two, “Let’s go!”
After leaving the ruins, Chen Xuan could not help laughing.
“Run right after showing off. Damn, that was exciting!”
“We obtained so many heavenly treasures this time. Forget about letting me reach the Second Stage—even my master will be able to step into the Sixth Stage.”
Tan Tai Quan clenched her fists excitedly.
She turned to Xu Mu, unable to conceal the smile in her eyes.
[Affection +30]
She felt that ever since she had entrusted her body to Xu Mu, her luck had improved as well.
Suddenly, Xu Mu turned his head toward the distance.
“Not good. Someone is flying this way.”
A few seconds after he spoke, Hei Zhuo’s figure appeared in the distance.
“I didn’t expect him to return so quickly.”
Tan Tai Quan’s breathing quickened. “Quick! Let’s go to the Holy Battlefield!”
“I’ll hold him off. You two leave first. I’ll use the teleportation token to join you later.”
Xu Mu immediately sent them a voice transmission.
Tan Tai Quan grabbed Chen Xuan, and the two vanished in the blink of an eye.
Xu Mu remained where he was and looked toward the approaching Hei Zhuo.
“Does Senior need something?”
“Two Transcendents and one First-Stage Boundary Breaker. So you’re the ones who broke into my ruins.”
Hei Zhuo asked in an even tone, “What did you go there for?”
“To be honest, Senior, I once loved a woman deeply, but Hei Shen took her from me.”
Xu Mu pulled out his phone, opened a video, and tossed it to Hei Zhuo. “I never expected to capture this after going inside.”
] [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.
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
