When Xu Mu and Tantai Quan saw Xu Mu leave, they both rose and followed him.
Xu Mu followed the road here until he reached the main route.
Then he called out, “Guoguo.”
When Tong Guoguo saw Xu Mu, delight flashed across her face. She quickened her pace. “Xu Mu? You came?”
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“I was passing through, so I came to see you. I also brought you some things.”
Xu Mu nodded with a smile.
Hesius, who had been behind him, walked over as well. When he saw that the person in front of him was Xu Mu, his slit pupils contracted into two intersecting lines.
“You’re Xu Mu?”
“You’ve heard of me?”
Xu Mu looked at the blond young man and gave a faint smile.
“Of course. Right now, you’re wanted by two of the four great races.”
Hesius smiled as he spoke. “One of them is offering a divine medicine for your death, while the other is offering a substantial reward.”
“What?”
Tong Guoguo’s expression changed abruptly.
After fighting here for some time, she had gained a clear understanding of the strength of the four great races. They were indeed terrifyingly powerful.
At nearly every level, the top-ranked individuals belonged to one of those races.
Moreover, they had spent this entire period in the inner world and had learned just how frightening those races truly were.
The four great races were not merely four races. They had countless subordinate races under them, all of which followed their lead.
By provoking them, Xu Mu had practically made himself a public enemy of the entire world.
“As expected of Brother Mu. He’s actually wanted by two of the four great races. But offering just one divine medicine is looking down on him too much,” Chen Xuan muttered from the side.
Tantai Quan gave him an exasperated look. “Aren’t you afraid that if they offer several divine medicines, Xu Mu will be hunted endlessly?”
“Brother Mu isn’t afraid of them.”
Chen Xuan’s expression seemed even more confident than Xu Mu’s.
“Wanted by two races? Is one of them your Sacred Light Race?”
Xu Mu casually dug a finger into his ear.
“No. It’s the Netherworld Race and the Black Moon Race,” Hesius explained.
Xu Mu nodded with a smile. He could confirm that the Netherworld Race was one of them, considering that he had beaten Youhuo up.
He simply hadn’t expected the other to be the Black Moon Race. Zilan Yin had even used his hand to grab her bottom, and she had survived only because of his help.
He should have known better than to save her. She had turned against him and pretended not to know him afterward.
“My elder sister is Hathaway. I’ve heard about what happened between the two of you,” Hesius continued as he looked at Xu Mu. “Regardless, you saved her, so I’m grateful to you. However, I have no idea how the Sacred Light Race will treat you in the future.”
“Did she return without being humiliated?”
Xu Mu thought of Hathaway. Even when threatened with execution, she had refused to submit and would rather have died than yield.
“There must have been some humiliation in private, but publicly, no one dared to insult her. If not for her, the eighth-grade experts and geniuses of the four great races would all have died,” Hesius explained. “As for Zilan Yin, her own race mocked her for being afraid of death, and her status has plummeted.”
“No wonder they put a bounty on me. It seems Zilan Yin holds a grudge against me.”
Xu Mu shrugged with a smile.
Hesius looked at Tong Guoguo again. “I didn’t realize you knew Xu Mu. In that case, I won’t invite you anymore. I can only give you one piece of advice: staying with Xu Mu will be very dangerous.”
“You don’t need to remind me.”
Tong Guoguo spoke indifferently.
Hesius nodded at Xu Mu, then turned and left.
“He seems like a decent person.”
Xu Mu had just checked the filial-piety values that the other man held toward everyone present.
They were all zero, which meant that, in his eyes, everyone here was a stranger.
He had kept inviting Tong Guoguo simply because he wanted her to join the Sacred Light Race. There were no other feelings involved.
“He’s incredibly persistent. Ever since I entered the World-Breaking realm, he’s asked me to join the Sacred Light Race every time I return from a battle.”
Tong Guoguo waved her hand and walked toward the villa.
Xu Mu and the others followed her inside. They had barely sat down when Meng Wanyue and Dai Xingluo arrived at the villa together.
The moment Dai Xingluo saw Xu Mu, she ran over with a smile. “Big Brother!”
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She spread her legs and knelt on Xu Mu’s lap.
Meng Wanyue also walked up to Xu Mu and sat beside him. She then lifted Dai Xingluo’s legs, trying to make her get down.
But Dai Xingluo simply sprawled across Xu Mu, wrapped both arms around his neck, and refused to move.
“All right, come down.”
Xu Mu picked up Dai Xingluo and placed her on the other side of the sofa.
“Brother Mu, did the pills you gave us before contain divine medicine? Their effects were incredible. I’m already at the peak of the Grandmaster realm.”
Meng Wanyue took Xu Mu’s hand. “I’m sure it won’t be long before I reach the pinnacle of the peak Grandmaster realm.”
“Big Brother, I’ve reached the peak of the Grandmaster realm too,” Dai Xingluo said with a smile from the side.
Tong Guoguo shook her head slightly. Following Xu Mu made her wonder whether she was dreaming.
Those powerful pills had never stopped coming.
Tantai Quan was equally shocked. In such a short time, they had crossed an entire major stage and reached the peak of the Grandmaster realm.
It was simply too good to follow Xu Mu around. Why hadn’t she realized this earlier?
“This time, I obtained quite a few more natural treasures. I’ve already refined the pills you’ll need to break through to the Transcendent realm.”
Xu Mu smiled at the group.
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“By the way…”
As Tong Guoguo spoke, she took out several eighth- and ninth-grade natural treasures from her storage ring. “These are what I bought recently with the spirit stones I earned.”
Xu Mu glanced at them. There was only one ninth-grade treasure and three eighth-grade treasures.
“Brother Mu, I bought some too, but the prices here are too high. Besides, we can’t earn many spirit stones from battles at our current level.”
Meng Wanyue also took out three eighth-grade natural treasures.
Seeing this, Dai Xingluo took out three eighth-grade treasures as well. “Big Brother, we were actually planning to go to the Sacred Battlefield on the Northern Nether Continent.”
“What would you go there for?”
Xu Mu suddenly thought of Lin Yang. He remembered that, to prevent Lin Yang from competing with his own people, he had sent him there ahead of time.
“There are more experts there, the races are wealthier, and there are more varieties of natural treasures,” Dai Xingluo explained.
“That’s true. A fragment like Qingqiu is basically the outskirts of a city in the outside world.”
Tantai Quan nodded as well. “There’s only one first-rate race here, the Flood Dragon Race, and even that is merely the third tribe. But on the Northern Nether Continent, first-rate races are everywhere, and the Black Moon Race’s territory is there too.”
Xu Mu stroked his chin thoughtfully. “All right. We should see the real inner world at some point.”
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Xu Mu and the others stayed there for another day. During that time, he refined all the natural treasures that Tantai Quan and Chen Xuan had obtained.
This time, he did not charge them anything.
As for the natural treasures he had acquired himself, he refined enough materials to make a full hundred pills.
Another day passed.
Tantai Quan said goodbye to Xu Mu. She needed to return to the outside world as soon as possible and wait for her master to contact her.
Xu Mu did not leave with her. He planned to personally escort Meng Wanyue and the others to the Sacred Battlefield on the Northern Nether Continent.
Chen Xuan also decided to accompany Xu Mu. He was now certain that his senior sister had to be somewhere in the inner world.
After everyone finished packing, they headed to the Sacred Battlefield’s marketplace.
Meng Wanyue and the others withdrew all the spirit stones they had stored there, then left the area.
They had just stepped outside when Xu Mu spotted a group of Jiao clan members standing guard by the entrance.
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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.
