“You…”
The scar-faced man stared at Tong Guoguo in disbelief. Her cultivation was clearly only at the first stage, while he was at the second. Yet she had actually blocked eighty percent of his power with her bare hands.
He had intended to say something, but as the spikes piercing through his body vanished, his entire body seemed to lose its soul. He collapsed to the ground.
Rumble!
At the same time, golden currents of electricity flashed around Chen Xuan.
His figure was as fast as lightning. The three first-stage experts could not catch him at all before they were swallowed by the golden light.
Two of them had been struck in vital areas and fell dead on the spot.
The third had a massive wound across his chest, golden electricity still crackling through it.
He was not dead, however, and fled in panic.
The people who showed shocked expressions were naturally not those on Xu Mu’s side.
Xu Mu obviously knew Chen Xuan’s strength, and Meng Wanyue, Dai Xingluo, and Tong Guoguo knew him as well.
Could a man who had always stayed by Xu Mu’s side possibly be ordinary?
The ones who were truly shocked were the experts hiding in the shadows. They had not appeared because they wanted to gauge Xu Mu’s strength.
But they had seen nothing.
All of those people had been killed instantly. They had no chance to determine the strength of any of them, let alone force Xu Mu to act.
“How is this possible? Someone at the peak of the early Transcendent stage actually killed two first-stage Boundary Breakers in an instant?”
Shi Qianhua of the Fire Clan sucked in a cold breath. “Even the geniuses carefully selected by the four great clans would have a hard time doing that, right?”
The other members of the Fire Clan were secretly shaken as well. Fortunately, they had not made a move just now.
“Hahaha! They really aren’t easy to deal with. How could someone selected by the four great clans be ordinary?”
Ding Shi smiled from the side. “But there are always people who refuse to believe it.”
The moment he finished speaking, two more men in black robes walked toward Xu Mu and the others.
Xu Mu was leaning against a large tree. He looked at the two men in the distance.
“You two want my life as well?”
“That’s right. We plan to split you in half and take each half to one of the two great clans to claim the reward.”
One of the black-robed men spoke calmly.
Whoosh!
Chen Xuan grabbed his woodcutter’s knife and charged toward the two black-robed men.
Boom!
A deafening explosion rang out. White waves of air appeared around one of the black-robed men, clearly indicating that he had broken through the sound barrier.
In an instant, he arrived in front of Chen Xuan. He raised his hand, and two green beams of light, sharp as sword qi, shot toward Chen Xuan.
Crackle!
Chen Xuan’s body transformed into golden lightning. He passed straight through the two attacks and appeared right in front of the black-robed man.
“Mountain Splitter!”
Boom!
The black-robed man was startled by Chen Xuan’s attack. He immediately retreated a step and unleashed his power.
Two massive vines, thick enough for two men to wrap their arms around, burst from the ground in front of him and blocked his path.
Rumble!
The golden light from Chen Xuan’s attack slammed into the vines and suddenly exploded.
His strike cut through one-third of the vines.
“Heh heh! At the end of the day, you’re still only at the Transcendent stage!”
Though the black-robed man mocked him aloud, his heart had already been thrown into turmoil.
He was a fourth-stage Boundary Breaker. Yet the defensive barrier he had created with all his strength had failed to completely stop an attack from someone at the Transcendent stage.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Three more vines drilled out of the ground and wrapped toward Chen Xuan.
Crackle!
Chen Xuan once again transformed into golden lightning and passed through the vines.
He raised his left hand. A short white sword appeared in his palm, and he charged at the black-robed man once more.
Bang!
Several massive vines rose from the ground again. Taking advantage of the obstruction, the black-robed man suddenly condensed a long green spear and thrust it toward the vines in front of him.
He drew his arm back, preparing to exert his full strength, but the vines were suddenly sliced apart.
Ssssh!
The weapon continued forward, cutting through the qi protecting his body as well.
“Mountain Splitter!”
Rumble!
A golden pillar of light suddenly burst out in every direction. The earth cracked and collapsed outward like a spiderweb, before finally being completely pulverized.
Whoosh!
The black-robed man immediately retreated into the sky. At that moment, a slash had opened a tear in the black robe across his chest.
His wound could not be seen, but blood dripped from his shoes down through the air.
The people who were shaken by this were no longer limited to the outsiders. Even Meng Wanyue and the others on Xu Mu’s side stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
Someone at the early Transcendent stage had actually injured a fourth-stage expert.
With talent like this, wasn’t he just as gifted as Xu Mu?
“Brother Mu, save me!”
Chen Xuan immediately ran toward Xu Mu. “If that move doesn’t kill someone in one strike, then it’s useless!”
Even so, the injured fourth-stage expert did not continue pursuing him.
Chen Xuan had shouted for help, which proved that Xu Mu’s strength was above his own.
And that was indeed the case. The man was at the peak of the early Transcendent stage, while Xu Mu was in the middle Transcendent stage.
He was not sure whether Chen Xuan was deliberately trying to scare him.
But he did not dare to take the gamble.
“I’m injured. I won’t fight for now.”
The black-robed man slowly retreated through the air before finally landing on the branch of a large tree.
“Coward! As long as you don’t let them hit you, what’s there to fear?”
The other black-robed man suddenly unleashed his strength and similarly broke through the sound barrier.
This time, his target was not anyone else.
It was Xu Mu.
He refused to believe that someone at the mere Transcendent stage could kill him.
Xu Mu immediately drew his long sword and slashed at the black-robed man.
Endless flames erupted from the black-robed man’s body.
“Fire of…”
Crack!
A sound like shattering glass rang out, and the man froze on the spot.
Whoosh!
Xu Mu concentrated one-tenth of his qi at the tip of his sword.
With a single thrust, he pierced through the man’s qi and stabbed straight through his forehead.
Xu Mu then pulled out his sword. The man had not even managed to say another word before he dropped to his knees.
“Holy crap! That’s awesome!”
The black-robed man on the tree branch witnessed this and immediately broke through the sound barrier, vanishing from the area.
He even felt fortunate that he had not revealed his face. Otherwise, Xu Mu might have pursued and killed him.
As for the other people hiding in the distance, they were all pale with fear after witnessing the scene.
They had originally planned to wait for both sides to suffer heavy losses before taking advantage of the situation.
They had never expected this to be nothing more than an insect trying to stop a chariot. A fourth-stage expert had been killed with a single sword strike. How could they possibly keep fighting?
The four great clans had offered only a single divine medicine as a reward. No wonder the young man at the beginning had said the reward was too small and that it was beneath Xu Mu.
Shi Qianhua was completely dumbfounded.
Was this Xu Mu even human, or was he some kind of monster?
A fourth-stage Boundary Breaker could become an elder even within the four great clans, yet Xu Mu had killed one instantly?
The other members of the Fire Clan also let out a long sigh of relief. If they had fought just now, everyone except Elder Ding would have died.
“Big brother! You’re so powerful!”
Dai Xingluo saw what had happened and immediately leaped onto Xu Mu.
[Affection +20]
Tong Guoguo was also deeply shocked. She had originally thought that a major battle was about to begin. Just what level had this man reached?
Previously, Wang Hun had only been at the peak of the third stage. Even if he had entered the fourth stage by now, would he still be instantly killed by Xu Mu?
[Affection +20]
Meng Wanyue merely shook her head slightly. She clearly worked hard enough, so why did it feel as though the gap between her and Xu Mu was growing larger and larger?
“What about the few of you over there? Does anyone else want to make a move? If not, I’m going to clean up the battlefield.”
Xu Mu shouted toward the people in the distance.
There was no human sound in the mountain forest for a long time, until a hearty laugh rang out.
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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.
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
