Although Lin Yang was a King of Soldiers, his level had been quite low at the beginning, so he could not compare with protagonists like Ye Chen.
However, as the main character, his potential for growth was definitely no weaker than theirs.
Xu Mu had come this time to check the other man's filial piety points.
If they had returned to zero, he planned to kill Lin Yang and eliminate the threat once and for all.
In his view, zero was equivalent to a negative value, because this level represented the relationship between strangers.
Often, just one thought was enough to turn filial piety points negative.
He checked the rankings for the Grandmaster and Transcendent realms here. After looking through the top ten, he still did not see Lin Yang's name.
"Could he have lied to me?"
Xu Mu wondered to himself.
"Brother Mu, what's wrong?" Chen Xuan asked from the side.
"Nothing."
Xu Mu shook his head. He had originally sent Lin Yang to the Northern Nether Continent mainly to keep him from running into Meng Wanyue and the others, allowing him to obtain double the rewards.
With his protagonist-level talent, even if his cultivation had dropped below the tenth level, fighting opponents above his realm should have been as easy as child's play.
Even if he could not defeat the top four races, making it into the top ten should have been easy.
Could Lin Yang not be in this Holy War Battlefield at all, but somewhere else?
Xu Mu let out a breath and stopped thinking about it. He still had to deal with the matter at hand first.
Meng Wanyue, Dai Xingluo, and Tong Guoguo were already very familiar with the registration process here.
Since Xu Mu and the others were no longer short of spirit stones, they directly rented a villa inside the illusory formation.
"Old Chen, aren't you signing up?" Xu Mu asked from the side.
"I'll pass. Compared with training here, I prefer being outside. I can train while searching for my senior sister."
Chen Xuan gave a sly grin. "My top priority right now is to become wanted, just like Brother Mu."
"That's easy. Once we've settled them in, you can accompany me around for a few rounds."
Xu Mu smiled.
With a guard leading the way, they headed toward the villa inside the illusory formation.
After entering, Xu Mu surveyed the surroundings with his senses.
As expected, this place was on a completely different level from the Qingqiu Continent. Many of the villas there had been vacant.
Here, however, villas were packed densely together, and almost all of them were occupied. The cheaper inns were even more crowded.
"By the way, take these pills."
Xu Mu first took out the pills he had refined and handed them to Meng Wanyue and Dai Xingluo. "Once you reach the peak, consuming one will allow you to enter the Transcendent Realm."
"Brother Mu, I won't disappoint you."
Meng Wanyue accepted the pills and nodded firmly.
[Favorability +10]
Dai Xingluo smiled. "Don't worry, Big Brother. I'll work even harder than they do."
"Here. One Earth-grade cultivation technique for each of you."
Xu Mu took out two metal slips. "I set these aside especially for you. They're fairly well suited to your constitutions. Once you've entered the Transcendent Realm, I'll find a way to get you both Heaven-grade cultivation techniques."
[Favorability +20]
"Thank you, Big Brother!"
Dai Xingluo hugged Xu Mu's arm and shook it enthusiastically.
Meng Wanyue also accepted the cultivation technique, her face filled with gratitude as she gazed at Xu Mu.
"Guoguo, this is yours. After reaching the World-Breaking Realm, your progress starts to slow down. Take these ten pills first and consume one every three days. Once you've finished them, we'll see how far you've advanced."
Xu Mu walked over to the sofa where Tong Guoguo was sitting, slipped an arm around her shoulders, and said with a smile.
[Favorability +20]
A faint blush appeared on Tong Guoguo's cheeks. She immediately put the pills into her ring.
"Then I won't stand on ceremony."
"I've also prepared a divine-grade cultivation technique for you. I'll give it to you when I have the time."
Xu Mu suddenly whispered into Tong Guoguo's ear.
"What?"
Tong Guoguo's eyes widened in shock. The golden gears inside the whites of her eyes began spinning faster.
[Favorability +30]
"It's a body-refining technique, so it should suit you quite well. Unfortunately, it's currently in someone else's hands. Once she can hand it over, I'll bring it to you."
Xu Mu smiled as he spoke.
Tong Guoguo was overwhelmed with excitement. A divine-grade cultivation technique was the stuff of legends.
Even among the four great races of the Inner World, it was an unsurpassed treasure that only a handful of people had the privilege to cultivate.
"Think of my reward in advance. I don't give things away for free."
Xu Mu gave a wicked grin.
Tong Guoguo felt heat spreading throughout her body. This bastard was actually using a divine-grade cultivation technique to blackmail her.
Who could possibly resist that?
"All right, keep working hard here. Old Chen and I are leaving first. You don't have to see us off."
After saying this, Xu Mu left with Chen Xuan.
The two of them did not linger. They left the Holy War Battlefield directly.
Once they arrived outside, Xu Mu had already dispelled the formation.
"Brother Mu, where are we going next?" Chen Xuan asked from the side. "Wouldn't it be dangerous to go to the Water Spirit Clan now?"
"You're right. Shui Shu is at the eighth rank. With just the two of us, forget about threatening her—we might lose our lives the moment we open our mouths."
Xu Mu rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "What we need is to find allies."
"You mean her opponent?"
"Exactly. Didn't that Ding Shi say before that the Water Spirit Clan is choosing its next clan leader? The council of elders supports her, but the current clan leader's direct descendant is also a strong contender."
Xu Mu looked at Chen Xuan. "Regardless, we have to infiltrate the Water Spirit Clan first."
"Indeed. Brother Mu, how about we each use our own methods?"
Chen Xuan smiled.
"Of course. Two people using two different methods gives us a better chance than acting together."
Xu Mu nodded in agreement.
"Then we'll split up."
Chen Xuan bid farewell to Xu Mu and left first.
Xu Mu also let out a breath before setting off toward the Water Spirit Clan's royal city.
...
After traveling for several hours, Xu Mu saw a massive city ahead.
Unlike the clusters of villages he had encountered before, this place had towering walls, and the city itself covered a vast area.
It looked roughly the size of a small county town in Long Nation.
Xu Mu entered the city. People streamed through the streets, while all kinds of shops displayed a dazzling variety of goods.
Some of the narrower streets were so crowded that people were practically pressed against one another and had to queue just to get through.
He could not help sighing. As expected of the Greater Inner World, it was completely different from the remote, small Inner World of Qingqiu.
"Hmm?"
Xu Mu suddenly looked toward a shop on the side of the street. Its name was "Flying Beast."
The roof of the shop was occupied by several enormous birds that appeared to be exotic beasts from the Inner World.
They looked somewhat like wyverns, but were incredibly massive. When standing, they were nearly ten meters tall, with wingspans of twenty to thirty meters.
Strapped to the back of each enormous wyvern was a box-shaped carriage resembling a sedan chair.
"Hey, are you heading to the Water Spirit Clan's royal capital? You're the last passenger we need before departure."
A burly man wearing a leather vest called out to Xu Mu.
"The Water Spirit Clan's royal capital? How much does it cost?" Xu Mu asked.
"Thirty jin of spirit stones. Our beast flies as fast as a second-stage World-Breaking cultivator, so we'll arrive in one day."
The burly man smiled.
"All right."
Xu Mu nodded and took out thirty jin of spirit stones, handing them to the man.
Under the man's guidance, he climbed into the carriage above.
The carriage had wooden benches running along all four sides. Each side could seat five people, allowing a total of twenty passengers.
Xu Mu thought this business was highly profitable. A single trip could earn six hundred jin of spirit stones.
He walked over and sat at the very edge on the left side.
Of the nineteen people left, more than a dozen had long blue hair and blue eyes.
Most likely, they were members of the Water Spirit Clan.
After Xu Mu took his seat, one of the young men nudged an elderly man beside him and gave him a meaningful look. “Elder, he looks familiar.”
It wasn’t just the elder. Everyone else turned their gaze toward Xu Mu as well.
“Heh, hello, everyone. I’m Xu Mu. At the moment, I’m wanted by both the Black Moon Clan and the Nine Nether Clan.”
Xu Mu openly revealed his identity.
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.
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
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.
