After hearing the name, most of the people present took their phones out of their spatial rings.
The Inner Realm had no phone service or internet access, so in the hands of these people, phones were nothing more than tools for recording videos and taking pictures.
They took out their phones and checked the photos stored inside, then looked up at Xu Mu. The person in the pictures was exactly the same as the man before them.
The expressions of everyone present grew somewhat uneasy. If Xu Mu had been a top-level expert who was wanted by the authorities, it would have been understandable. With their formidable strength, ordinary people generally wouldn’t dare provoke them.
Even those at the same level wouldn’t dare act rashly. The stronger one’s cultivation, the more one treasured one’s life.
But Xu Mu’s cultivation was only at the Transcendent Realm—he hadn’t even reached the Boundary-Breaking Realm. Yet he actually dared to travel openly through the Inner Realm all by himself.
“If you want to make a move against me, please wait until we reach the royal capital,” Xu Mu said with a smile. “The owner of this transportation service has a hard enough time making a living. Don’t destroy his vehicle.”
A blue-haired woman sitting directly across from Xu Mu studied him with intense curiosity.
She wore a dark-red battle dress, with a small black cape draped over her shoulders.
She looked quite young, around twenty years old.
Her blue hair fell to her shoulders. Her straight bangs were cut neatly, while the hair on both sides had been trimmed in a princess-cut style, hanging down to her jawline.
After sizing Xu Mu up for a while, the woman finally asked, “You seem very relaxed. Aren’t you afraid we’ll kill you?”
“No. If I were afraid, I would have gone into hiding long ago.”
Xu Mu smiled at the woman.
“Looks like you’re very confident in your strength,” the woman remarked.
“My strength isn’t anything special, but I’m pretty good at running away.” Xu Mu shrugged. “Otherwise, those two major races wouldn’t have put a bounty on me.”
The others around them didn’t say anything. They were all weighing whether or not to attack.
The coachman shouted, “Take off!” from outside, then sat at the front of the sedan, where the demonic beast’s head was.
The sedan rocked violently several times at first. Once the demonic beast rose into the sky, however, it quickly stabilized.
With nothing better to do, Xu Mu decided to use the Justice Points he had accumulated and draw from the system.
He was only a little short of advancing to the next level, and keeping the points unused had been bothering him.
He opened the system and checked his current Justice Points. He had just enough for three ten-pulls.
Originally, he had only been able to make two ten-pulls. However, after helping the people of Tantai Quan’s race escape, he had obtained enough points from them for another ten-pull.
He tapped the roulette wheel before him, and the rewards began appearing one after another.
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 Cultivation Points.
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 20 Attribute Points.
…
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 Attribute Points.
The first ten-pull ended. Every reward had been a guaranteed minimum prize, which was good news for Xu Mu, especially since he was right on the verge of advancing.
He immediately started the second ten-pull.
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained Spatial Power.
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 Cultivation Points.
…
The second ten-pull soon ended as well. Aside from one reward of Spatial Power, the rest were all guaranteed minimum prizes.
Xu Mu gradually grew excited. He was only a little short now. As long as he didn’t get any useless junk, it would definitely be enough.
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a Seventh-Grade Heavenly Treasure Gift Box.
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a Heaven-Grade Technique, Dawn Breeze.
What the hell?
When Xu Mu saw the reward, he couldn’t help clenching his fists. This was a crucial moment. Even a Heaven-Grade technique seemed inferior to guaranteed minimum rewards right now—unless it was a God-Grade technique.
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 Cultivation Points.
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 20 Attribute Points.
…
Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 Cultivation Points.
The three ten-pulls had all ended. Xu Mu immediately checked the points he had obtained.
This time, he had received a total of 510 Cultivation Points and 270 Attribute Points.
He quickly opened his status panel to check his current cultivation value. When he saw the number, he finally let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it was enough—and he had even gotten a Heaven-Grade technique on top of that.
He closed his eyes and immediately applied all the points.
As his strength gradually increased, Xu Mu finally broke through his current realm.
Congratulations! The Host has reached the late stage of the Transcendent Realm.
A line of black text appeared before his eyes.
The others around him were either resting with their eyes closed or quietly conversing among themselves.
Suddenly, they all looked toward Xu Mu, who had been resting with his eyes shut. The qi within his body abruptly surged, causing the demonic beast outside to stagger several times.
The qi had only just spread across the surface of his body when it was drawn back inside.
But the qi hidden within him had risen to an entirely higher level than before.
“He advanced?”
The blue-haired woman sitting opposite Xu Mu was stunned on the spot.
The others were equally dumbfounded.
What was going on?
Could it be any more absurd?
Generally speaking, once a person reached the Grandmaster level, they could no longer break through entirely through their own efforts. They needed heavenly treasures to assist their bodies.
As for those geniuses with monstrous physiques and talent, they could advance through the early, middle, and even late stages of the Grandmaster level without relying on heavenly treasures.
They could raise their cultivation purely through their own abilities.
But no matter how astonishing their talent was, when they attempted to break through from the Grandmaster level to the Transcendent Realm, they still needed the assistance of heavenly treasures.
So what was going on with Xu Mu?
The qi he had just released clearly indicated that he had advanced from the middle stage of the Transcendent Realm to the late stage!
He hadn’t taken any heavenly treasures. He had simply closed his eyes for a short rest, and then he had broken through?
Was there any justice in this world?
The sedan wasn’t very large, so everyone nearby had seen everything clearly. Xu Mu hadn’t suddenly taken any pills or heavenly treasures.
The elder of the Water Spirit Race sucked in a sharp breath.
No wonder Xu Mu was being hunted by two major races.
Xu Mu truly was a monster. If someone like him were allowed to grow, he would absolutely become a disaster for the entire Inner Realm.
At that moment, Xu Mu still had his eyes closed as he examined his status panel.
Name: Xu Mu
Character: Villain’s Sacred Physique, President of the Xu Group
Realm: Late Transcendent Realm
Physique: 4,235
Spirit: 4,235
Cultivation Value: 40 (Maximum: 3,200)
Heavenly Mandate Power: 5,492
Seeing this, Xu Mu was very satisfied. He was even closer to the Boundary-Breaking Realm now.
He then checked the Heaven-Grade technique he had obtained. When he saw its description, Xu Mu immediately opened his eyes.
What an incredible technique!
Dawn Breeze could be summed up in one sentence: it allowed the user to compress the air around them through the technique and turn it into a weapon.
The technique had many advantages. First, it was invisible to the naked eye, since air was colorless.
For example, when compressing air into a blade, the only thing visible when the move was released would be a fleeting, distorted phantom—something like the blurry waves of heat rising from a road in summer. It was extremely difficult to detect.
The second advantage was precisely what Xu Mu needed most right now: flight.
For example, once he ran out of steps with Cloudstep, he could only descend from a high altitude and rest.
It was like swimming underwater. After a certain amount of time, he had to surface to breathe.
But with this technique, things would be different.
He could completely compress the air beneath his feet until its density was almost the same as solid ground.
As long as he stepped on the compressed air, he could use Cloudstep again.
In other words, after mastering this technique, Xu Mu would truly be able to fly.
Unless his qi was completely exhausted, he would never have to touch the ground again.
“Did you advance?”
The blue-haired woman sitting across from Xu Mu asked curiously when she saw him open his eyes.
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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."
