After leaving the royal city, Xu Mu headed for the top of a distant mountain.
With his hands in his pockets, he sat on a rock and waited quietly.
Within his perception, he sensed more than a dozen people approaching.
Before long, two middle-aged men appeared in front of Xu Mu.
The others did not come over. Instead, they watched from a distance.
“Heh heh! Who would’ve thought the two of us would be so lucky as to see a divine medicine running around?”
One of the bald men grinned.
The other middle-aged man, who wore his hair in a crew cut, also smiled as he drew a long saber. “A piece of Transcendent-level trash dares to show himself in broad daylight at the royal city of a first-rate race? Isn’t he just tired of living?”
“Big Brother, how many spirit stones do you think a divine medicine can be exchanged for? I can’t wait to go have some fun at the Holy Battlefield.”
The bald man could not help asking.
“Enough to leave you suffering from kidney deficiency.”
The crew-cut middle-aged man said with a laugh.
Xu Mu looked at the two men before him. Smiling, he spread his hand and raised it high into the air. Then his hand came down like a long saber.
Whoosh!
The air around them suddenly let out a sharp howl, as if an airplane had flown past.
In the next instant, the bald man’s body was sliced cleanly in two from the left shoulder down.
Splurt!
As the air around them settled, blood suddenly burst outward and transformed into a mist, covering the crew-cut man standing beside him.
“I didn’t realize it would be so difficult to control. I originally intended to split him straight down the middle from the head, but it veered toward the shoulder.”
Xu Mu muttered to himself.
The crew-cut middle-aged man was so terrified that the long saber in his hand fell to the ground.
He and his brother were both at the second level of the Boundary-Breaking Realm, yet his brother had been instantly killed with a mere wave of the hand.
How was this possible?
The two sides were more than ten meters apart, and it seemed that his opponent’s qi force had not even attacked him.
Just as the crew-cut man was reeling from the shock, he saw Xu Mu raise his hand again.
At the sight of this, he reacted as if he had seen a ghost. Letting out a roar, he immediately fled into the sky.
Whoosh!
The air around them once again erupted with a thunderous boom.
His body was split in two in midair. This time, the cut was perfectly clean. A bloody mist spread through the sky as the two halves of his body fell from above.
Xu Mu nodded inwardly. He had more or less mastered his control.
“Who else wants to come? Second-level Boundary Breakers aren’t much to look at.”
He addressed the forest in the distance.
But no one answered. Nearly everyone was stunned.
Xu Mu, who was only at the Transcendent Realm, had instantly killed two second-level Boundary Breakers—and his methods were so ruthless.
Xu Mu walked over to the corpses in the distance, took their spatial rings, and swallowed the corpses as well.
After the little gu worm devoured both bodies, Xu Mu picked up the long saber that had fallen to the ground.
“You’re still not coming out?”
He swung the saber forcefully toward the distance. A Heaven-Burning sword aura more than twenty meters long suddenly shot out.
Slash!
Everything in its path was cleaved apart. Trees and rocks alike were split cleanly in two.
Boom!
The people hiding in the forest in the distance unleashed their power one after another. Some tried to block the sword aura, while others flew into the sky to evade it.
Then a series of continuous explosions rang out, and the earth trembled beneath them.
The trees that had been cut apart only now began to collapse, crashing heavily to the ground.
When the dust finally cleared, there was nothing left to obstruct Xu Mu’s view. Everything in front of him had been split apart.
The dozen or so people on the other side were now fully exposed. They all stared at Xu Mu with grim expressions.
They could not believe that this terrifying young man was merely at the late Transcendent stage.
“No wonder the Black Moon Clan has placed a bounty on you. You’re remarkably strong. Would you be interested in paying a visit to my ruins?”
At that moment, a blue-haired middle-aged man stepped forward with a smile.
The blue hair on his head was already almost white. Deep lines had formed around his mouth, and his overall appearance carried an air of refined elegance.
He wore a blue robe trimmed with gold, giving him the bearing of a man in a position of power.
“Shui Yuanyao, what do you mean by this? Don’t you know that he’s wanted by our Black Moon Clan?”
On the other side, a middle-aged man in black armor turned to look at Shui Yuanyao.
A silver crescent moon was emblazoned between his brows.
Upon hearing the name, Xu Mu immediately used the Eye of God to inspect him.
Name: Shui Yuanyao
Identity: Son of the Water Spirit Clan’s Patriarch
Favorability: 3
Destiny Level: 5 (Maximum: 10)
Xu Mu nodded inwardly. He had not expected this person to be Shui Miaomiao’s father.
However, judging from what he had sensed earlier, Shui Yuanyao did not seem to have come out of the ruins.
Shui Yuanyao stood with his hands behind his back and said calmly, “Seventh Elder of the Black Moon Clan, aren’t you overstepping your bounds? Xu Mu merely has a grudge against your clan. What does that have to do with our Water Spirit Clan?”
“You…”
“Am I wrong? The treaty signed by the four great clans stated things very clearly. Only those wanted by all four clans are beyond redemption.”
Shui Yuanyao continued, “When that time comes, I will certainly keep my distance from him. But for now, isn’t he wanted by only two clans?”
The people from the Black Moon Clan said nothing. In truth, it was not only them—everyone else understood Shui Yuanyao’s intentions.
The clan leader had yet to be chosen. Shui Shu had a close relationship with the Black Moon Clan, and if she brought several young experts from the Black Moon Clan to compete at the ruins, victory would be assured.
Shui Yuanyao had invited Xu Mu as a guest, clearly to prepare for that possibility.
“Hahaha! If it isn’t the rumored Xu Mu!”
Just then, the alluring laughter of a mature woman drifted over from the distant sky.
In the blink of an eye, a blue-haired woman in a long blue dress descended nearby.
Her noble, exquisite features, combined with her mature charm, drew the attention of everyone present.
“It’s actually Shui Shu. I can’t believe she came too.”
“She’s so beautiful. No wonder she’s the goddess in countless men’s hearts.”
…
The surrounding crowd whispered among themselves, the desire in their eyes almost impossible to conceal.
“Little brother Xu Mu, I’ve heard your name for a long time. I wonder if you have time to come visit my home?”
Shui Shu wore a smile, causing many of the men around her to drool with envy.
No one had expected that a goddess like her would openly invite someone wanted by the Black Moon Clan.
Even so, everyone present believed that no man could possibly refuse Shui Shu.
Shui Yuanyao’s expression turned somewhat grim. “Second Elder, I was the one who invited him first.”
“Young Master, how can someone of your stature say something so brainless? We’re extending invitations, not lining up to buy something. Since when has there been such a thing as first come, first served?”
Shui Shu smiled at Shui Yuanyao.
Shui Yuanyao secretly clenched his teeth. He knew all too well that when a woman like Shui Shu extended an invitation, almost no man would refuse her.
“I’m currently a wanted man. I’d better not cause trouble for either of you.”
Xu Mu politely declined both invitations.
To put it simply, he intended to wait until tomorrow and see whether Shui Shu would give him the address. He would decide what to do afterward. He wasn’t familiar with the Water Spirit Clan, so there was no need for him to get involved in their internal conflict.
His purpose this time was merely to obtain the treasure.
“Xu Mu! So it really is you!”
Just then, another person flew over from the distance. It was none other than the Black Moon Clan’s Ninth Princess, Zilan Yin.
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
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.
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.
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."
