The Brainless Woman

Zilan Yin’s outfit was more or less the same as before: a purple gown trimmed with lace.

However, she hadn’t brought out that black parasol, perhaps because she didn’t want to draw too much attention.

Her serene, gentle face instantly turned ferocious when she saw Xu Mu.

Xu Mu looked at the woman and smiled faintly.

When it came to ordinary female leads, he usually had to coax them a little, doing his best not to let their relationship deteriorate too badly.

After all, if he didn’t interfere, these female leads would almost always end up with the protagonist, bringing him countless plot developments. Nearly every one of those developments came with some kind of opportunity.

However, female leads whose male protagonists were already dead posed virtually no threat.

Zilan Yin was a perfect example. She had been Brother Evil God’s female lead, but Wu Tian was already dead. Xu Mu had nothing to fear from her. It wasn’t as though she could become Hat Bro’s female lead now, could she?

“Xu Mu! How dare you show up in the Inner Realm so openly!”

The moment Zilan Yin saw Xu Mu’s face, she wanted nothing more than to kill him.

As the Ninth Princess, she had worked so hard to earn the respect of the others.

And it had to be said that before meeting Xu Mu, she had succeeded.

But after what happened, she had become a laughingstock within the clan.

When faced with the same threat of death, Hathaway had shown no fear and dared to challenge Redemption.

Meanwhile, she had cowered before death and taken the initiative to let Xu Mu humiliate her.

Some of her brothers and sisters had even dared to make sarcastic remarks right to her face.

It wasn’t just them. Even her father felt that she had disgraced herself. Her combat strength was clearly the third-best among all her siblings.

Yet at the meeting a few days ago, her father had summoned three of his children while deliberately leaving her out, choosing instead to call on her elder sister, who ranked fourth.

“Seventh Elder, what are you waiting for? Xu Mu is a wanted criminal of our race. Kill him!”

Zilan Yin barked at the Black Moon clan elder.

“You really are ungrateful,” Xu Mu said, pointing at her. “Back at the Battlefield of the Gods, would you have made it out alive without me? You only grabbed my hand and touched me, but I couldn’t sense the blessed land at all. I deliberately claimed that I had sensed it just to get you off the hook. And this is how you repay me?”

“You…”

Zilan Yin’s chest heaved with anger.

“What? Did I say something wrong? Redemption threatened you, but you didn’t dare go after them. In the end, you picked me—the easiest target—to take your anger out on.”

Xu Mu shrugged nonchalantly. “You’re such a sore loser. All you’re doing is making everyone else look down on you even more.”

“You…”

Zilan Yin clenched her fists in fury and humiliation. “Seventh Elder! What are you waiting for? Rip his mouth apart!”

The Seventh Elder looked at Xu Mu, a trace of fear in his eyes. He was only at the seventh rank.

However, as a member of one of the Four Great Races, he naturally knew the details of what had happened in the Battlefield of the Gods.

Xu Mu had used a powerful killing formation to slay a seventh-rank Boundary-Breaking expert.

Still, as long as he didn’t step into the formation, there was nothing to fear.

Buzz!

The space before Xu Mu suddenly compressed, and the Black Moon clan’s Seventh Elder appeared in front of him in an instant.

Black energy, like countless pitch-black blades, coiled around his fist as he launched it at Xu Mu.

In the distance, Shui Yuanyao secretly glanced at Shui Shu and saw that she had no intention of intervening.

Thinking about it carefully, that made sense. Shui Shu already had the Black Moon clan’s assistance.

She had no need for Xu Mu at all.

Her enthusiastic invitation earlier had simply been because she didn’t want Xu Mu traveling with Shui Yuanyao.

If Xu Mu were killed now, it would actually be a good thing for Shui Shu.

Shui Yuanyao’s mind raced. This might be his only chance.

But if he rescued Xu Mu, he would completely offend the Black Moon clan. He was still struggling to decide whether to act.

Whoosh!

Xu Mu remained rooted to the spot. Suddenly, the air before him began to howl.

Boom!

A deafening explosion rang out.

Terrifying black energy instantly spread in every direction.

The surrounding trees and boulders were as fragile as paper beneath that force, crumbling into dust with ease.

Those with weaker cultivation were sent flying by the shock wave.

Zilan Yin immediately released her qi and raised it in front of herself as a shield. Even so, her body was still blown high into the air.

“This is bad!”

Shui Yuanyao’s expression changed drastically. He had been so caught up in his indecision that he’d forgotten how battles between seventh-rank experts were decided in the blink of an eye.

But when he looked toward the battlefield, his face changed again.

In the distance, Xu Mu still stood with one hand in his pocket, calmly watching the attack.

Meanwhile, the Seventh Elder’s face was gradually turning pale.

The closer his attack came to Xu Mu, the greater the resistance became.

The sensation was much like the barrier where the Inner and Outer Realms intersected.

However, as a seventh-rank expert, he could clearly see what was happening. The air around him was suddenly gathering in front of Xu Mu, compressing into a shield of incredibly high density.

He hadn’t expected this kid to possess a technique capable of compressing air.

“Break!”

The Seventh Elder let out an angry roar. No matter how tightly the air was compressed, the gap in cultivation could not be made up for.

Boom!

The wall of air in front of Xu Mu suddenly exploded, and terrifying black energy surged toward him.

But because the wall of air had blocked the attack, Xu Mu had already slipped away with ease.

“Trying to run?”

The Seventh Elder immediately turned around and launched another attack at Xu Mu.

Buzz!

Space compressed, and in the blink of an eye, the Seventh Elder flashed behind Xu Mu.

The difference in speed between them was simply too great.

“Thousand-Moon Slaughter!”

The Seventh Elder raised his fist. The black energy around it transformed into countless crescent-shaped blades that sliced toward Xu Mu.

Buzz!

Suddenly, the Xu Mu in front of him transformed into Zilan Yin.

“What?”

The Seventh Elder’s expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly pulled back his power.

But even so, the attack still grazed Zilan Yin.

Boom!

Zilan Yin flew away like a cannonball and crashed into a distant mountain peak.

Xu Mu, meanwhile, still stood calmly in the distance.

The onlookers’ hearts had already been thrown into turmoil.

That was a seventh-rank expert!

Yet Xu Mu had remained so relaxed in the face of such an attack. Since when had a dignified seventh-rank expert become nothing more than a backdrop for someone at the Transcendent level?

“Ninth Princess!”

The Seventh Elder’s expression changed sharply, and he hurried toward the distant mountain.

For a moment, rocks, earth, and vegetation flew everywhere. In the next instant, the Seventh Elder emerged carrying Zilan Yin in his arms.

Several wounds had appeared on Zilan Yin’s body, and blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.

Her formerly dignified and serene face was now covered in dust.

Shui Yuanyao was deeply shaken by the sight.

Even the supreme geniuses of the Four Great Races couldn’t remain this composed when facing a seventh-rank expert.

If Xu Mu could truly help him, he might be the key to deciding the outcome.

Shui Shu was also staring in disbelief. Who could have imagined that Xu Mu would be this powerful?

“Xu Mu!”

Zilan Yin finally stopped holding back and shrieked at him, “Just you wait!”

“Ungrateful clown.”

Xu Mu shrugged indifferently. “Do you really think you can threaten me? You brainless woman. You’d be better off marrying me than attacking me.”