The buildings here were all made of stone, and the entrance was blocked by nothing more than a simple wooden plank.
In her current state, Zilan Yin only had to give it a gentle push for the door latch to snap.
When she opened the door, she found Xu Mu standing in the main hall, staring straight at her.
“What are you trying to do?”
Xu Mu studied Zilan Yin in her current form.
“I thought about it for a long time, and decided I should tell you about Zidian. Otherwise, you might easily fall into his trap.”
Zilan Yin spoke to Xu Mu.
Under the moonlight shining through the window, she seemed to have three eyes.
Both of her eyes had turned the color of moonlight, and a full moon had appeared between her brows.
“I think you came here to kill me. You suddenly broke into my room in the middle of the night, only to tell me about Zidian? Who would believe that?”
Xu Mu questioned her coldly.
“Sorry! I forgot.”
Zilan Yin suddenly smacked herself on the head. “You’re not from the Black Moon Clan. You need to sleep at night.”
“What the hell are you talking about? I can’t understand a word. I’m going to bed, so please leave.”
With that, Xu Mu turned around and returned to the bedroom.
Zilan Yin, however, followed him naturally and walked in with him.
“What are you doing? We’re alone together, a man and a woman. Are you trying to make me commit a mistake?”
Xu Mu stared at Zilan Yin. “Go to sleep already.”
“But I am sleeping right now.”
Zilan Yin pointed at her own face.
Xu Mu scratched his head, looking somewhat confused. “You’re sleeping?”
“That’s right. It’s a trait of our race. You didn’t know that?”
Zilan Yin looked at him as if he were an idiot.
“What?”
“Sleep, in simple terms, is just a way for the body to rest. Our Black Moon Clan possesses two bodies. Once we fall asleep, the other body appears, which is what I look like now.”
Zilan Yin walked over to the bed and sat down. “The body I use during the day is resting right now.”
“Then doesn’t your brain get any rest?”
Xu Mu asked.
“It rests too. Normally, only half of our brain is working while the other half rests. Now they’ve simply switched.”
“Damn! I always thought this was some kind of combat form, like how the Jiao Clan can shift back and forth between human and dragon forms. I never imagined that you were actually sleeping!”
Xu Mu had never considered this before. He had truly learned something new.
“As expected, you know absolutely nothing about our race. It seems I really did come here for the right reason.”
Zilan Yin brushed back her long white hair. “Someone like you would be killed instantly if you really encountered Zidian.”
“So your people don’t lie down to sleep the way we do?”
Even now, Xu Mu remained curious.
“Of course not. Do you know what the capital city of our race is called? The City of Eternal Night.”
“Then your race has it pretty good. In other words, compared to other races of the same age, you have nearly twice as much time to cultivate.”
“That’s the reason our race is so powerful. We can’t cultivate while in our sleeping state, but we can meditate to improve our mental power.”
Zilan Yin explained, “Of course, it usually takes more than a decade to increase it even slightly. Even so, the mental power of our people is stronger than that of other races.”
Xu Mu used the Eye of God to examine Zilan Yin’s mental power, and was astonished.
It was over five hundred—a remarkably high figure for someone at her level.
So far, the strongest person Xu Mu had encountered was Ying Weiyang of the Dragon Clan.
Despite being in the Transcendent Realm, she possessed more than eight hundred points of mental power.
The next strongest were those male protagonists. At the same level, their mental power was also far beyond that of ordinary people.
Moreover, their mental power seemed to be innate, and it grew extremely quickly.
Zilan Yin possessed more than five hundred points—more than people several realms above her.
Mental power was almost impossible to cultivate. Aside from innate talent, the only other method was to consume one of the few heavenly treasures capable of increasing it.
The problem was that consuming too much of such treasures was useless.
In the end, the only way to improve both one’s body and mental power was to advance to a higher realm.
It seemed that the Four Great Races truly had something to offer. Otherwise, they would never have remained at the very top of the Inner Realm for so long.
“Zidian’s mental power is extremely powerful. He also obtained a heavenly-grade cultivation technique called Mental Tempest. It allows him to directly bombard an opponent’s sea of consciousness with his mental power.”
Zilan Yin explained, “As far as I know, even an eighth-rank expert can be affected.”
“Understood. As long as my mental power is stronger than that of a ninth-rank expert, I’ll be able to avoid it.”
Xu Mu smiled and nodded.
“Take this seriously! I’m helping you out of kindness. The closer he is to his opponent, the stronger this attack becomes. When you fight him, you absolutely must not let him get close.”
Zilan Yin’s expression turned solemn.
“Thanks, but I know a little about mental power myself.”
Xu Mu lay down on the bed. “I only have one question. When the time comes, if I kill Zidian, will you stop me?”
“You’re overthinking it…”
“I said if!”
Xu Mu interrupted her.
“I’ll only help you defeat him. I won’t stop you from killing him. But if you really kill him, the consequences will be extremely serious. The Black Moon Clan will never let you off.”
Zilan Yin spoke softly. “I’ll even be implicated, but with my talent, they won’t do anything to me.”
“All right, I understand. You should go back.”
Xu Mu waved at Zilan Yin. “I need to rest now.”
Zilan Yin nodded, then turned and left, returning to her own residence.
She lay down on her bed as well and closed her eyes. The full moon between her brows flickered with a faint light.
…
Early the next morning.
The Water Spirit Clan was decked out in festive decorations. The selection of a new clan leader was about to begin, and many guests had come to offer their congratulations.
Sometime in the morning, Shui Miaomiao arrived carrying a lunchbox and found Xu Mu lying outside the building.
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“Mr. Xu Mu, I brought you some food.”
Shui Miaomiao smiled as she spoke.
“Thank you.”
Xu Mu sat up from the rocking chair. “The clan leader selection is starting today?”
“That’s right. My father and the others should have already gone to the sacred grounds. They’ll be fighting the Second Elder there.”
Shui Miaomiao opened a wooden lunchbox carved with patterns.
Inside were brown rice, vegetables, some unknown fish, and a small plate of nuts.
He had to admit, it was a very healthy meal, with all the necessary nutrients.
“Can we watch them fight?”
Xu Mu asked with a smile.
“No. Even the guests who came to offer their congratulations are waiting outside for news. After all, they still have to keep some things hidden from outsiders.”
Shui Miaomiao smiled. “You can go over after you finish eating. It probably won’t take very long.”
“All right.”
After Xu Mu finished everything, he left with Shui Miaomiao.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, Xu Mu wore a black robe.
Zilan Yin had left alone early that morning, presumably to watch the spectacle as well.
Under Shui Miaomiao’s guidance, they arrived in the middle-to-rear section of the ruins.
Xu Mu immediately spotted the Black Moon Clan in the distance. Aside from them, the other three races had arrived as well, but none of them had brought any particularly powerful experts.
Suddenly, Xu Mu’s eyes widened.
Ye Chen!
Why is he sitting in the Holy Light Clan’s territory?
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.
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.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
