Zidian was growing increasingly shocked. He had never imagined that dealing with a mere Transcendent could be this troublesome.
Now, he felt that Xu Mu was the greatest threat before him.
The two of them had already become enemies, and despite Xu Mu’s low cultivation level, he was already this powerful.
What if he advanced further and reached the peak of the Transcendent Realm—or even stepped into the World-Breaking Realm?
Zidian might very well be killed. As for Zilan Yin, she would not be his match anytime soon.
There would be plenty of time to deal with Zilan Yin in the future.
For now, he had to eliminate Xu Mu, whose existence could threaten his life at any moment.
Rumble!
The purple flames around Zidian continued to expand.
“Xu Mu! This attack will be the death of you!”
“What a coincidence. This attack will be the death of you, too!”
Half of the black qi surrounding Xu Mu remained. He suddenly released it and compressed it into a sphere the size of a marble.
He gripped it in his hand and immediately charged at Zidian.
Zidian raised his sword and let out a roar before transforming into lightning once again.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, Zidian’s blade pierced through Xu Mu’s chest.
Even Zidian was somewhat surprised. Why had Xu Mu suddenly given up defending himself? Could he have reached his limit?
Crack!
At that moment, one of Xu Mu’s hands tightly seized Zidian by the shoulder.
His other hand opened, revealing the black sphere within as it gradually began to erupt.
The instant Zidian saw this, he instinctively flew into the sky.
He transformed into lightning, flashing across the heavens several times in the span of a single second.
Yet Xu Mu’s hand remained clamped around his shoulder, following him wherever he went.
Boom!
The black sphere exploded. Xu Mu’s body suddenly dissolved into a shadow and vanished, then re-formed at the coordinates behind him.
He had used Void-Reality Reversal.
It allowed him to return to the state he had been in several seconds earlier.
Although Zidian had flown a great distance just now, he had done so within a mere second.
Xu Mu could still reverse himself to the moment before his body was injured.
However, the final spark he had left behind had truly exploded beside Zidian.
Boom!
Black light instantly spread hundreds of meters, swallowing almost the entire city.
The explosion destroyed all the formation constructs within the city.
The buildings throughout the city transformed into golden patterns.
Clearly, if they had not been products of the formation, all the surrounding buildings would have been reduced to dust in an instant.
Zilan Yin, who was fleeing in the distance, suddenly turned her head. A massive black sphere of light had shot into the sky.
Although she felt she had run far enough away, she was still blown off her feet by the oncoming shock wave.
Once the light faded, the enormous city was empty of people. It was only after a long while that the formation constructs slowly began to reappear.
Xu Mu sensed his surroundings and immediately spotted Zidian in the distance.
He had been blasted until his flesh was mangled, and the wounds on his body had been burned black. He looked utterly wretched.
His face twisted like that of a vengeful ghost.
“Xu Mu!”
Just as he was about to kill Xu Mu, he suddenly discovered that Xu Mu’s body was completely unharmed.
“Impossible!”
Zidian could not believe it. He had clearly pierced Xu Mu’s chest moments ago, so how could Xu Mu possibly be uninjured?
Whoosh!
Xu Mu suddenly charged toward Zidian.
Zidian clenched his teeth and immediately fled into the distance.
If Xu Mu had been seriously injured, Zidian would certainly have dared to kill him. But now that the wounds on Xu Mu’s body had disappeared, Zidian’s current condition meant he might very well be killed by Xu Mu instead.
He did not dare take that gamble.
Xu Mu pursued him for a while, but soon realized that the distance between them was steadily increasing.
In the end, he stopped chasing.
Just as he had expected, at his current level, he could only counterkill someone if they continued attacking him.
But if his opponent valued their life and fled as soon as they realized they could not win, Xu Mu’s current speed was simply not enough to catch them.
He stopped and let out a breath.
As expected of a genius from one of the Four Great Races. He really was formidable.
The qi within Xu Mu’s body was nearly exhausted now.
Still, it was not too bad. At least he had not lost any Destiny Power.
He took out some pills, stuffed several into his mouth, and then hurried back toward the Black Tower.
…
At the same time.
In the deepest part of the Black Tower.
Shui Yuanyao was about to catch up with Shui Shu and the others.
Since Shui Shu was at the front, she had borne almost all of the attacks from the guardians here.
The mixed-bloods beside her were also seriously injured by now.
Chen Xuan gripped his woodcutting knife and breathed heavily. Although the formation constructs here were somewhat dull-witted, their combat strength was at least equivalent to the fifth stage of the World-Breaking Realm.
It was still extremely difficult for Chen Xuan to deal with them alone.
At last, Shui Shu and the others reached the deepest area. There was a black door there.
Shui Shu and Chen Xuan charged through it together.
The space inside changed once again.
This time, it was a meadow. A flight of stone steps lay ahead, with a wooden box placed on top.
Shui Shu’s face lit up with delight. She was just about to walk over when Shui Yuanyao and Zhang Ye’an also rushed inside.
“Chen Xuan! Quickly!”
The moment Shui Shu saw them enter, she immediately shouted.
Chen Xuan leaped over at once and opened the wooden box. Inside was a fist-sized water droplet.
It had the texture of crystal, and blue flames flickered within it.
Shui Shu and Shui Yuanyao both stared at the crystal.
This was the fruit of victory.
“Chen Xuan! Give it to me—quickly!”
Shui Shu extended her hand and shouted.
“I’m already at my limit. There’s no way I can defeat that first-stage Boundary-Breaking cultivator over there. If I hand this to you, they’ll definitely take it away!”
With that, Chen Xuan put the box into his spatial ring and immediately ran outside.
Seeing that Chen Xuan was only at the Transcendent Realm, Zhang Ye’an moved to block him.
However, Chen Xuan did not engage him. He flashed past Zhang Ye’an and left the space.
Seeing this, Shui Shu and Shui Yuanyao quickly followed.
That treasure was the proof that they were qualified to become clan leader!
Chen Xuan ran toward the outside of the black tower. At the tower’s entrance, he happened to run into Xu Mu.
He did not call out loud. Instead, he confirmed the other man’s identity through telepathy. “Brother Mu?”
“It’s me.”
Xu Mu replied through telepathy.
Only after hearing his voice did Chen Xuan finally relax. He grinned and said, “Brother Mu, you’re incredible! The only person who could have beaten you this badly must have been Zidian, right?”
“That’s right. But I drove him away.”
Xu Mu smiled.
“That’s exactly what I expected. Shui Shu kept saying you were doomed, but I never believed her.”
As Chen Xuan spoke, he took out the box. “The treasure is inside.”
“Good.”
After Xu Mu took it, he put it away. “Let’s leave together.”
Chen Xuan nodded.
…
The marsh outside the ruins.
Shui Zheng, Shui Yong, and several other experts from the Water Spirit Clan had gathered in an open area.
Besides them, members of several other races who had come to watch the spectacle had also arrived.
“Heh heh, Clan Leader, I believe that under Shui Shu’s leadership, the Water Spirit Clan will surely reach even greater heights.”
Shui Yong stood to the side with a faint smile.
Shui Zheng remained silent. After a long while, he finally said, “It’s still too early to say who will win.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of qi energy surged up from the marsh below.
Bang!
A figure flew out of it. It was none other than Zilan Yin.
When Shui Zheng saw how seriously Zilan Yin was injured, his face turned deathly pale.
Shui Yong could not help laughing. “It seems Zidian went easy on her. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have made it out.”
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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!
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!"
