Xu Mu looked at both sides and continued, “We’re in a hurry this time. It’s all because of your fight—you destroyed our flying car and made it impossible for us to arrive on time.”
“That has nothing to do with us. I was sitting there minding my own business when she attacked first. She should be the one to compensate you!”
Yong Tan pointed at Bai Shanh u indignantly.
“If you hadn’t captured our people, why would I have attacked you?”
As Bai Shanh u spoke, she touched her spatial ring. “I’m willing to give you one hundred jin of spirit stones.”
As she spoke, several large chunks of spirit stone fell to the ground.
“Old Chen, take them.”
Xu Mu turned to Chen Xuan.
Chen Xuan nodded. He stuffed all the beef in his hands into his mouth, then walked over to Bai Shanh u and stored the spirit stones in his spatial ring.
Xu Mu looked at Yong Tan again. “You have three seconds to decide.”
“We’ll give them to you!”
Yong Tan had yet to say anything when the middle-aged man beside her agreed first.
One hundred jin of spirit stones was not particularly valuable to them. Besides, they were paying for their lives. He had no desire to fight someone like Xu Mu. The death qi he had stored had already been completely exhausted, so standing before Xu Mu, he would be nothing more than a free kill.
Xu Mu walked over and collected the remaining hundred-plus jin of spirit stones as well.
“All right. Whatever conflict you have between you ends here. Each of you should take a step back.”
Xu Mu clapped his hands and looked at Bai Shanh u. “Let them go. As for your people, we’ll rescue them.”
“What?”
Bai Shanh u stared at him in disbelief. “Xu Mu, did that woman’s beauty fill your head with filthy thoughts? Are you out of your mind?”
“What’s wrong with that? Brother Mu just likes beautiful women. Is that a crime?”
Chen Xuan spoke blandly from the side.
“You idiot! They’re all hunting you, yet you’re letting them go. The next time you meet, if she has experts by her side, she’ll still kill you!”
Bai Shanh u’s voice was icy.
“I’m helping you!”
Xu Mu looked at Bai Shanh u. “I have no grudge against either of you, so I won’t interfere in your battle. I’ll ask you just one question: can you really defeat them?”
“I…”
Bai Shanh u’s throat bobbed, but she did not know how to answer.
“Her sword strike just now has already injured your internal organs. If you fought her to the death, you could probably kill her. But you want to capture her alive and use her to threaten the Netherworld Clan. Do you really think you can do that?”
Xu Mu continued questioning her.
Bai Shanh u was speechless this time. She naturally knew that capturing someone alive was far more difficult than killing them.
To put it simply, killing only required destruction, whereas taking someone alive required control.
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Bai Shanh u gazed deeply at Xu Mu and asked, “Why are you helping me rescue my people? We don’t even know each other.”
“I have a friend from the Vermilion Bird Clan. Your two clans should have a good relationship, right?”
Xu Mu thought of An Linghui, Ji Qingge’s mother.
“Of course. The four great clans once stood shoulder to shoulder. Unfortunately, the four major races sowed discord between us. The Azure Dragon Clan disappeared without a trace, the Black Tortoise Clan went into hiding, and both the White Tiger Clan and the Vermilion Bird Clan are barely hanging on.”
Hearing Xu Mu’s words, Bai Shanh u asked curiously, “What is your friend’s name? Perhaps I know her.”
“I’ll tell you after we rescue your people.”
Xu Mu did not want to waste any more time here. He turned around and looked at Yong Tan. “What do you have to say?”
Yong Tan was somewhat puzzled. She did not understand why Xu Mu was willing to help her.
Could it really be as Bai Shanh u had said—that he found her beautiful and wanted to show off in front of her?
People from her own clan wanted to kill him, yet he harbored no ill will toward her at all.
“How are you planning to rescue the White Tiger Clan members? Are you going to charge straight in?”
Yong Tan asked with a smile.
“I hope you can help me.”
Xu Mu answered without hesitation.
“Heh. I already told you—I’m only a concubine’s daughter. I have no influence with my father.”
Yong Tan gently shook her head.
“I think you’ll help me.”
As he spoke, Xu Mu pointed into the distance. “Let’s talk somewhere else.”
Yong Tan hesitated briefly before choosing to follow him.
The two of them walked all the way to the back of a large tree in the distance before stopping.
“I admit that my talent is fairly decent among my father’s children, but there’s something you don’t know. My father’s legal wife is the daughter of the Netherworld Clan’s Third Elder, who resides in the ruins of the royal city.”
Yong Tan’s expression was helpless. “No matter how talented I am, the children of his legal wife don’t take me seriously at all. So I can’t help you.”
“Do you want to become like Zidian?”
Rather than respond to Yong Tan’s words, Xu Mu suddenly changed the subject.
“What do you mean?”
Yong Tan’s peach-blossom eyes narrowed slightly.
“Zidian was born to a concubine as well, just like you. But look at him now—he’s the number-one genius of the Black Moon Clan. Because of him, his mother is even able to disregard his father’s legal wife.”
Xu Mu leaned one hand against the tree while keeping the other in his pocket. “Don’t you want to become someone like him?”
“You must be joking. How could my talent compare to theirs?”
Yong Tan gently shook her head. “Who wouldn’t want to become a supreme expert? Unfortunately, this humble concubine simply can’t do it.”
Of course she wanted to. If she possessed talent on Zidian’s level, why would she still be stationed at a branch so far from the royal city?
Her parents would return to the royal city because of her.
Her father might even be promoted because of her.
But her talent was far inferior to that of someone like Zidian—not to mention a genius like Youhuo.
If she could enter the World-Breaking Realm at her age, then she might attract the attention of the headquarters and be regarded as someone with great potential.
“I have only one thing to say. If you’re willing to help me rescue the White Tiger Clan members, I’ll give you the location of a Battlefield of the Gods.”
Xu Mu raised one finger. “Of course, that battlefield is occupied by the Black Moon Clan. Whether you go there or not has nothing to do with me.”
His purpose was clear: he wanted to bring in a third party from among the four great clans and subtly sow discord, so that the Netherworld Clan would help shoulder some of the burden.
The moment she heard the words “Battlefield of the Gods,” Yong Tan’s eyes lit up.
She clenched her fists in secret. Her expression changed very little, but inside, she was already as excited as a raging tide.
Even if the Netherworld Clan found a Battlefield of the Gods and allowed its younger generation to enter, she would never get a place. She was simply too far removed from the clan’s inner circle.
But if she could go there and obtain some treasures, wouldn’t reaching the World-Breaking Realm be just around the corner?
“I don’t have time to waste on you. If you won’t help me, I’ll find another way.”
With that, Xu Mu turned and walked away.
“Wait! I’ll help you, but what if you’re lying to me?”
Yong Tan immediately chased after him and asked.
“I have no reason to lie to you. Of course, if you don’t believe me, there’s nothing I can do.”
Xu Mu glanced at Yong Tan.
“Fine! I’ll trust you this once. I do have a way to rescue those people.”
Yong Tan explained, “As far as I know, the ones captured this time are all young people with low cultivation levels. They were only taken because it was convenient.”
“Then stop wasting time. Let’s go.”
Xu Mu was not concerned about the details. Even without her help, he believed he could rescue those people.
His real purpose was simply to make sure the Netherworld Clan joined the situation as well.
With Chen Xuan, the protagonist, there, Yong Tan probably won’t be able to get his hands on the most powerful treasure.
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.
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young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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!
