Xu Mu shrugged. “What nonsense are you talking about? I’m not selling out my brother for their sake.”
Xu Mu had only just met these people, so they certainly couldn’t compare with Chen Xuan.
Yong Tan and her mother had followed them here without anyone’s permission in the first place.
As for Bai Shanh u, Xu Mu had specifically warned her before they came in.
“Won’t you hate me?”
Xu Mu looked at Bai Shanh u, who was still fighting. Compared with the other two, her physique was much stronger.
Although she was still at a disadvantage, she could barely hold her own.
“No! I chose to come with you!” Bai Shanh u kicked the blonde woman off her.
She immediately climbed to her feet and continued fighting.
Xu Mu nodded slightly, then looked at the blond, middle-aged man beside him. “How can I get them out?”
“You can’t save them. Since they chose to participate in the trial, they must rely on themselves to defeat their opponents. If they fail, they’ll be thrown out.”
The middle-aged man spoke in a flat tone.
“Thrown out? You mean they won’t die?”
Xu Mu couldn’t help asking when he heard that.
“No. Since they chose the trial, a victor must be decided. However, there is another way to preserve their lives.”
The middle-aged man looked toward the others. “If any of them is your wife, I can exempt her from the trial. Although she won’t be able to cultivate, she can remain by your side and serve you.”
Chen Xuan immediately grinned when he heard this. “Senior, that’s perfect. All three of them are Brother Mu’s wives.”
“Is that so?”
The middle-aged man turned his illusory face toward Xu Mu.
“Of course! They’re all my wives. Before we came in, I even took my younger brother and the children out to play.”
Xu Mu nodded. The middle-aged man was formed by the formation, so he probably wouldn’t verify whether he was lying.
“Husband! Come save me! I really can’t hold on any longer!”
Su Yuewei shouted from nearby.
Her face was covered in blood. Her physique was nowhere near as strong as her opponent’s.
Moreover, her opponent kept using her powerful body to pin her down. Su Yuewei couldn’t even get up and could only take the beating.
The middle-aged man looked at Su Yuewei. “Do you want to give up? If you give up, you won’t be able to enter the deepest area to learn.”
“Give up! I only followed my husband here.”
Su Yuewei hurriedly replied.
“Good!”
The middle-aged man waved his hand lightly. Su Yuewei’s opponent vanished, along with the barrier.
She immediately climbed to her feet and hurried over to Xu Mu.
When Yong Tan saw that the trick really worked, she also shouted, “Hubby, save me!”
Her mother had taught her since childhood that pride was worthless. Besides, Xu Mu had already admitted that they were all his wives.
That meant Xu Mu was willing to help them.
The moment she finished speaking, her opponent disappeared, and the barrier restraining her vanished as well.
Compared with the other two, Bai Shanh u had gradually adapted to the fight.
She had always been more like a boy by nature, enjoying combat and refusing to admit defeat.
Besides, members of the White Tiger Clan also cultivated body-tempering techniques, so she believed she could handle this.
Xu Mu didn’t say anything as he watched her.
She had turned the situation around from the disadvantage she’d been in at the beginning. If nothing unexpected happened, she should be able to win.
Bang!
Suddenly, Bai Shanh u leaped onto her opponent’s back and clung tightly to her as if she had been glued there.
Her opponent grabbed Bai Shanh u around the waist with all her strength, her fingers digging into the flesh.
But Bai Shanh u still refused to let go. She raised her arm, wrapped it around her opponent’s neck, and applied a rear naked choke.
She tightened her hold with all her strength and snapped the woman’s neck.
Bang!
Her opponent transformed into light and dispersed, while Bai Shanh u also fell heavily to the ground.
She gasped for breath and remained seated on the ground for a long while before slowly standing up.
“Impressive.”
Xu Mu gave her a thumbs-up. “You’re the only one among us who defeated her opponent.”
“Did you forget about yourself?”
Bai Shanh u looked at Xu Mu.
“I did, actually.”
Xu Mu had never considered this thing a real opponent.
However, the trial set by this formation was far from as simple as it appeared.
Judging from the strength of their opponents, he could roughly estimate their combat power.
For example, the power of the fists thrown by Xu Mu’s previous opponent had reached approximately the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
Bai Shanh u’s opponent, meanwhile, had been around the first or second stage of the World-Breaking Realm.
So, it appeared that the opponents matched by this formation generally possessed exceptionally powerful physiques.
That naturally meant nothing to Xu Mu, but it was a different story for the true experts.
Take a ninth-stage World-Breaking Realm cultivator, for example. They would already be among the strongest figures at the pinnacle of power. But if they couldn’t use qi and had to rely solely on their physical bodies, they might not necessarily defeat their opponent.
After all, the opponent’s physique was not only stronger than theirs but also younger.
So far, nearly every ninth-stage cultivator Xu Mu had seen was an old man.
Unless they specifically cultivated body-refinement techniques, their physical strength would certainly be inferior to that of a younger person.
“Brother Mu, the purpose of this formation is probably to restrict those top-level experts, right?”
Chen Xuan asked from the side.
“That’s right.”
Xu Mu nodded lightly, then looked toward the middle-aged man formed by the formation in the distance. “Senior, where should we go now?”
“Continue toward the depths. Someone will receive you there.”
After saying this, the middle-aged man dispersed before their eyes.
Xu Mu looked into the distance. At the end of the stone-paved road was a flight of stone steps.
The steps were also mostly shattered, and they rose a full thousand meters.
They looked much like the steps leading up a mountain at a scenic spot in the outside world.
But there was a fundamental difference. The stone steps on ordinary mountains usually wound and twisted, whereas these steps formed a straight line, extending directly toward the mountaintop.
At the summit stood a golden palace.
“Let’s go. Don’t waste any more time.”
Xu Mu spoke to the people beside him.
They all stayed close to Xu Mu, since they still couldn’t release their qi.
After walking a few steps, Xu Mu noticed blood flowing from beneath Bai Shanh u’s feet.
He opened his storage space and took out some healing pills.
“Eat this. Your injuries are the worst.”
Xu Mu handed the pill to Bai Shanh u.
Bai Shanh u accepted it without hesitation. “I can’t use qi right now, so I can’t take the pills out of my spatial ring.”
With that, she swallowed the pill.
In an instant, her amber eyes widened. “Xu Mu, this pill contains a ninth-grade heavenly treasure! It’s far too valuable.”
[Affection +20]
“It’s fine. We’re all family here.”
As he spoke, Xu Mu handed another pill to Su Yuewei. “You should take one too.”
When Su Yuewei heard that it contained a ninth-grade heavenly treasure, she asked uncertainly, “You’re really giving this to me?”
“Would I give you a fake?”
After handing it to her, Xu Mu stepped onto the stone steps and began walking upward.
Once Su Yuewei swallowed the pill, she could clearly feel her body recovering.
The bruises and wounds that had covered her face had already faded considerably.
[Affection +8]
Such powerful medicinal effects truly were worthy of a ninth-grade treasure.
Su Yuewei gazed at Xu Mu’s back. This man really was generous.
“Hurry up and come over.”
Xu Mu called out to the people behind him.
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.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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!
