Playing like this, huh

Hearing Xu Mu call out, everyone there hurried up the steps.

When they reached Xu Mu’s position, they discovered that their qi had recovered.

They had clearly left the range of the Spirit-Dispersing Formation.

“Let’s go. The sooner we get the treasure, the sooner we can leave.”

Xu Mu made a light leap and covered a considerable distance.

The others followed close behind. They encountered no danger on the broken stone steps and soon arrived at the palace atop the mountain.

There were no guards in front of the palace. Its red doors stood wide open, revealing nothing but darkness within.

Xu Mu and the others did not linger and stepped directly inside.

At first, everything before them was pitch-black. Then came a cacophony of noise, like the din of a busy street.

As their surroundings gradually brightened, Xu Mu found himself standing in a familiar area.

He looked around and realized that he seemed to have returned to the place where the Spirit-Dispersing Formation had been.

Stone-paved roads stretched beneath his feet, while the stone buildings were scattered all around them.

The only difference from before was that everything here was intact.

The roads were no longer broken, and the buildings were undamaged as well.

The stone steps leading upward were also perfectly preserved, running straight toward the structure at the mountaintop.

People stood all around them, and they belonged to all sorts of strange and varied races.

“Old Chen, what’s going on?” Xu Mu asked, turning around.

“I have no idea, Brother Mu.” Chen Xuan smiled. “But we’ve successfully passed the test. The next step should be officially joining this place, right?”

“What the hell?”

Xu Mu frowned slightly. Just as he was about to speak, Su Yuewei and Yong Tan approached from either side and each wrapped an arm around one of his.

Compared with Yong Tan’s fairly ordinary figure, Su Yuewei was much more mature. The two astonishingly prominent curves of her body pressed against Xu Mu’s arm.

The sensation was unmistakable.

Even an idiot could tell that something was wrong.

Xu Mu first closed his eyes and used his senses to examine the people before him. Most likely, they were phantoms formed by the formation.

But Xu Mu was stunned. Even with his eyes closed, he could still clearly sense their presence.

In other words, they were all real people!

Xu Mu was utterly bewildered. This was the first time he had ever encountered anything like this.

“My lord, it’s a good thing you were there just now. If not for you, I would have died,” Su Yuewei whispered in his ear. “Later, find a room. I’ll have to thank you properly.”

Xu Mu frowned slightly. As she spoke so close to his ear, he could even feel the warmth of her breath.

“Husband, I want to thank you too.” Yong Tan blinked her alluring eyes.

“We’re all family.”

As he spoke, Xu Mu touched the corner of Su Yuewei’s mouth. “Does it still hurt here?”

“After taking your pill, it’s much better.” Su Yuewei smiled.

“That’s good.”

Xu Mu brought the blood he had touched with his finger to his nose and discovered that it was real blood.

But the situation before him was far too strange.

Were these people truly real, yet all under the control of an illusion formation?

Even Chen Xuan had been affected. If so, this illusion formation was far too powerful.

“Brother Mu! Let’s hurry up,” Chen Xuan said with a smile from nearby.

“All right.”

Xu Mu nodded, then glanced at Bai Shanh u. “Are you all right?”

“I’m fine.” Bai Shanh u smiled. “Husband, thank you for the pill. We should head to the palace first. The senior experts over there are probably waiting for us.”

Xu Mu nodded and immediately activated a formation to send Chen Xuan a voice transmission.

“Old Chen, what’s going on with you?”

Chen Xuan did not answer.

However, everyone around him was guiding him toward the palace above. Perhaps he would find the truth there.

Xu Mu and the others followed the steps toward the palace at the summit.

Along the way, he saw other people as well, but they were all figures created by the formation.

The few people beside him, however, were real.

After arriving safely outside the palace, Xu Mu found that there were many guards stationed there this time.

A middle-aged man clad in golden armor walked toward him.

Smiling, he said, “I watched your battle just now. You possess extraordinary talent. Your future is sure to be limitless.”

“Thank you, Senior.”

Xu Mu offered a polite response first.

“Come with me. I’ll arrange a place for you to stay. Our leader is currently in a meeting and can’t see you just yet.”

After speaking, the middle-aged man raised his hand. A black portal appeared before them.

He stepped through first.

Xu Mu did not move. What if this was some kind of trap?

But Chen Xuan stepped through ahead of him.

“Old Chen…”

Xu Mu had barely called out before Chen Xuan vanished from sight.

With no other choice, Xu Mu followed. At least he could confirm that the person before him really was Chen Xuan.

After all, his senses would not deceive him.

As Xu Mu stepped through the portal, the three women behind him followed as well.

His surroundings changed once again.

This time, he found himself on the mountainside beside the palace they had visited earlier.

From there, he could still see the golden palace across the way.

There were two stone buildings here. The middle-aged man smiled and said, “You can choose between these two houses.”

With that, he opened the entrance to the cave again and disappeared.

“Brother Mu, we’ve been busy. I’m going to rest first.”

Chen Xuan finished speaking and entered one of the buildings.

Xu Mu’s perception allowed him to see everything clearly. Chen Xuan was lying on a wooden bed, his eyes closed in an almost textbook-perfect posture.

“Husband, hurry up.”

Yong Tan grabbed Xu Mu’s hand and pulled him toward the other room.

Bai Shanh u and Su Yuewei pushed from behind, and before long, the group had all entered the building.

Su Yuewei locked the door from the inside, then revealed a seductive smile. “My lord, it’s our family’s honor that you were able to join us. Let’s celebrate properly today.”

As she spoke, her long dress slipped off by itself.

Bai Shanh u and Yong Tan did the same.

As expected of someone from the White Tiger Clan, Bai Shanh u was every bit as striking as her name suggested.

As for Yong Tan and Su Yuewei of the Nine Nether Clan, their complexions were a sickly white. Paired with their red lips, they possessed an exotic beauty.

There was no doubt that an ordinary man would never be able to withstand such a scene.

“So that’s how you want to play it?”

Xu Mu narrowed his eyes slightly. He could see through the conspiracy clearly.

“Husband!”

Yong Tan pounced toward Xu Mu first.

Xu Mu immediately raised a hand and stopped it in front of the ferocious beast’s face. “Wait!”

“What’s wrong?”

With a coquettish expression, Yong Tan seized Xu Mu’s hand and pressed it against herself.

“I have a question. What should you call her?”

Xu Mu smiled and pointed at Su Yuewei.

“Of course, I should call her Sister.”

Yong Tan turned around and smiled at Su Yuewei.

Xu Mu secretly nodded. At this point, he could confirm that the relationship between the women had begun when they stepped into that Spirit-Dispersing Formation.

If one counted from the moment they entered this battlefield of the gods, then the formation definitely knew that they were mother and daughter. After all, they had to address each other properly.

Since everything had begun counting from the moment they entered the Spirit-Dispersing Formation, the formation only knew about their relationships. It had no idea what had happened in the past, which meant Xu Mu could fabricate whatever story he wanted.

“Yong Tan, who exactly are you? Don’t you even understand the rules anymore?”

Xu Mu’s expression turned cold. “Did you already forget what I told you before?”