Yong Tan’s expression flashed with confusion. She took two steps back and pouted pitifully. “Husband, I’m sorry.”
“Sorry? I think you’ve been possessed by someone else.”
Xu Mu drew his long sword and pointed it at Yong Tan. “You’ve never made a mistake like this before. Why did you make one now?”
Tears began to stream down Yong Tan’s face as well. “I’m sorry, Husband. I may have gotten too excited.”
“Too excited? So you’re still my wife?”
Xu Mu’s expression remained indifferent.
“Of course! Of course I am!”
“Good! Then answer me this: What did we do before coming here?”
Xu Mu had no intention of dealing with the others yet. He wanted to test Yong Tan first.
He needed to figure out exactly what was going on with her current condition.
His perception was a divine-level ability. It could not be wrong. That proved the Yong Tan before him was the real person.
Whether it was Su Yuewei’s blood earlier or the warmth and heartbeat he had felt when grabbing the ferocious beast, everything proved that they were real.
Yet what they had done was completely inconsistent with their identities.
Xu Mu wanted to see how they would react after he exposed them.
“Before we came here… we went out to eat.”
Yong Tan lowered her head, twirling a finger in front of her.
“You really are fake!”
Xu Mu snorted coldly. “We talked about so much in the cave just now. How could you have forgotten?”
“Just talked…”
Yong Tan kept her head lowered. The finger she had been twirling suddenly clenched into a fist.
Whoosh!
She abruptly lunged at Xu Mu. Black qi burned around her fist as she threw it without hesitation at his face.
Xu Mu immediately dodged. He had known there was a conspiracy behind this.
Fortunately, he had been careful. He would not let something like this blind him.
If someone could not withstand the situation and fought them directly, a man would devote himself completely to the battle once it began.
At that point, they would have countless opportunities to launch a surprise attack. He might even lose his brothers.
Xu Mu looked toward Bai Shanh u and Su Yuewei again. Neither of them moved. They merely watched in silence.
When Yong Tan realized she had missed, she suddenly reached for her own throat, clearly intending to commit suicide.
Xu Mu had no choice but to attempt to use the Boundary-Breaking Sword.
Crack!
The space around Yong Tan’s body shattered like glass, and she stood there in a daze.
“Sit down.”
Xu Mu issued her a command.
Yong Tan was only at the Transcendent Perfection Realm, so Xu Mu’s Boundary-Breaking Sword could completely affect her.
Her body slowly began to crouch, but all of a sudden, it froze in midair.
She was caught in a stalemate. It seemed as if two forces were pulling her in opposite directions.
As the opposing forces grew stronger, Xu Mu noticed faint red lines appearing inside her body. The colors were hidden beneath her skin, just like the barrier that had trapped them earlier.
Xu Mu immediately moved to Yong Tan’s side and pressed his hand against her wrist.
Her body was still being pulled in two directions and could not move.
“This is…”
Xu Mu grew increasingly shocked. Following the red patterns, he examined Yong Tan’s entire body.
He discovered that this was not an illusion formation at all, but a control formation combined with a cultivation technique.
The essence of this technique did not depend on mental strength, but on the body itself.
In other words, the people before him had not suffered a mental attack. Their minds were still completely active. It was simply that their bodies were no longer under their control, and neither were their words.
Xu Mu immediately switched the black long sword in his hand for a red one. No matter how strange a technique was, its essence still relied on some unknown formation as its foundation.
Golden runes flashed across the red sword. Xu Mu stabbed it into Yong Tan’s shoulder.
He did not stab deeply, piercing only beneath the surface of her skin and severing the two lines around her shoulder.
Blood slowly flowed down from the wound.
“Xu Mu! Ah! Hurry and put the black robe on me! I was controlled by an unknown force just now. That force could even control my eyeballs and vocal cords!”
Yong Tan immediately shouted, tears spilling from her eyes as she spoke.
Xu Mu touched Yong Tan’s spatial ring, took out the black robe inside, and draped it over her.
But in the next moment, Yong Tan tore the black robe to pieces herself and lunged at Xu Mu again, slamming into him chest-first.
“Ah! What is this thing? What the hell is going on?”
With Xu Mu’s help, Yong Tan could currently control only her head and a few other muscles in her body. Her limbs remained beyond her control.
As Yong Tan forcefully wrapped her arms around Xu Mu, Bai Shanh u and Su Yuewei, who had been standing nearby, suddenly moved and rapidly attacked Xu Mu.
Although Xu Mu’s eyes were covered, his perception allowed him to see everything clearly.
He suddenly broke free and once again used the Boundary-Breaking Sword through his long sword.
This time, he controlled all three women before him. He immediately took out silver needles and inserted them into various points on their bodies.
In their current condition, finding their acupoints was as easy as playing a game for Xu Mu. He could locate them casually.
Once the control imposed by the Boundary-Breaking Sword ended, the three women suddenly sat down on the ground.
“Xu Mu! What exactly happened?” Su Yuewei asked in a deep voice.
As the concubine of the Nine Nether Clan branch leader, she had a great deal of self-awareness.
She had been willing to become an old man’s concubine not because she loved him, but for the resources.
If she wanted to become stronger without a powerful background, she could only use this method to leap up the social hierarchy.
Therefore, she did not become as agitated as her daughter over what had happened.
“Xu Mu! This incident had nothing to do with you. I admire you even more now!”
Bai Shanh u was also sitting on the ground, her fists clenched tightly.
Although she had been controlled just now, her mind had not been affected in the slightest.
She had witnessed everything the three of them had done.
Having been born in the Inner Realm and seen far too much of what people called reality, she was certain that at least ninety percent of the men in the Inner Realm—even those from her own White Tiger Clan who usually prided themselves on being upright gentlemen—would not have refused in a situation like that.
After all, they would have countless excuses.
For example: I didn’t do anything. You were the ones who came onto me.
Or: I didn’t dare to fight back.
But Xu Mu had been able to restrain himself and kept trying to find a solution. He truly was different.
[Affection +30]
Yong Tan, who had still been somewhat agitated, calmed down a little after hearing Bai Shanh u’s words.
She naturally understood what Bai Shanh u meant.
Thinking about it carefully, Bai Shanh u was right. Xu Mu had not taken advantage of them while they were helpless. He really was a gentleman.
[Affection +10]
“I know you’re all in a hurry, but calm down for now. I’ve only temporarily sealed your spiritual meridians with the silver needles, preventing you from using qi.”
Xu Mu explained to the three women before him, “The technique that controlled you just now was separate from the formation beneath our feet. So I suspect that the power driving that formation comes from your own bodies.”
“Xu Mu, could you at least give us some clothes? I’ve noticed that your eyes seem to be moving rather quickly.”
Su Yuewei revealed a faint smile.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
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.
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
