“Spare me! I’m only here to keep watch. I don’t know anything!”
Yue Menglong’s somewhat hideous face took on a pitiful expression.
“Brother Mu, this thing of hers seems to have come from the outside world, right? It looks a little like one of the Everlife Research Institute’s masterpieces.”
Chen Xuan walked over and looked at the woman.
Yue Menglong’s face twitched as she hurriedly denied it. “No, no! I’m not from the Everlife Research Institute.”
“That’s right. She isn’t from the Everlife Research Institute. She’s from Everlife.”
Xu Mu spoke calmly.
Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan’s gaze gradually darkened. Xu Mu had already told him about the organization known as Everlife.
Yue Menglong was filled with disbelief. Just who was Xu Mu? How did he know her identity?
“Boo-hoo… boo-hoo!”
At that moment, Yue Menglong suddenly covered her face and began sobbing.
As she cried, the three women in the distance also arrived.
“Get out of here, now! This isn’t somewhere you should be!”
Xu Mu immediately shouted at them.
The moment the three women stepped inside, they regretted it. They could naturally sense the Spirit-Dispersion Formation beneath their feet.
Upon hearing Xu Mu’s warning, they immediately retreated and disappeared from sight once more.
“Why are you crying? Do you think you’re about to die?”
As Xu Mu spoke, he gave Chen Xuan a meaningful look.
Chen Xuan understood at once and headed toward the thatched cottage by the lake.
Yue Menglong first glanced back at Chen Xuan before continuing to sob. “You’re right. I really am from Everlife, but I’m so pitiful… Boo-hoo!”
“Get to the point!”
Xu Mu looked at Yue Menglong.
“I was captured by them back then. Just look at my face, then look at my body, and you’ll know how much inhuman torture I’ve suffered.”
As Yue Menglong spoke, she pulled up the sleeve of her black robe, revealing her arm.
Like her face, her arm was covered in stitched scars.
“Boo-hoo! They experimented on me. They’re not human! Big brother, please take me away with you.”
Yue Menglong wiped away her tears. “As long as you can get me out of here, I’ll do anything you want.”
“Brother Mu! Come quickly!”
Chen Xuan’s voice came from a thatched cottage in the distance.
Xu Mu nodded, then smiled at Yue Menglong. “Don’t worry. As long as you haven’t lied to me, I’ll definitely help you.”
“Mhm, mhm.”
Yue Menglong continued to sniffle.
“Then answer me this. What’s inside all these buildings? And why did you try to run inside when you saw us just now?”
Xu Mu questioned her.
He had no intention of believing this woman’s words. Their favorability was still at the level of strangers, so a negative value was perfectly normal.
But this woman’s filial-piety value toward him was -5. Just how much did she hate him?
If her filial-piety value had been zero, Xu Mu might have believed that what this female villain said was true—or that she simply hadn’t had the chance to turn evil yet.
But with her current cultivation level and that filial-piety value, it was obvious that she had already fallen into darkness. Alternatively, she might simply have been born evil.
“There are treasures inside, as well as observation formations,” Yue Menglong explained.
Xu Mu nodded and pulled Yue Menglong up from the ground. “Don’t worry. I’ll take you out of here.”
As he spoke, he led Yue Menglong over with him, keeping a firm grip on her hand the entire time in case she tried anything dangerous. After all, this was her base.
When they entered the thatched cottage, Xu Mu discovered several formation displays inside.
It was like a monitoring room. They could see most of what was happening across the battlefield and even hear the sounds.
At the same time, more people entered the area: a Ninth-Order expert from the Black Moon Clan, along with Ze Guan of the Nine Nether Clan.
However, the two of them were clearly engaged in a chase.
Ze Guan was running ahead, while the Ninth-Order expert from the Black Moon Clan pursued him from behind.
In the end, both of them stepped into the Spirit-Dispersion Formation and were trapped by it.
“Those formations we encountered along the way were all operated by you, weren’t they?”
Xu Mu turned back toward Yue Menglong.
“Yes, but I was forced to do it. Those bastards from Everlife said that I had to stop everyone who entered. Otherwise, they’d make me wish I were dead.”
Yue Menglong wailed.
“Stop crying. I only want to know when those people were caught in the formation.”
Xu Mu glanced at her.
Chen Xuan, standing beside him, was curious as well.
“It happens here. As long as someone can rely on their physical strength to defeat their opponent, they can prove that the formation is unable to restrain them. But if they can’t kill their opponent instantly, then while fighting within the formation, the formation will gradually seep into their body as they exchange blows.”
Yue Menglong explained.
“So that’s why. It seems the formation is quite powerful.”
Xu Mu once again took Yue Menglong by the hand and left the thatched cottage. “Old Chen, check the other places.”
“Got it!”
Chen Xuan immediately went to the remaining thatched cottages. The moment he opened one of them, he was so shocked that he staggered back out.
“Brother Mu! Heavenly treasures! And they’re fresh!”
“What?”
Xu Mu immediately headed over. When he saw the heavenly treasures piled inside, he was completely stunned.
Quite a few of the treasures had already withered with the passage of time, but many were still perfectly intact.
Moreover, most of them were of extremely high quality. Xu Mu took a rough look, and the lowest-grade treasures were already Grade Six.
There were even four divine medicines.
The cultivation levels of the people around him were about to rise dramatically again.
He opened his storage space and swept all the heavenly treasures inside.
Yue Menglong stood where she was, her expression shifting unpredictably. Suddenly, she called out, “There are even more treasures in that building!”
As she spoke, she went to a building by the lake, opened the door, and walked inside.
The next moment, the surrounding Spirit-Dispersion Formations vanished.
“Not good!”
Xu Mu had barely finished speaking when two people emerged from the thatched cottage.
They were the Ninth-Order expert from the Black Moon Clan and the Seventh-Order expert from the Nine Nether Clan, Ze Guan.
Yue Menglong also stepped out of the thatched cottage. She helplessly scratched her hair, her eyes turning sinister as she glared at Xu Mu.
“The kind of person I hate most is someone like you! Why is your physical body so powerful?”
“What’s wrong? Were you lying to me just now?”
Xu Mu pretended not to know.
“The formations here were clearly powerful enough to deal with anyone who broke in, but your physical strength just happened to be greater than mine.”
Yue Menglong recalled how Xu Mu had shattered the formation with nothing more than a flying knee.
She had immediately realized that this man was an unpredictable variable. That was why she had controlled the three women, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity to kill him.
She had never expected Xu Mu to fall for it.
She had accumulated so many heavenly treasures for her own recovery. How could she allow someone else to benefit from her efforts?
“Beautiful lady, I can’t believe I trusted you so much. As expected, there isn’t a single truthful word in a beautiful woman’s mouth.”
Xu Mu smiled at Yue Menglong. “But are you sure you can use them to deal with me?”
“You want to say that you can break their control, right?”
Yue Menglong gently shook her head. “Since I brought them here, I naturally have a way to deal with you. Xu Mu, put down the heavenly treasures and I’ll let you leave. Otherwise…”
As she spoke, she took the initiative to walk up to the Ninth-Order expert from the Black Moon Clan.
“Speak. I’m not controlling your mouth anymore.”
“You’re… the Everlife Thousand-Skinned Woman!”
The old man’s face turned deathly pale.
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
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.
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!
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
