Departure

Yue Menglong could hardly believe it. She had pushed her heaven-tier technique to its absolute limit, burning through all the qi of a ninth-stage expert.

Logically speaking, after sustaining that attack for nearly a full minute, anyone below the Transcendent Realm should have died instantly upon contact. Even someone at the seventh or eighth stage of the World-Breaking Realm would have been killed.

Yet the two boys before her were still alive. How was that possible?

She stared at Xu Mu in the distance. His clothes had been almost completely shredded, leaving him covered in blood. With that much blood loss, he should have collapsed long ago, but Xu Mu still looked full of energy.

Chen Xuan had also been reduced to a bloody mess, with wounds even deeper than Xu Mu’s.

However, something about him had changed.

His body was glowing green. It was not a gentle radiance, nor was it a flame-like glow resembling qi energy.

What he emitted looked like countless straight lines of varying lengths.

The fine lines flickered in all directions like laser beams, interwoven with golden arcs of electricity.

Step by step, Chen Xuan walked toward Yue Menglong.

The countless rays of light from his body shone onto Yue Menglong, as though the two of them had been linked together.

“Kid! What the hell are you doing?”

The instant Yue Menglong finished speaking, Chen Xuan’s body transformed into a bolt of golden lightning.

Buzz!

The two areas where Chen Xuan and Yue Menglong stood flashed with golden light at terrifying speed.

It seemed as though they flashed a hundred times in a single second.

The golden lightning that Chen Xuan had become managed to evade every one of the attacks, but blood began spraying from every part of Yue Menglong’s body. In the end, she shattered into pieces.

“Fifth Form of Chopping Wood—The Myriad Woods Return to the Void.”

The lightning transformed from Chen Xuan’s body returned to its original form. With an expressionless face, he said, “I didn’t expect your body to be so poor at taking a beating.”

“Holy crap! Old Chen, do you have to be this brutal?”

Xu Mu sucked in a sharp breath when he saw what had happened from a distance.

Although he knew that Chen Xuan was the protagonist and must have some way to protect himself, he had never expected him to be this powerful.

“Brother Mu, logically speaking, it shouldn’t have been this easy. That person must have run out of qi.”

Chen Xuan smiled at Xu Mu.

“That’s right. She really did run out of qi. I was only controlling a corpse that had just died. Once the qi inside it was exhausted, it became completely useless. Unlike a living person, it couldn’t recover.”

A pool of blood slowly gathered together, eventually reforming into Yue Menglong’s figure.

Xu Mu and Chen Xuan stared at the woman, neither daring to act rashly. Who knew what other tricks this tower might have?

“You two are quite something. In all the years I’ve lived, this is the first time two ants have forced me into such a desperate situation.”

Yue Menglong suddenly leapt into the lake in the distance.

Xu Mu immediately used his perception to investigate and discovered that Yue Menglong had vanished.

“So the formation leading out of here is at the bottom of the lake. I thought it was inside the thatched hut.”

Xu Mu looked around. The formation in the thatched hut had already been completely destroyed, and the heavenly treasures hidden inside had mostly been reduced to dust.

Fortunately, Xu Mu had already moved a large number of heavenly treasures and pills into his storage space.

“That was truly dangerous. If she had still been able to continue fighting, I probably wouldn’t have made it.”

Chen Xuan sat down weakly and took two of the pills Xu Mu had given him.

“At least we didn’t come here for nothing.”

Xu Mu walked over to the bodies of the ninth-stage and seventh-stage experts and removed their spatial rings.

“Brother Mu, what should we do with all these shattered heavenly treasures?”

Chen Xuan pointed around them.

“There’s nothing we can do. I’ll just have to let my little gu worm have them.”

As Xu Mu spoke, he raised his hand, and dark golden energy flowed across the ground.

The medicinal effects of heavenly treasures varied. Some could be consumed together, while others could not.

Now that all the heavenly treasures around them had been crushed and mixed together, separating them would require a great deal of trouble if they were to be used later. It would be better to let the Devouring Spirit Sacred Gu swallow them directly.

After evolving, the Devouring Spirit Sacred Gu was now far more powerful than before, both in terms of its speed and the range of its devouring ability.

In less than a minute, everything around them had been devoured completely, including the two corpses.

Xu Mu left the formation again and discovered that the three women in the distance were still standing at the entrance, afraid to go inside.

“Xu Mu! Are you all right?”

When Bai Shanh u saw Xu Mu emerge, she immediately asked with concern, especially upon seeing him covered in blood.

“I’m fine. We found the exit. Let’s go.”

Xu Mu led them back to the formation they had used earlier.

Yong Tan looked around. Everything was calm and empty, yet she felt as though there were still an intensely heavy smell of blood in the air.

Then she looked toward Chen Xuan and noticed that his injuries were even worse than Xu Mu’s.

“Where are the people who were here?”

Yong Tan asked curiously.

“Two people died. One was a ninth-stage expert from the Blackmoon Clan, and the other was Ze Guan, whom you brought with you.”

Xu Mu looked at Yong Tan and continued, “The person who was originally hiding here has already escaped.”

Upon hearing this, the others were completely unable to believe it. They thought they must have misheard. A ninth-stage expert had died here, so why were Xu Mu and Chen Xuan still alive?

“You said Ze Guan is dead?”

Su Yuewei’s expression turned grim. He had been the second-in-command of their branch, and the two of them had gotten along fairly well.

Now that he was dead, Su Yuewei’s position would become increasingly difficult in the future.

“Let’s get out first. We can talk afterward.”

As Xu Mu spoke, he and Chen Xuan jumped into the lake.

Using his perception earlier, Xu Mu had clearly seen a bluestone at the bottom of the lake.

Everyone reached the lakebed. Xu Mu pointed to a bluestone on the ground and placed his hand against it. His figure then vanished from the area.

The others followed closely behind.

Through the formation, Xu Mu and the others reappeared in the mountain forest they had visited before.

They all raised their heads and looked at the boundless continent suspended in the sky above them, then leapt upward.

…

After leaving the formation without incident, Xu Mu and the others returned to the outside world.

The sky was beginning to darken. The Blackmoon Clan’s territory was still completely empty, which meant the news had clearly not spread yet.

As for whether the Blackmoon Clan would cause trouble for the Netherworld Clan afterward, that was no longer Xu Mu’s concern.

Wearing black robes, Xu Mu and the others left first and returned to the outskirts of the city where the Netherworld Clan was located.

Bai Shanh u spoke first. “Xu Mu, I have to thank you for this. If it weren’t for you, I probably wouldn’t have made it back alive. I’ll remember this favor. I’m going home now.”

Xu Mu glanced at Bai Shanh u. In any case, she was still considered the female lead, and he planned to gain a little more Justice Value before they parted ways.

“This really was dangerous. The ninth-stage expert from the Blackmoon Clan, Ze Guan, and the person hiding there all fought until both sides were badly injured. Old Chen and I were only lucky enough to survive.”

As Xu Mu spoke, he took out a Great Replenishment Pill and handed it to Bai Shanh u.

“I snatched this from them. It seems to be fairly high-grade, so I’m giving you one.”

Bai Shanh u took it and held it beneath her nose to smell it.

“It should be around an eighth-grade pill.”

She did not stand on ceremony and swallowed it directly.

In an instant, a vast surge of spiritual energy raced through her meridians.

“This… There’s a divine medicine inside it?”

Bai Shanh u’s eyes widened in disbelief as power began erupting from her pores.

Boom!

A deafening explosion rang out.

Bai Shanh u stared in shock.

“The World-Breaking Realm? I’ve entered the World-Breaking Realm!”

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