Xie Lin had no idea what Xu Mu had given her, but she swallowed the pill anyway.
Within just a few seconds, she felt a burning sensation in her stomach. Then, a surge of power began coursing rapidly through her body.
Her entire body grew hot, and sweat poured from her.
Bang!
Suddenly, she felt as though something inside her had broken through a barrier.
She widened her eyes in disbelief. Having already reached the mid-stage of Hidden Strength, she naturally knew what it felt like to break through.
Had she actually reached the late stage of Hidden Strength?
Before she could figure out what was happening, Xu Mu took out another pill and put it into her mouth.
The aura in her body, which had weakened moments ago, began surging once more.
The qi flowing through her spiritual meridians seemed as though it would burst her body apart. The intense pain brought tears to her eyes.
Boom!
A tremendous roar suddenly erupted from within her, and a powerful gale burst outward in all directions.
Only after that force was released did her body gradually recover.
Xie Lin stared at her hands in disbelief. Could what she had just released really be the legendary outward projection of astral energy?
“All right. You’re stronger than her now,” Xu Mu said casually, his hands tucked into his pockets.
Xie Lin clenched her fists tightly, feeling the immense power within her. She was countless times stronger than before.
She stared at Xie Jing in the distance and immediately charged toward her.
“Xie Lin! How dare you attack me? I’ll kill you!”
Xie Jing rushed forward and threw a punch.
Xie Lin threw a punch as well. Before their fists could even collide, a thunderous boom rang out.
Bang!
Xie Jing was sent flying uncontrollably. With a loud crash, she slammed into a large tree in the distance.
“Ah!”
Xie Jing clutched her arm and let out a wail of pain.
[Affection +10]
Xie Lin turned to look at Xu Mu. The shock in her eyes was beyond words.
She even felt as though she were dreaming.
Outward projection of astral energy.
Her elder brother had only just entered this realm, and he was already thirty-seven years old.
As for her father, he had only reached the late stage of astral energy.
Yet the man standing before her had entered this realm simply by having her swallow two pills.
Could this man be the legendary immortal?
[Affection +10]
“Thank you, Senior!”
Xie Lin knelt directly on the ground, her face filled with reverence and adoration.
Seeing Xie Lin’s current appearance, Xu Mu was reminded of how he had looked when he first encountered a hidden family.
He never would have imagined that, in such a short time, the so-called hidden families would amount to nothing in front of him.
Even so, he still didn’t dare use a more powerful elixir. Otherwise, its overwhelming medicinal effects might crush Xie Lin’s delicate spiritual meridians.
“Get up,” Xu Mu said with a smile.
Just then, the people nearby heard someone shouting and all hurried over.
Aside from the bodyguards, there were two other people.
One of them was Shi Fumeng. Beside her stood a burly man.
He had short hair and wore an earring.
“Brother! Xie Lin is trying to rebel! She wants to kill me!”
Clutching her arm, Xie Jing staggered to her feet and shouted at the top of her lungs.
Xie Wei first looked at Xu Mu, then turned to Xie Lin.
“Linlin, what happened?”
He was no fool. Shi Fumeng was standing right there. If he dealt with Xie Lin now, all his previous efforts would be wasted.
“Xie Jing hit me just now. I only fought back,” Xie Lin said calmly.
“Brother! That wretch Xie Lin betrayed the family! Grandfather clearly said that what happened with Shi Fumeng had to remain secret, but she deliberately brought Shi Fumeng’s friend here!”
Xie Jing continued shouting.
“What?”
Xie Wei’s expression immediately darkened.
He had liked Shi Fumeng from the very first moment he saw her.
When his family told him that he was to force the relationship with this woman, he had been so delighted that he could barely sleep.
If she had not been so powerful, he would have forced himself on her long ago.
Now Xie Lin had actually brought Shi Fumeng’s friend here. Wasn’t that deliberately going against him?
Just then, Shi Fumeng took the initiative and walked over to Xu Mu.
She tilted her head up and carefully examined him. The deep look that had previously filled her blue eyes was gone, replaced by an almost childlike innocence.
“I feel like I’ve seen you somewhere before.”
“Of course you have. We’re friends.”
Xu Mu reached out and took Shi Fumeng by the wrist.
When Shi Fumeng saw that he was holding her wrist, she immediately tried to pull free. However, Xu Mu’s grip was firm, and he refused to let go.
“What are you doing, you brat? You’re courting death!”
Seeing this, Xie Wei charged straight at them.
Xie Lin stood to one side, not daring to make a sound. After all, this elder brother of hers was incredibly powerful. He had always been called a genius in the family, and before the age of forty, he had already entered the Astral Energy Realm.
Ying Weiyang, who was beside Xu Mu eating spicy strips, stepped in front of him.
“Little girl! If you don’t want to die, get out of my way!”
Boom!
The instant he finished speaking, his body smashed uncontrollably into the ground, shattering the stone slabs beneath him.
Ying Weiyang said indifferently, “You’re courting death! How dare you attack Xu Mu? What if he gets angry and stops giving me snacks?”
Xie Lin and Xie Jing stood nearby, both staring in stunned silence.
What was going on?
A little girl had actually pinned Xie Wei to the ground with ease. Xie Wei was clearly a martial artist who possessed Gang Qi as well.
“Stop!”
Just then, an old man descended from the mountaintop above.
The old man was an early-stage Grandmaster. At least among the reclusive families, that level of cultivation was already quite formidable.
When Xie Jing saw him appear, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly shouted, “Grandpa! Come save us!”
Xie Wei was sprawled on the ground as well. He growled, “Grandpa, help!”
Xu Mu glanced at the old man and briefly scanned him with the Eye of God.
His name was Xie Pingnan, and he came from an obscure minor sect.
“All right. Let my grandson go.”
Xie Pingnan stood with his hands behind his back.
Only then did Ying Weiyang withdraw her power and return to Xu Mu’s side.
“Grandpa, they claim to be Shi Fumeng’s friends. Xie Lin brought them here.”
Xie Wei got to his feet and whispered to Xie Pingnan.
“It wasn’t Xie Lin who brought me here. I came on my own. Shi Fumeng disappeared nearby, so naturally we came looking for her.”
Xu Mu spoke indifferently.
“You say Shi Fumeng is your friend? Do you have any proof? From the looks of it, she doesn’t seem to want you holding on to her.”
Xie Pingnan stared at Xu Mu.
“I don’t need proof. If I say she’s my friend, then she’s my friend.”
Xu Mu cast a faint glance at Xie Pingnan. “Do I need your permission to take her away?”
“How dare you!”
Xie Jing had also come to stand before her grandfather. “Do you even know who my grandfather is?”
Xie Pingnan’s expression darkened as well. “Young man, do you really think we’re like those ordinary reclusive families? As your senior, I’ll tell you this: there are different ranks among the reclusive families!”
Boom!
In an instant, his Qi erupted completely, and blue light enveloped his entire body.
A Golden Body—the proof that one had reached the Grandmaster realm.
Seeing this, Xie Wei and Xie Jing proudly puffed out their chests, apparently believing that their family was untouchable.
Xie Lin’s face turned pale, and she couldn’t help looking toward Xu Mu.
Xu Mu dug at his ear and impatiently waved at Ying Weiyang. “You handle it.”
With that, he pulled Shi Fumeng over to a stone bench nearby and sat down.
He had just examined her and discovered that Shi Fumeng’s amnesia was somewhat similar to Ying Weiyang’s.
He needed to study it carefully.
“Oh.”
Ying Weiyang acknowledged him and raised one finger, pointing it at Xie Pingnan.
“You little brat, what the hell are you pointing at me for?” Xie Jing cursed.
Boom!
In an instant, Xie Pingnan, Xie Wei, and Xie Jing were all crushed to the ground.
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.
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lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
