Xu Mu nodded. He had already guessed who this enemy was.
He had stolen so many of her treasures and pills, and destroyed a great deal of rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the process. It was only natural that she would hold a grudge.
Someone as influential as her having an organization working for her was perfectly normal.
“So it was Yue Menglong. What is she investigating me for?”
Xu Mu looked at Consultant Liu.
“I don’t know. She told me to send over photos of everyone around you.”
Liu Gu answered.
Xu Mu cursed inwardly. That shameless woman actually planned to target the people around him. She was completely out of line.
“Did she only send the two of you?”
Xu Mu asked.
“We don’t have the qualifications to meet Lady Thousand-Skin. This mission was assigned to us by the Painted Skin Sect Master. He only sent the two of us.”
Liu Gu thought for a moment before continuing, “Besides, it wasn’t a combat mission, so there was no need to send more people.”
Xu Mu nodded to himself and immediately sent a message to Zhong Qianqian.
Before long, two photos appeared in Xu Mu’s hands. They were photos of Xiao Gui and Xiao Qiao. As for Ye Chen, Xu Mu already had a photo of him on his phone.
“If I let you go, will you still return to the Painted Skin Sect?”
Xu Mu looked at the two men and spoke indifferently. “Don’t lie to me. I’ve done some research on the Painted Skin Sect.”
“We have to return. Everyone in the organization has Lady Thousand-Skin’s blood seal carved into their bodies. The mark is located in our brains and can last for three months—in other words, one quarter.”
Liu Gu explained, “After three months, if the Sect Master doesn’t reset the seal, it will explode inside our minds.”
The other burly man began trembling as well. “I’ve personally seen several people whose heads were blown apart when their seals reached the end of their duration.”
Xu Mu placed his hand against Liu Gu’s forehead, but since he couldn’t sense anything without a lifeform inside, he summoned the Sacred Gu within his body and had it split off a small Sacred Gu.
The Sacred Gu crawled onto Liu Gu’s body and entered him in the blink of an eye.
“Big brother, I swear that if I said even one wrong word, I’d be struck by lightning! You can’t kill me!”
Liu Gu’s condition was slightly better than before, but he still couldn’t move. His body only trembled instinctively.
“Do you know why Yue Menglong wants to deal with me?”
Xu Mu asked calmly.
“Why?”
“Because I can remove her seals. That’s why she wants me dead.”
Xu Mu closed his eyes. As the small Gu worm used its own power to burrow into Liu Gu’s brain, his senses clearly revealed everything around him.
At the location of the amygdala, there was indeed a trace of blood. It radiated a faint fluctuation of qi energy.
Of course, that power only seemed weak to Xu Mu. If it were applied to an ordinary person’s brain, it would be enough to destroy all life within it.
“Senior! You really can remove the seal from my body? The thing I regret most in my life is being seduced by one of the Painted Skin Sect’s women and joining them, only to have this seal carved into me.”
Liu Gu’s face was filled with remorse. “As long as you can help us deal with it, I definitely won’t go back.”
“I can indeed remove it.”
As Xu Mu spoke, he had the small Sacred Gu devour the mass of power.
The Devouring Spirit Sacred Gu was truly useful. It could devour the seal without causing any damage.
If he forcibly destroyed the power, the fragile brain tissue would immediately collapse.
After finishing the devouring process, Xu Mu raised his hand, and the golden Sacred Gu landed in his palm.
He used the same method to remove the seal from the burly man beside him, then recalled the small Sacred Gu.
“I’ve already removed the seals from your bodies. When someone’s seal reaches its expiration date, you can see for yourselves whether it really works. Of course, that depends on whether you dare to take the gamble.”
Xu Mu smiled as he continued, “But you don’t have a choice. Once the seal disappears, they’ll definitely notice when you return and undergo an inspection. You’ll still die then.”
The two men’s expressions shifted unpredictably. In the end, they could only choose to believe Xu Mu.
If they could truly escape the seal’s control, then with their current cultivation levels, they could enjoy the rest of their lives in the outside world.
By then, Liu Gu’s arms had recovered enough for him to move. He clenched his fists several times, though his legs were still somewhat weak.
“Take out your phone. I’ll give you a few messages, and you can send them to your superiors.”
Xu Mu glanced at Liu Gu.
“All right.”
Liu Gu nodded immediately, took out his phone, and exchanged contact information with Xu Mu.
Xu Mu sent the photos over one by one, then pointed at them and explained each person’s identity.
“This man is Ye Chen. This man is Xiao Gui. They’re both brothers who have been through life and death with me.”
Xu Mu pointed at Xiao Qiao again. “This is Xiao Gui’s daughter. Her name is Xiao Qiao. She’s my goddaughter, and I treat her as if she were my own.”
Using the handwriting keyboard, Liu Gu copied Xu Mu’s words down exactly.
“Anything else?”
Xu Mu thought for a moment. It would seem suspicious if he didn’t include a woman from his side.
Thus, he had the AI generate a photo of a real person and sent it to Liu Gu.
“Write any name you want. Say that she’s my woman and that her identity is extremely mysterious. No one around her knows what she actually does.”
“All right.”
After recording all the information, Liu Gu sent the message.
“You two should have mostly recovered by now. Go back.”
After saying this, Xu Mu stood up and walked toward his villa.
When he arrived in the living room, Shi Fumeng and Ying Weiyang were sitting on the sofa.
“How did things outside go?”
Shi Fumeng stood up and asked.
“It’s been dealt with for now, but there will definitely be more risks later.”
Xu Mu waved his hand helplessly. Since things had come to this, he decided to draw from the system first.
By now, he had accumulated enough for five ten-draws.
With Feng Yue acting as an endless source of draws, opening the lottery had become much easier for him.
“Shi Fumeng, there’s food in the refrigerator. Get some yourself if you’re hungry.”
Xu Mu sat down on the sofa, opened the system panel, and began drawing.
As the wheel spun, the rewards appeared one after another.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 cultivation points.]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 20 attribute points.]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained expanded space.]
…
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 cultivation points.]
The first ten-draw ended. Aside from expanding the range of his storage space, the rest were all guaranteed consolation rewards.
He immediately started the second draw.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 cultivation points.]
…
…
The second draw was pretty good. Every reward was a guaranteed consolation reward, so he immediately started the third ten-draw.
Unexpectedly, the third draw was also filled with guaranteed consolation rewards.
Getting two consecutive consolation rounds was still quite rare for him.
He immediately began the fourth ten-draw.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 cultivation points.]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the ninth-grade formation, Spatial Transfer Formation.]
“What the hell?”
Xu Mu suddenly widened his eyes. He had actually drawn a teleportation formation? This was an incredible item.
There were many types of teleportation formations, but hopefully this one would prove useful.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained expanded space.]
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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.
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
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!
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
