As soon as Xu Mu heard this, he immediately asked, “What happened?”
“The informant I have in the Inner World sent word that you’ve been placed on the Black Moon Clan’s wanted list.”
“I already knew that.”
“No, this is the latest development. As long as someone kills you and brings your head to the Black Moon Clan, they can exchange it for a Heaven-tier cultivation technique.”
Nalan Shisan spoke from the other end of the phone.
“What the hell?”
Xu Mu found it hard to believe. The Black Moon Clan was certainly willing to pay a huge price.
The divine medicine offered before had made people somewhat hesitant. They felt that clashing with Xu Mu would not be worth the cost.
But now, things were completely different. A Heaven-tier cultivation technique was enough to make countless people risk their lives.
After all, even when they went to the Battlefield of Gods, they might not necessarily obtain a Heaven-tier cultivation technique.
“I heard that many experts in the Inner World are looking for you now, hoping to get their hands on that Heaven-tier technique,” Nalan Shisan continued.
“Fine, I’ll be careful. Make sure you study your Heaven-tier technique properly. If I can’t hold on someday, I’ll have to rely on you.”
“Don’t worry. Leave it to me. I’ve been working hard.”
Nalan Shisan laughed on the other end.
After hanging up, Xu Mu sat on the sofa and fell into deep thought.
Ye Tong, who was sitting beside him, had heard most of their conversation. “Honey, you’ve been put on a wanted list?”
“I’ve been targeted by those foreign races. I’ll deal with it.”
As he spoke, Xu Mu suddenly took the Unbreakable Heavenly Silk out of his storage space. He also took out the clothes that Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan had worn close to their bodies.
“Whose clothes are these? They’re so big!”
Ye Tong stared at the clothes tossed onto the sofa. The enormous curves across the chest were especially eye-catching. They were so large that, if one cut out a cup, it could probably be used as her hat.
“These belong to Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan. Honey, I need you to use this silk to weave several sets of undergarments. At the very least, they need to protect your upper bodies.”
Xu Mu gave her a rough explanation of the material’s properties. It was practically impossible to destroy with external force.
Even if a ninth-tier expert wanted to kill someone wearing clothes made from the Unbreakable Heavenly Silk, in most cases, the person would die before the clothes were damaged.
“Honey, if this material is so tough, how are we supposed to cut it when making clothes?” Ye Tong asked curiously.
“Good question.”
Xu Mu took a strand of the Unbreakable Heavenly Silk, crossed it over itself, and rubbed it back and forth. “It takes several hundred passes of friction to wear it through. A single attack is practically incapable of breaking it.”
“All right, I understand. I happen to know how to knit sweaters, so I’ll use these threads to make some clothes.”
Ye Tong smiled as she spoke.
Xu Mu patted her on the head. “Thanks for your hard work.”
Just then, Shi Fumeng opened the door to the guest room on the first floor and walked out.
She had gone to bed early the previous night. After being restored by the pills, her body had almost fully recovered.
“Good morning,” Shi Fumeng said with a smile as she greeted the two of them.
[Favorability +10]
Ye Tong, standing nearby, received the same favorability increase.
“Shi Fumeng, take a few days off and don’t go outside for now.”
Xu Mu walked over and took out more than a dozen pills. “Take one every three days. Your top priority now is to enter the World-Breaking Realm.”
Shi Fumeng’s eyes widened in disbelief. “Xu Mu, are you planning to nurture me too?”
[Favorability +20]
“That’s right. I already consider you one of my own.” Xu Mu nodded.
Shi Fumeng’s filial piety value toward Xu Mu had already reached Level 8.
She could be considered a qualified filial daughter, firmly upholding her father’s ideals.
Besides, Brother Evil God was already gone, so she could no longer pose a threat to Xu Mu.
Hearing this, Shi Fumeng couldn’t help biting her lip. A layer of mist appeared in her blue eyes.
She stepped forward and grabbed Xu Mu’s arm. “You finally accept me. Don’t worry, I’ll never betray you.”
“Little sister, I hope we’ll get along well from now on.”
Ye Tong smiled at Shi Fumeng from the side.
“All right, Sister Tong.”
Shi Fumeng’s face immediately flushed red. That sounded almost as if she had married Xu Mu.
“Take these.”
Xu Mu stuffed the pills into Shi Fumeng’s hands.
Just then, his phone rang again. He took it out and glanced at the screen, discovering that the call was from Wei Jingzhi.
“Senior, what’s wrong?”
“You should be back already, right?” Wei Jingzhi asked from the other end.
“I got home yesterday. Is something wrong?”
“Come over to my place. I have some guests.”
Wei Jingzhi chuckled.
“All right.”
After hanging up, Xu Mu turned to the two women. “I’m going out for a while. Shi Fumeng, I’ll leave the task of looking after the children to you today.”
After saying goodbye to them, Xu Mu drove to Wei Jingzhi’s estate.
Before he even got close, Xu Mu used his perception and sensed the guests at Wei Jingzhi’s place.
There were two of them. One was Ji Qingge’s mother, An Linghui.
The other was an old woman with snow-white hair and a face covered in wrinkles. She was none other than Hat Bro’s harem member, Li Hongdou.
Ever since their trip to the island nation, when he had witnessed Li Hongdou’s fighting ability, Xu Mu had been able to determine that the woman was hiding her true strength.
Beneath that aged body was a young woman.
Of course, in terms of age, she might not actually be young, but her appearance certainly was.
Although Hat Bro liked taking in women with stories, there was no reason to doubt his standards when it came to beauty.
Xu Mu parked his car outside the estate and walked inside.
In the front courtyard, beneath a grape trellis, Wei Jingzhi was still lying in his reclining chair.
An Linghui and Li Hongdou were sitting in chairs beside him.
When the three of them saw Xu Mu, An Linghui was the first to stand.
“Xu Mu, you’ve certainly become famous lately.”
[Favorability +10]
Li Hongdou smiled as well. “Indeed. Compared with the outside world, you’re even more famous in the Inner World.”
[Favorability +10]
“Please don’t tease me. What exactly happened?”
Xu Mu walked over and sat on the railing around the small garden nearby.
“Let me explain.”
An Linghui came before Xu Mu. “We received word that the Black Moon Clan has issued a wanted order. Your life is worth one Heaven-tier cultivation technique.”
“Hahaha! Xu Mu, it’s not just the Inner World anymore. Even some of the experts in the outside world are considering whether they should take your life.”
Wei Jingzhi laughed from the side.
“My life is about to be taken, and Senior is still laughing so happily.”
Xu Mu helplessly spread his hands.
“Sorry. I just feel that fate is always so similar.”
Wei Jingzhi shook his head slightly. “I asked you to come here this time because I want to help you.”
“Help me? How?”
Xu Mu asked.
“Are you willing to be sealed away? The Sanitation Administration can completely seal you from public view. From now on, nothing related to you will appear online, in the media, or in any reports.”
An Linghui explained from the side, “I think you’ve heard about this before. Some people used to be very famous, but then suddenly disappeared without a trace.”
“You mean it would be like those celebrities being blacklisted?”
“More or less, but this is a national Red Grade-A order. The severity is a hundred times greater than an ordinary ban.”
An Linghui smiled. “We have to obtain your consent first. After all, some people like being in the spotlight and don’t want to be forgotten.”
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
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 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.
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!
