Xia Jiang’s expression instantly turned solemn when he heard this.
“I’m not particularly enthusiastic about the Battlefield of the Gods. Given my cultivation level, I probably wouldn’t be able to obtain anything valuable anyway. What I’m curious about is, why did you come to discuss this with me?”
Xu Mu smiled. It seemed that the Xia Jiang before him was an old hand.
When dealing with someone like this, it was better to be direct. Beating around the bush would only make him feel disgusted.
“It’s simple. According to what we’ve learned, the Battlefield of the Gods is under the protection of one of the other four major races. But do you really think the three of us have any hope of obtaining its treasures, Senior?”
Xu Mu asked with a smile.
“I understand now. You deliberately told me about it because, put simply, you want the Celestial Race to provide cover for you.”
Xia Jiang immediately understood Xu Mu’s intentions. After thinking for a moment, he couldn’t help laughing.
“You’re a fairly honest person.”
“Senior, I don’t want to waste time. Just tell me whether you agree or not. If you don’t, I’ll immediately go find one of the other races. I believe someone will be willing to cooperate.”
Xu Mu had already spent quite some time navigating the inner world, so he naturally knew just how precious the Battlefield of the Gods was.
Almost no one would willingly give up such a place.
If one was lucky enough, whether it was a divine weapon or a god-tier cultivation technique, any of those treasures could change one’s entire life.
“You said it’s under the control of one of the four major races. Which race?”
“The Black Moon Clan.”
Xu Mu answered directly.
“I can’t make that decision myself. If you don’t mind the trouble, we can head to our Celestial Race branch right now. I’ll send a message to headquarters.”
Xia Jiang was only a sixth-tier elder with a relatively low ranking. He didn’t dare to provoke a war with the Black Moon Clan without authorization.
This matter was far too important. He would definitely need to request instructions from above.
“How long will it take? We don’t have time to waste.”
“I’ll definitely send you a response before dawn,” Xia Jiang said solemnly. “If you agree, we can leave now.”
“Fine.”
Xu Mu nodded. Since it was already so late, he had been planning to sleep and set out the next day anyway.
Waiting one day to see how things turned out was no great inconvenience.
As for the Celestial Race, he didn’t harbor the same inexplicable hostility toward them that he did toward the other races.
He remembered that during the previous opening of the Battlefield of the Gods, Tian Bufan and that eighth-tier expert from the Celestial Race had practically just stood by and watched. They had never attacked Xu Mu.
“Good.”
Xia Jiang lightly leaped onto the second floor and walked to a nearby room, where he knocked several times.
After a few breaths, Tian Yunchu immediately opened the door.
“What is it, Elder Xia?”
Xia Jiang pointed toward Xu Mu and the others downstairs and briefly explained the situation.
When Tian Yunchu heard this, her heart filled with delight. She immediately jumped downstairs and hurried over to Xu Mu.
“Is it true?”
“I have no reason to lie to you.”
Xu Mu nodded.
Tian Yunchu turned around and shouted, “Elder Xia, let’s go!”
Xia Jiang nodded and led them out of the inn and onto the street.
He raised one finger, and qi gathered into the shape of a gigantic sword.
It was nearly half a meter wide and three to four meters long, resembling a flat boat floating on a river.
“Get on!”
Xia Jiang leaped onto it first, and the others stepped on one after another.
Whoosh!
The giant sword slowly rose into the air before transforming into a streak of light and flying into the night sky.
Xu Mu looked down at the scenery rushing past beneath them. As expected of a sixth-tier expert—his speed was astonishing.
If the others hadn’t already reached a decent cultivation level, they might have been blown off by the storm-like wind rushing toward them.
After flying for several hours, they arrived in the latter half of the night at a prosperous city.
This place was far larger than the town they had come from. Even though it was already deep into the night, lights still shone along the streets. Almost every household had solar-powered lamps installed beneath the eaves outside their doors.
“This is our branch in the Northern Nether Continent,” Xia Jiang explained from the front.
He then controlled the giant sword and slowly brought it down.
They arrived at an inn where someone was still receiving guests.
“Miss Tian, Elder Xia.”
The innkeeper had nearly fallen asleep with his head on the counter. When he heard someone enter, he raised his head. Upon seeing the two of them, he hurried out to greet them.
“I need to use our branch to send a message. Arrange accommodations for the people accompanying me.”
Xia Jiang got straight to the point.
“Yes!”
The innkeeper nodded.
Xia Jiang flew alone toward the ruins in the distance.
The innkeeper didn’t dare delay. He immediately led the others upstairs and arranged a separate room for each of the four.
Xu Mu and the others returned to their rooms to rest as they waited quietly.
If nothing went wrong, there should be a passage connecting the inner and outer worlds here as well.
Xia Jiang would use it to travel to the outer world, then send a message by phone. Someone at another location would use the local passage between the inner and outer worlds to relay the message directly to headquarters.
The inner world’s several continents were simply too vast. If one traveled only through the inner world, no one knew how long the journey would take.
Xu Mu lay down on the wooden bed and opened his system panel. He discovered that he could do another two rounds of ten consecutive draws.
Most of the contribution points had come from Feng Yue, who was thousands of kilometers away.
He had to admit, her halo was truly impressive.
Since he had nothing else to do, Xu Mu used both rounds of ten draws, hoping they would give him something good.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained Space.]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 cultivation points.]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 20 attribute points.]
…
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the ninth-grade heavenly treasure, Violet Luo Vine.]
Violet Luo Vine?
Xu Mu suddenly remembered that he still had two suits of Violet Luo Hehuan Armor in his storage space.
He had obtained them from previous draws.
The Violet Luo Vine was not a medicinal treasure. It was a plant with defensive properties.
To put it simply, this heavenly treasure was extremely peculiar. It possessed tremendous resilience and could absorb a large amount of qi. After absorbing enough, it would gradually tighten and harden.
Only by slowly rubbing the vines could the qi inside disperse, allowing the vines to become soft again.
It was like a muscle that had been tensed—it needed to be stretched and massaged.
Thus, its defensive ability did not come from having thick skin in the traditional sense. Instead, after being struck, the armor would absorb a large amount of the attacker’s qi, thereby reducing the force of the attack.
Since he had nothing else to do, Xu Mu decided that he would ask Li Hongdou tomorrow whether she needed it.
He then began the next round of ten consecutive draws.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a god-tier ability: Perception—Level Eight.]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained 30 cultivation points.]
…
…
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a Heavenly Mandate Gift Box.]
“Huh?”
Xu Mu frowned slightly. Another flashy item had appeared—something he had never drawn before.
A Heavenly Mandate Gift Box? Could it contain the power of heavenly mandate?
Still, compared with the gift box, the most valuable reward he had drawn this time was Perception.
After checking his Level Eight Perception, Xu Mu smiled. Its range had expanded from two kilometers to four.
In addition, it had gained another ability: it could now ignore whether a target was a living being.
For example, if there had once been a sealed box, Xu Mu would have needed a living creature inside it to see what was within.
But now, as long as the box was within his perception range, he could inspect its interior even if there was no living thing inside.
This was a qualitative improvement.
For instance, when he had previously wanted to examine the inside of someone’s body, he still needed to release his Gu worms.
But now, there was no need for all that trouble—everything was crystal clear.
It was practically complete X-ray vision. Whether it was clothing or skin, nothing could escape his perception.
Afterward, he clicked on the Heavenly Mandate Gift Box to see what it was.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
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?"
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
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.
