The Frozen Purple Orchid

Xu Mu was holding Li Hongdou’s phone, recording everything happening in the distance.

Although all four of them were dressed in black robes, the phone couldn’t capture their faces.

However, it recorded the Light Race’s signature techniques with perfect clarity.

There was no need to prove their identities. It would be enough to let the Darkmoon Race know that the Light Race had attacked them.

After the Light Race made their move, all the more powerful World-Breaking experts were killed.

When everything was over, the eighth-stage woman from the Light Race stood in the center of what had become a ruin.

She pressed one hand against the ground. The golden radiance around her continuously transformed into runes, flickering all around her.

The golden runes spread without pause, eventually covering the entire town.

Buzz!

A golden light flashed, and the town that had been reduced to ruins suddenly became perfectly intact again.

“This should be a formation, right?”

Li Hongdou turned to Xu Mu.

Xu Mu first pointed at the phone, then altered his voice before saying, “That’s right. It’s only a relatively simple illusion formation. Its purpose is to keep passersby from seeing the town after it was destroyed.

“It’s merely an illusion. It only affects vision and can’t interfere with Xu Mu’s perception.”

Through his perception, he could see everything clearly. After the woman finished setting up the formation, Ye Chen and the others had headed together toward the ruins deep inside and disappeared from sight.

“Let’s go in and take a look.”

Xu Mu didn’t stop recording. As he continued filming, he headed toward the town.

The moment he stepped into the formation, the scene in the recording changed as well.

The buildings that had originally looked completely intact were revealed to be a vast field of ruins, filled with countless corpses.

“The Light Race really is a bunch of hypocrites. They paint themselves as righteous, yet they were absolutely ruthless when attacking the Darkmoon Race, one of the other Four Great Races.”

Chen Xuan imitated Xu Mu and slightly altered his voice as well.

“Heh. It’s all for profit.”

After saying this, Xu Mu stopped recording and handed the phone to Li Hongdou. “Senior, send this video to me after we get back.”

“You want to give it to the Darkmoon Race, don’t you?”

Li Hongdou asked with a smile.

“That’s right. Zidian of the Darkmoon Race definitely won’t let me off. I might as well take the initiative and shatter the balance between the Four Great Races.”

Xu Mu waved his wrist. “Now they’re already at odds with the Netherworld Race, and the Light Race has attacked them too. Let’s see how they deal with this.”

“Heh. They really are unlucky to have provoked you.”

Li Hongdou couldn’t help laughing.

“It’s not my fault. I never asked the Light Race to come. They did it on their own.”

As Xu Mu spoke, he glanced at Chen Xuan. “Old Chen, be careful of Ye Chen. He’s very powerful.”

“I know.”

Chen Xuan nodded.

“Let’s wait a little while and give them time to fight.”

Xu Mu spread open his hand. Dark-gold liquid began to flow down from his palm.

The dark-gold liquid spread and flowed continuously, swallowing all the corpses on the ground.

Not only that, but as it collected everything, the Sacred Gu also swept up the spatial rings belonging to the dead and brought them back.

“I didn’t expect your control over Gu insects to be this impressive too.”

Li Hongdou sighed. Just how much energy did this man have? He could master so many different abilities at once.

[Affection +10]

“I know a little about it. Mainly, this Sacred Gu is very obedient.”

After Xu Mu tossed the rings into his storage space, he grabbed Chen Xuan and Li Hongdou by the hands and inscribed voice-transmission formations onto their bodies.

By now, enough time had passed. The group immediately headed toward the ruins deep inside.

There was a black stone stele here, engraved with a crescent moon the size of a washbasin.

Xu Mu walked over first, with Chen Xuan and Li Hongdou following close behind.

After entering the ruins, all three of them frowned slightly.

The scene before them was completely different from what they had expected. There were no traces of battle anywhere. The ground and buildings were all perfectly intact.

This time, it wasn’t an illusion formation. It was the real thing.

“They wiped everyone out in an instant? That’s impossible!”

Chen Xuan walked farther inside. “After all, this is the Gods’ Battlefield. Even if there aren’t any ninth-stage experts, there should at least be eighth-stage experts guarding the place.”

Xu Mu closed his eyes and sensed the surroundings before shaking his head. “No. There aren’t any corpses.”

“You mean the people from the Darkmoon Race entered the Gods’ Battlefield ahead of time to search for the treasures?” Chen Xuan asked.

“Exactly.”

Xu Mu nodded and carefully reviewed everything that had happened so far.

The Darkmoon Race was in trouble, and the ninth-stage expert stationed here had needed to return and stabilize the situation. Who would still care about the people who were about to launch a surprise attack?

Besides, Shui Shu had lost her position as clan leader and no longer had any value in Zidian’s eyes.

There was no way he would care whether Shui Shu’s video was made public.

Therefore, from Zidian’s perspective, the best course of action now was to send experts from his own side to take the treasures here.

Xu Mu and the others headed toward the deepest part and discovered another formation inside the building.

They stepped inside once more and immediately saw the enormous landmass suspended in the sky above them.

This time, there were no green plants on the landmass. Its entire surface was pale, as though it had been completely covered by snow.

Li Hongdou grabbed Xu Mu and Chen Xuan by their hands and flew toward the sky. “We need to hurry. If the Darkmoon Race’s experts entered earlier, they may already be close to obtaining the treasure.”

The three of them escaped the landmass’s gravitational pull and entered the gravitational field of the Gods’ Battlefield.

They immediately flipped through the air, then landed steadily in the thick snow.

Xu Mu released his power and melted the snow around them. Only then did they discover that the snow here was five or six meters thick, enough to bury all three of them completely.

Xu Mu closed his eyes and sensed the surroundings. Everything within a four-kilometer radius appeared clearly in his mind.

He didn’t see any sign of people, but he did notice snow that had already been melted. Clearly, Ye Chen and the others had passed through this area just moments ago.

“Brother Mu, this snow is blocking our view completely. Which way should we go?”

Chen Xuan asked from the side.

“Old Chen, I’ll listen to you. Point us in any direction.”

Xu Mu still trusted the luck of Chen Xuan, the protagonist.

Chen Xuan looked left and right before pointing in one direction. “Let’s go this way.”

“All right.”

Xu Mu nodded.

Li Hongdou raised her hand, and a ball of flame appeared in her palm. She flung it forward with all her strength.

Whoosh!

The flames spread into a fan-shaped attack, melting the massive amount of snow in front of them.

Once the snow vanished, the terrain in the distance was revealed. The direction Chen Xuan had chosen led to a rocky mountain.

There happened to be a black cave in the rocks.

Xu Mu and Li Hongdou both turned to stare at Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan scratched his head awkwardly. “I’ve never been here before. I just pointed randomly.”

“Old Chen, you really are something. I believe you were right.”

After saying this, Xu Mu immediately headed toward the cave in the distance.

When they reached the cave entrance, he tried to examine the inside with his perception, only to find that he couldn’t explore it.

There was no need to think about it. It was definitely a formation.

“Let’s go.”

Xu Mu entered first, and the other two followed behind him.

In the next moment, Xu Mu appeared on a frozen plain. The surrounding snow was gone, and the mountain peaks that had originally stood there were encased in thick ice.

The two people beside him had disappeared as well.

“I knew it wouldn’t be that easy.”

Xu Mu felt somewhat helpless. He raised his hand and said softly, “It’s so cold here. Even with my physique, I can still feel it.”

He extended his senses to survey the surroundings, and suddenly spotted someone familiar.

Zilan Yin of the Blackmoon Clan.

She was sitting nearby, her body almost completely frozen into an ice sculpture. Her black hair was encased in ice, and her long lashes were covered in ice spikes.