Yue Menglong had already witnessed Xu Mu’s space technique that allowed him to exchange positions.
Xu Mu shoved the little Gu insect he had prepared in advance into Phoenix’s wound. Then he covered her head with a black robe and placed her inside his own space.
“Xu Mu is courting death!”
Ai Ping, who had been following behind them, immediately unleashed her power. But the moment she arrived in front of Xu Mu, the person before her vanished.
Yue Menglong immediately closed her eyes and spread out her senses. It was bad enough that she could not detect Xu Mu—she could not even sense Phoenix’s presence, much less the mark she had placed on her.
“Damn it! Xu Mu!”
Yue Menglong clenched her fists, her eyes seeming to spit fire.
“My lord!”
At that moment, Hua Ming, who had been transferred to the hillside, flew back over. When he saw that Phoenix had disappeared, he was completely stunned.
“That Xu Mu possesses so many powerful techniques. Who exactly is he?”
Yue Menglong gritted her teeth. “Let’s go! I won’t let a single one of them off!”
…
Using the teleportation token in his hand, Xu Mu arrived beside Fu Jinyu. He immediately pulled Phoenix out of his personal space.
The black robe was still covering her head. Since both her arms had been dislocated, she had no way to remove it herself.
Besides, she had just realized that Xu Mu had suddenly appeared beside her, so she had not released her qi to shatter the robe.
Xu Mu removed the black robe from her head and reset her arms.
“Are you all right?”
As he asked the woman, he did not forget to use his God’s Eye to inspect her information.
Name: Phoenix
Character: Daughter of the Sect Master of the Mending Heaven Sect; protagonist of The Cultivator Returns as a Daddy.
Favorability: 1
Destiny Level: 8 (Maximum: 10)
“I’m fine.”
Phoenix lightly clenched her fists several times. Seeing that her dislocated arms had already recovered completely, she gave Xu Mu a grateful smile.
[Favorability +10]
Xu Mu was somewhat surprised. He had not expected this woman to be a female protagonist as well.
She came from the Mending Heaven Sect. In the Inner World, most forces that took the form of sects were mixed-blood clans.
Since she was a female protagonist, Xu Mu immediately began making his move.
“What happened to you? Didn’t Xiao Gui escape? Why did you come back?”
When Phoenix heard this, she immediately fell silent, not knowing what to say.
After hesitating for a moment, she still answered, “The situation was too dangerous just now. He could only save one person, so of course he would save his wife first.”
“I thought you were his wife too.”
Xu Mu smiled as he spoke.
Phoenix’s expression became slightly unnatural. She had truly thought so before, and had even considered herself Xiao Gui’s woman long ago.
But what had happened today left her feeling rather uncomfortable.
“What happened to you? Hadn’t you already escaped? Why did you come back?”
Phoenix changed the subject, unwilling to say more about it.
“Brother Mu saw that you hadn’t come out, so he specifically went back to save you,” Chen Xuan said from the side. “Brother Mu is just that caring. He can’t stand by and watch one of his own suffer.”
“Heh, that’s enough.”
Xu Mu waved a hand at Chen Xuan. “Since you’re safe now, you should go back.”
As he spoke, he opened his hand. The little Gu insect flew out of Phoenix’s nostril and landed in his palm.
“This…”
When Phoenix saw the golden speck of light, she recalled the scene of Xu Mu treating Xiao Qiao.
“You removed the mark inside my body too?”
“That’s right. Otherwise, you would have already died by the time I rescued you.”
Xu Mu smiled and shrugged. “Don’t worry. There’s nothing wrong with you now. Go find Xiao Gui.”
Upon hearing this, Phoenix gave a bitter smile. She remembered the last time, when Xiao Gui had led the two experts from their side into the battlefield of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan’s divine war.
It was said that they had even attacked Xu Mu because of Xiao Gui.
On Xiao Gui’s side, she had also heard plenty of malicious things about Xu Mu.
Most of all, they said that Xu Mu loved stealing other people’s women.
At first, she had actually believed them. But after meeting Xu Mu, she finally understood that he was simply a good person who naturally attracted women.
[Favorability +10]
“Thank you, Xu Mu. I won’t forget this favor.”
Phoenix bowed deeply to Xu Mu before quickly leaving.
Xu Mu stretched hard. “All right. Now we can get back to our own business.”
“Brother Mu, where are we going?” Chen Xuan asked with a smile.
“First, we’ll return the way we came. Then we’ll head to the Northern Underworld Continent to find Wanyue and the others. If nothing unexpected happens, Wanyue and Xingluo should have already reached the Transcendent Realm. I need to raise them to the World-Breaking Realm as soon as possible.”
Xu Mu smiled.
Fu Jinyu, standing nearby, did not know what to say. Before she had met Xu Mu, she herself had only been at the mid-stage of the Transcendent Realm.
At that time, she had already become the empress of her race and thought that this realm was incredibly high.
But now?
The people around Xu Mu kept refreshing her understanding of strength. She remembered that the two women had previously been trash in her eyes.
Yet now, they had already entered the Transcendent Realm and were about to catch up to the level she had once reached.
If she had not followed Xu Mu, she might still be stuck at that same realm even now.
[Favorability +10]
…
Under Xu Mu’s guidance, the group returned to the lake they had visited earlier and once again emerged onto the grassland.
After bidding farewell to the cleaner there, Xu Mu piloted a helicopter toward a new intersection between the Inner and Outer Worlds.
Now that they had this phone, traveling was incredibly convenient.
It constantly updated the latest map of the Inner World and could use it to find the shortest route to any location.
This time, they headed for the Jizhou region. Through the intersection between the Inner and Outer Worlds there, they once again entered the Northern Underworld Continent.
From there, it was only a five- or six-hour journey to the Sacred Battle Arena where Meng Wanyue was staying.
The group put on their black robes and traveled all the way to their destination without stopping.
After entering the Sacred Battle Arena, Xu Mu and the others did not immediately search for Meng Wanyue and the rest. Instead, they went to the rankings in the main hall.
Chen Xuan and Fu Jinyu both studied the names on the lists. However, as people from the Outer World, they recognized almost no one on them.
“Brother Mu, look. Both of them really have entered the Transcendent Realm.”
Chen Xuan pointed at the Transcendent Realm rankings. Meng Wanyue was currently in sixth place, while Dai Xingluo was in eighth.
Xu Mu nodded slightly. The Transcendent Realm rankings covered an entire major realm.
Those near the top of the list were practically all at the Transcendent Realm’s perfection stage. For the two of them to rank this highly was already extremely impressive.
Xu Mu then checked the rankings for the World-Breaking Realm.
The World-Breaking rankings grouped two stages together. In other words, stages one and two shared a ranking, followed by stages three and four. The list continued up through stages seven and eight, but there was no ninth-stage ranking.
After all, who at the ninth stage would waste time coming here to fight for spectators’ entertainment?
On the first- and second-stage rankings, Tong Guoguo was in second place.
That was perfectly understandable. With Tong Guoguo’s powerful physique, forget the second stage—even someone at the third stage might not be able to break through her defenses.
Xu Mu looked at the person in first place on the first- and second-stage rankings, wanting to see who had managed to defeat Tong Guoguo.
The name at the top was Blue Phoenix.
He shook his head slightly. Why were there so many people named Phoenix? The one he had just rescued was called Phoenix, and now there was another Phoenix here.
“All right, let’s go find them.”
Xu Mu spread out his senses and searched for the three women’s whereabouts. In the end, he unexpectedly spotted a familiar face here: Tian Yunchu of the Celestial Clan.
He immediately brought Chen Xuan and Fu Jinyu over.
At that moment, Tian Yunchu was wearing the sect’s women’s uniform. She was so petite that her head came just level with Fu Jinyu’s “thunderbolt.”
Despite her small, slender frame, she had an impressively full and mature figure, making her especially eye-catching as she walked.
“Tian Yunchu, what are you doing here?”
Xu Mu called out. After coming up beside her, he lifted the hood of his black robe.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
lan, the Luo family, tracked him down - along with the babies in their arms. Mo Xuan stared pensively at the paternity test results from over a dozen top institutions, both domestic and international, showing a 99.99% match between himself and the two baby girls. At 23, Mo Xuan, a doctoral student, had become the father of two three-year-old children. The kicker? The mothers weren't even the same person! He gradually realized he was being lured step by step into an elaborate trap designed by these two yandere sisters. "Be good, little Xuan. Sister's life belongs to you entirely." "Brother, if you try to run away, I'll have no choice but to tie you up." Mo Xuan: "Do whatever you want, ladies. I give up."
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.”
