Xu Mu stood in front of Lin Yang and first used the God’s Eye to inspect his information.
The last time they met, Lin Yang’s Destiny Level had reached seven. Xu Mu wanted to see whether it had changed since then.
As far as Lin Yang was concerned, this was also a new experiment for Xu Mu.
Name: Lin Yang
Character: the male protagonist of Return of the Soldier King
Destiny Power: 1,000
Destiny Level: 10 (maximum level: 10)
Seeing this level, Xu Mu pondered. Could it really be that precise? Exactly one thousand points, and exactly level ten?
Or perhaps once the Destiny Power of these male protagonists was reduced below level ten and they returned to normal, it would be impossible for them to exceed level ten even if their power increased in the future.
Xu Mu then checked Lin Yang’s filial piety value toward him. It was the same as before—still level two.
“Who are you? Why are you blocking our way?”
A short-haired woman standing beside Lin Yang pointed at Xu Mu and shouted coldly.
An old man beside the short-haired woman stepped forward and faced Xu Mu.
Xu Mu inspected the woman’s information.
Name: Zhou Ke
Character: daughter of the Sea God Sect’s master; heroine of The Soldier King Returns.
Favorability: -5
Destiny Level: 8 (maximum level: 10)
“Lin Yang, long time no see. Your strength has improved quite a bit. You’ve already reached the late stage of the Grandmaster realm.”
Xu Mu spoke calmly.
Hearing that familiar voice, Lin Yang’s expression changed noticeably.
“Little Ke, he’s a friend of mine.”
“So he’s Brother Lin Yang’s friend.”
A smile appeared on Zhou Ke’s face.
“Senior, Little Ke, wait here for a moment. I have something to discuss with them.”
After speaking to the two of them, Lin Yang walked toward the distance.
“Follow me.”
Xu Mu and Chen Xuan followed behind Lin Yang until they reached the back of a large tree up ahead.
“Isn’t it interesting? I originally thought we would never meet again, but somehow we ran into each other here.”
Xu Mu removed the hood of his black robe.
“Brother Xu, I think there must be some misunderstanding between us.”
As Chen Xuan spoke, he took out a small pouch. It contained more than a dozen spatial rings.
“Look. I haven’t forgotten the task you gave me. These are all the spirit stones I’ve accumulated recently.”
Xu Mu casually took several of the rings and examined their contents. They were indeed packed full of spirit stones.
“I told you to go to the Holy Battlefield, didn’t I? I didn’t see your name on the Holy Battlefield of the Beiming Continent near Qingqiu.”
Xu Mu placed the rings back into Chen Xuan’s pouch.
“That’s because I didn’t go to that Holy Battlefield. On my way there, I encountered people from the Sea God Sect. I helped them, but I was seriously injured. Later, they brought me back to their sect. Their sect is in the northern part of the Beiming Continent.”
Lin Yang explained, “After recovering from my injuries there, I went to the Holy Battlefield in the northern region of the Beiming Continent. Everyone there can testify to that.”
Xu Mu nodded slightly.
“So I did indeed wrong you.”
He had rescued Lin Yang on the Qingqiu Continent, which lay south of the Beiming Continent. Therefore, Xu Mu had instinctively assumed that Lin Yang might have gone to one of the Holy Battlefields farther south.
“As long as the misunderstanding is cleared up. Brother, I truly admire you now. Your name has already spread throughout the entire Inner Realm.”
Lin Yang looked excited.
“What is this Sea God Sect? Are they powerful?” Xu Mu asked.
“They’re very powerful! They’re a formidable mixed-blood faction, though at present they only accept mixed-blood cultivators with water attributes. Their sect has a ninth-rank expert.”
Lin Yang explained.
“Hmm. I have to say, you’re quite lucky.”
Xu Mu took Lin Yang’s pouch.
“All right. I saved your life back then, and you’ve already repaid me with dozens of times the amount of spirit stones. You no longer owe me anything. From now on, neither of us owes the other a thing.”
“Brother, it’s not the same. You saved my life. If it weren’t for you, I would have died.”
Lin Yang shook his head gently.
“I can never repay that debt. If you ever need my help in the future, just say the word.”
“All right. I will.”
Xu Mu did not want to say anything more to Lin Yang. As long as Lin Yang did not move against him, Xu Mu would let him continue living this way.
When it came to these male protagonists, Xu Mu wanted to leave himself as many possibilities as he could.
With that, he left with Chen Xuan and continued deeper into the region.
Lin Yang stared at Xu Mu’s departing back for a long while before returning.
……
Xu Mu and Chen Xuan continued deeper together. After traveling nearly five kilometers, they were stopped by a stretch of seawater ahead.
The two stood on the shore and looked into the distance. Countless islands of various sizes dotted the sea.
However, in Xu Mu’s perception, everyone ahead had vanished. Clearly, crossing the seawater would bring them into an array formation.
Xu Mu grabbed Chen Xuan by the wrist and carved a voice-transmission formation on the back of his hand. He then handed him the teleportation token.
The two of them leaped forward at the same time. The moment their feet left the land, the world before their eyes began spinning wildly, filling them with dizziness.
Bang!
Xu Mu did not fall into the water. Instead, he landed on solid ground.
When he turned around, he discovered that the seawater behind him was gone. After extending his senses, he realized that he had appeared in the center of an island. Chen Xuan, who had been beside him, had also disappeared.
“Old Chen, are you there?”
Xu Mu began transmitting his voice, but received no reply.
He crouched down and pressed his hand against the ground, carefully examining it for a long time. The array beneath his feet was unfathomably profound. Its densely packed runes were completely beyond his ability to decipher.
“Even a ninth-rank array formation couldn’t achieve something like this. It should be at the Heavenly Dao level.”
Xu Mu stood up and lightly dusted off his hands.
He extended his senses and began walking into the distance. After hesitating for a moment, he activated an illusion array and slightly altered his appearance, changing only his cheeks and giving himself a square-shaped face.
Boom!
Suddenly, a terrifying wave of qi erupted in the distance, and blue light shot into the sky.
Before long, the storm swept toward Xu Mu’s location. Even from such a distance, the surrounding trees were blown about, and some were snapped in half on the spot.
“Ninth rank.”
Xu Mu increased his speed and hurried toward the source.
When he entered within four kilometers of his target, he discovered that the fighters in the distance were actually experts from the Flood Dragon Clan.
Two Flood Dragon experts were battling an old man.
The old man looked similar to the descendants of Yanhuang. Combined with the unusual technique he practiced, black characters appeared around his body during the battle and clung to him.
He had to be from the Great Wilderness race.
Xu Mu continued approaching. The pressure from the battle grew stronger and stronger.
An ordinary person would not even be able to stand upright under it.
However, judging from the current situation, the Great Wilderness warrior was clearly at a lower cultivation level.
If things continued like this, he would certainly die.
Since Xu Mu had come to save them, he naturally could not stand by and do nothing.
……
On a small island about the size of an ordinary village, no other islands could be seen for dozens of kilometers in any direction.
In front of a cave at the center of the island sat a woman clad in pure-black armor, a white cloak draped over her back. Her long black hair flowed down along the white cloak and spread across the ground.
She had a graceful, curvaceous figure and wore a dark-gold mask, much like the bronze masks unearthed and displayed in museums.
The only difference was the color. The mask she wore had not oxidized and turned green; it still retained its original hue.
She was holding a black phone and watching a video on it.
It was footage of Xu Mu and Jiang Cisui battling in the Martial Arts Championship.
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.”
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…
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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.
