Xu Mu Is Dumbfounded, Stumbling into a High-Stakes Game

Xu Mu had already inquired about the Divine Generals. For example, Sheng Qiu was a servant of one of them, and she had said that her master was extremely fond of her.

That fondness had even become something perverse. Her master spent all day holding videos of her and giggling foolishly.

What Xu Mu was more concerned about was whether this Divine General was that woman.

“Hahaha! I can tell you this much: if you stay here long enough, you might get to see her.”

Gu Zhe laughed. “She’s the Divine Punishment General, in charge of punishment, executions, and suppression by force.”

“Male or female?”

“Looks like you really don’t know anything about our Great Desolate Clan. You don’t even know about the Divine Generals? The Divine Punishment General is naturally a woman—and the greatest prodigy of our Great Desolate Clan.”

Gu Zhe paused before continuing his explanation. “Besides her, there are two other Divine Generals. The Divine Strategy General oversees the grand picture and controls strategic planning. The Divine Judgment General determines right and wrong and assesses guilt and punishment.”

“Got it.”

Xu Mu felt somewhat helpless. Of the three Divine Generals, only one was a woman. Since the one here was female, wasn’t she the very Divine General who coveted his body?

At that thought, Xu Mu felt goosebumps rise all over his skin.

“Xu Mu, our main goal right now is to stop those people from going any deeper. I can’t just sit around and wait here. I’m leaving first.”

As he spoke, Gu Zhe took a black jade pendant from his body. “Wear this. If you encounter the Divine Punishment General, remember to take it out as soon as possible. Otherwise, you might die.”

“Wait, what? I’m helping you people, and she’ll still kill me?”

Xu Mu caught the black jade pendant.

“You’ve misunderstood. You’ll die too quickly. The Divine General may not even give you a chance to speak.”

After saying that, Gu Zhe flew off into the distance.

Xu Mu looked at the jade pendant and put it away. They seemed to be waiting for something to be completed, though he had no idea what it was.

The Great Desolate Clan had far too many secrets. Perhaps they really did know something about the essence of the world.

He opened up his perception and continued deeper into the area. Before long, he sensed the fluctuations of another battle in the distance.

Xu Mu immediately extended his perception to investigate. This battle was somewhat unusual. Neither side seemed to belong to the Great Desolate Clan, as the techniques they used were different.

After thinking for a moment, he hurried toward the battle.

At present, his strength was insufficient to play a decisive role. The only thing he could do was protect as many experts of the Great Desolate Clan as possible. The more of them remained alive, the greater the Great Desolate Clan’s hope would be.

When he reached the top of a small hill, Xu Mu spotted the people fighting below.

Using the Eye of God, he discovered that one side consisted of experts from the Black Moon Clan. They possessed seventh-stage strength, but now their opponents seemed to have either killed them or taken control of them.

At the center stood a woman dressed in black robes, surrounded by more than twenty people.

Xu Mu couldn’t see the woman’s face from where he stood, so he couldn’t read her information. However, by peeling away the layers of his perception, he was able to make out her appearance.

She looked like a member of the Nine Nether Clan. Her body was deathly pale, but her eyes and hair were different.

Both her eyes and hair were golden. She was probably some sort of mixed-blood.

The woman was tall and slender, nearly a meter seventy-five in height. The lightning around her had at least reached the Starfall level, though she was still one level below Fu Jinyu.

Since she clearly wasn’t from the Great Desolate Clan, Xu Mu naturally had no reason to intervene.

He quietly rose and prepared to leave, but his foot accidentally snapped a tree branch.

“Not good!”

Xu Mu’s expression changed, and he immediately turned around.

The woman had already appeared behind him. As she slowly descended from above, Xu Mu finally saw her face.

Name: Gong Li

Identity: Disciple of Wraith of Eternal Life

Favorability: 0

Destiny Level: 7 (Maximum Level: 10)

Seeing the information before him, Xu Mu was astonished. She was actually someone from Eternal Life.

He remembered that Wraith was the Fourth Seat of Eternal Life. Since she was the Fourth Seat’s disciple, her status was clearly higher than Shui Shu’s.

This woman was also at the eighth stage, but she was considerably younger than Shui Shu. Judging from her appearance, she looked to be only in her early thirties.

“Young brother, you’re quite capable. You were clearly preparing to leave just now, which means you’ve been here for quite some time. Yet I didn’t notice you at all.”

Gong Li covered her mouth as she laughed. “As it happens, I need someone like you to scout the way for me.”

“Sis, as long as you don’t kill me, I’ll agree to scout for you.”

Xu Mu spoke at once.

“Hehe, you don’t need to agree.”

Buzz!

Gong Li’s eyes suddenly narrowed, and a violent wave of spiritual power swept out in an instant.

Xu Mu froze completely. Her spiritual power was far too strong. Even with spiritual power at his level, he had been trapped for more than two seconds.

That was terrifying. If she used her spiritual power to control him, two seconds would be more than enough to kill him.

It seemed he was still too weak. His stats were still insufficient.

“All right, little brother. Come with me.”

Gong Li smiled and turned around.

Xu Mu decided to follow behind her for the time being and see what she was really planning.

After walking down the hill, Xu Mu joined the more than twenty people surrounding her.

Gong Li walked in the very center, while everyone else followed around her with vacant expressions.

After walking for nearly ten minutes, they saw a bald, middle-aged man sitting on a rock in the distance.

The man had a sturdy build and well-defined muscles. A coffin was strapped to his back.

Xu Mu used the Eye of God to inspect the bald man.

Name: Hei Kai

Identity: Disciple of Wraith, the Fourth Seat of Eternal Life

Favorability: 0

Destiny Level: 4 (Maximum Level: 10)

Another disciple of the Fourth Seat. Xu Mu hadn’t expected people from Eternal Life to join in on the excitement this time as well.

Using his perception, Xu Mu examined the bronze coffin on Hei Kai’s back. Inside lay a middle-aged man.

The man wore a loose robe and had his eyes closed, looking as though he were dead.

Xu Mu felt somewhat helpless. He had the distinct feeling that he had stumbled into a battle far beyond his current level.

“Gong Li, how did it go? Did you find the exit?”

Hei Kai asked with a smile.

“I suppose you could say I did. However, the Black Ancestor of the Black Moon Clan is there, so I didn’t dare get too close.”

Gong Li lightly crooked a finger. One of the people beside her immediately knelt on the ground and bowed forward, lying flat. She sat down on his back.

“Master, what do you think?”

Hei Kai smiled and turned to glance at the bronze coffin.

When Xu Mu heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly. Both of them were disciples, so the master they were referring to had to be Wraith, the Fourth Seat.

He stayed where he was, not daring to reveal the slightest trace of himself. This person was definitely no ordinary individual.

Buzz!

At that moment, a translucent phantom emerged from the bronze coffin behind the bald man.

Surprisingly, the phantom’s appearance was completely different from that of the middle-aged man lying inside the coffin.

The phantom had a head of white hair and a full beard that covered his entire mouth, leaving only his nose and eyes visible.

The phantom drifted toward one of the people beside Gong Li and finally entered his body.

“The so-called four great races are nothing but cowardly wretches afraid of death.”

The next moment, the person spoke. “If I’m not mistaken, they’re trying to decipher the formation. Once they succeed, they still won’t go deeper themselves. Instead, they’ll send people from the other races to scout the way.”

Xu Mu was so nervous he was practically at his breaking point. Damn it, he had really stumbled into a high-level game this time.

Even without seeing these people fight, he could already tell that every one of them was terrifying.

“If there really is a Divine General in there, whoever goes in first will die—even if they’re a ninth-rank expert.”

Gong Li stood up and deliberately moved aside, gesturing for him to sit. “Master, he’s already reached the Earth Vein Realm, yet he’s still such a coward. How embarrassing.”

With that, she walked toward Xu Mu.

Xu Mu’s heart jolted. She couldn’t be planning to sit on him, could she?