Xu Mu pulled open his sliced clothing and looked down. A red mark had appeared on his chest.
It felt as if he had been scratched by a woman's fingernail, accompanied by a very slight burning sensation.
Just now, facing Lei Ao's slashing attack, Xu Mu had used the Burning Heaven Sword Qi as a defense.
With the title of the God of Assassins, his precise retreat meant the opponent's short sword only managed to cut through his clothes and barely touch his skin.
Therefore, he wasn't injured at all.
He originally thought he could get a critical hit of points from Shi Fumeng, but to his surprise, he only gained four points.
If he had known, he wouldn't have gone through so much trouble.
"Boss! Are you alright?"
Seeing this, Tian Xi immediately ran over hugging the box, her face full of worry.
Shi Fumeng was also stunned. She looked at Xu Mu sitting on the ground and said coldly, "Serves you right! I told you earlier that a personality like yours will lead to an early death."
[Favorability +1]
After saying this, Shi Fumeng still dashed over to Xu Mu.
She squatted down and asked, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. The wound isn't deep."
Xu Mu shook his head.
Shi Fumeng took out a pill from her person. "This is a healing pill, eat it quickly."
After taking the pill, Xu Mu placed it under his nose and sniffed it.
Possessing Pharmaceutical Mastery, he could clearly identify the medicinal ingredients inside.
There was nothing messy or toxic in it; it was indeed a proper healing pill. Thus, Xu Mu swallowed it directly.
"Shi Fumeng, don't you think you're being cheap? Originally, if you followed me, you could have obtained grade-eight heavenly treasures. Now you get nothing, and you're going to die too."
As Lei Ao spoke, he looked towards Wu Tian in the distance.
Confirming that they weren't going to stop him, he continued walking towards Shi Fumeng.
"Master, are you sure we shouldn't save her?"
Wu Tian whispered from afar.
"No need. Shi Fumeng is of an alien race; she hasn't revealed her true strength yet."
Li Poshan's voice reached Wu Tian's ears.
Shi Fumeng gritted her teeth and glared fiercely at Xu Mu. She originally thought a simple honey trap would suffice.
She didn't expect that to get the cultivation method, she would have to go to such lengths.
If she couldn't get it in the future, she was going to castrate Xu Mu.
"Damn it! Lei Ao, do you really think I'm afraid of you?"
Shi Fumeng clenched her fists, and deep blue Qi appeared around her body, swirling around her like a vortex.
Right at this moment, another person appeared at the exit of the formation in the distance.
Tian Xi, who was beside Xu Mu, looked over, her face bursting with wild joy.
"Old man, save me! I'm going to die!"
Tian Xi shouted loudly into the distance.
The deep blue Qi swirling around Shi Fumeng completely vanished at this moment.
Lei Ao immediately turned his head and found a flat-headed old man leaning on two crutches already standing before him.
Xu Mu was startled. Just a moment ago, the man was still at the formation's exit.
In the blink of an eye, he had arrived right in front of them. This person's speed was incredibly fast.
Through the Eye of God, he checked the other party's identity.
Name: Tian Zhenyu
Role: Farmer
Favorability: 0
Destiny Level: 5 (Max Level 10)
Upon seeing this name, Xu Mu's eyes narrowed. Of course he knew this person.
One of the Two Cripples from the One Madman, Two Cripples.
The Two Cripples were known as the one missing an arm and the one missing a leg.
Zhang Que was missing an arm, while the Tian Zhenyu in front of him was missing a leg.
Xu Mu genuinely didn't know that the grandfather Tian Xi always talked about was actually him.
"You scared your grandpa to death. Let's see if you dare to run around recklessly in the future."
Tian Zhenyu leaned on his crutches and walked towards Tian Xi, completely ignoring Lei Ao as he passed by him.
"Old man! If it weren't for my boss this time, I would have died countless times already."
Tian Xi wiped the tears from her eyes. "My boss clearly wasn't their match, but he still insisted on protecting me. He is a great person."
"For those words to come out of your mouth, it proves that he truly is a good person."
As Tian Zhenyu spoke, some favorability points appeared above his head. "Kid, do you know me?"
"Senior, this junior does not know."
Xu Mu shook his head.
In a sense, Xu Mu wasn't lying.
He truly didn't know that Tian Xi was Tian Zhenyu's granddaughter. He only saved Tian Xi because she was the female lead, and he wanted to gain justice points from her.
"Since you don't know me, you naturally don't know my granddaughter either. Then why did you risk your life to protect her?"
While talking, Tian Zhenyu glanced at Tian Xi. "My granddaughter looks like a boy and isn't even that pretty."
"Senior, I can't agree with what you said. She just has short hair and her dressing style is quite masculine, but if you look closely, you can still tell she's a girl."
Xu Mu said from the side.
[Favorability +10]
Tian Xi directly kicked Tian Zhenyu's crutch, almost making him fall to the ground.
"Old man! I told you your eyesight was bad."
Tian Zhenyu grinned. "Now I'll tell you, my name is Tian Zhenyu."
Hearing this, Shi Fumeng, who was standing nearby, had a solemn expression. Seeing how fast the other party was just now, and the fact that he was disabled.
She had guessed it might be him, but she didn't expect it to actually be true.
"What? Tian Zhenyu, one of the Two Cripples?"
Hearing this, Lei Ao's expression changed drastically, and he quickly retreated a few steps.
"Master, so this person is the one they call one of the Two Cripples?"
Wu Tian frowned in the distance.
"When Tian Zhenyu was young, he was a famous genius. Later, for some unknown reason, he lost a leg and disappeared for decades."
Li Poshan's voice immediately transmitted over. "Let's go quickly. Don't worry about whether it's ripe or not; if we don't take it now, we won't be able to get it at all!"
Wu Tian nodded secretly, silently stepped back a few paces, turned around, and ran.
In the distance, Tian Zhenyu looked at Lei Ao. "It seems you are the boss here."
"That's right. What do you want?"
Lei Ao asked calmly.
"The Sanitation Department said that whoever takes care of you can get two types of grade-eight heavenly treasures, free to choose. What do you think I want?"
As Tian Zhenyu spoke, he lifted his crutches.
Tian Xi immediately opened the wooden box nearby and took out one of the short swords from inside.
The end of the short sword had threads. She grabbed the short sword and, like tightening a screw, twisted and pressed it into the bottom of the crutch.
She did the same with the other one.
Now, short blades had been added to the ends of Tian Zhenyu's two crutches.
Xu Mu nodded to himself. So that's what the threads were used for.
Lei Ao first saw Wu Tian fleeing in the distance. He sneered and immediately chased after him.
One didn't even need to think to know what they were going to do.
Right now, he couldn't care about anything else. He needed to eat the divine medicine first.
...
Deep within the ruins.
Lei Ao's second brother lay in a pool of blood, his body almost completely shattered.
Chen Xuan was carrying a woven urea bag on his back, with bloodstains on his front and face.
At this moment, the golden electric currents all over his body gradually disappeared.
"Woodchopping Fifth Stance: Myriad Woods Returning to Ruins. Unless absolutely forced, I wouldn't use it. It's simply too cruel after all."
Chen Xuan ran towards the inside of the cave.
In the blink of an eye, he had reached the deepest part and saw the divine medicine there.
"This... should be the Soul Replenishing Fruit. I remember Master saying that it turns pure gold when it matures."
Chen Xuan approached and noticed there were still a few silver spots on the fruit. "It's not fully ripe yet. Should I pick it or not?"
He stroked his chin in deep thought. This was a divine medicine. Now that it had fallen into his hands, he could completely consume it all by himself.

orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"

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…

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.”

e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.