The Truth Surfaces

Xu Mu looked at the black-robed figure in front of him. Although nearly 1.8 meters tall, their overall build was vastly different from Wang Hun.

"It's me."

Fu Jinyu pulled back the hood of the black robe, revealing her beautiful face, and then put it back on.

"Sister, you're finally here. I've realized that I simply can't survive without you."

Seeing that it was Sister Empress, Xu Mu immediately started buttering her up.

[Affection +10]

Fu Jinyu stood with her hands behind her back, her tone filled with dominance. "This place is indeed too dangerous for you. Rest assured, with me here, no one can touch you."

Beside them, Shi Fumeng breathed a slight sigh of relief. As long as it wasn't Mr. Soul, she planned to stay by Xu Mu's side.

She wasn't an idiot who actually believed that obtaining a Heaven-tier cultivation method made her invincible.

Didn't Xu Mu, who had mastered so many Heaven-tier techniques, still get instantly killed by Mr. Soul?

Under absolute realm suppression, no matter how strong the technique, it was useless.

"Hehe, that's wonderful. In that case, our team is even stronger."

Amelia said with a smile.

Then, she cast her gaze on her two companions in the distance.

Struck by the Judgment of Light just moments ago, their bodies were covered in blood. One of them had a bent calf, yet they still stood up and charged toward them.

Seeing this, Fu Jinyu explained, "They are already dead. They are currently being controlled by Gu worms."

Hearing this, Amelia immediately glanced at Fu Jinyu. "Are you sure?"

Fu Jinyu didn't answer. She raised her hand, and black flames flickered on her slender fingers.

She swung forcefully at the two in the distance, and five streams of black light, like sharp blades, attacked them.

"Wait..."

Before Amelia could stop her, the two in the distance had already been dismembered by the five streams of light.

Their corpses fell to the ground. Even though they were chopped into pieces, their heads were still turning, baring their teeth.

This lasted for nearly five seconds before red Gu worms, about the size of a pinky joint, crawled out of their ears and burrowed into the ground.

Seeing this, Amelia finally believed that they had been controlled.

"That's... the Holy Gu, the Nether Servant Worm!"

Wu Tian looked at the red Gu worms and said in a deep voice.

"You know of it?"

Amelia looked at Wu Tian.

"Of course. This Holy Gu is different from regular Corpse Gu. Corpse Gu can only control the corpse to perform simple movements."

Wu Tian paused. "But the Nether Servant Worm can enslave the brain. In other words, they can make a dead brain active again."

"Make the brain active? Wouldn't the person be alive then?"

Shi Fumeng asked with a frown.

"Exactly. Ordinary Corpse Gu directly controls the body, while the Nether Servant Worm controls the brain and then lets the brain control the body. The latter is far more advanced."

Wu Tian continued, "The latter can not only unleash the deceased's techniques but also utilize their combat skills, bringing out about eighty percent of their power from when they were alive."

Hearing this, everyone present was shocked.

Xu Mu half-squinted his eyes. It seemed he had guessed right; this was the conspiracy of the Immortality Research Institute and Wang Hun.

"Such grave sins!"

Amelia's usually calm face now turned gloomy.

"This should be their goal. The people of the Valley of Ten Thousand Races tricked us into coming here just to kill us, then control us to serve as their death squads."

As Wu Tian said this, he turned to look at Shi Fumeng.

"What are you looking at me for? Although I am from the Valley of Ten Thousand Races, I was also tricked into coming here."

Shi Fumeng looked displeased. "If I had known this was a conspiracy, I wouldn't have come at all."

"This time it should be a collaboration between the Valley of Ten Thousand Races and the Immortality Research Institute. Those bald guys are the products of the Immortality Research Institute."

Xu Mu chimed in from the side.

Just then, a sudden surge of power erupted in the distance, instantly shaking the earth and mountains.

Even though they were far from the epicenter of the blast, cracks appeared under the feet of Xu Mu and the others.

"What happened over there?" Xu Mu said in a deep voice.

"Let's go take a look!"

Fu Jinyu said to Xu Mu.

The rest of the group also followed behind them.

As they headed to the destination, they noticed others around them also rushing toward the same spot.

Through his perception, Xu Mu noticed there were intermediate cleaners and some other alien races among them.

Finally, the group stepped onto a mountain peak, from which they could overlook the distant palace.

And the battle that had just erupted originated right in front of the palace.

"That's... Senior Cleaner, Hu Qingyun."

Shi Fumeng gazed at the old man in the cleaner uniform in the distance.

He had long white hair and wore a black eyepatch.

At this moment, his cleaner uniform was torn open at the front, and blood continuously poured out.

"Who is that strong? To be able to injure a senior cleaner?"

Amelia stared into the distance and said.

"That's... how is that possible?"

Fu Jinyu stared at the robed old man opposite Hu Qingyun, too shocked to speak.

"You know him?"

Xu Mu looked at Fu Jinyu.

"The Sect Master of the Xuantian Sect, Shen Cangzhen."

Fu Jinyu explained, "When I was young, I met him a few times. I absolutely wouldn't be mistaken."

"Isn't the Xuantian Sect ruined? It was originally a top-tier sect, on par with Kunlun Mountain, but later the Sect Master and all the grand elders disappeared."

Shi Fumeng added from the side, "Now, it's entirely thanks to Wei Jingzhi joining the cleaners that the Xuantian Sect hasn't been destroyed. Otherwise, given how many alien races they slaughtered back then, they would have been annihilated long ago."

Xu Mu whispered, "In other words, the Sect Master of the Xuantian Sect back then was killed by this mastermind."

Hearing this, the expressions of everyone present changed slightly.

The Xuantian Sect was a top-tier sect back then, and even its Sect Master was killed.

Could people like them survive this crisis?

...

"Old Shen, when you suddenly disappeared back then, it even made me sad for a while. I never expected you to be hidden here, turned into someone's puppet."

Hu Qingyun's face was terrifyingly gloomy. He clenched his fists, "Rest assured, I will avenge you."

"Hahaha! Hu Qingyun, with just you?"

Just then, a black-robed man flew out from inside the palace. He stood above the palace and laughed, "You can't avenge him. You'll only end up like him, becoming my death soldier."

"You rat-like scum, if you have the guts, reveal your true face and let me see who you are."

Hu Qingyun shouted sternly.

"You don't have the right to know yet. You only need to understand one thing: all the experts who enter this formation will become my property."

The black-robed old man laughed loudly, "After that, batch by batch, until the Nether Servant Worms in my hands are exhausted."

"You're courting death!"

Hu Qingyun erupted with power and instantly charged toward the black-robed man.

Shen Cangzhen didn't move, but two old men blocked Hu Qingyun's path.

"You are..."

Hu Qingyun widened his eyes in disbelief.

"They can't speak, so let me answer you instead. The two Supreme Elders of the Xuantian Sect."

The old man hiding in the back laughed and said, "Kill! Leave no one alive! Make sure to preserve the bodies of the experts well; I still have uses for them!"

...

Meanwhile, Wang Hun remained in front of his laptop, monitoring the surveillance feeds.

"Mr. Soul, isn't that the person you want to kill? Do you need me to make a move?"

A figure in a black robe pointed at Xu Mu on one of the screens.

Her voice revealed she was a woman.