Split Up

Xu Mu nodded. He definitely had to overcome this hurdle. Compared to the others, he was actually less nervous.

Chen Xuan and Ye Chen, who would be coming in shortly, were both male protagonists.

He believed that this level absolutely could not trap the two of them.

Aside from his own villainous holy body, it could be said that no one could kill them.

"Let's go!"

Xu Mu waved his hand and led the two towards the small side door.

It was a narrow and long path, pitch black inside with nothing visible.

Xu Mu could clearly feel that the ground beneath his feet was very damp, accompanied by the smell of blood.

"Be careful, this kind of slippery path is the most treacherous," Xu Mu warned.

They walked forward for roughly another hundred meters before seeing a speck of light ahead.

None of them sped up; they continued step by step until they finally reached the second floor.

Before their eyes was a scene resembling hell.

Standing there, they realized that the thick liquid flowing onto the path earlier was actually blood.

Rivers of blood had already formed here, and battles raged on in the distance.

Judging from the scattered attacks, the combatants were at least at the Grandmaster realm.

And even Grandmaster-level experts were merely cannon fodder at the front lines.

Those at the Shedding Mortality realm were the main force. As for the Realm-breaking level, there were quite a few of them as well, battling in the sky.

In just a moment, over a dozen people were killed.

The battles in the distance weren't limited to the Jiuli tribe; there were all sorts of races involved.

Fu Jinyu turned her head and found that the cave entrance behind them was still there.

However, when she reached out to touch it, the entrance was like a projected image—completely intangible.

She tried to walk into it, only to pass right through the back of the entrance. There was no way to return.

Xu Mu also looked back and reached out to touch it. He discovered that he could only enter the cave entrance when he activated his Demonic Guardian.

"It seems you two have no chance anymore."

Xu Mu retracted his Demonic Guardian and continued forward.

"Brother Mu, are those people ahead real or fake?"

Chen Xuan asked, looking into the distance.

Xu Mu closed his eyes to sense the surroundings, then said, "This array is indeed fraught with danger. About one-tenth of them are real people."

Hearing this, Chen Xuan and Fu Jinyu both looked surprised.

One-tenth were real people?

It seemed many had entered much earlier.

Xu Mu continued forward and suddenly saw a red line on the ground.

Their current position was likely invisible to the others, as no one was looking their way.

"Let's go. We're already here."

Xu Mu stepped over the red line.

The two beside him followed without hesitation.

As soon as they stepped in, several Shedding Mortality realm cultivators from afar lunged at Xu Mu and the others.

Seeing this, Fu Jinyu stood straight beside Xu Mu. She raised a finger toward the sky.

Whoosh!

A black aura suddenly erupted from her body, and her long black hair fluttered.

At this moment, several sword blades appeared above her head.

Swish, swish, swish...

These blades all flew out, striking toward the Shedding Mortality realm attackers.

Boom!

The blades hit the incoming attackers respectively, sending their bodies flying.

Xu Mu looked around and pointed into the distance. "Everyone, check the time on your phones. In an hour, we'll gather at the top of that mountain over there."

"Alright."

Chen Xuan nodded. "We can use this time to find the entrance to the third floor. There must be treasures hidden here."

"Will you two be okay?"

Fu Jinyu looked at Xu Mu and asked.

"Don't worry. Although my realm isn't high, my escaping skills are very strong," Xu Mu said with a smile.

"Okay!"

Fu Jinyu directly spread her wings and flew into the distance.

She had just entered the late stage of the Shedding Mortality realm and had eaten the grade-nine heavenly treasure Xu Mu gave her, causing her realm to improve further.

Right now, she really needed combat to stabilize her foundation.

Xu Mu looked at the people fighting around him and immediately used his Concealment Barrier, putting himself in an invisible state.

He needed to test first whether this technique would work on the lifeless array constructs.

Swish!

The next moment, a young man with long black hair lunged at Xu Mu.

Even after stepping into the range of the Concealment Barrier, he could still easily find Xu Mu.

"It seems my move doesn't work on these array constructs."

Xu Mu smiled and shook his head.

He understood why; the senses these array constructs used to detect people weren't their eyes.

Looking at the young man who had reached him, Xu Mu drew his longsword and unleashed a Heaven-Burning Sword Aura, sending him flying.

He moved deeper while observing his surroundings, thinking about what to do next.

This mountain battlefield had no factions; it was an incredibly chaotic free-for-all.

Among them, array constructs were fighting other array constructs, and real people were fighting real people.

Perhaps they couldn't tell the difference.

However, since these array constructs relied on the array to perceive, Xu Mu suddenly thought of a method.

He immediately deployed a level-seven concealment array. Previously, Nalan Shisan had carved this kind of array in the underground stone chamber.

This array could conceal one's aura and the fluctuations of one's Qi, but it just couldn't hide the physical body.

Just then, two array constructs that were originally lunging toward Xu Mu suddenly lost their direction and started fighting each other.

"It really worked."

Xu Mu smiled. Now, it was as if he had entered an uninhabited land.

The array constructs couldn't detect him, and as for the real people, they were too busy dealing with the attacks from the array constructs to have the free time to target him.

Boom!

Right then, a person crashed down from a distance, landing right in front of Xu Mu.

Xu Mu looked at the man; he was a real person.

He was around fifty years old, had a buzz cut, and his face was covered in blood.

After looking at Xu Mu, he immediately gripped the short sword in his hand tightly and lunged at him.

"Brother, don't get excited. I just got here and don't know what's happening yet."

Xu Mu immediately retreated while using his Eye of God to check the man's identity.

Name: Zhang Yuqiang

Identity: Sanitation Department Director

Affection: 0

Destiny Level: 3 (Max level 10)

Seeing this information, Xu Mu was full of surprise. He didn't expect this person to be a director of the Sanitation Department.

This was someone who held decision-making power in the Sanitation Department.

"You're not an array construct here?"

Zhang Yuqiang asked in a deep voice.

"Of course not. But how did you know, senior, that some of the people around are fake?"

Xu Mu asked with a smile.

"I don't have time to answer you right now."

Zhang Yuqiang gripped his short sword tightly, looking up at an incoming Jiuli tribesman.

"Don't be nervous, senior!"

Xu Mu clasped his hands together and expanded the array, enveloping the middle-aged man within it as well.

The Jiuli tribesman attacking from above suddenly stopped, then flew off in another direction.

"You... you're an array master?"

Zhang Yuqiang looked at Xu Mu in disbelief.

"I know a thing or two about arrays," Xu Mu said with a smile. "Senior Zhang, I want to know the current situation here."

"You know me?"

"Who doesn't know the great name of Zhang Yuqiang? You're a board member of the Sanitation Department. Jiang Huihui mentions you often."

Xu Mu said with a smile.

"Senior Jiang's granddaughter? It seems we're on the same side."

Zhang Yuqiang wiped the blood from his face. "Follow me first. We still have two intermediate cleaners who haven't died."

Xu Mu nodded and followed behind Zhang Yuqiang to a nearby hillside, where Zhang pushed aside a rock.

It revealed a cave. Xu Mu could not help but widen his eyes in surprise; the person inside was actually an old acquaintance.