Leaving Smoothly

Xu Mu really didn't expect that woman to be this kind of person.

No wonder she cooperated with Fu Cheng. He remembered that Fu Cheng was a hawk of the Sky Demon Race, who wanted to strike out against the descendants of Yanhuang and refused to hide in the ruins forever.

For Xianling Nan to work with such a person, they definitely shared the same values.

Previously, he thought that as the primary female lead, she would definitely be redeemed later on, so Xu Mu had never considered killing her.

Now, after hearing Shao Tian's words, Xu Mu wasn't so sure.

This evil god bro, Wu Tian, might be the kind of villainous male lead who massacres his way from the beginning to the end.

The previous Xu Mu, although also a villain, was completely just cannon fodder meant to die at the very start.

He had read novels with that kind of villain protagonist before—supremely arrogant, killing anyone who disobeyed, and forcing all outsiders to submit.

If Wu Tian was this kind of person, then as the primary female lead, Xianling Nan probably wasn't a good person either.

"Where did she go?"

Shao Tian looked at Xu Mu and asked.

"She said she wanted to escape to the other side, and then we parted ways."

Xu Mu casually pointed in a direction. "She fled that way."

"Could it be she knows where the Boundary Fire is?"

Shao Tian pondered for a moment, then looked at Xu Mu. "If she really returns to the other side, the first thing she will do is recall her old subordinates. If they successfully seize power, you will be in for a real treat."

"I regret it. I shouldn't have saved her."

Xu Mu beat his chest and stomped his feet, looking full of remorse.

Of course, he was only doing this to see how this Shao Tian would treat him next.

If he still wanted to kill him, then nothing he said could be trusted.

Xu Mu wasn't Fu Jinyu, who believed whatever others said; everyone would find excuses for their own actions.

Even someone like Wang Hun would give himself a decent justification.

"But it's too late! You have already let her go. As a descendant of Yanhuang, you have caused trouble for us. I have no choice but to kill you."

Shao Tian said to Xu Mu.

"Why must you kill me? If you spare me, I can help you deal with Xianling Nan in the future. For example, I could be your spy."

Xu Mu immediately retreated a dozen meters.

"Impossible! Xianling Nan left you here, which proves she thinks you have no exploitation value and that you will be killed by me."

Shao Tian looked at Xu Mu and said, "If you manage to walk up to her alive in the future, she will definitely guess that you harbor ill intentions, and she might even kill you herself."

"Then how about I make a bet with you, Senior? If you can't kill me within ten seconds, you let me go."

Xu Mu smiled faintly. "Senior looks like a smart person. If you can't kill me in ten seconds, it will also prove that I am no ordinary person."

Sometimes, you can tell a lot from a person's facial features.

The Shao Tian before him had thick eyebrows and large eyes, looking quite righteous.

Perhaps due to their different races, their ideologies clashed.

But overall, he seemed like a decent person, just as his filial piety value toward him was zero.

"Alright! I want to see how a Grandmaster like you can last ten seconds in my hands."

Shao Tian's body gradually began to emit a faint golden light, and his long black hair started to flutter.

Swish!

From Xu Mu's body, a black shadow flew off into the distance, while he ran in the opposite direction of the shadow.

Boom!

The air erupted with a thunderous roar.

Shao Tian caught up to Xu Mu in an instant. Just as he raised his hand, Xu Mu's figure vanished before his eyes.

"What?"

Shao Tian suddenly turned around, only to find that Xu Mu had appeared where the distant shadow was.

Rumble!

Another massive explosion echoed, even louder than the last. The sheer vibration generated by the sound alone shattered the surrounding trees.

A sonic boom cloud appeared around Shao Tian's body as he pushed his speed to the speed of sound.

Whoosh!

In the blink of an eye, Shao Tian caught up to Xu Mu again, only to watch helplessly as Xu Mu vanished once more.

He turned around and found Xu Mu standing behind him, dozens of meters away.

"This cultivation method of yours is at least Heaven-rank. It has touched the realm of spatial manipulation."

Shao Tian looked at Xu Mu. "I indeed cannot kill you within ten seconds. You may go."

"Thank you, Senior."

Xu Mu cupped his hands slightly, then pointed in a certain direction. "I noticed someone hiding over there. They probably sensed the power you just unleashed and came to investigate."

Shao Tian looked in the direction Xu Mu pointed. After a careful probe, he indeed detected an aura.

He was secretly shocked. Just who was this person?

The other party clearly had a concealment technique that had initially fooled his senses, yet was discovered by this Grandmaster realm junior.

"To choose to hide instead of coming over directly... it is highly likely the person who just used a teleportation formation to escape from me. Perhaps he is the one who took the spirit stones!"

Swish!

Shao Tian immediately flew toward the hidden person.

Meanwhile, Xu Mu put on his black robe and quickly left, taking out his teleportation token.

As he ran into the distance, he injected Qi into it.

When he neared the palace at the top of the mountain, the token finally lit up. He instantly vanished from the spot, appearing right in front of Fu Jinyu.

At this moment, Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan were in a mountain forest, just preparing to head toward the summit palace.

"Xu Mu!"

Seeing the person who suddenly appeared before her, Fu Jinyu's face lit up with pleasant surprise. "You're alright?"

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"See, I told you Xu Mu would be able to escape, didn't I?"

Nalan Shisan smiled from the side.

"Why did you guys come back?"

Xu Mu looked at Fu Jinyu and asked.

"We found the exit to leave just now, so I planned to come back and save you."

Fu Jinyu said to Xu Mu, "I tried using the teleportation token too, but it didn't work."

"My token was in my spatial ring."

Xu Mu explained with a smile.

To be precise, his token was in his storage space; otherwise, it would have been taken away.

"Since you've already found the exit, let's go quickly!"

Xu Mu said to the two of them.

For things like formations, in order to remain stable, they usually had to maintain absolute balance.

For example, the harder it was to break in, the easier it was to get out.

This formation was exactly like that. The exit was only guarded by two Transcendent realm cultivators.

This time, Xu Mu did not have Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan kill them.

After leaving smoothly, the three of them appeared on the theater stage where the auction had been held earlier.

Afterward, they left the ruins entirely.

Xu Mu took his Escalade out of his storage space and placed it on the mountain road.

He said to the two, "Get in the car first."

"A normal spatial ring usually only has an internal space of a little over a meter in diameter. For every bit larger it gets, the effort required to forge it increases exponentially."

Nalan Shisan asked from the back seat, "Your spatial ring can actually fit such a huge car?"

"My master gave me this ring. We both like things big."

Xu Mu didn't explain too much.

"Xu Mu, I'm hungry. Let's go get something to eat,"

Fu Jinyu said from the side.

From the moment she was captured until now, Fu Jinyu hadn't had a single bite to eat. Earlier in the ruins, her nerves had been so on edge that she hadn't felt a thing.

But now that she was out, her stomach started to rumble.

"Alright."

Xu Mu drove to a nearby county town and picked a hotpot restaurant at random.

The moment the three of them walked in, they immediately drew the attention of everyone around them.

Many people were completely dumbfounded.

All eyes were glued to Fu Jinyu and Nalan Shisan.