Mighty Skeleton

Seeing them all disappear, Xu Mu followed suit and stood upside down on the formation.

Holding the title of the God of Assassins, his control over his own body had long reached a state of perfection.

Such a maneuver required no help from anyone else.

Whoosh!

His figure instantly flew toward the sky. In just two short seconds, his feet landed on solid ground.

The sensation was as if he had merely jumped and landed back down.

Beside him, Fu Jinyu walked over and asked, "Xu Mu, what exactly is going on?"

"Simply put, we are now in the sky. The position above our heads is the ground we were just on," Xu Mu said, pointing upward.

The few people here all looked up at the sky and found a vast expanse of white high above, which indeed looked like the snowy ground they had been on before.

"The formation just now was an inversion formation. Only by turning your body upside down and letting your perception invert could you leave it."

Xu Mu looked at the icy surface beneath his feet. "To put it simply, we are currently standing on the ceiling."

Tong Guoguo and Yue Wangshu were also full of surprise. They hadn't expected the formations here to be so miraculous.

"Although we are standing on ice, the surroundings don't seem as cold as below," Wangshu said, raising her hand to feel the air.

"Indeed, it's not as freezing anymore."

Xu Mu nodded slightly. He then looked around, his gaze finally settling on an ice palace in the distant ice field. "Let's go."

He led the three women beside him toward the ice palace.

Yue Wangshu, with her hands stuffed in the pockets of her down jacket, looked curiously at Xu Mu. "There's one thing I find very strange."

Xu Mu glanced at her. "What is it?"

"As a master who has broken through boundaries, even I nearly froze to death in that frozen world just now. Why were you completely fine?" Yue Wangshu voiced the doubt in her heart.

Previously, Wu Tian had mentioned taking a divine medicine that made his physique much stronger than an ordinary person's.

But even so, Wu Tian was still affected, with ice shards forming all over his body.

Yet Xu Mu was different; he was completely unaffected.

"That's right, Xu Mu. What's your situation?"

Fu Jinyu was also somewhat curious. The three women present all had higher cultivation realms than Xu Mu.

With higher realms, their physiques should logically be stronger. Why were they affected while Xu Mu remained completely unharmed?

"Don't let my carefree attitude fool you. In truth, I am a very hardworking person. In my youth, I underwent inhuman training, which long ago forged my physique to be incredibly strong."

Xu Mu shook his head slightly. "You have no idea how much I suffered to achieve this kind of physique."

He sighed inwardly as well. Directly adding stats was quite exhausting too; it required clicking several times.

Hearing this, Fu Jinyu's face filled with admiration.

Affection +15

"Xu Mu, I really wasn't wrong about you. I knew your current achievements were definitely due to your past days and nights of relentless effort."

Fu Jinyu patted Xu Mu on the back. "I need to learn from you."

Tong Guoguo also nodded slightly. She was well aware of the strength of Xu Mu's body, and it turned out this was all the result of his training.

Compared to him, Tong Guoguo's own body relied mostly on external forces.

Wang Hun and other researchers were responsible for studying the injected serums, while Yuli handled the surgeries.

She felt she had to work harder in the future. Xu Mu was indeed a role model worth learning from.

Affection +15

Yue Wangshu's opinion of Xu Mu also rose a few notches. To train his physique to such a powerful level, perhaps no one knew just how much suffering he had endured.

Affection +8

Under Xu Mu's lead, the group arrived at the front gates of the palace.

A closer look revealed that the palace was built of stone, but its exterior was coated with a layer of ice.

The palace had no actual doors, and the inside was pitch black.

Xu Mu cautiously walked inside.

Upon stepping inside, their surroundings changed once again. They found themselves standing on an endless expanse of an ice field.

In the distance sat an ice throne occupied by a white skeleton. However, the exterior of the skeleton was encased in ice, resembling the skin of a normal person.

Upon seeing Xu Mu and the others, the skeleton rose from the throne.

An ice sword appeared in its hand, and it strode quickly toward Xu Mu's group. "I do not like being disturbed!"

It spoke in human language. In a mere instant, it appeared at Xu Mu's side, its ice sword already slashing toward his neck.

Bang!

Fu Jinyu quickly activated her unsealing, and the blades on her back moved to block in front of Xu Mu.

But the terrifying shockwave still sent Xu Mu flying.

As for Fu Jinyu's unsealed blades, cracks rippled across them from the impact.

Boom!

At the same time, Tong Guoguo smashed a fist into the skeleton's body, but the skeleton only staggered two steps before quickly stabilizing itself.

Seeing this, Yue Wangshu slowly spread her hands, and countless water droplets materialized around her body.

Bang, bang, bang...

These water droplets shot out like bullets.

But the skeleton merely waved its arm, generating a storm that deflected all of Yue Wangshu's attacks off course.

Whoosh!

It flashed in front of Yue Wangshu again, swinging its ice sword down rapidly.

Seeing this, Yue Wangshu conjured an ice shield to block the attack.

However, upon contact with the ice sword, her thick shield instantly shattered into pieces, and her body was sent flying backward.

Meanwhile, Fu Jinyu and Tong Guoguo had already maneuvered behind the skeleton.

But before they could even launch an attack, they were once again blasted away by the skeleton.

"So strong! Who was this person when they were alive?"

Tong Guoguo climbed up from the ground, blood already trickling from the corner of her mouth.

Boom!

At that moment, the skeleton stomped its foot on the ground, and the ice field beneath them suddenly turned into a vast ocean.

The next moment, it froze over again, trapping the feet of Xu Mu and the others in solid ice.

"Not good!"

No matter how much power Yue Wangshu unleashed, she could not break free.

If she was in this state, Fu Jinyu and Tong Guoguo naturally fared no better.

"You've got to be kidding me? Are we going to die just like this?"

Yue Wangshu stared wide-eyed at the skeleton slashing toward her.

Whoosh!

Right then, a dark shadow wielding a sword blocked in front of her.

In an instant, Xu Mu shifted to the shadow. He gripped his longsword tightly and executed a god-tier technique: the first stance of the Void Afterimage Sword.

Crack!

A sound like shattering glass echoed in everyone's ears. The skeleton, which had been preparing to attack, suddenly stopped.

The surrounding environment also underwent a drastic change at this moment. The endless ice field disappeared, and they found themselves back inside the palace.

The throne in the distance was still there, and the skeleton was sitting on it, with no ice encasing its body.

Right then, a beam of blue light flew from the skeleton's forehead, striking directly into Xu Mu's forehead.

"Holy crap..."

Xu Mu took a step back and touched his forehead, but didn't find anything extra there.

Logically speaking, shouldn't he have received a cultivation manual?

He walked toward the distant throne and respectfully cupped his hands at the skeleton. "I say, senior, what did you just give me? I'm a little scared."

But the skeleton had no trace of life aura; it just sat there.

Xu Mu stepped forward and took the ring off its finger.

After injecting his inner energy, he found it was indeed a spatial ring.

He discovered that inside there was also something resembling a tile, with many words written on it.

Xu Mu took it out and gave it a quick glance, instantly left completely dumbfounded.

Damn it, I've been played!