“Brother Mu, my senior sister did come. She even left me a letter and some pills at my hometown.”
Chen Xuan’s voice came through on the other end. “But why won’t she see me? I’ve searched every place she might have gone, but I just can’t find her.”
Xu Mu could hear the pain in Chen Xuan’s voice, clearly feeling uncomfortable.
“Everything comes down to fate. Maybe your destinies haven’t crossed yet. Since she specifically wrote you a letter, it shows she still cares about you.”
Xu Mu didn’t know how else to comfort the man, so he just said a few simple words.
“Sigh.”
Chen Xuan sighed on the other end. “It’s not going to work for me to just stay here. I’m planning to come back and find you instead.”
“Alright, sure.”
Xu Mu nodded in agreement.
If he and Chen Xuan headed into the ruins together, his own safety index would definitely go up.
After hanging up the call, he grabbed a bottle of chilled iced tea from the fridge and headed for the underground illusion formation.
He lay alone on the grass nearby, taking a sip now and then, feeling completely at ease.
If it weren’t for the fear that those protagonists would develop and eventually kill him, Xu Mu would honestly think life right now was pretty good.
But there was no choice—not every male lead was as reasonable as Chen Xuan.
If he got lazy, once the other protagonists grew far stronger than him, escaping from their grasp wouldn’t be so easy.
……
The phone on the table jolted Xu Mu awake from his nap. Squinting, he picked it up and saw it was a message from Jiang Huihui.
She said she had already arrived at the door.
Xu Mu immediately stood up, used the transfer formation to get to the courtyard, and opened the door of the villa.
Jiang Huihui, dressed in casual wear, rode a small electric scooter into the yard.
“Got a new ride?”
Xu Mu asked with a smile.
“No, I have two space rings now.”
Jiang Huihui lifted her left hand, and on her slender fingers, two rings gleamed—one on her index finger and one on her middle finger.
She touched one of them, and another electric scooter appeared there.
“I use one ring to store my vehicles, and the other to store treasures—though I don’t really have much in the way of treasures.”
Jiang Huihui pushed both scooters to the front of the villa and plugged them into the socket there to charge.
“You didn’t ride the electric scooter all the way here, did you?”
Xu Mu asked curiously.
“That’s right. I just swapped between them and rode all the way from Yang City to here.”
Jiang Huihui tossed her hair and asked with a smile, “So why did you call me out here this time?”
“First, I’m giving you a pill. Take it.”
Xu Mu took out a high-grade replenishment pill from his pocket.
Jiang Huihui looked at it, then up at Xu Mu. She wanted to say something but didn’t know how to start.
In the end, she could only say two words: “Thank you.”
[Affection +20]
She didn’t need to guess—this pill was definitely not something ordinary. Otherwise, Xu Mu wouldn’t have gone out of his way to give it to her.
After swallowing it, a surge of spiritual power flooded her body. Jiang Huihui widened her eyes in disbelief.
“My cultivation has jumped this much?”
She clenched her fist tightly, then blew a bubble. “Xu Mu, you’re really good to me.”
[Affection +10]
“There’s even better coming. After all, you’re my fiancée.”
Xu Mu led Jiang Huihui to the underground illusion formation and walked straight over to Fu Jinyu. “Empress Sister, let Jiang Huihui study this heavenly-grade technique too, please.”
“What? A heavenly-grade technique?”
Jiang Huihui stood frozen on the spot. Could it really be what her grandfather had said—that Xu Mu was hopelessly in love with her?
Why else would he be so kind to her?
This was a Heaven-tier cultivation technique, and he had directly given it to her to practice.
[Affection +20]
"Alright, we've all grasped the basic tricks now."
Fu Jinyu nodded lightly.
"Xu Mu, is this... really okay?"
Jiang Huihui still couldn't believe it.
"Just practice obediently. Haven't you seen the others already cultivating?"
Xu Mu returned to his previous spot, sitting on the grass and drinking iced black tea.
After all, these were life-saving techniques. Once they were sent to the Cold Immortal Sect, getting a chance to cultivate would require quotas.
Xu Mu's twenty quotas were mainly meant for studying another Heaven-tier technique from the Cold Immortal Sect.
He definitely couldn't waste them on this technique, so now that there was an opportunity to learn it, he had to let them start early.
He occasionally glanced at the others in the distance. He saw Fu Jinyu using her own Qi to condense ice for training.
The ice took the shape of a bucket, just big enough to hold a person. Then she used her Qi to extract moisture from the air, filling the ice bucket with water.
One by one, the girls stepped into the water, practicing the Heaven-tier technique to hone their concealment abilities.
Xu Mu watched as the group gathered around discussing the technique. Sometimes they argued heatedly over differing opinions, their faces flushed red. He found it amusing.
Unknowingly, the sky had darkened, but inside the illusion array, it remained bright as day.
Ye Tong walked in through the transfer array. Seeing so many people, her face lit up with joy. "So many people today?"
"I had them come to cultivate techniques. You don't need to cook today—I'll handle it."
Xu Mu called out to Ye Tong from a distance.
Ye Tong nodded. "Okay."
Xu Mu had recently acquired quite a few heavenly treasures and spiritual herbs. He planned to cook a meal and give everyone another boost.
Since so many were gathered today, it was the perfect chance to double Ye Tong's progress.
To advance further now, he needed more cultivation points, so he had to work even harder himself.
Not long after, Feng Yue also walked in. Seeing the crowd, she came over to Xu Mu. "Boss, I was going to invite Mu Qingying over for dinner today, but I didn't expect so many people."
"Mu Qingying?"
Xu Mu hesitated for a moment, then said, "Let her come. I was planning to cook with heavenly treasures today anyway."
"Great!"
Feng Yue nodded eagerly. She really liked Mu Qingying.
This woman always called her "Sister Yue," and she was her only little sister. Feng Yue was determined to find a way to make Xu Mu keep Mu Qingying by his side.
Feng Yue pulled out her phone and immediately called Mu Qingying, inviting her over.
Soon, under Feng Yue's guidance, Mu Qingying stepped into the illusion array.
Seeing the scene before her, Mu Qingying was utterly stunned. She couldn't believe she was actually underground.
Even as Feng Yue explained beside her, she still found it hard to accept.
Ye Tong spotted Mu Qingying and walked over curiously. "I know who you are. You're Mu Qingying. My husband used to pursue you."
Hearing this, Mu Qingying's expression turned uncomfortable. She had heard from Feng Yue that this woman was Xu Mu's legitimate wife.
She didn't understand the meaning behind those words—was it a mockery?
But thinking back, it made sense. Back then, Xu Mu had courted her for months, and she had never agreed.
Clearly, Ye Tong was deliberately targeting her, trying to make things difficult for her.
She felt a bit helpless; it seemed the road ahead would be long and arduous.
If she were to truly become Xu Mu’s woman, she might end up being bullied by this lawful wife in the future.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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.”
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
