Seeing this, An Linghui, who was nearby, joined in as well.
She was no fool; given the current situation, a free-for-all was likely, and she wouldn't survive alone.
The treasures here were certainly not ordinary, or else the Holy Light Clan wouldn't have been dispatched.
So, her best move was to ally with Xu Mu. If she didn't help him now, he probably wouldn't help her later.
In moments of crisis, everything was mutual.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Three fireballs, each the size of a soccer ball, materialized in front of her and shot toward the black-robed figure.
Xu Mu and Chen Xuan exchanged glances, then looked at the restless people in the distance.
"Ye Chen, stop hiding. If you're going to make a move, do it quickly."
Xu Mu turned his gaze to Ye Chen. "Ever since you raided the Eternal Life Research Institute last time, we've already been enemies."
Ye Chen snorted coldly. He had already guessed that there were people from the Eternal Life Research Institute here.
That's why Xu Mu was deliberately provoking him, but he didn't care at all.
Ye Chen looked at the one-eyed woman beside him. "Hathaway, are we making a move?"
Ever since that all-out fight with Xu Mu last time, Ye Chen had come to terms with reality.
At the same level, he was no match for Xu Mu.
So right now, fighting Xu Mu one-on-one wouldn't let him win.
He could only rely on the Holy Light Clan member beside him.
That said, Ye Chen never sold himself short.
He couldn't beat Xu Mu simply because his cultivation technique wasn't as powerful as Xu Mu's.
Besides, he was improving rapidly. As long as he had time to develop, he would one day easily trample Xu Mu underfoot.
Hathaway's single eye fixed on Xu Mu as she weighed the pros and cons in her mind.
The Church had hundreds of millions of followers, serving as the Holy Light Clan's eyes and ears in the outside world, helping them monitor the global situation.
The Dragon Kingdom's martial arts tournament was, of course, a key event for the Holy Light Clan.
Someone like Xu Mu was definitely a promising talent for the Dragon Kingdom.
Just as before they entered, the two senior cleaners had proactively chatted with him.
If they killed him here, fine.
But if Xu Mu managed to escape, the consequences afterward would be disastrous.
"At a time like this, you're still hesitating? Do you want us to wait here until the six days are up and get locked in for a year?"
Ye Chen clenched his fists and asked. "Make a decision! If we drag this out any longer, those two women will win!"
He had witnessed this Holy Light Clan member's strength, and combined with himself, they could definitely take down Xu Mu.
Everyone who had made it this far was an old hand.
The black-robed figures had initially been ready to strike, but upon hearing that the Holy Light Clan would go first, they naturally chose to watch the show and reap the benefits later.
Hathaway took a deep breath. At this point, she had no other choice.
A Heaven-Mending-level formation like this couldn't be broken by someone of her rank, the second tier.
So she had to play by the formation's rules and reduce the number of people around.
If the Dragon Kingdom came to question her, she would have her reasons.
With that thought, Hathaway said to the two black-robed figures beside her, "Move out!"
"Yes!"
The two black-robed figures nodded simultaneously.
They transformed into two beams of golden light and shot toward Xu Mu.
Seeing this, Ye Chen also unleashed his power. In his view, those two Realm-Breaking Stage second tiers alone were no match for Xu Mu.
Because they were merely internal experts of the Church, not from the top race, the Holy Light Clan.
But with his support, they might just pull it off.
Hathaway crossed her arms and observed Xu Mu's fight. If Xu Mu actually survived through all this, then the Holy Light Clan might have gained a new enemy in the future.
She had seen videos of him before, but they didn't show the full picture. Today, she would witness this so-called genius firsthand.
"Old Chen, don't panic. Stay by my side."
Xu Mu patted Chen Xuan on the shoulder.
"Got it."
Chen Xuan gripped his firewood-chopping knife and looked up, standing perfectly still.
"Judgment of Light!"
One of the black-robed figures raised his hand from above.
A colossal golden cross, over ten meters tall, came crashing down from the heights.
Chen Xuan's body began to tremble slightly, nearly collapsing to the ground.
Xu Mu grabbed Chen Xuan's arm and steadied him, keeping him upright.
"I didn't expect the pressure to be this terrifying just from the move being ready to land."
Chen Xuan looked up with a smile. "If it weren't for Brother Mu, I probably would've been pressed flat into the ground."
"Stop pretending. The main reason is I told you not to move. Otherwise, you would have dodged it long ago."
As Xu Mu spoke, the massive golden cross had already descended onto Xu Mu's head.
Then, the cross vanished.
"Watch out!"
Ye Chen shouted immediately.
The two black-robed figures above quickly looked up and found the giant golden cross looming right over their heads.
Boom!
The immense pressure slammed them from the sky down to the ground.
Both of them raised their hands at the same time, attacking the golden cross above them.
Just then, Xu Mu drew his longsword and unleashed three Flame-Scorching Heaven Sword Qis in quick succession.
Chen Xuan also tightened his grip on his knife and executed Mountain-Splitting Slash horizontally, sending a giant golden axe toward the two.
Seeing this, Hathaway flicked her wrists, sending out two golden chains.
The chains latched onto each of the black-robed figures, and in the next instant, they were pulled to Hathaway's side.
Rumble!
The attacks collided, first emitting a blinding flash, then shockwaves that spread outward in all directions.
Everyone around channeled their power to block the blast.
After a moment, the light faded, yet the terrain in the area remained completely unchanged—even the blades of grass were untouched.
Just then, another thunderous impact shook the ground.
A spear pierced through one of the black-robed figures, nailing him from the sky into the earth.
Boom!
As flames scattered, the ambient temperature noticeably rose.
Yang Lielan's figure slowly descended from above, pulling the crimson-tasseled spear out.
The onlookers stared in shock.
They had all seen clearly the qi unleashed in the exchange between the two sides.
Yang Lielan was only at the first tier of the Realm-Breaking Stage, yet she had taken down an opponent at the peak of the second tier—right at the formation's threshold—so quickly.
She truly deserved the title of former genius. Even after a severe injury that forced her to recuperate for years, she had fought her way back to her former peak.
Bang!
Then, a fireball fell from the sky.
Everyone turned to look, only to realize it was a person.
The black robe on the figure had been completely burned away, revealing a face scorched black.
An Linghui also descended from the sky. Her long hair had been ablaze, the strands burning red.
As the flames on her hair vanished, her locks returned to black once more.
She reached out to Xu Mu. "Give me another piece of bread. I'm still hungry."
Xu Mu took a pack of dried meat from his spatial ring and handed it to An Linghui.
He smiled as he looked around at the crowd. "Didn't expect being protected by these big sisters would feel this great."
Ye Chen's mouth twitched uncontrollably upon hearing that. Damn it, Xu Mu really deserved to die.
He turned to Hathaway beside him. "I told you to strike earlier, but you wouldn't listen. Now those two women have freed up. What are we supposed to do now?"
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
