Chapter 63: System, I'm Anxious!

Oh?

You mean that youngster Gong Sun?

Zhao Huaiyang furrowed his white eyebrows, pondered for a moment, and said, "Comparing with that youngster Gong Sun, the realms differ too much to be comparable."

But if we talk about future potential, then they should be about the same!

After a pause, Zhao Huaiyang smiled again and said.

However, the Qian Kun Realm is still undecided!

A month ago, could you have imagined Li Mu defeating Lin Zehong and snatching the Four Peaks Grand Competition Champion?

Hiss…

Such a high appraisal?

Upon hearing Zhao Huaiyang's appraisal.

Not only Sun Qingwu, but Zi Yuan also couldn't help but be shocked.

One should know that this Ziyang Sect Holy Son has always dominated the Inner Peaks Storm Ranking at number one, an invincible existence!

At the same time, he is regarded as the most promising young member of the Ziyang Sect to pass the Demon Hero examination and become a Demon Hero, a heavenly pride.

The path of cultivation is long!

The immortal road that belongs to you, youngster, has only just taken its first step!

Later.

Zhao Huaiyang, regardless of whether others could understand, stroked his beard and said.

The Supreme Elder once deduced the heavenly mechanism, calculating that the Qian Kun Era has already reached its end, and a new era is about to begin!

With the era changing and under the Great Tribulation, who knows how many celestial realms and blessed lands have collapsed, and how many sect lineages have been severed.

At that time, billions of cultivators will die, their bodies falling from the Dao, turning to ash and dust.

When this Great Tribulation arrives, how many can ascend smoothly to the heavens and achieve Dao and ascend to the Upper Realm?

And you, youngster, have accidentally mastered the Five Thunder Jade Book, a text lost for over a hundred years in the Qian Kun Realm.

Isn't this also a sign that destiny is already set in the heavens, and the auspicious wind has arrived!

Speaking thus, Zhao Huaiyang patted Li Mu on the shoulder, gave him some encouragement, and then ascended into the void, departing.

Beside Zhao Huaiyang, a blue-robed elder lowered his head to look down.

In his sight, one silhouette after another gradually shrank.

The group of youths, each with different temperaments, appeared ant-sized in the elder's eyes, eventually reduced to mere black dots, indistinguishable from one another.

The blue-robed elder smiled leisurely and said.

I thought, Huaiyang, you would use the distribution of rewards as a pretext to give a little reprimand to Lin Zecheng, Qin Siwu, and those from Xuan Yue Feng.

I believe that as long as you show a slight stance, even if Lin Zecheng and Qin Siwu have the courage of a bear and the gall of a leopard, they would never dare act against Li Mu.

But I didn't expect that you actually did nothing at all.

You just distributed the rewards and then came back.

Reprimand?

Zhao Huaiyang merely glanced lightly at the blue-robed elder, waved his hand, and said, "Within the secular world's royal walls, there are the Martial View Turmoil and the Nine Princes' Succession Struggle."

These blood-related brothers entangle each other over power and profit, and they can meet with swords, shedding blood!

If the secular world is like this, how much more so for the Ziyang Sect's Four Peaks non-kin disciples?

Do you still expect, in this cutthroat cultivation world where the strong rule?

To make these youngsters spout the ridiculous virtues of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, trust, and modesty?

This is simply a colossal joke!

Saying that, Zhao Huaiyang let out a cold laugh.

Before the Four Peaks Grand Competition, I had already said.

This world is inherently an age of great contention; we cultivators must not only contend!

And we must contend with thunderous vigor, contending for brilliance that shines across the heavens!

As for the disputes between Li Mu and Lin Zecheng and those youngsters, why should I intervene?

If Li Mu cannot even get past the hurdle of Lin Zecheng and Qin Siwu and their ilk, how could he later speak of passing the rigorous Demon Hero examination?

And how could he speak of leading our Ziyang Sect to shine brilliantly in the Hundred Dynasties Great War!

Huh…

Having said that.

Zhao Huaiyang let out a long sigh, then gazed into the distance and said softly.

If that youngster Li Mu truly falls here, it would mean he is not the destined one we are waiting for…

Clap, clap, clap…

Well said!

The Blue Robe Elder heard this and couldn't help but applaud.

But then he raised his hand and pointed into the distance.

However, I saw that girl Zi Yuan leave the Ziyang Sect after sending Li Mu back to Longtan Peak.

Looking at that direction, it should be heading toward the Qingzhou Lin Family!

Huaiyang, are you sure you won't intervene?

Hmph!

The response to the Blue Robe Elder was a heavy, cold snort from Zhao Huaiyang.

I said it!

"These youngsters' disputes have nothing to do with me!"

After uttering that, Zhao Huaiyang had already vanished from the Blue Robe Elder's sight.

Seeing this, the Blue Robe Elder also chuckled and shook his head.

Then he stepped forward and disappeared together into this world.

"..."

After claiming the Four Peaks Grand Competition Champion's reward, Zi Yuan, just as before, took Li Mu and flew back to his own courtyard.

Before leaving, Zi Yuan slipped a sect Jade Slip into Li Mu's hand.

Seeing the twenty‑thousand sect contribution points on it, Li Mu didn't hesitate and waved his hand to accept them.

Where else can you find a chance to do nothing and just pick up twenty thousand contribution points for free?

However…

Through this high‑stakes gamble, it also gave Lin Zecheng, Qin Siwu and others a good lesson.

Probably next time those two will have learned the trick and won't bite so easily.

Having already secured the benefits on my side, Li Mu originally intended to invite the senior sister to sit in.

But Zi Yuan did not stay long, only reminding Li Mu to go to Inner Peak to report in three days.

Then, with a bare hand, she summoned a flying sword—"Whoosh!"—and, right before Li Mu's eyes, rode the sword and flew away.

Watching the senior sister's dashing figure as she rode the sword away, Li Mu merely waved his hand from afar, and only after Zi Yuan's figure completely vanished did he return to his own room.

The only difference from before is that Li Mu today unusually did not cultivate, but lay on his bed staring blankly at the ceiling.

Thinking carefully, Li Mu realized a terrifying fact!

It seems…

Since arriving at Longtan Peak, he hasn't had a proper good night's sleep even once!

Every night he either cultivates to improve his level, or hunts demonic beasts to hone his martial skills.

As for the fatigue and drowsiness caused by lack of sleep, they are all automatically judged by the Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll as detrimental to him, and only the beneficial matters become reality.

The drowsiness and fatigue are all transferred onto Qin Siwu and those sacrificial scapegoats, allowing Li Mu to practice continuously for twenty‑four hours!

These changes happening to him, Li Mu himself cannot say whether they are good or bad.

It's just that after participating in the Four Peaks Grand Competition, Li Mu unusually began to reflect on how his past month had gone.

Honestly, I think my life is just ridiculously awesome!

It's freaking awesome!

Recalling his past life.

At most I was just doing the 996 brick‑moving grind, at worst the 007 grind; if the hustle isn't with comrades, then I hustle myself to death!

After crossing into the Qian Kun Realm, Li Mu had once fantasized that he would finally no longer have to be a beast of burden, that he could be a true hustler.

To be able to spend drunken nights on a beauty's lap, and awake holding a killing sword.

He doesn't demand a priceless treasure, only the beautiful life of having the right to kill.

Yet after Li Mu crossed over, he discovered that ideals and reality are fundamentally different!

After crossing into the Qian Kun Realm!

Li Mu found that he truly started with just a bowl, his only equipment the "Dog System" even damn required him to run to the Enlightenment Monument to activate it.

For someone now in a dark era comparable to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms of his past life, where if you don't kill, you'll be killed!

After much effort Li Mu finally activated the system, his life would improve.

Well then!

Life improved, but the daily grind even saved the act of sleeping!

Up to now, after crossing into the Qian Kun Realm, Li Mu's sole gain is that he now wields a killing sword, holding the right to kill in his hand!

As for the beauty's lap…

Thinking of that, Li Mu turned over silently on the bed, gazing at the plain white wall and the empty double bed, sighing.

Forget it!

I don't want any of this, all that nonsense!

Women!

They only disrupt my Dao heart!

Now I'm about to ascend into Inner Peak.

I can't stay in this Outer Peak cave dwelling for many days, so I'll just lie on the bed and take a symbolic nap.

Refusing to be a beast of burden, starting today!

But…

Although Li Mu lay on the bed, his mind was still occupied with his current predicament.

After the Four Peaks Grand Competition, his cultivation had reached the Ten Grade Refining Qi Realm Peak.

He could take that final step at any moment!

And after enduring so many battles in the Yunshan Secret Realm, his Landmine Dao Technique had risen to level 8.

The landmines command earth Qi, nourishing all things.

They nourish a cultivator's flesh and nascent soul, allowing them to breathe with the earth, sharing destiny.

According to the Landmine Dao Technique's enhancement of my flesh, each level roughly adds one hundred thousand jin of physical strength!

In other words,

If I raise the Landmine Dao Technique to level 10, that would roughly reach the Refining Qi Realm's one‑million‑jin limit.

That's about the level of the Nine Bans within the Forbidden Realm mentioned by the Blue Robe Elder!

Even though Li Mu's current physical strength, even when compared with those Demon General‑ranked beasts, is by no means inferior.

But such overwhelming physical strength does not make Li Mu feel at all relaxed.

The pressing priority now is to find a way to quickly push his physical strength into the Ninth Forbidden of the Forbidden Realm, to the level of one million kilograms!

Once his physical strength reaches one million kilograms, he should immediately begin breaking through the Concentration Realm!

Time is tight, the task is heavy; not a moment can be wasted!

If we speak of before.

The conflict between himself, Qin Siwu, and Lin Zecheng might still have some leeway.

If after the Four Peaks Grand Contest I first kill Qin Zhixiang, then Slash Lin Zehong, then I and the other side would already have completely torn the relationship apart!

When we meet next, it will be either you die or I perish!

The current Li Mu, indeed, already possessed the strength in the Refining Qi Realm to fight a Concentration Realm cultivator, even to kill the opponent!

But compared with the Qin Siwu and Lin Zecheng he will face next,

Even with many tactics added, he has little confidence of surpassing them!

He can only guarantee escaping with his life!

Not to mention, the Qingzhou Lin Family behind Lin Zecheng is also a cultivation clan no less than the Yao Family or the Qian Family.

If I kill their younger son, and meanwhile sharpen my blade ready to kill their elder son, they will certainly not let me go!

It seemed as if it were confirming the suspicion in his mind.

When this thought just rose in Li Mu's mind, his Sea of Awareness quickly manifested a disturbance!

Li Mu's thought flickered, and he opened the Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll!

Sure enough, many new names had already been added there!

Surprisingly, without exception, they were all surnamed Lin!

"You damn it!"

Seeing the long string of densely packed names on the Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll, Li Mu couldn't help feeling anxious.

If I could get a royal ceremonial sword, so that with one slash I could get rid of all these annoying flies, that would be great.

Wait!

One slash?

Give myself a slash!

"Clang!"

Thinking of this.

Li Mu suddenly drew the Vengeance Blade at his waist, silently pointing the tip at his own heart.