Blood Drawn from Afar

The events in the God Realm were naturally unknown to Jiang Mu.

He was still walking along the road, searching for a storage soul tool. With Tang Ya leading the way, he had not paid much attention to his surroundings.

Just as he was about to turn off Wang Dong'er's switch,

the revenge list activated!

With a casual glance, his eyes instantly widened!

[Revenge List

[Tang San, Sea God, Asura God, killing intent 90%. Retribution range...]

[Xiao Wu, Asura Scabbard, killing intent 10%. Retribution range!]

The two additional health bars radiated seven-colored light!

God King realm.

Jiang Mu's expression turned somewhat strange. He had only spent such a brief time with Wang Dong'er, and they had not even exchanged names, yet he had already been targeted!

That seemed rather unreasonable...

Could it be that they had been secretly watching him all along?

They had developed such intense killing intent toward him immediately—were they not willing to let her suffer even the slightest setback?

That could not be right either. If they truly doted on her that much, why split off a soul? Why let her descend to the lower realm?

But no matter what, the killing intent displayed here was not fake.

Jiang Mu suddenly felt as though a great blade were hanging over his head.

His mood for shopping with the two girls vanished instantly. He needed to quickly determine what means he had to counter them.

Even if he could not counter them for now, he had to activate the Heavenly Secrets Stone first, concealing the heavenly secrets and hiding his aura.

With that, Jiang Mu forcibly pulled his gaze away from the two revenge-list entries glowing with dazzling colors.

"Nannan, Tang Ya, I have something to take care of. I want to head back early and rest..."

He did not explain everything, but both girls' expressions changed after hearing him.

Jiang Nannan was the most concerned. She immediately stepped forward, grabbed Jiang Mu's arm, and repeatedly examined his hand. "Xiao Mu, what is it? Are you feeling unwell?"

"I am not injured. I'll be fine after some rest."

Hearing that, concern filled Tang Ya's beautiful phoenix eyes. "The inn where I'm staying isn't far from here. If you're feeling unwell, Xiao Mu, why don't you go back and rest first? We'll return after picking up the hidden weapons?"

Tang Ya took out a key and handed it to Jiang Mu.

Jiang Mu did not refuse. "Alright."

"We'll be back soon."

Although Jiang Nannan was worried, she could not be willful. She simply followed along.

"Mm."

Jiang Mu did not explain further. Taking the key, he headed toward the inn Tang Ya had rented, following her directions.

Tap, tap, tap!

The group split up.

Jiang Mu took a deep breath and hurried in that direction as well.

With a key to enter the inn, no one would ask too many questions. Perhaps they were lovers, or friends who met from time to time.

Asking too much might only bring trouble upon themselves. He arrived at the door without incident and unlocked it with the key.

Click.

Jiang Mu pushed the door open and entered.

The room's furnishings could be seen at a glance. Two beds stood in the middle, along with a sofa by the balcony and a bathroom. The space was not large.

But it was enough to stay in. He was not that picky.

Except...

There were scattered clothes on the bed furthest to the left. It was clear that its owner was rather casual when living alone.

Besides stockings, there were even some intimate garments!

"Purple? That's a little mature, isn't it..."

After smiling, Jiang Mu turned and sat down on the sofa.

Inside the system space were the cultivation technique and Heavenly Secrets Stone he had just obtained from the treasure chest.

Heavenly Secrets Stone description.

[Conceal the heavenly secrets and deceive fate to evade great calamity.]

"It can even include other people. Very good."

Seeing that he could add people who would receive the same concealment as himself, Jiang Mu immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Otherwise, if they targeted Jiang Nannan, he would not even know what to do.

There were plenty of slots. This could be considered part of the novice benefits.

Without any hesitation, Jiang Mu added Jiang Nannan and Mother Jiang.

Their auras were immediately concealed. Other than through major methods or special curses, ordinary means could not detect them.

After activating it, Jiang Mu felt much safer.

"No, no. I still have to test it. I've already been targeted, so I can't hide forever."

Jiang Mu decided to try and see whether he could use that cultivation technique to draw Tang San's blood.

"Mm..."

"I should use Xu Sanshi as the guinea pig first."

After frowning, Jiang Mu decided to experiment on Xu Sanshi first.

When he took out the cultivation technique and activated it, the soul power circulating around his body directly turned red.

A murderous aura spread outward.

This was indeed a rather evil cultivation technique. Even its name carried the implication of stealing another's fortune.

"Let's begin."

He activated the cultivation technique and began drawing his own blood.

The red technique guided his blood qi to Jiang Mu's heart, then slowly opened a hole there.

Yet no blood flowed out from that hole, as if it were merely decoration. He did not even feel any pain.

Because he had activated the revenge list, which showed Xu Sanshi's killing intent at 85%. That was enough for him to experiment.

After he chose to activate the cultivation technique, the technique slowly appeared out of thin air before the hollow in his heart, and blood flowed into it!

Feeling blood leave his body without pain, Jiang Mu nodded in satisfaction. As expected, he could draw blood from afar.

"So weak? This quickly?"

Jiang Mu looked at Xu Sanshi's health bar on the list. It was dropping far too fast.

He complained that Xu Sanshi's blood was falling too quickly, but on the other side...

Inside a luxurious hotel, Xu Sanshi sat with one leg crossed over the other, originally waiting for his servants to investigate information about Jiang Mu and Jiang Nannan.

But the next second, he felt as if a blood vessel had been stabbed through his heart.

"Huh?"

Still, he was a soul master. A single stab did not provoke much of a reaction.

Xu Sanshi frowned and instinctively raised a hand to grasp at his heart. Could it be a bug?

But he grabbed nothing. There was nothing there.

Lowering his head, he discovered that a large amount of blood was pouring from his heart!

That blood seemed to be guided to the area before his heart before vanishing into thin air?

When Xu Sanshi realized what was happening, his face instantly turned pale. It was not only from fright, but also from the side effects of the blood loss. His heart began to ache violently.

"Hiss—"

His fingers clenched at once as he tried to grip the table tightly, but he failed to catch it. With his legs crossed, his posture had been rather relaxed.

Crash?

His leg knocked the table over directly.

"Ah!"

The speed visibly increased, and the pain surged as well. His originally thick, sturdy arms seemed as though they had been punched several times, shriveling as the color drained from them.

Xu Sanshi's lips trembled, as did his hands and feet, yet he could no longer feel that his limbs existed.

He could only feel a blood vessel at his heart forcibly drawing the blood from within.

Combined with the piercing pain, Xu Sanshi could only rely on his consciousness to repeatedly slam his head against the sofa, muttering toward the outside.

"Someone... someone!"

The guards outside changed expression upon hearing him, and the two exchanged looks.

But Xu Sanshi was too weak. His muttering did not carry outside at all; they could only hear the thumping sounds.

The guards who usually stayed closest immediately got the wrong idea.

Those thump-thump-thump sounds... Their young master had not dragged a woman inside today, so what was all that thumping?

"Forget it, don't go in. We'll just disturb him. The last few times we went in, he was still just fooling around, and he even docked our pay. Forget it."

"Mm."