Thunder God?

Zhang Yumin's face turned pale at the mention of the words preceding Xiao Mu's.

As a mutated being, she was well aware of the gap between the Kitchen God and the Thunder God.

One was a Yin God and the other a divine spirit, separated by a vast disparity in levels. For a Thunder God to slay a Kitchen God would be as easy as lifting a hand.

Yet, what Xiao Mu said next made her hesitate, and just as she was about to ask for clarification, she saw a rich golden authority radiating from Xiao Mu, and an illusory figure of the City God appeared above his head.

Following close behind, a purple-golden shield, dozens of times more dazzling than the Kitchen God's authority she held, materialized in Xiao Mu's right hand.

And above this shield loomed an illusory figure of the City God, identical in shape to Xiao Mu.

"You... You... You're the City God!"

Zhang Yumin was struck dumb, and though she was just a Variant in the Mortal Realm, she understood the formidable power of the City God.

Xiao Mu merely smiled faintly, without responding to her remark, and tossed the shield he held onto the bodies of Zhang Yumin and Chen Aijiao. The purple-golden City God's shield enveloped the mother and daughter, protecting them within.

A strong sense of security emanated from the shield, and almost subconsciously, Zhang Yumin turned to Chen Aijiao, "Mom, why aren't you speaking up? This Daoist, this senior Daoist, he's the City God?"

The authority of the City God overwhelmed her, and Xiao Mu's image drastically magnified in her heart.

Chen Aijiao spoke in a lowered voice, not fully comprehending, "Yumin, is the City God very powerful?"

Zhang Yumin was at a loss for words with her mother. The City God was far more than powerful; as a True God in the Divine Spirit Level, when solely comparing authority, the City God was doubtlessly the most powerful spirit.

She looked at Xiao Mu in awe.

At this moment, Xiao Mu had turned around, his gaze once again locked onto the slender threads of authority stretching out from the Soul Cover.

The City God's authority followed these threads, crossing through space, extending into the depths of the void.

Crack!

The Soul Cover suddenly trembled, strange noises accompanying it, and at the same time, the threads of authority extending from it shook violently, as if they might snap at any moment.

Hum!

Without any hesitation, Xiao Mu released the City God's jurisdictional authority. The image of the Golden City God emerged above his head, with the Tianyuan position on the top of the City God statue releasing white light, and the Taiji Ball spinning inside it like the sun.

The intensely concentrated City God's authority was violently transmitted through the threads, and there was a snap, a buzzing sound, and screams.

The screams echoed, travelling across space to this side.

Energy +1.

The notification of the mutated being's death rang out, and with a puff, a blob of black light tumbled in from another space.

This was the soul light of the mutated being that Xiao Mu had just killed, which was at most in the Mid Yin God Realm.

Xiao Mu reached out his hand and grabbed the black soul light.

Zzap, crack!

The sound of tearing suddenly came from Zhang Jianxing's body as the Soul Cover ruptured. The moment the Soul Cover shattered, it turned into black light and the chaotic threads of authority exploded outward in all directions.

Xiao Mu remained still and firmly stood his ground, unaffected by the scattering authority. Some of the threads that surged towards Chen Aijiao and Zhang Yumin were easily blocked by Xiao Mu's shield of City God's authority.

Ah~

A shrill scream rose from the black light, as an abhorrent ghost face with seven orifices dripping with foul-smelling blood emerged from the black light and lunged at Zhang Jianxing's body.

This was the Curse Power left in the Soul Cover, aiming to kill Zhang Jianxing the instant the cover broke.

Xiao Mu was well-prepared and calmly extended his right index finger toward the ghost face, "Suppress!"

City God's authority descended from the skies, golden light slicing at the ghost face like a sword.

Puh!

The ghost face was effortlessly cleaved in two, emitting a screeching howl before dissolving into patches of black light and dissipating in the air.

"So tired! Huff! Huff! Huff!"

Zhang Jianxing emitted a muffled sound from his throat, but then he closed his eyes and began to snore.

He had been controlled for too long and was truly exhausted; he fell asleep as soon as the Soul Cover was lifted.

"Dad, ah, Daoist, is my dad all better now?" Zhang Yumin's eyes widened, seemingly in disbelief at how simple the whole rescue process was.

"Layman Yan, is Jianxing... is he okay now?" Chen Aijiao was still anxious.

"Zhang Layman is fine now; the person controlling him behind the scenes has been killed by me, and the Soul Cover has already been shattered. From now on, such bizarre incidents won't occur to him again."

"Thank you, Daoist!" Chen Aijiao was overjoyed.

"Thank you, senior!" Zhang Yumin, being a Mutated Being, was considerably more reserved.

"Extraterrestrial Mutated Beings are exceptionally ferocious, and they might want retaliation against your family."

"To prevent any accidents, I will leave something behind. If you encounter an extraterrestrial Mutated Being, just destroy this object, and I will receive the Information and come to help you."

Xiao Mu thought it over, plucked a strand of his hair, and transformed it using the Changeable Divine Technique before handing it to Zhang Yumin.

In truth, the reason for leaving behind a strand of hair was not only to protect the Zhang family from extraterrestrial interference but also to allow Xiao Mu to trace the extraterrestrial Mutant Beings if they were to disturb the Zhang family by using this hair.

"Thank you, senior!" Zhang Yumin accepted Xiao Mu's hair with hands that treated it as precious and important.

After leaving the Zhang Family, Xiao Mu immediately began to check the Soul light of the extraterrestrial Mutated Being.

A thread of Divine Sense penetrated the Soul light, and the next moment, Xiao Mu felt the presence of the gray-white Supreme Power that he had encountered in Yu Qin's Soul light before.

Having been prepared, Xiao Mu immediately released the Seal of the Heavenly Emperor, using the Emperor Authority to suppress this unknown Supreme Power.

Crack!

The gray-white Supreme Power relaxed slightly, and a thread of Divine Sense managed to break through.

Xiao Mu hurriedly extended his Divine Sense to capture the Divine Sense of the extraterrestrial Mutated Being to explore it.

Thump!

A muffled sound was heard, and the gray-white Supreme Power suddenly shook; the rest of the Soul light of the extraterrestrial Mutated Being shattered.

This gray-white Supreme Power, seeming to hold Spirituality, acted the moment Xiao Mu began his exploration and destroyed the Mutated Being's Soul light.

"Luckily, it wasn't entirely destroyed; I should be able to obtain plenty of memories from this thread of Divine Sense."

Xiao Mu probed the sole surviving thread of Divine Sense, and unfamiliar fragmented memories flooded into his consciousness.

Xiao Mu carefully sensed and organized these fragmented memories.

After roughly half an hour, Xiao Mu had completely sorted out these broken memories.

"So, the Heavenly Court actually has a method to resist the Heavenly Dao, although it's quite weak."

Xiao Mu was pleasantly surprised by the ultimate discovery; within the surviving Divine Sense, he found a method used by the extraterrestrial to resist the Heavenly Dao.

The extraterrestrial and the Human world were different; there, the Heavenly Dao was omnipresent, all individuals were oppressed, and no one could achieve true immortality.

To prevent falling under the Heavenly Dao and having Punishment descend upon them at any moment, every Mutated Being cultivated methods to resist the Heavenly Dao.

Nonetheless, the methods varied in strength and differed from person to person. The Yin God Realm Mutated Being that Xiao Mu had killed practiced a method of resisting the Heavenly Dao that wasn't very strong.

But no matter what, the principles behind these methods of resisting the Heavenly Dao were the same—all relied on using one's own authority to combat the Heavenly Dao in hopes of escaping life and death, Reincarnation, Retribution, and Fate.

The method called Golden Pagoda Technique that the Mutated Being Xiao Mu killed had cultivated, in its nature, shared some similarities with the "Three Elements Refining Appearance Technique" that Xiao Mu was cultivating.

The difference was, Xiao Mu's "Three Elements Refining Appearance Technique" was aimed at enhancing authority, whereas the Golden Pagoda Technique was merely an application of authority.

Since the basis for resisting the Heavenly Dao ultimately depended on a formidable authority, theoretically, the "Three Elements Refining Appearance Technique" should be much more powerful than the Golden Pagoda Technique.

However, the Golden Pagoda Technique wasn't entirely useless; its principle involved condensing one's authority, allowing it to take form within the body as a Golden Tower of Authority.

This Golden Tower had the effect of concentrating one's personal authority, enabling it to exert a much greater power.

"It's better than nothing, and not bad at all. Though it's not as good as the 'Three Elements Refining Appearance Technique', it's still quite a decent method for countering the Heavenly Dao."

Xiao Mu was somewhat satisfied as he memorized the cultivation method of the Golden Pagoda Technique and moved on to explore other memories. The image of a man who appeared to be in his seventies, short and chubby, with a face glowing with red light, appeared before him.

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