Gou's Liver Experience in the World of Demons and Demons

"I once accidentally entered an ancient cave, gained some opportunities, and was also infected with some strange auras."

This explanation is reasonable. In the world of cultivation, it is common for cultivators to have their auras change due to strange encounters.

The man's expression eased a little, but the vigilance in his eyes remained.

"Have you ever seen a young man in his early twenties with the cultivation level of the Underground Palace Realm?"

"Never."

Gu Sheng shook his head.

"It's been a few days since we've seen anyone in these desolate mountains and wilderness."

The man seemed to want to ask more, but a disciple behind him whispered.

"Brother, this person is not young, and his cultivation is only at the Underground Palace level. He can't be that Gu Sheng. Let's stop wasting time."

Gu Sheng's ears moved slightly.

They were really searching for him! And they knew his cultivation level and age so well. Someone must have leaked the information.

The man pondered for a moment and waved his hand.

"Let's go and continue searching. The traitor should be nearby."

The six people turned and left.

They did not go far, but dispersed a hundred feet away, forming a faint encirclement.

"It seems that you are not completely relieved yet."

Gu Sheng pondered.

The night wind carries their whispers.

"Did that kid really see Gu Sheng?"

"It can't be wrong. He is the Holy Lord's personal disciple. His 'clairvoyance' is never wrong."

"But we searched the area for a hundred miles and didn't even see the shadow of the traitor."

"Unless he enters Wangui Ridge"

Gu Sheng's heart skipped a beat. Qinghe Saint Lord's personal disciple? When did he reveal his whereabouts?
Without giving him time to think, the six men were already walking towards him again.

Delaying it any further would only make things more dangerous.

Gu Sheng's eyes swept across the sinister Wangui Ridge not far away, and his body suddenly jumped up!

"Want to run?"

The man shouted loudly, and a green light shot out from his sleeve.

Gu Sheng dodged sideways and rushed towards Wangui Ridge without looking back. There were several sneers behind him.

"court death!"

"You dare to enter Wangui Ridge from a mere underground palace?"

"I'm afraid he's daydreaming about treasure hunting!"

Gu Sheng turned a deaf ear to him and arrived at the edge of Wangui Ridge in a few jumps.

A strong negative energy hit me in the face.

Without hesitation, he took a step into the gray fog.

"Brother, should we chase after him?" asked the female disciple.

The man looked in the direction where Gu Sheng disappeared, his expression changing from gloomy to bright.

"Wangui Ridge is extremely dangerous. Even a figure like our master doesn't dare to go deep into it easily. This person is seeking his own death. Don't bother with him. We will guard the periphery. If he is lucky enough to come out alive..."

"Then let him die again!"

Another disciple grinned.

The six people dispersed and each occupied a high ground, releasing their spiritual consciousness to form an invisible large net.

One of them took out a jade bottle and carefully poured out a breath of air.

It was exactly the breath sample that Gu Sheng left in the holy land!

"With the guidance of the aura bestowed by the Holy Lord, he will never be able to escape even if he flees to the ends of the earth!"

What they didn't know was that the Hidden Heaven Jade on Gu Sheng's chest was getting slightly hot, completely isolating the tracking aura.
In Wangui Ridge, Gu moved forward with one step deep and one step shallow.

There was a "crackling" sound under my feet, and it was a skeleton half buried in the soil.

Gray fog filled the air all around, visibility was less than ten feet, and the branches of the dead trees were twisted like struggling ghost hands.

A gust of cold wind blew by, and countless blurry human faces appeared in the mist, emitting sharp wails.

Gu Sheng felt his scalp tingling, and he quickly practiced the "Qingxin Jue" of Xuantian Holy Land to calm his mind.

“Such a strong grudge!”

He was secretly shocked.

“No wonder it’s called the Death Zone.”

Legend has it that Wangui Ridge was the result of the death of an ancient god. The god's resentment before his death merged with this land, giving rise to countless strange things.

Over the past thousands of years, countless monks have come here in search of treasure, only to have become part of the dry bones on the ground.

Gu Sheng moved forward carefully, stopping to observe every hundred steps.

It was discovered that although the outer area was eerie, it posed no real danger.

Those ghost faces in the mist are just resentment. As long as your mind is calm, they cannot hurt anyone.

"It seems that the rumors are true. The danger level of Wangui Ridge is proportional to the depth of the mountain."

"If there really is a peerless sword, it must be in the deepest place."

Gu Sheng took out the strange black stone and found that the blood vessels on its surface were more active than before, as if responding to something.

“There is indeed a connection.”

Gu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Could this stone be the key to the depths?"

While I was thinking, a rustling sound suddenly came from the distance, as if something was crawling on dead leaves.

Gu Sheng immediately put away the black stone and looked towards the source of the sound vigilantly.

In the gray fog, a hunched figure slowly emerged
At the same time, outside Wangui Ridge.

The six disciples of Qinghe Holy Land had been guarding for a whole day, but they still could not sense Gu Sheng's breath.

"strangeness."

The leading man frowned.

"Even if he died in there, there should be some breath left."

The female disciple guessed.

"Could he have escaped in another direction?"

"It is also possible that we have entered Wangui Ridge."

But there are also many people who think that it is too dangerous there and Gu Sheng would never go there to die.

It was decided to send people to Wangui Ridge to investigate, while others continued to expand the search scope.

There was deathly silence in Wangui Ridge.

Gu Sheng walked forward on the brittle dry bones.

The gray fog moved slowly around him, like a living entity, following him closely.

They had been walking for nearly half a day, and apart from the increasingly dense yin energy, they had not encountered any danger at all.

“Something’s wrong”

Gu Sheng stopped.

How could the forbidden zone of death, where even the strong ones in the Heavenly Palace realm could not enter or leave, be so peaceful?

This abnormal tranquility is more disturbing than facing the ferocious beast.

The Yintian Jade on Gu Sheng’s chest felt slightly hot.

After taking out the strange black stone, I found that the blood vessels on the surface were several times more active than before, almost jumping out of the stone.

"There is something strange indeed."

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the grass behind me.

Gu Sheng’s muscles tensed instantly and his fists clenched so tightly that they made a creaking sound—someone was following him!
The moment he turned around, a short figure jumped out from the dry grass at an astonishing speed.

Gu Sheng didn't think twice and punched out with all his spiritual power!
"Ouch!"

Accompanied by a cry of pain, the figure was knocked away by a punch and rolled on the ground for several times before stopping.

Only then did Gu Sheng see clearly that it was actually a monk wearing a tattered robe, with two large lumps on his head that were swelling at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"You you are"

Gu Sheng was stunned. This monk looked somewhat familiar.

The monk jumped up, holding his head, his face red with anger.

"Gu Sheng! Are your eyes on your butt? I'm so kind to save you, and you give me two 'mountains' as soon as you come up?"

The memory suddenly became clear—the weird monk Ling Xiao whom I had met once before in the Ancient Zen Temple!
It is said that he is the "reincarnation of Buddha" and is born with Buddhist wisdom.

"Ling Xiao? What's wrong with you?"

Gu Sheng was halfway through his words when the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook violently!

"Rumble--"

The ground seemed to be torn apart by invisible giant hands, leaving countless bottomless cracks.

Inky dark energy gushed out from the cracks in the ground, covering the entire sky.

The originally pale sunlight was completely swallowed up, and the world fell into darkness.

"Oops!"

Ling Xiao's face changed drastically.

"It's the Yin Qi Tide! The Yin Qi erupts once every hundred years in Wangui Ridge!"

Gu Sheng felt his hair stand on end.

The seemingly calm gray fog was now boiling, and a chilling and biting breath hit my face.

He subconsciously raised his hand to block, but a ray of Yin energy brushed past his arm, instantly tearing his skin and flesh. The blood froze into ice chips before it could even flow out.

"This yin energy"

Gu Sheng gasped in pain.

"It's even more terrifying than the rumors!" Ling Xiao recited Buddhist scriptures quickly.

A faint golden light shone from his body, forming a thin light shield that protected the two of them.

The negative energy hit the light shield, making a "hissing" corrosion sound.

"Don't be stunned!"

Ling Xiao's forehead was covered with sweat.

"My 'Bodhi Golden Body' won't last long!"

Gu Sheng then came back to his senses and quickly summoned the [Ancient Samsara Bell].

An ancient bronze bell was suspended above the head, dropping down wisps of green light that blended with the Buddha's light, temporarily resisting the invasion of the Yin energy.

"Your broken clock can't stop it."

Ling Xiao curled his lips.

"The negative energy of Wangui Ridge originates from the resentment of ancient gods and is specifically designed to suppress the spiritual power of magic weapons."

As if to confirm his words, the light curtain of the Samsara Bell dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even tiny cracks appeared on the bell body.

He found this bell in an ancient monument. It had saved him from danger many times, but now it couldn't even hold up for a moment!

"Look at me!"

Ling Xiao clasped his hands together.

"Om Mani Padme Hum!"

The Buddha's light suddenly became brighter, pushing the approaching evil spirit back several feet.

But Gu Sheng keenly discovered that Ling Xiao's legs were trembling slightly, obviously exhausted.

"Aren't you the reincarnation of Buddha?"

Gu Sheng couldn't help but ask.

"Is that all you have?"

"fart!"

Ling Xiao was so angry that he jumped up and down.

"If it were anyone else, they would have been corroded by the Yin Qi and turned into bones! The Yin Qi in this damn place is more than ten times stronger than last time!"

Beads of sweat oozed out of Ling Xiao's forehead, and the golden bowl in his hand vibrated.

"Not good, this evil spirit is more ferocious than last time!"

"Last time?"

Gu Sheng keenly captured the key words, but had no time to ask further questions.

The black gas was approaching, and he hurriedly circulated the "Xuantian Gangqi", and a bronze luster appeared on his body.

With a crisp "crack", cracks appeared in the protective energy.

Gu Sheng felt a sweetness in his throat and blood oozed from the corners of his mouth.

Just when the black gas was about to engulf the two of them, Ling Xiao suddenly bit his tongue and sprayed a mouthful of blood onto the golden bowl.

"The Great Buddha Light, rise!"

The golden bowl suddenly emitted a dazzling golden light and turned into a hemispherical light shield that enveloped the two of them.

The black gas hit the light shield with a hissing sound and was actually purified into wisps of green smoke.

"Cough cough."

Ling Xiao's face turned pale, but he forced a grin.

"How is it? Is my 'Golden Bowl for Delivering from Evil' powerful enough?"

Gu Sheng stared at the Sanskrit words flowing on the golden bowl and was shocked.

This is clearly a treasure of Buddhism, at least a Bodhisattva-level instrument.

"It's really impressive. But should we and the others retreat first?"

"withdraw?"

Ling Xiao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, with a strange look in his eyes.

"Going out now would be courting death. Follow me!"

After saying that, he dragged Gu Sheng towards the depths of Wangui Ridge.

Gu Sheng's heart was filled with alarm, but the range of the golden bowl Buddha's light was limited, so he had to follow Ling Xiao's steps.

The two of them walked among the twisted dead trees. The strange thing was that Ling Xiao seemed to know the road. He made many turns and avoided all the cracks in the ground that were spewing black air.

The more Gu Sheng looked, the more frightened he became, and suddenly he grabbed Ling Xiao's wrist.

"Who are you anyway?"

"Ouch, it hurts!"

Ling Xiao howled exaggeratedly.

"Master Gu, now is not the time for internal strife!"

Gu Sheng increased his strength, and bronze energy spread along his arms.

"These cracks move in random patterns, yet they feel like home to you."

A golden light flashed in Ling Xiao's eyes, and he suddenly lowered his voice.

"Three years ago, when the Xuantian Sect was exterminated, your master Qingmingzi was dying..."

"shut up!"

Gu Sheng's energy suddenly became disordered.

He had never mentioned this to anyone, so how could this smiling guy in front of him know about it?

Ling Xiao took the opportunity to break free and pointed at the faint blue light in front of him.

"See? That's Master Jingye's 'Bodhi Boundary'. If you dawdle any longer, we'll both die here!"

Gu Sheng looked in the direction he was looking and saw that at the entrance of the rock canyon a hundred meters away, there was indeed a layer of blue light rippling like water waves.

What’s even more amazing is that the raging black air around it automatically bypasses the blue light.

"You'd better not play tricks."

Gu Sheng gritted his teeth and followed, secretly injecting his true energy into the ancient bronze bell in his sleeve.

The moment the two rushed into the barrier, the golden bowl of Buddha's light dissipated with a "pop".

Ling Xiao collapsed directly onto the ground, gasping for breath.

"Oh my god, I'm almost dying of exhaustion"

Gu Sheng looked around vigilantly.

The canyon is covered with green grass and even has a few bodhi trees with white flowers, which is in stark contrast to the purgatory scene outside.

The terrifying black energy was showing its fangs and claws outside the barrier, but it could never get beyond the limit.

"This barrier"

"This was laid down by Zen Master Jingye before he passed away."

Ling Xiao took out a wine gourd and took a few gulps.

"The old monk burned his golden body to suppress Wangui Ridge for three hundred years, but unfortunately the seal has loosened recently."

Gu Sheng suddenly remembered something and turned around abruptly.

"How do you know about my master? And this bell——"

He took out an ancient bronze bell, on the body of which the four characters "Ancient Samsara" were glowing.

Ling Xiao waved his hands drunkenly.

"Don't be nervous. My master and your master are...hiccups...old lovers."

"fart!"

Gu Sheng was so angry that his strong energy was released outwards.

"My master has been practicing asceticism all his life!"

"It's an old acquaintance!"

Ling Xiao hastily changed his words, his expression suddenly changing drastically.

"Oops!"

The entire canyon suddenly shook violently, and a loud noise like the collapse of the sky and the splitting of the earth was heard in the distance.

Gu Sheng looked in the direction of the sound and saw a beam of blue light rising into the sky from the depths of Wangui Ridge, dispersing all the black air wherever it passed.

But what was even more terrifying was that countless sword energies burst out from the beam of light, each of which contained the power to create the world.

"Is that the direction of the sword tomb?"

Ling Xiao's voice trembled.

"It's over! Crazy Sword and the others are back to life!"

A sword energy as thick as a bucket came towards the canyon.

Gu Sheng's hair stood on end, and his skin felt stinging even before the sword energy reached his body.

"The bell is coming!"

Ling Xiao suddenly shouted loudly and actually took the initiative to hit the Ancient Samsara Clock.

What was strange was that the ancient bell, which originally required Gu Sheng's unique mental method to activate, suddenly expanded in size and covered the two of them.

"you--"

"Stop talking nonsense! Put all your energy into it!"

Ling Xiao formed seals with his hands, and a vague shadow of Vajra appeared behind him.

Gu Sheng didn't have time to think and injected his strength into the ancient bell.

"when--!"

The moment the sword energy cut through the ancient bell, Gu Sheng seemed to hear the sound of Huangzhong Dalü exploding in his ears.

The ancient inscriptions that appeared on the body of the bell broke into pieces, and the horrific recoil force caused his internal organs to shift.

The last thing that was seen was Ling Xiao’s hideous face with blood coming out of all seven orifices but still maintaining the seal.

Before darkness fell, Gu Sheng vaguely heard Ling Xiao's curse.

"You damn sword madman, wait for me to lift the lid of your coffin." (End of this chapter)