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

But if... there are Venerable Realm experts who disregard their reputation and suffer the consequences," a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

"Then please ask Elder Xia to intervene for a moment to buy me some time."

"I understand."

Tantai Xueli nodded, then asked another question.

"So... after you've dealt with Xiao Beixuan's matter, what are your plans? Will you still stay in Great Wilderness City?"

Gu Sheng gazed out the window at the dark night sky, as if he could penetrate all the barriers and see into a more distant place.

"Great Wilderness City is not a place to stay for long. I plan to go to Central Plains."

He paused and added.

"This was not a spur-of-the-moment decision; it was planned long ago."

Tantai Xueli didn't seem surprised by this, she said softly.

“Zhongzhou…is indeed more suitable for you. However, there may be drastic changes in the Eastern Wilderness recently. If you leave now, you may miss some things.”

"Oh? A dramatic change?"

Gu Sheng raised an eyebrow.

"Ah."

Tantai Xueli's expression became more serious.

"According to the latest intelligence obtained by the Pavilion, it seems that two ancient holy sites are about to be relocated from other regions to the Eastern Wilderness for some unknown reason."

Meanwhile, various holy lands have also dispatched numerous powerful figures, ostensibly to the Great Wilderness Holy Academy for exchanges, but secretly… their ambitions are likely far greater. The seemingly calm waters of the Eastern Wilderness are about to be stirred up.

"Holy Land relocation? Powerful figures gathering?"

Upon hearing this, a thoughtful look flashed in Gu Sheng's eyes. The movements of holy land-level forces often have far-reaching implications.

But he quickly shook his head, his expression returning to calm.

"The matter of the Holy Land is still too far removed from my current understanding. With my cultivation at the Sect Realm level, what difference is there between me and an ant in front of these behemoths? For now, let's deal with tomorrow's troubles first."

Tantai Xueli did not respond to Gu Sheng's question about the gap between the Holy Land and her own strength. She remained silent for a moment, her cold gaze seemingly piercing through the void, looking towards a distant direction. After a long while, she suddenly spoke, her voice carrying a barely perceptible ripple.

"Qingyun, if you reach Zhongzhou... could you help me find someone?"

She didn't say who she was looking for, nor did she explain the reason, as if it were just a casual remark.

Gu Sheng glanced at her, and seeing that she didn't intend to elaborate, he didn't ask any further questions. He simply nodded in agreement.

"it is good."

After a brief exchange of information about tomorrow's events and the subsequent affairs of Linlang Pavilion, Gu Sheng turned and left the underground level, returning to his quiet room in the pavilion to prepare for tomorrow's battle.

……

Meanwhile, three hundred miles outside of Dahuang City, in Phoenix Town.

This once bustling border town is now shrouded in a deathly silence and eerie atmosphere. The townspeople have long been evacuated, and only the mournful sound of the night wind blowing through the empty streets can be heard.

In the center of town, atop the tallest building, stood a figure in white robes with his hands behind his back, his clothes fluttering in the night wind. It was Xiao Beixuan.

His face remained handsome, but his eyes, illuminated by the moonlight, faintly glowed with a blood-red light, and he exuded an unsettling and eerie aura.

A ghostly figure appeared silently on the low roof of the attic below, knelt on one knee, and reported in a low voice.

"Young Master, everything is ready."

Xiao Beixuan's gaze swept indifferently over the desolate town below, a cruel smile curving his lips.

“Bring the ‘gift’ up.”

"Yes!"

Soon, three figures, seemingly devoid of consciousness and with vacant, numb eyes, were brought to the front of the building, where they stood stiffly like puppets.

These three individuals all possessed auras that had reached the peak of the Human King Realm! If any martial artists from the Eastern Wilderness were present, they would surely be astonished to recognize that they were the current sect leaders of the three most renowned top-tier sects in the Eastern Wilderness—the Dragon Abyss Sect, the Martial God Sect, and the Taiping Sect!
Xiao Beixuan looked down at the three bodies he had completely controlled, as if admiring his masterpiece, his tone carrying a hint of regret and anticipation.

"What a pity... In order to ensure that everything goes smoothly, we have to disable these three hidden agents that we have been cultivating for many years. Gu Sheng, I hope you will not disappoint me tomorrow."

As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of the three sect leaders suddenly regained their brilliance! But what followed was a roar of shock and rage!

"Xiao Beixuan! It's you?! What have you done to us?!"

"You bastard! How dare you attack us?!"

"Release us! My Dragon Abyss Sect will never let you go!"

Xiao Beixuan let out a disdainful sneer, his voice as cold as ice striking ice.

"Enough with the noise. Do you really think that when I passed on that so-called 'ancient secret technique' to you back then, it was out of kindness? I was just treating you like livestock to be harvested when the time was right. Everything you have—your cultivation, your status, even your lives—was bestowed upon you by me."

Now, it's simply time to take it back.

Upon hearing this, the three sect leaders were struck dumb, their faces drained of color instantly! They finally understood why Xiao Beixuan had "kindly" instructed them and taught them that powerful yet eerie technique back then. It turned out that from the very beginning, they had fallen into a carefully woven trap!
"You...you have such a vicious heart!"

"Xiao Beixuan! I'll haunt you even as a ghost!"

Just as they were cursing angrily, an extremely strong sense of crisis suddenly descended!

To their horror, they discovered that their immense life force, cultivated through years of painstaking effort, was surging wildly towards Xiao Beixuan like a river bursting its banks, flowing through some invisible channel! Their cultivation aura began to plummet at a visible speed, declining from the peak of the Human King Realm all the way down!
"No! My cultivation! My lifespan!"

"What kind of evil magic is this?!"

Xiao Beixuan enjoyed the pure life essence flowing into his body, a look of intoxication on his face, and he explained slowly.

"There's no need to struggle anymore. The three of you were originally human pills carefully refined by me using a secret method. They were originally intended to be used in the future to help the master behind me recover his peak strength."

"What a pity, Gu Sheng, that unpredictable variable, actually managed to kill Huang Batian, forcing this young master to use your 'reserves' ahead of schedule."

"Human pills?! You...you've been plotting against us from the very beginning?!"

The three sect leaders' eyes were bloodshot, their hearts filled with endless regret and despair.

"You only realize that now? Too late!" Xiao Beixuan's eyes flashed, and he suddenly accelerated the speed of his devouring!

"what--!!"

A shrill, desperate scream pierced the night sky. The bodies of the three sect leaders withered away at a visible speed, their skin lost its luster, their flesh shrank, and they eventually turned into three skin-and-bones, hideous mummies, collapsing to the ground with a thud and never breathing again.

All the cultivation and life essence they had painstakingly cultivated throughout their lives became nourishment for Xiao Beixuan.

Xiao Beixuan slowly exhaled a breath of foul air, carrying the smell of blood, feeling the power growing within his body, yet he still seemed unsatisfied.

He turned his gaze to the figure on the upper floor below and asked calmly.

"Have the people from those three major sects been dealt with?"

"Young Master, all the core elders and true disciples of the three major sects who remained at their headquarters, totaling more than 13,000, have been killed and their bodies are here."

The subordinate responded respectfully, then took out dozens of bulging storage rings. At the same time, he waved his hand and unleashed a powerful burst of true energy, which swept up the mountain of corpses, causing them to float in mid-air. The rich stench of blood instantly filled the air.

Xiao Beixuan's eyes blazed with blood-red light. He spread his arms, and countless fine, yet incredibly condensed, blood-red threads burst forth from his body! These threads, like living tentacles, instantly pierced through the mountain of corpses piled up in the air!
"Om-!"

A larger, more complex, yet equally powerful torrent of blood and qi surged wildly into Xiao Beixuan's body along the countless blood-red threads!
His aura began to rise steadily, his body surrounded by blood-red light, as if he had transformed into a bloodthirsty demon god! The surrounding air was violently distorted, emitting a hum that seemed unable to bear the weight!

"Crack!"

It was as if the sound of some kind of barrier being forcibly broken through resounded from within him!

A terrifying aura, several times stronger than before, suddenly erupted from Xiao Beixuan's body, soaring straight into the sky! The roof tiles beneath his feet shattered, and the entire Phoenix Town trembled slightly!
Earth King Realm, Level One!
By absorbing the life essence of the three sect leaders and tens of thousands of martial artists, he forcefully broke through the bottleneck and stepped into the realm of the Earth King!

Xiao Beixuan slowly clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within his body, but his brows furrowed slightly.

"Forced absorption resulted in too many impurities, and the power increase was far less than expected... However, it should be enough to deal with Gu Sheng. If I combine it with demonization..."

His eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty light, and his confidence returned.

He believed that with his current cultivation at the first level of the Earth King Realm, and by using the demonic transformation secret technique originating from the Blood Ancestor, he could unleash the combat power of the mid-stage Earth King Realm in a short period of time without any problem! At that time, killing Gu Sheng would be a piece of cake!

……

The next day, at dawn.

Before the first rays of dawn pierced the clouds, the Great Wilderness City was still shrouded in the last darkness before dawn.

Inside the quiet room of the Linglang Pavilion, Gu Sheng slowly opened his eyes from his meditation. His eyes were filled with a restrained brilliance, and his aura was perfectly harmonious, indicating that he had adjusted himself to his peak condition.

Just then, there was a gentle knock on the door.

"Come in."

Gu Sheng said calmly.

The door was pushed open a crack, and Gu Yuanyuan's little head peeked in, her face showing a hint of trepidation and barely concealed excitement.

She walked in cautiously and bowed to Gu Sheng.

"Master."

Gu Sheng's gaze fell on her, and he was about to tell her to stay in the pavilion well today, but his spiritual power subconsciously swept over Gu Yuanyuan.

This glance made his expression suddenly freeze!
In his perception, Gu Yuanyuan's cultivation had indeed successfully broken through and stabilized at the first level of the Yellow Martial Realm, which was within his expectations.

At the same time, he clearly sensed that deep within Gu Yuanyuan's sea of ​​consciousness, besides the original main sea of ​​consciousness, there was an extremely hidden area that was slowly taking shape and stabilizing, radiating a unique spiritual energy fluctuation!
That fluctuation... carried a heavy, vast meaning, as if it could bear all things and suppress everything! It originated from the same source as the Daoist essence of the Divine Path he transmitted, yet it seemed even purer!

"Master..."

Seeing Gu Sheng staring at her without saying a word, Gu Yuanyuan felt even more uneasy and explained in a low voice.

"Last night, I comprehended the Divine Revelation Path you taught me. For some reason, I felt something within myself, and not only did I successfully break through to the Yellow Martial Realm, but... and it seems... a new sea of ​​consciousness has opened up beside my original one? Furthermore, the Daoist essence of the Divine Revelation Path seems to have condensed within it on its own..."

Her words carried uncertainty and a hint of bewilderment, clearly indicating that she was also quite confused about the changes that had occurred within her.

Gu Sheng stared at her, his surprise not only not lessening, but growing stronger, and even a rare ripple appeared on his face!

Opening a second sea of ​​consciousness?! And a second sea of ​​consciousness that carries the Daoist essence of the Divine Path?!

This is no ordinary breakthrough! This is simply an unprecedented martial arts phenomenon! Even though he was the Azure Cloud Pill Emperor in his previous life and had seen countless geniuses, he had never heard of anyone who could open up a second sea of ​​consciousness on their own at the Yellow Martial Realm and directly imprint top-level Daoist rhymes into it!

His seemingly simple and naive eldest disciple appears to be hiding a secret that even he has not been able to see through!

Gu Sheng's usually calm and unwavering eyes were now rippled with obvious emotion due to the strange changes that had occurred in Gu Yuanyuan.

Without saying a word, he grabbed the still somewhat bewildered Gu Yuanyuan, and in a flash, he appeared in the lobby of the underground floor.

"Sit down, open your mind, and do not resist!"

Gu Sheng spoke with an unquestionable seriousness, pointing to the futon in the center.

Although Gu Yuanyuan didn't understand why, she had absolute trust in her master and immediately sat down cross-legged as instructed, closed her eyes, and completely released the defenses of her sea of ​​consciousness.

Gu Sheng's powerful mental energy acted like the most precise probe, carefully penetrating into Gu Yuanyuan's sea of ​​consciousness.

He first confirmed the newly opened, still somewhat immature, yet already stable second sea of ​​consciousness.

Subsequently, he used his spiritual power to carefully sense the Daoist essence of the Divine Path that was slowly flowing in his second sea of ​​consciousness and almost integrated with Gu Yuanyuan's soul origin.

What alarmed him even more was that when his spiritual energy tried to approach that Daoist aura, he felt a faint but real repulsive force! It was as if that Daoist aura had completely accepted Gu Yuanyuan as its host and would not allow any outsider to intrude!
'The Daoist essence chooses its master on its own and is completely integrated... This is no longer a simple comprehension, but a harmony that is almost at the level of 'Daoist Imprint'!' A storm raged in Gu Sheng's heart.

Even in his previous life, he had only occasionally heard of such cases among those peerless geniuses who possessed heaven-defying physiques and were favored by heaven and earth!

He withdrew his spiritual power, his expression extremely solemn as he looked at Gu Yuanyuan, who was slowly opening her eyes, and gave a deep command.

“Yuan Yuan, listen to me! From this day forward, you must never mention to anyone the matter of you opening your second sea of ​​consciousness and the fusion of the Daoist essence of the Divine Path with you! Including your Martial Aunt Xue Li, understand?!”

His tone was sterner than ever before, which made Gu Yuanyuan's heart tighten, and she nodded hurriedly like a chick pecking at rice.

"Disciple understands! I will never reveal this to anyone!"

Gu Sheng's expression softened slightly, and he continued to give instructions.

"Now that you have entered the Yellow Martial Realm, do not rush to break through to the Profound Martial Realm. You need to calm your mind, consolidate your realm, and more importantly, focus on strengthening your second sea of ​​consciousness and deepening your connection with the Dao of Divine Refinement." (End of Chapter)