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

Even more noticeable was a woman dressed in an elegant silver dress, with an ethereal and serene demeanor, and whose appearance bore a striking resemblance to Fan Mingli, sitting quietly to the side.

Upon seeing Gu Sheng enter, Tantai Bingtang spoke first, introducing the two parties in a cool and aloof voice.

"Qingyun, this is Sister Fan Qingcheng, the elder sister of the head of the Fan Academy."

She paused, then added.

"Also...my good friend."

The woman in the silver dress, Fan Qingcheng, stood up, nodded slightly to Gu Sheng, and gave him a gentle yet somewhat aloof smile.

"Young Master Gu, I've heard so much about you. I'm merely a substitute for Miss, and I don't deserve such an introduction from Bing Tang."

"substitute?"

Upon hearing this, Tantai Xueli's delicate eyebrows furrowed almost imperceptibly, seemingly surprised and displeased that Fan Qingcheng had so bluntly revealed his identity.

She secretly sent a voice message to Gu Sheng, with a hint of teasing.

"It seems that my sister and her 'friend' have a very close relationship, as they even shared such a secret."

Gu Sheng ignored Tantai Xueli's telepathic message and simply returned the greeting to Fan Qingcheng with a cupped-hand salute.

"Miss Fan."

A thought struck him: Fan Mingli's older sister? And a substitute at that? This identity was rather intriguing.

Tantai Bingtang seemed oblivious to her sister's subtle emotions. She looked at Gu Sheng and cut straight to the point, her tone carrying an undeniable decisiveness.

"Qingyun, the journey to Zhongzhou is long and the situation is still unclear. After discussing with the head of the academy, we have decided to ask Sister Qingcheng to escort you on your way."

"Is Miss Fan escorting you?"

Gu Sheng was somewhat surprised. A person who was suspected to be the elder sister of the Holy Academy's head, and whose cultivation was unfathomable, was personally escorting him? This treatment seemed a bit too much.

"good."

Tantai Bingtang affirmed.

"The people of the Holy Land are cunning and calculating. Although the Holy Lord of Juque seems to have no ill intentions towards you, now that he has taken notice of you, it is hard to guarantee that other forces will not be secretly spying on you. It would be safer for you to be escorted by Sister Qingcheng."

She's only responsible for getting you safely to the Central Plains region; after that, you'll have to walk the rest of the way yourself.

She paused, turned her gaze to Tantai Xueli beside her, and continued speaking.

"Furthermore, I hope... Xue Li can travel to Zhongzhou with you."

Even Tantai Xueli was taken aback by these words.

Tantai Bingtang explained.

"The situation in the Eastern Wilderness is complex right now. With the arrival of two great holy lands, undercurrents are surging. As the head of the Linlang Pavilion, Xue Li is too conspicuous, and it would be unsafe for her to stay here. Returning to the Tantai family in the Central Plains, where she can be protected by her family, would be more appropriate."

and……"

She glanced at Gu Sheng.

"You two go your separate ways. I will ask Elder Xia to escort Xue Li along a relatively secluded route."

This way, Xue Li's safety can be ensured, and any potential threats can be diverted from her attention.

Gu Sheng pondered for a moment, then looked at Tantai Xueli. Seeing that although she was somewhat surprised, she did not object, but instead showed a thoughtful look in her eyes, he knew that Tantai Bingtang's arrangement must have a deeper meaning.

He finally nodded.

"Alright, let's do as Pavilion Master Bingtang says."

Seeing that Gu Sheng agreed, Tantai Bingtang's expression softened slightly, and she said.

“In the near future, the people from the Holy Land will be staying in Great Wilderness City to handle the relocation matters and will not have time to attend to other matters. I have already discussed the follow-up arrangements with the head of the Brahma Academy, so you can leave with peace of mind.”

Gu Sheng thought for a moment, but still couldn't help asking.

"Pavilion Master Bingtang, what exactly is the situation in the Eastern Wilderness now? Why have the two holy lands suddenly relocated here?"

Tantai Bingtang shook her head, her beautiful face shrouded in a layer of frost.

"There are many complexities involved, and the inside story is extremely complicated. With your current strength, knowing too much is not a good thing."

There are some things that even I can only learn about after reaching the Heavenly King Realm. You only need to know that the Holy Land's appearance is just the beginning. The Eastern Wilderness is about to undergo a cataclysmic change unseen in tens of thousands of years. You... need to become stronger as quickly as possible.”

Her words conveyed a wealth of information and a heavy sense of pressure, but she remained tight-lipped about the specific details.

Although Gu Sheng's doubts deepened, he understood that Tantai Bingtang was doing it for his own good. Knowing less can sometimes prevent a lot of unnecessary trouble and danger.

He then asked a question.

"Is there any danger in the Eastern Wilderness recently?"

"Not for the time being."

Tantai Bingtang said.

"The Holy Land has just arrived and needs time to stabilize its foundation and consolidate its power. All parties are also observing the situation."

But... this is just the calm before the storm. No one can predict exactly when chaos will break out.

Therefore, you need to leave as soon as possible.

At this moment, Fan Qingcheng, who had been listening quietly, slowly stood up, her voice gentle and ethereal.

"Now that everything is settled, let's set off. I'm only responsible for escorting Young Master Gu to the border of Zhongzhou. The journey after that is none of my concern. I still have important matters to attend to with Miss."

Her attitude was clear and direct: escorting was just a task, and she had no intention of developing a deeper relationship with the person.

……

At noon, Gu Sheng, Qi Diao Yaoyao, Gu Yuanyuan, and Fan Qingcheng, who accompanied them, arrived at Wuyun City via the teleportation array of Dahuang City.

The city of Wuyun has changed considerably since Gu Sheng left. After the Gu family suffered a devastating massacre, several previously suppressed families in the city rose rapidly, dividing and encroaching on the vast businesses and territories left behind by the Gu family, thus reshuffling the power structure within the city.

The Gu family mansion, which once symbolized the highest level of power in Wuyun City, is now nothing but a charred ruin, standing out starkly like a huge scar in the most prosperous area of ​​the city.

Because of its significant implications, and the fact that Gu Sheng, a "remnant" of the Gu family, was still outside, its fate remained uncertain. No one dared to intervene easily, and it was left to languish, as if silently recounting that tragic event.

After a brief inspection by the city gate guards, Gu Sheng and his group entered the city.

He was handsome, but there was an air of premature aging between his brows. Gu Yuanyuan followed quietly beside him, ignoring the gazes directed at them.

Qi Diao Yaoyao curiously looked at this city that was of great significance to Gu Sheng, feeling the spiritual energy in the air that was much thinner than in the Southern Frontier and the Great Wilderness City. She couldn't help but sigh inwardly, it was truly unbelievable that her master could rise to prominence in such a place.

Fan Qingcheng did not enter the city. She simply stood quietly outside, her powerful spiritual energy spreading out like invisible ripples, enveloping the entire Dark Cloud City under her perception to ensure that no accidents would occur. Gu Sheng ignored the curious, surprised, or fearful gazes from those on both sides of the street and walked straight towards the Gu family mansion.

As he got closer to the ruins, his expression grew increasingly solemn, his eyes as cold as ice.

When he was still a hundred feet away from the ruins of the Gu family, he stopped.

Under the watchful eyes of countless people around him, he slowly took out a human head from his storage ring. The head, which had been sealed with special techniques, still retained the expression of fear and resentment before its death, with its eyes wide open.
It was Xiao Beixuan's head!

Gu Sheng reached out and grabbed the head's disheveled hair, lifting it into his hand. Thick, dark red blood dripped down the hair, leaving glaring marks on the bluestone pavement.

He carried the severed head, step by step, resolutely and heavily, toward the charred ruins.

His voice wasn't loud, but it was like a cold wind from the depths of hell, clearly carrying throughout the entire street, causing everyone who heard it to involuntarily shiver and instinctively back away.

"I'm back."

"Come and fulfill...my promise."

"Who...who is that? What is he carrying in his hand..."

"It's...it's a human head! Oh my god!"

"He...he's Gu Sheng! Gu Sheng from the Gu family! He's actually alive?!"

"He's back! And he killed someone!"

"Quickly! Go and inform the head of the family!"

The surrounding martial artists and passersby were instantly in an uproar, with discussions and exclamations rising and falling, their gazes towards Gu Sheng filled with shock, fear, and disbelief.

However, Gu Sheng seemed oblivious to all of this.

In his eyes, there was only the family ruins ahead, which held countless memories of him but were now reduced to ashes.

He carried Xiao Beixuan's head, which lay there with its eyes wide open, and walked briskly to the front of the Gu family mansion, where the door had long since collapsed and only half of the charred frame remained.

The air seemed to freeze before the ruins of the Gu family mansion.

Gu Sheng gently, yet with immense force, placed the bloodstained, unseeing head in his hand onto the charred half of the step.

He raised his head, his gaze passing over the ruins, as if he could see the former prosperity and vitality of the mansion, and even more so, the devastation and despair of that fire.

“Xiao Beixuan,” Gu Sheng’s voice was icy, like ancient ice rubbing together.

"Come out. I'm giving you one last chance. Kneel down and apologize to the entire Gu family."

As he spoke, a wisp of extremely thin, almost transparent, distorted phantom, filled with thick resentment and unwillingness, struggled to float out from the seven orifices of that head. It was a remnant soul of Xiao Beixuan that had been forcibly imprisoned!
As soon as the remnant soul appeared, it used all its strength to stare intently at Gu Sheng, letting out a silent yet sharp mental roar.

"Gu Sheng! Killing someone is just a matter of a head falling to the ground! You've already destroyed my body and severed my head, why won't you even spare my last remaining soul?! Do you have to be so ruthless as to wipe me out completely?!"

Gu Sheng's eyes were indifferent, as if he were looking at a struggling insect, and he asked in return.

"Exterminate them all? When you led your men to slaughter my entire Gu family and massacre this place, did you ever think of... sparing them? Not even an infant in swaddling clothes, or an unarmed servant?"

Xiao Beixuan's remnant soul suddenly froze, and the venomous thoughts within him momentarily stagnated, clearly speechless.

"Kneel down."

Gu Sheng's voice was not loud, but it carried an unquestionable authority, like a decree of heaven.

"Confess your sins and repent to those who died unjustly in my Gu family. Otherwise, you will regret it."

"Hahaha!!"

Xiao Beixuan's remaining soul emitted a frenzied fluctuation of consciousness, filled with the madness of someone at their wit's end.

"Gu Sheng! I, Xiao Beixuan, am inferior in skill and unlucky, and I have lost to you. I accept it! But you want me to kneel down and admit my guilt to these ants? Wishful thinking! I would rather self-destruct this remnant of my soul and be scattered than suffer such humiliation!"

After saying that, his already illusory remnant soul suddenly expanded, emitting unstable destructive waves, and he was actually about to annihilate himself!

"Self-destruction?"

Gu Sheng's lips curled into a cold smile.

“You don’t even have the right to self-destruct in front of me.”

With a slight thought, a vast, condensed, and powerful soul force surged forth, transforming into an invisible hand that gently grasped it!
"puff--"

Like popping a bubble, Xiao Beixuan's remnant soul, which was about to self-destruct, was forcibly extinguished by this absolute power before it could even complete its final madness, instantly shattering into countless finer, almost invisible fragments of the soul!
However, this is not the end!
The invisible hand of the soul did not dissipate; instead, it emitted even more profound fluctuations, as if time were flowing backward, forcibly binding, pulling, and reassembling the scattered fragments of the soul!
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Beixuan's terrified remnant soul was forcibly reassembled, only more illusory than before, like a candle flickering in the wind!

"This...this is impossible?! You...what kind of monster are you?!"

Xiao Beixuan's remnant soul let out a desperate and terrified scream. He couldn't understand why even self-destruction had become a luxury!
Gu Sheng looked at him calmly, his tone indifferent and devoid of any emotion.

"You can keep trying to self-destruct. I will reunite you again and again. Until... my family members who died unjustly, their spirits in heaven can feel a little comfort."

Xiao Beixuan's remnant soul trembled violently, completely overwhelmed by the fear originating from the very source of his soul.

He realized that the young man before him possessed terrifying methods that he could neither understand nor resist.

Faced with absolute power, he was even deprived of the right to choose death.

"...I...I admit defeat..."

Finally, a faint and dejected thought emerged from the remnant soul.

Gu Sheng looked at him coldly and uttered two more words.

"Kneel down."

Xiao Beixuan's remnant soul remained silent for several breaths, as if it had exhausted its last bit of strength.

His illusory figure turned towards the charred ruins of the Gu family home, and slowly, with endless humiliation and resentment, closed his non-existent "eyes," and knelt down in mid-air towards the ruins.

Just as he knelt down—

A cold glint flashed in Gu Sheng's eyes!

"twist!"

The invisible hand of the soul suddenly closed, unleashing a terrifying tearing force!

"what--!!!"

After a heart-wrenching, silent scream that could only be perceived at the soul level, Xiao Beixuan's remaining soul was completely annihilated into the most primitive, mindless dust. All traces of his existence in the world were completely erased at this moment!
After doing all this, Gu Sheng slowly raised his head, his gaze sweeping once more over the ruins that held countless painful memories.

An invisible ripple, containing the profound mysteries of the four top-level Daoist principles, silently spread from between his brows, instantly enveloping an area of ​​several thousand feet in radius centered on him!
Everyone within this area, whether they were openly observing or secretly spying on the various families of Wuyun City, clearly heard a calm yet supremely authoritative voice resounding directly in their minds.

"The Gu family has left Wuyun City." (End of Chapter)