ah?The palace fighting system can also cultivate immortality

Chapter 187 Rescue the Gu Spirit
Du Xinghe groaned: "Okay, let him come over."

Seeing her strange expression, the elder asked, "I heard from Bu Ran that you two met outside, but what unpleasantness happened?"

Whenever Chen Bu Ran was mentioned, Du Xinghe felt a dull pain in the back of his neck.

At that time, she was just a Jindan cultivator. Facing the pressure from the Huashen period, she was unable to move. She could only order Xiaopang to bite the back of her neck. She used the pain to suppress her fear of the powerful enemy. Blood immediately flowed all over her back, and behind her ears was the sound of chewing that made her teeth ache.

That sound became Du Xinghe's nightmare for half a month.

Fortunately, she can solve the psychological trauma by not sleeping - as long as people don't sleep, they won't have nightmares.

"It's a long story, but elder, Senior Chen's cultivation is so high, his status in the Wu clan should not be low?"

“We don’t judge seniority by cultivation. After Bu Ran’s breakthrough, his life span is longer than many people in the clan. But if we judge seniority by kinship…” The elder tilted his head and thought, “He is considered my nephew.”

As he spoke, a tall and thin man crouched down and walked into the tree house.

Chen Bu Ran had restrained his pressure, and Du Xinghe himself was much stronger than before. Now when they met again, he looked like an ordinary young man. His face was gentle and sedulous, revealing a temperament polished by time. His black hair fell softly on his cheeks, and a small spider hung on his left earlobe, like some kind of ornament.

"I've met my ancestors."

His soft voice sounded.

"Uh, it's been a long time."

"By the way, you haven't told me what occasion you met. Bu Ran has been away from the tribe for so long, what have you been doing outside? I often see you bringing back some rare and precious things..."

Before the elder finished asking, Chen Bu Ran smiled and said, "I'm doing some small business outside."

The elder's face was confused for a moment: "Trade? Do the monks outside also do business?"

"Yes, it's just that the items being traded are quite precious, and we've recently cooperated with the Chamber of Commerce." Chen Bu Ran readily took over the conversation.

Cooperation.

It also refers to the flying boat that robbed the Chamber of Commerce.

He faced the side of his face that was facing Du Xinghe, and his left eye was blinking so hard that it was almost causing a seizure.

The elder was puzzled: "Then how did you two meet?"

Under Chen Bu Ran's pleading gaze, Du Xinghe said slowly: "When Senior Chen was discussing cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce, I happened to be there."

It was almost robbed.

Seeing her cooperation, Chen Bu Ran breathed a sigh of relief and agreed: "Yes, yes, but I am not worthy of being called a senior by the ancestor, just call me Bu Ran."

"We each have our own opinions. You call me ancestor and I call you senior."

Du Xinghe has a very high status in the Wu clan. After she said this, Chen Bu Ran no longer refused and accepted the title of senior.

With her cooperation, the elder quickly believed in his small business, but he still reminded her with concern: "Pingyun Continent has a deep misunderstanding of us Gu cultivators. You must do business with conscience. Don't let others think that we Gu cultivators are so insidious and vicious, and don't delay your own cultivation."

"Ah, well, I'm very fair in my business dealings, and I've never received a bad review from a customer."

Chen Bu Ran gave a convincing and reliable smile.

He was not dressed like a feared villain at all. He wore a navy blue Taoist robe, had black hair and black eyes, and his facial features were gentle. Even when he was not smiling, there was a hint of smile in his eyes. He was a handsome young man who could win the favor of his elders during festivals.

"That's good." The elder turned around and saw Du Xinghe's shoulders shaking. He asked in confusion, "Is the old ancestor feeling unwell?"

"No no,"

Du Xinghe found that this smile was more unbearable than the pain: "I was just thinking of something happy."

After leaving the tree house, Chen Bu Ran said, "Thank you for cooperating with me just now. I didn't want them to worry. By the way, why didn't the ancestor contact me afterwards? Is there no place for me to be of use? The King of Hell is easier to deal with than the little ghosts. If you encounter troubles that are difficult to solve openly, it will be more convenient for me to solve them."

"If I get too close to you, I'm afraid I'll be wanted as well."

"The ancestor traveled around Pingyun Continent without any bounty warrants on his body?"

Chen Bu Ran asked in surprise.

Crossing the Galaxy: "..."

Although I was very unhappy, I couldn't think of any reason to refute it.

Du Xinghe defended himself: "I was wanted because I went to warn the evildoers and punish the wicked."

"Isn't it to warn me of my evil deeds and punish me for my evil deeds?"

Chen Bushan was still in shock.

"My business scope of punishing evildoers has not yet been expanded to the Spiritual Transformation Stage." Du Xinghe was too lazy to climb the ladder made of vines, and jumped down from the tree house directly. The surrounding scenery quickly receded until he finally stepped on soft dead leaves. "My sense of justice is based on my realm... but it's best not to kidnap women, children and the elderly in front of me. I can't stand this."

"I'm not interested in women, only their belongings."

Chen Bu Ran cleared his name.

Du Xinghe glanced at him. The Spider Temple was notorious in the world of immortal cultivators. It would be a disaster for a cultivator traveling alone to encounter a disciple of the Spider Temple. Killing them or not was secondary. The treasure had to be seized.

"Don't worry, if I attack the weak, it will not help me practice the Gu Shen Jue."

Chen Bu Ran stretched out his hand to her, and when he turned his hand over, a huge eight-legged spider lay on the back of his hand.

When their eyes made contact, Du Xinghe understood what he meant from his natal insect.

She raised her head -

"You want to improve your practice by robbing?"

Just like her past self-torture and current "conquest", everyone's medium for improving their cultivation through "Gu Shen Jue" is different. Chen Bu Ran nodded, and the spider burrowed into his flesh again: "The stronger the existence, the greater the improvement I get. The quantified opportunities...are they not those rare treasures? I'm wanted anyway, so I might as well become an immortal thief."

Everyone has his own practice, and there is no intention to say more when crossing the galaxy.

The resources for cultivating immortals are limited, and there is no name written on them. Only those who are capable can get them.

only……

"It's not my style to act recklessly, but if there's anything I can do to help you, I'll tell you."

Chen Bu Ran narrowed his eyes and looked at her: "What is the Gu of the ancestor?"

Du Xinghe pondered.

Seeing her hesitation, he said, "We Wu people never fight or harm each other. I just want to see if there is anything I can do to help."

This is credible.

If he wanted to take action, he could kill her directly while on the flying boat.

After a while, when Chen Bu Ran thought she would not tell him, she opened her thin lips and said, "The more living beings you control, the stronger you will be."

Chen Bu Ran: "So I'm taking treasures, and you're taking people?"

"Uh……"

Du Xinghe couldn't refute.

Chen Bu Ran paused and said, "I don't do human trafficking either. You are worthy of being my ancestor. You even do worse things than me."

He looked at Du Xinghe with admiration.

She didn't know how to defend herself, so she just shut up and smiled, a smile that was unfathomable.

Chen Bu Ran asked her how many people she had manipulated?
"Not many people, just two."

There is only one person in the fusion stage and a legitimate son of the Ji family.

The other party didn't know her background, and was genuinely worried about her: "Yes, there is a little less... How about this, you go find Master Gu Ling, and then come out to find me. I'll let my disciples be bound by you, since they have nothing to do anyway. You are only at the Jindan stage now, and you have to improve the Gu Shen Jue to be safe."

Du Xinghe: "...ah?"

At this time, two masked disciples from the Spider Temple came over and were about to report the matter to their leader when they heard that they had been sold out.

Looking at the cold-looking woman beside the boss, she hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay."

……

While Du Xinghe was talking, Shu Jiuqing sat very reservedly in Atulin's house and accepted the hospitality.

Atulin brought out the best ingredients to show off his skills.

Shenshui has adapted well to the situation. He is a natural eater who loves to eat wild fruits. It is not a big deal to mix some grilled insects in it as a protein supplement.

Xinyue refused bluntly: "I'm fasting."

Shu Jiuqing couldn't be as open-minded as Senior Sister Xinyue. She still remembered that the Wu Clan's Gu cultivators were the most vengeful in Pingyun Continent. Not only were they xenophobic, but anyone who showed the slightest discrimination and disdain towards Gu cultivators in front of them would be targeted. She had been walking alone in Pingyun Continent for many years, and one of the street survival wisdoms she developed was to speak differently to different people. She had no choice but to bite the bullet and praise the deliciousness while eating.

"Really? I was worried that you, the outsiders, might not be used to the food," Atulin said with surprise. "In fact, we usually don't allow outsiders to enter our tribe, but you are our ancestor's disciple and also our friend."

When a crispy fried toad with its skin still on was brought to Shujiuqing, she began to wonder if she had to do this for the sake of social conventions.

After a while, she put it to her mouth and took a bite. She found it was surprisingly roasted and fragrant, so she couldn't help but eat a few more bites.

Shu Jiuqing said, "I remember that the skin of toads is poisonous. I didn't expect you guys could handle it so delicately and roast it with the skin and remove the poison."

Ordinary cultivators do not dare to eat the poisonous beasts that live in the Nanling Mountains of Bayou easily.

As expected of a witch clan Gu cultivator, the local specialties have a unique flavor!

"…Hmm? What are you going to do? Why do you want to remove the poison?"

Arturin looked over blankly.

Shujiuqing's hands loosened, and he saw stars and felt dizzy:
"I, I think I'm too breasty..."

There was a sudden chaos in the tree house.

When Du Xinghe came to find them, he saw Shu Jiuqing lying on the ground, scrabbling his hands towards the ceiling, muttering to himself, "Grandma, Grandma, I really didn't use your name to cheat people outside. Yes, I meant the magic circle you taught me, but didn't that bring honor to you? Don't blame me..."

"Grandfather, I didn't mean to poison her,"

Atulin was so nervous that she was swallowing her saliva: "She seems to be unable to eat our kebabs."

Du Xinghe took a look at the fried toad that was almost eaten on the table, and something clicked in his mind.

She picked up Shujiuqing and took out the detoxification pill from her storage ring and fed it to her.

After feeding his little apprentice, Du Xinghe turned around and saw Xinyue picking up the untouched fried toad on the table and eating it.

Atulin exclaimed: "Didn't you say you were fasting?"

"I just got hungry suddenly." After eating the fried toad, Xinyue stood up and walked to Du Xinghe, and said in a sweet and soft tone that was completely different from the conversation with Atulin: "Master, I seem to be poisoned too."

The butterfly and spider dancing around her were puzzled.

Her master was different from the cultivator with five spiritual roots. She was a cultivator with water spiritual roots and was good at treatment and purification. The toad's poison was purified before it even passed her throat. How could she have been poisoned?

She just wanted her master to hand-feed her the detoxification pills.

Du Xinghe called Xinyue, who was full of expectation, over, pinched her cheeks, kneaded them like dough, and then fed her a pill.

"...Sweet?" Xinyue was stunned.

She tasted it carefully, but could not detect any spiritual energy or medicinal flavor that a pill should have. There was only a strong sweet aroma of milk.

"I stuffed the candy cubes in my storage ring with ginseng water."

Du Xinghe let her go, turned around and patted Shu Jiuqing: "If you are not poisoned, don't take the antidote pills... Can you stand up by yourself?"

“Yes, sure!”

The detoxification pill took effect quickly. Shujiuqing stood up dazed and followed his master like a zombie.

She turned around again and saw Senior Sister Xinyue's face flushed: "Senior Sister, are you poisoned too?"

"Don't worry about her. She was poisoned by another kind of poison."

Shenshui turned Shujiuqing's head back to prevent her from angering her senior sister.

Xinyue was in a good mood and ignored the two of them.

After a while, Shujiuqing finally saw things without double vision, and then asked, "Master, where are we going?"

"Go to the secret realm." It was his second time here, and Crossing the Star River was familiar with the route.

She had just broken through the Golden Core stage, so she would be blocked from entering the Yin-level copy. She had to take pills that suppressed her cultivation in advance. When the effect of the pills wore off, she would automatically be expelled from the secret realm.

She entered the witch clan altar again. This time, no insects or spirit beasts came out to attack her. It was as if they had smelled the danger on her and kept away from her. She came to the center of the altar unimpeded. The poisonous sculptures on the left and right stood quietly in their original positions. As Shu Jiuqing walked among them, she felt as if their eyes had come alive and were staring at her, causing her scalp to tingle.

And directly in front of it is a circular pool of blood.

In the middle of the blood pool is a golden toad statue.

"Gu Ling, Gu Ling!"

Du Xinghe called out twice and found no one answered, so he had to use the old method. He cut his right palm with the tip of the sword and poured a little blood into it.

The originally dark brown blood pool immediately turned bright red after her blood merged into it, and bubbles began to bubble out.

After a moment, a pool of blood gushed out, and a huge and ugly creature emerged.

The snake has a flat head, smooth skin, and hundreds of thin legs that sway gently. When it is not crawling, those hundreds of thin legs only serve as decoration, and it is supported by the strong and powerful tail to stand.

It stared at Du Xinghe and his group, spitting out its forked snake tongue and making a hissing sound.

At this moment, Shu Jiuqing felt that all the hairs on his body stood up.

The evil spirits seen in the secret realm of the Ten States are more like spiritual pollution.

But the thing in front of her was truly terrifying and disgusting. She couldn't help but walk a little behind her master. The monster sensed her fear and looked at her with interest with its eight eyes: "I see your inner desire. You come to see this Gu Ling. Do you have anything to ask for?"

It stretched out its long upper body, leaned over, and settled on top of Shujiuqing's head.

The dense and fine centipede feet stroked her face...

Shujiu's scalp exploded instantly.

She was just an ordinary cultivator in Pingyun Continent. She meditated every day to absorb the essence and spiritual energy of the heaven, earth, sun and moon. She would go to the cultivator market to buy some second-hand materials when she had nothing to do. She never signed up for such a dangerous activity.

Snapped!
Du Xinghe raised his hand and slapped it: "Can you speak properly?"

The hissing stopped instantly.

The Gu Spirit then turned his gaze back and said, "So it's you who's back, Mr. Sheng Huai. I was wondering whose blood smells so good."

"You didn't see that I'm such a big man standing in front of you, but you insisted on scaring my apprentice?"

"It's boring to stay in the altar every day. If I don't kill a few monks who want to steal my treasures, life will be too hard to bear," the Gu Ling defended itself. It didn't mean to scare anyone, but it was a professional disease. "Who made you, your disciple, afraid of me? The other two you brought are not afraid of me. Humph, she has foresight and knows how powerful and terrifying this Gu Ling is."

Xinyue, who was named, glanced over indifferently.

Shenshui said, "I've caught many people like you on my ex-wife before."

Catching fleas from each other is an important activity for monkeys to enhance their relationships.

Shujiuqing said weakly, "Master, I'm afraid of insects."

"It's normal to be afraid of something in life. Don't blame yourself for it. Look how ugly it is. You will have nightmares if you look at it too much." Du Xinghe comforted her gently.

The Gu Spirit shook its body to increase its presence: "Hey, I'm still here. Can you avoid me when you say bad things about me?"

"No."

Du Xinghe told it to give up the idea as soon as possible.

It hummed twice, but did not pursue the matter any further, and only said: "You came at the right time, help me give birth to a child."

Shujiuqing just remembered that this Gu spirit called her master Shenghuai Jushi.

"Master has this nickname?" she asked curiously.

Du Xinghe paused uncomfortably and said, "Yes, it specializes in treating infertility."

The first time is new, the second time is familiar. This time, Du Xinghe easily helped the Gu Ling give birth to more than a hundred babies.

Having resolved its anxiety about survival, Gu Ling felt much better, and his centipede moved more briskly: "Let me see how you've raised my child."

With its master's consent, the purple scorpion crawled out of her body.

The Gu Spirit's eight eyes glowed red. It stared at the purple scorpion for a moment and said in surprise, "You've taken good care of it! Did you give it a name?"

The purple scorpion proudly raised its tail: [Yes! My name is Tan Shitian! ]

The eight eyes of the Gu Ling all turned to Du Xinghe: "So you like this kind of name."

Du Xinghe: "...Originally named Xiaopang, the new name was given by its partner."

After saying that, she stretched out her hand, and the Thousand Treasures Ice Toad was yawning in her palm.

It seemed like a work of art made of ice, snow and gems. Once it was taken out, the surrounding light was dyed with jeweled luster.

The Gu Ling was also dazzled.

"Where did you get the Thousand Treasure Ice Toad!?" it lost its voice.

"Personal strength and a bit of luck." Du Xinghe praised himself without changing his expression.

"I didn't expect that you could make the Thousand Treasures Ice Toad recognize you as its master... Do you know how precious and rare the Thousand Treasures Ice Toad is? There are many people in the Wu Clan who raise toads, but none of them can be favored by the Hundred Treasures Ice Toad."

The Gu Ling stared at its beautiful body, and all eight of its eyes were stunned.

After a moment, it hissed and whispered to it…

This was a conversation between poisonous insects, but because both of them had contracted with her, Du Xinghe understood it.

Translated into human terms, it is——

【Beauty, do you want a date? 】

This is absolutely a very rude and inappropriate statement to make when meeting someone of the opposite sex for the first time, regardless of whether the person is a man or a woman.

However, we cannot use human morality to measure the communication between spirit animals.

Just like Shenshui's behavior and speech sometimes seem quite absurd to humans, Du Xinghe tolerates them all. This must be the customary way for Gu insects to court...

But the Thousand Treasures Ice Toad stopped yawning and glanced at the Gu Spirit with half-closed eyes.

Qianbao Ice Toad: [Go away.]

Qianbao Bingchan: [You are so ugly. ]

After only two quacks, Du Xinghe saw that the hundred long legs of the Gu spirit were motionless, and its body drooped down, as if it had suffered a great blow and could not recover.

Qianbao Bingchan said to Du Xinghe in confusion: [You have such bad taste, why do you associate with such an ugly person? ]

Du Xinghe explained: "It's Xiaopang... uh, Tan Shitian's mother."

There is no distinction between male and female Gu spirits, but considering that it can give birth to Gu worms, it can be regarded as the mother.

Qianbao Bingchan was surprised: [It is true that good shoots come out of bad bamboos. I am so ugly, but I made Shitian so beautiful. ]

It made no attempt to avoid the Gu spirit when communicating.

After hearing these words, Gu Ling was so depressed that he wanted to stuff Xiao Pang back into his stomach and get pregnant again.

The Thousand Treasures Ice Toad, which was spoiled and raised by the leader of the Immortal Alliance and was also very powerful, didn't bother to pay attention to it and went straight back to Du Xinghe's clavicle to lie down and rest.

"Uh... why are you interested in it? Don't be too sad, you can reproduce on your own anyway."

Du Xinghe comforted her out of basic morality.

At this time, the Gu spirit was hit so hard that its upper body curled up and soaked in the pool of blood. Not only was it not scary, it was also a little funny.

The Gu Spirit said listlessly: "I can reproduce alone, but I can't live alone..."

Even its mouthparts were immersed in the pool of blood, and only gurgling bubbling sounds were emitted.

Well, if I say the following, it won’t pass the review.

After mumbling enough, the Gu Spirit raised its head and said, "Because the Thousand Treasures Ice Toad is very beautiful, it is also the most fundamental one among the toad branches of the Five Poisons. If you want to collect all five poisonous insects, it is very good. So, you have practiced the "Gu Shen Jue" very hard, and you are collecting Gu poisons..."

As it spoke, it buried its head in the pool of blood again.

Du Xinghe raised his hand, and the blood in the round pool was manipulated by invisible spiritual power, forming a bloody hand to hold it up. "I almost forgot, I came to you today for the Gu Shen Jue."

She told it what happened in the secret realm of the Ten States and how the original volume of "Gu Shen Jue" was burned to ashes.

I thought the Gu Spirit would have some reaction after hearing the Gu God Technique turned into ashes, but it was surprisingly quite calm:

"Turned into ash? That's great, it proves that you have obtained the true inheritance of the Gu Shen Jue. You have accomplished something that even Chen Bu Ran couldn't do. It's amazing. I didn't misjudge you."

Du Xinghe took two steps forward: "What does true inheritance mean?"

"It is the Gu Shen Jue itself. It is the origin of Gu cultivation. In ancient times, it was not inferior to other ways. Later, it experienced..." Gu Ling paused, as if he was unwilling to reveal something to her. He only said: "I can't say too much. You just need to remember one thing. When you practice the Gu Shen Jue to the Golden Core Realm, this altar will not be able to trap me. I can leave here and go to the real world to be your helper."

When it came to being able to leave the altar, those eight little eyes revealed visible desire.

It is trapped here, constantly producing poisonous insects, just for the purpose of one day raising a powerful enough poison cultivator who can prove the way of the Gu God and allow it to return to the human world.

When its spiritual power was exhausted and it could not produce any poisonous insects, the poisonous spirit knew that its end was near.

There is not much time left for the witch clan's Gu practitioners.

But I didn't expect that the turning point would come from an outsider.

Du Xinghe raised his hand to stop it: "I have reached the golden elixir stage."

"I know it's difficult, but I will wait for you to break through the golden elixir..."

Gu Ling paused, almost suspecting that he had heard it wrongly.

Its entire body stood up again. "Wait, what did you say? You broke through to the Golden Core?! How long has it been since we last met? You broke through to the Golden Core???"

It's no wonder it was surprised. Even Chen Bu Ran, the only genius in the Wu clan in thousands of years, didn't make such a quick breakthrough from Jindan to Jindan.

It leaned over, blood flowing down its body. Just as it was about to drip onto Du Xinghe's face, the blood dodged as if it had consciousness and fell to the ground instead.

Cross the galaxy and let it look at you.

The Gu Spirit looked at her for a long time and said hesitantly, "But I see that you are only at the Jindan stage. Are you lying to me?"

"Golden Core cultivators cannot enter the Yin-level secret realm, so I took pills to suppress my cultivation."

Du Xinghe said: "I have to suppress my cultivation to come in, how can I let you out?"

After hearing her words, Gu Ling half believed her.

Its eight eyes stared at her steadily: "It seems that you have had many adventures since leaving the Wu Clan... It doesn't matter. The method to save me is not in the secret realm. You have to go to the real Wu Clan altar in the real world. But this journey is quite dangerous. You'd better ask Chen Bu Ran to go with you."

"Senior Chen is stronger than me, but even he can't save you?"

"It's useless for him to rescue me. I returned to the human world only because the Gu Shen Jue has a truly recognized successor, but he can't."

When Gu Ling mentioned Chen Bu Ran, his tone was full of admiration, and he regarded him as the light of the witch clan.

But when it comes to his inability, he is very firm in his attitude.

"Why can't he?"

Du Xinghe was puzzled.

To put it bluntly, Du Xinghe does not have the certainty that he can cultivate to the Spirit Transformation Stage in the future.

In the journey of cultivating immortality, hard work and determination are the least valuable.

Talent and opportunity are both indispensable.

At this stage, Chen Bu Ran was indeed much stronger than her. She was not unconvinced at all. Instead, she was surprised that the Gu Ling chose a distant place instead of a nearby one. Chen Bu Ran was a native of the Wu Clan. Wasn't he more worthy of the Gu Ling's trust and reliance than her? What had he been doing before?
One might even suspect there is some conspiracy behind this.

The Gu Spirit turned around, stood above her, and gave her an answer she had never thought of:

"Chen Bu Ran is indeed a rare genius among the Wu clan."

"But... it's a pity that he is a man."