Tao and Heaven

Chapter 125 The End of Tianquan Mountain and the Beginning of the War
There are five days left until the end of the Tianquan Mountain Secret Realm.

【235 Years of Imperial Juice】

Gu Wen absorbed the Emperor's juice without distraction. He looked inward at his sea of ​​energy and saw a golden river flowing. The Red Dragon Dharma Image and the Jade Sword Dharma Image both surrounded the Emperor's juice, revealing a hint of desire in their minds all the time.

Although they are not living beings, they have acquired a certain spirituality thanks to Gu Wen and have an instinctive reaction to things that are beneficial to them.

Gu Wen naturally wouldn't give them to them, because he had other uses for these things.

[Liu Mingzhu, can reach the Mahayana stage to attack 1,200 times, and the Dao realm strongman can attack with all his strength twelve times]

One Year of Emperor's Cream can increase the amount of attacks that the Liuming Pearl can withstand from the Mahayana stage by ten times, while Ten Years of Emperor's Cream can increase the amount of attacks that can be resisted from the Dao Realm Heavenly Venerate level by one time.

[Longevity Stone, every fifty years, the growth rate is accelerated by 1%]

This is the Gu family's heirloom divine beast. If it is successfully bred, a divine beast with innate magical powers will be of great help to him. And Yu Hua said that the magical powers of these innate gods are extremely magical and powerful, with effects that cultivators' magical powers cannot achieve.

For example, Ao Tang's supernatural powers can travel thousands of miles in an instant, and even the powerful ones at the level of Heavenly Venerate find it difficult to catch up with him.

What Gu Wen needs now is strength, but not a quick improvement in strength.

Strength is needed because there are many enemies to face, and there is no need to quickly improve strength because it is difficult to take effect in a short period of time. Even if the Dharma Image jumps to 100 feet in a day, or even reaches the 300-foot Dharma Image of the Jade Sword Buddha, it is still no match for those Heavenly Lords.

Gu Wen is more inclined to save his own life and not be a drag. The Liuming Pearl and the innate divine beast are more beneficial than improving the Dharma image.

"The divine beast can be settled down before hatching, and the Liu Mingzhu will be arranged first."

With a thought, fifty years of imperial fluid surged in.

[Liu Mingzhu, can reach the Mahayana stage to attack 1,700 times, and the Dao realm strongman can attack with all his strength 17 times]

【One Hundred and Eighty Years of Imperial Juice】

"Red dust."

A voice interrupted Gu Wen. He opened his eyes and saw Chi Yuzi coming towards him, standing three steps away, looking down on the water.

At this time, Gu Wen was soaking in the water with his head tilted up. He could see the other person's chin directly from the bottom up, which was a smooth journey.

"what happened?"

"Come with me and collect the spirit sword. Use your true swordsmanship. This will be my forging fee."

"can."

Gu Wen nodded in agreement, and then the two of them walked down again, and the number of people on the seventh floor reached thirteen.

Almost everyone gathered here at this time, because everyone had found an opportunity, so they might as well come to the seventh floor to absorb a little bit of the sword pool water.

On the seventh floor there is a stream flowing down from the eighth floor.

As soon as they arrived at the seventh floor, they immediately felt several eyes cast at them. They were used to it. The strong were always in the spotlight. In Tianquan Mountain, the small group headed by Gu Wen was the absolute power. Chi Yuzi swaggered away most of the spirit swords, and they could only be angry but not say anything.

Wherever there are people, there will be differences in status. There is no such thing as equality in the world.

Moreover, the cultivation world emphasizes that the strong are respected. They may be sword geniuses, but Chi Yuzi and Gu Wen are stronger than them. If they can't distinguish between the primary and the secondary, then the power will make people know how to bend their knees.

But the atmosphere today was a little strange. Gu Wen noticed that these people no longer had the enthusiasm of the past.

"Something strange."

"Our good friend is not welcome~"

Akabane gloated and said, "You just like to sell favors. You never refuse others' kindness. You always want to be rewarded in the future. Now you've been discovered."

What she couldn't understand most about Gu Wen's behavior was that he was selling favors. Other geniuses would say "How dare you call me your brother?", but for him, "We hit it off at first sight."

His face is as thick as a city wall, but he calls himself a good friend.

This really attracted everyone. For a swordsman genius, it was very attractive to make friends with a genius who had mastered the true swordsmanship. And Gu Wen was not just trying to get something for nothing. He was never stingy in showing people the true swordsmanship for them to comprehend.

It has a meaning of "I have been caught in the rain, so I will hold an umbrella for those who come after me."

In this way, basically all the 17 surviving geniuses in Tianquan Mountain sponsored Gu Wen with a sword spirit or an equivalent treasure or elixir.

【Tian Sui 100 Years】

This is what Gu Wen gained during this period of time. Just relying on sponsorship fees, he has accumulated 50 years of Tiansui.

"Something's wrong. I'm not a freeloader. Something must be wrong."

Gu Wen looked thoughtful; he didn't think he had been discovered.

Because he did not commit fraud, favors are certainly favors, but they are not to be repaid immediately. These geniuses are all smart people, for them this is an investment.

Perhaps Gu Wen would die, but if he didn't die, he would become a supreme being in the future, and in this way, he would have the favor of the supreme being.

As soon as the two stepped into the seventh floor, seven or eight people came over.

"Brother Hongchen, we have a favor to ask of you."

Chi Yuzi stood aside with his arms crossed, watching the show. Gu Wen remained calm and asked in a gentle voice, "What do you want, fellow Taoists?"

"This. This."

Everyone hesitated for a long time, and by this time Gu Wen actually had some idea of ​​what these people wanted to do.

It should be that the elders who were blocking the door outside contacted them and told them to stay away from them, and they wanted to return the things they had given them before.

Sword spirits are very precious. If used properly, they are equivalent to a top-grade spiritual treasure or even a Taoist weapon. Although they are descendants of a large sect, the sect's treasures are not given to them to use casually.

A successor is not the same as the sect's leader. Only the Heavenly Venerable is qualified to enjoy everything.

Xu Liyan, the genius who had previously sponsored Gu Wen Jianling, finally spoke up: “Yesterday, the ancestor sent a message asking us to take back the treasure. Please return it to us, Brother Hongchen. We had no choice.”

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone seemed to have found a breakthrough and began to speak up.

"I feel bad for Brother Hongchen, but there is nothing we can do. We must listen to the old ancestor's words."

"Alas, it's not easy for us to wait, I hope Brother Hongchen can understand."

I am not asking you to borrow something, but I am exchanging the true explanation of the way of sword and favors for treasures. Now that you have read the true explanation of the way of sword, how can I ask for it back?

Are you asking the exchange for money after losing money in the stock market?

Gu Wen curled the corner of his mouth. He knew that cultivators were also mortals, but he didn't expect that these geniuses were also so vulgar.

As expected, as long as the loss is big enough, the world's richest man will jump up and down. For these geniuses, the sword spirit may be worth half their life.

If you only allow yourself to take benefits and favors, and want to recover your losses when the situation is not right, then you cannot afford to lose.

Before he could say anything, Akabane on the side said, "No."

Everyone's eyes suddenly shifted to Akabaneko, and the sword box behind her slowly opened. She asked again in a cold voice: "Do you want your life or the treasure?"

"Don't go too far!"

In an instant, the original shame turned into anger, and the anger was wrapped in the sword intent. Most of them were sword geniuses who started from the fifth level of the foundation. The eight people attacked together, perhaps it was premeditated.

At this moment, a black gas rushed down from the eighth floor, and Jun Yan appeared next to Gu Wen.

The two top geniuses stood together with Gu Wen, and in an instant, their momentum became evenly matched, and Xiao Yunyi also came down with a sword in hand. Although he didn't say it explicitly, his sword intent was already pressing towards them.

The balance is tilting towards Gu Wen, and some people are considering quitting.

Gu Wen suddenly asked, "How about exchanging it for the Spirit Sword?"

Everyone present was stunned. Xiao Yunyi stopped, the murderous look in Jun Yan and Chi Yuzi's eyes froze, and the many geniuses who were asking for treasures were also a little stunned.

They didn't expect that Gu Wen was actually willing to return it.

As a representative, Xu Liyan nodded slightly and said, "Of course you can, Brother Hongchen."

No matter how many spiritual swords there are, they can never match the sword spirit, but it would be good enough to recover some treasures.

Gu Wen looked at Chiyuzi and said, "Chiyuzi, please help me pay for it."

"you"

"I owe you this. I was originally looking for someone to borrow it from."

"What's wrong with your brain?"

Akabane scratched his head in annoyance, but still took out many spirit swords, one hundred low-grade spirit swords per person. In an instant, eight hundred spirit swords were missing from the sword box.

This was undoubtedly a huge sum of money. You have to know that she had only managed to scrape together a thousand swords from various sources in the sect before. Now that she had entered Tianquan Mountain, she had gained a lot of money, and the number had reached three thousand spirit swords, but she didn't know how she had wasted them.

After returning the spirit sword, Gu Wen said to everyone, "Now we are even, and there is no longer any affection between us. And don't worry that I will plot against you. Since I borrowed it, I will return it."

These words made all those who asked for the spiritual sword look ashamed, while the expressions of the remaining people who did not ask for the spiritual sword and Chi Yuzi and others who were standing behind Gu Wen all changed a little.

The looks towards Gu Wen changed, some were surprised, some were puzzled, and some, like Akabane, were rolling their eyes.

He could have chosen not to return the money, but he chose integrity. Even if he didn't return the money, no one would think there was anything wrong with it.

This is exactly what Gu Wen wants, the credit support. Reputation is like the gems in the previous life. The gems themselves are worthless, marketing is a means to raise their value, and the real thing to maintain the price is the support.

In order to guarantee the price of gemstones, groups that specialize in selling and speculating on them will buy back all gemstones on the market at high prices.

This is what is called value preservation.

The same goes for credibility, but Gu Wen does not want to show his credibility to these people who go back on their words, but to Akabane and others.

It should have been a bloody conflict, but it was settled with Gu Wen's "kind words".

By the time most people had left, there were no outsiders around.

Akabane stomped the ground with his right foot, frowned and said, "What on earth do you want to do?"

Gu Wen replied: "What can you do if you keep your word?"

"Stupid head, remember to owe me a favor."

For the first time, Akabane took the initiative to bring up the matter of favors, and Jun Yan on the side suggested: "I can create a special magic energy to cover up the mind and vision, or we can sneak attack and kill them all one by one?"

Trust is the foundation of a team's longevity, and proactively offering suggestions is the beginning of integrating into the team.

Gu Wen knew that his goal had been achieved, so he shook his head and said, "No, I said I won't do anything dirty."
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Five days later.

Tianquan Mountain shook slightly, and all the people in the nine-level cave in the mountain felt an inexplicable sense of rejection, as if the entire Tianquan Mountain was rejecting them.

When the closed stone door reopened, Gu Wen and his group walked out.

What greeted them was not the scorching sunshine, but a sea of ​​black clouds. Figures stood in the air, and it was unknown how long they had been waiting.

Although it is impossible to fly in the immortal land, escaping and walking in the air are two different concepts. The former is to use magic to move quickly, which usually involves space, so there is a possibility of being crushed to death by the heavy pressure of the earth veins.

The latter is just a means of staying in the air, and basically anyone above the seventh level of Taoism can do it.

As soon as they came out, all kinds of Dharma images appeared: the Buddha and Vajra of Buddhism, the wind, rain, thunder and lightning of Taoism, and the black flame of the devil.

Among them, the image of the Heavenly Venerable was hundreds of feet tall, and the tallest was a six-hundred-foot-tall image of a goddess covered in clouds. A veil fluttered on her shoulders, covering half of the sky. Clouds and rain flowed in it, and she looked down at them with kind eyes.

In an instant, it seemed as if the heavenly soldiers and generals had arrived in person.

A faint and mysterious sound fell.

"Goddess, hand over the elixir of immortality."

Even though they were prepared, Chiyuzi and Jun Yan still felt a little nervous. One or two Mahayana masters were not a big deal, but who would not be afraid when these dozens of Mahayana masters and seven or eight Heavenly Masters stood together?

Akabane whispered, "Hongchen, follow me later, I will protect you and help you get out."

Jun Yan said: "I will do my best to protect you."

The two were ready to rush out at the risk of their lives, but Gu Wen remained calm because Yu Hua had said she could handle it.

Yu Hua said in a gentle voice: "There are many objections within the Dao Sect about you taking the immortality elixir. They think it would be better to give it to the Three Pure Ones instead of letting you take it."

"What do you think?" Gu Wen asked back. He heard footsteps behind him, and the other sword geniuses also began to leave Tianquan Mountain.

"I think he is not as good as you. From now on, I will let you consume all the roots that cannot be given away."

Yu Hua turned his head slightly and cast his gaze on those sword geniuses for the first time. Among them, except for Lan Yongning and Xiao Yunyi, the highest Dao foundation was only the fifth level and the fourth level of perfection.

His foundation in Taoism is two levels higher than his, but that is why it is necessary.

His gaze returned to Gu Wen again, looking at his unremarkable face.

"The true peerlessness is not determined by realm, but by the fact that even if one is insignificant, one can still be intimidated by one's talent. If you feel insecure about showing off your strength, then wait for me to kill these people."

Yu Hua flew up gracefully, raised his hand and tore through the mist-like sword formation in front of him, and faced the gods and Buddhas in the sky alone in a pure white dress.

Everything was silent, not even the sound of the wind was left.

hum!
The dark clouds that stretched into the sea in the sky split apart, just like the sea water parting, and the powerful beings swimming in it were like fish out of water.

An inexplicable fear surged in their hearts. They knew that Yu Hua was very strong, but this was the first time they faced the power of an immortal.

The sky split with a snap of the fingers, and the gods and Buddhas were all heartbroken.

Gu Wen turned around and swung out with his sword. The sword energy left a sword mark one step in front of a dozen sword geniuses. The boundless sword force pressed towards them, and the power of the true sword made the sword at his waist tremble slightly.

"The descendants of the sects that are besieging this place, step forward."

"Those who have a higher foundation than me, please step forward."

"Those who have a Tao foundation two levels higher than mine, please take two steps forward."

"Those whose foundation is equal to mine, kneel down and beg for life."

(End of this chapter)