Starting with a blind date with a female constable, you acquire the Nine Swords of Dugu.

Chapter 238 The Book of Destiny

Tianfeng's speed is extremely fast. Even now, with his severely injured body, his speed far exceeds that of Gu Guanqi when he uses the Wind God Leg at full power.

This puzzled Gu Guanqi.

It's strange that Tianfeng could escape from the causal lines he had previously observed, given his speed.

However, upon closer reflection, it makes sense.

First, he is not subject to karma, so the karma observed by Tianfeng is wrong. Second, escape and speed are not absolute. If one is slower but can run into some special places, then the disadvantage of speed can be offset.

Gu Guanqi didn't delve too deeply into the matter. Seeing Tianfeng flee into the distance, he immediately raised his hand and pointed out.

This finger gesture looked ordinary, like a casual flick of the wrist by an ordinary person. It didn't even cause a ripple in the world, nor did it show any signs of martial arts.

At this moment, the Heavenly Phoenix was still flapping its wings frantically, its feathers whipping up gusts of wind, its body transforming into a white streak of light as it fled rapidly into the distance.

At this moment, Tianfeng glanced back and saw that Gu Guanqi was still in the magic array. Her heart, which had been hanging in suspense, suddenly calmed down a bit, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Luckily, I was careful when setting up the magic array, so I was able to get out directly. Gu Guanqi's realm has actually reached the level where karma doesn't affect him. All my previous observations were wrong, and I almost got tricked to death. Oh well, I'd better go back to Tianshan and hide first!"

However, at that moment, Tianfeng suddenly felt the surrounding air contract inward, as if the entire void had been fixed.

It was startled and before it could react, countless invisible sword energies appeared out of thin air and directly tore through space!

The third level of the innate body-breaking formless sword energy—the formless sword!

These sword energies are invisible and colorless, without light, sharpness, or form.

A thought arises in an instant, and arises from the heart!

Space was instantly distorted, and cracks appeared one after another.

The surrounding air currents were completely disrupted by the sword energy.

Tianfeng's eyes widened in surprise as she exclaimed, "A sword that can cleave through space!"

It immediately wanted to respond.

But it was all too late.

Countless invisible sword energies had already penetrated its body, causing its flesh, bones, and tendons to explode layer by layer.

A powerful sword aura surged and erupted wildly within its body.

Dark blood gushed and splattered wildly.

Immediately afterwards, those wings were severed.

"what!"

The phoenix let out a miserable cry. It could no longer maintain its flight momentum and plummeted to the ground with a loud crash. Soil and gravel flew everywhere, and a deep, huge crater was created in the ground, with billowing dust rising into the air.

At this moment, above Hu City, Gu Guanqi looked at the magic array and then struck out with his palm.

Tathagata's Divine Palm, Tathagata's Nirvana!

The enormous Buddha statue surged upwards towards the sky.

With a deafening roar, the massive magic array that had enveloped half of Hu City shattered. Instantly, altars throughout Hu City exploded and crumbled, sending rocks flying and the immense shockwave shattering houses.

At the same time, cries of agony rang out.

Many soldiers were thrown about, many were seriously wounded, and some even died from vomiting blood.

Gu Guanqi glanced down, but didn't pay much attention. He took a step forward and instantly soared into the sky, quickly flying outside Hu City. He appeared above the deep pit where the Heavenly Phoenix had crashed down, and then quickly descended from the sky.

Gu Guanqi landed beside the deep pit and leaned down to look at Tianfeng, who was lying motionless in the pit.

Black blood flowed from Tianfeng's mouth, and the strange energy from Kunxu Land on her body, which had been suppressed, began to erupt and continuously corrode Tianfeng's body.

In just a short while, Tianfeng's body had already rotted away, with black blood and pus flowing from it.

Tianfeng's eyes were lifeless as she looked at Gu Guanqi, her eyes filled with fear. She cried out urgently, "Quickly—kill me—Gu Guanqi—kill me quickly! The eerie power of Kunxu is corroding my body and soul—"

Kill me—I'm in so much pain—

You need to think this through. Once I'm completely corrupted by that power, I don't even know what kind of monster I'll become. You can't erase that power—the entire world will be plunged into chaos—

Kill me—kill me now, our will is united—”

Gu Guanqi frowned and asked, "For over two hundred years, you were able to suppress and continuously erase that power. Why can't you do it now?"

"It wasn't me," Tianfeng said. "I couldn't directly erase the strange power of Kunxu. I was hiding in that secret realm in Tianshan, suppressing it with the help of that realm, and then—and then slowly erasing that power with my power of cause and effect—killing me—."

"good!"

Although Tianfeng was an enemy, Gu Guanqi had no interest in tormenting it, and Tianfeng's strength was worthy of his respect.

Immediately, Gu Guanqi waved his hand slightly, and in an instant, the Autumn Water Sword, carrying a vast amount of flames, descended from the sky and fell rapidly, piercing straight into Tianfeng's body. In that instant, the vast flames erupted, directly burning Tianfeng's body to ashes.

Just as Tianfeng was burned to ashes, those strange Kunxu energies actually dissipated.

"Um?"

Gu Guanqi was somewhat surprised.

He immediately took the zither case off and took out the meteorite iron box inside. As soon as he touched it, he noticed that the Kunxu energy inside had also disappeared.

"This is... completely dependent on the existence of the Heavenly Phoenix?"

Gu Guanqi frowned slightly. The energy of Kunxu was indeed strange. It dissipated right in front of him, but he couldn't see any trace of it or detect any clues.

"Is this only targeting people?"

Gu Guanqi thought for a moment, but couldn't figure out the key to it, so he put the meteorite box back, then carried the zither case on his back, and with a light step, he soared into the sky and quickly returned to Hu City.

He descended from the sky and landed in Hu City.

At this moment, chaos reigned in Hu City.

Gu Guanqi transformed into a streak of light, instantly appearing before a general. He immediately unleashed the Heavenly Demon Secret Technique, unleashing streams of spiritual power that instantly controlled the general's consciousness. He asked in a deep voice, "Where is Tan Shixuan?"

The general's expression was blank: "Inside the royal court!"

"Where is the royal court?" Gu Guanqi asked.

The general said, "Go east, three li."

Gu Guanqi waved his hand, and the general flew backward, crashing into a stone wall. His internal organs shattered, he coughed up blood, and died completely.

Gu Guanqi lightly touched the ground with his feet and quickly flew eastward.

In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the royal court.

What came into view was a dense mass of heavily armored cavalry, which filled the entire huge square. The surrounding alleys and streets were also filled with heavy and light cavalry, totaling no less than 20,000 men.

Following the heavy cavalry was a burly man with a full beard, wearing a set of golden armor and holding a long spear; this was none other than Tan Shixuan.

At this moment, Tan Shixuan looked at Gu Guanqi in the square with a very solemn expression and a heart full of trepidation.

Just now, in the void, the battle between Gu Guanqi and Tianfeng was witnessed by tens of thousands of troops in the entire Hu City. Such a battle was completely beyond their comprehension, and it was a battle scene that only gods could have in their imagination.

What truly terrified Tan Shixuan was that Tianfeng, whom he regarded as a god, had actually been defeated.

When he saw Tianfeng escape, despair welled up in his heart. Even Tianfeng had been defeated, and he couldn't think of any chance he could have to turn the tide.

However, he was unwilling to give up. He had clearly made preparations to conquer the world. He had even planned to take over the Central Plains within three years and have all nations pay tribute within ten years.

But now, before even taking the first step, it has been ruined by just one person!

"Gu Guanqi!" Tan Shixuan said loudly in broken Central Plains dialect, "Spare my life, and I'm willing to swear, in the name of the Eternal Heaven, that I will never set foot on the Central Plains again, nor will I ever harass the borders of the Central Plains again!"

Gu Guanqi sneered and said, "Compared to your oath, I believe more in killing you until you have no strength left to invade."

Tan Shixuan said in a deep voice, "Do you really want to kill me?"

Gu Guanqi said, "The moment you wanted to kill me, you were already doomed!"

Tan Shixuan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Then I will try. Can a mortal slay a god? Today, even if I die, I will die a glorious death!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Tan Shixuan brandished his spear and shouted, "Kill!"

The densely packed Xianbei cavalry formed a vast, ocean-like formation, their warhorses neighing incessantly, their murderous aura soaring into the sky.

At Tan Shixuan's command, countless knights spurred their warhorses forward.

Tens of thousands of iron cavalry charged towards Gu Guanqi like a landslide or a tsunami.

The ground trembled violently from the horses' hooves, dust billowed everywhere, spears stood like a forest, and swords flashed like a sea, like a surging torrent.

Gu Guanqi watched the charging cavalry without changing his expression.

He plunged the Autumn Water Sword heavily into the ground.

Then, he reached down and took off the zither case from his back, opened the lid, and the ancient and elegant Heavenly Demon Zither lay quietly inside, its body gleaming with a dark and eerie light, with a faint, sinister demonic aura flowing through it.

He placed his hands on the strings and gently plucked them with his fingertips.

The eight tones of the Heavenly Dragon resounded loudly!

In an instant, bursts of violent sound waves, like invisible blades, swept across the battlefield.

The cavalrymen at the very front of the line suddenly and without warning had their bodies shatter.

Flesh and bones were torn apart by the sound waves, and bright red blood splattered everywhere, staining the ground beneath their feet.

The warhorse neighed mournfully, its body also torn apart by the sound waves, and both horse and rider fell to the ground.

Gu Guanqi's fingers plucked the strings continuously, the music became more and more intense, and the terrifying sound waves became more and more violent.

Screams rose and fell, and wails echoed in all directions.

The Xianbei army was constantly collapsing and disintegrating under the attack of the Heavenly Demon Harp.

Gu Guanqi carried the zither in one hand and walked forward while constantly plucking the strings with the other. His white clothes stood out conspicuously against the blood mist.

Every tremor of the Heavenly Demon Harp transforms into destructive power.

Where the sound waves spread, swathes of people and horses exploded one after another, their bodies scattered everywhere, and blood flowed tearfully through the cracks in the stone slabs, forming crimson streams of blood in the square.

Severed limbs and broken bones were scattered all over the ground, and a strong stench of blood permeated the entire Royal Court Square.

More and more Xianbei soldiers were terrified by the killings, their morale gradually collapsed, and fear overwhelmed their will to fight.

Then, the army suffered a crushing defeat!

The warhorses bolted in panic, and more and more knights turned their horses around and fled for their lives. The army's charging torrent crumbled and scattered in all directions.

No matter how loudly Tan Shixuan roared, it was no use. Not a single Xianbei soldier dared to charge again; they all fled for their lives.

Tan Shixuan roared a few times and then gave up.

He could understand that achieving this was already quite good, considering that these were the most elite troops of the Xianbei, with very strong faith. If it were an ordinary army, they would have collapsed after losing a few hundred men.

After all, their opponents couldn't even be considered human.

Morale lies in seeing hope, but facing such an enemy, all that can be seen is despair!

However, the Xianbei army quickly collapsed.

But Gu Guanqi's Heavenly Demon Harp did not stop.

The raging sonic waves continued to sweep across the area, causing the fleeing knights to suddenly explode in their tracks, and soldiers who fell from their horses were shredded by the sonic waves as they tried to get up. Those who were slow to escape were all killed, and those who managed to run a short distance were torn apart by the pursuing sonic force.

The once bustling square gradually became silent, with only the cold and brutal sound of the Heavenly Demon Harp echoing around it. One after another, earthen palaces collapsed and crumbled, and fleeing people fell one by one, their cries of agony slowly fading into silence.

After an unknown amount of time, the music gradually faded away.

The vast Royal Court Square was littered with mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

The corpses piled up like mountains, and blood soaked the entire ground, staining the bluestone tiles red. Nearly 20,000 elite Xianbei soldiers were almost completely wiped out.

Amidst the vast expanse of corpses, only the Xianbei King Tanshixuan stood alone in place.

He gazed at the hellish scene before him, his heart filled with despair.

He knew that the Xianbei were finished, completely finished.

Twenty thousand knights may not seem like a lot, but these are cavalry, and there are also many heavy cavalry. This was almost the entire Xianbei's resources that were used to support them.

The riders were the best of the best, and the horses were the finest of the best. A light cavalryman required three to nine households to support him, while a heavy cavalryman required fifty to one hundred households to support him.

Today, we have not only lost 20,000 soldiers, but also the entire population and military strength of the Xianbei people. The entire Xianbei have been wiped out.

Tan Shixuan wiped the blood from his face, looked up at the gray sky, and said, "Why does the Eternal Heaven allow gods to interfere in human affairs?"

Gu Guanqi put the Heavenly Demon Harp back into its case, slung it back over his shoulder, and walked toward Tan Shixuan with the Autumn Water Sword in hand.

Tan Shixuan looked at Gu Guanqi, slowly dismounted, and said, "I thought you would fight your way out of the enemy lines and kill me, but I never expected you to do it this way."

"Now I understand. What you meant when you said you believed the Xianbei didn't have the strength to invade. But I don't understand why the world allows someone like you to exist. The world shouldn't operate this way."

Gu Guanqi was intrigued and asked, "What kind of logic do you think it should be?"

Tan Shixuan said, "If a world, and an individual, can possess such power that they can single-handedly slaughter an entire nation, then this world shouldn't have imperial power; it should have divine authority!"

Gu Guanqi was slightly taken aback.

Tan Shixuan continued, "I've always known that there are powerful cultivators in this world, but I never imagined that one person could be this powerful!"

As he spoke, Tan Shixuan's body went limp, and he knelt directly on the ground, saying, "My understanding of my entire life, spanning decades, has collapsed at this moment. I now feel that this world is fake, that the rules of this world are wrong, and that thousands of years of history are wrong."

If a person can become this powerful, there should be no imperial power, and the ruler of this world should not be the emperor, but the most powerful cultivator.

This world doesn't need war. If anyone wants to change the dynasty, they can just challenge the strongest cultivator. Whoever can defeat or kill them will be the new ruler.

This should be the logic by which this world operates! But why—why is this the way the world is? Why are there so many countries? Why are there royal families and imperial power?

How can one person's power be so great? Then all the rules governing power become meaningless, utterly meaningless. The essence of power is...

That's how it is, there's something wrong with this world, hahahahaha————

As he spoke, Tan Shixuan became hysterical. He threw his head back and laughed wildly, roaring, "Wrong, wrong, hahahaha—this world is wrong—why can such rules continue to operate—it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be!"

As he spoke, Tan Shixuan slapped his chest.

"puff"

Tan Shixuan coughed up a mouthful of blood, his aura instantly weakening. He collapsed to the ground, his face pressed against the earth, his eyes gradually glazing over. Yet, he kept muttering, "Wrong, all wrong—meaningless—meaningless—why—why can wrong rules still operate for thousands of years—"

As he spoke, Tan Shixuan lost his vitality.

Gu Guanqi frowned slightly as he looked at Tan Shixuan's corpse.

He actually found Tan Shixuan's words to be quite reasonable.

The world's top individual martial arts prowess is indeed too strong, abnormally so, and cannot be restrained by imperial power.

Under such circumstances, imperial power should not be able to function, and the court should also be unable to operate.

However, since Xuanyuan ended the tribal era and established the first dynasty in the human world, more than a thousand years have passed, and although dynasties have changed many times...

This model has been used and is still in operation today, despite the repeated attempts.

This is really abnormal.

Even if the number one person in the world has no interest in becoming emperor, there are still the second, third, and fourth—

In this situation, for imperial power to exist, the emperor must be the most powerful.

However, even if the emperor is the most powerful, he can only be like a large sect with strong deterrent power. He cannot use the name of imperial power to make so many cultivators in the world abide by the rules.

Take Gu Guanqi for example. He is indeed not interested in becoming emperor, but he also doesn't like being restrained. In the past two years, he has taken control of several states with a little effort, and today he single-handedly broke through the Xianbei.

In the face of powerful cultivators, emperors and officials can be replaced at any time, and there are no restrictions on the cultivators' actions.

Theoretically speaking, under such circumstances, just as Tan Shixuan said, the operating logic of the imperial court should have collapsed long ago.

"Why is this happening?" Gu Guanqi muttered to himself.

Just then, a peculiar energy suddenly erupted from the depths of Hu City.

Gu Guanqi suddenly raised his head, and there was the place where Duanmu Xian had been in seclusion, which he had previously locked onto with his divine sense.

"Successfully refined the bloodline of a god?"

Immediately, Gu Guanqi tapped his foot and instantly transformed into a streak of light, flying past.

From a distance, he could see a powerful energy surging outwards, instantly obliterating houses and spreading in all directions. The ground was sinking rapidly, forming huge craters hundreds of feet in diameter in the blink of an eye.

Dust filled the sky, causing turbulent waves.

Gu Guanqi floated in the void, and with a palm strike, a gale howled and swept away, as if a hurricane had sprung up out of nowhere, instantly carrying away the vast yellow sand.

In that deep pit, a woman who still retained her charm stood on the ground; it was Duanmu Xian.

Gu Guanqi had seen Duanmu Xian's portrait when he was in Liangzhou and recognized her.

At this moment, Duanmu Xian stood in the deep pit, slowly raising her head, her gaze fixed on Gu Guanqi. A strange expression appeared on her face as she slowly raised her hand and shouted, "Gu Guanqi—kill me!"

"Um?"

Gu Guanqi was slightly taken aback.

Someone actually made the exact same request as Tianfeng.

He had assumed that Duanmu Xian, having refined the divine bloodline, would surely experience a significant increase in cultivation and then eagerly seek revenge. However, she turned out to be begging for death.

"Are you crazy?" Gu Guanqi asked.

"Fake----"

The sound that came out of Duanmu Xian's mouth was very strange, an indescribable sound, as if the sound of countless insects flapping their wings had come together to form a human voice.

"Fake—it's all fake—everything is arranged—a book—this world is a book—"

Duanmu Xian continued uttering that eerie sound. The next moment, she suddenly lunged at Gu Guanqi as if out of control, raising both hands and a sword flying into them. She thrust the sword forward, seemingly...

As if tearing through the void, an extremely violent sword aura arrived in an instant.

Gu Guanqi floated in the void, his body still, but with a thought, a solid wall of true energy appeared in front of him, instantly blocking the sword energy.

The next instant, Duanmu Xian appeared in front of Gu Guanqi and stabbed the wall of true energy with her sword.

The longsword emitted a buzzing sound and shattered instantly.

Gu Guanqi casually extended his palm forward.

Duanmu Xian spat out a mouthful of blood and was instantly sent flying backward, crashing to the ground, her bones shattered.

Even so, she still stood up.

Gu Guanqi frowned slightly; he noticed something was amiss.

Duanmu Xian's bones were all shattered, and her body was like a puddle of mud. She shouldn't be able to stand up. Moreover, most importantly, he didn't find any signs that Duanmu Xian was mobilizing her inner energy.

"The issue of divine bloodline?" Gu Guanqi frowned slightly and said, "What exactly is this divine bloodline? I forgot to ask Tianfeng about it before."

At this moment, Duanmu Xian, who was standing on the ground, put on a strange smile and said, "Now, it's my turn to run—"

Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly slammed her palm into the ground. Instantly, the earth shook, and countless tiny earthen spikes burst forth from the ground, shooting towards Gu Guanqi.

Gu Guanqi flew directly over, his protective aura erupting around him, enveloping him. Wherever he passed, the earthen cones exploded, raising clouds of dust.

In the blink of an eye, Gu Guanqi chased after her, bursting through the dust, and saw Duanmu Xian flying out of Hu City at an extremely fast speed.

Gu Guanqi had a sudden thought.

The innate, formless sword energy cleaves through space.

Immediately, countless invisible sword energies erupted from the void around Duanmu Xian.

In an instant, the sword energy pierced through Duanmu Xian's body, leaving her riddled with holes and bleeding profusely.

Duanmu Xian collapsed onto a patch of grass like a lump of mud.

Gu Guanqi flew over quickly and landed next to Duanmu Xian.

Even though she had been pierced through by countless sword energies and was riddled with holes, Duanmu Xian was still alive, though she had turned into a puddle of mud.

"Kill me, kill me now—Gu Guanqi, break the arrangement of fate—hurry up!" Duanmu Xian roared hysterically.

Gu Guanqi struck out with his palm, but in that instant, Duanmu Xian's body once again strangely dodged the attack. She was like an eel, leaving a bloody shadow on the ground, and flew dozens of feet away in the blink of an eye.

Gu Guanqi's pupils contracted slightly, and he quickly chased after the enemy for two or three miles. He descended from the sky and struck down with his palm, unleashing a surge of powerful, icy true energy.

The terrifying true energy suppressed Duanmu Xian to the ground, instantly freezing her. Furthermore, as Gu Guanqi continued to channel his immense true energy, even the ground three to five feet underground was frozen.

"Now they can't escape, can they?"

Gu Guanqi did not kill Duanmu Xian directly because he had doubts. He found that Duanmu Xian was too strange at the moment, as if some other force was forcibly controlling her.

At this moment, Duanmu Xian was encased in ice. She moved her neck slightly and saw two eagles flying low in the sky ahead. Beside them stood a stone tablet with the words "Hu Cheng" written in Xianbei script.

"As expected, fate cannot be rewritten—" Duanmu Xian chuckled lightly.

Gu Guanqi asked in a deep voice, "What destiny?"

Duanmu Xian looked at Gu Guanqi with a very calm expression, without the slightest hatred. In fact, Gu Guanqi felt that there was even a hint of sympathy in Duanmu Xian's gaze.

"Gu Guanqi—I don't hate you anymore, and I don't resent you anymore—it's all fate's arrangement, and you've never been able to control your own destiny—"

Gu Guanqi asked in confusion, "Duanmu Xian, what are you talking about?"

Duanmu Xian looked at Gu Guanqi and said, "We're all quite pitiful. I'm pitiful, you're pitiful, we're all pitiful—I'm not me, you're not you, and all living beings aren't all living beings—"

Gu Guanqi didn't speak, he just looked at Duanmu Xian.

Duanmu Xian took a deep breath and said, "I really regret it. I shouldn't have refined the bloodline of a god. That way, I would never know the truth. Even if I died at your hands, at least in that situation, I thought I had my own thoughts and that I was killed by you with hatred in my heart."

Unlike now, everything is fake, everything is meaningless. I even doubt whether what I'm saying right now is truly what I want to say.

Gu Guanqi frowned slightly and asked, "What do you know?"

Duanmu Xian chuckled and said, "I saw the Eternal Heaven."

"And then?" Gu Guanqi asked.

"He has a book in his hand, and that book is called destiny," Duanmu Xian said. "He is writing the destiny of all of us. The moment I saw Him, He was writing my destiny."

"I will die here, I will die before you. He wrote, 'I have refined the bloodline of the gods, I have glimpsed a corner of fate, I have understood the essence of the world. He wrote that I will lose the meaning of my existence, He wrote that I held onto hope without belief, He wrote that my hope will be shattered.'"

Gu Guanqi asked, "Could it be that you forcibly refined the bloodline of a god, causing your mind to be affected?"

"Perhaps," Duanmu Xian said with a dejected smile, "I don't know what's real and what's fake anymore. I don't know if I've come to an understanding or if I've been influenced."

There are no ordinary people, no real humans, no living beings; everything is simply written by fate. Tianfeng thought it saw cause and effect, saw the future, but that too was arranged. Its fate was to die by your hand, so the future it saw was false. If fate ordained that you die by its hand, then the future it saw was real; it's just a matter of the writer's whim.

Hahaha—what love is there? What lovers or mothers and children are there? What life and death are there? It's all just a few strokes of the pen.

As she spoke, she looked at Gu Guanqi and said, "Gu Guanqi—let it be, don't investigate—don't seek the truth—"

At this point, Duanmu Xian's life completely vanished.

Gu Guanqi frowned and said in a deep voice, "Fate? A book? Is it really all arranged by someone else? The operating logic of this world is very strange, and now there's another fate?"

If what Duanmu Xian said is true, and someone is writing about everything in this world, then it seems that this could indeed explain the strange operating logic of this world. Could it be that I'm an imposter?

The thought sent a chill down Gu Guanqi's spine.

He understood why Duanmu Xian was so desperate. He had only guessed, and it had affected his state of mind. But Duanmu Xian seemed to have actually seen the truth, so it was normal for her to be desperate.

"wrong,"

Gu Guanqi whispered, "Mo Baichan also saw the Eternal Heaven, so why is her understanding different from Duanmu Xian's? Is it because Mo Baichan only relied on the power of her bloodline, while Duanmu Xian refined her bloodline?"

Immediately, Gu Guanqi lightly touched the ground with his feet and quickly flew towards the mountain where Mo Baichan was hiding. Soon, he returned to that mountain.

Mo Baichan was sitting on a rock, filled with tension and anxiety. When she saw Gu Guanqi appear, she breathed a huge sigh of relief and quickly stood up, asking, "Brother Gu, did it work?"

The mountain is quite far from Hu City, and Mo Baichan is now just an ordinary person, so it's difficult for her to see what's happening in Hu City.

Gu Guanqi nodded slightly and said, "It's all resolved. I'll take you to find someone later to notify all the Xianbei tribal leaders to gather together, and then we can appoint a new Xianbei king."

Of course, it seems that it doesn't matter who is chosen now, as the Xianbei no longer have the strength to invade the Central Plains.

"Huh?" Mo Baichan asked in confusion.

Gu Guanqi didn't explain, but asked, "By the way, I heard that when each generation of Holy Maidens dies or the bloodline of a deity is exhausted, a new Holy Maiden is automatically born. Is that true?"

"Yes," Mo Baichan said, "Whenever the divine bloodline of the previous Holy Maiden is exhausted, a young girl in our tribe will soon have a new bloodline."

Pulse awareness awakens.

"I want to go to the holy mountain!"