To comprehend all laws and attain immortality

Chapter 373 Underground Village

After several days of contemplation, Gu Fan had a clear understanding of how to repair the Star Chariot.

The cultivator surnamed Wang was only at the Golden Core stage, yet he was able to repair the Star Raft. Naturally, it was not a difficult task for Gu Fan.

The Star Chariot itself has an exquisite structure, but it is, after all, a standard magic weapon used on a large scale. The refining process has long been broken down and solidified, greatly reducing the difficulty of repair. What is really important are the various spiritual materials.

The teleportation array at the core of the Starship has many repair materials that can be used to build interdimensional teleportation arrays.

However, even if the Star Chariot cannot be repaired, Gu Fan is not worried.

Although the spiritual energy here is extremely scarce, he can take pills to restore his magical power and then leave using the interdimensional teleportation array. However, doing so would leave the cultivators present behind.

As Gu Fan stepped out of the meditation room, a group of cultivators immediately came to greet him.

With hopeful eyes, Yan Fuyao cupped her hands and asked, "Senior, have you figured out the method to repair the Star Chariot?"

Gu Fan nodded slightly.

Upon hearing this, smiles immediately appeared on everyone's faces, and compliments poured in.

Gu Fan ignored the flattery and simply handed over a list of spiritual materials for Yan Fuyao to check and prepare. Then he prepared to start repairing the Starship.

The Guiyuan Furnace was thrown to the ground, and various spiritual materials flew into it one after another, and the Six Ding Divine Fire suddenly burst into flames.

The crowd stood at a distance, watching the scene with expressions of awe.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

The Star Chariot has been mostly repaired, with only a few parts remaining. Once the core formation is completed, the project will be finished.

As the Star Chariot became more and more complete each day, Yan Fuyao's evaluation of Gu Fan changed time and time again.

A cultivator at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm is not particularly rare in the Yan family.

The patriarch of the Yan family was a Nascent Soul cultivator, which was the source of the Yan family's confidence in dominating a region of the Light Realm.

Among the direct descendants of the Yan family alone, there are nearly ten Nascent Soul cultivators, not counting the guest elders recruited from outside.

However, the value of a Nascent Soul cultivator who is proficient in weapon crafting is completely different.

The deeper the family's foundation, the more intense the competition for resources among the younger generation. Otherwise, with Yan Fuyao's late-stage Golden Core status, there would be no need for him to personally travel to distant lands to escort spiritual materials.

If we could bring this Senior Gu into the clan as a respected figure...

Yan Fuyao was immediately tempted.

Just then, Gu Fan suddenly stopped.

Yan Fuyao quickly stepped forward and asked, "Senior, do you need any assistance?"

"No." Gu Fan shook his head, frowning as he looked in one direction. "There seems to be someone in that direction."

"A cultivator?" Yan Fuyao was taken aback.

"He's not a cultivator, he's a mortal," Gu Fan said, also feeling puzzled.

This realm was desolate and barren. If his divine sense hadn't inadvertently detected a faint glimmer of life, he would never have imagined that mortals could still survive here.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Fan's figure blurred, and he flew straight towards the direction from which the aura came.

Yan Fuyao dared not delay and quickly followed.

The two flew for over a hundred miles, and Yan Fuyao looked at Gu Fan with even more astonishment.

Ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators can roughly detect a radius of about 100 li with their divine sense, and at most, they can only detect a radius of about 20 li more.

The two had already flown 150 miles, but Gu Fan still hadn't stopped.

Without a doubt, this means that Gu Fan's spiritual strength far exceeds that of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.

They didn't stop their escape until they had traveled 180 miles.

A small figure was lying prone in the yellow sand, half of his body already buried. Judging from his face, he was a child who was not yet ten years old!

The child's clothes were tattered and patched together, barely covering his body. His skin was unusually pale, but his complexion was dull, and his body was very thin.

With a flick of his sleeve, Gu Fan swept away the surrounding yellow sand and brought the child close in mid-air.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that it was a little girl.

Yan Fuyao stepped forward and examined him for a moment before saying, "Judging from his appearance, he must have gone without food and water for a long time and fainted from hunger."

As he spoke, he took out a white jade wine pot carved with dragons and phoenixes.

As a member of the Yan family, he never lacked spiritual food and wine, but the girl was just a mortal and could not withstand too much spiritual energy.

He poured out only a drop of spiritual liquid, which dispersed into a thin mist in mid-air and slowly sent it into the girl's mouth and nose.

The spiritual energy slowly permeated her body, and the little girl's fingers twitched slightly. After a moment, she opened her eyes.

Upon suddenly seeing two strangers, she was first startled, then her eyes filled with surprise, elation, and disbelief.

"Xiao He met an immortal!"

The little girl exclaimed excitedly, knelt down with a thud, and kowtowed, saying, "Xiao He greets the immortal!"

This decisive action left Gu Fan and Yan Fuyao momentarily at a loss for words.

Gu Fan reached out and helped Xiao He up, saying gently, "You came to find us? How did you know we were immortals?"

The little girl nodded repeatedly upon hearing this and laughed, "The village chief said that if we encounter someone who can fly after leaving the village, they must be an immortal!"

"Village chief?" Gu Fan became increasingly curious.

"Yes," Xiaohe nodded and smiled, "Xiaohe finally won a spot in the lottery, which allows her to leave the village and go out to search for immortals."

"Unfortunately, we're almost out of food and haven't found any."

As Xiaohe spoke, she rubbed her stomach and then laughed, "Later, Xiaohe saw something falling from the sky and thought that the immortals must be there, so she came this way!"

"To find an immortal by drawing lots?" Gu Fan looked surprised.

Xiao He scratched his head and slowly explained, "Every so often, the village holds a lottery. Only those who are chosen can become messengers to go out and search for immortals. Only after finding an immortal can they be qualified to return to the village."

"The village chief said that as long as we can get a celestial being to help, the whole village will have a way to survive and will no longer have to suffer from hunger."

Gu Fan lowered his head and pondered upon hearing this.

The thing Xiao He mentioned that fell from the sky was probably the star raft that had previously crashed out of control and fallen into this realm.

However, when he scanned the surroundings with his divine sense, he did not find any trace of a village.

"The village... is still a long way from there."

Noticing Gu Fan's confusion, Xiao He turned around and pointed to a more remote area.

Gu Fan extended his divine sense in that direction, but it was still empty, with no trace of villages or towns.

Left with no other choice, the two of them took Xiao He and slowly flew away in the direction she indicated.

Xiao He sat in Gu Fan's lap, feeling both fear and curiosity about the sensation of flying.

Suddenly, he felt a weight on his shoulder as something climbed up. He turned his head and was startled to see the gourd's round eyes.

Her little mouth twitched, and she almost burst into tears.

Gu Fan raised his hand and lightly tapped the gourd's head, scolding in a low voice, "Don't scare people."

Hulu rubbed its head in a wronged manner and stuck its tongue out at Xiaohe.

Seeing this, Xiaohe couldn't help but giggle.

The three flew for another hundred miles and finally, guided by Xiao He, found the entrance to a hidden cave.

Gu Fan finally understood why his divine sense couldn't detect it; the entire village was hidden deep underground.

The entrance to the cave is very low, allowing only one person to pass by bending over.

The three of them walked down the passage for several miles, and suddenly the space opened up before them to a huge natural cave.

This place originally seemed to be an underground river, and it appeared much more humid compared to the yellow sand outside.

Gu Fan scanned the area with his divine sense and discovered that there were two hundred people living there, all of them young men and women or children, dressed in tattered clothes, many of whom were even worse off than Xiao He.

The crowd sat in a circle, cross-legged beside a handsome middle-aged man, listening quietly to what he was saying.

"Village Chief!" Xiao He shouted.

The middle-aged man turned his head upon hearing the sound, and upon seeing Gu Fan and the other person, his face instantly revealed the same expression as Xiao He's, filled with surprise and shock.

The crowd parted to the sides, and the middle-aged man quickly stepped forward, followed by a seven or eight-year-old boy.

"My name is Su Heng, and I pay my respects to the two seniors."

The middle-aged man bowed deeply, and the boy behind him followed suit, bowing respectfully.

These two were actually cultivators, but their cultivation levels were extremely low.

Su Heng was in the mid-stage of Qi Refining, while the child was only at the beginning of Qi Refining.