ah?The palace fighting system can also cultivate immortality

Chapter 186 Return to the Wu Clan
On the cliff of self-examination.

Ming Zhi took out the reward for the second place in the Immortal Alliance Competition and placed it outside the Chilun Palace.

She turned around and was about to leave when a gust of wind swept her away.

The door of the Red Wheel Hall opened and closed, just enough to let her in.

The red flame wheel was hanging high above the hall. In the middle of the red wheel was a gilded silver bamboo copper incense burner. In the curling smoke, the past moments of the Nine Yang Sect were vaguely visible. The clouds and mist mixed together. The eldest brother stood in front of the red wheel. The flame of the red wheel stretched his already tall shadow very long. He stood in the center of the complex array, using the array to stabilize his restless spiritual power.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Mingzhi concentrates the mind and collects the energy.

She was not supposed to enter the Red Wheel Palace without permission, and she just wanted to get out quickly.

"Du Xinghe, what did she say?"

"……what?"

Mingzhi hesitated.

"What did she say when it was announced that she was number one?"

Su Yan's eyes were half-closed, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and his profile, as if made of ice and snow, showed no change in his expression.

He seemed certain that Du Xinghe would make a speech related to the Nine Yang Sect after winning everything.

Even if it has nothing to do with the Nine Yang Sect, he should be mentioned.

After two setbacks in the Immortal Alliance Competition, Du Xinghe finally succeeded in walking into Su Yan's eyes, and went from being a despised former junior sister to a recognized enemy.

He swallowed his own failure and faced the fact that she was indeed very strong.

I can no longer treat her as my current junior sister.

"Uh……"

Ming Zhi's continuous interjections made Su Yan impatient: "Just say it directly."

"But brother, she didn't say anything."

Su Yan turned around with a flick of his robe and said coldly, "How could it be? You don't have to hide it from me. I will know it sooner or later... Don't worry, my spiritual power has stabilized."

After learning that Duxinghe had the largest number of soul flowers, his spiritual power went into a turmoil.

His own cave on the Cliff of Questioning the Heart was in ruins after being swept away by the tornado, so he felt that Ming Zhi was worried that he would lose control again after being stimulated.

Uh……

But how should Mingzhi say this?

Ming Zhi had no choice but to walk up to him, hold his hands, look up, and stare at him intently: "Senior Brother."

"Go ahead."

Ming Zhi said slowly: "Du Xinghe didn't say a word, she took the reward and left, and now she is no longer in Xihe Garden."

Su Yan's astonished expression spread across his long eyelashes. After a while, he said:

"Will not."

"How could she not say a word? She was so proud."

——That was an expression Ming Zhi had never seen on the eldest senior brother’s face. It was an even deeper shock and pain than when he was defeated by Du Xinghe before, as if he had self-centeredly regarded Du Xinghe as his nemesis, but the other party did not take him seriously and had already walked away from him very far away.

The magic circle under his feet emitted a black light, suppressing his boiling spiritual power again.

A strong wind blew up from the magic circle, causing the two people's robes to fly everywhere, and their hairbands were also blown away. Their black hair fell messily at their sides, and their handsome faces were almost broken.

But Su Yan had no time to care.

His eyes were fixed on Ming Zhi: "Did she really not say a word?"

"Brother, I won't lie to you."

Ming Zhi wanted to withdraw her hand, but her delicate wrist was hurt by the pinch.

After a long while, he finally let go of her hand: "Let Yu Qiuzhu come over... It's not that I don't believe you, I just want to confirm it one more time."

That means you don't believe her!
"Okay, Brother, I'll go right away."

Ming Zhi agreed obediently, fled from the Chilun Palace, and called his third senior brother Yu Qiuzhu over.

After hearing this, Yu Qiuzhu said, "You cannot enter the Red Wheel Hall without permission."

"You know what kind of personality Senior Brother has."

"Too……"

In less than a quarter of an hour, Yu Qiuzhu came back.

Ming Zhi asked him how he got rid of his brother, and he said, "I had expected that he would ask this question, so I prepared the photo stone and let him go to see it himself."

After hearing this, Ming Zhi showed admiration: "Third Senior Brother really prepared for a rainy day."

Yu Qiuzhu shook his head: "I hope Brother will remember to return the photo stone to me. It's not cheap to buy one."

And that image stone was infused with spiritual power by Su Yan and he looked at it over and over again.

The gilded silver bamboo copper incense burner in the middle of the Red Wheel Hall captured the inner demons of those who entered the hall, and the thick smoke also reflected the image of the things that he was obsessed with, all projecting the same face -

The girl had swords on her waist and back. She was tall and thin with a cold look in her eyes.

Even if she could leave her name forever on the Monument to the Prodigies, it did not move her in the slightest.

She really didn't say anything.

Only when he walked towards his disciples, his thin lips curved up a little and a smile appeared in his eyes.

Su Yan watched it over and over again.

The image of Du Xinghe as a child kept appearing in his mind. She stumbled behind him and begged him to teach her swordsmanship.

He thought she was as dumb as her little wooden sword.

In the smoke above Su Yan's head, the shadowy figure of Du Xinghe appeared, pointing his sword at him.

Click.

The photo stone that Yu Qiuzhu sent to him shattered crisply because it could not withstand the excessive spiritual power he injected into it.

……

On the other side, Du Xinghe politely declined Ji Wuhuo's invitation and set out for Bayou Nanling with his apprentice.

Regarding the "Gu Shen Jue", the Wu clan and the Gu spirits must know more.

Before leaving, Zheng Tianlu reluctantly stuffed more pills into her hands and said, "Someone has to take care of the medicine garden. I can't be away for too long. You have to come back to visit when you are free. Although alchemy is only a minor subject, you can't neglect it."

"Brother, I understand. I will come back to see Master when I have time."

Du Xinghe gave all the rare materials that could be used for alchemy from the first place reward of the Immortal Alliance Competition to his senior brother.

Especially the pot of water of resurrection: "Didn't Master always talk about wanting the water of resurrection? He is a spiritual plant master, and it will be more useful in his hands than in mine."

Master Rong Yu helped her a lot when she was in a weak position, and her master was also generous in giving her support.

Naturally, she would like to repay her master whenever she has the chance.

"Master! The flying boat has arrived!"

Shujiuqing greeted her from not far away.

The flying boat to Huilihuo Island and the one passing through the Nanling Mountains of Bayou were not on the same flight. No matter how reluctant Zheng Tianlu was, he could only watch his junior sister leave. He sighed after watching her get on the flying boat, "It would be great if my junior sister liked to stay in a place to practice in seclusion! Then I could see her every day. Now we can only see each other once a year or two. Last time she was at the Jindan stage, and this time she is at the Jindan stage. Will we have to wait until she breaks through to the Yuanying stage to see each other next time?"

Another flying boat landed, and people rushed over here. Tian Xiao raised his hand to protect him: "First, you should form the elixir, and then think about these things."

"…I'm married! I'm married!"

Zheng Tianlu protested.

"You used the Bu Tian Dan that Du Xinghe gave you to form the elixir. Your foundation is unstable. If you don't practice diligently, you will fall back to your original state within ten years."

Tian Xiao's cold words instantly turned Zheng Tianlu back into a wilted cabbage.

There is no way. It is too difficult for them, the alchemists, to break through the realm.

Zheng Tianlu is a talented alchemist praised by his fellow disciples in Miaohuo Sect.

But this time when he came to the Immortal Alliance Competition, he found that looking at the Pingyun Continent, Jindan cultivators of the same age were not worth much at all... Although it was said that it was difficult for Dan cultivators to break through, Zheng Tianlu couldn't help feeling frustrated: "I know, I will practice diligently."

He was watching the battle for the Soul Flower in the Ten States Secret Realm outside the water mirror, and only then did he intuitively see the difference between his junior sister and others.

She seemed to be separated from the entire world of immortal cultivation.

The only one who has a close relationship with her is Miaohuomen...

Alchemists will not come to the Immortal Alliance Competition. Even if there are, they would have been eliminated in previous competitions.

Zheng Tianlu walked towards another flying boat.

The platinum guest passage he was walking in was obviously much wider and quieter. He whispered, "I really hope... that I can live to see the day when my junior sister breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage."

Junior sister doesn’t know many people in the world of immortal cultivation.

He is shameless and can consider himself an important member of the group.

If he fell back to the pre-Jiedan stage, how could he accompany his junior sister to break through?
"I want to become stronger! At least as strong as you! Don't hold my junior sister back!"

Zheng Tianlu clenched his fists and made up his mind.

The bodyguard monk declined to comment on this.

After the two flying boats were filled with passengers, they slowly set sail.

Du Xinghe booked the best suite and lived with his three disciples.

Shu Jiuqing had always stayed in the budget cabin when traveling before, and could only meditate standing up. This was the first time he had his own room on a flying boat, and he could not hide his excitement: "I really have the right master, and I will live a good life."

Just as we settled down, the staff on the flying boat came knocking on the door.

"What's the matter? Are there robbers, or do you want me to give up the room?" Du Xinghe opened the door.

The man showed an embarrassed look and said hurriedly, "We have prepared another room for Ji's distinguished guest on our flying boat. The accommodation fee here will be refunded to the real person first."

A distinguished guest of the Ji family?

After being explained by the flying boat staff, Du Xinghe learned that the Ji family's investment accounted for a large proportion of the Chamber of Commerce. There were rooms reserved for the Ji family on the flying boat for a long time, which were much better than the rooms rented out to outsiders and could be called a flying cave.

Du Xinghe asked Ji Wuhuo in the jade book: "When did I become a distinguished guest of the Ji family?"

"Always."

"Does your family know about your pursuit of me?"

Ji Wuhuo paused for a moment before replying: "It's hard not to know."

Without her asking, he told her everything she wanted to know: "Even without me, with your talent and background, if you want to make friends with the Ji family, you can still get a seat as a guest of honor. It would be even better if you can be my Taoist partner... Of course, this has nothing to do with the room on the flying boat. I am just showing my attitude. If my sweetheart has to pay to stay on my flying boat, doesn't it seem that I am insincere?"

Just by reading the text, Du Xinghe got a glimpse of the domineering side of this rich kid.

But within two seconds, he sent a simple sketch of a puppy kowtowing with tears in its eyes, with the words:

Please please.

"Tsk."

Du Xinghe couldn't help laughing, so he didn't refuse anymore and turned around to greet the three people: "Let's go, let's change rooms."

When the staff saw that she agreed, they looked relieved.

Fortunately she agreed!

Otherwise, Master Ji would definitely think that he had not done his job well, as he did not arrange her to Ji's room right away when registering the passengers on board, leaving her in the No. 1 room.

That’s right, the most expensive No. 1 room on the flying boat is fully worthy of the word “distressed” compared with the side rooms that have long been reserved for Ji family’s distinguished guests.

On the flying boat, most of the monks were crowded in the cheap cabin, just like Du Xinghe who had just left the Nine Yang Sect. They could only stand and meditate, and wait until there were fewer people before they could find a seat to sit down. The guest rooms of the Ji family occupied an exclusive floor on the flying boat, with a garden with a small bridge and flowing water, and even a koi pond for guests to fish.

This time, Shu Jiuqing's eyes bulged out, and she turned to look at Shen Shui: "Brother, what about the days when I squeezed into the cheap class before?"

"…Your legs are good?"

Shu Jiuqing was filled with grief and indignation: "This is an evil immortal cultivation family!"

The water quality of the koi pond was excellent. She even wanted to go down and swim in it, but she was afraid that the staff on the flying boat would find out and think that their master's disciple had never seen the world.

While she was hesitating, she saw her senior brother climb up the tree and pick the biggest and best fruit from the branch. He called her, "Junior sister, come and try this. It's really delicious!"

He threw the fruit to her, and she caught it subconsciously and looked at her master. Du Xinghe raised his eyes lazily: "Why are you looking at me? Eat if you want to, and swim if you want to."

Who dares to talk about her?
The place was very big, so she simply let all the six Big Dipper cubs in the Galaxy Palace come out and have fun, which could help to broaden their horizons.

She herself spent most of her time in the Galaxy Palace refining her defensive magic weapon.

That indestructible black scale still remains the same.

Du Xinghe even tried to contact Xuanwu while meditating, hoping that his adoptive father would show him a way out - adoptive father, don't just send the scales back and not come back, teach her how to refine them!
Of course, Xuanwu did not respond to her unreasonable request.

This rare magic weapon, which can be seen and touched but cannot be used, made Du Xinghe feel uneasy for a long time.

When Emperor Ying Cang learned that Ji Wuhuo had given her a better room, his thin lips moved and then closed.

Cang Hengzi: "Why don't you ask for a replacement for Xinghe? Don't you have no spirit stones?"

"Of course."

Cang Hengzi: "Many of these are conveniences that cannot be bought with spirit stones. You don't even know which forces make up the Chamber of Commerce in Pingyun Continent now."

"..."

Emperor Ying Cang was silent for a moment, then he said stubbornly, "I can carry her on my back and fly from Xihe Garden to Bayou Nanling. It will take about the same amount of time as a flying boat."

Cang Hengzi imagined the scene he described and felt that it was unnecessary.

Emperor Ying Cang: "Actually, there is another way."

Cang Hengzi: "You say."

"I can seize the flying boat and drive everyone else away. Then the entire flying boat will be hers."

The logic is simple and the actions are rough and straightforward.

Cang Hengzi pondered: "If you drive everyone else away, who will drive the flying boat?"

Driving a flying boat is not as simple as operating a steering wheel. It involves the use of large-scale space magic arrays. Only the monks trained by the Chamber of Commerce with real money can understand it. It is not something that can be mastered by just any monk at a high level.

However, there are methods for the fusion period.

Emperor Ying Cang smiled faintly and said, "I can carry the flying boat and fly."

Du Xinghe, who was refining scales with a refining instrument, had just come to his senses when he heard these shocking words.

Cang Hengzi asked her, "Xinghe, what do you think of your majesty's words?"

Du Xinghe had no choice but to put down the weapon refining instrument, walked up to His Majesty, held up his face and forced him to look directly at him: "Your Majesty, I have been wanted by the Samsara Court."

"Ah."

"In fact, I am also on the Xuan Dynasty's bounty list."

"Um……?"

"So, don't do anything that will make the Chamber of Commerce want me."

"……it is good."

She unexpectedly discovered that although His Majesty was thin, his cheeks felt a bit fleshy, and when she held them with both hands and rubbed them, they felt good. Unfortunately, His Majesty did not tolerate her rubbing for too long, and disappeared on the spot with a snap, leaving only his embarrassed voice: "...I won't do anything stupid, don't play with my face."

Du Xinghe subconsciously looked down at his hands.

Emperor Ying Cang added anxiously: "You are not allowed to reminisce about it."

"ha,"

Du Xinghe chuckled: "You are so fierce."

She found his majesty's reaction very interesting. A casual comment made him think about it for a long time.

While I was daydreaming, the flying boat arrived at the Bayou Nanling Mountains.

The last time she came, Du Xinghe took the trouble to disguise herself in a low-key manner. This time, when she left the flying boat through the VIP channel, while other cultivators were still queuing, she had already flown into the edge of Nanling Mountains on her sword.

Following the direction he remembered, he flew towards the Witch Clan’s territory.

The four of them took anti-poison pills in advance, but the constant miasma and poisonous fog still made Shujiuqing want to vomit from time to time. Shenshui then took out a bag from the storage ring, asked her to vomit into the bag, and then throw the bag away.

"Thank you, thank you, Brother..."

"If you spit on the sword, the sword spirit will be angry." said Shenshui.

"I will try my best to avoid it," said Jiuqing with a pale face: "Where are we going?"

A few days ago, on the flying boat, Shu Jiuqing thought that he would live a life of luxury with his master. The spiritual food on the flying boat is open to the distinguished guests in unlimited quantities. There is endless spiritual rice and spiritual food every day. The furnishings in the rooms are very exquisite, so that the monks can not only relax their minds when living in them, but also be nourished by spiritual energy with every breath.

The young master of the Ji family is pursuing her master!
Her master is an alchemist and has the support of Miaohuo Sect!
How can we lack this spiritual stone?
Thinking about it makes me excited.

Finally, I no longer have to live without food to eat, and fasting has become the norm. I use the saved spiritual stones to buy second-hand cinnabar in the second-hand market.

But she wasn't satisfied with the life of luxury, so she was sent to Nanling.

"Master built a cave here before. Look," Shenshui pointed to the north, "right there."

Shujiuqing looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a bottomless swamp.

She swallowed and said, "Master's choice of location is quite unique."

It's hard to imagine who would choose to build their cave on a poisonous swamp.

When only bile was left from her vomiting, Du Xinghe finally arrived near the Wu clan's territory.

Shu Jiuqing looked around: "Well, if I remember correctly, this place is not... the base of the legendary witch tribe? I remember they are quite xenophobic."

Only the Wu Clan has mastered the method of detoxification that allows them to live in the Bayou Nanling Mountains for a long time.

……

A beautiful elf-like girl was picking freshly grown medicinal herbs in the woods. When she looked up, she saw a huge sword hanging in front of her, with four people standing on the sword - according to the sword spirit's protest, this was ignoring road safety and overloading.

The alertness on her face disappeared after she saw the appearance of the person who came, and was replaced by a face full of surprise: "Ancestor, you are back!"

"……Um."

Du Xinghe nodded a little uncomfortably: "I have something to discuss with Gu Ling and the clan leader."

"I'll take you there right away. Father will be very happy to see you! And the elder... he has talked about you many times, worried that you are not living well out there... and... and..."

Seeing that he was hesitating, Du Xinghe said, "Anything else? Go ahead and tell me, Atulin."

——Yes, the beautiful girl in front of him is Atulin, the saint of the witch clan.

The young man in women's clothing confessed his love to Du Xinghe before she left the Wu tribe.

"The old man still remembers my name!"

Atulin was so excited that he almost fainted.

He could feel that the old ancestor was much stronger this time, at least to the point where he couldn't look at her directly and just wanted to surrender. He no longer dared to hope to be her legal husband, but just said: "Also, I want to ask, do I still have the hope of becoming one of your Taoist companions?"

Powerful and beautiful, she also inherited the "Gu Shen Jue".

Atulin believed that all the young witch boys of appropriate age would like to have her favor.

Du Xinghe: "No, thank you."

Shujiuqing's eyes were about to pop out of her head.

Wait, her master is actually the ancestor of the Wu clan?
The amount of information is a bit overwhelming, she needs to take it slow!
Under the guidance of Atulin, the four of them came to the witch tribe's homeland. This closed and secluded village was not much different from what it looked like the last time they left. People lived on the tall trees and rarely came to the ground. Looking up, the connection between the tree houses was like a small town in a dense forest.

"Everyone, come out and see who I brought back?" Atulin walked to the open space in the middle and greeted excitedly.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction of Du Xinghe.

Xiaopang crawled out from her neck and fell on her shoulders.

Every Wu Clan member's natal Gu worm felt the pressure from Xiaopang, and their bodies trembled instinctively:

"The ancestors are back!"

"Quick, quick, notify the elders! And the clan leader!"

"My spider is still breeding, but it is frightened by the ancestor's natal Gu insect and dares not move. Who can save my spider?"

After a commotion, Du Xinghe was welcomed to the tree house at the top of the dense forest town.

The three people who came with her were treated as distinguished guests and were entertained in another room.

The elder in the tree house bowed to her before asking her to sit down.

"I thought that the ancestor would come back soon, but I didn't expect that you would break through the golden elixir so soon." said the elder.

"I should have said so in advance."

After the elder said this, Du Xinghe realized that he had come here at will, which was a bit arbitrary: "But, how did the elder know that I would be back soon?"

"Do you still remember the "Gu Shen Jue" that I lent to our ancestor?"

"Of course I remember. I came back just for this matter," Du Xinghe asked, "Can you lend me the Gu Shen Jue again?"

The "Gu Shen Jue" that she saw in her sea of ​​consciousness was completely different from what she saw in the Wu Clan's territory.

I've already shown it to her once, so it shouldn't be difficult to show it to her again!

Surprisingly, the elder rejected her.

Under Du Xinghe's gaze, he said, "It's not that I'm hiding something from my ancestor, but... come and see."

He held out a wooden box, inside which was placed a handful of black ash, carefully.

"Before the fifteenth day, the Gu Shen Jue spontaneously combusted without fire. We tried every method to stop it from burning itself to ashes, but we were unable to stop it. Buta wanted to take a pen and paper to copy down the contents that were not burned, but he was attacked by the Gu and fell into a coma. He has not woken up since then."

The profound power of "Gu Shen Jue" still remains in the wooden box.

Du Xinghe calculated the date and found that the fifteenth was the right day for her to activate the magic circle and fight against the fog cave.

It was also the day when "Gu Shen Jue" occupied her sea of ​​consciousness.

"I didn't burn it," she said.

"I know. I don't blame you. The day after the Gu Shen Jue spontaneously combusted, I asked Atulin to enter the altar and ask Master Gu Ling to help us solve our doubts." The elder looked at her steadily, with a complicated expression on his wrinkled face, but his eyes were clear. "Master Gu Ling said that it was because the Gu Shen Jue had found its true owner, so it no longer needed to remain in the world in a tangible form."

"I asked all the tribe members who had learned the Gu Shen Jue, and even called Bu Ran back."

Du Xinghe felt the name Bu Ran sounded familiar.

She thought about it for a moment, but couldn't remember.

The elder continued, "But, none of them are, and you are the only one left."

There was a hint of helplessness in his tone.

Du Xinghe joined the Wu Clan halfway through. Although they regarded her as the real ancestor because of the Gu Ling incident, they might have hoped in their hearts that the native Wu Clan members could inherit the legacy.

After a moment of silence, Du Xinghe said, "I might indeed be the person that Gu Shen Jue found."

She omitted the parts about the Immortal Alliance Competition and the Fog Cave. The elder was indeed not interested in those things. Only after she talked about the abilities that the "Gu Shen Jue" gave her did he show a look of sudden enlightenment.

"There are many ancient sects and immortal cultivation families in Pingyun Continent. The history and foundation of our Wu Clan are no less profound than theirs, but because we only recognize the blood of our own people, we have never been able to expand outward and can only live behind closed doors."

"We have to admit that we may be lagging behind in some areas."

He had to admit it, but the elder's tone was still very tactful.

Who is willing to admit that they are inferior to others?

They live in the Nanling Mountains of Bayou and are not accepted by the outside world. All cultivators reject Gu cultivators.

Upon hearing the new description of the Gu breeding farm in "The Secret of the Gu God", a gleam of light flashed in the elder's old eyes.

"Since the Gu Shen Jue chose our ancestor, there must be a reason for it."

"We in the Wu Clan will fully support our ancestor in practicing the new Gu Shen Jue. Although Atulin said that our ancestor has somewhere else to go, we kindly ask you to stay in the Wu Clan for a while longer."

the elder pleaded, standing up and paying her a great salute.

Du Xinghe hurriedly stopped him: "I will stay... or rather, I came back to practice the "Gu Shen Jue" and meet the Gu Ling. I told Atulin that I had somewhere to go, and I meant to go to the secret realm to find the Gu Ling."

"Master Gu Ling? Yes, I was mistaken."

The elder suddenly realized, and then he looked embarrassed: "And Bu Ran also wants to see you, I wonder what the old ancestor thinks?"

The second time he heard the name Bu Ran, Du Xinghe suddenly remembered -

The master of the Spider Temple, the lawless outlaw who robbed the flying boat, Chen Bushan!