ah?The palace fighting system can also cultivate immortality

Chapter 192 Xinyue Saves Gecko

The other side.

"The manipulator is indeed on the mural."

After dodging a powerful chopping blow, Shu Jiuqing threw a pot of ink, which exploded instantly when it hit the mural. Large amounts of ink covered the long worms on the mural. At the same time, the terracotta warriors also lost their target, and the weapons in their hands remained suspended in the air.

After locking onto the target, she did not dare to relax. She bypassed the numerous terracotta warriors and pasted a blasting talisman on the mural, completely destroying it. The terracotta warriors dimmed in an instant.

She solved the problem that Du Xinghe took more than half an hour to solve in just three minutes.

She was extremely powerful, and her first reaction when encountering trouble was to fight back. With the help of the Purple Wisdom Eyes to uncover the truth, she was caught off guard and ignored the most common traps. If it were an ordinary cultivator, they would not be able to survive for more than half an hour under the terracotta warriors that could be repaired continuously.

Even the walls of the cave have the ability to absorb spiritual energy and cannot be destroyed directly.

The only injury she suffered was a scratch on her shoulder by an axe while she was trying to protect the Gu egg in her arms.

"Don't underestimate the low-level monks who are trying to survive on their own."

Shujiuqing murmured.

When the murals were blown up, the stone walls of the cave slowly rose.

As she was about to leave, the Gu egg in her arms began to vibrate. She stopped and placed her palm on the egg. She actually understood what it meant. She followed its guidance and came to the mural. She dug out the long worm from the wall and wrapped it around the egg. As soon as the long worm touched the eggshell, it turned into fine ash and merged into the shell. It was completely absorbed in a short while.

When the Gu egg completely absorbed the worm, the light went out and it turned back into a quiet, ordinary egg.
"Is this considered a successful feeding?"

The nine cold days of love are hesitant.

But she could feel its satiety from the egg, which conveyed the meaning of "I'm full".

This time, when she walked out again, Gu Dan didn't stop her.

Walking out of the cave, there is a different world outside.

The whole building was in the shape of a spiral, hollow in the middle, with no fences. It was so deep that one could not see the bottom when leaning over, only darkness. If one looked at it for a long time, one would have the illusion of being sucked in. The monks did not fall to their death, but with Shu Jiuqing's cautious survival experience, he did not plan to jump directly to test its depth.

After going half a circle, there is a bridge leading to somewhere else in front.

"Master, father, father, father——"

She shouted loudly towards the people below, and the sound echoed loudly.

No one responded to her except her own.

Shujiuqing frowned suddenly.

"It seems that the master is not here."

"We have to meet up with Master first..."

"My original intention was to follow Master and pick up some garbage to eat, not to break into the Wu Clan's Gu Cultivator restricted area alone!"

Based on her understanding of Du Xinghe's strength, she could easily beat ten of her.

She had already come out of the cave. If the master had faced the same test, he would have come out long ago and would have heard her cries.

So she was certain that the master was not here.

"Let's go to the bridge and take a look."

Shujiuqing made a decision quickly.

What she didn't know was that at this time, Du Xinghe was still chopping the terracotta soldiers into pieces and trying to reassemble them, trying to find a way to fight his way out, and he didn't even glance at the murals on the wall.

……

Let’s bring the timeline back to Du Xinghe.

When the stone wall slowly opened, Xiaopang jumped onto the wall and quickly ate the long worm.

As she took out the jade shield, she wondered, "You put everything in your mouth, aren't you afraid of getting a stomachache... Jingxin, don't cry, wasn't that just a temporary solution? You don't want to die with me, do you? I just made a helpless decision, and I'm also very sad."

"Promise me you won't throw me out again!"

"Don't be so stingy. We have a proverb that goes 'a prime minister's stomach can hold a boat'. You, the turtle prime minister, should have a bigger stomach too."

He readily comes up with words of generosity and moral blackmail.

Du Xinghe walked out of the cave and saw the same scene as Shu Jiuqing.

She tried to sense the positions of the remaining five people, but was restricted by an invisible force.

After thinking for a moment, she drew her sword, and after making sure that she could fly with the sword here, she jumped directly to the middle.

The surrounding floors quickly swept upwards.

The air current lifted her long hair, and after falling for a minute, she finally landed on the bottom floor.

The moment her feet touched the ground, the candles on both sides lit up at once, as if guiding her to the depths.

"Invite me over..."

Is it a trap?

Du Xinghe was thinking, but he walked in the direction of the candlelight without hesitation.

Walking through the long corridor on the lowest floor, she came to an exceptionally spacious room.

It’s a bit of a stretch to call it a “room” as it is the size of two basketball courts and more like a hall.

After Du Xinghe walked in, she found that the four yellow walls were not real walls, but four huge bronze mirrors. When a person was in it, the mirrors on both sides reflected countless images of herself, and she was facing herself in the front.

The face of her in the bronze mirror was stern, and the corners of her eyebrows and eyes showed that she was not to be provoked.

If the person in the mirror was not himself, Du Xinghe would instinctively want to draw his sword, which showed that she did not have a kind and likable appearance.

She was quite unhappy to be forced to examine herself as soon as she entered the room.

The air in the hall was much more humid than in the cave before. There were many huge semicircular objects attached to the walls, which seemed to be decorated with dewdrops, or like the walls of the southern sky. After the battle with the Terracotta Warriors, Du Xinghe no longer dared to fully trust the role of the Purple Wisdom Pupil and paid more attention to the details of the surrounding environment.

"I'm here, now what?"

Du Xinghe's voice echoed in the empty hall.

In response to her, there was a surging sound under the water.

"Hide your head and show your tail——"

Du Xinghe had just started to speak coldly when a long rope with a force exceeding a thousand pounds shot out from her blind spot and hit her shoulder.

However, monks do not only see things with their eyes.

She dodged lightly, turned around and attacked the person coming, but saw that the monster that attacked her had already entered the bronze mirror, leaving only a shadow.

In the dark shadow, the candlelight revealed some scales.

This little gadget hiding in the mirror moves extremely fast, too fast to be captured by the naked eye. The mirror surface becomes its best cover, isolating all the evil spirit completely. Only its eerie and complacent laughter can be heard under the mirror, as if mocking Du Xinghe for not being able to catch it.

The laughter was audible.

"My disciples are not here either."

Du Xinghe looked around and saw the entire Bronze Mirror Hall from beginning to end. She was too lazy to argue with this little thing, so she turned around and left.

She had just taken a step when the door behind her slammed shut:

"…You're going to lock me up here? Are you sure?"

A long shadow passed across the bronze mirror.

It swam around her again and again with Du Xinghe as its center, and corresponding to this, dark red patterns appeared on her body.

With each additional circle of dark lines, the color becomes darker.

"You have courage."

Under the heavy shadows, she slowly stood up from her loose standing position, clenching her five fingers in the air.

The heavy sword on her back flew out, and the surrounding dim mist did not change the frosty color of the long and heavy blade in the slightest. She curled her thin lips slightly, and her smile was full of arrogance as if she could show off her strength.

The sword light split into thousands of rays, and was reflected by two bronze mirrors, revealing countless tens of thousands of sword blades.

In just a moment, thousands of sword lights brightened the eyes of all living creatures in the hall!
The sword energy scraped out violently and rolled towards the three bronze mirrors.

The three bronze mirrors had features similar to the cave walls, but were far less strong than the cave walls. Under Du Xinghe's quick attack, they soon made a teeth-grinding tearing sound. Since this monster could shuttle between glass and mirrors, she would make it unable to hide and have nowhere to hide!
There was a bright light in the hall, and three bronze mirrors were smashed into pieces, with the broken mirrors falling to the ground.

The last bit of golden light stopped on the tip of Du Xinghe's sword.

In the blink of an eye, a dark shadow slid across the ground, and the door that was originally closed also opened a crack.

No matter how powerful most monsters are, they have no self-respect, let alone martial ethics.

If you can beat him, beat him to death; if you can’t, run away.

And it obviously also left a way out for itself.

This ground is also a mirror for it to retreat into—

boom!
The door was blown shut again by a gust of sword wind.

The mirror surface that served as the floor was cracked into spider-like patterns by Du Xinghe's steps, and the only monster hiding in it was also cracked into hundreds of mirror petals like a prey locked in a kaleidoscope.

"I didn't give you permission to leave."

Xue Ming pointed downward and tapped lightly, and the last bronze mirror shattered beyond repair.

A wailing sound was heard in the mirror, and a huge black shadow emerged. Only then did Du Xinghe see the true appearance of this thing.

It turned out to be a giant gecko that was two stories tall!

"When I saw the scales, I thought it was at least a small dragon, but I didn't expect it to be a gecko... But that's right, the gecko is also among the five poisonous creatures."

Crossing the Galaxy is thoughtful.

The fact that geckos are listed as one of the five poisonous creatures is an unjust case that has lasted for thousands of years.

The gecko itself is not poisonous, but its urine is poisonous. However, that is not its means of attack. It is a very honest reptile that will only break off its tail to survive when faced with difficulties. It is a cowardly animal.

But the gecko in the witch clan is a real poisonous monster.

Du Xinghe didn't know much about the geckos among the poisonous insects, so he was really a little scared this time.

She could accept being bitten by a snake and was not afraid of being tied up by a giant spider.

But if the gecko really wanted to attack her by nuzzling her...

"Well, let's just kill him."

The huge sword formation slowly rose behind Du Xinghe again.

The gecko shuddered and was about to bow down to her and beg for mercy, but before he could lower his head, his head and body were separated.

When the gecko's head fell to the ground, Du Xinghe exclaimed, "Sword Spirit, it seemed like it wanted to say something just now."

Sword Spirit: "Yes, but you were in a hurry to let it reincarnate, so you didn't hear it."

"Then it should learn from this lesson and learn to speak earlier in its next life."

Du Xinghe searched the hall again, making sure that there were no mechanisms he had missed before he retreated.

……

On the other side, Xinyue and Canshui also cracked the mechanism in the cave.

The two men came out of the cave at almost the same time, and they did not leave rashly. After wandering on different floors for a while, they met each other.

It was as if they were drawn together by some kind of rules.

"It's the power of the Master,"

Xinyue said first: "Let's go find the master, and by the way...if we see Junior Sister, let's help her."

"Sister, do you know the location of Master?"

Xinyue frowned and shook her head: "I don't know, the prosthetic limb can't contact the sword spirit..."

There is a distinction between high and low, and servants cannot sense the location of the Gu God in turn.

Shenshui's nose twitched: "I can smell the master's scent and find the master's direction - wait, why are you holding the sword across my neck, Senior Sister?"

The sword light was frosty, and Xinyue's eyes were even colder: "Why do you know the master's scent so well? Do you also secretly smell the master on weekdays? Obscene!"

"..."

What an injustice.

The last time the monkey was so wronged was when he was suppressed under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years.

After Shenshui tried his best to explain that his sense of smell was just more sensitive than that of ordinary cultivators, and that he had been with his master day and night and had been infected with his master's scent, Xinyue half-believed and half-doubted and put down the sword: "Then you lead the way."

After sniffing the water for a while, he said with certainty: "Master has jumped down... Wait! Wait! Wait! We need to think long and hard!!!"

Before he could finish the word "discuss it over the long term", Xinyue pulled him down.

Following the guidance of the candlelight, they also came to the Bronze Mirror Hall. However...

The hall was in ruins, with only a giant gecko corpse left.

The Gu worm had a strong vitality and would not be killed easily. However, even so, its head was chopped off by the Jindan sword cultivator. It lay on the ground dying, feeling the loss of its vitality... It could no longer see or hear anything. There were bursts of white light in its mind, playing a reel of its memories of this life... It was isolated from the world in this abandoned altar... Fortunately, it laid two healthy eggs. The vicious and cruel sword cultivator did not attack the two eggs. It seemed that they could hatch safely...

In this life, dying at the hands of a powerful swordsman can be considered a dignified death.

In my next life, I don’t want to be a gecko.

The last breath slowly came out of the body of the insect.

"Command all spirits to reach the infinite above and the netherworld below..."

"Thunder!"

A thunder talisman was fastened on the chest of the cricket, and with the help of the spiritual power of the pure water spiritual root, it actually electrocuted it through!
That last breath was forcibly held back, and it even regained some of its hearing.

It heard humans talking next to it.

"Senior Sister, this gecko has no grudge against us, why would you want to electrocute it into a charred corpse?"

"It must have seen the master. I want to ask it about the master's whereabouts."

The headless gecko on the ground suddenly hunched up, its chest heaving violently.

The worm roared: [I won't reveal a single word, I'm already dead! ]

This roar exhausted the little strength it had just recovered, and it fell straight down again.

Unfortunately, the person in front of it was the most talented medical practitioner with water spiritual roots.

"Thunder!"

"Senior sister, the lightning talisman seems to be useless."

"Shenshui, take out your stick and point it here," the owner of the cold female voice gestured at the location of the inner elixir, "hit it hard and wake it up."

The Black and White Impermanence will not lead the way for monsters; they just want eternal peace to embrace themselves.

However, the next moment, the Rakshasa stick with a tremendous force fell from a great height.

One stick is not enough, two sticks, the dense force of the stick like a storm, actually opened up its stagnant meridians again!
【ah--】

The lizard's upper body arched, its four legs straightened, and it came back to life.

[You, you...are you done yet? I just want to die! Why did you save me? I'm not even afraid of death, so why would I be afraid of you?]

Die Zhu translated the words of the giant gecko for Xinyue.

"Oh."

Xinyue raised her hand and grabbed the empty air.

The huge white egg attached to the corner of the wall fell into her palm: "Tell me where the people who killed you went, or I will crush them to pieces."

蝘：[……]

Sorry, I spoke a little too loudly just now.

蝘: [I really don’t know where she went, but she shouldn’t have gone far. She left half an incense stick ago and seemed to be walking to the right.]

After getting the answer she wanted, Xinyue put the white egg back on the ground.

The headless gecko faced her steadily.

"Butterfly Spider, ask it if it has anything else to tell me?"

[Excuse me...can I die now?]

"can."

After getting the other party's consent, he slowly fell down again and exhaled his real last breath.

There is no more fear of death, only liberation and relief.

After finding out the whereabouts of her master, Xinyue no longer had any regrets. She gathered two ice cones in her hands and pierced through the white egg. After making sure there was no trace of life inside, she withdrew her gaze and said, "Let's go and find our master."

Shen Shui, who was watching the whole process and performing the CPR, felt his calves twitching and he could barely stand. "Sister, didn't this gecko confess the truth? Why is he still..."

"To prevent future troubles."

Master was the one who killed this gecko. If those two white eggs could hear the noises around them, wouldn't that be a disaster for Master?
This egg must not be kept!

On Xiaoyun Mountain, different animal tribes compete for territory and food. The winners will more or less kill the males of the loser tribe for a cleansing. Shenshui can also accept the cruel methods of the senior sister...

But, I still couldn't help but feel my legs shaking a little.

"what happened?"

Seeing that the person behind her was still not catching up, Xinyue paused and said, "Why don't you catch up quickly? Don't keep Master waiting for too long."

"Yes!"

Shenshui slapped his calf hard.

Go ahead, you dead legs!
Otherwise, it would be easy for my sister to deal with you!
……

During this half incense stick of time, Du Xinghe had already reached the other end of the temple.

In fact, she wasn't sure if this was still the temple they had seen before they came in.

From the outside, it shouldn't have such a large capacity.

After passing through a winding corridor, she saw the altar in the secret realm again - but everything was even larger than what she had seen in the secret realm. The blood in the pool where the blood pool was originally placed had dried up, and the surrounding statues of the Five Poisons were also badly damaged. The head of the golden toad was chopped off and rolled in the corner, with no one paying attention to it.

It is conceivable that a great war once took place here.

After the war, the temple was completely abandoned.

On the dried blood pool, a person was frozen in blood.

Even though he was naked, Du Xinghe couldn't tell whether he was a man or a woman just by looking at his appearance - he had no obvious, exposed sexual characteristics, and his long dark green hair reached his waist, making his face look even more calm and elegant, and he had a pair of tentacles hanging from his head.

Du Xinghe crossed his arms, thinking and recalling the words of the Gu Ling -

[My true self has been sealed! ]

[When you see my majestic and domineering true form, you will definitely be shocked by me! ]

[My original body is extremely beautiful... Wait, you are not going to do anything bad to me while my body is asleep, right? ]

Gu Ling is a chatterbox.

As for it, Du Xinghe always filters out a lot of junk information. When it farts - its appearance as a four-legged beast in the secret realm is so ugly, and it likes the Thousand Treasures Ice Toad very much, which shows that its aesthetic taste has nothing to do with humans. Therefore, she does not have any expectations for its "unparalleled beauty" and "mighty and domineering" body.

Du Xinghe has only one expectation for its essence.

That is, after watching it, if you can still eat at night, you will be considered to have a very decent appearance.

“It’s pretty, but…”

Du Xinghe paced for a while and said in agony, "You praised your beauty for a long time, but you didn't say how to save her!!!"

Generally speaking, when the plot develops to this point, it’s time for some very idealistic tests.

Du Xinghe sat cross-legged on the spot and meditated, trying to sense the Gu spirit's true form with his heart.

A moment passes.

Not to mention the Gu spirit's body, there was nothing in the entire altar that she could sense.

It seems like this is just an abandoned and forgotten temple.

"It shouldn't be."

Du Xinghe was thinking about it when he noticed new spiritual energy approaching from outside the door.

She stood up and looked back, just in time to see Shujiu walking in with her back hunched, full of amorous feelings, and behind her were thousands of centipedes.

The centipede seemed to want to find her, but it just passed over her body and ignored her.

Du Xinghe's gaze fell on the formation on her spider clothes.

The camouflage magic circle drawn now, like a chameleon, allows the relatively low-powered Shujiuqing to avoid many dangers.

The shadow of a huge scorpion tail appeared behind Du Xinghe, his eyes slightly narrowed.

In just a moment, the group of centipedes that were chasing after Jiuqing suddenly became stiff and fell to the ground with their bellies facing the sky.

"Master!"

The crisis was resolved. The moment Shu Jiuqing saw her, he realized that it was his master who cleared away the little tail that was chasing him.

Du Xinghe nodded calmly, and then his disciple rushed up to him with tears in his eyes: "Master - I have been looking for you so hard! This place is so scary! Why are there magic arrays everywhere that I have never seen before! There are also so many poisonous insects! Not only do I have to escape myself, but I also have to protect this egg, Master, you see."

After surviving a near-death experience, Shu Jiuqing burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm for his master.

She firmly believed that she was safe only with her master.

Seeing her condition, Du Xinghe could not bear to pull her off, so he let her hang on him. He lowered his head to take a look at the Gu egg, which was indeed much bigger than when he first took it from the Gu Spirit. "Did you infuse it with spiritual power?"

"I took a little bit... I had to keep it for my own escape, but all the poisonous insects I killed along the way were absorbed by it."

Shu Jiuqing told her master everything she had experienced in the temple without reservation: "By the way, when I first fell in, I landed in a cave and fought with more than 20 terracotta warriors..." After she finished describing the whole process, she did not forget to flatter her master: "Master must be able to get out of the terracotta warrior cave in the blink of an eye! Or did Master not fall into the same cave?"

Crossing the Galaxy: "..."

It took her more than half an hour to come out of the cave.

Compared with her apprentice, why does she seem a little stupid?

She coughed lightly and changed the subject: "In addition to using one's own spiritual power to feed the natal Gu worm, it is indeed possible to use other Gu worms to feed it. It would be better to hatch it earlier."

"Okay, I will listen to Master."

Shu Jiuqing not only hugged her master, but also couldn't help but imitate her senior sister and secretly absorbed some of her master's spiritual energy.

In the past, she was suspicious of her senior sister's strange behavior of clinging too much to the master. But today, she was alone in the temple and was beaten like a dog by all kinds of monsters and ghosts. She lived like a rat crossing the street. Only then did she realize how safe she felt by the master's side. She would never let go!

Master's spiritual energy is so strong and domineering...

Just as Shujiuqing was slowly regaining her sense of security, a cold and murderous aura suddenly came from behind her.

She shuddered and turned back.

"Master,"

Xinyue and Shenshui were standing outside the door. The former looked calm, while the latter was so frightened that she almost wet her pants: "We finally found you... Junior Sister, why are you on Master's body?"

Her tone was calm, but she pronounced the last eight words clearly.

Shujiuqing rolled and crawled five meters away.

Not only did she keep a distance from the master, she also stood very straight: "Misunderstanding, it was just a misunderstanding! Senior sister, you are wrong, I am definitely not on the master!"

"Xiaojiu's cultivation is low, so it was a bit reluctant to bring her here. She was timid and scared when she was alone, but she felt relieved when she saw me, and she became more enthusiastic for a while. I was also afraid just now, and wanted to find her quickly."

Du Xinghe saw the quarrel between the two and waved to his sulking disciple: "Okay, come over here and hug me too."

When she heard her master calling her, Xinyue, who was originally angry and jealous, immediately became more obedient than a little lamb and walked to her master and hugged her.

Shanshui raised his hand: "What about me? Master, I am afraid too, I am timid too!"

He was not like Senior Sister Xinyue, who wanted to be hugged by the master.

But sometimes I can't control my mouth and want to be a little mean.

"See that pillar over there? If you feel uneasy, you can go over and hug it."

Du Xinghe gave a friendly solution.

Shenshui: "...Thank you, Master's cold words helped me calm down."

Xinyue knew that her master didn't like intimate physical contact, so the hug was very restrained, lasting less than two seconds before they let go.

But just such a simple, brief hug made her mood turn from gloomy to cheerful, and she didn't care so much about her junior sister: "Master, is this the place where the Gu spirit is sealed?"

"Mostly."

Du Xinghe raised her head. The true body of the Gu spirit that was frozen in the blood clot still had its eyes closed, and there was no sign of waking up because of her arrival.

How do you wake it up?
She frowned slightly: "Did you meet Senior Chen when you came here?"

The three of them shook their heads in unison.

"I haven't seen it either, but the restrictions on him here shouldn't have any effect. He should be able to come and go freely. What's preventing him from joining us?"

Or does Senior Chen not want to join them at all?

For a moment, hundreds of speculations flashed through Du Xinghe's mind.

After surviving the catastrophe, Jiuqing boldly explored the altar. Suddenly, she screamed:
"Master!"