Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 563 Hometown Affairs

Gu Shi nodded,

"I know a little bit about it. I heard about it when I traveled there a few years ago..."

"So how is the Qian family doing now?"

Madam Mei asked this question, and her originally upright figure leaned forward, and her well-maintained fair right hand tightly grasped the hand of the middle-aged woman beside her, with an excited and anxious look on her face. Gu Shiyi thought for a moment and said,

"The Qian family... was destroyed more than a hundred years ago!"

"Destroyed?"

Mrs. Mei's expression was extremely shocked, but she didn't seem to be sad at all.

"It's destroyed...it's destroyed..."

She murmured, her beautiful eyes flickering, and after a while she came back to her senses and asked in a low voice,
"How did the Qian family fall?"

"This one……"

Gu Shi said,
"I was passing by Liujin City on business at the time, and I happened to hear that the Qian family had suffered a fire the night before. I heard that the head of the Qian family had stolen something from someone else, and someone came to his house and burned down the house..."

"Someone came to my house? Who was it?"

Gu Shiyi shook his head,

"I don't know...but I heard he was a cultivator..."

"He's a cultivator... no wonder!"

Madam Mei lowered her voice, and an expression that seemed neither smiling nor crying appeared on her face. After a long while, she muttered to herself,
"He is so ambitious. He obviously has no talent for cultivation, but he still dreams of immortality. Sooner or later, he will get into trouble..."

Asked again,
"Then... who else is in the Qian family?"

Gu Shi said,
"I heard that the legitimate lineage is almost dead, and the ones left are all side branches..."

"Dead! It's better to be dead. Dead... it's all over. No one will suffer because of... anymore!"

Mrs. Mei's eyes were full of water, and Gu Shiyi sighed inwardly. Then Mrs. Mei asked Gu Shiyi again,

"How is the Chenzhou Gu family doing now?"

Gu Shiyi thought for a moment and replied,
"I heard earlier that Blue Moon Lake was occupied by invaders, the Gu family's cultivators died in the battle, and the remaining ordinary members of the clan were scattered all over the place!"

This was something she heard by chance after she returned to the mainland. At that time, Gu Shiyi's biological father had already died, and she had no contact with the Gu family, so she had no intention of going back to visit!
"Is it over?"

Madam Nami muttered again, bit her lip for a while and asked again,
"Have you heard that there is a young lady in the Gu family? I wonder... is she okay now?"

When Gu Shiyi heard this, he felt as if something had been blocking his heart, and it suddenly fell. His nose felt slightly sour, and after thinking for a while, he slowly responded,
"I heard that she... married someone far away... and hasn't come back home for many years..."

"Married far away?"

That’s enough! At least my mother still remembered that she had given birth to a daughter and asked about it. That’s enough!

Gu Shiyi lowered his eyes.
A trace of sadness appeared in the beautiful lady's eyes, and she said to herself,
"I guess... she might be..."

It didn’t say what happened next. Ordinary people in this world can only live to be over a hundred years old at most, and those who can live to be over 200 are rare. I’m afraid she... is no longer alive?
Madam Mei was silent for a long time. Gu Shiyi also did not speak, but waited quietly. The middle-aged man and woman looked at each other, and the woman said worriedly,
"Mother...are you okay?"

Madam Mei came to her senses and asked about the war situation in Central Plains. She then asked Gu Shiyi why he came here and how he became the errand boy of that old woman. Gu Shiyi told her a story half true and half false. Madam Mei and the couple did not suspect anything and they invited Gu Shiyi to dinner to entertain this guest from Central Plains.

At night, Gu Shiyi finally saw all his three brothers and four sisters. The oldest prince looked old, not much younger than his father lying on the bed. When Gu Shiyi saw him, he secretly complained in his heart,

"Why doesn't he look like the Barbarian King, and doesn't want his mother, is he the Barbarian King's offspring?"

Gu Shiyi didn't think much of him. He saw that Gu Shiyi's eyes were not very friendly. The second prince and the third prince were quite polite, while the other four sisters were just curious. They pulled Gu Shiyi to ask questions about all sorts of things, all of which were about the customs of the Central Plains and how the monks practiced. Gu Shiyi, a chatterbox, didn't mind chatting with them.

After a messy dinner, Gu Shiyi returned to Granny Lanhua drunk. Granny Lanhua sneered at him.

"Did that woman ask you about the Central Plains?" Seeing Gu Shiyi nod, he snorted again.

"Why...are you planning to go back home after you can't see your husband any more?"

Gu Shiyi smiled with him,

"That lady has a prince and so many grandchildren. What is she going to do in the Central Plains?"

This mother-in-law, ......the relationship between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law is really bad!
Granny Lanhua said with a cold face,

"Hmph... don't deal with her unless you have something to do!"

"Yes!"

It is enough to know that your own mother is living well, has many children and grandchildren, and looks younger than your own daughter. Seeing her too often will only increase your sadness!

For the remaining two days, Gu Shiyi stayed at Granny Lanhua's place. When he had nothing to do, he found out a lot of secrets of the wilderness from Granny Lanhua. Granny Lanhua had been away from everyone for a long time due to the restrictions of the rules of heaven and earth. Now, she met Gu Shiyi, who had the blood of a real dragon and was pregnant with a baby who was granted a golden medal of immunity from death. Although she forbad her to ask questions, she couldn't help but tell them all.

"Mother-in-law...you said that the demons in the Central Plains escaped from the wilderness?"

"What's so surprising about this? If you humans can come to us, why can't our beastmen go to the Central Plains?"

"So... our beast race and the demon race are originally from the same origin?"

"That's natural. Before the prehistoric times, there were no humans on this continent, only beastmen. The beastmen were also elves nurtured by heaven and earth, and were also favored by heaven and earth. Many beastmen had adventures and became intelligent. Later, for some unknown reason, heaven and earth underwent a huge change, and the human race suddenly came. The human race fought with our beastmen. They were smart and knew how to use fire, and our beastmen were defeated. A large area of ​​our territory was seized by them in the Central Plains, and we retreated here. We were originally living well, but then the human race started fighting again. Those who were defeated ran to us. Some beastmen whose territory was occupied by humans turned to the Central Plains. Some of the beastmen learned the skills of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth there, and learned how to transform. They were called monsters by the humans, and even if they turned into humans, they were still rejected and driven away by the humans. Afterwards, some of them concealed their auras and mixed in with the human race, while others returned here and taught the beastmen here how to transform..."

Tsk tsk! Gu Shiyi grinned at the complexity of this.
But it is normal. Although this continent is big, it is not infinitely large. For those demons or beasts who have attained the Tao, it is not difficult to run back and forth a few times!
According to this calculation, the skills learned by the beasts in the wilderness should not have been learned from the human race, because the human race at that time was only in its infancy, and had not yet reached the stage of numerous immortal sects.
This made Gu Shiyi even more curious.
"Then...according to what Grandma knows, where did the human race come from, and from whom did the beastman learn the skills?"

Granny Lanhua thought about it, shook her head and said,
"Although I have lived a long life, those things happened many, many years ago. I only vaguely remember that someone seemed to have told me that the human race was not originally from this world, but suddenly appeared in this world one day... and the fact that so many people in the human race were able to ascend to heaven was not entirely due to their own understanding..."

So, before the great chaos, was there any advanced civilization coming here from the outside world?
Could it be aliens?

Gu Shiyi shook his head and decided to stop thinking about it if he couldn’t figure it out!

These ancient secrets are often spread by word of mouth. Just listen to them once. Trying to sort out the relationships and make things clear will only confuse yourself. Gu Shiyi just treated it as a myth!
Gu Shiyi didn't ask much, but just asked her mother-in-law about the art of transformation.
"Then this method of transformation is passed down from that ancient technique?"

Granny Orchid nodded and said,
"That's right. Most of the ancient skills have been lost long ago. The only thing left is this method of transformation. In this world... besides me, the old guy from Yaoguang's clan knows how to do it!"

Yaoguang is the largest tribe in the wilderness, with a population of 1.5 million. They live in a big city, a real big city with stone walls, unlike Qingmang, which is a big tribe but still has walls made of mud and grass. Gu Shiyi heard from Gu Wang that this tribe is very xenophobic and often closes the city, so it is not easy to get in.
"Old... thing... from what you said, the old... thing of the Yaoguang Clan should be the same as you, tens of thousands of years old, right?"

Granny Lanhua rolled her eyes at her and said,

"Who in this world is older than me?"

I see, you still know this!
"That... old... thing..."

Granny Orchid said,
"He didn't live as long as I did, but he died longer than me..."

"What?"

Is there any logical connection between this death and life?
Gu Shiyi was confused. Granny Lanhua said,

"I told you but you still don't understand. You are not a cultivator of this kind. You will know when you have the chance to visit that city and see for yourself!"

Enough of the nonsense. Granny Orchid had almost prepared all the things she wanted to prepare. She handed them to Gu Shiyi one by one. Granny Orchid put the strand of Barbarian King's hair into a small bottle that looked like glass. When Gu Shiyi saw the bottle for the first time, he almost thought it was a bottle that had traveled through time.
"This...is this glass?"

"What's all the fuss about?"

Granny Lanhua rolled her eyes at Gu Shiyi.
"It's just a bottle made of polished transparent stone. You are a cultivator from the Central Plains, how come you have never seen this before..."

Gu Shiyi smiled and thought,
"This thing has to be polished by hand, and it takes incredible skill to be able to polish it like this!"

Granny Orchid pointed at the hair in the bottle and said,

"If you bring it into the Witch God Temple, it will give you guidance..."