Chapter 133: The Ancient Savage World, Long Aotian

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Cang Chen landed on Gu Lingnan's shoulder and said in human language, "Sister, here we go again."

"It seems that the people who died before you haven't taught you a lesson yet."

Gu Lingnan said coldly.

A figure appeared on each of her eight sides: three transformed dragons, five at the Four Extremes level. Even for the Jing Clan, with its profound heritage, if all these people were annihilated, their vitality would be severely damaged, and they would decline for at least hundreds of years.

A man with red hair and a red beard said angrily and contemptuously, "Today is the day you die."

"Ha. Just you two!" Gu Lingnan scoffed. Her pupils shone with a shimmering purple aura, a brilliant light flickering. She looked around; no one dared to meet her gaze, not even the red-haired man who had boasted.

Gu Lingnan was not yet of marriageable age and had not yet grown up, but this seemingly gentle girl made her enemies extremely frightened, and they did not even have the courage to look her in the eye.

Gu Lingnan laughed heartily: "You guys don't even have the courage to look me in the face, yet you dare to come here? Even a three-year-old would laugh out loud."

Despite being ridiculed, the red-haired man didn't dare look directly into those devilish eyes. He stared at the ground and said stubbornly, "You're just one person, and there are eight of us!"

"Eight people," Gu Lingnan said, half-smiling. "It seems to me that some people don't want to risk their lives for you. That's right, I'm not a bloodthirsty person either. If they weren't from Gu Yuanming's faction, I wouldn't bother to bother."

As soon as she finished her words, the knees of the person opposite her softened and he fell to the ground. Fear and the desire to survive were twisted on his face, making him look particularly funny.

He kowtowed repeatedly to Gu Lingnan, his brow bleeding with such force, "Aunt, please spare me! Aunt, please spare me! I'm five generations removed from Gu Yuanming's bloodline. I have parents and children to support. If that damn old man hadn't forced me to do that, I, I, I would never have been here!"

The red-haired man's face darkened. He shouted, "Jing Xiangwen, you're so spineless! How can you be worthy of the family that has nurtured you to this day?"

"Bullshit!" The man suddenly raised his head, his hateful gaze piercing the red-haired man like needles. Since he was about to die, he no longer pretended. He sneered, "How could the resources used to cultivate the family fall on a side branch child like me whose talent is useless?"

"Grandpa, let me tell you, Jing Yuande, my current level of cultivation was achieved through my own life and death. It has nothing to do with my damn family! Now you want me to work for you, go to hell!"

He spat, and his contemptuous look deeply hurt Jing Yuande's eyes. Jing Yuande was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood and pointed at Jing Xiangwen, unable to speak: "You, you..."

Since the relationship had been torn apart, Jing Xiangwen might as well make it clear. "What do you mean by 'you'? Haha, besides being a direct descendant, how are you any more noble than me? You're taking advantage of the fact that your name has the character 'Yuan' in it and trying so hard to establish a relationship with your cousin who's decades younger than you. It's still unclear who will be the ultimate loser."

"Now that Gu Yuanming is dead, all our previous investments have gone to waste. When I first heard the good news, I laughed for three hours straight, hahahaha!"

Jing Xiangwen remembered the happy things again and laughed out loud.

Jing Yuande was furious. A rune flashed in the middle of his palm, and a ball of fiercely burning flame appeared in his hand, turning into a fiery red bird and attacking Jing Xiangwen.

How could Jing Xiangwen just sit there and wait for death? The figure of the blue-eyed white tiger flashed behind him. He roared, swung his arms, and tore the firebird into two halves. He then fought with Jing Yuande.

Gu Lingnan, who had become a supporting role, took advantage of the situation and started to eat melons, while the others symbolically shouted a few times "Stop fighting, stop fighting" and then began to slack off with peace of mind.

Gu Lingnan seemed to be watching intently, a man's eyes showed a sinister look, he quietly sneaked up behind Gu Lingnan, his hands hooked into claws, Gu Lingnan raised his lips slightly.

"ah!"

A severed arm fell among the brush, blood gushing out like a pillar. The attacker's face was grimacing with pain. An eagle's cry and a flash of winglight like a knife passed by. The man wondered, "I didn't look down, so how could I see my waist?"

Oh, it turns out that my head fell off.

"Are there still those who want to take action? That's great, let me stretch my muscles." Gu Lingnan said with a faint smile.

The scene was quiet at first, and then three people suddenly jumped up, using all kinds of attack methods, with lights of various colors flashing, but not at Gu Lingnan, but at their teammates.

Gu Lingnan stood quietly in the middle of the battlefield. The dust raised by the fighting didn't even touch the corner of her clothes. She just watched the other side's infighting with great interest.

Jing Xiangwen grabbed Jing Yuande's neck with his big hands and lifted him up. How could Jing Yuande, who had not experienced many real life-and-death battles, compare with him? On the battlefield, people without ruthlessness always die quickly. What's more, his cultivation was much higher than Jing Yuande's.

Jing Yuande stared at Jing Xiangwen with resentment: "The ancestor will not let you go. When the gate to immortality opens and the ancestor descends to the mortal world, you will all die!"

Jing Xiangwen said disdainfully: "So what? You will die before me anyway."

After saying this, without waiting for Jing Yuande, who obviously had something else to say, to speak, Jing Xiangwen exerted force with his hand, causing Jing Yuande's eyes to widen and slowly lose focus.

Jing Xiangwen threw Jing Yuande's body away casually like throwing away garbage, and the battle between the other few people had also ended. They stood together and no one spoke for a while.

"Why, you want to fight me?"

Gu Lingnan's eyebrows were curved, and she looked very innocent.

Jing Xiangwen and the others lowered their heads like frightened birds, and replied respectfully and cautiously, "How can I respect you..." He didn't know how to address Gu Lingnan, so he simply called him "Sir". "We dare not, we only ask that you spare our lives."

"Oh," Gu Lingnan said nonchalantly, "I'm just one person, and we're both transformed dragons. You have several helpers, so why would you ask for my life?"

"Your Excellency is such a joker." Jing Xiangwen forced an ugly smile. "Your Excellency's fighting power is unparalleled. How could we be his opponent?"

Just kidding. During the years when he was out there alone, he knew very well the gap between these geniuses and them. Not to mention being at the same level, even if they were at a higher level, they could be killed at will. Only that idiot Jing Yuande thought he could easily deal with a teenage girl.

Jing Xiangwen was puzzled. Jing Yuande had witnessed the battle between Gu Yuanming and Gu Jingyao. Gu Jingyao was only at the Fourth Extreme Realm, yet the pressure he unleashed meant he was capable of fighting against a Yuan Zun, and Jing Xiangwen believed it. He couldn't understand why Jing Xiangwen would think that a person with double pupils, who was as famous as Supreme Bone in ancient times, or even more so, would be easy to bully.

...Maybe this is what a fool is.

Jing Xiangwen's head drooped even lower.

Gu Lingnan did not comment on his compliment. She turned around and continued walking towards the depths of the wilderness, her original destination, with Cang Chen, Bai Yu, standing on his shoulder.

It was not until half an hour after Gu Lingnan left that Jing Xiangwen and the others dared to move. Realizing that they had been spared, they exchanged their statements with each other and then flew towards the imperial city.

"Host, why did you let them go?" The system asked in confusion. He didn't trust the Jing people at all.

Gu Lingnan said calmly, "If we let them go, there will be unrest within the Jing Clan. No matter what the outcome, they won't have the leisure to cause trouble anymore. This will buy Ah Yao more time for enlightenment."

At least before the Jing Clan settled down, no one dared to cause trouble in the palace, and they would not know that the Human Emperor had left.

The system said "Oh", but it still couldn't fully understand the complex relationships between humans. It still had one question: "Host, Dragon Qi is such a good thing, why don't you stay and comprehend it?"

Gu Lingnan was even more helpless. "Ayao follows the path of supremacy, a tyrannical one, and the way of kings. The rune dragon energy in the palace is naturally a great place for him to gain enlightenment, but this is not my path. It is useless to me."

"By the way, system, is there any news on the thing I asked you to check before?"

Gu Lingnan had previously specially visited Jie Xinyan to inquire about the news about the Zhentian Valley that her mother had mentioned at the end. Broken Star Pavilion and Zhentian Valley are both located in the Southern Region, so it seems that they should have some interactions.

Unexpectedly, when Gu Lingnan asked about Zhentian Valley, Xie Xinyan's expression changed instantly. She quickly set up a formation to isolate heaven and earth, and then asked seriously:

"Zhentiangu, Nanmei, how did you know this name? His last name is Luo, could it be..." Xie Xinyan was suddenly shocked, "Nanmei, it can't be..."

Although Gu Lingnan didn't know why Jie Xinyan was so nervous and terrified, she thought for a moment and tentatively gave some half-truths: "My mother's surname is Luo. When A Yao and I were young, we had to be separated due to some reasons. The last thing she said was that we should go find this sect."

Xie Xinyan's expression instantly became unfathomable. She murmured, "I heard that the Saintess of this generation of Zhentian Valley was tricked out by a scoundrel from the outer sect. She would rather elope with her lover than flee the sect, and..."

She solemnly grasped Gu Lingnan's hand and praised him sincerely, "Your father is truly the most extraordinary man in the world."

He actually survived.

Gu Lingnan: ...

She calmly pulled her hand away, not understanding why Xie Xinyan was acting like this. She asked doubtfully, "...Saintess?"

Jie Xinyan coughed a few times and returned to her usual image of a cool, mature and reliable senior sister, as if her previous eccentric expression and words were just Gu Lingnan's illusion.

She said solemnly, "Sister Nan, I understand that you miss your mother, but it's better for you not to go to Zhentian Valley. If you really have to go, let your brother go. You absolutely cannot go."

Gu Lingnan frowned slowly: "Why?"

Xie Xinyan was silent for a long time before she sighed softly, "Thousands of years ago, our Broken Star Pavilion and Zhentian Valley were once one family. Later, due to differences in philosophy, the founder led some of his disciples to establish the Broken Star Pavilion. In the lineage of the Valley Master of Zhentian Valley, only females can inherit the surname Luo. There are only saint daughters in the valley, but no saint sons."

Gu Lingnan's brows furrowed more and more, and she had a bad feeling.

"...I heard the secret of Zhentian Valley from my master." Jie Xinyan took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice, "The Luo in Zhentian Valley is taken from the Luo Goddess. Their women are born with pure spiritual bodies, but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is..."

"Offspring conceived by a pure spirit can inherit and enhance their father's talents, and the pure spirit will also be passed on to their daughters. Therefore, every Saint of Zhentian Valley will marry the strongest person of the time, and after giving birth to a daughter, she will be sent to the sect for training."

Gu Lingnan frowned and asked, "Why are they doing this? What's the point of training a saint and then letting her get married?" To Gu Lingnan, it was as if his brain was filled with water and he was completely confused.

Xie Xinyan also sneered: "Yes, it is meaningless. They do this just to give birth to the innate Dao fetus."

Innate Taoist fetus!

Gu Lingnan's pupils suddenly shrank.

Xie Xinyan sighed, "The innate Dao fetus is born in harmony with the Dao. It can be said that from the moment of birth, it is destined to be the supreme. Even the supreme bones and double pupils are far inferior to it."

"The innate Dao fetus, what they are pursuing, could it be the innate holy body Dao fetus?" The system said in an indescribable way.

"Innate Holy Body Dao Fetus" Gu Lingnan's heart skipped a beat and he asked repeatedly, "System, do you know..."

"One of the two most powerful physiques in the universe, I'm certainly familiar with it. The Innate Holy Body Dao Fetus can only be born through the combination of the Innate Dao Fetus and the Natural Holy Body. Hmm... it's quite difficult. I wish them success."

Moreover, the system looked at Gu Lingnan and swallowed the rest of the words. "How much the heaven gives you, you must pay back in sacrifice. The more you are blessed by heaven, the harder it is to attain the Tao." Since ancient times, there have been countless people with extremely strong physiques. In this vast world, countless divine bodies have been born, but how many have attained the Tao?

To become an immortal, one must both follow the will of heaven and go against it.

The system sighed softly in the void.

"...In short, you can't go." Xie Xinyan said firmly.

"Even if I have turned into a dragon now, I can't go." Gu Lingnan frowned deeply.

Xie Xinyan glanced at her and hinted, "Behind Zhentian Valley, there is more than just the sky."

Behind Zhentian Valley stood the power of the upper realm. Gu Lingnan understood Xinyan's implication, but she wasn't ready to give up.

Time returned to the present, and the system asked, "Host, since Jie Xinyan said so, why did you still go? Moreover, you kept it a secret from Xiaolong Aotian. From what she said, it would be better if Xiaolong Aotian didn't go. At worst, if you two go together, it would be an extra layer of security."

"System..." Gu Lingnan showed a rare look of bewilderment. "To be honest, I have a feeling that we can't let A Yao meet the people from Zhentian Valley."

Ever since she caught a glimpse of fate from under Zhulong, her intuition has become exceptionally strong. Or perhaps, it is not intuition, but a foreshadowing of the future.

But as a child, she had to explore Zhentian Valley, so she set out on the journey.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. System, where is the information I want?" Gu Lingnan asked anxiously.

"Host, according to the information I received, there might be a Yuanzun hiding in Zhentian Valley."

"That's all." Gu Lingnan looked a little relaxed.

"Not only that, there should be a few quasi-artifacts left, or even artifacts." The system said seriously.

"The name of Zhentian Valley in the upper realm is Xiantian Sect. It is also a major force in the upper realm, and Zhentian Valley is their eyes in the lower realm." However, the Broken Star Pavilion and Zhentian Valley actually have the same origin. Even the system has not detected any of this news.

Gu Lingnan remained silent. As if sensing her heavy mood, Cangchen gently rubbed her cheek with a soft feather.

…

Ten days later, in the Southern Region, Tianshen Mountain.

The tall and long sacred mountain is shrouded in clouds that never dissipate all year round, but with Gu Lingnan's eyes that can see through all illusions, she can clearly see the beautiful palace complex like a heavenly palace under the clouds.

It is called Zhentian Valley, but the sect is built on the top of a mountain and above the peaks. It is really strange.

Gu Lingnan followed the path up the mountain to the mountain gate. The mazes, illusions, and killing arrays set up on the mountain could not stop her in the slightest. She did not make a single mistake. It was as familiar as returning to her own home. Facing the guards who cautiously asked her who she was, Gu Lingnan said:

"My name is Gu Lingnan, the daughter of Gu Hao and Luo Qing. I'm here to visit you. I wonder if my parents are here."

Hearing the Saint's name, the guard's expression instantly changed. He slammed the door shut. Gu Lingnan could hear him jogging along. She thought boredly:

Judging from the aura of this guard, he doesn't seem like a mortal who has not yet embarked on the path of cultivation. He actually reported on foot. Is there some reason that she doesn't know?

In the ancient tower engraved with complicated runes, Luo Qing sat quietly with her eyes closed to practice. When she heard the voice of someone coming, she opened her eyes calmly. Seeing that it was Gu Hao, her beautiful eyes lit up and her facial features instantly became lively.

"Brother Hao, you're here."

She stretched out her hand, wanting to touch Gu Hao's shoulder, but she only touched a golden wall of light. She couldn't hug her lover in front of her, and tears of grief suddenly flowed from the corners of her eyes.

"Aqing, don't cry."

Gu Hao was extremely distressed, but with his cultivation restricted, he could do nothing.

Luo Qing said sadly, "Brother Hao, this is all my fault. I never thought that Master would be so cruel. Now, it's a good thing that Nan'er didn't return to Zhentian Sect."

The Zhentian Sect has a secret method that can sense the safety of blood relatives, but it is only limited to mothers and daughters. It is also because of this that Luo Qing knows that her daughter is living safely in this world for so many years.

That's good, that's good.

Gu Hao stared at his wife's face through the light curtain. After not seeing her for a month, she had lost a lot of weight. He only hated himself for being a useless waste. He couldn't protect his children back then, and now he couldn't protect his beloved.

"Ah Qing, you must take good care of yourself. I will definitely get you out."

He made a solemn promise as if he were making a lifetime promise.

Luo Qing smiled, as beautiful as a fairy. She looked at Gu Hao lovingly: "I believe you, Brother Hao."

"Your visiting time has expired."

A cold and hoarse voice sounded, and no matter how reluctant Gu Hao was, he had to leave. He looked back every step of the way, engraving his wife's figure deeply in his mind.

As soon as Gu Hao left, Luo Qing's expression instantly turned cold, and she closed her eyes and continued to practice.

The hoarse voice sounded again: "He's just a mediocre person. I really don't understand why you like him."

Luo Qing opened his eyes, his gaze fixed on the shadows in the tower like swords: "I won't allow you to slander Brother Hao!"

"The slander is ridiculous."

A wisp of black smoke emerged from the shadows, and a voice uttered, "I'm simply stating the truth. If you hadn't sacrificed your spirit to help him cultivate, he wouldn't even be able to reach this level today."

"Shut up!" Luo Qing's beautiful eyes seemed to be spitting fire, but unfortunately she was trapped here and could not do anything about the black smoke.

Seeing this, Black Smoke became even more unscrupulous. "Am I wrong? I don't understand. I asked you to marry the Human Emperor, but you refused. Instead, you married a mediocre person with inferior talents. He can't even protect you. You've wasted all the resources the Holy Church has invested in you over the years."

"Oh. You must have secretly embezzled a lot of natural treasures for that kid back then."

Luo Qing closed her eyes and stopped looking at him. She knew that the black smoke was deliberately provoking her.

The black smoke circled around her and asked the question again: "Tell me, where did you hide your daughter?"

Luo Qing didn't answer.

"Oh, you are no longer valuable. If you don't tell me, aren't you afraid that your lover will die in the wilderness?"

Luo Qing knew that it was precisely because she didn't say anything that she still had value. She and Gu Hao could better accumulate strength and prepare for resistance. They needed time.

Even today, Luo Qing still feels chilled when she thinks of that scene. She still remembers it clearly: the master who used to obey her in everything, the master she treated like a father, and the disgusting look on his face when he learned that she had not brought her daughter back to the sect.

It turned out that when she brought Brother Hao back to the sect, the words that agreed to their union, which made her feel overjoyed and that her love was finally blessed by her master, were just a lie to numb her.

Her master, from the beginning to the end, only regarded her as a tool. It was ridiculous that she admired him for so many years.

Now, Luo Qing will never allow his daughter to become a tool of Zhentian Valley like himself, and be imprisoned by the so-called destiny for her entire life.

She let the black smoke chatter on, motionless as a mountain.

Suddenly, the black smoke-like body froze. He laughed and said, "Luo Qing, I didn't expect that. Your daughter actually walked into this trap."

What!

Luo Qing suddenly opened his eyes.

"You are my mother's master," Gu Lingnan asked calmly.

"Not bad." The middle-aged man sitting at the head of the table stroked his beard, the more he looked at Gu Lingnan, the more satisfied he felt. With such talent, the child born would surely be unrivaled in talent.

Gu Lingnan felt disgusted by his gaze. She controlled her temper and asked, "Are my parents here?"

"What if I say they are not here?" Xiahou Dun asked.

"Then I will leave of course." Gu Lingnan replied.

Just kidding, if you say you're not here, then you're not here. I'll turn the place upside down.

"Haha, your personality is just like your mother's, too lively." Xiahou Dun shook his head. This personality needs to be tamed.

Gu Lingnan felt almost sick at the sight of him and wanted to punch him in the face.

"Your parents are here, Qinglian, bring them up."

"Nan'er..."

"Mother..."

Gu Lingnan looked over in a daze. Her mother's loving eyes enveloped her in a familiar way, and she almost burst into tears.

"Mother!" Gu Lingnan threw herself into her mother's fragrant embrace and buried her face in her arms lovingly.

Although they hadn't seen each other for so many years, Luo Qing recognized Gu Lingnan at the first sight. This was her Nan'er, who had grown up so much.

She stroked her daughter's head lovingly, while Gu Hao beside her looked at them with gentle eyes.

The atmosphere in the family of three is extremely warm for a while, but unfortunately, there are always annoying guys who appear.

"It's so touching to see mother and daughter meet each other."

Luo Qing's hand paused, Gu Lingnan gently took her mother's hand, turned around, and looked at Xiahou Dun on the high platform with full of sharpness.

She comforted Luo Qing, "Mother, don't be afraid. Nan'er will take you away."

【Author’s words】

Ying