“I don’t know who he is either.” Zhang Cuiping shook her head. She had never seen He Wen before. If those Yuan soldiers hadn’t not attacked He Wen, she would have suspected that He Wen was the murderer.
"It seems we can only wait until he wakes up and ask him!" Xu Mao muttered to himself when he heard that Zhang Cuiping didn't know who He Wen was. Then, he moved and appeared outside the villa area.
"A lama?" Xu Mao frowned as he looked at the dead Tara. "How could a heretical cult from the Western Regions be here?"
Time passed second by second, and Gu Zhongyi was the first to wake up.
Seeing that Gu Zhongyi had woken up, Xu Mao entered the villa again. "What happened? Why are the lamas from the Western Regions cult here?"
“I don’t know either…” Gu Zhongyi recounted the appearance of Tara and the entire course of events.
After Gu Zhongyi finished speaking, Xu Mao still didn't understand why Tara had come. After all, the moment Tara appeared, he was asking Gu Zhongyi to hand over this and that. He thought this guy was just a bandit.
"Senior Xu, could he be my son's enemy?" Gu Zhongyi suddenly thought of something. "That person looks familiar. It seems like he was the one who brought Senior Brother Bai last time."
Gu Zhongyi did not know Niu Wangzu, but after thinking about Niu Wangzu's appearance carefully, he came to these conclusions.
“That’s possible, but that person is already dead.” Xu Mao nodded when he heard Gu Zhongyi say that. “But we’ll have to wait until he wakes up to find out.”
"Senior Xu, when will my son and he wake up?" Gu Zhongyi asked, looking at Gu Yu and He Wen on the bed.
"It's hard to say," Xu Mao said. Gu Yu's body was severely overloaded. Fortunately, he had a large amount of life essence. Otherwise, someone else would probably have to sleep for a year or two. As for He Wen, his injuries were so severe that, although somewhat unusual, they were still very bad. Xu Mao dared not estimate whether he could wake up. After all, it was too strange and he had never seen anything like it before.
"Oh!" Gu Zhongyi's face immediately turned ugly upon hearing Xu Mao's words. Gu Yu was his son, so he was naturally worried. As for He Wen, he had saved his life. If it weren't for He Wen, he would probably have been burned to death by Tara by now. If He Wen were to die because of this, he would feel extremely guilty.
Just then, Mo Tai arrived with over a hundred soldiers. Seeing that Zhang Cuiping and Gu Zhongyi were unharmed, Mo Tai finally felt relieved. However, when he heard that Gu Yu was unconscious, he became worried again.
At first, Mo Tai had great selfish motives in befriending Gu Yu, but everything that happened later changed his opinion of Gu Yu. Moreover, Gu Yu helped him get rid of the Elimination Source Evil and his cultivation broke through. The kindness Gu Yu showed him was like a second life.
In other words, Gu Yu wouldn't even flinch if he were asked to go through fire and water.
Gu Yu, who was in a coma, was like he had been in a blank world when he was almost blown up. He looked around and frowned.
Do you know what the world is like?
"The sky is round, the earth is square, and they are one egg."
"Creation is for destruction, destruction is for rebirth, and rebirth is for creation, in a continuous cycle, which is what we call inheritance."
"If I live, you will not appear; if I die, you will live—this is my last resort."
Is it a blessing or a curse? Is it right or wrong?
…………………………
The strange voice rang in Gu Yu's ears again. This time, Gu Yu neither insulted the other party nor showed any impatience.
Hearing this strange sound, Gu Yu recalled his previous conversation with the Tree of Life.
"The world goes through cycles of birth and destruction, destruction and rebirth, in an endless cycle. This is something no one can change. But there are always some people who feel that things shouldn't be this way, so they go against the grain, which leads to scheming and fighting. To put it nicely, they are defying fate and daring to wage war against destiny."
"I want to ask, does true innocence exist? And where is it?"
Have you ever heard of the saying "Heaven is round and Earth is square"?
“I can tell you that the Earth doesn’t refer to the Earth you’re thinking of. Have you ever considered that if there are 108 Source Gates, that means there are 108 worlds? And if these 108 worlds are integrated with the Earth, is it still round?”
"But why are there a sun and a moon? They're all round, aren't they?"
"What if I told you they were all fake?"
"Fake?"
"It can't be called fake, it's just a fragment."
Thinking about this, Gu Yu suddenly realized that this strange voice was not the nonsense he had first thought it was, but was actually somewhat similar to what the Tree of Life had said.
"Is the sky round? Is the earth flat?" Gu Yu found this statement hard to accept. After all, in his understanding, what was the sky? Nobody knew, but the earth was definitely round.
Creation for destruction? Destruction for rebirth—Gu Yu couldn't understand this statement.
108 Source Gates, 108 worlds, merging with Earth? Wait! Gu Yu's pupils suddenly widened. In his previous life, the Source Gates seemed to be constantly expanding, growing at an extremely rapid pace every day. Over time, wouldn't that expose the entire Source Gate world to the outside world? Or even merge with Earth!
The 108 Source Gates are indeed 108 worlds. If this is the case, they will really merge with Earth. Then Earth might not be round at all; it might even be square.
The more Gu Yu thought about it, the greater the shock became. In fact, he couldn't help but swallow hard.
But why has it developed this way? Is it a necessity for the development of the world, or something else? If they merge into one, wouldn't the crisis facing humanity be even greater? Everyone lives on one earth, and the weaker side will be doomed! After all, we can still guard the Source Gate now and prevent the Source Gate creatures from entering. But if we merge together and everything is leaky, where will we guard?
I hope this is just an impossible guess, but the Tree of Life, which has lived for who knows how long, would never talk nonsense! It can't be something I'm doing to amuse myself.
"What exactly are you?" Gu Yu suddenly asked, looking around. He wouldn't appear here for no reason. The first time, he thought he was dead, but this time it was definitely not, because he was not dead.
"If I live, you won't appear; if I die, you live—this is my last resort." The voice said this exactly.
"If you were alive, I wouldn't exist? Your last resort?" Gu Yu suddenly frowned. He hadn't paid attention to this sentence before, but now he was deep in thought.
A sudden rebirth? A mysterious system, and a divine and demonic bloodline that he had never discovered in his previous life—all of this seemed too deliberate. Although Gu Yu sometimes wondered why this was happening, he even suspected that something was manipulating his rebirth.
"If you exist, I won't exist; if I exist, you won't exist?" Gu Yu murmured. "Then what kind of relationship do we have?"
Past lives and present lives? That possibility cannot be ruled out. If the owner of this voice is his past life, then who is the owner of this voice?
At this moment, Gu Yu's mind was in complete chaos. What was all that had happened before his rebirth? It was both real and surreal.
"Go...go stop the destruction." Suddenly the voice stopped repeating itself and uttered a new sentence.
"What destruction? The extinction of humanity?" Gu Yu asked, looking up, but his voice fell into a vicious cycle again, muttering the same words over and over again.
Just as Gu Yu was about to ask again, he felt dizzy and the world was spinning. The next second, he sat up abruptly from the bed, his chest heaving.
"What exactly happened?" Gu Yu asked, his eyes wide.
"Erbao, you're awake." It was a loving voice filled with concern and joy.
"Mom, I'm fine." Gu Yu looked at Zhang Cuiping in front of him, and his panicked expression calmed down.
"Erbao, you've been unconscious for three days and three nights," Gu Zhongyi said as he approached.
"Three days and three nights?" Gu Yu murmured. Although he was not surprised, given his body's overload and exhaustion, three days and three nights was perfectly normal. You must know that rapidly absorbing and consuming the source energy from high-grade source stones at an extremely rapid pace would severely deplete his meridians, blood vessels, and body. If his body hadn't been incredibly strong, his meridians might have shattered and his blood vessels might have exploded.
“Erbao, Senior Xu Mao has been waiting for you to wake up these past few days.” Gu Zhongyi suddenly thought of Xu Mao and said to Gu Yu.
"Oh!" Gu Yu nodded. "Dad, where's He Wen?"
Gu Yu suddenly thought of He Wen, whose injuries were extremely serious and whose life was in danger.
“He’s on the first floor,” Gu Zhongyi said. “Erbao, if you have a way to save him, you must do everything you can. He got injured because of me.”
"Dad, I know." Gu Yu said as he walked downstairs. Looking at He Wen lying on the bed, Gu Yu instantly sensed He Wen's primordial spirit.
Strangely enough, although the divine and demonic primordial spirits were gone, Gu Yu could still sense them, which was also very strange.
"Just as I thought." After sensing it for a while, Gu Yu muttered to himself.
"Erbao, how is it?" Gu Zhongyi asked.
"Dad, don't worry! He's fine, and he might even benefit from this misfortune," Gu Yu said to Gu Zhongyi.
"That's good, that's good." Gu Zhongyi felt much relieved after hearing Gu Yu say that.
"Dad, once I recover, I will help him wake up," Gu Yu said, looking at his somewhat guilty father.
In fact, Gu Yu did not expect that his momentary act of compassion that day would inadvertently save his father. If He Wen had not relentlessly pursued Tara, his father would certainly have been in grave danger.
"Erbao, is your body still..." Gu Zhongyi asked immediately upon hearing Gu Yu's words.
"It's nothing serious, just a bit overworked. Now that I'm awake, I'll recover in a few days," Gu Yu said.
"Erbao, I'll have your mother stew some nourishing chicken soup for you," Gu Zhongyi said. Although he was now a cultivator, and even at the Spine Realm, and knew that cultivators could maintain their bodies' normal functions without food by relying on Origin Qi, he didn't know that nourishing foods like chicken soup were of little use to cultivators. In fact, to put it bluntly, so-called nourishing foods only contained a tiny bit of Origin Qi, which was beneficial to the human body, but to cultivators, that little bit of Origin Qi was nothing, let alone to Gu Yu, who possessed the essence of life.
"Okay." Gu Yu didn't say that the chicken soup was useless to him. It was his parents' love for him. If he said it was useless, wouldn't that hurt his parents' feelings and make them feel that he was useless? That would cause them some psychological harm.
It's very simple. Birth, aging, illness, and death are things that everyone has to go through. When people get old, their children are all able to take care of themselves. At this time, the elderly's bodies gradually weaken, and they can no longer help their children as before. Instead, they need their children to take care of them. In fact, the elderly feel very sad at this time. They feel useless, unable to help their children, and even a burden. Perhaps sometimes your words of "no need" will make them feel even more sad and even more useless.
This is also true for some elderly people who sometimes try their best to impress their children. They are not trying to be strong, but to prove that they are still useful. At this time, their children should understand, not criticize.
No one wants to be a burden, and no one wants others to say they are useless.
"Senior Xu," Gu Yu said, cupping his fists in greeting to Xu Mao.
"Your cultivation speed is really fast, you've already reached the Spine Realm." Xu Mao looked at Gu Yu and exclaimed. When Gu Yu left, his essence, energy and spirit had not yet been fully integrated, but in just two months, he had already reached the Spine Realm.
You must know that Xu Mao was once a prodigy, and it took him five years to go from the unity of essence, energy and spirit to the vertebral realm. Of course, his vertebral realm was just one vertebra, while Gu Yu could kill five vertebral realms with only one vertebral realm, so there was no comparison at all.
"I was just lucky," Gu Yu said.
“With your talent, you are worthy of Ling’er, but…” Xu Mao suddenly shook his head, “It’s a pity that my Xu family has declined and cannot ask the Kong family for someone.”
"Senior, you know?" Gu Yu's expression changed upon hearing Xu Mao's words. He had thought the Xu family was unaware that Xu Ling'er had been taken away by the Kong family.
“A month ago, the Kong family sent people here. They were arrogant and domineering. If I hadn’t intervened in time, who knows what they would have done to my Xu family!” Xu Mao said, his eyes filled with disappointment as he spoke of the Kong family.
"The Kong family has come?" Gu Yu frowned. He didn't understand why the Kong family would come to the Xu family after they had already kidnapped Xu Ling'er.
"The Kong family wants the Xu family to be an appendage of the Kong family. If they don't agree, they will forcibly take Kong Qin away," Xu Mao said.
"What?" Gu Yu frowned even more. This was going too far. It was bad enough that they kidnapped Ling'er, but now they wanted to make the Xu family an vassal. As for taking Kong Qin away, that was just an excuse for the Kong family. However, Gu Yu was very puzzled. With the strength of the Kong family, even if the Xu family became an vassal, it wouldn't make much difference. After all, if Xu Mao wasn't included, a single General Realm expert could destroy the Xu family.
“It might be because of me,” Xu Mao said. “Although my lifespan is coming to an end, I can still live for a few more years. Through my investigation of the Kong family during this period, I found that the Kong family is in chaos and the infighting is endless. They need to win over their respective forces, and I am a peak Marquis level, which is useful to them.”
"So what are your plans, senior?" Gu Yu asked. After thinking it over carefully, he realized that a peak Marquis level cultivator was indeed worth recruiting, especially someone like Xu Mao. If he were to unleash his full power, he could very well unleash the combat strength of a King level cultivator, since he had lived long enough and had considerable resources.
"Sigh!" Xu Mao sighed. "To be honest, I don't know what to do either."
Becoming an appendage of another family is an immense humiliation for any family. However, refusing to become an appendage could bring disaster to the family. Therefore, Xu Mao was at a loss for what to do. As long as he lived, the Kong family would not do anything to the Xu family, since they had a peak Marquis-level expert in charge. But the problem was that Xu Mao's lifespan was nearing its end. Once he died, the Xu family would lose its pillar of support.
Seeing Xu Mao's unwell expression, Gu Yu was at a loss for what to do. He wanted to help, but he didn't have the strength. Let alone a Marquis, even a Marshal would be in mortal danger if attacked by him at this moment.
"Let's not talk about that for now. At least for the short term, the Kong family won't do anything to my Xu family!" Xu Mao said. "By the way, how did you get involved with the Lamaist sect?"
“It must be revenge!” Gu Yu thought for a moment and said. Tara and the senior brother Bai from back then practiced the same cultivation method, so they were obviously from the same sect. Senior brother Bai died at his hands. As for senior brother Bai, he was brought by Niu Wangzu, and so was Tara. Tracing back to the root cause, it was because he offended Niu Wangzu in the gambling on stones.
“It seems that it really is true.” Xu Mao heard Gu Yu’s answer and it was indeed as he had guessed. “Gu Yu, Lamaism has a long history in the Western Regions. In my time, they were a giant. However, because of the resistance from the Central Plains, they generally do not come to the Central Plains. But now the times have changed drastically. You killed someone from their sect, so they will definitely not let it go. I think it may not be long before they come looking for you again, so you have to be careful.”
"Lamaism!" Gu Yu frowned. He never imagined that a small fry like Niu Wangzu could lead to the discovery of a huge cult. If he had known, he would have killed Niu Wangzu without anyone noticing, to avoid bringing so much trouble upon himself.
“Gu Yu, that person’s situation is also very special. I’ve observed him for a long time, but I still can’t figure it out.” Xu Mao then asked about his doubts regarding He Wen.
"Senior, you think it's impossible for a person to have the bloodline of the Taotie, right?" Gu Yu asked Xu Mao at this moment.
“That’s right. Although some people may possess the bloodline of other species, it is a very gentle bloodline. But the bloodline of the Taotie is full of devouring power, which is simply unbearable for humans, let alone control,” Xu Mao said.
"Senior, have you ever heard of mutated physiques?" Gu Yu asked.
"A mutant physique? How come I didn't think of that!" Xu Mao suddenly realized. "But this is too much of a coincidence! It's unprecedented."
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