Chapter 17 Underground Space
Gu Shihan and Xingbai went in quickly and the door closed again without making any noise.
There was a large space inside the door, which seemed to be at least a thousand square meters and seemed very empty.
"Hanhan, there is a faint spiritual energy. It seems that this Liu family is indeed extraordinary. There must be someone who cultivates immortality here."
Gu Shihan looked around. There were not many things in the space, only seven jade boxes and a jade shelf. On the shelf there were dozens of jade bottles, hundreds of jade boxes, a few books and a pile of jade slips.
"Hanhan, we're rich. Here are spirit stones, four boxes of low-quality ones, two boxes of medium-quality ones, two boxes of high-quality ones, and one box of top-quality ones. This Liu family is really a family of immortals!" Xingbai shouted happily in the underground space.
"Alas! What kind of a home for cultivating immortals? It's full of ordinary people?!" A sigh and a hollow male voice sounded in the ears of the man and the beast.
"Who?! Come out! Stop playing tricks!" Gu Shihan said sternly.
"My friend, you have trespassed into the forbidden area, and you are still so rude? However, those who can enter here should be able to practice. Hmm, the seventh level of Qi Refining, not bad, you are the first person I have seen here who has spiritual roots to practice. Whose family are you from?"
Gu Shihan only felt a gust of wind circling around her for a few circles, and a phantom appeared in front of her.
This shadow looks a bit more solid than the one in the cave, and his facial features can be vaguely seen.
"You? Your last name is Gu?" Gu Shihan asked.
“How do you know?!” The shadow was stunned and stayed in the air for a long time without coming back to his senses.
"A few days ago, I entered a cave in the Canaan Mountains. The owner of the cave was also surnamed Gu, and he was from the spirit world. He told me that his brother had fallen down with him."
"What? Where is he? My friend, take me to see him. As long as you take me to see him, all the things here will be given to you! He may very well be my brother!" The phantom said anxiously, a little excited.
"Senior, are you really from the spirit world? But that senior has long since fallen! Only a remnant of his soul remains. He was too weak and soon annihilated. These are his ashes!"
Gu Shihan took out a jade box, opened it, placed it on the ground, and silently stepped away.
The shadow quickly pounced on the jade box and began to sob. After a moment, the shadow looked up at Shi Han and asked, "Are you a descendant of the Gu family?"
"There should be some connection. That senior asked me to do a blood test, and there was movement on the blood plate! He said that I am a descendant of the Gu family. My mother is a descendant of the Liu family. That's why I found the Liu family's ancestral land, and wanted to see why the Liu family was wiped out?" Gu Shihan answered honestly.
"Liu family?! Yes, Liu family! How is the Liu family now?" Gu Shihan glanced at Senior Shadow and whispered, "The Liu family was wiped out by the Western Jin Dynasty royal family more than ten years ago!"
“The whole family is wiped out!” The shadow’s body began to tremble, and it calmed down after more than ten breaths. It looked at Shi Han and asked, “Then how did you escape this disaster?”
"Me? It was heard that my mother disappeared a month before the family was wiped out, so I avoided it!" Gu Shihan replied.
"That's great. I, Gu Yanli, have a successor. Child, I am from the Gu family in the spiritual world. The Gu family is a first-rate family in the spiritual world, and its strength and background are among the best.
It’s just that our branch has been in a weak position since my grandfather and father died. In the end, we were hunted down and fell into the lower world. Well, the past is the past. What the ancestor wants to say is that you should not go to the Gu family when you go to the spirit world. The ancestor is now a soul and can’t help you. You can take everything here. I, the ancestor, will die without regrets. "
"Old...Ancestor, you have been here for hundreds of years? Haven't you ever thought about going out?" Gu Shihan asked, looking around.
"Go out? If I go out I will disappear. In order to wait for my blood relatives, I, the ancestor, imprisoned myself here. Today I can finally leave with peace of mind. God is still kind and let my wish come true before I disappear!" The phantom sighed.
"Ancestor, can you reincarnate and start practicing again after leaving here?" Gu Shihan asked with hope in his eyes.
“No, I have been dead for hundreds of years. I have no chance to reincarnate, unless I take over another body and be reborn.
It's just that taking over another body and being reborn is too detrimental to the harmony of nature, and it will be detrimental to future cultivation. Besides, I don't bother to do that, good child, just live well!" The shadow said lightly.
"Hanhan, you can let your ancestor enter the soul orb, and then find a body for him when you go to the spirit world?! Besides, he can guide you in cultivation, which is better than figuring it out on your own." Xingbai transmitted the message.
"Xingbai, do you want me to find someone to possess his body? That's not possible!" Gu Shihan was shocked.
Gu Shihan believes that she is not a good person, because she is still cruel and bloody in her bones, but she cannot kill people for no reason.
"Hanhan, I didn't say to kill living people. Just find those who died recently. Don't you have the spiritual spring? After all, they are your blood ancestors, aren't they?" Xingbai said seriously.
"It seems to make sense! I'll ask the ancestor if he's willing?!" Gu Shihan nodded, feeling that there was some truth to it.
Gu Shihan thought for a moment, looked at the shadow and said, "Ancestor, I have a soul-nourishing bead here. Are you willing to enter it to cultivate your soul? If you go to the spirit world, I may be able to find a body for you to cultivate again. Are you willing?"
"Soul-nourishing bead? It belongs to my brother, right? I remember he got one by chance. That's all. I'll go in to recuperate. I'm really worried about letting a kid like you venture into the spirit world. As for finding a body, it's fate if you meet it, but there's no point in forcing it if you don't." The phantom sighed and said slowly.
The phantom trembled and turned into a stream of light that entered the soul-nourishing bead. Gu Shihan collected all the things in the underground space and quickly left the Western Jin Imperial City.
Before they had walked far, a loud noise was heard from the Liu Mansion. It turned out that the underground space had collapsed.
Gu Shihan returned to the cave in the Canaan Mountains again. She planned to practice here for a while before looking for a way to leave.
Time flies like an arrow, and three years have passed just like that because there are enough spirit stones.
Although the spiritual energy in this world is thin, with the help of the spirit gathering array and spirit stones, Gu Shihan's cultivation level has improved rapidly and he has already reached the great perfection of Qi Refining.
"Xiao Han, you have a good comprehension and aptitude. Your talent in formations is even stronger than your great uncle. You really have inherited his true teachings." Gu Yanli floated out from the soul bead.
With the nourishment of the soul bead, Gu Yanli's soul was not so weak anymore. Of course, it was also because Gu Shihan gave him a few soul stones from the Yuehua bracelet.
He paid special attention to Gu Shihan's cultivation. Gu Yanli was proficient in making talismans and was also good at refining pills. It could be said that he taught Gu Shihan everything he knew.
(End of this chapter)
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