Chapter 72
Zhou Qingzi ran into Mo Da's group on the way.
"What are you going to do?"
He slammed the brakes on his flying sword in mid-air, and looked in horror at the special forces team coming towards him with guns and cannons in murderous spirits.
When he went to Mo Da for the second time, Gu Liangyi and Yi Yan took him to visit the training ground. After seeing the power of modern weapons, Zhou Qingzi did not dare to underestimate these strange "magic weapons" in their hands.
It can easily blow away half of a mountain. Even a Jindan stage cultivator wouldn't be able to withstand this thing, right?
"Elder Zhou, what's wrong with you?"
The second elder frowned, still looking puzzled.
Zhou Qingzi then remembered that it had been such a long time since he came back, and he hadn't had the chance to reveal any of Mo Da's details to the other party. No wonder the second elder had such a neutral expression when he greeted them.
He slapped his head in annoyance, and while they were still some distance away from the Mo University team, he quickly reminded them, "Remember to be respectful to Principal Zong and the others. These people are really not ordinary people."
"Of course I know they are not ordinary people," said the second elder. "How can ordinary people control magic tools? There is no trace of cultivation on them. I guess they are using some magic tools to conceal their cultivation."
Zhou Qingzi thought of Gu Liangyou's terrifying strength and nodded in agreement.
"But you don't have to be so nervous," the second elder glanced at him and snorted, "Our Linshen Sect is the largest sect in the world of immortal cultivation. Even if they are an alien sect, so what? Our disciples' strength is unquestionable, and it cannot be compared with any tricky skills."
Just like in the previous world, Zong Qinyuan used the same reason when introducing the origin of Mo Da.
It’s just that he made localized modifications according to different worlds, and in this world, Mo Da became the so-called "immortal sect outside the domain".
"No, you still don't understand," Zhou Qingzi shook his head repeatedly, "The magic weapons in their hands are not some strange and clever tricks, but..." real and powerful weapons.
But now the people from Moda had already arrived in front of them, so Zhou Qingzi had to swallow the words that were on the tip of his tongue. He did not forget that he was here to find Gu Liangyi, and he glanced around and saw the black-haired young man standing in the crowd.
"Friend Guliang!" Zhou Qingzi jumped off the flying sword and wanted to hold his hand excitedly, but Yi Yan took a step forward and blocked him, looking at him coldly: "What are you doing?"
"I have no ill intentions," Zhou Qingzi said immediately, "I just want to ask you, little friend Gu Liang, for a favor."
"What's up?"
Gu Liangyou actually knew what he wanted to say, but he still watched Zhou Qingzi hesitate again and again without making any expression, then he sighed heavily and said: "To be honest with you, the sect leader just ended his retreat, but his condition is very wrong. I am worried that he will attack you."
The second elder was shocked: "Third elder, what nonsense are you talking about? How could the sect leader do this!"
"Second brother, are you blind or really confused?"
Zhou Qingzi turned his head, glared at him and shouted, "Don't you and I know what Junior Brother is like? He shouldn't have ended his retreat so early. After he came out, his behavior in front of us was weird. Have you forgotten the days before Master ascended to heaven?"
The second elder's eyes suddenly widened.
The master of the four of them, that is, the last leader of Lin Shenzong before he ascended to heaven, behaved almost exactly like Lin Zhang today.
——When he speaks, his lips do not move, and he only uses his abdomen to make sounds. He often stares in a certain direction with a strange smile, but the look in his eyes when he looks at them reveals an inexplicable sadness.
At that time, they thought that this was just the inevitable process of the five decays for cultivators, and that the master only looked at them that way because he was reluctant to part with them.
But now Zhou Qingzi doesn’t think so.
"What do you mean by that?" the Second Elder asked hoarsely, "Hasn't Master already ascended to the upper realm?"
Gu Liangyou stood there, his hands in his pockets nonchalantly, watching the scene coldly.
He saw Zhou Qingzi's eyes gradually turn red, and he said in a trembling voice: "Of course I hope so, but Third Brother, don't you think it's too much of a coincidence? When Master ascended to heaven, Junior Brother also claimed to be sick and could not go out, just like Senior Brother now. If nothing unexpected happens, Senior Brother should be the next Sect Master, right? After all, Lin Xiang's cultivation is still shallow and his qualifications are not enough."
"…Do you think they know something?"
The second elder was speechless after being asked this question. At this time, Gu Liangyou finally spoke.
"After talking for so long," he said calmly, "since you know that your leader might want to harm someone, and you came here specially, what exactly do you want to ask of me?"
Zhou Qingzi closed his eyes, and suddenly saluted him, bowed deeply and said: "Friend Guliang, I know that your cultivation is far superior to ours, Sect Master... I have watched my junior brother grow up since he was a child, just like my disciple Zhou Ming. If you can save him, I am willing to give you my savings of a hundred years, and you can choose any treasure in the cave!"
"No."
Gu Liangyou said simply and clearly.
Zhou Qingzi was dumbfounded when he was about to speak. He looked up suddenly and said, "Wait a minute, what did you say?"
Gu Liangyou was not moved by Zhou Qingzi's promise. He said calmly, "If I really saved your leader, it would be equivalent to saving the entire Lin Shen Sect. Once this matter is exposed to the world, the Lin Shen Sect will definitely become the target of public criticism in the entire cultivation world. Let's not talk about the fact that we don't even know what's in your cave. Even if we take a step back, can you afford this price alone?"
“…………” Zhou Qingzi was stunned by the question. He stood there blankly, with a look of despair gradually appearing between his brows.
"What do you want?" he asked in a hoarse voice.
"All of your sect's treasure houses must be open to us."
"impossible!"
The Second Elder who had been listening in on the conversation finally couldn't help it. He glared at Gu Liangyou who was talking loudly and grabbed Zhou Qingzi's arm, "Third Elder, I think you have been bewitched by them! These people are full of lies and big talk. I think they are coming for our sect's treasure house!"
"Elder, I think you may have made a mistake," Zong Qinyuan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up. "If we really had ill intentions, we would have leveled the Kunlun Mountains by now. Why would we even need to discuss this with you?"
"What nonsense!"
The second elder felt that this group of people was a hundred times more hateful than the Demon Cult. His face gradually turned red with emotion, and he had to take out the bottle of Qingxin Pills from his arms with trembling hands.
Gu Liangyou stared at his movements and suddenly asked, "Don't take medicine carelessly. Do you know its composition?"
The Second Elder paused while taking the medicine.
Without waiting for him to speak, Gu Liangyou continued, "As an elder, have you ever felt strange? It is obvious that cultivators should be pure in mind and desire, but even after reaching the Spiritualization Stage, they are still unable to transcend external things, and are even worse than ordinary people who can calm their emotions on their own."
"What exactly do you want to say?" asked the second elder with a gloomy face.
Gu Liangyou looked at his blood vessels dilating and his breathing becoming rapid, and shook his head. "Using rotten meat as a medicine, the pill in your hand is essentially no different from your so-called foundation-building pills. The only difference is the amount of rotten meat used and whether it contains insect eggs. Compared to this, I think you need to take some insect repellent."
It was also a coincidence that just before they set off, news came from Mo Da's liaison department that they had analyzed the ingredients of several pills that Zhou Qingzi had given them.
Therefore, Gu Liangyou said this.
The Second Elder obviously didn't believe it, but under such circumstances he couldn't continue taking the Qingxin Pill. In a rage, his reason was overwhelmed by anger and unknown mania. He put one hand on the hilt of the sword at his side, as if he wanted to attack Gu Liangyou.
Zhou Qingzi's pupils shrank: "Brother, stop it!"
"I advise you not to, old man."
Yan Beichen, who was carrying a rocket launcher, threatened. As a demonstration, he unceremoniously turned the muzzle of the gun and fired a shot at the stone tablet beside the second elder!
"boom!!!"
The second elder Huo then took several steps back and was shocked to see that the stone tablet, which weighed thousands of tons, was completely shattered into pieces by the blow of the magic weapon!
This is a stone tablet made of the hardest Kunlun white rock!
Even if he used his full strength to strike with his sword, he might not be able to split it in half...
Zhou Qingzi's face also twisted: "That's my master's monument! You...you guys..."
Yan Beichen uttered an "ah" and scratched his head in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I saw there were no words or patterns on it, and I thought it was just an ordinary stone tablet."
Accidentally blowing up something left behind by the master was indeed a dishonest act. But Gu Liangyou narrowed his eyes and saw through the thick smoke and dust the entrance to a secret room hidden under the stone tablet.
"Why," he asked Zhou Qingzi, "do you, the Linshen Sect, not only erect a stele without words, but also have a hobby of building a secret room under the stele? What's inside it?"
But Zhou Qingzi's stunned look mixed with surprise and doubt told him that the other party was completely unaware of the existence of this secret room, let alone figuring out what was inside.
"Fellow Daoist Gu Liang, the Sect Master invites you to come over."
Just as everyone fell silent, the swordsman who had delivered the message came to him again and said, "The sect master has been waiting for you for a long time. He asked you to go alone as soon as possible."
So Zhou Qingzi once again turned to Gu Liangyou for help.
Since the junior brother repeatedly emphasized "alone", he must have set up a restrictive formation around the square, otherwise he would not have let him and the second elder leave so easily just now - because he wanted to do so anyway.
Zhou Qingzi even suspected that if he had not taken the initiative to leave, his junior fellow apprentice would have attacked him in the next second.
Moreover, even if he met Gu Liangyou, he still had no idea what was going on.
First, he didn't know why the sect leader was looking for the young man in front of him. Second, although he swallowed his pride and asked the people of Mo University for help, he was not sure whether Gu Liangyou had the ability to restore the sect leader to normal - but considering that their disciple Zhou Ming was cured and saved his life, there should be a chance, right?
"This is my elder token." He gritted his teeth and took out a token made of jet-black ebony from his storage ring. On it was an ancient Chinese character "Zhou". He handed it to Gu Liangyou solemnly, "You can freely enter and exit any area except the sect master's cave, including the treasure pavilion. But if you want to take anything away, please discuss it with us first... I mean, let us know."
"Third brother, you..."
The second elder wanted to stop it, but after looking at the stone tablet that was blown into pieces by the "strange and clever technique" and the dark entrance below that exuded a faint ominous aura, he finally dropped his hand helplessly.
Gu Liangyou raised his eyebrows, took it under the excited gazes of the people behind him, and weighed it in his hand.
It's worth the trip to get something for nothing.
"Okay, I agree." He said, "But if we are attacked, I may not be able to guarantee your leader's safety. I can only do my best."
"……I see."
Zhou Qingzi has already lowered his bottom line to the lowest level. Zhou Ming and Lin Zhang are very different in terms of practice time and cultivation level, so he can't ask too much of Gu Liangyou.
Before Gu Liangyou left, Zhou Qingzi gave him another dagger.
"The monk's injury will not cause a stress response in this parasite, otherwise we would have discovered it long ago," he said. "You can try to see if you can take it out of the master's body. If you can't... then make other plans."
He didn't want to talk about the worst case scenario, but even without him saying it, Gu Liangyou would definitely put his own life first.
They dawdled here for a long time, and perhaps Lin Zhang finally couldn't wait any longer. Suddenly, a solemn aura swept through the entire sect. Everyone present turned their heads sharply to look towards the square, only to see a blood-red translucent formation with the sect master's position as the center, rapidly spreading out in all directions!
Wherever it passes, whether it is trees or grass, they will wither instantly.
The second elder exclaimed: "Blood Seal Formation! How could the Demon Cult's formation appear in the Lin Shen Sect!?"
"No, this is not the Blood Sealing Formation," Zhou Qingzi immediately retorted, "It is much less powerful than the Blood Sealing Formation, but——"
This means that it was exchanged for other conditions.
"You're not trying to hide it at all." Zong Qinyuan sighed.
He looked at Yi Yan, who understood and raised his hand to raise the gun, pulling the trigger.
"Bang!"
The bullet accurately hit a tree trunk inside the formation.
This means that inanimate objects can freely shuttle in and out of the formation. But when Yan Beichen tried to cross the formation, he was shot out, and even the barrel in his hand fell two meters away.
But when Gu Liangyou stretched out his hand, he easily passed through the barrier of the formation.
Moreover, the moment it sensed him, the blood-colored formation miraculously stopped expanding.
"Only he can go in."
The second elder understood everything immediately. He opened his eyes wide and spoke in a low, hoarse voice.
His eyes revealed deep disbelief, as well as the same pain and anxiety that Zhou Qingzi had just felt.
Master, why on earth are you doing this?
Could it be that it’s just like what the third brother said, that you are really no longer their junior apprentice?
After discovering that he was the only one who could enter the formation, a smile slowly appeared on Gu Liangyou's expressionless face.
"Very good," he said to Yi Yan and the others, "Go to the reserved location and wait. Let me meet this Sect Master Lin."
"Be careful, Fourth Brother. If anything happens, retreat immediately!" Yan Beichen said worriedly.
But Yi Yan, who usually cared about his safety the most, just looked at Gu Liangyou at this time, and calmly put on his sniper rifle - the terrain here was too low, he had to go to a higher place to find a suitable sniping point.
"I'll wait for you to come back," he said.
Gu Liangyou snorted softly, and it seemed like he was laughing.
The two men's eyes met, and after a moment, they turned around at the same time and walked towards their respective battlefields.
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