Ye Sisi was holding a fist-sized Void Stone, studying how to use it, when a loud shout came from not far away.
"Grandpa, grandpa, I've missed your dear grandson so much!"
Ye Sisi's hand trembled, and the corner of her mouth twitched involuntarily. She didn't even need to look up to know who it was. She just couldn't understand what Gu Huai was thinking. He had no airs of a genius at all and was calling her "ancestor" so happily.
If Gu Huai hadn't been so sharp-tongued back then, she wouldn't have had a conflict with him. But so many years have passed, and they're friends now. She's not that petty. She's told him many times not to call her "ancestor" anymore, just call her by her name. But Gu Huai just won't listen and keeps calling her "ancestor" happily. She's really exasperated.
"What are you doing, shouting like that? Don't you know you can scare people to death?"
Gu Huai, who still looked like a seven or eight-year-old boy, suddenly stopped in front of Ye Sisi upon hearing her words. He clasped his hands together, bent one leg slightly, moved the other leg slightly back, and almost bumped his head into his hands, and said loudly, "I know, ancestor."
Ye Sisi lowered her head, her lips twitching involuntarily. It was truly unbearable to watch. She was now very curious about what kind of personality Gu Huai's master had, otherwise how could he have taught such a disciple?
"Ancestor, what are you doing with the Void Stone? Are you going to refine a space?"
Ye Sisi only hummed in response when she saw that the guy was finally back to normal.
"No, ancestor, you've already successfully descended to the bottom of the abyss?" Knowing Ye Sisi as he did, he knew she wouldn't have the leisure to tinker with the space unless she had successfully descended to the bottom of the abyss. This was too fast! He had arrived even before Ye Sisi.
Ye Sisi nodded again: "Yes, we just came up not long ago."
Upon hearing this, Gu Huai clasped his hands in a fist salute again, bowed his head, and said, "As expected of my ancestor, he is truly amazing. I am convinced."
Ye Sisi couldn't help but clench her fists and grit her teeth, saying, "Is this never going to end?"
"No, no, no, don't do it! I just thought the atmosphere in Tianjian Abyss was too heavy, so I wanted to lighten the mood."
Ye Sisi didn't say anything, but looked Gu Huai up and down. He had already reached the Refinement stage, and his cultivation was very solid. It seemed that he had suffered a lot in the past few years.
Due to the inexplicable weakening of the Heavenly Dao, or rather, the intensity of the tribulation lightning returning to normal, the number of cultivators undergoing tribulation has been increasing in recent years.
Except for a very small number of cultivators who died under the heavenly tribulation for various reasons, most people survived the tribulation safely. At worst, they were only injured and went back to recuperate before returning.
Therefore, the overall combat power of the spirit world has increased significantly in just four or five years, which is undoubtedly a good thing for the entire spirit world.
However, once the peak period of tribulation is over, the Spirit Realm will not see such a grand spectacle again for a short time. In recent years, many cultivators who had reached the threshold of breakthrough but deliberately suppressed their cultivation due to the strength of the heavenly tribulation have broken through one after another. In addition, geniuses like Gu Huai have reached a bottleneck in their realm, which is why the Spirit Realm has shown signs of prosperity.
However, there will be no more large-scale breakthroughs after that. Talented people like her, Gu Huai, Xiang Yang, Lin Shuangluo, and Ouyang Yanyu will be stuck at a certain realm for many years, not to mention cultivators who have difficulty cultivating to begin with.
However, she couldn't control these things. She couldn't rush her own cultivation. She listened to Wuhen's words. She wasn't that tall person. Even if the Demon Realm invaded again in twelve years, there would still be people above her. She needed to keep a calm mindset, otherwise her cultivation would only be twice as difficult and half as effective.
"Ancestor, have you heard about the Gu Clan?"
Ye Sisi looked up, asking curiously, "What happened to the Gu Clan?"
She only had one impression of the Gu clan in the spirit world: they were eerie, domineering, and unreasonable. In short, she didn't have a good impression of them.
After all, Lan Xi had placed the Crimson Heart Gu on her fourth senior brother without his knowledge. Moreover, once the Crimson Heart Gu was fully integrated with Ye Shubai, it would become an invisible channel that would continuously drain the life force from his body.
Have you ever heard of the Gu Clan's Life Gu?
Ye Sisi shook her head. She didn't know much about the Gu Clan, mainly because the Gu Clan lived in seclusion for many years. Clan members didn't come out easily, and it was also difficult for outsiders to enter.
Moreover, the rumors circulating outside are unreliable, and she doesn't want to get involved with the Gu Clan, so she genuinely doesn't know anything about them. Although the Gu Clan acts strangely and eccentrically, they are not as cowardly and despicable as the Tianli Sect. They can be seen on the battlefield, but they stick together internally and don't interact with other cultivators. In short, Ye Sisi doesn't know anything about them and doesn't really want to know.
"The Gu Clan has always secretly sold life Gu to the outside world, but these are all shady transactions. I didn't know about it at first, but somehow it was exposed. The Gu Clan's life Gu is raised on the life of Gu Clan Gu women. Each Gu worm needs to absorb the life force of about eight Gu women to grow. It can increase the life of the person who eats it by eight hundred years, which is no worse than the most top-grade longevity pill, and there are no side effects at all."
Ye Sisi immediately remembered the small green worm she had pulled out of Lan Xi's body before. If she wasn't mistaken, that should be the Life Gu.
Thank goodness, her fourth senior brother didn't fall for it, otherwise it would have been troublesome.
"Then what?"
Although the matter was somewhat strange, Ye Sisi didn't think she needed to know. She simply didn't want to deal with the Gu Clan. Besides, Gu Huai usually seemed unserious, but he wouldn't bring up the matter of the Life Gu for no reason, unless it was related to them.
But what could it possibly have to do with them? They've been living in the Heavenly Sword Abyss for years, practically isolated from the world. The Gu Clan couldn't possibly have gotten their hands on this place.
Gu Huai's face was stern, unusually serious: "The Life Gu is not the key point. The key point is the origin of the Life Gu. You definitely can't imagine where the Life Gu comes from."
Ye Sisi recalled Zhou Yuze's reaction when he saw the green Gu worm, and exclaimed inwardly, "Could it be that the Life Gu is something from the Demon-Slaying Land?"
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