Chapter 45 Xuan Gu Mountain (Please read on, please vote!)
As expected, it was Gu Zhengshun who called. The other party seemed eager to tie him to their side. Considering the agreement between them, there was no need to turn against them for the time being.
Wang Yu then laughed and said:
"Senior Brother Gu, it's been a long time, you still look as dashing as ever."
"Not at all, just look at these people, and Junior Brother Wang will understand why I am so fixated on Xuan Gu Mountain."
Wang Yu nodded in agreement, appearing to everyone as a brotherly and respectful figure.
The square where people are gathered now is the front square of the [Zhudianfang]. The Xuan Gu Mountain mission is a sect-related official business, and the handover between the two groups also needs to be handled by the Mission Hall.
Therefore, quite a few people stood there.
Gu Zhengshun secretly pointed out two people who were the center of attention and introduced them to him in a low voice:
"Junior Brother Wang, look at that woman in black with green hair. She is an inner disciple of the sect's third peak, the Gu Poison Peak."
"Her name is Liu Jinxian. She is at the eighth level of Qi Refining. Her father is the Core Formation Elder, the Jade Serpent True Man, and the Xuan Gu Mountain Lord. She is one of his subordinates. She is surrounded by the subordinates of the Gu Poison Peak, numbering more than two hundred. It is the largest branch among the three Xuan Gu Mountain Lords."
Wang Yu raised an eyebrow... Liu Jinxian, what a boastful name: "And who is the other one?"
"Situ Hong, this is an inner disciple of the Seventh Peak [Five Yin Peak]. He has a foster mother who is also a Core Formation cultivator, known as the Peach Blossom Ghost Mother. Her strength is much greater than that of the Jade Serpent True Person."
"He himself is only at the seventh level of Qi Refining, and has only recently entered the late stage of Qi Refining. There are a total of 129 disciples from the Five Yin Peaks surrounding him."
Good heavens, the two groups together number exactly four hundred. If he comes to the appointment without knowing anything, he will be the only one of the three mountain lords all alone, and he will probably be killed on the way.
That bastard Zhao Shang deserves to be devoured every day!
However, on the other hand, although Gu Zhengshun has a Core Formation Master, their relationship is certainly not as close as that of his master. In the demonic path, the master-disciple relationship is not as important as one might imagine.
Compared to Liu and Situ, Gu Zhengshun was of much lower status.
Therefore, when Wang Yu looked behind him, there were only twenty people, with varying levels of cultivation. The weakest among them was only at the third level of Qi Refining, and they were carrying elm coffins, which looked shabby.
This family fortune... is it going to compete with those two?
Wang Yu gave Gu Zhengshun a questioning look, then walked away silently.
"Cough cough—"
"Junior Brother Wang, don't worry. The sect has issued over five hundred Xuan Bone Tokens, plus about eighty ordinary disciples. We can recruit some. You promised to weather the storm together!"
Wang Yu paused, then disappeared into the group of Heavenly Corpse Peak disciples. He found someone, asked for a usable coffin, and carried it on his back in a proper manner.
From today onwards, he is a disciple of Heavenly Corpse Peak.
Like light and dust.
Seeing this, Gu Zhengshun didn't stop him; in fact, he was quite pleased. Wang Yu was one of his trump cards, so naturally, he had to keep him hidden for now.
He went to the group of ordinary disciples, using his eloquence to recruit people, and also took the opportunity to inquire about information from the older disciples who had rotated back.
Five years is not a short time for a Qi Refining cultivator.
It might differ from the information he has, so it's necessary to find out. Asking more questions won't hurt.
The land area of a province is vast, and Blood Abyss Province is about 20 million square kilometers. The Reverse Spirit Blood Sect is located in the center of this province, and hundreds of miles away is the holy land for cultivating blood-path techniques—[Blood Abyss]!
This journey northwards requires crossing Qiongye Prefecture and arriving at Feng Prefecture, which is located in the northernmost and most remote part of the Crimson Kite Demon Realm.
Further north lies the vast and desolate Endless Ice Plains, rife with natural calamities and extreme ice storms that even Nascent Soul stage monsters struggle to cross.
This journey covers a straight-line distance of over 50,000 kilometers, longer than the equator in my previous life, making it a truly long-distance trip.
Even if a Qi Refining cultivator were to travel the entire distance using a flying artifact, it would still take at least twenty-six days, averaging eighty kilometers per hour.
However, this is the straight-line distance. Along the way, one has to navigate around dangerous places, stop to recover magic power, and take daily rest. It is normal for the travel time to increase several times. It will take at least three months to reach Xuan Gu Mountain.
The time will coincide with the arrival of the new year, and the stationing period will be counted from the time of arrival.
Fortunately, they passed through the territory of the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect; otherwise, they would have been lucky to have survived the journey, let alone made it through.
Maps of the Crimson Kite Demon Realm are difficult for someone like Wang Yu to obtain. Maps are rare resources that all sects value highly. Ordinary maps are useless; they must be marked with spiritual veins, forces, dangerous places, etc., making map drawing extremely risky.
Therefore, the further down a cultivator goes, the more "blind" they become. They know how to get to a certain place, but they only have a vague idea of what dangers they might encounter and can hardly see the whole picture.
For monks, traveling long distances is also a difficult task.
The waiting time always feels long.
When Gu Zhengshun returned to the group, he found no one with him, but instead had a scroll in his hand, he said.
"Junior Brother Wang, everything has been handed over to the Mission Hall. The reward for five years is five hundred contribution points and five hundred spirit stones. Just leave your mark using your disciple token."
This amount of money is very little, and compared to the tasks offered by Ice and Snow Pavilion, it's quite meager. No wonder those people would rather be exploited by 60% than take on tasks within the pavilion.
"Can."
The reward from Xuan Gu Mountain lies not in the mission itself, but in the opportunities that come with this place, so it doesn't matter whether you gain more or less.
After completing the branding, Gu Zhengshun handed the items to the others one by one, then turned back to hand over the mission scroll before speaking.
"Okay, everything's taken care of, let's go."
Wang Yu's expression changed, and he pointed at Liu and Situ's groups.
"Not together?"
"They don't even look at us, let's go."
"walk slowly………"
Just as he was about to take out the flying magic artifact, the Black Silk, which he had never used since he got it, Gu Zhengshun took out a bone boat and threw out dozens of mid-grade spirit stones to embed in it. The bone boat instantly grew larger, enough to carry all twenty-two of them.
He's just ignorant.
Upon leaving, Liu Jinxian and Situ Hong immediately displayed their respective abilities. One created a pavilion shrouded in poisonous smoke, containing a hidden universe within. The other created a skull with howling ghosts, which rapidly enlarged after being embedded in a spirit stone.
To Wang Yu's surprise, none of them were Foundation Establishment cultivators accompanying them; instead, the disciples who received the "Mountain Lord's Order" were allowed to travel freely.
On the bone ship, Gu Zhengshun, who was flying towards the outside of the sect, seemed to have seen through his thoughts and teased him.
“Fengzhou is remote, and the Xuan Gu Mountain we are going to is close to the Endless Ice Plains. There are not many Foundation Establishment cultivators going to this area, and once they settle down, it is difficult to move for forty or fifty years.”
"So that's how it is—"
Exile can be summed up in just two words!
After leaving the sect, Gu Zhengshun handed over the task of operating the bone ship to his subordinates, and sat on the top platform with Wang Yu to drink together, while discussing some information about Xuan Gu Mountain and what they were going to do next.
(End of this chapter)
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