Chapter 112
"My dear mother, are you sure?" Gu Hongying wailed at the communication symbol in the sky, "I'm busy using my spiritual energy to cut the chains in Kunlun. I have to go to class in four days. If you want me to go to the hospital for a checkup now, I'll fly over!"
The spiritual energy he sensed now was only enough to condense into irregular metal fragments as big as the tip of his little finger. To expect him to use teleportation formations and spells was to overestimate him!
"I was so busy that I forgot." Gu Xingzhu didn't feel embarrassed at all, "Tongzi, you are too inexperienced, aren't you?"
Gu Hongying: “…”
Mom, you are really my mom!
I've only been sensing aura for a few days, and now I can condense it. I'm quite a genius, okay?
Perhaps his silence had been conveyed through the communication symbol, Gu Xingzhu quickly changed his tone: "I've asked the principal to pick you up, you just need to follow the principal later."
She understood Gu Hongying's tendency to ask a thousand questions: "If you have any questions, ask them when the time comes."
As soon as she finished her words, the communication symbol in the sky immediately dissipated and disappeared without a trace.
Gu Hongying: “…”
Since he went to college, it seems that everyone around him, whether it's his parents at home or his teachers at school, has turned into a mystery teller, with many secrets but no one can tell them.
He let out a long sigh and felt that his life was becoming increasingly difficult.
Less than ten minutes after the contact symbol disappeared, a figure appeared in the snow. It was the principal who brought Gu Hongying to the Kunlun Mountain Wall.
Gu Hongying stood up somewhat awkwardly and said honestly, "Hello, Principal."
The principal nodded at him, and Gu Hongying immediately felt dizzy, as if he had thrown his brain into a washing machine, spun it three times, and then taken it out to spin dry.
When this dizzy feeling disappeared, the world in front of Gu Hongying had changed completely - the teleportation array constructed instantly would cause some adverse reactions if the person being teleported was weak.
Gu Hongying began to wonder... Is it necessary to be so anxious?
Almost at the same moment when his adverse reaction disappeared, Gu Hongying heard the principal say, "Follow me."
He followed the principal and walked quickly through the corridor, which was so white that it was eerily white and would make one dizzy if one stared at it for too long. The corridors turned left and right so many times that he almost thought he had entered a maze.
Gu Hongying was able to remember their route at first and review it in his mind, but later on it became a mess.
No...I really can't remember...
The principal sighed silently in his heart when he heard the regular footsteps behind him starting to become chaotic.
Too weak.
Even though she already knew that Gu Hongying had been an ordinary child for the previous eighteen years, and that he had been able to sense spiritual energy and condense attributes after only formally practicing for more than half a month, and could be considered a genius, she was still a little disappointed.
So many people's hopes were pinned on him...
Too slow...
It’s too slow…
She knew that her current mood was not right. No matter how fast or slow Gu Hongying's cultivation progress was, it would cause fluctuations in her mood. After so many years, she would still feel pain when she saw Shi Wan, who was imprisoned in the mountain wall and unable to live or die.
Many people had already fallen down on the road that Gu Hongying was about to take. There was countless blood under each brick. It was late... and it was also part of the road.
After realizing that his state of mind had been greatly affected, the principal slowed down his pace and slowly calmed his inner fluctuations.
As expected of her, she is called "Mirror". She hasn't been dominated by emotions like this in many years.
After she slowed down her pace, Gu Hongying quickly caught up with her and asked breathlessly, "Principal, where are we going now?"
It was said to be a physical examination, but why did he feel so weird?
The principal did not answer him. She just turned right, and the light in front of her eyes suddenly became brighter. If she was like walking in a bright but narrow corridor before, now it was as if she had come to a treasure land with beautiful mountains and rivers, and the vitality was overwhelming.
Gu Hongying saw his mother Gu Xingzhu.
This was the first time he saw his mother in the other world. She was wearing a black combat uniform and looked neat and heroic. She was very different from the image in his memory, but somehow she seemed very suitable.
Gu Xingzhu smiled and said, "Tongzi, come here."
Gu Hongying took a step forward subconsciously, then as if he had thought of something, he turned his head to look at the principal, only to find that the principal had disappeared at some point.
"Mom." Gu Hongying put aside this little doubt for the moment. He looked at Gu Xingzhu and asked, "Why do you want me to check your body for no apparent reason?"
"Employee family benefits will not be reimbursed after the expiration date." Gu Xingzhu led Gu Hongying through the door behind her, "So I was a little anxious."
Gu Hongying: “…”
He protested: "I'm not three years old anymore!"
Just find a perfunctory excuse for him!
Gu Xingzhu turned around and said helplessly: "It's really employee family benefits. How about I show you the document?"
Gu Hongying was suspicious: "Every time you lied to me, you would touch the tip of your nose with your left index finger, and you would touch it twice in a row..."
Gu Xingzhu: “…”
The child has grown up and is not as easily deceived as he was when he was little. He has noticed her guilty little actions.
"Tongzi, I know you have a lot of questions," said Gu Xingzhu. "Call your dad when everything is over. He will tell you."
She really couldn't come up with a logically consistent explanation in such a short time, so she decided to let Huo Hanzhi do it.
Gu Hongying and Gu Xingzhu made eye contact, and then... had no choice but to compromise.
Given his mother's personality, she would tell him what she wanted to tell him, and he would never be able to ask about things she didn't want to tell him—just like his parents had worked together to hide the existence of the inner world from him for a full eighteen years.
Although he didn't know what exactly happened, he had a vague intuition that this so-called "physical examination" was very important. Gu Hongying was not unhappy or upset because of his mother's obviously problematic words. After thinking for a while, he cooperated with the "medical staff" who surrounded him after he entered the door.
It’s just that…these “medical staff” really don’t act with all their heart!
It’s OK that he doesn’t have a white coat and gloves, maybe the medical staff in the inner world are different from those in the outer world; it’s OK that he has wide sleeves fluttering and a harp hanging beside him, maybe he is saving people through music practice; he is holding a dust whisk and wearing a Taoist robe, so he can be considered a fortune teller - then why is there a bald monk with a demon-subduing pestle and a fierce look in his eyes!
This painting style doesn't match at all!!!
Gu Hongying looked at them with a dull face as they threw all kinds of weird things at him, sometimes technological and sometimes mysterious, it was really quite explosive.
Gu Xingzhu had been standing outside the crowd, the smile on his face disappeared, and his eyes were so serious that Gu Hongying thought he had some incurable disease.
After this strange inspection from inside to outside was over, a stack of papers with densely printed characters spit out from the high-tech machine next to it - scientific things mixed in with the unscientific world, it still looks strange no matter how you look at it!
The stack of papers was quickly taken away.
After a while, Gu Xingzhu, who had gone in with the medical staff, came out with a smile in her eyes, completely different from her solemn expression just now: "You're very healthy, Tongzi."
She joked, "As strong as a calf."
Gu·The memory of the examination is still fresh·Hongying: "..."
Because the inspection process was so outrageous, Gu Xingzhu was too lazy to make up a story: "Someone will take you back later."
She patted Gu Hongying's shoulder with a hint of regret in her eyes.
Although she and Huo Hanzhi did not miss any important growth in Gu Hongying's life, their status meant that they were together less and apart more often.
It seemed like in the blink of an eye, the chubby little kid had grown into a tall and handsome young man, and in the blink of an eye he had to bear such a heavy fate.
"Practice well." Gu Xingzhu suddenly hugged her child and suppressed the bitterness that suddenly surged in her heart. "But don't push yourself too hard. We will all protect you."
Gu Hongying rarely saw his mother's occasional fragility. He smiled brilliantly, "I know, Mom! Is there anything else you want to say?"
Gu Hongying now has no idea how heavy the meaning of "we" is.
Gu Xingzhu shook his head and returned to his usual self: "That's it! Hurry back, stinky tong cub!"
Gu Hongying was quickly driven out of the door by her, and inexplicably felt a sense of sadness as if he was being used and then discarded.
There was already someone waiting outside the door. When Gu Hongying looked over for the first time, what he saw was not this person's appearance, but her aura. She seemed not to be a person, but a sword.
After getting used to this almost sharp aura, Gu Hongying realized that this person seemed somewhat familiar. Her appearance... was actually 50% like Xiao Wan.
Gu Hongying didn't know the identity of the boy called "Xiao Wan" by the principal, but now he had a vague guess.
During the one-month special training his father gave him, he also gave him a general introduction to the four schools in the inner world. When he introduced Kunlun, his father said—
"Mistress Kunlun is a swordsman. You will recognize her once you see her."
She seemed to be the snow that never melts on the top of Mount Kunlun. With snow as her soul and ice as her spirit, she honed a sword spirit that is unique in the world.
She is a living sword.
The number one swordsman of the previous generation, a genius whose astonishing talent overwhelmed his peers.
Gu Hongying was so shocked to meet such a person with such aura that he didn't know what to do.
Because he has to choose a major this year, he really wants to choose sword training!
He was deeply impressed by the handsomeness of Meng Zu who had stopped the waves with one sword.
He wants to be that handsome too!
What's more, he has the metal attribute and is a natural swordsman!
Mrs. Kunlun is a silent lady, she herself is like a piece of ice that has been frozen for ten thousand years. Under her, Gu Hongying had the opportunity to experience the upgraded version of "drum washing machine".
By the time the washing machine stopped, he had been sent to the outside of Kunlun Mountain, faster than the principal.
Gu Hongying: “……?”
Why is the ground so soft and the mountains in front of me are still dancing?
The cold headmaster glanced at the dazed Gu Hongying, said nothing, and turned into a sword light and left.
Gu Hongying didn't even see how she walked, he just caught a glimpse of her bare sword handle.
I always feel like there's a sword tassel missing?
Gu Hongying scratched his head, but soon he put the question behind him.
Maybe it's because the tassel is an external object and will affect the mountain's ability to grow a sword, so it's not used. After all, not everyone would decorate their sword.
Instead of worrying about these trivial issues, he should think about when he can use the metallic spiritual energy to cut the ice chain, even if it only drops a small piece or makes a scratch!
The fact that the texture is still there really makes him look useless!
Gu Hongying's hot-blooded mind calmed down instantly. He walked into the mountain wall, looked at the ice and snow with a bitter face, then chanted the spell and made postures skillfully, and teleported back to the ice chain.
The road ahead is long and arduous!
What he didn't notice was that the moment he came in, the young man who was locked with ice chains on the platform had his eyelashes trembling slightly, as if he was about to wake up.