Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Gao Yi’s brows were locked tight. Under Gong Xinran’s pleading eyes, he hesitated for a long while before unwillingly saying, “Forget it! This lady is a Spirit Cultivation Realm spirit master. Just nice enough to make up for what we are lacking. That Dark Chill Tiger can help, too. You can follow, but you have to follow my instructions…”
Gong Xinran was instantly delighted, forcibly pulling Zong Shou and Chuxue into the group.
Zong Shou was speechless, he wanted to say that the current Zong Shou was different from the one in the past and didn’t need people to protect him. However he didn’t, actually accepting it, “Thank you, Senior Sister! Has life been good these last two years?”
Gong Xinran smiled, subconsciously looking at the back of Gao Yi. “Not that good, but not that bad! I have been following Senior Brother Gao Yi these two years, around the eastern cities. I have been to many places and seen a lot of things. As they say, you don’t know how big the world is unless you go out to the world. Even in the east of Donglin Cloud Continent, we are like water droplets in an ocean. When we were studying at Linhai College it was like looking at the heavens through the window of a well. Luckily Senior Brother Gao is experienced, although he came from a big family, he has taken good care of me.”
Her eyes were filled with sweetness and happiness. Zong Shou could only feel like his heart was like being stabbed by a needle. Even when his Dual Meridian Body acted up when he cultivated wasn’t as painful as right now.
He smiled bitterly. In his last life he suffered from heartbreak once. He originally thought that he would never feel that sense of loss and sadness ever again. Who knew that in this life he would deeply experience it once more? The burning jealousy and pain within his chest was so annoying, however he couldn’t get it to go away.
Suddenly he felt his body feel cold, and an ice cold gaze spread towards his direction, making him shiver. However where his eyes passed there wasn’t anything strange. It wasn’t that Qi Nu who showed displeasure towards him before…
Was it his misconception? Was he thinking too much?
Zong Shou focused, still feeling that something wasn’t right. Looking carefully at the people in front of him, there wasn’t anything unusual. In the end he suppressed his doubts and buried it in his heart.
Gao Yi made some slight arrangements and the group of them continued to travel forwards. A few Mythic Masters protecting at the front, the Dark Chill Tiger also added there. Gong Xinran and Chuxue walked at the back. What was surprising was that Gao Yi also walked with the Mythic Masters. He was a double cultivator and his martial cultivation was at Martial Master. With a Grade Three wolf-type Protector Spirit Beast helping him out. Occasionally when he struck out his ability was like that of Mythic Masters, and even a little better! His body was thin and well built, like those who girls fell for.
After awkwardly following them for a while, Zong Shou realized that this situation was decent. Within this group he was basically doing nothing, he didn’t need to spend any effort to avoid the beasts. Anyways, Gao Yi didn’t expect him to have any fighting strength.
Chuxue also used her spiritual connection to command that Dark Chill Tiger to fight at the front. Occasionally she used spiritual techniques, like Light Body, Clear Eyes, and Strengthen Body, on those Mythic Masters. She could train her spiritual techniques while also strengthening her bond with her First Protector Spirit Beast.
Their speed was only slightly slower than when the two of them travelled alone. In just half a day they travelled eighty miles and arrived near the middle portion of Blood Valley. That Dark Chill Tiger who chuxue was a little rusty and not used to at the start, they were now spiritually connected and its actions became more casual and more ferocious.
Gong Xinran was a little astonished, turning around and asking, “Is Junior Brother’s body recovered? You have walked so long and aren’t panting. I remember in the past in just thirty minutes you would be tired. I thought you would have to rest just now…”
Zong Shou wasn’t surprised, his Wind Traveling Spiritual Bone was sticking close to his body and the spiritual energy of the wind element beast crystal only cycled within. Spirit cultivating Realm spirit masters couldn’t notice anything at all.
He didn’t explain, nodding his head slightly as a sort of silent admission. He looked at those few Mythic Masters in front, probing, “Were they hired by Senior Brother Gao? Where did they come from?”
He felt that this group of people weren’t ordinary, and that feeling had raised to its maximum.
Not only were they sharp when they struck out, when they worked together they did so with a great understanding of one another. Their techniques were really skilled, like they came from the military. They also cared for Gao Yi really well.
They were really experienced, although not at his level, but as they travelled they had avoided a large half of the beast hordes.
“I don’t know, either!” Gong Xinran shook her head. “Senior Brother wrote a letter to invite them over after learning that my family ancestor fell in this Blood Valley. If they aren’t his friends, then they are his subordinates. Their overall strength is really strong, normal Mythic Masters aren’t their opponents.”
Zong Shou’s eyes shone and he didn’t ask anymore, his heart filled with praise. Such a group, just three of them could casually kill Blazing Sword Wu Wei. Even Yin Yang, who was at the Eighth Meridian, might not be able to retreat when the six of them worked together.
It was weird just thinking about it: as the Young Master of the Gao Family, how could he not have bodyguards around him?.
Even he himself didn’t believe that Zong Weiran didn’t arrange other helpers to protect him in secret, beyond Yin Yang.
Temporarily putting down the worries in his heart, Zong Shou felt a little more wary.
Maybe because their strength was too high, but apart from a few Grade Three beasts and a Fang Wolf pack that gave them some problems, the rest of their journey had been really smooth.
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Only when they got deeper in, a giant mountain stabbing into the clouds in sight, did the situation get more intense.
There weren’t any Grade Two beasts here anymore, they were all above Grade Three, and were even more vicious. Luckily their numbers were really small and they were spread out, But if they bumped into one the beasts stopped at nothing. Some of these beasts loved to form into groups, and were even harder to deal with.
“This is the Demon Corpse Mountain!”
As they walked to the foot of the giant mountain, Gong Xinran looked towards the peak with a dazed expression. “Legend had it that this mountain was transformed after that other race’s martial cultivator fell. This place can turn the beast people into bloodthirsty devils. It is also a place where Xiantian Realm and above experts don’t dare to come. Legend has it that this place also had many Desolate Era treasures that even the experts of the Cloud World crave for.”
Zong Shou kept silent. Blood Valley and Demon Corpse Mountain were a mid-level newbie region, but twenty years later it became a high-level sub quest of the game. To enter it one had to be at least at the Ascended level.
The reason he came over in the game world was to kill beasts and raise levels, as well as for the treasures and equipment within.
To really be here, with people from ten thousand years ago, only then he could truly feel the suppression as well as the complicated feelings the people in the east of Donglin Cloud Continent had towards it.
As Gong Xinran said that, she mocked herself, “My ancestor most probably came here for those treasures. Who knows where he fell, and whether I will be able to succeed.”
Just as Zong Shou was about to speak, he heard Chuxue exclaim. Looking around, he could only see a grey shadow to the right looking at him.
That shadow was shaped like a rat, beneath its arms it had it looked like bat wings. Its speed was as fast as an arrow, in a blink of an eye arriving in front of him.
Chuxue wanted to use a skill to save him, but it was too late.
Zong Shou’s eyes instantly turned cold, his right hand pressing down on the brand new Pine Pattern Wind Sword at his side. He had consolidated all his aura and hid it so as to prevent attracting those beasts, but right now he had no intentions of hiding his strength.
