HCB #274 - Refuse the superior's task
#274 - Refuse the superior's task
In early May, many things happened.
Gu Anben thought it would be just another ordinary day, submitting reports and continuing to wait for the arrival of prisoners.
In addition, he had to wait for the people from Tianxuan Peak to make things difficult.
Especially since a senior sister had found him at the end of last month, gave him a gift, and said that someone from Tianxuan Peak would probably not give up.
Gu An knew that the senior sister in front of him was someone who walked with Senior Brother Shi.
However, so far, the other party had not done anything.
Although he felt confused, he didn't think much about it.
He accepted the gift.
And politely sent the person away.
He thought the other party would make some requests, but unexpectedly, they were just giving a gift.
They just left a sentence, saying that they didn't know if they had offended him before, and if they had, it must have been a misunderstanding.
Gu An was initially vigilant, but seeing no follow-up, he didn't think much about it.
In such peaceful days, Gu An received a piece of news.
The Law Enforcement Hall had arrived and went to the Second to Sixth Courtyards.
They took away many people wherever they went.
Making the people in each courtyard quite worried.
In addition, Dugu Jing also came, to find Gu An.
He informed him of this matter.
He said that someone was seizing power in each courtyard and dealing with it as a betrayal of the sect. This matter seemed complicated, but it was actually simple.
Dugu Jing didn't say it explicitly.
But Gu An understood that this was an order issued by someone like the Peak Lord, and it had been agreed upon.
Therefore, in the Six Courtyards of the Rear Courtyard, some people could participate, but no one was allowed to seize power.
Once someone undermined the person in charge, it would be a capital crime.
During this time, Gu An saw some of the people who were taken away. Some were shouting injustice, some were shouting about their contributions, and some even said that without them, there would be no Fourth Courtyard today, and so on.
But no matter what, they were all taken away.
Their fate should not be good.
Not only that, but people from each peak were also arrested.
There was no such thing as luck.
Which made Gu An somewhat shocked.
At the same time, he was quite worried.
Afraid that one day, he would also be arrested.
These people had very high talent and cultivation, were they really just being arrested directly, regardless of the loss?
Was the Cangmu Sect so tough?
Now they were still competing with other sects.
Wouldn't this increase the pressure on the Cangmu Sect even more?
Until everyone was arrested, Gu An couldn't figure out why.
Instead, the senior brothers and sisters who had come to cause trouble before and wanted to take charge of the First Courtyard came over.
They sent a thousand spirit stones to thank Gu An for saving their lives.
If they had succeeded in seizing power last month, they would now be prisoners of the Law Enforcement Hall.
Gu An had not expected such an unexpected gain.
However, this action of the Law Enforcement Hall made everyone understand that each courtyard could send people, but the people sent must obey the orders of the person in charge of each courtyard.
Seizing power?
Disaster was inevitable.
Gu An didn't know what was happening in the other courtyards, but there was no change in the First Courtyard. Those who should be released would be released, and those who should give lectures would give lectures.
Whether they cooperated or not, the First Courtyard would not pay attention to them.
It was not yet necessary to force them.
Of course, those people could only eat ordinary food, and those who cooperated would definitely have better food and treatment.
That night, Gu An entered the Lumbering Forest and continued lumbering.
No matter how big the matter was, lumbering was important.
Especially tonight, he was about to complete the accumulation of spells.
He could try to advance to the fourth level of Qi Sea Tiangang.
Lumbering went smoothly, and the feedback side effects did make him feel slightly mentally exhausted.
But Chu Meng hadn't come, and it wasn't certain whether it was easy to enter charm.
But as long as he fell into it, he could detect it through his status.
It wasn't very troublesome.
He just had to pay attention to his mental state from time to time, and then take a look at his status.
To make sure there were no problems.
The sky was not yet bright.
Gu An put down the large axe in his hand and looked at the panel.
[Name: Gu An]
[Cultivation: Yuanshen Perfection]
[Status: Poison enters Qi Sea, Qi Sea produces Xuanhuang]
[Spells: 50 / 50]
[Hard Cultivation: 40 / 100]
[Ring of Destiny]
The spells were full.
After several months, he could finally advance again.
It was so difficult to lumber good wood in the Cangmu Sect, if he left, he didn't know if he could encounter so many spirit trees again.
Before dawn, Gu An successfully cut down the Moon Tree.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
If he hadn't cut it down before dawn, he might have ruined a tree.
It was because of this that this forest was difficult to apply for.
Normally, it was left to Yuanshen or Returning Void cultivators.
But Returning Void cultivators rarely lumbered trees, unless they had a task, otherwise they would not lumber trees.
So some special wood, basically no one lumbered.
They could only wait for the overall cultivation of most disciples to improve, and then let Yuanshen or Returning Void cultivators with average talent to lumber.
But Gu An felt that if they had reached Returning Void, were their talents really average?
Shaking his head, Gu An didn't think much about it, these had nothing to do with him.
Sect matters, he couldn't control.
It was good as long as he had wood to lumber.
Thus, he put the axe on the stone of the second team.
Looking at the stone with a large increase in progress, Gu An returned to his residence.
Opening the Night Barrier, Gu An began to cultivate.
The dream began.
The cultivation of Qi Sea Tiangang was boring, day after day, year after year.
There was no change from before.
After more than a hundred years, he dreamed to the extreme.
The accumulation of Qi Sea Tiangang was already full.
Thus, Gu An slowly opened his eyes.
Then he released Gang Qi in the forest.
So powerful that the surrounding forest shook.
Fortunately, it didn't cause any obvious changes.
Otherwise, he would have to let the Red Armor Soldiers clean up.
Scattering beans to form soldiers was quite useful, and now the Red Armor Soldiers all had the cultivation of the late Golden Core stage.
They needed to be nurtured, as for whether they could break through to Yuanshen, it was hard to say.
It depended on the quality of the red beans themselves.
In theory, it was possible, the quality of the red beans given by Chu Meng was very high.
Feeling the Qi Sea Tiangang, it was indeed more profound, and there was also more Xuanhuang Qi.
But it didn't increase the power, it had to wait until the sixth level.
And to achieve qualitative change, it was necessary to reach the ninth level.
Volume Four: Great Completion.
Thinking like this, Gu An flew away from the sect on his sword and came to a deserted place. The longbow appeared in his hand, and then he circulated the Qi Sea Tiangang, drew the bow to the full, and then the arrow feather condensed from the Qi Sea Tiangang appeared.
Then, Gu An released the bowstring in his hand.
With a whoosh, the arrow crossed the forest and landed on the mountain.
Boom!
The huge attack caused the mountain to shake.
Gu An frowned, feeling that the improvement was not great.
Probably only the power of Yuanshen Perfection, this was still due to some cultivation bonus.
But even if he used a long spear to throw, it was also Yuanshen Perfection.
Of course, the reason was very simple, because the power of the current Qi Sea Tiangang was still at the Great Completion of the third volume.
If the fourth volume was Great Completion, then the power should far exceed his throwing long spear.
It seemed useless, but as long as he advanced to Returning Void, then the early Returning Void stage self, with the help of this bow, might be able to shoot arrows exceeding the early Returning Void stage.
It could be used as a life-saving magic weapon in the early and middle stages.
Putting away the longbow, the Tetanus Blade, Zhui Ri, appeared in his hand.
Gu An looked at Zhui Ri and found that half of the seal on it had been lifted.
This was only left by Zuo Youyan, and the old blade was because of the blade itself, and had nothing to do with Zuo Youyan.
According to what Zuo Youyan said, he could not refine this blade.
Gu An looked at the seal on it, and had a decision in his heart.
Currently, Gu An has already met two people who owe Zuo Youyan a debt of gratitude.
The first is an ordinary person, now living outside Qingmu City.
The second is a disciple of the sect, currently still locked up in the Enforcement Hall.
But they should be coming out soon.
After the change to the Demon Sect, they will all have the opportunity to come out.
And the third...
Is in the Ouyang family.
It is Zuo Youyan's biological mother.
Currently, there has been no contact with her, so a chance needs to be found to get close to her.
In addition to his mother, four people still need to be killed.
One has already died, there is another in the sect, and the remaining three are in other sects.
See if there is a chance to encounter them.
After all, the Six Courtyards of the Back Mountain offer opportunities to meet many people.
After trying out the knife again, Gu An felt that he really needed knife skills.
In addition, he also needed fist techniques.
And in order to coordinate with archery, ghostly movement techniques would also be best.
As time goes by, the things obtained in the past will gradually lose their usefulness.
This is inevitable.
It is reasonable and understandable that his foundation is weak, lacking heritage, and he cannot obtain techniques and spells that can be used forever.
Even if he caught many people and made them write, they would rarely write what he needed.
After all, his cultivation is already high.
Thinking to this point, Gu An suddenly remembered the 'Drawing the Earth as a Prison' technique given by Senior Brother Hua.
He hasn't taken it out to look at it recently, but now he can learn it.
Thinking like this, Gu An sat down.
After roughly understanding it, he will go to the talisman shop.
Try to get close to the Ouyang family.
Find that person, and then meet her.
In this way, he will have completed most of Zuo Youyan's last wishes.
He should basically be able to completely break the seal.
In fact, with his current strength, as long as he cultivates the Qi Sea Heavenly罡 to the fourth volume of perfection, he should be able to directly break the seal.
But Gu An still wants to do the matter of repaying gratitude for Zuo Youyan.
Shaking his head to throw away these thoughts, Gu An began to read 'Drawing the Earth as a Prison'.
"The Primordial Spirit illuminates the sun and moon, the light shines as heaven and earth, and the reflected land becomes a prison."
Looking at the opening lines, Gu An's mind stirred, and he felt his Primordial Spirit begin to radiate light.
Essence, Qi, and Spirit condense into the sun and moon, illuminating the surroundings.
Taking the Primordial Spirit as the core, reflecting others.
Covering a region.
If the sun and moon are not broken, one cannot escape the prison.
After a long time, Gu An finally closed the book.
Gu An was a little shocked, this technique was simply a divine power.
It uses an extraordinary power to change a person's perception and is closely related to cultivation, Primordial Spirit, and Dao Heart.
"Drawing the Earth as a Prison" can trap people in front of a tree, in a forest, or inside a mountain.
The stronger the mind, the wider the range of influence.
Where the eyes fall, that is the boundless purgatory.
"If I had learned 'Drawing the Earth as a Prison' before, it would have been much easier to kill Senior Brother Shi."
"Perhaps killing people in prison wouldn't be discovered so quickly."
"This technique is truly remarkable. The direct disciples are indeed worthy of being direct disciples. I wonder where this level of technique came from."
Gu An put away the book, feeling somewhat enlightened in his heart.
This technique is not easy to learn, it mainly depends on the Primordial Spirit.
The more solidified and dazzling the Primordial Spirit, the easier it is to learn this technique.
In this way, tempering the Primordial Spirit has also become a must-do.
However, this technique has a huge shortcoming, that is, once it is broken, there will be a backlash of the mind.
Extremely dangerous.
Afterwards, Gu An came to Qingmu City.
Qin Shufu was slightly surprised to see Gu An: "Young... Friend is here?"
"Yes, I may be here for a while." Gu An nodded slightly.
Then he said: "I'll watch the shop, Senior can go and take care of his own affairs."
Qin Shufu hesitated and said: "Does Young Friend know what direction the current situation will take?"
Gu An shook his head, then said: "However, the Cangmu Sect seems to be a bit stronger than expected. Currently, everything inside is still under order.
There hasn't been any turmoil.'
If there are no problems within the sect, then it means there are no major problems.
If there were major problems inside, then the sect would be about to collapse.
Especially since another group of people has been purged, and the sect is still as stable as Mount Tai.
Then there are even fewer problems.
As for where the vortex of the six of them will eventually lead, Gu An cannot know.
He can only take one step at a time.
Hearing this, Qin Shufu also breathed a sigh of relief.
Afterwards, Gu An went back to chop wood at night and came to the shop to sell talismans during the day.
In the afternoon, he would see that old man, who was also very surprised to see Gu An.
When cleaning, he would often say a word of thanks, and also say that the boss was indeed a good person.
Gu An smiled in response.
Recently, the talisman business has been good, and Gu An has received many strong people.
Some people always wanted to buy on credit.
They said that it was possible before.
But Gu An shook his head and refused.
Unfortunately, none of them turned hostile, which was a little disappointing.
Otherwise, he could have gotten them to contribute generously.
Perhaps the boss's Golden Core cultivation base intimidated them.
Mid-May.
While Gu An was still watching the shop, Chu Meng suddenly appeared at the door, looking at the talismans here and there.
Then she pointed to the surrounding talismans and asked how much they cost.
Gu An told her the truth, five spirit stones, fifteen spirit stones, etc.
Chu Meng shook her head and sighed: "You're quoting too high a price. As your superior, I'm specially coming here to inquire about the price of talismans. Naturally, I want to... You should say that you're having a discount here.
All talismans, one spirit stone each.
That way, when I receive the talismans, it will allow you to improve better."
Saying that, Chu Meng came to Gu An's side and told the other person to leave.
Then she sat down and said: "A mission has arrived."
"My reward hasn't arrived yet, and a mission has already come?" Gu An asked.
"The mission is the information you brought back." Chu Meng took out a plate of peanuts and said:
"The mission is to go to the Land of the Fire Phoenix's Eternal Slumber, and then obtain the Nirvana Dao Scripture."
"Going out?" Gu An was a little incredulous.
He decided not to complete this mission.
Because...:
It's too dangerous.
No matter how you look at it, the Nirvana Dao Scripture is not an ordinary thing, and countless people want it.
Although his cultivation is still okay, facing such a place, his going there will definitely be a death sentence.
He can't do things like picking up scraps.
"In fact, very few people know about this matter. Your information is too accurate. If you go, the success rate will be very high." Chu Meng looked at Gu An and said:
"This is a unique mission that I specially applied for on your behalf."
Gu An: "...
You're sending your only subordinate to reincarnate.
"Are you going or not?" Chu Meng asked.
"Not going." Gu An replied.
On the other side.
Dongfang Changli felt the changes in his body and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the Fire Phoenix Tomb is about to open, right?
Zuo Youyan will definitely go when he gets the news, right?
Should we go and keep an eye on him?
That way, he will be in the open and we will be in the dark.
In the future, when I become the Palace Master, I can know how dangerous he is."