#147 - Qingmei is her
#147 - Qingmei is her
Yu Tu?
Gu was quite surprised.
He naturally remembered this name.
There was also Zeng Lan.
The three of them were once colleagues at the night logging camp.
He had a deep impression of Yu Tu, this twenty-year-old young man.
He was a genius, and even logging Thunderwood wouldn't be a big problem for him.
He just looked a bit mature.
Doing a lot of hard labor would indeed cause that.
It was understandable.
For a moment, Gu An thought of himself again, feeling like he had aged even more.
Chu Meng said so, she said she was sure she wasn't mistaken.
This made Gu An unable to understand. His cultivation was getting higher and higher, and his lifespan was as high as three hundred and fifty years.
Ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators only had a lifespan of about two hundred years.
The Congenital Longevity Art gave him an extra hundred years of life.
The Five Viscera Congenital Strength gave him an extra fifty years of life.
Logically speaking, he was still a young man.
But why did he feel like he was getting older?
Could it be that extracting arduous cultivation or extracting术法(shù fǎ) also left traces of time?
Gu An wasn't sure.
But that's what Chu Meng said.
There were indeed a few more white hairs.
But there weren't many signs of aging otherwise.
While he was thinking, Yang Qi spoke about Yu Tu again.
"This Qi Refining talent is very high. I don't know why he's working so hard. Normal Qi Refining disciples who want to improve wouldn't torment their bodies like this."
"Perhaps it's because of love."
"Love?" Yang Qi looked surprised: "That's really possible. A relative of my fellow villager seems to have gotten into a lot of trouble because of love.
That's really a legend.
I'm also from that place, so I can feel it."
Gu An felt that Yang Qi had a lot of experiences.
But village matters weren't worth listening to.
Better to log wood.
As for Yu Tu.
He'd see if he should go over and say hello later.
After all, they used to log wood together.
When dawn was about to break, the logging ended.
Gu An walked slowly on the road.
Sure enough, he saw Yu Tu walking quite slowly.
The other party was still as strong as ever, looking about twenty-seven or eight years old.
He's also old.
Gu An was actually somewhat gratified for a moment, after all, he wasn't the only one getting old.
He quickly walked over: "Junior Brother Yu."
Hearing this, Yu Tu was stunned, then quickly turned his head.
The moment he saw Gu An, his originally honest face was filled with surprise.
Somewhat unbelievable.
"Gu, Senior Brother Gu?"
Gu An nodded: "It's me."
"You, you didn't, didn't go to the exile, the land of exile?" Yu Tu stammered.
That's how he spoke.
At this time, Yang Qi walked over from behind, looking at Gu An with some surprise: "Senior Brother, do you know him?"
"Yes, I used to log wood in the outer sect too," Gu An said truthfully.
"Does someone like Senior Brother also need to log wood?" Hearing this, Yang Qi thought of the present and nodded: "I remember now, it's to experience life, but what's with the land of exile?"
Gu An glanced at Yang Qi and said, "I just went to the land of exile."
Yang Qi didn't react for a moment.
Seeing that Gu An had spoken, Yu Tu didn't need to hide it anymore, and explained: "Outer sect logging, there, there was a problem, some, someone was embezzling, and bullying people too much, Senior Brother was angry, and killed, killed them all."
The more Yang Qi listened, the more familiar this story felt.
Then he remembered something. When he first met Gu An, he had told this story.
Because of this story, everyone received the protagonist's blessing.
At this moment, he finally reacted.
Looking at the person beside him with some disbelief, his hands trembled with excitement.
More shocking than when he discovered the other party in the Spirit Treasure Vault.
The hero in the story.
He saw a living one for the first time.
He even felt a bit lost and helpless.
He originally thought he was telling a legend, but he didn't expect it to be the story of the person in front of him.
"Senior Brother, you, you..." Yang Qi said in shock: "Can you not take my spirit stones?"
He had said at the time that he had to give the other party a month's worth of spirit stones no matter what.
Gu An didn't take it to heart, and just said, "It's not a big deal."
Killing An Xinru was actually just part of the task.
He wasn't a hero.
The consequences that followed had little to do with him.
Whether good or bad, he wouldn't care too much.
If he accepted the good with peace of mind, and turned a blind eye to the bad, it would easily leave a stain on his single-minded pursuit of the Dao.
Afterwards, he chatted with Yu Tu for a while.
He said that he was able to come here entirely because of his childhood sweetheart.
This made Gu An stunned.
"Why?"
"She, she said that she asked someone to, to recruit me into the sect, saying, saying that I passed the first round of assessment, and the rest was, was the assessment in the inner sect."
"You gave all your spirit stones to her?"
"Yes, entering the inner sect gives more, more two spirit stones, night, night logging also gives two more spirit stones, a total of ten, she, she calculated it all for me."
"Did you mention to her how many spirit stones you helped her earn?"
"No, no."
Gu An nodded, and didn't say anything more.
But he glanced at Yang Qi beside him.
Yang Qi also felt strange, and also Yu Tu's childhood sweetheart.
But he decided to ask around to see if it was that childhood sweetheart who sent him.
Afterwards, Gu An asked about Zeng Lan's matter.
"Senior Sister Zeng is still, still in the outer sect, she wasn't favored, so she can only log wood outside, no, but I heard that her, her situation has improved a lot, per, perhaps she doesn't need to log wood anymore."
Gu An nodded.
In this way, these people are all developing in a good direction.
That's also a good thing.
The days passed quickly, and it was the end of November.
Yang Qi finally found out.
Yu Tu's childhood sweetheart was named Jinxi, and was an outer sect disciple of the Bamboo Spirit Peak.
This time, Yu Tu's entry had nothing to do with her, it was just that a senior brother from Thousand Dust Peak happened to meet him, and happened to send him.
Gu An looked slightly surprised.
Not only was Yu Tu's entry unrelated to his childhood sweetheart, but also the name of this childhood sweetheart.
Jinxi.
If he remembered correctly, the person who had always followed him in the outer sect was named Jinxi, and she was indeed not an ordinary woman.
He thought it was strange at the time, thinking that she had ulterior motives.
Sure enough.
He was in his forties, and she was most likely eyeing his spirit stones.
Seeing that he was old, she thought he was easy to handle.
The reason why she disappeared later was probably because she went to the inner sect.
"It's over, this childhood sweetheart is no good, Junior Brother Yu is going to suffer," Yang Qi said.
Gu also felt this way, but how could he make Yu Tu feel this way too?
Of course, a suitable reminder would be enough, any more would be inappropriate.
Everyone has their own choices.
What if Yu Tu was enjoying it?
What if they were all wrong?
After that, there was nothing else, so he couldn't say anything.
Mid-December.
Gu An looked at the panel, quite helpless.
[Name: Gu An]
[Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Perfection]
[State: Poisoned]
[術法(shù fǎ): 25/50]
[Arduous Cultivation: 70/100]
[Ring of Fate]
There was enough arduous cultivation, but not enough 術法(shù fǎ).
Only half in a month and a half.
It would only get slower and slower later.
It was not impossible to only improve once every three or four months.
But.
A few days ago, he obtained the Ring of Fate regarding Ren Yinghua.
He learned that before June next year, the Thousand Dust Peak's big knife would fall.
The three-month plan would begin, triggering the big knife.
Time waits for no one.
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