novelraw Chapter 144 : Is There Still a Strand of Black Hair
Chapter 144 : Is There Still a Strand of Black Hair
Hearing this, Qin Xixue was stunned. The gentle smile on her face cracked slightly—What did he mean by not teaming up just because the Little Junior Sister said so? Was he the big senior brother, or was she?
"Fellow Daoist, won't you reconsider? The secret realm is full of dangers, difficult to guard against. Two sects teaming up can reduce risks. Moreover, our Tianyan Sect is an immortal sect......" Qin Xixue, still not giving up, tried to persuade him.
Gu Chang'an looked at her strangely, enunciating each word, "You, are very noisy."
Puff!
Chu Sang had noticed Qin Xixue going over to chat up Big Senior Brother out of the corner of her eye. Originally worried that Big Senior Brother might follow the old path from the original story, she had specially kept an ear out to listen, unexpectedly hearing this sentence.
She almost burst out laughing. Indeed, worthy of the Heartless Sword Dao. Destined to be single for life, speaking so meticulously and straight to the heart, without any gentleness towards women.
How could the popular female protagonist have ever been refused so directly to her face? Her eyes immediately reddened. She clenched her fists and stamped her foot, giving him an embarrassed and angry look before biting her lip and turning away.
"No, Big Senior Brother, you really don't feel anything at all?"
Let alone that in the original story, Gu Chang'an had fallen in love at first sight, infatuated at second sight, and willing to die at third sight with the female protagonist. Qin Xixue's attitude just now was indeed quite good. Moreover, she was good-looking. After all, she was the soft and popular female protagonist. Any normal person would easily agree to her request.
Gu Chang'an thought seriously for a moment, then said, "Master said to protect you all well. Outsiders are not included."
He then spoke seriously, "That female cultivator just now clearly wanted to trick me into being her bodyguard."
Damn, Big Senior Brother looked foolish, but he actually had some brains!
Chu Sang gave him a thumbs up, earnestly advising, "Big Senior Brother, you must remember your current enlightenment. We should be good people, but never be foolishly good people. Don't casually go help every pitiful and weak girl you meet. After all, they might be trying to hook you."
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Little Junior Sister was strange, always saying words he didn't understand.
However, Gu Chang'an generally understood the meaning. He nodded.
He just needed to protect his Junior Brothers and Sisters well. There was no need to care about others.
"By the way, Big Senior Brother, we came to the secret realm partly to gain experience. Unless there's an emergency, you don't need to take action."
"Alright." Gu Chang'an nodded.
Although they weren't teaming up, there was only one path into the secret realm entrance. The several teams followed one after another, all tacitly maintaining a not-too-far, not-too-close distance.
As usual, it was the incredibly lucky Chu Sang leading her group of unlucky Senior Brothers and Sisters to explore the path.
"Awoo~ This way! Master, hurry and follow me!"
Xiao Bai suddenly ran out of her arms, happily wagging its four tails, running towards a certain place.
Chu Sang immediately called for her Senior Brothers and Sisters to follow. There must be something good there.
"What are they going to do? Running so fast, as if afraid of being caught up to."
Qiu Xiude looked in that direction, stroking his chin suspiciously.
Qin Xixue, having recovered from her embarrassment and anger, also looked over at the sound.
She saw the large group from Lingqing Sect rushing eagerly in one direction. Without even thinking, there must be a treasure appearing there.
Her eyes flickered. She looked towards Mo Qingchen, who was leading the team. "Brother Qingchen, why don't we follow them?"
Before encountering the current Chu Sang, Qin Xixue had been extremely confident in her own luck. Basically, all sorts of heavenly and earthly treasures and demon beasts would rush to contract with her...... But after one crushing blow after another, she now had a tiny bit of lack of confidence in herself.
The magical tools and spirit beasts on Chu Sang were no worse than hers, even better.
Especially that rare Devouring Beast she had tamed, which was known as the Treasure-Seeking Beast!
Cultivators and treasure-seeking tools might make mistakes, but a Devouring Beast's nose would never be wrong.
They might as well directly follow, perhaps even intercepting halfway.
Qin Xixue felt greatly satisfied imagining the frustrated looks on the faces of those Lingqing Sect people.
Seeing Lingqing Sect and Tianyan Sect both heading in one direction, the other sects were also a bit confused. They looked at each other. As the saying goes, the herd mentality is deeply harmful. The Beast Taming Sect and Pill Condensation Sect also decided to follow, perhaps able to get some leftovers.
"Why did they all follow? It's obvious they want to rob us halfway. Hmph, so shameless!"
Seeing the several teams following step by step behind them, Tantai Ming snorted lightly. He turned his head to look at Chu Sang, his hand falling on the long sword at his waist, eager to try. "Little Junior Sister, shall I go shake them off!"
"No need. Let them follow."
Chu Sang smiled, saying carelessly. She even waved enthusiastically towards the back with interest. "Those behind, don't hide. Come follow together. You're really too slow! Don't blame us if you get left behind later!"
"......?"
Qiu Xiude and the others couldn't keep their composure. They hesitantly walked out. Why was this person so strangely enthusiastic today?
As the saying goes, when things are abnormal, there must be a demon. This was especially true for Chu Sang. It gave them a vague sense of foreboding, but driven by their desire for heavenly and earthly treasures and opportunities, they still quickly followed.
Soon.
Their bad premonition came true.
It's well known that great secret realms have many opportunities, but opportunities and dangers are directly proportional. The richer the spiritual energy in a place, the higher the chance of heavenly and earthly treasures.
It's not just cultivators who need heavenly and earthly treasures to cultivate and advance. Demon beasts need them too. They also cultivate using spiritual energy. With many monks and little gruel, competing for resources and territory, this is also one of the reasons why relations between the human and demon realms are increasingly tense and hostile.
Therefore, similarly, places rich in spiritual energy have more demon beasts stationed there, stronger and more troublesome.
Chu Sang had just been worrying about how to attract some battle fire later. A group of bait delivering themselves to the door shouldn't be wasted.
The sun shone brightly, and the path was deep and winding.
As soon as they stepped into an uninhabited valley, they encountered fierce attacks.
Those demon beasts lurking in the deep forest, numbering in the hundreds, all pounced like hungry tigers. Moreover, they were all high-level, with wave after wave coming endlessly, increasing in number, making people anxious.
"Weren't we supposed to be following the Lingqing Sect group to find treasures? Why are there so many demon beasts!"
Qiu Xiude had just managed to kill a tiger beast when a wolf beast attacked. He couldn't dodge in time and received a wound on his back. Grimacing in pain, he turned and ran his sword through the wolf beast's throat, faintly regretting rashly following.
Qin Xixue hid behind Mo Qingchen and several Tianyan Sect disciples, occasionally throwing out a few magical tools and spirit tools. She also looked somewhat uncertainly towards the Lingqing Sect group fighting and killing among the demon beasts not far away.
The soul of the second master in her jade tablet had also said that there was indeed a strong spiritual energy fluctuation here. It was just unknown what treasure was hidden that could directly attract such a large beast tide!
Compared to sword cultivators, the Beast Taming disciples' combat power was slightly weaker, especially when facing a large-scale super beast tide. Their weaknesses were more exposed.
Ge Xiang's demon beast was a digging floral mouse with little attack power. She was protected at the back by her Senior Brothers and Sisters. Lu Yue summoned five Golden Core stage wolf-toothed beasts to charge into battle.
In ordinary secret realms, five powerful Golden Core stage demon beasts would be enough to escort them all the way, but they weren't enough in the face of a great beast tide.
One wolf-toothed beast was bitten in half on the spot by a flame lion. Fortunately, this wasn't Lu Yue's natal beast pet, otherwise she would have been backlashed half to death.
In the blazing white sky, a two-meter-long green luan bird was particularly eye-catching, letting out a clear and long cry.
After several years of growth, this green luan bird in Shen Rufei's hands had passed its juvenile period. Wind-attribute demon beasts were very rare. Its beautiful feathers, shimmering with blue-green light in the sunlight, flapped. Invisible, colorless, and sharp wind blades fell from a thousand meters high, instantly slitting the throats of over a dozen demon beasts. It could be called the inheritor of the Little Flying Dagger in the cultivation world.
The sky suddenly darkened. A flock of sky-covering dark slaughter vultures flew over from the distance, letting out sharp and piercing cries, opening their mouths to bite at the green luan.
Shen Rufei thought this was bad. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead as he tried to form hand seals to call the green luan back.
The huge black shadows covering the sky surrounded the green luan. Although the green luan had a trace of ancient divine beast bloodline, it was difficult to fight many alone. Unable to dodge in time, it had several bloody tail feathers torn off, letting out a sharp cry.
In the sky, another huge snake-like red shadow appeared, spitting out a scorching fireball towards the flock of bird-like black clouds.
"Form the wind seal, you fool!" Wen Renyue shouted at him urgently, her attitude truly terrible.
"...Thank you." Shen Rufei glanced at her quickly, immediately using his vertical flute to command the green luan to rally and fight.
A powerful hurricane swept through the prairie fire spit out by the fire cloud python. The fire spread across the sky, burning fiercely. Most of the azure sky was covered in flamboyant and scorching fire clouds.
Birds and beasts are all extremely afraid of fire.
Once the dark slaughter vultures were touched by sparks, the spiritual wind would instantly spread it to their whole body, sizzling as they burned.
These dark slaughter vultures had been domineering for many years, never experiencing the novel experience of being roasted chicken. They happily flew left and right, cawing chaotically, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.
The faster they flew, the more fiercely the fire burned.
Before long, large patches of black shadows fell from the sky. Xiao Bai, crouching below with its mouth open, smoothly swallowed them all in one go, waiting for the self-service roast chicken.
Wuwuwu so delicious so delicious so delicious!
While the Senior Brothers and Sisters charged at the front, Chu Sang was content to take it easy. She casually scattered hundreds of explosive talismans like flower petals, creating a lively and festive explosion.
Those demon beasts weren't fools. They naturally picked on the soft targets, not daring to approach this living King Yama.
Su Chen'an was even more of a rich tyrant, performing a display of what it means to be calm in the face of danger. He maintained his usual elegant and amiable manner, with countless precious spirit tools in his hands. Whenever a demon beast tried to approach him, there were enough spirit tools to knock out the beast's ancestors for eighteen generations.
As for Mu Chihuai, there was even less need to mention. Although pill refiners were weak, he was dual-cultivating in pills and poisons. Those diverse and strange poisons were spread around as if they cost nothing. Disciples from other sects all kept a respectful distance from this human killing god, fearing they might accidentally fall victim.
"Damn, I understand now. I finally understand! I was wondering how Lingqing Sect, such an unknown small sect, could suddenly break into the sect grand competition and unexpectedly take the championship. How can these disciples be so heaven-defying?"
"Those spirit tools that blue-robed male cultivator casually threw out aren't ordinary spirit tools. They're high-grade spirit tools with tool patterns carved on them. Any one of them could be auctioned for a sky-high price of a million spirit stones outside. Yet he just casually throws them out? Throws them out??" His own poverty was not worth mentioning, but others' wealth was enough to make one collapse and want to cry. "These are spirit tools worth tens of millions. They're not just random big stones picked up from the roadside!"
"Damn his father, they're all resource monsters." Someone cursed jealously under their breath. "After this is over, I've decided to go pick up trash."
"The kind of trash that you can't afford even if you emptied your entire family fortune?" Someone sneered at his false pretentious attitude. "I'm different. As a diligent and hardworking disciple like me, I have no other hobbies. I just like to clean up the battlefield first thing."
"Look at how worthless you all are. Count me in!"
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After Xiao Bai had eaten its fill, Chu Sang skillfully dismembered all the demon beast corpses on the ground. Things like beast skins, bones, teeth, horns, etc., were all collected into her storage ring without missing a single piece. These demon beasts in the secret realm were all good things. They might only encounter them once in this lifetime. Giving these materials to Fifth Senior Brother to refine and increase their value was compound interest rolling in.
Seeing Little Junior Sister being so frugal and economical, Tantai Ming immediately followed suit, grabbing those demon beast corpses and stuffing them into his storage ring.
The other Senior Brothers and Sisters also followed suit. Frugality and household management were traditional virtues of their Lingqing Sect.
Even these resource monsters were so diligent and hardworking. Needless to say, the disciples from other sects also seemed to be infected by something. They collectively became energized, killing demon beasts even more frantically and desperately.
The outrageous behavior of these sect disciples made even the demon beasts feel a chill down their spines.
Did they have to be so desperate?!
In the middle of restocking, the originally agitated demon beast group seemed to see something extremely terrifying. They all let out fearful low roars, fleeing in panic, scattering in an instant and disappearing without a trace.
Chu Sang thought she wasn't terrifying to this extent. Gu Chang'an's face turned cold. He quickly grabbed her and dodged swiftly. Immediately after, with a thunderous boom, the place where she had been standing was blasted into a terrifying crater over ten meters deep by a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
Black clouds rolled overhead, with frequent lightning. A huge demon beast wrapped in purple-gold lightning appeared before their eyes. Its pressure was so powerful it was almost terrifying, causing the disciples present to stiffen, cold sweat soaking their robes.
"It's, it's a Nascent Soul stage demon beast, the Nine Mysterious Thunder Explosion Lion!"
No wonder all those demon beasts ran away. This thing was an extremely fierce lightning-type demon beast, an existence like a beast king!
Demon beasts of this level generally dominate within secret realms and don't easily show themselves, unless...... as guardian beasts, guarding supreme treasures.
What on earth was hidden below that such a powerful demon beast was guarding it?!