Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 116 I want to thank you!
Teacher-student relationship?
Gu Xiaoxing was speechless. He didn't know what these big shots in the world of cultivation were thinking. If they wanted to accept disciples, couldn't they just do it directly?
What kind of trial is necessary?!
"If you kill me in the test, where can you find such a well-behaved and obedient disciple?"
Looking up at the ten-thousand-foot-tall thunder trees, these trees appeared extremely dense in the Ninth Heaven because they were so huge. They did not look like individual thunder trees scattered everywhere, but more like a forest of thunder trees.
That is to say, no matter where Gu Xiaoxing chooses to go, he cannot avoid those giant thunder trees, and finally he can only choose a place where the giant trees are sparsely distributed.
Then... break in!
Although it is sparsely distributed compared to other places, one still has to face the five thunder trees on the way up. Looking at those vines that are thousands or even tens of thousands of feet long falling vertically, Gu Xiaoxing looked ruthless and rushed straight up.
As he got closer, the Thunder Tree standing in front of him immediately sensed something and a vine pierced through him at such a terrifying speed, like a thunder spear piercing through the void. Gu Xiaoxing felt that even a mountain would be pierced with a transparent hole.
He dodged the danger again and gathered the Thunder Sword in his hand, trying to cut the vines with the same trick. However, the toughness of the vines was beyond his imagination. During the collision and shock of the two sides, the vines were not affected at all and could not be cut!
Gu Xiaoxing gritted his teeth. Seeing more thunder vines whistling towards him, he decisively gave up the idea of cutting the vines, took a step forward, and soared straight up.
This angered the giant tree even more. In its view, this human was no different from a fly, which it could not slap to death directly. In its rage, dozens of vines snaked out like giant thunder pythons, which made people tremble with fear.
Gu Xiaoxing felt his heart pounding with fear. He could at most clash with an ordinary early stage Jindan cultivator, but these thunder vines would be difficult to deal with even for a middle stage Jindan cultivator. He did not dare to be careless, and took a step sideways to dodge, then rushed into the sky again.
If he used the Fang Cun Step to its full potential, he could cross a maximum of three thousand feet in one step, and the vines of the Thunder Tree could reach a maximum of thirty thousand feet up and down.
In other words, if he went straight up, Gu Xiaoxing only needed ten steps to cross a giant tree, but it would definitely not be that easy!
As he took the second step, dozens of vines appeared above him again. However, they did not come from one direction like before, but dispersed, forming a giant cage that penetrated and covered him from dozens of directions.
"A mere broken tree actually knows how to adapt to changing circumstances!"
Gu Xiaoxing was extremely furious. He discovered that not only the vines above, but also the dozens of vines below that he had avoided before were scattered. For a moment, even the retreat route was blocked, covering all directions. No matter which direction he chose to escape, he would be blocked by vines!
Seeing hundreds of vines piercing in from all directions and about to submerge him in an instant, Gu Xiaoxing's face was as gloomy as water, and he used his Dust-Sealing Magical Power directly on the giant thunder tree.
This Dust-Sealing Divine Power is aimed at the Six Dusts. No matter what kind of creature it is, as long as it has a sense of it, it will be affected. Immediately, all the vines come to a momentary pause.
But in just this instant, Gu Xiaoxing's eyes, ears, nose and mouth all started bleeding. The gap in the strength of the two sides was too great. In just a short moment, Feng Chen had caused blood to flow from all seven of his orifices and a splitting headache.
However, after going through so much, this level of headache was still within his tolerance range. Taking advantage of the momentary pause of the vines, he made a quick decision and did not continue to go up, but went down to escape the encirclement.
By the time the vines reacted and started chasing him, Gu Xiaoxing took two more steps and escaped their pursuit range, returning to the thunderclouds at the bottom of the Ninth Heaven.
Standing on the thundercloud, he wiped the blood off his face and looked at the giant thunder tree which was slowly retracting its vines. Its branches and leaves were swaying, as if it was showing off its might. Gu Xiaoxing was so angry!
"Just a broken tree...!"
Gu Xiaoxing gritted his teeth, looked ferocious, and began to rummage around in the storage ring .
Speaking of which, this storage ring was originally given to Xu Qianxing, and was later returned by the little girl. Except for the Fushan obtained from Kuishanzi , all other things were still there.
He first took out the only white jade ruyi left by Miao Fengfeng, on which were engraved the words "Xinxiao". But after trying it a little, he found that he was unable to refine this treasure. It seemed that he needed to cooperate with a special secret method of the Yunxiao Sect. He had no choice but to put it away again.
Then, he took out the severed finger he got from Yun Ling and the other two girls in the fourth heaven. Inside the severed finger was a Heavenly Thunder Blood Crystal and... a ring.
Gu Xiaoxing took off the ring and took a closer look. It didn't look like a magic weapon or a spiritual treasure for attacking, but seemed to be a storage type. However, after a long time, it was severely corroded by thunder, and it was not certain whether it was a magic weapon or a spiritual treasure.
Fortunately, its divinity did not completely disappear. Gu Xiaoxing tried to refine it, and it actually worked!
Soon an hour passed, and Gu Xiaoxing was already certain that this ring must have been a spiritual treasure. Otherwise, with his perfect foundation building skills, if it was a magic weapon, he would be able to refine it in a short while.
This made him curious again, what would the spirit of a storage-type spiritual treasure look like?
Will it be as asking for a beating as the broken coffin and the broken alchemy furnace?
When another hour passed, just when Gu Xiaoxing was already extremely exhausted, he finally completely refined the ring. It was indeed a spiritual treasure. Even after being eroded by thunder for a long time, it was still extremely difficult to refine it with his cultivation in the foundation-building stage!
But it was finally done, and Gu Xiaoxing showed a gratified smile. Suddenly, he was stunned and saw a ray of light rushing out of the ring that he had completely refined. It seemed... a little man, to be precise, more like a white ape!
Is this the spirit of the ring?
Gu Xiaoxing was just wondering, and then he heard bursts of wild laughter.
“Hahahaha…! Young human, I’ll take your body!”
Immediately, Gu Xiaoxing was horrified, and after reacting instantly, he wanted to curse, "Granny Li, this is not a spirit of the artifact at all, this is clearly the residual soul lurking in the spiritual treasure, waiting for this moment, and wants to take over the body of the person who refined the treasure!"
All this happened too suddenly, and Gu Xiaoxing was caught off guard. In addition, the residual soul of the white ape was at least at the Nascent Soul stage when he was alive. Even if only the residual soul was left at this moment, it was almost equivalent to the soul of the Core Forming stage. The speed was too fast!
With a "swoosh", it flew directly into Gu Xiaoxing's forehead.
"After thousands of years of waiting, finally... Hahaha! Junior, I want to thank you..."
The white ape was extremely excited at this moment. It had been waiting for this day for thousands of years!
It was originally a great cultivator in the early stage of transformation into a spirit, but it died in that great battle, and its soul escaped into its own storage magic treasure, hiding from disasters and calamities and lying dormant there !
Finally, one only needs to wait silently, waiting for the destined person to pick up this storage magic treasure. The moment it is refined, break out of the treasure, rush into his Niwan Palace in one fell swoop, and complete the possession of his body!
In this way, it is a new life!
In fact, Gu Xiaoxing had misunderstood one point. Not only can a treasure be called a spiritual treasure if it has a spirit, and not all spiritual treasures have spirits. In fact, most storage-type spiritual treasures do not have any spirits at all.
A spiritual treasure is only related to the strength of the treasure itself. Once the strength reaches a certain level, it will naturally become a spiritual treasure!
Everything was planned perfectly, and it indeed rushed into the opponent's Niwan Palace smoothly just as the white ape had expected.
And then... then it became confused, wrapped in countless thunders, and let out a shrill scream like a pig being slaughtered.
“Damn it…! Young human, I am the ancestor of the ape tribe of Shenhai Mountain. How dare you plot against me…”
Before he could finish his words, he fell silent completely.
Gu Xiaoxing blinked and watched the residual soul of the white ape melt away in an instant like snowflakes rushing into the summer sun. Then he suddenly realized that Cang Jiuding had left him with a psychological trauma.
He is not afraid of ordinary possession of others' bodies at all!
Thunder is the nemesis of the soul, unless one is a great cultivator of thunder magic like Cang Jiuding. Otherwise, let alone the fact that the white ape is just a remnant soul, even if it is his complete soul in the God Transformation Stage, it would not be pleasant for him to take a walk in Gu Xiaoxing's Niwan Palace filled with thunder.
However, although it was just a close call, Gu Xiaoxing was still angry. He felt that the world of cultivation was full of sinister and vicious people!
Cang Jiuding can fight for a thousand years and even wants to complete the foundation building with the body of thunder demon spirit. The idea is crazy, and the possession of his body later is even more dangerous!
Nowadays, a white ape can lie dormant for thousands of years, using spiritual treasures as bait. If it were an ordinary foundation-building cultivator, his body would have been occupied by the white ape and his life would have been taken away by now!
Even a white ape has such a mind, then, as the previous master of Cang Tian Palace, did he really just want to take me as his disciple?
At this moment, Gu Xiaoxing understood in his heart that this so-called life-and-death test was not so much a test of the teacher-student relationship as it was a test of whether he was qualified to be a chess piece!
What does a person’s life and death mean in the eyes of that kind of existence?
Or maybe, the fairy lady in the coffin made some kind of deal with him. After meeting the master of the coffin, Gu Xiaoxing really couldn't feel any ill will towards him. Not for any other reason, but because her eyes gave people an indescribable purity, like a newborn baby, without the slightest stain of dust.
That’s why it is said that there should be no such fairy in the world.
Gu Xiaoxing even couldn't help but wonder whether this fairy girl had lived in this coffin since she was born.
"Master Coffin, Fairy...did your master make any deal with the person above?" asked Gu Xiaoxing.
"We'll know the answer in the end," said the coffin.
Gu Xiaoxing curled his lips, saying nothing.
Then, he extended his spiritual consciousness into the refined storage magic treasure in his hand. This time he was much more cautious, worried that there might be some prohibition or hidden means. However, his worry was obviously unnecessary, and no accidents occurred, and his spiritual consciousness was successfully extended into it.
Then he was stunned and angry!
After all, this white ape must have been a great demon at the Nascent Soul level before he died, right? How could he be so poor?
But then, he was immediately shocked again. In this storage ring, there was actually a... tortoise shell fragment!
