Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 2 Soul Devouring Sect
Gu Xiaoxing immediately held the hatchet in both hands, took a stance, looked fierce, and looked around nervously, but found no one.
"Who! Who is talking?!"
"Look up."
The ethereal voice came again, and Gu Xiaoxing looked up suddenly, only to see a man standing in the air with his hands behind his back, wearing fluttering white clothes and looking like an immortal.
It seems to confirm the saying that there is a god above your head.
"God...God!"
With a clang, the hatchet in his hand fell. Gu Xiaoxing was so excited that he couldn't describe it and knelt down immediately.
"Please, God, save me!"
"I am Master Bai from the Soul Devouring Sect." Master Bai was attracted by the big roc and didn't want to meet such a little guy. He was very interested and asked, "Why don't you tell me how to save you?"
Gu Xiaoxing looked up and saw the immortal slowly landing on the ground. He became more and more excited. With such flying magic, it must be an immortal!
So he kowtowed and knelt again with a pious look on his face.
"My name is Gu Xiaoxing..."
"More than half a year ago, a bug burrowed into my forehead. This bug was so strange that not only could it not be removed, but it also sucked my blood and flesh..."
"I can see... I can see that I am about to be sucked dry by this bug. I am so scared of death!"
"So I went to Fulai Village to look for the immortal. After going through untold hardships, I finally saw the immortal. I begged the immortal to save me and remove this bug!"
"More than half a year?" Master Bai's eyes narrowed slightly.
"The insect between your eyebrows is called the Soul Devouring Insect. It takes less than three months for it to suck all the blood and flesh from a person. How did you manage to survive for more than half a year?"
Gu Xiaoxing raised his head again, with an inexplicable hint of arrogance between his brows, but he suddenly remembered that the other party was a god, so he spoke humbly.
"I was once a famous handsome man in Fulai Village. In the past... Hehe! Xiaopang, Xiaopang...!"
Master Bai glanced at Gu Xiaoxing.
He naturally knew about Fulai Village, an isolated mountain village located in the Menghuai Mountains. The people there had strange customs and considered fat to be beautiful.
"Once the Soul Devouring Bug enters the body, it will share the fate of the host and cannot be removed. If you force it out, you will die along with the Soul Devouring Bug."
Gu Xiaoxing was stunned, and kowtowed again, almost crying, and said anxiously: "Please find a way to save me, immortal. You are an immortal, you have great magical powers, you must have a way to save me!"
"I don't want to die! I still have dreams. I haven't become the most handsome man in Fulai Village yet, I haven't married a beautiful wife yet, I still..."
"Noisy!"
Master Bai waved his hand impatiently, "Misfortunes often bring blessings. Having a soul-eating insect enter your body is not a bad thing. It also means you are qualified to practice cultivation."
"If you are willing, I will lead you into the Soul Devouring Sect and you will become my disciple."
Gu Xiaoxing raised his head and asked weakly, "If I practice, I can survive and gain weight, right?"
It was just a simple question, but even Master Bai, who was so experienced in Taoism, was stunned by it, and there was some disgust in his eyes.
"You can survive!"
Then, he waved his hand, and in an instant, Gu Xiaoxing felt that his body was flying and his soul was chasing him. His vision was blurred and a shrill scream was heard in the sky.
“My hatchet…!”
It was not until a long time later when he gradually stabilized and adapted to the situation that Gu Xiaoxing found himself already thousands of feet high in the sky, standing behind Master Bai and moving rapidly.
"Too fast! Immortal, it's too fast!"
Gu Xiaoxing wailed all the way, trying to reach out and grab Master Bai's robe but couldn't reach it. He was extremely frightened, fearing that he would fall and be smashed to pieces.
In just over an hour, Gu Xiaoxing could hardly imagine how far he had crossed.
Gradually, a high peak emerged. That peak was higher and larger than all the mountains he had ever seen. A palace could be vaguely seen on the top of the mountain.
Next to the high peak, there was a low peak. The surrounding scenery passed by quickly, and soon, Gu Xiaoxing and the other person appeared under the low peak.
"Follow me." Master Bai said calmly.
Gu Xiaoxing followed closely behind Master Bai with trembling legs, but he kept swearing in his heart that after entering the sect, he would never step out of the sect!
The world outside is so scary!
Along the way, he encountered all kinds of strange and terrifying monsters.
There are giant apes as big as mountains...
There is a deformed creature with two different heads, but both are as big as a mountain...
There was also an old turtle lying in the icy lake, and its size was ridiculously large...
What's worse, he encountered a giant eagle with lightning flashing all over its body that suddenly swooped down to kill him. The ferocious aura made Gu Xiaoxing's scalp numb, and then he was killed by Master Bai with a single sword.
However, he felt that the most terrifying thing was the huge roc that blocked out the sky and the sun.
As for the wild boars seen in the previous month, even the largest one is no longer ranked!
We learned from Bai Zhen that those wild boars were called Meng Huai and were monsters.
Monsters can also practice cultivation and have intelligence, but they are mostly ferocious. In this small wasteland, there are countless monsters.
Gu Xiaoxing kept Master Bai's words in mind and swore again.
Absolutely, you can't go out!
Not long after walking, a stone tablet appeared in front of us, with three words engraved on it - Shiling Peak.
Next to the stone tablet, there was a young man, dressed in gray, with an ordinary appearance, sitting cross-legged and looking drowsy.
He seemed to hear footsteps, frowned, opened his eyes, and when he saw it was Master Bai, he became alert and hurried forward to pay his respects.
“I’ve seen the real person!”
Master Bai nodded calmly and said, "Assign this person to a post. Hmm... since he was reluctant to part with the fallen hatchet, assign him a job of chopping wood."
After saying this, without waiting for the young man to answer, Master Bai turned into a stream of light and disappeared.
"Yes, send the real one off!"
The young man bowed in the direction where Master Bai left, and then looked at Gu Xiaoxing.
Gu Xiaoxing was very excited at this moment because he saw the soul-eating insect parasitizing on the young man’s forehead!
However, the other party did not look thin and weak at all. Instead, he exuded a strange and extraordinary sense of strength.
This shows that what Master Bai said is true, practicing can save your life, and there is still hope for you!
"I am Cui Yan, the deacon of Shiling Peak. You can just call me Brother Cui."
The young man nodded and looked at Gu Xiaoxing thoughtfully. After working as a deacon for so many years, this was the first time he saw the sect's chief elder personally lead people into Shiling Peak.
Logically speaking, he should take care of one or two people, but the task assigned by Master Bai made him confused.
"My humble self, Gu Xiaoxing, greets Senior Brother Cui!"
Gu Xiaoxing had a sincere look on his face. He was fair and handsome, and at the moment he looked so weak and weak, with such an innocent look in his eyes.
He is like a young boy who has not experienced much of the world but has suffered a lot. It is easy for people to let down their guard and feel sympathy from the bottom of their hearts.
Cui Yan's eyes softened a little, and he said, "It turned out to be my junior brother. It's not pleasant to be parasitized by the Soul Devouring Insect. You must have suffered a lot these days!"
"When I was first infected by the Soul Devouring Bug, I lost more than 20 pounds in a month. Although it wasn't as serious as yours, I was still worried all day and suffered a lot."
"Fortunately, the sect's guide came and led me into the sect. Otherwise, I, the senior brother, would have become a pile of bones in the mountains long ago!"
When Gu Xiaoxing heard this, his eyes immediately became hot, as if he had met a soulmate.
"Brother Cui is right!"
"Ever since I was infected by the Soul Devouring Bug, even if I ate and drank a lot, I still couldn't change the fate of becoming increasingly thinner."
"Three hundred pounds! I lost a full three hundred pounds!"
"My heart aches...!"
Three hundred kilograms?
Cui Yan didn't react for a moment. Looking at the now skinny Gu Xiaoxing, he was actually curious about what would happen if he piled up 300 kilograms of meat on top of him.
Gu Xiaoxing was very excited. Perhaps it was because he heard an experience so similar to his own and his emotions resonated with it.
His eyes rolled around, and a sense of understood grievance appeared in his gentle gaze.
"Luckily! Just when I was about to be sucked dry by the Soul Devouring Bug, Uncle Bai showed up! He brought me back to the Soul Devouring Sect!"
"Uncle Bai? Master Bai?" Cui Yan asked in surprise.
Gu Xiaoxing suddenly looked as if he had said something wrong. He hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that there was no one around, he leaned closer and whispered, "My father and Uncle Bai were old friends. They were as close as brothers, and as close as brothers..."
"Unfortunately, the small wasteland is dangerous. Only someone with great magical powers like Uncle Bai can come and go freely. He will visit my father once every few years."
"Unfortunately, my father passed away two years ago. If Uncle Bai hadn't missed us, he would have found me, who was parasitized by the Soul Devouring Bug, and brought me into the sect..."
"To me, Uncle Bai is my second parent!"
"But Senior Brother Cui, you only need to know these. Uncle Bai has warned us not to reveal this matter to anyone!"
If Gu Xiaoxing admitted it outright, Cui Yan would not believe it. But seeing how cautious he was, even though he had doubts, he believed it a little.
Although I have never heard of any old friends of Master Bai, Great Elder Bai is second only to the Emperor in the Soul-Devouring Sect and his status is too high. Many things about him are just rumors and little is known about their authenticity.
Besides, Gu Xiaoxing was indeed brought here by Master Bai. In this case, Master Bai should also pay attention to this place.
Cui Yan didn't believe that anyone would dare to lie under Master Bai's nose.
However, Gu Xiaoxing felt extremely guilty at the moment. Having grown up eating at many people's houses, he naturally knew how to read people's expressions and how to take advantage of situations.
How could he not find a backer when he first came to the Soul Devouring Sect? Even though he had just entered the sect, he could see that Master Bai was obviously a very important figure in the sect.
"The person has been away for so long, he shouldn't be able to hear it! Since you are such a big shot, you won't bother with such trivial matters, right?" Gu Xiaoxing was not sure.
On the main peak of the Soul Devouring Sect, Master Bai's mouth twitched, and he had the urge to turn around and send Gu Xiaoxing back to the mountain. But even if he despised him, Master Bai's status was there, and he would not really explain anything, it was just a childish trick.
In the world of cultivation, people who don't have some scheming and tricks are destined to not live long.
