Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 55: Everyone is here now
"You... who are you!" The young master of Changle Sect looked at the figure in front of him in horror. The scene of the other party killing the foundation-building cultivator with one sword was deeply imprinted in his mind. He was so shocked that he didn't even dare to escape. He was afraid that he would be killed by the sword as soon as he turned around.
Seeing that the other party was just walking slowly step by step without saying anything, the young master of Changle Sect was so shocked that he kept backing away. Then he saw the Soul Devouring Bug on the other party's forehead and immediately said, "You are from the Soul Devouring Sect, right? We in Changle Sect have no hatred with your Soul Devouring Sect. How about this? Just tell me what you want. As the young master of Changle Sect, I will definitely grant you everything after I go out!"
However, the young master did not know that his words further confirmed Gu Xiaoxing's murderous intention, because from Gu Xiaoxing's perspective, these words sounded like "I will settle the score with you after I get out."
For the sake of future stability, Gu Xiaoxing decided to kill him now, but before that he still had to ask some questions, so he said: "In this case, as long as you answer some questions for me..."
However, the young master seemed to sense the murderous intent in Gu Xiaoxing's eyes and knew that he would not let him go. Before Gu Xiaoxing could finish his words, he threw out a gourd and then instantly retreated and fled.
Gu Xiaoxing was prepared and swung his sword at the flying gourd. However, before the sword reached the gourd, it broke open on its own, and immediately, a large amount of talisman paper fell out.
They are all explosive symbols!
Gu Xiaoxing widened his eyes. He had never expected this to happen, so he wanted to step back, but the densely packed talisman papers all exploded in an instant.
Boom!
The power of a single explosive talisman was not great, but when hundreds of them were stacked together, Gu Xiaoxing was completely stunned by the explosion. If he was an ordinary person with perfect Qi Condensation, he would probably be blown to pieces in an instant. However, Gu Xiaoxing had the Three Yang Alchemy Body to protect him, and even so, he was blown to pieces and immediately became angry.
"How dare you plot against me!" Gu Xiaoxing gritted his teeth and took a step forward wearing tattered clothes.
The young master of Changle Sect seemed to sense something. When he turned around, his face immediately turned extremely pale. "You're not going to die?"
The next moment, he felt his body tighten and was entangled by something, unable to move.
Gu Xiaoxing had a gloomy expression on his face. He grabbed the soul-binding rope and pulled the opponent over directly. He started beating the opponent up and only stopped when he finally felt relieved.
At this time, the young master of Changle Gate had a bruised face and looked like a monster.
"Tell me! How many people from your Changle Gate have come? Are you all going to meet here? Also, how do you find your way? Do you have a map...?" Gu Xiaoxing shouted angrily and asked a lot of questions in a row.
The young master of Changle Gate seemed to be scared of being beaten and answered everything.
Only then did Gu Xiaoxing realize that there were a total of seven people from Changle Sect who had come and had indeed agreed to meet here. The three of them were close by and arrived first. As for how they found this place, they actually had a map.
Afterwards, Gu Xiaoxing was too lazy to spend time refining the other party's storage bag, so he directly forced him to pour out everything in the storage bag.
The young master of Changle Sect originally disagreed, but he had to surrender after Gu Xiaoxing threw a few more punches.
Watching the spirit stones falling out of the storage bag, Gu Xiaoxing couldn't help but sigh, he is worthy of being the young master, not only does he have thousands of ordinary spirit stones and hundreds of mid-grade spirit stones, but he also has eight top-grade spirit stones, as well as some magic tools, elixirs, and even ten drops of foundation-building spirit liquid!
It seems to be the harvest of the three people from Changle Gate in the past two days.
No matter whether it was spirit stones, elixirs, or magical instruments, all were stored by Gu Xiaoxing in his purple gourd. When something dropped from the gourd, Gu Xiaoxing collected it, until some red and white things that looked like silk fell out of the storage bag. Gu Xiaoxing was stunned for a moment, not being able to see clearly, so he extended his spiritual consciousness into the purple gourd to investigate, and suddenly he discovered that they were some women's underwear.
Suddenly, he looked at the young master of Changle Sect with a strange look on his face...
The young master of Changle Sect had a pale face, as if he had accepted his fate.
At this time, a blueprint appeared in Gu Xiaoxing's sight. He coughed dryly, then hurriedly took the blueprint and spread it out. It was the map of the world in the cave.
There were no mountains, rivers or anything like that on the map, just circles with something marked on each circle.
Gu Xiaoxing knew that these circles represented pillars. Not all the pillars in the world in the cave were on this map. Only those pillars that were different, had special shapes, or were different colors would be circled and marked. When many special pillars were arranged together according to the distance ratio, a simple map was formed!
On this map, there are four circles that are obviously much larger than the others, which are marked with the four pillars of Heaven, Earth, Xuan and Huang. At the same time, these four circles are distributed in the east, west, south and north accordingly.
From the young master of Changle Sect, we learned that each sect chooses a different stronghold every time they enter the Foundation Establishment Mountain. But no matter which sect, they will not choose the Four Pillars of Heaven, Earth, Profound and Yellow as their stronghold, because among them, the three pillars of Heaven, Earth and Profound have already become the recognized strongholds of the three sects for countless years!
They are the Sword Controlling Sect, the Body Refining Sect, and the Yunxiao Sect!
These three sects are the ones with the longest inheritance, deepest foundation, and strongest strength in the Small Wasteland. Although everyone knows where their strongholds are, no one has ever dared to fight for them, and they will not even enter their territory, but will only fight with each other outside!
As for the last "yellow" column, it is simply because that place is too dangerous, and no one is willing to choose it as a base.
After sorting out all of this, Gu Xiaoxing pondered. Based on the distribution of some "special" pillars around him, he determined his position, which was probably in the middle-west area, which meant that the closest to him was the territory of the "Earth" Pillar Refining Body Sect.
Gu Xiaoxing couldn't help but think of the other people in the Soul-Devouring Sect . Compared to those sects that had maps, their Soul-Devouring Sect didn't have any so-called strongholds at all. Even if Gu Xiaoxing wanted to find them to reunite, he wouldn't know how to find them. At the same time, he had to face a group of foundation-building masters from other sects. It was conceivable how difficult this trip would be!
Just as Gu Xiaoxing was lost in thought, thinking about what to do next, there was a noise in front of him. He frowned and looked up, only to see a man with a scar on his face flying over. The scarred man was very fast and landed not far away. He also looked at Gu Xiaoxing, then looked at the young master of Changle Sect, and then decisively bowed and said, "I'm just passing by. Goodbye!"
But how could Gu Xiaoxing let him go? He caught up with him in two steps and knocked him down with three punches.
"Don't force me to do it myself. Empty out everything in the storage bag!" Gu Xiaoxing threatened directly.
At this time, the scarred man was already bruised and swollen, and was tied together with his young master. He looked at the young master with a face full of grievance, but when he saw the young master closing his eyes and nodding, he finally realized their situation and poured out the contents of the storage bag truthfully.
There was another clatter of spirit stones, but compared with the young master, they seemed not much, and it could even be said that he was poor. However, when Gu Xiaoxing saw a bottle with ten drops of foundation-building spirit liquid fall out of the storage bag, he was immediately startled and then he smiled.
But Gu Xiaoxing did not believe that the other party was lucky to meet so many stone spirits in two days. After interrogation, he learned that this person happened to meet two people on the way and committed murder and robbery together. Moreover, he also heard something unusual in the other party's words, as if he was deliberately avoiding something.
So Gu Xiaoxing interrogated him a second time, even using punches and kicks, but the result made his face completely gloomy.
It turned out that the two people killed by the scarred man on the way were members of their Soul-Devouring Sect!
Although Gu Xiaoxing guessed that this journey would not be easy, and even knew in his heart that there might not be many people from their Soul-Devouring Sect who would be able to walk out of the Foundation-Building Mountain alive, but when he really heard the news that someone had died, he still couldn't help but remain silent and felt blocked in his heart.
This made Gu Xiaoxing's understanding of the world of cultivation even clearer, and at the same time, it also strengthened his determination to survive.
Must survive!
For some reason, at this moment Gu Xiaoxing thought of Dongfang Yu and wanted to see her...
However, he quickly shook his head, shook off his messy thoughts, picked up his sword and walked forward, killing the two men directly. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly found a few small words under the young master's body. If you don't look closely, it's really hard to find. The three words are "Soul-Devouring Sect".
Obviously, this was secretly written by the young master of Changle Gate before his death.
"Do you want to pass the message on?" Gu Xiaoxing's eyes flickered. He stepped forward and erased the three words before leaving.
One hour...
Three hours...
It was not until five hours after Gu Xiaoxing left that another skinny figure suddenly appeared here. This person's face was extremely gloomy . He stepped forward, picked up the young master's body, turned around and ran away without hesitation.
At the same time, a chain flew from nowhere and directly entangled the skinny figure and the young master's body. It was also a person who appeared in front of him in two steps and said lightly: "You have endured for a long time!"
This person was naturally Gu Xiaoxing. He did not really leave because he did not know whether he would leave any omissions. If the remaining people from Changle Sect came here and saw some clues or the dead people left some means that Gu Xiaoxing did not notice, even if there was a one in ten thousand chance that they could see the truth, Gu Xiaoxing felt that it was better not to have this one in ten thousand chance happen.
It would be fine if an ordinary disciple died, but he was the sect's young master after all. If the truth got out, it would be hard to guarantee what would happen, so Gu Xiaoxing chose the safest way.
Sit back and wait, then catch them all in one fell swoop!
The skinny man was not panicked, but sneered: "Do you think... I'm the only one? You're waiting for us, and we're also waiting for you...!"
As soon as the man finished speaking, two auras rose up from the distance, and there were two people who were building their foundation beside them!
However, Gu Xiaoxing's expression did not change at all. He sneered and said, "Didn't you hear me say 'you all' at the beginning? Now... are you all here?!"