Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 65: Under the Black Robe
Under the black pillar, the man in black was reaching out to grab the head of the woman in front of him. The woman was terrified to the extreme, tears streaming down her face, but she was powerless to resist.
But suddenly, the black-robed man paused and turned his hand sharply to the side, and immediately, a golden light flew out.
The golden light was extremely fast and was close in the blink of an eye. When he could see it clearly, Gu Xiaoxing's expression changed and he was suddenly startled.
"Soul-eating insect?"
This soul-eating insect was extremely strange. Although it was the same golden color as Chen Changqing's previous soul-eating insect, the feeling it gave Gu Xiaoxing was completely different. The soul-eating insect in front of him had green and did not have the aura of a foundation-building substance. Instead, it looked like a corpse puppet.
Gu Xiaoxing narrowed his eyes and punched out. Even though the Soul-Eating Insect was extremely fast and even an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator would find it difficult to resist, it was nothing to him. He was confident that even if he met Chen Changqing's Soul-Eating Insect in the Foundation Establishment stage again, this punch would be able to smash it to pieces.
When the insect fists collided, the absolute difference in cultivation power caused the Soul-Eating Insect to fly back at a faster speed than when it flew in. However, Gu Xiaoxing frowned, as if what he hit was not an insect, but an extremely hard lump of iron. Although the Soul-Eating Insect was extremely hard, it was not to this extent.
The flying Soul-Eating Insect hit a stone pillar with a diameter of nearly 100 feet. The huge force directly pierced the stone pillar, and then slammed into the ground to create a big hole. Such a terrifying force should have killed even an ordinary mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. However, the golden Soul-Eating Insect flapped its wings and flew out of the big hole as if nothing had happened, and returned to the side of the man in black robe.
Gu Xiaoxing took a step forward without hesitation. Although the soul-eating insect was strange, it did not pose a threat to him. However, the next moment, he was shocked again.
As the man in black robe waved his hand, another Soul-Eating Insect flew out and rushed straight towards Gu Xiaoxing's face. Another Soul-Eating Insect also attacked at the same time, forming a two-pronged attack.
"What's going on?"
Gu Xiaoxing was a little confused. He had never heard that one person could have two Soul-Eating Insects. He felt that the man in black was more and more weird. Why did he appear here to attack the people of Yunxiao Sect? It seemed like it was all planned. There might be a big conspiracy here!
With both hands, he punched one of the two Soul Devouring Insects with his full strength. He wanted to smash the two Soul Devouring Insects to pieces, but he could only blast them away without even a crack. He fixed his eyes, appeared beside the black-robed man with a cold voice, and said, "I want to see who you are!"
Gu Xiaoxing grabbed it and the man in black robe stepped back. At the same time, several soul-eating insects flew out from his black sleeves again.
However, at this time Gu Xiaoxing was not so surprised. He raised his hand and the Zi Ming Sword appeared. In an instant, he had already slashed out several swords. Then, several clanging sounds almost rang out. The Soul-Eating Insect could not even be cut by the top-grade magic weapon!
But the huge force still swept those soul-eating insects far away. Gu Xiaoxing concentrated his mind and slashed again. The sword fell on the man in black robe without hesitation, and the black robe was cut into two pieces in an instant.
However, the scene that shocked Gu Xiaoxing appeared again. There was no body under the black robe, but rows of soul-eating insects, no less than dozens of them. They flew out from the severed black robe in an instant, like a swarm of bees whose nest had been destroyed. Gu Xiaoxing's scalp tingled at the sight.
"What the hell is this?"
At this moment, Gu Xiaoxing also panicked. Faced with a group of soul-eating insects that could not be cut off, destroyed, or killed, even he had no choice but to escape. So he came to the woman from Yunxiao Sect without hesitation, picked her up, and ran away on foot.
It wasn't that Gu Xiaoxing wanted to save the woman so much, but he was thinking about the storage bag in her arms. However, he thought that they had no grudge against each other, and he would need to take her things later. It would be a bit unreasonable if he didn't save her.
The next moment, dozens of golden lights shot up into the sky and chased towards Gu Xiaoxing.
When Gu Xiaoxing turned around and saw this scene, he was so frightened that he broke out in cold sweats. It would be fine if he could beat these soul-eating insects, but if he couldn't, he would be surrounded and killed by a group of insects. The thought of that horrifying scene made him terrified, and he immediately used the Fang Cun Step to the extreme.
Fortunately, Gu Xiaoxing has been on the run since he entered the Foundation Building Mountain, and he has already mastered the skill. Otherwise, with the complex terrain of this world in the cave, even if Gu Xiaoxing was stronger, he would probably find it difficult to escape the pursuit of those soul-eating insects.
He ran for an entire hour before he finally got rid of the bugs. But Gu Xiaoxing was still not at ease, so he gritted his teeth and ran for another hour. When he found an extremely secluded place, he stopped and breathed a sigh of relief.
When Gu Xiaoxing lowered his head to see how the woman was doing, he found that she was also looking at him.
"Thank...thank you!" The woman's expression was still full of fear, but she was very quiet along the way. Only when she saw Gu Xiaoxing stop did she speak in a low voice.
Gu Xiaoxing just put her down without saying anything.
"I... my name is Miao Yunyun, thank you for saving me!" Seeing that the other party did not answer, Miao Yunyun spoke again. Looking at the gloomy ghost mask and everything that happened before, she was still very scared.
Gu Xiaoxing waved his hand and said, "Do you know what the black-robed man was just now?"
Miao Yunyun felt a little relieved when she heard the other party's voice was not as scary as she had imagined. She shook her head and said, "Those beetles look like soul-devouring insects. Perhaps they are related to the Soul-Devouring Sect. However, I have never heard of the Soul-Devouring Sect having such a method..."
Afterwards, Miao Yunyun briefly recounted their experiences. She had originally gathered a thousand drops of foundation-building spiritual liquid, and just when she was preparing to build her foundation, the man in black robe suddenly appeared and killed her.
When he heard about a thousand drops of foundation-building spiritual liquid, Gu Xiaoxing subconsciously glanced at the storage bag in the other party's arms.
Miao Yunyun continued to speak, and then there was a battle, and the disciples of Yunxiao Sect were all killed and sucked dry by the black-robed man, and then there was the scene where Gu Xiaoxing appeared...
At the end, Miao Yunyun suddenly sighed sadly, handed over the storage bag that she had been holding in her arms, and said, "You saved me just to give it to me, right? Take it..."
From the time he stopped until now, Gu Xiaoxing has been glancing at the storage bag from time to time. Miao Yunyun knows what he is thinking.
“Uh… hehe!”
Now it was Gu Xiaoxing who was embarrassed, but he had always been thick-skinned, and this was a matter of saving lives, so after a little hesitation, he took the storage bag.
Don't get me wrong, Gu Xiaoxing's "hesitation" was not about whether to accept the storage bag, but about whether to let her pour out everything inside. But after thinking about it, he decided to give up. He felt that he was not thick-skinned enough to do that. It was just refining a storage bag, which didn't take much effort.
Then, Gu Xiaoxing began to refine Miao Yunyun's storage bag right in front of her...
Miao Yunyun was speechless. She felt that the man wearing the ghost mask must be the . However, she did not dare to say anything at the moment. In her current state, if the other party showed any ill intentions, she would be powerless to resist.
"I just hope that he can spare my life after accepting the storage bag..." Miao Yunyun sighed inwardly and silently began to practice to heal his wounds.
Gu Xiaoxing, who was standing by, then realized that Miao Yunyun's storage bag was not a low-level magic weapon, but a high-grade storage magic weapon. Fortunately, it was not a magic weapon, otherwise he would not be able to refine it.
After refining the storage bag, the space inside was indeed much larger than that of an ordinary storage bag. However, Gu Xiaoxing was in no mood to look at what was inside. He was immediately excited when he saw a bottle filled with foundation-building spirit liquid. There were exactly one thousand drops of foundation-building spirit liquid in the bottle, which was enough for him to survive today...
today……
Then Gu Xiaoxing wilted again. It was only for today, but he couldn't just do nothing. He just pondered for a moment, then raised his head and swallowed the entire bottle of one thousand drops of foundation-building spirit liquid.
Seeing this scene, Miao Yunyun's eyes became even more dim. So many sisters came into the Foundation Building Mountain with great anticipation, all for this small bottle of spiritual liquid. Originally, it was she who should have swallowed this bottle of spiritual liquid to build the foundation for immortality.
But now that such a thing has happened, she is the only one left among so many sisters. All she wants now is to return to her sister Qiao Yanran. She no longer cares about building a spiritual foundation or an immortal foundation. She continues to heal her wounds in silence, and will start to break through after she is ready.
After swallowing the foundation-building spirit liquid, the feeling was similar to before, warm. After a while, it was refined by Gu Xiaoxing into a wisp of innate pure energy, and then pushed it upward. When this wisp of innate pure energy approached the center of the eyebrows, it immediately merged into the incomplete Yudao placenta. The placenta then became a little more complete visibly with the naked eye, but it was only a little bit, and it was still a big incompleteness...
Afterwards, the feeling of life slipping away of the soul-eating insect on the Yudao placenta disappeared, but there were no other changes.
Gu Xiaoxing opened his eyes and sighed, with helplessness in his eyes.
Miao Yunyun blinked and thought, "So fast?"
But she was soon stunned. The other party did not have the aura of a breakthrough. Thinking back to the past, a flash of realization immediately flashed in her eyes. No wonder this person was so powerful even though he was only condensing Qi. She stared at Gu Xiaoxing with wide eyes and said, "You...you have built a Dao fetus?"
Gu Xiaoxing glanced at her irritably, too lazy to pay attention to her, and directly threw some healing pills and a foundation-building pill to her, then left.
Miao Yunyun looked at his departing back with a complicated expression and did not say anything to stop him. He could hardly protect himself, so how could he let a dying man protect him?
Gu Xiaoxing ran wildly all the way. His heart was full of confusion at the moment. He thought of Fulai Village, Dongfang Yu, and everything that had happened since he entered the Tao. In the end, everything turned into a fear of death and a desire for life.
He doesn't want to die!
He also wants to go back to Fulai Village!
He also wants to be the male leader!
He also wants to wait for sixty years to see Dongfang Yu!
He can't die!
At this moment, Gu Xiaoxing's eyes turned red, and he exerted his speed to the extreme, running wildly towards the direction of the Heavenly Pillar...
