Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 69: The So-called Dao Dispute
After swallowing a green lotus seed, Gu Xiaoxing's body instantly became full of vitality.
Although the terrifying high temperature is still plundering, it will take a lot of time to exhaust this huge vitality.
"Zhou Bingding" looked at Gu Xiaoxing whose injuries were getting better and his face became even gloomier.
Or rather, he should be called the Soul-Devouring Sect's leader, Zhou Shoutai!
Zhou Shoutai had never expected that his junior fellow apprentice would be so difficult to deal with. He laughed in anger and said, "It has come to this. Do you think delaying a little bit will help?"
Gu Xiaoxing stared at Zhou Shoutai coldly. Instead of answering him, he asked.
"Why?!"
"You are already the leader of the Soul Devouring Sect. You can say that the entire Soul Devouring Sect belongs to you. Why do you want to create the Soul Devouring Sect?"
"And then let the two sects fight each other, isn't this too contradictory?"
"I said, I don't have the habit of talking too much to a dead person." Zhou Shoutai suddenly raised his hand and waved, and golden light flew out.
Gu Xiaoxing was suddenly shocked. "Can these corpse worms withstand such high temperatures here?"
Although shocked, Gu Xiaoxing did not slow down. He drew out the Zi Ming sword and chopped the corpse worm away with one strike, then rushed towards the opponent fiercely.
Zhou Shoutai remained calm, and swung out more than twenty golden rays in a row, sneering: "Let my bugs play with you, and see how long your vitality can last!"
Gu Xiaoxing hurriedly dodged and resisted. He found that although these corpse worms could withstand the high temperature here, their speed and strength were obviously much weaker.
But even so, facing the simultaneous siege of more than twenty corpse worms, Gu Xiaoxing still found it difficult.
In fact, it's more than just bugs. Gu Xiaoxing feels even worse facing these horrific high temperatures!
The skin on his body was still drying and cracking. Although the vitality brought by the green lotus seeds would make the cracks heal quickly, new cracks would soon appear again after healing.
It was like a tug-of-war between life and destruction, and naturally all the pain was borne by Gu Xiaoxing!
"Didn't you complete the Dan Jie? Why did it turn into Qi Condensation, and why did you come here to build the Dao Fetus!" Gu Xiaoxing roared while struggling to resist.
"Isn't this what you want to know?"
Zhou Shoutai was in the True Fire Amulet, not seeming to be in a hurry, and even began to treat the sword wound on his chest.
"Brother Gu, I really don't know whether to say that you are stupid or that you can't think of it...!"
"If you hadn't created the Dao fetus by mistake, the following events wouldn't have happened."
"Although there will be some troubles after leaving Foundation Building Mountain, I think Bai Lang will be able to protect you..."
Bai Lang?
Master Bai?
Only at this moment did Gu Xiaoxing know that Uncle Bai's name was Bai Lang. It sounded strange to him, but he didn't have time to think about it.
I just heard Zhou Shoutai continue talking.
"In fact, sometimes I envy you. You have only been practicing Taoism for a little over a year and you have already started to build your foundation. You are also the genius they are talking about, right?"
"It's great that I can be recognized by my master just based on my talent. Do you know how much I have paid in order to become his disciple and to achieve this path of immortality?"
As he spoke, Zhou Shoutai's expression became ferocious, "So, I want to change all this. I want to let the world know that even without talent, you can still live forever!"
"What a shitty master! I don't recognize that broken coffin as my master!"
Gu Xiaoxing became angry when he thought of this, thinking that the broken coffin not only stole his Taoist incense, but also taught him a fake magical power. Is this something his master could do?
In his rage, his strength seemed to increase dramatically. He swung his sword in a circle, and the sword light swept away all the corpse insects. Then he took a step towards Zhou Shoutai and raised his sword to kill him.
But at this moment, some Taoist patterns suddenly lit up on the sword in his hand for unknown reasons.
This startled Gu Xiaoxing suddenly, and then he found that he had lost control of the Zi Ming Sword, and he could not cut it down with this sword no matter what he did.
"Do you think... I won't be cautious with my dear junior brother?" Zhou Shoutai suddenly smiled sinisterly , made a strange seal with his hands, and muttered something.
Gu Xiaoxing was immediately shocked and wanted to throw away the Zi Ming Sword in his hand, but it was too late!
The Taoist patterns on the sword instantly spread to the entire sword and even to Gu Xiaoxing's hand.
Then the Zi Ming sword cracked with a "click", and several gray air currents emerged from the cracks in the sword, and directly penetrated into Gu Xiaoxing's body along the Dao pattern.
In an instant, Gu Xiaoxing felt as if death energy had entered his body. His vitality, which was already rapidly being consumed, suddenly increased several times in speed after these gray air flows into his body.
At this moment, the pain that Gu Xiaoxing endured was unimaginable. His body was burning, his skin was constantly cracking, and his body was filled with deathly energy. Wherever he passed, his flesh and blood were torn apart.
No matter how strong his willpower and vitality were, he could no longer hold it in, and he fell limply to the ground.
Gu Xiaoxing secretly cursed himself for being stupid. He should have thought of it earlier. How could he boldly use the things given by such a scheming person!
But it was too late to regret now. He fell to the ground with his eyes bloodshot, and it felt like someone was cutting his flesh with a knife inside and outside his body.
Even the slight heat from the ground seemed nothing to Gu Xiaoxing.
Zhou Shoutai looked at him expressionlessly.
"Junior brother, since you also want to build a Dao fetus, then this is a battle of Dao with me."
"Since this is a battle of dao, you cannot win. From now on, you will die and your dao will be gone."
"That's what cultivation is all about..."
After Zhou Shoutai finished speaking, he didn't even look at Gu Xiaoxing again, because in his eyes, Gu Xiaoxing was already doomed to die.
It is impossible for those below the Jindan stage to withstand that kind of death energy.
Gu Xiaoxing fell to the ground and struggled violently. In just a short moment, most of the tremendous vitality contained in the lotus seeds in his body had been lost.
He watched Zhou Shoutai turn around and walk step by step towards the stone pillar in the center of the land. Even though he was in severe pain all over his body and even his vision was beginning to blur, he was still gritting his teeth and enduring it.
With the True Fire Amulet protecting his body, Zhou Shoutai seemed to be unable to feel the heat. Facing the red-hot stone pillar, he suddenly took out a... stone.
As soon as the stone appeared, the stone pillar in front of Zhou Shoutai suddenly trembled, and then slowly separated to both sides.
Zhou Shoutai smiled slightly, holding the stone in his palm, and walked forward. The rock walls seemed to make way for him, creating a passageway...
Gu Xiaoxing watched the scene with a horrified look of pain until Zhou Shoutai completely disappeared from his sight.
Then he waited for a while, until he could no longer bear the severe pain. Then Gu Xiaoxing suddenly took out a green lotus from the purple gourd and ate the lotus pod and seeds together without even looking at it.
boom!
It was as if vitality exploded in his mouth and instantly surged throughout his body, waging a desperate battle with the deathly anger around him.
The dead energy was surprisingly very tenacious, and it fought fiercely against the sudden emergence of vitality. At that moment, it seemed as if Gu Xiaoxing had experienced a tremendous battle inside his body.
Gu Xiaoxing cried in so much pain, and almost with tears in his eyes he ate the entire lotus pod. After swallowing seven lotus seeds, the deathly energy finally showed signs of defeat and was eventually wiped out by the living energy.
And this "unprecedented battle" lasted for a whole stick of incense!
During this period of time, Gu Xiaoxing felt as if he had walked through the gates of hell.
If it wasn't so hot here, he felt that he could use his tears and sweat to wash his face. Fortunately, he finally made it through.
Gu Xiaoxing let out a long sigh. In fact, he really thought he was going to die, but what he never expected was that the other party would not take away his storage magic weapon.
"You don't like these things of mine?"
Gu Xiaoxing couldn't figure it out, and always felt that this was not the reason. "No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat. It's impossible not to even look at it..."
Looking at the passage extending into the stone pillar in front, Gu Xiaoxing narrowed his eyes.
He felt that there must be something strange about the other party. Perhaps the things in the passage were what he really wanted, and they must be related to building the Dao fetus!
But what Gu Xiaoxing never understood was how he was going to leave Foundation Building Mountain?!
Even if there are enough immortal foundations inside, it takes a hundred days to build a Taoist fetus, and this foundation-building mountain will be closed in less than ten days.
Could it be that there is some immortal fortune in there that can be taken away?
Gu Xiaoxing stood up and walked towards the passage. The light inside was not dim, but rather bright red. He walked in carefully.
The further you go inside, the hotter it gets. But it's not cool either. It's still good enough to melt steel.
The passage was very long, and Gu Xiaoxing didn't dare to make too much noise, so he kept moving forward at a constant speed.
After running about twenty miles, he suddenly smelled a strange fragrance and was immediately perked up.
This is the smell of the foundation-building spiritual liquid!
Gu Xiaoxing was sure that he would not make a mistake. The fragrance of the foundation-building spiritual liquid was very unique and he would never forget it once he smelled it.
He was immediately excited because the strange fragrance was extremely strong, indicating that there was a lot of foundation-building spiritual liquid at the end of the passage!
So, Gu Xiaoxing stopped hiding and ran at full speed, for he was afraid that if he was too late, the creature would be gone.
Arriving here, I can finally say that I am cool and no longer have to endure the excruciating pain of a burning sensation all over my body.
Gu Xiaoxing felt indescribably happy. The powerful vitality of the lotus seeds left no wounds on his body.
Even because he was "too nourished", he had no new injuries to consume his vitality, which caused him to have a lot of nosebleeds along the way.
But it's much better now. Except for the feeling of being a little full, everything else is fine.
With one step forward, Gu Xiaoxing turned into an arrow and flew through the passage. After running about ten miles, he finally saw the exit.
At this time, the fragrance of the foundation-building spiritual liquid had become so strong that it was unimaginable, as if every breath he took was accompanied by a trace of innate true qi entering his body.
Gu Xiaoxing also became excited and felt that he was saved.
When he rushed out of the exit, what he saw was a huge round hole. Above the hole, the stone wall was slightly moist, and occasionally a drop of liquid dripped.
This liquid is exactly the foundation-building spiritual liquid.
But Gu Xiaoxing's gaze was not upwards, but downwards, because there he saw a pond. The moment he saw the pond, he could not take his eyes away.
A pool of foundation-building spiritual liquid!
Not only Gu Xiaoxing couldn't take his eyes off, Zhou Shoutai, who was sitting cross-legged by the pool, also couldn't take his eyes off Gu Xiaoxing who rushed out from the passage.
But that look was already gloomy to the extreme!
Is this an encounter with the Phoenix?
Can you be reborn from the ashes?
