Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 71: Three Sorrows
"Xiaoxing, it's time to wake up...!"
While sleeping, Gu Xiaoxing heard the voice of the old village chief, and it was as if he had returned to Fulai Village, where he was forced by the old village chief to study and write. However, he always fell asleep while reading, and was woken up and punished by the old village chief.
So when he heard the voice, Gu Xiaoxing immediately perked up. Even though he was very sleepy, he still tried to open his eyes. But what he saw was not an old man sitting alone at the chessboard, but a fiery red stone wall passage. Memories instantly flooded back to his mind.
"So, I'm still alive..."
Gu Xiaoxing was very tired. He had no strength left in his body. He collapsed in the passage with a big lotus pod stuffed in his mouth. The lotus seeds inside the pod had completely disappeared.
Just as Gu Xiaoxing was spitting out the lotus pod in his mouth and struggling to get up, he suddenly stopped moving. He was filled with fear. He wanted to look inside his body to check the situation, but he saw two small worms in his heart.
No one knew what happened to the two heart-blood-sucking insects. They seemed to be full or tired, and they just lay on Gu Xiaoxing's heart and fell asleep. Not only them, but his heart seemed to be tired from the tossing and turning. Although there were no wounds on it, it would beat slightly only after a long time. Gu Xiaoxing's slight excitement caused his heartbeat to suddenly intensify.
It just jumped so violently that the little bug lying on it was immediately startled and twisted its body, as if it was showing signs of waking up...
This scene frightened Gu Xiaoxing so much that his heart stopped. The feeling of being eaten by thousands of mouths made his soul tremble whenever he recalled it now. He never wanted to experience it again. Fortunately, as he slowed down his heartbeat, the two insects only twisted their bodies slightly and did not wake up.
But Gu Xiaoxing did not dare to move. He continued to observe the situation inside his body and found that the life breath of the soul-eating insect on the placenta of Taoism in the Niwan Palace had become so weak that it was almost gone. He immediately concluded that this was a phenomenon of the Tao fetus lacking nourishment from the innate pure energy and was about to die!
Only then did Gu Xiaoxing realize that he had been unconscious for a whole day without realizing it. If he hadn't woken up in time, he would probably never have woken up once his Dao fetus died. Fortunately, he had collected a lot of foundation-building spiritual liquid into his storage ring when he escaped. He took a look and found that there were about 30,000 drops. Although it was still far from enough to complete the construction of the Dao fetus, he could only get through this calamity first.
The Heart-Eating Blood Gu was still dormant in his body. He didn't dare to move. He could only use his spiritual consciousness to guide the entrance of the foundation-building spiritual liquid, and then carefully refine the innate pure energy and transport it to the Niwan Palace. When that ray of innate pure energy merged into the Yudao placenta, he could clearly feel that the Yudao placenta was a little bit complete again, and the life breath of the soul-eating insect on it no longer dissipated, but instead became stronger little by little during gestation.
Gu Xiaoxing breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he was temporarily out of danger. He then continued to refine the remaining foundation-building spiritual liquid, and at the same time began to think about how to deal with the two heart-eating blood-eating insects in his body.
We can't just sit there and waste time like this. They will wake up sooner or later. If we go through that kind of heart-wrenching pain again, Gu Xiaoxing doesn't know if he can hold on.
"It would be great if the Soul Binding Rope was still there..." Gu Xiaoxing couldn't help but think that if the Soul Binding Rope was still there, he could use it to wrap the two insects inside his body and then bring them out, but now he couldn't think of any good solution after thinking about it.
He began to check the storage instruments again, thinking that he had never looked for any solution, especially the storage ring and Miao Yunyun's storage bag, he had never carefully looked at what was inside.
He first looked at Miao Yunyun's storage bag, which contained not only a large number of spirit stones, elixirs, and magical instruments, but Gu Xiaoxing also found a magic weapon that looked like a golden feather, and no one knew what it was used for.
All in all, Gu Xiaoxing has obtained three magic weapons in this trip. In addition to this golden feather, there is also the Green Needle and the storage ring. However, Gu Xiaoxing has not yet condensed his spiritual consciousness and cannot refine these magic weapons. The only storage ring he can use was refined by Li Wenru.
"I should have asked her to help me refine the Jade Wandering Needle..."
Once you reach the level of magic weapon, you can change your size at will and take it into your body. It would be easy to deal with two sleeping bugs, but now everything is in vain.
He turned his attention to the storage ring. After all, it was a storage magic weapon, so Gu Xiaoxing couldn't help but feel a little excited, expecting that there would be good things inside. However, to his disappointment, the things in this storage magic weapon were not as good as Miao Yunyun's storage bag. Not to mention the magic weapon, even the top-grade magic weapon was only a broken bow, without even matching arrows. As for the spirit stones, they had been used up long ago when he just built his Dao fetus. All that was left were some low-level items and sundries.
Gu Xiaoxing was disgusted and was about to withdraw his spiritual consciousness from the storage ring, but he found a tortoise shell fragment among the sundries piled in a corner. He suddenly remembered that he seemed to have read an article about tortoise shell fragments in a book in the library. It said that there was a kind of tortoise shell fragment left over from ancient times, and each tortoise shell fragment was engraved with a lost ancient secret method. The origins of these tortoise shell fragments have long been untraceable, but some of the ancient secret methods engraved on them would make even the Nascent Soul Transformation God arouse the interest, and each piece is a treasure.
Gu Xiaoxing thought that the tortoise shell fragments in the storage ring were those, but when he took it out and looked at it, he was disappointed again. It was just a black ordinary tortoise shell fragment, and there was no character engraved on it. If it was really that kind of tortoise shell fragment , why would it be piled up with these sundries?
But when he wanted to withdraw his spiritual consciousness again, he stopped again and found that the tortoise shell fragment suddenly trembled. He was startled for a moment, and his mind moved, so he summoned the tortoise shell fragment out of the storage ring.
As soon as the tortoise shell fragment appeared, it slowly floated up on its own and hung in the air above Gu Xiaoxing's head.
Gu Xiaoxing was still lying on the ground, not daring to move, not knowing what was going on.
But at this moment, the tortoise shell fragments suddenly shook and emitted light. The light gradually condensed into the shadow of a three-legged tortoise. As soon as the three-legged tortoise appeared stared at Gu Xiaoxing. Even though it was just a shadow, one could see endless resentment in the tortoise's eyes.
“Sanshang… Sanshang… It’s you… Sanshang…” The three-legged turtle suddenly let out a crazy roar.
Gu Xiaoxing didn't know why he could understand the roar of a phantom three-legged turtle. This three-legged turtle should have been dead for who knows how many years. This phantom was just its remaining thought in the world. But even if it was just a trace of remnant, the roar it made after waking up still shook his mind, as if he was facing an ancient ferocious beast.
However, what was even more uncomfortable than Gu Xiaoxing were the two heart-eating blood-eating insects in his body. They were still larvae to begin with, and now faced with this terrifying creature that had no idea how powerful it was when it was alive, they were directly shocked unconscious.
"Three Deaths... Three Deaths..." The three-legged turtle was still roaring, and the hatred in its eyes seemed to have reached its limit, and it suddenly pounced towards Gu Xiaoxing.
Gu Xiaoxing's heart trembled, thinking to himself that it was all over. Facing such an unparalleled ferocious power, he had no way of resisting. Although it was only a trace of the three-legged turtle's remnant, he felt a fear that he would be instantly destroyed if hit. At this critical moment, the Qingyan Palace in his body suddenly shook.
With this shock, half of the palace collapsed instantly, and ripples were also created. After the ripples passed, the shadow of the three-legged turtle disappeared in an instant, leaving only a piece of tortoise shell fragment that fell to the ground with a "click". The red floor of the passage could obviously melt even steel, but it had no effect on the tortoise shell fragment.
Gu Xiaoxing stood up suddenly, gasping for breath. Although he did not endure that kind of heart-wrenching pain, facing the possibility of complete destruction of his body and soul, he felt just as much fear.
Suddenly he thought of something, his face turned grim, he took out a top-grade magic dagger, and without hesitation, he cut a big hole in his chest. Compared with the heart-wrenching pain, this injury was nothing. He reached his hand directly into the hole, and took out the two heart-eating blood-swallowing insects while they were unconscious. He didn't even care about the wound on his chest that was bleeding profusely, but swung the dagger again and chopped at the two heart-eating blood-swallowing insects with all his strength.
Even though the Heart-Blood Swallowing Gu was extremely tough, it was still cut into two pieces when it fainted and faced the full-strength attack from the top-grade magic weapon and Gu Xiaoxing.
Gu Xiaoxing was still not at ease, and continued to swing the dagger in his hand until the two heart-eating blood-eating insects were chopped into pieces, and then burned to ashes by the intense heat in the passage, then he stopped.
It was not that he was overly cautious, but these two tiny insects had left him with a huge psychological trauma. He took out another lotus seed and swallowed it. The huge vitality immediately made the wound on his chest heal slowly.
Until this moment, Gu Xiaoxing was still a little dazed. He had experienced too much and endured too much in this line of work. Every pain was no less than cutting flesh and wrist bones. He had a deeper understanding of the cruelty of the world of cultivation.
At the same time, he became more and more curious about the origin of the burning Taoist incense. The palace built in his body by its green smoke could actually withstand the impact of the resentment of the three-legged turtle.
Even more, what are the "three sorrows" mentioned by the three-legged turtle?
Gu Xiaoxing hesitated for a moment, but finally put the tortoise shell fragment into the storage ring. Although it was a bit risky, he felt that this item might be related to the origin of the burning Taoist incense, so he chose to accept it, but warned himself not to take it out easily in the future.
Suddenly, Gu Xiaoxing's expression froze. He knew that everything was not over yet and now was not the time to think deeply!
At this moment, after absorbing 30,000 drops of foundation-building spiritual liquid in his Niwan Palace, the Yudao placenta has become much more complete, but it is still mostly incomplete. If he cannot gather 100 strands of innate pure energy, he will still die!
"Let's see what tricks you have up your sleeve!" Gu Xiaoxing's eyes flashed with ruthlessness. He took a step forward and rushed into the passage again.
But when Gu Xiaoxing reached the circular hole at the end of the passage, he just happened to see Zhou Shoutai's body fading and disappearing.
Zhou Shoutai seemed to have noticed Gu Xiaoxing as well, and his expression was slightly surprised, but in the moment before he disappeared, the corners of his mouth raised, as if revealing a mocking smile.
"No……!"
Gu Xiaoxing exerted his speed to the extreme limit of his life and rushed towards Zhou Shoutai like a madman, but in the end he missed him and crashed into the stone wall.
Zhou Shoutai has completely disappeared!
That pool of foundation-building spiritual fluid was now completely empty...
