All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 193 Ice Cloud Mountain Stronghold × Spider Cave √ (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)
The next day.

The old woman followed Han Wending back to the Han family home.

Zhou Qing then left the city alone.

We awaited Wanqi Zongyuan's arrival at the foot of the Qilian Mountains.

"I never imagined that Uncle Han was actually Grandma's son who had been lost for more than 20 years."

Recalling the scene of recognizing relatives last night, Zhou Qing was filled with emotion.

Now they're truly family.

It turns out that Han Wending's original name was Cheng Wen. He was forcibly conscripted into the army and joined the Shuntian Prefecture Army to suppress the Wuxi barbarians.

As a result, he was seriously injured and was rescued by the third young lady of the Han family, and became a servant in the Han family.

Later, as they spent more and more time together, he and the third young lady of the Han family fell in love and secretly pledged their lives to each other.

The Han family patriarch was initially furious and wanted to kill Han Wending. It was only by the Third Miss threatening suicide that Han Wending was saved.

However, the Han family patriarch kicked Han Wending into the Divine Might Camp, intending for him to die in the great battle against the barbarians.

Unexpectedly, Han Wending became more and more courageous in battle and gradually revealed his extremely strong martial arts talent, which earned him the favor of the previous captain.

In just a few years, Han Wending broke through to the Bone Refining Realm.

Finally, the previous captain acted as matchmaker for him, and the Han family patriarch agreed to the marriage. However, he required that the man marry into the Han family and change his name.

After breaking through to the Bone Refining Realm, Han Wending returned to Qianchuan County and found that his hometown had suffered a severe drought, and many people had died in the famine.

After searching for his relatives to no avail, Han Wending finally agreed to the request of the Han family patriarch to change his surname to Han, and the patriarch added the character 'Ding' to the end of his name.

After the marriage, the Han family patriarch treated Han Wending as his own son, supporting him in practicing martial arts with all his might, and eventually even passed on the position of family head to him.

For so many years, Han Wending sent people to search in many places, but he could not find any trace of his relatives. He never expected that he would find his mother in this way.

With that, Zhou Qing was finally able to leave with complete peace of mind.

He hates parting.

So I left a letter early this morning and quietly left.

"Next time I come back, I will make the entire Nanli bow down before me!" Zhou Qing clenched his fist as he gazed at the majestic city in the distance, which resembled a giant dragon crawling.

"What a spirit!"

At this moment, a deep voice suddenly sounded behind Zhou Qing.

He looked back and saw a middle-aged man in his early forties walking out of the woods. He was dressed in coarse linen clothes, of medium build, with a square face and dark skin, and looked like an ordinary mountain dweller.

However, the powerful blood and qi within him flowed like a rushing river, with an overwhelming momentum.

Master!

"Who are you? We don't seem to know each other." Zhou Qing became wary as the middle-aged man slowly walked towards him.

"Junior Brother Wei's disciple, doesn't he even recognize me?" The middle-aged man couldn't help but sneer.

"You are Wan Guiliu?!" Zhou Qing exclaimed in surprise.

“You should call me Sect Master! Are you coming back with me by yourself, or…” Wan Guiliu frowned, his hand emerging from his sleeve, colorful true essence gathering in his palm, and a strange fragrance wafting out.

"Let me do it!"

A strange smile suddenly appeared on Zhou Qing's face.

Wan Guiliu suddenly turned around and looked behind him. Before he knew it, an old man with white hair and beard, dressed in a blue robe, appeared out of thin air behind him.

"Sect Leader Wan, I advise you not to make a move."

"Who are you?" Wan Guiliu tensed up, feeling unable to discern the white-haired old man's cultivation level, and couldn't help but ask in a deep voice, "What if I make a move?"

"You will die," Wanqi Zongyuan said calmly.

"Although I do not want Wan Shentong to die out, if you insist on going your own way, I can only apologize to my old friend."

"Do you know the patriarch of my Five Poisons Sect?" Wan Guiliu's expression changed.

"We have some acquaintance." Wan Qizongyuan seemed too lazy to say more, and glanced at Zhou Qing.

"Boy, are you ready?"

"Clan leader, I am ready." Zhou Qing bowed respectfully.

"Let's go then." Wanqi Zongyuan nodded and walked towards the Qilian Mountains.

"Yes." Zhou Qing quickly followed.

Wan Guiliu's fingers twitched slightly, and after hesitating for a moment, he finally held back.

The presence of an old man who knew the ancestor and whose cultivation level he couldn't discern at all made him hesitant to act rashly.

Before entering the forest, Zhou Qing took a deep look at Wan Guiliu, as if trying to imprint his appearance in his mind.

"What? Do you have a grudge against him?" Wan Qizongyuan asked naturally when he saw Zhou Qing staring at Wan Guiliu.

"He poisoned my master, and today he attacked me! I must avenge this!" Zhou Qing said in a deep voice.

"If one day I become enemies with your master, what will you do?" Wanqi Zongyuan changed the subject.

“I will stop you from being hostile,” Zhou Qing said thoughtfully.

"What if it's a fight to the death?" Wanqi Zongyuan pressed.

"I will first repay the clan chief's two acts of saving my life! As for the rest, I cannot guarantee anything that has not happened," Zhou Qing said solemnly.

"Hmm." Wanqi Zongyuan didn't say anything more. He had thoroughly investigated Zhou Qing's life, especially Zhou Qing's hometown, Heishan Town.

Zhou Qing is highly respected and well-known in Heishan Town.

A silkworm farmer from a poor background who can earn the praise of everyone truly deserves to be called a person of noble character.

That is why Wanqi Zongyuan personally took action.

Based on Zhou Qing's current performance, Wan Qizongyuan is quite satisfied.

Whether Zhou Qing can truly integrate into Bingyun Mountain Village remains to be seen.

"Since you hold such a grudge against this person, out of consideration for our old friendship, although I cannot kill him, I can teach him a lesson for you," Wanqi Zongyuan said with a faint smile.

"How should we teach him a lesson?" Zhou Qing was taken aback. If he could severely injure Wan Guiliu, he might be able to change the patriarch's mind and choose his master Wei Sheng as his successor again.

"Let's use this." Wanqi Zongyuan waved his sleeve, and something resembling a peeled banana appeared out of thin air, floating in mid-air.

In an instant, a stench that seemed to assault the very soul hit them.

Zhou Qing felt a churning in her stomach and almost vomited up her dinner from the night before. "What is this?" Zhou Qing covered her mouth and nose, but she still couldn't block out the stench.

As for Wanqi Zongyuan, who was standing to the side, he had already used his true essence to protect his entire body.

"This is a second-tier Golden Dung Gu that I accidentally refined in my early years. I originally intended to use it to refine a third-tier Stinky Gu, but I never used it, so I kept it." Wan Qizongyuan spoke calmly, but Zhou Qing could see a hint of wickedness in his eyes.

"This Gu is a one-time consumption Gu worm and has no real killing power. It is just extremely smelly. If you get infected with this Gu, the stench will last for a year. During this time, the stench will not stop wherever it goes, and it will stink for three miles with the wind," Wanqi Zongyuan explained.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Qing immediately retreated.

It smells so bad that it must be highly toxic.

Moreover, it smells so bad that it might not only affect one's appetite, but it could also negatively impact one's cultivation.

In some respects, the Golden Dung Gu is terrifyingly lethal, capable of causing social death to those afflicted.

Wanqi Zongyuan also said that he couldn't bring himself to kill him out of consideration for his old friend.

"Don't worry, I haven't activated this Gu yet, so the stench won't affect you." Wanqi Zongyuan smiled when he saw the fear in Zhou Qing's eyes.

"Please, clan leader, activate this Gu to punish Wan Guiliu." Zhou Qing took a few steps back, feeling utterly defiled.

"Very well, so be it." Wanqi Zongyuan raised his right hand, muttering something under his breath, and the Golden Dung Gu flew out with a whoosh.

"Clan leader, let's go quickly." Zhou Qing looked in the direction where the Golden Dung Gu had disappeared and suddenly felt that this was too cruel. It would be better to just kill Wan Guiliu directly.

"Hmm." Wanqi Zongyuan nodded and released a palm-sized blue and white dragonfly from his Yuanqiao.

The blue and white dragonfly is crystal clear, like an ice sculpture.

Wanqi Zongyuan infused his true essence, and the blue-white dragonfly's size expanded rapidly, from the size of a palm to a giant dragonfly with a diameter of ten feet, as big as a room.

Buzz!
As the blue and white dragonfly flapped its wings, Zhou Qing felt a sharp, cold wind brush against his face.

"Come on up. Ice Cloud Mountain Village is nearly 8,000 miles away from here. Riding the Dragonfly Gu will be faster."

Wanqi Zongyuan flew up and landed on top of the Dragonfly Gu's head.

"Yes." Zhou Qing came up behind him.

"Hold on tight," Wanqi Zongyuan reminded him.

The Dragonfly Gu slowly rose into the air, its speed far slower than Zhou Qing's Ice Fiend Gu.

However, before he could react, the Dragonfly Gu suddenly spewed out a violent burst of cold air from its lower abdomen, and its entire body shot out in a flash.

If Zhou Qing hadn't used his true essence to absorb the dragonfly gu's body, he probably would have been thrown out in an instant.

As the scene receded into the distance, Zhou Qing instinctively spread his arms wide to welcome the strong wind blowing against his face.

Although the Ice Fiend Gu can grant him the ability to fly, he can't fly very high, and his speed is far inferior to that of the Dragonfly Gu, nor does it last as long.

Of course, this is mainly because the Ice Fiend Gu consumes too much true essence.

"Is this the power of a second-tier Gu Master?" Zhou Qing looked at Wan Qizongyuan, who was calm and composed in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

This is real flight!

With the Dragonfly Gu's exaggerated speed, the eight thousand li journey was completed in less than two days.

The main reason was that the dragonfly gu took a lot of time to feed, and Wanqi Zongyuan reduced his escape speed when he flew to certain areas along the way.

Otherwise, traveling 10,000 miles a day would not be a problem.

At this moment, what appeared before Zhou Qing was the Yangtze River, which was more than 100 meters wide, and was surrounded by towering mountains that stretched as far as the eye could see.

Not far below, there was a large mountain stronghold surrounded by huge city walls.

Wanqi Zongyuan led Zhou Qing directly to a high mountain behind the stronghold.

The village is full of stilted buildings, built along the mountain and river. When the villagers below see the dragonfly Gu flying overhead, they stop and pay their respects.

Both men and women were dressed in exotic styles.

The dragonfly gu landed outside the stilted house halfway up the mountain.

"You'll stay here from now on. Rest for the night, and we'll talk about it tomorrow." Wanqi Zongyuan led Zhou Qing into a room on the second floor of the stilted house, instructing him not to wander off and to introduce him to the clansmen in a few days.

"Yes!" Zhou Qing consciously entered the room and stayed inside.

The next morning, Zhou Qing got up to practice his martial arts when he suddenly heard footsteps.

There are at least seven or eight people.

Zhou Qing got out of bed.

There was a knock on the door.

"Please come in." Zhou Qing took a breath, somewhat nervous.

"Squeak~"

The door opened, and what he saw made his eyes widen in disbelief.

Eight young girls, wearing golden and pearl hair ornaments and light purple dresses that revealed their fair arms, slender legs and jade feet, filed in.

Each one of them was youthful, beautiful, and graceful.

They were all equally beautiful, each with their own strengths.

"Greetings, Young Master Zongzheng." The eight girls bowed in unison, curiously sizing up the handsome young man before them. His attire seemed to be that of someone from the Central Plains.

"You've mistaken me for someone else, haven't you?" Zhou Qing was stunned.

"You haven't mistaken me for someone else."

At that moment, Wanqi Zongyuan's voice rang out from outside the door.

"From today onwards, your name in the mountain stronghold will be Wanqi Zongzheng. You can take a look at these eight women. If you like them, you can keep them to serve you. There's no rush to marry a wife. You can take a few as concubines first and have a few children before making a decision." Wanqi Zongyuan looked at Zhou Qing with a half-smile.

"Huh?" Zhou Qing looked completely bewildered.

"Concubines?" The eight girls had different expressions, some hesitant to speak, but none daring to interrupt.

“This lad will only be nineteen in two months, and he will already be a Blood Exchange Realm Grand Martial Master. Moreover, his Gu Dao cultivation has reached the first level of perfection. In terms of the purity of his bloodline, he is no less than me. Making him your concubine is not a disservice to you. Of course, if you are not willing, I can find someone else.”

Wanqi Zongyuan said calmly.

"Not even nineteen years old? Blood Exchange Realm? First-order Perfection? Pure Bloodline?" The eight girls looked surprised, and some of them suddenly looked at Zhou Qing with fervent eyes.

Zhou Qing fell silent.

Is this Bingyun Mountain Village or Pansi Cave?

(End of this chapter)