After the mind-reading cripple junior sister, the entire sect rose to prominence.

Chapter 142 South Wind Valley

"Alright." Gu Qingxiu nodded.

Just as the group was about to leave, Gu Qingxiu's communication talisman suddenly rang.

She took it out as usual, but when she heard what was inside, her hand almost trembled and she dropped it to the ground!

“Fellow Daoist Gu, Jiuwei just said something to me that I think is necessary to tell you. She said—that the Dream Gu Worm has the scent of Gardenia Bitter Spring.”

Gu Qingxiu was standing in the middle of the Gu family, so her voice was naturally heard by everyone.

"What?" Gu Chen's gaze flashed like lightning as he looked at the communication talisman, his eyes filled with coldness and undisguised killing intent.

“Zhi Ku Quan, how could it be Zhi Ku Quan... Isn’t that the Xiong family’s?” Gu Mingyu asked in astonishment.

Zhi Ku Quan is not a spring; it is a tree that blooms with large white flowers, the fragrance of which is so strong that people within a mile radius will be covered in its scent.

Once you get it, it will take at least ten days to dissipate, and you need to stay outdoors to air out the smell during those ten days. If you stay indoors, it will take even longer.

Gardenia jasminoides is found in many places and is not considered a rare or precious flower. However, coincidentally, the Gu family knows of one family that grows this gardenia jasminoides.

It's the Xiong family!

The Dream Gu Worm carries the scent of Gardenia Bitter Spring. What does this mean?
"The Xiong family... the Geng family, very well." Gu Chen laughed in anger, but there was a sinister and bloodthirsty taste in his laughter. "Please thank the Immortal Sect for me. I will repay this kindness."

At this point, what else could he not understand?
The Xiong family played a clever game, directing their attacks at the Geng family and exacerbating the conflict between the two families. Meanwhile, he sat back and watched the tigers fight, hoping to be the oriole in the back.

No wonder when I came to their door, the man surnamed Geng was first stunned, then laughed at me, and finally said that this matter had nothing to do with their Geng family.

At the time, Gu Chen was angry but also somewhat puzzled, because although the Geng family and the Gu family were at odds, they would not deny what they had done. Moreover, using a Gu worm as a method seemed too ruthless and did not match their usual methods.

Even Geng Lin, who hated Gu Su the most, never used such underhanded tactics back then!

To harm the Hunyuan Beast would mean a complete break with the Gu family, a blood feud that the Gu family would retaliate with reckless abandon. What benefits would the Geng family gain then?
It turns out that someone had been making a fool of them!

"Back to the city!" Gu Chen said, turning and leaving first.

And outside the city.

"Gu Qingxiu replied, thanking us." Liu Feng put away the communication talisman.

After Mo Jiuwei left the city with them, she said one sentence: "This was not done by the Geng family. The Geng family is just taking the blame."

Only then did Liu Feng and the others realize that the Geng family was not responsible for the incident; someone else was behind it.

The matter is quite simple. It's nothing more than some conflicts of interest between several families. The Xiong family wants to shift the blame and make the Geng and Gu families fight amongst themselves so that they can benefit from it.

The Xiong family wasn't afraid of being exposed because they had done it very discreetly and weren't afraid of being caught red-handed.

The Gu family members are protective of their own and short-tempered. They always act directly and are grateful for kindness and vengeful. As long as the Hunyuan Beast dies, the two families will inevitably go to war.

As for the fragrance of the bitter spring, they didn't pay it any mind, because the Dream Gu Worm was really too small, so small that unless someone got close enough to smell it, they couldn't smell even a tiny bit of fragrance.

But how could that be possible? Would anyone actually smell it? Obviously, that wouldn't happen.

"Ah... does that mean the relationship between the two families will ease up a bit?" Ji Qingqing asked curiously. "Speaking of which, the two families don't have any deep-seated hatred, so why did things have to come to this point?"

"I think Geng Lin is the bigger problem. She's the one who didn't trust Gu Su, and she's the one who pushed him away." Hu Jiu sneered. "The Geng family is also short-sighted. If they realized that Gu Su was a treasure and treated him well, forming a powerful alliance, the Geng family might be the heads of a prominent family now." Gu Su single-handedly supported his family and has developed for so many years, and they are still the number one poison master family. That shows how powerful they are.

The Geng family is also quite good; several geniuses have emerged from their descendants, allowing the family to continue.

If the two companies were one entity, it's unimaginable how outstanding they would be.

“That’s not how it works,” Du Yue disagreed. “Although we don’t know some of the inside story, it’s not hard to guess from Gu Su’s personality that he must have been cold and taciturn after marriage and his relationship with Geng Lin was not very good. That’s why Geng Lin was willing to listen to other people’s opinions. It’s clear that there were already problems between the couple.”

Du Yue is a woman, so she is more emotionally sensitive and has also experienced a failed relationship, which makes her more able to understand Geng Lin's thoughts.

The reason Geng Lin was so devastated after Gu Su remarried was simply because she still loved him.

In comparison, Gu Su definitely treated her less. She didn't feel any care, and after hearing others say that Gu Su married her just to climb the social ladder by marrying into the Geng family, she would naturally start to believe it over time.

If she believes it, she will be heartbroken, and she will argue with Gu Su because of it. Gu Su is not good at speaking and explaining, after all, she only knew how to get along with monkeys before... so it is unlikely that she can comfort her.

Therefore, the problems between the two became increasingly significant, eventually leading to them growing apart and turning against each other.

[Tsk, matters of the heart are indeed troublesome; it's hard to tell who's right and who's wrong.]

Isn't being alone better than anything else? With family, crystals, and cultivation, I'm the greatest in the world, and all my worries disappear.

Wise people don't fall in love. I want to live a carefree life alone, hehe.

Mo Jiuwei grinned and smiled in Chen Lan's arms.

"By the way, where are we going?" Liu Feng asked them. "Are we going back to the sect?"

"No!" Mo Jiuwei sprang to her feet, nearly falling out of Chen Lan's arms. "South Wind Valley!"

She pointed south.

"Huh? Go to South Wind Valley? Why?" Yi Xingyun asked.

"There's something good."

Liu Feng and the others exchanged glances, then immediately took out their flying boats and headed towards South Wind Valley.

Although I don't know what it is, since Jiuwei has asked, I naturally have to go.

At this moment, in a corner of South Wind Valley.

The Bu Shen clan is a fallen clan. It was once glorious tens of thousands of years ago, but after internal divisions, only a mere twenty people remained in the main line.

Now, these twenty people are also facing annihilation.

The Diviner tribe lived in thatched huts surrounded by dense forests.

"What should we do, Uncle? Today is the last day. Will those people really burn down our tribe?"

A thin, dark-skinned boy with disheveled hair looked up at the person in front of him with tearful eyes.

He wore a woven grass wreath on his head and clothes made of leaves.

It may sound a bit rough and simple, but it is not. Apart from the fact that the material is leaves, its weaving technique is extremely exquisite. At first glance, it looks like the leaves are a whole piece growing together.