Mixed in the heavens, merits and virtues become immortals

Chapter 312 The heroes of this world are as numerous as carp crossing a river.

"Senior sister!"

Gu Qing quickly stood up and bowed to Lu Xueqi with a hint of flattery. Lu Xueqi was already close by when she heard Gu Qing call out "Senior Sister." She was slightly surprised and realized that the current situation was not quite right.

Inside the cabin, dishes and cups were scattered everywhere, and Shen Xiaoyu, her face covered in grease, had made a mess of the place.

Lu Xueqi stood outside the cabin. Seeing the mess inside, she didn't even bother to take a step. She just stared at Gu Qing on the deck. At that moment, Gu Qing walked lightly out of the cabin and came to Lu Xueqi's side. Although she was surprised that Lu Xueqi would come here, she still conveyed the fact that she was "Ye Fan" in a few words.

Lu Xueqi was an iceberg-like person to begin with, and she showed no emotion upon hearing this, but she understood what was going on.

"This place is called 'Wanrenwang' (meaning 'Ten Thousand People Gather')."

Gu Qing pointed to Wan Renwang and gave a brief introduction. This Ghost King was meticulous and knowledgeable. After Gu Qing came into contact with him, he protected the Dragon Slayer Sword and did not show his sharpness. However, when Lu Xueqi arrived on her sword, the Tianya Sword was revealed to the Ghost King.

Therefore, in order to prevent the Ghost King from targeting Lu Xueqi, Gu Qing must attract hatred.

"This is Mr. Wanrenwang's daughter!"

Gu Qing pointed at Shen Xiaoyu and said in a serious tone, "She's here specifically to entertain guests."

Lu Xueqi's eyes were like frost, seemingly full of disdain, as she looked at Wan Renwang.

"no!"

Shen Xiaoyu quickly denied it.

“Her surname is Shen, and mine is Wan. How could we be father and daughter?”

The Ghost King calmly denied it, but he already harbored the intention to kill Gu Qing.

"It turns out not to be the case."

Gu Qing seemed disappointed, but his gaze remained fixed on the Ghost King. He knew that the Ghost King was a man of great talent and deep cunning, but he was bound to attract hatred regarding Bi Yao.

The Ghost King remained silent.

"Excuse me, but you said all the nearby pleasure boats are for picking up passengers..."

Gu Qing didn't finish her sentence.

The Ghost King's expression turned cold.

"That's true. We've been talking for a while now, and I still don't know if you have a wife."

Gu Qing said casually.

The sudden mention of the lady was like hell to the Ghost King. His expression changed drastically, and he said coldly, "Hero Ye, I invited you here to slay demons and eliminate evil."

As the Ghost King spoke, chaos erupted on the shore. Gu Qing looked over and saw a hairy humanoid monster with an extremely ferocious expression running towards a multi-storied ship.

"The mandrill is coming! Run!"

"Spare your life, spare your life!"

Chaos erupted near the ship as many people jumped into the water upon seeing the mandrill approaching, calling for help.

"Hero Ye!"

The Ghost King hurriedly replied, "The mountain demon has already appeared."

"Senior Sister Lu, quickly subdue him!"

Gu Qing called out immediately.

Lu Xueqi leaped into the air, about to subdue her enemy, when she suddenly felt a chill down her spine. In the reflection of the sword light, she saw Wan Renwang, who had been standing still, suddenly make a move, casually aiming for Gu Qing's crown!

Gu Qing was flustered by this sudden turn of events and seemed completely at a loss for what to do. She managed to sway her body slightly before Wan Ren grabbed her arm bone in one move.

"you you……"

Gu Qing looked terrified as he stared at the arm that the Ghost King had grabbed.

The Ghost King sneered, about to speak, when he suddenly felt an extremely terrifying suction force coming from the place where he reached out and touched it. It pulled at the blood all over his body, his three souls and seven spirits, and at this moment he seemed to see endless evil spirits and felt the huge evil energy about to backfire!

The Ghost King's palm struck the Soul-Devouring Staff squarely, and the power of the Blood-Devouring Bead and the Soul-Seizing Bead backfired simultaneously, catching the Ghost King off guard.

"Qiang!"

The Dragon-Slaying Sword was drawn proudly, its emerald green light appearing before the Ghost King's eyes. As the sword light swirled, two beams of light, one red and one blue, intertwined and filled the sword, slashing directly at the Ghost King!

When Gu Qing killed Bi Xuan, he needed to use the power of both hands to control the extreme yin and yang before he could kill him with a single sword strike. However, after cultivating the Taiji Xuanqing Dao, his control over the power of extreme yin and yang was even higher. When this sword strike came, the Ghost King felt that he had nowhere to dodge and nowhere to retreat!

The Ghost King grabbed Gu Qing's arm with one palm, and Gu Qing drew his sword to counterattack in an instant. At one moment, the Ghost King felt the suction force, and the next moment, the long sword was already horizontal to his neck. Such a clean and decisive counterattack, and in the gap of the Ghost King's own hand, truly caught the Ghost King off guard.

"Shh!"

The longsword slashed through.

At this moment, the Ghost King had already turned into black smoke and retreated, but Gu Qing's long sword slashed through, and a splash of blood splattered on the spot.

At this moment, the two sides widened the distance between them.

Wan Renwang stood with his hands behind his back, his face slightly pale. He glanced at the long sword in Gu Qing's hand and said with a sneer, "It's actually the master of the Dragon Slayer Sword!"

In that instant, Lu Xueqi had returned to Gu Qing's side, holding Tianya in her hand, and stood shoulder to shoulder with Gu Qing.

"Mr. Wan."

Gu Qing said calmly, "The more cunning a person is, the more likely they are to fall into unexpected predicaments and lose all their previous efforts." As he spoke, Gu Qing casually swung his longsword, and the mountain demon on the other side suddenly burst out with fur, revealing a male form.

Gu Qing had already cultivated the Dao Heart Demon Seed Technique, using his spirit to control matter. When the mountain demon appeared near Gu Qing, Gu Qing scanned it with his spirit and immediately knew it was a man in disguise.

Looking at the completely different demeanor of the young people, Wan Renwang recalled Gu Qing's earlier shout of "Don't underestimate a young man's potential," and realized that Gu Qing had been acting.

"If a plan is not kept secret, it will backfire."

Wanrenxing laughed openly, recalling his own scheme... He happened to learn that there was a scholar in Zhushan City who had lost money at the ship and was pretending to be a mountain demon to beg for money. He used this as a pretext to devise a plan to have Pu Fang of Qingyun Sect or Tianyin Temple kill the mountain demon, disturb his mind, and then surround and attack Pu Fang.

Even if you can't kill him, you can still break his Buddhist heart.

However, the plan was discovered.

Wan Renwang looked at Gu Qing, recalling Gu Qing's earlier conversation about his wife and daughter, the murderous aura and bloodlust he felt when he touched Gu Qing's arm, and Gu Qing's stunning sword strike just now. Realizing he had been led astray by Gu Qing, he sighed and said, "Heroes of this world are truly as numerous as carp crossing a river..."

As they were talking, Wanren looked up at the sky and saw a golden light coming from afar, its target being this place. He immediately waved and left.

The current Wanrenwang team is injured and can no longer engage in a fierce battle.

Lu Xueqi looked coldly at Wan Renwang before saying, "That person is about the same level as our Qingyun's leader."

The Ghost King should be stronger than the Chief of Qingyun Sect. Gu Qing watched the Ghost King's departing figure. If he hadn't been deliberately scheming, it wouldn't have been so easy to defeat the Ghost King in one move.

It was also after Gu Qing entered the seventh level of Taiji Xuanqing Dao that he became even more adept at using the technique of shattering the void.

A golden light descended, revealing a tall monk whose gaze was filled with murderous intent as he looked at Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi.

"Greetings, Uncle-Master of Tianyin Temple."

Gu Qing casually cupped his hands in greeting, exchanged a few words with the monk, and led Lu Xueqi to the "mountain demon's" side. Seeing the mountain demon crying incessantly, he asked with a gentle expression, "Seeing you crying like this, are you having a hard time?"

This mandrill was already crying, but now it cried even harder.

The monk from Tianyin Temple, who had initially intended to question him, instead stood silently to the side, watching Gu Qing handle the matter of the mountain demon.

"My surname is Zhang..."

The man surnamed Zhang recounted his story amidst tears. It turned out that Zhang was a scholar who had been betrothed to a woman early on. However, as the Zhang family declined, the Liu family gradually looked down on him. Miss Liu, however, was unwilling to break off the engagement. She made a bet with her family and gave all her private money to the scholar Zhang so that he could propose marriage.

"I was on this ship on the very day the marriage proposal was made."

Zhang Xiucai pointed to the boat and said with grief and indignation, "They are not human. They forced me to gamble with them on the boat and made me owe them IOUs..."

Zhang Xiucai's marriage proposal naturally came to nothing.

Gu Qing said "Oh," and then said, "I heard in Zhushan City that Miss Liu would rather marry a beggar than a scholar. Was she talking about you?"

Scholar Zhang wept bitterly. His debts were all gambling debts, and he had no way to explain himself. He could only watch as Miss Liu married a beggar in a fit of pique.

Gu Qing jumped into the ship and, through a soul-capturing technique, questioned the scholar several times. He then confirmed that what Zhang Xiucai said was true, took the money from the ship, and returned it to Zhang Xiucai.

Scholar Zhang thanked him profusely and left in a hurry.

After dealing with this matter, Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi looked at the monks of Tianyin Temple.

"Amitabha."

The monk's voice was loud and hoarse as he called out, "This humble monk is Pufang."

Upon hearing the name, Lu Xueqi's hand tightened involuntarily. She had also studied the Great Brahma Prajna, and always felt somewhat guilty in front of the monks of Tianyin Temple.

"I have long admired my name."

Gu Qing said in a cold voice, "Back in Grass Temple Village, Puzhi was first poisoned by the Seven-Tailed Centipede. Under those circumstances, if he had fought that person to the death, do you think Puzhi would have survived?"

This monk, Pufang, was closest to Puzhi. After Puzhi died in the novel, Pufang stopped paying much attention to the affairs of Tianyin Temple. When he heard Gu Qing ask this question, Pufang nodded and said, "Under those circumstances, he would have certainly died."

“The monk Puzhi carried the Blood-Devouring Bead for many years, and its malevolent aura was deeply ingrained. I stopped him when he was about to harbor evil thoughts, thus saving a great monk of Tianyin Temple.”

Gu Qing said briefly, "Under these circumstances, how does your Tianyin Temple intend to thank me?"

Should I thank you again?

Looking at Gu Qing, Monk Pufang felt that everything Gu Qing did was reasonable and justified, and that he had saved a great monk of Tianyin Temple. Of course, Tianyin Temple should express its gratitude.

Lu Xueqi glanced at Gu Qing. After learning that the people from Tianyin Temple had gone up the mountain and Gu Qing had gone down, Lu Xueqi felt something was wrong. So she followed the direction Gu Qing had gone down the mountain and flew here on her sword, thinking that when she questioned Gu Qing at Tianyin Temple, she could help him get some leniency. However, she did not expect that after Gu Qing questioned her, it seemed that Tianyin Temple was in the wrong.

"Benefactor Gu, no matter how sweet your words, I still..."

Just as the monk Pu Fang was about to speak, Gu Qing interrupted him with a single sentence.

Did I force him to pass on the secret manual?

Gu Qing demanded.

The monk Pufang simply remained silent, watching Gu Qing quietly. Surrounded by Buddhist light, he had made up his mind to take Gu Qing to Tianyin Temple.

"Actually, I just took the blame for you."

Gu Qing said quietly.

The Ghost King's original intention was to destroy Pu Fang, and Gu Qing was just a small fry. However, Gu Qing, this small fry, broke through the fishing net and caused a huge change.

As Pu Fang listened to the whole story, he remembered Pu Zhi saying that he "suspiced Gu Qing's ability to foresee the future," and he became somewhat flustered.

"Forget it, you can't make the decision anyway."

Gu Qing waved his hand casually and said, "I will visit Tianyin Temple in a while, and at that time, I will definitely give Tianyin Temple an explanation."

There is a blank jade disc on the back mountain of Tianyin Temple, which contains the fourth volume of the Heavenly Book. If Gu Qing wants to complete the Heavenly Book, he cannot break with Tianyin Temple.

Listening to Gu Qing's sharp and logical words, Monk Pufang felt that he could no longer win against Gu Qing in a verbal debate. However, when it came to physical combat, Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi made it difficult for Pufang to subdue her. Furthermore, Gu Qing's previous statement about going to Tianyin Temple made it even harder for Monk Pufang to find a reason to attack.

"Hey……"

Monk Pufang was surprised to find that the man who had come in a huff was actually leaving with a belly full of anger.

Watching the monk Pufang depart in golden light, Gu Qing glanced at Lu Xueqi beside him. Their eyes met, and Gu Qing suddenly reached out to hold Lu Xueqi's hand.

"Snapped!"

Before his hand could reach him, Lu Xueqi slapped it away.

"..."

Gu Qing didn't insist. He and Lu Xueqi returned to Zhushan City side by side and found a restaurant. Just as they were about to rest, they heard a commotion outside and saw an old man carrying a little girl on his back hurrying in. He told the restaurant owner to close as soon as possible.

"Grandpa, are you scared?"

The little girl said to the old man.

Why would your grandfather be afraid?

The old man seemed somewhat embarrassed and angry, and said again, "That guy has been in the martial world for so many years, and this is the first time he's suffered such a loss. Of course he wants revenge!" As he spoke, the old man's gaze fell on Gu Qing and Lu Xueqi. After thinking for a moment, he leaned closer, scrutinized Gu Qing's face, and said after a moment of examination, "Your face is like that of a god descended to earth!"

A god descending to earth?

Seeing the old man and his granddaughter approach, Gu Qing casually picked up the little girl and, looking at her tiny figure, took out his chopsticks and gave her a few peanuts. Then he looked at the old man and asked, "What is the explanation for this appearance of a god descending to earth?"

The old man scrutinized Gu Qing for a long time, then shook his head violently and said, "I must be out of my mind to stare at someone with your face like that..."

Gu Qing knew that the old man in front of him was probably Zhou Yixian, and the little girl in his arms should be Xiao Huan. In the novel "Zhu Xian", this Zhou Yixian was also a capable person, but he rarely showed his abilities.

"Crash."

Gu Qing took out the money bag and placed it in front of the old man, saying, "Please enlighten me, sir."

Zhou Yixian was overjoyed when he saw the money bag and immediately said, "There's nothing to say about your face. You can do whatever you want without any worries. However, if you want to go to the east, it's best to go at night, and you can't use your sword."

(End of this chapter)