Put away your magical powers now!.

Chapter 312 [Gu Xiaoniang's Savior?]

Chapter 306 [Gu Xiaoniang's Savior?]

"You... are Gu Tongbing!"

Chen Yan had already walked to the side of the wooden masked man, half-knelt down, and whispered the last two sentences, his mouth almost touching the man's ear.

The pupils of the wooden-masked man suddenly contracted!

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The eldest branch of the Gu family has four children in this generation, all of whom have three-character names.

After the surname Gu, the second character of the given name follows the order of gold, silver, copper, and iron. The third character follows the order of 甲, 乙, 丙, and 丁.

The eldest brother is Gu Jinjia, the second brother is Gu Yinyi, the third brother is Gu Tongbing, and the fourth sister is Gu Qingyi, whose real name is Gu Tieding.

Gu Tongbing had been sitting in the last row of private boxes at the underground auction house in the City of No Return that day. There were even voices coming from the middle of the box, and he had spoken to the ghost clan cavewoman standing on the platform. At that time, Chen Yan was quite surprised to encounter a member of the Gu family here, and Gu Tongbing was Gu Qingyi's third brother.

However, he naturally wouldn't acknowledge him, because his current identity was Zhao Shanhe, an outer disciple of the Heavenly Demon Yin Yang Joyful Union Sect.

Not Wang Chuyi, the youngest brother in Gu Jinjia's brotherhood—wait, how low was he ranked in the brotherhood again? Damn it, there are more heroes in the brotherhood than the 108 heroes of Liangshan Marsh. It's been a while since I've been back, and I almost forgot.

At the same time, he was not Chen Yan, the legitimate son of Gu Qingyi in the real world—Chen Yan, the legitimate son of Gu Qingyi, could not possibly come to the realm.

Therefore, logically and emotionally, Zhao Shanhe, a disciple of the Hehuan Sect, had no reason to actively approach the eldest son of the Gu family, a top-tier wealthy family in the realm, and try to get close to him at the auction.

Calling someone "brother" is wrong, and calling them "uncle" is even more wrong.

Gu Tongbing remained in the private room the entire time without showing his face, but Chen Yan remembered Gu Tongbing's voice.

Later, in these mountains, they encountered a wooden-masked man who was called "the Venerable One".

At first, this guy used magic to cover his real voice, and his voice was always hoarse with a strange sharpness, like a sharp weapon scraping across a plate.

However, after he was poisoned and his energy dissipated, his concealing magic failed, and when he spoke again, he involuntarily revealed his true voice, which allowed Chen Yan to recognize him!
The problem is, once you recognize someone, then...

It's going to be difficult to kill.

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As for their relationship, from Gu Jinjia's perspective, Gu Jinjia treated Chen Yan extremely well, and the two were sworn brothers, with Gu Jinjia being Chen Yan's elder brother.

If we consider Gu Qingyi's perspective, their relationship is even closer. Gu Qingyi treated Chen Yan extremely well, and Chen Yan survived several dangerous situations thanks to the "Motherly Love as Solid as a Mountain" talisman given to him by Gu Qingyi. Without Gu Qingyi, Chen Yan would have died many times over. Moreover, during the time they spent together, their relationship and feelings for each other were very good.

In Chen Yan's heart, this Gu Xiaoniang already held a position similar to that of family.

How could he possibly kill Gu Jinjia's younger brother and Gu Qingyi's older brother with his own hands?

Let alone killing him with his own hands, even just watching him die without helping him—Chen Yan honestly couldn't bring himself to do it.

Since we can't just watch him die, we have no choice but to try and save him.

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Gu Tongbing took a breath and forced a smile. Although he was lying on the ground, he struggled for a moment: "You...recognized me."

"..." Chen Yan looked down at Gu Tongbing indifferently.

Should I call him Third Brother Gu? Or Third Uncle?
Putting that aside, firstly, Chen Yan definitely doesn't like Gu Tongbing.

No one would have a good impression of someone who tries to kill them to silence them right away.

Moreover, Chen Yan's impression of Gu Tongbing was that he was insidious, cunning, ruthless, and full of danger.

"You should make a vow first," Chen Yan suddenly said.

Gu Tongbing was taken aback, and a glint of light immediately flashed in his eyes.

He took a deep breath, and after catching his breath, he shakily struggled to raise his fingers. His facial muscles were trembling, but he suddenly bit his lip hard, drawing blood, and used the pain to suppress the twitching of his facial muscles.

With a trembling voice, Gu Tongbing swore an oath.

"I, Gu Tongbing, swear to the heavens that I have absolutely no... any... feelings towards you or that young master of the Yun family..."

"Wait a minute," Chen Yan said coldly, "Add Lao Liang too."

Gu Tongbing raised his eyelids, glanced at Chen Yan, nodded, and took another breath before speaking:
"...By the Heavenly Dao above...I, Gu Tongbing...will never again harm you, the young master of the Yun family, or Mr. Liang Gui. I will not pursue this matter, nor will I obstruct it, nor will I harbor the slightest intention to harm you. If I violate this, may I be forbidden from peering into the Heavenly Dao, may the Heavenly Dao despise me, Gu Tongbing, may my inner demons grow rampant, and may my cultivation be completely destroyed!"

As a faint wisp of primordial energy burst forth from his fingertips and then dissipated, Chen Yan knew that the oath to Heaven had been made.

"Is there anything else I need to add?" Gu Tongbing said in a low voice, "My vital energy has almost completely dissipated. If you still want me to make any oaths, I can't activate my vital energy to make a few oaths to the Heavenly Dao."

Chen Yan nodded and said calmly, "Alright, you've captured Lao Liang, so release him first."

Gu Tongbing sighed: "It's not that I'm unwilling to release him, but Liang Gui's cultivation is profound. It took me some effort to defeat him, and I even used a special restriction. Right now, I'm heavily poisoned, and all my vital energy has dissipated, so I can't break the restriction to release him. But don't worry, since I made an oath, I will definitely not break it. Save me, and once I recover a bit, I will naturally release him."

Chen Yan thought for a moment and judged that Gu Tongbing was probably not lying to him, so he nodded and said, "Now, tell me how to save your life."

Gu Tongbing said, "Take off my outer robe. These sleeves of mine are magical artifacts, called 'Universe in the Sleeve.' They are a magical treasure containing the pills I carry, including my own homemade antidote pills..."

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Yan had already pulled him over, reached out and untied the dark black robe on Gu Tongbing's body, quickly peeled it off, and held it in his hands to examine it carefully.

The robe was of extraordinary quality, and the sleeves were indeed specially made. On the fabric, one could vaguely see silk threads moving about, and it was unknown what special material it was woven from.

After Gu Tongbing taught Chen Yan a magic incantation, he could activate "The Universe in the Sleeve".

Chen Yan performed the incantation, and after reciting it, he flicked his sleeve, and a wisp of Yuan Qi circulated, instantly activating the magic weapon!

In an instant, all the various items stored within this magical artifact were covered by Chen Yan's divine sense.

"You... you certainly have a lot of wealth." Chen Yan couldn't help but exhale after scanning you with his divine sense.

As expected of the eldest son of a top-tier aristocratic family in the realm, the ultimate rich second generation.

His "hidden universe" contained at least a dozen magical artifacts! Three or four of them were damaged, while the rest were intact.

At a glance, two of them were actually high-grade magic artifacts!
In addition, there were over 100,000 jade coins and dozens of bottles of elixirs.

There were several special magical restrictions among them, seemingly tightly enveloping several things. However, the spells were clearly of a high level, and Chen Yan could not see through them.

Following Gu Tongbing's instructions, Chen Yan selected a bottle from among the dozens of bottles of pills. The bottle was clearly made of high-grade magic artifact materials and was engraved with dark patterns. The mouth of the bottle even carried a trace of magical restriction. It was a pill bottle for storing spiritual herbs. Putting aside everything else, this pill bottle alone was a beginner-level magic artifact.

The bottle contained an antidote pill, concocted by Gu Tongbing himself. Chen Yan wasn't surprised that this guy could refine pills, because he also had a pill-refining furnace in his "Sleeve Universe," though its grade was higher than the octagonal furnace Chen Yan had. Opening the bottle released a lingering medicinal aroma. Upon inhaling, a cool, refreshing feeling instantly filled his lungs, making him feel lighter.

Although Chen Yan hadn't practiced alchemy much, he had spent some time at the Heavenly Demon Yin Yang Joyful Union Sect and had identified some medicinal herbs. From this deciphering pill, he could smell two familiar medicinal herbs, both of which were the types of herbs used for deciphering.

As for other herbs, he, a complete novice in alchemy, couldn't recognize them.

Tilting the medicine bottle, a round pill the size of a broad bean was poured out. The pill was reddish-brown and even faintly emitted a medicinal aura.

"If you eat this, will you be able to decipher it?" Chen Yan asked, holding the pill in his hand.

Gu Tongbing shook his head with a wry smile: "It's not that easy."

The parasitic spider's venom directly damages a cultivator's consciousness and intelligence. In addition, since it has eaten the fruit of the Glazed Purple Vine, the venom is several times stronger, and there are also some inexplicable changes.

This antidote pill is something I made myself; it can only be used in emergencies to temporarily alleviate the poisoning and save my life.

I calculated that after taking one pill, it would seal my soul from the corrosive effects of the toxins. After that, I would take one pill every seven days to prevent the toxins from taking effect. The medicinal properties of this pill could keep me alive for up to three months.

Once March was over, my elixir could no longer control the parasitic spider's venom.

Within three months, I need to return and find suitable rare spiritual plants and divine medicines to take. I also need to ask a great cultivator to help me expel the toxins; only then can I be truly detoxified.

He paused for a moment and said with a wry smile, "Even so, during that time my vital energy was completely depleted, and like an ordinary person, I couldn't use any magic power. After I was fortunate enough to decipher it, I still had to go into seclusion, which would take at least several months, or at most several years, to slowly recover my cultivation."

Chen Yan smiled and looked at Gu Tongbing: "Are you telling the truth?"

"Of course it's true."

“Make a solemn oath to Heaven, saying that you have never lied to me.”

"..." Gu Tongbing looked at Chen Yan helplessly, rolled his eyes, and shook his head, saying, "You're being too cautious."

“You’re treacherous and ruthless. You can’t be too careful with someone like you.” Chen Yan said coldly, “Will you swear an oath? If you don’t, I’ll throw this pill into the water.”

Helpless, Gu Tongbing could only muster all his strength and squeeze out the last bit of his vital energy. He immediately made a vow to Heaven, promising that he would not deceive Chen Yan and would never tell him a lie.

Chen Yan was relieved and put the antidote pill into Gu Tongbing's mouth.

As soon as the pill entered his mouth, Gu Tongbing breathed a long sigh of relief and swallowed it with a gulp.

Seeing him exhale a long breath, Chen Yan sneered, "So you're afraid of death too."

"Nonsense, who's afraid of death?" Gu Tongbing shook his head: "I'm just a bit ruthless, not that I'm not afraid of death. I have important things to do, how could I be willing to die so easily?"

After saying that, he shut his mouth and struggled to sit up from the ground—he was really too weak, and he tried to do such a simple thing three times without success. In the end, Chen Yan couldn't bear to see him like that and reached out to help him up.

Gu Tongbing sat on the ground, but adopted a strange meditation posture, sitting cross-legged with his hands on his knees, except that his left palm was facing up and his right palm was facing down.

Before long, the purple aura on his face, which was already faintly tinged with purple, seemed to fade a bit, and when he opened his eyes, even the purple in his eyes had dissipated considerably.

He was visibly better, and his breathing was no longer as weak as before.

It's clear that his life is temporarily hanging by a thread.

Although his life was saved, his cultivation was completely dissipated, leaving him extremely weak.

While Gu Tongbing was channeling his energy, Chen Yan wasn't idle either. He first ran to the mountain wall, stared at the glazed purple vine for a while, then took out a knife from his storage jade pendant, climbed up the mountain wall, inserted it into the root, and dug out the root of the vine bit by bit. Then he put the whole thing into his storage jade pendant.

After he finished doing all that, he turned around and saw Gu Tongbing sitting on the ground staring at him with wide eyes.

Chen Yan frowned: "What are you looking at? This wisteria is naturally mine."

"...I didn't intend to compete with you, and I can't compete with you now anyway." Gu Tongbing shook his head: "I just think you're wasting such a precious resource. Even if such a rare treasure is unearthed, it should be sealed with a magical artifact that can preserve its spiritual energy before being stored."

Where else can you just casually toss something into a storage artifact like that?

Chen Yan's heart stirred, so he went over and picked up Gu Tongbing's "Sleeve Universe" and searched inside. Sure enough, he found a jade box.

With a quick glance, he recognized it as a superior container for storing spiritual plants, imbued with spells that sealed away spiritual energy.

Chen Yan accepted it without hesitation, took out the wisteria, put it back into the jade box, and then put it into his storage jade pendant.

After doing all this, Chen Yan walked up to Gu Tongbing and, with a wave of his hand, summoned those powerful magically restricted objects from his "Sleeve Universe".

These beings, shrouded in layers of powerful magical restrictions, included one that resembled a humanoid silhouette. After glancing at it, Chen Yan frowned and said, "This... could it be Old Liang?"

Gu Tongbing nodded: "Of course it was him. I didn't want to kill him, so after subduing him, I spared his life."

Chen Yan asked with slight curiosity, "Why not kill them?"

He had personally witnessed Gu Tongbing's ruthless methods; he was taciturn and would kill even his own subordinates who made mistakes.

How could someone with such a temperament be so soft-hearted towards an outsider like Lao Liang?
Gu Tongbing said calmly, "This Liang Gui is a descendant of the Eagle Falcon lineage. After the entire clan was wiped out, the remaining descendants were protected by the Heavenly Dao and left with some bloodline. Killing him is inauspicious and goes against the Heavenly Dao."

Besides, he and I have a connection that's somewhat distant.

Before Chen Yan could ask, Gu Tongbing spoke up: "When the Red Tide broke out, the Sendai summoned cultivators from all departments to serve at the Zhenyutai. When the summons came to the Black Feather Lark Department, Liang Gui took the initiative to fill the quota and served at the Zhenyutai for several years."

My fourth sister, Gu Qingyi... well, you've probably heard of her name before..."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yan thought to himself, "I've heard this name more than once; I know it all too well."

My stepmother!

"My fourth sister, Gu Qingyi, was also serving at the Zhenyutai at the time. After she returned to the family after making meritorious contributions, she talked about the battle at Zhenyutai. She mentioned a demon cultivator named Liang Gui who fought alongside her and even helped my fourth sister once on the battlefield. My fourth sister was very grateful and appreciative of him."

"Given the favor my fourth sister owes me, I don't want to kill him unless absolutely necessary."

Old Liang, did you save Gu Xiaoniang?

Chen Yan was also surprised.

(End of this chapter)