God of Pets

Chapter 412 Ancient Well Village

I don't know how long we walked, but then a ray of light appeared ahead.

Chen Guan crawled out from underground and realized that he had left an ancient well.

Looking around, all I saw were old, dilapidated houses, not very big, all made of piled stones.

The ground was also paved with stones. Perhaps due to the wear and tear of time and the passage of people, the surface was very smooth, but not flat.

Chen Guan led Fu Tianji on a tour of the village. The village was quite large, with several hundred households, but every household had its doors tightly shut, and they didn't see a single person.

The entire village was deathly silent, devoid of any sign of life.

Outside the village stretched an endless plain, and for hundreds of miles there was nothing to obstruct the view.

Chen Guan used the Pure Yang Sword Immortal technique to fly into the air and looked around; there were indeed no other villages nearby.

Back in the village, Chen Guan walked to the ancestral hall at the village entrance, where he found a village monument.

"Gujing Village." Chen Guan finally learned the name of the village, but he didn't know what the village had to do with the inheritance of the Netherworld Emperor.

The inscription on the village monument explains the origin of the village.

In most places, the village comes first and then the well, but in this village, the ancient well came first, and then the village came into being.

One year, a severe drought struck. The earth was parched and cracked, rivers dried up, and dry soil was found at the bottom of wells.

Not to mention food, even drinking water is nowhere to be found.

When entire villages were dying of thirst, a young man who went out of the village in search of water found this ancient well that still had water.

The young man ran back to his village and brought the whole village here. They built a village around the ancient well, which allowed everyone to survive, and thus the village of Gujing (Ancient Well Village) came into being.

This ancient well is quite magical; no matter how dry other places become, the water in the ancient well has never been seen to be at its bottom.

The people of Gujing Village used water from the ancient well to irrigate their vegetables, which barely allowed them to survive the three-year drought.

The village behind the well draws water from the ancient well for farming. While other places suffer from a three-year drought and have no crops, the village of Gujing has had bumper harvests year after year.

Chen Guan watched for a long time, feeling somewhat puzzled. What could such a place have to do with the Netherworld Emperor?

"Could it be that the Netherworld Emperor was a villager in this village before? Or is he the young man who found the ancient well?" Chen Guan wondered to himself.

"Since the ancient well has never run dry, how come it's dried up now? There's not a single person in this village, and there's no sign of life. Is it because the ancient well was over-extracted and eventually dried up, so the villagers moved away?" As Chen Guan was pondering this, he felt someone's gaze fall on him.

Turning my head, I saw the man in armor walking towards me.

"Any discoveries?" Hu Quan walked closer to Chen Guan, his gaze also falling on the village monument, and muttered to himself, "Gujing Village."

"Aside from the origin of the village, nothing else was found." Chen Guan was surprised, not expecting that this person could have survived the ghostly attacks in the darkness to get here.

There were many ghosts, and Chen Guan was able to get out of the ancient well thanks to the divine power of the round stool.

Unfortunately, the round stool was only useful when encountering ghosts; otherwise, it was nothing special, except that it was a bit heavy—just an ordinary wooden stool.

“No discovery is perhaps the best discovery,” Hu Quan said.

"Why?" Chen Guan looked at Hu Quan, puzzled.

“Because…” Hu Quan said two words, then suddenly drew his sword and slashed at Chen Guan.

His blade was swift, imbued with an invisible aura. But Chen Guan retreated even faster, taking a step forward to dodge Hu Quan's strike.

"Why do you want to kill me?" Chen Guan didn't retaliate directly, but instead looked at Hu Quan and asked.

"Because you deserve to die." Hu Quan didn't explain, gripped the hilt of his knife with both hands, assumed an attack stance, and exuded a terrifying aura.

Having failed in his sneak attack, he was now going to use his true strength to kill Chen Guan.

For both public and private reasons, Hu Quan could not allow Chen Guan to live.

Officially, he needed to go back and explain to the section chief; personally, with Chen Guan dead, there would be one less person to compete with him for the inheritance of the Netherworld Emperor.

Hu Quan gripped the sword with both hands, and when he slashed out again, the blade produced a sound like wind and thunder.

Chen Guan did not confront him head-on, but instead used the One Night Step in conjunction with the rhythm of martial arts to dodge Hu Quan's attack, which was like wind and thunder.

Hu Quan frowned slightly. His Wind and Thunder Moon Gazing Blade Technique was known for its speed and ferocity; it could be described as both fast and ruthless.

Even level 30 cultivators of the same level as him would generally find it difficult to dodge. Chen Guan, a second-awakening cultivator, was able to dodge his Wind and Thunder Moon Gazing Blade Technique by relying on his movement skills. Such speed and ability are rare even among third-awakening cultivators.

"Let's see how many times you can use this secret technique." Hu Quan still didn't stop. He could tell that the acceleration technique Chen Guan was using must consume a lot of energy, so he probably couldn't use it many times.

However, as Hu Quan continued to slash, Chen Guan kept using his secret techniques to dodge, showing no signs of excessive energy depletion.

On the contrary, Hu Quan himself was already consuming a lot of his vital energy just by maintaining the Wind and Thunder Moon Gazing Blade Technique, and he was almost unable to hold on.

"A talent for rapid energy recovery, indeed something special." The Inspection Department has detailed information on Chen Guan, so they naturally know about the talent Chen Guan fabricated.

"People from the Inspection Department?" Chen asked, watching Hu Quan, who had stopped attacking.

More than killing Hu Quan, Chen Guan wanted to hear some information from Hu Quan.

"You don't need to know my background." Hu Quan was tight-lipped, refusing to reveal a single word even though he considered Chen Guan a dead man.

"Then we'll have no choice but to resort to torture to extract a confession," Chen Guan said thoughtfully.

Hu Quan seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world: "Chen Guan, do you think you can compete with me just by relying on your movement techniques and your talent for quickly recovering your energy? You're too naive."

As he spoke, Hu Quan sheathed his knife, cracked his knives, and suddenly threw a punch at Chen Guan.

This was a Sun God Fist. Chen Guan felt as if a golden sun was rising before his eyes. Even though his body was still some distance away from the sun, he felt a wave of heat coming towards him, as if he had entered an oven or a furnace.

The high temperature generated by the Sun God Fist has a certain range. Even if it misses Chen Guan, the high temperature generated by the Sun God Fist alone can injure or even kill him.

After all, Chen Guan was only a second-level awakening cultivator. Hu Quan, who had mastered the secret techniques that made up the Sun God Fist to level 30, did not believe that Chen Guan's level 20 body could withstand the high temperature generated by the Sun God Fist.

Having risen to a higher social class, Hu Quan believed he had an overwhelming advantage over Chen Guan.

Facing Hu Quan's Sun God Fist, Chen Guan did not dodge but met it with a palm strike.

He wouldn't listen to reason, so Chen Guan decided to take him down first and then question him properly.

When Hu Quan saw Chen Guan actually meet his attack with a palm strike, he felt that Chen Guan was courting death.

He saw that Chen Guan's palm was emanating a cold aura, which meant that he must have used some kind of Yin-cold palm technique to counter his Sun God Fist.

However, his Sun God Fist is more than 90% similar to the original Sun God Fist. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the real Sun God Fist. How can it be compared to a cold palm technique?

(End of this chapter)