In Emei, start by obtaining golden attributes.

Chapter 286 New Gold Entries
Gu Shaoan knew far more about the Azure Dragon Society than Sun Baifa did.

They were also aware of the situation of the Green Dragon Society.

Even Wudang and Shaolin would have difficulty dealing with the Azure Dragon Society unless they joined forces.

Once they learned about the situation of the Azure Dragon Society's leader, both factions had no choice but to back down.

Therefore, unless Gu Shaoan has the confidence and strength to deal with a Celestial Realm martial artist, and reaches a cooperation agreement with Master Zhang to join forces, it will be difficult to defeat him.

Otherwise, Gu Shaoan would not have made enemies with the Azure Dragon Society beforehand unless absolutely necessary.

In life, one cannot rely solely on a surge of courage.

When strength cannot control everything, all one can do is accumulate strength.

As Gu Shaoan once told Zhou Zhiruo, small forces can be combined to create a great force.

However, Gu Shaoan did not discuss the deeper aspects of the matter with Zhou Zhiruo and Yang Yan.

After offering a few words of comfort to Zhou Zhiruo and Yang Yan, Gu Shaoan returned to the house.

The room had already been cleaned by Zhou Zhiruo and Yang Yan, and new bedding had been put in place.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Gu Shaoan recalled his previous battle with Shangguan Jin Hong and couldn't help but sigh at the unpredictability of life.

Among the top masters of the time, Gu Shaoan had fought against Gu Santong, Zhu Wushi, Sun Baifa, and the Demon Master Pang Ban.

However, Gu Shaoan had never felt that there was anything wrong with his state of mind before.

Unexpectedly, today's battle with Shangguan Jin Hong led to a breakthrough in Gu Shaoan's state of mind.

I truly began to have the mindset and understanding of a strong person.

After thinking about it for a while, Gu Shaoan realized the reason.

Although Gu Santong had reached the Condensing Yuan to Form Gang realm, he had been imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison of the Dragon Guardian Manor for over twenty years, so his strength was only considered above average among first-rate masters.

In his battles with Sun Baifa, Gu Shaoan was essentially just sparring, and he did not gain any advantage in either of the two encounters.

When facing the Demon Master Pang Ban and the Iron-Blooded Marquis Zhu Wushi, Gu Shaoan always believed that his victory was due to trickery.

All of this kept Gu Shaoan in the same cautious, step-by-step state of mind as before.

But today, when facing Shangguan Jin Hong, who had not yet reached the state of unity between man and nature, Gu Shaoan belatedly realized that he was now among the top-tier masters.

With all his trump cards and profound foundation, the only thing Gu Shaoan is worried about right now is Zhu Wushi's "Absorption Technique".

If it were a martial artist like Shangguan Jin Hong, who could take on two or even three opponents at once, Gu Shaoan was confident that he could hold his own.

The change in his state of mind also altered the artistic conception of Gu Shaoan's "Immortal Touching the Head," to the point that the artistic conception of "Immortal Touching the Head" alone was enough to influence the surrounding forces of heaven and earth and integrate them into his moves.

Their strength has increased even further.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Shaoan brought up the achievement points panel.

Defeating Shangguan Jin Hong previously brought Gu Shaoan another 1000 achievement points.

Based on the achievement points Gu Shaoan has accumulated during this period, his current number of achievement points has reached "4032".

"Hopefully, I'll be able to draw something good!"

With that thought in mind, Gu Shaoan summoned the lottery wheel.

As his achievement points dwindled to double digits, the achievement point roulette wheel in front of Gu Shaoan began to spin rapidly.

A few breaths later, when the roulette wheel stopped spinning, four notification messages popped up in front of Gu Shaoan.

[Drawn an 8-year power-up card (Excellent).]

[Received 1 Heavenly Fragrance Bean.]

Congratulations to the player for drawing the Affix Forge.

Congratulations to the player for drawing 20 inventory slots.

Looking at the four notification messages in front of him, Gu Shaoan's gaze fixed on the last one, and his eyes flashed.

"It wasn't easy! I finally managed to pull this thing out."

As the name suggests, the spatial backpack is a special spatial backpack that Gu Shaoan can obtain.

Unlike the system backpack, once Gu Shaoan takes out the items he obtained from the system lottery from the system backpack, he cannot put them back into the backpack.

The space backpack allows Gu Shaoan to store or retrieve items at any time.

Originally, the space storage backpack should have been the easiest thing to win in a lottery, but for ten years, it seemed to have been out of reach of Gu Shaoan, and it has only appeared now.

Then, a thought flashed through Gu Shaoan's mind.

[Storage backpack successfully bound.]

The moment the notification appeared, Gu Shaoan had a sudden thought and immediately sensed some new storage space.

Upon hearing this, Gu Shaoan's mind raced, and the black ink ring on his left thumb vanished instantly.

But in the next instant, the Xuanmo thumb ring reappeared in Gu Shaoan's hand.

"It's much more convenient now that I don't have to carry so many medicine bottles with me when I go out."

Having acquired medical skills, Gu Shaoan had refined quite a few pills over the years.

You should also carry it with you when you go out to prevent any unforeseen circumstances.

But carrying too much stuff can be inconvenient.

Moreover, in the world, any act of poisoning requires obtaining the poison first before it can be used.

Therefore, anyone who intends to poison someone will make some subtle moves before they actually do it.

Unless one cultivates some special poison techniques that allow them to store toxins in their body in advance.

With the storage backpack, Gu Shaoan could instantly have the medicine appear in his hands whenever he needed it.

Combined with the poison concocted by Gu Shaoan, it can be done completely silently.

In special circumstances, it can definitely be used as a trump card.

Otherwise, Gu Shaoan wouldn't have been so obsessed with this spatial storage backpack.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Shaoan extracted the power card.

As soon as the power within the power card appeared in Gu Shaoan's body, the internal energy within him surged toward this pure energy like a tidal wave.

An hour later, as all the power accumulated over the past eight years was refined, purified, and its essence was integrated into Gu Shaoan's own origin, Gu Shaoan's own power had grown to ninety years.

Feeling the increase in his power, Gu Shaoan couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

"Given the current situation, as long as I'm lucky, if I draw the power card twice more, my power level might reach a hundred years."

Internal strength is the foundation of a martial artist.

Gu Shaoan's foundation is profound, far beyond what ordinary people can imagine.

However, it is precisely because of his profound foundation that after Gu Shaoan's body of Qi condenses into a "seed of Qi", it will take even longer for the seed of Qi to nurture a Qi flower.

The only way to shorten this process is for Gu Shaoan to continuously improve his skills.

Therefore, whether in the past or present, for Gu Shaoan, more skill is always better; he can only feel that he has too little, not too much.

After calming the internal energy circulating within his body, Gu Shaoan focused his attention on the new things he had extracted.

"The melting pot of terms".

Over the past decade, Gu Shaoan has also sporadically extracted some low-level terms.

They're basically just things that are better than nothing, but not very useful.

The "Term Forge" allows Gu Shaoan to put all the useless terms into the forge and generate a high-level term.

The level of the newly generated entry depends on the level and quantity of the entries that Gu Shaoan puts into the furnace.

With a thought, a phantom image of a furnace popped up in front of Gu Shaoan. Immediately afterward, a notification box appeared.

Please select the terms you wish to add to the furnace.

Faced with the pop-up prompt, Gu Shaoan saved only the most important entries at present, and threw all the other low-level entries into the furnace.

Ten breaths later, as the illusory image of the furnace dissipated, a new notification popped up in front of him.

[New entry generated successfully, insightful and detailed (Gold)]

Looking at the new entry, Gu Shaoan glanced at it slightly.

However, before Gu Shaoan could figure out the effects of the new term...

A cool energy suddenly entered Gu Shaoan's mind and then flowed towards his eyes.

In an instant, Gu Shaoan felt as if his eyes were being soaked in cool well water.

It has an indescribable feeling of comfort.

The cool sensation gradually dissipated after about 15 minutes.

When Gu Shaoan opened his eyes again, he felt that his eyesight had suddenly improved a lot.

Even with only one lantern lit inside, Gu Shaoan could clearly see a thin crack in the ground three zhang away.

After reviewing the information, Gu Shaoan also learned about the effects of the new term.

Besides improving one's own eyesight, the new entry has another effect.

In the state of introspection, one can more accurately perceive the flow of meridians, vital energy, spiritual power, and even blood and qi within one's body.

At first glance, its effects may seem mediocre.

However, when Gu Shaoan learned about the effect of the "Insightful" entry, his eyes lit up.

It should be noted that Gu Shaoan's current internal energy cultivation level has reached the level of condensing primordial energy into qi.

The next step is to open up the middle and upper dantian.

This "perceptive insight" can enhance Gu Shaoan's perception of his own body, which means it can help Gu Shaoan open up the middle and upper dantian more quickly.

"Not bad!"

After confirming the effect of the new term, Gu Shaoan nodded slightly, a smile playing on his lips.

Then, taking advantage of having just obtained the new term "Insightful," Gu Shaoan focused his mind on his body, circulating his internal energy to gather in the hidden meridians within his middle dantian.

The next day, at dawn. As the first light of day broke, before the bustle of Baijiang Prefecture could begin, Gu Shaoan finished his light breakfast and left the backyard of the Yang Family Escort Agency alone, quietly merging into the newly awakened crowds of people in the streets.

It was noon.

The sun was blazing, and the streets were bustling with people, creating a lively atmosphere.

The guards at the entrance of Yang Family Escort Agency were yawning listlessly when they caught a glimpse of a familiar figure turning around the street corner. They immediately perked up: "Young Master Gu is back. Eh?"

He stopped mid-sentence as he saw several heavy wheelbarrows following behind Gu Shaoan.

The people pushing the carts were all employees of well-known labor shops in the city. They were careful and walked with steady steps, indicating that the items on the carts were quite heavy.

Gu Shaoan, still dressed in a clean blue robe, led the way alone, a stark contrast to the heavy unicycle caravan behind him.

The rickshaw caravan slowly came to a stop in front of the security company's gate.

Gu Shaoan nodded slightly to the porters on duty, then directed the laborers: "Please, everyone, carefully carry these boxes into the front hall."

The noise inside the door quickly attracted other people.

First, a few porters gathered around to watch the commotion, and then several bodyguards arrived after hearing the commotion. Everyone stared intently as the porters, with heavy hearts, carried one red lacquered, carved wooden box after another into the spacious front hall.

The box looked heavy, and it made a dull thud when it landed on the floor, stirring up fine dust that danced in the light.

More than a dozen large boxes were brought in, almost filling the open space in the center of the front hall.

When the last box landed, Gu Shaoan bowed to the porters to express his gratitude, paid them their fare, and saw them off. Then, he gently patted the thick layer of dust off the lid of the nearest box.

With a "click," the brass clasp came undone.

Gu Shaoan opened the box.

In an instant, a series of low gasps filled the front hall!

Sunlight streamed in through the doors and windows, illuminating the inside of the box with a golden and silvery glow.

The box was mostly filled with neatly arranged gold and silver ingots, of excellent quality, their weight a testament to wealth and status.

Gu Shaoan did not stop, and opened several more boxes next to him.

One box contained dazzling jewelry: a phoenix hairpin adorned with red gold and kingfisher feathers, a double-butterfly gold hairpin inlaid with round pearls the size of a thumb, a set of jadeite bracelets, and a delicate and warm mutton fat jade pendant. Each piece was exquisitely crafted and far from being ordinary.

Opening another box revealed dazzling silks and satins.

The next few boxes contained heavy gifts of wedding cakes, wedding wine, premium new tea, and selected dried fruits, all beautifully and meticulously packaged, exuding a sense of solemnity.

The few slightly smaller boxes closest to the head of the table contained a pair of small, exquisite gold ingots, symbolizing "a house full of gold and jade."

A pair of silver ingots cast with a double lotus pattern, symbolizing "harmony and union in marriage".

A set of brass-made dressing cases symbolizes "a bright future".

A set of finely polished iron cookware symbolizes "a prosperous life and a solid foundation for the family".

The value of these betrothal gifts was secondary; what mattered more was that they strictly adhered to ancient customs and were extremely particular about their type, quality, and symbolism, demonstrating both solemnity and originality.

Its value is enough to be worth a thousand pieces of gold.

The镖师 (bodyguards/escorts) of the镖局 (escort agency) had seen their share of the world, but they were still taken aback by the complete and high-class betrothal gifts presented to them all at once.

Just then, Yang Tie, disturbed by the commotion in the front hall, lifted the curtain of the back hall and strode in.

When Yang Tie saw the boxes in the courtyard, he was also stunned for a moment, then looked at Gu Shaoan and asked, "Nephew, what's this?"

Gu Shaoan bowed respectfully to Yang Tie without haste and said loudly, "I have come here on behalf of Yan'er to reminisce with Uncle Yang, and I am also here to formally propose marriage to you."

"These humble gifts are what I carefully purchased today from various shops in the city to formally propose marriage to you, Uncle Yang!"

"I have long admired my junior sister Yang Yan. I earnestly request Uncle Yang to grant my request to marry her. From now on, I will do my utmost to protect and respect her, and my love for her will last a lifetime!"

As he spoke, Gu Shaoan looked towards the rooftop.

On the roof of the front hall, Yang Yan and Zhou Zhiruo were peeking out and looking down.

Yang Yan, in particular, had a blush on her pretty face, and her eyes revealed a hint of shyness and joy.

Yang Tie's gaze fell on the betrothal gifts, prepared according to ancient rites and brimming with sincerity. Then, looking at the dignified and composed Gu Shaoan before him, he paused for a moment, his doubts vanishing instantly, replaced by a hearty laugh: "Hahahaha! Good! Good! Good!"

Previously, Abbess Miejue and Abbess Juechen had personally visited Baijiang Prefecture to discuss the marriage between Gu Shaoan and Yang Yan with Yang Tie.

This time, Gu Shaoan took the initiative to come, and Yang Tie naturally guessed Gu Shaoan's purpose.

Yesterday, Gu Shaoan avoided the topic, which Yang Tie assumed was due to the influence of Shangguan Jin Hong.

But now it seems that it's not that Gu Shaoan didn't want to talk about it, but rather that he was prepared to present the betrothal gifts in a dignified and proper manner.

Yang Tie probably didn't care about these things in the courtyard.

A person lives for their reputation, just as a tree lives for its bark.

After all, it's a marriage of a daughter. Yang Yan is the bride, and her relatives are still alive. If the betrothal ceremony is omitted, it will inevitably cause gossip among the neighbors and make people unhappy.

The fact that Gu Shaoan could think of this is enough to demonstrate his composure and his feelings for Yang Yan.

In response, Yang Tie stepped forward and patted Gu Shaoan's shoulder forcefully, his eyes full of admiration. "Yan'er was saved by you many years ago, and she has been with you day and night all these years. When the two nuns came last time, I already agreed to this marriage."

Upon hearing this, Gu Shaoan bowed and said, "Thank you, Uncle Yang."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Shaoan raised his head slightly and met the gazes of two pairs of eyes on the roof. His eyes and brows were full of smiles.

(End of this chapter)