Just as the old patriarch forced me to my death, I achieved the unity of Dao and fruition.

When Gu Changjin returned to Lingdao Peak, the noise from Yingke Peak had not completely subsided.

He didn't stop.

He didn't look back.

His dark gray natal spirit sword carried him into the cave. The stone door closed, and the array lights up layer by layer.

Only when the outside world was completely cut off did the ashen look on his face gradually disappear.

That appearance of someone whose life force was about to die, and who could pass away at any moment, was also completely and cleanly removed.

Acting is acting.

To actually kill yourself off is foolish.

Gu Changjin sat down cross-legged, and before he could even examine the sword embryo in his dantian, his brows suddenly furrowed.

A very slight tremor came from the direction of Yingke Peak in the distance.

Even a Golden Core cultivator might not be able to detect it.

But his soul had already reached the Nascent Soul level, so he could hear clearly.

This is no ordinary battle of wits.

It's the collision of nascent soul energy.

Although very restrained.

Yet it was enough to slightly disrupt the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Then, Li Fenshan's furious voice exploded like thunder from afar.

"Yun Qingli!"

"Your junior brother, Lu Huaizhen, killed my personal disciple and stole my Crimson Jade Token!"

"Now, my junior brother Zhou Lieyang has also died on your Xuan Yang Sect's deathmatch stage!"

"Okay, okay!"

"Your Xuan Yang Sect is trying to fool my Chi Xiao Sect by saying you have no one to rely on, isn't that right?"

"If this grudge is not avenged, how can my Crimson Cloud Sect have the face to stand in the Western Wilderness!"

"Let's start the war!"

As the last two words were spoken, the entire Xuan Yang Sect seemed to tremble.

Immediately afterwards, Yun Qingli's voice rang out.

However, compared to her usual aloofness, her voice at this moment carried an uncontrollable anger.

"Li Fenshan!"

"Your Crimson Cloud Sect dared to assassinate Huai Zhen!"

"How dare you?"

"The battle to the death has been decided. My Xuan Yang Sect will investigate Huai Zhen's matter thoroughly."

"If this was truly the work of your Crimson Cloud Sect, then this matter will be a fight to the death!"

"Let's start a war!"

The sounds from both sides collided in the sky.

The next moment, several more Nascent Soul auras rose up, clearly indicating that the two sect elders could no longer remain seated.

As Gu Changjin listened, he couldn't help but laugh.

it is good.

Great.

Li Fenshan was convinced that Lu Huaizhen had killed his personal disciple.

Yun Qingli is convinced that the Chixiao Sect killed Lu Huaizhen.

Zhou Lieyang has just died on the deathmatch stage.

With two deep-seated grudges combined, neither side could back down.

Now we have no choice but to fight.

As for the truth?

Does the truth matter?

In the world of cultivation, the truth often doesn't matter at all.

What matters is face, interests, the dead, and the reason for war.

Gu Changjin leaned against the futon, in a very good mood.

Next, the vortex of two major battles will draw everyone's attention.

Yun Qingli didn't have time to deal with him.

The Crimson Cloud Sect didn't have time to deal with him either.

Those idiots in the Gu family dared not bother him anymore.

This was precisely when he felt most comfortable.

"Go ahead and fight."

"The more exciting the fight, the better."

Gu Changjin chuckled softly.

What do these two major battles have to do with him?

His most important task now is to move on to the next version of himself.

The late stage of the Golden Core realm is not enough.

Even if he possessed sword intent, a small pot, and the Star Sword embryo, it still wouldn't be enough.

The few Nascent Soul auras that appeared in the clouds just now have already explained everything.

Without reaching the Nascent Soul stage, one is ultimately not qualified to truly sit at the table.

If someone asks you to do something, it's a sign of respect.

If others don't let you go up, you can only stand on the sidelines and watch.

Gu Changjin disliked this feeling very much.

He closed his eyes.

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the Dao Fruit slowly emerged.

The effects of the Soul-Splitting Star Marrow were still present, and his soul was much broader than before.

This time, the myriad figures above the Dao Fruit were no longer as blurry as they had been at the beginning.

One of the figures gradually lit up.

He was a young man.

No.

Saying it's just youth isn't quite accurate either.

He looked to be in his thirties, with a cold and hard expression. He was wearing a bright red wedding robe, but he was kneeling in an ancient wedding hall.

Red candles were everywhere.

It was as red as blood.

In the center of the wedding hall, an elderly man with white hair sat in a high position.

A woman was standing next to him.

The woman was also wearing a wedding dress, her eyes slightly red, as if she were crying.

But in her hand, she held a piece of blood-red chain.

The other end of the chain was wrapped around the man's heart.

Gu Changjin's eyes narrowed.

The next instant, that figure resonated with the Dao Fruit.

A thread of fate seems to have been forcibly torn apart.

That's not a complete life.

It only lasted five or six days.

That's enough.

He saw himself in that past life.

Born into a poor family, he married into the Jiang family.

The Jiang family is known as the Immortal Clan.

In reality, it was just a declining Golden Core family.

Our ancestors were once wealthy.

That won't work now.

The only Golden Core Ancestor is nearing the end of his lifespan, and the clan's disciples are incompetent. Not to mention producing another Golden Core cultivator, there are hardly any Foundation Establishment Peak cultivators left.

In that lifetime, Gu Changjin was the son-in-law they chose from outside the family.

Thirty years.

He risked his life for the Jiang family.

He suppressed rebellions in vassal states, killed Foundation Establishment cultivators from rival families, guarded the mines for the Jiang family, seized spirit fields, and even saved the eldest daughter of the Jiang family from a near-death experience.

A couple married for thirty years.

A thirty-year blood pact.

Thirty years of cultivating elixir.

Gu Changjin saw in the Fate Line that the Jiang family patriarch smiled kindly, saying that the Jiang family was willing to devote all its resources to help him break through to the Golden Core stage.

The official explanation sounds very nice.

The patriarch of the Jiang family would shatter his own remaining golden core and pour the last of its essence into his body to protect him.

Once he achieves the Golden Core stage, he can hold a marriage ceremony with Jiang Zhaoyue, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, and thus truly become the head of the Jiang family.

The entire Jiang family will also regard him as their new ancestor.

It sounds so good.

How touching.

Even Jiang Zhaoyue spoke with tears in her eyes.

"Changjin, you have sacrificed too much for the Jiang family."

"This time, it's the Jiang family's turn to grant your wish."

But the fate that Gu Changjin saw was not one of fulfillment.

It's alchemy.

The so-called self-shattering of the broken core was not to protect him, but to forcibly strip away his golden core at the moment he broke through to the Golden Core stage, using the thirty-year blood pact of husband and wife as a lock and the Jiang family's ancestral formation as a furnace.

Then, he transferred the golden elixir he had just formed to Jiang Zhaoyue.

Let her rise to the top in one step.

Even if this Golden Core breakthrough is weaker than a normal breakthrough.

Even if the foundation is flawed.

That is also a Golden Core.

As long as the Jiang family produces another Golden Core cultivator, they can continue to hold their position as the immortal clan of the six kingdoms.

As for Gu Changjin?

A poor man who married into a wealthy family.

A pill that has been nurtured for thirty years.

The day the elixir is completed will naturally be the day the furnace shatters.

Gu Changjin's eyes gradually turned cold as he saw this.

So familiar.

It feels so familiar.

The Gu family had invited their patriarch to his death.

The disciples of the Sword Tomb forced their master to hand over the inheritance.

Now the Jiang family wants to turn their son-in-law into a human elixir.

This time, the fate line was presented in a very clever way.

The time he arrived was not when he was refined into a human pill.

It took place three days before the grand ceremony of the joint registration of citizens.

Three more days.

Everyone was waiting for the ceremony to begin.

The Jiang family is waiting.

Jiang Zhaoyue is waiting.

The patriarch of the Jiang family, whose lifespan was nearing its end, was also waiting.

Even within the six surrounding kingdoms, those Golden Core families with old grudges against the Jiang family are secretly waiting to see if the Jiang family can survive.

Everyone assumed that Gu Changjin would be extremely grateful.

They will be overjoyed.

He will become the new ancestor of the Jiang family at the wedding hall.

Then, at the moment of greatest triumph, he was bound by a blood pact, refined by an ancestral array, and his golden core was forcibly extracted.

Gu Changjin smiled.

She laughed very softly.

"A couple married for thirty years."

"You say my golden core should belong to the Jiang family?"

The next instant, the Dao Fruit trembled.

Gu Changjin's consciousness was suddenly pulled into that cause and effect.

……

The Great Li Kingdom.

Jiang Family Immortal City.

The night was deep, but the city lights remained lit.

Three days later, the Jiang family will hold a grand ceremony to mark their joint registration.

Gu Changjin, the son-in-law, will renew his Daoist vows with Jiang Zhaoyue, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family.

At the same time, the patriarch of the Jiang family will personally emerge from seclusion to protect Gu Changjin as he forms his core.

When this news spread, it shook the cultivation world of the six kingdoms.

Some people are envious.

Someone is jealous.

Some people sneered.

A poor man who married into a wealthy family endured humiliation and hardship for thirty years, and is finally about to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Once he forms the Golden Core, who would dare call him a son-in-law?

But at this moment, in a cave in the back mountain of the Jiang family.

Gu Changjin slowly opened his eyes.

This body is much younger than the one in the main world.

Abundant Qi and Blood.

Cultivation level: Peak Foundation Establishment.

He was only one step away from achieving the Golden Core stage.

But there is a blood pact on his heart.

The blood pact was very subtle.

They are like a loving couple in their daily lives.

Once activated, it becomes a shackle that locks the soul, the body, and the core.

Gu Changjin looked down and gently touched his heart with his fingertip.

Memories that belong to him and me gradually flooded into my mind.

Thirty years of enduring humiliation and hardship.

Thirty years of life-and-death struggles.

Thirty years later, I thought I had finally been accepted.

In the end, he was sent into the alchemy furnace by his wife with tears in her eyes.

That sense of resentment was too strong.

The intensity was so strong that Gu Changjin couldn't help but squint.

He is me, and so am I.

He had to swallow his pride.

Not only must it be paid out.

They also need to be ruthless enough.

Gu Changjin sat on the futon, not in a hurry to make a move.

Although the Jiang family has declined, they still have a Golden Core Ancestor.

This old thing doesn't have much lifespan left, but he's still a Golden Core cultivator.

We must not act rashly.

Moreover, Gu Changjin in this world is only at the peak of Foundation Establishment.

The cultivation level from the main world cannot be brought over.

What it can bring is memory, swordsmanship experience, spiritual height, and the destiny glimpsed through the Dao Fruit.

enough.

Knowing the trends for the next three days in advance is already the biggest advantage.

The Jiang family wanted to refine him into an elixir.

Let's see who's really training whom.

Gu Changjin remained silent for a moment, then suddenly chuckled softly.

Then, he closed his eyes and began to practice Taoist magic.

Outside the cave, red lanterns hung high.

The entire Jiang family was overjoyed.

no one knows.

The elixir they had nurtured for thirty years has finally opened its eyes.