Slaying Gods: Ancestral Witch Agent, Starting with the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique

"Up so early?" Cao Yuan asked.

"If you don't work hard in your cultivation today, you'll be brothers in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner one day," Gu Tianchen said earnestly.

"Makes sense."

Cao Yuan got up and, together with Gu Tianchen, carried the washbasin to the washroom to wash up.

"You're here, brother?" Zheng Zhong greeted the two with a smile.

Good morning, Brother Zhong.

Although it was only 5:30, many people got up on their own before the wake-up call even sounded.

Most of them are special forces soldiers like Zheng Zhong and inheritors of ancient martial arts families like Mo Lan.

Lin Qiye walked over carrying a washbasin and asked Gu Tianchen, "The whistle should have sounded by now, what's going on today?"

"Maybe the instructors overslept too," Gu Tianchen replied carelessly.

Lin Qiye: ...

Zheng Zhong glanced at the quiet training camp and frowned. "I have a feeling something's off about how quiet it is..."

Having finished washing up, Mo Lan, holding a washbasin, said coldly, "If the whistle hasn't blown, practice on your own. You'll never become a strong person if you rely on others to urge you on."

Gu Tianchen stopped him with a smile, his mouth full of toothpaste foam, and asked indistinctly, "Mo Lan, are you going to practice your spear? I recently acquired a set of ancestral halberd techniques. Shall we spar?"

Mo Lan shuddered involuntarily as she recalled how Gu Tianchen had beaten her so badly that she was sore all over and could barely walk for days.

"I'm not available today, let's do it another day."

After saying that, Mo Lan left as if fleeing.

Gu Tianchen turned his gaze to the others. Apart from Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan, the others all made excuses to leave.

Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan exchanged a glance and began playing rock-paper-scissors.

In the end, Lin Qiye won, and the defeated Cao Yuan became Gu Tianchen's sparring partner.

"Hehe, it has to be one's own brother." Gu Tianchen laughed and put his arm around Cao Yuan.

Lin Qiye was in a great mood and hummed a little tune as he returned to his dormitory, only to find that Baili Pangpang was still asleep.

With the whistle still not sounding, Lin Qiye simply sat on the bed and began to meditate.

Time passed second by second. Lin Qiye opened his eyes and glanced at the time. It was already 7:30.

After Gu Tianchen and Cao Yuan finished their training, they came over for a visit and saw Baili Pangpang still fast asleep on the bed.

"This guy can really sleep," Gu Tianchen said enviously.

"Fatty! Time to eat!"

Gu Tianchen shouted, but Baili Pangpang didn't react at all.

"Damn, he didn't even use his trump card. Could this guy have been electrocuted by an ACE leak?" Gu Tianchen guessed.

Lin Qiye casually placed his hand on the acrobatic detonator on Baili Pangpang's wrist and infused it with his mental energy.

Baili Pangpang sprang to his feet with a somersault, performed two backflips, and then collapsed into bed...

The three looked at each other in bewilderment.

Shen Qingzhu led a group of people over and headed straight for Lin Qiye's dormitory.

He glanced at Baili Pangpang on the bed and asked, "Why can't I wake him up no matter what I do?"

"Why did you use the word 'also'?" Lin Qiye asked in return.

"Most of the people in our dormitory building are fast asleep and we can't wake them up no matter what we do."

Where are the instructors?

“We’ve searched the entire training camp. Apart from the new recruits, everything has been moved out. The instructors, the logistics staff, even the old man serving food in the canteen are gone,” Shen Qingzhu said.

“Wait a minute, speaking of the cafeteria, I think I’ve found the reason,” Gu Tianchen said.

"What's wrong with the cafeteria?" Shen Qingzhu asked.

"Old Sun twisted his back while doing a somersault, and the new chef Huang's cooking skills aren't very good. It must be that the green beans weren't cooked properly last night, which caused the new recruits to get poisoned after eating them!" Gu Tianchen said.

"what!!!"

A scream suddenly came from the direction of the cafeteria.

Chapter 58 East Wind Breaks

"problem occurs!"

"Don't panic, go to the warehouse and get the weapons first, and leave a few people to guard the dormitory building," Lin Qiye said.

Shen Qingzhu volunteered to guard the house, while Lin Qiye and the others headed to the weapons warehouse.

All eyes turned to Gu Tianchen as they looked at the heavy alloy doors of the weapons depot.

Gu Tianchen raised an eyebrow as he felt the intense gazes directed at him.

"No, you're using me as a key?"

"Stop talking nonsense and open the door," Lin Qiye said calmly.

boom!

With a powerful charge, Gu Tianchen caused the alloy gate to collapse, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Lin Qiye waved away the dust in front of him, looked at Gu Tianchen and said with a smile, "You are much more useful than a key."

Gu Tianchen chuckled. Lin Qiye was the Pupil Combination Lock of the No-Rings Void, and he was now the spare key to the Alloy Gate of the Armory.

The group grabbed their weapons and began to surround the cafeteria.

Most people surrounded the cafeteria, while Lin Qiye led a few people inside to check the situation.

Normally, the cafeteria is filled with the aroma of food, but now it is covered with dense cobwebs, looking gloomy and dilapidated, exuding an eerie atmosphere.

"That is……"

The three of them looked in the direction Lin Qiye was pointing, and in the corner, a bloody and mangled figure was stuck to the wall by a clump of spider silk.

His eyes were filled with terror, his internal organs had been ripped out, and conspicuous streaks of blood ran down the pristine white wall behind him, as if he had witnessed something terrifying before he died...

“It’s Wang Liang.” Cao Yuan, who was holding a knife, recognized the deceased at a glance.

Gu Tianchen nodded. "Oh, I remember now. He was the first recruit caught during the extreme training at Jinan Mountain, the one who liked to peep at the older sister next door taking a bath."

Lin Qiye's lips twitched slightly. "Respect the dead. Don't bring up his dark past in front of him now that he's dead..."

The three of them darted through the dense spiderwebs in the cafeteria like secret agents traversing infrared beams, preparing to examine Wang Liang's body.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, Lin Qiye swiftly drew his straight sword, sending it flying towards the ceiling.

hum!

The straight knife was stuck in the ceiling, emitting a series of buzzing sounds, which startled a large spider half a meter away.

Lin Qiye: ...

After a few seconds of stunned silence, the giant spider quickly smashed through the window along the ceiling and rushed out of the cafeteria.

Gu Tianchen said seriously, "Next time, leave these kinds of accuracy-testing tasks to me and Lao Cao. You shouldn't take the lead so easily."

Lin Qiye: (▼へ▼メ)

“This is a mysterious creature from the Sichuan region. My Azure Guardian reacted just now. This spider has the ability to launch mental attacks. Everyone’s slumber was most likely caused by this guy,” Lin Qiye said.

"You should have a way to counter mental attacks, right?" Lin Qiye asked Gu Tianchen.

"Let me take a look."

A gray glint flashed in Gu Tianchen's eyes as he activated the Netherworld Eye.

The three of them walked out of the canteen and came to the open space in the center of the training camp.

From the perspective of the Eye of the Underworld, the entire training camp was shrouded in a giant spider web. The sleeping recruits had their souls caught in the spider silk and were in a wandering state, unable to return to their bodies and thus unable to wake up.

Of course, Baili Pangpang is an exception; he really wasn't fully awake yet...

"Step back."

Everyone kept a safe distance from Gu Tianchen.

Gu Tianchen drew a blood moon between his eyebrows, then leaped up and tore off several spider silk threads.

He held the spider silk in one hand and gently stroked it with the other.

The recruits who couldn't see the spider silk were confused.

What is he doing?

"It looks like he's...playing the guitar?"

The recruits, their souls stripped away by spider silk, were suspended in mid-air when they suddenly heard the sound of silk strings being plucked.

"Listen, what's that sound?"

"That melody is so familiar..."

Who is playing "East Wind Breaks" on the pipa?

Time has peeled away the layers on the wall, revealing glimpses of my childhood.

One of the new recruits slowly hummed the lyrics along with the melody.

After his reminder, more and more recruits began to hum along.

Who is playing "East Wind Breaks" on the pipa?

Maple leaves color the story; I see through the ending.

A-Zhu, who was hiding in a corner of the warehouse preparing to sleep, discovered that someone was using his spider silk as a guitar.

Moreover, as the melody grew more and more melodious, the recruits' souls gradually returned to their bodies.

Azhu was dumbfounded. What was going on?

A requiem?!