Inside the Scripture Repository in the Ancient Realm, Gu Yuan quietly administered the Nirvana Pill to Xun'er. Feeling her Life Force weaken but the injuries within her body recover, he let out a sigh of relief in his heart, but the anger on his face showed no sign of dissipating.
Looking at the young man in the shell, whose identity was now unknown, he spoke indifferently:
"After This Seat crushes it, who will come from that side? A Soul Clan Dou Sheng? The Four Demon Saints? Or will Hun Tiandi himself arrive?"
Before his voice faded, Gu Yuan had already disappeared from the Ancient Realm with Gu Feng. When he reappeared, he was in the Soul Nurturing Mountain Range. Even if Gu Feng hadn't said anything, he had his suspicions; he was merely here to confirm them.
Without hesitation, he directly crushed the Jade Talisman he had taken from Gu Feng's Storage Ring, then stared intently at the spot, ready to capture whoever arrived at any moment!
Buzz buzz—
After he crushed the Jade Slip, a strong Spatial fluctuation appeared here, followed by a dark Passage that emitted a buzzing sound.
"What is it?"
From the other side, before the person arrived, their voice had already traveled over. Immediately after, a man as thin and withered as a corpse emerged halfway from the Spatial Channel.
When he saw Gu Yuan nearby, his pupils shrank abruptly, and he retreated into the Passage behind him without hesitation.
Seeing the arrival, Gu Yuan confirmed his suspicions—when it came to the study of the Soul, aside from the Soul Clan, perhaps no one else could reach this level.
"Soul Clan, it really is you. Hun Tiansheng, since you've come, then stay!"
When he saw the figure like a corpse, he recognized him; it was an old acquaintance who should have died a Thousand Years ago.
Seeing Hun Tiansheng trying to retreat, how could Gu Yuan let him have his way? With a flick of his finger, the Space around Hun Tiansheng seemed to freeze, and he could no longer move freely within it.
Hun Tiansheng felt himself being held by the Space Imprisonment, and his heart was filled with horror. He never expected that the Space he once treated as a toy would one day imprison him.
"Gu Yuan, do you want to cause a war between our two clans?"
Although he was startled, he didn't panic and tried to find an excuse to stall for Time. Although he couldn't defeat Gu Yuan, everything would be fine as long as he could delay for a while until Hun Tiandi arrived.
Seeing this, Gu Yuan looked at him as if he were an idiot, then chuckled and shouted:
"Heh heh, Hun Tiansheng, you recognize him, right? You're really something. Since you've ruined my hope, then none of you will have an easy time either. Die!"
Saying that, he didn't engage in any Bickering with Hun Tiansheng at all. He struck decisively, unleashing a palm strike with no intention of holding back.
He was truly enraged. It had taken him two hundred years to bring Xun'er into existence, and she almost embodied his hope for the next few hundred years, yet she had almost perished.
And she had managed to hold on to her last breath until he arrived, and it was because Gu Feng didn't know that she had the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame within her body. In a life-or-death crisis, it instinctively protected its master, which was how Xun'er managed to survive.
Moreover, if he hadn't prepared a Nirvana Pill for her, he didn't know if she would have survived. Although she had overcome this calamity because of the Nirvana Pill, that Pill, which was originally intended to enhance her Foundation, was gone just like that!
Seeing the monstrous giant palm, a chill shot straight to Hun Tiansheng's heart, and the hairs on his body stood on end, utterly terrified. He truly couldn't understand why Gu Yuan had suddenly gone mad, with such a strong killing intent. He was like a completely different person from the Gu Yuan of the past, who was utterly lacking in courage and accomplished nothing.
Watching the giant palm enlarge in his eyes while he was unable to move, Hun Tiansheng was scared out of his wits and was about to beg for mercy:
"Gu Yuan, you..."
His words were cut off before he could finish, and he would never have another chance to speak.
Gu Yuan had no intention of listening to what he wanted to say. Right now, he only wanted to kill. If he had the chance, he wouldn't mind letting Hun Tiandi know that this world didn't belong to his Soul Clan yet.
Therefore, the unreserved palm strike fiercely landed on Hun Tiansheng's head. Immediately after, his entire body was smashed into a mist of blood, and even his Soul was completely torn apart by the violent energy from that palm strike.
Casually killing Hun Tiansheng with a single palm, Gu Yuan felt no joy in his heart. This time was good luck, but if there was a next time, Xun'er might not be so lucky. At that time, even killing a few more Hun Tianshengs would be useless.
Moreover, how could he not know that Hun Tiansheng was merely a living corpse? Even though he was an Eight-Star Dou Sheng, in Gu Yuan's eyes, he was still far inferior to Xun'er.
Gu Yuan did not leave immediately but continued to wait here. He wanted to turn this Soul Nurturing Mountain Range into the Soul Burying Mountain Range!
While waiting, he pondered how to hide Xun'er in the future. Not long after, a thought arose in his mind:
"Turn their plan against them. From today onwards, Xun'er of the Gu Clan is dead, and I will use this excuse to kill those from the Soul Clan!"
He wanted to send Xun'er away and also let Hun Tiandi know that while he didn't care about his schemes, it didn't mean he could cause him trouble.
However, he waited for a long time, and still no one from the Soul Clan came. He couldn't help but feel a little strange and pondered:
"Logically, after so much Time has passed, the Soul Clan should have received the news by now. Why hasn't anyone come? Is Hun Tiandi busy with something else?"
The one he was waiting for here was Hun Tiandi. As for others, even if he wanted to wait, they probably wouldn't come. As long as they weren't foolish, they should be able to connect Hun Tiansheng's demise to him, and if they came again, it would just be giving themselves away for nothing.
"This matter won't just end like this."
He waited for a while longer, and still seeing no movement, he already felt like leaving. There were still many people in the Gu Clan whose identities he needed to personally verify.
He wouldn't naively believe that Gu Clan only had Gu Feng as a Hidden Piece and Spy.
Thinking of this, he looked at Gu Feng, whose gaze was dull and eyes empty, as if he had lost his Soul, without a trace of vitality.
He had become like this after Hun Tiansheng was killed by his palm strike.
He knew this was a Soul Contract, an extremely unequal Soul contract. For the two parties who signed the contract, everything was centered around the first party. The first party could decide the second party's life and death with a single thought, and the second party's demise had no effect on the first party. Clearly, Hun Tiansheng was the first party.
"Being able to lure out a Hun Tiansheng can be considered making the best use of resources. It's just, how should I get the news to Hun Tiandi?"
Gu Yuan flicked his finger, and Gu Feng turned into flying ash, scattered by the Wind, no longer having any meaning in this world.
He began to ponder another matter: how to use the Spies the Soul Clan had planted in the Gu Clan to transmit the message he wanted them to send back, so they wouldn't keep their focus on Xun'er. There was a saying, "A thief can steal for a Thousand Years, but you can't guard against a thief for a Thousand Years." Gu Yuan understood this principle.
"It's a pity, this Soul Nurturing Mountain Range still couldn't be renamed."
With a plan in mind, Gu Yuan looked at the surrounding mountain range and shook his head with some regret. Then, his figure also disappeared from this place.
In the Ancient Realm, the Elders gathered together, their expressions extremely grim. They hadn't realized the extent of the problem until they investigated. Once they did, they were shocked.
They hadn't expected that the Clan had become a sieve, to the point where even a High Grade Half-Saint, one who had the potential to break through to Dou Sheng, had been replaced.
If this incident hadn't exposed him, and if he had broken through to Dou Sheng and become a high-level member of the Clan in the future, then the Gu Clan would have virtually no secrets left before the Soul Clan. By then, no matter what happened, they would likely be led by the nose!
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