The Death Gate is located in Kun Palace among the Nine Palaces, in the southwest. Gu Fuyou led everyone into the maze-like passage for the sixth time, took out a talisman, and said, "Southwest."
The talisman folded in the middle and flew into the air like a yellow butterfly flapping its two paper wings.
This is a talisman that guides the direction, and it will only fly in a specific direction. Because this passage is not facing southwest, this talisman has been flying along the wall.
After passing two forks in the road and walking for a while, the talisman turned a corner and led everyone to a dead end.
Gan Fengzhong said, "Why is there no way out?"
Gu Fuyou walked to the stone wall and touched it, measuring something with his fingers. After a long time, he took out a talisman and pasted it on the corner of the stone wall: "Uncle Gan, hit here."
"Okay." Gan Fengzhong stepped forward, gathered his energy and punched out, hitting the stone wall.
Gan Fengzhong is an external cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage. Unlike other cultivators who cultivate swords, knives, or zithers, he only cultivates his physique. His eight-foot body is as strong as gold and steel. Not to mention breaking a stone wall with one punch, even punching through a steel plate is no problem.
Who would have thought that the stone wall was not damaged at all. Although Gan Fengzhong did not use his full strength, it would never happen. Not to mention his surprise, even Si Miao and Gu Huaiyou were shocked.
Gan Fengzhong turned his spiritual power around, gathered it into his fists, and struck out again and again. With a loud bang, only a tiny crack appeared on the stone wall.
Gan Fengzhong didn't believe that he couldn't do anything to the stone wall. A sense of pride rose in his heart. He took a deep breath and hit the wall continuously, banging it so hard that the ground shook.
The cracks grew bigger and bigger, and became more and more numerous. Finally, with a bang, a wall shattered with the talisman that Gu Fuyou had posted as the center, revealing the world inside.
Gu Fuyou smiled and said, "Now there is a way."
It was pitch black inside. A dragonfly with a candlelight flew in and shone a little. Not far behind the wall was a cliff, and there was a passage on the opposite side of the cliff.
As they approached the edge of the cliff, they immediately smelled a fishy and damp odor, which was like the smell of dead fish and shrimp rotting in the sun, and the fishy smell was mixed with the smell of pond water and mud.
Everyone looked down, but it was so dark below the cliff that they couldn't see clearly what was going on.
Everyone could go directly over through the air, but there might be something under the cliff, which would make it difficult to move. After much thought, they decided it would be better to build a bridge.
Gan Fengzhong had the highest cultivation level among the group, but he was an outsider and was not proficient in magic. Gu Huaiyou and Si Miao's magic of spiritual root attributes were useless, and they were not proficient in magic of other attributes, so everyone looked at Zhong Michu.
Zhong Michu remained silent, walked forward, and circulated his spiritual power, creating an ice bridge that stretched all the way to the opposite side.
When Gan Fengzhong saw it, he couldn't help but say, "Beautiful."
The spells were cast steadily and quickly. If Gan Fengzhong had not heard Gu Huaiyou mention Zhong Mi Chu, he would have thought that this woman was a mutated ice spiritual root. He never expected that she, who had a water spiritual root, could cast ice spells so easily.
Originally, Zhong Michu was not so proficient in ice, and this improvement was due to the rare treasure that Gu Fuyou took out from the eye of the Ruizhu Han Palace formation in Xianluo. It was unknown what kind of spiritual object it was, with pure spiritual energy and countless ice air wrapped around it.
Zhong Michu absorbed half of it, and not only did his cultivation level increase, but he also became like an ice spiritual root, and could use ice-based magic at will.
Gan Fengzhong jumped onto the bridge and said, "Miss San, I'll go explore the way first."
He walked briskly, nothing happened along the way, and in a moment he reached the other side.
Several people then went up the bridge, Gu Huaiyou was at the front, Gu Fuyou and Si Miao were in the middle, and Zhong Michu was still walking at the end.
Halfway through the journey, Gan Fengzhong suddenly shouted coldly from the opposite side: "There's movement!"
The moment he finished speaking, a dark shadow leaped up from the abyss under the cliff and jumped over the ice bridge. The stench of rotting fish and shrimp became stronger.
A sticky liquid fell from its body. Everyone quickly dodged it. The liquid fell on the ice bridge, immediately making a sizzling sound and corroding the ice.
Gan Fengzhong grabbed the candlelight dragonfly, exerted his wrist strength, and stabbed the dragonfly into the body of the black shadow.
The black shadow returned to the abyss with a ball of light. Although it was only for a moment, everyone could see the scene below clearly.
The darkness at the bottom of the abyss is not because the light has been swallowed up, but because there are countless black, fat, and tangled moon-gazing eels below.
Eels are spiritual animals that live in mud and naturally love to eat filthy things. The Moon-gazing Eel is even worse, it specializes in eating rotten corpses, lives in filthy places, and carries the aura of death.
The fishy stench that everyone has been smelling is emitted by them.
Gu Fuyou firstly disliked the spirit beasts that were crowded together in dense groups, and secondly, he also disliked the spirit beasts that were tangled together in thousands and thousands in a sticky manner.
She shuddered, a little acid seeped out of her back, spreading all over her body, causing goose bumps all over her body: "Go, go."
As if in line with her words, several moon-gazing eels flew up.
Gan Fengzhong raised his eyebrows and stared: "Little spirit beast, don't be so arrogant!"
He punched the wall, controlling the force to only break the rock, and lifted the huge stone as easily as throwing a ball. After the stone came out, it was like thunder falling to the ground, smashing the Moon-Gazing Eel's head into pieces.
After several consecutive strikes, rocks came out like heavy rain, knocking the attacking Moon-Gazing Eels back into the abyss. However, there were thousands of Moon-Gazing Eels in the abyss, and they could not be killed all.
As the Moon-Gazing Eel fell, the corrosive mucus on its body fell like rain, corroding the ice bridge into holes and finally breaking it.
Gu Fuyou lost his balance and fell down. Si Miao was busy blocking the falling acid rain and was unable to protect her for a moment. She said in surprise, "A Man."
Before he finished speaking, a sword light appeared and held Gu Fuyou.
Gu Huaiyou said: "Big sister, send Ah Man over first."
Si Miao said: "Uncle Gan, please clear the way for Ah Man."
Gan Fengzhong responded and threw stones that killed all the Moon-gazing eels that attacked Gu Fuyou. Gu Fuyou reached the other side safely.
The remaining three people had no more worries. Zhong Michuyi repaired the ice bridge and the three of them rushed over immediately.
Gu Fuyou was still kneeling obediently on Gengchen and did not come down.
Gu Huaiyou asked: "Are you injured?"
Gu Fuyou shook his head. Si Miao smiled and said, "You won't come down unless you are injured."
Gu Fuyou jumped down obediently, but his legs were still a little weak and he almost fell to his knees. Zhong Michu helped him up.
Gu Fuyou was indeed not injured, but he was also frightened.
Everyone set off again. Gu Fuyou insisted on walking beside Zhong Michu. Everyone had no choice but to let Zhong Michu walk in front and Gan Fengzhong follow behind.
Gu Fuyou and Zhong Michu walked together, almost squeezing her as close as possible, wishing they could turn themselves into talismans and stick them on her.
Finally, Zhong Michu said, "I can't walk if you're like this."
Gu Fuyou stretched out his hand and said, "Well, can you hold my hand?"
Zhong Michu stared at her without answering. Gu Fuyou said, "I'm afraid..."
Zhong Michu obviously didn't believe it. How could someone who dared to take the inner elixir from the claws of a wind-flying beast in the Void Stage and who could calmly find the center of the formation at the moment of life and death be afraid because he almost fell into the Moon-Watching Eel Pit
Zhong Michu's eyelids drooped slightly, and Gu Fuyou knew that she was doubting him.
But she really wasn't lying. She was really afraid, or rather, she felt disgusted, which was more unbearable than facing life and death. She would rather ascend to heaven on the spot than roll around in the Wangyue eel pond.
This was just like the crabs she had encountered in Xianluo. She was so disgusted that her hair stood on end when she thought about it now. The Moon-gazing Eel was even more difficult for her to accept.
She knew that Zhong Michu was from the dragon clan, and some spirit beasts did not dare to approach her, so no matter what disgusting monsters and demons were ahead, it was absolutely safe to walk next to Zhong Michu.
Gu Fuyou's tone was a bit pleading, and she didn't even notice it herself. There was a hint of coquettishness in her tone: "Senior Sister Zhong."
Zhong Michu was silent for a long while, and finally said nothing, but held the hand that Gu Fuyou extended to her.
Gu Fuyou finally felt relieved and continued to move forward.
The eight gates in the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams Formation surround the central palace. If this formation is used to protect something, that thing is always placed in the central palace.
Gu Fuyou was not sure if everyone was in the Central Palace, but without any clues, he could only try his luck in the Central Palace first. Moreover, someone had gone to great lengths to set up a formation at the bottom of this mountain, so there must be a reason. Since he had come this trip, he had to go to the Central Palace to see what was going on.
Gu Fuyou walked towards the direction of the center palace. Although she led the way, he still had to pass through five levels, kill six generals, and take nine twists and turns before he finally reached his destination.
Another stone wall blocked the road.
Gan Fengzhong said, "Miss San, do you want to break it again?"
Gu Fuyou temporarily let go of Zhong Michu's hand, took out a talisman, and said, "No, no, this is just a trick."
Gu Fuyou rubbed the talisman and pasted it on the stone wall, muttering, "Good luck in opening the door, good luck in opening the door."
This is not the property of a talisman, it is just an auspicious phrase she recited.
She leaned her hand against the stone wall, and it suddenly disappeared, revealing a flat road in front of her.
Gu Fuyou smiled and said, "Look, it's gone."
She turned around and there was no one behind her.
She was startled to find that what was behind her was not a dim passage, but a school.
The flowers are red and the willows are green, and the kingfishers are singing.
A group of children were playing in the courtyard. They were all dressed in gorgeous clothes and were the sons and daughters of prominent families.
Gu Fuyou couldn't help but walk over. He took a step and became like them, a tiny person, as delicate as a piece of jade.
She clasped her chubby hands nervously and walked over to ask, "Can I play with you guys?"
One of the boys pushed her away and said, "Go away, go away. You don't even know how to breathe. If we accidentally hurt you, the teacher will blame us."
The people around him chimed in. All the children had started practicing, but she was the only one who didn't know how to absorb spiritual energy.
There seemed to be an invisible gap between her and the group of people over there, and she couldn't cross it.
Gu Fuyou did not leave. The boy said, "Let's go and play somewhere else." A group of people followed him and left.
Gu Fuyou felt lonely and sad. She returned to the classroom and sat down. She didn't know when the seats around her were full of people.
Everyone seemed to have grown taller, and their facial features had become more open.
Someone whispered behind her, "Alas, I heard that City Lord Gu gave all the resources to her first. Even Gu Shuangqing's treatment fell behind her. Last time, he finally got a spirit bead for tempering spirit roots and gave it to her."
"Really? Then why is she still only at the initial stage of Qi training? If the spiritual treasure is given to Gu Shuangqing, Gu Shuangqing will definitely cross the level."
The man laughed, "With such talent, what's the use of even the best spiritual treasure. I really don't know why City Lord Gu neglected his talented son and instead worshipped this useless daughter."
"I think she's working really hard, going into retreat several times."
"Retreat repeatedly and practice Qi every year."
"Haha, when you put it that way, I actually feel pretty pitiful."
Gu Fuyou couldn't listen any longer, so he stood up and ran out.
She dropped her classes and ran back home. As soon as she entered the house, a man in a light shirt turned around and said, "Aman is back."
The man paused, touched her head, and said softly: "Why are you crying? Did someone bully you?"
"Brother, am I stupid?"
"How could that be? Ah Man is the smartest girl."
"But my cultivation level increased the slowest in the academy, and they all laughed at me."
"Ah Man, it takes time to develop. Some people practice like this, and they need to take their time. As long as Ah Man works harder, he will catch up with them one day."
"What if I can't catch up? What if I can't catch up even if I try hard?"
Gu Fuyou wiped away her tears. She was a little confused. If she was destined to fail, then what was the point of all the efforts along the way
The man choked, his face looked sad, and he was unable to answer her for a long time.
The weather was clear and sunny. When Gu Fuyou came to his senses, he was squatting on the ground. In front of him was a simple formation she had made with stones.
A group of people came over, led by a spirited young man. He glanced over and sneered, "Gu San is fiddling with the formation again."
"She treasures him very much. I heard that she is going to refine some kind of formation so that the Qi training stage can fight against the Nascent Soul stage."
When the group heard this, they burst into laughter.
They thought it was funny and ridiculous, and they wanted to tease him out of disdain. Everyone ran to Gu Fuyou and pretended to be serious: "Master Gu, what kind of formation are you researching?"
"Go away."
The group of people laughed and said, "Don't be like that. Show us your formation that can fight against Yuanying stage."
Gu Fuyou's face flushed. The passerby laughed again, pointed at the stone on the ground, and said with a smile: "Is this it?"
One of them kicked the stones and messed them up, then held his feet in a mischievous manner and said with a smile, "What a powerful formation! Oh, my feet, my feet."
Everyone laughed even more happily. Gu Fuyou blushed deeply, his whole body was hot, he felt embarrassed, annoyed, anxious and angry: "You, you know nothing."
Seeing that she was so angry that she lost her composure, everyone laughed even more: "The formation set up by the great genius Gu is naturally incomprehensible to us ordinary people." The laughter was still harsh.
"Yes! My genius idea! You will never understand it! Because you are stupid!" Gu Fuyou was furious, and followed their words and shouted with all his strength.
When those people heard her say this, their faces turned cold: "Let's just laugh at you. You really think you are a genius. Is there any genius like you in this world?"
"I am a genius, why don't you accept it?"
"I am a genius!"
"I am a genius!" Gu Fuyou shouted several times in a row, and the more he shouted, the more justified he felt.
This sentence seems to have a basis, and is not just a light sentence. It seems to have something to rely on, which gives it weight.
Gu Fuyou was in a trance for a while, muttering to himself: "Yes, I am a genius, I am a genius."
A crisp ringing sound rang in her mind.
She suddenly came to her senses and found herself still in the dim passage under the cave, whispering nervously: "I am a genius."
Gu Fuyou's heart sank, and he realized that he had fallen into an illusion.
Behind him was the entrance to the central palace, and there was still no sign of Zhong Michu and others around.
Gu Fuyou thought that if she fell into the illusion, the others should also have fallen into the illusion and could not go far, perhaps they were just around her.
She called out, "Senior Sister Zhong, Gu Huaiyou, Si Miao, Uncle Gan."
While looking around, he passed through the entrance and entered the central palace to look for someone.