The wait was undoubtedly long. Gu Fuyou lay in bed all day, staring at the ceiling. She hadn't slept for a few days, because as soon as she closed her eyes, she would think of the dream she had that day, and she was afraid of having the same dream again. It was okay for a cultivator to not sleep for a few days, but the fear still made her quickly become haggard.
Every day when the Zuo family brought food over, Gu Fuyou would always ask if Gu Huaiyou had come.
Those people didn't talk to her, and even if they did, how would they know about this
Gu Fuyou felt that he had endured half his life, and Zuo Qingfeng finally came to the dungeon again.
He ordered someone to open the door, but the barrier was still there. Gu Fuyou stuck to the edge of the barrier and saw a person following Zuo Qingfeng, Si Miao, who was wearing a dark purple dress and had her hair tied up.
Gu Fuyou's eyes lit up a little, she couldn't help but feel happy, her heart finally settled down, she thought to herself, was she crazy, thinking too much, they were fine. She always scared herself.
Zuo Qingfeng raised his chin, indicating that Si Miao could come closer. Si Miao walked to the barrier, and there was a barrier between them, an invisible boundary.
Being able to look at her is already very good, and I don’t expect to be able to touch her.
Gu Fuyou said, "Si Miao, how are you and Gu Huaiyou doing? Has the Zuo family made things difficult for you? Did Lu Yandong keep his promise?"
Si Miao looked at her quietly without saying a word. Gu Fuyou looked outside, trying to extend his sight into the distance, but still could not see Gu Huaiyou: "Where is Gu Huaiyou? Why didn't he come?"
Gu Fuyou looked at Zuo Qingfeng. Zuo Qingfeng stroked his chin and sighed, seeming to be very annoyed. Gu Fuyou's eyes moved back to Si Miao's face and forced a smile: "Is he angry with me, so he doesn't want to see me."
Her voice weakened, and she called out cautiously: "Si Miao..."
"Why do not you speak?"
Si Miao raised her hand and closed it on her palm through the barrier. Gu Fuyou saw Si Miao's eyes, which were empty and lifeless. Si Miao's eyes were slightly raised. Usually she didn't speak and her expression was always sarcastic, but now it seemed like she was mocking herself.
Si Miao smiled at her, but Gu Fuyou felt like she was crying.
Looking into Si Miao's eyes and her expression, Gu Fuyou's lips moved together, and after a while he asked in a trembling voice, "Si Miao, how is Gu Huaiyou?"
"Si Miao, why don't you speak?"
As she asked, the image from her dream came back to her. She had nowhere to escape and was almost driven crazy. At this moment, a voice rang out from the other end of the dungeon: "Second brother, why did you let them meet without telling me!"
Someone came over. It was Zuo Yuezhi. He looked unhappy and questioned Zuo Qingfeng.
Zuo Qingfeng smiled and said, "This little girl said she didn't want to meet them, but she didn't know that we kept our promise. So let her meet them, it's not a big deal."
Zuo Yuezhi glanced at Gu Fuyou and said to Zuo Qingfeng, "Let's go." He then signaled the guarding monks to take Si Miao away and closed the door.
Gu Fuyou said anxiously: "Zuo Qingfeng, where is my brother? You promised to let me see him!"
Zuo Qingfeng paused, turned around and said to her: "He can't come..."
Zuo Yuezhi wanted to stop him from speaking, but it was too late. Zuo Qingfeng had already said, "He's dead."
In an instant, Gu Fuyou felt as if the back of her head had been hit hard, and everything went blank. She broke out in a cold sweat, and had no strength left. She knelt on the ground leaning against the barrier, and for a long while, she said in a daze, "Why... He is no longer a threat to you, why are you still not willing to let him go?"
Zuo Qingfeng said, "I'll use my immortal path as a guarantee. This has nothing to do with us. It was your brother who was desperate and tried to force his way out of Gucheng. Lu Yandong tried to stop him and failed. It has nothing to do with us."
Zuo Yuezhi shouted coldly, "Second brother!" He was extremely dissatisfied with him for saying this.
Zuo Qingfeng said indifferently: "Brother, this is not something shameful. It's not that we broke our oath, it's Lu Yandong who didn't take good care of the people. Why should we hide it from this little girl? She will know it sooner or later anyway."
Zuo Yuezhi's eyes slid towards Gu Fuyou. Zuo Qingfeng was a man who didn't hide things. He had the capital to reveal everything to others without restraint. He smiled and said, "Didn't my elder brother sign a slave contract with her? Even if she knew, could she still make trouble? What's there to be afraid of?"
Zuo Yuezhi's face was gloomy for a long time before he relaxed. He sighed and said, "You should have informed me in advance. Tomorrow is the Immortal Sect's grand gathering. If she makes any mistakes, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction in the other three continents."
"I was just trying to say that Big Brother was so busy that he couldn't find you."
Zuo Yuezhi waved his sleeves and asked the monk to close the door. Gu Fuyou was still kneeling there, and when the door was about to close, she looked up from the gap, looked at Si Miao, and asked: "Si Miao, why don't you speak?"
Si Miao opened her lips slightly, and the door slammed shut, isolating the two sides. Zuo Yuezhi and Zuo Qingfeng took Si Miao out, and halfway through, Zuo Yuezhi asked Zuo Qingfeng, "What's wrong with her?"
“Hmm?” Zuo Qingfeng saw Zuo Yuezhi noticed Si Miao’s strange behavior, so he explained: “This girl has a very poisonous tongue. On the way here, she greeted the eighteen generations of Zuo family’s ancestors.”
Zuo Qingfeng patted his face and laughed, "I feel so ashamed after hearing this. Tianlang, that bastard, cut off the girl's tongue when I wasn't paying attention."
Zuo Yuezhi said, "Tianlang is too impatient." He glanced back again. Si Miao didn't cry or make a fuss, and even walked with them calmly. He frowned, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Let's send her back to Lu Yandong's house."
If all those who surrendered in Xiaoyao City died, the North and West Continents would inevitably use this as an excuse, which would be extremely difficult to deal with. A woman has nothing to do with her, so she should be kept if possible.
After Zuo Yuezhi and his group left, Gu Fuyou knelt on the ground for a long time without making a sound. The darkness engulfed her. Her heart could no longer withstand the huge gap between joy and despair. She pulled at the last string of her rationality, and it broke with a bang.
She laughed crazily, tears streaming down her face.
Finally, she hugged herself and whispered, "Brother, how could you abandon me? I'm scared to live alone."
Tomorrow is the grand gathering of the Immortal Sect. In the past few days, from the fragments of conversation among the gatekeepers, and in connection with what Zuo Yuezhi said to Lu Yandong before he left the City Lord's Mansion and fell into coma that day, she has guessed that this grand gathering of the Immortal Sect is held for her. No, it should be said that it is held for the Qilin Marrow.
By then, all the important people from Xu Ling Sect and Bi Luo Sect will come. Perhaps Cang Wu Sect from Beizhou and Qian Yun Sect from Xizhou will also send people to see the rare treasures in this world.
After the Zuo family sent food again, Gu Fuyou opened the mechanism and went down to the underground nest. When the spirit beast saw her coming down, it made a gentle sound, as if to greet her. Gu Fuyou walked to the sharp stone pillar, stretched out her hand and scratched her wrist, and blood gushed out. The spirit beast was stunned for a moment and let out two short roars.
Gu Fuyou walked up to it, handed it his hand, and said, "Go on."
The spirit beast stared at it blankly. Gu Fuyou smiled and said, "This is a treasure that the whole world envies, don't you want it?"
"Open your mouth."
The spirit beast listened to her and opened its mouth, and blood flowed like a column into the spirit beast's mouth.
After a while, the wound on Gu Fuyou's hand healed. Du Pan didn't know what kind of magic medicine he used on her. Unless the blow was fatal, the wound would always heal. Although she wanted to die slowly by bleeding, she was afraid of losing too much blood and fainting. Instead of dying, she was discovered by the Zuo family first.
Gu Fuyou slashed her left hand again, feeding the blood into the mouth of the spirit beast. Her eyes were cold, and she said, "The Zuo family did everything they could to finally get this thing, but I don't want them to succeed again. They don't deserve to use it."
Gu Fuyou looked into the golden eyes of the spirit beast. Seeing those eyes gave her some comfort, even if it was minimal. "Help me..."
The spirit beast responded vaguely. Gu Fuyou had been with it for some time, and she could roughly understand some of its simple emotions. It responded.
Gu Fuyou said: "Eat me."
The spirit beast's eyes suddenly widened and became round. It retracted its head and stopped drinking the blood.
Gu Fuyou said, "Eat me, your spiritual power will recover, and your cultivation will be twice as effective with half the effort. Sooner or later, you will be able to break free and get out of here. What's wrong with that?" She wanted to die, but even if she died, she didn't want even a little bit of Qilin marrow to fall into the hands of the Zuo family. She was just using the stone spike, she was afraid that if she survived in the end, Zuo Yuezhi would definitely not give her a second chance to commit suicide.
It must be killed with one blow. The best way is to feed the spirit beast so that the Zuo family cannot get any Qilin marrow, and it also gives it a chance to get out. It is a best of both worlds approach.
"Don't you want to go out?"
The spirit beast nodded, then shook its head, very slowly, but the meaning was clear. It wanted to go out, but it didn't want to eat her. Gu Fuyou said, "I don't want to be trapped here for the rest of my life, watching them rise to higher positions with the help of my loved ones."
Gu Fuyou took two steps closer to it: "If it is you, you should understand me. Help me, even if you kill me."
The spirit beast shrank back and looked at her for a long time, then slowly stretched its head back and licked the blood off her arm with its tongue. Gu Fuyou thought that it probably still didn't want to eat him.
She found it funny that the spirit beast, who had only known her for a while, was unwilling to eat her to escape even if it still had some animal nature. However, the Zuo family, who were also human like her, would do anything to skin her alive and suck her blood and marrow. Their greed made them scarier than wild beasts.
Gu Fuyou couldn't help feeling disappointed. Maybe she really wanted to commit suicide with the stone spike. But even if she could die, she might still have to let the Zuo family take some of the Qilin marrow from her body. She was unwilling to accept that.
She was thinking of a way. The spirit beast growled, and Gu Fuyou looked at it. It was stretching out its tongue. Usually, the tongue was retracted in the mouth and was not easy to notice. Only when it was stretched out could you see how long it was. It put its tongue on the tip of the stone and stabbed it. When it retracted it, nothing could be seen. When it stretched its tongue in front of Gu Fuyou, she found that liquid was flowing out from under its tongue, but because the blood was black. Its tongue was also black, so it was not obvious.
Gu Fuyou held his hands and collected the black blood in his palms. The blood was illuminated by the light of the Night Pearl and had a dark red color, emitting a strange fragrance. Gu Fuyou looked at it and asked, "Can this help me?"
The spirit beast hummed. Gu Fuyou drank it without hesitation and said with a smile, "Thank you."
The blood fell into her throat, like a burning fire, and into her stomach, like a thousand knives stabbing and stirring. Gu Fuyou groaned and broke out in a cold sweat. She had a premonition that the poison in the blood of this spirit beast was very vicious and might turn her into a pool of blood, or at least contaminate her blood. She was in pain, but very happy.
She paused for a while, stood up and said, "I want to go back. We may not see each other again." Although she wanted to untie some of the restraints for it, her spiritual power was sealed, and she had no magic weapons or talismans on her body, so she could not break the formation. The steel nail-like object was nailed very deep, and she was unable to pull it out. She could only feed it more of her own blood.
When Gu Fuyou reached the steps, he heard the low roar of the spirit beast behind him, whimpering like a baby crying. Gu Fuyou turned around and said to it, "You must practice well. One day, you must break free and get out of here."
She returned to the room and just as she closed the mechanism, the door was pushed open. The monk saw her lying under the bed and asked alertly, "What are you doing?"
Gu Fuyou stood up slowly and said, "I didn't do anything."
The monk took another look at her before walking forward with another person to take her to Zhuling Duantai.
Gu Fuyou had heard of Zhuling Broken Terrace. It stood in the clouds and mist, facing the rising sun. For the Zuo family, it was like the great hall where ancient emperors held court.
When she arrived, there were already many people on the Zhuling Stage, all of whom were handsome and elegant. There were many people that Gu Fuyou didn't recognize, but from their clothing, he could tell that they were all from the four sects. There was a man sitting on the throne of the Zhuling Stage, looking down at her, with a slightly drooping mouth and a dignified look, just like the Dharma image she saw that day. He was the leader of the Xuling Sect, Zuo Taisui. On the step below his throne, Zuo Yuezhi and Zuo Qingfeng stood on his left and right.
Zuo Yuezhi said: "The blood in this woman's body is the marrow of the Qilin."
All eyes were focused on her, she was like a lamb waiting to be sold, those eyes peeled her, she seemed to be standing naked in front of them.
One of them put his hands in his sleeves and said, "Brother Zuo, this Qilin marrow is a rare treasure that can seize the mysteries of heaven and earth and condense the essence of the universe. It should be a treasure bestowed by God to all immortal cultivators in the world. I think that if we want to divide it today, we should treat everyone equally."
Gu Fuyou sneered twice. Why, she was no longer a person, but the property of millions of people in the world. She was something that should have belonged to them. She said, "The so-called gift from heaven has become a fig leaf for your greed. The Cangwu Sect, the virtuous and benevolent, is all nonsense."
The elder of the Biluo Sect said calmly: "The Qilin marrow can help the entire cultivation world of the human race to reach a higher level, making the cultivation path more glorious and extending the prosperity of the immortal path for generations to come. It is an immeasurable merit. You from Xiaoyao City, for your own selfish interests, colluded with other tribes and abandoned the immortal path of the human race. You naturally cannot understand the righteousness of it."
Gu Fuyou sneered, "Elder, you are noble. Ugliness must be excused by goodness, and evil must be protected by righteousness. Those who do evil things will never say that they are evil. They all say that they benefit the people of the world."
Gu Fuyou looked at Zuo Taisui coldly: "Zuo Jiajiang exposed his greed, he is a real villain." He looked at the elders again: "You, who always talk about longevity, are hypocrites. You are birds of a feather, and you are the same."
Zuo Yuezhi smiled and said, "She must be resentful about the incident in Xiaoyao City, so she spoke rudely. It was also because my Zuo family did not handle it properly. You don't have to worry about it."
At this time, only the people from the Qianyun Sect were standing in a corner, silent.
Gu Fuyou glanced at Zuo Yue and said with a smile, "Everyone present here came for the Qilin marrow. You rule an entire continent. I don't believe that you are so incompetent that you can't see through the Zuo family's tricks. No one speaks for Xiaoyao City. The world is bustling, and everyone is seeking profit."
"People like you are not worthy of Qilin's marrow. In the end, it will all be in vain."
Zuo Yuezhi looked at her without saying anything. Gu Fuyou felt pain in her body, spreading from her stomach. She was sweating profusely. She took a breath and smiled at Zuo Taisui: "If the heaven has eyes, your Zuo family will be punished. Your future will be ruined and you will have no descendants. You want to become an immortal? Dream on!"
Zuo Tai Sui stood up and shouted coldly: "How dare you!" His voice was like the sound of ancient primordial chaos, pressing down heavily and shocking everyone.
Gu Fuyou suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood and collapsed to the ground. Her body looked like she had been tortured to death, with the knife cutting away her flesh bit by bit. She frowned, in great pain.
It hurts.
Zuo Yuezhi was shocked when he saw this and quickly said, "Dad." He thought that it was Zuo Taisui who hurt Gu Fuyou.
Zuo Taisui said: "It's not..." He didn't use his spiritual power just now, how could...
Zuo Taisui's expression changed and he said, "Du Pan!"
Du Pan hurried forward to check on Gu Fuyou's injuries. As soon as he touched Gu Fuyou, Gu Fuyou flicked his hand and splashed the black blood onto Du Pan, which stained his sleeves and was smoking.
The people on Zhuling's platform were shocked by this sudden change. Zuo Taisui said, "Du Pan, save her, don't let her die!"
Zuo Yuezhi and Zuo Qingfeng hurried down the stairs. The people from the sects couldn't help but come forward.
Black blood began to flow out of Gu Fuyou's seven orifices, and she seemed to be melting into a pool of black mud. She struggled to stand up, threw the blood on the people, and laughed hoarsely: "Don't you want this thing? Here it is, all for you!"
Those people looked at this man in astonishment. Gu Fuyou staggered a few steps, and felt that his time was up. He glared at Zuo Taisui and screamed with his last bit of strength: "Xu Ling Sect, I am watching your fate in hell!"
After saying this, she fell to the ground. She could feel her body melting bit by bit, and she knew that in the end there would be nothing left. This was good, this was good.
Before it disappeared from sight, I could vaguely see a white shadow in the sky, like a cloud.
"Aman!!!"
It was pitch black all around, with nothing in sight.
She was walking forward, and when she heard the call, she stopped, turned her head, and thought, it must be an illusion, no one in this world would call her A'man anymore.
She turned her head back and continued walking into the darkness without stopping.