This Is Definitely an Ally — Fight to the Death, Exterminate the Entire Clan
This Is Definitely an Ally — Fight to the Death, Exterminate the Entire Clan
A mountain breeze blew past, clouds and mist surging, the scene serene and lofty.
Gu Xianer stood gracefully beneath a tall ancient tree, her beauty peerless, her skirt hems swaying gently in the wind. Within her eyes was a crystalline luster, bright and moving.
“Old Ancestor, if you want to help me, then help me suppress his cultivation! Suppressing him down to the Honoured Lord Realm will be enough!”
“I want to defeat Gu Changge fair and square.”
She repeated what she had said to the Old Ancestor.
The expression on her small face carried a hint of cold aloofness and pride.
Off to the side, the Great Elder’s expression was somewhat strange.
This girl usually seemed quite well-behaved, but why did her words always carry a hint of Gu Changge’s brand of scheming and thick-skinned shamelessness?
Suppress Gu Changge’s cultivation to one realm below hers, and only then defeat him fair and square?
She could actually say something like that so naturally? It seemed she had picked up bad habits from Gu Changge.
If Gu Changge heard this, she probably wouldn’t get off easy.
Of course, if Gu Changge were here right now and saw this scene, he would absolutely be unable to resist giving Gu Xianer a beating.
Wasn’t it good enough to just cultivate properly and raise her realm? Why did she always feel the need to provoke him, whether there was reason to or not?
It seemed this girl Gu Xianer still hadn’t suffered enough beatings.
“Suppress his cultivation... why not just kill him outright for revenge?”
“Xianer, if that bastard Gu Changge is threatening you with something, then tell your Old Ancestor. No matter how arrogant he is, he wouldn’t dare act recklessly in front of me.”
Hearing Gu Xianer’s words spoken so naturally,
Gu Nanshan fell silent for a good long while before smacking his lips and speaking.
He still believed that during Gu Xianer’s time cultivating at Skyward Schloss, she had been coerced and harmed by Gu Changge, and was deeply afraid of him.
That was why she would say something like this.
After all... these words were just too wrong!
This little girl looked so obedient and clever — how could she have been frightened into this state by Gu Changge?
The enmity of having her bone dug out, and she didn’t seem to want revenge at all.
Had he misheard something?
“Old Ancestor, you’re overthinking it. You didn’t even get the facts straight before coming here, did you?”
Hearing this, Gu Xianer rolled her eyes slightly.
She now felt even more that this Old Ancestor was unreliable.
The Great Elder also shook his head inwardly.
Although this Old Ancestor of the Gu Family was very powerful, facing Gu Changge, he probably wouldn’t come out on top either.
After all, even someone with his own temperament had nearly been driven to stamping his feet in anger by Gu Changge.
When this yellow-toothed old farmer met Gu Changge, he’d probably feel the urge to slap that unfilial descendant to death.
“Oh? Is there something about this matter that this old man doesn’t know?” Gu Nanshan asked.
He was puzzled.
Judging from Gu Xianer’s behavior, she didn’t seem stupid — so how could she say something like that?
Could it be that those unfilial descendants of the Gu Family really were hiding something from him?
“Old Ancestor, you really haven’t sensed the hidden truth behind what happened back then?” Gu Xianer asked, her tone somewhat exasperated.
“Hm?” At this, Gu Nanshan was truly stunned.
“It seems... there really might be a little something...”
Gu Xianer’s confident demeanor made him suspicious.
Something like digging out a bone and maiming one’s own kin didn’t seem like something the Gu Family’s traditions would produce.
That was why he had been so furious when he learned of it.
He began recalling in his mind the scene when he had walked out of the Ancestral Land back then.
Apart from quite a few clan members wearing strange expressions,
everyone else had seemed perfectly normal.
The current head of the Gu Family, Gu Changge’s father, had indeed shown some difficulty and guilt over the matter.
At the time, Gu Nanshan’s heart had been filled with nothing but rage, and he hadn’t asked carefully. Now, with Gu Xianer’s prompting,
he suddenly began to understand a little.
Gu Changge digging out Gu Xianer’s Great Dao Bone clearly had some purpose behind it.
All these years, Gu Changge had been praised as an Avatar of True Immortal, but what he relied on was not Gu Xianer’s Great Dao Bone.
“Gu Changge’s hidden Talent seems to be a Space Talent...”
“Although the Great Dao Bone is powerful, compared to a Space Talent, it actually wasn’t something he absolutely had to dig out.”
Gu Nanshan narrowed his eyes. Led along by Gu Xianer, he too instantly felt this matter was full of suspicious points.
Only, in front of Gu Xianer, how could he, the Old Ancestor, act like he understood nothing?
So he coughed lightly, his expression turning solemn, and said, “I didn’t expect you to have noticed it too, Xianer. Originally I didn’t know how to explain this matter to you, but since you’ve already figured it out, that’s for the best...”
Although he was completely in the dark about this matter, utterly bewildered inside,
that didn’t stop him from maintaining the dignified bearing of an Old Ancestor before Gu Xianer.
Hearing this, Gu Xianer couldn’t help but reveal an “as I expected” expression.
This was exactly as she had thought.
She didn’t doubt Gu Nanshan’s words at all.
“Then why did you say those things just now, Old Ancestor?” she asked with a frown.
Even if no one told her the truth of this matter, she would investigate it herself.
Besides that, she had other things to do — she wanted to find her parents and grandfather, who had gone missing in some Dimensional World.
“Ahem, wasn’t that just because I was afraid you couldn’t accept it, so I said it that way? By now you should understand that fellow Gu Changge’s painstaking good intentions, right?”
Hearing this, Gu Nanshan’s old face turned stern, and he coughed lightly again as he spoke.
As for what painstaking good intentions Gu Changge had, he had no idea.
These words were just said offhand. But thinking about it, since Gu Changge had dissolved much of Gu Xianer’s hatred toward him, the starting point was still good.
He didn’t want to see the family split apart, with kin slaughtering kin.
Saying this could also count as finding an excuse for Gu Changge.
Since Gu Xianer was fine and didn’t harbor much killing intent toward Gu Changge, it would be best if this hatred could be dissolved.
Only, this way, it was somewhat unfair to Gu Xianer.
“Gu Changge’s painstaking good intentions?” Gu Xianer was stunned.
Her expression suddenly became complicated.
During this period, she had also come to understand — many simple things became clear with just a little thought.
Gu Changge’s goal all along had actually been to make her hate him, to use him as the target she chased, and then grow strong enough to defeat, or even kill him?
What exactly was his purpose in tempering her?
This was already something that guilt alone couldn’t explain.
Gu Xianer felt this was the greatest secret Gu Changge had been hiding all along.
If Gu Changge were here and heard this entire series of exchanges between Gu Nanshan and Gu Xianer, he would absolutely be unable to hold back his laughter.
This Old Ancestor was, through and through, an ally!
His words, hitting the mark by pure accident, had truly fallen right into Gu Changge’s lap.
To put it bluntly, he had even saved Gu Changge quite a bit of effort.
“Yes, Gu Changge’s painstaking good intentions.”
At this, Gu Nanshan couldn’t help but reveal a somewhat meaningful smile.
This scene left even the Great Elder at the side somewhat dazed, wondering whether he had misjudged Gu Changge — was he actually a good person?
But... after thinking it over left and right, he really couldn’t fathom how the words “good person” could have the slightest connection to Gu Changge.
These were a person and a word that had absolutely nothing to do with each other!
“But looking at it from another angle, although the Demonic Energy in Gu Changge is innate, apart from certain moments, his behavior has actually been quite normal.”
“He is not truly some heretical demon...”
The Great Elder couldn’t help but begin doubting his own earlier judgment.
Afterward, Gu Xianer was taken along by the two of them, transforming into a divine rainbow that shot into the sky and left this place.
The Celestial Ancient Continent would soon fall into great chaos, with various orthodoxies descending upon it. Gu Xianer, alone and unprotected, would be in great danger.
This training expedition was already over; there was no need to continue it.
And no matter what, Gu Xianer carried the bloodline of the Longevity Gu Family and was the personal disciple of the Great Elder of Skyward Schloss.
At a time like this, how could they just leave her be?
...
The Celestial Ancient Continent had not known a moment of peace lately.
The great orthodoxies and great sects all dispatched experts rushing over, to suppress the Celestial Ancient Races and uphold their dignity.
The Celestial Ancient Races were naturally both anxious and furious, and they hated the Feathered Clan — the culprit behind all of this — to the bone.
If the Feathered Clan hadn’t crossed the bottom line, how could something like this have happened?
Of course, many clans also hated Gu Changge to the bone, believing he was the root of it all.
In their minds, Gu Changge was simply the incarnation of evil, willing to use every despicable means to nibble away at the interests of the Celestial Ancient Continent.
First he killed Long Teng, the leader of the younger generation of the Celestial Ancient Races, then provoked the anger and hatred of everyone on both sides, creating a situation of mutual slaughter.
He himself sat back and reaped the fisherman’s profit.
Later on, he even schemed against the entire Celestial Ancient Races, drawing outside orthodoxies to descend and purge everything.
The cause and effect of the whole affair was already very clear.
Without Gu Changge, none of these things would have happened.
Many living beings feared this terrifying, tremor-inducing young man to the extreme.
But many living beings also hated him to the bone, practically wishing they could cut him into a thousand pieces and grind his bones to dust.
Of course, for many of the older generation of the Celestial Ancient Races, this was a case of “if you want to condemn someone, you’ll never lack a pretext” — what the outside orthodoxies wanted was merely an excuse and a justification.
As it happened, Gu Changge had created just such an opportunity for them.
Rumble rumble!
At the same time, high in the skies above the Celestial Ancient Continent.
One Copper Ancient Battleship after another appeared, crushing through the air, incomparably massive, like continents floating and sinking between heaven and earth, casting terrifying demonic shadows.
A host of experts from the Primal Celestial Temple had already descended upon this place.
A middle-aged man clad in golden armor stood with his hands behind his back, shrouded in radiance, dazzling and brilliant.
“Young Master Changge was ambushed with a Transcendent grade weapon by the Feathered Clan.”
“How should this enmity be settled?”
He stood atop a Copper Ancient Battleship, robes flapping, gazing at the city not far away, his expression cold as he spoke.
The ancient city ahead was like an enormous feathered being crouched upon the earth, looking majestic and towering.
Seen from afar, the city walls weren’t all that tall...
But it covered a vast area, and within the city, countless wisps of blood qi could faintly be seen spreading.
That was the manifestation of the many experts of the Feathered Clan gathered together.
Hearing the golden-armored middle-aged man’s words, from within the Copper Ancient Battleships behind him rang out voices brimming with killing intent that soared to the heavens.
“Fight to the death, exterminate the entire clan!”
“Fight to the death, exterminate the entire clan!”
Such earth-shaking voices seemed to contain a monstrous rain of blood.
They reverberated beneath this stretch of sky, causing the expressions of the many Cultivators and living beings nearby to change drastically, all struck with horror.
The Cultivators from the outside world in particular felt their very souls tremble.
The domineering might and fierce protectiveness of the Primal Celestial Temple was not a matter of a day or two.
Now this host of experts had come charging over from the outside world in overwhelming force, halting right outside the ancestral grounds of the Feathered Clan.
Their purpose was already abundantly clear!
“The Feathered Clan has truly run into terrible luck, getting targeted by the Primal Celestial Temple. Even if they don’t die, they’ll probably lose a layer of skin!”
“These are a bunch of demonic lunatics!”
“Beat the young one, and a whole crowd of old ones shows up...”
Watching this scene, many Cultivators turned deathly pale and kept far away.
Never mind that the Feathered Clan held absolutely no moral ground in this matter.
Even if they did hold the moral ground, before the Primal Celestial Temple, it would be utterly useless.
Gu Changge’s background was, across the entire Beyond, absolutely the kind no one dared lightly provoke.
Even saying a single bad word behind his back had to be done with utmost caution, for fear of being overheard.
“Well said! It has always been us bullying others — no one has ever dared bully their way onto our heads!”
“The Feathered Clan deserves execution!”
Aboard the Copper Ancient Battleship.
As he spoke, the golden-armored middle-aged man smiled coldly and kicked the pale-faced, handsome Feathered Clan man beside him whose cultivation had been sealed.
This man was none other than the current Successor of the Feathered Clan, Yu Xuan.
He was also Yu Jing’s childhood sweetheart — the two had grown up together and were deeply close.
But Yu Jing had been brutally killed by Gu Changge, which filled him with rage and surging hatred, practically making his hair bristle with fury.
Yet there was nothing he could do.
Now, hearing the golden-armored middle-aged man’s words,
his face was incomparably ashen and unwilling, while also filled with monstrous fury.
“You’ve got some nerve! Do you know who I am? You’re trying to start a war with my Feathered Clan!”
Yu Xuan roared low, feeling utterly humiliated at this moment.
He had been out training, seeking an opportunity for a breakthrough, planning to find Gu Changge for revenge.
Then, halfway back to his clan, he had been ambushed by the experts of the Primal Celestial Temple.
His Quasi-Sacred Realm guardian had been surrounded and killed on the spot in an instant.
Then he was suppressed and tossed onto the Copper Ancient Battleship, brought along with the host of Primal Celestial Temple experts to the outskirts of his clan’s grounds.
“Don’t be impatient. The Young Master hasn’t arrived yet — the good show hasn’t begun.”
“And you needn’t rush either. Very soon the Young Master will send you down to accompany that childhood sweetheart of yours. Not a single one of your clansmen will be missing either.” The golden-armored middle-aged man smiled coldly.
“You’re going too far! You’ll suffer retribution for this!” Yu Xuan roared, his face deathly pale, caught between fury and terror.
From this middle-aged man’s words, he could already foresee the fate awaiting the Feathered Clan.
...
The Mountains of Horizons, shrouded in dense immortal light.
If any Cultivator happened to come here at this moment, they would be shocked to discover that this place had become a pure immortal sanctuary — calling it a blessed land of the immortals would be no exaggeration.
Wisps of celestial aura drifted between heaven and earth, crystalline and pure, giving one the feeling of being about to ascend.
Within the stone chamber, Yue Mingkong’s entire body was crystalline and translucent, her bright eyes deep and calm, appearing ever more otherworldly.
She was also refining the Celestial Runes here.
Her whole being had obtained tremendous fortune.
Before, she had only gained a sliver of benefit through the crack of the door.
But now, Gu Changge had opened the entire gateway, and incomparably dense Celestial Runes rained down like a downpour.
Although she was standing guard outside for him, she too had reaped enormous benefits.
Rumble rumble!
And at this moment, within that stone gate, the rain of light grew ever more hazy and vast.
From within that boundless, mysterious world came sounds of violent upheaval, like a chaotic barrage of thunderclaps crashing down.
Dong dong dong...
Yue Mingkong looked over in puzzlement, only to see a figure within, a Grand Flask hovering above his head, his whole body scorched black and looking somewhat bedraggled, rapidly charging out from inside.
Behind him followed vast, surging thunder, dense and endless.
An endless expanse of lightning sea, with all manner of bizarre and terrifying creatures emerging within it, striking out bolts of lightning of every color with a wave of their hands.
Some, just in size alone, came crashing down like mountain ranges, their might heart-palpitating.
Among them was even mixed a terrifying Sacred might!
This made Yue Mingkong’s heart tighten.
Gu Changge had actually already broken through to the Sacred Realm. This shocked her to her core, even made her tremble.
Was this his true cultivation?
Never mind his peers — even among the older generation, there were probably few who could match him.
Powerful to the point of despair.