The Old Folks of Peach Village, Xianer Brings Someone Back to Her Family Home
The Old Folks of Peach Village, Xianer Brings Someone Back to Her Family Home
And in the blink of an eye, several days passed.
The Beyond, the Outer Domain.
Deep within the Land of Abandoned Celestials.
Chaotic mist shrouded all directions, with magnificent and towering mountain ranges winding endlessly out of sight.
Accompanied by ancient trees stretching as far as the eye could see.
Ferocious beasts with heaven-shaking vitality roamed and nested here, like a forsaken land that had existed since before the creation of the world.
Ordinarily, no Cultivator dared to pass through this region.
Even outside the Land of Abandoned Celestials, one would be torn to shreds by all manner of powerful beasts.
Moreover, this place was filled with all kinds of miasma. Even if a Cultivator inhaled it, they would be left with a lingering ailment, difficult to purge. Over time, the Land of Abandoned Celestials became a forsaken land.
Very few Cultivators came here to temper themselves either.
Deep within, there sat a small village, not very large, looking quite peaceful.
The village had few residents, only about a hundred people, men and women, old and young, all with simple, honest faces.
But every single one of them possessed astonishing vitality, even giving off a feeling of being stronger than some Cultivators.
At the village entrance stood a tall and resplendent Peach Tree. Every peach blossom shimmered with radiance, crystalline like jade, with various divine chains of order hanging down, accompanied by strands of chaotic mist—truly wondrous.
“That girl Xianer, she’s been gone for so long. Who knows how she’s doing now? Back then Old Cripple said he was going out to take care of some matters, and he still hasn’t returned...”
“Old Cripple’s blade technique is unmatched. What matter could he not settle with a single slash? If that really doesn’t work, worst case, he just slashes again.”
At the village entrance, several old folks were gathered together, some puffing on dry tobacco pipes, some sipping tea, appearing quite leisurely.
But their appearances were all peculiar.
Some were blind, some were missing an arm, some had no ears, and some were mute.
At this moment, the one speaking was a blind man. He clasped his hands behind his back and sighed.
He was deeply worried about Gu Xianer, who had left Peach Village long ago, knowing she bore a blood feud as deep as the sea.
They still did not know what had happened outside Peach Village. They had lived in seclusion here for a very long time, almost completely cut off from the world.
If not for their worry about Gu Xianer, they would not have cared at all about what happened in the outside world.
“Xianer carries the inheritances of us few. Walking about outside, who could possibly harm her? Not to mention she has Lady Tao Yao’s protection. Let’s stop worrying over nothing.”
The one who spoke was an old man missing an arm. He chuckled, full of confidence in their shared disciple.
“I’m not worried about any of that. I’m just afraid that Xianer’s worry before she left last time will turn out to be prophetic—that she’ll bring back some sweetheart or other.”
This time, the one speaking was the village chief of Peach Village. He looked like a normal person—neither deaf nor mute, and not missing any limbs.
But those in the know were aware that he was actually missing his soul.
He was now merely a Physique.
His words made the expressions of the several old folks turn sour, because the village chief’s words had an eighty-to-ninety percent chance of becoming prophetic. Calling him a jinx, yet he could somehow predict quite a few good things.
But when it came to matters concerning Gu Xianer, it gave them all the feeling of a cabbage they had painstakingly raised for ages being rooted up by a pig.
“Someone’s coming!”
At this moment, the expressions of the several old folks suddenly changed. They sensed the branches and leaves of the Peach Tree rustling—shua shua shua—making sounds.
They all looked toward the distant mountain range, where divine rainbows seemed to streak across the sky, rushing in this direction.
......
“First Shifu, Second Shifu, Third Shifu, Fourth Shifu...”
At the entrance of Peach Village, a group of three stood there—none other than Gu Changge, Yao Yao, and Gu Xianer, who had traveled all the way to the Land of Abandoned Celestials.
Gu Xianer had taken the initiative to suggest coming here, and Gu Changge could not have asked for more.
Although the Land of Abandoned Celestials was fraught with danger, for the three of them, passing through it posed no problem at all.
Not to mention that the Big Red Bird by Gu Xianer’s side knew the way, was incomparably familiar with the route, and there were no twists or turns along the journey at all.
At this moment, Gu Xianer’s eyes were curved in happy crescents. She was overjoyed, greeting each of the shifus at the village entrance one by one.
The villagers of Peach Village also came out, gathering around, men and women, old and young—a lively scene.
They were all very happy and delighted at Gu Xianer’s return.
Several aunties even pulled Gu Xianer aside, asking about her well-being at length, and even asked what exactly her relationship was with Gu Changge at her side.
As for Gu Changge, he stood quietly at the village entrance.
A strange glint flickered in his eyes as he sized up the Peach Tree at the entrance of Peach Village.
In his view, compared to the Peach Tree in the image the System had shown him back then, it actually looked not much different.
It merely lacked that world-destroying might, and had gained a kind of natural tranquility. Moreover.
While he was sizing up the Peach Tree, the Peach Tree was also sizing him up.
To be honest, it was sizing up Yao Yao beside him.
Its branches and leaves shimmered, radiance cascading down, with a profound and mysterious aura circulating.
However, Gu Changge felt that its condition seemed somewhat off. Although he could sense the Source connection between Yao Yao and it, it could not seem to remember too much.
Perhaps in that world-destroying tribulation of Chaos Lightning, it had indeed suffered a great calamity and forgotten many things.
Moreover, Yao Yao herself seemed to have noticed that strange connection as well.
“Shizun...”
Faced with this situation, she was still somewhat worried and scared, and shrank behind Gu Changge.
“With your shizun here, it’s fine.”
Gu Changge said comfortingly. He trusted his own judgment—this Mysterious Peach Tree would not do anything to Yao Yao.
Yao Yao encountering it might even improve her condition. After all, the little girl had always been troubled by the fact that she could not grow up.
“Xianer, and this young gongzi is?”
At this moment, having finished catching up with her several shifus, Gu Xianer was just about to introduce Gu Changge to them, but the village chief of Peach Village spoke first.
His gaze carried scrutiny, as if guarding against a wolf, looking Gu Changge up and down.
“Did you forget what your shizun told you? When walking about outside, you must be careful and vigilant. Those good-looking men are the fondest of deceiving innocent girls like you.”
Another hunchbacked old woman also spoke up, with an exasperated look of disappointment. How long had she even been gone, and she was already bringing a strange man back to the village?
They did not directly make a move to probe Gu Changge’s origins. After all, Gu Xianer had brought him, and doing so would be far too rude.
Gu Xianer’s other shizuns also had varied expressions as they sized Gu Changge up and down, looking as if guarding against a thief, afraid he would abduct Gu Xianer.
Moreover, the village chief had just been saying he worried Gu Xianer would bring back a sweetheart, and the very next moment someone arrived outside the village.
This jinx of a mouth—what were they supposed to say?
It was not that they did not want to see Gu Xianer bring someone back, but they definitely had to look him over first, lest she be deceived.
“Xianer, are you bringing someone back to meet the family?”
An auntie also spoke up with a chuckle at this moment, feeling that the white-robed man before her was as handsome as jade, extremely good-looking, like a celestial being, with the air of a young god—an absolutely perfect match for Gu Xianer.
Hearing these words, Gu Xianer, who had been about to make introductions.
Her face reddened slightly, and she hurriedly waved her hands in denial. “Shizuns, what are you all guessing at? Things are not at all what you think...”
She also did not know why her shizuns and the aunties would speculate in that direction.
Could it be that she and Gu Changge really looked like a good match?
But they... were just cousins!
At this moment, the calm-faced Gu Changge finally spoke. “My surname is Gu. Qianbei, please do not overthink it.”
“Gu?”
Hearing this, the village chief and the others were stunned, and then their expressions eased slightly. Since his surname was Gu, that meant he came from the Family of Immortals behind Xianer.
Perhaps they had worried too much.
“Yes, I am Gu Changge. Greetings, qianbei.”
Gu Changge nodded and spoke again calmly, his expression not changing much.
“What!?”
“Gu Changge?”
“You’re the one... the Gu Changge who dug out Xianer’s Great Dao Bone when they were children?”
Hearing these words, everyone at the entrance of Peach Village was first stunned.
Then their expressions all changed, thinking they had misheard.
Shocked and horrified, unable to believe it.
How dare he come here?
Especially the village chief and the others, whose faces shifted repeatedly, darkening to the extreme.
Boom!!
A terrifying pressure emerged here, so much so that horrifying phenomena appeared in the skies above the Land of Abandoned Celestials—stars shattered, turning to dust and powder, shaking a million miles in every direction!
And this was with them deliberately restraining themselves.
Experts of this level had already reached an unfathomable depth of cultivation, capable of destroying everything at the slightest move.