Gu Changge, Whose Heart Yearns for the Light, Is Deeply Offended
Gu Changge, Whose Heart Yearns for the Light, Is Deeply Offended
The brand-new status interface left Gu Changge thoroughly satisfied. After raising his leeks for so long, this harvest was truly one fat haul.
Nearly ten thousand Fatums, and close to two thousand Fortuity points.
On top of that, the rest of his gains were plentiful as well.
With this, he could now do many things, and many of his plans could be put on the agenda. Of course, the most important part was that he had conveniently accomplished his goal in the Overworld.
With Ye Chen dealt with, the Eight Barren Demon Halberd before his eyes would naturally become Gu Changge’s possession.
The inheritance of the Ancient Sky Domain actually didn’t matter much to Gu Changge anymore.
The inheritance of a mere Perfect Prodigy was something only a small fry like Ye Chen would care about. As a tall, rich, and handsome man of the Beyond, Gu Changge had no shortage of powerful cultivation arts and inheritances, let alone with the System backing him.
“Going by the Heavenly Path’s bonus reward from before, this Void Marrow should be related to the Fortuitous One. Could it be that Ye Chen had some hidden bloodline talent?”
“Well, even if he did, it doesn’t matter anymore.”
Gu Changge mused inwardly.
Then he sensed his current control over the void. This power could not only help him fight enemies, but also help him escape and hide.
After all, the Force of the Void was essentially the power of space, and even in the Beyond, not many forces had delved into this path.
Many divine abilities and supreme arts related to spatial power were exceedingly mysterious and powerful.
This could serve as another one of Gu Changge’s little trump cards.
“The three World Seeds can be set aside for now. I’ll fuse them when I have time. That way, I’ll have gained yet another method—refining an Internal World within my own body...”
Gu Changge thought, then his gaze swept across the great hall toward the Eight Barren Demon Halberd within, carrying a trace of satisfaction. This was his true objective.
Such surging demonic qi made his Demonic Heart stir restlessly. There was a deep connection and resonance between them, making him unable to resist the urge to take control of this supreme murderous weapon.
That way, after returning to the Beyond, he would have one more powerful trump card and something to rely on. It would make all the effort and schemes he had expended worthwhile.
“Gu Changge, what exactly did you do to me?”
Just as Gu Changge was figuring out how to get inside, Ye Liuli’s voice came from the side. At this moment, her expression was one of immense struggle and complexity—confusion, anger, and coldness all mixed together.
But the one thing missing was hatred.
She knew she shouldn’t be feeling this way, yet for some reason, whenever hatred toward Gu Changge arose in her heart, she felt a terror as if facing the majestic might of heaven itself.
This feeling caused her unspeakable agony.
This was absolutely Gu Changge’s doing. She regretted it now. Why had she been so foolish, thinking herself clever, only to have been toyed with in the palm of his hand all along?
“What did you call me?” Gu Changge glanced at her with considerable interest.
To be honest, he wasn’t all that interested in Ye Liuli herself.
The main reason lay in her status. As the little princess of the Ancient Immortal Races, she was deeply doted upon by the Ye Family’s patriarch.
With just a little exploitation on his part, given his identity as the Young Master of the Gu Family, obtaining benefits from the Ye Family would be a simple matter.
Otherwise, what use would he have for keeping Ye Liuli around?
Hearing Gu Changge’s somewhat cold and teasing words.
Ye Liuli’s mind went buzz once again.
That feeling from before returned. Before her eyes appeared that strange, bizarre ancient deity, its archaic and indifferent gaze fixed upon her all along.
It made her tremble from the depths of her soul, unable to resist the urge to submit.
“Master...” Ye Liuli cried out in utter humiliation, tears welling up in her eyes.
This was the great enemy who had killed her brother Ye Chen, yet now she had to call him Master.
How could she bear this? And worst of all, she couldn’t even stop any of it.
At this moment, Ye Liuli just wanted to faint dead away. Ever since meeting Gu Changge, nothing good had ever happened to her—she had suffered nothing but humiliation.
“Gongzi’s methods and schemes are far beyond anything Ye Chen could compare to. Opposing Gongzi, Ye Chen never had any chance of survival or hope in this lifetime.”
Watching all this, Yan Ji thought to herself, then her figure transformed into a wisp of crimson smoke and returned to the Soul-Mending Jade.
Compared to an ordinary ring.
The benefits of the Soul-Mending Jade went without saying—it nourished the soul and strengthened the Primordial Spirit. Even for many Enlightened Noble Realm cultivators, it was a treasure they would keep close to their bodies at all times.
It was just that Gu Changge had added an extra layer of shackles and Restrictions within the Soul-Mending Jade.
Unless he willed it, Yan Ji could not spy on the outside world through the jade.
This was also why he hated the old-grandpa-in-a-ring trope—being watched no matter what you did, with no privacy or secrets to speak of.
Gu Changge did things as watertight as possible, and he had taken this point into consideration as well.
Yan Ji understood all this too. She herself was not someone who liked prying into others’ secrets.
Especially for someone of Gu Changge’s status—his secrets were definitely not few.
What Gu Changge did was entirely reasonable, and she didn’t want him to misunderstand her either.
Besides, the Soul-Mending Jade was no prison. As long as she wished, she could appear at any time.
Thinking of all this, Yan Ji was quite moved. Gu Changge considered many angles in everything he did, leaving her free and comfortable without the slightest discomfort. This was completely beyond anything Ye Chen could offer.
Thereupon, she sat cross-legged in quiet and began nourishing her soul.
Back in that ordinary ring, she could only space out in utter boredom. Now things were much better—she could use the aura of the Soul-Mending Jade to recuperate her Remnant Soul.
Such a world-of-difference treatment—only after experiencing it could one understand just how vast the gap truly was.
“It easily pierced through the body of a Perfect Prodigy. With such heaven-rending might, it’s at least of Sacred Emperor Artifact grade or above...”
“Subduing it will probably take some effort.”
“I wonder if I can refine and subdue it using Fatums. After all, cultivation arts and divine abilities can all be leveled up with points...”
Meanwhile, Gu Changge was making his own calculations. Thinking this, he had already begun striding toward the great hall.
Boom!
A terrifying pressure descended upon him, as if an ancient deity were looking down from above, sending tremors through one’s very soul. But Gu Changge paid it no mind.
His Nature God’s Chant awakened, and his dark, fathomless gaze seemed to tear through the void in an instant, staring straight ahead!
Weng!
He pushed forward against the immense pressure.
He couldn’t tell whether this was the pressure left behind by the dead body of the Ancient Sky Domain’s master, or the inherent might of the Eight Barren Demon Halberd itself—it was practically as if a single wisp of aura could crush the very sky.
His Demonic Heart awakened at this moment.
Terrifying Demonic Energy began to emerge from Gu Changge’s body, and behind him faintly appeared the phantoms of world after world.
From every world came incomparably grand sounds of prostration, worshipping and kowtowing to a blurry demonic figure!
As if sensing this aura of shared origin.
The terrifying intent radiating from the Eight Barren Demon Halberd dissipated considerably.
Gu Changge felt much more at ease.
A few quick steps brought him into the great hall.
Weng!
However, at that very moment, an abrupt change occurred.
The corpse that had been pierced by the Eight Barren Demon Halberd and nailed to the palace throne suddenly began to hum and tremble, terrifying fluctuations emerging from it.
Strands of light flowed across its surface, and a blurry human figure manifested, as if it were about to come back to life.
“So this is how the inheritance was left behind. Good thing I already killed Ye Chen, otherwise there’d probably be some major trouble...” Gu Changge frowned and stopped, advancing no further.
At this point, anyone could tell something was definitely wrong here.
Normally speaking, for a person dead for who-knew-how-many tens of thousands of years to suddenly revive, there were only two possibilities.
One, he wasn’t dead. Two, this was an obsession or Remnant Soul he had left behind for his inheritance.
Judging by the current situation, no matter which it was, it was very dangerous for Gu Changge as he was now.
He hadn’t come to receive an inheritance—he had come to refine and take away the Eight Barren Demon Halberd. In other words, he had come to break the original owner’s seal.
With the original owner still having a remnant will left behind, how could it possibly let him off?
At this moment, Gu Changge quickly figured this out as well.
Following the usual script, the Fortuitous One should have fought his way through trials and tribulations all the way here, gained the approval of the Ancient Sky Domain’s master, obtained the inheritance, upheld justice, and reinforced the seal on the Eight Barren Demon Halberd another layer deeper.
But now, not only had he snatched the Fortuitous One’s fruit, he had even killed the Fortuitous One himself.
Gu Changge had no interest in this opportunity meant for the Fortuitous One—who knew whether there was some danger hidden within it.
“Come before me, and receive my legacy...”
At this moment, a figure began to emerge from the corpse, exuding a mighty pressure.
Wearing a purple-gold crown and draped in golden divine robes, he was like an ancient emperor.
He looked at Gu Changge and bellowed thus.
As a Perfect Prodigy-level existence, he was naturally the absolute master within this secret domain. All sorts of thoughts flashed through Gu Changge’s mind.
At the critical moment, he could shatter the domain and flee, but in that case, the matter of the Eight Barren Demon Halberd would all go down the drain.
“Forget it. I have the Domain-Shattering Talisman anyway. If things go south, I’ll just break open this place and leave...”
Gu Changge’s expression remained perfectly natural, and he quickly thought of a solution. The demonic qi all over his body rapidly retracted and vanished.
“Yes, Qianbei.”
He was quite composed, walking straight up to the corpse.
The master of this secret domain should have been an upright person in life, and presumably wouldn’t play any tricks. He wasn’t worried the man would suddenly attack him.
“A heart harboring wicked designs, a nature steeped in darkness...”
“My Dao of Light—how could it ever be passed on to you?”
However, the moment Gu Changge came to a stop, a gaze seemed to fall upon him from within that blurry figure, sizing him up.
Then that terrifying voice, carrying fury and outrage, nearly flipped the entire palace over, making Gu Changge’s blood and qi roil.
Fortunately, he had been prepared all along, constantly protecting himself with his magic power, or else he would have been injured by this thing’s shockwave.
After all, this was the handiwork left behind by a Perfect Prodigy. For him to deal with it now was somewhat troublesome.
But from another perspective, this also confirmed Gu Changge’s guess.
This thing had its own consciousness—it wasn’t some dead object. Thank goodness he had retracted his demonic qi quickly just now. Had he been a moment slower and let it see, things would have gotten ugly, and it certainly wouldn’t have spoken to him like this.
It would definitely have slapped him dead on the spot. After all, the supreme murderous weapon that killed him shared quite a deep connection with Gu Changge.
“As I recall, Ye Chen’s heart wasn’t exactly clean either. Not only did he lust after his own shifu’s body, he was jealous and hypocritical, and at critical moments he feared death while putting on a generous, unyielding act...”
“If it were the Fortuitous One standing here, would you have a whole different speech?”
Gu Changge was somewhat speechless and displeased at this secret domain master’s judgment.
As expected, it was nothing but malice toward him. As the villain, he felt deeply offended.
“Qianbei, please see clearly. Though this junior’s nature is dark, my heart in truth yearns for the light. I bear the will to uphold justice throughout the world, and the desire to save the common people at dawn...”
“Should Qianbei’s inheritance be entrusted to this junior’s hands, I shall surely punish evil and promote good, and never let it be sullied.”
But since this thing had consciousness, that made things easier. Once he dealt with this remnant will, subduing the Eight Barren Demon Halberd would naturally go much smoother.
Gu Changge’s face instantly took on the bearing of a righteous man of the orthodox path, and he spoke with righteous conviction.