The Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect — A Villain's Life Is Just Dull and Tedious
The Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect — A Villain’s Life Is Just Dull and Tedious
Yan Ji left the Gu Family with Gu Changge’s token in hand, and along the way, no clan member dared to stop her.
Gu Changge had just been established as the Young Master, at the very height of his power and influence.
This red-dressed woman—one look at her beauty, another look at the token of Gu Changge in her hand—and many clan members couldn’t help but let their imaginations wander in that direction, not daring to offend her.
Quite a few clan elders heard the reports from their informants but didn’t interfere. After all, she wasn’t a member of the Gu Family, and she was a Great Sage besides—following her risked discovery, which would provoke Gu Changge’s wrath.
Over the next few days, Gu Changge began preparing his other affairs. The matter of Fortuity Points had stabilized, and everything that needed arranging within the clan had been arranged.
Ming Lao returned with that exiled branch of the family to report back.
The Gu Family was stirred into quite a commotion.
Several clan elders welcomed them with hearts full of joy, and many clan members, seeing that Gu Changge didn’t seem to be merely putting on a show, softened their attitudes toward him considerably.
During this time, Gu Changge made an appearance to meet them, though he didn’t say much. He only secretly instructed his trusted aides to keep an eye on that branch’s movements.
Although he didn’t much care whether they could exact any revenge on him, keeping everything under his control was still for the best.
When the members of that branch learned that it was Gu Changge himself who had taken the initiative to bring them back to the clan—that there had been no coercion from the clan elders—they were utterly shocked.
Then their emotions grew incomparably complicated.
Especially when they heard several clan elders speaking of Gu Changge, saying he showed signs of a prodigal son turning back, of recognizing and mending his errors—they couldn’t help but fall silent.
For the Gu Family, this was ultimately a good thing.
But the hatred of those years could not be resolved so easily.
The humiliation and suffering their branch had endured, the pain that little girl whose Daoist Bone had been dug out by Gu Changge had suffered all these years—none of it could be settled with a casual, offhand apology.
Most importantly, they didn’t know where Gu Xian’er was, nor whether she was even still alive.
For the sake of the family, they could endure. But on the matter of Gu Xian’er alone, if Gu Changge did nothing, they absolutely could not accept it.
What’s more, Gu Changge hadn’t offered so much as a word of apology—he hadn’t said anything at all. When he arrived, he swept his gaze over them, seemingly counted heads, then turned and left.
This filled the members of that branch with boundless fury, yet they were helpless. After all, Gu Changge was now the Young Master.
But soon after, the seals within their bodies were undone on Gu Changge’s orders, and the cultivation that had been sealed away all these years naturally recovered...
Furthermore, many of their uncles who had been imprisoned in the dungeons were released.
This left their hearts in turmoil once again. Their feelings toward Gu Changge rose and fell, up and down—they simply couldn’t fathom what he was planning.
In the end, it felt like he genuinely wanted to mend relations, but due to his personality, he couldn’t bring himself to lose face by apologizing... so he simply did practical things instead.
For a time, their attitude toward Gu Changge was no longer as hostile as it had been at the start.
As the saying goes, to recognize one’s errors and mend them is the greatest virtue. If even someone like Gu Changge could repent, they felt the man was still salvageable.
At the end of the day, they were all of the same clan. These years of exile hadn’t actually involved much hardship—it was just the resentment and anger festering in their hearts...
Sensing that the branch’s attitude toward him had improved slightly, Gu Changge wasn’t surprised. Everything he did was, naturally, part of the plan.
If he had apologized, undone the seals, and released the prisoners right from the start, they wouldn’t have appreciated it—instead, they’d have thought he harbored ulterior motives, some sinister design.
But switch up the method: no apology, let them speculate, rage, and fume—then directly undo the seals and release the prisoners.
They would then conclude that he actually intended to repent, with no other agenda, merely unable to swallow his pride.
The same matters, handled differently, would certainly yield different results.
And the difference was as vast as heaven and earth.
Gu Changge didn’t consider his methods particularly brilliant—it just so happened that each time, he could find the sore spot and grip it just right.
After that, he began handling matters on his own side.
Since Su Qingge and Lin Qiuhan had both been brought up by him from the Overworld, he naturally had to settle them properly.
Having witnessed the grandeur of the Gu Family during this period, they presumably wouldn’t be bullied for their temperaments when they went to other sects and powers.
Su Qingge was clever—there would be no problems with her.
But Lin Qiuhan had a gentle nature and was pitifully naive.
Gu Changge always felt that, left alone in the cultivation world, she probably wouldn’t survive more than a few days.
However, considering her terrifying talent for alchemy, even at the Guild of Alchemy she would be fought over as a disciple—no one would let her suffer the slightest grievance.
So Gu Changge didn’t deliberate much further.
First, he found time to take Su Qingge to the Primal Celestial Temple, where his mother resided, and to visit his mother along the way.
The Primal Celestial Temple.
This was an ancient power located in Brahma Heaven of the Inner Domain, existing for an incomparably long time, with vast territories whose borders were hard to describe.
Due to its methods and style of conduct, the Primal Celestial Temple was called a demonic cult by the various powers.
Of course, things had improved somewhat in recent years. Through the efforts of the Temple’s disciples and elders, they had barely managed to polish the demonic cult’s image into something a bit more righteous and glorious.
Though even that could hardly conceal the demonic cult’s true nature.
Other orthodoxies and powers passing through Brahma Heaven all had to tread carefully, lest they get robbed.
Gu Changge was the son of the Primal Celestial Temple’s previous Saintess, and the Young Master of the Gu Family besides.
Naturally, his path there was unobstructed, and he found his mother in the midst of her cultivation.
The two chatted for a long time. Gu Changge recycled the same story he had given his father and told it to his mother.
It immediately made his mother’s eyes redden, her heart aching with pity as she cried out that her son had suffered all these years.
Gu Changge felt no particular guilt about this. In any case, the Demonic Energy had now been dealt with, and presumably his parents wouldn’t want to see the temperament he used to have.
As for Su Qingge’s origins, Gu Changge left that to his mother—he was quite at ease with it.
It just so happened that Su Qingge won his mother’s favor, so Gu Changge had her stay by his mother’s side for the time being.
It would also be convenient for investigating what exactly those memories of hers were.
After staying at the Primal Celestial Temple for a few days, Gu Changge returned to the Gu Family.
Then he took Lin Qiuhan to pay a visit to the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect, located in Purva Heaven of the Inner Domain.
The Inner Domain was a forest of heavens, its territories divided among different heavens.
Purva Heaven happened to border many alchemy worlds of the lower realms—there was even talk of a supreme Alchemy Universe, to which countless alchemy cultivators dreamed of ascending.
Among them were many existences at the level of supreme grandmasters of alchemy, whose casually refined pills were worth fortunes beyond measure. In terms of resources, few powers could compare.
And the connections that alchemists commanded were, likewise, a force not to be underestimated.
Though the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect was enormous and styled itself the number one great sect of alchemy, in recent years it had been overshadowed by the other great alchemy sects.
The main reason was that they had no good disciples.
Cultivators with alchemy talent were hard to find to begin with, let alone ones whose alchemy talent was up to standard—not just anyone with a bit of talent could be accepted into the sect.
Most of the time, they searched for disciples across the various regions of the Beyond, since alchemists ascending from the Overworld were rarely seen.
And even when one did ascend, they would appear at the edges of the Outer Domain, where many powers would have long since snatched them up and hauled them back to their sects as free labor.
So this led to these great alchemy sects genuinely lacking disciples.
They had abundant resources and lacked for nothing—nothing except talented disciples.
········Seeking flowers··········
Meanwhile, the various great orthodoxies and powers were also searching everywhere for cultivators with decent alchemy talent, to send to the great alchemy sects and earn benefits for their own houses.
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At this moment, amid veiled mountain ranges where immortal peaks rose and sank, silver waterfalls cascaded, myriad rays of rosy light shone, and Pill Qi permeated the air—the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect, a scene of pure immortal ambiance.
Among its various peaks, quite a commotion was unfolding.
Many Peak Masters of the alchemy peaks, hearing their disciples’ reports, came running out with faces full of shock.
“The Young Master of the Longevity Gu Family has personally arrived outside our mountain gate?”
Though the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect styled itself the number one holy land of alchemy, it was well aware that before powers like the Family of Immortals and the Cult of Immortality, it fell short by more than a head.
After all, they were alchemists—in heritage, legacy, and especially battle strength, they were far inferior to the Families of Immortals and the Cults of Immortality.
Before such colossi of the Beyond, even they had to feel timid.
Especially since the visitor was the Young Master of a Family of Immortals—an identity that even elders had to handle with care.
Hearing this report, many disciples and elders of the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect were stunned, hastily transforming into divine rainbows and flying over.
“So this is the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect that Young Master told me about? I could smell the scent of pills from far away—even on this mountain gate. The two words ’Alchemy Sect’ really carry a fearsome pill charm.”
Before the mountain gate, Lin Qiuhan wore a long blue dress, her face lightly touched with powder, making her all the more bright and charming. She was looking around with some curiosity as she spoke.
Hearing that Gu Changge was sending her here to learn alchemy, she was quite delighted.
After all, she was very interested in alchemy, and once she mastered it, she could help Gu Changge.
That way, she wouldn’t seem so useless.
“It is, after all, a renowned Guild of Alchemy of the Beyond. Though it looks a bit fallen on hard times, resources and such won’t be lacking. Most importantly, the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect is said to possess the formula for the Violet Supreme Alchemy Pill—an Immortal Pill that even immortals would covet.”
Gu Changge laughed casually, dressed in black robes, his figure tall and slender, standing beneath the mountain gate with what seemed like radiance flowing over his entire body, like a young deity. Many of the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect disciples ahead turned to look, secretly shaken.
And there was one more thing he didn’t say: the other great alchemy sects were fiercely competitive, unlike the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect, which had barely any disciples worth presenting.
In this sorry state, they could only rely on a bunch of old antique elders to keep up appearances.
A talent like Lin Qiuhan would naturally be valued all the more here.
As long as Lin Qiuhan could be accepted into the sect, Gu Changge would naturally reap a large haul of Fortuity Points.
And if she were designated the successor of the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect...
Tsk tsk.
Gu Changge could already picture himself doing nothing at all while Fortuity Points rolled in every day.
When that time came—lying around, casually adding points, bullying people when bored—a great villain’s life was just this dull and tedious.
Behind Gu Changge followed Ah Da, Ming Lao, and a host of trusted aides, their auras immensely powerful, which made the group of disciples ahead tremble somewhat.
The Young Master of the Longevity Gu Family, Gu Changge—what was such a prominent figure doing here, bringing a woman along?
They had long since heard of him.
Across the entire Beyond, among the most dazzling Young Prodigies of the current generation, this Young Master of the Gu Family undoubtedly held a place.
Gifted One, Avatar of True Immortal... too many titles to count, all testifying to his power.
They never expected to see the man in the flesh today, and it left them shaken.
Soon, waves of divine rainbows flew in from ahead, transforming into several figures that landed—none other than the current elders of the Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect.
“The Young Master of the Gu Family graces our Violet Supreme Alchemy Sect with his presence—we have truly failed to welcome you from afar. We beg your forgiveness.”
An elder wearing crimson robes, his face full of amiable smiles, cupped his hands as he spoke.