parentshiftbook #334 - Gu An was eliminated by the royal family
#334 - Gu An was eliminated by the royal family
A number of people died in Nine Heavens Pavilion one night.
Although it was nothing compared to the entire Nine Heavens Pavilion.
However, those who died were not ordinary people, so it was impossible not to take it seriously.
But even taking it seriously, there were many obstacles.
There were already some disputes within Nine Heavens Pavilion itself.
The people who died this time seemed to be mostly involved in the disputes.
It was the most powerful faction recently.
And other factions were targeting them overtly and covertly in order to weaken them.
As such, various incidents in the sect were difficult to investigate.
Listening to Zhao Qingshan talking about the affairs of Nine Heavens Pavilion, Gu An sighed with emotion:
"I didn't expect the situation here to be so complicated, it feels much more complicated than Cangmu Sect.
Cangmu Sect also has many factions, but the Law Enforcement Hall seems to be independent.
Although there may be cases where they don't investigate, if the incident is big enough,
they will arrest people when they say so."
Gu An had personally experienced it, so he could understand the horror of the Law Enforcement Hall.
There used to be cases where they didn't care, but now they seem to be very busy.
Perhaps it is because the sect is large and there are too many strong people.
As a result, there will be many factions, and no one is convinced by anyone else.
They argue overtly and covertly.
However, it shouldn't affect the bottom level.
In Cangmu Sect, it was always the bottom level bullying the bottom level.
It's not that inner disciples don't target outer disciples, but it happens less often.
At least I haven't seen inner disciples borrowing spirit stones from outer disciples.
Sighing, Gu An didn't plan to learn more about this place.
Instead, he asked about the two people who had been arrested.
After all, the other party was innocent.
"They should be detained for some time, your leader is too strong, so Nine Heavens Pavilion shouldn't wrong them.
If they really did it, it would be more troublesome," Zhao Qingshan said.
Gu An nodded, then the problem was not big.
After all, many of those killed were Return to Void Realm cultivators.
The two of them were not suspected in any way.
If there was a problem, it was their problem.
But without evidence, they wouldn't dare to arrest people casually.
It's really not possible to arrest Ye Xiu, an ordinary person.
Not to mention Chu Meng's side.
Soon, Cheng Yifei, who had left with the Law Enforcement Hall, returned.
Looking at Gu An, he comforted him:
"Fellow Daoist, don't worry, those two are currently fine, let's talk about this logging mission."
Hearing this, Gu An also cheered up.
It was finally starting.
In addition, he asked Zhao Qingshan to keep an eye on Nine Heavens Pavilion to see if they would secretly attack them.
After all, he was familiar with the matter of finding someone to take the blame.
It was very easy for him to become the scapegoat.
He had to be prepared.
In addition, he had to be careful that Nine Heavens Pavilion found out about them.
He didn't believe that those two didn't kill anyone, even if he was beaten to death.
Don't look at them like this, the problem is only bigger than Chen Changfeng.
After the mission is over, send them away quickly.
"Fellow Daoist, this mission of yours should start in three days.
Our Nine Heavens Pavilion has a secret realm, and many people will participate in this secret realm.
Of course, everyone has the right to obtain opportunities.
And what I want is to find the opportunities in the forest.
And this forest needs to be logged.
So I found you, Fellow Daoist.
When the time comes, I will give Fellow Daoist thirty people to cut down enough wood within six months," Cheng Yifei said, looking at Gu An: "The wood is naturally the same as last time."
Gu An nodded: "I will do my best to teach them, but my people must also go in together."
Cheng Yifei naturally agreed.
After all, with these two people here, their safety can also be guaranteed,
yes, even he needs Gu An's two attendants to protect him.
After all, he can't find such strong people to help him.
After dark, Cheng Yifei left.
Zhao Qingshan poured a cup of tea for Gu An and said: "Dean, he didn't say everything."
Gu An looked at the teacup and felt strange, why did the other party pour tea for himself?
You are just here to protect people, not really to be attendants.
Then he shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, there is no need to pay attention to what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't harm us.
Three days later, go logging, Senior Zhao will need to help at that time, you are good at teaching people."
"No problem," Zhao Qingshan nodded:
"In addition, does the Dean need to investigate anyone else?
The death of the previous one was strange, do you want to investigate it?"
Seeing that the other party was so diligent, Gu An was a little curious and said: "You shouldn't be planning to go out and kill people again, right?"
"Dean, you can't talk nonsense," Zhao Qingshan immediately said.
Gu An was silent.
Finally, he still said: "Go and investigate."
He hoped that the other party just had their own affairs and didn't kill people randomly.
If it was really found out, he would not be able to log.
He could only start running away.
Fortunately.
There was no news of anyone being killed the next day.
There was no news of anything happening in the next two days either.
However, more people came to Nine Heavens Pavilion.
They should all be here for the secret realm.
During this time, Gu An did not specifically investigate anything.
He came here for one purpose, and that was to log.
Chu Meng had looked for him, but nothing happened.
She simply came over to ask if he killed the people.
This was wronging people.
He felt that Ye Xiu and the others killed them.
Unfortunately, Chu Meng didn't think so.
As for the subsequent mission, it would be discussed after entering the secret realm.
He still had to go in and impersonate Zuo Youyan.
Mid-January.
The secret realm of Nine Heavens Pavilion was opened today.
Cheng Yifei came to find Gu An and Chu Meng.
They each took two people and walked towards the secret realm.
"This is the pass token," Cheng Yifei said, giving six tokens on the way.
It was a white jade token.
Just after putting it away, he found that some people's tokens were red.
"The secret realm is named Nine Lands, and it is said to have nine different regions, white can only go to the outermost region, and red can walk around at will," Zhao Qingshan said softly.
Gu An nodded, not caring, and didn't think the token was not good.
Chu Meng didn't say anything either.
Seeing that the two of them didn't care, Cheng Yifei breathed a sigh of relief, mainly because the token was too difficult to obtain.
Only the white one was the easiest.
If these two people had any opinions, it would be difficult for him.
After all, the Law Enforcement Hall didn't dare to arrest them.
I don't know when it started, but I feel a little humble.
These two people are the most difficult to provoke,
At this time, the secret realm had been opened, and everyone could enter on their own.
On the way, Gu An met some people, and those people looked at him from time to time.
It was a bit unexpected.
He hasn't been out recently, how could he be targeted?
"Someone knows the Dean's origin, or it's because of the Nirvana Dao Scripture," Zhao Qingshan explained again.
Gu An nodded, it seems that he has to improve his cultivation as soon as possible.
Who knows when the danger will come?
Soon, they entered the secret realm, because it was a white token.
They appeared on the edge of the forest in the outermost area.
There were dozens of people here, all waiting for people.
Feng He and Feng Qing were also here.
Seeing them, Gu An knew that this was their team.
And those people were all here to log.
Just glancing over, Gu An was quite surprised.
A total of thirty people, only six Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, most of the rest were Golden Core Realm, and a small part were Foundation Establishment Realm Perfection.
The overall strength was too weak.
He looked at Cheng Yifei on the side.
"Because some accidents have occurred in the sect, there have been changes in personnel," Cheng Yifei said helplessly.
Originally, many people in their faction supported him, but . . .
Plans are always subject to change.
Gu An didn't care much, but said: "I don't know what level Fellow Daoist wants to achieve."
"Six months, cut a road to the top of the mountain," Cheng Yifei said.
Gu An slightly raised his head and found himself in a deep forest.
In the distant front was a large mountain.
This small group of people, six months?
"It's difficult.", Gu An could only say. Before the other party could speak, he continued: "However, I can help you cut down trees. Don't underestimate my Golden Core; it's comparable to a Nascent Soul.
But if you want to complete it within the specified time, the road can't be too wide."
Gu An didn't even ask why the other party was doing this.
In short, he was here to cut down trees, and he wouldn't ask any unnecessary questions.
The other party would achieve their goal, and he would achieve his.
A win-win situation.
"Can't we just use magic to chop them down directly?" Zhao Qingshan asked.
"Senior can try," Cheng Yifei said.
Then, Zhao Qingshan approached the forest and gently patted a tree.
Finally, he retreated.
He was countered.
Attacking the tree was equivalent to attacking himself.
Unless the power exceeded the tree's limit.
"There should be a special barrier," Zhao Qingshan said.
"I'll see if I can cut it down first.", Gu An came to the front of the forest and randomly picked a tree.
He took out his axe and began to chop wood.
As he gently swung, he suddenly felt a sense of stiffness in his body.
There were also side effects.
And if he didn't adjust properly, it could cause his spiritual energy to solidify.
He might not be able to use spells in a short time.
The same was true for physical damage.
If he didn't control it well, his body wouldn't be able to move, and he might even turn to stone.
But usually, it wouldn't reach that point.
Eventually, he wouldn't be able to chop down trees, and he would gradually recover.
After trying for a while, Gu An found a suitable breathing technique, first passed it on to Zhao Qingshan, and then had Zhao Qingshan teach them.
Cheng Yifei then told everyone that they had to listen to whatever Gu An said.
In addition, he specifically explained that Zhao Qingshan and Ye Xiu were Gu An's servants.
One was a perfect Nascent Soul, and the other was a perfect Void Refinement.
It wasn't that he wanted to show off Gu An, but to let those whose cultivation was higher than Gu An's see the situation clearly.
So they wouldn't foolishly provoke someone they shouldn't:
Chu Meng sat on the side, drinking tea.
No introduction was needed; as long as you looked over, there would be a faint, cold pressure.
You would suffer a loss if you dared to look too much.
It took most of the day for everyone to understand how to chop wood, and then they picked up their axes and began to try.
They were all axes brought by Gu An.
Gu An stood at the front and began to lead the way in chopping wood.
One swing after another, and then faster and faster.
The others felt that it was quite easy.
So they started to do it.
But soon, they felt that their bodies were somewhat out of control.
Gu An, who was chopping wood in front, had no time to care about them.
He looked at the panel.
[Name: Gu An]
[Cultivation: Mid Void Refinement]
[State: Cyan Lotus Seed in Qi Sea, Profound Yellow Energy in Qi Sea]
[Skills: 6 / 50]
[Hard Cultivation: 78 / 100]
[Ring of Destiny]
He was almost done with hard cultivation.
The trees here were a little better than the Moon Trees.
And he could chop wood all day long.
If he chopped wood non-stop, he would have at least eight points a month.
That meant he could improve himself once every three months at most.
The late-stage Void Refinement self would be even stronger.
In addition .
There were strong people in this team.
One looked like a Golden Core, but was actually an early-stage Void Refinement.
There was also a perfect Nascent Soul.
They also pretended to be Golden Cores.
These people were very good at suppressing their cultivation, even more ruthless than him.
He didn't know what kind of people they were.
And this wood chopping lasted for seven days.
The others had to rest after chopping wood for one or two hours, but Gu An . . . . .
Seven days and nights without sleep.
Hard cultivation and skills were constantly increasing.
Making him more and more excited, but he still controlled his breathing well to reduce the side effects.
So he could chop wood better.
But the others looked at him as if they had seen a ghost.
Cheng Yifei understood for the first time what it meant to be good at chopping wood.
He was also chopping wood and could clearly feel how painful it was.
He had to rest for a while every hour.
But Gu An didn't sleep for seven days and seven nights.
They were all afraid that he would chop himself into trouble.
Zhao Qingshan was even more shocked that the team leader controlled the rhythm of wood chopping exceptionally skillfully.
It meant that his control of spiritual energy was also quite impressive.
As a late-stage Golden Core, the Dean could definitely suppress the other party.
Chu Meng drank tea for seven days.
She was already drinking herself silly.
She originally thought that Gu An would wander around after chopping wood for a while, and then she would follow him and start the task.
Who would have thought that he would be chopping wood for seven days.
She couldn't go over either.
She could only wait for the other party to rest.
However .
The days passed, late January, early February, mid-February, late February, early March, late March, early April.
A full two months had passed, and Chu Meng found that Gu An was still chopping wood.
Not to mention her, Chun Yu was also stunned.
She had never seen anyone chop wood like this.
He had been chopping wood non-stop for over two months.
One person accounted for one-third of the progress.
"Doesn't he get tired?" Feng Qing asked the people beside him with a shocked expression.
Zhao Qingshan had begun to admire Gu An.
But chopping wood like this was definitely not okay, and he decided to persuade him.
"Dean, why don't you take a break?" he tried to say.
Hearing this, Gu An, who was originally chopping wood, looked at the people beside him and said, "Take a break?"
"Yes, it's been more than two months, it's time to rest," Zhao Qingshan casually made an excuse.
Hearing this, Gu An put away his axe and said, "Then let's take a break."
Zhao Qingshan was stunned. He didn't expect the Dean to really rest. Were his words so effective?
Zhao Qingshan had just reached the limit of hard cultivation before he came.
His skills were only forty.
But there was a problem: how to advance?
There was no place to rest here.
After hesitating, Gu An looked at the forest and said, "Can I go in and see the situation?"
"Of course," Cheng Yifei immediately said.
Hearing this, Gu An said to Zhao Qingshan and Ye Xiu, "I'll go in and take a look; you stay here."
Ye Xiu frowned and finally said, "I'll follow the Dean."
Gu An paused and said, "Then follow me."
It would be too suspicious if he insisted on going in alone.
But how to get rid of Ye Xiu and the others?
He might as well continue chopping wood and wait until his skills were full.
Then, after wandering around, he started chopping wood again.
Chu Meng was numb.
Just as she was about to do something, a few uninvited guests came to the forest.
Zhan Tai Xiu walked over with two fellow disciples, with a smile on his face, saying:
"Junior Brother Cheng, long time no see."
Cheng Yifei frowned, feeling a little uneasy.
Cangmu Sect.
Above the main hall.
Qu Youdao looked at the letter and said, "The royal family has sent a letter. What do you think they said?"
Situ Baichuan said, "Is it still about the marriage?"
"Yes.", Qu Youdao threw the letter to Situ Baichuan and said, "The royal family said in the letter that the Reincarnation lineage is incompatible with the royal family. In addition, in order not to hurt your disciple's face, we can wait to announce it later.
In short, your disciple is out, but for now, she can attract attention, so it's just a formality.
So, there's no need to look at the subsequent contributions of the First Academy.
Speaking of which, how are the rankings lately?"