Primordial Qi

Chapter 61: Reentering the Ancient City

Seeing Gu Qingxue's uneasy look, Gu Chenyu couldn't bear it anymore. He held Gu Qingxue's hand and went into the ancient city again together.

The ancient city was no different from before, except that there were a few more mysterious people.

"Dead, all dead." A dirty old man was talking to himself, muttering that everything was dead.

Gu Chenyu looked unhappy. This...

He looked at Li Tianxuan and there was helplessness in his eyes. It seemed that things here were getting weirder and weirder.

"Everything is dead?"

Gu Chenyu approached and asked. He didn't know if this was a person trapped in time, a phantom from the past, or the spirit of some big shot, but he was acting so nervous here that it made people feel uneasy.

Li Tianxuan shook his head, and it seemed that he could not get any more information from him.

Patting Gu Chenyu on the shoulder, they headed north to visit the inner gate.

A young man who looked like Li Tianjun was waiting for them on the ancient building and waved to Gu Chenyu and the other two.

Eight scriptures were summoned by Li Tianxuan to surround them to prevent them from encountering illusions.

"You are here." said the young man pretending to be Li Tianjun, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"Who are you?" Gu Chenyu asked. This guy kept using Li Tianjun's appearance, which made Gu Chenyu very angry.

"Are you angry?" the man asked.

"Who are you? Show me your true face if you dare." Gu Chenyu stepped forward and pointed at him angrily.

"I see. Then it's as you wish."

The fake Li Tianjun began to change, and finally turned into a gentle and jade-like young man.

"My name is Tong Ling. I am a sword spirit and also the sword of the owner of this ancient city." Tong Ling said. His temperament was not like that of the man in black. Instead, he looked more like a scholar.

"I've been with him the longest, and this face is most similar to his. No need to say more. What you know and what I know, I will naturally tell you. However, you two are different." Tong Ling came in front of the three of them in an instant and looked at Gu Chenyu and Gu Qingxue.

"It turns out to be the supreme treasure Tongtian Mirror." Tongling hooked his finger, and Gu Qingxue's face showed pain. A mirror covered with runes and engraved with inscriptions appeared from Gu Qingxue's dantian. The supreme treasure manifested various spiritual power changes and repelled Tongling.

"Even you choose to assimilate?" An expression of disbelief emerged on Tong Ling's face, but he was also relieved and smiled self-deprecatingly.

"She has the Tongtian Mirror, what about you? How did you get in?" Tong Ling looked at Gu Chenyu and said with a puzzled look.

Gu Chenyu also looked puzzled. What was he talking about? It was weird.

"Put away these eight scriptures. They are useless to me." Tong Ling waved his hand, and the eight scriptures returned to Li Tianxuan's dantian.

"Oh? There are two more souls." The psychic smiled. This group of people was quite strange.

"Since the senior is waiting for us, there must be a connection. Why do you explain it to us?" Gu Chenyu said with a fist clasped.

"Who said I was waiting for you? There was only one person I was waiting for, but you two variables broke in." Tong Ling's tone was a little helpless. How come this Tongtian Mirror came over to join in the fun?

"That's right. People in later generations don't understand that past, so it's pointless to tell you about it." Tong Ling said, and then led them inside.

Gu Chenyu didn't know why his heart was beating so wildly. He always felt that something strange was about to happen, or some big secret was about to be revealed.

"The living space of people in later generations is still too narrow." The psychic seemed to sigh, and then many pictures appeared around it.

"There is not much I can tell you. The rest depends on you to figure out on your own, or you can go to other places to look for the reason. It doesn't matter whether you take one person or three people. Let's go." Tong Ling took a step forward, and the three of them felt that the surrounding scenery kept changing, and they actually came to a place in space.

"Hey, this, this, where are we now?" Gu Qingxue said fearfully. They came to a place in space, and under their feet was a continent.

"Don't be afraid, this is just a picture drawn by an artist. It is more realistic. We have now entered the world in this painting."

After the spiritualist's explanation, the three of them sat cross-legged on the ground and listened quietly. After listening, they felt cold all over and dared not speak.

The place where they were was a corner of the human world, composed of countless stars. Due to an accident, this corner was cut off from the human world, along with a part of the true spirit that left, floating in the universe, the stars exploded, the continents merged, and countless powerful people merged these shattered stars to form the current continent, which was named the Human World, or the Zhenwu Continent.

After drifting in the universe for an unknown amount of time, the Zhenwu Continent finally arrived at the Xianwu Spiritual World. The so-called Xianwu Spiritual World is actually another world composed of countless planes and galaxies, and its combat power is almost the same as that of the human world.

If outsiders want to gain a foothold, war is inevitable. After nearly ten thousand years of fighting with the creatures of the immortal martial arts world, the high-level combat power of the cultivators here is almost extinct, and the continent has been shattered and torn into pieces.

A large intact continent suddenly shattered beneath their feet, killing countless lives, and the Qianyuan Continent where they were was just a small part of the shattered continent.

Gu Qingxue was surprised. They thought Xingyue Continent was big enough, but they didn't expect Qianyuan Continent to be just a small dot in Zhenwu Continent. Gu Chenyu felt that this was normal, otherwise what he learned in his previous life would be fake.

"If you want to survive in this world, it is not enough to rely on killing alone. You also need to gain the recognition of the Heavenly Dao, otherwise you will be wiped out by the power of this world sooner or later."

"After going through untold hardships, Zhenwu Continent finally gained the recognition of the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Martial Spirit World at the cost of the lives of several human emperors. It can be regarded as a complete entry into the Immortal Martial Spirit World, and those terrifying forces finally stopped. We originally thought that we would stop developing here, but unexpectedly, it would eventually attract the covetousness of some creatures, and a war began again. This world also has powerful human beings. Even with their help, the death here is still terrible. We were even killed to only 30% of the creatures left, which is a more tragic price than entering the Immortal Martial Spirit World."

Tong Ling had a sad look on his face. There were too few humans in this fairyland. Instead, there were mostly monsters and spirits. They coveted the opportunities of the humans and took action to pick all the flowers recognized by the Heaven. However, he did not tell Gu Chenyu and the others about this. Even if they knew, it would not change anything and would only add to their troubles.

"Why are you telling us this?" Li Tianxuan asked in a deep voice.

"This is not a secret. These are no longer secrets of heaven and cannot be affected by backlash. Now that the conversion of spiritual power is stable, all the major ancient sects are preparing to return to the world, so it’s okay to tell you now. By then, there may be many more people whose bodies have been possessed. Not all ancient sects have the means to preserve them intact to this day." Tong Ling said.

Gu Chenyu's face was solemn. Possession? Then the thing called immortal in his body... He felt extremely heavy.

"Then will the sect that Senior Tong Ling belongs to also be born?" asked Gu Chenyu.

"They can't get out. They are all trapped here. The master gave them immortality in another way, but it doesn't seem like immortality, unless he comes back to release this state." said the psychic.

"Only the treasures here can move freely. They are considered to be the high-end combat power that has been preserved. These disciples should continue to stay here and wait for the future master to come here."

Gu Chenyu nodded to show that he understood. He didn't expect to know so much information this time when he entered the ancient city.

"Okay, you know enough. It's an opportunity for someone else to come in. You stay." Tong Ling looked at Li Tianxuan and said with a smile.

Tong Ling flicked his sleeves and a gentle force drove Gu Chenyu and Gu Qingxue out.

The two people who came to the door in an instant were a little confused about the situation. How come they sent us out while we were chatting peacefully?

The two looked at each other, and without saying hello to the four monsters, they went straight into the ancient city again.