Ever since he entered Juxian Tower, Gu Chen has been listening to all kinds of comments without thinking about himself. Of course, some of them are true and some are false, some he knows and some he doesn't know. He just listens quietly, like this There is no harm in hearing the news, but if you want more accurate news that can be taken seriously, you still need to pay a certain price and get it from specialized channels.
But now Gu Chen couldn't help but pricked up his ears.
What he heard now was not rumors about Liu Zhen, Chen Ying, or Luo Cheng, but about himself. Although he knew the truth of what these people said, and even the people who discussed it were mostly hearsay, But he still cares a little about what others think of him.
"Speaking of this Gu Chen, he is actually quite mysterious. Although he was adopted by Qingyangzi as his adopted son, he is not a disciple of Qingyangmen after all. But because of this status, he lives in the Donglai Peak of Qingyangmen, that I heard that Donglai Peak is the peak where Qingyangzi is located. It is a paradise in this world. Even in Qingyang Gate, not everyone can approach it easily. It is the most unique peak in Qingyang Gate."
It is said to be the most unique mountain peak in a fairyland, but it is better to say it is an isolated, crude and desolate mountain peak...
Gu Chen sighed secretly, resisted the urge to correct such remarks, and continued to listen.
"To be favored by Qingyangzi and adopted as his adopted son, Gu Chen's qualifications are also very high. It can be said that he is on par with Liu Zhen. Although he cannot practice the Qingyang sect's top skills, Qingyangzi Who is he? Any skill he picks out is much better than those second- and third-rate immortal sect skills. With Qingyangzi's teachings, Gu Chen's cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds."
Gu Chen smiled bitterly, his cultivation progressed very quickly, especially after mastering the Lan Jue, his cultivation speed was even faster than on Kunlun Mountain. However, the reasons are complicated and it is difficult to explain in one sentence, but these words... No, it should be said that it was the person who spread the rumor. How could he tell the rumor as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
"However, no matter how fast he improves his cultivation, he still has a rather embarrassing status. I don't know what position Gu Chen should be placed in the Qingyang Sect. But he is also related to Qingyangzi, so it is inevitable that he will become a disciple of Qingyang Sect. The focus of attention is often compared with Liu Zhen. After all, one is the disciple of Qingyangzi and the other is the adopted son of Qingyangzi. Both of them are people with extraordinary talents. Who is better and who is weaker? They also care about who is stronger, so the two of them participated in the Qingyang Competition together."
Gu Chen silently poured himself a cup of tea, drank it, and then poured another cup.
"In the Qingyang Competition, these two people were neck and neck. The battle was extremely fierce, but it was hard to tell the winner. In the end, they won the championship together and took all the generous rewards of the Qingyang Competition, which was enough for Donglai Peak. Qingyangzi was very happy to save his face. He took them back to Donglai Peak and guided their practice more carefully. When Kunlun was destroyed and the Ghost Sect went south, it was also said that auspicious mulberry trees grew in the East China Sea and the world of immortality was in chaos. Those two people were successful in practice. After leaving the Qingyang Sect, I entered the world and gained experience, curing ghosts and subduing demons along the way. Compared with others of my generation, I can be said to have taken the limelight."
Gu Chen couldn't listen anymore, and felt that the tea in the cup became tasteless as he drank, so he couldn't help but murmured: "It's much worse than agarwood tea."
His grumbling words were buried in the storyteller-like voice, and did not stir up even a single wave. Those people continued to discuss. Gu Chen felt bored and slowly withdrew his sword sense, but he caught A layer of chaos.
In the inn, there seemed to be some people who had some reaction because of those people's remarks. I don't know if they were interested in Gu Chen or Liu Zhen in the discussion, or if they were interested in some other anecdotes about the world of immortality that were either true or false. There was a reaction, but it was like some people noticed it and some didn't, and some people noticed it but pretended not to notice it and continued the original topic.
"The topic that started just now is either the Qingyang Sect or the Yinnu Cult, Gu Chen or Liu Zhen. There are only so many sects that have been talked about, and there are only so many characters. Do the immortal cultivators in the Central Plains have such a little knowledge? ?”
Juxian Tower became quiet for an instant, and everyone turned their attention to the place where the sound came from. They saw two men and a woman sitting at a table. One man was holding his neck, and the other man was lowering his head. There was a look of fear, and the woman looked at everyone curiously and a little worried.
Even Gu Chen couldn't help but look over. The three people were about the same age as him, and two of them looked slightly younger than him. Of course, practitioners never look at their age based on their appearance, but if they are similar in age, they will look different if they meet each other. You can also roughly know the slightest feeling at the time.
The quiet atmosphere only appeared for a short time. After all, what I just said, not only offended the entire world of immortal cultivators, but so many cultivators present heard it, and heard it clearly, plus these three people He looks young and has little experience, so naturally there are good people who stir up trouble.
"What a loud tone! What do you know about this young man who has not yet fully grown his hair? From what you said, you look down on us Central Plains cultivators. You would say this. Could it be that you are not from the Central Plains?"
"Senior brother..."
The young man with a timid look on his face still lowered his head. He just gently pulled the person who opened the mouth, but he shook him away hard and said: "What are you afraid of? Doesn't what I said make sense? Why did we come to the middle school?" So? What have we been doing these days? Now that Xiangsang has come out, ghost cultivators are causing trouble in the world, and monster beasts have become rampant with the help of the increased demonic power in the world. But these Central Plains cultivators only know the people here and don't know our hard work. No one talks about what we do, and they may even take it as their own credit, what is this?”
Then he stood up and said to everyone present: "Yes, we are not from the Central Plains. We are from Changsheng Island in the South China Sea. My name is Ding Hui. These are my junior brother Fang Hua and junior sister Zhang Ru. I heard what you just said, It seems that dealing with those ghost cultivators is all due to you Central Plains cultivators, but along the way, we have dealt with a lot of ghost cultivators and rescued many mortals, so how come no one hears about it? No one talks about it?"
"Oh, I said where did this frivolous boy come from? It turns out he is from Turtle Island."
"What did you say!?"
Just like the Immortal Pavilion in the East China Sea, there is also a sect where immortal cultivators gather in the South China Sea, called Changsheng Island. However, in the Central Plains area, when talking about the Changsheng Island in the South China Sea, it is jokingly called Turtle Island, just because of the Changsheng Island in the South China Sea and the immortals who cultivate it. It's not as nice as the name suggests, it's a bit different.
The immortal cultivators on Changsheng Island in the South China Sea can be regarded as a part of the demon cultivators, but they are different from the demon cultivators of the Demon Sect. If you look into it carefully, they seem to have gone through evil ways, just because this Changsheng Island is not really an island, but It is a huge black turtle that has lived for endless years.
Before the founding of Kunlun, the Black Turtle had existed for endless years. No one could tell how long the Black Turtle had lived. All they knew was that it had been sleeping and almost never woke up. It was just always in the South China Sea. Drifting has no fixed position.
The black turtle is huge. Over the years, the turtle shell is covered with a thick layer of soil. Vegetation grows on the soil layer, becoming like an island. Slowly, people take root on the turtle shell and gradually prosper. At first, it was just a few mortals gathering around it, but I don’t know since when, someone began to gain enlightenment by studying the texture on the turtle shell, and gained incredible magical powers.
Those textures are originally the black tortoise that has absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon over countless years, and expressed the Tao on the turtle shell, which contains the principles of heaven and earth. Because the black turtle has not woken up, some people say that it is in nirvana, and one day that huge The turtle body will ascend to the sky and fly away.
However, when the black turtle was sleeping and enlightening, there were mortals living on its body like parasites, absorbing the demonic power emitted by the black turtle day and night, and using the demonic power of the black turtle, with the help of the texture of the turtle shell, it had the ability to practice, and gradually derived This kind of cultivation method can only be carried out on the black turtle. Without the black turtle, there is no way to make progress. Therefore, in the eyes of the immortal cultivators in the Central Plains, it is not the right way. They are just stealing the black turtle's way, and it is not complete. The practice of skills has limited one's own path.
The name Turtle Island is more like a kind of irony. Immortal cultivators from Changsheng Island will inevitably become angry when they hear this name.
