Gu Shengchao seemed to have fallen into an endless void, losing consciousness, seeing and hearing nothing, and floating in the wind. His body began to become crystal clear and emit a faint fluorescence.
"village owner, village owner, here." People in the distance noticed something unusual here, and more than ten people swarmed around while chatting.
The owner of the village, Meng Peilong, dressed in green and gray robes, walked over from the crowd. He stared at Gu Shengchao and asked, "This guy looks unfamiliar. He's not from our Mengyou Villa, is he?"
Master Mengsong replied: "This person is not from our villa." He asked other people around him: "Which of you knows this person?"
Everyone shook their heads and said they had never seen it before.
Meng Peilong said angrily: "I accidentally learned the secret here a few years ago, and spent all my wealth to build Mengyou Villa in this valley, just to obtain a once-in-a-century spiritual fetus, absorb the purest energy in it, and achieve dominance. I want to I kept this secret and didn’t even tell my family. I only informed a few of you a few days ago. I never expected that this unknown guy would get there first. Is this God’s will? I don’t believe it, take your life!”
He raised his sword hysterically and struck directly at Gu Shengchao.
Gu Shengchao was wrapped in a faint fluorescent light. Meng Peilong's sword struck the fluorescent light. With a "clang" sound, the sword bounced back and almost hit his own shoulder. Gu Shengchao was actually unscathed and was still in a comatose state.
"What's going on?" Meng Peilong felt unwilling, but he didn't dare to use his sword to strike again.
Mengsong took a step forward and said: "Master, you just said that this spiritual fetus is actually the transformation of pure pure Qi. I estimate that once it enters the human body, it will be used for its own use. It should not be fully integrated into the body yet. .”
The young master of the village, Meng Liyan, gathered everyone around and ordered: "Keep a close eye on him, I don't believe he can fly away."
Everyone was uneasy and waited beside Gu Shengchao with their swords in hand. Not long after, the fluorescence on Gu Shengchao's body gradually dimmed, and with a "pop", he fell from mid-air and fell into the grass.
Gu Shengchao also woke up from his daze. He first felt that the meridians throughout his body seemed to be broken, with severe pains coming one after another, twitching like spasms. He opened his eyes and saw the people around him. He was startled and wanted to get up and run away, but his arms and legs refused to obey him, and he couldn't move even after struggling. Wanting to speak, he opened his mouth and squeaked several words. Even he himself didn't know what he was talking about.
Meng Peilong stepped forward and said disdainfully: "It's really unlucky, I'm afraid he's mute!" He hesitated for a moment, then thrust his sword towards Gu Shengchao's shoulder. The tip of the sword easily penetrated an inch, and blood gushed out and dyed his shoulder red. Meng Peilong drew out his sword, wiped off the blood stains on the blade of Gu Shengchao, and said angrily: "You ruined my big job, and I will make you die badly. All of you, put away your swords and beat him hard for me, and go to Fight to death."
The several servants who were watching immediately put away their weapons, punched and kicked him like raindrops on Gu Shengchao.
The ancient sage could see and hear, but he couldn't move. The severe pain in the meridians throughout his body was as if his liver and intestines had been cut off, and the people who hit him with their fists and feet had no feeling at all. It wasn't until those people's fists hurt that the severe pain in his body slowly dissipated, and he finally felt the pain of those people's blows on his body, but he was also dying, and his breath was like a gossamer.
Seeing Gu Shengchao being beaten to death like this, Master Meng Song suddenly remembered something and stepped forward to report: "Master, I have a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not?"
"Say it!" Meng Peilong said angrily.
Mengsong said carefully: "We have raised many ferocious beasts in Mengyou Villa. We raise them carefully every day just so that these animals can develop inner elixirs for the owner of the village to practice. However, over the years, most of them have failed. Occasionally, they have failed to practice." The inner elixir produced is insignificant and has no effect. Now this person has absorbed the essence of the spiritual fetus. If he is raised as livestock to refine the inner elixir, I wonder if it will be of any use?"
Meng Peilong slapped his thigh regretfully and quickly stopped him: "Stop, don't fight, stop it."
Everyone was tired from playing and immediately stopped to rest.
Meng Peilong stepped forward and tested Gu Shengchao's breath, and saw that although he was unconscious, he was still breathing, but it was extremely weak. He ordered: "You guys will immediately carry him back to the villa to heal his injuries. If he dies on the way, you guys will be the ones to blame!"
Several people looked at each other, not knowing why they had changed their minds after they had just been told to beat him to death.
Meng Peilong was anxious and kicked the one who was still in a daze on the butt: "If you don't leave quickly, if he dies, I will bury you with him."
After hearing this, the man hurriedly carried Gu Shengchao on his back and ran towards the villa, and the rest of the people followed him and ran back.
Back at Mengyou Villa, Meng Peilong personally treated Gu Shengchao's wounds and applied hemostatic and anti-inflammatory drugs to the wounds. He couldn't sleep and came to visit several times during the night. When he saw that Gu Shengchao's breathing gradually stabilized and it was already dawn, he felt relieved and went back to rest.
Gu Shengchao was unconscious for another whole day and night, and then slowly regained consciousness. The severe pain from the wounds all over his body made him moan involuntarily.
"He's awake, he's awake, go and report to the owner of the village." The servant who was waiting nearby was extremely happy and wanted to fly to Meng Peilong immediately to report.
Not long after, Meng Peilong strode over. He inspected it and warned: "You guys carry him to the dungeon and remember to change the dressing on time every day. He has absorbed the essence of the spirit fetus. Just in case, he should be put on." Chain, please report any problems to me immediately.”
Gu Shengchao felt someone lifting him up. He opened his eyes to look, but his eyelids were swollen and he couldn't see anything. As his body moved, the wounds on his body were tearing even more painfully, and he couldn't help but moan again. After a while, he was finally placed on a cold bed with chains around his wrists and ankles. After someone applied medicine to his wound, someone helped him up and fed him some meat porridge, and finally covered him with a quilt, and then people left.
It was damp and cold, and the air was filled with the smell of blood. This was the only thing that Gu Shengchao could sense.
In the next few days, someone came on time every day to change Gu Shengchao's dressing and feed him. He was eating, drinking and having diarrhea here, which was miserable. What made him even more unbearable was the wound on his body. Although the pain was unbearable, he knew that these people had evil intentions, so he tried not to moan anymore, and gritted his teeth to hold on without making a sound. My arms and legs are my own, and I can feel the pain from the wounds on them, but I can't move even though I keep using them.
That night, he was beaten all over his body and his eyelids were so swollen that he couldn't see anything. When the swelling subsided, Gu Shengchao was finally able to see his surroundings. This is a dungeon with only a narrow skylight. There are candlesticks in the four corners that give off dim light. Going up a dozen steps, there is a heavy iron door. This is the only way for people to enter and exit the dungeon. There were some animal skeletons piled up in the corner, emitting a fishy smell. Gu Shengchao was lying on a stone table, his wrists and ankles tied with thick iron chains to prevent him from escaping.
After the wounds on Gu Shengchao's body gradually scabbed, someone carried the stone table away. He ate and lived on the dirty ground every day. The food has also changed from the rich chicken, duck and fish meat in the beginning to monotonous rice balls that are unpalatable and mixed with a nauseating smell of medicine. He couldn't move, and a guy with a rough face came over to feed him. Regardless of whether he ate or not, he opened his mouth and stuffed it in. If he spit it out, he would be punched and kicked. He couldn't eat without it.
No one cares about his feelings and treats him like an animal. As time goes by, the rice balls are simply big balls of medicinal materials mixed with some food, which is even more difficult to swallow. Under all kinds of torture, Gu Shengchao once thought of committing suicide and did not want to live anymore.
But when he had the strength to use his inner strength to inspect his Dantian, he made a surprising discovery. The originally fragmented Dantian was miraculously repaired at some point, and the zhenqi that could not be seen was gathering, lingering, and rolling inside like white clouds. The five swords are suspended above the vast sea of true energy, forming the "Five Soul Array", which becomes more and more vibrant when nourished by the profound energy. In the center was the sword he usually used for practice. It was vibrating and making a buzzing sound, as if it was about to break through the restraints and fly into the sky.
This gave him hope for life and the courage to live.
The ancient sage gradually got lucky, and his meridians seemed to be blocked, and he was always full of energy but not strong enough, and in the end he couldn't exert his strength. He expected that the ability of Dantian to repair itself must be related to the crystal-clear little person that night, but he couldn't guess the connection. He resented everything here and cursed the people who injured him and locked him up here.
Little did he know that if those people hadn't beaten him half to death, he would have been a dead man long ago. By some mistake, they actually saved his life. That night he absorbed all the pure Qi of the spiritual fetus, and the Qi continued to accumulate in his Dantian. With his current cultivation level, he could not absorb all the Qi. The final result would be his Dantian bursting and dying. The fists and kicks of those people helped him clear his meridians. The true energy circulated repeatedly in the meridians, inadvertently repairing his Dantian and greatly increasing his internal strength.
More than a month passed like this, and Gu Shengchao looked like a savage, with his long hair hanging down, his thick beard messy, his clothes dirty and worn, and the stench emitted by him was almost unbearable even for him. He kept practicing every day, but always fell short at the last moment. He obviously felt that he could open up the meridians throughout his body, but he was just a little short of it, which made him miserable.
During this period, Meng Peilong and Meng Song came here several times. Each time, Meng Peilong would touch Gu Shengchao's body, put his palms close to his skin and probe back and forth with his inner strength, as if he was looking for something. Later, he disliked him for being too dirty. He ordered several servants to strip off his clothes and rinse him with cold water. He was literally tied there naked like an animal.
The food is getting worse and worse. I have to eat about ten fist-sized rice balls every day, and the number is gradually increasing. Basically all of them are mixed with various medicinal materials. The smell makes me want to vomit, let alone swallowing them all. .
On this day, he was practicing secretly when he heard the iron door open and someone walked down. From the heavy footsteps, he knew it was the guy with a sinister face again.
"It's time to eat!" The guy stepped forward, opened Gu Shengchao's mouth, and stuffed a large piece of rice ball into it. The strong medicinal smell penetrated his nostrils, and Gu Shengchao couldn't help but sneeze and spit out all the rice balls in his mouth.
"Looking for death!" The man slapped Gu Shengchao. The dirt on Gu Shengchao's face stuck to his hands. He said "bad luck" and was about to wipe it on Gu Shengchao's body, but he disliked him for being too dirty and saw him leaning against the wall. There was a hoe. I picked up the hoe and used the handle to hit the Ancient Sage Chao like raindrops on his head and face.
The ancient sage couldn't move and could only endure this inhuman torture and pain. He couldn't escape anyway. He secretly lucked out and alleviated the pain. Unconsciously, he forgot about the pain, and the true energy moved forward bit by bit in his meridians.
Seeing that Gu Shengchao was unmoved, the guy with a rough face became more ruthless.
Gu Shengchao has experienced too many failures, and he didn't deliberately exert force this time. He just let nature take its course and did whatever he wanted, just to relieve the pain. Suddenly, the true energy broke through the last obstacle, and returned to the Dantian after circulating in the meridians for a week. The true energy seemed to be gushing out like an out-of-control tide, rushing and surging through the meridians throughout the body.
There was an incredible smile on his face, enjoying the joy of success.
