Gu Xu glanced at the young man in surprise. He did not expect that there was a cultivator hidden among these sallow-looking villagers - but the young man's true energy aura was relatively weak, and it seemed that he had just entered the first realm.
After catching the baby, the swarthy boy turned to the people around him and asked for help: "Uncles and aunties, could you please help bring my mother home?"
His voice trembled slightly. Although he tried to remain calm, his face still inevitably showed complex emotions such as sadness, indignation, and difficulty in accepting it, and his eyes also shone with tears.
"Let me help you," Gu Xu said, "please show me the way."
At the same time, he activated his true energy and cast a spell, and the middle-aged woman who was unconscious on the ground slowly floated into the air.
Gu Xu has read the secret books and notes left by Kongxuan Sanren. Although he has not yet mastered the profound and weird method of "attribution of cause and effect", he already has a certain understanding of the Avenue of Cause and Effect and knows its basic principles.
He was vaguely aware that there seemed to be some causal connection between himself and this dark-skinned boy. With some doubts, he considered taking this opportunity to learn more about the situation here.
The swarthy boy glanced at him and nodded, but hesitated to speak.
Afterwards, Gu Xu followed the boy through the narrow alley between houses and came to the door of a low and simple house.
This house is made of tiles, grass, and stone. The roof is exposed to the sky, and the walls have cracks. Although the largest cracks have been blocked with thatch, rainwater will still seep in on rainy days, making it dark and damp. , the air is mixed with a musty smell.
The furnishings in the house are also extremely simple, with only an old stove and a few creaking wooden beds. It can be called a bare house.
Gu Xu carefully placed the unconscious middle-aged woman on a bed, and the swarthy boy also placed his newborn brother next to his mother.
After a while, the two skinny men also came to the house, placed the body of the young father on the ground casually, and left in a hurry, not daring to delay for a moment.
"You said you are not from the Yaowang Sect," after a short silence, the dark-skinned young man looked up at Gu Xu and said, "How should I call you?"
Gu Xu thought for a while and replied: "My surname is Xiao and my given name is Changshou."
"Mr. Xiao." The dark-skinned boy bowed slightly and cupped his hands towards him. With his polite and decent appearance, he did not look like an ordinary young man growing up wildly in a poor village.
"Then what's your name?"
"My name is Hong Tieniu," the young man replied with his head lowered, "but Elder Wu felt that my name was too rustic, so he gave me another name, 'Xiao Gong'."
"Elder Wu? Is he a practitioner of the Yaowang Sect?"
"Yes, Mr. Xiao. Two years ago, when he saw that I had some talent in cultivation, he took me into his sect as a registered disciple. I usually do farm work at home, and when he needs it, I go to the sect to assist him. He made elixirs, took the elixirs he made with new formulas, and occasionally taught me a few exercises and formulas."
After hearing his narration, Gu Xu couldn't help but silently complained in his heart: How can this be a registered disciple? This is clearly a drug-testing boy, a humanoid guinea pig.
"The elixir made with the new formula may have a certain degree of toxicity," Gu Xu asked seriously, "Are you aware of this?"
The young man replied: "I understand. But after all, Elder Wu is my master and a third-level monk. I can't refuse any of his requests."
Gu Xu pondered for a moment, sighed, and asked again: "Is he the one who killed your father?"
The young man nodded.
"Do you resent him in your heart?"
The boy nodded again.
"I have wanted him to die for a long time." He clenched his fists, raised his tone slightly, and looked particularly angry. "Last year, he wanted to refine a pot of life-extending elixirs, which required the blood and blood of boys and girls. Bone marrow, Gou Wa and Er Niu from our village became his alchemy material.
"A few months ago, he asked me to try taking an unknown pill. After swallowing it, I felt cramps all over my body and couldn't stop convulsing. I was so uncomfortable that I felt worse than death. It took a few days for me to recover. But. He ignored me and was minding his own business, not caring whether I lived or died.
"..."
It seemed that Gu Xu's question aroused the young man's desire to talk. He kept talking for a long time, describing the crimes of Elder Wu of the Medicine King Sect and other monks in the sect one by one.
His words outlined in Gu Xu's mind a violent and unruly sect - it sat on the heads of the people and regarded all living beings as livestock for slaughter.
"What is the strongest monk in the Medicine King Sect?" After the young man finished speaking, Gu Xu continued to ask.
"It's the leader Peng Baohui," the young man said. "He just entered the fifth realm a month ago."
"Just entered the fifth realm..."
With such a level of cultivation, looking at the entire Da Qi Dynasty, it may not even be ranked among the strong. But in the remote province of Nanzhao, it was enough to be domineering and domineering.
"Where is the Medicine King Sect? I want to go and have a look."
"On the opposite mountain, you only need to walk seven or eight miles along the road you came from, and you can see it. If you need it, I can lead the way for you," the young man said, "It's just, Are you really planning to go there? The Yaowang Sect has always prohibited outsiders from entering - it has not only set up several large formations to protect the sect, but also has practitioners who take turns patrolling.
"Every time I enter the sect, I must hold the token given to me by Elder Wu. If you——"
"——You don't need to worry about this, I have a solution."
As Gu Xu spoke, he used "Meteor Walking on the Moon", and in an instant his figure disappeared from the place and then appeared on the other side of the house.
For Gu Xu, this is just a simple footwork, not a powerful technique.
But when it fell into the eyes of the swarthy young man Hong Tieniu, it was enough to make him dumbfounded - after all, among the elders of Yaowang Sect, there were only a few people who could master this ghost-like and incomprehensible movement technique.
Then Gu Xu appeared behind the young man out of thin air, put a hand on the young man's shoulder, and smiled lightly: "Let's go! If everything you said is true, maybe I can seek justice for you."
As soon as he finished speaking, he used the authority of "Qiankun" to lead the young man through the space crack and disappeared into this simple bungalow.
With the gradual growth of his cultivation, his understanding of the Law of Fire, and the ups and downs of his own destiny, Gu Xu, although he only had the cultivation of the fourth realm, has gradually figured out the direction of the future path.
It lies in subversion, in transformation, in creation.
According to the descriptions in the practice books, if you want to open the "Fengdu Gate" and create your own Dharma, you not only need to understand the true meaning of the Tao in your heart, but you also need to practice your own "Tao" in actual actions.
In the original world, Gu Xu, as a wanted criminal, faced the pursuit of the court, and his actions were restricted everywhere. In this situation of walking on thin ice, he must be cautious and not dare to do anything too outrageous.
But now, he is a man from the future who travels back in time and space.
As soon as the time comes, he will automatically leave this era, and no one can find his trace.
Therefore, he wanted to take this opportunity to try to do something that "unifies knowledge and action."
Since he was destined to break the Great Wilderness, the prison built by "Tai Shang Haotian" himself, he would start with the Yaowang Sect, which enslaved the people and regarded human life as nothing.
(End of chapter)
