My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 658 - 564: Severely Injured Gu Yuncheng!_2

Chapter 658: Chapter 564: Severely Injured Gu Yuncheng!_2

The high market demand had created such a strange market.

It even made a decent Immortal Sect Dojo look like a Demonic Cultivation Ghost Market!

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Rather than wandering around the square, they came to their own small circle.

"Things have been pretty relaxed lately, huh? Can you believe that it’s been two months without a single disturbance on the front line?"

"Let’s discuss the alliance again, I reckon a big battle is gonna breakout soon!"

"What does our alliance discussion have to do with the Devil Gate? Are they also giving us time to prepare?"

Wang Zijia looked at the disciple who was talking with surprise. He was a new Perfected. The people around him also looked at him like he was an idiot.

"Junior Brother······ Isn’t it possible that the Devil Gate isn’t a unified faction either?"

"Eh······"

"You surely don’t think that Bone Soul Sect plans to take on all three sects alone? Even Wentian Pavilion might join in!"

"So, are you saying that they are also discussing an alliance?"

"Considering the crazies at Devil Gate, can they even manage that?"

"I reckon it’s easier for them than for us!"

"Exactly, we’ve exposed the Turbid Immortal problem, while they could simply promise immortality in exchange for an alliance, much easier than us uniting against a common enemy!"

"Indeed, benefits will always trump righteous indignation!"

"Senior Brother Qi, sometimes sentiment does matter!"

"I was just sighing."

"Anyway, Senior Brother Gu, how is your family Patriarch? I heard he got hurt pretty badly last time!"

"The Patriarch has been in seclusion ever since he returned, but it should not be a major issue!"

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Wang Zijia, who was originally listening to everyone’s discussion, was taken aback.

He turned to look at the disciple who was asked. He was a Perfected from the Gu Family. Wang Zijia knew him, but they were not very familiar.

The Patriarch of the Gu Family was injured?

The Gu Family had only two Patriarch God Monarchs, the aged Gu Yuncheng and the newly ascendant Gu Yuebai. While he was on his mission in Changbao for over a year, he hadn’t been in close contact with the Gu Family.

Frowning, after attending the gathering in the Immortal God Illusion and making a trip to the Ghost Market,

his cultivation had improved too quickly. The circles he used to frequent were only these two now.

After hanging out, Wang Zijia’s mind was slightly stirred.

Both individuals from the Gu Family had refined Wang Zijia’s Jade Disc voluntarily, having voluntarily seeded themselves with the Demon Seed.

A moment later, Wang Zijia’s face was dumbstruck.

"How did things get so serious?"

Initially, he thought it was a rumor, an exaggeration of the truth since he hadn’t heard any news.

But what he saw shocked him. Damn, Gu Yuncheng was nearly dead!!!

This reminded Wang Zijia of something.

Wang Zijia instantly appeared at the White Peach Peak Underground Base, where at the center of the entire warehouse was a magnificent Dome Hall.

The hall was very spacious. On the ceiling, countless dark tentacles were wriggling and seven tentacles were entangling and extending down from the core of the Great Hall, forming a root-like altar.

It appeared as if a vine pillar composed of entwined flesh and blood was at the center of the Great Hall.

There were roots scattered at the top and bottom of the pillar.

The entire Great Hall seemed to have been built around this altar tentacle pillar.

Above the pillar, at about a human’s height, was a hollow space encased by a net-like sphere. Inside it was a Blood-coloured Skull: the Wisdom Brain!

Countless human skin paper figures around were either disappearing with supplies or bringing corpses into the warehouse.

The entire hall was now the logistics transit center for the factions Wang Zijia had established, like the Demon Suppression Sect and Gou Hongyuan’s Outer Sect trading market.

And the Blood-coloured Skull was the key to ensuring its stable operation.

Wang Zijia came to the Skull and invoked his mind.

"Greetings, Main Brain. How may I assist you?"

Wang Zijia bluntly said, "Create some personal files and list some demon seeding targets as key surveillance objects. Have a human skin avatar check on them every fifteenth and first day of the month. Pay special attention to any related distress signals."

"Alright, Main Brain. May I know the criteria for evaluation?"

"..."

Under Wang Zijia’s arrangement, he quickly classified and archived his demon seeding targets.

Wang Zijia was shocked as he realized the extent only after sorting out.

The total number of people he had seeded with demons had already exceeded a billion!

And it wasn’t just over a billion, it was several billions!

It really was...

Wang Zijia was speechless for a while, he realized for the first time that he was quite crazy!

If he continued like this for a few more decades, nearly half of the Wanyu Sect would belong to him!!!

...

At the foot of Thick Virtue Peak, belonging to The Four Institutes of Pill, Instrument, Array, and Talisman, within the Inner Door Seven Peaks.

In the agreed area of the Gu Family Ancestral Land, within the Forbidden Area.

"Cough, cough!"

Gu Yuncheng was half-sitting in a recliner, coughing continuously.

He coughed up a lot of blood mixed with internal organs.

The moment they left his body, the flesh and blood transformed into crawling mini demons, that tried to rush back to Gu Yuncheng for another bite.

The next moment, piercing sword qi shot out, instantly shredding these disgusting creatures into dust.

"Patriarch!"

The alarmed and worried Gu Yuebai, who had already become the Infant God, was watching Gu Yuncheng continuously cough. Right now he looked as pale as gold paper, like an old man on his deathbed.

Originally it should have been Gu Yuebai going to the front lines, but Gu Yuncheng insisted on taking his place, leaving Gu Yuebai to stay in the sect and defend the entire clan.

Gu Yuncheng, who was already old, went with preparedness for death in his heart, yet when Gu Yuncheng was quietly returned, barely standing and directly carried back, the high-level members of the Gu Family were still thrown in disarray.

For eight hundred years, who among them hadn’t been watched over and protected by Gu Yuncheng as they grew up?

Now, the sky above the Gu Family was about to collapse!

"Yuebai, your ancestor, me, probably won’t be able to survive. In the future, the clan will likely have to rely on you. It may be tiring, and when times are hard, grit your teeth. I’m leaving the intact Gu Family in your hands!"

Gu Yuncheng, who was barely able to sit or stand, was lying in the chair, weakly looking at Gu Yuebai.

"No, Great Ancestor, you are only over eight hundred years old. We must at least live out our full thousand years!"

"Since Patriarch Ming Ling’s Fifth Grade Life Essence Pills didn’t work, I’ll go ask Dean Bao Hua of the Pill Institute to refine a batch of Life Creation Pills. There’s always a chance."

Even though he was already the Infant God, had been at a high position for years, Gu Yuebai was still somewhat of a mess under the tense situation and said in a rush.

His Great Ancestor who had been looking after him since he was born, couldn’t just leave suddenly like this!

"Foolish!" Gu Yuncheng scolded, "Even if you spent tens of millions and managed to make the pill by luck, allowing me to hang on for another hundred years, what about the Gu Family’s future?"

"To let me live for another hundred years and the Gu Family’s resources to dwindle for hundreds of years, you’d want me to go below and explain to the ancestors?"

"Do you want me to say: Ancestor, your grandson is unfilial, the Gu Family has been eaten away?"

"Great Ancestor, even if our resources are depleted, they can be earned back. Worst comes to worst, I’ll go fight on the battlefield..."

"Gu Yuebai, you’re becoming arrogant, aren’t you!" Gu Yuncheng was abruptly furious before Gu Yuebai could finish speaking.

"Great Ancestor..."

"Yuebai! We are a peripheral family within the Inner Door, barely holding on as it is. I’ve taught you for so many years, and you still haven’t lost that hot blood!"

"For the family, you can’t be a casual Sword Immortal. Do you understand? After I’m gone, I’ll be watching over you!"

"Great Ancestor..."

"Do you understand!"

"Grandson, I remember, everything is for the continuation of the clan!" Gu Yuebai said lowly with a dim light in his eyes.

"Sigh...I know you’re not satisfied, but then again, think about this, there are plenty of cultivators with swords in the world, but how many of them die before becoming Infant Gods, and how many die before becoming Primordial Spirits?"

"Most of them turn into dry bones."

"If I can hold on for a few more years and let you do as you please, that would be fine. However, the whole clan will be depending on you in the future."

"Think about the Yue Family, they used to be our equals, and in just three to four years, look at them. They’ve already moved to the Outer Sect."

Gu Yuncheng looked at Gu Yuebai, speaking earnestly. He had been repeating this for the past two months.

"Grandson understands!" Gu Yuebai answered in a deep voice.

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