138: Chapter 138 Entering the Game

Under the moonlight, the youth dressed in dark clothes was tinged with a hint of cold, aloof temperament.

His appearance hadn't changed at all compared to three years ago, but the aura around him had grown increasingly deep and profound, resembling a peerless sharp blade hidden within its sheath—its edge restrained, yet impossible for anyone to ignore.

You knew full well that this brat's progress must be far superior to yours.

After all, over the past three years, the two of you had secretly exterminated goodness knows how many tribes, and the benefits he could obtain far exceeded yours.

It wasn't until you walked closer that Liu Guanzhi slowly turned around. Without a word, he raised his hand, and twenty blindingly scarlet blood rays materialized out of thin air.

"Gulp~"

You unworthily swallowed a mouthful of saliva, swiftly put away the Gu worms with lightning speed, and then cautiously asked:

"Brother Guanzhi, are we going to attack Chandu Palace?"

Liu Guanzhi glanced at you, a trace of deeply hidden, hard-to-detect complicated emotion flashing across the depths of his eyes.

A moment later, he suppressed the thoughts in his heart and spoke in an even tone:

"I have thoroughly studied the formation of the divine mountain. Didn't you say before that you wanted to witness a real Gu God?"

You were extremely unwilling to go. You had a premonition that this trip to the divine mountain would undoubtedly be extremely dangerous.

"After we return, I'll give you another twenty Blood Qi Gu."

Liu Guanzhi continued to up the ante.

Your vigilance skyrocketed to the extreme. Something's wrong!

There is ten, or even twelve parts out of ten, something wrong!

But looking into the youth's deep eyes, you knew you had no room to choose, so you stepped forward and gently tugged at his sleeve.

"Brother Guanzhi, can you give me ten more first?"

Liu Guanzhi smiled gently and once again took out ten Blood Qi Gu.

You took them with a joyful expression and stowed all of them into the system space, while your spiritual sense remained fixed on the last thousand-mile escape talisman, wondering if it would be enough.

Ah~ If you had known earlier, you would have shamelessly asked Xiao Fanzi for a few more. What was the point of putting on such a noble act...

One day later.

The two of you stood once again at the foot of that towering divine mountain piercing the clouds. Liu Guanzhi paused at the base of the mountain for a moment before taking the lead and dashing toward the peak.

Your gaze flickered slightly, but you gritted your teeth and followed him anyway.

This was the first time you were led around by the nose from start to finish, completely unable to figure out the other person's thoughts.

But this also precisely illustrated a cruel fact: the "wisdom" you had previously displayed was entirely based on the opponent's thoughts being too pure, or having the predictability of simulations.

Once you truly went up against these heaven-defying prodigies who had struggled through mountains of corpses and seas of blood and possessed extremely deep scheming minds, your intelligence was immediately exposed without a doubt.

Therefore, you deeply reflected on the pain and secretly resolved in your heart:

Liu Guanzhi, we'll settle the score in the next simulation; this time doesn't count!

After only a few breaths of inner turmoil, your heart was already at ease. There was no need to attack the other's strengths with your own weaknesses; your future lay in tens of thousands of simulations, rather than fighting for momentary superiority.

You once again followed behind him with high spirits. A flash of surprise crossed the eyes of Liu Guanzhi ahead, which quickly returned to calm.

After the two of you arrived at the waist of the mountain, you hovered mid-air. Liu Guanzhi turned his head to look at you:

"Break the mountain body from here. I'll go to the peak to deal with that Chandu Palace cultivator."

"What about the teleportation formation?"

"No matter, I'll handle it together."

Finished speaking, his entire figure once again transformed into a stream of light and rushed toward the mountain peak, seemingly not caring at all whether you would run away.

Your gaze flickered slightly, and your body began to slowly back away in mid-air.

"Get to work!"

Those two cold words completely extinguished your burning heart. That brat's cultivation was probably already close to the Golden Core stage, and it might be very difficult to escape with just one thousand-mile escape talisman.

Then... since you're here, you might as well make yourself at home. Your figure flashed, and you threw a punch fiercely at the mountain body.

"Boom!"

The entire divine mountain seemed to tremble slightly, but only a fist-sized pit appeared on the stone wall in front of you.

Damn it! So hard?

You drew in a sharp breath, shook your somewhat numb fist, gritted your teeth, and once again swung your arm to strike fiercely.

"Muda muda muda..."

Just as you were secretly striving, Liu Guanzhi's figure silently materialized behind you.

He hovered quietly for a moment, and seeing that you had no intention of running away, he withdrew his gaze, his figure flickered, and he transformed into an afterimage, heading straight toward the peak.

...

"Puff~"

The gray-robed cultivator sitting cross-legged on the jade platform stiffened abruptly, his eyes instantly widening into round orbs, staring fixedly at the figure that had materialized out of thin air before him. That face, which had been high and mighty three years ago, was now crawling with extreme horror and disbelief.

When did he sneak up here? And how did he manage to silently evade the detection of the peak's formation?!

The gray-robed cultivator's lips trembled, but after all, he couldn't spit out a single word, finally ascending to immortality with a belly full of doubts.

The very moment the gray-robed cultivator's body collapsed limply, spiritual energy surged around Liu Guanzhi, and he fiercely stamped his foot onto the high platform!

Accompanied by a dull roar, the surface of the high platform instantly cracked into several spiderweb-like fissures. Immediately following that, several pitch-black streams of light darted out rapidly from around his body, flowing smoothly along those cracks straight into the depths of the earth without any obstruction.

"Click click click~"

Accompanied by a teeth-aching chewing sound, in just a brief moment, the entire white jade stone platform collapsed with a crash, and that pool of divine spring water spilled all over the ground along with the rubble.

Liu Guanzhi didn't even glance at it; he stared fixedly at the deep cave entrance exposed beneath the ruins of the stone platform, his eyes burning with intensity.

On the other side, through your unremitting efforts, accompanied by a loud bang of "boom", the mountain body was finally completely bored through.

You collapsed limply onto the ground without any grace, and just as you were about to catch your breath, the entire divine mountain suddenly erupted with a violent tremor, as if some behemoth was awakening in the depths of the earth.

"Rumble!!!"

In your horrified gaze, the divine mountain actually began to collapse piece by piece.

Countless huge boulders wrapped in dust poured down, and as the dust gradually dissipated, what was revealed was not rock and soil, but a layer of disgusting, scarlet, and slippery giant flesh walls.

An unspeakable chill crawled all over your body, every hair on your body stood on end, and a dense layer of goosebumps broke out instantly.

Without the slightest hesitation, your entire body transformed into a stream of light, shooting up towards the sky with a "swish" sound,

"What on earth is this?!"

You stared fixedly at that disgusting behemoth below, your voice carrying a trace of undisguised trembling.

"This is the Gu God you've been yearning for."

Liu Guanzhi had arrived at your side at some unknown point, looking burning hot at the giant flesh ball below.

Your pretty face was deathly pale without a trace of blood, and your legs couldn't help but feel somewhat weak.

This body seemed to have an extremely strong sense of repulsion towards this kind of thing, and you couldn't help but wail in your heart:

Damn it! How is one supposed to take this kind of opportunity?

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