503: Encountering a horse thief

Sitting cross-legged on the Cultivation platform, Zhou Luo first took out the original Gu.

It was called a Gu, but it was actually a cocoon.

First-Order Pill Gu technique and Second Order are different; the former only requires adding the necessary things to an already refined Gu.

The latter is more like Cultivation.

He needed to use techniques to add the Materials he had purchased into this cocoon, allowing the Heavenly Passion Gu to be born from within.

This process was extremely demanding.

Because you must ensure that you don't affect the embryo inside the cocoon during the refining process, disturbing its Foundation.

However, Zhou Luo is a Second Order top-tier Gu Master, so he didn't feel much pressure in this regard.

He skillfully took out some Materials and, using special magical techniques, extracted the pure power within them before adding it to the cocoon.

He stared at the cocoon with intense concentration, his movements delicate and gentle, completely natural, unlike someone who had just acquired the skill.

Soon, the power was successfully injected into the cocoon.

The originally dull cocoon now emitted a faint glow.

The light was like that of a firefly, not strong, but exuding a strong sense of vitality.

Next, Zhou Luo had to ensure this vitality didn't cease while continuing to add the energy of other Materials.

...

After a night, Zhou Luo withdrew his consciousness, a look of fatigue on his face.

After a night of energy nourishment, the cocoon was now shining brightly and glistening.

But it still needed Time to fully take shape.

And the night of focused refining had left Zhou Luo feeling extremely tired.

He had to temporarily stop and let himself rest for a while.

Leaving the room, Shu Hongliu brought him breakfast.

Although she didn't know what he wanted to do, she was sensible enough not to ask too many questions.

After cultivating the Luan Feng Harmonious Cry Art, she completely trusted him and knew he would never do anything to harm her.

What's more, during this period of Dual Cultivation, having regained her strength, she was diligently catching up on the Weapon Forging knowledge she couldn't learn before and didn't want to bother with these matters.

Five days passed like this.

Under Zhou Luo's refining, the energy of all the Materials had been injected into the cocoon.

Next, he just needed to wait for it to break out of the cocoon.

This process could not be predicted.

According to the information Zhou Luo obtained, it would take at least half a year, and possibly even several years.

On this day, he told Shu Hongliu that he was leaving and specifically instructed her not to tell anyone.

Shu Hongliu also keenly sensed what he was wary of.

She pursed her lips, her beautiful eyes filled with tenderness: "Husband, be careful."

After speaking, she handed him a storage ring.

Inside were the Magical Artifacts she had refined, as well as various spiritual pills, Talismans, and so on.

These past few days had made her realize that he must have sensed danger, which was why he wanted to leave.

Therefore, her heart was filled with worry about this departure, and she even wanted to return with him.

It was just a pity that Zhou Luo refused.

Although he refused, she still hoped he could remain unaffected and ensure his safety.

So she gave him all these things in one go.

"Don't worry, there's no need to be concerned."

However, Zhou Luo did not accept her kindness.

With the methods he now possessed, even a Golden Core True Person would find it difficult to do anything to him.

So he was very confident in himself.

Of course, confidence was one thing, but when leaving, he specifically changed back into his disguise.

Moreover, he wandered around the Immortal City alone for a while, confirming that no one was following him before carefully leaving Golden Cloud Immortal City.

What he didn't know was that not long after he left, Feng Yao arrived here, piloting her flying shuttle.

Ever since she learned that Yao Wu's Husband, Zhou Luo, was still in Golden Cloud Immortal City, she had rushed over non-stop, wanting him to also experience the taste of losing a loved one.

Of course, she wasn't going to kill him.

Instead, she wanted to control him and force Yao Wu to apologize to her elder brother.

Although Feng Yao was very angry, she hadn't lost her reason.

Knowing that Zhou Luo was also an innocent person, she didn't plan to kill him.

She just wanted justice.

Upon arriving at the Immortal City, she immediately began inquiring about him.

Unexpectedly, this inquiry was so easy; she quickly learned that he was in a certain shop.

She didn't choose to visit directly but decided to wait quietly and find an opportunity to plant a Gu on him.

Ten days later.

In a large mountain, Zhou Luo walked out of a cave, exhaled a breath of stale air, and looked up at the blue sky and white clouds.

"It seems I should be fine now," he said with a sigh of relief.

After leaving the Immortal City, he didn't choose to return the way he came but deliberately took another path.

Not only that, but he also hid in a large mountain for a few days, confirming that he was truly not being followed before showing himself.

During these five days, apart from a few oblivious wild beasts coming to become his extra meal, no one else had appeared.

So Zhou Luo was also preparing to leave.

After all, if the other party was truly going to follow him, it would be impossible for them to have made no move in these ten days.

Furthermore, there was a formation specifically set up by him around this cave. Unless the other party was a Golden Core True Person, it would be impossible for him not to notice them if they appeared.

No one appearing for so long meant that the other party didn't know he had left.

Stepping out of the cave, he leaped up, summoned his flying shuttle, and was just about to leave.

However, he suddenly glimpsed fire rising from the foot of the mountain.

He had already explored the surrounding environment and found nothing except for a small Mortal village at the foot of the mountain.

For these ten days, there hadn't been much activity in the village, so he hadn't paid attention.

Unexpectedly, something happened to the village just as he was about to leave.

This made the naturally alert Zhou Luo frown slightly: "What's going on? Could it be mountain bandits?"

He vaguely heard cries coming from that direction. Although he had originally planned to leave by flying shuttle, he ultimately chose to transform into a streak of light to investigate.

Although he wasn't someone who liked to meddle.

But this kind of thing looked like mountain bandits causing trouble, burning, killing, and looting.

Now that he had encountered such a situation, he couldn't just stand by.

After all, having been born human and upholding his true self, he was not like those Immortals who, after cultivating for a few years, became arrogant, indifferent to death, and didn't care about the lives of ordinary people.

He had his own sense of justice.

Just like how he chose to use the Heavenly Passion Gu before, instead of the Lock-Love Gu.

Whoosh—

The wind whistled, Zhou Luo's speed was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of the village.

Before even getting close, he saw a group of mounted bandits in his sight, slaughtering villagers, and waves of tragic wails came from there.

"They are mounted bandits."

Zhou Luo's voice was stern.

If they were ordinary bandits, for the sake of sustainable development, they would generally only demand some property from the village.

But if they were mounted bandits, relying on the swift horses beneath them, they could come and go without a trace, hitting and then moving on to another location.

Therefore, these people were the most brutal; it was common for them to massacre villages based on their whims while robbing.

Since he saw it, Zhou Luo naturally wouldn't just watch.

"Bold bandits! How dare you wantonly kill the innocent! Die!"