161: Chapter 161 Changing tracks to continue the great cause of sacrificing the common people!

Time flowed, and five years passed in the blink of an eye.

Supreme Creation Small Luo Grotto-Heaven, Hall of Longevity.

Gu Yan's cultivation advanced from Profound Immortal First Level to Profound Immortal Second Level.

He slowly opened his eyes, stretched, and then beckoned with a wave of his hand.

The haotian mirror appeared.

"Come to think of it, it has been some years since I last checked on that kid, Feng Jiuge."

Gu Yan raised his hand and brushed it across the mirror's surface.

The image in the mirror shifted, clouds surged, and after a moment, it gradually became clear.

Demon Realm, a desolate mountain somewhere.

A figure was sitting cross-legged on the mountain Peak.

He had the appearance of a youth with sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes; the aura surging around his body was clearly at the Integration Stage Early Stage.

It was none other than Feng Jiuge.

Gu Yan took a look and nodded slightly.

"Integration Stage, not bad."

But soon, his brows raised slightly.

In the image, although Feng Jiuge was sitting and cultivating, his condition was clearly not right.

The divine robe on his body was the one Gu Yan had bestowed upon him back then, capable of resisting all attacks below the Human Immortal Realm.

At this moment, there were actually faint cracks on that robe.

Although it had already self-repaired for the most part, it was clearly the traces of having experienced a great battle.

Gu Yan became interested.

He rewound the image.

One year, two years, five years, ten years, eleven years ago.

Demon Realm, Southern Region.

At that time, Feng Jiuge was still at the Void Refining Late-stage cultivation, and was in the midst of slaughtering a tribe guarded by a Soul Transformation Demon Race member.

Suddenly, blood clouds surged across the sky.

A figure stepped out from the blood clouds.

It was a slender, young girl of the Demon Race with silver-white fur, but her face was sinister, and she held a pitch-black long saber.

Gu Yan glanced at the Demon Race member's aura.

Tribulation Crossing Peak.

But this person was clearly not an ordinary Tribulation Crossing Peak.

A wisp of extremely obscure aura was coiled around his body; that was... the aura of the Immortal Realm.

Gu Yan's mind stirred, and he continued to rewind.

He quickly figured out the sequence of events.

This demon was named Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter, originally a Golden Immortal Realm Devil Head from the Immortal Realm.

Eleven years ago, through the blood sacrifice of a Demon Realm junior, he descended a wisp of his Incarnation into the Demon Realm.

Although the Incarnation's cultivation was suppressed to the Tribulation Crossing Peak, he brought down an extremely powerful Magic Treasure.

It was that pitch-black long saber.

The saber was named Soul Devourer, a Low Grade Innate Spirit Treasure.

The power of this saber did not lie in lethality, but in soul devouring.

As long as one was injured by the Saber Qi, a wisp of soul-devouring power would invade the body, like maggots on a bone, extremely difficult to dispel.

If not dispelled in time, as time passed, it would at best damage one's Foundation, and at worst, destroy both body and soul.

Even more troublesome was that this saber could track the aura of the soul-devouring power.

In other words, as long as one was injured by it once, unless it was completely dispelled, one could be found no matter where one fled to the ends of the earth.

That day, Feng Jiuge happened to run into this Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter.

One at Void Refining Late-stage, the other at Tribulation Crossing Peak.

Logically speaking, one slap could crush him to death.

But Feng Jiuge had the divine robe given by Gu Yan, and he managed to survive three strikes from Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter without dying.

While fighting and retreating, with the help of the Human Race expert Chu Xiu from the Demon Realm, he successfully escaped the pursuit of Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter.

But in that battle, Feng Jiuge was injured by the Soul Devouring Saber Qi, and it took him a full five years to completely dispel it.

As for Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter, he felt that as a dignified Golden Immortal Realm being who had descended, failing to deal with a Void Refining Realm junior and letting the other party escape...

He felt he had lost all face.

From then on, he completely locked onto Feng Jiuge.

Over these ten years, whenever Feng Jiuge appeared, Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter would arrive within three days.

Feng Jiuge was relentlessly hunted for ten years, fighting his way from Void Refining Late-stage to the Integration Stage Early Stage.

Gu Yan watched the constantly changing images in the mirror, his mouth twitching slightly.

"Tsk, good fellow."

"This script, I'm familiar with."

"If one were to treat Feng Jiuge as the protagonist of a cultivation novel, it would be: a miserable childhood, joining an immortal sect, and then gradually revealing his talent."

"Then having a powerful Revered Master, which is me, Gu Yan."

"Then fighting monsters to level up, singing triumphantly all the way."

"But according to the tropes, leveling up naturally couldn't be that smooth."

"There would always be all sorts of troubles knocking on the door."

"Counter-killing across levels is the norm, being hunted by big shots is a daily routine."

"Every time he reaches a new map, he inevitably provokes the person who should be least provoked in that area."

"Then being hunted and killed; while running and fighting, he levels up."

"After leveling up, he continues to fight; after fighting, he continues to provoke new trouble."

Gu Yan looked at Feng Jiuge, who was cultivating in the mirror, and sighed inwardly.

"It is fortunate that I am not of this type."

"If I were also like Feng Jiuge, being hunted, targeted, and kept in mind by various big shots all day long, how could I even live my life?"

"It is better this way for me."

"Staying safely and steadily in the Grotto-Heaven, occasionally giving lectures, getting some treasures from time to time, and having my cultivation steadily improve."

"How wonderful."

"As for Feng Jiuge' side..."

Gu Yan took a look; although this kid had been hunted for ten years, his life was very tough.

With the Magic Treasure he gave him, and the occasional care from the Human Race expert Chu Xiu, he wouldn't die.

Since he wouldn't die, there was no need to worry.

It was a good thing for young people to gain more experience.

Gu Yan was just about to withdraw the haotian mirror when his expression suddenly shifted.

"Wait."

"Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter?"

"Why does the aura on this guy give me a somewhat familiar feeling?"

His mind turned, and he shifted the image to Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter.

Demon Realm, a Demon Palace somewhere in the Southern Region.

Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter sat high in the hall, with Devilish Qi surging all around.

Several Demon Race members stood before her, reporting something.

Gu Yan stared at Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter for a moment, his gaze landing on that wisp of obscure aura on her body.

He followed that wisp of aura and traced it all the way up.

Passing through the Demon Realm, through the barrier between the two realms, straight into the Immortal Realm.

After a moment, Gu Yan's expression became somewhat subtle.

Immortal Realm, a palace surrounded by Devilish Qi somewhere.

A figure sat cross-legged inside.

It was a Demon Race member in the appearance of an old man, with nine eyes, a sinister face, and an aura as vast as the sea around his body.

His cultivation was actually at the Immortal King Realm Peak.

And Gu Yan recognized this face.

It was that Immortal King Realm Peak Devil Head who had once set up the chess piece of Myriad Tribulations Demon Lord in the Spirit Realm.

Looking at it this way, Old Ancestor Blood Slaughter was clearly his subordinate, working for him.

Gu Yan looked at the figure in the mirror and clicked his tongue in wonder.

"This old devil is quite persistent."

"So, since Myriad Tribulations Demon Lord didn't succeed in the Spirit Realm, he wants to change tracks and continue making trouble in the Demon Realm?"