112: Chapter 112 Two Heads on the River

Gu Xiao's condition was recovering.

A large part of this was because he wanted to take revenge on the Guiliu Society; it was the fire of revenge that supported him to stand up again.

But at the very least, Lu Xingyun had ignited this fire.

There were only a few days left before the fifth Ancient Grotto-Heaven opened. Li Xiuyuan had intended to go alone and did not want to bring Gu Xiao along, but before he could set off, Gu Xiao and Lu Xingyun had already sought him out.

"It's about time. We should set off," Gu Xiao said.

Li Xiuyuan looked at him, and seeing that his condition was acceptable, he simply spat out one word: "Go."

Gu Xiao leaped onto Li Xiuyuan's back, and Lu Xingyun followed closely behind.

Lu Xingyun was not a martial artist, and his constitution wasn't that sturdy, but he was a Talisman Cultivator. With a few talismans slapped onto the soles of his feet, he could stand straight on Li Xiuyuan's back.

No matter how Li Xiuyuan maneuvered or shifted, he remained as steady as a pine tree, without even bending his waist. His clothes fluttered loudly in the wind, and with a cigarette hanging from his mouth, he looked incredibly dashing.

If Newton were to see this, he would have flipped the lid of his coffin.

Gu Xiao, standing beside him, watched with such envy. He could only hold onto Li Xiuyuan's scales for dear life, hunched over with his head buried, terrified of being thrown off.

He shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice drowned out by the wind: "Slap a couple of talismans on my feet too!"

Hearing this, Lu Xingyun turned his head and glanced at Gu Xiao, deliberately pretending not to hear: "What did you say?"

"Give me two talismans too!" Gu Xiao's voice cracked from shouting.

Lu Xingyun just kept pretending he didn't hear.

Gu Xiao intended to push harder, but catching the faint, elusive smile at the corner of Lu Xingyun's mouth, he immediately realized this guy was doing it on purpose.

He reached out, grabbed Lu Xingyun's ankle, and made a move to pull him to the side.

Lu Xingyun's expression changed: "Don't, don't, don't! Don't pull me!"

Wicked people have their own match; when it came to being a rascal, Lu Xingyun was still inferior to Gu Xiao.

In the end, he slapped two talismans on the soles of Gu Xiao's feet. Gu Xiao was finally able to stand up straight. The two stood side by side, each with a cigarette in their mouth, pulling out windproof lighters to light them for each other.

The two chain-smokers were puffing away on the dragon's back. Li Xiuyuan noticed, so with a leap, he suddenly plummeted from the clouds.

Gu Xiao still calmly exhaled a smoke ring: "Talisman Cultivators are just more convenient."

Lu Xingyun chimed in from the side: "Whoa, that ninety-degree drop is a bit scary."

The two had just comfortably closed their eyes to enjoy their smoking time when Gu Xiao suddenly opened his eyes, glanced forward casually, and immediately threw away the cigarette in his mouth.

The cigarette butt hit Lu Xingyun squarely.

"Old Gu, do you know that throwing objects from high altitudes is illegal?"

Lu Xingyun also opened his eyes, just about to say something, when he saw the rushing river water crashing toward them.

'Splash!' They hit the water, and the cigarettes were extinguished.

Although the talismans on their feet hadn't lost their effect, Li Xiuyuan very deliberately didn't submerge too deep, leaving only the necks of Gu Xiao and Lu Xingyun exposed above the water surface.

Thus, a very bizarre scene appeared on the river: two human heads bobbing up and down on the water surface, traveling upstream.

On both sides of the riverbank, some sharp-eyed residents noticed this scene: "Holy crap, why are there two human heads on the water?!"

"Let me see, let me see, whoa, it really is!"

"That's impossible, they're going upstream."

"How is it impossible? I even filmed it."

"Hey! Their mouths and eyes seem to be moving."

This bizarre scene was filmed by many people and posted online. Netizens had various opinions on it: some said the two were swimming, others said it was some kind of aquatic Rising Beings, and busybodies even claimed it was two grown men doing something shady underwater, a niche and peculiar fetish.

In any case, in short, this video was seen by colleagues within the Jiantian Bureau.

"Hey? Look, these two in the water look like Old Gu and Lu Xingyun."

"Holy crap, it really is them. What are they doing?"

"Ew... they aren't, are they..."

"I told you something was wrong. Old Gu hasn't married for so many years, nor has he had any romantic interests; it's definitely not normal."

Colleagues in the bureau put down their work and chatted in the group about non-existent gossip, while the leaders were so angry by now that they clenched their fists, repeatedly calling Lu Xingyun and Gu Xiao, but they couldn't get through at all.

...

Li Xiuyuan moved slowly and finally arrived at the fifth Ancient Grotto-Heaven.

This fifth Ancient Grotto-Heaven was located at the junction of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River. Li Xiuyuan floated in the middle of the river, with Gu Xiao and Lu Xingyun standing on his broad back, their clothes completely soaked.

The two waters converged, clear and turbid distinct, stretching for several miles without mixing.

Standing on a distant mountain looking down, one could only see turbid river water on the left and crystal-clear lake water on the right, with a dividing line seemingly sandwiched in the middle. The locals called this phenomenon "Two-Colored River and Lake."

Lu Xingyun lowered his head and looked down: "One side yellow, one side green, with a dividing line like a knife cut. God's craftsmanship is much better than a decorator's."

The temporary rest point set up by the Jiantian Bureau in this water area was on the nearby riverbank. Because of the previous lesson, this time one could see personnel from the Security Bureau on guard nearby, as well as employees from the Mysterious Investigation Bureau keeping watch.

This wasn't just strengthening the guard a little; it could be said that there were sentry posts set up in layer upon layer.

The person who came to provide support this time was an available captain from the Jiantian Bureau's field team. Although not a veteran, they knew how to read the situation and understood what should and should not be said at this time.

They didn't talk about Fang Jingxuan's sacrifice, but just teased Gu Xiao and Lu Xingyun, these two drowned rats.

Li Xiuyuan still found a place to stay by himself. Last time, he had obtained the Lord River God's dragon lord blade in that Ancient Grotto-Heaven, and he had been studying this thing ever since.

The dragon lord blade was itself a dharma treasure of extraordinary quality, and having been irrigated by divine blood, its quality had reached an even higher level.

Besides this, Li Xiuyuan could always feel some kind of strange movement inside the blade, as if someone were chanting an ancient ballad from a very distant place.

He tried to explore it with his Spiritual Sense, but there was no response at all.

During another attempt, his Spiritual Sense delved into the interior of the dragon lord blade, but still found nothing. Just as Li Xiuyuan was about to withdraw his Spiritual Sense, he suddenly felt his Spiritual Sense being dragged by an invisible force.

At the same time, the dragon lord blade hidden under the scales began to glow faintly. The inscriptions engraved on its surface actually detached from the blade, as if they had come to life, nimbly drilling out through the gaps in the scales and circling around Li Xiuyuan.

These ancient inscriptions had all been engraved when the dragon lord blade was forged. Each inscription contained supreme wisdom, which could not have come from the Lord River God.

Li Xiuyuan stared at these ancient inscriptions and, as if possessed, began to chant the ancient ballad he had heard from the dragon lord blade.

Syllables that did not belong to this era rang out. Upon hearing them, those ancient inscriptions immediately became vibrant, spinning rapidly around Li Xiuyuan, appearing extremely excited.

The speed of the inscriptions' rotation became faster and faster. Before Li Xiuyuan's eyes, a scene appeared out of thin air.

In a wild and vast forest, a man with four eyes, a dragon-like face, long hair-like beard, and draped in animal skins was running through it.

His mouth was also chanting the same ancient ballad that Li Xiuyuan was chanting.

The difference was that with every passage he chanted, countless living beings were born around him.

Such great power could never be possessed by a mere mortal.

Suddenly, the man turned his head and locked eyes with Li Xiuyuan across the void.