131: Chapter 131 Cold-hearted by Nature!

Above Bailu Mountain, the battle was a chaotic mess.

The collision of Guixu Realm Domains tore the sky to shreds, the light of Magic Treasures darted everywhere, and gravel and spiritual energy aftershocks rained down like a storm.

Gu Changsheng did not participate in the melee.

He stood on the ridge of a fractured academy building, overlooking the battlefield where slaughter was rampant, his sleeves fluttering loudly in the spiritual energy storm.

A streak of light charged in from the flank.

The speed wasn't fast, but the angle was tricky, heading straight for the back of his heart.

Gu Changsheng tilted his head slightly; the light grazed his ear and flew past, slamming into the stone wall behind him and blasting a ten-foot-deep pit.

Gu Changsheng turned around.

Chief Disciple stood on the ruins sixty feet away, his scholar's robes stained with blood.

"Gu Changsheng."

Chief Disciple's voice carried hatred, his gaze icy.

Gu Changsheng sized him up and raised an eyebrow.

"Brother Mo, long time no see."

"You can still laugh?"

Chief Disciple took a step forward, the broken bricks beneath his feet shattered into powder by spiritual energy.

"In the Tianyuan Ancient Realm, you were the one who killed the one hundred and forty Purple Mansion Disciples."

"The lives of the hundred thousand Daoxuan Family Disciples in the Western Desert were used by you as bait."

"Sixty percent of the Disciples of my Xuanhuang Immortal Mansion died at the hands of the Zifu Sword Pavilion, and that was also your orchestration."

Chief Disciple's voice grew louder and louder, the Righteous Qi in his chest surging and overflowing, causing the surrounding rubble to float.

"Gu Changsheng, what exactly are you after?"

Gu Changsheng tilted his head as if he had heard an interesting question, and after a moment of contemplation.

He shook his head and gave a light chuckle.

"I'm not really after anything."

"I just thought... it would be fun."

Chief Disciple was stunned; he thought Gu Changsheng would say something about a grand ambition or for the sake of his Sect.

Because even he once had such ambitions.

As the heir of a Holy Land, no one would be a mediocre talent!

But he didn't expect the other party to answer so perfunctorily!

Simply because... it was fun?

"The three Holy Lands have been in a stalemate for many years, with no one daring to move against the others. How boring."

"I just wanted to see what would happen if I gave them a push."

Gu Changsheng sighed leisurely, the corners of his mouth curling slightly.

Chief Disciple was both shocked and furious, his hatred boiling over.

"You lunatic! Because of your 'fun'!!"

"How many innocent lives have bled? How many prosperous nations have been destroyed? Half of the Eastern Region is already a sea of blood!"

"The bones of the countless scholars of my Xuanhuang Immortal Mansion are still cold, and their heroic spirits cannot find peace!"

The smile on Gu Changsheng's face didn't fade in the slightest as he asked indifferently, "What does that have to do with me?"

"You!!!"

"What a 'what does that have to do with me'!!!"

"Today, I will slaughter you!! To appease the countless lost souls!!!"

Chief Disciple's eyes turned red, and he laughed in extreme anger.

An unprecedented aura erupted from his body, and spiritual energy surged from his Dantian like a tide, washing through every Meridian.

Celestial Phenomenon Realm Middle Stage.

Gu Changsheng's eyebrow twitched.

"A Breakthrough?"

Chief Disciple did not answer.

The golden sphere of light in his right hand expanded rapidly, and the Righteous Qi solidified, transforming into a thirty-foot-long golden giant brush.

"Gu Changsheng, I, Chief Disciple, pride myself on having read all the books of the sages and having met countless people."

Chief Disciple gripped the giant brush tightly, the tip pointing forward.

"I have never seen a beast like you!"

"Die!"

The giant brush swung down.

The Righteous Qi, carrying the Law power of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, pulled a golden arc in mid-air, striking directly at the crown of Gu Changsheng's head.

Gu Changsheng stood his ground without moving.

He raised his right hand, fingers splayed, and met the golden giant brush.

" Bang!"

The tip of the giant brush slammed into Gu Changsheng's palm.

The golden Righteous Qi exploded, and the shockwave swept away a layer of the surrounding ruins.

Gu Changsheng's hand remained motionless.

His five fingers gripped the brush tip as if holding a chopstick.

Chief Disciple's pupils shrank violently.

"Impossible... How can you be so strong!"

Gu Changsheng tightened his fingers, and the giant brush let out a sharp hiss, splitting down the middle and turning into a sky full of golden fragments.

Chief Disciple gritted his teeth and took three steps back, his hands forming seals as the Righteous Qi around him surged once more.

"Righteous Thousand-Weight!"

An illusory mountain of books condensed above his head, pressing down with Celestial Phenomenon Laws as it smashed toward Gu Changsheng.

Gu Changsheng raised his left hand and struck the bottom of the book mountain with his palm.

The book mountain paused for a breath.

Then it shattered.

Taking advantage of the moment the book mountain shattered, Chief Disciple shot forward, his right fist concentrating all his magic power to strike directly at Gu Changsheng's chest.

"Righteousness Piercing the Sun!"

Before his fist could even touch the corner of Gu Changsheng's clothes.

Gu Changsheng's right hand had already gripped his wrist.

" Click."

The sound of bone breaking clearly reached Chief Disciple's ears.

His right arm, from the wrist to the elbow, saw its bones shatter inch by inch, and the entire arm went limp.

"Ah..."

Chief Disciple screamed as he was sent flying by a massive force, crashing through three stone walls and landing in a pile of rubble.

He lay prone on the ground, his right arm hanging limp, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood.

"Any more moves?"

Gu Changsheng's voice drifted down from above.

Chief Disciple propped himself up with his left hand, trembling as he crawled out of the rubble.

His left hand reached into his robe and pulled out a scroll.

The moment the scroll unfurled, a majestic surge of spiritual energy swept in all directions.

The painting depicted mountains and rivers, each stroke containing the Righteous Law, and the mountains and rivers in the painting were actually flowing slowly.

It was exactly his primary sacred treasure, the Mountain and River Righteousness Array Map.

"Seal!"

Chief Disciple threw the scroll into the air, and the painting transformed into a hundred-yard-square Mountain and River Domain, enveloping Gu Changsheng within.

Within the Domain, mountains suppressed and rivers locked, while Righteous Qi transformed into chains, wrapping around Gu Changsheng's limbs and skeleton from all directions.

Gu Changsheng looked down at the chains wrapping around him, the corners of his mouth curving.

"Interesting."

He raised his right hand, palm facing the sky.

A primitive square seal flew out from his storage space, hovering three feet above his head.

The body of the seal was dark green, engraved with patterns of nine mountain peaks, each emitting a heavy pressure.

Sacred Artifact, jiuyi mountain and river seal.

"Shatter."

The Mountain and River Seal crashed down, slamming into the wall of the Mountain and River Righteousness Array Map Domain.

" Click..."

The Domain was like a sheet of glass, with dense cracks spreading from the point of impact.

Chief Disciple spat out a mouthful of blood and knelt on the ground.

His life-bound Sacred Artifact was connected to his Divine Soul, and the backlash from the Domain's shattering struck his Divine Soul directly.

"Boom!"

The entire sealing Domain suddenly exploded.

Fragments of the Mountain and River Righteousness Array Map flew in all directions, turning into a sky full of spiritual light that dissipated into the air.

Chief Disciple collapsed onto the ruins, the bones all over his body creaking, with several ribs having pierced through his flesh, showing stark white bone.

His aura rapidly declined, his life force leaking out like sand in an hourglass.

Gu Changsheng put away the jiuyi mountain and river seal, walked up to Chief Disciple, and looked down at him.

Chief Disciple lay on his back, his chest heaving violently, a trail of blood oozing from the corner of his mouth with every breath.

He stared at Gu Changsheng's face and suddenly smiled.

There was no hatred or resentment in that smile, only something inexplicable.

"Gu Changsheng."

Chief Disciple's voice grew faint.

"Do you know? Back in the Tianyuan Ancient Realm, I truly considered you a friend."

Gu Changsheng said nothing.

"At that time, you helped my Xuanhuang Immortal Mansion, and I thought that although you were deep-minded, you at least had a bit of sincerity."

Chief Disciple coughed up some bloody foam, the smile on the corner of his mouth growing even wider.

"Thinking about it now, it's so damn ridiculous."

His gaze moved from Gu Changsheng's face to the shattered sky above.

"A person like you doesn't deserve to have friends."

Gu Changsheng lowered his eyes and looked at him for a few breaths.

"You're right."

Gu Changsheng's voice was flat without any fluctuation, his face expressionless.

"I don't need friends."

He raised his right hand, palm facing down.

Chief Disciple closed his eyes.

"Bang."

A muffled sound.

There was one more corpse on the ruins.