4: Chapter 4: Take it, you're welcome! Here's a green oasis for you!

"System."

"What is the use of luck value?"

The System's electronic voice rang out in Gu Changsheng's mind.

"It can be used to upgrade Cultivation Techniques, improve Physiques, or exchange for treasures from all worlds in the System Mall."

Gu Changsheng's eyebrows twitched slightly.

A jack-of-all-trades, huh.

This path is wild; he liked it.

The path of cultivation has Nine Heavens.

Spirit Awakening, Meridian Opening, Dan Bian, Divine Light, Wufa, Celestial Phenomenon, Wanfa, Returning to Void, and Gu Yi.

Ninety percent of the living beings in this world are stuck in the Dan Bian Realm for their entire lives, unable to touch the threshold of the Divine Light Realm even when their Lifespan is exhausted.

Reaching the Wufa Realm, one could already take charge of a Peak in an ordinary sect and be worshipped by tens of thousands.

If one could cultivate to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, they would be enough to run rampant within a territory.

Those in the Myriad Laws Realm are even more legendary figures who rarely appear in the world.

As for the Returning to Void Realm and above, those are the games of the world's top powerhouses.

And his father, Emperor Xuanqiong, Grand Marshal Gu Xuanqiong, was one of the few standing above the clouds.

It was rumored that Emperor Xuanqiong already had half a foot in the Return to One Realm; with such a backer, no one would dare stop Gu Changsheng if he wanted to walk sideways in the Xuantian True Domain.

What's more, his own talent was even more despair-inducing.

Entering the Divine Light Realm at only eighteen years old, possessing the Chaos Dao Bone and peerless talent, he had the innate Aptitude of a Saint.

Although there were many factions within the Daoxuan Immortal Sect and many self-proclaimed Prodigy Geniuses were eyeing him greedily, as soon as the Saint Ceremony began, that seat would practically be his.

Gu Changsheng pushed open the palace doors. Just as his feet crossed the threshold, the Spiritual Qi in his body suddenly surged like a river bursting its banks, vaguely showing signs of washing away the barriers.

About to Breakthrough?

The drama of "taking someone else's beloved" just now had been performed so smoothly that his mind and body were at ease, his thoughts were clear, and it was only natural for his Realm to loosen.

"Just right."

Gu Changsheng flicked his wide sleeve, and the palace doors slammed shut, locking the desolation inside the hall behind him.

With the Saint Ceremony approaching, it was also time to prepare a little "surprise" for those fools eyeing his position.

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Meanwhile.

Xuantian Continent, Black Wind Mountain Range.

Rain poured down in torrents.

A youth with a face covered in blood hid in a cave.

He gripped a broken sword in his hand.

His chest heaved violently.

"Gu Changsheng..."

The youth gritted his teeth.

His teeth were stained with blood.

"If I don't die, I will definitely make you pay back in blood!"

It was indeed Lin Xiao.

A blurry shadow floated before him.

It was a white-haired old man.

"Xiao'er, steady your mind."

"The Burning Heaven Technique has already circulated for three cycles."

"As long as you persevere for another month, your cultivation will return to its Peak."

Lin Xiao clenched his fists.

"Master, I can't wait that long."

"Qingyue is still in his hands..."

"That beast, I don't know how he will torture her, just thinking about it..."

Just as he finished speaking.

From the curtain of rain outside the cave, a sudden sound of breaking air rang out.

A jet-black streak of light pierced the sky.

"Who is it?"

Lin Xiao suddenly stood up.

He gripped the broken sword and pointed it at the cave entrance.

The old man's phantom image also frowned, his expression solemn.

"What a powerful aura."

"This is not a power that should exist on this continent."

A black flying shuttle pierced through the heavy rain.

It stopped steadily in front of the cave.

Gu Yi stepped down first.

The pressure from his body radiated without concealment.

Lin Xiao felt as if a great mountain was pressing down on his back.

The ground beneath his feet cracked into countless fissures.

"It's you?"

Lin Xiao recognized Gu Yi.

Back in the imperial city of the Cangwu Kingdom, it was this man who shattered his Dantian with a single palm strike.

"The Gu Family's dog!"

Lin Xiao's eyes were bloodshot, and he was about to rush forward to fight for his life.

Gu Yi waved his hand casually.

A gust of gale-force wind directly sent Lin Xiao flying.

Lin Xiao crashed against the stone wall and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Xiao'er!"

The old man's phantom roared in anger.

But he didn't dare to act rashly.

In his current state, he was no match for such an Upper Realm expert.

Gu Yi looked coldly at the youth on the ground.

"Ant."

He stepped aside.

Su Qingyue stepped down from the flying shuttle.

Lin Xiao was stunned.

He wiped the blood from his eyes.

"Qingyue?"

"I'm not dreaming, am I?"

Su Qingyue looked at Lin Xiao, who was lying in a pool of blood.

She wanted to rush over.

But Gu Yi's hand rested on her shoulder.

Like a lock, it pinned her to the spot.

"Brother Lin Xiao..."

Su Qingyue cried out with a sob.

Lin Xiao struggled to get up.

"Qingyue, how did you escape?"

"That beast from the Gu Family didn't do anything to you, did he?"

Su Qingyue turned her head away.

She remembered Gu Changsheng's instructions.

Her body trembled involuntarily.

"Brother Lin Xiao, I'm here to deliver something."

She pulled a jade bottle from her bosom.

And that Image Recording Stone.

Gu Yi released his grip.

Su Qingyue stumbled over to Lin Xiao.

She handed over the medicine bottle.

"Quick... eat it quickly."

Lin Xiao took the bottle, looking bewildered.

"What is this?"

Su Qingyue didn't speak.

She activated her Spiritual Qi and triggered the Image Recording Stone in her hand.

An image was projected into mid-air.

Lin Xiao stared blankly at the screen.

Seeing Su Qingyue leaning on a luxurious soft couch.

Seeing her smile and say she stayed with the Gu Family of her own free will.

Seeing her say that Gu Changsheng was a good person.

"No... this isn't real."

The medicine bottle in Lin Xiao's hand dropped to the ground.

He kept shaking his head.

"Qingyue, you're lying to me, aren't you?"

"He forced you to say that!"

Su Qingyue clenched her back teeth tightly.

She felt Gu Yi's cold gaze from the flying shuttle.

It was a blade hanging over her neck.

If she said one wrong word, Lin Xiao would surely die.

"No one forced me."

Su Qingyue's voice turned cold.

"Young Master Gu treats me very well."

"The Spiritual Qi of the Upper Realm is something a cripple like you can't even imagine."

"Lin Xiao, stop pestering me."

Lin Xiao felt as if a giant hammer had slammed into his chest.

Everything went black before his eyes, and he nearly fainted.

"Qingyue... do you know what you're saying?"

Su Qingyue bent down, picked up the medicine bottle, and forced it into Lin Xiao's hand.

"Eat it."

"This is the Nine Revolutions Nirvana Pill."

"Eat it, and you can become that Genius again."

Lin Xiao looked at the golden Medicinal Pill in his hand.

He suddenly burst out laughing.

A desolate laugh.

"A Medicinal Pill exchanged for you?"

"Hahahaha!"

"What does Gu Changsheng take me for?"

Tears streaming down her face, Su Qingyue backhanded Lin Xiao across the face.

The sound echoed in the cave.

Lin Xiao was dazed by the slap.

"Eat it!"

"If you don't eat it, how can you become strong and change all of this!"

Su Qingyue wept, her grievances exploding without reservation at this moment as she shouted at Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao looked at her.

He felt that his childhood sweetheart before him had become a stranger.

He opened his mouth.

Like a puppet, he swallowed the Medicinal Pill.

A majestic heat current instantly exploded within his body.

His originally shattered Dantian was actually reconstructing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His Meridians became thick and strong.

His depleted Spiritual Qi surged wildly.

His aura was soaring.

Spirit Awakening, Meridian Opening, Dan Bian...

In an instant, he reached heights he could never attain before.

But there was no joy on his face.

Only a deathly silence.

Seeing this, Gu Yi nodded in satisfaction.

"The items have been delivered, and I'm taking the person with me."

He reached out and made a grasping motion through the air.

Su Qingyue was sucked back into the flying shuttle.

"Brother Lin Xiao... take care."

Su Qingyue turned around, not daring to look at him again.

The flying shuttle plunged into the rain curtain once more.

It disappeared.

In the cave, Lin Xiao knelt on the ground.

The power inside him was still expanding.

It was the Divine Power that countless people dreamed of.

Yet he felt empty inside.

"Gu—Chang—sheng!"

He let out a desperate roar toward the rainy night.

Shaking the entire mountain.

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