ah? The palace fighting system can also cultivate immortality

Chapter 247

Du Xinghe and Ji Wuhuo retreated into the storage room at an extremely fast speed.

The storage room was still quiet and empty. Du Xinghe swung out the scorpion tail hidden behind her, letting the purple scorpion search for the Immortal Gu according to its instinct.

The huge scorpion's tail swung in the air, sniffed for a while like a dog, and then the spikes poked in three directions of the storage room without hesitation.

Du Xinghe pulled out the Thousand Treasures Ice Toad from his clavicle and placed it in Ji Wuhuo's hand. "There's more than one Immortal Gu. Let's split up. I'll let Han Ling take you there."

After the Thousand Treasures Ice Toad lay in Ji Wuhuo's palm, it shifted awkwardly and complained: "Why do you want to separate me from Tan Shitian?"

Du Xinghe said: "Because the Immortal Gu you went to find might be better looking than Tan Shitian."

The Thousand Treasures Ice Toad immediately twisted its body and raised a webbed claw: [Hurry, hurry, hurry, go!]

The little fat scorpion had no objection to this.

Du Xinghe moved forward in one of the directions indicated by the scorpion's tail. The further she walked, the more frightened she became.

The Samsara Court placed poisonous insects according to the different categories of the Five Poisons, and snakes were placed in an orderly manner in the direction where Du Xinghe was heading.

In addition to the snake poison soaked in the glass jar, there are also various spiritual weapons, magic wands, and fragments of jade slips in the cabinet. They were obviously looted from the witch clan after the war. Some of the fragments even have bloodstains that have not been wiped off, leaving dark red marks.

Walking to the end of the corridor, Du Xinghe finally saw a white snake pierced by a long wooden stick on a small altar.

The white snake's body was as thick as a human arm, and when stretched out, it could almost reach the dome of the palace from the floor.

On top of the white snake's triangular head, Du Xinghe saw a pair of protruding bony horns. These were the horns that could only grow after a highly cultivated snake Gu had shed its skin a thousand times, and were also one of the hallmarks of an Immortal Gu.

But at this moment, the Immortal Gu White Snake's body was coiled, pierced by a sharp long wooden stick in a painful posture, and fixed on this small altar, becoming a sculptural spectacle.

[You...you are...a miko...]

Du Xinghe stood in front of the altar and said, "Yes. I am the shrine maiden of this generation."

[Finally, I know... there will be a day of liberation...]

The white snake slowly opened its eyes, and Du Xinghe discovered that where the snake's eyes should have been, only an empty eye socket remained. The white snake begged in a low voice: "Help me remove the splinter..."

Du Xinghe stretched out her hand, she grasped the long wooden stick that fixed the white snake, concentrated her mind and exerted strength, and there were several consecutive "crackling" sounds, and the long wooden stick broke, and the huge body of the white snake fell with a bang, landing on the altar with a "bang".

There was no seal on the long wooden stick. The white snake's breath was weak at the moment, but it was imprisoned by this long wooden stick alone. I don't know how much torture it must have suffered in the past hundred years.

The white snake crouched on the altar, spitting out its tongue with difficulty. After determining the direction of Du Xinghe, it turned its head with horns to face him and slowly opened its mouth: [Take me away, witch. My people have been waiting for you to come back and rescue us. We want revenge...]

Du Xinghe asked, "Gu worms and Gu cultivators are one and the same, so why are there only Gu worms here? Where have all the Gu cultivators gone?"

The white snake was silent for two seconds, then said: [Right here.]

Du Xinghe: "Where?"

[Right here.] The White Snake said, [Xuan Chao tore the Gu Xiu's body apart, and his soul merged with the Gu worm. So we are here, my clansmen, the Gu worms... everyone...]

"I am the direct disciple of the Great Witch. Originally, I was supposed to burn my blood and essence with the Great Witch to protect the Guling Master and the Witch Maiden from evacuating. But Xuan Chao used... evil magic..."

Recalling this, the White Snake's voice grew increasingly hoarse and painful: [They threw my people into the fire... For hundreds of years, I've heard my people's wails day and night! It's a shame that I'm trapped in the Immortal Gu. They said I was the most valuable, so they slowly tortured me, cut me into pieces, and disassembled me...]

[I only ask for liberation. Please take my body and avenge the witch clan, my lady witch!]

Du Xinghe didn't say much.

She stretched out her arm and placed her tiger's mouth in front of the white snake. The white snake opened its mouth and bit Du Xinghe's palm with its mouth full of scratches and shriveled venom glands. It used all its strength to pierce her skin and bite out bright red blood beads.

But that's enough.

A sharp pain emanated from him, and the white snake swam into Du Xinghe's arm, transforming into a long white snake pattern. The Gu cultivator's soul transformed into a wisp of white smoke, circling the altar twice before dispersing, finally freed.

Not far away, the sound of Ji Wuhuo's hurried footsteps could be heard.

On his shoulder lay the miniature Thousand Treasures Ice Toad, and in each hand he held two Immortal Gu, one a centipede as red as blood, and the other a spider as big as a plate with eyes on its back.

As soon as he got closer, Du Xinghe heard the two Immortal Gu crying for help one after another: [Mistress...] [Help...]

The Thousand Treasures Ice Toad leaped into the air and landed accurately on Du Xinghe's arm. After crawling back to the crook of his neck with a "puff puff", it complained: "There are no handsome guys here, only the old, weak, and sick! They all cry when they see us!"

Du Xinghe comforted him softly, "They are all very miserable people. We are here to save them. Okay, go play with Xiaopang... Tan Shitian."

Needless to say, Du Xinghe already knew what she should do next. She took the two Immortal Gu from Ji Wuhuo's hands. As two warm currents flowed into her arms, the Gu cultivators who had been trapped and tortured in the bodies of the two Immortal Gu for hundreds of years were finally freed.

At this moment, Du Xinghe felt that the five poisonous insects in his body were spontaneously forming a corner of the five elements, and the spiritual power was flowing in an intertwined manner, forming a strange cycle.

Previously, when she had signed a contract with the Thousand Treasures Ice Toad, someone had asked her if she wanted to gather the Five Poisons. Now it seemed that gathering the Five Poisons would indeed bring about miraculous changes, but these changes had only just begun, and coupled with the fact that the three Immortal Gu were extremely weak, they were not immediately noticeable.

"What should we do next?" Ji Wuhuo asked.

Du Xinghe opened her mouth. She wanted to say that she wanted to steal more of the inheritance and sacred objects left by the witch clan from here, but a strange muffled sound came from the alchemy room.

The alchemist mumbled something a few times, and Du Xinghe's heart tightened. He quickly pulled Ji Wuhuo up and flew towards the alchemy room.

Is the elixir ready?

In a flash, Du Xinghe and Ji Wuhuo returned to the corner where the substitute was.

They dispelled the illusion, returned to their original positions, and walked out of the corner.

The door of the alchemy furnace was wide open, and wisps of smoke escaped from the door.

The alchemist who originally controlled the fire had disappeared. A slightly unfamiliar man stood in front of the furnace with his back to the furnace, looking down at the magic pill that had just come out of the furnace.

"The pills are ready. This batch is of excellent quality. It seems that he is indeed the best among this batch of alchemists."

After he finished speaking, the man sighed softly: "It's a pity that he only watched over the stove and didn't watch over the more important things, so I can only send him on his way."

After he finished speaking, he slowly turned around and stared at Du Xinghe and Ji Wuhuo with a sinister look: "You two came here in disguise and stole things from my Samsara Academy. Do you think you can just pretend nothing happened and take the magic pill and leave?"

He is the national teacher.

The man with dark and bottomless pupils looked at Du Xinghe carefully. His gaze was like a snake's tongue, sliding stickily across her face and finally landing on the healed wound on her palm.

"Are you a Gu cultivator?"

The Imperial Master narrowed his eyes. "It's hard for you. The Wu Clan has been struggling for hundreds of years, and you've finally decided to come out of this dark and obscure place?"

Du Xinghe motioned Ji Wuhuo to be silent, and sneered as he spoke: "You can call sleeping on straw and tasting gall as struggling to survive. Then I can only say that your education level is not enough for me to think you can communicate."

The Imperial Master said with a half-smile, "Sleeping on straw and tasting gall? Have you come up with something special?"

Du Xinghe said, "He's just average. He's just cultivated a pair of flaming eyes, which can tell at a glance that everyone in your Samsara Court is not human!"

"Let me ask you, what's going on with that cloud on the dome? What does the harmful fog gate at the Immortal Alliance Competition have to do with you?!"

Ji Wuhuo was shocked when he heard this.

When the Fog Gate appeared during the Immortal Alliance Competition, he led the Ji family's branch and the children of other aristocratic families to find a safe place to hide. With the help of the spiritual weapons and magic weapons accumulated by the Ji family and other aristocratic families, they barely escaped the disaster, but they were still in fear of the chaos caused by the Fog Gate.

Was that fog gate actually created by the Samsara Academy?!

But why is that?

The Xuan Dynasty is so disregarding human life that it actually wants to wipe out all the young elites of this generation?

"You are indeed a discerning eye, able to discern the connection. You are truly a genius among the witch clan," the Imperial Preceptor said slowly. "But what's the point of asking me? If you want an explanation, then ask the Heavenly Dao for one."

Du Xinghe asked, "What do you mean?"

The Imperial Master smiled faintly, "The laws of nature are unchangeable. To gain something, one must give something in return. Since the request is so great, the stakes one pays must be high enough to move the heavens. There are many promising candidates in this Immortal Alliance Competition. It's a pity that the two I wanted the most didn't take the bait."

"But what's coming will eventually come. Look, you two just walked right into this, didn't you?"

The Imperial Master suddenly waved his sleeves, and the alchemy furnace behind Du Xinghe and Ji Wuhuo instantly overturned, pressing down on the two with the force of a mountain!

"You're just a clown, and you still want to deceive me? How dare this Ji family kid drag a Wu clan Gu cultivator into my Samsara Courtyard? It's a blessing for you, a woman of the Ji family, to be your Majesty's cauldron. When she gives birth to the medicinal meat we carefully nurtured, I will definitely be able to refine the most effective elixir!"

"As for the two of you, you will become the Qi-boosting pills His Majesty will take tomorrow morning!"

The lid of the alchemy furnace slammed shut, and Du Xinghe and Ji Wuhuo were trapped in the hot and dark furnace.

Ji Wuhuo snuggled up to Du Xinghe's side. He had unconsciously wrapped his arm around Du Xinghe's and asked softly, "...What should we do?"

Du Xinghe was not at all panicked. She secretly began to circulate the five kinds of immortal Gu in her body, opened the medicine box that the Ji family patriarch had given her before leaving, and said with a smile as she put the pills in it:

"No rush. I just said that guy's education level isn't high enough to fight me head-on. He hasn't even read Journey to the West, yet he dares to lock us up in the alchemy furnace. That shows how terrifying illiteracy is."

Ji Wuhuo was stunned: "I haven't read Journey to the West either, what is that?"

The temperature inside the furnace began to rise. Du Xinghe tore off the disguise of Concubine Ji's maid, revealing his shiny scorpion tail, and said in a deep voice:

"It's a story about kicking over the alchemy furnace and refusing to submit to fate."

"The Secret of the Gu God", the Gu God's royal power, the domain expands!

With the power of the Five Poisons Immortal Gu, she expanded the scope of the Gu breeding ground and incorporated the entire Samsara Institute headquarters into her space!