Primordial Qi

It was not until the evening that the people from the four major sects finally united as one and decided to attack with all their might. The people from the Protectorate also said they would contribute some combat power, but not too much. Their main task was to protect Chu Tianyang, and it was obvious that taking part in a counterattack was beyond the scope of their training.

Li Tianxuan and others decided to wait until the secret realm was opened before notifying the ancestor of heaven and man to come and help. What they had to do now was to kill all the people below heaven and man to avenge their shame and conduct a carpet search of the secret realm, making them pay the price.

Li Tianjun did not act with everyone else. After the meeting, he rushed into the depths of the secret realm alone. He attacked the thieves from the Qiwu Sect as soon as he saw them, regardless of whether he could defeat them or not. He was fearless even though the sword in his hand was blunt. His strength in the Juling Realm had already reached perfection, and he only needed a little chance to break through to the Grandmaster level.

Gu Chenyu, who was in the innermost circle of the secret realm, was now wrapped like a dumpling. The medicinal power of the Xuanyu Duanxu Ointment was constantly repairing his meridians, but the effect was minimal. He clearly felt the location of his meridians, felt the broken dantian, and the gap that could not retain his qi. He was now just an ordinary mortal, and his breath was getting weaker and weaker.

“Maybe, this is fate.”

Gu Chenyu sighed in his heart. Every time his meridians were repaired, it was extremely painful. He swallowed the Three Souls Life-Prolonging Pill and could clearly feel the pain in his body. The Xuanyu Duanxu Ointment had lost its efficacy so it was replaced by Gu Qingxue. It had been applied seven times and there was not much left in the wooden box.

"If you can't recover this time, we can't go back." Gu Qingxue's eyes were dim. She hadn't slept for several nights. Her aging body became sleepy, as if she wanted to make up for decades of sleep. She woke up from her dreams every time, fearing that she hadn't changed Gu Chenyu's medicine and he would die. Now, the medicine was running out, and she had no hope.

Gu Chenyu felt the piercing pain. This kind of pain of being unable to live or die made him shed tears. He finally understood the pain that Bai Yansha felt after swallowing the Three Souls Life-Sustaining Pill. What if his brain was clear? He could clearly feel his body fading away. When it lost its vitality, his soul would gradually dissipate between heaven and earth and die completely. Taking the Three Souls Life-Sustaining Pill was more like a clear perception of his own death.

His body was shaking violently, and the medicinal power was quickly absorbed. The originally moist and sticky Xuanyu Intermittent Ointment became dry, as if it had been covered with plaster, and lost its black reflective color.

Gu Qingxue knew that it was only the last moment, and the Yin-Yang Po Li Dan might be taking effect. After shaking for a stick of incense, Gu Chenyu lost his breath and stopped shaking with the last violent tremor. Gu Qingxue trembled and put her fingers close to Gu Chenyu's mouth and nose, but he was dead.

She looked up to the sky and cried, but in the end she was powerless to change the situation. The young man who risked his life to kill for her was gone. She couldn't help but sigh, what a talented young man, but what a tragic fate.

His body became heavy, but Gu Chenyu felt his body lighten instead. Perhaps his soul had left his body. So he became very light and slowly floated into the air.

dong dong dong.

Gu Chenyu's heartbeat, which had stopped, suddenly became strong. The terrifying power counterattacked at this time. After three years of hard training, the spiritual power was as vast as the abyss, but no one knew where it was hidden. Gu Chenyu's meridians were repaired, and the broken dantian was also repaired by the spiritual power. The law of time did not erode, on the contrary, it seemed to accelerate the process.

The spiritual power replaced the original true essence and suspended Gu Chenyu's body in the air. The plaster-like black jade paste was blown into pieces, and his naked body was experiencing the cleansing of spiritual power.

Gu Chenyu frowned and actually took the initiative to stop the ignition of spiritual power, and instead gathered his true energy again.

The spiritual power did not leave because of Gu Chenyu's giving up, but instead formed a spiritual power ocean below the Dantian. The true energy was condensed in the air and floated into the Dantian, causing golden rain to fall from the Dantian, which was a continuous source of true energy.

Gu Chenyu slowly opened his eyes. He only felt that his body became lighter, his stature became a little taller, and his eyes became brighter.

He controlled his true energy and slowly approached the already aged Gu Qingxue, not caring whether he was naked or not, and said sincerely: "Thank you."

Gu Qingxue's pupils were filled with shock. She was actually alive again.

Strangely enough, Gu Chenyu originally thought he was doomed. He even felt the pill in his stomach, which was not absorbed at all, and it was broken and then stood up. He estimated that he could vomit the pill out by dry heaving. The Xuanyu Duanxu ointment repaired his meridians, but his dantian was repaired by spiritual power. He didn't know if it was eroded by the law of time a little bit. He felt that he had grown up a lot.

Gu Qingxue turned her head away awkwardly as she looked at Gu Chenyu who had become handsome. She was an old woman now, and she didn't know how old she was, and she didn't want Gu Chenyu to see her.

"Put on your clothes first." Gu Qingxue reminded him. After Gu Chenyu put on the clothes of Lingmu Sect, his temperament instantly improved. He looked like a core disciple of the sect, so heroic and dashing.

"I will find an elixir to repair your body." Gu Chenyu said. If Gu Qingxue did not disperse her power, she would definitely die. The laws here were too easy to kill a celestial being.

Gu Chenyu took out some dry food. If the mortal Gu Qingxue didn't eat these things, she would starve to death. Gu Chenyu was originally a mortal and had no spiritual power ignited. He was not a cultivator at all and could not practice fasting.

The cave is very spacious, with many spiritual water sources nearby. The spiritual spring water that Gu Qingxue didn't dare to drink when entering the secret realm doesn't matter now, because she won't explode and die after drinking it. There is a water source, and there are no dangers such as monsters. It's too safe here. Gu Chenyu carefully observed the environment here. He didn't know how long he slept, nor why he came here. He remembered that he was only on the periphery before he fainted, and he came here when he woke up.

Gu Chenyu's eyes reddened as he looked at the hunched over, white-haired Gu Qingxue. It seemed that she was the one who dragged him here. He woke up on a wooden board with a rope on it, which dragged him all the way here in his mortal body.

It would be a lie to say that he was not moved. He felt very uncomfortable when he saw Gu Qingxue, who looked tired. A young and beautiful celestial being had now become a white-haired old man. If someone had a weak ability to accept this, he would probably have committed suicide.

"How long have we been here?" asked Gu Chenyu.

"About three weeks." Gu Qingxue said. So much time had passed, but Gu Chenyu only felt that he had been crawling in a dark place for a long time before crawling out. He didn't feel much about the change of time.

"I feel relieved to see that you are alive." Gu Qingxue said tiredly. She was very tired and could not help but fall into a deep sleep, falling into Gu Chenyu's arms.

Gu Chenyu looked inside his body and indeed felt the undigested pill. He couldn't take it out, and he couldn't expect himself to pull it out.

After placing Gu Qingxue on a flat ground, Gu Chenyu gently smoothed a huge stone, covered it with clothes, and then placed Gu Qingxue on it.

He took off his clothes and jumped into the spiritual spring, silently absorbing the spiritual power here. For some reason, the law of time did not apply to him. Gu Chenyu dived into the water in one breath, and there was no living creature under the water.

Such pure spiritual power, without any monsters or strange objects, it was just that the pill in his body seemed to be absorbed, and the effect was minimal.

"This...I'm afraid this is a fake pill."

Gu Chenyu’s eyes went dark, he relaxed his body, and slowly floated to the surface of the water.