Crossing the Cultivation Realm: Two Souls Coexist

Late at night, Gu Yang was awakened by waves of battle. The release of spiritual power and the noise of the crowd made him irritated.

He sat up. The bonfire next to him was still burning. He looked around but Hu Qing was nowhere to be seen.

The noise in the distance also became smaller at this moment, and gradually, the fluctuations of the battle disappeared, and silence returned.

Hu Qing jumped down from the hill and landed beside the campfire, and found Gu Yang staring at him.

"Are you awake? Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something on my face?"

Gu Yang shook his head and said, "No, I thought you went to the ruins to help. What happened? There were so many spiritual energy fluctuations."

"I went to the top of this hill and observed for a while. It shouldn't be those two statues. It looks like a monster might have attacked."

"Monster beast, they have so many officers and soldiers, how could there still be monster beasts that dare to harass them?"

Gu Yang was a little puzzled. Although most of those officers and soldiers were in the early stage of foundation building, their combined aura would most likely scare away the surrounding monsters, not to mention that this was the periphery and the monsters were only of the third grade at most.

"I'm not sure about this, but judging from the trajectory of the monster's charge, it should be heading towards something."

Hu Qing recalled the breath he had just felt and was a little confused. Wasn't the monster seeking death by doing this?

"Forget it, never mind. For the next few days, one of us will practice at night while the other keeps watch. If anything goes wrong, wake the other up and go to the ruins to provide support."

Gu Yang nodded in agreement. The idea proposed by Hu Qing was indeed the best choice. Only in this way could both sides be taken into account.

He stood up, stretched his muscles, and let Hu Qing practice while he observed.

Hu Qing did not act pretentiously. He sat cross-legged on the ground, clasped his hands together, and began to practice. His realm had not made any progress and had been stuck for almost a month.

He had also been troubled by this matter. Seeing that Gu Yang's realm was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye every day, while he himself remained motionless, he felt a little annoyed.

The surrounding spiritual power flowed into Hu Qing's body, transformed into soul power in the dantian, and then strengthened his soul body. However, there was still no reaction in the dantian meridians.

Gu Yang looked at the starry sky and the campfire in the distance. The evening breeze blew the curling smoke from the opposite side to here.

There was a sweet smell in the wind, the smell of barbecue. It seemed that they had already killed the monster.

Sunset at the foot of Mountain.

"Boss, what kind of medicine do you have? It's so powerful that it actually attracted the wolves down from the mountain."

A man in gray soft armor sat next to Minghua, biting a roasted wolf leg in his hand and speaking incoherently.

"Yeah, yeah, this medicine is too strong."

"But this meat tastes delicious. This is my first time eating wolf monster meat."

……

Everyone around the campfire echoed this, and everyone was gnawing on the wolf meat.

"I got it from Butcher Zhou in the west of the city. It's a really powerful medicine. Have you collected all the blood I asked you to draw? Ah Xin!"

The man in soft armor who had been gnawing on the wolf leg put it down and stuck it next to the campfire. He wiped the grease from his mouth, patted the storage bag at his waist, and said to Minghua:

"Boss, don't worry. The blood of all twenty-three wolves is here. I have already collected it in a wooden barrel."

Minghua nodded, told his men to eat well, and then turned to go to the main tent to rest. The environment in the wild was indeed torturous.

Daybreak soon arrived. Winter was approaching and the sun came out impatiently before the hour of Mao.

Hu Qing slowly opened his eyes, feeling the improvement in his strength. His soul power became stronger, but his realm still did not improve at all.

"Ah Qing, could it be that because you have no physical body, all your spiritual power has been transformed into soul power?"

Gu Yang was also thinking about this matter. After all, Hu Qing’s strength was very important to him.

Hu Qing had been observing while he was practicing. In his perception, all the spiritual power was transferred to the soul body, and no spiritual power flowed into the dantian.

"That shouldn't be the reason. After all, I've always practiced this way. When I was in my soul form, I was able to break through, but now I haven't made any progress at all."

Hu Qing shook his head and looked at the white clouds in the distance with a bitter face. They were moving slowly and no one was chasing them.

"It's okay. Once these troubles are resolved, we'll go to a wider area and find a way to help you recover. I've already prepared this snake gall wine for you."

Gu Yang was practicing with his sword in the morning. He chopped a rotten tree, revealing a large hole at the root of the tree. A black snake was sleeping in it, apparently hibernating.

He peeled out the snake's gallbladder and used it to make wine, cut the flesh into more than a dozen pieces and cooked it into snake soup, which was bubbling over the campfire.

After Gu Yang finished eating, before he had time to pack up his things, the sky suddenly became gloomy, and lightning flashed from time to time, accompanied by loud thunder.

Rain mixed with some hail fell from the sky, hitting the ground with a pleasant crisp sound.

Hu Qing stood in the hailstones to help collect things, feeling the stinging pain in his soul, his body becoming a little dented.

After Gu Yang finished cleaning up, the two of them went into the cave, cleared out all the dirt inside, and piled it outside.

After lighting the fire again, the two of them listened to the sounds outside and began to practice. In such bad weather, there shouldn't be any major problems at the ruins.

The hail outside the cave was getting smaller and smaller, leaving only some rain, washing away the bleakness of autumn and bringing the tranquility of winter.

Three powerful mental forces passed through Gu Yang and Hu Qing without stopping and explored into the distance.

The two opened their eyes and looked at the fear in each other's eyes. They realized that the mental powers just now were all at the Nascent Soul stage.

But it seems that they mistook them for monsters and didn't check them carefully, otherwise they would have been in trouble.

Hu Qing walked out of the cave, followed closely by Gu Yang. The rain had stopped and the warm sun was shining.

The surroundings have been washed clean by the rain, revealing the fishy smell of soil and the freshness of the woods.

Gu Yang followed Hu Qing up the hill and looked towards the ruins. There were already more than a dozen unfamiliar auras, each one stronger than them.

The three leading auras were the most familiar. I didn't expect that the emperor, the national teacher and Qian Ruihong, the president of Qingmu Chamber of Commerce, were all present.

"Have they recovered from their injuries? It's so fast! It seems they're planning to wipe out all the troubles in the ruins at once."

Gu Yang nodded in agreement. Now it was completely impossible to use mental power or spiritual power to spy.

The perception of the Nascent Soul stage is too sharp. As long as they try to explore, they will be discovered 100%.

Hu Qing looked at the ruins, exhaled, and turned into a white mist, dissipating in the air. The pressure on his body became greater and greater.

The two men turned around and went into the cave. Now they could only wait and see what was happening over there, otherwise with their strength, they would be unable to help at all.

The blazing bonfire could not dispel the chillness from the two men. The atmosphere became more and more oppressive, almost making it difficult for them to breathe.