Longevity: Start by practicing the ruthless way

"It's done! It's done!!!" The big black dog jumped up excitedly, howling excitedly.

Gu Chi's face was also full of excitement. He had already imagined the scene of her riding the big black dog and flying away on the wind, traveling through the beautiful mountains and rivers.

"Old Black, get...get in the car, bah, no, get the knife!"

"Here it comes!" The big black dog kicked its hind legs and jumped onto the long knife, with its two paws resting on Gu Chi's shoulders.

Gu Chi found his balance, put two fingers together and pointed upwards, and shouted softly: "Get up!"

"Woof!!"

With a whoosh, a violent gust of wind blew up, and the long sword disappeared in the blink of an eye like an arrow from a bow.

Bang!Bang!

Two figures fell heavily from mid-air, their mouths full of dirt and dust.

"Where's the knife?! My bad Tamakiri!"

Gu Chi spat out the dirt in his mouth and looked around.

The big black dog was also dizzy from the fall, and vaguely saw the long sword flying towards the distant mountains and forests.

Not long after, a man and a dog came out of the forest covered in dust.

Gu Chi took a deep breath and consoled himself: "As the old saying goes, failure is the mother of success. Just try a few more times."

The big black dog held a long knife in its mouth and nodded repeatedly.

……

Another month passed, and Gu Chi believed that he had mastered the trick of flying the sword. It was still a cool morning, and he was still in that open space.

Gu Chi put her fingers together and released a magical power. The long sword trembled and slowly rose into the air. She leaned back slightly, lightly tapped her toes, and landed steadily on the sword as light as a swallow.

"Come on, Lao Hei, we'll definitely succeed this time!"

The big black dog hesitated for a moment and then jumped up, its paws tightly holding Gu Chi's thighs.

"Get me up!"

Gu Chi shouted softly, and a strong wind swept around them, and a long rainbow shot up into the sky.

"Success! Blackie! We're flying!"

Gu Chi shouted excitedly. This time they did not fall down, but actually flew up.

The strong wind and air flow hit his face, and the ground under his feet was getting farther and farther away and smaller. Gu Chi held the drawstring of the parachute backpack tightly with one hand, ready to open it at any time.

The big black dog carefully opened half of its eye, but was frightened to faint. Its paws loosened and its body tilted to the other side.

Gu Chi was quick to reach out and grab it, laughing: "Old Black, you are too timid, aren't you? It's only about 50 meters above the ground, not even as exciting as a roller coaster!"

She dragged the big black dog to the front so that she could take care of it more easily. She mobilized her magic power to form a barrier in front of her to block the airflow, and continued to rush forward.

Slowly, the big black dog woke up, listened to the whistling of the wind in his ears, looked at the ground far away under his feet, and his eyes went dark and he almost fainted again.

Gu Chi smiled and comforted him, "It's okay, Lao Hei. Cuo Yuqie is connected to my magic power. As long as the magic power is continuous, we won't fall. Last time was just an accident. Open your eyes and take a good look at the beautiful mountains and rivers."

She controlled the long sword under her feet, circling high above this secret realm, rushing back and forth between the mountains, her excited cheers mixed with the howling of the big black dog.

Half an hour later, Gu Chi finally had enough fun and returned to the ground.

"If I could fly a little higher, I could experience the double joy of a bungee jumping machine and a roller coaster combined." Gu Chi muttered this while pinching his jaw, and returned to the sacred tree to continue practicing the "Sword Control Technique".

The big black dog fell half-dead beside him and took a long time to recover.

Another month has passed.

Gu Chi felt that his sword-wielding skills had reached perfection, so he immediately decided to take the big black dog to practice outside the medicine garden. The space in this secret realm was too small, and it was not fun to play in it!

"Woohoo! Is Lao Hei still scared now? Is the pricking exciting? Is it satisfying?"

“It’s so enjoyable!!!”

The big black dog had adapted to flying at high altitudes and was no longer worried about falling off the flying knife. He roared at the top of his lungs.

"The vast world allows me to roam freely. This is the joy of cultivating immortals!" Gu Chi cheered. On the way, he also met many disciples flying with swords, but his speed was slightly inferior to theirs.

"Junior Sister Gu?!"

A familiar voice sounded behind Gu Chi. Seeing her turn around, he was delighted and said, "I was saying that your back looked so familiar. I didn't expect it was really you!"

"Ah! It's Senior Brother Chen!" Gu Chi hurriedly hovered and found an open platform nearby to land. He couldn't help feeling a little emotional. Even though they were in the same sect, they hadn't met for two years.

Chen Sheng asked, "Junior Sister Gu, you didn't go to the White Tiger Hall?"

He hadn't seen Gu Chi in the White Tiger Hall in the past few years, nor had he seen her in other places in the sect. He thought Gu Chi had left the sect, but he didn't expect to meet her again today.

Gu Chi nodded and said, "Lao Hei and I joined the Xuanwu Hall and help manage the sect's spiritual medicine garden."

They walked to a stone table, sat down and began to reminisce about the past. The big black dog lay on the ground and listened quietly.

"Junior Sister Gu, the Xuanwu Hall is not a good place. Everyone in the sect regards it as a prison and a cage! How could you... Alas!"

Chen Sheng sighed heavily, feeling somewhat disappointed. He said, "Once you enter the Xuanwu Hall, it's like entering a deep sea. Since its establishment, who has ever joined it before escaping after years of hardship? Junior Sister Gu, you're still so young and your future should be bright. How can you ruin it by entering that Xuanwu cage?"

"I know that Brother Chen Sheng is doing this for my own good, and he's genuinely thinking about my future." Gu Chi turned his head to look at the big black dog lying at his feet, smiled slightly, and said, "Lao Hei and I just want to live a peaceful and leisurely life. We don't like fighting and killing."

"Junior Sister Gu, do you know how some disciples in the sect view those of us who have no family background?" Chen Sheng clenched his fist.

"What do you think?"

Gu Chi really didn't know that she spent most of her time in the spiritual medicine garden with the big black dog, living their own lives. They didn't have much contact with people, but she seemed to be okay with everyone she came into contact with.

For example, Le Huaxin and the uncle-in-chief in the Xuanwu Hall both gave her a very good impression.

Chen Sheng said, "They are all talking behind our backs... saying that we are just pawns!"

Gu Chi said: "Ma Qianzu? What does that mean?"

"The secret realm of Beiyin Mountain is about to open. When that happens, we outer disciples will all serve as human shields for the inner disciples."

After saying that, he looked up at Gu Chi and said, "Junior Sister Gu, do you know how many outer disciples we have?"

Gu Chi replied: "It seems to be around 50,000."

Chen Sheng continued, "Then do you know how many of our Heming Sect's outer disciples enter the secret realm of Beiyin Mountain every time it opens, and how many of them emerge alive?"

Gu Chi did not answer. Judging from his expression, that must be a very large and tragic number.

"Take the last time the Beiyin Mountain Secret Realm opened, for example. Over 10,000 outer disciples from the five branches of the Heming Sect were sent out. Regardless of whether you were willing or not, as long as your name was on the list, you had to go. And that year, less than 2,000 outer disciples emerged from the Beiyin Mountain Secret Realm alive!"