I am just a mortal, why do you all worship me as a saint?

Chapter 565: Platitudes

Not only were there no large scorpions, but even the smaller ones seemed unwilling to approach this place...

Gu Heng looked thoughtfully at the lonely mountain behind him.

He knew that demonic beasts were territorial, and if those scorpions dared not come here, it meant one thing: the area around this lonely mountain was another "demonic beast territory".

Moreover, it's definitely more powerful than those scorpions.

Otherwise, why would they give up their plans to expand their territory?

"Are you sisters?"

Gu Heng turned his attention back to the two girls he had just rescued. It wasn't too difficult for him to tell that the two were most likely sisters. Their beautiful faces were very similar, and their clothes were almost identical. However, Gu Heng could tell who was the older sister and who was the younger sister with a little observation.

The taller one is definitely the older sister, and like a mother hen, she protects her younger, more inexperienced sister within an arm's length of her reach.

Both sisters wielded swords.

"Yes, my name is Shutao, and this is my younger sister Shuying. May I ask your name, senior?"

The older sister, Shutao, spoke first. Her voice was clear and gentle, yet it didn't sound delicate or pampered.

Gu Heng: "...Gu Heng, and don't call me senior. I'm not old, maybe not much older than you."

"Oh, then... Fellow Daoist Gu?"

Shu Tao carefully chose her form of address, while also observing Gu Heng's expression closely.

Fellow?

It's not that it's impossible. Anyway, he's already a cultivator. Gu Heng is actually tired of being called "young master" or "master." The only thing that feels quite novel is that no one calls him "fellow Daoist."

"If Fellow Daoist Gu is truly so young, yet he can single-handedly deal with these dragon-scorpion beasts so easily... he must be a young and promising genius, a peerless prodigy."

Shu Tao smiled, her tone filled with flattery and admiration, but also with a hint of probing.

Gu Heng raised an eyebrow.

These scorpions are difficult to deal with.

Judging from what this Miss Shutao said, it seems that these scorpions are called "Dragon Scorpion Beasts" and are very difficult to deal with. However, he killed the Dragon Scorpion Beasts as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

He suddenly had another idea.

seem……

Could he try to get some information out of this seemingly naive young girl? After all, he had saved the sisters' lives, so as long as she didn't ask anything too personal, she would probably answer everything he knew.

"Oh my, so these scorpions are called dragon scorpion beasts? I never knew that before."

Shu Tao was slightly taken aback: "Eh? Before Fellow Daoist Gu came here, did your sect or family tell you about the situation inside this 'Sacred Dragon Cave'?"

"I have always been a loner and have never joined any faction."

Having a cultivator's token from the Eastern Frontier Alliance doesn't mean he's a member of the Eastern Frontier Alliance.

Gu Heng felt that in every sense, he was a "free spirit cultivator," just a drifting duckweed.

"I see."

"Fellow Daoist Gu is truly an outstanding person. He has no sect resources and no background, yet he is able to thrive here."

For some reason, after hearing that Gu Heng was a rogue cultivator with no power or backing, Shu Tao felt even more admiration for him. "May I ask which sect you two sisters belong to?"

"After the Great Guardian of the Western Regions issued an order, all the disciples with the best talents in the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect were selected to come to the Holy Dragon Cave to participate in the test, and so were the two of us."

Shu Tao revealed the identity tokens of the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect disciples on her and Shu Ying's waists.

Gu Heng's eyes lit up again.

The Myriad Swords Immortal Sect!

To be honest, it's been a long time since we've heard anything about Sect Master Jiang Lingyun and Bai Feier. But the Myriad Swords Immortal Sect is, after all, the number one sword sect in the world. In this chaotic world, ensuring everyone's safety shouldn't be a problem.

"Your sect has a cultivator named Bai Feier, right?"

"It seems Fellow Daoist Gu has also heard of our Senior Sister's great name..."

When Gu Heng mentioned Bai Feier, Shu Tao didn't think much of it. She just felt that the title of the sect leader's disciple and the chief "senior sister" of the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect was becoming more and more widely known.

"This test was led by our senior sister. Without her, this perilous Sacred Dragon Cave would have likely resulted in heavy casualties among us disciples."

The younger sister, Shuying, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke, and her words were filled with undisguised admiration for Bai Feier.

Gu Heng nodded thoughtfully.

It seems that Fei'er's life is getting better and better. Thinking back to when I first met her, she was a pitiful girl full of negative energy and already in a state of depression.

It seems that she has also obtained her own "bright future".

"Sigh, speaking of which, how to get back now has become a problem."

Shu Tao looked at the Dragon Scorpion Desert in front of her, her face full of worry. This vast yellow sand was fraught with danger and was the most dangerous of the five areas of the Holy Dragon Cave.

The two sisters happen to be here, and now they can neither leave nor stay.

"You got separated from the group?"

Gu Heng asked.

"Yes, Senior Sister spent a lot of time gathering most of the Sword Sect disciples to deal with the demonic beasts and some scheming guys in here. But we accidentally touched an unstable spatial rift and were teleported to the Dragon Scorpion Desert."

"If it weren't for Fellow Daoist Gu's rescue, I'm afraid Shuying and I would have ended up in the mouths of the dragon scorpion beast."

Shu Tao's words reminded Gu Heng of his first day entering the Holy Dragon Cave. He had started in a mountain forest, but after walking only a few steps, the scenery suddenly turned into a vast desert...

It seems he accidentally touched an unstable spatial rift.

But if we encounter it, it doesn't matter.

Gu Heng was traveling alone and had the "teleportation" skill to leave the Holy Dragon Cave directly, so he wasn't worried at all about being sent to some dangerous place.

But these two sisters definitely don't have any "teleportation" abilities available, and they can't even handle a few small dragon scorpion beasts...

This level of capability is indeed worrying.

“Miss Shutao, I am a rogue cultivator and I don’t know anything about this Holy Dragon Cave. I was forcibly brought here by the Eastern Frontier Alliance. Why don’t you tell me what’s going on here?”

Gu Heng began to extract some useful information from Shu Tao.

"Yes, according to the records of my predecessors in the Myriad Swords Immortal Sect, the Sacred Dragon Cave opens once every five thousand years, each time lasting three days. Once enough 'Sacred Dragon Blood' is collected within the cave, one will be forcibly expelled. Therefore, the purpose of this trial is to collect Sacred Dragon Blood." "The cave is divided into five areas, inhabited by five different types of demonic beasts—"

"This 'Dragon Scorpion Desert' is the most dangerous area in the Holy Dragon Cave. The Dragon Scorpion Beasts are the most numerous and the most difficult to deal with among the demonic beasts!"

Shutao patted Shuying's head.

"My sister and I are only at the Nascent Soul stage. Those dragon-scorpion beasts we just saw, although they were all in their infancy, each of them had the strength of the Spirit Transformation stage."

"If we hadn't had some treasures and pills on hand, we might not have been able to wait for Fellow Daoist Gu to save us."

Shu Tao looked at the two shattered protective magic items in her hands, and her mood became even more depressed.

But Gu Heng's attention was not on that.

What he cared more about were the "juvenile dragon scorpion beasts" and their strength.

Distraction stage? A demon beast in the Distraction stage was killed by me with just a few casual slashes.