Chapter 1038: Chapter 1038 Moving with the Wind

Chu Zhongtian suddenly lost his Life-bound Gu and, in addition, suffered an injury on his left hand, causing him to faint from the pain.

However, this scenario was something everyone had anticipated. Master Xu removed the Life-bound Gu while the Chu Family hurriedly applied medicine to Chu Zhongtian and transferred their own Spiritual Energy to him, sustaining his life.

In the end, sustaining life with one’s own Spiritual Energy remains the most reliable method; once his condition stabilized, then using medicinal remedies wouldn’t be too late.

There were two transcendent cultivators present at the scene, both rich in Spiritual Energy, making them the most appropriate candidates to offer help.

But the Chu Family didn’t dare to think so–they couldn’t treat transcendent cultivators that way.

Although Master Xu had caught the Life-bound Gu and was initially planning to transfer some Spiritual Energy, he couldn’t bring it up himself–being a high-ranking cultivator comes with its demeanor; if the other party did not ask for help, it would be too undignified for him to offer.

Feng Jun, however, stood with his hands folded, observing the surroundings, and suddenly let out a cold snort in one direction, “Liao Da, since you’re here, show yourself. Sneaking around… what kind of behavior is that!”

Liao Da appeared 200 meters away by a tree, smiling wryly and bowing his hands, “Please forgive me, Mountain Master. I was just curious about this pillar-country Gu… No matter where you hid it, wouldn’t you know?”

Feng Jun could easily sense the other’s position, but unless absolutely necessary, he preferred not to do so.

He also suspected that Liao Da was mostly drawn here by Hua Hua’s scent; after several days of activity here, if Elder Liao Brother could not detect Hua Hua’s appearance, he definitely wasn’t a genuine Qi-Refining Practitioner.

What Feng Jun cared about was something else; he waved his hand at the opposite party and spoke gravely, “Come take a look yourself. You still say you take pride in being a Gu Cultivator, do you see… This is what you Gu Cultivators do, seemingly guiding people in cultivation, but in reality, cultivating Gu.”

“This matter…” Liao Da laughed wryly, unable to refute as he found himself in a position where he could respond with, “It’s very common among Gu Cultivators,” but that would sound like an excuse.

All he could say was, “When it comes to the Gu Battle, who wins and who loses is yet unknown, but… not informing this Qi-Refining Practitioner beforehand, indeed seems quite inappropriate.”

Master Xu knew Elder Liao Brother, but Chu Miao didn’t and hearing that the newcomer was also a Gu Cultivator, he couldn’t help but size him up, thinking: My son was almost killed, and in your eyes, it’s just “inappropriate”?

Had he been able to, he truly would have fought with him.

Feng Jun didn’t argue and merely lifted his chin, “Go, take a look at that brand, see if you can recognize whose hand it was.”

Elder Liao Brother stepped forward to take a look, then his eyebrows shot up, “Oh my, it’s actually… actually a Blood Gu Battler?”

There are various schools of Gu Cultivators, and Blood Gu Battlers are akin to ancient Gu Cultivators, not particularly caring about the type and level of Gu, but emphasizing that the Gu Cultivators who emerge from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood are truly formidable.

This lineage views human life as worthless, once considered as evil cultivators, yet since they are more merciless to their own kind than to outsiders, other cultivators ultimately did not forbid them.

There is also a “Gu Supremacy” faction among Gu Cultivators, conveying a completely different philosophy from the Blood Gu Battle faction.

Conflicts often erupt between these two Gu Cultivator factions, akin to the adage “heretics hate other heretics more than they hate outsiders.”

Of course, the vast majority of Gu Cultivators belong to a relatively moderate group, and because coming across a good Gu species is becoming increasingly rare, and cultivators are not allowed to slaughter mortals without reason, the rhetoric of “Gu Supremacy” has gained the upper hand.

This doesn’t mean all practitioners of the Blood Gu Battle faction are evil, but this faction’s Gu Cultivators are indeed more ruthless, harsh on others and even on themselves.

After hearing his explanation, Feng Jun asked, “Can’t we find that practitioner based on the brand?”

“We’d need the help of Gu Supremacy Cultivators,” answered Elder Liao Brother lightly, refusing to get involved in such matters, “Both factions are extreme; we, being among the moderates, benefit from both sides, and it’s not good to favor any one party.”

After Chu Zhongtian’s Life-bound Gu was removed, his energy was greatly depleted, and he recovered slightly only after five days of rest, followed by the final step of sealing the Gu.

After being removed from the body, the Life-bound Gu still had a significant connection to the original body; sealing the Gu was the final step to fully sever the connection between the host and the Gu, from then on, each would go their separate ways.

Sealing is actually simple–on the Mobile Phone Plane, it’s typically done by making a box from Obsidian, placing the Gu inside, and then using Talismans to seal and isolate the interior from the exterior.

However, this time, Feng Jun used a tempered glass box to better observe the Gu’s movements.

Thankfully, his estimation wasn’t wrong. After the Gu was sealed, Chu Zhongtian fainted once again, but this time the damage was mental, with almost no physical harm.

The Gu, however, suffered significant injuries, writhing and rolling around in the glass box, even spitting out considerable amounts of black viscous liquid, looking as if it had been sprayed with a lethal spiritual pesticide.

At this point, Feng Jun’s treatment was essentially completed. Chu Zhongtian still needed to expel the toxins in his body and strengthen his foundational energy and so forth, but that was now the Chu Family’s concern to manage.

Chu Miao removed the Centipede Gu, which upset Hua Hua considerably. Feng Jun could only threaten it, “The thing still bears the imprint of a Nascent Soul Gu Master. Do you really want to face him?”

“I can return to the Earth Realm to eat it,” Hua Hua roughly understood, the two different planes basically do not affect each other, “Moreover, it’s just an early-stage Nascent Soul… What’s so great about that?”

Feng Jun looked at it with a half-smile, “I don’t know who it was that almost fell to the ground, scared by the Liao Family Brothers.”

Upon hearing this, Hua Hua initially got somewhat irritated, but quickly relaxed.

It nonchalantly said, “What’s that, everyone has a first time? You get used to it. You always tell me, ‘Golden Cores walk everywhere, Nascent Souls are as common as dogs’… Where are the Nascent Souls? Even a Golden Core would do, hmm, treating me like a child!”

“A Golden Core?” Feng Jun looked at it with a half-smile, “Are you sure you really have that idea?”

“Forget it, I can’t be bothered with you,” Hua Hua abruptly changed the subject, “If it’s not there, then it’s not. I’m going back, this small world is nothing special after all, I might as well go check out the world of Danxia Heaven.”

What it did not expect was, once returned to the Earth Plane, as long as Feng Jun was in the mobile phone plane, characters in the Earth Realm would not move.

It had just come out from the Spirit Beast Bag of the good scenery for a while when Feng Jun found it again, “That, we need to make another trip.”

Hua Hua grew impatient, “Look here, Elder Feng, they have already reached Magu Mountain, and though I fly fast, I need to set off… Using child labor wasn’t harsh enough, now you are using beast labor… demon labor, what on earth is it?”

Feng Jun let out a wry smile, “What else could it be for? It’s definitely about the Gu Insect.”

Hua Hua stated bluntly, “This time it can’t be free, I want to bring back any Gu insect I get.”

Feng Jun spread his hands helplessly, “A Qi Refining Seventh Layer Giant Millipede Gu.”

“High-Rank Qi Refinement so what?” Hua Hua’s standards were now very high, “If it’s not a Nascent Soul, I am not afraid.”

“It has an imprint,” Feng Jun looked at it with ill intent, “At least the imprint of a Middle-Rank Nascent Soul Gu Master… are you sure you want it?”

“Damn it,” Hua Hua was obviously a bit depressed, “I say, Elder, Mountain Master… can we not always provoke these powerful enemies, okay?”

“You think I want to?” Feng Jun let out a wry smile, “It’s really about being famous–people fear fame as pigs fear fattening…”

This time, he was really innocent; the news was released by the Chu Family.

In fact, the Chu Family was somewhat innocent too; they had no intentions of exposing Feng Jun–Mountain Master Feng clearly wanted to keep a low profile, why would they antagonize a transcendent being, moreover their benefactor?

The key was that the Chu Family wanted to deal with that Gu Master who schemed against their juniors–even if it was a Nascent Soul Master.

No choice, cultivators often face such issues, knowing they cannot provoke the other party, but they still have to gamble–you if accept adversity willingly and suffer losses, in the future countless others will try to trample over you.

If they all-out gamble against a Nascent Soul Gu Master this time and succeed, they could at least ensure fifty years of peace–even if not fifty, then thirty years.

Such achievements, for a regular cultivational minor family, are very encouraging and could enhance the family’s cohesion.

Of course, the most crucial point is that the risks of this action are not especially high–for the behavior of Gu cultivators rearing Gu cultivators is seen similar to that of Evil Cultivators, it’s wrong and not permitted.

Once such malicious deeds are exposed, the Cultivation World would issue corresponding bounties.

The Chu Family dares to retaliate because they hold the moral high ground; they even managed to secure a bounty from the Tiantong Commercial Alliance without leaving Mount Zhige–a bounty of ten thousand Spirit Stones for capturing the mastermind.

This time Chu Miao brought a little over thirteen thousand Spirit Stones, gave twelve thousand to Feng Jun, leaving a little over one thousand, but they still managed to find Huang Fu Flawless to ask Tiantong to pay upfront; the Chu Family might not be big, but they’re not small either, they wouldn’t run.

Calculating thus, the Chu Family plans for an expenditure of over twenty thousand Spirit Stones in this matter, well beyond their budget–but the Chu Family members discussed it over, spending an extra ten thousand Spirit Stones to create the reputation of “Do not lightly provoke the Chu Family” is still worth it.

Of course, some suspected that Chu Miao wanted to eliminate trouble for his son, but at this juncture, nobody made a fuss–this is clearly a favorable gamble for the Chu Family with a very high chance of success, why add unnecessary noise?

Generally, the Tiantong Commerce Alliance does not engage much in bounty tasks; they are a business clan, and… to speak honestly, stationed in the Cultivation World, the Chu Family might not even qualify to deal with the middle management of Tiantong.

But this bounty is politically correct, the ten thousand Spirit Stones put forth by the Chu Family are not too little for Tiantong, and it also involves Mount Zhige, so why not do it?

The official information from Tiantong was transmitted very quickly, reaching the Cultivation World in two days, but what they did not expect was that the first one to respond was the Ning Family of the Guanquan Valley.

The Ning Family planned to accept the bounty task, but before doing so, they hoped to know: who was it that cured the Gu Master of the Chu Family?