After I Became a Divine Monarch, the Sect Wants Me to Marry In-Chapter 148: Caught Off Guard

Zeng Lan had thought that Gu An would come out eventually, but she believed it would take many years.

By the time he did come out, he would surely be aged.

Tortured beyond recognition.

She was grateful to Gu An because with his intervention, everyone at the Outer Sect’s night logging yard was treated fairly.

All the spirit stones were returned to their hands.

Recently, there have been more patrols.

Any slight issue would be discovered by the patrols.

There were even people secretly observing.

It could be said that this was the time when they were treated most like human beings.

As for how long this could be maintained, that remained unknown.

But all these changes were brought about by Gu An.

"S-Senior Brother, are you doing alright?" she suddenly asked.

Because she had heard of the Exile Land—it was no place for humans.

Especially since he seemed somewhat gaunt.

Gu An nodded: "I’m alright."

The gauntness was due to logging, but other than that, he was indeed alright.

"Yu Tu has entered the Inner Sect," Zeng Lan excitedly said: "A Senior Brother took a liking to him and directly took him to the Main Peak of the Inner Sect."

"I’ve seen him," Gu An spoke.

Hearing this, Zeng Lan was somewhat surprised but felt it was to be expected.

After chatting a few more words, two of Zeng Lan’s friends came to find her.

Thus, Gu An watched as they departed.

However, their conversation reached him unintentionally as one seemed to raise her voice deliberately: "Junior Sister Zeng, when you were in Qingmu City, a Senior Brother saw you walking with an old and ugly old woman. Is she a servant from your family?"

Upon hearing this, Zeng Lan seemed to tremble slightly, then said: "No."

"No? Then is she some poor relative who came to you for help?" The Immortal laughed: "It surely can’t be your mother, right? I heard she’s ugly and old, wearing tattered clothes, and dirty.

Look at you, you’re anxious, I’m just joking."

Gu An watched them leave and said nothing.

Every person has their own difficulties.

He himself, Yu Tu, and probably Zeng Lan as well.

Otherwise, why would they resort to working at the night logging yard.

Today, Gu An kept on logging, but the Token showed no sign of progress.

Was half a day of logging not enough? Did he need a whole day?

He had picked those of the Green Sun Wood that were of very high age.

Evening.

The logging time ended, but Gu An didn’t stop, continuing to cut the wood.

Until it got dark.

Liang Chen had to come over, reminding him that it was getting late.

Gu An asked for another half an hour.

Liang Chen bit his lip and agreed.

Gu An had a feeling, that indeed it was almost time.

Sure enough, before the half an hour was up, the Token lit up one segment.

Seeing this, Gu An sighed in relief.

Although he couldn’t see a progress bar, he could sense something.

It took a bit longer than he expected.

"Is it over?" Liang Chen asked from the side.

Gu An handed over the axe to him, then took out five spiritual stones: "Thank you for your troubles recently, Junior Brother."

Liang Chen hurriedly refused: "Senior Brother, that’s not necessary."

Gu An placed the spiritual stones in his hand: "No need for courtesy, Junior Brother."

After doing all these, Gu An then took his leave.

Liang Chen was somewhat moved, then asked: "Senior Brother, will you come again?"

Gu An simply waved his hand and left.

Liang Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

This Senior Brother was indeed reasonable.

Of course, if one were to provoke him, the consequences would likely be severe.

Daring to kill someone from the Inner Sect and coming out so early.

A person like himself, with no background, might just vanish suddenly.

When Gu An returned to the Inner Sect, he went to log.

Two days ago, he once again elevated his Qi Sea Sky Gang, reaching the seventh layer.

Only two layers left.

Based on the current progress, there should be a chance to complete it by March.

However, logging at night needed to be done on trees like the Thunder Wood for the tasks, which might delay his cultivation progress a bit.

Thunder Wood was still manageable; he could look for Lu Jie.

He was the manager of Thunder Wood at Qianchen Peak.

The next day.

Gu An found him, but he was a bit puzzled.

What good is coming to log wood?

Gu An truthfully said, "I am doing a task, I need a special axe."

Lu Jie, due to last time’s incident and still feeling thankful toward Gu An for his understanding, agreed on the spot.

Afterwards, they began to log wood.

Of course, he still gave a spirit stone as a token of thanks.

Regrettably, the other party insisted on not wanting anything.

At night, he went to find the manager of the night logging yard.

Hoping the manager could provide what was needed if the task was completed.

The manager also remained silent for a long while, and finally agreed.

In four days, Gu An had completed it.

It’s now the beginning of January.

Every day, he still waited until work was finished before heading to the Book Collection Pavilion.

Today, while he sat in the Spiritual Treasure Vault, a young man walked in.

He looked at Gu An cautiously and said, "Senior Brother."

Gu An, who was reading, slightly lifted his head, "Here to collect resources?"

"Yes, yes," the young man nodded.

He seemed to be just over twenty, clean, just with slightly faded clothes.

Gu An extended his hand.

Accepting and opening the list, he saw no broken spiritual stones.

"Yes, it is like this, I ran out of spirit stones, but there are rewards for the task, so can it be directly deducted?" the young man spoke somewhat awkwardly.

Gu An looked at him and extended his hand.

The young man begged with a sorrowful face, "Senior Brother, I really don’t have any right now."

Gu An simply said flatly, "Identity Token."

The man hesitated.

Instantly, he handed over the Identity Token.

Soon, three spirit stones and a talisman were handed over to the man.

After accepting the spirit stones, the man immediately said, "About those spirit stones..."

Gu An took out a sign he wrote previously, trading eleven broken spiritual stones for one spirit stone.

"Is that okay?"

"It is, it is."

Afterward, Gu An took one spirit stone from the man and gave eleven broken spiritual stones.

And the man, also following the rule, gave one broken spirit stone.

For a moment, the man left the Spiritual Treasure Vault quite satisfied.

However, just as he walked out, he counted the spirit stones.

Aren’t the spirit stones just three stones now?

For a moment, he became somewhat bewildered, and quickly he checked the talisman.

That was also fine.

He became even more bewildered.

Upon returning home, he encountered a friend, and couldn’t help but ask, "What if you go to the Spiritual Treasure Vault to exchange resources and don’t give a broken spiritual stone?"

"You’d get an inferior product, everybody knows that," another man replied rather angrily, "These sect parasites."

"Have you ever exchanged at the Spiritual Treasure Vault?"

"Yes."

"Then have you never given a spirit stone? Or say have you ever used a spirit stone to exchange for broken spiritual stones?"

At this moment, a middle-aged man sitting down said, "I’ve exchanged before, at that time I thought the ratio was the same outside, but when I went out, it hadn’t changed, only at the Spiritual Treasure Vault is it like this."

"So he’s indirectly returning the spirit stones to us?"

....

Gu An had never cared about what others thought, he collected spirit stones without any psychological burden.

January 10th.

Gu An completed the collection of Iron Heart Wood.

January 15th, he also illuminated the Shocking God Wood.

During that period, he completed a refinement, as Hard Cultivation was full and had to be used.

The next two months would be enough to fill it again.

January 21st, Blood God Wood was also illuminated.

Thus, Gu An was left with only the Hundred Organs Wood.

That way, he could see if the reward obtained would be a Cultivation Technique.

But suddenly, he received the Ring of Destiny.

Ren Yinghua started the plan.

To ignite the anger of oppression among the weak.

Letting everyone start to spread it.

"More than a month early?"

Gu An frowned, somewhat caught off guard.

The next day.

On the streets, malicious energy began to overtly and covertly appear.

Some people even glared bitterly, as if they wanted to flay his skin.