Longevity: Starting from Refining Gu-Chapter 54: The Mountain Collapses as the Great Serpent Emerges, Dust and Smoke with Sword Ghost in Flight

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The Lotus Fairy appeared to be in her twenties, but it was said she had mastered the art of preserving her youthful looks and was actually in her forties.

She was ruthless in her actions, never liking to leave any retreat for others.

"Fellow Daoist, what do you mean by this?"

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Chen Qing said, "In the current situation, once the spirit Gu is revealed, it will surely lead to rivers of blood. It’s a pity you don’t realize you are in danger."

The Lotus Fairy said, "Then what does Fellow Daoist intend to do?"

Chen Qing said, "Once the spirit Gu appears, you and I will unite to lead the people from Lotus Cave and Taiping Sect to kill everyone from Wutong Mountain and Wuyou Mountain."

"Finally, you and I will join forces to kill everyone from Taiping Sect!"

"After the matter is settled, I will take the spirit Gu, and you will have preserved your lives and all the other spoils of war."

The Lotus Fairy said, "Why don’t you go to the people of Wuyou Mountain and Wutong Mountain, but come to find me instead?"

Chen Qing slapped his forehead with his hand, "Hey, you are right. I’ll go ask them."

Just turned around to leave but was stopped by the Lotus Fairy, "Fellow Daoist, wait!"

Chen Qing turned back, "What, is there something else?"

The Lotus Fairy pondered, if Jiguang Sect’s evildoers joined forces with Wuyou Mountain or Wutong Mountain, it would indeed be difficult to handle.

"Then I’ll agree with what Fellow Daoist suggested!"

Only then did Chen Qing laugh, "That’s more like it. I observed that your Lotus Cave usually acts more like a cult than our Jiguang Sect. I knew only you would be agreeable to a deal."

The Lotus Fairy:...

After the matter was settled, Chen Qing returned once more to the camp around Taiping Sect, found a cliff cave, and turned into fog under the cover of night to enter the cave.

The waters are muddled enough now, it’s time to wait and catch the fish.

Whether they believed or not did not matter; the more chaotic things were, the better it was for him.

When the spirit Gu appeared, the fire had already started burning.

He merely added fuel to the fire in this chaotic situation.

Late at night, the sound of earth breaking resounded for three miles.

Xiang Baiyu pulled open the tent and came out with a sword, "What happened?"

Chen Qing stood at a high point, watching the direction of the earth’s collapse from afar. It was winter, and the sky was cloudless, under the perfect moonlight. The cultivator’s eyesight was beyond that of ordinary people, naturally seeing clearly.

A mountain cliff far in the distance collapsed, and a gigantic snake ten zhang long emerged from it.

Around the giant snake, three Sword Ghosts, invisible and shapeless like mist, were chasing it.

Could the Gu be trying to use the snake’s body to leave the Sword Abyss?

Why were the Sword Ghosts enemies with this giant snake?

If there was only one Sword Ghost, it could still be explained, but three Sword Ghosts indicated a strong hostility towards the giant snake.

Chen Qing was also seeing such an anomaly in Sword Ghosts for the first time, their bodies merely black smoke, draped in tattered Daoist robes or armor, wielding rusty swords.

Under the joint attack of the three Sword Ghosts, the snake was dead silent in under half a quarter of an hour.

After slaying the giant snake, the Sword Ghosts began to wander aimlessly.

Chen Qing glanced at the specific direction, it seemed Wuyou Mountain would be busy tonight.

Yet, an hour later, he saw shadows leaping into the distance.

"Recall everyone sent out to investigate, it was just a giant snake killed by Sword Ghosts."

Hearing Chen Qing’s words, Xiang Baiyu finally relaxed slightly.

However, before an hour had passed, another sound of earth breaking came again.

Chen Qing found a place where he could see the situation clearly and hid. This snake was even bigger than the previous one, a full twelve zhang long and as thick as a water vat!

So large yet still not demon-transformed?

It must be that the Gu affected the snakes here, turning them into some creature neither demon nor beast.

It seemed the disturbances here would not end soon. Chen Qing immediately transformed into fog, flying a distance away, treading the wind beneath his feet, and sat on a large tree ten li away, closing his eyes to rest.

Tomorrow, the situation might escalate further; without a good sleep, he wouldn’t have the energy.

Moving away from the Sword Abyss, the situation finally improved a little until the next day’s glaring sun hurt his eyes, and Chen Qing stretched lazily.

Standing on the tall tree, he looked out into the distance and saw that numerous valleys near Sword Abyss had collapsed, each across the ground.

At those ruptured spots, lay corpses of massive snakes, and some places had tattered cloaks or broken swords beside them.

The conflict between Sword Abyss and the Gu grew increasingly fierce!

Even so, life had to go on.

Luckily, there was an abundance of snake meat.

For a few days, Chen Qing chose not to eat it, but seeing Xiang Baiyu seemingly fine eating it daily, he decided to get one this morning as well.

Ultimately, Chen Qing didn’t eat the meat of the strange snake, instead capturing a thieving ground squirrel nearby for roasting.

The taste of ground squirrel in this world was surprisingly good, more fragrant than beef, with the richest flavor.

For three days in a row, the ground near Sword Abyss kept collapsing.

It was unclear what had given the giant snakes such ability, but they could bore themselves through rock, digging a tunnel all the way into the Sword Abyss.

The Sword Ghosts, it seemed, had some sort of sensing power, able to drag a giant snake out from the stone walls every so often.

At present, the surrounding of Sword Abyss was filled with the heavy scent of blood and rust.

Every once in a while, there was the sound of earth breaking, immediately followed by the sight of giant snakes and the shapeless Sword Ghosts engaged in combat.

The entire area around Sword Abyss had completely transformed into a battlefield.

However, even so, Chen Qing never saw any Foundation Establishment practitioner personally come here, at most various forces each bringing some reinforcements.

With such a large disturbance, it was practically confirmed that the spirit Gu had emerged, yet even so, did no Foundation Establishment cultivators come?

Truly strange.

After three consecutive days of observation, Chen Qing gleaned some insight.

The Sword Ghosts of Sword Abyss had intense hatred toward snakes, while the spirit Gu intended to attach itself to a giant snake to leave Sword Abyss.

Other forces likely saw this as well, waiting outside Sword Abyss for the day the spirit Gu escaped.

As for entering Sword Abyss to retrieve the Gu, none of the major forces ventured in, although two Loose Cultivators managed to sneak in, results pending as neither had come back out.

The outer areas alone had become so brutal, the inside was likely even more chaotic, akin to a dance of demons.

This disturbance likely roused all the accumulated Sword Ghosts of Sword Abyss over the years.

Two more days passed, twilight descended, and the cold wind blew relentlessly.

By afternoon, snowfall began.

Along the way to Sword Abyss, blood from snakes began to trickle over the white snow, gathering into arm-thick streams.

Boom!

Chen Qing, sitting atop a tree munching on a frozen pear while feeding the Light Gu Dongxue, was almost knocked off by the tremendous tremor.

He reached out to steady himself on the tree trunk, glanced toward Sword Abyss, seeing a small mountain collapse with a roar, sending countless boulders tumbling.

The ground trembled, and suddenly, Chen Qing saw dozens of Sword Ghosts leap out from the dust.

Dense black smoke filled the sky, then they wielded broken or incomplete swords and began to attack!

Witnessing such a sight, Chen Qing quickly moved closer to a three-mile proximity, wanting to get a clearer view.

In the distance, the clattering sound of swords was incessant, an endless clashing!

Rocks flew, and a section of the Sword Abyss roughly an acre in size collapsed.

Bang!

A black colossal tail swept through the collapsing stones, knocking seven or eight Sword Ghosts out of the sky!

"It’s this huge?"

In the next moment, an enormous black serpent head the size of a carriage toppled countless flying rocks. Two dozen zhang long serpent crawled from the depths of Sword Abyss.

Everywhere it passed, rocks crumbled, resembling the upheaval of an Earth Dragon.

The serpent’s head was drenched in blood, with numerous ancient swords piercing its eyes.

Despite the vast distance, such a massive snake was unmistakable to Chen Qing.

Without a master, the Gu acted on instinct. Chen Qing discerned its information at a glance.

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