I Seek Immortality Through Serendipity

No wonder he always downplayed his own ”chance encounter”, it turns out it was due to the low ”life-buying money” price, fearing a disaster by comparison.

Gu Yuan remained silent, but in his eyes flowed a radiant brilliance of moonlight, slowly exuding a cool and eerie aura, like an immortal from the Moon Palace.

The Sloppy Daoist was greatly shocked at heart and hurriedly said, ”Fellow Daoist, spare my life, this Treasure Soul Spirit Tree is just an ancillary item; the true chance is a tribulation-avoiding spiritual object that can help a cultivator break through to the Golden Core, or even breakthrough to the Tier Three Great Demon.”

”And it is an object that can produce continuously, as long as Fellow Daoist is willing to spare my life, I will immediately offer this item!”

”An opportunity that can continuously produce tribulation-avoiding spiritual objects?”

Gu Yuan raised an eyebrow slightly, showing a look of surprise in his eyes.

If such a treasure truly exists, it would indeed be a great opportunity for him.

To an ordinary independent cultivator Golden Core, it might be ordinary, but if obtained by a major sect, it would certainly lead to upheaval and transformations.

If offered to the Daoist School, there would undoubtedly be a great reward.

”Sword Immortal, don’t listen to his nonsense. Even if such an opportunity exists, the growth period must be extremely long, taking a lengthy time, hundreds of years would be ordinary. How could ordinary cultivators wait for that?”

”In my view, it would be better to kill this person and take all his resources to further progress, also making a bid for becoming a guardian.”

”As far as I know, he has nurtured some fine spiritual insects in this Broken Temple Beach, which the Sword Immortal could take and use as demon pets!”

The Old Turtle immediately added insult to injury, advising Gu Yuan.

”Old Turtle, don’t go too far!”

The Sloppy Daoist’s expression turned angry and said coldly.

”Fellow Daoist, I am not as skilled as you, and should face this calamity. I am willing to offer all my spiritual wealth, only asking that you spare my life!”

After scolding the Old Turtle, the Sloppy Daoist stood up and bowed deeply to Gu Yuan, pleading earnestly.

Even though he prostrated himself and begged for mercy, hoping to preserve his life, he was not without the determination to fight to the end. If Gu Yuan refused to spare him, he certainly wouldn’t let Gu Yuan have an easy time.

However, such ”remarks with a threatening tone” he only pondered in his heart and would never say out loud.

Sword cultivators have the most fiery tempers; begging might still have a sliver of hope, but adding threats would certainly spell disaster today.

He has been cultivating for hundreds of years, and still knows how the world works.

”Most honorable Sword Immortal, I am also willing to offer all my spiritual grain, only asking for the Sword Immortal to spare my life!”

Seeing this, the Old Turtle also spoke earnestly.

Gu Yuan pondered slightly, then with a wave of his sleeve, a small sword glowing with cyan spiritual light suddenly flew out.

The small sword flashed momentarily, and an identical cyan sword emerged.

”This seal is called the Heart-Cutting Oath Spirit Seal, if you make an oath to serve me for a century without harboring disloyalty, offering spiritual grain and treasures, you can survive. Are you willing?”

Gu Yuan pointed a finger, and the two small swords suddenly flew and hovered over the brows of one person and one demon.

This Heart-Cutting Oath Spirit Seal was one of six Dharma Seals he learned from the Thousand Waves Sect. Once an oath is made, the sword will pierce into the soul of a cultivator or demon race, and as long as the oath is unbroken, the sword will remain like an ornament, not harming the cultivator or great demon one bit.

However, if the oath is broken, the sword light will explode instantly, directly tearing apart the cultivator or great demon’s soul, causing immediate death.

On Zhenyun Island, Gu Yuan wanted to experiment with his methods, so he struck with a Thunder Strike, giving no chance to the Poison Cloud Python.

The Cyan-Horned Strongman, being weak in strength, wasn’t worthy of using the Heart-Cutting Oath Spirit Seal.

After all, this seal also has its limitations, only working effectively on a maximum of three subjects.

Moreover, if the strength surpasses his own by a major realm, the seal will naturally become ineffective.

Yet Gu Yuan was very interested in the opportunities of both the Old Turtle and the Sloppy Daoist, and he entered the Great Marsh this time to find a few henchmen to help him gather resources from the marsh.

One person, one sword, is just a Tribulation Cultivator, with limited gains.

But a group criminal scheme, that is entirely different.

”A century?!”

The Old Turtle was a bit stunned.

He has lived nine hundred springs and autumns, although the Profound Turtle has long longevity, it has at most only thirteen hundred years, so he only has four hundred years left to live.

”Willing! Willing!”

However, the Sloppy Daoist on the side immediately nodded, dripped his essence blood, and made an oath. Subsequently, the cyan small sword flashed and directly pierced into his soul.

He is now only six hundred and fifty years old, with a few hundred years left to live.

And in today’s battle, he lost over a million Erosion Spirit Insects, which is a severe loss in primordial vitality. Even if Gu Yuan doesn’t kill him, he can’t hold his ground at this Broken Temple Beach anymore and needs to find a place to recuperate.

In this way, it’s better to submit directly to Gu Yuan, after all, it’s only a century, which he can still bear.

”Little Turtle also agrees!”

Seeing that the Sloppy Daoist agreed, the Old Turtle, having no grounds to bargain, promptly lowered his head, dripped essence blood, and made an oath, accepting the Heart-Cutting Oath Spirit Seal into his own soul.

Thus, the contention over the ”Golden Bone Essence Life Tree” came to a close.

In the distance, the few great demons who had been observing the battle were left looking at each other, never expecting such a conclusion.

”Brother Qingxi, in the future, this younger brother is certainly at your beck and call. I have a few jars of century-old fine wine at my mansion, why not come and have a joyous drink with me?”

The youth formed from the Giant Crab Demon’s transformation had an eye-roll and immediately greeted the Cyan-Horned Strongman with extreme warmth.

”Yes, yes, yes, we must become close, very close indeed, henceforth the Three Islands are one family, Brother Qingxi will be the foremost demon in the early stage of Great Demon in our Three Islands!”

The black-faced man also reacted quickly, warmly greeting the Cyan-Horned Strongman.

The Cyan-Horned Strongman was slightly stunned, seeming somewhat unresponsive, but seeing the nearly fawning look on the faces of the two demons beside him, he immediately straightened his back and looked around arrogantly, feeling mighty and awe-inspiring.

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”Master, please drip essence blood, Old Turtle will guard you!”

The outside demons’ thoughts were not heeded by the three within the Water Mansion.

After obtaining the Oath Spirit Sword, Gu Yuan naturally retracted the sword light, freeing the Old Turtle, who immediately retracted the demon technique suppressing the Golden Bone Essence Life Tree and diligently guarded Gu Yuan.

”I too will guard the master!”

Not to be outdone, the Sloppy Daoist promptly dispelled the ”Defense” decree to protect Gu Yuan on all sides.

Gu Yuan noted the diligence of the one human and one demon but realized this was not a time for pleasantries.

The Golden Bone Essence Life Tree had matured to its limit; if essence blood was not dripped soon, the fruit would fall to the ground and dissolve into spiritual qi. Waiting for another one would be uncertain for who knows how long.

Apart from a few special secret places in this world, many rare exotic fruits do not produce at fixed intervals.

After all, to produce such an exotic fruit, who knows how much sun and moon essence, earth vein spiritual mechanism it must consume; many secret places only have enough spiritual mechanism stored to grow one.

Once one is grown, the spiritual mechanism is drained, making it difficult to grow a second one.

”Clang!”

For this reason, Gu Yuan did not hesitate, flicking his finger to produce essence blood that fell onto the Golden Bone Essence Fruit.

Initially, the Golden Bone Essence Fruit only shimmered faintly with spiritual light, but as Gu Yuan’s essence blood dripped in, the fruit suddenly erupted in wind and thunder, countless small thunders sprang up like numerous thunder snakes slithering over the fruit.

Moreover, the color of the fruit abruptly changed, a golden bright light filling the entire Water Mansion from inside out in an instant.

Wind and thunder roared, the golden bones sang!

This fruit, truly a rare exotic treasure, reached a profound mystery in one moment, completed its final transformation, and changed into the most harmonious ”Primordial Fate Fruit” for Gu Yuan.

Furthermore, the golden fruit skin was crystal clear. Through it, one could faintly see seal patterns like rice grains shining brightly within the fruit core, exuding a profound dao charm.

”Master, I have a deep pool on Turtle Head Island called Celestial Water Pond. Its spiritual qi is abundant, with effects of calming the mind and clarifying the spirit, making it most suitable for cultivation. Please, Master, move there!”

Seeing Gu Yuan complete the essence blood dripping, the Old Turtle suppressed his reluctance, not daring to glance at the Golden Bone Essence Fruit, and quickly bowed to invite Gu Yuan.

”Lead the way!”

Gu Yuan put away the Primordial Fate Golden Fruit and spoke lightly.

This fruit cannot be stored for too long; it is still best to consume it promptly.