Longevity Martial Arts: Grinding Experience in the Chaotic World

Chapter 1587: Chapter 816: Someone Is Coming_2

”In a short time, the anomaly may not be noticeable, and its Yin-attribute might even temporarily suppress the death energy backlash when cultivating that incomplete cultivation technique, creating a false ’harmonization’!”

He stared into Gu Yuanyuan’s eyes, enunciating each word.

”But over time, these impurities will constantly erode your foundation, pollute your True Yuan, and numb your Divine Soul! Your cultivation path will become narrower, and breakthroughs more difficult!

What’s more frightening is that once you try to break through to a higher realm, or encounter a formidable enemy and get seriously injured, these hidden Yin Fiend Death Qi will erupt! At best, your True Yuan will run rampant, and your meridians will snap! At worst, your Divine Soul will be tainted, turning you into a mindless maniac obsessed with slaughter!”

Your previous cultivation of that incomplete cultivation technique already has unstable foundations and numerous hidden dangers. Absorbing these polluted Spirit Stones is like adding fuel to the fire! Were it not for your special bloodline, you might have succumbed to inner demons, dying and disappearing!

Gu Yuanyuan’s face turned paper pale, cold sweat streaming instantly!

She finally understood why every time she reached a critical moment in cultivation, she felt powerless, and why the backlash of death energy brought by that technique became increasingly hard to suppress!

It turns out the root cause lay within the Spirit Stones she regarded as her lifeline!

Without hesitation, she immediately took out all the remaining Spirit Stones from her storage bag and pockets, casting them far away!

”Thank you, Master, for enlightening me! Disciple... Disciple nearly ruined her own future!”

Gu Yuanyuan’s voice trembled with lingering fear.

Gu Sheng nodded slightly, his tone softening a bit.

”The Martial Arts path values foundation the most. Pursuing temporary gain by absorbing mixed energy seems like taking a shortcut, but in reality, it severs one’s future. These polluted Spirit Stones are poison coated in honey, profoundly harmful.

Henceforth in cultivation, remember to proceed steadily, absorbing pure spiritual energy, and never commit such errors again.”

”Disciple will eternally remember Master’s teachings! Dare not forget!”

Gu Yuanyuan bowed deeply.

Gu Sheng said no more and once again gazed at the pile of Spirit Stones, his eyes cold.

Despite their vast quantity, these Spirit Stones had already become sources of poison, useless to keep.

He was about to destroy them completely to prevent harm to others.

At this moment, Gu Yuanyuan’s act of discarding the Spirit Stones inadvertently touched a dusty, insignificant stone lamp base in the corner.

Click!

A barely audible mechanical sound emerged!

Gu Sheng watched as Gu Yuanyuan discarded those polluted Spirit Stones, nodding slightly.

He raised his hand, palm facing up, a strand of exceptionally pure and transparent spiritual energy slowly emerged.

This spiritual energy emitted a gentle glow, pristine and immaculate, brimming with vitality.

”Observe carefully.”

Gu Sheng instructed Gu Yuanyuan.

”This is pure nature’s spiritual energy.”

Immediately, with a slight thought, a minute, nearly imperceptible black impurity was forcibly separated from the pure spiritual energy in his palm!

This impurity twisted, emitting a chilling, lifeless aura that clashed entirely with the surrounding pure spiritual energy.

”This is the Yin Fiend Death Qi impurity hidden within your body that you absorbed.”

Gu Sheng’s voice was calm but carried an undeniable force.

”It lurks like a maggot deep within your Qi-Blood, True Yuan, and meridians.

Usually dormant, it will erupt in retaliation once you hit a bottleneck, get severely injured, or reach a critical point in cultivation, causing severe injury at best, or foundation destruction, turning into a wastrel, or even... having your Divine Soul tainted, becoming a crazed maniac obsessed with slaughter!”

Gu Yuanyuan watched the black impurity twisting and struggling within the pure spiritual energy, her face drained of color, her back instantly soaked with cold sweat!

She finally fully grasped the deadly hidden danger lurking within her body!

If not for Master’s enlightenment, she might never have realized how she met her demise!

”Master! Disciple... Disciple was wrong!”

Gu Yuanyuan’s voice trembled with after fright.

”Disciple will remember Master’s teachings henceforth and will never pursue shortcuts, always proceeding steadily!”

”After returning to Great Wilderness City, I will provide you with an Exchange Technique for re-cultivation.”

Gu Sheng withdrew the spiritual energy, his tone beyond refutation.

”Thoroughly cleanse your foundation, eliminate hidden perils. Otherwise, success will be elusive in your lifetime.”

”Yes! Disciple obeys! Thank Master for recreating my life!”

Filled with gratitude and fear, Gu Yuanyuan hurriedly bowed in salute.

”Let’s go, deeper into the treasure vault.”

Gu Sheng said no more and led the way towards the depths of the stone chamber.

Gu Yuanyuan hurriedly followed.

The internal space of the stone chamber was vast, aside from the mountain of polluted Spirit Stones, there were several tightly shut stone doors deeper within, similarly covered with mysterious restriction array patterns, emanating an aura far stronger than the outer sect’s.

Gu Yuanyuan pointed at one of the doors.

”Master, it was near this door that I found the Spirit Stones back then. But the restrictions inside are too strong; disciple couldn’t approach at all.”

Gu Sheng stepped forward, pressing his palm against the stone door, circulating his True Yuan to investigate the structure of the restrictions.

The restriction was extraordinarily complex, layered and intertwined, containing powerful spatial seals and energy rebound forces, far beyond comparison with the outer sect.

At this moment, a shadow of Yue Shen Gong manifested again within the Sea of Consciousness, gazing at the restrictions on that stone door, letting out a soft sigh.

”It’s futile. The inner layer restrictions of this vault were personally laid by my wife using Space Law combined with Bloodline Secret Technique, without the corresponding token, even in my peak, it would be difficult to forcefully open without alerting the entire mechanism.”

He paused, looking at Gu Yuanyuan, his eyes filled with complexity.

”That girl managed to enter the first vault presumably because the restrictions weakened as time passed or the core mechanism was damaged, gradually fading in power, coupled with her possessing the shard with my wife’s bloodline mark, she managed to enter the periphery.

But as for the inner core vault, without the complete secret key, it is absolutely impossible to open.”

Gu Sheng heard this and furrowed his brows. It seemed the depths of the vault would remain inaccessible for now.

At this instant, Gu Sheng’s powerful Divine Sense keenly detected two auras rapidly approaching the direction of Thousand Souls Hall from outside the main hall!

One of the auras was aggressively dominant, carrying unabashed Sect Realm peak pressure!

The other aura was incredibly weak, as if forcibly suppressed and sealed by some force, akin to a candle flickering in the wind, ready to extinguish at any moment!

Even more alerting was that this powerful aura seemed to have detected their presence!

”Someone’s coming!”

Gu Sheng’s gaze sharpened, commanding Gu Yuanyuan.

”Conceal your aura, follow me!”

He ceased lingering and led Gu Yuanyuan swiftly out of the stone chamber, returning to the vast, deathly silent Thousand Souls Hall Main Hall.

The two concealed their auras, blending into shadows, quietly sneaking towards the entrance direction of the main hall.

Outside Thousand Souls Hall, atop the sticky black mud swamp.

A young man with a steely face, dressed in a blue brocade robe and sharp eagle-like eyes, was escorting a girl towards the gate that resembled a giant beast’s maw.

The girl wore a white dress now tattered beyond recognition, stained with mud and dark brown blood marks.

Her hands were tightly shackled with a heavy black metal shackle, engraved with Sealing Runes, emitting a dim light, suppressing her body’s faint True Yuan fluctuations.

She stumbled along, her face as pale as paper, lips cracked, eyes hollow and numb, as if devoid of all vitality, pushed forward by the blue-clad man.

When she raised her head and saw the Thousand Souls Hall emanating endless pressure and a deathly aura in front of her, a weak but incredibly resilient light flashed deep within her vacant eyes!

Within that light was fear, despair, but deeper still, a concealed desire to survive!

Soon, however, this light was overshadowed by deeper numbness and despair, returning to lifelessness.

The blue-clad man seemingly missed the subtle change in the girl’s eyes, only roughly shoving her, his voice cold.

”Hurry up! Stop dawdling! Once you arrive, your task is complete!”

The girl staggered several steps, nearly stumbling, steadied only by the chains dragging her back.