A year of closed-door cultivation in the underground space allowed Gu Yao and Xiao Pangzi to reach the peak of Foundation Establishment. They only needed to find an opportunity to break through the barrier that blocked them from the Golden Core stage, and they could smoothly form their cores.
Continuing to meditate and cultivate would not bring much benefit, so Gu Yao came out of seclusion. He planned to pack up and leave this place, and therefore gave the Foundation Establishment Pills to Dong Lao Da and the others. He had seen their performance in this year.
They were able to increase their cultivation so quickly in this year, not only because of the good things they had obtained before, but also because of this underground space. Not to mention anything else, there were many treasures in the Purple Bamboo Forest. The Purple Crystal Shoot, which was born from the essence of the Purple Bamboo Forest once every thousand years, the Purple Crystal Dew, the Purple Bamboo Rice, all of them were rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Gu Yao did not destroy the formation of the Purple Bamboo Forest, and kept it here. Moreover, with this underground space, he could continue to guard the teleportation array below.
However, before leaving, Gu Yao still wanted to see the little guy who had been playing hide and seek with him and the kitten. He stood in the Purple Bamboo Forest and said with a smile, "Come out, little guy. If you don't come out, we will leave, and no one will play with you."
The kitten stood on Gu Yao's shoulder, baring its teeth and grinning. This was the territory of that creature, so even if it had more abilities, it could not catch it. How annoying! The most important thing was that the master did not really help it, and let that guy be arrogant.
As soon as Gu Yao's voice fell, a green light flashed and landed on a purple bamboo. The kitten wanted to pounce on it, but was pulled back by Gu Yao. Then he saw two purple bamboo leaves behind a section of the bamboo, which were purple. Then two small eyes appeared, still purple, blinking at Gu Yao.
Gu Yao smiled. This wood spirit was very special. It did not have a fixed shape, and could transform itself into the shapes of various spirit plants it had seen. That was why the kitten could not catch its trace. It was hard to imagine how this wood spirit was born.
Xu Chen also admired it: "You are really lucky, kid. At first I thought this wood spirit was a heavenly material and earthly treasure that had opened its spiritual wisdom, but I didn't expect it to be bred from the essence of wood. Maybe this place was where the wood spirit clan lived in ancient times. This little thing, if it falls into the hands of a greedy cultivator, can completely create a physique of wood spirit."
Gu Yao only learned the true situation of this little guy from Xu Chen's explanation. At first, he also thought it was a heavenly material and earthly treasure that had transformed.
Gu Yao did not have the idea of depriving it of its spiritual wisdom, but just wanted to find a little helper. He stretched out his hand and coaxed, "Come with me, be my little housekeeper. You will like your new home, and the environment here is no longer suitable for your growth."
The loss of vitality on the ground might not only be related to the formation, but also to this little guy.
"Little brother, you look like a liar, but you have big brother's aura. Big brother told me to go with you." A delicate and tender voice came into Gu Yao's mind. The first sentence made his mouth twitch. Being too honest was not a good thing.
He was talking about big brother as his uncle, right? The generation was messed up.
He continued to smile: "Then do you want to go with me? If you don't, we will leave, and we don't know when we will come back."
The little guy hesitated for a long time. Just when Gu Yao was considering whether to give it some more time, it finally jumped into Gu Yao's palm. Gu Yao was surprised to see the little guy's appearance, because it was now completely a mini version of his uncle, but green. And then there were two purple bamboo leaves on its head, which made him twitch his eyes and almost burst into laughter.
That appearance could be said to be immortal, but when it was put on this small person, it made people want to pinch it a few times. He didn't know what it would be like when his uncle met this mini version of him.
Gu Yao held back outside, but Xu Chen laughed out loud in the space, and even rolled on the ground.
Maybe his uncle was the first one to discover the existence of the little guy, so the little guy transformed into this shape. Gu Yao endured it, and after getting its consent, he sent it into the space. He did not make any contract with it. If it preferred to stay with his uncle in the future, Gu Yao would let it go.
So, Gu Yao's space had one more member, named "Zi Bao Bao", which was the name Gu Yao's uncle gave it, and he was very happy. Gu Yao thought, it was indeed a baby.
Zi Bao Bao liked the space as soon as he entered it, and quickly helped Gu Yao tidy up his messy spirit fields. Xu Chen was also very happy. He finally had a neighbor, and often amused himself by teasing Zi Bao Bao.
In Gu Yao's eyes, these two were both immature guys. Xu Chen, this senior, was not much more mature and stable.
After leaving the underground space, they did not need that special animal skin anymore. Dong Lao Da and Ding Da Li also returned to the ground, feeling very emotional. They had sworn in front of Gu Yao and the others before they left, not to reveal any news, otherwise they would not only have no progress in their cultivation, but also suffer from the explosion of their heart demons, and die with their meridians broken.
In fact, the two also knew that even if they built their foundations, they would not be able to enter that underground space, and in the following years, they also tried to find those two pieces of broken skin, but they never found them again.
After dropping off Dong Lao Da and Ding Da Li, Gu Yao and the others left on their flying instruments.
"Boss, what should we do? Should we go back to Yuan Yang Town now?" Ding Da Li asked. They had been away from Yuan Yang Town for a long time. If they didn't go back for so long, would those people think they had been eaten by the beasts?
Dong Lao Da said cautiously: "We won't go back for now. Let's find another place to close up and prepare for foundation building. We'll go back after we build our foundations. Then we'll see who can still jump around."
"I'll listen to the boss." Ding Da Li was honest. He would do whatever the boss said. He thought it would be nice to think about that situation. Those people would be stunned when they saw them build their foundations.
So the two also chose a direction and left. Thinking of the Foundation Establishment Pills in his arms, Dong Lao Da was still excited, and felt more and more that the whole Gu family was a big joke. If it weren't for the oath, he really wanted to tell the Gu family how big an opportunity they had lost, whether it was Gu Yao's uncle or Gu Yao himself.
Gu Yao and the others originally planned to go back to Tian Fu Academy directly, but as soon as they left the underground space, Gu Yao received a message from Hu Ting, saying that it was about the reward he had put out before. Without this message, he would have thrown this matter to the back of his mind and not hoped for it. Although he didn't have much expectation now, since Hu Ting had specially sent a message, it meant that this time was different from before.
"Let's go to Dan Ding City for a trip. Your grandfather said…" Gu Yao told Xiao Pangzi what his grandfather had said in the message.
Xiao Pangzi was very happy. He could see his grandfather again. Now it was one less time every time he saw him. When Gu Yao and Chi Chang Ye left Tian Lin Continent, he and Tian Fei Rong would not stay either. Even his grandfather would not agree to him staying, because only by leaving could he have a wider and higher development space.
The four of them changed their course and headed for Dan Ding City, without stopping along the way.
At the same time, Hu Ting also received messages from Gu Yao and his grandson, and waited for them to come at the General Guild, and asked someone to tell the cultivator who brought the body refining technique that the main person would arrive soon.
The cultivator who asked Gu Yao for help came quickly. He had been living in Dan Ding City for this period of time, and did not dare to leave, for fear that other cultivators would covet his things. The body refining technique might not be very important, but the important thing was that it could exchange for a promise of pill refining from Gu Yao.
On the flying instrument, Gu Yao looked through Hu Ting's message, which explained the situation of that cultivator.
"He is a cultivator from a declining family. He wants me to help him save his child. His child's problem is quite complicated. He once fought with someone and had his dantian destroyed and could not cultivate. Later, he found a body refining technique in his family and thought he had found a new path of cultivation. So he started to refine his body, but the more he refined, the worse his body condition became. Later, someone told him that his child was born with a physique that was not suitable for body refining, and that forcibly cultivating would only lead to the shrinkage of his meridians. As a result, after he stopped cultivating, the symptoms did not worsen."
"Although they did not worsen, they also added injury to the original injury. Hu Valley Master checked it and found it quite troublesome to treat."
Chi Chang Ye frowned: "Then why take it?" He felt it was quite troublesome just by listening.
Gu Yao thought for a moment and said: "Let's go and see the situation first. I'll do my best. If I can't cure it, there's nothing I can do."
Parents are always worried about their children. This cultivator's child had already become a waste, but he had not given up, and asked Gu Yao for help. This sincerity moved Gu Yao.
It could only be said that people's hearts were too complicated, and even cultivators could not escape this category. There were those who regarded their children as nothing, and even wished to kill them, and there were also those who were willing to give everything for their children.
When they arrived at Dan Ding City, Gu Yao did not delay and went directly to the General Guild of Alchemists. The cultivator who asked for medical help was notified by the guild's people that Gu Yao was on his way here. The cultivator brought his son and hurried to the General Guild, which had fallen into the eyes of some interested people. So, the news that Gu Yao was about to show up spread.
Apart from Gu Yao showing up, they could not think of anything else that would make this father and son so eager.
But they didn't even see Gu Yao's face. Gu Yao and the others went straight into the General Guild of Alchemists, met Hu Ting and the others, including the father and son who asked for medical help.
Hu Ting was stunned when he saw Gu Yao, and then stunned again when he saw his grandson. Then the admiration in his eyes could not be suppressed, and he saw that Gu Yao and his grandson's cultivation had reached the peak of Foundation Establishment. Needless to say, they had stayed in some blessed land for a year and devoted themselves to cultivation.
"Gu Alchemist…" The cultivator who asked for medical help said eagerly, "This is a body refining technique passed down by my ancestors. No matter whether you can cure my son or not, this technique is yours now."
He used the technique to ask Gu Yao for a favor.