In a mountain range, several cultivators were struggling to make their way through. Around them, hidden demonic beasts were waiting for the best moment to pounce and bite their prey.
Except for the senior brother who led the team, who was still relatively clean, the other junior brothers and sisters were all very ragged. They had already experienced countless battles since they entered this place. However, this was the trial. As disciples of the North Star Sect, they could not grow up as flowers in a greenhouse. They had to go out and face the test of life and death.
However, the sect also sent senior brothers and sisters with higher cultivation and richer experience to lead the team, and they would intervene at critical moments to save the lives of others.
After several people worked together to solve a demonic beast that blocked their way in the dark, they couldn't move anymore, and they sat down on the spot: "I can't do it anymore, I can't run anymore, I just want to lie down and die here."
"Senior brother, let's stay here for the night, rest for one night, and set off tomorrow morning."
The wailing voices made the senior brother who led the team laugh. They had also come this way before. Seeing the junior brothers and sisters suffer, they had a strange sense of satisfaction: "Okay, you rest, I will deal with this place, otherwise the bloody smell will attract the nearby demonic beasts. By then, I may not be able to save you."
The group finally relaxed, took out the dry food they brought and solved it on the spot, or gnawed on spirit fruits. Lu Minzhu was also in the team, and she was completely different from when she first came out of Yuanyang Town. The battles made her aura more and more sharp, and the senior brother who led the team took a special look at her. She was not a disciple that the elders valued for nothing. This trial would definitely have a breakthrough, which would make many disciples of the sect envy.
But thinking of the few who participated in the Ascension Conference in the same year, the senior brother smiled bitterly again. If it weren't for those few who emerged and advanced all the way, Lu's performance should be considered quite outstanding, but he could only say that he was born at an untimely time, and his light was completely overshadowed.
After dealing with the bloody smell, the senior brother came back and said: "This place is deep enough, I can't guarantee what kind of danger will happen here, so don't relax completely at night."
"And there are not only demonic beasts here, but also cultivators who have been lurking in the mountain range for a long time. Some cultivators live by hunting down our sect disciples, so don't be careless!"
"We know, senior brother, we will be vigilant." They also knew very well that this place was not to be careless, and the senior brother reminded them for their own good.
After nightfall, even the senior brother didn't expect that before the various defensive measures took effect, they fell into a coma. A few people in black walked out of the darkness, and the leader made a harsh laugh: "Very good, they are actually disciples of the North Star Sect. These sect disciples are full of spiritual energy, and they are the best materials to use. You be careful, take them all back. Yes, master?"
The defensive formation they set up couldn't resist these people in black, and the formation was quickly corroded by the black mist. Even the cultivators' faces were covered with a layer of black air, and they were soon emptied by the people in black. After a while, there was nothing left in this place except for some footprints, not even the nearby demonic beasts were interested in running here, there was a breath that made them disgusted.
I don't know how long it took, Lu Minzhu woke up from a coma, and her groggy brain made her realize that something had happened, otherwise she wouldn't have this feeling. Her eyes were still closed, and she wanted to find out the environment first, but she heard a sneer in her ear, and she knew that she had exposed herself, so she simply opened her eyes and looked.
Her limbs were weak, and she couldn't even mobilize her spiritual power. But when she saw the cultivator who stood there and looked down at her, she finally changed her face and showed a shocked expression: "It's you?! It's you, Gu Chen!"
Even if he was not the same as he was when he was a teenager, even if his breath and appearance had changed a bit, she recognized him at first glance. The guy in front of him with his arms folded and a wicked look on his face was Gu Chen, one of the twins of the Gu family in Yuanyang Town. She knew that Gu Chen had disappeared during the Ascension Conference, but she didn't expect to see him in person at this moment.
What made her pupils shrink even more was that Gu Chen's cultivation
"I really didn't expect to meet Sister Minzhu here, but Sister Minzhu didn't expect it to be me, right? After all, you are the direct disciple of the elder of the North Star Sect, what am I, Gu Chen, in your eyes? But how about the high and mighty sect disciples? Now you are still my prisoners, haha…"
Gu Chen laughed wildly, as long as he had a little more time, those people in the past would all become ants in his hands. He didn't want to deal with this woman so soon, but who made her hit his hands by herself? Then he would start with her first.
Lu Minzhu's heart kept sinking, this Gu Chen had completely changed, and the breath on his body also made her vaguely guess that Gu Chen was walking a different path from them, one that was despised by the righteous way.
"Gu Chen, did I offend you before?" No matter what, Lu Minzhu was not willing to fail. If she couldn't escape, she would try to delay time and wait for the senior members of the sect to save her. They suddenly disappeared, and it shouldn't take long to be discovered. "Now the situation of the Gu family is not caused by our Lu family. You should ask your good big brother Gu Yang and your good uncle, we were just used by them at that time, their purpose was not the Longxian Gate token on Gu Yao's body?"
"Bitch!" Gu Chen flicked his black whip, and Lu Minzhu snorted, not letting herself scream. "Do you think it's still like before, you say something and me and Gu Xing will do whatever you say? Not only Gu Yang, that bastard, played us as fools, but you are also the same, you were also laughing at us two fools at that time."
"Bitch, why can you become a disciple of the high and mighty North Star Sect, but Gu Xing lives so humbly?" Gu Chen whipped Lu Minzhu one after another, his entire face twisted, looking extremely ferocious and unfamiliar. "Why did you leave Yuanyang Town, but I had to stay there, if it weren't for you, I would…"
How would he fall into the hands of that old thing, how much hardship he had suffered in these years, and how much torture he had endured to survive, he would repay all these sufferings on these people, including those of the Gu family, and the high and mighty Gu family master, his good grandfather, who told him to remember the Gu family? He would let the old bastard watch with his own eyes how the Gu family was destroyed in his hands.
Lu Minzhu's face turned pale, and large drops of sweat fell from her forehead. There was no place for her to avoid Gu Chen's whip here. Gu Chen was completely twisted. She was so painful that she yelled out regardless of everything: "You Gu Chen only dare to do it to people like us, why don't you dare to do it to Gu Yao? Ha, I know, you know that you are too far behind compared to Gu Yao, you will never be able to compare with him, let alone Gu Yao has a powerful golden core sword cultivator by his side, so you Gu Chen can only hide like a mouse, haha, Gu Xing is humble? Why didn't I see you Gu Chen rescue Gu Xing? It's not the sin that you Gu family people made yourself!"
Gu Chen stepped forward and grabbed Lu Minzhu's neck, lifting her up from the ground. The latter struggled hard, trying to break free, but she couldn't muster any strength. But she still used her eyes to express her contempt and disdain for Gu Chen. He was far worse than Gu Yao. Compared with Gu Yao, he was a mouse that would never see the light.
"You–are looking for death!" Gu Chen gritted his teeth and spat out words, while exerting force on his hand. As long as he used a little more force, this delicate neck would be twisted by him. But in the end he threw her to the ground again. "It's too cheap for you to die so easily. You don't know, your flesh and blood will be used for my cultivation, and your soul will also be extracted by me, and will be driven by me. You say, what kind of situation will it be to use your soul to deal with your Lu family, ha!"
Lu Minzhu lay on the ground gasping for breath, crazy, this person was really crazy!
But at this moment, a cold snort came from the darkness, making Gu Chen shudder and flee quickly, but halfway through he flew back and smashed heavily beside Lu Minzhu, snorted and spit out a mouthful of blood. The blood was black and emitted a foul smell. Just smelling it made Lu Minzhu dizzy. What did this guy do to himself?
Who else came to save her? Lu Minzhu thought vaguely, and vaguely saw two figures walking in, and then Gu Chen's incredulous scream, and she lost consciousness again.
The moment before, Gu Chen was thinking that one day he would step on Gu Yao under his feet, and he was trembling with excitement when he thought of such a scene, but he didn't expect that the next moment, Gu Yao would appear in front of his eyes.
Gu Yao was too different from the past, but he often saw various images of Gu Yao in these years, so he could recognize him even if he turned into ashes. He wanted to twist his neck countless times, extract his soul and refine it, and make him suffer and beg for life but not death, but he knew clearly that it was not the time yet, he still needed to hide, and now he was still far behind Gu Yao, as Lu Minzhu said, Gu Yao had a powerful golden core sword cultivator by his side, as long as he had this person, he had no chance of success.
But why did this bastard appear now? Who betrayed him!
"You…" Gu Chen suddenly retracted his hateful expression, and pounced on Gu Yao's feet. "Brother, big brother, I was wrong, I was wrong all these years, they taught me, and it was that old thing who caught me here, I think about you every day, when will you come to save me from the sea of suffering, brother, I really know I was wrong, brother, give me a chance…"
Gu Chen cried with a nose and tears, very miserable, but the two people who looked down at him had no expression at all. They were not just here, they heard clearly how Gu Chen treated Lu Minzhu and what he said. What's more funny is that they can hear that Gu Chen hates the whole Gu family, and the Gu family master still regards Gu Chen as a trump card, if Gu Yang can't do it, let him protect the Gu family, but he didn't expect that this person was thinking about destroying the Gu family.
"Gu Chen, you are really shameless!" Gu Yao said coldly, his eyes full of disgust and contempt. "You are not my brother, you are a traitor to the Gu family, a scum of the cultivation world, you have fallen into the evil way, and you dare to harm the disciples of the North Star Sect. Do you think I will forgive you?"
Gu Chen's face changed, and he looked at the other person next to Gu Yao, a young man with a sword on his back, his eyes full of fear and hatred. He recognized him, he was the golden core sword cultivator that Lu Minzhu mentioned, the one who followed Gu Yao all the way, and the one who made him dare not act rashly.
"Who are you? Why are you with him? You don't know, he is a hypocrite, he is not worthy of your trust, he is the one who caused the destruction of the Gu family, he is the one who killed my brother Gu Xing, he is the one who betrayed the Longxian Gate, he is the one who…" Gu Chen tried to slander Gu Yao, hoping to sow discord between them, but he was interrupted by a sword light.
The young man didn't say a word, but just swung his sword casually, and a sharp sword aura cut through the air, hitting Gu Chen's chest, and blood spurted out. Gu Chen screamed and fell to the ground, clutching his wound, his face full of disbelief and fear.
"You talk too much." The young man said indifferently, his eyes cold and sharp. "You are not qualified to slander him, you are not qualified to mention the Longxian Gate, you are not qualified to live in this world. Today, I will send you to hell, and let you pay for your sins with your blood and soul."
He walked towards Gu Chen step by step, his sword pointed at his throat, ready to end his life. Gu Chen looked at him in horror, and then at Gu Yao, who was standing there without any expression, and finally realized that he had no hope of survival. He wanted to beg for mercy, but he couldn't make a sound. He could only watch as the sword light flashed, and his head flew up.