Xie Ying's heart was filled with fear. He wasn't afraid of Gu Zheng, but of Meow Meow, whom he couldn't resist at all.
"This is my bet."
Xie Ying obediently handed the Conch Starfish over to Gu Zheng, then turned to leave.
"Did my master allow you to leave?"
Meow Meow grabbed Xie Ying's belt and pulled him back.
"You've already won. What else do you want?"
Xie Ying screamed. He was truly afraid. Meow Meow, who couldn't resist, had already connected him to the silent transmission.
"Accepting defeat is a basic principle of life. You saw that you were about to lose, yet you said something that broke the rules. What do you think I want?" Gu Zheng said coldly.
"This is Bloodtide Island, the Conch Sect's territory!"
Xie Ying struggled with all his might, but he couldn't break free from Meow Meow's grip.
"If you don't want to die, get out of my way!"
Meow Meow turned around abruptly, scaring the Yellow Sky Conch Sect disciples into taking a step back in unison. Xie Ying's cultivation was the highest among them, but he was no different from a chicken in Meow Meow's hands. There was no reason for them not to be afraid.
"Sect Master Gu, please have mercy!" Elder Gao said anxiously.
Gu Zheng was an honored guest of the Red Sky Conch Sect, and Xie Ying was an elite disciple of the Yellow Sky Conch Sect. Elder Gao was indeed in a difficult position, so he had no choice but to plead on Xie Ying's behalf.
Gu Zheng wasn't afraid of offending the Yellow Sky Conch Sect, but if the Yellow Sky Conch Sect dared to offend him, Gu Zheng had the power to destroy the sect. However, Gu Zheng had a good impression of the Red Sky Conch Sect. Since Elder Gao had spoken, Gu Zheng couldn't refuse.
"You broke the rules. Logically speaking, I should have left your teeth behind so that you'll be more careful in the future. But since Elder Gao is pleading on your behalf, I can't refuse to give face to the Red Sky Conch Sect. Apologize to me now. Be more sincere and reflect on yourself. Then, I'll let today's matter go. Otherwise, you can say goodbye to your white teeth! "Gu Zheng said unhurriedly.
"Sect Leader Gu, I was wrong! I shouldn't have said anything that would break the rules. Thank you for giving me this opportunity today, and thank you for teaching me how to be a good person. At the same time, thank you for pleading for me, Elder Gao. I really know that I was wrong! "
Now that things had come to this, there was no benefit in stiffening his neck. Xie Ying only wanted to leave this place as soon as possible and report everything that had happened to the sect elders.
"Sect Master Gu, is that enough?"
Xie Ying looked at Gu Zheng pleadingly.
"Scram!"
Gu Zheng said calmly.
Xie Ying took the Yellow Sky Snail Sect people and left. Not to mention Cao Yi and Su Hong, even Elder Gao had the same expression! In Elder Gao's opinion, Gu Zheng was very amiable and approachable. In the process of interacting with him, he didn't even put on the airs of a Sect Leader. However, what had just happened had completely changed his impression of him. He felt an unimaginable boldness from Gu Zheng.
"What happened?"
Gu Zheng smiled at Elder Gao.
"No, nothing."
Elder Gao smiled awkwardly.
"The landscape is about to start. Shall we go to the cliff and wait?"
Gu Zheng was still asking for his opinion like before, but in Elder Gao's ears, the meaning had changed. Elder Gao hurriedly said, "No problem! Sect Master Gu, please! "
"Sect Master Gu!"
Elder Zhou called from behind Gu Zheng.
"Hmm?" Gu Zheng turned around.
"I have a request, but I don't know if I should say it!" Elder Zhou smiled bitterly.
Elder Gao's heart clenched tightly. Right now, he only wanted to take care of Gu Zheng safely. He didn't want any more accidents to happen to him! However, that damned Old Zhou actually spoke at this moment. Furthermore, he had a request. This made Elder Gao afraid that he would anger Gu Zheng.
"Say it."
"When you're free, can you make me a bowl of Tai Chi cold prawns?"
Elder Gao's heart was beating wildly at Elder Zhou's request. He wanted to scold Elder Zhou for his pig brain. They were rivals just a moment ago, but now he actually made such a request. However, Gu Zheng's answer surprised him very much!
"Sure. After we see the landscape, if there's nothing else, I'll make you a bowl of cold prawns."
"Thank you, thank you, Sect Master Gu!"
Elder Zhou thanked him happily. Gu Zheng also began to walk towards the cliff. Elder Gao stood rooted to the ground in a daze. He looked at Gu Zheng's back and didn't know what to say.
To Gu Zheng, he had no choice but to set a trap for others to fall into. In order to increase the chances of him falling into the trap, he had no choice but to say something arrogant. However, in his heart, Gu Zheng's attitude towards Elder Zhou's cold prawns was admiration or respect. After all, Elder Zhou's cold prawns were really good.
At this time, the sky was close to dusk. There were red clouds in the sky and the sea breeze was relatively strong. Gu Zheng and the others stood at the edge of the cliff, their clothes fluttering in the wind.
"Elder Gao, when will the Blood Tide appear?" Gu Zheng asked.
The so-called Blood Tide was the spectacle that Elder Gao wanted to bring Gu Zheng to see. It was also the origin of the name Blood Tide Island.
The Blood Tide appeared once a day. Every time it appeared, it would appear at dusk. It would last for half an hour. At that time, everyone's line of sight would be dyed red.
"Soon, at most five minutes," Elder Gao said.
The sea breeze gradually became stronger, and red gradually appeared on the surface of the sea. At first, it was just a speck of red, but it slowly connected. In less than five minutes, the entire sea had turned blood-red, as if it was a sea of blood.
The Blood Tide had already appeared, and a faint mist began to appear on the surface of the sea. The mist entwined together sometimes looked like thousands of horses galloping, and sometimes looked like thousands of birds circling. Not only did the howling sea breeze not disperse them, but it also made them appear more agile in the wind.
"The mist can transform into these forms and not be dispersed by the sea breeze. It's really an incredible spectacle."
Gu Zheng's emotional voice paused, and then he asked curiously, "Elder Gao, is there something in the water of the Blood Tide? Why is the color so red? "
Elder Gao smiled and said, "There's nothing. The water of the Blood Tide only looks red in that area. If it's anywhere else, its color is no different from normal seawater."
"Elder Gao, the direction of the Blood Tide is facing the 'Heavenly Snail Cave'. Is there any relationship between them?" Gu Zheng asked again.
Previously, Elder Gao had briefly explained the Blood Tide to Gu Zheng, so Gu Zheng also understood that the people of the Heavenly Snail Sect were also curious about the Blood Tide. Therefore, he was not afraid of violating any taboos when he asked.
"There may be some kind of relationship between them, but what kind of relationship it is is still a mystery to us." Elder Gao smiled bitterly.
"Weapon Spirit, what do you think of the Blood Tide?" Gu Zheng thought to himself.
"It's too far away to give a definite answer. However, such a strange landscape is definitely not formed naturally. According to my guess, there should be an immortal formation under the sea! The reason why the color of the seawater is as red as blood should be because of the light emitted by the immortal formation when it's operating. As for the purpose of this immortal formation, I can't say. "Weapon Spirit said.
"In that case, the people of the Heavenly Snail Sect should know that there's an immortal formation under the sea," Gu Zheng murmured.
"They definitely know. After all, the landscape is so strange, and the vicinity of the Blood Tide is the forbidden area of the Heavenly Snail Sect," Weapon Spirit said.
"Didn't your Heavenly Snail Sect's Patriarch leave any words about the Blood Tide back then?" Gu Zheng asked Elder Gao again.
Everyone had their own secrets. However, since he had already arrived at Blood Tide Island, Gu Zheng still wanted to know more about some of the questions that he didn't understand. This was also his instinctive reaction in an unknown environment.
"No." The expression on Elder Gao's face was a little absent-minded. "In fact, the Patriarch really didn't put much effort into managing the sect. Although the Heavenly Snail Sect was founded by him, he had very few deeds in the sect. Generally, people in the sect rarely saw him. The people in charge were all his wives and concubines. Some elders even speculated that the founding of the sect might not be the Patriarch's pursuit. Some elders also speculated that the Patriarch founded the Heavenly Snail Sect on a whim. Otherwise, why didn't he leave anything behind? "
The sky was already dark. In the encampment of the Heavenly Snail Sect on Blood Tide Island, the head of the sect, Lu Changming, and the two elders had already heard Xie Ying's report about the incident at the top of the mountain.
The initial anger had turned into silence. Lu Changming looked at the two elders, his eyes full of caution.
A moment later, Lu Changming looked at Xie Ying, who was kneeling on the ground, and said sternly, "Xie Ying, about this matter, did you lie?"
"Head of the sect, I didn't lie about this matter, and I didn't hide anything!" Xie Ying said solemnly.
"No matter what, you dared to gamble with the Heavenly Snail Starfish, and you even lost the gamble. This matter can't be let go! Go and face the wall first. You're not allowed to come out before the ancestor worship begins. As for the rest of the punishment, we'll talk about it after the Heavenly Snail Cave! "
Lu Changming glared at Xie Ying. If Xie Ying wasn't the best candidate to enter the Heavenly Snail Cave, he really wanted to kick him half to death.
"Head of the sect, I'll go and face the wall now!"
Xie Ying left the room in a hurry with a bitter face.
After Xie Ying left, Lu Changming's questioning gaze fell on Elder Hu, who was on his left.
"To make a person speechless, a Level Five cultivator can easily do it. There's nothing strange about this. But the strange thing was, according to Xie Ying, Su Hong obviously didn't receive his message. And the girl beside the head of the Emei Sect, Gu Zheng, gave Xie Ying a very special feeling! On this point, Xie Ying was certain. He felt an unprecedented fear. The other party shouldn't be as simple as a Level Five cultivator. If she wasn't a Level Five cultivator, then what realm could she be? Could she be a cultivator? "Elder Hu murmured.
"Xie Ying suspected that the other party was a cultivator. His guess was based on the fear in his heart and the fact that there was no response to his message. Can a cultivator really make other messages unable to be delivered? We don't know about this! But, a girl who looks like she's only 13 or 14 years old, how could she be a cultivator? That's impossible! "
Elder You's voice paused. He pointed out the fact that Lu Changming and Elder Hu had already thought of but didn't want to face, "Unless she's a demon cultivator!"
"If the girl beside Gu Zheng is a demon cultivator, then what's Gu Zheng's real identity? To have a demon cultivator in human form by his side, is he really a human? After all, he created such an incredible cold prawn. If you say that he relied on an immortal technique to transform it, I won't believe it even if you beat me to death! "
Elder Hu appeared to be very agitated. As he spoke, he subconsciously touched the scar on his nose.
The scar on Elder Hu's nose meandered like a centipede. This scar was left behind when he was an infant. His father was a hunter. At that time, the family lived deep in the mountains and forests. One day, his father went out to hunt while his mother went out to fetch water. When she returned, she saw a huge black rat lying on his face, chewing on his nose!
Elder Hu's mother was naturally furious. When the huge black rat saw that someone had returned, it immediately fled. During this process, one of the rat's feet was hit by a rock thrown by Elder Hu's mother.
Elder Hu's mother chased the rat into the forest. The rat disappeared, but at a river bank outside the forest, Elder Hu's mother saw a black-clothed girl washing her feet. The black-clothed girl's foot was dripping with blood. She looked at her for no reason and smiled sinisterly!
Elder Hu's mother's scalp went numb. When she returned, she fell seriously ill! In the next few years, Elder Hu's mother repeated her experience to the naughty Elder Hu no less than a hundred times.
The current Elder Hu was already a late-stage fifth level cultivator. However, when he heard the words rat and demon cultivator, he still felt his scalp go numb and his blood boil.
Moreover, if they were not of the same race, their hearts would definitely be different! Almost all cultivators had an innate fear of demon cultivators. Therefore, before Elder You pointed it out, Lu Changming and Elder Hu would rather Miaomiao be an immortal cultivator than a demon cultivator!
What did a demon cultivator represent? It represented cruelty, bloodthirstiness, evil, and strangeness! To Elder Hu, it represented the shadows and nightmares of his childhood!
Lu Changming shook his head. "Gu Zheng can't be a demon cultivator. After all, he is a sect master. Many people have seen him. Moreover, he has been to the Kunlun Sect and entered the Ancestral Dragon Formation. If he was a demon cultivator, he would have been discovered long ago! "
"Demon cultivators are cunning. Sect master, it's better not to jump to this conclusion so easily! First of all, we can't be sure that this' Gu Zheng 'is the sect master of the Emei Sect, Gu Zheng. Secondly, entering the Ancestral Dragon Formation doesn't mean anything. Don't forget that Wei Fengxing and Wei Fengting have also sneaked into the Ancestral Dragon Formation! "
"Alright, let's not talk about Gu Zheng's identity first. The first thing to do now is to redeem the Heavenly Conch Starfish. Fortunately, Xie Ying's brain is not completely muddled. He still left a way to redeem the Heavenly Conch Starfish. I'll go and redeem the Heavenly Conch Starfish now and investigate the background of the two of them. "
Elder You's voice paused. His face showed an expression of 'a hero will never return'. "If I don't come back in two hours, the two of you know what to do!"
"Senior brother, you can't take the risk. Why don't we go and inform the other sects now and gather everyone's strength to destroy that demon woman first!" Elder Hu said excitedly.
"Fool! We don't even know if the other party is a demon cultivator and you're scared to this extent? "
Elder You glared fiercely at Elder Hu before turning to look at Lu Changming. "Remember, I said one hour. Stay here and watch. Don't let your martial uncle act rashly!"
"Yes, master!"
Lu Changming was Elder You's disciple. In the Yellow Sky Conch Sect, the person who made the decisions most of the time was not the sect master but Elder You Shanhe.
You Shanhe went to find Gu Zheng. Lu Changming and Elder Hu waited anxiously in the center of the room. In another room, Xie Ying, who was facing the wall and meditating, was trembling.
"Don't come over, don't come over!"
Xie Ying, who was immersed in his inner world, screamed crazily. However, in the real world, his lips only closed silently.
"Hehe, you can't hide from me because I'm you!"
A person who looked exactly like Xie Ying was holding a knife that was as small as a toy and slowly approached Xie Ying.
Xie Ying's face was bleeding. Extreme fear filled his heart. He climbed up in a panic just to get rid of the existence that was following him like a shadow.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Xie Ying did not turn back for a moment. The person who looked exactly like him had already appeared on the cliff beside him. He grabbed a rock with one hand and stabbed at Xie Ying's face with the knife in the other.
Blood spurted from his face. Amidst the heart-wrenching pain, Xie Ying used all his strength to climb up. However, the scene in front of him made his eyes widen.
This was the peak of the mountain where one could watch the blood tide. There was a pergola that provided cold prawns. On a bench outside the pergola, Gu Zheng was sitting with his head lowered and eating cold prawns.
Xie Ying suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart. He crawled and rolled towards Gu Zheng.
"Sect Master Gu, save me, save me, Heart Demon Oath, Heart Demon Oath!"
Xie Ying was extremely terrified. However, Gu Zheng seemed to be in another world. He could not hear Xie Ying's cries. His gaze was firmly attracted to the cold prawns.
"Hehe, you can't hide from me because I'm you!"
The nightmarish voice sounded again. Xie Ying could not move an inch. His ankle was grabbed by his other self.
"Don't come over!"
Xie Ying twisted his body and used his other leg to kick his other self.
"You want to hide from me? It's useless. I'm coming! "
The other Xie Ying laughed and pounced on Xie Ying's body. The shining knife in his hand stabbed towards Xie Ying's chest.
One stab.
Two stab.
Three stab.
Xie Ying's cries gradually weakened. His body in the real world slid to the ground and spasmed violently. Blood gushed out from his mouth and nostrils.
The residence that Mu Chunfeng arranged for Gu Zheng was a small courtyard in the Heavenly Spiral Sect. The courtyard was surrounded by several important buildings of the Heavenly Spiral Sect. In terms of safety, it was considered to be very good.
Arranging for Gu Zheng to stay in a small courtyard showed that he was taking him seriously. Secondly, knowing that Gu Zheng had a grudge with the Heavenly Spiral Sect, Mu Chunfeng had to be careful! He did not want any accidents to happen to Gu Zheng during the time he was invited to Blood Tide Island.
It was safe, but it was not easy for someone to meet Gu Zheng, especially at night.
"The Old Man said that I want to meet Emei Sect's Gu Zheng. If you two brats don't let me in, don't blame me for being impolite!"
In front of the mountain gate of the Red Sky Spiral Sect, You Shanhe looked at the two guarding disciples who were standing like javelins. He gritted his teeth.
It had already taken You Shanhe a few minutes to travel from the encampment to the Red Sky Snail Sect. Now, he had to wait for more than ten minutes to enter the sect. This made You Shanhe, who was already frustrated, unable to suppress his anger.
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