To the ordinary people of this era, anything abnormal would be treated as a monster.
In fact, it wasn't just now. It would be the same for many years to come. The ordinary people had little knowledge. A child suddenly erupting with such powerful strength made them instinctively feel that they had encountered a monster.
Du Gouzi's reaction was completely normal. When he ran, he happened to pass by one of his companions. When he took a look, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground. His companion's eyes, mouth, nose, and ears were bleeding profusely. His entire face was blood-red, and it was incomparably terrifying.
His two companions were already dead.
The current Gu Zheng was not a soft-hearted person. Moreover, many people had died at his hands before. He would not hold back anyone who could pose a threat to him.
Moreover, he still needed to make an example of them. These two people dared to attack him, so they deserved to die.
"After watching for so long, it's time to come out!"
Gu Zheng slowly turned his head and looked at a pile of grass. Taotie also turned his head and the two of them looked at the seemingly inconspicuous pile of grass together.
There were a total of three groups of people, and there was only one person in this group. However, this person had been hiding very well. From the moment they came out until now, this person had not been discovered by the other two groups of people. He was very cautious.
Du Gouzi and Boss Si did not discover him, but that did not mean that he could hide it from Gu Zheng. In fact, he did not even hide it from Taotie. It was just that without Gu Zheng's orders, Taotie would not take the initiative to do anything unless it provoked him.
"Not coming out? Do you think that we are deliberately scaring you? Do you see this? With my strength, I can easily penetrate a rock. Do you want to try and see if the rock is harder or your head is harder? "
Gu Zheng took out a sharpened wooden throwing knife and pointed at the grass. He was not boasting. With his current strength and dexterity, as long as it was not a particularly large rock, he could really penetrate a ten-centimeter rock.
"The two of you are not ordinary people!"
A person finally walked out from the grass. He looked ordinary and was not tall, less than 1.7 meters. He was not old either, only in his twenties. He looked at Gu Zheng and Taotie warily.
"If we were ordinary people, wouldn't we have died long ago?"
Gu Zheng smiled faintly. If they were really ordinary people, they would have died under the blades of those two people just now. It was simply impossible for them to point out this person.
"What do you want me to do?"
That person didn't argue and instead asked a question. Gu Zheng was a little surprised and asked again, "How do you know we want you to do something?"
"With your means, it's easy for you to kill me. There's no need for you to remind me. Since you've reminded me, it means that you don't want to kill me, or you want to kill me now!"
That person said softly. At this moment, Du Gouzi, who was on the ground, had already climbed up. His body was trembling as he secretly walked out. He wanted to steal the cannon while Gu Zheng and the others were talking.
"Ah!"
Just as he took two steps, he suddenly let out a blood-curdling scream. Gu Zheng had already thrown out his wooden throwing knife. Du Gouzi's leg was pierced by the throwing knife. He fell to the ground again, clutching his leg as he screamed.
"You're very smart. What I want you to do now is to kill him!"
Gu Zheng didn't even look at Du Gouzi. Instead, he gave the order to that single person. After hearing Gu Zheng's words, that person hesitated for a moment, but still walked over and picked up Du Gouzi's waist knife from the ground. He came to his side and without hesitation, directly pierced Du Gouzi's body with the knife.
Du Gouzi struggled a few times before he died completely.
"Although it's worse than I imagined, it's barely usable!"
Gu Zheng still had that innocent smile on his face. Whether it was his wit or his fierceness, he was already good enough. It was a pity that his looks were too ordinary. If he could be as bold as Du Gouzi, it would be even better. However, no one was perfect. Nothing could be perfect, as long as his requirements were met, it would be fine.
"Can I go now?" After killing Du Gouzi, he raised his head and looked at Gu Zheng.
"Do you think you can still leave?"
Gu Zheng laughed again. His eyes narrowed and the knife in his hand tightened. Although the Gu Zheng in front of him was just a child, he didn't see Gu Zheng as a child at all. In his eyes, Gu Zheng was probably a demon.
"You, you played with me, but in the end, you still want to kill me?"
When he said this, his voice finally began to tremble. In the face of the threat of death, he couldn't completely calm down.
"No, I'm not going to kill you. It's just that I need you to do more than this for me. After you've done everything for me, I'll naturally let you go!"
Gu Zheng said as he walked towards him. Before Gu Zheng got close, he hurriedly retreated.
"You, don't come over!"
He was still shouting. At this time, he was no longer thinking about the white horse. At the same time, he secretly scolded himself for being stupid. If the two children didn't have anything to rely on, how could they ride such a horse safely outside? He was blinded by greed and didn't think of this.
"Pa pa!"
Gu Zheng's body disappeared again. His speed was fast, and ordinary people couldn't avoid it. This person's head, stomach, and back were all patted by Gu Zheng in seven consecutive places.
"I've put a restriction on you. As long as you don't violate my orders and have no evil intentions, the restriction won't be activated. But once the restriction is activated, you'll suffer a fate worse than death!"
After Gu Zheng patted him, he walked over by himself. With his back to him, he didn't look at him at all.
"What's your name!"
After walking back, Gu Zheng first put Taotie on the horse's back, and then asked.
The man was checking his body. He felt something when he was patted, but it was not obvious. He also had doubts about what Gu Zheng had just said. With just a few pats, he had to obey orders?
"Ah ah, it's so itchy, so itchy, it's so itchy!"
Without answering Gu Zheng's question, he suddenly rolled on the ground. His hands kept scratching his body, and his mouth was still screaming in pain.
It lasted for a full three minutes before his hands stopped. His whole body was covered in a layer of sweat, and his eyes were filled with endless fear.
In the past, Gu Zheng had plenty of ways to control people, but now he couldn't. His strength was too weak, so he could only use some other methods. This method of controlling people was actually a small restriction of the Devil Sect that he saw when he was in Mount Shu. At that time, he felt that it was interesting and memorized it. He didn't expect to use it now.
This kind of small restriction could be broken as long as one's strength was stronger than the person who placed the restriction, or one could find a person whose immortal power was stronger than the restriction. It wasn't very useful. The advantage was that as long as one had immortal power, they could use it. It was very convenient.
This kind of restriction was very ineffective against immortals. Even if the other party's cultivation was lower than yours, it wouldn't be so easy for you to set up such a restriction on them. Even if you set it up, as long as you couldn't stop the other party's immortal power, they would be able to resist for a while. However, if you had the ability to completely restrict immortal power, then there was no need for such a small restriction.
Among immortals, there were all kinds of methods to control people, and they could even directly control the soul. There was no need for such a method.
Therefore, this was useless before, but for the current Gu Zheng, it was very useful. It was completely enough to deal with ordinary people.
"Now you believe my words, get up!"
Gu Zheng got on his horse and let Little White Dragon walk in front of that person. As soon as he finished speaking, the person on the ground immediately propped himself up and stood up. His legs were still trembling when he stood there.
"Do you want me to repeat the question?"
Gu Zheng suddenly looked at him, and he was so scared that he almost fell to the ground again. He immediately shook his head and said in a trembling voice, "Great Immortal, this lowly one is called Wu You!"
"Wu You, Wu You?"
Gu Zheng was a little absent-minded. This person's name was Wu You, which was very similar to Wu You's name. It was just that the pronunciation was different. His name also reminded Gu Zheng of Wu You, the Great Elder who had captured him and brought him to Emei.
At this time, there was probably no such sect on Earth, let alone the Emei and other sects on Earth.
"From today onwards, you will follow me. However, there is one thing. You are not allowed to call me Great Immortal in front of outsiders!"
After a while, Gu Zheng slowly said. It was not surprising that the other party had guessed that he was an immortal cultivator. His methods were not that of an ordinary person, so it was normal for him to guess that it was an immortal technique.
However, his cultivation was still too weak, so the fewer people who knew about his identity, the fewer people who knew about it. Wu You was someone he could completely control, so it was fine for him to guess, but he definitely could not tell anyone else.
"Yes!" Wu You immediately replied.
"Since you have guessed my identity, then you should also know all the methods of immortals. Not only can I kill you, but I can also capture your soul and make you unable to reincarnate forever. You will be in pain for all eternity!"
This time, Gu Zheng was purely trying to scare him. The current Gu Zheng did not have the ability to capture a person's soul. He would have it when Gokusen cultivated to the fourth level of the immortal technique, but he could not do it now.
However, Wu You did not know that. After hearing Gu Zheng's words, he immediately nodded again and swore that he would completely obey Gu Zheng's orders in the future and would not dare to disobey.
Whether Wu You was completely obedient or not, Gu Zheng did not know for the time being, but he believed that he did not have the guts to have any bad thoughts now. This small restriction was most useful for immortals, but if it was used on an ordinary person, they would remember it after one use. The short few minutes of experience just now was definitely worse than death for Wu You.
For the time being, this Wu You could still be used. At least he could pretend to be their adult, so that the two children would not be looked at strangely wherever they went.
"Pack up their useful things, let's go!"
Gu Zheng ordered. Seven people died, and none of them were good people, so there must be something valuable on them. Gu Zheng did not think about gold and silver, but there should be some other things. Sure enough, Wu You quickly found a jade pendant on Du Gouzi's body. The jade was of good quality and was worth some money. Gu Zheng did not know where he robbed it from.
"Great Immortal …"
"Don't call me Great Immortal, call me Master in the future!"
Gu Zheng suddenly interrupted him. The title of Great Immortal was too disgusting for him. It was like setting up a street stall to cheat people on Earth. It sounded uncomfortable.
"Yes, Master, where are we going?"
Wu You had already packed up, including the waist knives. There were not many good things on them. The best thing was Du Gouzi's jade pendant, which he gave to Gu Zheng.
"Prefectural City!"
Gu Zheng did not even think about it. He pulled Taotie and walked beside the little white dragon. He let Taotie go up first, and then he went up. Taotie liked to sit in the front, so Gu Zheng let him sit in the front, and he was behind him.
"Master, these waist knives are used by the Prefectural City. We will take them to the Prefectural City!"
After hesitating for a moment, seeing that Gu Zheng was about to leave, Wu You immediately chased after him and asked.
"No problem, let's put them on the horse first. You walk behind, keep up!"
Gu Zheng gently shook his head. He didn't really want to use this saber. No matter how good the saber here was, it was no different from paper to him. What he wanted was the iron so that he could go back and make a better saber. He planned to recycle it, so it didn't matter if he could use it in the prefectural city.
Without the heavy object, Wu You jogged and barely managed to keep up with Gu Zheng. His head was covered in sweat, but he didn't dare to stop. That feeling just now really scared him to death. He absolutely didn't want to experience it a second time. He really didn't have the guts to run. Especially after hearing Gu Zheng's previous threats, he didn't dare to have any second thoughts.
Gu Zheng said that even if he died, he could still capture his soul. He did not know that the current Gu Zheng could not do it. Gu Zheng was already a Great Immortal in his eyes. Great Immortals were omnipotent. This was the same in the eyes of many ordinary people.
After two hours, Gu Zheng stopped in front of a tea stall.
There were not many villages here, but there were many small tea stalls like this. Basically, there would be one every half a day. Now that there were many people here, the tea stall's business was good.
Most of these tea stalls were not deliberately opened. They were basically part-time jobs. For example, there were things that the villagers planted in the surrounding area. Some of them were temporary resting spots for the villagers. Whenever there were many passersby, they would be opened as tea stalls.
When they entered the tea stall, Gu Zheng did not let Wu You continue to run. Instead, he let him lead the horse. In front of outsiders, he also changed the way he addressed himself. He let Wu You call him Young Master instead of Master.
"Young Master, there is a village 40 miles ahead. You can eat there at night!"
While sitting in the tea stall, Wu You carefully said. He was actually not from the nearby village. He was from another village a few hundred miles away. There was a big family there. After receiving the news, they brought their children and rushed over. He was hired to come along.
Because he had taken this road when he came, he was quite clear about the road.
That big family was still here. They had already found them and bought the right to send their children to listen to the Great Immortal's preaching. He came out by himself because he was bored. In the end, he took a fancy to Gu Zheng's little white dragon and secretly followed him. In the end, he was chosen by Gu Zheng.
Gu Zheng just nodded and did not say anything.
"Did you know that the son of the second son of Ge Village fell into the water and drowned yesterday?"
"Ah, is that true? Didn't his son register to listen to the Great Immortal's preaching?"
"That's right. What a pity. His son was too naughty. He went to play in the water and accidentally drowned!"
"What about the second son of Ge Village? He has already registered. If no child goes, the Great Immortal will be angry. His whole family will be finished!"
"The second son of Ge Village is still crying. I don't know if he is crying for his child or himself. I can only say that he is unlucky. Someone gave him a cart of food, but he refused and insisted on his son going. Now, he has registered his name, but his son is gone. He will definitely not be able to answer to the Great Immortal!"
Gu Zheng was holding a bowl of water. He was not drinking the tea here. He was just borrowing the place. When he heard the words of the people around him, he suddenly turned his head.
"Do I have to go just because I have registered my name?"
Gu Zheng asked directly. Auntie Cui had also registered for them. He hadn't thought about this before. What would the consequences be if they didn't go after registering their names?
"Of course. If you register, you have to go. If you don't go, you are lying to the Great Immortal!"
One of them turned around to look at Gu Zheng and the others, then immediately nodded and replied.
"What are the consequences of lying to the Great Immortal?" Gu Zheng asked again.
"It depends on the Great Immortal's mood. If it is good, you will be punished. If it is bad, your whole family will be drowned in a pig cage!"
That person replied again. It was not like this had never happened before. Those who had registered but were not able to go were punished. Therefore, there were still many people who did not submit their name list. They were afraid of accidents if they did so in advance.
"Let's go!"
Gu Zheng stood up and called Wu You. Taotie followed him on the horse again. This time, Gu Zheng was not going in the direction of the prefectural city. Instead, he was going in the opposite direction.
"Young Master, Young Master, we are going in the wrong direction!"
Wu You did not dare to drink the tea. He hurried to catch up. Before leaving, he did not forget to throw some things to the tea stall. It was enough to pay for the tea.
"Yes, I have made a decision. Do not question it in the future. Now, I will tell you …"
Gu Zheng frowned and said slowly. When he spoke, there was an unnatural air of nobility. He was not only one of the most senior people in Shushan, but also the famous Daluo Jinxian. He was a Sage-to-be. He had already developed that air of nobility.
Wu You was stunned by this air of nobility. His heart trembled.
Such an air of nobility made him feel that it was not enough to look up to. At this moment, he even thought that being caught by Gu Zheng might not be a bad thing. Now, there were too many people who wanted to follow immortals, but there was no way. Although this master was young, he was an immortal. If he followed him, he would be able to gain some benefits in the future.
If he had the opportunity to cultivate immortality, it would be a great fortune.
Gu Zheng did not know what he was thinking. He was still giving instructions. He was telling him what to say when they reached Aunt Cui.
Aunt Cui had already reported their names. If they left suddenly, it would only bring disaster to Aunt Cui. Gu Zheng could not and would not do such a thing. Therefore, he wanted to go back. He had indeed not thought it through.
But the porcupine had been sent, and they had been out for half a day. They needed an explanation when they went back. What he told Wu You was the explanation he came up with.
"When you get there, tell Aunt Cui that you are a servant of my family. My family lives in a big village 800 miles away. We are a big family in the village. This time, my father brought us out to hunt. In the end, we went too far and got lost. Later, we encountered wild beasts and were separated from us!"
Gu Zheng thought as he spoke. This reason was a little far-fetched, but it was not impossible. After all, it was a reason. It was much better than not having an explanation when they went back.
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