Chapter Sixteen is a bit of trouble

  An hour later, Gu Yun rode the white stone and was still wandering in this forest. This time he came out, there was nothing to do at all. Even if it was the "Medical Classics" that his father asked him to return, he wasn't anxious at all, because he had never heard of the Medical God Gate sect.

  So, he walked slowly all the way, and happened to see some medicinal herbs, which were the materials for his current practice of alchemy.

  Ancient Clouds had always been asking the people in town to collect medicinal herbs for him, mainly for alchemy. However, at that time, he was unable to practice alchemy, so he could only turn to studying the properties of those medicinal herbs. This made him very clear about the effects of these medicinal herbs, and he could even use several ordinary medicinal herbs to synthesize the properties of a precious medicinal herb.

  He can now refine the elixir, but if he wants to use those heavenly materials and precious medicinal herbs of divine quality in the Dragon God Ring to practice refining the elixir, he is really afraid of being struck by lightning, besides, he himself cannot bear to do so.

  Although these ordinary herbs are not very effective, they are perfect for practicing alchemy, so he will not let go of any herb that appears in front of him.

  Like this, two days passed and he still hadn't left the forest. During the day, he would wander around in the woods, and at night, he would go to the Dragon God Ring to cultivate or practice alchemy. Generally, the herbs he collected during the day would be used up by the next evening.

  Of course, his alchemy level has also improved a lot.

  Now he can refine "Bì Gǔ Dān" with these herbs, although the effect is not as strong as his master said, eating one pill a month will not be hungry. The "Bì Gǔ Dān" he refined can still make him not hungry for a day after eating it. With these ordinary herbs, he was able to refine them to this extent, and his master did not say anything.

  On the third day, Gu Yun was gathering a mature yellow essence.

  Suddenly, a group of people surrounded him.

  Ancient Cloud suddenly stood up and looked at the five people surrounding him, an old man who appeared to be in his fifties or sixties with a cultivation level in the middle of the Nascent Soul stage, while the young man and three burly men had cultivation levels that seemed to be in the early stages of the Embryonic Breath.

  "What do you mean by this?" Looking at the five people with bad faces surrounding him, Gu Yun couldn't help but think of what his master had told him about those who specialize in robbing lone cultivators of their treasures and elixirs. Had he just encountered such people as soon as he came out?

  "Pang Lao, it's this bear that injured me last time, the one you were talking about, the spiritual beast." Just as Gu Yun spoke up, the young man pointed at the white stone beside Gu Yun and said to the old man.

  The old man didn't respond to Gu Yun's words, but instead used his eagle-like eyes to scan Gu Yun and the white stone beside him. Then, his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed excitedly: "It's really a spiritual beast! I never thought that this place would also have a spiritual beast!"

  When he said that, the four people behind him were also overjoyed, it can be seen that the spiritual beast had a great attraction to them, and Gu Yun was completely ignored by them.

  No wonder, as the saying goes, Gu Yun's body didn't have any spiritual power fluctuations at all, looking just like an ordinary person. In their eyes, they simply didn't take Gu Yun seriously.

  After their initial excitement had passed, they finally turned their attention to Gu Yun.

  "Hey kid, this is the spiritual beast our young master found. If you return it to him now, we can pretend nothing happened. Otherwise... heh heh, don't blame us for being impolite." The big man on the left side of Gu Yun said.

  Gǔ yún looked at these few people with a somewhat amused expression, it was very clear that they all didn't think Gǔ yún would pose any threat to them, and this was exactly the effect Gǔ yún wanted.

  He pretended to be somewhat frightened and said to the group: "I don't know which family this young master is from, but you're saying that bear was one I encountered when I went to pick herbs last time. I saw it was about to die, so I saved it without thinking it would follow me and not leave. Since this is your family's young master's, please take it back quickly."

  After so many days of teaching by the bandit, Gu Yun was no longer the ignorant young man he once was. He knew that with his own strength in the Houtian stage, it would be difficult to keep all these people from escaping. Since they wanted to rob him of his things, Gu Yun wouldn't naively think that they would let him go, so he didn't plan on keeping any of them either.

  At this time, the old man on the side also spoke up. "Our young master is the eldest son of the county magistrate's family in Jingyang County. Since this spirit bear followed you, we won't blame you for it. You go to the side first, and after we tame it, we'll take you back to see our lord. He will thank you kindly."

  But even a flash of sternness in his eyes couldn't escape Gu Yun's notice.

  Gu Yun listened to his words and immediately walked out of their encirclement, pretending to be very scared and hiding behind a large tree.

  The Ling Xiong, surrounded by this group of people, was roaring continuously, its eyes fixed on the young man. It was this person who had led people to hunt it down last time, and in the end, it had killed several of them with its life. Unexpectedly, these guys had come again.

  Li Yang was also staring at the bear, last time he found this bear but didn't know it was a spiritual beast, wanted to kill it and take its internal elixir, but didn't expect to be killed by it along with all his subordinates, himself almost died in its hands, however his own spiritual-level armor was destroyed.

  This is the only piece of spiritual armor in the family, and even his father doesn't dare to wear it normally. Afraid of being scolded by his father, he concealed this matter until a few days ago when his father asked about it and he told the truth.

  On the spot, his father was so angry that he scolded him severely. He thought it was because of the Ling Jia, but unexpectedly, his father told him to go find the bear again and said it was a spiritual beast. As soon as the two words "spiritual beast" came out, he knew he was wrong. One piece of Ling Jia is no match for one spiritual beast, even ten pieces are not enough. That's an existence that can evolve into a divine beast.

  His father was originally going to come in person, but it seemed too showy.

  So, let this old Pong who had escaped from the mountain lead the way, and he brought three Yuan Ying stage cultivators to secretly search for the Ling Xiong. This was already the greatest power that their family could muster.

  They searched for many days, but didn't see any sign of it. They were about to give up when they unexpectedly ran into it here, and it was following an ordinary person. This made them very excited, and they planned to silence this ordinary person completely after capturing the spirit beast.

  "Surround it on all sides, don't let it escape. I'll catch it. Now that it's reached the Ling Infant stage, you all need to be careful." The old man named Pang said to the other four people.

  At the same time, a four-foot long sword with a bright green glow also appeared in his hand. The other four people also drew out their own weapons, all of which were swords.

  Except for the old man and the young man's flying swords, which were spiritual instruments, the other three people's flying swords were all treasure-grade. The old man also had a black net on his hand, which was also a spiritual instrument, used to capture spirit bears.

  Seeing the crowd around him, Ling Xiong let out a long roar to the sky, stomped his foot, and a giant stone cone flew out from the ground, shooting towards the five people surrounding him.

  All five were well-prepared, with each person's sword emitting either red or blue sword energy, which shattered the stone cones in front of them into dust. For a time, the air was filled with crisscrossing sword energy and flying dust.

  The old man named Pang just released a sword energy to crush the stone cone in front of him, and a strong sense of crisis appeared in his heart. He immediately drew back his hand with one sword.

  With a loud crash, a gigantic sword energy three zhang long and one zhang wide sent him flying out.

  At this time, Gu Yun took advantage of the chaos to make a move. Kuang Yan's first move was "Qian Tian Yi Ji", using his full strength to strike out with all his might. In an instant, he sent the completely unguarded Pang Lao flying out, the long sword in his hand shattering into pieces, and in mid-air, he spat out a mouthful of blood with a loud "Ah".

  Before he could even hit the ground, another massive stone pillar came crashing down from behind him, again with a loud crash, and he flew backward once more. If not for the fact that he was still wearing a suit of armor at the artifact level, this blow might have pierced him directly.

  Even so, after falling to the ground, he vomited two more mouthfuls of blood, lying on the ground and groaning, had already lost his combat effectiveness.

  In just a few short breaths of time, among them, the strongest Pang Lao had already been injured and fallen to the ground, his life or death unknown.

  This sudden turn of events shocked Li Yang and the other three, who had not expected that this seemingly powerless guy was actually a deeply hidden master. This made all four of them feel a chill run down their spines.

  This guy is clearly beyond their capabilities, and on top of that, there's a fierce spirit bear that's more powerful than any of them. The four of them knew they were probably in for a tough fight.

  But no one wants to die as long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will not give up.

  The young man then said to Gu Yun with a bit of trepidation: "Senior, what just happened was all a misunderstanding. I think someone as skilled as you wouldn't bother with petty squabbles with us small fries, right?"

  After witnessing Gu Yun's strength, these people even changed their way of addressing him, from "youngster" to "senior".

  Among cultivators, it is like this: strength is revered, if your strength surpasses others, they will respect you and fear you.

  "Haha, indeed there was a bit of misunderstanding in between", said Gu Yun with a smile after hearing the young man's words.

  Hearing Gu Yun's words, the four of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. However, Gu Yun continued with another sentence. "Just now, your actions startled my mount. If anything happens to it, this matter won't be easy to settle. What do you think should be done?"

  The four of them heard this and couldn't help but scold him in their hearts, thinking that he was really too shameless. With his high strength, he still pretended to be an ordinary person, and just now he said that the spirit bear was following him when it was actually his own mount. Hadn't they ever seen a spirit beast follow its master? And yet he said he had been frightened and might have some internal injuries - wasn't this just bullying people?

  Thinking so in his heart, but he could only say: "Senior, how about this? My father is the former governor of Jingyang County, and if you follow me back, my father will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation." But in his heart, he was thinking about how to deal with him after going back to see his father.

  Gǔ Yún never had the intention of letting them return, and just now was only numbing them for a moment. Gǔ Yún wasn't stupid enough to really follow him back to see his father, if they really went, they might have ended up being detained there.

  Pretending to hesitate for a moment, Gu Yun said: "Alright, then..." As he spoke, a streak of knife light shot out towards the four people.

  The four of them didn't expect this guy to suddenly attack without saying a word, and under the sudden attack, all four were slashed and flew out, except for the young man whose body had a piece of armor that blocked most of the knife's edge, the other three already had more air going out than coming in.

  This is the creed his master taught him: if you can launch a sneak attack, don't engage in open and honest combat with others; when dealing with enemies, you must eliminate them completely.

  When you can't win, run away. A gentleman takes revenge ten years later, a petty person takes revenge from dawn till dusk. Better to be a real villain than a fake gentleman, and the ancient saying is also thoroughly implemented.

  That young man stumbled to his feet, pointing at Gu Yun and said: "If you dare kill me, my father will definitely not let you go, he is a master in the combined body period."

  "In that case, you should die even more. You said you're dead, who knows it was me who killed you?" After saying this, Gu Yun thought of taking action to get rid of the trouble, but just then the old man who had been lying motionless on the ground suddenly blocked his way and shouted at the young man "Quickly leave, tell your father what happened here".

  His aura suddenly surged wildly, his eyes fixed intently on Gu Yun. Meanwhile, Gu Yun had an expression of complete indifference, he naturally knew what he wanted to do.

  Self-explosion, the cultivator of the real power of the exit period self-explosions, how great is the ancient saying that has never been seen before, but he believes it will not be fun at all.

  In a flash, Gu Yun was already behind the old man. Mo Yan pierced his dantian with his sword, shattering his yuan ying into powder, and without the yuan ying, he couldn't self-destruct anymore.

  The old man didn't expect Gu Yun to be so fast, and with a face full of unwillingness, he fell down. A faint figure quickly flew out from his body towards the distance, this was his primordial spirit. When it reached the stage of breaking through, the primordial spirit could break free. Although his primordial infant had been destroyed, as long as his primordial spirit wasn't extinguished, he could start anew. But just then a sword light flew over, thoroughly shattering his hopes.

  After thoroughly annihilating this strongest opponent, Gu Yun looked at the young man who was shaking and fleeing with his flying sword.

  A sudden "whoosh" sound came from behind, and two wings appeared on his back, flapping forcefully like a flowing light that flashed by, and in the blink of an eye, it arrived in front of the young man, blocking his way.

  Looking at this strange man with a pair of wings blocking his way, the young man was already shocked and couldn't say a word, pointing at Gu Yun "You... you... you..." for half a day without saying another word, and that was his last voice left in this world.