Chapter 31: Transference of the Soul

  Xue Yan Iron Cavalry and the most threatening Xue Ying Guard retreated, Nian Wusheng, who was hiding in the forest, no longer had any scruples. With one sword, he directly charged out from inside!

  Surrounded by the ancient Qing's Blood Flame Iron Cavalry, although they were on guard against Nian Wusheng, these Qi Dao second and third tier cultivators, how could they be a match for Nian Wusheng, this half-step into Dan Dao master? As the sword light swept across, immediately four unlucky cavalrymen were pierced through their armor, dying on the spot!

  Inside there is Qing, outside there is Nian Wu Sheng. These two people, no matter which one, when brought to the stage of Qi Dao, are at the pinnacle of existence.

  If the two of them were to join forces, it would be no exaggeration to say that they would be unbeatable in the world of martial arts. Even if they were to encounter those truly powerful alchemy masters, perhaps they would still have the strength to exchange a few blows!

  "Boom!"

  "Hah!"

  The sound of gold and iron, the flesh and blood were cut off, and in an instant, it echoed on the battlefield. Countless iron-clad cavalry had not even approached the two before they were brutally slaughtered by their absolute strength!

  A thick fog of blood accompanied by the mournful cries of a large number of Blood Flame Cavalrymen gradually took shape!

  Under the assassination of these two peak masters in the airway boundary, the mere 500 Blood Flame Iron Riders were unable to withstand, and within just a few breaths, more than 50 elite cavalrymen had already fallen under their sharp killing swords.

  Collapse!

  Total collapse!

  Two against five hundred, these five hundred Blood Flame Iron Riders completely fell into a one-sided slaughter.

  Seeing that his side was unable to withstand the enemy without a strong opponent, the young general who led the five hundred men felt as if his heart was bleeding. Seeing that the Qingpang County Master and others had already escaped for a distance, he immediately shouted loudly: "Retreat, retreat! Collective retreat!"

  As the order was given, the remaining four hundred or more Blood Flame Iron Knights immediately controlled their warhorses and retreated to the west. After leaving behind forty or so corpses, the remaining four hundred or more people finally safely escaped the attack range of the two men, maintaining a neat formation, slowly retreating back, and soon disappeared into the horizon at the end of the main road!

  After they retreated, Gu Qing didn't pursue them either, but instead shifted his gaze onto Nian Wusheng who was walking towards this side.

  "Thank you for your help in this matter."

  "You're too polite."

  Gu Qing nodded slightly and looked at the forest: "Are they in the woods?"

  "Not bad! Most of them are here!"

  "Thank you for your trouble."

  Nian Wusheng hesitated for a moment, then let out a light sigh and said: "Below the Gu Qing Pavilion, I'm afraid my abilities are limited, and I wasn't able to rescue Miss Xu Bingqing and everyone else..."

  "Let's go in and take a look!" Gu Qing said, quickly stepping into the forest.

  As soon as he entered the forest, it seemed that he had heard the sound of the wind. Xu Bingning, Gu Dingzhong, Su Fangyu and others all came out to greet him. Apart from them, there were also several important members of the Hou Mansion behind them!

  Although these people were hiding in the forest, they were temporarily safe, but everyone looked quite disheveled. Not only did each of them have injuries on their bodies, one of the ladies had even lost an arm. Gu Dingzhong, who was at the highest level of cultivation, still had visible bloodstains seeping out from his clothes!

  "Really!?"

  Glancing at the crowd following Gu Dingzhong and Xu Bingying, Gu Qing suddenly asked: "Where's Xu Xiaolin?"

  As soon as he spoke, Gu Dingzhong immediately looked down with regret, his face filled with a hint of pain: "Seventh brother, this is my fault, I didn't protect Little Lin well, I failed to live up to your entrustment..."

  "Guding Zhongge, you don't have to make excuses for me!" Xu Bingjing stepped forward and looked at Gu Qing: "Xiaolin was trying to save me by blocking those arrows, but ended up being shot and killed. If you want to blame someone, blame me."

  "Where is she?"

  "Seventh brother, this has nothing to do with Miss Hui's affairs. I solemnly promised you that I would definitely protect Little Lin's safety, and now that something has happened to Little Lin, all of this is my responsibility..."

  "In the old days, you were always doing well under my guidance, if it wasn't for that unexpected event just now..."

  "Shut up!" Gu Qing suddenly shouted, sternly saying: "I'm asking you, where is she?"

  At this loud shout, Xu Bingcheng, Gu Dingzhong, as well as Nian Wusheng and Su Fangyu beside him, were all startled.

  Especially Xu Bingying!

  All along, in her impression, Gu Qing was always a dull and unenthusiastic person. When speaking, he would also have an expressionless face. Even when she sometimes tried to motivate him to make progress, saying some extremely harsh words, he wouldn't be moved at all. Even after being destroyed by a day's hard work, he could still maintain a smile.

  At that time, he even doubted whether this man had lost his pride as a man and forgotten how to get angry with others!

  But now...

  Looking at the anger hidden between his eyebrows, even if it has not been triggered yet, Xu Bingjing standing in front of him still feels a sense of trepidation!

  The ancient Qing cultivated the method of controlling the stars - Starlight Guidance. His spiritual energy was already enormous, and he had always been careful to control his spiritual power so as not to make others feel uncomfortable. However, at this moment, when he heard the news of Xu Xiaolin's death, he lost control of his emotions, and his spiritual energy mixed with anger was released, causing everyone present to feel a sense of terror that seemed endless.

  In an instant, the ancient green in everyone's eyes seemed to have transformed into a vast ocean on the verge of unleashing a level 12 storm. No one knew what kind of terrifying doomsday disaster would be triggered when these raging storms swept up towering waves and surged towards the land where humans lived.

  Just as she was gazing at everything in front of her with a hint of shock, Su Fangyu suddenly said: "Gu Qingge, are you looking for Xiaolin? She...she's inside..." After finishing speaking, her expression turned somewhat sorrowful as she glanced towards the interior of the forest.

  Although they hadn't known each other for long, she and Xu Xiaolin had already become pretty good friends during this period of time. At this moment, upon her death, he also felt extremely sad...

  "Whoosh!"

  Ancient Qing's figure flashed by, and in an instant, he passed in front of everyone and entered the interior of the forest.

  As he left, the intangible and invisible spiritual pressure disappeared instantly. In an instant, everyone, including Nian Wusheng, this super strong man at the peak of his breath, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

  Especially Gu Dingzhong, who was already seriously injured, stumbled and almost fell at this moment.

  "What a terrifying anger...... This......" Nian Wusheng's eyes still held a shocked expression, and he glanced at Xu Bingqing and Gu Dingzhong, who also looked somewhat pale, before asking: "Gu Qing, what's going on? Why are you suddenly so furious?"

  Xu Bingning shook her head, wanting to explain, but didn't know how!

  So far, she still doesn't know what kind of relationship Gu Qing and Xu Xiaolin are in!

  Do you like Xu Xiaolin? Not really!

  But he was particularly different from others when it came to Xu Xiaolin!

  She dares to guarantee one hundred percent that even if his wife, the famous matchmaker's daughter he just married, had died, he would absolutely not be as furious as he is now!

  With such doubts and incomprehension, several people had already arrived at the place where the corpses were laid out.

  In the forest, apart from Xu Xiaolin, four other people from the Hou Mansion also died in the escape route just now. However, as for the life and death of these people, Gu Qing didn't even give them a glance, his entire attention was focused on Xu Xiaolin whose body was still warm.

  "Xu Xiaolin... when did she die?!"

  "Just now... when we were fleeing into the forest with the help of Muo Sheng, Ye Xueqing ordered the Blood Flame Army to launch a few rounds of simultaneous gunfire. Xiao Lin, he was protecting me..."

  "I want accurate time!"

  "The exact time..."

  "Probably around thirty to forty minutes!"

  "Thirty to forty minutes..." Gu Qing pondered for a moment: "Perhaps it's still possible!"

  Seeing a person crouching beside Xu Xiaolin, Gu Qing was muttering to himself, and Xu Bingning, Gu Dingzhong and others had a hint of pain in their eyes.

  He sighed softly and consoled, "Below the ancient Qing Pavilion, mourn in order..."

  "Get back, get as far away as possible!"

  "...under the ancient blue pavilion..."

  Gu Qing, however, seemed to have not heard anything. His right hand was placed on Xu Xiaolin's skull, gently pressing a few acupoints. In an instant, Xu Xiaolin's body, which had already died, suddenly trembled, and the residual life energy hidden inside her body was instantly activated.

  At the moment when the residual life energy in his body was activated, Gu Qing's spiritual energy burst out without reservation, like a spiritual storm, sweeping into Gu Xiaolin's mind. The enormous spiritual power actually supported her entire body, leaving the ground and floating one inch above the ground.

  "This..."

  Everyone present looked at this incredible method with a hint of shock in their eyes.

  At this moment, relying on spiritual energy to create a spiritual space, the ancient Qing was suddenly awakened by Xu Xiaolin's confinement. His mouth suddenly let out a loud shout, and the sound that came out followed a peculiar spiritual frequency, spreading in all directions: "Wake up!"

  "Wake up...... wake up...... wake up......"

  Two words, though not very loud, yet in this instant, they were like a thunderclap, violently exploding deep within everyone's soul!

  The relatively weak female cultivator was instantly stunned by these two words, almost fainting on the spot. Even Nian Wusheng, whose cultivation had reached the peak of the Ninth Heaven and whose essence, energy, and spirit were all concentrated at the top of his head as he was about to break through the Heavenly Gate and enter the Dan Dao realm, felt a dizziness in his mind, and his vision suddenly darkened for an instant when these two words came out.

  Before everyone could recover from the shock of these two words, Gu Qing was already above Xu Xiaolin's head, with a gentle scoop of his hand, as if he had scooped up an extremely precious and rare treasure. All his movements seemed extremely cautious!

  After picking up that seemingly non-existent mysterious substance, his gaze had already fallen onto the bodies of several other people who were already dead.

  However, as soon as his gaze fell, he suddenly shook his head: "No, the remaining residual soul is not enough to merge with a human body again. I'm afraid that before the soul and body can fully combine, the soul's energy will be exhausted and dispersed..."

  As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his head and fixed his gaze on a small bird perched on the branch of a nearby tree, somewhat similar to a sparrow.

  "Whoosh!"

  The sound of breaking through the air, instantly awakened the thought that was about to calm down!

  In an instant, Gu Qing had already arrived beside the little green bird. Before it could sense danger and flap its wings to fly away, he had firmly grasped it in his hand!

  "Boom!"

  A surge of powerful spiritual energy once again burst into the small bird's body, which was only the size of a fist, instantly erasing its spiritual consciousness!

  After doing all this, his right hand didn't dare to hesitate in the slightest, and carefully merged that mysterious energy, which even Sword Saint Nian Wusheng couldn't detect, into the body of this already deceased small bird. Slowly, he once again formed a spiritual space with spiritual energy, assisting the remaining soul power to fuse with this weak and tiny avian body...