Chapter 13 Master's Wife, Master, Can I Lend You My Hand?
Chapter 13 Master's Wife, Master, Can I Lend You My Hand?
Liu Yan took a luminous pearl and examined the cave.
"Ah!" Liu Yan screamed, and the luminous pearl rolled to the ground.
Ignoring his own injuries, Gu Yunzhou rushed to Liu Yan's side.
"Yan'er, what happened?"
Liu Yan was so frightened that she hugged Gu Yunzhou tightly; what she had just seen was terrifying.
"Master, Master, over there, over there there..."
Gu Yunzhou took out the luminous pearl and saw that it was actually a skeleton.
Gu Yunzhou was used to this, guessing that some cultivators had died here before.
Gu Yunzhou patted Liu Yan's back: "Yan'er, don't be afraid. It's just a skeleton. It's been dead for who knows how many years. Don't be afraid. Your master is here."
Gu Yunzhou looked at the frightened person in his arms and gently comforted him.
Yan'er had never seen such a scene before, so it was normal for her to be scared.
With Gu Yunzhou's comforting words, Liu Yan gradually calmed down, glanced back once more, and then quickly turned away.
She was still afraid.
The skull seemed to be staring at her.
Seeing that Liu Yan was truly terrified, Gu Yunzhou put the skeleton away.
"Yan'er, I've already put them away. There are no more bones now."
Seeing that there were indeed no more bones, Liu Yan blushed and said, "Master, Yan'er is so embarrassing."
"Yan'er, go get checked again."
"Master, there's a ring here." A reflection came from the wall under the light of the luminous pearl.
Liu Yan found a ring in a crack in the wall.
Gu Yunzhou took out the ring: "This is a storage ring. It's possible that someone hid it inside, not wanting their treasure to be taken away easily."
The two guessed that this was the skeleton that the person had hidden before his death.
After all, once someone enters the cave and discovers a corpse, they will inevitably have to touch it.
If they don't find anything, they'll assume they're too late and won't bother to thoroughly examine the cave, assuming any good stuff has already been taken.
The owner of the storage ring had long since turned to bones, and Gu Yunzhou easily opened the storage ring.
There weren't many things inside. I didn't see any cultivation techniques, magical artifacts, or elixirs; the owner probably consumed them before he died.
Gu Yunzhou flipped through the cultivation manuals and found a dual cultivation technique among them.
Dual cultivation between men and women can simultaneously enhance the cultivation level of both parties and can also be used for healing.
Jiang He, along with her disciples, encountered Yun Feng's disciples.
More than a dozen people were lying dead on the ground.
The disciples of the Qingyun Sect stepped forward to investigate.
"Elder Jiang, Elder Lu, these are all disciples of Yunfeng. Five of them are beyond saving, and the other disciples are also seriously injured."
Elder Lu took out healing pills and gave them to the injured disciples.
"How did you get so badly injured? What happened? Where is your master?"
Seeing that the injuries of the group had improved and they were able to sit up, Elder Lu stepped forward to question them.
"Elder Lu, we were injured by a demonic beast. Even our master was no match for it and was wounded. Our master and Junior Sister Yan lured the demonic beast away, otherwise we would all have died under its claws."
"How did you manage to provoke such a powerful demonic beast, one that even Gu Yunzhou couldn't defeat?"
If Gu Yunzhou is injured, then Elder Lu himself will probably not be able to escape unscathed when facing that demonic beast.
"Even Master didn't expect that monster to be so powerful."
"Such a powerful monster must be guarding rare and precious treasures. You must have taken them."
"Master, he took away a thousand-year-old Dragon Flame Fruit."
"A thousand-year-old dragon flame fruit? No wonder, that monster must be determined to fight to the death."
"Elder Lu, please hurry and save Master and Junior Sister Yan! Master is injured and no match for that monster."
Do you know which way they went?
"Master went into the dense forest over there."
"Elder Jiang, let's go save them first."
Elder Lu consulted Jiang He, since the demonic beast was so powerful that only Elder Jiang could defeat it.
Jiang He nodded. Of course she would go, but there was a good show waiting for her.
"Since you are injured, you should rest here first." Elder Lu told them to stay where they were and rest.
"Elder Lu, we are worried about Master and Junior Sister, so please let us follow. We will just follow behind and won't cause you any trouble."
"Then you all be careful. That monster is dangerous. If we encounter it later, it might not be able to take care of you."
Jiang He led the group forward.
It's easy to find.
The monster made quite a commotion.
Many monks fled from that direction.
The monster was patting the big tree.
He clearly saw the two thieves running this way, so how did they disappear?
"Don't go forward, I'll go and deal with him. Elder Lu, protect your disciple."
Jiang He told the others not to go forward; going up against this demonic beast would only mean certain death. She was the only one here, a Nascent Soul cultivator, who could handle this beast.
Jiang He flew towards the demonic beast with her sword in hand.
This demonic beast is perfect for my disciple to use in refining weapons.
After being struck by a Nascent Soul cultivator, the demonic beast collapsed to the ground.
The disciples behind him watched in disbelief. They never expected that the demonic beast that had killed or injured so many of Yunfeng's disciples, and even injured Elder Gu as he fled, would be killed by Elder Jiang with a single sword strike.
Nascent Soul cultivators are indeed powerful.
"Siyuan, you can take this monster's corpse back with you."
"Yes, disciple thanks Master."
Wen Siyuan immediately stepped forward and collected the monster's corpse. Its skin, flesh, blood, bones, and demon core were all good materials for refining weapons.
"Master, there seems to be a formation here."
After collecting the monster's corpse, Wen Siyuan looked over and noticed fluctuations in the array formation.
Elder Lu, who was also a formation master, came forward to examine it and confirmed that it was indeed a formation.
Elder Lu broke the formation, and the scene here changed.
What was originally an ordinary forest suddenly turned into a cave.
Jiang He looked around the cave and realized there was a formation outside. No wonder the two of them were so unrestrained in the cave without anyone noticing.
"Elder Lu, this cave is specially hidden with an array. Could there be some treasure inside?"
Elder Lu was also shocked upon hearing this. If it were just an ordinary cave, why would it need to be concealed by an array?
"Elder Jiang is right. Let's come in and find out what's going on."
He instructed all disciples to hold their breath and pay attention to their surroundings.
The emergence of treasures is often accompanied by danger, so one must be extremely careful.
The group headed towards the cave.
Upon reaching the cave entrance, they suddenly noticed a huge, undulating figure projected onto the cave wall. Inside the cave, they could hear panting sounds, as if a giant, sleeping monster was snoring.
"Elder Jiang, there seems to be a huge demonic beast inside, guarding the treasure. Judging from its snoring, it's probably asleep now. Why don't we take this opportunity to go in and kill it?"
The best-case scenario is to kill a monster while it's asleep without it noticing.
Otherwise, if it were a powerful demonic beast, they would have suffered heavy casualties.
"Then let's do as Elder Lu says. Why don't we make a move first and find out the details of that monster?"
Elder Lu set up an array to conceal the aura of the disciples behind him, and then handed Jiang He a jade tablet engraved with the ability to hide themselves. This way, if they were to strike, the demon beast would not be killed, nor would it immediately discover them.
Jiang He and Elder Lu simultaneously attacked the blurry figure of the demonic beast in the cave.
"Ah!" A pitiful sound rang out.
"Yan'er, are you alright? Who's outside?"
Then another voice came.
The sound carried outside, and Elder Lu clearly recognized it as Gu Yunzhou's voice.
Unexpectedly, what was inside was not some kind of demonic beast, but Gu Yunzhou. There was also a woman's voice.
Elder Lu, unaware of the situation inside, tossed in a few luminous pearls.
The luminous pearl illuminated the scene inside the cave.
Elder Lu saw it clearly, his face flushed red, and then a surge of anger welled up inside him.
The two people inside the cave were actually doing that shameful thing.
The two were completely naked. The undulating figures seen on the wall were not demonic beasts, but clearly the two people hiding inside, trying to survive.
Elder Lu glanced at Elder Jiang's face beside him. Elder Jiang remained silent, staring coldly inside, radiating a chilling aura. Elder Jiang was clearly furious.
Even he thought Gu Yunzhou was a shameless scoundrel, actually getting involved with his own disciple. Elder Jiang must not believe it if he witnessed such a thing firsthand.
The disciples behind them also walked forward out of curiosity, and when they saw the scene inside the cave, they were all dumbfounded.
Elder Gu actually betrayed Elder Jiang and was caught red-handed by Elder Jiang.
How heartbroken Elder Jiang must be.
Everyone couldn't help but feel sorry for Elder Jiang.
Elder Jiang is a Nascent Soul cultivator and the sect leader's daughter; she is the goddess in the hearts of countless disciples.
That female disciple was merely picked up by Elder Gu, and she was only a Qi Refining stage disciple with extremely poor aptitude. If it weren't for Elder Gu, she probably wouldn't even have been able to enter the Qingyun Sect's mountain gate.
Elder Gu must be blind to have abandoned Elder Jiang and chosen that kind of woman.
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