Chapter 1291: Old Man Guzhu

Chapter 1291: Old Man Guzhu

"Oh?"
From far behind, as she watched the white spatial vortex and the movements of the Dun Yue Immortal Palace, Qianye Ying'er's golden eyes flickered slightly.
"It seems they intend to flee into the Tai Chu Divine Realm," Guzhu said.
"Naive." Qianye Ying'er gave a faint, mocking smile. "But they've chosen a good place for me."
"They've caught up," Guzhu suddenly said.
His words made Qianye Ying'er visibly pause: "They?"
He used the word "caught up," meaning that not only was someone pursuing them, but they were even faster than them.
"Tiansha and Tianlang," Guzhu answered slowly.
"..." Qianye Ying'er's golden brows sank slightly. "That Tiansha really does care for that brat, to chase him all the way here."
"No," Guzhu said. "She must have sensed Miss's movements and guessed that Miss would make a move against him, which is why she went to such lengths to pursue him here."
"I'll leave the two of them to you," Qianye Ying'er said coldly, her gaze and divine sense still locked onto the Dun Yue Immortal Palace.
Guzhu said nothing, but his speed began to slow down.

Up close, one would be startled to realize how enormous the pale spatial vortex was—almost the scale of a continent. Yet, despite being a spatial vortex, it strangely had no tearing force, as if it were merely a quiet mass of illusory light.
The Dun Yue Immortal Palace shot forward rapidly. The moment it touched the pale vortex, it vanished completely... and its aura disappeared without a trace, so utterly that even the most extreme spiritual sense could no longer perceive it, as if it had been completely erased from the world.
Not long after, Qianye Ying'er's figure also flew in swiftly and disappeared into the pale vortex.
But Guzhu stopped at that moment. With his back to the pale vortex, he silently gazed into the dark, endless void. His old eyes, steeped in countless ages and vicissitudes, were cloudy and still, without the slightest ripple.

The silence of the void did not last long. A tearing sound like a violent storm came from afar—two equally small and delicate figures, one with blood-red hair and the other in flowing colorful robes.
Mo Li and Cai Zhi.
They had traveled from the Xing Shen Realm straight to the Yue Shen Realm, and from there pursued all the way here.
Among the twelve Star Gods, Mo Li was the fastest. Even if Cai Zhi's Celestial Wolf divine power fully awakened, she couldn't catch up, so she had been dragged along by Mo Li the entire way.
Ahead lay the Tai Chu Divine Realm. The auras of the Dun Yue Immortal Palace and Qianye Ying'er had completely vanished from her perception. Such complete disappearance could only mean one thing: they had entered the Tai Chu Divine Realm.
But at this moment, Mo Li suddenly stopped, pulling Cai Zhi to a halt. Her eyes stared coldly ahead, a crimson light reflecting deep in her pupils.
A gray-robed old man stood there silently. He was short and stooped, with a withered face. The modest gray robe on him seemed unusually loose, as if he were only skin and bones. Even his half-open eyes were as murky as a corpse's.
Yet his presence made Mo Li feel as if a mountain of immeasurable height stood before her, impossible to advance past.
"Who are you?" Mo Li asked coldly. A person whose aura was so terrifying even without release—she had no impression of him at all.
Guzhu did not answer. Instead, he uttered a voice so harsh and unpleasant it was almost unbearable: "Tiansha Xingshen, Tianlangxing Shen. An honor to meet you."
Cai Zhi stepped forward, suppressing her anxiety, and said aggressively, "Since you know who we are, you'd better get out of the way immediately."
"Cai Zhi, fall back!" In Mo Li's hand, the God-Slaying Blade reflected a chilling light mixed with blood. "You are no match for him."
"Ah?" Cai Zhi was stunned, her face full of disbelief. But seeing her sister's extremely cold and dark expression, her own heart and soul became thoroughly serious. With a flash of blue light, the Celestial Wolf Sacred Sword was already in her grasp.
Guzhu did not move.
Mo Li and Cai Zhi also remained still for a long time. The space became immensely oppressive, to the point where even every particle stopped moving.
"I see," Mo Li suddenly said in a low voice. "You are Guzhu!"
This name finally caused a slight change in Guzhu's gaze. "Heh, as expected of Tiansha Xingshen. Truly terrifyingly sharp intuition. No wonder Miss holds you in such regard."
He seemed to be smiling, but there was no trace of a smile on his face.
"Heh," Mo Li sneered mockingly. "I never thought that the Old Man Guzhu, who once shook the world, roamed freely and fearlessly, and faced even the king realms without flinching, would become a dog by Qianye Ying'er's side. No wonder you are still alive but have to hide and skulk, ashamed to show your face."
Guzhu showed no anger at all, not even the slightest emotional fluctuation. "That this old man has managed to survive to this day is a gift from the Fan Di God Realm. What harm is there in being Miss's dog?"
Mo Li: "..."
"Old Man Guzhu?" Cai Zhi's lips parted wide. "Hasn't he been dead for many... many... many years?"
She searched her memory and only found the name "Old Man Guzhu" in the remnants left by the previous-previous-previous Tianlangxing Shen.
"Although I don't know how you've lived until now," Mo Li's eyes grew colder and colder. As her killing intent was released, the God-Slaying Blade in her hand faintly emitted a pungent blood aura. "If you dare to block us today, I will ensure you die without a complete corpse!"
Guzhu slowly clasped his hands in front of him. He said slowly, "No one has ever died a complete death under Tiansha Xingshen's blade. This old man was already a man who should have died long ago. If I can die under the God-Slaying Blade of Tiansha Xingshen, it would be a life well lived."
As his gray robe billowed, a faint vortex of air silently appeared around him. In an instant, the already oppressive space suddenly became several times heavier.
"Cai Zhi, I'll try to suppress him. You find an opportunity and immediately enter the Tai Chu Divine Realm!" Mo Li transmitted.
She said "try to suppress"—clearly, under Guzhu's silent pressure, she had no confidence at all.
"Mm!" Cai Zhi could only agree. Qianye Ying'er had already pursued into the Tai Chu Divine Realm, and now there was no room for hesitation.
"Since you admit to being just a dog by Qianye's side, I suppose you wouldn't mind if I call you 'Old Dog Guzhu,' would you?" Mo Li's eyes narrowed into thin slits, but at that moment, her pupils became dangerously sharp. A cruel smile curled at the corner of her lips, enough to make anyone who saw it shudder.
Probably influenced by Yun Che, she had become far more sharp-tongued than before and had also "learned" to provoke her opponents before a fight.
As her cold voice fell, the God-Slaying Blade flashed with a chilling light. But at that very instant, her gaze suddenly veered to the side.
On the other side, Guzhu's old eyes also flickered, turning in the same direction as Mo Li.
"Eh? What's wrong?" Cai Zhi asked.
"Someone's coming," Mo Li said in a low voice, her heart sinking.
In the direction they had come from, an aura was rapidly approaching from afar.
This aura was extremely cold and overwhelmingly powerful. And judging by Guzhu's reaction, he was clearly also surprised by its appearance.
Friend or foe!?
"Who is it?" Cai Zhi asked urgently.
"..." Mo Li did not answer. Her brow furrowed tighter and tighter because this aura was completely unfamiliar to her.
Powerhouses who could reach her level were extremely rare throughout the entire god realm. Those who could surpass her were even fewer—countable on one hand. Each had a reputation that could shake heaven and earth, and she knew every one of them clearly.
The Guzhu before her was already an anomaly, a person who should no longer exist in this world. Yet she had still been able to identify him based on her extremely sharp perception and intuition.
And now—
An aura approaching at high speed, no less than Guzhu's—she was utterly unfamiliar with it!
It was as if someone who had never existed before had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
Who could it be? And why had they come here?
The Fan Di God Realm had secretly kept a Guzhu who should have died long ago. Could this be another person "secretly kept" by the Fan Di God Realm?
Just as Mo Li's mind tensed, a ray of profound light finally lit up in the empty world. In the next instant, it closed in at extreme speed—a figure of ice-blue, its entire body shrouded in an extremely dense ice-blue radiance. Its face and form were impossible to see.
It seemed to hold a slender sword in its hand, and even that sword was covered in blue light, its shape and appearance indistinct.
As the ice-blue figure approached, a chilling cold that pierced the heart and soul rushed in.
Ice profound force? Mo Li's brow sank further. In the Eastern Divine Region, there was absolutely no one who could wield ice profound force to such a level. This person... was not from the Eastern Divine Region!
The blue figure arrived but did not slow down. Its speed did not diminish in the slightest. It dragged a fleeting ice shadow as its sword thrust straight at Guzhu.
In that instant, the silent space turned entirely into an icy hell.
The strike was too sudden, too swift, like a fleeting meteor. With an explosion of blue light, Guzhu was pushed back dozens of miles in an instant. A strange light flickered in his eyes as a storm surged around him, descending upon the ice-blue figure.
But the ice-blue figure neither dodged nor avoided. Instead, it charged straight into the center of the storm. With a flash of ice-blue radiance, thousands of times more brilliant than the light of the polar regions, the storm that could shake stars was rapidly frozen into a vast expanse of ice.
Bang!!
The ice formed from the storm exploded, unleashing a frozen storm that swept across ten thousand miles. The ice-blue figure pierced through layers of shattered ice, and a freezing sword beam slammed into Guzhu, knocking him back another hundred miles.
"Eh?" Watching the figure entirely shrouded in ice-blue light, Cai Zhi was startled and let out a soft exclamation.
"Go!"
Mo Li didn't care who the ice-blue figure was. She grabbed Cai Zhi's arm and burst forth at maximum speed, charging straight into the Tai Chu Divine Realm. They soon vanished into the vast, endless pale vortex.
*Hong!!*
A dull roar shook space for ten thousand miles. Guzhu and the ice-blue figure were each sent flying far apart.
Guzhu's aura remained as steady as a distant mountain, but his withered old hands were covered in a layer of ice-blue light that was hard to dispel, and his ten fingers trembled slightly. He looked at the figure completely shrouded in ice-blue glow, revealing nothing of itself, and said slowly, "In all the world, the only ones who could cultivate ice profound force to such a level are the 'Azure Dragon Emperor' and the 'Ice Qilin Realm King.'"
The ice-blue figure: "..."
"And you did not use profound arts, relying solely on ice profound force to contend with this old man. Moreover, you should be a woman." A strange light flickered in Guzhu's eyes. "You are the 'Azure Dragon Emperor' of the Western Divine Region!"
In terms of experience and breadth of knowledge, few in the god realm could match him.
The ice-blue figure: "..."
"Alas," Guzhu let out a rare sigh. "This boy Yun Che indeed has an extraordinary connection with your Dragon God Clan. It seems that Miss was somewhat too hasty this time."
Clearly, he had already decided that this ice-blue figure was none other than the Azure Dragon Emperor. Because, to his knowledge, there was no other possibility in this world.
The ice-blue figure remained silent. It pointed its sword forward as a blue light flashed, spreading a sky-covering ice curtain. The chillingly cold aura locked firmly onto Guzhu...

So... is it the Ice Qilin Realm King or the Azure Dragon Emperor? Oh heavens, this person is so mysterious, I can't guess who it is at all.
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