Chapter 45

Gui BuGui smiled and said, "I thought you wouldn't be able to hold back and ask me until we went down, but I didn't expect you to be so impatient as soon as the door opened." As he said this, the old man paused, his gaze shifting to the wisps of mist that occasionally drifted out of the black tunnel. He continued, "If I'm not mistaken, what's below should be the immortal tomb of an ancient immortal who ascended to heaven. The mist you saw earlier is the immortal spirit energy that the immortal expelled from their physical body before ascending. However, it's a pity that this immortal spirit energy is in conflict with the seed in your body. Although you don't feel any discomfort, you won't be able to benefit from it."

While Gui BuGui was speaking, Wu Mian was watching him with a cold eye. After the old man finished, Wu Mian said, "What about those two dogs? Were they also attracted by this immortal spirit energy?"

"Half and half," the old man said, his eyes already squinting as he looked into the tunnel. "There might be something else down there, something more important than this immortal spirit energy."

Wu Mian followed Gui BuGui's gaze, looking at the stone steps that extended into the tunnel, and said, "More important than immortal spirit energy? What could it be?" The old man chuckled, "We'll have to go down to find out."

Wu Mian had already noticed a subtle difference in Gui BuGui compared to usual, but the tunnel below was even more intriguing to him. Xu Fu's legacy was likely inside.

Since the immortal spirit energy was still drifting up from the tunnel, it obscured the scent and even the view inside, making everything pitch black. Wu Mian and Gui BuGui couldn't sense anything below, so they carefully made their way down the stone steps.

Once inside the tunnel, they discovered that it was a cylindrical spiral space. The stone steps wound around the inner wall, leading straight down to the ground. The center was about seven or eight zhang deep, and if one fell, the bottom was unknown. If a vicious formation had already been set up, even an immortal body might not survive.

On the way down, Wu Mian reined in his aura and walked cautiously with Gui BuGui. As they descended the steps, Wu Mian accidentally noticed dense chisel marks on a corner of the tunnel's inner wall. These marks were very fine and seemed to have appeared not long ago. Gui BuGui, who was behind Wu Mian, also noticed these marks. When he examined them, he involuntarily said, "Hmm?" Wu Mian thought he had discovered something, but by the time they reached the bottom of the tunnel, Gui BuGui had not said anything more.

After about the time it takes to burn an incense stick, the two finally reached the bottom of the tunnel. As they approached the bottom, they realized this was just an entrance. Beyond the stone steps was a narrow corridor. At the end of the corridor, a faint light could be seen, but from their position, they couldn't make out what was there.

Wu Mian was about to continue down the corridor to see what was at the end when Gui BuGui suddenly grabbed him. Wu Mian gave the old man a cold look, but before he could speak, the old man said in a very low voice, "We're already at the entrance, why are you in such a hurry? Are you afraid the thing inside will run away?"

After saying this, Gui BuGui gave a strange smile and glanced at the end of the corridor, muttering to himself, "Maybe we'll see an old acquaintance..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of silver light appeared inside, followed by a loud boom. The entire corridor and the tunnel above it shook violently. Then, more silver flashes appeared, and a series of wild animal howls came from the end of the corridor. The howls were heart-wrenching, and Wu Mian's mind went blank for a moment, but he quickly recovered.

The old man seemed to have anticipated this. As the silver light flashed, he took a deep breath and exhaled in rhythm with the animal howls. After the howls, Gui BuGui seemed unharmed and even reached out to steady the swaying Wu Mian.

When Wu Mian regained his senses, he glared at Gui BuGui and said, "What's inside? You knew to dodge before it even howled. Looks like you two have a good relationship."

Gui BuGui chuckled and said, "You hit his son, so he has the right to curse a bit. Be grateful; someone else took the blame for you. Otherwise, you would be the one in trouble now." As he spoke, a woman's voice came from the end of the corridor, "Is it Brother Gui outside? You're already at the entrance, why don't you come in and take a look?"

Hearing the woman's voice, Gui BuGui's expression suddenly became unnatural, as if he was surprised that she could detect him. He blurted out, "How did you see through the immortal spirit energy to find me?"

"Brother Gui, the person with you should be Wu Mian, right?" The woman laughed after hearing Wu Mian's response but didn't answer directly. She continued, "I heard that Brother Guangren and his disciples went to the Qin Palace a few days ago and have been looking for an old and a young person ever since. The young one must be Wu Mian, so the old one must be you, Brother Gui! You're still alive!"

The woman's voice suddenly changed, and the end of the corridor was filled with silver light. But the light quickly dimmed, and with another animal howl, the other side of the corridor became pitch black again.

Wu Mian and Gui BuGui stared at the end of the corridor. After the woman's voice stopped, the scene was deathly silent. After a while, Gui BuGui muttered to himself, "I thought the last sentence was directed at me..." After a pause, he shook his head with a half-smile and continued, "I was too careless. If that thing wasn't dead, you still dared to try to be friendly with me?" Wu Mian guessed the woman's identity and said to Gui BuGui, "Guangjie?"

Gui BuGui's eyes were fixed on the end of the corridor as he said, "Who else? Xu Fu only had one female disciple. It wouldn't make sense for her to stand by and do nothing..." Although the old man's expression seemed conflicted, after he finished speaking, he turned to Wu Mian and said, "Xu Fu's legacy for you is inside. Do you still want it?"

"What do you think?" Wu Mian stared coldly at Gui BuGui, as if trying to see through him, and said, "But you seem a bit different now. Do you still need me to lead the way?"

Gui BuGui laughed and said, "I'm used to it. I've been hiding behind you for a while, and it's hard to change." After saying this, he chuckled a few more times and then walked towards the other side of the corridor.

Watching the immortal spirit energy that kept drifting around the old man, Wu Mian muttered to himself, "So this is how the seal is broken?" Following Gui BuGui to the end of the corridor, the scene inside was still hazy. But as soon as they stepped out of the corridor, they saw a scene that looked like a paradise.

At first glance, it seemed like a peach grove. Although they were deep underground, there were about a hundred peach trees. A small underground stream surrounded the grove. It wasn't peach season, but the trees were full of ripe peaches, and the air was filled with the sweet scent of ripe peaches, making one want to pick and bite into them.

In the center of the peach grove was a small stone house, from which the immortal spirit energy continuously emerged. But now, the immortal spirit energy was extremely clear and light, without the heavy, oppressive feeling it had before.

On the roof of the stone house, a large gray wolf lay, its body covered in wounds. Although it was motionless, its eyes still shone with a fierce light, indicating that it wasn't dead yet. Opposite the gray wolf stood a white-haired woman.

The white-haired woman was the only female among the four white-haired men and women Wu Mian had seen a few years ago in Xu Fu's training ground. She was also the only woman of the Guang generation under Xu Fu, Guangjie.

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