Chapter 122 – Intelligence Is A Good Thing To Have

“And what can you offer me?” asked Gu Suihan in a calm and relaxed voice. “This is a domain left behind by a cultivator at Divine Soul, so I’m sure it contains his entire life’s legacy. Seven keys have already surfaced, so the chances of you getting your hands on one are getting smaller and smaller.”

The Ethereal Court disciple smiled faintly and said, “The secret keys are just one of the conditions to open the door to the domain. Even if you don’t sell it off now, then you’d still have to compete with the others with the secret keys when you open the door. Only one person will be able to get the legacy, so this secret key itself isn’t really that valuable.”

“You’re not wrong in saying that. But that’s all based on the assumption that I will head to the door and place my key where it should be along with the rest. So…what would happen if I…throw the key away?” Gu Suihan nodded like he was listening to the other disciple very seriously, but the disdain in his voice was very apparent.

“You…doing that will do neither yourself nor others any good!” yelled the Ethereal Court disciple in frustration. But there was really nothing more he could do to someone like Gu Suihan.

Gu Suihan noticed the murderous glint in the other disciple’s eye, so he took a step forward and unleashed his murderous qi that filled the air with the bloody smell of a mountain of corpses. He stared indifferently at them as he placed a hand quietly on the hilt of his sword.

“So, how do we split this?” The Ethereal Court disciple had noticed Gu Suihan’s hand, so he immediately held himself back, laughed awkwardly, and changed the topic as he turned to look at the bright green lotus plant in the lake that gave off such a refreshing smell.

“I’m not interested in that. You can decide among yourselves.” Gu Suihan only gave the plant a glance before squatting down to look at the barely breathing Gold Striped Black Killer Snake that convulsed from time to time. He had a faintly interested smile on his face as he picked it up by the tail and turned to leave.

“Wait!” A Seven Kill Sect disciple with a very long beard suddenly called out in an arrogant voice. He moved like the wind as he flew toward Gu Suihan and blocked the young man’s way.

This disciple was a cultivator of poisons and was quite interested in anything that carried such toxins. He had become very excited when he saw how powerful the snake’s venom was earlier and wanted the snake for himself. Unfortunately, the one who killed it was Li Xiaoyao and he didn’t dare to snatch it from Li Xiaoyao. He was prepared to give up on it when he noticed that his fellow disciple had simply picked it up and was about to leave without even saying anything. The disciple couldn’t hold himself back this time and stopped Gu Suihan immediately.

Of course, he had heard of Gu Suihan’s name. He knew Gu Suihan as a disciple who had given up his chance to fight to become an internal disciple because he was too scared to compete. He didn’t know why Li Xiaoyao seemed so wary of Gu Suihan, but he assumed that Gu Suihan had used some frightening magic tactics to scare Li Xiaoyao. That opinion made the disciple despise Li Xiaoyao immediately, and he thought to himself, “So what if he’s the top senior of the Youthful Clarity Sect? If he can be frightened so easily, then he’s never going to succeed in life.”

“Cheng Tai?” Gu Suihan knew who this fellow was. There were very few Seven Kill Sect disciples who cultivated in poisons, after all.

“That’s right.” Cheng Tai broke into a faint smile because he felt that things might go his way. He put on the air of a senior as he said in a deep voice, “Junior brother, how about you give your senior brother this animal and I’ll give you 500 Spiritual Stones for it?”

He patted himself on the back for being kind to a fellow disciple. 500 Spiritual Stones was nowhere near the actual value of this animal, but unfortunately for Gu Suihan, he was a Seven Kill Sect disciple. Cheng Tai had a thousand and one ways to make life difficult for a junior disciple if Gu Suihan refused to cooperate.

“You know, intelligence is a good thing to have. It’s too bad that you don’t have any.” Gu Suihan coiled the snake around his wrist and drew his sword as though it were a long dragon. The bloody aura of the blade soared into the air like a giant ocean wave.

“How dare you!” Cheng Tai was livid. The bowl in his hand gave off a green glow, accompanied by the stench of a dark green mist billowing out from the bowl.

“You’re just a piece of trash,” said Gu Suihan with a look of contempt on his face. Those who chose to cultivate poisons were really just trying to find a shortcut by making use of these rare naturally occurring treasures. But in this world, almost all these ancient creatures had gone extinct and there were almost no more treasures left. There were no prospects for a cultivator like him, yet he seemed so proud to be one.

Questioning Heaven was like a dragon as the river of bloody aura let out a mighty roar as Gu Suihan brandished it. It was like the galaxy was pouring down from space or like a shooting star falling onto the Earth. Gu Suihan brought his sword down as though he hadn’t seen the poisonous fumes that most people would have immediately backed away from.

“Time to die!” The bloodied symbol in Gu Suihan’s unfeeling gaze rotated at high speed like a whirlpool, sucking in Cheng Tai’s mind as it spun. The sword broke through the thick layer of miasma and sliced it into two. His left hand was already waiting for this moment and made a grab for Cheng Tai’s head to pull his soul out before the older man realized what was happening to him. He swallowed it immediately and fed it to his spirit that was recuperating from its injuries.

The fight between the two had only lasted a moment. They felt a little dizzy as they watched how Gu Suihan had slaughtered a man whom everyone had been very wary of all this time. Furthermore, Gu Suihan hadn’t even given his senior the chance to reincarnate or move to another body to restart his cultivation journey again, since Gu Suihan had ripped Cheng Tai’s soul out from his body and fed it to his own.

Gu Suihan was like a demon from an age gone by. All of them paled in fright.

The look of pleasure that was still on Gu Suihan’s face after he had consumed that soul sent shivers down their spine. They instinctively took several steps back to keep their distance from Gu Suihan.

“Why did you even try?” snorted Gu Suihan after he spat at the dried-up remains of Cheng Tai on the ground. After his sword had absorbed every last bit of life from the body, he put it back in its sheath, gave Li Xiaoyao a glance, then walked away.

Li Xiaoyao was no fool. His expression remained unchanged but the veins on the back of his palm were bulging. Gu Suihan’s message was clear. If Li Xiaoyao and his companions wanted to take revenge for the Youthful Clarity Sect disciples that Gu Suihan had killed, then they had to be prepared for Gu Suihan to fight back in the most unscrupulous way possible.

He wasn’t afraid of Gu Suihan, but his junior brothers and sisters weren’t the same. There was no way his juniors could compare to the scheming old fox that Gu Suihan was. As their top senior, he was responsible for protecting the lives of the future generation of the sect and was accountable to his elders.

“I have to kill you when we get to the place where the legacy is,” hissed Li Xiaoyao to himself with a resolute expression on his face. More than three inches of sword qi shot out from his eyes, showing how unwavering his heart was.

“Stop pretending. You’re already awake.” Gu Suihan lay on the green grass and glanced at the little snake that looked like just another twig on the ground.

His lips curled into a disdainful smile. This fellow was actually hoping to make a sneak attack on him. Did this snake think that he was one of those good-for-nothing cultivators?

His fingers shot out as swiftly as lightning, gripping the Gold Striped Black Killer Snake by the tail accurately and smashing it against Questioning Heaven, which was stabbed into the ground next to him.

“Ssss!” The little snake struggled futilely as it glared at Gu Suihan with its triangular eyes. It refused to give up and tried to lunge for Gu Suihan.

“If that’s the case, then it’s better that you die.” Gu Suihan frowned and shot a beam of sword qi out from his eyes toward the tongue flickering snake without any mercy.

“SSS!” The snake suddenly went berserk and actually turned around to try biting its own tail off just to get away from Gu Suihan alive. Unfortunately, Gu Suihan’s sword qi moved as quickly as lightning. His sword qi pierced through the snake before it could do anything and pinned it to the ground.

“Sss…” The snake finally gave up resisting and its blue eyes looked pleadingly at Gu Suihan.

“Looks like you’re not stupid beyond hope after all,” said Gu Suihan with a scoff. He cut his finger so that he could imprint a drop of blood on the forehead of the snake even as it looked resignedly at him. The blood formed a strange-looking symbol.

Now that the seal had been made, Gu Suihan casually flung a few pills at the snake and left it alone, then closed his eyes to cultivate.

The little snake wriggled its severely injured body and barely managed to get to where the pills were. It swallowed them, then coiled itself around Gu Suihan’s sword to slowly recuperate.

The attack that Li Xiaoyao had made contained an incredibly sharp sword qi that had nearly minced the snake. On top of that, there was still some leftover sword qi circulating in a frenzy within the snake’s body, which was preventing the snake from healing properly. Gu Suihan’s stare had actually forced the remaining sword qi out of its body so that it could recover as quickly as possible.

Of course, this was a very dangerous method. If he hadn’t done that properly or the snake did not manage to pull through, it would have died just like that. Then again, Gu Suihan didn’t really care. He kept it only because it was useful to him, but not vital.

A short while later, Gu Suihan had recovered his spiritual energy, so he pulled Questioning Heaven out of the ground and hung it on his belt. He glanced at the little snake coiled around its hilt but wasn’t bothered by it. He flipped his cloak back and flew into the sky. He was going to head for the place where the legacy supposedly was. A gigantic pillar of light had appeared there suddenly just now.

Gu Suihan suddenly had a rather uncanny feeling, as though there was someone familiar over there. This puzzled him and he decided to go over and check it out as quickly as possible.

He had a premonition that this person would surprise him.