#213 - Where in the world is there a 24-year-old soul?
#213 - Where in the world is there a 24-year-old soul?
Watching the direction in which Chu Meng left, Gu An remained silent.
He silently glanced at his status.
At some point, a 'Charmed' status had appeared.
Gu An was silent once more.
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When was I affected?
Shaking his head and sighing, he stopped dwelling on it.
The subsequent events needed his attention more.
Lu Ruan would come looking for him out of curiosity.
And he had been that woman's hidden pawn from the start.
Although he only had Qi Refining cultivation at the time.
But now, he appeared to be in the early stage of the Golden Core realm.
Advancing from Qi Refining to Golden Core in just three years was impossible.
Therefore, her guess was still that he was hiding his cultivation.
Just like Duan Muqing had inquired.
And Lu Ruan knew whose person he was, so the more he hid his cultivation, the more mysterious she would find him.
Thus, she wouldn't dare to inquire recklessly.
Nor would she do much.
Unless she didn't want to work under that woman.
"Acting mysterious?"
Gu An pondered for a moment, without much clear thought.
He could only deal with it when the time came.
As for Chu Meng being twenty-four years old?
Gu An didn't believe it.
Surpassing the Golden Core realm at twenty-four?
Even a monstrous talent couldn't be that fast.
Either she was lying about her age, or like him, she had something she couldn't let people see.
It wasn't impossible, but it was a bit shocking.
His own 'thing' was too shocking.
So he didn't dare let people know.
He only dared to cover it up with his age.
After all, a person who looked forty or fifty years old, being a hidden Golden Core cultivator, wasn't a big deal.
Looking old was real, but the specific age could be faked.
Therefore, revealing his Golden Core realm didn't pose much danger.
Even revealing his Nascent Soul realm might not attract too much attention.
But his current situation was not good, so he had to hide his cultivation.
The more he hid, the safer he was.
If he made enemies with the Golden Core disciples, the most they could mobilize would be Golden Core Completion cultivators.
Once he formed his Nascent Soul.
He would be much safer.
But he still couldn't let people know his true realm.
The Aura Concealment technique needed to be further improved.
Even if a strong person probed him, he wouldn't be discovered.
Pausing, Gu An came to the side of the Divine Tree.
"Big Brother, were you looking for me?"
The Blood Demon Divine Lord asked.
Gu An was slightly surprised that he was still awake.
Then he asked, "In this world, is there anyone whose talent is so strong that they can form a Nascent Soul at the age of twenty-four?"
"Yes," the Blood Demon Divine Lord nodded.
Gu An was slightly surprised: "What kind of person?"
"A divine beast with ancient bloodline, and a human with flawless talent," the Blood Demon Divine Lord said.
"Flawless talent? What kind of talent is that?" Gu An asked.
"I don't know. Legend has it that this physique and talent exist, but no one has ever seen it, and no one knows how such a physique can be achieved.
But what's certain is that forming a Nascent Soul at twenty-four is definitely not difficult," the Blood Demon Divine Lord replied.
'Then, in known history, has anyone formed a Nascent Soul at twenty-four?' Gu An asked again.
"No," the Blood Demon Divine Lord said firmly.
Gu An was silent.
After a long time, he shook his head and stopped thinking about it.
"In a few days, I'll take you to another place." Seeing that the sky was already bright, Gu An instructed.
Then he flew back to Outer Peak on his sword.
From now on, he would be separated from Thousand Dust Peak and become a member of Sky Suspension Peak.
In order to gain a foothold there, he had to learn the Three Styles of Pingqiu to some extent.
In addition, he had to try using Chasing Sun.
This was Zuo Youyan's saber, but Zuo Youyan had never refined it.
He said he couldn't refine it, but he could try when he had time.
As for now, he naturally had to take care of the affairs of Outer Peak first.
Someone from the Main Courtyard should be looking for him regarding the mission information.
Without the information, the Second Team would have difficulty continuing the mission.
But the Main Courtyard wanted the Second Team to figure it out themselves, and now they even wanted to personally tell him, the team leader, about the Main Courtyard's irresponsibility.
It was somewhat bullying.
If he gave in on this matter, it would be difficult for the Second Team to raise their heads under his name in the future.
And the hearts of the people would be scattered.
A team would be difficult to lead if the hearts of the people were scattered.
"Being a team leader is indeed not easy."
On the way flying on his sword, Gu An shook his head and sighed.
He needed to handle tasks, go on missions, and the time for logging was severely reduced.
But it seemed to be because of yesterday's matter, where he broke his appointment, and he hoped it wouldn't bring more trouble.
Outer Peak.
After dawn, the people from the Main Courtyard came to the backyard at the first possible moment.
Pang Wen received them.
The person who came was a man who looked twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old.
He brought two young people with him.
"Where is your team leader?" Liao Zheng, the leader, asked.
"The team leader may have returned to the Inner Sect," Pang Wen said respectfully. "Our team leader waited all day yesterday, but Senior Brother didn't arrive."
"Yesterday?" Liao Zheng pretended not to know: "Didn't I make an appointment for today? When did it become yesterday?"
Pang Wen lowered his head, not knowing how to respond.
He suffered a loss.
Because the team leader wasn't there yesterday either.
Therefore, the other party originally wanted to show off, but he didn't expect that the team leader had noticed it early on.
He just didn't expect that the other party would come so early today.
"It seems that your team leader hasn't been in office for long, but his official airs are quite big.
He doesn't take the tasks of our Main Courtyard to heart," Liao Zheng smiled and looked at Pang Wen.
"The acting team leader is like this, what would it be like if he became the official team leader?
Today, your team leader, whether he's real or temporary, is probably going to have to write a report.
The tasks have been issued for some time, but you haven't made any progress.
Is it passive resistance, or is it a lack of ability?" Liao Zheng questioned.
Pang Wen frowned, wanting to explain.
But suddenly he saw someone flying on a sword in the sky.
It was Gu An.
"Team leader?" He looked up at the high place.
Liao Zheng and the others also turned their heads to look.
When they looked at Gu An, they had a hint of disdain in their hearts.
It wasn't that they looked down on the person in front of them, but that the person in front of them had offended someone.
They naturally had to come.
They were acting on orders.
They ate from whichever family's bowl and did that family's bidding.
Today, this team leader, whether he was real or temporary.
Had to bow his head in the Main Courtyard.
And have his edges smoothed out.
When Gu An landed, he never expected that the people from the Main Courtyard would come so early.
Perhaps it was because he wasn't there yesterday.
As soon as he came down, he apologized: "I've kept Senior Brother waiting for a long time."
"You know you've kept me waiting?" Liao Zheng sneered:
"Those who know understand that Junior Brother is the temporary team leader of the Second Team, those who don't know would think he's the team leader of the Main Courtyard."
"It's my fault," Gu An apologized again: "Is Senior Brother here to talk about the information?"
"It's not just about the information. Now that your Second Team has received the task for a long time, you haven't made any progress.
You only know how to shirk responsibility.
I think the Second Team has too many resources. Are you unable to do anything because you're carrying too much weight?" Liao Zheng questioned.
Gu An looked at the person in front of him, feeling that the other party was quite impolite.
Logically speaking, a team leader wasn't much.
But now he was the Peak Lord's disciple.
Although it was only for a certain reason, he had some status and position to the outside world.
This Senior Brother really didn't give him any face.
Didn't Chu Meng say that Sky Suspension Peak had the strongest overall combat power?
Looking at his attitude, it didn't seem like it.
"Senior Brother, what are you saying?" Gu An looked at the person in front of him, maintaining a humble attitude:
"Tasks emphasize cause and procedure.
Previously, the Main Courtyard lost all the causes and procedures, but now you want us to figure it out ourselves.
It's really a bit difficult."
"Difficult to handle?" Liao Zheng shook his head with a smile: "Difficult to handle? Then write a report saying it can't be done.
No one is forcing you.
Since you don't have the ability, then send a transfer order to a place where the ability is sufficient to work.
For example, go to the logging forest to log properly.
Isn't that good?
What kind of ability is needed?
Anyone can do it."
Gu An was a little surprised, a transfer order could send someone to logging?
He had never known about this kind of thing.
If it really could, then a transfer order could really allow him to leave here.
Of course, it shouldn't be that easy.
He was forced to come here, and it won't be easy to leave.
"Senior Brother, doing things in the main courtyard also requires procedures, you can't create something out of nothing. Since the information is gone, then other support is needed.
This way, the task can be completed better," Gu An said seriously.
Liao Zheng chuckled and questioned: "So, without support, your Second Team can't handle it?
What a joke, other sects can handle it even without information, why can't you?
Do you need to be special?"
Gu An lowered his eyebrows, he didn't know if the other party was deliberately saying this or really thought so.
But from the other party's tone, he could tell that they didn't plan to properly solve the task.
"Senior Brother, what do you think we should do?" Gu An didn't want to continue talking.
Even the most aggressive fellow disciples will eventually see things differently.
"Of course..." Just as Liao Zheng was about to speak, a disciple suddenly rushed over from a distance.
He glanced at Gu An in a panic, then came to Liao Zheng's side: "Senior Brother, there is something I need to tell you."
Liao Zheng frowned and said: "Is it so important that you won't even let me say a word?"
"Senior Brother, you must listen to me," the person said seriously and nervously.
Liao Zheng frowned.
In the end, he nodded.
Then the person came to Liao Zheng's side and said something in his ear.
Hearing the content, Liao Zheng's pupils shrank.
He looked at Gu An in disbelief.
Then he looked at the person again and said: "Really?"
"Absolutely true," the person nodded heavily.
For a moment, Liao Zheng almost didn't stand firm.
He looked at Gu An, took a deep breath and said: "Senior Brother Gu, where were we just now?"
Senior Brother Gu?
Gu An was surprised.
Wasn't the other party calling him Junior Brother just now?
"We were talking about what Senior Brother plans for us to do?" Gu An said calmly.
"What to do?" Liao Zheng said with a smile: "Naturally, I have to criticize Senior Brother.
Since the information was lost by our main courtyard, then our main courtyard naturally needs to be responsible.
I was just testing Senior Brother just now.
Senior Brother, you must not give way to Junior Brother in the future.
This will disrupt the rules and make it difficult for Junior Brother to do things.
Junior Brother will help you solve the information matter today, and also for causing trouble for Senior Brother.
It was our fault."
Pang Wen on the side was completely dumbfounded.
Gu An was thoughtful.
He didn't say anything.
"Since that's the case, we won't disturb you," Liao Zheng said, leading the people away quickly.
The two disciples who came with him were a little dazed.
They began to ask what was going on on the way.
Gu An saw Liao Zheng shaking his head without explaining, and instead left quickly.
"Team Leader, what's going on?" Pang Wen asked curiously.
Gu An looked at the other party and shook his head slightly: "Perhaps he had a change of heart.
The Senior Brothers from the main courtyard are not bad either."
Pang Wen: ...
They couldn't be called bad before, but now they are being targeted everywhere.
They knew it was because of Gu An, many people in the inner sect didn't like the Team Leader.
It seemed to affect the interests of many people.
Now that he has become the Team Leader, he will naturally be suppressed.
The members of their Second Team couldn't express their suffering.
They could only try their best to withstand the pressure.
It's just that today was really abnormal.
"Since this matter has been resolved, then we can continue the mission, go and get busy," Gu An said.
Pang Wen nodded: "Yes."
Thus, Gu An went to the woods in the backyard to log.
Pang Wen couldn't understand why the Team Leader was so focused on logging.
Afterwards, he went to find his junior brothers and sisters to start working on the mission.
However, today something was spreading at a terrifying speed in Peak Beyond Peak.
Another Peak Lord has accepted a disciple, and it's someone from Peak Beyond Peak.
When Pang Wen heard it, he couldn't believe it.
Peak Beyond Peak?
Who is it?
He spent a spirit stone to get the name from the front courtyard.
Backyard, Second Team Leader, Gu An.
The moment he got the name, Pang Wen was stunned in place.
He never thought that this person was actually his Team Leader.
He had even made things difficult for him before.
"No wonder, no wonder the Senior Brother from the main courtyard was so abnormal."
He finally understood what was going on this morning.
It was only because the other party knew the Team Leader's identity.
Peak Lord's disciple.
Although he is still an inner sect disciple, he is higher than ordinary inner sect disciples by who knows how much.
That is a group of people who live on the mountain.
Elder Huang's courtyard.
At this time, his face was full of gloom.
"To be accepted by the Peak Lord, and it's Heavenly Suspension Peak, how could such a change occur?" He was a little unbelievable.
What virtues and abilities does the other party have?
So old, Heaven knows when he achieved Golden Core.
Moreover, who can determine his true age?
Such a Golden Core, why was he accepted by the Peak Lord?
Is it because he is old?
"Elder, what should we do now?" A young man on the side asked.
"Let's slow down first, we can't blatantly target him anymore, we need to take a look first.
The other party doesn't have any abilities, as long as the name of being a waste spreads on the mountain, there is no need to worry too much, even the people on the mountain hope that the other party can be dealt with.
After all, keeping him is also a disgrace to the Peak Lord," Elder Huang said with a smile:
"In addition, other sects taking action has nothing to do with us.
Since he is the Peak Lord's disciple, he is still continuing to serve here.
It seems that he loves this place.
Without challenging tasks, how can this junior brother be interested, isn't that so?
Let's praise him first, when his reputation comes up, everyone will think he can do it, even if he thinks he can't do it,
How can he refuse difficult tasks?"
Gu An didn't care about the storm in Peak Beyond Peak.
Instead, he continued to log.
In a few more days, it should be almost done.
He can continue to temper the Qi Sea Heavenly Gang.
However, in the next few days, the people in the Second Team looked at him differently, respectfully, admiringly, enviously.
And the others looked at him, although they were also respectful, they carried some dissatisfaction, jealousy, and unwillingness.
Although he is the Peak Lord's disciple, he cannot convince the crowd.
Some people are even secretly criticizing him.
Saying what does he rely on?
He is old and weak, and his talent doesn't seem high no matter how you look at it.
He only knows how to log.
Where is such a person of first-class character?
Everyone thinks they are stronger than him.
However, these people only dare to say it in secret, no one dares to say these things in front of him.
Unless their cultivation is high enough.
Mid-February.
Gu An saw that his spells were full.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't care about those discussions.
This time the upgrade will be the eighth level.
After the ninth level, he can try to advance to the Primordial Spirit.
When the time comes, he will go to see Zuo Youyan's three benefactors,
And unravel the Chasing Sun.
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