173: Lost in the depths of Yaochi

Little Gold transformed into a golden light and traveled day and night, taking a full seven days to enter the Eastern Continent's territory.

During this time, they encountered people fighting.

However, Little Gold was exceptionally sensitive to dangerous auras, able to detect them from a hundred miles away, and would turn and leave with Gu Liangyuan, preemptively avoiding several dangers.

Within these seven days, Gu Liangyuan first spent a day barely recovering some Spiritual Qi, then used the Myriad Miles Sound Transmission technique to report his safety to Qianqiu and the others.

Afterward, he sat cross-legged on Little Gold's back, mending his Meridians while traveling.

In previous battles, Gu Liangyuan had almost never been injured.

The injuries Gu Liangyuan sustained in this battle were, arguably, the most severe since he had his Awakening of memories.

It took a full seven days, with the aid of True Dragon Blood, for his depleted Qi and blood energy to barely recover.

The few scars on his body also began to gradually heal after his Qi and blood energy recovered.

However, even with the aid of a Supreme Cultivation Technique like the Supreme Forgetfulness Scripture, only a small portion of Gu Liangyuan's Meridians had been repaired, barely allowing him to store some Spiritual Qi.

It was only enough to activate some Magic Treasures, but he couldn't use various Divine Abilities.

He would need half a month of quiet recuperation to fully recover.

During these seven days, Gu Liangyuan also paid attention to gathering information about the Ancient Ink Dynasty's movements.

When he learned that Mo Emperor was in seclusion, the weight on his mind lifted.

Although he was puzzled as to why Mo Emperor seemed so calm after he broke through four gates consecutively.

But at least he gained one piece of information: Mo Emperor would not act against the Supreme Sacred Ground.

As for whether there was any conspiracy involved, Gu Liangyuan didn't know.

Facing the unknown, the only thing he could do was to try his best to improve his strength, so that he could be prepared for any eventuality.

Furthermore, the Innate Divine Eyes in the center of his brows also seemed somewhat depleted after using that strike.

But it would recover on its own; as long as Gu Liangyuan allowed it to manifest, the golden eyes would continuously absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, self-repairing.

Gu Liangyuan was increasingly satisfied with this; it truly lived up to being something bestowed by the Heavenly Dao.

At the same time, Gu Liangyuan summarized this battle:

Practice makes perfect; before this battle, Gu Liangyuan believed he had no weaknesses.

Whether it was speed, physique, Cultivation, Primordial Spirit, or various other aspects, he was almost an all-rounder.

Although his life-saving methods were not yet sufficient, they could already handle most situations.

But recalling it now, he still had too many shortcomings.

After returning, he would do five things:

Firstly: Find someone to build a teleportation array, like Zhuge Yu's, that could be used with a teleportation jade.

Secondly: Resolve the issue of his Comprehension Ability being forcibly triggered.

Thirdly: Take disciples and improve their Cultivation.

Fourthly: Cultivate a Cultivation Technique for cultivating the mind, to try and prevent himself from completely falling into a state of slaughter when using Mo Tan Kill next time.

Fifthly: Improve his Cultivation and influence.

In fact, the third and fifth points could be combined into one; after this battle, Gu Liangyuan realized the inadequacy of his strength.

If he hadn't had the Mahayana experience card and the Pseudo-Immortal Strike, relying solely on his own strength, even if he called upon everyone from Forget-Love Peak, it would have been impossible to kill Zhuge Yu.

Therefore, improving his Cultivation was urgent.

After the summary, Gu Liangyuan extended his Divine Sense into the mustard seed bracelet and began to inventory the gains from this battle.

The first thing that caught his eye was a shimmering five-colored small banner.

This banner was precisely the Five Thief Banner!

When he was engaged in slaughter outside the pass earlier, the Five Thief Qi surged and was completely absorbed by this Five Thief Banner.

The Five Thief power obtained this time was far, far more than what he usually collected.

At this moment, the Five Thief Banner had reached the limit of a Medium Grade Spirit Treasure.

Collecting a bit more would allow it to successfully enter the ranks of High Grade Spirit Treasures.

His Divine Sense swept past the Five Thief Banner, through the Dao-enlightenment treasures, and finally landed on three piles of treasures of varying sizes.

These three piles of treasures were Gu Liangyuan's gains from looting during this battle!

The largest pile of treasures contained Magical Artifacts below the Spirit Treasure level.

Gu Liangyuan's Divine Thought moved, and the pile of treasures split into two.

The flashy but impractical ones he kept as food for Wan Wan.

The rest he planned to put into the Forget-Love Peak treasury.

After doing this, he looked at the middle pile of treasures, about one zhang high.

This pile contained various spiritual items, Artifact Refining Materials, herbs, and the like.

Although most were Materials below the fifth-tier, they made up for it in quantity and variety.

Then there was the last, smaller pile of treasures, less than half a meter high.

To call it a 'pile of treasures' was perhaps less accurate than 'small heap'.

Seeing this pile of Spirit Treasures, a clear look of pain flashed in Gu Liangyuan's eyes.

Among these Spirit Treasures, there were over thirty low-grade spirit treasures and two Medium Grade Spirit Treasures, as well as some strange Magic Treasures.

However, most of these Spirit Treasures were damaged, with only two Medium Grade Spirit Treasures, seven low-grade spirit treasures, and one ancient treasure intact.

The reason these Spirit Treasures were damaged was, naturally, due to being struck by the Nine Kill Sword and Mo Tan Kill.

Gu Liangyuan set aside the Spirit Treasure fragments, keeping them as food for Wan Wan.

As for the seven low-grade spirit treasures, Gu Liangyuan, with his current perspective, didn't think much of them, only considering keeping them for the Elders or perhaps bestowing them upon disciples at some point.

Gu Liangyuan's main focus was still on the two Medium Grade Spirit Treasures and the ancient treasure.

A gourd, a golden saber, and a small bell.

The golden saber was unremarkable, a killing Spirit Treasure.

The small bell was quite good, its size changeable at will, small as a bell and large as a chime; when shaken, it emitted an invisible sound wave, specifically targeting the Divine Soul, similar to Mo Chen's bell.

However, for Gu Liangyuan, who possessed the Humming Incantation, it was somewhat redundant.

As for the gourd, it was a Magic Treasure for capturing people.

Gu Liangyuan had a somewhat deep impression of this gourd; its owner at the time had tried to hide inside the gourd to save his life.

The facts proved that Gu Liangyuan indeed failed to shatter it.

But he firmly blocked the mouth of the gourd, causing that person to suffocate to death inside.

Gu Liangyuan could only say that cleverness backfired.

These three Spirit Treasures, for Gu Liangyuan at this moment, could only be considered better than nothing.

This was not to say that these Spirit Treasures were bad, but rather that Gu Liangyuan's perspective was too high due to the System's rewards.

Even within the Holy Land, only a minority of Body Integration stage cultivators could use Medium Grade Spirit Treasures.

For example, Sun Elder, who had just entered the Mahayana stage and had been in the Supreme Sacred Ground for so many years, only had two Medium Grade Spirit Treasures and one High Grade Spirit Treasure that he kept as a trump card.

Gu Liangyuan killed so many Mahayana cultivators in this battle, yet he didn't see a single High Grade Spirit Treasure.

Of course, General Xuanpeng certainly had one, but unfortunately, it turned to ash under the golden light and spatial storm.

As for top-grade Spirit Treasures, they were often exclusive to Undergoing Tribulation grand cultivators; even Thunder Calamity Realm cultivators might find them difficult to acquire, while experts of the fire and wind calamities were more likely to possess them.

Of course, those with abundant wealth were exceptions.

Just as Gu Liangyuan finished inventorying, he suddenly felt the Dragon Pao beneath him stop.

Gu Liangyuan shifted his Divine Sense from the mustard seed bracelet and looked up.

What greeted his eyes was a dense forest.

Not far away, steam was rising, and faintly, the sounds of girls giggling could be heard:

"Good sister, let me touch it quickly."

"Ah! You're going to kill me, don't you have your own?"

"Mine isn't as fragrant as sister's."

"Go away, go away... Ah... it tickles."

"Good sister, please spare me this once."

"No sparing, no sparing, call me husband."

Bursts of bell-like laughter came, radiating youthful vitality.

Looking at Little Gold again, a hint of human-like confusion flashed in its two pitch-black large eyes.

Did I take the wrong path?