198: Mysterious Gourd, Zhuge Family's Response

Gu Liangyuan flicked his sleeve, and several Spirit Treasures and Medicinal Pills floated before his disciples.

"When you descend the mountain, your cultivation cannot be neglected."

"These Medicinal Pills, Spirit Treasures, and Divine Abilities are enough to sustain you until the Soul Transformation Realm."

"Among them are also some trump cards Master has prepared for you; each of you take what you need and go down the mountain."

"Thank you, Revered Master."

The disciples bowed again, each took their spiritual items, and departed.

In the vast Forget-Love Hall, only Gu Liangyuan remained.

"Ding, the host bestowed a Low Grade Immortal Artifact Immortal Bell, triggering a three hundred-fold return. Return reward: Medium Grade Immortal Artifact Soul-Seizing Bell."

"Ding, the host bestowed a Low Grade Spirit Treasure, triggering a two hundred-fold return. Return reward: Golden Rooster Mountain of the Underworld Map."

"Ding, the host bestowed a Low Grade Spirit Treasure, triggering a three thousand-fold return. Return reward: High Grade Spirit Treasure mysterious mechanism gourd."

"Ding, the host bestowed a Low Grade Spirit Treasure, triggering..."

A continuous stream of System prompts echoed in Gu Liangyuan's mind, but the returned rewards were no longer what Gu Liangyuan valued.

Gu Liangyuan collected the Underworld Map, then flipped his hand, and a small bronze bell and a gourd appeared in his palm.

Gu Liangyuan had returned Jun Ao Zhi's Immortal Bell to him, which then yielded this Soul-Seizing Bell.

Originally, Gu Liangyuan had kept the Immortal Bell for a ten thousand-fold critical strike card, but with the continuous returns, Gu Liangyuan was no longer lacking in Spirit Treasures, or even Immortal Artifacts, so he bestowed the Immortal Bell upon Jun Ao Zhi again.

With this, he fleeced the System for a wave of wool.

Name: Soul-Seizing Bell

Rank: Medium Grade Immortal Artifact

Effect: As long as this bell rings, an Immortal's Divine Soul will be severely wounded. Below the Immortal Rank, death is certain!

(Note: At least Thunder Calamity Realm magical power is required to barely ring this bell.)

Looking at the last line of the description, Gu Liangyuan pouted, but still put it away.

Another trump card added.

Although he couldn't ring the bell with his own strength, a Pseudo-Immortal Strike could.

After putting away the Soul-Seizing Bell, Gu Liangyuan looked at the ancient, purple-gold gourd.

Name: mysterious mechanism gourd

Rank: High Grade Spirit Treasure

Effect: Contains six functions: Devour, Wind-Thunder Qi, Sword in the Gourd, Illusion, Self-Destruct Space Teleportation. It is a Divine Artifact for the mischievous!

Hearing the System say this, Gu Liangyuan's curiosity was piqued.

Under the activation of magical power, the gourd trembled.

Seeing this, Gu Liangyuan took a step and arrived at the back mountain of Forget-Love Peak.

Gently pulling open the gourd's mouth, the gourd immediately floated in the air, emitting a suction force that uprooted a thousand-year-old ancient tree in front of it and sucked it into the gourd.

Moreover, the suction force was continuous, intending to devour all things within it.

At this moment, the gourd lid in Gu Liangyuan's hand trembled slightly, and the next moment, it transformed into a small sword.

This sword was small, with the gourd lid as its hilt, and was entirely crimson.

Gu Liangyuan was thoughtful; with a shift of his mind, the gourd immediately stopped devouring, and instead spat out Wind-Thunder Qi from its mouth.

After spitting out the Wind-Thunder Qi, the gourd continued to spin non-stop.

Gu Liangyuan's mind shifted again, and the Flying Sword in his hand flew out.

With a flicker, it transformed into a sky full of sword shadows.

Gu Liangyuan felt that with a single thought, these sword shadows could explode, unleashing power no less than the self-destruction of a Medium Grade Spirit Treasure.

And after the sword shadows self-destructed, the gourd would spit out a space teleportation array, randomly teleporting him tens of thousands of miles away.

Spirit Treasures are different from Magical Artifacts; Magical Artifacts recognize their Revered Master simply by imprinting a Divine Soul mark.

However, for Spirit Treasures to recognize their Revered Master, they require continuous refinement with the Divine Soul.

It was just that the items returned by the System were all defaulted to recognizing Gu Liangyuan as their Revered Master, thus skipping this step.

If an ordinary Cultivator's Spirit Treasure was damaged, their Divine Soul would also be injured.

But this gourd had no such limitation whatsoever.

Even after the gourd lid self-destructed, he could collect Materials and refine another one.

Having thoroughly researched all the functions of this mysterious mechanism gourd, Gu Liangyuan thought of a scenario:

When fighting someone, he would suddenly bring out a gourd, emitting endless devouring power, intending to swallow the opponent.

When the opponent guarded against this devouring power, the gourd would suddenly spit out Wind-Thunder Qi in reverse, catching the opponent off guard.

When the opponent guarded against the gourd, they wouldn't know that he still held the Sword in the Gourd in his hand.

When the opponent thought that what he held was just a sword, little did they know that this sword was a bomb!

When the opponent thought it was a bomb, they would certainly not expect that it was actually the key to a teleportation array.

Gu Liangyuan felt that the person who created this gourd must be a Genius!

It deeply pleases me!

Some rejoice, some sorrow.

Gu Liangyuan was in a great mood because he obtained the mysterious mechanism gourd, but the people of the Zhuge Family were not so happy.

In the Ancient Mo Dynasty, within the Divine Capital, not far from the Gu Mo Imperial Palace, stood a magnificent mansion.

In front of the mansion, two Qilin stone sculptures were lifelike.

Walking straight from the main gate, across a path paved with Top-Grade Spirit Stones, one arrived at the main hall.

Inside the main hall, an elderly man dressed as a scholar, with white hair and beard, leaned on a Dragon-coiled staff, sitting at the head seat, his eyes gleaming fiercely.

Within a meter of his body, the Void Realm twisted and deformed, as if heaven and earth could not bear the old man's Aura.

Over thirty clan elders and young clan members stood in the great hall, all bowing their heads, not daring to breathe.

"Hmph!"

The old man snorted lightly, and the Dragon head staff in his hand gently tapped the ground, causing the entire Divine Capital's land to tremble thrice:

"I just went into seclusion for a few years, and you tell me, my eldest grandson just died like that!?"

As the old man's words left his mouth, heaven and earth suddenly changed color, dark clouds pressed down for three thousand miles!

His voice was like thunder, spreading throughout the four fields!

"Grandpa (Old Ancestor), please calm your anger."

The clan elders and young clan members in front of him immediately knelt down, speaking in unison.

"Calm my anger?"

"I, Zhuge Qingyun, only had this grandson when I was six thousand four hundred and eighty years old. You plotted his death, how can I calm my anger!"

The assembled clansmen remained silent.

At the same time, within the Gu Mo Imperial Palace.

In the Imperial Garden, the Mo Emperor, who was writing something, exerted a slight force, and the brush in his hand suddenly turned into powder.

He looked up at the celestial phenomena, listened to Zhuge Qingyun's undisguised words, and snorted coldly:

"He's not scolding the child; he's scolding me!"

Behind him, an old eunuch gnashed his teeth and spoke:

"Zhuge Qingyun is too much; he completely disregards Your Majesty!"

"But precisely because of this, it shows that the move Your Majesty made was correct."

"The power of the aristocratic families is too great."

Listening to the old eunuch's words, the Mo Emperor let out a light breath:

"I will endure this old scoundrel a bit longer, and let him lead the fight against the Tai Shang Sect."

The old eunuch spoke again with some worry:

"This Zhuge Qingyun has clearly seen through Your Majesty's scheme. What if he doesn't fall for it?"

The Mo Emperor's eyes flickered:

"If he doesn't fall for it, then I don't mind letting another one of his sons die."

"As long as both sides clash, with Gu Liangyuan's methods of exterminating clans at the drop of a hat, and Zhuge Qingyun's proud nature, the two will surely fight to the death."

After speaking, he looked in the direction of the Zhuge Family, muttering to himself:

"Zhuge Qingyun, don't disappoint me."