49: Chapter 49: News spread, and people rushed to become vassals.

Before the news even reached the gates of the Gu Family, Clan Leader Gu Tianhua was holding the heart-questioning mirror, preparing to begin the test!

"Everyone, line up and come one by one, do not crowd! The heart-questioning mirror will test your sincerity. If you can endure it, you will have the qualifications to become a Gu Family vassal! If you cannot, go back and Cultivate for a few years before returning!"

As soon as his voice fell, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd!

Some people hurriedly packed their things, while others turned and left immediately!

"Go, go, go! The beast tide is coming, three Yao Beasts of the Eternal Realm! If we don't leave now, it will be too late!"

"Back then, the Northern Region couldn't stop six Eternal Realm ones, so what can the Eastern Region use to stop them? No matter how strong the Gu Family is, they can't withstand this!"

"Hurry and leave, go to the Central Province, only the Central Province is safe!"

A Sect Master of a second-rate Sect hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands toward Clan Leader Gu Tianhua: "Clan Leader Gu, it is not that we lack sincerity, it is truly because of the beast tide! Once the beast tide recedes, we will definitely return!"

After saying this, he took his people and turned to run!

In less than half an incense stick of time, more than half of the people outside the mountain gate had left!

Less than thirty percent remained!

The Qingyun Holy Land did not leave; Sacred Master Huo Dongyuan stood at the very front, motionless!

Yi Gang did not leave; Shen Qinghe brought his seventeen leaders and sat steadily.

There were also a few small Families and the Loose Cultivator Alliance; although their legs were shaking, they did not move!

Someone couldn't help but ask Sacred Master Huo Dongyuan: "Sacred Master Huo, are you not leaving?"

Sacred Master Huo Dongyuan glanced at the person and said indifferently: "Leave? Where to? The Central Province? No matter how good the Central Province is, it is not home!"

"But there are three Eternal Realm Yao Beasts!"

"The Gu Family isn't panicking, so why should we?" Sacred Master Huo Dongyuan interrupted him.

"Do you see any sign of the Gu Family running? The test is proceeding as usual, they are eating and drinking as they should; perhaps they don't even take the Yao Beasts seriously!"

He had seen the strength of the Gu Family; ginseng fruits and enlightenment tea were readily available, and ten-thousand-year Medicinal Pills were eaten like candy!

They even had quasi-Emperor Cultivation Techniques!

What did this mean?

It meant that the Gu Family was at least an Emperor Clan!

For a few great Yao of the Eternal Realm, wouldn't that be a piece of cake?

Heh! What a bunch of bumpkins who have never seen the world!

The person was stunned for a moment and looked inside the mountain gate.

Inside the Gu Family, it was completely calm! No panic, no evacuation, and no one was even discussing the beast tide!

"What kind of trump card does the Gu Family actually have?" the person muttered.

Sacred Master Huo Dongyuan did not answer.

He didn't know, but he knew one thing: the Gu Family never played a card they weren't sure of!

Just as the people outside the mountain gate were in a panic and more than half had left, a streak of light flew in from the horizon!

A transmission talisman, from Jianwang City!

The Cultivator who received the transmission talisman took one look, froze, and the talisman in his hand fell to the ground, completely unaware!

"What happened? Was Jianwang City breached? Is this what fate had intended?!"

"Sigh! It is time! It is fate! Fate is fickle! Everything is a disaster!"

"No! No! It wasn't breached! The beast tide has retreated!"

"What? Retreated? Who took action? The Wang Family? The Huo Family? Or did an Emperor Clan take action?"

"It was the Gu Family!!"

"The Gu Family?! Who did the Gu Family send?!"

The Cultivator raised his head, the expression on his face like he had seen a ghost: "Two little girls! Those two little girls who were riding a white tiger outside the mountain gate a few days ago!"

The whole place was deathly silent!

"Say that again? Two little girls?"

"The letter says that those two little girls made the Demon Ape kneel, the Flood Dragon lie prone, and the Underworld Wolf bark like a dog! The three Eternal Realm Yao Beasts are now following behind the two little girls, carrying flags, scouting the path, and barking like dogs!"

No one spoke! Everyone was digesting this news!

What does it mean for three Eternal Realm Yao Beasts to carry flags, scout paths, and bark like dogs?!

And! The Gu Family only sent two little girls? Do they look down on Eternal Realm Yao Beasts that much?

"F*ck me!" A Cultivator who had just run away was standing in the distance, not yet far, and upon hearing this news, he was dumbfounded.

"Why did I run just now?!"

The Elder beside him looked worse than if he had eaten excrement: "You ask me? You were the one who led the way!"

The forces that had run away were in a dilemma: Go back? They had already lost all face! Not go back? The Gu Family could casually resolve a beast tide; wouldn't following the Gu Family be better than going to the Central Province to be a grandson?

Outside the mountain gate, those who remained were boiling with excitement! In a short while, everyone knew about this news!

"The Five Great Families! Pfft! They usually act like kings and tyrants, but the moment there is trouble, they run faster than anyone else!!"

"The Gu Family is still the most reliable; they solved the beast tide as soon as they took action!"

"They said those two little girls claimed they were just here to watch the fun! Not to save anyone!"

"Watch the fun? Watching the fun and incidentally saving a city? That is too humblebrag, isn't it?"

"What does humblebrag mean?"

"It's, sigh! Forget it, you wouldn't understand!"

"The Sword expert used by the Gu Family is even more terrifying! They condensed a wisp of Sword Intent that has guarded the Jianwang Great Wall for one hundred thousand years!"

"A wisp of Sword Intent, guarding for one hundred thousand years?! That is too outrageous!"

As for those forces that had run away and then returned, they now slunk back outside the mountain gate and lined up at the very back of the queue!

The gazes cast by the surrounding Cultivators were like knives, but they dared not make a sound! The path they chose, they had to finish even if they had to crawl!

Clan Leader Gu Tianhua stood before the mountain gate, his expression unchanged, as if he had known this would happen all along!

He cleared his throat and said: "These Yao Beasts, our Old Ancestor didn't even take them seriously!"

Outside the mountain gate, it exploded again.

"Didn't take them seriously? Those are Eternal Realm Yao Beasts!"

"Do you not understand? The Gu Family simply does not put the Eternal Realm in their eyes! This shows that the Gu Family has confidence! And strength!"

"No matter what it is, in short, following the Gu Family is definitely the right choice!"

"I want to take the test! My Sect wants to become a vassal!"

"I want to too! Don't crowd! I was here first! My Family also wants to become a vassal!"

Outside the mountain gate, it was bustling with people, even more than before the beast tide came!

Those forces that had run away came back, and they brought even more people!

Everyone was shouting the same sentence: "I want to become a Gu Family vassal!"

Clan Leader Gu Tianhua raised the heart-questioning mirror, his voice spreading throughout the entire area: "Line up! Come one by one!"

The heart-questioning mirror hung in mid-air, and the mirror surface lit up with a faint light!

The first one to enter the illusion was that second-rate Sect Master who had led the run.

He hadn't been in for three breaths when the heart-questioning mirror flashed, and a figure flew out from inside, landing on the ground in a sorry state!

The mirror surface clearly displayed what he had just done in the illusion: he saw the Gu Family's mountain gate in ruins, and Disciples dead or injured! His first thought was not to rescue, but to turn and run, and before running, he even stole a few Cultivation Techniques from the Gu Family's Cultivation Hall!

The surrounding Cultivators saw it clearly!

"Tsk tsk tsk! Running is one thing! But stealing things too!"

"With this kind of character, he still wants to be a Gu Family vassal? Is he dreaming?"

The Sect Master was blushing, climbed up, and ran, not even daring to turn his head.

Those people sneered at them; they hadn't expected that such people actually existed—truly ridiculous clowns! Pathetic! Lamentable!

Such people becoming vassals would simply be parasites!