Translator: Anubis Translations
"Senior Sister Qi, where is your sect leader?"
Gu Feng stepped down from the Wind and Cloud Platform and walked straight toward the Jade Maiden Sect. He scanned the area but didn't see Chu Youhuan.
"She left!" Qi Tingting's tone was cold, and her expression was frosty, as if someone owed her a large sum of Spirit Stones and refused to pay. This left Gu Feng somewhat confused.
"This belongs to Senior Sister Chu. Please return it to her on my behalf and express my gratitude. If there's anything I can help with in the future, I won't refuse!" Gu Feng handed a metal plate engraved with a cultivation method to Qi Tingting with both hands, his face filled with gratitude.
If it weren't for Chu Youhuan's assistance, he might have still managed to survive the Thunder Tribulation, but it certainly wouldn't have been this easy.
The fact that he was able to open a Dantian ten times larger than an ordinary person's was not only due to his special physique but also the significant role played by this cultivation method, which was undoubtedly not of Mortal Grade.
"Is that so? Does that mean you won't charge any fees if we ask for your help in the future?" Qi Tingting snatched the metal plate without even looking at it and stuffed it into her Storage Pouch, her tone unfriendly.
"Hehe," Gu Feng scratched his head awkwardly, "I'll give you a discount. I'm really poor!"
"Scumbag! Let's go!" Upon hearing this, Qi Tingting spat lightly, turned around sharply, and left Gu Feng standing there, utterly bewildered.
"Scumbag? How did I become a scumbag?"
Gu Feng muttered to himself. This was the first time he had heard this term since arriving in this world. He figured it probably meant something like "trash."
"It can't be helped. I'm really poor. I can barely afford food. I'll just have to give you a bigger discount in the future!"
"Former Brother, you kept us in the dark for so long. Who would have thought you were the legendary Myriad Tribulations Physique!" Guo Renkai walked over with a smile. Before this, he had always been resentful about losing to Gu Feng and had been training day and night, hoping to defeat him one day.
But after today, he would never entertain such thoughts again—at least not until he broke through to the Postnatal Realm.
"I have the Myriad Tribulations Physique, a famously useless physique. Aren't you all embarrassed to be associated with me?" Gu Feng asked with a smile.
"Hehe, embarrassed? Even if you were to turn to ash in the next realm, the Myriad Tribulations Physique is enough to be recorded in history!
We're lucky to be witnesses to history!" Chao Yuan said with a laugh.
"Originally, with our talents, we'd never have a chance to be remembered in history, but now it's hard to say.
Former Brother, you must try to break through as many realms as possible. That way, there'll be more to write about in the history books!" Wu Qi walked over and patted Gu Feng on the shoulder.
"Alright, I'll do my best!" Gu Feng rubbed his nose, feeling a warm surge in his heart as he looked at the group of guys in front of him.
Although he said he didn't mind being talked about, it would still be tough if the whole world started to distance themselves from him.
After all, humans are social creatures.
"Aren't you touched that we're sticking by you no matter what?"
"How about forgiving the Spirit Stones we owe you?"
Hearing this, Gu Feng's mouth twitched. These guys were bold to even think of it—several million Spirit Stones! Forgiving that would be like asking for his life. "How about I waive a month's interest?"
"Just kidding. We've already prepared the Spirit Stones for you. We were going to give them to you last night, but we got too drunk!" Wu Qi said with a smirk, then took a Storage Pouch from his waist and handed it to Gu Feng.
Gu Feng immediately beamed with joy. With the debt repaid, he now had the resources to continue his cultivation.
This time, he didn't throw the Spirit Stones into the Three-Mouth Incense Burner but set them aside.
Just reaching the Body Tempering Realm had cost him nearly ten million Spirit Stones. The Qi Refining Realm would likely require tens of millions, so a few hundred thousand was a drop in the bucket and wouldn't be enough.
He planned to use these few hundred thousand as capital to earn more Spirit Stones.
"Gu Feng, come with me for a moment!" Elder Liu's voice reached his ears. Gu Feng waved goodbye to Wu Qi and the others and hurried toward the Hall of Elders.
By the time he arrived, Elder Liu had already prepared tea. Seeing Gu Feng enter, he pushed a cup toward him and gestured for him to sit down.
"In the future, make time to attend the lectures given by the Outer Sect Elders. If it weren't for Chu Youhuan stepping in, you wouldn't be sitting here drinking tea, alive and kicking!" As soon as Gu Feng sat down, Elder Liu started scolding him.
"Hehe, I'll be more careful in the future!" Gu Feng chuckled, feeling a bit embarrassed for not knowing such basic knowledge.
"How big is the Dantian you opened?"
"Very big. I'd say it's about ten times larger than an ordinary person's."
Pfft—
Hearing this, Elder Liu spat out his tea, and Gu Feng quickly dodged.
"The Myriad Tribulations Physique is that terrifying!"
"I think Senior Sister Chu's cultivation method played a big part too," Gu Feng said with a smile.
"That's a powerful cultivation method, even stronger than the complete version of the 'Sunset Glow Dao Scripture' from our sect!" Elder Liu nodded in agreement.
"Elder Liu, does this cultivation method have a continuation?"
Chu Youhuan had only given him the Qi Refinement chapter. To successfully break through to the Postnatal Realm, he needed to obtain the Postnatal chapter in advance.
Of course, if he couldn't get it, he'd have to switch to another cultivation method.
"Of course there's a continuation, but it depends on whether Chu Youhuan is willing to give it to you."
"Senior Sister Chu is very generous. She'll probably give it to me, right?" Gu Feng probed.
"This has nothing to do with generosity. Given your tendency to be struck by Thunder Tribulations at any moment, I suggest you switch to another cultivation method so you don't hold her back," Elder Liu said calmly, taking a sip of tea.
"Is this cultivation method a family secret? Would giving it to me lead to severe punishment from her family? Like being stripped of her cultivation, expelled from the family, or even killed?"
Seeing the contemplative look on Gu Feng's face, Elder Liu couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth.
He really wanted to crack open Gu Feng's head to see what strange thoughts were brewing inside, leading to such fantastical ideas.
"You're overthinking it! If you want to know the answer, go ask her directly."
"Elder Liu, there's something I've been wondering about. Why does our Sunset Glow Sect feel a bit... female-dominated?" After a while, Gu Feng suddenly brought up the peculiar phenomenon in the sect.
The Jade Maiden Sect was the top Outer Sect, and among the top fifty on the Inner Sect Prodigy Ranking, nearly two-thirds were women.
This was clearly unusual.
"What's so strange about that? The founder of the Sunset Glow Sect, Luo Qingyan, was a female cultivator! When cultivating the 'Sunset Glow Dao Scripture' she wrote, female disciples naturally excel more than males of the same talent.
Among the top hundred on the Inner Sect Prodigy Ranking, the male disciples who made the list only did so after breaking through to the Innate Realm and switching to other suitable cultivation methods. Otherwise, you'd see the entire Inner Sect Prodigy Ranking filled with female disciples."
"Do you want to know why the sect is called Sunset Glow Sect?" Elder Liu, now intrigued, asked Gu Feng.
"I don't know," Gu Feng honestly shook his head.
"Because when Ancestor Luo passed through this place, it was dusk, and she was inspired to establish the Sunset Glow Sect.
Do you know how the names of the inner sect peaks came about?"
"Elder Liu, could you please finish your sentence in one go? Don't keep dangling the carrot," Gu Feng complained.
"Hehe, Ancestor Luo had an ancient book on spirit herbs with her at the time, so she flipped through a few pages and picked out some names for the inner sect peaks, like Pinellia Peak, Cardamom Peak, Angelica Peak..."
Wow, the founder of the Sunset Glow Sect was that casual? What kind of names are these!
"If you ever get the chance to enter the inner sect, you'll find that many of the cultivation methods in the Cultivation Method Hall have names that would make you blush if spoken aloud," Elder Liu chuckled.
Gu Feng had already conjured up an image in his mind: two inner sect disciples standing on a stage, one shouting 'Cassia Seed Sword!' and the other yelling 'Divine Betel Palm!' as they battled fiercely. It would be quite a sight.
...
Angelica Peak!
"Qiu Tian, you must have noticed that Gu Feng has some treasure on him," a young man with a haughty expression said, his hands clasped behind his back.
"Big Brother, it's impossible for the Myriad Tribulations Physique to progress this quickly. He stays holed up in the Outer Sect and never goes out to seek opportunities. It's easy to guess he has a treasure on him," Qiu Tian nodded.
"Find a way to figure it out. If it's useful to us, take it!"
"Got it. I'll go to the Gu family in Cloud Dwelling City to investigate."
"Make it clean. After you get the information, eliminate the family," the young man said coldly, as if wiping out a family was the most ordinary thing in the world.
"Of course. Gu Feng killed Third Brother. The Gu family was already doomed," Qiu Tian said with a sinister smile.
(End of the Chapter)
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