"Fellow Daoist Chen, there's no need to underestimate yourself. You've already gained such a great reputation in the Qi Training Stage. You'll definitely be even more powerful after advancing to the Foundation Establishment Stage. I'm optimistic about you!"
"If Fellow Daoist Chen is interested in this, I can make some arrangements to get you to join the team!" Gu Yang said seriously.
"Thank you for your kindness, Fellow Daoist Gu. I really can't go..." Chen Changsheng immediately shook his head in alarm...
Why is Gu Yang encouraging me to die for no reason?
It's really a serious illness...
"That's such a pity. None of the fellow Daoists from the Yuanying Sect are interested. It seems that it is quite similar to what was rumored..." Gu Yang said with a smile.
"Rumors? What rumors?" Chen Changsheng asked in surprise.
Why haven't I heard any rumors...
"Uh... Fellow Daoist Chen, these... are all some not-so-good rumors... How about... let's not talk about them anymore..." Gu Yang said awkwardly.
"Friend Gu, whether it is good or bad, since it is related to me, you might as well tell me!" Chen Changsheng said.
"Well... well, after fellow Daoist advanced to the foundation-building stage, you probably haven't left Sanyang City once, right?" Gu Yang said.
"That's true... After advancing to the foundation-building stage, I have been consolidating my realm and have never gone out. What's wrong?" Chen Changsheng frowned.
What kind of rumor is this? Do you even care whether you can leave the city or not?
"Consolidating the realm...how should I put it...after you were promoted, there should have been other fellow Daoists who had established their foundation. They had contacted you and wanted to invite you to go to the Monster Mountain to hunt monsters together. Then, you didn't agree, right..." Gu Yang said.
"Well, that's true. About half a year after I established my foundation, several fellow Taoists invited me. How is it related to this?" Chen Changsheng asked in surprise.
"There is some connection... Normally, it only takes half a year to build the foundation and consolidate the realm. That's why it was half a year later that a fellow foundation-building Taoist invited you to hunt monsters. After several invitations, you rejected them all..." Gu Yang said embarrassedly.
"Is there a problem with refusing? I'm not very familiar with them, so I have no choice but to go out and hunt monsters if I don't want to?" Chen Changsheng said speechlessly.
"It's no problem to refuse. Fellow Daoist, you haven't left the city since you established your foundation. There are even rumors that after entering Sanyang City, you have been living in Qingyang Palace and practicing hard, without leaving home once..."
"Later, some busybodies gave you a nickname..." Gu Yang said embarrassedly.
"Nickname? What nickname?" Chen Changsheng asked.
"King Gou!" Gu Yang slowly uttered two words...
King Gou...
Gou...
To put it nicely, it's called caution, to put it bluntly, it's called cowardice...
King Gou, obviously, wasn't a word used to praise Chen Changsheng...
"King Gou... Well, this nickname is very good and appropriate..." Chen Changsheng nodded slightly when he heard it.
This nickname, well, is very much in line with Chen Changsheng's wishes.
It reminds him all the time to stay healthy and not waste time...
After all, there are countless talented people in the world of cultivating immortals, and he is only in the initial stage of foundation building now, and he does not have the capital to go out and have fun!
"You...you are not angry?" Gu Yang asked in surprise.
"Angry? Why should I be angry? This nickname is good, King Gou... Only if you can survive can you have a future..." Chen Changsheng said with a smile.
"You have a really good attitude... I didn't believe it at first, so I deliberately used the quota to test you, but it turns out you're really a coward... If other foundation-building cultivators had such an opportunity, they would probably be desperate to get in..."
"After all, we are given nearly ten thousand spirit stones at the beginning, not to mention the relics of the Nascent Soul Sect. If we find something that can help us form a pill, no matter how big the risk is, it will be worth it!" Gu Yang said softly.
Condensing the golden elixir!
For the foundation-building cultivators in Yuezhou, forming a pill is just like the ordinary casual cultivators in Longhu Lake trying to build a foundation...
Even more difficult than this, ten times, a hundred times...
Although opportunities for foundation building are rare in Dragon Lake, there are many foundation-building families. Although there are no foundation-building pills, some foundation-building spiritual objects can still be found. For example, every thirty years, Lingxi Island can harvest a ground vein fire evil...
However, in the entire Yuezhou, the resources that can be used to condense the golden elixir are basically monopolized by the five major sects. Ordinary cultivators have no chance of condensing the golden elixir at all.
Throughout the entire Yuezhou region, over the past thousand years, only Patriarch Sanyang had the good fortune to successfully condense a golden elixir...
Just because Sanyang Patriarch has this luck doesn't mean his disciples will have the same...
As a direct disciple of the Three Yang Patriarch, Gu Yang possessed a good spiritual aptitude. Given sufficient cultivation resources, he had a great chance of reaching the late stage of foundation building. However, forming a pill was practically impossible...
Therefore, even he would covet the ruins of the Aoki Sect.
After all, that is the Yuanying Sect, and all kinds of treasures may appear there. The opportunity to form a pill is hard to find outside, but for the Yuanying Sect, it is not too precious.
Just like how the Sanyang Patriarch, as a Golden Core, can train more than ten Foundation Establishment disciples, if the Yuanying old monster is determined to train the Golden Core Patriarch, there will be no big problem as long as the qualifications of the trainee are not too bad.
"The opportunity to form a pill...it's indeed worth the risk. Why does Brother Gu want to sign up?" Chen Changsheng nodded and asked.
"Of course I'm going!" Gu Yang nodded slowly.
Opportunities are something you have to fight for yourself!
So what if he is the direct disciple of Patriarch Sanyang?
The ancestor has ten direct disciples, and he is just one of them...
Afterwards, Chen Changsheng looked at these cultivators, who were vying to sign up. Of course, some of them just stood by and watched.
Either they are very calm, or they think they are not strong enough and therefore do not intend to fight for it.
Soon, the twenty people were selected. With the strength of the middle stage of foundation building and the status of the ancestor's direct disciple, Gu Yang firmly won one of the spots.
Not long after, Patriarch Sanyang waved his hand, and suddenly everyone had a top-grade spiritual weapon and three bottles of rhubarb pills in their hands.
Although they are all top-grade spiritual weapons, there are naturally differences in quality.
Chen Changsheng could see clearly that the one in Gu Yang's hand was an inner armor, while the others had mostly ordinary magic weapons.
In terms of value, the value of a top-grade spiritual weapon inner armor is probably not inferior to that of a top-grade spiritual weapon. Obviously, in the eyes of the Three Yang Patriarch, there is also a distinction between close and distant...
After the spiritual weapons and elixirs were distributed, Chen Changsheng and other people who were not selected were directly dismissed, leaving behind the twenty selected cultivators, who obviously had other things to explain.
At this time, the area of Longhu Lake was already in turmoil.
First, the major foundation-building forces joined forces to strangle Lingxi Island, but ended up being defeated.
The reason for their failure was simple. They had misjudged Lingxi Island's strength. They had assumed the island's master, severely injured, was powerless to fight. However, it turned out that the island's master had recovered from his injuries at some point, leaving them with a bruise all over their heads...
Later, the remains of the Qingmu Sect appeared, and a large number of monks flocked there.
Putting aside those independent cultivators, even the five major sects and the Three Yang Patriarchs could no longer sit still and sent a large number of foundation-building cultivators into Longhu Lake, stirring up the situation there...