Chapter 61: You Were Forcibly Kissed

From the very first attempts.

Gu Jiangming discovered that he could actually recall the Gu Family Heart Method 【Facing the Heavens】 from the first cycle of Reincarnation.

More crucially, the initial Golden Word 【Treasure Appraisal and Object Recognition】 he possessed had actually been there all along.

This could not help but make Gu Jiangming realize that each of his Reincarnations existed in a state of superposition, and they were not without connection.

Every Reincarnation was not necessarily a brand-new beginning.

More importantly, although Gu Jiangming could not inherit the memories, cultivation, or realms from the Reincarnation Simulation, he could inherit the Golden Words acquired during those Reincarnations.

For example, 【Innocent Heart】.

That was the Golden Word rewarded to him during the last Reincarnation.

And now, 【Innocent Heart】 had appeared on his self from ten thousand years ago.

Did that not suggest a problem: that the person in the Reincarnation had, in fact, always been Gu Jiangming's own true self?

After all, 【Treasure Appraisal and Object Recognition】 was a Golden Word that Gu Jiangming, as a transmigrator, had brought with him; this point could not be erased.

If that were truly the case, then the speed at which he inherited things he had once possessed and learned should be very fast.

For now, Gu Jiangming had to endure this four-hundred-year time limit until his array supernatural powers ushered in a brand-new advancement.

Before that, it was to explore the true intentions of the 【Heavenly Dao】 as much as possible and to attain a certain status within the 【Heavenly Dao】.

【You and Skyfox successfully captured the Demon Venerable Tingfeng and returned to the place where the Heavenly Dao is located. From Skyfox's mouth, you finally learned the name of this place.】

【The name of this place is Qianyuan.】

【You returned to the cave dwelling where you cultivate.】

【Wang Jiangxing's injuries recovered quite a bit under care, but his thoughts about wanting to escape Qianyuan had never changed.】

【He wanted to discuss with you a plan for how to escape.】

【Yi Lezhi, however, could not help but speak up: "Senior Brother, aren't you trying to set your son-in-law up for failure?"】

【"If you escape now, do you want the people of the Heavenly Dao to hunt you two down across the world?"】

【"If you ask me, staying here honestly is actually quite nice."】

【"At the very least, your son-in-law will leave us a bite to eat, and we can get cultivation resources for free from the Heavenly Dao."】

【After joining the Heavenly Dao, you invisibly felt this mysterious force's ability to infiltrate this Heaven and Earth.】

【"Father-in-law, I wonder if you know someone who has a very deep mastery of fire-type supernatural powers?" Gu Jiangming asked to probe for information.】

【"This kind of supernatural power is too common; many people have quite impressive foundations." Wang Jiangxing shook his head and said.】

【"My codename here is Heavenly Array; they originally seemed to want to reserve this seat for you." Gu Jiangming pondered: "Therefore, the selection criteria for Skyfox should also be the cultivators most proficient in such supernatural powers."】

【"The people of the Taiyi Sect are cultivators who specialize in this path." Wang Jiangxing paused and said: "But when I arrived at the Taiyi Sect back then, I was besieged by people from the Heavenly Dao."】

【"I don't know if the Taiyi Sect had long been people of the Heavenly Dao, or if the situation was exactly the same as the Zhenggang Sect."】

【Wang Jiangxing was silent for a moment, "It is highly probable that it is the same as the Zhenggang Sect, because the Taiyi Stone has already fallen into the hands of the Heavenly Dao."】

【"Taiyi Stone?" Yi Lezhi made a sound of surprise, "This thing is actually real?"】

【"What is this?" Gu Jiangming could not help but ask.】

【"The Seven Great Sects each have their own inheritances and treasures." Yi Lezhi continued: "Our Zhenggang Sect's inheritance is the Heavenly Gang Five Thunders."】

【"As for the treasure..." Yi Lezhi looked at Wang Jiangxing, "It should be gone too."】

【"This thing is basically passed down from generation to generation of sect leaders. Although I am the honorary sect leader, the treasure was still in the hands of the Senior Brother. Now that the Senior Brother has fallen here, the treasure was likely taken away by the people of the Heavenly Dao."】

【"It doesn't matter, the Zhenggang Sect's treasure, the Five Elements Bead, didn't have much use anyway; let them take it." Wang Jiangxing said: "The main function of this object was nothing more than to seal and suppress demons."】

【"The Taiyi Stone, however, is a true treasure and is the foundation of the Taiyi Sect." Wang Jiangxing snorted coldly.】

【"Not only can it autonomously absorb Spirit Qi, but if you place some rare treasures of Heaven and Earth into the Taiyi Stone, it can also catalyze their growth in advance."】

【"Otherwise, where would so many thousand-year Zhu Fruits come from?"】

【Wang Jiangxing gave up the idea of escaping; in the current situation, even he could only take things one step at a time.】

【Yi Lezhi, on the other hand, was still optimistic, usually doing nothing more than asking Gu Jiangming for some food and drink, and occasionally some cultivation resources to relieve boredom.】

【You went to the Heavenly Dao's inventory and took away 30 thousand-year Zhu Fruits, leaving under the somewhat astonished gazes of others.】

【In the same year, mortals and rogue cultivators who went to the Zhenggang Sect to apprentice discovered that the Zhenggang Sect was in a state of sealing the mountain, with only one or two people wearing Zhenggang Sect disciple robes patrolling the mountain.】

【These appeared to be Zhenggang Sect disciples who had just returned from performing sect missions; seeing the corpses all over the sect, they were filled with grief.】

【Not long after, to prevent enemies from returning and bringing disaster upon themselves, and to preserve the Zhenggang Sect's inheritance, these disciples chose to take the scriptures from the Library Pavilion, split up on the spot, and from then on officially announced the destruction of the Zhenggang Sect.】

【Of the entire Zhenggang Sect, only one outer disciple surnamed Zhang remained here to guard the place alone.】

【In the 105th year of the Zhenyuan Calendar, after five years of steady cultivation, Gu Jiangming, with the help of the Heavenly Dao's massive cultivation resources, finally reached the Great Perfection of the Transformation Stage.】

【You faced the breakthrough to the Enlightenment Stage, which had long since loosened; you only needed a tiny thought to step into it.】

【However, you had higher pursuits; you were not satisfied with an ordinary Enlightenment Stage; you wanted to achieve the body of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment.】

【Within the Heavenly Dao, every time a mission is executed, for the sake of safety, one is paired with a peer as a partner.】

【On one hand, this is to prevent betrayal, and on the other hand, when two people cooperate, the efficiency and success rate of executing missions are greatly increased.】

【Your peer partner is still Skyfox.】

【He felt that your idea of pursuing Heaven and Earth Enlightenment was inconceivable; in his view, it was already very difficult for the current world to have someone with such aptitude and Dao roots who could touch the realm of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment.】

【You ignored him and still chose to pursue the realm of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment.】

【In the 115th year of the Zhenyuan Calendar, another ten years passed. With the Heavenly Dao's frequent strikes against Demon Race cultivators, many people gradually noticed this mysterious force that had previously been hidden beneath the tip of the iceberg.】

【The name of the Heavenly Dao slowly spread out.】

【However... on the Nine Provinces, while everyone had heard of it and believed in its existence, very few people had ever truly seen it.】

【No one knew what form of force the Heavenly Dao was composed of, or how large it was.】

【Yet, many people vaguely felt that no matter where they were, it seemed as if everyone was shrouded under its haze, and at any time, it might suddenly appear.】

【And you gradually felt that your realm seemed to have touched some boundary; your array techniques had even reached the point of "speaking the law and forming the array with a thought," but you now needed time, a massive amount of time to settle, so that... you could use the Eight Trigrams of the array to comprehend the world floating on the surface and slowly grasp the changes of all things in the world.】

【You have left Qianyuan, wishing to seek a new step of breakthrough and progress through your own tempering.】

【However, something unexpected happened to you.】

【A woman as beautiful as a Heavenly Immortal, dressed in white as snow, found you, and yet you felt an incomparable familiarity toward her.】

【At your first meeting, her expression was somewhat pleasantly surprised, even filled with astonishment.】

【Although you are very familiar with her, you do not know why you cannot recall her name.】

【"Do you know, I have been looking for you all this time."】

【"Looking for me?"】

Gu Jiangming's breathing became noticeably heavy.

How does Jiu Jiu have a past life too?

She even seems to be a deity!!!

Afterward, Gu Jiangming breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiu Jiu does not have 【Mie Changsheng】 after all.

He does not know what he was nervous about.

If reality came knocking, that would be a real headache.

Then go ahead and make a scene.

What could you possibly do to me?

One thing at a time; the last Reincarnation was indeed my fault, but in this life, I have not wronged you.

【You have been forcibly kissed.】

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(End of chapter)