Chapter 84: As long as I, Gu Jiangming, play my true self, it will be fine!

"Cloud-Veiling Sun-Obscuring—"

One could see hundreds and thousands of sword marks appearing on the rock wall in the distance.

Gu Jiangming held back slightly, not daring to exert his full strength; he was currently mastering some basic techniques.

【You are well-versed in every move and stance of "Cloud-Veiling Sun-Obscuring".】

【Due to your innate talent and the proficiency of your sword techniques, which you know by heart, "Cloud-Veiling Sun-Obscuring" has long since reached its limit under your cultivation. You broke through to the pinnacle of this crude sword art ten years ago.】

【This is your twenty-fourth year growing up in the Gu Family, and also one month before the plot is set to begin. Your father has long since embarked on a journey to investigate the case of the Du Family's extermination; he has been missing for six years because of it.】

【Your current realm is—Great Perfection of Qi Refining Period.】

Gu Jiangming did not know how 【Mie Changsheng】 had set up the Reincarnation; when he woke up, the timeline had already reached one month before the start of the plot.

He had once thought he would have to start from scratch, and when his vision went black, he had prepared a ten-year speedrun plan in his heart, but he never expected that 【Mie Changsheng】 would not give him such an opportunity to cheat at all.

One month of preparation time.

What is there for Gu Jiangming to cultivate anymore!

It would be enough to just familiarize himself with the skills in his hands during this month.

But fortunately, the long memories of these twenty-four years were all fed back to Gu Jiangming; at least he did not have to be so disoriented.

However, looking back, there was nothing particularly worth remembering.

Aside from practicing the sword, it was just cultivating the initial version of "Morning Heaven Palace".

Gu Jiangming reviewed the situation.

He remembered that, in 【Mie Changsheng】, he seemed to have adopted the one-click cultivation method for the first few years of this Reincarnation Simulation.

That is to say, he performed no extra operations at all; every year and every turn, the only actions were practicing the sword and cultivating the mental cultivation method.

Well then.

Looking at it now, it was exactly the same situation.

Except for having memories since the age of seven, the entire content of his memories over these years was eating, practicing the sword, cultivating the mental method, sleeping, and then repeating the cycle.

Gu Jiangming checked his body, looking around, and there was nothing abnormal; the moles that should be there and the features that should be there were all present.

He looked in the mirror again.

It was undoubtedly his own body.

Thinking of this, Gu Jiangming began to circulate the refined version of "Morning Heaven Palace" that Xu Qingyun had given him, which he had modified himself. Once the cycle of the Dao changed, the speed of cultivation was indeed more than ten times faster.

This visible speed of change was enough to prove just how high the intensity of the improved "Morning Heaven Palace" was.

Recalling his main quests, there were three in total: one was to find his missing old father, Gu Zhangqing, in the Reincarnation; one was to carefully care for his wife, Jiu Jiu, whom he met and came to know in Guanzhong; and the last was to found the Shu Mountain and carry forward the spirit of Shu Mountain that he envisioned.

Let's just follow the process.

First, go to Guanzhong to find Jiu Jiu.

Previously, he had considered the ten-year speedrun method, fearing that starting cultivation early might be noticed by Jiu Jiu as abnormal.

Now, there is no need to consider so much.

It even perfectly solved the problem of his cultivation base rising sharply, making it difficult to hide his identity as a Reincarnator.

It won't be too late to accelerate his cultivation after reuniting with Jiu Jiu. After all, there are still two hundred years left; such ample time is enough to make up for these gaps.

The main thing is that the following scenes, to be honest, are not very easy to coordinate.

Gu Jiangming has never had a serious relationship with anyone either.

In the Reincarnation Simulation, it was just a thought in his mind and a tap of his little finger, and a lot of content involving mutual conversation and interaction could appear.

Moreover, he didn't even think it was real at the time; he was purely aiming for Jiu Jiu's character art, so his emotional offensive was very aggressive, operating it as a virtual romance.

Every day was either on the way to discussing feelings or in a turn to enhance feelings.

Can this be the same thing?

How is he supposed to replicate the plot in the Reincarnation Simulation?

And

Jiu Jiu is a Reincarnator.

How would Gu Jiangming know what scale is within the scope of what she can accept?

Forget it.

Jiu Jiu being a Reincarnator is Jiu Jiu's business.

She doesn't know that I, Gu Jiangming, have also reincarnated, so I will just follow the steps in the Reincarnation, one by one, and take it slow.

Just treat it as playing my true self.

This is completely an opportunity to exploit an information gap.

And logically speaking, as long as it's not too excessive, she shouldn't be too angry either.

Guanzhong Inner City—Nine Prefectures.

A middle-aged swordsman with half a strand of gray-white hair mixed in his black hair was quietly holding a pot of wine in the hall.

He raised the wine in his cup and took a light sip.

"Six years ago, you saved my life, wanting to buy six years of my time," Gu Zhangqing said indifferently. "Now that six years have passed, may I leave?"

He is a man who keeps his promises.

Six years ago, the young woman before him reached out to help, saving him from the hands of monsters, and as the price, he was arranged to stay in an inn in Guanzhong, having to stay in Guanzhong for six years before he could get away.

Now that six years have passed, he naturally came to visit to decide to leave this place.

"There is still one month left," Jiu Jiu said calmly.

Her voice paused for a moment.

"Since you, sir, have already stayed in Guanzhong for six years, I think waiting another month will not be difficult for you, will it?"

Gu Zhangqing frowned slightly; he was a little homesick.

However, with this extremely dangerous woman speaking up, Gu Zhangqing actually dared not provoke her; after all, she was someone capable of dealing with demons and evil spirits, and Gu Zhangqing still could not fathom her true background.

Ever since he had witnessed monsters, Gu Zhangqing had reined in his arrogance of believing the Gu Family Sword Art was the best in the world.

No matter how profound a sword art was, it was completely powerless when facing creatures like monsters; he couldn't even cut through a monster's flesh with a sword, and for these past six years, he had been trapped in a fog of self-doubt.

He no longer knew what the meaning of his cultivation was.

"Fine." Gu Zhangqing raised his cup, "Then I will wait here for one more month; after one month, no matter what the situation is, I will leave Guanzhong."

Jiu Jiu nodded slightly.

Once the words were spoken, Gu Zhangqing stood up and left, no longer staying in this place.

Jiu Jiu, however, fell into deep thought; the thing she needed to do now was wait for Gu Jiangming to arrive in Guanzhong and officially trigger the plot of the Reincarnation.

"Jiu'er, look and see if this outfit Mother picked out for you is pretty."

A pleasant voice rang out, and her tone was full of love for this new outfit.

Jiu Jiu had already changed many things in the original Reincarnation, and through years of cultivation, the divinity belonging to Jingwei had slowly been nurtured.

Although the start of the Reincarnation had caused the spirit body of her daughter, Gu Mingyue, to dissipate directly, she had a simpler and more brutal way to solve this problem.

It just required Gu Jiangming to come over for a visit.

The only thing Jiu Jiu hadn't expected now was that by not saving her own mother, she would appear bitter and lonely, but after saving her, she discovered that her mother was very different from the image she had imagined in her heart.

Jiu Jiu had thought her mother was dignified, elegant, and virtuous.

At the very least, when they were fleeing the Yin Family after falling into misfortune and suffering heavy injuries, the appearance her mother displayed was extremely solemn.

But after being a Reincarnator once, Jiu Jiu had specifically waited until her mother saw the true faces of the Yin Family members before using magic to leave this place together.

Soon, Jiu Jiu discovered that the truth of the matter was not that simple.

Her mother was simply a flighty character—or rather, one couldn't say she was flighty, but she was not as dignified and serious as Jiu Jiu had imagined.

Before she died, she had taught her younger self a whole set of skills on how to survive, and even told her not to easily believe a man's words and to learn how to protect herself.

After escaping the Yin Family unscathed, the situation underwent an unimaginable change.

Jiu Jiu was trying her best to earn silver, hoping to accumulate it for the current timeline to use as her own dowry.

Her mother was desperately spending that silver, often buying silk robes at exorbitant prices.

Over these years, Jiu Jiu didn't even know how she had managed to get by.

But the bitter days would eventually pass.

There was one more month until the plot began.

From the information board, it seemed that Gu Jiangming's current life was a case of returning from the dead; he had fragmented memories and did not have complete memories.

Jiu Jiu intended to restore the most authentic situation of that time bit by bit, help him fill in the gaps in his memory, and then go off to live a life for two with Gu Jiangming.

Who would still care about her "debt-ridden" mother.

Of course, saving Gu Jiangming's father, Gu Zhangqing, was also something Jiu Jiu recalled from the content of 【Mie Changsheng】.

Gu Jiangming coming to Guanzhong was to search for his missing father, and the unfolding of many subsequent plot events was also for this reason.

If she saved Gu Zhangqing, Gu Jiangming wouldn't run around everywhere, nor would he meet that woman named Wang Qinghe.

Even if it might expose the information that she was a Reincarnator, Jiu Jiu had to do these things.

Thinking of Wang Qinghe and Long Xi.

Jiu Jiu gritted her teeth.

One was the person who inexplicably snatched the position of Gu Jiangming's past-life lover in 【Mie Changsheng】, leaving her to only watch helplessly.

A complete thief.

As a deity, she couldn't reach Gu Jiangming in time, and as a result, Wang Qinghe of the Human Race seized this gap and stole the position that should have belonged to her, Jiu Jiu.

And there was that shameless dragon, who directly caught Gu Jiangming in the current life just as he had returned from the dead and was still dazed, taking the opportunity to steal his favor.

This is my Reincarnation.

Both of you, stand far away from me; don't come near my side!

I, Jiu Jiu, am going to clear this in one life and defy the heavens to change my fate!!!

As for the current progress, the situation was looking great, and she just needed to wait for Gu Jiangming.

I kept hiccuping and having heart palpitations while typing last night, so I lay down first for fear of sudden death.

I will make up the update immediately.

(End of this chapter)