Chapter 504

Half a year later, zither music played in bursts on the island. In the pavilion, Di Xin took a sip of steaming coffee and placed a piece heavily on the chessboard.

"Tsk tsk! After half a year of your training, this chess piece belonging to Qin Mingyue is shining brighter and brighter."

"What is the name of this zither piece? It sounds very good," Di Xin asked with a smile, looking at Long Xuan sitting opposite him.

Placing one of the pieces on the board, Long Xuan's mouth curled up, and he smiled: "This zither piece is called 'High Mountains and Flowing Water.' It has a lot of artistic conception, right? In this world, there won't be many zither pieces with a higher artistic conception than 'High Mountains and Flowing Water'."

The smile on Long Xuan's face grew brighter. He had long had the idea of cultivating Qin Mingyue, hoping she would have a more promising future, and he could also obtain greater Qi Luck through the connection of the destiny chess piece.

Over the past half year, he had continuously taught Qin Mingyue the zither scores he knew from his past life, without reservation.

He did not intend to follow the Music Path, and the zither scores in his mind were useless to him, so he used them all to cultivate this great disciple.

The final result was that this chess piece, Qin Mingyue, was more than ten times brighter than before. Such a huge change was also beyond his expectations.

This meant that after learning a large number of zither scores that did not belong to this world, her future achievements would be more than ten times greater than the original trajectory.

Long Xuan suspected that after the three of them went out, Qin Mingyue would definitely encounter unimaginable great opportunities because of these zither scores, and her future achievements would definitely not be blocked by the Gu King peak; otherwise, this chess piece would never have undergone such an exaggerated change.

"'High Mountains and Flowing Water'? Good name. I did indeed hear high mountains and flowing water in the zither music," Di Xin said with a faint smile on his face, then added: "Over the past half year, I have heard one zither piece after another that I have never heard before. Are these classic zither pieces really all created by you?"

Long Xuan immediately said brazenly: "Otherwise? Have you heard these zither pieces anywhere else?"

Di Xin curled his lips and smiled: "You can easily create things in any field. I really don't know what is in your head."

"Regardless of whether these zither pieces were created by you or not, Qin Mingyue has obtained so many zither pieces, and she is about to soar into the sky."

"You must never underestimate the role of these zither pieces for a Gu cultivator who cultivates the path of the zither. When refining a Book Gu, the requirement for books is originality, and for many zither-system Gu worms, the requirement must also be original zither music."

"These zither pieces have never been heard by anyone outside. Relying on these original zither pieces, she will refine many heaven-defying Gu worms. You simply have the grace of rebirth for her."

"Hehe! Speaking of which, it's also your luck, kid, that you can dual cultivate with such a heaven-favored girl."

Di Xin covered his mouth and chuckled, looking at Long Xuan and teasing him: "She thought she was trapped here and could never get out, and because she had no other choice, she had to choose you."

"If she knew that she could go out at any time, it would be impossible for her to dual cultivate with you."

"If she knew you had a way to go out at any time, she would probably be furious. At that time, she might even have the heart to tear you apart."

Long Xuan was stunned, his expression somewhat unnatural: "This can't be blamed on me, right? The key is that she didn't ask?"

"You really do have a way to go out," Di Xin looked at him meaningfully.

"Are you trying to get information out of me?" Long Xuan was taken aback.

"Since you have already guessed it, I won't hide it anymore."

"I do have a way to go out, but there is only one chance. It is impossible if you want to leave here alone in advance."

"This place is very safe for me and is a good place for seclusion. I will only consider going out after I break through to Gu King in this place. You can only wait," Long Xuan said truthfully.

Di Xin nodded and finally stopped joking, saying seriously: "I have the same intention. I am preparing to break through to Gu King here before going out. At that time, I will have the power to protect myself and won't be afraid of the group of people chasing us at all."

"You have dual cultivated with Qin Mingyue for half a year, and your spiritual power should have accumulated enough."

"Let's break through in seclusion together today," Di Xin suggested with a smile.

Long Xuan nodded and smiled: "Let the three of us do it together. Qin Mingyue has also touched the Gu King bottleneck. Let's just go into seclusion together."

On this day, the zither music on the island finally disappeared, and the desert island returned to its usual deathly silence.

Time flowed leisurely, and three months later.

On the bed in the master bedroom, Long Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, a scorching light flashing in them. Meeting the eyes of the beauty sitting opposite him who had just opened her eyes, the two looked at each other and smiled.

This breakthrough to Gu King was unexpectedly smooth. Originally, the Spirit Sea of the Ten Extremes Body was as solid as a rock, and the difficulty of breaking through was exaggeratedly high. Coupled with the fact that there was no spiritual power in the air of this barren world, the difficulty of breaking through was further increased. Long Xuan originally thought that he would have to waste at least three Heavenly Spirit Pills to break through, but he did not expect that he would succeed with just one Heavenly Spirit Pill.

This was also Qin Mingyue's credit. He did not expect that dual cultivating with a woman possessing the Heavenly Fragrance Body would also have the effect of assisting in the breakthrough; otherwise, the first breakthrough would not have been so easy to succeed.

Since the two were dual cultivating, they belonged to the same breakthrough. At this time, Qin Mingyue also succeeded in breaking through at the same time and opened her eyes.

Long Xuan broke the silence in the room first and smiled: "Is this the power of a Gu King? It is truly powerful. Now, I can beat ten of my previous selves."

Qin Mingyue smiled: "The gap between the Spirit Sea stage and the Gu King is like a chasm. Even the most talented Spirit Sea stage Gu cultivator cannot defeat a Gu King across levels."

"After becoming a Gu King, there are not many people in this world who can threaten you."

Qin Mingyue suddenly put away her smile, and her expression became gloomy again.

Trapped in this place and never able to get out, what does it matter how many people outside can threaten them?

"What are your plans after this?" Qin Mingyue put away her thoughts and continued to ask.

Trapped in this place forever, what if you cultivate to the Gu King peak? What are you going to do after cultivating to the Gu King peak?

Thinking of this, Qin Mingyue lost the direction of her life for a while, and her eyes became confused.

"The next thing to do is, of course, to collect materials to upgrade the Gu worms. Just breaking through to Gu King, all the Gu worms on my body must be upgraded as quickly as possible; otherwise, it will be too disadvantageous to face a Gu King of the same level," Long Xuan subconsciously told his plan truthfully.

Thinking of the pile of Gu worms he needed to upgrade and the various extremely difficult materials he needed to find, Long Xuan had a headache.

There were too many Gu worms on his body, and each one was more heaven-defying than the last. Upgrading them was extremely troublesome and definitely not something he could complete in a short time.

Upgrading all the Gu worms on his body was really a considerable workload for him.

However, there were also some that were worry-free.

For example, the Book Gu. "Journey to the West" had long been popular all over the world. Because it carried a heaven-tier cultivation method, it was no exaggeration to say that the popularity of "Journey to the West" had reached the level where every Gu cultivator had a copy.

With such a huge number of viewers, it produced immeasurable mental food. The Book Gu had long been full. If Long Xuan had not been suppressing its realm, this Book Gu would have soared into the sky long ago, and he didn't know where it would have gone.

Now that Long Xuan had broken through, this Book Gu immediately lifted the restrictions and completed the upgrade easily.

Another example was the Curse Seal Gu. The upgrade of the Curse Seal Gu made him even more worry-free.

Many Gu worms in this world used spiritual power as food and could grow with the growth of the host. In other words, the realm of this type of Gu worm was completely synchronized with the Gu cultivator, and the Gu cultivator never had to worry about upgrading Gu worms.

The Innate Spirit Gu, Face-Changing Gu, and Curse Seal Gu were all this type of Gu worm. The convenient advancement conditions also made this type of Gu worm extremely popular in the Gu world, and everyone wanted to obtain one.

The moment Long Xuan became a Gu King, the Curse Seal Gu also completed its transformation at the same time, becoming a powerful Strange Gu.

The Swallowing Heaven World Toad also didn't need to worry. The Swallowing Heaven World Toad used various treasures as food, and what Long Xuan lacked the least were treasures. Just the unique-attribute Divine Trees, he had already collected I don't know how many.

If he hadn't been suppressing the realm of the Swallowing Heaven World Toad, he didn't know what realm this Swallowing Heaven World Toad would have reached.

Therefore, the Swallowing Heaven World Toad also completed its transformation at the same time, and he didn't need to worry about it at all.

The remaining Gu worms that used heaven-defying spirit medicine as transformation materials also automatically completed their upgrades at this moment.

Long Xuan counted on his fingers and suddenly discovered that he had quite a few Strange Gu available.

When other people just broke through to Gu King, because they had no Gu worms to use, they were all weaklings and couldn't beat anyone of the same level.

And he was completely not in this category. There were too many synchronously advancing Gu worms on his body. Just breaking through to Gu King, he was enough to compete with other Gu Kings.

Whoever saw that he had just broken through to Gu King and had no Gu worms to use and wanted to take advantage of him, that would really be kicking an iron plate.

"Do you want to upgrade the Gu worms as quickly as possible now? But you should understand that this place is isolated from the world and cannot communicate with the outside world. With just the three of us, the upgrade materials you want are simply impossible to collect here."

Hearing what Long Xuan said, Qin Mingyue said with a face full of worry.

"No problem! I have a Boundary-Breaking Gu, and we can go out at any time."

"No time to lose, let's go out now. I'll go find Di Xin; she already succeeded in breaking through to Gu King before us."

Saying that, Long Xuan jumped off the bed and pushed the door open and ran away as if escaping, completely ignoring Qin Mingyue's increasingly dark face.

"You have a Boundary-Breaking Gu? You really hid it from me so hard!" Looking at his departing back, Qin Mingyue gritted her silver teeth, looking like she wanted to eat someone.

How could she not be angry? If she hadn't thought she would be trapped here forever, she would never have dual cultivated with a strange man.

Just as she was preparing to live her life here, and even have children here, to experience a woman's complete life, this dog man actually told her that she could go out. Qin Mingyue was about to explode with anger.

At this time, she seriously suspected that she had been set up. This dog man did it on purpose. He deliberately didn't say there was a chance to go out, and the purpose was to trick her into dual cultivating. Qin Mingyue blushed with shame.

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Three days later.

Looking at the dilapidated Xuanyuan Imperial City in front of him, Long Xuan was filled with emotion.

It had only been half a year, and he didn't expect that after half a year, the extremely powerful Xuanyuan Imperial City would be dilapidated to this extent.

Half a year ago, the Genius Competition that shocked the entire Western Region was held in this city. At that time, the Xuanyuan City was full of experts, and it was so prosperous.

Half a year later, the powerful Xuanyuan City had turned into ruins. I'm afraid no one expected this.

He had already understood why Xuanyuan City had become like this three days ago.

Speaking of which, this matter was ultimately caused by him. Because he reported a false name, the members of the entire Xuanyuan Imperial Family were slaughtered by the power of the curse.

At that time, on the ground of the Cangyue Imperial Tomb, all the Xuanyuan Imperial Family insect cultivators, including Xuan Yuan Zhi, all died suddenly.

The remaining Imperial Guards who were not surnamed Xuanyuan were not affected by the power of the curse, but because all the royal family members were dead, the Imperial Guards on the ground were leaderless, and soon all the Imperial Guards withdrew and did not guard the entrance of the tomb-robbing tunnel anymore.

Without the Imperial Guards blocking the door at the entrance of the tomb-robbing tunnel, the Gu cultivators who survived in the tomb saved their lives. After running out of the tomb-robbing tunnel and returning to their families, they immediately announced the evil deeds of the Xuanyuan Imperial Family.

At this time, all the royal family members in the Xuanyuan Empire were dead, so no one cared about what the Xuanyuan Imperial Family had done before, and this matter did not cause any waves in the end.

However, the chain reaction brought about by the extermination of the Xuanyuan Imperial Family was huge.

First of all, a country cannot be without a ruler for a day. After the royal family members were dead, it was impossible to even find an heir.

Under these circumstances, the throne naturally aroused the greed of experts of various surnames.

In the absence of a monarch, the whole country was paralyzed. Many families took the opportunity to expand their territory and attack other families, and even participated in the struggle for the throne. The country was in chaos, and there were wars everywhere.

I don't know how many families were destroyed in this catastrophe, and I don't know how many experts fell in this catastrophe.

The Xuanyuan Empire fell into troubled times, and countless people died every day.

The chain reaction caused by the extermination of the Xuanyuan Imperial Family did not stop there. The God of Gamblers who left at the Alchemy Competition led the puppet army to destroy the Heavenly Phoenix Empire and established the powerful Great Jin Empire on the seized land.

After consolidating the territory, the Great Jin Empire saw that the Xuanyuan Empire was in chaos, so it took the opportunity to launch a war against the Xuanyuan Empire.

At this time, the Xuanyuan Empire was leaderless, and all parties could not integrate, so how could they be the opponent of the Great Jin Empire.

Therefore, as soon as the war started, the forces of the Xuanyuan Empire were defeated steadily. The puppet army of the Great Jin Empire was like a broken bamboo, and in just a few months, it had occupied half of the Xuanyuan Empire.

And the Gu cultivator forces in the occupied area either surrendered or were exterminated.

Facing the powerful Great Jin Empire, the numerous forces in the Xuanyuan Empire were already scared out of their wits. How could they have the mind to fight for the throne? Before the puppet army even attacked, many forces had already chosen to surrender, and some families even acted as insiders within the main battle faction.

It was only a matter of time before the Xuanyuan Empire was destroyed.

But at this time, an accident happened again. After the Great Jin Empire destroyed two super empires in a row, all forces in Central Earth saw the ambition of the Great Jin Empire.

After these two national wars, many empires were already wary of, or even afraid of, the huge number of puppet armies.

Knowing that once they were targeted by the Great Jin Empire, they would not be their opponents at all, in order to avoid following in the footsteps of the two major empires, all countries in Central Earth united to encircle and suppress the Great Jin Empire.

The matter became serious. At this time, there was war and chaos everywhere in Central Earth, and there was no pure land left.

The Great Jin Empire finally stopped hiding at this time and released hundreds of times more puppets, actually easily resisting the siege of all countries in Central Earth.

The power erupted by the Great Jin Empire shocked all countries. The exaggerated number of puppet armies shocked the entire Gu world.

Central Earth now was completely in chaos.

All forces in the entire Gu world were paying attention to this war.

The successive wars also made the Xuanyuan Imperial City unbearable and completely turned into ruins... (End of chapter)