Chapter 451: The Roadblocker Tao Zhugong

Leaving Chongguang Cheng, it was already deep night outside; the high sky was dense with stars, and the visibility was dim.

Zhou You hummed a little tune, leaning on a walking stick as he strolled forward; his legs and feet were perfectly fine, and he only carried the stick for show.

It must be said that this stick was no ordinary object; it was not some precious item, but rather a wild vine that had grown naturally in the mountains.

With fluid lines and a plump vine body, and not a single wormhole or scar on its entire surface, it could be called a perfect work of art.

The place where it captured the essence of nature was its pride: the vine stick was shaped like a coiling dragon, with a spiraling dragon head at the top.

The Guo family possessed hundreds of large and small mountains, and there were hundreds of millions of wild vines growing there, yet only seven were finally selected.

Under such strict and meticulous selection, the vine stick that stood out was undoubtedly the finest of the fine.

Before parting, Guo Liuhe had gifted it to him to use as a walking stick; the gift was not light, and the sentiment was heavy.

"Jingle!"

The silver bell hanging from the vine stick emitted a crisp sound as it swayed, carrying far into the pitch-black night.

Zhou You walked steadily forward, then suddenly muttered, "Is it not far enough yet? Why haven't they made a move?"

The reason he left Chongguang Cheng and took the initiative to leave Guo Liuhe's estate was... a sudden whim.

During this period of researching Seal Script, by drawing parallels, he had actually made a leap in progress regarding the Seal Script for 'Confusion'.

Kunpengzi's 'Confusion' was about bewitching others and twisting minds, which had led him down an evil path.

Zhou You started from his Seal Script, and although he had also mastered the power of bewitchment, he had always been very restrained in using it.

He knew deeply that power is a double-edged sword; while dealing with others, it also affects oneself. If one were to become addicted to this power, in the future, one would very likely slide and fall in the direction of Kunpengzi.

Now, Zhou You had finally walked a righteous path of his own on this character.

His Seal Script leaned towards 'Decipher Confusion'; this act was a self-analysis aimed at the accidental bewilderment of the mind, searching for a direction to break through the fog and locate his future.

The resulting second-level Seal Script was... a sudden whim.

While in the estate, he was deciphering confusion for his mind when he suddenly realized that staying in the estate was inappropriate.

A future event was going to occur; it carried risks, but also possessed the function of driving exploration.

Therefore, he chose to leave on his own initiative.

Because, if someone with ulterior motives wanted to make a move, Guo Liuhe's estate was clearly unsuitable; they had to wait for him to leave the estate voluntarily,

or even leave Chongguang Cheng, to have a chance to strike.

He leaned on his stick and arrived beside a stream under the moonlight, rolling up his sleeves to wash his hands.

Suddenly, the river water in front of him vanished, replaced by a high wall that blocked his path.

This change was too bizarre; in the blink of an eye, the stream had turned into a stone wall, piled up from large rocks, stretching for over ten miles, impossible to bypass in a short time.

"..."

Zhou You struck his stick heavily on the ground, "Who is playing god and acting like a ghost? Get out here!"

"As for this trick of making trouble in the dark, Guo Liuhe is your ancestor; I just came from his place, don't embarrass yourself!"

As soon as the words fell, a person vaulted over the stone wall and landed; it was actually not a stranger.

Zhou You recognized him on the spot; this person was also a member of the Golden Immortal Dao, and he had previously traded a Hunger Pouch with him.

"You, are you ambushing me here?"

Zhou You thought to himself, as expected, the forest is big enough for anything; the members of the Golden Immortal Dao were complex, and one couldn't guarantee that someone wouldn't have crooked thoughts,

so they were waiting for him here.

He vaguely remembered that Guo Liuhe called him... Tao Zhugong.

Tao Zhugong kept his hands hidden in his sleeves and said with a smile, "I have always done business fairly. You leave behind the Seal Script for making the Storage Pocket, and I will grant you a way to live. Can everyone be satisfied with that?" "Not trading."

Zhou You refused flatly, "What is your relationship with Kunpengzi?"

"Oh, you actually saw through it."

Tao Zhugong was not surprised, "He and I are considered companions, but we do not govern each other. He also had eyes but failed to see, missing out on a treasure like you. Now I will accept it on his behalf and perform a meritorious service before the Dao Lord in the future."

Dao Lord, the leader of the Golden Immortal Dao? Zhou You felt a shock in his heart. During this time, he had communicated with other Golden Immortal Dao members, and the information he obtained was that the Golden Immortal Dao was a loose academic exchange organization without a strict structure or hierarchical relationship.

Someone like Kunpengzi, who went around stirring up trouble everywhere, was truly an outlier, and no one played with him.

However, this sentence from Tao Zhugong overturned the understanding Zhou You had worked so hard to form.

He and Kunpengzi belonged to the same organization, and there was a 'Dao Lord' above them? Was this organization parasitic on the Golden Immortal Dao, or was it the true core of the Golden Immortal Dao?

Zhou You looked at the other party with a burning gaze; he only needed to capture Tao Zhugong, and he was confident he could empty all the information from the other's mind.

The Seal Script 'Confusion' was most adept at interrogating the mind, and he now understood a thing or two about it as well.

The question was, what attribute was the Seal Script that Tao Zhugong mastered? He could turn a stream into a stone wall, involving geographical changes; could it be something like shifting physical objects or altering the environment?

Zhou You remained calm and took a Heavy Talisman from his bosom, intending to rush out of this environment set up by the other party.

"As expected, you really are going to leave."

Tao Zhugong's tone was smug, "Did you think I didn't know you had a Heavy Talisman and would definitely take it out to save your life in a crisis?"

He flipped his palm, and a jade hook flashed with light, "Shift."

With a flash of light, a heavy object appeared in Zhou You's palm, but the Heavy Talisman had vanished. Looking down, it was that jade hook.

Opposite him, the jade hook in Tao Zhugong's palm had disappeared, replaced by Zhou You's Heavy Talisman.

"Now you have no hope of escaping, surrender obediently!"

Tao Zhugong waved his arms, his muscles bulging, and his body's Qi and blood rapidly rose to the level of a Senior Martial Master.

"Don't force me to use force; you can't beat me."

He chuckled, "I already probed it; you are merely a Primary Martial Master, I could crush you to death with a flick of my finger."

"You, you, you are doing this wrong." The silver bell on Zhou You's stick was shaking urgently, and his tone was even more angry, "We are the Golden Immortal Dao; we use our brains, not brute force."

Tao Zhugong didn't say a word and punched Zhou You's body squarely.

Pop, a sound of destruction rang out! To his disappointment, Zhou You was fine and still standing in place, but more than a dozen bucket-sized heads were now floating up and down around him.

These human heads glowed with a faint blue light; each one was bizarre in shape with distorted features, spinning and drifting erratically.

The one that had just blocked Tao Zhugong's sure-fire punch was precisely one of those sorrowful-looking heads.

Although Tao Zhugong had heard of the Tiger Minion Corpse-Substitution Art, he had never seen tiger minions detached from a human body, so for a moment, he could not recognize the origin of these heads, only feeling a chilling, sinister wind rise from the soles of his feet and rush straight to his crown.

This Moyunzi truly had not changed his bandit nature; how many people had he killed to create such evil things?

"I told you to use your brain, not rely on brute force."

Zhou You sighed softly and said, "Since you love trading so much, how about we make a deal?"

"You tell me everything you know about Kunpengzi and the Dao Master, and I will spare your life, how about that?"

Tao Zhugong's eyes bulged, "Dream on, I will smash these little trinkets of yours to pieces."

But the next moment, he discovered with horror that he could no longer track Zhou You's position.

(End of chapter)