Chapter 411: Chapter 410: Those Who Seek Allegiance

As for the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Python’s wide mouth, it has now shrunk its body and is lazily basking in the sun among the hills and forests.

The bright, golden sunlight shines on its black, hazy scales without reflecting any light.

Instead, the sunlight is all devoured by it, making the mouth look even darker and obscured from view.

A centipede more than three feet long, with silver light flashing from its body and possessing a menacing yet exquisite beauty, darted from the other end of the forest with incredible speed, leaving a long streak of silver tail light.

It is chasing a highly toxic centipede…

The Silver-backed Centipede possesses a strange poison that can kill a Golden Core Great Cultivator, and its toxicity comes from consuming other toxic insects and creatures.

The more poisonous insects it eats, the more terrifying its poison becomes.

It’s said that the mature Silver-backed Centipede’s venom is unbearable even for a Yin God Giant.

Elsewhere, a white-furred treasure hunting mouse is digging a tunnel inside a mouse hole, next to some sparkling treasures.

This is exactly Gu Yuan’s first Spirit Pet—Little Treasure Hunting Mouse, Ah Huang.

These Spirit Pets, since they were released by Gu Yuan, have been enjoying their freedom joyfully.

Of course, with Gu Yuan’s instruction, the Spirit Pets intentionally avoid the gaze of outsiders and have no intention to reveal themselves.

Even if someone did notice some traces here, this is Gu Yuan’s territory, and no one would dare cause any trouble.

As for Gu Yuan’s other two Spirit Pets, Cyan Shadow Sword Butterfly, Xiao Qing, and Thousand-Change Pill Spirit, Cai Yun.

Compared to the latter, due to its low Spiritual Wisdom and lack of self-defense capability, it hides inside Gu Yuan’s new Alchemy Room, absorbing the Essence of Spiritual Qi from several bottles of Spirit Pill.

Meanwhile, Cyan Shadow Sword Butterfly, Xiao Qing, is now nestled inside Gu Yuan’s Spirit Beast Bag, laying still.

The cyan light emitted from its body has grown increasingly intense, and the black patterns on its wings have become ever more mysterious, filled with an extremely sharp aura.

Its appearance seems tiny and exquisite, exceptionally beautiful, yet it is actually full of danger.

According to Gu Yuan’s observation, Xiao Qing now basically belongs to the mature form of Cyan Shadow Sword Butterfly, as shown in the Spirit Pet System.

The reason Xiao Qing hasn’t awakened yet is that it’s currently in some special Status, and once it wakes up, it can level up.

As for when, it won’t be long, Gu Yuan estimates about one to two months.

Gu Yuan called out the Cyan Shadow Sword Butterfly from the Spirit Beast Bag, placing it at the root of a Spirit Medicine nearby, letting this Spirit Medicine of thousands of years nourish it subtly.

Knock, knock, knock! Knock, knock, knock!

Soon, a knocking sound came from outside the main hall’s door, and a beautifully featured and exquisite lady entered, first bowing to Gu Yuan and then saying:

“Brother Gu, two Inner Sect Disciples have come to see you.”

Gu Yuan wasn’t surprised, merely nodded gently, saying: “Hmm, let them come.”

This lady is named Qiu Yue, one of the two maids responsible for attending to Gu Yuan on the Suspension Dragon Boat when he first joined Medicine King Mountain.

The other maid, Qiu Zhi, was killed because someone attacked Gu Yuan, and the Yin Demon hid inside Qiu Zhi’s body. Qiu Yue was fortunate, protected timely by Gu Yuan, and survived by luck.

Now, Gu Yuan has become a True Disciple and needs a “housekeeper” type to help manage, so Gu Yuan naturally chose Qiu Yue to be his housekeeper.

Qiu Yue is grateful for Gu Yuan’s favor towards her and is quite appreciative, diligently handling various daily affairs for Gu Yuan, without any neglect.

…

At the foot of White Cloud Mountain, Fan Changming and Wu Shanshan were waiting quietly, occasionally looking at the surroundings, sometimes at the big hall, looming on the mountainside.

After a moment of silence between the two, Wu Shanshan hesitated and said: “Brother Fan, what if Brother Gu disagrees?”

Fan Changming glanced around, seeing no one’s attention on them, smiled, and said: “Don’t worry, little sister, Brother Gu himself is steady and cheerful, and now just promoted to True Disciple, he doesn’t have many people under him, so it’s the time where he lacks manpower.”

“Although we aren’t the most outstanding among the many Inner Sect Disciples, we’re not much inferior to people like Liu Xinjun, either. We offered ourselves, Brother Gu shouldn’t refuse, right?”

Wu Shanshan thought about it and felt it made sense, so she nodded slightly.

The two came to “seek refuge” with Gu Yuan.

Since every True Disciple is qualified to employ other Inner, Outer, and Servant Disciples to work for them.

This way, True Disciples will have more time for cultivation, and these disciples, through associating with True Disciples, generally aren’t easily annoyed by others and occasionally can obtain more Cultivation Resources.

Therefore, once someone becomes a True Disciple, many Inner, Outer, and Servant Disciples often choose to actively pay visits, wanting to work for them.

Wu Shanshan and Fan Changming are no exception.

Speaking of which, the two’s talents are quite good among many Inner Sect Disciples, but sadly… just good, not top-notch, and due to their background, they don’t have much solid backing, so compared with other concurrent Inner Sect Disciples, they really don’t see much of a future.

If they cultivate step-by-step like this, the possibility of promoting to a Golden Core Great Cultivator is truly slim, as for Upper Grade Pill Formation, it’s even less likely.

Therefore, they can only choose to find other ways, looking for other paths…

The two looked at each other, though they didn’t speak, they were quite emotional inside.

Speaking of which, Gu Yuan’s reputation inside Medicine King Mountain, especially among these disciples, isn’t just average.

Because he promoted to True Disciple so quickly, especially many Inner Sect Disciples, originally planned to compete with him, yet didn’t expect shortly after Gu Yuan returned to Medicine King Mountain, he became True Disciple, leaving many people’s ideas undermined.

Ordinary Inner Sect Disciples, wanting to promote to True Disciple, must first arduously cultivate until reaching the Celestial Human Realm Great Perfection Realm, only then having the qualification to become True Disciple.

But it’s merely qualification.

To truly become True Disciple, requires mastering at least two Top-Grade Divine Techniques.

As for the two of them, not to mention Top-Grade Divine Techniques, they only mastered one Upper Grade Divine Technique, and even that took almost all their effort.

If they wanted to master Doorway Top-Grade Divine Techniques, not to mention the Cultivation Resources required, they don’t even have the corresponding Cultivation Daoist Scripture.

How are they supposed to manage?

After learning of Gu Yuan’s promotion to True Disciple, the two didn’t have complex thoughts like other Inner Sect Disciples, simply discussed briefly, then decisively chose to seek refuge with Gu Yuan.

So today, confirming Gu Yuan had settled his matters, the two directly came to visit.

Soon, Qiu Yue had descended the mountain, inviting the two up.

Only then did the two stabilize their minds and began to follow Qiu Yue, heading straight to the mountainside.

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