Chapter 546 – He is not a good man
An Zheng himself thought that it was ridiculous, but he couldn’t laugh at all. He had just been sent flying by a tiny strand of wheat, and it flew quite far away from him. He raised his hand and flexed it. He felt that his ribs were broken, so he could not smile.
Even if it was a cultivator at the peak of the ninth stage of the Lower Completion Stage, if it had heavily struck An Zheng, he would not have broken a rib. The toughness of his physical body was incomparable to anyone in the world at his level.
However, that was ridiculous. A needle of wheat had almost killed him.
An Zheng slowly breathed a few times, the Golden-Rank herbs inside the Blood Pearl began to automatically repair An Zheng’s body. After a while, the pain in his chest subsided and he slowly walked back.
Then, he discovered that something was wrong. He had been sent flying just a moment ago, why didn’t Gu Jiuxi come over?
Gu Jiuxi disappeared.
An Zheng sped up his footsteps and rushed forward. Then, he saw Gu Jiuxi, who had fallen on top of the wheat field. An Zheng helped her up and realised that she was on the verge of death. He had already judged that Gu Jiuxi’s injuries were heavy, he did not expect them to be this severe. If he didn’t save his in time, he feared that his life would be in danger. An Zheng also had a rough understanding of medicine, after he checked Gu Jiuxi’s pulse, An Zheng realized that her physique was too special, and he probably did not have a single pill that he could use.
“No wonder.”
An Zheng muttered to himself.
As one of the generals of the Great Western Temple, Gu Jiuxi definitely had to prepare some medicine. With her status, the pills he came in contact with would definitely be of a very high level as well. Every single Templar General was a national treasure of the Great Xi. Therefore, Great Xi should have placed great importance on them. In Da Xi’s medical center, there were doctors specializing in treating the Temple General. Under these circumstances, every Temple general would inevitably carry medicine that suited their physique, just in case they needed it later on.
However, Gu Jiuxi definitely did not have any injury medicine on him, so this was a very strange thing. It was only after An Zheng finished examining them that he understood why. It was because Gu Jiuxi’s meridians were different from normal people’s.
Simply put, Gu Jiuxi’s body did not feel like it was being supported by the Qi of his bloodline, but by the power of metal. An Zheng realized that Gu Jiuxi’s body was actually very weak. Even if she wasn’t injured, her body was still inferior to other cultivators of the same level, let alone cultivators of the same level. This was also the reason why he was similarly injured during his battle with the Ghost King, but it was not easy for her to recover and even Chen Shaobai was getting better.
Her body was too fragile and vulnerable. Moreover, once he was injured, unless he used pure metal essence to make up for it, the pill would have no effect.
At this moment, Gu Jiuxi slowly woke up, and after taking a glance at An Zheng, his face had actually turned slightly red. She struggled to leave An Zheng’s embrace and sat down by his side. She raised his hand to wipe away the blood at the corner of his mouth. After a moment of silence, she could not help but bitterly smile. “Did you discover something?”
“Why is this happening?”
An Zheng could not help but ask.
Gu Jiuxi looked at the golden wheat field with sadness in his eyes: “Actually, I originally wasn’t able to cultivate my physique, my body is just too weak. When I was young, my family gave up on me and gave birth to a child that couldn’t cultivate. Even my parents lost face. In fact … So my father suspected that my mother had done something to disappoint him and had not paid any attention to my mother since I was born. ”
“But every mother cannot easily give up on their child. I can feel the effort and pain my mother put in to protect me. Father abandoned her and me, and in order not to spread the word of the man who had lost him, he took us into a separate little yard, and did not see us since. My childhood was spent in darkness, my mother had no choice but to earn money in order to keep me alive … For a cultivator who has reached the peak of the Lower Completion Stage, this in itself is a very humiliating matter. ”
“She took care of me by herself and brought me out to do some work. She still can’t be discovered by her family. Otherwise, we would have been expelled or even killed because of our family’s disgrace. She covered her face and went out to work as a bodyguard. Due to the family’s social network, she did not dare to engage in big business. She did not want to receive unclean money. My body is too weak. If it was only eating my fill, we wouldn’t have to live sucard life. I need to eat medicine in order to survive. ”
She raised her hand to stroke the hair that hung down her forehead. Her face was terrifyingly white. “This kind of situation continued until I was seven and saw him for the first time.”
When she said the word ‘him’, a very complex emotion flashed across her eyes.
An Zheng naturally knew who she was talking about. Other than the Holy Emperor of Da Xi, who else could it be?
“He came to our family’s courtyard. That day was a glorious day for our family. So in order to not let the family make a fool of itself, we had already been told not to leave the courtyard, not even to leave the house. But my mother needed to go out to work to change the pills for me, so she could only sneak out. I was able to live until I was seven years old because my mother risked her life for me. ”
“The terrifying thing is, even though mother was extremely careful, she was still discovered.”
How could he not be discovered?
If Chen Wunuo reached the Gu household, the guards in the Holy See would prevent even a fly from flying within a radius of five kilometers. Gu Jiuxi’s mother was only at the peak of the Lower Completion Stage. The Gu family couldn’t be considered a top family in the Da Xi family. At most, they would be considered a top third-rate family. For such a clan to welcome a Saint King in person, that was undoubtedly an unparalleled honor.
“I’ll never forget it.”
Gu Jiuxi’s eyes started to turn red. “When His Majesty asked my father if he knew about this so-called assassin that was captured, my father shook his head and said that he didn’t.”
“At that time, I was still on Mother’s back. Because I was too weak and naughty when I was a child, my mother didn’t dare leave me alone at home. Every time she went out, she would tie me to her back. I could only watch as he shook his head. There wasn’t a single trace of pity in his eyes, only disgust and hatred. I was thinking that if he had been able to, he would have chosen to kill us personally. Our existence has shamed the clan. ”
“Holy See’s guard raised his blade, but did not give the order.”
Gu Jiuxi’s eyes lit up again, “He said, I’m afraid an assassin who tied their child to his back would not be able to find him even if we look through the entire history. No assassin would do this unless she’s crazy. ”
Gu Jiuxi’s voice became gentle: “Come over here, carry me down from my mother’s back and ask my name. I answered, scared to death. He held me all the time, and I could feel the warmth, the warmth. He asked me who I was and who my father was. ”
An Zheng couldn’t help but let out a long sigh in his heart … The reason why Chen Wunuo did that was obviously because he could tell that the child was frail and sickly, and wouldn’t be in any danger. Also, children rarely lie.
An Zheng calculated the time, the Gu family being ordered to scram out of Jinling should be not long after Chen Wunuo went there. Perhaps even now, the Gu family still hated Gu Jiuxi and his daughter. A small clan that had just welcomed the arrival of a Saint King was about to rise in power. Because of such an ugly matter, the Saint King had spurned them and forced them to scram. Never had something like this happened to Da Xi.
Even after Gu Jiuxi became the general of the Temple and was someone who stood at the highest position in the history of the Gu family, the family would still not accept them. Of course, on the surface, he would naturally become more respectful towards them.
“He changed your body for you?”
An Zheng asked.
But after he asked, he immediately regretted it. Who else could it be other than Chen Wunuo.
“Yeah.”
Gu Jiuxi said: “He said that I’m too weak, and am just like a sick little bird that makes people’s heart ache. So from the age of seven, he made me consume the pills he personally concocted every day … It’s really great. I never thought that one day I would be able to cultivate, and it’s even been personally established by the Sacred Emperor. ”
“He …”
An Zheng opened his mouth, but he did not know how to continue.
Chen Wunuo forcefully used something to change Gu Jiuxi’s body, making Gu Jiuxi feel grateful towards him. When he grows up, he will repay him with his life, and he will even die for him … However, this was only Chen Wunuo’s experiment. If Gu Jiuxi had died at that time, Chen Wunuo would not have cared at all. Chen Wunuo’s sense of accomplishment, was precisely what raised this little girl, who couldn’t cultivate, into a Temple General.
Gu Jiuxi was lucky. An Zheng seemed to be able to see countless vengeful spirits of little girls who stood behind Gu Jiuxi, who were similar to her fate. They were jealous of her, resentful of him, and jealous of her. No one knew how many people Chen Wunuo had saved. And how many survived? How many of them had become Temple Generals?
An Zheng felt waves of coldness, as if his body was frozen solid.
“Let’s not talk about this anymore.”
An Zheng said: “Sit here and rest. I’ll help you gather the power of metal.”
Gu Jiuxi: “You can’t do it, have you noticed that after entering, your cultivation level dropped by a lot? “That’s why my injuries suddenly worsened. I could have endured it while I was outside.”
Of course An Zheng noticed it, he had noticed it after he was sent flying by a strand of wheat. Right now, An Zheng’s strength had already dropped terrifying level, and he was no longer in the Lower Completion Stage.
“It doesn’t matter.”
An Zheng stood up and stretched his body, but his ribs were still aching: “It’s just some grass that looks hard, the difficult part is that I don’t know how to convert the metal energy within them into metal energy that you can absorb.”
Gu Jiuxi said: “So... You won’t be able to do it. Only he is able to easily draw out the sharp metal energy that is contained in other objects. ”
An Zheng suddenly understood that Chen Wunuo treating Gu Jiuxi was just a whim. It was possible that even he didn’t expect to get a Temple General and a lover later on. He only felt that Gu Jiuxi’s body was extremely weak, and so he casually drew out the power of metal from the air and stuffed it into Gu Jiuxi’s body. If Gu Jiuxi had died at that time, Chen Wunuo would not have minded.
“We have to try.”
An Zheng looked at Gu Jiuxi and laughed: “You can’t die in front of my eyes, what if your family finds me and swindle money from me?”
Gu Jiuxi laughed, “You are also a good person.”
An Zheng wanted to say that he was not a good person, but he was unable to say it out loud.
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