The Nine Cauldrons

"Sigh~"

Chu Xin was still puzzled!

Gu Sheng had already reached out, placed Qing Ling, who was wrapped around him, into her hands, took off his outer robe, put some odds and ends on the Black Wind Leopard's back, and walked to the lakeside in only his shorts.

"Splash~"

Gu Sheng leaped, plunging into the lake.

"What… what is he doing! Come to think of it, where does this guy get so much information? Is he just that good at gathering news?"

Chu Xin walked to the lakeside, looking helplessly at the bubbling surface of the lake. She was already used to Gu Sheng's way of doing things, starting and ending without explaining anything clearly. When she asked him, he would just say he had gathered information, but he wouldn't say where it came from, making her feel like a cat was scratching at her heart.

If Gu Sheng knew what Chu Xin was thinking, he would definitely cry injustice. It wasn't that he didn't want to say, but that he didn't dare to, and didn't know how to bring it up. The Vermillion Fruit of Iron Arm Ape Mountain and the Nine Cauldrons of Silver Horn Mountain, how could he tell Chu Xin and make her believe him, how could he explain the source of the information?

Some things simply couldn't be explained clearly. Almost no one in the world knew about the Iron Arm Ape Mountain and Silver Horn Mountain.

Chu Xin knew Gu Sheng's background, an ordinary person from the modern world. How could he be so clear about the events in the Wildlands of The Nine Cauldrons? None of this could be explained. If he claimed he knew it from Teng Qinghu's memories, the source of the information would be another problem. How could Teng Qinghu, a villager from a small mountain village in Jiangning Prefecture, know so much?

If he wanted to explain everything clearly, he would have to find one reason after another. Gu Sheng didn't have the time for that, so he simply didn't say anything and just took her there directly. Why bother with so much!

"Sigh~ These marks!"

Chu Xin was bored and looking around when she noticed that some of the marks on the ground were very unusual. Those large pits and deep trenches looked as if they had been made by a giant with a large hammer. The deep trenches were very long, one after another, very messy.

"These are sword marks! And what is this? It looks like a fist, but how could a person have such a big fist!"

Chu Xin squatted on the ground, reaching out her small hand to compare.

"Poof!"

Just as Chu Xin was feeling bored, Gu Sheng emerged from the water, took a couple of breaths, and then sank back down.

"Whoosh~"

Not long after, Gu Sheng was paddling with one hand, seemingly preparing to come ashore. Chu Xin could see that his other hand seemed to be holding something.

"You're back, ah~"

Chu Xin happily went to greet him, but after seeing what Gu Sheng was holding, she was startled, subconsciously took half a step back, and shouted at Gu Sheng with some annoyance, "Why are you finding a pile of bones like that? Are you trying to scare someone in broad daylight!"

What Gu Sheng brought out of the water and placed on the ground was a complete skeleton. The bone quality was like jade, seemingly glowing. Despite the many years of vicissitudes, it was still complete and intact. Except for two broken bones in the chest, the bones in other places were not damaged at all. On the hands of this skeleton were a pair of purple gloves.

"Whose skeleton is this? How powerful must he have been in life!"

Chu Xin mustered her courage and walked to Gu Sheng's side, marveling at the complete, glowing skeleton. Li Qingyu, whose body she possessed, came from the Gui Yuan Sect and had heard elders in the sect mention that the skeletons of experts were different from ordinary people after death.

Chu Xin came from the modern world and had always been skeptical of such unscientific things. Martial artists weren't mythological creatures like werewolves or vampires, so how could such huge changes occur!

But now she was really shocked. No one would argue if you said the skeleton in front of her was a carefully crafted work of art.

"Wei Dan, a top expert on the Heaven Ranking six hundred years ago, a Xiantian Golden Core cultivator."

Gu Sheng answered Chu Xin's question, squatted down, and reached out to take off the small pendant hanging from the skeleton's chest. This small pendant was a small black cauldron, only the size of a finger!

"Oh! What is this thing!"

Chu Xin looked at the small pendant Gu Sheng took out and asked very curiously, but what made her a little upset was that Gu Sheng ignored her at this time, standing there blankly as if he was in a daze.

At this moment, a long-lost notification sound rang in Gu Sheng's mind.

Ding!

Reincarnator No. 111, touching a key node in this world, unlocking a special task.

Special task: Nine Cauldrons… gain recognition from the Nine Cauldrons, personal completion rate increases by 10%, Luck Points…

First stage of the special task, Wei Dan's last wish, kill his enemy…

Ding-a-ling!

Multiverse Reincarnation System reminds the host that you have come into contact with the ultimate source of this world – the Nine Cauldrons. You do not meet the active recognition conditions. Forcing recognition requires Luck Points…

Gu Sheng stood there blankly for a long time, then suddenly felt a loosening in his hand. The thing disappeared, and he subconsciously shook his slightly dizzy head.

"Hey! Back to your senses!"

Chu Xin, the little girl, was tiptoeing in front of Gu Sheng at this time, waving her soft little hand in front of his eyes. Seeing him shake his head and react, she quickly asked, "What happened to you just now! Why didn't you say anything all the time?"

Gu Sheng looked down. The Nine Cauldrons in his palm had disappeared. He turned his head to look, and the pendant was still hanging around Wei Dan's neck as always. It seemed that he was not the destined person for the Nine Cauldrons.

Gu Sheng turned his head and looked at Chu Xin with a serious expression, "Xin'er, did you just see how the pendant in my hand went back to his neck!"

"Huh! What's going on, weren't you standing there the whole time?"

Chu Xin heard this and looked down. The pendant was indeed hanging back on the skeleton's neck, but she remembered very clearly that it was still in Gu Sheng's palm when she was tiptoeing and waving her hand! Gu Sheng had been standing the whole time and had no chance to hang it back on, but how did it go back? Could it be that there was…

The little girl subconsciously shrank back. Although she had developed some courage, she was still very timid when facing some strange things.

"Take it and walk away!"

Gu Sheng bent down, took off the Nine Cauldrons again, put it in Chu Xin's palm, and pushed her away a few steps. Then, he lowered his head, his tiger eyes staring closely at Wei Dan's neck.

"This~"

After Chu Xin took the Nine Cauldrons, she froze instantly, just like Gu Sheng before. She also received a reminder from the Sovereign, this was one of their main tasks in this world, the key node of the Nine Cauldrons world.

"Mm~"

Gu Sheng lowered his head, gazing intently at Wei Dan's neck, his eyes sharp and focused, without the slightest hint of carelessness. After about a quarter of an hour, he suddenly felt a blur before his eyes. When his vision cleared again, a small cauldron pendant was hanging quietly around Wei Dan's neck.

"Ah! Where did it go?!"

Chu Xin cried out in alarm, as if waking from a dream, staring at her small hands and looking left and right.

"It's here!"

Gu Sheng turned his head and said to her, pointing to the area around Wei Dan's chest.

"Gu Sheng, what's going on?!"

Chu Xin felt her scalp tingle, a creeping sensation running through her. Rubbing her hands together, she came to Gu Sheng's side, the joyful expression she had worn earlier now gone, replaced by unease as she looked at the Nine Cauldrons.

She felt it was all too strange. She had been happily anticipating finding a key node, when suddenly it was just gone, without any warning, just like that. She had no specific memory of how it happened.