The Saviors Had an Organization Too

Originally, Gao Guan's plan was to do everything possible to get close to Chief Si, eventually obtain the Saintly Divine Soul Treasure from Chief Si, and then use the Saintly Divine Soul Treasure to seize the baby girl.

However, a small problem arose halfway through.

After returning to the city last time, the Chief Si's sacred soul treasure was lost.

He could see the undisguised panic on the Chief Si's face, and he also knew that he seemed to have no chance.

Who is the strongest in this city?

Without a doubt, it is Chief Si.

Whether or not she possesses the Sacred Soul Treasure, she is the strongest person in this city, so no one dares to challenge her. Even if she loses this treasure, no one can challenge her authority.

Back then, Gao Guan was hoping to use this supreme treasure of the Saintly Soul as a breakthrough point.

He thought that as long as he got his hands on this treasure, he would be able to successfully snatch the baby girl from Chief Si's hands.

But now the treasure is gone, he didn't get it, and he doesn't have the ability to get it, so everything has become a dream.

Therefore, Gao Guan even thought that he had failed, but he never expected that when he thought he had failed, things would take a new turn.

A man dressed in white suddenly appeared out of nowhere, went straight to the city, and demanded that the Chief Si hand over the baby girl.

The Chief Si naturally refused, but it was precisely because he refused that he suffered this man's furious revenge.

This man is very powerful. Although he has not reached the level of sainthood, he is much stronger than the Chief Si.

The entire city was massacred, and Gao Guan almost followed in their footsteps.

Gao Guan's profession is Corpse Collector. His skills in this profession make him extremely familiar with and knowledgeable about corpses.

So at the most crucial moment, he disguised himself as a corpse and miraculously escaped.

Later, the man searched the entire city but could not find the baby girl.

After the man left, Gao Guan climbed up from the corpses scattered on the ground.

He was shocked for a while when he saw the corpses all over the ground, but he recovered very quickly and knew that his mission was accomplished.

The man in white did not find the baby girl, but Gao Guan knew her location.

He was one of the Chief Si's male favorites, and was extremely favored. If it weren't for some things that happened later, he would probably have been the second most important person in the city.

Therefore, through intentional or unintentional observation and guidance during daily interactions, they already knew where the baby girl was hiding.

Subsequently, through his meticulous search, he indeed found the baby girl based on the information revealed by the Chief Si in his daily life, and then the events that Xu Bai knew about occurred.

Xu Bai looked at Gao Guan, whose face was blank, and sighed silently.

A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime.

In fact, in cases like the baby girl, if the whole world reaches a consensus, without the power to stand at the top, holding this baby girl is tantamount to holding a dangerous person.

"I didn't expect you to still be such a busybody," Xu Bai said.

When he first met Gao Guan, he felt that Gao Guan was out of touch with the world.

When the whole world was in a daze, trying every possible way to survive, and even willing to do some extremely outrageous things, Gao Guan went against the grain and took a different path.

At their first meeting, just as Gao Guan was about to go mad, he confronted the old man who had become Thought Gods, actually wanting to expel him and reduce the danger in the world.

During their second meeting, he rescued the Saviors was considered a tonic by everyone in the world and wanted to raise Saviors.

"Is this your final reason for running to the Three Lives Mountain?" Xu Bai wondered to himself.

He mentally went through the details: how would things have unfolded if he hadn't shown up? Soon, he got the answer.

If it were in the previous world, without my appearance, Gao Guan might have actually tricked the Saintly Soul Treasure, successfully rescued the baby girl, and gone to the Three Lives Mountain alone to raise her according to the method Gao Guan had devised.

Or perhaps they didn't obtain the divine treasure, but the white-clad man who snatched the baby girl appeared, and Gao Guan transformed into a fake corpse, successfully fooling everyone and eventually finding the baby girl.

In either case, Xu Bai already knew the inevitable outcome, which was the fundamental reason why Gao Guan went to Three Lives Mountain.

"But in the end, you still failed." Xu Bai looked at Gao Guan, whose face was blank, and said silently.

Clearly, the transformation of those individuals into various strange people and those who sought to live in different ways within the final Three Lives Mountain foreshadowed Gao Guan's defeat.

Because if the baby girl could be raised to adulthood, she might truly become Saviors, just as the fortune teller had predicted.

But now it seems these Saviors have not succeeded.

"There are many Saviors, but there are even more people who want them dead." Xu Bai shook his head and waved to Gao Guan at the same time.

He altered this memory again, and Gao Guan lay on the ground with his eyes closed, falling into a deep sleep.

Xu Bai turned his head and looked at the baby girl in his arms.

The baby girl kept her eyes tightly closed. Even though so much had just happened, it hadn't woken her from her sleep, and she was still sleeping soundly.

"Saviors, and there are many of them. A fortune teller at the Saint level, taking such a great risk, must have a credible result."

"Then I'll let this story continue."

Thinking of this, Xu Bai landed from the air and placed the baby girl in Gao Guan's arms.

He was excited because watching the previous stories unfold in an orderly manner gave him a feeling of quietly uncovering the mystery. He was looking forward to what Gao Guan would experience after going to Three Lives Mountain.

"Snap!" Xu Bai snapped his fingers.

At the same time, his figure was slowly fading away.

—The Concealment Method.

Long ago, in the palace of the Great Chu Kingdom, after completing all the royal treasury books, I gained a bunch of skills, including the art of concealment.

Now, this Concealment Method has been incorporated into Myriad Strange Arts.

The Myriad Strange Arts of the first-level Saint Realm are naturally beyond Gao Guan's comprehension.

As soon as Xu Bai snapped his fingers, Gao Guan woke up from his slumber, looking around blankly as if he didn't recognize anyone.

But he quickly snapped out of his daze and breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the baby girl in his arms.

Within his soul, a guiding force told him that he had fallen into a deep sleep simply because he was too exhausted.

Although it was a bit far-fetched, he felt that this real experience couldn't be fake, and besides, he had more important things to do now, so he didn't think too much about it.

This is the strength of Xu Bai's soul control.

It wasn't about randomly altering memories, but rather about using a combination of piecing things together and guiding people to accept what Xu Bai had laid out for them.

Gao Guan didn't linger any longer. Holding the baby girl, he walked towards Three Lives Mountain. Xu Bai behind Gao Guan, unnoticed.

Three Lives Mountain.

As Xu Bai followed behind Gao Guan and looked at the familiar mountain in front of him, his expression became increasingly strange.

His spiritual senses swept across the area, but he didn't find any familiar faces from his first visit. The place was completely bare, and no one was there.

"I guess resources aren't that scarce yet, so these people haven't fled to this place," Xu Bai thought.

Ahead, Gao Guan cautiously surveyed his surroundings. After confirming there was no danger, he headed directly towards the mountaintop.

Xu Bai followed behind, and the two of them, one in front and one behind, soon arrived at the front of a cave.

Gao Guan entered the cave, and Xu Bai followed him in.

The caves in this mountain have many branching paths, and it's easy to get lost if you enter rashly.

Fortunately, Xu Bai was following behind, and with the help of the Divine Soul Technique, it wasn't too difficult for him.

After walking for about half an hour, there was an extremely narrow passage ahead.

Gao Guan continued walking inside, and Xu Bai followed.

After walking for almost an incense stick's time, the view suddenly opened up, and they appeared in a huge cave.

Along the way, it seemed to confirm a poem that Xu Bai had seen in his previous life.

The initial passage was narrow, barely wide enough for one person to pass through. After walking several dozen steps, the space suddenly opened up into a bright and spacious area.

Inside the cave, various kinds of food were laid out, and each of these foods had beads suspended in mid-air.

The beads cast a soft, hazy light, enveloping the food and making it appear unusually fresh.

"Hmm... You actually used the method of Corpse Collector to control the mutation and decay of corpses for this purpose. You're quite the genius," Xu Bai thought to himself.

His abilities in the field of corpse collection far surpass those of Gao Guan, so he naturally understands what this is.

Those beads were all condensed using Gao Guan's power, meant to keep corpses fresh, but now they're being used to protect food.

Having reached his destination, Gao Guan breathed a sigh of relief. He seemed to relax completely, found a spot, and slumped to the ground.

"From this day forward, I will hire some mortals to take turns looking after you until you grow up."

"In this way, because we take turns caring for each other, we won't be led astray by your aura and won't become so eager to eat you."

Gao Guan reached out and teased the baby girl in his arms, talking to himself.

The baby girl woke up without crying. She opened her big, dark eyes, stretched out her chubby little hand, and grasped Gao Guan's finger.

Gao Guan teased him for a moment, then withdrew his hand. "Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat."

Afterwards, Gao Guan put the baby girl on the ground and started to make something edible. Surprisingly, after all that rummaging around, he actually managed to produce a meal.

This shows that this guy had been planning this for a long time.

"However... he seems to have forgotten an important part." Xu Bai thought to himself as he watched Gao Guan bring the food to the baby girl and prepare to feed her.

At this rate, a baby girl of this size should still be breastfeeding, how could she possibly be eating these?

Thinking this way, Xu Bai soon realized that he had been slapped in the face.

The baby girl ate happily and showed no abnormalities.

Xu Bai: "(_)"

"Could this be the legendary Saviors, so extraordinary even in infancy?"

Despite being thoroughly slapped in the face, Xu Bai was still very excited, feeling as if he had discovered a huge secret.

"Let's just watch from here from now on."

"I can take advantage of this time to finish reading my Entering Sainthood Failure Insights."

Having made up his mind, Xu Bai hid himself and found a place to sit down, so that Gao Guan did not discover him.

Then, almost another month passed.

It must be said that this is indeed a super-large Ruins; even after a month, it is still not finished.

For the past month, Xu Bai has been staying in the cave, spending his time observing Gao Guan and the baby girl's condition and working on his Entering Sainthood Failure Insights.

Today, the progress bar is finally about to be full, but Xu Bai quietly put away his Entering Sainthood Failure Insights when the progress bar was still a little short.

He didn't continue working on it; even though he was about to reach perfection, he stopped for the time being.

There was no other reason. It wasn't because he was disturbed, nor because he didn't want to continue grinding. Rather, he felt that if he completed the progress bar at this point, he would be at a disadvantage.

If you take stock of your current skills, apart from one mental cultivation technique that you can't integrate, all you have left is the Bewitching Shadow Great Art.

Once acquired, this Fusion Art seems to be mandatory.

Now, if we use it, it will only be the Phantom Bewitching Shadow Great Art, along with some miscellaneous skills obtained from entering the Ruins.

How much improvement will be achieved after fusion? Nobody can say for sure. A little more or a little less is still fusion, so why not create more skills before fusion?

So Xu Bai came up with a compromise: he would grind the progress bar until it was just a little bit away from merging, and then, after collecting more skills, he would max out the progress bar for the Entering Sainthood Failure Insights" skill, thus achieving fusion.

It does have a bit of a bug-exploiting aspect, but these days, who doesn't know how to exploit bugs?

After putting away his Entering Sainthood Failure Insights, Xu Bai turned to look at Gao Guan not far away, pondering for a moment.

"Continuing to observe like this doesn't seem to yield any results."

This time, his main goal was to find the secret, and he also wanted to catch up on the progress bar. However, after a month, even though the progress bar was almost full, the Gao Guan in front of him still hadn't changed much.

Gao Guan didn't find that kind of mechanical life particularly tiring.

"It may take many years."

The exact timeframe for determining when Gao Guan failed is quite long.

Xu Bai waited here for a month but still couldn't see anything. He felt that he had almost reached his limit and there was no need to waste any more time.

There's no progress bar now, so we should hurry up and find it.

Thinking of this, he stood up, deciding not to watch any further.

"So where should we go next? Hmm, I've got it. Let's go out and find those branches and locate all the progress bars."

Xu Bai walked along the path he had come from, lost in thought.

He planned to go out and search each branch one by one, then use his soul control to control them one by one.

You get as many progress bars as you can.

Having made up his mind, Xu Bai quickened his pace and soon emerged from the cave.

Just as he was about to head out to continue searching for the End of the Doomsday Law Pavilion branch, he quickly pulled his right foot back down after he had just raised it.

"Hmm? Someone's here." Xu Bai narrowed his eyes, scanning the area with his spiritual senses.

In one corner, I swept across a different place.

In that corner, a boy of about seven or eight years old, dressed in dirty clothes, was cautiously looking in the direction of the cave.

Because Xu Bai had concealed himself, the little boy did not notice him.

Xu Bai pondered for a moment, then silently stepped aside and waited patiently.

He had stayed here for a full month without finding anything unusual, but now something was suddenly different, and he decided to take a closer look.

The little boy stood there, looking in this direction. After about half an incense stick's time, he seemed to have finally made a decision. He gritted his teeth and walked towards the cave.

They walked each step cautiously, as if afraid of being discovered. It took them a full incense stick's time to reach that short distance.

Xu Bai sensed the boy approaching the cave.

"At such a young age, he's about to enter the Transcendent Realm?" Xu Bai was slightly surprised.

With his current strength, he could sense that this little boy had already stepped halfway into the Transcendent Realm.

The key point is that this person is only seven or eight years old. To have reached the Transcendent Realm at this level is to be considered a top genius even in the human world. This level of excellence is unmatched by anyone.

"It's strange that such a person has appeared when resources are so depleted. But at least we've made a discovery," Xu Bai thought to himself.

He didn't appear, but continued to wait patiently. He knew that since the little boy had come, he must have something to do.

Thinking this, the little boy stepped into the cave, and Xu Bai followed behind.

The mountain path was extremely rugged, with many forks in the road, but the little boy was able to walk smoothly toward the cave without any obstacles.

Xu Bai didn't think too much about it and continued to follow him, feeling that a huge secret was about to be revealed.

After walking for a while, the little boy finally arrived at the cave and went straight in without any hesitation.

"Call..."

A gust of wind blew by, and Gao Guan, who was hiding inside, could naturally sense that someone had come.

The hand grabbed the little boy by the neck, lifted him up, and slammed him against the wall.

Gao Guan's face was cold. "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

He knew very well that he was walking a tightrope on a cliff, and he could not afford to make a mistake in any step. Even though there was only a little boy in front of him, he still could not relax.

Although the little boy had one foot in the Transcendent Realm, it was still nothing to Gao Guan.

Unable to move with his neck being choked, he could only raise his hands to indicate that he meant no harm.

"I am the Saviors!"

His first words stunned everyone present.

Xu Bai touched his chin and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Saviors? If he is Saviors, then it makes sense that he has already Half-Step Transcendent Realm at such a young age.

However... there seem to be some things that don't make sense.

Seven or eight years old is still too old.

Sure enough, as soon as the idea popped into his head, Gao Guan spoke up.

"It hasn't been that long since the discovery of the Saviors, but why are you this old?"

The little boy quickly said, "I really don't, but I grow very fast. If you don't believe me, look at her. She grows very fast too."

As he spoke, the little boy raised his hand and pointed to the baby girl next to him.

Xu Bai hid in the shadows, followed the little boy's hand, and then... was speechless.

He didn't know whether this counted as growing fast or not.

After all, he hadn't experienced it, and he didn't have children.

After a long silence, Gao Guan asked with a hint of doubt, "Is this considered fast?"

Little boy. "..."

Xu Bai: "..."

Okay, neither Xu Bai nor Gao Guan knew.

Xu Bai and Gao Guan have never experienced being fathers, so it's normal that they don't know how fast their child is growing and don't have a point of comparison.

After all, everyone has weaknesses.

"Very fast," the little boy said. "Our minds and our bodies are growing at a very fast pace."

As he spoke, the little boy gestured, as if afraid that Gao Guan wouldn't understand.

Gao Guan snapped out of his silence, his expression turning cold once more. "And what is your purpose in coming here?"

Regardless of what the other party was thinking, or whether the growth rate was fast or not, the fact that they suddenly came here must have a purpose.

This is something that Gao Guan is interested in, and it's also something that Xu Bai is interested in.

With Gao Guan asking on his behalf, Xu Bai naturally didn't intervene or show his face; he just listened quietly from the side.

The little boy withdrew his hand, pointed to himself, then to the baby girl, and said in a very sympathetic tone, "We want to take her back. We are the same kind of people, and it is extremely dangerous here, so we can only find a safe place."

"Us?" Gao Guan frowned even more deeply. "You have another organization?"

The little boy just now said "we" instead of "I," which proves there are quite a lot of people.

The little boy revealed a bitterness beyond his years. "When a vulnerable group is targeted by everyone, the only thing they can do is not fight each other individually, but to clench their fists tightly, so that they can have a chance to survive."

"We have been searching for people like us. We believe that only by uniting as one can we truly survive."

"So, could you let me take her back?"

The little boy spoke so pitifully, as if he felt abandoned by the whole world.

Xu Bai stroked his chin, pondering the little boy's words, and finally came to a conclusion.

"There is no evidence to support these claims. Who can believe him based solely on his words? I doubt Gao Guan would agree."

If it were Xu Bai, Xu Bai wouldn't believe it either. He felt that since Gao Guan was able to devise such a plan, he certainly wouldn't believe it.

After the little boy finished speaking, he looked at Gao Guan with an expectant gaze.

He believed that after saying so much, the other party would at least soften their stance.

Silence fell over the surroundings, and Gao Guan remained silent.

His hand was still gripping the little boy's neck, with no intention of letting go.

After a few minutes, Gao Guan turned his head, looked at the baby girl on the ground, then turned to look at the little boy, and slowly uttered a single word.

"Roll!"