Cultivation Amid Mortals, Summoned Back to the Mountain Gate

Chapter 229: Cultivation Amid Mortals, Summoned Back to the Mountain Gate

The nameless little courtyard stood empty.

But suddenly, the gu insects within the courtyard shot into the air, circling as they descended upon a grave mound in the very center of the yard.

The gu insects dug through the earthen mound with their jointed limbs, exposing a large vat buried deep underground.

There was someone inside the vat. Deathly qi clung heavily to his body. His hair was quite long, twisted like roots; his hands were like chicken claws, and his nails curled around his body three times over. He looked, unmistakably, like an ancient zombie that had lain dead for years.

Yet when he abruptly opened his eyes, they were bright and clear—the eyes of a young man, blue showing through white, brimming with life.

Thump, thump. The sound of a heartbeat immediately rang from the chest of the person in the vat. It was thunderously loud, like drums being beaten, causing the entire water vat to tremble.

With a crack, the vat could no longer withstand the sound of his heartbeat and suddenly split apart. The man sprang to his feet, leapt into the air, and landed in the middle of the courtyard.

With breaths as powerful as an ox's, his skin, membranes, sinews, and flesh visibly swelled. His figure stretched tall, his face filled out, and in only a few blinks, he had transformed completely into a youth of no more than seventeen or eighteen.

This person was Fang Shu.

Delight shone in his eyes as he exhaled a long breath of pent-up air.

"Three months have passed. My bitter cultivation was not in vain!"

The true qi in his body turned with his thoughts, immediately transforming into waves of death qi. His face withered once