After a dinner party, Gu Sheng and others finally set foot on the road to Stone Village.
On the way back, Shi Lou, Er Gou and others were very excited all the time.
Looking at their backs, Bai Yu curled his lips.
"It seems like they haven't been this excited in a while."
"Indeed, this is the longest we've been out."
"I'm pretty much the same, but in the past years I've done all the training by myself. It's nice to have you as my company this year. I've already written a letter to my father, telling him that we will return to the White Cloud Sect after returning from Kunming Mountain."
Speaking of this, Bai Yu turned to look at Gu Sheng.
"Gu Sheng, there was nothing wrong when I thanked Peerless Hermit last night, right?"
Recalling the scene last night, Gu Sheng shook his head.
"There's nothing wrong. Your personality has indeed changed a lot."
Hearing this, Bai Yu immediately raised his chin.
"So, do you think I've been trained in vain?"
As soon as these words came out, Lan Yao interjected. "Gu Sheng, please stop chatting with him. He is the best at climbing up the pole. If we chat for a while, he will go to heaven."
Lan Yao After saying this, everyone laughed.
Among the laughter, only Hong Mei was depressed.
Gu Sheng's eyes fell on her and he motioned for Bai Yu and others to go first, while he walked beside Hong Mei.
"What's wrong? Are you not happy to leave Cloud Sea?"
"No, I just feel reluctant to part with it."
"Can't bear to part with Peerless Hermit?"
"Well, I thought my master's poison would break through when he came back this time, but I didn't expect it would still be the same. I'm really worried about her being left alone there."
Hearing this, Gu Sheng stopped.
"Hong Mei, do you want me to take you back to the Cloud Sea?"
"No, I want to go with you Kunming Mountain."
Hong Mei said this firmly, but his eyebrows were still frowning.
Seeing her like this, Gu Sheng sighed lightly, raised his hand and caressed her eyebrows.
"Don't worry Peerless Hermit. The poison on her body has indeed not changed, but her research has made a big breakthrough. It's just that the time has not come yet, so she hasn't detoxified it yet. If the time comes, she will do it."
Hearing this, Hong Mei's eyes lit up.
"Are you serious?"
"Of course, haven't you noticed that the herbs in the layman's yard and the smell in the alchemy furnace have changed? It means that she has completed the previous stage and started the next stage. It's just that the process has advanced and she hasn't practiced it yet."
Thinking about it carefully, Hong Mei realized in hindsight that what Gu Sheng said was indeed the truth.
The breath stuck in her chest dissipated instantly, and a smile finally appeared on her face.
"It seems that I was negligent. I only paid attention to the master himself and did not pay attention to the surrounding environment. But in retrospect, this is indeed the case. This time I feel more relieved."
Seeing her smile, Gu Sheng touched her head.
"Actually, just a few of us can go to Kunming Mountain. You can stay with the layman."
When this issue was brought up again, Hong Mei refused as always.
"No, Kunming Mountain is so dangerous, how can I not go with you? After all, I am my master's Head Disciple, and I have both her breath and her shadow. Wang Chunshi If you can still remember our past friendship, it will be good for you to have me here."
Understanding what she meant, Gu Sheng took her hand.
"Then it's hard on you."
"Why bother? We all work for the sect. Let's go quickly. We won't be able to catch up with them in a while."
His mood improved, and Hong Mei became excited again, holding his hand and quickly catching up with everyone.
Two days later, everyone finally arrived at Stone Village.
When Stone Village saw the changes, Shi Lou rubbed his eyes several times.
"Brother Sheng, is this still our Stone Village? How come it has developed so prosperously after not coming back for a while? If it weren't for this stone tablet at the door, I wouldn't dare to recognize it."
After he finished speaking, Er Gou also nodded aside.
"Yeah, I thought our Stone Village was pretty good before, but compared with now, the previous Stone Village was too simple. The current Stone Village is too prosperous. It feels like we are walking in the south of the city. No, ours is better than the south of the city."
"It is true that there is evil over there. We only have strong spiritual energy here. It is indeed different. Brother Sheng, let's go in."
Gu Sheng nodded to Huang Shan and strode inside.
Several people pretended to go home, but were blocked outside.
"What do you guys do? Stop right there!"
Suddenly his way was blocked by a knife, Gu Sheng frowned slightly.
He looked up and down at the person who stopped them, and found that this person looked very familiar. He was probably not Stone Village, but someone sent here after the Heavenly Cang Sect.
Looking at this person, Gu Sheng revealed his identity.
After hearing his words, the man looked him up and down suspiciously.
"How come I didn't hear about when our Heavenly Cang Sect messenger appeared? Are you pretending to be someone from the evil sect?"
As soon as this man spoke, everyone's faces darkened.
Not only did he doubt Gu Sheng's identity, he also suspected that he was from the evil sect? This is simply outrageous!
"Open your eyes and take a closer look. I, Brother Sheng, am not only the messenger of the Heavenly Cang Sect, but also the leader of our Stone Village village! Isn't it a bit too much for you to question him on our territory?"
Shi Lou took a step forward and spoke coldly, but the suspicion in the man's eyes became more and more serious.
"Since you have so many identities, how do you reveal them?"
After thinking about it, Gu Sheng took out Stone Village's token and handed it to the man.
The man took it in his hand, looked at it, and said after a while, "I have never seen this token before."
As soon as he said these words, everyone was extremely angry.
Er Gou stepped forward and roared, "You are not from our Stone Village, how can you recognize this token? In my opinion, you are the unidentified one! Who are you and why are you with our Stone Village?"
Hearing this, the man straightened his back with an indifferent expression.
"I am from the Heavenly Cang Sect, and I came here on the order of the layman."
Seeing the arrogant look on his face, Er Gou was so angry that he laughed.
Just when he was about to take action, several familiar faces came from a distance, and Shi Lou quickly shouted, "Er Niu, come on!"
When they heard someone calling themselves, Erniu and others came over with puzzled faces. They looked at Gu Sheng and others up and down, and asked with some confusion, "How do you know me?"
Hearing this, Shi Lou had a dark look on his face and slapped him on the back of the head.
"We grew up together. How can I still recognize you? Please help us prove our identities quickly. People from the Heavenly Cang Sect won't let us in."
Er Niu was a little angry after receiving a slap for no reason.
"Who are you! You asked me to help you prove your identity when you came up. Do you think our Stone Village is so easy to get in? Let me tell you, if you dare to do anything again, be careful that I won't let you leave alive!"
Seeing Erniu pointing at his nose and saying this, Shi Lou was almost going crazy.
"Okay Erniu, we haven't been with Brother Sheng for a while, so you just pretend you don't know us? You're tired of living, aren't you! Er Gou, do you still remember when he beat you when you were a child? Take revenge and beat him to death!"
Upon hearing this, Er Gou immediately stepped forward.
Looking at him, Erniu quickly took a step back.
"Wait a minute, who are you? Why do you know what happened between me and Shi Lou? Only we know that! And you are not Er Gou, who are you?"
Hearing him say that he didn't know him, Er Gou became even more angry.
At this moment, Gu Sheng suddenly raised his hand to stop them.
"Calm down, we've disguised ourselves, it's normal for them not to recognize us."
Gu Sheng When these words came out, several people were stunned for a moment.
Shi Lou and Er Gou touched their faces before they reacted.
"No, Erniu, although our appearance has changed, our breath has not changed. Can't you recognize us now?"
Hearing this, Erniu shook his head.
"The aura on your body is completely different from theirs. Although there are similarities, they are far apart."
"Brother Sheng, how could this happen?"
When Shi Lou asked for help, Gu Sheng said with a smile, "You guys have been running around with me for so long. Your cultivation has already been much higher than before. Your breath will naturally change. It's normal that he can't feel it."
Speaking of this, Gu Sheng looked at Erniu and said, "You can't feel it, but Third Elder can definitely feel it. Go call Third Elder out."
As soon as he finished speaking, before Erniu could move, someone from the Heavenly Cang Sect stopped between them, and asked Erniu with a vigilant look on his face, "Are they really from Stone Village?"
After thinking about it, Erniu scratched his head and said, "I can't recognize him now, so let's let Third Elder do it."
"Wait a minute, take a look at this token. Is this the token of your Stone Village master?"
Erniu's eyes lit up when he saw the token.
"Yes, this is the token of our village leader! Where did you get it?"
"He gave it to me."
The man pointed at Gu Sheng, and Er Niu's expression changed.
"He might really be Gu Sheng, the leader of our village, but I'm not very powerful and I don't dare to recognize him yet. Just wait, I'll go find Third Elder right away. Third Elder will definitely recognize him."
After saying that, Erniu ran away without waiting for the man to respond.
Gu Sheng and others were waiting where they were, and no one said anything.
The man was still looking at them, his eyes were different from before.
After a while, Third Elder hurried over. When he saw Gu Sheng, a wisp of breath flew out from his fingertips and fell directly on several people.
After feeling the enemy's aura, Third Elder's eyes lit up.
"Gu Sheng, when did you come back? Why didn't you send me a letter in advance?"
Seeing that Third Elder recognized him, Gu Sheng smiled.
"I came back this time under the order of Peerless Hermit. We were eager to get home and were running all the way, so we didn't send you a message in advance."
"Great, you guys have been out for so long and you are finally back. Come on, come in and talk."
When Third Elder pulled Gu Sheng, the people standing by responded.
"Third Elder, is he really the leader of Stone Village?"
"Of course, didn't you see his token?"
"I saw it, but this is the first time I've seen it... Is he really our Heavenly Cang Sect messenger?"
"How can a person appointed by Peerless Hermit himself be false? Don't you know Gu Sheng or Hong Mei? She is Head Disciple of Peerless Hermit. You should have met her before."
Third Elder Full of doubts, the man looked at the only woman present in surprise.
"You... are you the sect master?"
Looking at him, Hong Mei had a cold expression.
"You haven't felt my breath from the beginning to the end? We only changed our appearance, nothing else has changed, so you can't recognize it? If Third Elder didn't testify today, wouldn't we be able to pass your test? And you know the mistakes you made, and you are unapologetic when facing the messenger. Is this the rule you learned at the Heavenly Cang Sect?"
Hong Mei's momentum became stronger and stronger, and the man was so suppressed that he broke out in cold sweat and fell to his knees with a simple sound.
"I'm sorry to the envoy, I'm sorry to the sect master. It's because of my poor eyesight that I couldn't recognize you two."
"Spread the news about the return of the envoy. Tonight, all Heavenly Cang Sect people will come to see the envoy."
"Understood, I'll go right now!"
After saying that, the man didn't dare to stay any longer and turned around to leave.
Gu Sheng looked at Hong Mei, with the corners of his mouth raised high.
"As expected of the master of the Mirror Sect, he is truly amazing."
Hearing his words, Hong Mei's face turned red.
"It's not as good as you."
Gu Sheng smiled and did not tease any more, but asked Third Elder: "Has a person named Liu Ping come here recently with my token?"
"Yes, I know he is the person you recruited, and he has already been arranged."
Knowing that Third Elder had made arrangements, Gu Sheng nodded.
"That's good. This person is a rare talent. If we can keep him in our Stone Village, he will definitely play a role in the future."
"That's right, so I specially arranged some identities for him, and now he already has important responsibilities."
Knowing that Third Elder had made arrangements, Gu Sheng didn't bother too much and followed him into Stone Village.
Along the way, everyone looked at various places curiously.
Seeing how curious they were, Third Elder smiled and said, "The reason why Stone Village can become like this is also thanks to Peerless Hermit's work. We are now affiliated with the Heavenly Cang Sect, we can't lose Heavenly Cang Sect's face like before, so Peerless Hermit sent people to renovate it for us. You see, now we Stone Village have a completely new look."
Looking into the distance, Gu Sheng smiled and nodded.
"It is indeed different. If others see it, they will definitely think that we Stone Village have developed like this, why are we still unknown in the world."
"Many people have this idea now, but we have not come forward to explain. We are now affiliated with the Heavenly Cang Sect. As long as you know what is going on, there is no need to say anything to the outside world. If you want to say anything, just wait until Heavenly Cang Sect returns to its former glory."
Knowing that Third Elder knew what was going on, Gu Sheng didn't say much.
"Our courtyard is still over there?"
"Yes, your courtyard has been changed, but the location has not changed. I'm afraid that you won't be used to it when you come back, so the changes are not too much. You go back and have a rest first. I will have someone prepare a feast for you."
Gu Sheng wanted to stop it, but Third Elder didn't give him the chance at all. After leaving those words, he left in a hurry.
Gu Sheng could probably guess what he was thinking, so he didn't stop him. Instead, he said to Hong Mei, "Go to my place and take a rest."
Hong Mei's face turned red, but she still nodded to him.
"Okay, let's go."