Gu Zhao: Then I'll Let Him Go For Now

"No wonder," Gu Zhao looked at Xiuniang. At this moment, Xiuniang was filled with Mana, and it was even slowly improving her body. She felt her skin had become much better. "Is the effect of the Soul-Bonding this obvious?"

"Of course!" Bai Ke said proudly. "I am a descendant of the Celestial Fox. If Xiuniang Soul-Bonds with me, she will surely become a great Mage whose name shakes the world!"

Gu Zhao said softly, "A descendant of the Celestial Fox, yet you can't speak for yourself."

Bai Ke was furious. "That's because I'm only sixteen!"

Gu Zhao raised an eyebrow and glanced sideways. "I remember foxes don't live long. Sixteen years old, isn't that already past the lifespan of most foxes? And you're still calling yourself not an old lady?"

The fur on Bai Ke's tail stood on end. "I'm not an ordinary fox, I'm a fox demon. No, that's not right, I've never harmed the innocent and have no malevolent aura. I should be called a fox spirit. I'm not a demon, I'm a Spirit Lord!"

Gu Zhao nodded in understanding, having learned another new piece of knowledge.

"Alright, alright, you're a Spirit Lord," Gu Zhao waved his hand. "Then, Spirit Lord, the villagers were all knocked unconscious by your roar. When will they wake up?"

"I am a Spirit Lord, but my name is not Spirit Lord. I have a name, my name is Bai Ke!"

Bai Ke emphasized. Seeing Xiuniang also looking at Elder He in the house with some concern, she then said, "They are just sleeping normally. They should recover in about two to three hours, and it won't even affect them needing to get up at night."

"Your surname is really Bai?" Gu Zhao asked in surprise.

Bai Ke remained silent. She couldn't possibly say that she didn't have a name before, and only took the name Bai Ke because Xiuniang called her Little White.

Xiuniang chuckled softly but said nothing, only looking at Gu Zhao with bright eyes.

Gu Zhao took out the four bracelets and asked Bai Ke, "Will that Golden Wind Sect Master be able to find this place through the aura on these bracelets?"

"These bracelets are not his incense statue, and they don't have any cursed marks left by him," Bai Ke shook her head. "Unless he leaves Changping Prefecture and gets close to the village, it's possible he might sense the aura on these bracelets."

"That's good," Gu Zhao nodded, seemingly thinking of something. "You said just now that you don't use the Golden Wind Sect's incense statue, otherwise you would become the Golden Wind Sect Master's puppet. Is that because of the mark?"

"After the incense belief leaves the body, it must be preserved in something with special materials. That old ghost's strength is not enough for him to absorb the incense of believers from thousands of miles away, so he can only place a divine statue in the altar in Xiu Yue County to absorb the power of incense."

Bai Ke explained, "But he was worried that the local sect members would embezzle, so he placed a cursed mark in the divine statue. Anyone who dared to touch the incense in the divine statue, he could sense it from afar and even cast spells remotely."

"So he can sense the divine statue from a very long distance?" Gu Zhao asked.

"Maybe... probably... perhaps... he can only sense the general direction and distance," Bai Ke wasn't sure. She didn't cultivate the divine path, and her strength was far inferior to the Golden Wind Sect Master. How could she know so clearly?

So she complained even more, "If I had the ability to block the Golden Wind Sect Master's senses, why would I steal the divine statue from Xiu Yue County? Wouldn't it be better to steal the one from Changping Prefecture?"

Gu Zhao understood and also felt a sense of lingering fear.

Fortunately, he had brought that incense statue back to modern times. Otherwise, he probably would have had to fight in the high-level matches right at the beginning of his transmigration. Setting aside the question of whether he could win, if he hadn't been there at the time, this village would probably be gone.

Huh? Why did he say 'if he hadn't been there'?

"Is that Golden Wind Sect Master powerful?" Gu Zhao's eyes flickered, and he asked with some anticipation.

He was new here. Although he had destroyed that Golden Wind Sect Divine Maiden in one move, he was still very cautious.

Even after the three lightning strikes killed the black-clothed ghost who was chasing Bai Ke and Xiuniang, he didn't feel anything special because he didn't know the ghost's rank.

But today, by using the Supreme Clarity Spirit Transformation Talisman combined with two Thunder Driving Incantations to directly kill three ghostly creatures, and knowing that these three were the Guardian Ghost Gods of the Golden Wind Sect who were famous in Changping Prefecture, second only to the Sect Master, his little schemes began to stir.

If the power gap was comparable to that between Yang Dingtian and the Four Great Dharma Kings, maybe... probably... perhaps...

Am I terrifyingly strong right now?

Gu Zhao: ( )

"You don't think you're very powerful just because you killed four Golden Wind Sect protectors, do you?"

Bai Ke scoffed. "These protector ghost gods were merely granted a trace of divinity by the Golden Wind Sect Master. They are just servants sent out by the Golden Wind Sect Master to do chores, and they are no match for the Golden Wind Sect Master even in a single move."

Bai Ke could see that Gu Zhao truly knew nothing.

The Golden Wind Divine Sect was a powerful force in Changping Prefecture, and the Golden Wind Divine King was an old ghost with hundreds of years of cultivation. If Gu Zhao went to confront him, wouldn't he just be walking into a trap?

Although Gu Zhao seemed quite powerful, he was definitely no match for the Golden Wind Divine King. Bai Ke decisively poured cold water on him. Otherwise, if he went to find the Golden Wind Divine King recklessly, wouldn't that harm him?

Upon hearing Bai Ke's words, Gu Zhao also calmed down.

He had just been using characters from wuxia novels as a comparison. Those characters were all within the human realm. Even though Yang Dingtian was powerful, he probably couldn't withstand the combined efforts of the Four Great Dharma Kings.

And there was no one in the world who could defeat the Four Great Dharma Kings in just a few moves. Not even Zhang Sanfeng!

So, the point was, the world he was in was not a wuxia world, but clearly a xianxia world. He wouldn't even compare it to the Great Desolation or Journey to the West. Even at the level of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Yan Chixia could cut down the female ghost subordinates of the Tree Demon Grandma like chopping melons, but he almost met his doom when facing her directly.

In such a world, the gap between each level was truly like a chasm. The so-called "unable to withstand a single move" was by no means an empty statement.

"Hoo—"

He calmed his excited heart. Thinking about his recent arrival and that the Five Thunder Token was still helping him grow, Gu Zhao was no longer in a hurry.

He had plenty of time!

"Then let him off the hook for now!" Gu Zhao nodded and said seriously.

Bai Ke: "..."

Xiuniang, on the other hand, nodded repeatedly. "Anyway, the Golden Wind Sect can't find us, so we don't need to go looking for them."

Speaking of which, Xiuniang couldn't help but look at Gu Zhao, wanting to say something but hesitating.

Gu Zhao also looked at Xiuniang, his eyes filled with thought.

As their gazes met, Xiuniang's eyes began to dodge, while Gu Zhao's became brighter and brighter.

Bai Ke looked left and right, her eyes flickering. Just as she was about to speak, Gu Zhao suddenly reached out, took out a yellow paper folded into a triangle from a small pouch at his waist, and stuffed it into Xiuniang's hand. "Try it, can you activate this talisman?"

"Eh?" Bai Ke couldn't help but be stunned, freezing in place.

Xiuniang looked at the talisman in her hand, her cheeks flushing red, feeling as though the temperature of her body could scorch the yellow paper.