The Gu God and the White Emperor's Conversation

It's about solving a case!

Before his cultivation reached its peak, what he was truly proud of was his ability to solve cases.

The ability to solve a case equals logical reasoning plus meticulous observation.

He certainly lacks the strategic acumen of the Supervisor and Xu Pingfeng, and is incapable of strategizing effectively.

But even if he's the supervisor, don't try to make a fool of him.

Even Xu Pingfeng, who prided himself on his wisdom and resourcefulness, was defeated by Xu Qi'an when he tried to reclaim his fortune.

All of this relied on his powerful "crime-solving" ability. Based on various clues, he carefully analyzed and deduced the true identity of the mysterious Warlock, thus preparing a countermeasure.

In just one year, he transformed from a weak vessel that anyone could manipulate at will into a top expert even in the extraordinary realm.

He grew into one of the chess players.

He gradually unveiled the mystery of the "mysterious Warlock" Xu Pingfeng, and next he will also unveil the mystery of the supervisor.

Even two top-tier Warlock couldn't manipulate him, let alone Granny Tiangu.

"My mother-in-law came to see me in the Abyss today, explaining the pros and cons and advising me to leave Southern Frontier. Actually, even if I hadn't taken out the bracelet, you would have told me how to deal with it, wouldn't you?"

Xu Qi'an put down his teacup and, through the dim candlelight, gazed at the aged Granny Tian Gu:

"You made your choice long ago, allying with me instead of Xu Pingfeng, didn't you?"

"You are a smart child."

Granny Tian Gu smiled, which was tantamount to acquiescing.

Xu Qi'an nodded and continued:

"If that's the case, then your next actions are beyond my comprehension. You've acted too neutrally, showing no favoritism towards me or Xu Pingfeng, and allowing the five leaders to fight against me."

"But you actually knew I could defeat them, because the Seven Deadly Gu within me was given to me by you, Torina. In other words, you knew all along that the Gu Clan and Yunzhou could not form an alliance."

"To form an alliance with one side, you must break with the other. With your wisdom, how come you didn't keep a close eye on Ge Wenxuan? Although Ge Wenxuan is a minor figure, Xu Pingfeng behind him is not to be underestimated."

"If I could guess that Xu Pingfeng would have a backup plan, you couldn't possibly not have guessed it, could you?"

"So I think you were secretly keeping an eye on Ge Wenxuan. What reason would you have to let Ge Wenxuan run rampant in the Abyss without stopping him?"

"You once said that sealing the Gu God is the Gu Clan's eternal goal. I came here tonight not only to ask about the Seven Deadly Gu, but also to inquire about this matter."

Although the Heavenly Gu is not like the Fate Master who can freely peek into the secrets of heaven, it can still glimpse a corner of the future. Xu Qi'an had long been wary of such a person.

Perhaps only Lina would think that Granny Tiangu is a kind and gentle old woman, which may be true, but that is definitely not the whole story of Granny Tiangu.

Granny Tian Gu remained silent, her head bowed as she mended clothes.

Xu Qi'an didn't urge him, and drank his tea on his own. The bedroom was quiet, with only the incessant chirping of insects outside the window.

Southern Frontier has a hot climate, so even in winter, the vegetation remains green, and birds and animals don't need to hibernate; at most, their numbers are fewer than in summer.

Knowing these things won't do you any good.

After a long while, Granny Tiangu sighed and slowly said:

Do you know what power caused that white light that shot into the sky?

Xu Qi'an shook his head:

Please inform your mother-in-law.

"You should have heard of it; it has been recorded in Yunzhou, and there was a temple dedicated to it."

As soon as Granny Tian Gu finished speaking, Xu Qi'an blurted out:

"The White Emperor?!"

When Xu Pingfeng got involved with this descendant of Gods and Devils and demons, a sense of foreboding sank into his heart.

The Unworthy Child is clearly connected to this descendant of Gods and Devils and demons. While this doesn't prove they are allies, it does suggest they could become allies.

A friend of the enemy is definitely an enemy.

"As analyzed before, Yunzhou, backed by the vast ocean, was very likely a contingency plan left to them by that lineage five hundred years ago. When their uprising failed, they fled overseas. Now, looking at it again, Xu Pingfeng's choice of Yunzhou as his base might also have this reason: he secretly established a relationship with the White Emperor."

Xu Qi'an habitually analyzed in his mind. "I don't know what rank the White Emperor is, but he's definitely not a super-rank."

He took a deep breath, gathered his scattered thoughts, and said:

"Mother-in-law, please continue."

Granny Tian Gu said as she bent down to mend the clothes:

It asked the Gu God three questions. The first question was: When will you be able to break free from the seal?

"The God of Gu answered it—'In the final chapter of this great era, He will not be absent.'"

This is a translation she made based on her understanding of the language of Gods and Devils.

Will He be absent from the end of a great era? Xu Qi'an hissed, thinking to himself that this was a chilling thought.

The Gu God's answer revealed two pieces of information:

First, the end of a great era.

This could refer to a certain event, an opportunity, or a disaster. Whatever the meaning of "era," it involves a very high level.

Those below the Transcendent Realm are not qualified to participate.

Second, He will not be absent.

The Gu God firmly believed that he could break free of the seal. A superior being would not be blindly confident. Moreover, the Heavenly Gu Clan could glimpse a corner of fate, and the Gu God, as the source of Gu techniques, could certainly do the same.

Having finished his contemplation, Xu Qi'an nodded to Granny Gu, indicating that he should continue.

Granny Tian Gu continued:

"The second question it asked the Gu God was: Where is the Daoist Master?"

The Gu God's reply was: Perhaps he has already perished completely.

Where is the Daoist Master?

This is interesting. A descendant of Gods and Devils, a spirit beast from overseas, actually takes the initiative to pay attention to Daoist Master Xu Qi'an. He stroked his chin and pondered.

Among all the supreme beings, Dao Zun is the most mysterious and the oldest powerful figure.

The era in which he attained enlightenment is unverifiable and lacks historical records. It can only be speculated that it was the end of the era of gods and Gods and Devils, and the beginning of the rise of the human and Demon Race.

However, this period spans thousands of years, making it impossible to pinpoint its exact timeframe.

Why would the White Emperor pay attention to a Daoist Venerable who has no presence? And why would it ask the Gu God, who has been sleeping in the Southern Frontier since the end of the God and Gods and Devils Era and was sealed away by the Confucian Sage more than a thousand years ago?

If the Gu God and the Daoist Venerable had any interaction, it should have occurred during the time when the Gu God was asleep in the Southern Frontier.

Furthermore, the Gu God's reply contained a great deal of information. The Dao Venerable may have already perished? Who could have killed the Dao Venerable? It couldn't have been that the Dao Venerable got tired of living and ended his own life, could it? Xu Qi'an asked:

What are your thoughts on the Daoist master?

Granny Tian Gu shook her head. "I don't know."

"I don't know," Xu Qi'an said, "But I can't say." He continued, "You didn't foresee the Dao Venerable in the future?"

"You may have a misunderstanding about the Heavenly Gu. You're only peeking into a corner of fate. What is that corner?"

Granny Tian Gu said helplessly:

"A one-sided view without knowing the cause and effect, fragmented and chaotic pieces, and a confusion that makes it impossible to accurately see a certain thing."

"The limitations are significant and the situation is uncontrollable. It's not as simple as me wanting to know something and immediately using the Heavenly Gu to spy on it."

The difference between your Heavenly Gu and the Supervisor's "Future Livestream Room" is just too great, Xu Qi'an muttered:

"Then what do you think is the purpose of Bai Di Wen Dao Zun's whereabouts?"

Granny Tian Gu shook her head again, her voice gentle and calm:

The third question the White Emperor asked the God of Gu was: Who is the gatekeeper?

The Gu God's answer was: He originally thought it was a Confucian sage, but later he realized it was someone else entirely.

Xu Qi'an waited a moment, but when he didn't hear anything further from Granny Tian Gu, he said anxiously:

"What do you know?"

Granny Tiangu said helplessly, "I also want to know, but the power of the Confucian Sage sculpture blocked the Gu God and sealed it away again."

Xu Qi'an nearly coughed up blood, thinking to himself, "The Confucian sage is not human at all; even in death, he still leaves me with a broken chapter."

What is the mother-in-law's opinion of the gatekeeper?

He directly asked Granny Tiangu.

"I don't know who the gatekeeper is, but all information about the gatekeeper is a secret that cannot be revealed. You have a close relationship with the Bureau of Astronomy, so you should understand what I mean."

Granny Tian Gu replied.

Those who know the secrets of Heaven are bound by them.

Xu Qi'an sighed and nodded. This was the price that had to be paid for peeking into the secrets of heaven; it was the Principle of Heavenly Dao.

He poured himself another glass of water, took a sip, and stared at the old man's deeply wrinkled face:

"The reason why Grandma indulges Ge Wenxuan is to use him to find out the gatekeeper's secrets from the Gu God, right?"

If this is the motivation, then Granny Tiangu's behavior can be explained.

She had long ago chosen to ally with him, and her seemingly neutral and detached behavior was actually a prelude to Ge Wenxuan going to the Abyss. She even secretly helped Ge Wenxuan enter the Abyss.

For example, to erase his presence and prevent the Heavenly Mirror from finding him.

For example, helping him clear away the venomous insects and beasts along the way so that he could reach the statue of the Confucian sage smoothly.

Of course, these are just guesses and don't need to be verified.

Granny Tian Gu finished mending the clothes, lowered her head, bit off the thread, and said:

"Yes.

"It's late, this old woman should rest."

Xu Qi'an said, "This junior has troubled you."

It blends into the shadows and disappears.

Upon returning to the Li Gu tribe, they found the hall lit by candlelight, where Lina and her brother Mo Sang were having a midnight snack, each with a bowl of meat.

Both of them were wearing torn clothes and were barefoot. Mo Sang had bloodstains on his chest, but no wounds were visible.

Xu Qi'an deduced that the brother and sister had just sparred, and that Mo Sang, as the older brother, had been beaten by his sister. At this moment, the two siblings were eating to replenish their strength.

Mosang said:

"Didn't you say you'd bring back a princess of the Great Feng Dynasty, or the most beautiful woman in the Great Feng Dynasty, to be my wife?"

Women from the Central Plains don't seem to fit your Li Gu tribe's aesthetic standards. Since this concerns the princess and queen, Xu Qi'an listened attentively for a while.

"I brought her back for you. The woman next to Xu Ningyan is the most beautiful woman in Great Feng."

Lina said with absolute certainty.

"It's one thing to be fair-skinned, at least you can get a tan, but with such an ordinary appearance, how can she be so confident as to call herself the most beautiful woman in the Great Feng Dynasty?"

Mo Sang was disillusioned and said angrily:

"The women of the Central Plains are indeed fair-skinned and ugly; those merchant caravans were lying to me."

He learned from merchants from the Central Plains that the Princess of Zhenbei was the most beautiful woman in the Great Feng, and the merchants from the Central Plains spoke of her in glowing terms.

Mo Sang then asked them, "How do they compare to the women of our Gu tribe?"

The Central Plains merchant looked at the group of dark-skinned men from the Southern Frontier and said sincerely:

"The clouds in the sky and the mud in the fields."

Mo Sang chewed his food fiercely and said angrily:

"Now I understand. It turns out that the girls of our Southern Frontier are the clouds, while the women of the Great Feng are just mud."

"No, no, I've met princesses from the Central Plains. They're actually quite beautiful, but far less attractive than me," Lina said candidly.

"That's right, you're the most beautiful woman in our Power Gu tribe." Mo Sang nodded, agreeing with her sister.

Xu Qi'an bowed silently to the brother and sister in his heart and returned to his room.

Ah-hu, ah-hu.

The little boy's snores rang out rhythmically, and with his sharp eyesight, he saw his silly little sister lying sprawled on the bed, having kicked off the animal skin blanket.

My right wrist was wet, as if it had just been gnawed on.

The bed wasn't big, and the little one took up two-thirds of it. Xu Qi'an arranged her hands and feet, pulled the animal skin blanket over the two siblings, and closed his eyes to rest.

In a hazy state, he heard a heart-wrenching roar, which jolted him awake.

At this moment, relying on his incomparably powerful Primordial Spirit at the transcendent realm, Xu Qi'an clearly realized that he was still "in a dream," and his first reaction was:

Has a transcendent master from the Witch God Cult arrived?

Among all the major systems, only the fourth-rank Sorcerer System, known as the "Dream Wizard," is capable of dealing with a master of his level in a dream.

Although Daoist School also has Law Technique for summoning souls in dreams, those are supernatural abilities inherent in the spirits of the underworld, and compared to dream shamanism, they are like a profession versus a side job.

In the lingering echo of the roar, Xu Qi'an saw the scene.

He saw a meteor streaking with firelight as it plummeted toward the earth beneath the azure sky.

Within the vibrant crimson flames was a giant flaming bird with its wings torn off.

The firebird fell with the flames, like a falling star, and the earth it crashed onto was devastated, littered with countless corpses.

A giant with its eye gouged out, blood flowing from its empty forehead; a black tortoise with its snake head severed and its shell cracked; a giant with twelve arms whose head is separated from its neck; a giant snake whose body, comparable to a mountain, is decaying and exposing its jagged bones.

A golden lion with only half its body remaining; fleshy lumps covering its body, gazing hatefully at the sky but already dead; a nine-headed serpent with its head separated from its body.

These are the Gods and Devils that Xu Qi'an once saw in his dreams, born in ancient times.

"I witnessed the fall of Gods and Devils."

This was just a dream, but Xu Qi'an seemed to hear the frantic pounding of his own heart.

PS: Typos will be corrected later.