A Mere Evil Dragon Dares Disturb My Dao Heart?

Longevity...

Longevity.

Longevity!

That was right!

He was a transmigrator, and what he sought was true longevity!

Gu Yuan's memories returned in an instant.

At this very moment.

Where he stood was not reality, but an illusion!

Crack.

Everything around him gradually shattered like a mirror.

"Imperial consort, don't go. Will you stay and keep me company?"

"I'll give you everything you want..."

"Qi Yueli" reached out, her eyes full of sorrow and reluctance.

Gu Yuan calmly raised his eyes.

"You're not the empress."

"And this isn't the imperial palace."

"Give up. These petty tricks don't work on me anymore."

Bang!

Everything around him shattered with a crash.

Gu Yuan opened his eyes to find himself back at the familiar altar in Nine Geese Village.

A petite figure stood before him, facing a long serpent wreathed in black mist.

"So you're just a vermin!"

The long serpent's body jolted, and its scarlet eyes filled with shock.

"Impossible!"

"No one can break through the evil barrier on their own!"

"What did you do?!"

A black figure appeared above the serpent, staring fixedly at Gu Yuan.

"Brother Gu!"

Both surprised and delighted, Lu Ling leaped to Gu Yuan's side.

"Thanks for your hard work."

"Leave the rest to me."

"Be careful, Brother Gu. This serpent was formed from evil qi and is half a step from becoming a dragon. It's extremely skilled at stirring up evil thoughts and devouring martial artists' minds."

The corners of Gu Yuan's lips lifted.

"A mere evil dragon dares disturb my Dao heart?"

"Orthodox Yang Sword!"

"Slash!"

Scorching Yang Flame soared into the sky, illuminating the endless night.

"How dare you?!"

"If you kill me, all these Mystic Shadow Guards infected by the evil barrier will die!"

"What a boring lie."

Gu Yuan's gaze turned icy, and he struck without hesitation.

The long serpent and the black figure were both stunned.

What kind of person was he?

He hadn't even hesitated?

Boom!

The giant blade of yang flame cleaved straight down!

"Argh-ahhh!!!"

A piercing howl echoed through the mountains as the black figure and the long serpent crashed heavily to the ground, finally revealing their true forms.

It was a middle-aged man with a scar on his face.

A serpent of black qi several meters long coiled beside him, with faint traces of horns on its head.

As the black mist dissipated.

The Mystic Shadow Guards who had been trapped in the illusion all regained consciousness.

The illusion had felt incredibly real.

Looking at the scene before them, they couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

If they hadn't woken up, they might have lived in bliss within the illusion until they died!

"It's over."

Gu Yuan raised his sword and pointed it at the serpent and the scarred man.

"Seize them!"

"Yes!"

The Mystic Shadow Guards advanced together.

"Hahaha!"

"Hahahahaha!"

The scarred man suddenly burst into laughter.

"Do you really think you've won?"

"Ridiculous!"

"This is Nine Geese Mountain!"

"My territory!"

"Did you really think I had no backup plan?"

"You can all wait for death!"

As his words fell, the serpent of black qi let out a long cry.

At the same time.

A dragon's roar shook the heavens from deep within Nine Geese Mountain!

"Brother Gu, there's more than one evil dragon!"

Gu Yuan frowned deeply.

Rumble.

Before anyone could react, the ground beneath their feet began to shake violently.

In the space of a breath.

A massive fissure suddenly opened up, centered on the altar.

Not only that.

A terrifying suction force came from within the fissure, pulling everyone inside.

Even third-rank martial artists like Shangguan Weiming and Dong Wuj iu couldn't resist it in the slightest!

All of Nine Geese Village fell silent in an instant.

A figure in white slowly descended.

Qi Yueli gazed at the fissure, a chill rising in her eyes.

"Raising dragons with human sacrifices... an unforgivable crime!"

As her words fell, Qi Yueli leaped into the fissure...

It was pitch-black all around.

Gu Yuan felt himself falling, until he finally slammed into the ground.

"Hiss, good thing I had true essence protecting me, or I'd have been smashed to pieces."

He sat up, full of questions.

"This plot... wasn't here before..."

"Wasn't the boss of Nine Geese Mountain that guy Ren Rumo, the master of the Heavenly Calamity Sect? When did it become an evil dragon?"

"It's gone pretty far off course... could this really be some hidden route?"

Gu Yuan sighed.

"I'll get out first, then review everything carefully and see where things went wrong."

"Come to think of it, even though the boss has changed, the Nine Geese Mountain map shouldn't be much different."

"I remember there's a vast labyrinth beneath the mountain, and the Heavenly Calamity Sect's headquarters is right at its center."

"It's just... the labyrinth is so intricate and confusing that it's hard to navigate without guidance. I only managed to clear it before because I found a map online..."

"As for that map..."

Gu Yuan tried hard to recall it.

To his surprise, he actually managed to remember the entire map!

"So it really works. I'd better write it down."

Gu Yuan looked around, but there was nothing suitable. The only thing he could use to record it was the diary...

"System, diary."

[Received, host.]

Looking at the black leather diary that appeared in his palm, Gu Yuan smiled.

It really was convenient!

"I remember... starting from the entrance... it went like this..."

Gu Yuan focused on drawing the map.

Meanwhile.

Qi Yueli felt a warmth at her chest.

"At a time like this, he's still writing in his diary?"

Since he'd written in it, she might as well see what he'd written...

She opened the diary.

"What is this?"

The diary was covered in crisscrossing lines, not words at all.

Qi Yueli couldn't make any sense of it.

Only when the word "entrance" appeared did she begin to understand.

"Could this be a map?"

"But why is it drawn in such a strange way?"

She began trying to understand what each symbol meant.

Gu Yuan drew every detail from memory without a single mistake.

"Done!"

"Perfect!"

"I just need to figure out where I am now..."

"With so many landmarks, how did I end up somewhere with nothing at all?"

Gu Yuan circled several conspicuous locations.

"Still, this is pretty interesting."

"I'll explore a bit first..."

He felt a faint excitement, as though he'd rediscovered the feeling of playing a game.

Qi Yueli was somewhat puzzled.

"What do the places he circled mean?"

"A door with a dragon pattern? Does he mean the one in front of me?"

She looked at the map, then at the door before her.

"Probably... right?"

"And what does the writing in the middle of the map mean?"

Qi Yueli looked closely at the word "boss" in the center of the labyrinth, but couldn't understand it at all.

"I'll go take a look first."

"If nothing unexpected happens, that's probably where he's going too..."

With that thought.

Qi Yueli opened the dragon-patterned door and followed the map toward the center.

Elsewhere.

In the deepest part of the labyrinth.

A black-robed figure held two pitch-black dragon cores, his voice filled with excitement:

"Come!"

"Come, all of you!"

"You will all become nourishment for my dragon."

"The most evil being under heaven, the Nine-Clawed Evil Dragon, will be born by my hand!"

"Qi Yueli, I will surely settle the grudge from the past."

"In the end, you will be ensnared by the evil dragon, fall completely into demonic delusion, and be slain by all the people under heaven!"

"Hahaha!"

"Hahahahaha...!"