The wine madman was wearing wrinkled clothes and a grey cloth tattered hat, his face was full of redness and he was drunk.
Gu Songzi glared at the wine madman and said, “Old drunkard, have you already been around for a long time, and have been holding back, deliberately watching the old man’s jokes?”
“Didn’t you claim that not an inch of grass can grow within ten miles? I just wanted to see if your methods have become even more powerful over the years. Unfortunately, it’s a big disappointment.”
The Wine Crazy Man stroked his beard and mocked mercilessly, and at the same time, he burped, the smell of wine on his body becoming even stronger.
“Old me’s most powerful means is using poison, but he’s not afraid of poison, so what can he do?”Gu Songzi’s eyes were glaring out of their sockets, feeling that the wine madman was just picking a fight.
If it wasn’t for the black silhouette that was still on the side, Gu Songzi would have already used the poison and put the wine madman down first.
Just as the two old guys were fighting, the black silhouette was like an arrow that had left the string and fled towards the forest in a hurry. Obviously, he was sensing that the wine madman’s cultivation was extremely high and deep, not something he could defeat.
He could only flee.
“Stay for me.”
The wine madman put down the wine jug, his aura changed, and immediately, the entire forest shook slightly, and the leaves continued to fall.
In the forest, the remnant formations left over from the Middle Ages were all activated, forming a pillar of light that rushed straight towards the sky.
“Swish.”
The Wine Crazy Man merely moved his body and had already chased after the black silhouette, pressing down with one palm. This move was not to strike him down, but rather to capture him alive.
“Ding ding.”
A wind chime flew out, spinning rapidly and becoming larger and larger, and when it touched the palm of the wine madman, it burst apart.
“Rumble. ”
After the wind chime burst into pieces, an earth-shattering destructive force surged out, a large area of woods was destroyed and turned into scorched earth, even a remnant formation was split into pieces.
Luckily, the person who struck was the wine madman, if it was any other Saint, he would definitely die.
“With this strength of yours, I still can’t capture you?”
The Wine Crazy Man was so angry that he blew his moustache out, feeling humiliated that with his cultivation, he would miss, and so, once again, he struck out to tackle over.
The black silhouette kept hitting one wind chime after another, bursting apart and blocking the wine madman.
Unfortunately, the difference in cultivation was too great, any resistance was futile, and the wine madman broke ten wind chimes in a row, finally suppressing the black silhouette underneath the palm print.
The black silhouette’s hands were braced against a large handprint that was dozens of feet long hanging above his head, his legs kept bending, and with a bang, he knelt down in the forest.
“Say it? What exactly is the origin of the so-called Dead Race? What secrets are hidden in the depths of Immortal Machine Mountain?”The Wine Crazy Man’s expression was serious, and a chilling aura permeated his eyes.
“Lol.”
The black silhouette just laughed and said nothing.
The wine madman said, “Old me once swore that I would never kill again. However, the deathly aura on you is too heavy, how can you look at it, you don’t look like a living being? Believe it or not, today, old me will beat your soul to death?”
“If you want to kill, just kill, why so much nonsense.”The black silhouette was fearless.
Suddenly, a violent cold wind blew in the forest, blowing a heavenly ancient tree uprooted, boulders, dirt, and leaves all flew in mid-air as if the earth was about to roll over.
The sky was dim, and the temperature in the air dropped rapidly.
Between heaven and earth, all sorts of strange sounds rang out, some like children crying, some like stern ghosts wailing some like the sounds of killing on a battlefield ……
Zhang Ruochen’s heart stirred as he thought of the finger bone that had escaped from the bottom of the Taoist temple, his face changed violently as he warned the wine madman, “Be careful, there’s an overwhelmingly ferocious creature coming to the vicinity ……”
A gloomy laughter sounded from the black figure’s mouth.
Only to see, a large swath of black shadows rushed out from the forest, densely packed and countless, as if they were a Yin army rushing out from the netherworld.
The evil aura of death carried on their bodies was unknown how many times more powerful than the evil aura of death on the black shadows, making even the Wine Crazy Man feel the danger, and hurriedly retracted his palms, and retreated backwards sharply.
“What is it?”
Every step that the Wine Crazy Man stepped out was a distance of several miles, not wanting to be stained by the black shadows.
However, those black shadows did not intend to let him go, and the speed of their pursuit became even faster, wanting to devour the wine madman.
“Three Leaf Nine Lives Flower.”
The Wine Crazy Man took out a small jade three-leafed flower and held it in the palm of his hand, mobilising his Saint Qi to inject it in. Immediately, nine circles of cyan-coloured holy light emerged from the Three Leaf Nine Lifetime Flower, surging outwards, nine layers in a row, as if they were waves of water.
The black shadows chasing after them, just after coming into contact with the green coloured holy light, they let out miserable screams and disintegrated, turning into strands of black smoke.
The light emanating from the Three Leaf Nine Lives Flower was quite bright, and the Saint Dao Qi formed was so intense that even if one was standing thousands of miles away, one would still feel it piercing their eyes.
From the depths of Immortal Machine Mountain, a sharp voice came out, shaking the mountains.
Hearing that voice, the remaining black shadows, grabbing the black figure kneeling on the ground, turned into a black hurricane and rushed towards the depths of Immortal Machine Mountain.
The leaden clouds in the sky also dissipated away.
The Wine Crazy Man did not chase after him, and his eyes looked into the depths of Immortal Machine Mountain, revealing a pensive expression. Just now, that shrill voice was so terrifying that it shook his Saint Soul to the point where it almost detached from his body, as if it was warning him.
“Just what kind of existence is it?”The wine madman muttered to himself.
“The depths of the Immortal Machine Mountain hides a rather terrifying great secret, not something we can mess with. However, during the Middle Ages, there were great powers of the human race who left behind forbidden means that could stop them from walking out of the Immortal Machine Mountain, so we are not afraid of them now.”Gu Songzi said.
The wine madman asked, “You’ve been in Immortal Machine Mountain for hundreds of years, you must know a lot of things, hurry up and tell me.””On what grounds to tell you? Who do you think you are? Of course, if you can hand over the Three Leaf Nine Lives Flower to me, I can still tell you something.”Gu Songzi laughed insidiously.
The wine madman blew his moustache and glared, saying, “Old me went through nine deaths in the Sea of Yin and Yang to bring out the Three Leaf Nine Lifetime Flower, and you even want it? You are dreaming, right?”
“Forget it if you don’t give it, who cares? However, you are not welcome at Immortal Machine Mountain, you’d better leave immediately, or else the old me can only use some means to drive you away.”
Gu Songzi said in a deep and cold voice, not like he was joking.
Afterwards, Gu Songzi walked towards the forest with his hands behind his back. It was only when he walked to Zhang Ruochen’s side that he threw out a sentence, “If you want to renew the three veins, follow me.”
Qing Mo helped Zhang Ruochen up, winked at the Wine Crazy Man and followed.
The wine madman was slightly stunned and roared at Gu Songzi’s back, “Old Monster Ku, what do you mean? If it wasn’t for the old man’s hand just now, you would have been killed, should you cross the river so quickly?”
Zhang Ruochen, who was following behind Gu Songzi, flashed a strange look in his eyes.
Why did the Wine Crazy Man call Gu Songzi as “Withered Old Monster”, could it be that Gu Songzi was not his real name?
As a Dandao Saint Master, he must be a great person whose name had spread throughout the world.
Zhang Ruochen carefully analysed and pondered, when suddenly, his face was slightly stunned, and he said in his heart, “Ancient Pine Zi couldn’t be that Poison Dao Saint Master Kukong Zi from the Demon Sect back then, right?”
Eight hundred years ago, Zhang Ruochen had heard of Duke Kuk’s name, half a generation above him.
When Zhang Ruochen was sixteen years old, Duke Kuk was only in his thirties at that time, and he was already famous throughout the world, claiming to be the world’s number one dan dao wizard.
Eight hundred years later, Zhang Ruochen flipped through a lot of canonical books about those people back then, and among them, when consulting the chapter on the duel between the Demon Emperor and Lady Chi Yao, he had inadvertently seen a record about Duke Kuk.
It was written in the books that five hundred years ago, Duke Kuk was called the “Saint Master of the Poison Road” and became the elder of the Demon Cult.
After the great battle between the imperial court and the Demon Sect, the experts of the Demon Sect were almost dead and wounded, and there were no more records about Duke Kuk, so Zhang Ruochen only thought that he had already died in that great battle.
Originally, Zhang Ruochen had some suspicions that the Wine Crazy Man was once a member of the Devil Cult, and when he heard him call Gu Songzi “Old Monster Kuk”, he naturally associated him with Duke Kuk.
“Gu Songzi, Duke Kuk, it can’t really be the same person, right? If Gu Songzi is an Elder of the Demon Sect, why doesn’t he stay at the Demon Sect’s main altar but live in seclusion in the crisis-ridden Immortal Machine Mountain? Is he in seclusion, or is he hiding from something?”
Zhang Ruochen’s heart was filled with questions, and he suddenly realised that Gu Songzi was also a person with a great story.
Ancient Pine Zi led Zhang Ruochen and Qing Mo to a white misty forest, the trees in the forest were very huge, and some of the ancient trees, which had grown for an unknown number of years, stood on the ground as if they were mountain peaks.
There were some remnants of walls amongst the weeds between the trees, it could be seen that this place was once very glorious, it was most likely the old site of the Immortal Machine Sect, 100,000 years ago, it was feared that tens of thousands of disciples of the sect practiced, alchemy, and enlightenment of the Sacred Dao here, but unfortunately it had become incomparably desolate now, and even the stone steps that were once there were all covered in moss.
Zhang Ruochen whispered to Qing Mo, ”Be careful, follow Ancient Songzi’s footsteps forward, don’t step wrong. There are many ancient remnants of formations here, so if you’re not careful, you may not necessarily encounter a great danger.”
Gu Songzi led Zhang Ruochen and Qing Mo to the bottom of a spiritual mountain.
“Clatter.”
On the cliff face of the spiritual mountain, a spiritual spring flowed out, and at the bottom of the mountain, it converged into the shores of a green-coloured lake, emitting misty and hazy smoke.
The lakeside was planted with all sorts of precious spirit medicines, some of which were medicinal herbs, some were colourful medicinal flowers, and there were also spirit fruits that gave off a captivating aroma.
The scenery here was beautiful, the spiritual qi was abundant, and it was quiet and peaceful, compared to the rest of Immortal Machine Mountain, it was like an immortal holy land.
“This place, was once the largest cultivation spirit land of the Immortal Machine Sect’s outer sect, even now, the underground Spirit Gathering Formation is still in operation.”Gu Songzi said.
Qing Mo put Zhang Ruochen down and let him sit by the lake to rest.
Gu Songzi stared into the distance and snorted coldly, “That old drunkard surprisingly didn’t leave the Immortal Machine Mountain, he even sneaked towards here, do you really think that old me can’t clean him up?”
Gu Songzi released his spiritual power, transforming into dozens of light shuttles that flew into into the forest and struck the ground.
“Rumble.”
The ancient remnant formations in the forest were all activated and functioned, blocking off that area, and no living being could ever hope to break into this place.
Zhang Ruochen’s eyelids lifted as he said, “Senior and Wine Crazy don’t seem to have a great hatred, why are you turning him away, can’t you just sit down and have a good talk?”
Gu Songzi did not have a good look for Zhang Ruochen and said, “Who told you that there is no great hatred? If you want to heal your wounds, you shouldn’t ask so many questions that you shouldn’t.”
Obviously, Gu Songzi didn’t want to continue talking about this issue and added, “Now, you take out the Thousand Leaf Sacred Core Grass and place it into the Spirit Lake.”
