After I Became a Divine Monarch, the Sect Wants Me to Marry In
Chapter 108: Leaf-Picking Killing

Chapter 108: Chapter 108: Leaf-Picking Killing

In a year and a half, Gu An leapt from the Third Level of Qi Refining to Perfect Foundation Establishment.

This rate of ascension made his heart pound intensely.

He even felt a sense of surrealness.

Is this what reaching Perfect Foundation Establishment feels like?

Could all of this be just a dream?

Initially, Foundation Establishment Experts were the absolute powerhouses in his region, unreachable even by those at the eighth and ninth layers of Qi Refining.

What merit did he possess to ascend at such a speed?

And yet, deep down, he felt like he was about to be invincible.

His ego was swelling again.

Even though he had enhanced the Seven Emotions and Six Desires three times, the joy in his heart persisted.

He could control it, but he couldn’t erase it.

"How terrifying."

Gu An shook his head and sighed, then stopped pondering over it.

A few days later, people started disappearing.

Early March.

Gu An noticed that the speed at which he gained proficiency was becoming increasingly slow.

To prevent being abducted, he could only chop wood in the central area.

It was safe, but those trees were problematic.

After a month, his Magic skills barely reached twenty.

And Hard Cultivation was only around thirty.

After some hesitation, he decided to log at the edge.

"Why must it be so?" Gongsun Hai, upon knowing his decision, tried to persuade him.

"They have started gossiping," Gu An casually found an excuse.

"So what?" Gongsun Hai earnestly said, "Senior Brother truly has a future."

Gu An turned to look at the person beside him and smiled:

"I won’t have any issues."

Hearing this, Gongsun Hai was momentarily stunned and didn’t press further.

Afterwards, Gu An began logging on the edges, where he could find better trees on his own.

End of March.

Gu An looked at the nearly full Magic skills and let out a sigh of relief.

By mid-April, it should be about right.

As for Hard Cultivation, April would be enough, but without a Cultivation Technique, could he achieve the Golden Core?

Could it be another tempering?

That would be too passive.

He wasn’t confined by the environment or his Mental State.

Yet, he found himself trapped by the lack of Cultivation Technique.

The speed of ascension was too fast, so fast that he had no time to find a Cultivation Technique.

What sort of situation was this?

While logging, Gu An heaved a deep sigh.

Checking his status, the Poison Fire was still integrating the poison within his body.

Perhaps after another tempering, he could cleanse it.

If this continued, he really might be able to cleanse the poison from his body.

But it was unconfirmable.

Initially, he was just a Qi Refining Practitioner in his early twenties, why would such a poison be used to control him?

Suddenly, he heard a noise and looked deep into the forest.

He had sensed this kind of noise many times, but it had never come searching for him.

They sought those completely unaware, as being sensed and reacting could easily cause trouble.

Boom!

Suddenly, a booming sound came from another direction.

Gu An turned to look.

"Such a loud noise?"

After a moment of thought, he walked towards the source.

By this time, quite a few people had gathered around.

Gu An saw a burly man lying on the ground with a visible wound on his chest that showed his ribs.

"This is quite serious; if Gongsun Hai sees this, he’ll come to advise again," Gu An thought to himself.

But looking around, he did not see Gongsun Hai.

Logically, being a minor manager, he should have been the first to arrive.

"Gongsun Senior Brother has been captured, quickly go tell Senior Sister Huang," the severely wounded man on the ground shouted loudly:

"It’s all my fault, if I hadn’t tried to protect me, Gongsun Senior Brother wouldn’t have been sucked away by that force."

Gu An bowed his head.

He sighed softly and murmured to himself, "Another meddler."

Then he stepped back and disappeared into the woods.

Other people might not be able to track anything, but Gu An has achieved Great Success in the Qi Breathing Chapter.

His perception ability was extraordinary, and he quickly found the direction.

On the other side.

Deep in the forest, two men were holding iron chains, quickly leaving.

The other end of the iron chain was tightly bound to a middle-aged man.

"Who exactly are you?" Gongsun Hai was tied by the iron chains, unable to break free.

"Considering your cultivation is decent and your reaction is not bad, ideally we wouldn’t capture you, but unfortunately, you came to us, so we had no choice," said one of the thin middle-aged men with a smile:

"Even though it was a mistake, don’t ponder over it. Anyway, you can’t escape.

Even without this Magic Treasure, you are no match for us."

"I am under Senior Sister Huang, are you not afraid she will come after you?" Gongsun Hai asked.

"Isn’t this kind of thing tacitly accepted by them?" another dark-skinned man said:

"If it wasn’t accepted by those people, how would we dare to rashly come and capture someone? To them, you are all but livestock.

Now that they need you, naturally, they will send you one by one.

So it’s impossible for her to come looking; blame yourself for poking your nose into other’s business."

Hearing this, Gongsun Hai didn’t know how to respond for a moment.

He had known about this from the beginning.

In the end, he sighed; indeed, there was nothing he could do.

He looked at the two men, then he let go of his concerns.

In this place, death was inevitable sooner or later.

"Are you calmed down now?" the tall thin man said somewhat discontentedly: "Why don’t you shout or beg us, perhaps we might just show mercy and let you go."

"Would you really show mercy?" Gongsun Hai asked.

"Of course..." the tall thin man looked at Gongsun Hai and then said, "No."

At this moment, Gongsun Hai’s eyes shifted from hope to anger and shame.

Seeing this, the tall thin man laughed loudly: "It’s so funny, mediocrity always entrusts their life in the hands of the powerful, hahaha!"

But at the instant of his loud laughter, suddenly a whoosh sound.

A tree branch soared through the air.

Puchi!

As the tall thin man laughed, the branch, moving at an undetectable speed, penetrated his temple.

Blood splattered sparsely.

The dark-skinned man, who was originally laughing along, paused.

Then the laughter of the tall thin man abruptly stopped, and with a bang, he fell to the ground, silent.

The sudden change made the dark-skinned man extremely nervous, "Who is it? Do you know what I am..."

Whoosh!

Another sound of the wind.

The dark-skinned man didn’t finish speaking before he leaped to escape.

However, just as he jumped up, a tree branch came right at him.

Horror appeared in the eyes of the dark-skinned man, followed by a scream.

Puchi!

The branch pierced through his brow.

Thus, the man who had just jumped up fell to the ground with a thud the next moment.

Lifeless.

Everything happened too fast; Gongsun Hai was stunned.

But soon he knelt on the ground and loudly said, "Gongsun Hai, I thank the senior for saving my life. If needed, I am willing to go through fire and water for you."

He wasn’t sure whether the person came to save him.

Most likely not; it was probably just coincidental killing.

He would be killed too.

So, kneel first, then submit.

The chance of survival would be a lot higher.

However, no voice came.

It seemed as if everything did not exist.

After waiting a while, Gongsun Hai confirmed there was no one around.

The Magic Treasure on him had completely fallen off.

He didn’t dare to delay and quickly fled at a great speed.

Yet he had just escaped for a while when he ran back; he encountered a Demon Beast as he ventured deeper, so he left immediately.

Now his mind was full of questions.

Who exactly saved him?

Was it by chance or something else?

Snapping fingers and killing two people stronger than him, how many could possess such strength?

On the other side of the forest, Gu An saw that the two corpses were being torn apart by a Demon Beast and also heaved a sigh of relief.

He took the opportunity to take away both men’s Storage Treasures.

He thought Gongsun Hai would take them, never expecting that he wouldn’t.

He also took the iron chain Magic Treasure.

It was somewhat an apology from them, making him come over from thousands of miles, quite troublesome.

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