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Chapter 290 - 171: Little White, Use Stomp!

Chapter 290: Chapter 171: Little White, Use Stomp!

As it turned out, players who were drama enthusiasts didn’t have much of a stance when it came to their interests. Once Gu Shanhai’s proposal mentioned that Yu Niang could help them alleviate the economic burden of fostering Dragon Lady Lola, the two expressed that they would go back and consider it.

Gu Shanhai knew that their consideration was not about whether to accept Yu Niang, but about who would take her in.

Time flew by, and now it was already the sixth day of the second loop, with the wedding day tomorrow. Actually, there had been quite a few events in between, but most of them had little to do with Gu Shanhai.

For instance, last night, Fan Shi lured Yu Niang to Luo Mansion and then vanished early this morning. No one knew whether he had evaporated from this world or left Qingxian Town to study abroad in Japan.

However, Gu Nei Zhenren was still around and had become the dimwitted son of the Luo Family’s officiant. That was expected.

In fact, Gu Shanhai was quite surprised that Fan Shi could trick someone into coming over, not to mention the highly suspicious and incompetent Yue Niang. Considering the states of both Heavenly Immortal Kuangzui and White Cloud, how could someone be so easily deceived?

Currently, Yu Niang was locked in the backyard, washing her face with tears, sobbing terribly. However, it seemed she had not yet accepted her fate and probably still needed some help.

Besides that, Gu Shanhai had discovered a severe problem—Luo Mansion didn’t seem genuinely keen on forming a marital alliance; he had detected traces of mana.

It was like a ritual.

Of course, more importantly, he had found Yu Niang’s birth time and date. Since the families of the newlyweds will undoubtedly exchange this information, he went to join the crowd for a peek. Although Luo Huaisong harbored ill intentions, he still adhered to certain rites and rituals, which seemed to be part of the ceremony as well.

As a former Marked Druid and Green Knight, Gu Shanhai speculated that this could very well be some sort of fortune-changing ritual.

"A girl born in the yang of the year, month, and hour, coupled with a boy born in the yin of the year, month, and hour, gives a sense of discord between yin and yang."

The yang of the year was Yu Niang, while the yin of the year was Luo Huaisong’s idiot son... well, whether he was actually his son was another matter, and even the dim-wittedness might be part of the whole ruse.

"Qingxian, Three-Life..."

Gu Shanhai felt exhausted in his heart, hoping the last phase would involve monster hunting.

"Wait, that painting!" Gu Shanhai suddenly remembered something. He hadn’t found that painting, but could there be a possibility that they were inside the painting?

The painting was named Three-Life Town, not a town called Three-Life but rather a sense of suppressing something for three lifetimes.

If he started with this idea, then did it mean that Qingxian Town was suppressing some sort of great evil?

"Damn, it’s really possible!"

The reason why the painting was sent to Yun Niang Temple was that the sealing had begun there.

As to why Gu Shanhai turned over every stone but didn’t find it, the reason was simple: he wasn’t in the painting but inside it. This wasn’t the real Qingxian Town.

Thinking of this, Gu Shanhai swore internally.

"Stay calm, it’s just a word game." Gu Shanhai calmed his mind. As for Yu Niang and Yue Niang, they were probably something like the core.

But with calmness came more conspiracy theories.

What was being suppressed?

An immortal?

Gu Shanhai knew of the existence of gods in this world, having encountered Black Tiger, who substituted as the Mountain God, and having seen the blood letters written with the blood of a millennium-old mountain ghost.

The existence of immortals was theoretically possible, at least in ancient times. When Gu Shanhai first visited Xuanwei Sect, he collected some information. The founding elder of Xuanwei Sect had indeed become an immortal and later ascended, leaving for some unfortunate world.

Ascension did not necessarily lead to a world with a direct lineage; it could also mean traveling to other worlds. However, there were fewer consequences to ascending to other worlds, like an exchange program where two worlds communicate and converge. Of course, such cases were rare.

Most ascensions or breaking through the void were truly heading to higher realms.

Gu Shanhai was unclear about what this world entailed, having not ascended in this life and being ignorant of the precise structure of this world.

For players, ascending had benefits, such as gaining extra attributes or even a chance to acquire skills and attributes. It’s a boon for players in the immortal and fantasy system games. Of course, ascension came with its trials.

Gu Shanhai had tried it himself in his previous life, ascending multiple times and freeloaded off the rewards. Ascension wasn’t a one-time deal; one could ascend again in a different world with a similar setup.

Of course, there were drawbacks to ascending too. Once you ascended, you couldn’t return to your original world unless you had a special item. Even then, returning would result in resisted attributes diminishing, talents being suppressed, and it getting progressively worse over time unless you left, or else it might become a permanent negative reduction.

"Forget it, no use in wild guesses now. I better figure out a way to deal with Hu Mazi first; they should be ready to make their move in half an hour." Gu Shanhai knew the time was nearly up, and neither Hu Mazi nor Luo Huaisong were likely to let him wait until tomorrow smoothly.

The reason they hadn’t acted these past few days was fear of complications since if Gu Shanhai disappeared before securing the million silver coins, they would suffer a massive loss.

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