frightfiction Chapter 566: Brainstorming
Chapter 566: Brainstorming
Chapter 566: Brainstorming
"The remaining four areas aren't necessarily any safer than the Dragon Scorpion Desert..."
Gu Heng remained outwardly calm.
His eyelids kept twitching, and he had already started brainstorming, so he didn't pay attention to what Shu Tao was saying next.
Those few little dragon scorpion beasts we just killed actually had the strength of the Nascent Soul stage?
But the last time someone helped him test his strength was only... a little over three months ago, at the foot of the Ancient Flower Mountains, with the help of an old cultivator from the Eastern Frontier Alliance whom he had met by chance. It was then that Gu Heng first gained some understanding of his strength after becoming a cultivator. Back then, he was only at the Nascent Soul stage, wasn't he?
Gu Heng naturally didn't doubt whether the old cultivator was deceiving him. After all, the old man was a legitimate cultivator who had shown his skills before, so Gu Heng believed whatever he said. If he said he was a Nascent Soul cultivator, then he was a Nascent Soul cultivator.
But what is happening now?
Without a doubt, the two sisters, Shutao and Shuying, had no reason to tease him. The fact that he was chased so badly just now was definitely not untrue. But that's precisely why Gu Heng was having such a brainstorming session.
If what she said is true, then those five or six dragon-scorpion beasts just now all had the cultivation level of the Nascent Soul stage...
He was just a mere "Nascent Soul" cultivator; how dare he charge at their faces like that? He should have died long ago!
Although Gu Heng started cultivating late, he knew all the essential "basic knowledge of cultivators." Even if a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators attacked a Spirit Transformation cultivator together, the Spirit Transformation cultivator would still win. A Spirit Transformation cultivator might just get tired and not even be out of breath, but a Nascent Soul cultivator would have to risk their life!
Then.
Just now, I killed a Nascent Soul stage dragon scorpion beast with a single strike. A Nascent Soul stage cultivator definitely couldn't do that, right?
No matter how hard you try, it's impossible!
Then there are only two possibilities.
Firstly, during the three months he spent slacking off and not even trying to cultivate in the desolate city, his strength jumped directly from the Nascent Soul stage to the Spirit Division stage, essentially boosting his strength while he was just idling around.
Or perhaps, the result of my first "test of strength" was wrong from the start!
He was never a Nascent Soul cultivator. It was only because of that old cultivator from the Eastern Frontier Alliance that, at most, with his abilities, he could only measure the strength of the "highest Nascent Soul stage"!
Gu Heng could only draw these two conclusions; any other guesses were basically unreasonable. Either he became stronger by idling for three months, or he had already become very strong the moment he unlocked the "cultivation function"... or, it was possible that he had been very strong for a very long time, rather than a change that occurred in just a few months.
But Gu Heng completely ignored the last conclusion.
He used to live a truly ordinary life, with no money and no strength. He had to pretend to be respectful and obsequious even when he met a Foundation Establishment cultivator. Just thinking about it made him feel miserable.
"...Fellow Daoist Gu, Fellow Daoist Gu?"
Shu Tao tugged at Gu Heng's sleeve, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
"Are you OK?"
"Oh, I'm fine. I was just thinking."
Gu Heng's brainstorming session has ended.
In conclusion, regardless of the circumstances, he has become stronger. He's not just at the Nascent Soul stage, nor at the Spirit Division stage, but the kind of strong who can use Spirit Division stage demonic beasts as targets and kill them with a single strike! Above Spirit Division is the Integration stage!
But Gu Heng felt it was more than that.
Because the ones he killed a few days ago weren't these juvenile dragon scorpion beasts, they were all adult dragon scorpion beasts!
Moreover, there was an exceptionally large, super-giant scorpion, resembling a demon chieftain or a demon beast king.
As a result, he killed it with a single throwing knife, dying instantly. At the time, Gu Heng thought these scorpions were all show and no substance, but it was probably because he was too skilled, not because the scorpions were too useless.
So, if the juvenile dragon scorpion beast is at the Nascent Soul stage, what is the strength of the adult dragon scorpion beast and that giant scorpion king?
do not know.
Moreover, Shutao and Shuying seemed to know nothing about this either.
According to them, this Sacred Dragon Cave only opens once every five thousand years, so they probably don't know much about it themselves.
Gu Heng was still quite excited, though not as excited as when he first learned that he could cultivate.
Becoming stronger was to be expected, but he still couldn't figure out whether he was getting stronger by idling or was already very strong to begin with.
But it doesn't matter what.
At least I'm no longer a lowly Nascent Soul cultivator.
"Uh...you two sisters, your next plan is to go back to your senior sister's team, right?"
Gu Heng asked.
"Yes, that's the only way. Two people like us definitely won't survive here, let alone hunt monsters and accumulate 'Holy Dragon Blood'."
Shu Tao knew she had no choice. Neither she nor Shu Ying were strong enough; at least in this situation, they were definitely not good enough. If they didn't stick together, they would surely die.
"In that case, I'll see you off."
Gu Heng decided to see it through. "How could I accept this? Fellow Daoist Gu was just passing through and could have easily ignored us, but now you're troubling me by bringing along two useless burdens..."
Shutao seems like a strong and sunny girl, but the moment she opens her mouth, she sounds incredibly downcast, as if she's having a very hard time.
This kind of personality is mostly due to some kind of trauma.
"I've known your senior sister for a long time. If I just abandon you two, it will be really awkward when I see her next time. So this is the decision!"
Gu Heng's tone was firm, but the two sisters had a different feeling about it.
Since she is Bai Feier's junior sister, he can't just ignore her. Besides, helping her doesn't seem to be difficult for him.
He's already so capable, what's wrong with taking care of two younger sisters?
There's no rule against bringing girls along. "...Alright, then I'll trouble you, fellow Daoist."
It was hard to refuse such kindness, and to refuse again would be disrespectful. Having already saved the two sisters, Shu Tao couldn't bring herself to say anything in refusal.
“Miss Shutao, please lead the way. I’m not familiar with this place. You should have something that can sense the main group.”
"some."
Shu Tao channeled her Dao power into the identity token at her waist, then pointed to the northwest.
"That way."