Chapter 205 - 141: Parting, Gu Qingyan’s Fluttering Heart, Nanling Major Operation

Chapter 205: Chapter 141: Parting, Gu Qingyan’s Fluttering Heart, Nanling Major Operation

Jiang Hao followed the voice and smiled bitterly. "I’m afraid... afraid that when the time comes, I’ll disappoint Miss Gu, Elder Bai, and the others."

"I believe in you," Gu Qingyan interrupted him. Her tone brimmed with unprecedented confidence—confidence in the young man standing before her.

After speaking, as if recalling something, she turned to look at a certain beautiful silhouette behind him. "Spend more time with her when you can. With your talent, you will go much further in the future, but her life is brief."

At these words, Jiang Hao couldn’t help but look toward that silhouette, a sudden tremor running through his body.

Gu Qingyan was naturally talking about Ye Qingxian. Without any talent for cultivation, there would eventually come a day when she grew old. Her lifespan would be no more than a hundred years.

A century was nothing but the snap of a finger for a Cultivator.

After being separated for more than ten years, although the young woman from back then retained her youthful features and was in the prime of her life, the erosion of time had already begun to leave its mark on her breathtakingly beautiful face.

"Furthermore, the opportunity to become a Great Emperor is enough to send shockwaves across the world," Gu Qingyan continued. "Your path in the future will be far more arduous than you can imagine. Nanling will not be able to protect you. If I’m not mistaken, the only way they can keep you safe is by spiriting you away unnoticed.

"Wandering without a trace is the safest sanctuary. For a very long time moving forward, you will likely be fleeing across the Eastern Domain. At the very least, you won’t leave the Eastern Domain before the Golden Scale Dao begins."

The Golden Scale Dao was the key for all heaven-defying figures to step into the Dao Realm. If Jiang Hao were to leave the Eastern Domain, he would lose his chance to vie for the absolute peak.

Because of this, Gu Qingyan deduced that even if Jiang Renfeng and the others sent Jiang Hao out of Nanling to disappear from everyone’s sight, he wouldn’t leave the Eastern Domain anytime soon.

After all, the quota for the Golden Scale Dao in each domain was never open to Outer Realm Cultivators.

"These are the middle and upper volumes of the *Concealment Art*," Gu Qingyan said as she offered the manuals. "Back then, I only gave you the lower volume because your cultivation was too shallow, and you lacked the Spiritual Power to practice the middle and upper volumes.

"Now that you have stepped into the Mortal Shedding stage, you can practice the middle volume. It will undoubtedly be of great help to you in the future.

"As for the upper volume, wait until you reach Foundation Establishment to practice it; the pros will outweigh the cons.

"Other than this, I cannot give you any Cultivation Techniques or martial arts. Nanling, as well as your master and the patriarch, most likely won’t give you any either. Practicing our Cultivation Techniques and martial arts would undoubtedly expose you right under the noses of the Ten Great Daoist Lineages.

"The Ten Great Daoist Lineages are far more terrifying than you or I can imagine. Whatever you do, do not underestimate their methods. The moment you practice our techniques, they will absolutely have ways to track you down based on that alone."

"Jiang Hao," Gu Qingyan said, turning around to look at the young man with an incredibly earnest expression.

Jiang Hao paused slightly. "Yes?"

Her beautiful eyes were filled with solemnity. "You are the person who resembles him the most out of everyone I’ve ever met. But you are you, and he is he. If possible, I hope that the next time I see you, you will be just like him—standing at the summit of Huangzhou, unleashing that strike."

Hearing this, Jiang Hao’s expression trembled slightly. There seemed to be an underlying, completely different emotion mixed into her words.

He also knew who the ’he’ Gu Qingyan spoke of was. It was inevitably that world-shocking young man who had created the *Heaven-Shattering* sword strike.

Without giving Jiang Hao a chance to react, Gu Qingyan had already turned away to look at the crowd from the Ye Clan, leaving Jiang Hao dumbfounded in the wind.

"Everyone, no matter how far you escort a friend, a parting is inevitable," she announced. "Let us meet again if fate allows."

"Farewell, Miss Gu."

At her words, the entire Ye Clan bowed in unison, personally seeing off the young woman who had sheltered the Ye Family for more than ten years.

As for the experts residing in the Ye Family, about half of them had chosen to stay behind. After all, the Ye Family was now located in Nanling, right at the foot of the South Mountain. Whether it was the Spiritual Qi or the cultivation environment, it was a rare Grotto Heaven Blessed Land.

Not to mention, Nanling not only offered security, but the underground of the South Mountain also locked in a Celestial Tier Spirit Vein. Cultivation resources of this caliber were in no way inferior to those of super sects.

Moreover, the current Ye Family had that world-shocking young man backing them. In the future, he might just become a towering tree—and it was always pleasant to enjoy the shade under a great tree.

Added to the fact that these experts weren’t originally members of the Divine Pill Pavilion—most being Loose Cultivators who had received favors from the Pavilion—over a decade of companionship had already allowed them to seamlessly integrate into the Ye Family.

"I respect the choices you’ve all made," Gu Qingyan said. "We shall part ways here."

Watching the silhouettes of Gu Qingyan, Bai Wufeng, Gai He, Wu Jing, Zhang Tiesheng, and a large group of experts gradually fade into the horizon, everyone felt a complicated mix of emotions.

Jiang Hao slowly returned to the crowd. Wrapping an arm around Ye Qingxian, he watched the peerless young woman leave.

Gu Qingyan’s words had stirred up no small amount of ripples in his heart.

With more than a decade of slaughter and cultivation, he truly hadn’t thought about this problem.

In the cruel Cultivation Realm, a peerless beauty with no talent for cultivation would be nothing but a skeleton beneath the soil a hundred years later.

"I will absolutely not let Qingxian end up like that," Jiang Hao murmured inwardly.

Legend had it that there was a kind of Divine Pill in the world that surpassed the Emperor Realm, capable of keeping a person’s physical body from aging and granting them a lifespan of at least tens of thousands of years.

Even if it was just for the woman he loved, he had to conquer the Alchemy Dao from now on and refine this kind of Divine Pill.

However, the more terrifying an alchemical pill was, the scarcer it became. This had nothing to do with the Pill Master’s realm. First, one needed the pill formula. Second, one had to gather all the natural treasures required to refine it.

Without the proper materials, even a Pill Saint couldn’t make bricks without straw.

That night.

Perhaps influenced by Gu Qingyan’s words, Jiang Hao especially cherished his time with Ye Qingxian.

Beneath the starry sky at the Spirit Peak Summit, the two snuggled close together, just like their emotional reunion back in Xingyue City.