Gu Changyuan stayed at the Shuyu Sect for about three shichen.
They said they were discussing business, but in reality, most of the time was spent chatting.
They chatted about Lin Jingyu and Wang Yutang, about their century together, and about their future arrangements.
The people of the Shuyu Sect naturally did not neglect him; five patriarchs kept him company, personally serving tea and pouring water with the utmost respect.
After three shichen, the matter between Lin Jingyu and Wang Yutang was completely settled.
There would be no grand fanfare, no making it known to the whole world. Neither of them liked such superficial things.
Lin Jingyu had always been indifferent to fame and fortune, and Wang Yutang, having followed him around for the past century, had long grown accustomed to this lifestyle.
With no distractions, they only focused on their cultivation and protecting those around them, never caring about the rumors and worldly judgments of the outside world.
A simple wedding, witnessed by the patriarchs and elders of both sects, would be enough.
Wang Yutang said this herself.
She did not care about worldly gazes, the extravagance expected of a Holy Maiden's marriage, or whether the whole world knew about it.
The only thing she had ever cared about was Lin Jingyu.
That was enough.
Gu Changyuan was very satisfied with this.
Seeing that it was about time, he stood up and prepared to take his leave.
Over at the Zhuge family, there were still two newly accepted grand-disciples waiting to be brought back.
Lin Jingyu, however, did not follow.
Master, I wish to stay at the Shuyu Sect for a few more days.
He rarely spoke up on his own initiative. His tone remained aloof, but as his gaze fell upon Wang Yutang beside him, a touch of softness entered that coldness.
Recently, Yutang has been running around with me. Now that she is home, I want to stay with her for a few more days.
Hearing this, the corners of Gu Changyuan's mouth curled up slightly.
Good boy, making progress.
He waved his hand.
Go on, go on. The Celestial Holy Land has nothing that needs your attention right now; accompanying your wife is more important.
Lin Jingyu nodded slightly, while Wang Yutang's cheeks flushed red, her eyes full of smiles.
The people of the Shuyu Sect escorted them all the way to the plaza, preparing to watch Gu Changyuan and his two companions leave.
Gu Changyuan stood still and raised his right hand, preparing to activate the teleportation to send himself, Ye Qingxue, and Yue Lingxi back to the Zhuge family.
Suddenly!
His figure paused!
A faint fluctuation fell into his Divine Sense without any warning.
That was...
The power of karma?
And the power of providence?
The two forces intertwined, like two pebbles thrown into a calm lake, stirring up ripples in his sea of consciousness.
Gu Changyuan did not hesitate at all, instantly expanding his Divine Sense to its limits.
That fluctuation was very weak, so weak that if he had not just comprehended a secret providence technique, and if he did not also have a profound understanding of karmic power, he would not have noticed it at all.
Seeing Gu Changyuan's raised hand suddenly stop, Ye Qingxue and Yue Lingxi sensed the anomaly almost instantly.
Master?
Ye Qingxue called out softly, her gaze inquiring.
Gu Changyuan did not answer immediately.
Three breaths later, he lowered his hand, a smile curling on his lips.
The smile was faint, but it carried a rare... pleasant surprise.
I found two good things.
His tone was brisk.
Let's go, I'll take you to see.
As his voice fell, a ray of light instantly enveloped Ye Qingxue and Yue Lingxi.
In the next instant, the figures of the three disappeared from the Shuyu Sect plaza.
Lin Jingyu looked in the direction his master had disappeared and raised an eyebrow slightly.
He didn't use a teleportation array, but flew away directly?
It seemed he had encountered something.
But judging by his master's expression, it most likely wasn't a bad thing. Even if it was...
With his master's current strength, capable of piercing through the Jiuxiao Realm, it wouldn't be an issue at all.
He withdrew his gaze and looked at Wang Yutang beside him.
Let's go.
Wang Yutang nodded, and the two walked side by side into the Shuyu Sect.
...
Gu Changyuan took the two women and sped towards the south of the Shuyu Sect. Their speed was so fast that it tore through space, leaving behind faint spatial ripples.
In less than five breaths, the three had arrived at a desolate mountain a hundred miles away from the Shuyu Sect.
The three stood at the peak of a towering mountain, looking down.
It was a canyon.
On both sides of the canyon were steep cliffs covered in vines. Occasionally, a few spirit plants could be seen growing stubbornly in the crevices of the rocks.
At the bottom of the canyon was a dried-up riverbed, scattered with rocks of various sizes.
And at this moment, on the riverbed, a pursuit was taking place.
Dozens of cultivators completely surrounded a young man and woman.
Those cultivators wore uniform attire; their auras were mixed but none were weak.
The leader was a Nascent Soul cultivator, and the rest were all at the Golden Core stage. At a glance, they were clearly a formal squad from some faction.
As for the two who were surrounded...
A man and a woman, both appearing to be in their early twenties.
The man had a slender figure and a handsome face with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, even though his clothes were currently stained with blood and he looked thoroughly wretched.
The woman was breathtakingly beautiful, with skin like creamy jade and picturesque features. Her light purple dress was mostly soaked in blood, yet she still stood stubbornly beside the man, gripping a longsword that had been snapped in half.
Standing back-to-back, their auras were weak; they were clearly at the end of their ropes.
Surrounding them were dozens of enemies eyeing them like prey.
Gu Changyuan's gaze did not fall on those enemies at all.
His eyes were dead set on the young man and woman.
More accurately, he was locked onto the light lingering around them.
The light was faint, but clearly visible.
It was not an ordinary color.
It was multicolored.
Multicolored light!
Tenth-grade providence!
The highest grade of destiny's favor.
Gu Changyuan's pupils shrank slightly.
And that wasn't all.
As his Divine Sense swept through their bodies, he perceived something even deeper, a terrifying talent slumbering deep within their bloodlines, yet to awaken.
The woman's physique was related to time.
It wasn't simply controlling time, but resonating with it, the Temporal Dao Body.
The man's physique was related to space. It wasn't ordinary spatial affinity, but the true Void Dao Body.
Time and space.
Both were peerless physiques rarely seen among human cultivators even in ten thousand years!
At this moment, a rare look of surprise appeared on Gu Changyuan's face.
Even though Ye Qingxue and Yue Lingxi had followed him for so many years, they rarely saw such an expression on him.
One must know that some cultivators might be able to master secret techniques of time and space.
However, trying to find pure temporal and spatial physiques among human cultivators was harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
In contrast, they were easier to find among demon and devil cultivators.
For example, Lu Jiuyi of the Sky Demon Pavilion possessed spatial laws; Zhu Jiuyin possessed temporal laws.
Demon cultivators were uniquely blessed by nature, with various law comprehensions embedded in their bloodline inheritance, so it wasn't rare for spatial or temporal talents to appear among them.
If it weren't for the Great Dao origins fed back from the system through these two disciples, it would have been very difficult for him to achieve great things in these two Great Daos.
But now...
Two human cultivators possessing temporal and spatial physiques had just appeared right in front of him?
And both were of the highest tier.
Furthermore, neither of their physiques had awakened yet.
Therefore, the talent displayed at this moment was not considered particularly high. However, likely due to a hidden physique, they had still achieved the strength of the Golden Core realm despite being only in their twenties.
Had it not been for possessing secret arts of providence and karma, it would have been absolutely impossible to grasp this fleeting sliver of opportunity from a hundred miles away.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
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