Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way

what happened.” Gu Suihan’s eyes glowed like flames in the night as he chuckled at Li Rong.

“Oh?” Li Rong looked like he was all ears.
He was quite wary of Gu Suihan, but he also admired Gu Suihan for the way he did things and how he seemed able to sense everything with such accuracy.

Gu Suihan smiled quietly and set up a soundproofing formation.
They sat down at the table, and warm food and fragrant wine instantly appeared on it.
After downing a cup of wine, he said, “What if it’s the same case as yours?”

“Same case as mine?” Li Rong couldn’t understand at first until he noticed the look in Gu Suihan’s eye.
He sat up with a start and exclaimed, “You mean, Xuran zhenren took over Xu Cangyue’s body?”

“Perhaps,” said Gu Suihan calmly.
“Perhaps this is just history repeating itself.
In other words, the Ethereal Court and the rest had already started planning decades or even a century ago.”

“In other words, out of the disciples that the Seven Kill Sect is sending, some might actually belong to the other side?” Li Rong suddenly realized what Gu Suihan was driving at.

“If that’s the case, then your plan…” Li Rong looked uncertain now.

“My plan will go even more smoothly.” Gu Suihan grinned widely.

After a pause, he looked out of the window and said quietly, “Soul splitting isn’t as scary as what people make it out to be.
It hurts both the one splitting their soul and the one having to host it.
But if the former is at a higher level of cultivation, they can slowly heal over time.”

“The three Peak Leaders want to get into the secret realm by implanting their souls into your bodies, then wipe out the best disciples from the other sects.
If they want to do that, they’ll have to gather all the disciples from the Seven Kill, War Demon and Yin Principle sects, then attack together.
Just the three of them will not be able to wipe out the opponent’s disciples.
That’s only wishful thinking.”

Gu Suihan looked extremely confident.
He knew how soul splitting worked.
Even if Li Rong did allow his father to take over his body, Gu Suihan still knew how to take control of that split soul and consume it for his own benefit.

“So…when the Peak Leaders reveal themselves, the disciples that the Ethereal Court’s side has planted among our fellow disciples will spread the word and fall for the plan?” Li Rong suddenly felt like he was too stupid to keep up with what Gu Suihan was saying.
Gu Suihan’s thought process was way beyond him.

“Either way, all of them are going to get hurt very badly.
And if the best among them are severely injured, then people like us are going to go from being mere cannon fodder to becoming their central core of strength.
Besides, people like you and I aren’t just their central core of strength,” said Gu Suihan with a twinkle in his eye as he drank another cup of wine.

Li Rong went into a daze.
He simply couldn’t understand how Gu Suihan managed to piece together so many random bits of information and analyze it so well.
Or rather, he couldn’t understand how Gu Suihan could have possibly guessed the details of this huge conspiracy.
On top of that, he seemed to know exactly what each party was going to do.

His conclusion was that it was impossible to use his finite mind to understand this ancient fellow who had taken over a younger body and restarted his cultivation journey.

A moment later, Li Rong could only silently grumble about how unfair life was while becoming even more wary and afraid of Gu Suihan.

“Earlier on, you said that Xiexin zhenren would give me something that has a portion of his soul in it.
But he didn’t give me anything up until the time we left the sect grounds.
Did you guess his intentions wrongly?” Li Rong drank some wine to hide the fear in his eyes as he forced himself to calm down.

Gu Suihan frowned upon hearing these words and scanned Li Rong with his spiritual sense in an instant.
His creased brows smoothened again, and his eyes were bright.
“He’s given it to you already.
But not recently.
He gave it to you a few years ago.”

It suddenly dawned on Li Rong, and his first instinct was to get up from his seat frantically, but Gu Suihan held him down.
“Relax.
It hasn’t done anything yet, and it’s not too late to deal with it after we enter the secret realm.
If you do anything now, you’d only raise the alarm.”

This time, Li Rong couldn’t sit still anymore.
The moment he thought about how that thing was just inside his jiangshi storage bag, he became so terrified that all his hair stood on end.

That’s right; Gu Suihan was referring to the Demon Lord Bronze Corpse that had chased him down so hard in that secret realm a few years ago.
That corpse had such a tough and strong body that ordinary spiritual weapons couldn’t even cut through its skin.

The spiritual sense that Gu Suihan used to scan Li Rong earlier carried a tiny bit of Suihan’s divine sense.
This low-level jiangshi storage bag couldn’t keep his divine sense out at all.
Besides, the fact that he could detect vitality in a bag filled with very dead bodies was unusual to begin with.

“When the time comes, just stuff the item I gave you into the bronze corpse’s mouth, and Xiexin zhenren won’t be able to come out of it for some time.” Gu Suihan burst out laughing merrily as he watched how frantic Li Rong had become.
He wasn’t the slightest bit worried.