Longevity: Starting from Refining Gu

Xuanping was initially angry, but thinking that Chen Qing was still fighting for his life in the Death Realm, risking everything, and with Chaotian City already fallen and urgently needing the protection of a True Monarch, she eventually succumbed and knelt down.

In the blink of an eye, a month passed, and Xuanping had knelt at Haoran Temple for a month.

On this day, as Xuanping was kneeling, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, and her head spun uncontrollably.

Before she could react and examine her body with spiritual energy, she fainted and collapsed in front of Haoran Temple.

Wu Zhao, carrying a bundle of precious medicines wrapped in a lotus leaf, was humming a tune as he returned. Just as he reached the entrance, he saw the fainted Xuanping.

"What happened here?"

"Perfectly fine, at the peak of Foundation Establishment, only knelt for a month, how did she faint?"

Wu Zhao hurriedly checked her breathing, "She still breathes, quickly call the master to take a look."

He ran into Haoran Temple, and after a short while, an elderly Daoist with white hair walked out quickly, took a careful look at Xuanping.

This Daoist bore an uncanny resemblance to the Mountain Master of Wuyou Mountain, with a rigid face, as if carved in wood, approaching Xuanping, "I kindly arranged a marriage for Chen Qing, brought the Sword Travel Palace into the fold, but didn't expect to be disrupted by you, getting ahead."

"Provoking the displeasure of Sword Travel Palace, and even with Chen Qing entering the Death Realm, didn't gain strong support, merely slight assistance."

"I only intended for a minor punishment, why did she suddenly faint?"

He was about to perform a calculation with his fingers but suddenly saw a Nine-colored Auspicious Cloud floating in the sky; an immortal crane perched on it, holding a Ninth Transformation Golden Dan in its beak, arriving before Xuanping.

The Ninth Transformation Golden Dan fell onto Xuanping's lower abdomen, merging into her body.

The entire Book Mountain was filled with immortal sounds, and strange phenomena appeared everywhere.

At this moment, a middle-aged Daoist in a red Daoist robe ran out quickly, "Master, there's a change in the worldly literary fortune!"

Haoran True Monarch pointed at Xuanping, leisurely saying, "That anomaly lies within this woman's womb."

Dan Yangzi stepped forward, felt her pulse, and after a moment, exclaimed, "This woman is already pregnant, by my reading, she's over six months along."

"Foundation Establishment giving birth, pregnant for three years, it should be two and a half years until birth."

"Who is this woman, and why is her unborn child already gathering worldly literary fortune?"

"And just now, with the natural phenomenon, the crane delivering the Dan, if I'm not mistaken, it's the birth of a brand-new Gu."

Haoran True Monarch, with his hands behind his back, said, "This is the wife of Lord Wen of Nanli, Chen Qing, and the fetus in her womb is Chen Qing's flesh and blood."

Dan Yangzi said, "I have also read Chen Qing's Gu Book, saying this person carries the worldly literary fortune I believe too. Only with such fortune can one write such a world-shaking Daoist book!"

"But why, now, is the literary fortune converging toward his flesh and blood?"

Haoran True Monarch looked up at the sky, and said gloomily, "That can only mean one thing, that matter is true."

"Chen Qing had no literary fortune on him, yet he wrote a Daoist book that required substantial literary fortune."

"So now all that fortune converges toward his flesh and blood."

Dan Yangzi listened, eyes wide with astonishment, asked solemnly, "Master, above the Nine Heavens, above All Gods, is there truly another being?"

Haoran True Monarch said, "As it appears now, it seems so."

"Dan Yangzi, do you remember the first words you said when you entered my sect?"

Dan Yangzi was greatly shaken, "I asked Master, if a Gu's evolution only requires specific materials, then where do the mistakenly given ones go, as seen from the abilities shown by subsequently evolving Gu?"

"This is creating something from nothing, and if allowed to continue, the world's materials will diminish, and ultimately this world will collapse."

Haoran True Monarch said, "Do you understand now?"

Dan Yangzi stood solemnly, knelt before Haoran True Monarch, and bowed deeply, "Master, please accept Chen Qing!"

Haoran True Monarch asked solemnly, "Do you know how many enemies we will have if we accept him?"

Dan Yangzi looked up, laughed generously, "If the world doesn't exist, if everything perishes, what's the use of keeping this body?"