Chapter 235 – Set Up

“Tsk. How much longer is this going to take?” asked Gu Suihan a little grouchily as he suddenly raised an eyebrow. He had sensed that someone just tried to calculate his location again. This disgusted him.

“Seven more months,” said Murong Yun without thinking. Her pretty eyes were bloodshot, and the exhausted look on her face would make anyone feel for her.

For most people, two weeks wouldn’t be considered a long time, but Murong Yun felt like they were the worst days of her life. The thoughts of the man in this room were impossible to read, and his mood changed incredibly quickly. He could have a faint smile as though a pleasant spring breeze was blowing, then just a second later, he would have a scowl that made him look as unfeeling as ice. Depending on his mood, the flying ship would produce either a relaxed aura or a tense aura. Strange things would occur in the rooms as well.

Murong Yun had noticed it just now – the saber that Gu Suihan casually put aside had sculptures of ferocious bests attached to it. These beasts trembled slightly, and they triggered something in her heart that made her want to commit murder.

“The Dongfang family…”

Gu Suihan took out a compass with a bagua on it. The spiritual bead in the middle glowed brilliantly like a gem. Formation runes swirled in all directions and gave off a mysterious air. Various images kept flashing within the compass, and it was almost impossible for the human eye to keep up. But a few moments later, a beautiful woman in a white chiffon dress with spiral patterns suddenly appeared.

He could see her entire history from the moment he saw her. In that moment, they locked eyes silently despite being miles and miles apart.

“My fellow cultivator is very capable indeed.”

The illusion of the woman suddenly flickered. A thin veil covered her face, which was fair and flawless. As her red lips parted slightly, her tongue seemed to bloom like lotus flowers. The freezing atmosphere in the flying ship instantly disappeared the moment she opened her mouth, as though spring had returned to the land and vegetation was able to grow again. Energy spread throughout the ship.

“Su Yuqing has returned?” asked Gu Suihan suddenly as he narrowed his venomous eyes and looked her curvaceous body up and down. The atmosphere in the ship changed again. The positive energy disappeared, and a murderous qi filled the whole place. The rolling fiendish qi was like a mighty force that engulfed the entire ship. Wisps of black smoke rose and seemed to flow like water around the ship, turning it into a sinister, ghostly scene from hell.

“He’s severely injured,” said the woman with a quiet sigh after remaining silent for a while. “You really didn’t have to do that. The Dongfang family is able to provide a large amount of resources to heal him. We just want you to heal Shuang’er. Why go on the offensive? Go ahead and list your conditions, and we’ll fulfill all of them.”

Gu Suihan wasn’t impressed and merely twitched his lips in disdain. “The Dongfang family is the leader among the three most influential factions in the 39^th domain, so I can see why you’re so confident. Your elders are probably busy trying to calculate where I’ve come from to see if they could gobble me up. Tell me – are the things I’m worried about…correct?”

Immediately after he said those words, Gu Suihan made a hand seal and activated a dao seal. He flicked his fingers, causing the laws of nature to transform into a strange series of runes. An evil smile spread across his lips as he thrust everything toward the illusion.

“You…” She didn’t expect Gu Suihan to attack without any warning. The calm and collected expression on her face instantly disappeared and was replaced with anger and wariness.

The only god-level technique that could work across dimensions was a curse. This sort of thing was usually a very malicious thing that clung onto a person like a leech. Getting rid of it was terribly troublesome.

“You must be tired of living!”

There was sudden turbulence in the void, and the entire ship couldn’t stop shaking violently. Countless cultivators were affected, and the shaking turned them into a bloodied mush. That elderly voice filled with anger that had exploded from the compass made Gu Suihan’s heart tremble, and he started bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.

“I’m tired of living? I’m not a piece of trash like you.”

Gu Suihan lay limply on the floor, but he didn’t look the least panicky. Instead, he looked very confident. He had guessed correctly. This old fellow wasn’t really at the Immortal stage. At most, you could consider him a fake Immortal.

Real Immortal, fake Immortal.

It was a difference of just one word, but that made a world of a difference.

The former could walk through the void and create things from nothing. The latter could only stay in the void for a short time, and they couldn’t create anything because their understanding of the laws of nature was too superficial.

“The five elements rotate, heaven and earth exchange places!” yelled Gu Suihan suddenly. A mysterious force appeared within his hands as the laws of the five elements solidified and started rotating.

In that instant, the sky wasn’t the sky anymore, the ground wasn’t the ground anymore. Water was like fire, wood was like knives. The laws of nature were turned upside down, the skies collapsed, and the ground gave way. He immediately threw the thought from the other party into the mess, and it was cut into countless fragments.

“Ahhh!” A bloodcurdling cry suddenly rang out from afar as though it had been severely wounded.

“Trying to gobble me up? You’re not good enough! I’ll wait till you’ve calmed down again, and we can talk then.”

Gu Suihan stared at the slowly crumbling illusion of the woman in the compass and snorted as he snapped his fingers. Ripples that exuded great anger and malice covered the illusion, and it crumbled in an instant.

The angry cries of the other party disappeared as well.

“This…” Murong Yun was in utter shock, and she felt terribly cold all over. Cold sweat had drenched her clothes without her even realizing it.

Nascent Change? Can this man really be only at Nascent Change? The other party was at Immortal! That’s the highest level a person can go within a domain. But they were defeated just like that?

“Next time, I’m sure you will remember to bring your brains along,” said Gu Suihan with a snort. His face suddenly turned red as he spewed a few mouthfuls of blood. He collapsed weakly onto his chair and panted heavily.

Under his robe, his pale and tough skin started to show some cracks, and blood seeped out. It was clear that Gu Suihan had not gained the upper hand in the fight earlier. He had caused more damage to the other party but had suffered almost as much damage himself.

“Why did you attack the other side?” Murong Yun was rather puzzled. The other party had been very generous, so why did he want to attack them like this and fall out with them?

“Because…the hearts of people are unpredictable…” said Gu Suihan quietly after he had swallowed a few dozen pills and licked his lips.

Before this, the Dongfang family had tried to calculate Gu Suihan’s location in secret, but Gu Suihan had noticed their actions, so they thought of attacking him secretly. On the surface, they pretended to be negotiating with him, but beneath the surface, they were doing everything they could to find out where Gu Suihan had come from.

In this situation, Gu Suihan had no choice but to quash them. Since they were so focused on tracking him, he seized the chance to suddenly strike and fight until they were both injured.

“I need spiritual stones and pills. Bring me as many as you can,” instructed Gu Suihan as he glanced at Murong Yun.

“Got it.” Murong Yun immediately agreed to his demands. She didn’t have any confidence left inside her. This person was a monster, a demon. He was definitely no human. Her life was in his hands, so she would agree to any demands he had, regardless of how unreasonable they were.

“Su Yuqing…you haven’t given up, huh.” After Murong Yun left the room, Gu Suihan murmured to himself as he narrowed his eyes.

He wasn’t sure what Su Yuqing said or what he had implied when he returned to the family, which made the family immediately give up any possibility of negotiating and turn to violence to threaten him instead.

But Gu Suihan wasn’t angry that Su Yuqing had set a trap for him. Nobody said that he could manipulate others, and others couldn’t manipulate him, after all. Manipulating each other was only to be expected. It was just a matter of who was better at it at the end.

“Shuang’er…I don’t know if you’d be an effective pawn at all…” murmured Gu Suihan. His eyes slowly looked like the boundless void, but there was one spark right at the back.

As the pawns took their place on the chessboard, Gu Suihan’s heart also slowly began to feel nervous. He had a feeling that he had overlooked something that might cost him his life, but even after thinking through everything carefully, he couldn’t find anything like that.

But this feeling alone made him very insecure. That was why he was so anxious to recuperate. That way, he would have a higher chance of bouncing back.