Questioning Heaven, Desiring the Way - Chapter 230: One Thought Changes The Mortal To Immortal

“A family where even a Divine Soul cultivator has trouble even walking with his head up high has to be something that’s around for at least 10,000 years. Probably the most powerful locally too. I’m looking forward to this.” Gu Suihan looked toward where Su Yuqing was sitting and smiled. The things his family had successfully attracted Gu Suihan’s attention.

The 49^th domain was the last small world that the great Qin Empire had absorbed. It had been around for only a few centuries, and it was still a mess. It couldn’t be compared to the other 48 at all. Even those Divine Soul cultivators that were supposed to be overseeing the domain were from this domain itself. They had no loyalty to the Qin empire, which was how the Equal Spirit Order gained a foothold.

“The Hundred Schools of Thought…I wonder if you guys exist yet. I’ve been waiting with anticipation for a long time…” said Gu Suihan to himself as he flew into the skies and covered thousands of miles as if he were a giant bird. He flew like the wind toward the main city of the domain.

Among the Hundred Schools, preferred the School of Diplomacy, the School of Legalism, and those like it. The schools of thought that promoted love, politeness between people, and other non-aggressive beliefs, like the schools of Confucianism and Mohism, were despised. You want to know why? The reason is simple. It’s because as long as cultivators existed in this world, peace was always out of the question.

The cake was only so big, and everyone wanted a bite. And so, they had to rob and kill others. Not even the great empire could stop that from happening.

So, unless all the cultivators in the world died, otherwise there was no way the world could have peace.

That was why the empire chose a more protective stance with regard to the ordinary people but left the cultivators mostly to their own devices. As long as you were not massacring cities and gobbling souls for no reason or killing ordinary people, you could fight all you liked. Of course, if you were capable of escaping detection from the state, you could go ahead and kill all you wanted.

If you needed souls to refine your weapons or cultivate your spells and techniques, you could apply for some from the empire. The army spent most of the year conquering other territories, and nobody cared about how many casualties were incurred along the way.

“Sir, I have made up my mind.”

Just when Gu Suihan was wandering about aimlessly in a city, Su Yuqing suddenly appeared next to him like a ghost. He had a determined look on his face, and his gaze was resolute.

“So, what have you chosen to do?” asked Gu Suihan with some interest as he passed Su Yuqing a bowl of roasted pig brains.

“I…hope that you can help me. But I don’t know what the price is?” Su Yuqing stared unblinkingly at Gu Suihan, hoping to find some clues from Gu Suihan’s expression.

Unfortunately for him, Gu Suihan did not look surprised at all by his choice.

This was clearly the response he predicted Su Yuqing would have. Humans were very selfish creatures in the first place. Cultivators, especially. Love and friendship were worthless compared to getting benefits for themselves. Only a small minority would choose others over themselves, and clearly, Su Yuqing wasn’t part of that minority.

“The price is 30% of that family’s resources.” Gu Suihan took his time to eat his bowl of roasted pig brains slowly and savored the soft, sweet taste on his tongue.

Su Yuqing was rather surprised by this. If he were to be completely honest, this was not a good deal for Gu Suihan. But since he was the one who stood to benefit from this deal, he wasn’t going to turn it down. “Sure, it’s a deal.”

“You’ve used an item to gather your spirit, so if you want to get out from being under their control, there are only two ways to do this. The first way is that you take your soul back and cut off your connection with this spiritual weapon, which will cause you to fall back to the Nascent Change stage. The second way is to refine this weapon and turn it fully into your spirit. But as you said before, the other party has a seal on this thing, so we obviously can’t take the second option. The other party would find out if you do that, and the plan will definitely fail. In that case, we have no choice but to go with the first method.”

Those were Gu Suihan’s comments after pausing to take a good look at Su Yuqing’s sword. This sword was a reflection of the power accumulated by the family over many, many years. This was a family with extraordinary wealth. The formation runes and seal on it could almost affect the laws of nature. It wasn’t as good as a dao weapon, but it was definitely a thousand times more powerful than an ordinary spiritual weapon.

The saber that Gu Suihan used now would have been nowhere near the level of this sword if he hadn’t used so much fiendish and violent qi to nourish it. After all, the essence of the two blades was terribly different.

“Firstly, you’ve got to fail in your mission to get my help and return with severe injuries, so they would get someone else to look for me. That way, you would have a reason to take back your soul, and you could even use their resources to fully gather your spirit.”

Su Yuqing’s gaze flickered, and sounded frustrated as he said, “You said before that my heart is still a mortal one…”

“It isn’t one anymore,” said Gu Suihan thoughtfully. “It changed when you made a decision.”

“That’s it?” Su Yuqing was in disbelief.

“That’s it. The heart of a human, the character of a human, the personality of a human. These are the hardest choices to make, yet they are also the easiest. Once you understand what you truly want and are, such obstacles will not exist anymore. Didn’t that jade slip give you instructions on how to gather your spirit?” said Gu Suihan with a smile.

“Thank you.” Su Yuqing gave Gu Suihan one last look, then disappeared.

A dark green jade slip was left beside his bowl of roasted pig brains.

Su Yuqing had left it for Gu Suihan. There was information about that family in it.

“In that case, it’s time to make use of my pawn. He’s an MC, after all, so it’s high time he went to slap the faces of the people in that family.” Gu Suihan looked into the empty bowl, and he could vaguely see Li Yu’s face.

“Esteemed One, what do I do now? I don’t have spiritual stones at all, and I’ve run out of pills.” Li Yu was now in a dense forest, boiling meat in a pot with a vexed expression on his face.

“Having spiritual stones and pills is useless. The spiritual root you robbed the last time is too low in grade. Giving spiritual stones to cultivate would be such a waste,” said the Esteemed One without holding back any of his contempt.

A few moments later, he went on, “Right now, if you want to increase your cultivation speed, you will have to get yourself another spiritual root to increase your giftedness. That’s the only way you can catch up with the geniuses of this generation.”

“How do I go about doing that?” Li Yu bit his lip hard with a look of indignation on his face.

“The 49th domain is the most barren of all domains within the empire. If you want to find an extraordinarily high-grade spiritual root, you will have to head to a different domain. It’s hopeless remaining here,” said the Esteemed One slowly after giving it some thought.

“Which domain should I go to?” Li Yu narrowed his eyes, covering the bright glint in his eyes.

“Head to the city and gather some information before deciding,” suggested the Esteemed One.

“Got it!” said Li Yu while trying to chew his half-cooked piece of meat.

Of course, he wasn’t headed for the same city as Gu Suihan.

After all, the two of them were too different in terms of capability. Gu Suihan could cover a thousand miles with one step and fly in the high skies. Li Yu could only cover 30 meters with one step and he could fly a few meters high, but couldn’t stay that way for long.

“The 39th domain, the Dongfang family? Too bad for them!”

Gu Suihan crushed the jade slip and placed a few spiritual coins on the table. But just as he got up to leave, a shrill voice rang out from behind him, “Young man, stop right there!”

“You’re talking to me?” Gu Suihan turned around calmly and looked at the one who yelled at him a little confusedly.

The person who yelled at him turned out to be a small-sized fellow with reddish cheeks. After he got the green light from the man who was presumably the ringleader, he puffed his skinny chest out and started gesticulating as he said, “Using spiritual coins to pay for even things sold by ordinary humans? You’re a very rich young man, huh.”

Gu Suihan’s lips twitched, and he couldn’t help but shake his head when he noticed the greedy glint in the shrill-voiced man. He made a decision there and then, and everything within a hundred-mile radius turned to nothing. Every human and animal in the vicinity became a bloodied mist, and their remains were swallowed up silently by the saber hanging from his belt.

“Idiots,” muttered Gu Suihan. He glanced at the dead and destroyed city. “The human race, mankind, are really lowly creatures that make me puke. They’re experiments that contain the souls of devils, alright. What a tragedy.”

As for what would happen to those who destroyed cities for no reason, Gu Suihan wasn’t bothered by that and merely chuckled. Fengyang was a bigger city, and it had vanished completely, so destroying a tiny one like this one wouldn’t hurt. Besides, unless an Immortal cultivator used a secret technique to deduce who was behind this, nobody would be able to trace it to him.

Massacring was really the best way to vent one’s frustrations. After he had gotten rid of all these ants, Gu Suihan’s mood became significantly better. He decided on which direction to take, took a step forward, then executed a god-level technique to cover a hundred miles in just one second.

He was heading for the 39th domain and it was going to be a long way, so he had to take an inter-domain flying ship.

And inter-domain flying ships were something that only the city of a commandery had. A city of a commandery, like Fengyang.