#150 - Being caught off guard
#150 - Being caught off guard
Zeng Lan had thought Gu An would come out, but she figured it would be many years later.
Perhaps he would even be old and worn out by the time he emerged.
Tortured beyond recognition.
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She was grateful to Gu An because, thanks to his intervention, everyone working the night shift at the outer gate lumberyard was treated fairly, and all the spirit stones were returned to their hands.
Recently, there were even patrols.
Any slight issue would be discovered by the patrols.
Some people were even secretly observing.
It could be said that this was the period when they were treated most like human beings.
As for how long it could last, it was unknown.
But all of this was brought about by Gu An.
"Senior, Senior Brother, are you alright?" she suddenly asked.
Because she had heard of the exiled lands, a place where no human should be.
Especially since he looked somewhat gaunt.
Gu An nodded: "I'm fine."
The gauntness was from the lumbering, but otherwise, he was indeed fine.
"Yu Tu has entered the inner sect," Zeng Lan said excitedly, "He was taken in by a senior brother and went directly to the inner sect's main peak."
"I've seen him," Gu An said.
Hearing this, Zeng Lan was somewhat surprised, but also felt it was natural.
After chatting for a few more sentences, two of Zeng Lan's friends came to find her.
Thus, Gu An watched them leave.
However, the sound of their conversation inadvertently drifted over, and they seemed to be intentionally raising their voices: "Junior Sister Zeng, when we were in Qingmu City, a senior brother saw you walking with an old and ugly old woman. Is she a servant from your family?"
Hearing this, Zeng Lan seemed to tremble slightly, then said: "No."
"No? Is she a poor relative who came to rely on you?" the fairy said with a smile: "It can't be your mother, right?
I heard she's ugly and old, wearing ragged clothes, and all dirty.
Look, look, you're getting anxious. I was just joking."
Gu An watched them leave, saying nothing.
Everyone has their own difficulties.
He himself was like that, Yu Tu was like that, and Zeng Lan should be the same.
Otherwise, why would everyone go to the night lumberyard?
Today, Gu An kept lumbering, but he never felt the token light up.
Could it be that half a day of lumbering wasn't enough? Did he need to lumber all day?
He had been picking Qingyang wood that was extremely old.
Evening.
The lumbering time was over, but Gu An didn't stop and continued to lumber.
Until it was dark.
Liang Chen even came over, reminding him that it was getting late.
Gu An said to give him another half an hour.
Liang Chen gritted his teeth and agreed.
Gu An had a feeling that it was indeed close.
Sure enough, before the half hour was up, the token lit up one square.
Seeing this, Gu An breathed a sigh of relief.
He couldn't see the progress bar, but he could feel some of the situation.
It was taking a bit longer than expected.
"Is it over?" Liang Chen asked from the side.
Gu An handed the axe to the other party, then took out five spirit stones: "I've been troubling you these days, Junior Brother."
Liang Chen quickly refused: "Senior Brother, you can't do that."
Gu An placed the spirit stones in the other party's hand and said: "Junior Brother, there's no need to be polite."
After doing this, Gu An then strode away.
Liang Chen was somewhat emotional, then asked: "Will Senior Brother come again?"
Gu An just waved his hand and left.
Liang Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
This Senior Brother was still very easy to talk to.
Of course, if he provoked the other party, the consequences would probably be severe.
He dared to kill people in the inner sect, and he came out so early.
Someone like him, with no background, could disappear suddenly.
Gu An returned to the inner sect and went to lumber.
In the past two days, he had once again raised his Qi Sea Heavenly Gang, reaching the seventh level.
There were only two levels left.
According to the current progress, he should have a chance to complete it before March.
But lumbering Thunder Wood at night, for the sake of the mission, the progress of cultivation may be delayed somewhat.
Thunder Wood was fine, he could find Lu Jie.
He was the Thunder Wood manager of Thousand Dust Peak.
The next day.
Gu An found him, and the other party was somewhat puzzled.
Why would he come to lumber for no reason?
Gu An truthfully said: "I'm doing a mission and need a special axe."
Because of what happened last time, Lu Jie was still grateful to Gu An for being so considerate, so he agreed on the spot.
Afterwards, he began lumbering.
Of course, he also gave a spirit stone as thanks.
Unfortunately, the other party refused no matter what.
At night, he went to find the manager of the night lumberyard again.
Hoping that the other party could also provide it, on the condition that he completed the mission quota.
The other party was also silent for a long time, and finally agreed.
In four days, Gu An completed it.
It was now the beginning of January.
Every day, he still went to the Scripture Pavilion before work ended.
Today, as he was sitting in the Spirit Treasure Repository, a young man walked in.
He looked at Gu An somewhat cautiously and said: "Senior Brother."
Gu An was reading a book and slightly raised his head: "Collecting resources?"
"Yes, yes," the young man nodded.
He looked to be in his early twenties, clean, but his clothes were a bit pale.
Gu An reached out his hand.
Taking the form and opening it, there were no crushed spirit stones.
"It's, it's like this. I don't have any spirit stones anymore, but I have mission rewards, so can I deduct them directly?" the young man said somewhat helplessly.
Gu An looked at the other party and held out his hand.
The young man looked pleading: "Senior Brother, I really don't have any right now."
Gu An just said calmly: "Identity token."
The other party was stunned.
He immediately gave his identity token.
Soon, three spirit stones and a talisman were handed to the other party.
Taking the spirit stones, the man immediately said: "Then, the spirit stones..." Gu An took out the sign he had written before: Eleven crushed spirit stones for one spirit stone.
"Is that okay?"
"Y-yes."
Afterwards, Gu An took one spirit stone from the other party and gave eleven crushed spirit stones.
And the other party also gave one crushed spirit stone according to the rules.
For a time, the other party walked out of the Spirit Treasure Repository contentedly.
Only when he just walked out did he count the spirit stones.
Weren't the spirit stones three spirit stones now?
For a time, he was somewhat at a loss. Soon, he checked the talisman.
There was no problem either.
For a time, he was even more at a loss.
When he returned to his residence, he met a good friend and couldn't help but ask: "What do you say would happen if you went to the Spirit Treasure Repository to exchange for resources and didn't give a crushed spirit stone?"
"You'd get inferior products, who doesn't know that," another man replied angrily: "These sect parasites."
"Have you ever exchanged for anything at the Spirit Treasure Repository One?"
"I have."
"Then have you ever not given a spirit stone? Or have you ever exchanged spirit stones for crushed spirit stones?"
At this time, the middle-aged man sitting down said: "I exchanged them. At that time, I thought the outside ratio was like this.
When I went out to take a look, it hadn't changed. Only the Spirit Treasure Repository One is like this."
"So he's indirectly returning the spirit stones to us?"
Gu An had never cared about other people's thoughts, and he didn't have the slightest psychological burden when he collected spirit stones.
January 10th.
Gu An completed the collection of Iron Heart Wood.
January 15th, the Soul-Startling Wood was also lit up by him.
During this period, he completed a tempering session. He could only use it up when he was full from hard cultivation.
The following two months were enough to fill it up again.
January 21st, the Blood God Wood was also lit up.
In this way, Gu An only had the last Hundred Organs Wood left.
In this way, he could see whether the reward he received was a cultivation technique.
It was just that he suddenly obtained the Ring of Destiny.
Ren Yinghua began his plan.
To ignite the suppressed anger from the weak.
To get everyone to start spreading it.
"It's a month early?"
Gu An frowned, somewhat caught off guard.
The next day.
On the streets, there began to appear hidden hostility.
He would even be glared at, wishing they could skin him alive.
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