Longevity Martial Arts: Grinding Experience in the Chaotic World Chapter 1757 - 891: Deepening Doubts (Part 2)

Gu Sheng and his companions passed through the simple inspection of the city gate guards and entered the city.

He had a handsome appearance, but a somber aura not fitting his age lingered between his eyebrows. Gu Yuanyuan quietly followed by his side, ignoring the gazes thrown their way.

Qidiao Yaoyao curiously observed this city which held great significance for Gu Sheng, feeling the noticeably thinner spiritual energy in the air compared to the Southern Border and Great Wilderness City, she couldn’t help but marvel at how incredible it was that her master could rise in such a place.

Fan Qingcheng did not enter the city; she just quietly stood outside, her powerful spiritual power spreading out like invisible waves, enveloping the entire Wuyun City under her perception, ensuring no unexpected events occurred.

Gu Sheng paid no attention to the curious, suspicious, or fearful gazes from both sides of the street, walking straight towards the direction of the Gu family residence.

As he got closer to that piece of ruin, his face became more solemn, his gaze as cold as eternal ice.

When he reached a distance of a hundred feet from the Gu family ruins, he stopped.

Under the watchful eyes of countless gazes around, he slowly took out from his Storage Ring a human head, sealed with special techniques, still bearing the expressions of terror and defiance before death, eyes wide open!

It was Xiao Beixuan’s head!

Gu Sheng reached out, grabbing the disheveled hair of that head, raising it in his hand. Sticky, dark red blood dripped down the strands of hair, leaving sharp marks on the bluestone pavement.

He held the head as he walked step by step, firmly and heavily towards that charred ruin.

His voice was not loud, yet like a chilling wind from the Nine Nether, it clearly spread throughout the street, causing everyone who heard it to involuntarily shiver and instinctively step back.

"I... am back."

"To fulfill... my promise."

"Who... who is that? The thing he’s holding is..."

"It’s... a human head! My God!"

"He... he is Gu Sheng! That Gu Sheng of the Gu family! He’s not dead?!"

"He’s back! He even killed someone!"

"Quick! Quick, go notify the Family Head!"

In an instant, the martial artists and passersby around erupted in chaos, discussions and exclamations sounded one after another, their gazes filled with shock, fear, and disbelief as they looked at Gu Sheng.

However, Gu Sheng seemed to have heard none of it.

In his eyes, there was only that piece of family ruins that carried countless memories, now turned to charred earth.

He carried Xiao Beixuan’s wide-eyed head, his steps unwavering, quickly arrived before the half-collapsed, blackened door frame that was once the front gate of the Gu family mansion.

Before the ruins of the Gu family residence, the air seemed to congeal.

Gu Sheng gently but powerfully placed the bloodstained, unyielding head onto the half-blackened steps.

He raised his head, his gaze traversing the broken walls as if he could see the once prosperous and lively residence, and the tragedy and despair in that great fire.

"Xiao Beixuan," Gu Sheng’s voice was ice-cold, like the friction of eternal ice.

"Come out, I give you one last chance to kneel and apologize to the departed of the Gu family."

With his words, a twisted, almost transparent ghostly shadow, brimming with intense resentment and reluctance, quivering emerged from the seven orifices of that head, it was Xiao Beixuan’s forcibly detained residual soul!

Upon appearing, the residual soul used all its strength to "stare" at Gu Sheng, unleashing a silent yet piercing mental scream.

"Gu Sheng! You’ve killed me and severed my head, why won’t you spare my last residual soul?! Must you utterly destroy me?!"

Gu Sheng’s gaze was apathetic, as if looking at a struggling insect, he retorted.

"Utterly destroy? When you brought people to massacre my entire Gu family, bathing this place in blood, did you ever think of... sparing any of them? Not even an infant in swaddling clothes, or an unarmed servant?"

Xiao Beixuan’s residual soul suddenly paused, the resentful mental wave halted for a moment, clearly left speechless.

"Kneel."

Gu Sheng’s voice wasn’t loud, yet carried unquestionable authority, like the mandate of heaven.

"Confess your crimes, repent to the wrongful dead of the Gu family. Otherwise, you will regret it."

"Hahaha!!"

Xiao Beixuan’s residual soul emitted a manic mental wave, filled with desperation and madness.

"Gu Sheng! I admit defeat by your hand, but do you think I would kneel to these ants and confess? Dream on! I would rather self-destruct this residual soul, scatter into oblivion, than suffer such humiliation!"

Having said that, the previously ethereal residual soul suddenly swelled, dispersing a volatile destructive wave, truly attempting to self-destruct!

"Self-destruct?"

Gu Sheng’s lips curled into a cold arc.

"In front of me, you don’t even have the right to self-destruct."

With a slight thought, an immense, meticulously condensed soul power surged forth, morphing into an invisible giant hand, grasping gently!

"Poof—"

Like crushing a bubble, Xiao Beixuan’s imminent self-destructing residual soul failed to complete its final frenzy, and was forcibly exterminated by this absolute power, instantly shattered into innumerable finer, almost imperceptible soul fragments!

Yet this was not the end!

The invisible soul hand did not dissipate, but instead emanated even more profound waves, as if reversing time, forcefully restraining, pulling, and reassembling those scattered soul fragments!

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Beixuan’s terrifyingly panicked residual soul was once again forcibly reformed, albeit even more ethereal, like a candle flickering in the wind!

"How... how is this possible?! What kind of monster are you?!"

Xiao Beixuan’s residual soul emitted a desperate and fearful screech, unable to comprehend why even self-destruction had become a luxury!

Gu Sheng calmly watched him, his tone indifferent and devoid of any emotion.

"You can continue attempting to self-destruct. I will reunite you time and again. Until... the wrongful deceased of my Gu family, in heavenly spirit, can feel even a slight comfort."

Xiao Beixuan’s residual soul trembled violently, the fear from his soul origin completely engulfing him.

He realized, before this young man, there were terrifying means he could not understand or resist.

In absolute power, even his choice to die was stripped away.

"...I... I concede..."

Finally, a weak and defeated thought came from the residual soul.

Gu Sheng coldly looked at him, once again uttering two words.

"Kneel."

Xiao Beixuan’s residual soul remained silent for several beats, as if expending the last of his strength.

His ethereal figure turned towards that charred Gu family ruin, slowly, with endless humiliation and reluctance, he closed those non-existent "eyes," towards the direction of the ruins, and "knelt" in the air.

Just as he knelt down—

Gu Sheng’s eyes flashed with a chilling light!

"Twist!"

The invisible soul hand suddenly closed in, bursting with terrifying tearing force!

"Ah—!!!"

A silent scream heard only at the soul level followed, Xiao Beixuan’s residual soul was utterly shredded into the primal, consciousness-less soul powder, all traces of its existence wiped from this world in that instant!

Having done all this, Gu Sheng slowly raised his head, his gaze sweeping once again over that ruin carrying countless painful memories.

From the center of his brows, a ripple containing the profound mysteries of the four top-tier Daoist Rhythms silently spread out, instantly enveloping the area within several thousand feet centered on him!

Everyone within this range, whether openly watching or secretly spying, the intelligence of various families in Wuyun City, all clearly heard a calm yet supremely authoritative voice directly resounding in their minds.

"The Gu family has left Wuyun City."