After I Became a Divine Monarch, the Sect Wants Me to Marry In-Chapter 170: I Wasn’t Just Taking Action, I Was Killing People
Chapter 170: Chapter 170: I Wasn’t Just Taking Action, I Was Killing People
Gu An gazed at the envelope on the ground, her eyes lowered in silent contemplation.
The breeze blew, sending the envelope a little farther away.
Only then did Gu An finally raise her brows to look at the people in front of her.
Both of them were quite good-looking.
One could say handsome and beautiful.
Their cultivation wasn’t bad either.
*But why were they making things so difficult for her?*
*If Senior Sister Duanmu were here, would they act like this?*
*She doubted it.*
*Maybe they saw she was a bit older, with traces of logging on her body.*
*So they looked down on her.*
*Respect the clothes before the person, huh.*
*Must be that she looked unworthy of respect, it was her own problem if she thought about it carefully.*
"What are you staring at? Pick it up already, you’re not really going to make us do it for you, right?" the man said,
*Gu An sighed inwardly.*
Then, with a stride, in a movement swift as lightning, she swung her hand down.
Boom!
The opponent was at Golden Core stage, and his physical strength always remained on guard.
So the moment Gu An’s slap came down, the opponent’s strength instantly fought back.
Yet, against Gu An’s palm, that strength shattered. The slap landed on his cheek.
Smack!
A crisp sound rang out, which quickly warped, followed by a cracking noise.
That was the sound of a skull breaking.
The man was knocked away as if hit by a mountain, flying out of the pavilion with a bang, smashing a pit in the ground.
The Immortal was utterly shocked, even a little disbelieving.
But she gripped her spirit sword and formed a spell with her fingers.
She withdrew further back, widening their distance.
"Alright, alright, you actually dare attack? Heavenly thunder, descend!"
Gu An watched her raise her sword, summoning heavenly thunder overhead in response.
A strong sense of threat emanated.
She dared not hesitate as the wind howled.
Just as lightning was summoned, Gu An was already in front of her.
"Too late, how could some early Golden Core break through my current defens—"
Before she could finish, Gang Qi like flowing water broke through her defenses, pulverized her magic treasure, and Gu An’s fist struck the top of her head.
Thoom!
The Immortal was blown away.
Lightning flashed, then crashed down.
Gu An’s left hand gathered Gang Qi, clashing head-on with the thunder.
Thoom!
Dust billowed everywhere.
The Qingcheng Sect Immortal who’d been knocked away looked terrified, but her opponent must be miserable too.
"So strong," Gu An said, and in the next instant, appeared in front of the Immortal. In her horrified gaze, Gu An stomped down.
Bam!
She burst the opponent’s head with a single stomp.
The attacking hand dropped slackly down.
Blood splattered everywhere, landing on the man who had just climbed to his feet.
Furious, he turned and fled.
Gu An was briefly taken aback, then pointed a finger from afar.
Soul-shocking.
The Perfect Soul-shocking Finger could now be cast at a distance, though success rate up front was lower.
In an instant, he was paralyzed, horror filling his eyes.
In his agony, Gu An was already grasping his throat.
Just then he snapped back, staring at Gu An clutching his neck, begging, "Let, let me go, we don’t want compensation anymore."
"Why say that now? My senior sister told me I should never take action," Gu An remarked to him quietly.
"Then, why did you attack?" the man asked, bewildered.
Gu An shook her head, then clenched hard.
She crushed his neck on the spot.
She threw him to the ground and said coldly, "I didn’t take action, I merely killed you."
She collected both their storage treasures, then scattered out red beans.
Planting Beans into Soldiers.
Nine late-stage Foundation Establishment Red Armor Soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, casually giving a final blow.
Gu An sat down in the pavilion, checking through the two storage treasures.
She’d gotten a total of over two thousand six hundred spirit stones, plus two books of magic, two spirit swords, and five bottles of elixir pills.
Not what you’d call wealthy, really.
Just a bit over a thousand spirit stones each—if she saved up, she herself would have three thousand.
Although she herself had never spent any.
If it went on cultivation and magic treasures, it would be far from enough.
All in all, still kind of well-off.
As for the two spell books, one was called "Heavenly Thunder," the other was old, broken, and called "Prison Cage."
"Heavenly Thunder" was the swordsmanship just used—resonating with the sword to call down lightning.
"Prison Cage" was incomplete, but it resembled a hand technique—using the palm as a prison, capable of crushing someone within it.
Gu An found "Prison Cage" intriguing.
*But it wasn’t easy to comprehend, especially incomplete. That made it even harder.*
*She’d have to try using her magic values on it.*
As for the elixir pills, they were all ordinary.
She could likely sell them for several hundred spirit stones.
*Not bad for a day’s haul.*
Looking at the thoroughly cleaned mountain peak, Gu An had the Red Armor Soldiers dispose of the corpses.
Only then did she recall them.
She then sat in the pavilion reading "Prison Cage."
*She wanted to understand the beginning, then try her magic techniques on it.*
*See if she could at least get started.*
By dusk, Gu An had barely grasped a rough idea.
She looked at the sky, felt it was about time, and headed back to the Outer Peak.
In the backyard, she saw Senior Sister Duanmu was copying books.
*Completely infuriating.*
*This was the emergency?*
"Senior sister," Gu An entered, giving a customary greeting.
The moment she saw Gu An, Duanmu Qingping was slightly surprised. "Back so soon? You didn’t finish negotiations?"
Gu An shook her head, saying, "They never showed. I only just came back after waiting."
Duanmu Qingping rose, seething. "Outrageous, I’m writing up a report right now about their arrogance. Lateness is one thing, but not showing for an entire day? If they’re this arrogant, it means they don’t respect our Cangmu Sect at all.
Even if it causes a stir for the sect, it shouldn’t be too big a problem.
You handled this well. Go get some rest."
Gu An nodded and made her way out back, picking up the axe and starting to chop wood.
Duanmu Qingping was left dumbfounded.
*Still chopping wood at a time like this?*
*No one wanted to do logging, but he insisted... all for a handful of spirit stones?*
*Gu An thought wasting an entire day was unacceptable, she needed to save up quickly for her next improvement.*
*Today’s fight made her feel pressure.*
*Both those people were strong. If not for the ambush, she really couldn’t say who would win.*
*Without the Qi Sea Sky Gang, it would’ve been even harder. She might not have kept either of them even with a sneak attack.*
*Still lacking in offensive techniques, and her speed wasn’t enough either.*
*If she could learn Prison Cage, that’d help. At least it could prevent escapes.*
*As for them not showing up, was she going to get exposed?*
*She didn’t care.*
*No one else was there—she said they didn’t come, so they didn’t come.*
*Whether the other sect would come questioning her, that was hard to say.*
*She still needed to improve fast—dealing with early-stage Golden Core cultivators was already this hard. If they were stronger, she’d have no chance.*
*The only battle-deciding techniques she’d mastered were Qi Sea Sky Gang.*
*Far too few.*
"What are you doing chopping wood so late?" Suddenly a voice rang out behind Gu An.
It startled Gu An so much she nearly swung the axe in reflex.
She turned to see Chu Meng holding Noodles, force-feeding it peanuts.
Splitting open its mouth, and pouring them in.
Gu An: "...."
*Did she even consider how Noodles felt about this?*
"Your fish never wants to eat—if I don’t force-feed it, it’ll starve, so I had to use this underhanded method," Chu Meng remarked,
"For your fish, I’ve really racked my brains.
What a generous superior you have."
*For a moment, Gu An finally understood why Noodles suddenly learned how to run away from home.* freewebnσvel.cøm
*While she was away, it truly had suffered.*
