Concubines Lead to Strength: The Path to Immortality Begins with Taking a Spouse

Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Does the Elixir Know? The Generous Ancestor (Seeking Followers, Monthly Tickets)

“I wouldn’t exactly call it a retreat; I was merely fishing, playing with birds, and meanwhile, looking forward to the surprise you’d bring, lad.”

“Your movement technique just now belongs to the Northern Domain Royal Family. Where did you learn it from?”

While speaking, Gu Haitang made no visible movements but simply snapped his fingers. Gu Changge felt the ground beneath him vanish, as if he had suddenly plummeted downwards, and then in a blur, he found himself in a pavilion on the Back Mountain that he had never visited before.

The pavilion, nestled against the mountain and next to the water, indeed offered a picturesque scenery.

For a moment, Gu Changge stood dumbfounded, still marveling at the incredible methods of his ancestor and forgot to reply.

“My boy, if it weren’t for my ability to sense that your Divine Sense isn’t mismatched, one would think you had been possessed.”

“In just over a month, you truly opened my eyes.”

“It’s one thing to master one of Heavenly Cold Sect’s secret techniques, the Heavenly Cold Finger, but now you have even mastered the Northern Domain Royal Family’s movement technique, Soaring Dragon Transformation, to a level of Small Success.”

Sitting in the pavilion, Gu Haitang began unhurriedly reeling in his fishing line, lamenting that the fish that had bitten earlier had long since vanished.

“This…”

“An ancestor should be informed when questioned, but I really don’t know how to explain this.”

“If pushed to explain, let’s just say that Changge has exceptional talents…”

Gu Changge stood by reverently, speaking somewhat helplessly.

“Well, it’s normal to have some secrets.”

“You have your own fortunes, which I don’t concern myself with.”

“However, it’s best to use these abilities sparingly in front of others.”

“I actually have a secret technique that could allow you to alter the appearance of your Divine Skills. It should be hard for anyone who isn’t at Great Success to decipher.”

Gu Haitang shook his head slightly. Although he knew the explanation was made up, he didn’t care and instead directly took out a Secret Technique Jade Scroll from his Space Ring and tossed it over.

“Changing the appearance of Divine Skills…”

Gu Changge quickly caught the Jade Scroll, his eyes lighting up.

The problem mentioned by the ancestor was exactly what he was currently worried about. As he was about to head to Duanbei City, despite possessing numerous Divine Skills shared synchronously from his Daoist Couple,

they could be recognized as belonging to either the Heavenly Cold Sect or the Northern Domain Royal Family if seen by others.

Techniques like Soaring Sword were manageable, but the Heavenly Cold Finger and especially the Heaven Rank Divine Skill Emperor Seal were closely guarded secrets.

He had even resolved that he must eliminate any witnesses if he ever used them!

Now, the secret technique given by the ancestor could indeed solve his problem!

“Down the mountain, they say you’ve been imparted skills by the old man, but whether I have imparted them or not, don’t I know myself?”

“In one month, from a mere mortal to the early stage of the Qi Sea Realm, mastering several Divine Skills to Small Success.”

“Truly baffling…”

“Especially considering you even achieved an Acquired Dao Body!”

“It’s… too strange.”

“Could it be because of that Elixir?”

Before Gu Changge could recover from his astonishment and thank him, he heard the ancestor stroking his beard, continuing to talk to himself.

Hearing about the Elixir, he was taken aback.

He thought only he and Liu Qingqing knew about the Elixir, yet unexpectedly, the ancestor knew as well?

It made sense…

In the vast Gu Family Mansion, with the ancestor’s heavenly-reaching abilities, how could he not know?

“Do you still have that Elixir?”

“Don’t be nervous, I’m not so shameless as to rob my own junior of their Elixir.”

“That secret technique I gave you just now was a welcome gift for you.”

“If you have one, I could trade you something for it.”

Seeing he was somewhat nervous, Gu Haitang set aside his fishing rod and said with a smile while stroking his beard.

“There happens to be one left…” Hearing this, Gu Changge straightforwardly spent twenty Attribute Points to exchange for a first-grade Root Bone Pill.

First, he transferred it from the System Space to the Space Ring, then he took out the Elixir from the Space Ring.

After handing over the Elixir with both hands, he fell silent.

“It seems like a Spirit-grade Elixir, yet not quite…”

Gu Haitang pinched the Elixir, scrutinizing it before his eyes for a moment, then muttered to himself and directly swallowed it.

The elixir melted into spiritual liquid as soon as it entered his mouth.

After subtly sensing the changes from consuming the elixir, he couldn’t help but frown slightly, “Although the elixir increases the Root Bone, the enhancement is minuscule.”

“It’s hardly possible to elevate someone to an Acquired Spirit Body with this elixir.”

“Let alone an Acquired Dao Body.”

Gu Changge wasn’t surprised upon hearing this.

It was clearly written in the description of the Root Bone Pill.

“First Grade Root Bone Pill: It can enhance the Root Bone of a Daoist Couple or Host by 1 point. If consumed by someone not bound to it, its effect weakens by a hundredfold.”

If outsiders want to improve through his Root Bone Pill, they would have to treat it like snacks—it takes a hundred pills to increase one point of Root Bone!

“Did you achieve an Acquired Dao Body just by using this thing?” Gu Haitang asked with some confusion.

“Probably…” Gu Changge nodded slightly.

“It seems fate decrees that such fortune is not meant for the old, alas.”

“Well, consider this ten-thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit a compensation for your elixir.”

Gu Haitang shook his head and sighed slightly, but still placed a wooden box on the table in the pavilion as promised.

“Just a trivial elixir, intended as a show of filial respect to the ancestor, no compensation needed,” Gu Changge waved his hand in refusal.

Yet the elder laughed and said directly, “This item is of no use to me. Once you break through into the Reach Profound Realm, taking it should allow you to advance a small realm.”

“It’s indeed a blessing for our Gu Family to have produced such a freak like you…”

“If you ever need anything, you can find this old man in the Back Mountain.”

“Besides… never mind, there shouldn’t be any issues in the Northern Domain. We will talk about future matters in the future.”

“An Acquired Dao Body, tsk tsk… even in the Central State, those Holy Lands would fight to take you as their Saint Heir.”

“It’s a pity that your current realm is still too low; going to the Central State might provoke jealousy from others, making it easy to meet an untimely end.”

“If an opportunity arises in the future, you should consider making a name for yourself in Central State.”

“If there’s nothing else, you should go back, lest you scare away all my fish.”

Perhaps due to his long time without conversing with others, this ancestor of the Gu Family was unusually talkative, barely letting Gu Changge get a word in.

As he spoke, he was already preparing to send him off and continue fishing.

“Uh…”

“I actually do have a question.”

“Since you know about the elixir matter, could it be that…”

Gu Changge looked at his expression and spoke softly.

“…”

“What do you take this old man for?”

“Nearly two thousand years old and you think I’d be concerned with your trivial concerns?”

Before he finished speaking, the elder had already guessed what he was going to say, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he directly waved his hand to make him disappear from the spot.

When the scene before Gu Changge’s eyes changed, he was already back at the cottages at the foot of the Back Mountain.

“Uh… well then.” Gu Changge muttered to himself, “I actually forgot to ask the ancestor exactly what realm he is in. The Ninth Grade Annihilation Realm probably doesn’t have the techniques he just used, but what realms lie beyond that, I genuinely haven’t heard anyone mention…” @@novelbin@@

He didn’t want everything he did to be watched…

After all, he still needed some privacy!

He hadn’t expected today that the ancestor would be fully aware of the elixir situation.

Fortunately, the ancestor wasn’t concerned about these matters, and even gave him a secret technique that could solve his current major problem. The ten-thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit was also extremely valuable, and the twenty System Points he spent on the elixir exchange were completely negligible.

At the halfway pavilion, after seeing off the young man, Gu Haitang murmured to himself.

“I hadn’t even made a peep, but he already noticed my presence.”

“This young man’s Root Bone has probably reached the level of an Acquired Dao Body, and even his Divine Sense is not something ordinary people can compare with!”

“His senses are too sharp. Even someone in the Eight-grade Heavenly Gate Realm might not be able to detect my presence immediately.”

“An invalid for eighteen years, suddenly transformed into a genius that even the Holy Lands of Central State would struggle to find, the world really does have all kinds of strange things…”

“Could it be that his physique is special, and the eighteen years were a period of accumulation?”

“Never mind, I can’t figure it out, no need to worry about it too much. As long as nothing unexpected happens to this boy, my Gu Family will surely set foot in Central State; there’s no need to stay in the barren Northern Domain!”

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