Gu Dekang got down from his guard's back and gazed at the valley ahead with a heated gaze, "This should be the right place. The people from Bodhi Gene must have used a formation to hide."
Yan Zhen asked, "Old Gu, shall we go in?"
After all, he was the leader of an army division, so his identity had to be kept secret. That's why the guards and Yan Zhen called him Old Gu.
"Naturally!" Gu Dekang replied.
He planned to go alone from here on. It wouldn't look sincere if he arrived at Bodhi Gene along with a group of guards. When people seek Bodhisattva, they personally go up the hill along with offerings, else it won't work at all. Gu Dekang also felt the same. He treated Bodhi Gene the same as the deities.
The woman and the girl got excited too, "We're finally here."
When they entered the valley's entrance, a party of people made their way there at rapid speed. Their shadows blitzed across the valley as they quickly reached the valley entrance.
"Who are you?"
The woman explained impatiently, "W-We have come to seek medical treatment. I request Immortals to save my husband, his illness is quite grave."
That man looked at these people as if they were the last hope to save his life. He gathered all his strength to hurry over there but slipped down, almost falling down in the grass.
"Father!"
The girl rushed to support him.
The people who had come weren't that old. Though they had a modern crew cut, they wore strange white robes which had a bizarre flower stitched on the left side. The lapel fluttered in the wind, giving off an immortal-like feel. One of them frowned, "You have come here to seek medicine?"
"I beg you, please save my father…"
"You came at a wrong time. Today isn't the open medical treatment day. Return and come again in September after 3 years."
Her father would already be dead by then.
"Immortal, I beg you…"
The man said, "I said it's not possible. There's no margin to consult here. Stop crying and go back lest you provoke the Immortal's ire."
The entire household cried buckets, but they didn't dare to make a commotion again. If the Immortals got angry, their whole family would suffer.
"Hah!" Jiang Xiu snorted.
"Who are you? You dare to act so wantonly here?" The valley was entirely silent, so they heard Jiang Xiu quite clearly. This was a snort full of disdain which made their faces turn ice-cold.
Jiang Xiu replied in a cold tone, "You're just a few gatekeepers, and you dare to call yourselves Immortals. All of you really have a thick face."
"You…"
Their faces turned ugly. They wished to get angry but couldn't as it was true that they were just gatekeepers.
To the side, Gu Dekang was drenched in cold sweat. He realized Jiang Xiu planned to offend the people from Bodhi Gene and worsen his relationship with them. They wouldn't agree to enter his division then and help him win the competition.
He felt this was a really bold and despicable move.
"Who are you? You dare to talk such rubbish here?"
Gu Dekang rushed to explain, "Immortal, please ignore him. He has come here to make trouble. Can I trouble you to announce that the Gu family from the secular world has come to pay a visit?"
The front part made them feel better as they could ignore the words of someone who was intentionally creating trouble but the latter part about announcing made it appear as if they were really gatekeepers.
Their faces turned sour, "Leave from here. The Immortals don't have time for you. Return to whence you came."
Gu Dekang replied, "My Gu family has old ties with Bodhi Gene. This humble person is Jingmen army region's commander, Gu Dekang. I request you to inform the Immortals. They'll surely agree to meet us."
He handed over the medal.
Xie Sanxian's family stared with blank expressions. Especially that man and woman, they were utterly shocked. They had speculated about Old Gu's identity on the way but weren't expecting he was such a high official.
The expressions of those people changed after they saw the medal.
"So it was an old friend, please enter…"
Gu Dekang took the medal back and entered inside. Xie Sanxian's family felt as if they had found a lifeboat while drowning. The woman requested fervently, "Old Gu, can you please say something to them and make them treat my husband?"
Gu Dekang didn't reply and entered inside directly. This medal was the sign of Bodhi Gene owing their Gu family a favor so there was no way he would use it for a stranger.
The woman was unwilling to give up and decided to go up but was blocked by Gu Dekang's guards.
"Old Gu, Old Gu…"
The woman and the girl screamed as till their throats went sour yet Gu Dekang acted as if he didn't hear them.
That man's life or death was unrelated to him.
"Gu Dekang…"
A voice addressed him by his name directly. Gu Dekang furrowed his brows immediately. He knew only Jiang Xiu would dare to call him by his name.
"Audacious!"
Now that Gu Dekang had the Bodhi Gene backing him, he had regained his confidence.
"Humph! Do you remember this Deity's words?"
"What words?"
"This Deity said that blood will flow when this Deity acts. Did you think this Deity was joking?"
"What do you mean?"
Boom!
He raised his hand up suddenly. In this split second, it seemed as if space-time had frozen. A strange energy pulse similar to a sword light made its way towards the man from Bodhi Gene who had spoken a moment ago.
Slash!
The man didn't even get a chance to scream before he split into two halves, blood splashing on the surrounding rocks as well as the grass.
Everyone cried out in alarm!
They couldn't believe their eyes. Jiang Xiu had sliced a man into two through the void, but they were more shocked by the fact that he had done it here at the lmmortal's Residence, the place where Bodhi Gene was located.
He had killed a person of Bodhi Gene.
"You can't even withstand a single blow. It's as easy as killing chickens to kill you all, and you dare to call yourselves Immortals… useless trash."
Gu Dekang was startled. By the time he reacted, he didn't show anger but rather happiness, "Jiang Luoxia, you're dead now that you've killed a person of Bodhi Gene."
He watched as Jiang Xiu took a step forward and spoke in a melodious voice, "Descend, the nine mythical arts, cleanse the heavens, a thousand years of karma, an artless heart yet romantic…"
The voice seemed to come from antiquity, giving off a boundless as well as timeless feel. It resounded in the entire valley with grandiose then through the whole mountain, the final note causing the air to tremble, making those who heard it feel dizzy.
"Bodhi Gene, Jiang City's Jiang Louxia is here to pay a visit yet you haven't come to welcome."
He had entered the valley by the time he finished speaking.
The disciples at the entrance wished to stop him but didn't move an inch as they were already sliced before they could, dying tragically.
Gu Dekang was left dumbstruck due to the fear.
"This is…"
He couldn't believe it. Jiang Xiu hadn't crippled a person this time but instead killed. He slaughtered them like chickens and looking at his appearance, it seemed as if this was just the appetizer.
All the people sleeping in the entire Immortal's Residence were roused up. The sounds of bells rang inside the valley, causing people to rush out in a hurry.
"What happened?"
"I don't know!"
A disciple rushed to inform, "There's bad news. Exalt Bodhi, someone is killing his way inside and has killed many disciples."
"What?!"
That man wore a white robe resembling the ones landowners wore in the early 19th century,
"Send a group to deal with him!"
An ominous glint flashed through his eyes. He never expected someone would come to create trouble at Bodhi Gene.
Gu Dekang stood behind Jiang Xiu and watched as people rushed out of the valley. They were burnt to ashes by flames, or sliced into two halves by a sword light, or blasted away to their deaths by a single punch. Tides of people rushed out yet they were cut down all the same as if they were nothing but grass. None could match him, and in the wink of an eye, he had already killed over 20 people.
Gu Dekang shivered all over as a cold chill passed over him. He couldn't express what he was feeling in words. There was no difference between him and a person holding a machine gun firing at a crowd.
Gu Dekang's guards were left speechless. The scene had toppled their entire worldview.