Transmigration: The Peerless Immortal Husband

A batch of Beixing Pills was divided among the three people other than Chi Changye. Afterward, Gu Yao refined several more batches. After taking them, the three of them clearly felt an increase in their spiritual awareness. The benefits of having stronger spiritual awareness and soul strength were obvious. Most notably, Tian Feirong felt that the time it took to refine the newly absorbed Azure flame power was significantly shortened, and his control had clearly improved.

As they passed through a city with a Pill Guild branch, Gu Yao took out the refined Beixing Pill formula and had it sent to the headquarters of the Pill Guild, where President Hu Ting resided. He only revealed his Elder status, so the branch president naturally didn’t dare to refuse. After Gu Yao and the group left, the branch president realized, too late, the possible identity of Gu Yao. He regretted deeply, lamenting that he hadn’t kept Gu Yao at the branch for a while to give him guidance, as his alchemy skills would surely make great progress under Gu Yao’s instruction.

What he didn’t know was that his confusion had been caused by the interference of Gu Yao’s spiritual awareness.

At the Pill Guild’s headquarters, Hu Ting received the items sent from the branch. Upon opening them, he saw the Beixing Pill formula. After some careful contemplation, he personally refined a batch. He had to admit that Gu Yao’s progress in alchemy was beyond his expectations. Just when Hu Ting thought Gu Yao was already good enough, Gu Yao always seemed to go further than he had anticipated.

The Beixing Pill was not an ordinary formula—it dealt with the soul and had a much higher difficulty for restoration compared to other formulas. Although Gu Yao had claimed that he still felt some deficiencies and that it could be further perfected, Hu Ting believed that this mindset was exactly the reason why Gu Yao could continually improve.

When the Beixing Pill made its debut at the Pill Guild, it naturally caused a stir. Since the battle in Shifang City had ended, Gu Yao had vanished along with Chi Changye. Many people were eager to learn of his whereabouts, and some even speculated that he had been controlled by Chi Changye and used solely for his benefit. After all, how else could Chi Changye have advanced his cultivation so quickly?

Gu Yao had personally heard of such rumors, and at the time, he found it both speechless and laughable. If pills truly had such effects, then the number one person on Tianlin Continent should have been him, Gu Yao, rather than Chi Changye.

But just when no one could find Gu Yao’s whereabouts, the appearance of the Beixing Pill pushed his reputation to an even greater height. Hu Ting publicly announced that the Beixing Pill had been independently researched and restored by Gu Yao, who had voluntarily submitted it to the Pill Guild. This announcement led to another wave of search efforts across the continent to locate the whereabouts of Pill Master Gu Yao.

After learning where the formula had been sent from, many cultivators flocked to the city where Gu Yao and his companions had previously stayed. However, by that time, the four of them had already left, and even the people from the Pill Guild couldn’t remember their exact appearances. They were clueless when asked. As a result, these cultivators could only use the city as their base and expand their search outward.

The head of Tianfu Academy, also received this news. He glanced at the map of Tianlin Continent and sighed. He knew that Chi Changye and the others had not achieved the desired results in the Desert of Death, which was why they had moved to their current location. However, he could no longer predict where Chi Changye and Gu Yao would go next.

Where were the four of them now?

When the flying artifact finally landed and they switched to riding the Horned Scale Horses, Tian Feirong, who had been groggy, finally realized something was amiss.

“Brother Chi, Brother Chi, are we going back?” The road was becoming more and more familiar. Wasn’t this the same road they had taken ten years ago when they left Yuanyang Town? If they went further, they would be entering Xiong Tou Fortress, right?

Gu Yao sat on the horse, watching as Tian Feirong finally caught on and laughed heartily. “Second Brother Tian, you finally figured it out! Yep, this is the road back to Yuanyang Town, but tomorrow we’ll first go to Xiong Tou Fortress. Didn’t you always want to check it out?”

Tian Feirong didn’t know how to respond. Was Gu Yao really going to Xiong Tou Fortress just to see it? He wasn’t that stupid to think that was the reason. So, why were they here? Was Yuanyang Town really that special, with a nature similar to the Desert of Death?

“I did want to go when I was just a Qi Refining Stage cultivator. Xiong Tou Fortress seemed quite mysterious back then. But now, with a wave of my hand, I could destroy the entire fortress. What’s left to see?” Tian Feirong felt both excited and somewhat conflicted. Yuanyang Town was where he grew up, and he had once believed it was his birthplace. His family was here, but now, he didn’t know how to face them.

Going to Xiong Tou Fortress was fine; it would delay the moment of facing his old family. He could do a little more mental preparation.

“What kind of place is Xiong Tou Fortress?” The chubby boy asked curiously. He had no idea that the three of them came from such a place. When they arrived, they saw how poor the spiritual energy here was. Without Gu Yao’s admission, it would be hard to imagine that such figures as Gu Yao and Chi Changye could have emerged from this place. As for Tian Feirong, the chubby boy thought he had just been lucky.

Tian Feirong began to explain Xiong Tou Fortress to the chubby boy. Back then, when he could only move within Yuanyang Town, Xiong Tou Fortress had seemed like a legendary place. Now, talking about it brought up some very mixed emotions.

Gu Yao didn’t pay attention to them anymore, and Chi Changye tossed over the old leather map from back then. The map was no longer the same as it had been before; the covering had been removed with a special solution, revealing the original appearance. The leather was now extremely soft, resistant to water and fire, and even ordinary magical tools couldn’t leave any marks on it, let alone destroy it.

“It’s still hard to tell what this place is,” Chi Changye said.

Chi Changye nodded. “We need to compare it with the other one. I wonder if the person from back then is alive or dead. If I had known, I should have paid more attention and taken the map right away.”

“They should be alive, right? After all, there hasn’t been any major trouble in Yuanyang Town in recent years. Unless they chose to end it all, no force should have troubled them,” Gu Yao speculated. The three families in the town were still around. Though their strength had changed significantly, due to certain reasons, they still maintained a balance of power, leaving some small forces space to survive.

Chi Changye also felt that the situation was not too problematic. Even if that person was gone, he could always find a few subordinates to retrieve the map.

The object in Gu Yao’s hand finally caught the attention and curiosity of Tian Feirong and the others. “What’s this? A map? Don’t tell me our purpose here is to find this?”

Gu Yao remembered that Tian Feirong had been present when this item was obtained. He couldn’t help but laugh. “Second Brother Tian has seen this before, but it didn’t look like this back then. Do you remember when we gambled on the chest ten years ago? All three of us got something. This map was Brother Ye’s reward.”

It had been such a long time, and Tian Feirong had completely forgotten. Gu Yao didn’t mention it earlier, but now, when he tried to recall the past, he was astonished. He barely remembered that Chi Changye had received a piece of cloth back then, and now, it had transformed into something completely unrecognizable. Indeed, fortune seemed to depend on the person.

“What exactly is this thing?”

Gu Yao explained the whole story, including the fact that the person had also left behind a map. Perhaps it was a trap set to see who would fall into it, and it just so happened that Chi Changye obtained it. However, Chi Changye had remained silent in the town back then, causing the other party to wait in vain. Now, with Chi Changye’s Golden Core cultivation, it was of no use to them anymore.

Tian Feirong couldn’t help but exclaim, “Wow, that’s crazy!” But if this thing had fallen into his hands, he wouldn’t have had the foresight to understand its significance.

Gu Yao laughed at him. He hadn’t even told him what the object had been at first. If Tian Feirong knew, he might have fallen off his horse in shock. Looking back, although it appeared that Tian Feirong had the greatest reward, in fact, compared to what Gu Yao and Chi Changye had received, his reward could easily be overlooked. Wasn’t that a bit unfair?

A piece of cloth had such a great reputation. Tian Feirong couldn’t help but recall the iron shard that Gu Yao had found. “Gu Yao, you don’t mean that iron piece you got also hides some great fortune, right?”

Gu Yao smiled without answering, and Tian Feirong immediately felt something was off. He pounded his chest, regretting his naivety. It seemed that he was the only big fool back then. The chubby boy almost fell off his horse laughing.

After the sun set, the four of them found an open space to rest. They started a campfire and roasted the game Tian Feirong had hunted. They chatted and laughed as if they hadn’t noticed the cultivators hiding in the dark. The four of them had concealed their cultivation levels, appearing as if they were just four Qi Refining stage cultivators, like young masters from a wealthy family out for a leisurely stroll, unaware of the dangers of the world. To anyone observing, these young masters looked like plump, juicy sheep—if not them, who else would be slaughtered?

Since the game had been skinned, it was unrecognizable, and the cultivators in the dark hadn’t noticed it was already a beast with Foundation Establishment-level strength. Had they known, they would have already hidden far away.

Ignorance breeds fearlessness.

The four of them shared the roasted meat, drank some spiritual tea, and then sat around the fire meditating for the night, planning to set off again the next morning.

The people hiding in the dark became increasingly convinced that the four were naive young masters, unaware of the dangers of the world. They dared to rest in the wild without taking any precautions. One of them threw something into the fire, and it immediately flared up with a crackling sound, releasing a cloud of smoke.

After a while, seven or eight people emerged from the shadows and surrounded the four by the fire. They pressed knives to the four’s necks. Then, a man swaggered out, walking confidently toward one of the four. He reached out to grab the storage bag from his waist. Seeing the bag bulging, he knew it must be filled with valuables.

However, as soon as his hand touched the storage bag, he found he couldn’t move. When he looked up, he met a pair of eyes that were awake and sharp, seemingly smiling but with an unsettling clarity. He was so frightened that he almost collapsed to the ground. He wanted to move, but not only could he not move his hand—his entire body had frozen in place.