The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 265: Divination

Long Xuan sat in front of her stall and smiled, "Then give me a divination. How long will I live? Will I be killed, or achieve eternal life?"

Wu Yaoyao shook her head immediately and replied, "I can't predict that. With your level of shamelessness, you definitely won't die anytime soon."

"Even if you somehow live for ten thousand years, I certainly can’t foresee events that far into the future. Any prediction that long would definitely be inaccurate."

"And if you want a selective divination, I can only use alternative methods. If I use Gu for divination, I can only capture a possible fragment of your future. You don't get to choose."

"I've paid you, so I must use the Gu for divination!"

"Alright! Go ahead, what do I need to do?" Long Xuan asked.

"You don’t need to do anything. Using the Gu for divination only requires your consent."

As she said this, Wu Yaoyao closed her large eyes, and her consciousness entered a dark world.

Soon, her eyes lit up, and an image appeared before her as if she had directly stepped into that world. The scene in front of her was indistinguishable from reality.

In this world, blood rain was pouring down from the sky, each drop was blood-red. The rain was highly corrosive, and anyone touched by it would be dissolved into blood. The entire world was filled with agonizing screams, like a living hell.

The ground was littered with countless corpses. Blood mixed with the crimson rain, turning the earth a deep red.

At the center of the blood rain, hundreds of Gu Kings were besieging a man in a blood-red robe. The man controlled a vast river of blood, which flowed through the sky like a giant red serpent.

None of the Gu Kings submerged in the blood river ever emerged again, disappearing completely as if they had been wiped out.

From time to time, the man would draw out the blood of a Gu King from a distance, leaving a dried corpse on the ground.

Occasionally, attacks would hit the man, but he would always transform into a swarm of blood-red bats, evading all damage. Then, one of the bats would reform into his human form, cackling as he charged into the fray again.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of Gu Kings had died at his hands. It didn’t look like he was being besieged by hundreds of Gu Kings—more like he was slaughtering them.

Finally, a man wielding thunder appeared, shattering one bat after another with lightning, putting a halt to the slaughter...

"This... this..."

Wu Yaoyao suddenly opened her eyes, standing up in shock, gasping for breath with terror in her eyes as if she had just woken from a nightmare.

"What on earth did you do!? How could you provoke such a terrifying existence!?" Wu Yaoyao pointed at Long Xuan, shouting in disbelief.

Long Xuan was stunned. What did she mean by provoking such a terrifying existence? Was he the type to offend people? What exactly did she foresee that terrified her so much?

Di Xin raised an eyebrow in interest and glanced at him. Could this survival master have really provoked some heaven-defying existence in the future? Would he end up dead?

"What did you foresee?" Di Xin asked eagerly.

Wu Yaoyao turned to Long Xuan, her voice trembling, "Your future shows you fighting against someone who cultivates Forbidden Gu!"

"That person has refined the Blood Demon Gu, ranked eighth among the Ten Forbidden Gu. The number of Gu Kings that have died at his hands is like a sea, and you actually charged at him wielding thunder in the end..." ⱤaꞐo͍ᛒÊS̩

Hearing this, Di Xin was taken aback. She looked at Long Xuan incredulously and teased, "Well, well, it seems like you're set on self-destruction in the future. I didn't see that coming."

Long Xuan responded with a forced smile, "How could that be? I'm always cautious and never make enemies. How could I provoke such a terrifying being? That's not my style!"

"You must have predicted wrong. That person can't possibly be me. Aren’t you wrong nine times out of ten with your predictions? This must be another one of your errors."

At that moment, two men were engaged in a fierce battle. Unsurprisingly, one of them was Long Xuan—after all, the person being divined was him. How could he not appear in the divination?

His opponent was a burly man with a body covered in bulging muscles. Under his control, the ground was shaking violently, producing deafening sounds.

Before long, mountains collapsed, and the earth cracked open, creating long fissures that expanded at an alarming rate. Rocks, massive trees, houses, and even humans were all tumbling into these fissures, plunging into a bottomless abyss.

This man could actually cause earthquakes! Wu Yao Yao’s heart tightened with dread, and a bad premonition began to rise in her mind. Could it be...

Just as her gaze froze and she became lost in thought, she suddenly felt a surge of heat in front of her. From the fissures, a torrent of magma erupted, flooding the ground and covering the surface in a molten sea.

In the blink of an eye, the entire area had become a world of magma—everything was bathed in red, and the heat was overwhelming.

This man was controlling the vast sea of magma, launching an attack toward someone in the sky.

Countless massive pillars of magma shot up into the sky, leaving no gaps for anyone to evade. The sheer density of firepower made escape impossible.

The battle between the two raged on, the sky and earth darkened, and the sun and moon seemed to lose their light. Mountains and rivers shattered under their attacks, and the nearby Gu cultivators and all living creatures perished under the terrifying aftershocks of their fight. The ground was riddled with wounds, and the spiritual energy in the air became chaotic—it was like the end of the world.

The intense light generated by their battle made it impossible for her to keep her eyes open.

“What is this...”

Finally, she was thrown back into reality by a massive explosion, gasping for air. Her back was drenched in sweat, and her eyes were filled with fear.

"You... you..."

Wu Yaoyao stood up again, pointing at Long Xuan’s nose and shouting in shock, "Are you cursed? How did you encounter another heaven-defying person who refines forbidden Gu insect?"

"That person refined the Earth Demon Gu, ranked third among the Ten Absolute Forbidden Gu. What were you thinking provoking him? Are you out to make enemies with everyone who refines forbidden Gu?"

Long Xuan was utterly confused. How had he encountered yet another fearsome individual who refined forbidden Gu insect? As cautious as he was, how did he always manage to bump into such people? Surely the divination had to be wrong again, right?

There was no way he would provoke someone who refined the Earth Demon Gu. He wasn’t foolish. The version of him in the divination definitely didn’t match his personality—Wu Yaoyao's divinations were unreliable and completely untrustworthy.

"So, what happened in the end?"

Despite these thoughts, Long Xuan couldn’t help but ask.

Di Xin gave him a strange look and interrupted, “Do you even need to ask? Of course, you died a terrible death. You probably don’t know how terrifying the Earth Demon Gu is."

"The Earth Demon Gu can trigger all kinds of natural disasters and amplify their power by a hundredfold. It can also control the power of the earth, granting its user an endless supply of energy."

"As long as the Earth Demon Gu user stands on the ground, they can fight for a hundred years without tiring. In a prolonged battle, no one can outlast them."

“The scariest part is their defense. Any attack that hits them is absorbed by the earth itself. Unless you have the power to destroy the earth, you won’t be able to harm them at all.”

“And that’s not all. The Earth Demon Gu user is said to be invincible anywhere there’s ground to stand on. They can instantly recover from any injury by drawing strength from the earth.”

"As long as there’s land beneath them, this kind of person can never be killed!"

"With those abilities, do you think you’d survive?"

"Forget about it. A person needs to have self-awareness. Anyone who refines the Earth Demon Gu is unbeatable. Even if you bring hundreds of Gu Kings, it wouldn’t be enough to stop them. You’re doomed!”