Gu Yun was in a good mood at the moment.

With so many elixirs in his hands, he had no way of knowing how far his cultivation could break through. This kind of longing for the unknown is the most gratifying.

"What kind of cultivation will I advance to? Is it the late stage of foundation building, or the peak realm?"

"Gu Xiaoyou. ”

A slightly muffled voice pulled Gu Yun back to reality. The voice sounded both familiar and unfamiliar, and Gu Yun swept his gaze and found that the old man not far away was standing in front of the attic looking at him.

Shan Lao's face was slightly pale at this time, so his voice just now sounded a little weak. When he made eye contact with the other party, Gu Yun knew that the other party had something important to look for him.

After putting the pill bottle in his hand into the storage bag, Gu Yunshan stepped forward and bowed.

"Shan Lao. ”

"Well, they're all old acquaintances, Gu Xiaoyou doesn't have to be polite or anything. I have something to ask you for, so come in and discuss. ”

"Oh, okay. With a promise, Gu Yun had a vague bad feeling in his heart.

And the facts also verified Gu Yun's idea.

Not long after he sat down, the old man took out a book of animal skin from his arms.

When Gu Yunxin took it, he found that directly above the beast skin book, there were three golden characters of King Jiang.

"King of Xinjiang?"

Suspiciously reading out the three words at the same time, Gu Yun began to patiently read the above information one by one. After reading the content completely, Gu Yun's face was already quite ugly.

As the saying goes, a wave has not settled, and a wave has risen.

It turned out that after the Turkic people were driven away in the territorial war, the Khitan people who came to help the war made unreasonable demands on southern Xinjiang.

He actually asked southern Xinjiang to cut out one-third of the territory for them. Moreover, the claimed areas are all close to the southern zone, which is not far from the Khitan people.

If this is the case, the Khitan people will not only have a lot of territory, but also form a flank with the Turkic tribes in the north to attack southern Xinjiang. As a result, the role of southern Xinjiang as a buffer for the two families will become smaller and smaller.

In the end, it is likely to be slowly swallowed up.

Originally, Shan Lao used the two alliances to solve the threat of Turkic aggression, and in the end, it was a big deal to give more immortal cultivation resources such as spiritual materials and spirit stones. But what I never expected was that the other party would open his mouth and directly ask for your territory.

This move is really a wolf and a tiger.

Compared with the Turks, the Khitan people pose a greater threat to southern Xinjiang!

The Khitan ancient people already occupy two-thirds of the territory of the southern continent, and the entire southwest region is the hinterland of their tribe. It seems that the Khitan people are probably doing this with the idea of encroachment. First slowly annex the territory of southern Xinjiang, and then swallow the Turkic people with absolute superiority.

In this case, the entire southern continent is what they say.

Of course, this kind of almost provocative demand will not be agreed to by the high-ranking sects in southern Xinjiang.

Fortunately, most of the monks came from the Eastern Continent, and some of them had deep backgrounds. However, of course, the Khitan also has a good background.

There are acquaintances in that legendary Xuanyuan Continent to support the façade.

Finally, with the help of several old monsters, an agreement was finally reached.

That is to hold the King of Xinjiang Ring.

The Khitan tribe and the monks of southern Xinjiang each sent four monks to build the foundation, four ancestors of the Jiedan, and five old monsters of the Yuanying. (Since the Yuanying realm contains the realm of the Great Perfection, five people are selected in this way.) In this way, there are a total of thirteen ring battles, and whoever wins seven games will be the winner of the Xinjiang King War.

If the southern Xinjiang side wins, it is equivalent to preserving the entire southern Xinjiang region.

If they lose, they will have to give one-third of their territory to the Khitans.

On the whole, it looks more unfavorable to southern Xinjiang.

It is similar to the ring battle in the previous territorial war, only two monks can be dispatched, and foreign monks are not allowed to help. In addition, for the sake of fairness, there will also be a primordial old monster from the Eastern Continent, the Western Holy Continent, and the Northern Ice Fields as a battle watcher and a judge.

As for the construction side of the ring, it is also decided by the non-fighting monks of the three parties.

One thing to note is that because this ring battle is a matchmaking factor, it is not allowed to kill the opposing monk in the battle, otherwise it will be divided by defeat.

Seeing that in the lower right corner of the beast skin book, there were two bloody handprints, apparently the highest levels of both sides agreed.

It's a foregone conclusion.

Three years later.

"Alas. ”

Gu Yun sighed, handed the beast skin book back to Old Man Shan, and didn't say anything more.

What else could he say? The old man in front of him is afraid that he has been tortured by the high-level of southern Xinjiang because of the things that involved the Khitan, and he doesn't want to fill it up.

"So, why did Shan Lao come to me?"

"Originally, the old man didn't want to drag Gu Xiaoyou down. But because of Gu Xiaoyou's performance in the last battle, he was recognized by the elders of the sect, so in this foundation-level ring battle, Gu Xiaoyou was already one of the monks who participated in the battle. ”

"yes, I see. "I have already guessed in my heart, since I can't hide, I can only agree. Under the watchful eyes of the old monsters on all sides, it was impossible for him to run away and go elsewhere.

What's more, Su Xiaomian also entered the Qingxu Gate under the arrangement between him and Shan Lao.

If he leaves, it will bring devastating consequences to Su Xiaomian.

Although Gu Yun and Su Xiaomian are not very close, Gu Yun will not do this.

"So what does Gu Xiaoyou mean?"

"Hehe, I'm just a foundation building monk, and I can only follow the wishes of my predecessors. Don't worry, Shan Lao, I will come here to find you in three years. ”

"Good, good. Shan Lao said two words dryly.

Then, the juniors will take their leave first. ”

"Good. ”

Under Shan Lao's slightly helpless gaze, Gu Yun flashed out of the attic.

"Huh~!"

Gu Yun drove his sword up and flew towards the cave where he had been retreating again.

He didn't close the hole at all, he just left it open. Because Gu Yun also knew that now his every move was within the scope of the old monsters' spiritual sense exploration, and it would be in vain to hide anything.

Sitting cross-legged on top of the futon, he opened a vial containing Jingyuan Dan and poured it down with his neck up.

"Goo~!"

After swallowing more than a dozen pills as soon as he opened his mouth, Gu Yun's eyes were tightly closed, and he slowly comprehended the set of poisonous insect exercises.

......

Time is like water, and time is like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, the time agreed with Shan Lao had arrived.

"Wow~!"

As the white mist wrapped around his body dispersed again, Gu Yun finally slowly opened his eyes.

"It's not bad, it's advanced to the late stage of foundation building. Looking at the empty bottles on the ground, Gu Yun came out with a satisfied expression.

In fact, three years to advance from the original mid-stage realm to the late stage is already a rare and valuable among the foundation building monks.

This is also the reason why Gu Yun's foundation is not good.

Anyone who eats the rare elixir as jelly beans all day long is probably at least the result. If you have good qualifications, you should already be at the level of the peak realm.

"On the appointed day, let's go and see!"

With a flash of brilliance in his eyes, Gu Yun drove his sword and flew out of the cave and flew straight to the attic where Shan Lao was.

When he arrived, he found that at the door of the attic, in addition to Shan Lao, there were three monks looking at him with strange expressions.

Two men and one woman.

The men are all three years old, and under the investigation of Gu Yunling's sense, they found that one is in the middle stage of foundation building, and the other is at the same late level as himself.

"Gu Xiaoyou, I didn't expect you to advance to the late-stage realm so quickly, it really impressed the old man. Old Man Shan nodded and said with a chuckle.

In fact, he knew Gu Yun's every move in the cave. Cultivation is advanced, not to mention.

Gu Yun naturally knew this, but he just didn't want to break it.

"Hehe, the juniors are just a fluke breakthrough. ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the monk who was in the late stage of foundation building like himself immediately looked happy, as if he had suddenly escaped from the abyss.

"Hahaha, congratulations to Gu Daoyou for advancing! Little brother still has something to do, so I won't accompany you here!"

After saying that, this person bowed to Shan Lao, and suddenly flew away from the sword. This made Gu Yun a little strange, and when he looked back at the other mid-stage monk, he found that the other party was actually looking at him with an almost resentful look.

"Well, this is the nephew of Gu in the door, and he is the same as you, the representative sent to my southern Xinjiang for this ring battle. I brought him here to see if Gu Xiaoyou's cultivation was really advanced to the late stage. If Gu Xiaoyou didn't advance, the nephew who was Senior Sun just now would stay behind to accompany you to the battle. When Shan Lao said this, he was also a little crying and laughing.

"No wonder. Gu Yun nodded, indicating that he understood.

Whether Gu Yun stays in the middle or advanced stages, he has to participate in the war. Because in each small realm in the foundation building period, only one person is allowed to participate in the battle. And among the two people who were dispatched, some of them would get out of the game by luck because of their own reasons.

It seems that neither of them wants to get into trouble for themselves because of the ring fight.

Just like Gu Yun, last time it was a territory war, this time it was the king of Xinjiang ring, who knows if there will be a next time?

After looking at the other party with sympathetic eyes, Gu Yun finally glanced at the girl on the side.

This female cultivator has just been in the late stage of Ning Yuan, but this time there is no Ning Yuan monk to participate in the battle?

"Is it?"

"Hehe, Gu Xiaoyou only saw it because of you. The cultivation of the little nephew is not slower than yours at all. The corners of the old man's mouth cracked, and he said with a rare smile.

"It's really a little cotton!hahaha!"

After a closer look, it is true.

Although his facial features have changed a lot, his eyes are still exactly the same as when he first looked at him.

"Are you, Uncle Gu?" the girl looked at Gu Yun for a while before she couldn't help but cry out.

"Hmm. ”

"Wow!!"

But immediately, Su Xiaomian rushed to Gu Yun in tears.

There is excitement, and there is also a bit of sadness.

"Xiaomian, don't be like this, the people next to you are still watching. Feeling a little weird on his body, Gu Yun reminded him awkwardly.

"I don't want it, Uncle Gu, you are so bad, why don't you tell Xiaomian, my parents have died a long time ago!

It's almost a hand planer.

But Gu Yun's body never moved a bit.

Recalling the scene when the villagers turned into toad monsters, Gu Yun's eyes at this time were inevitably a little moist. But after all, he was an immortal cultivator, and after his eyes narrowed, he returned to his normal color again.

In any case, Su Xiaomian was finally led by him to the right path, and like himself, he had the hope of achieving the Dao in the future.

Even if it's slim.

"Okay, Xiaomian won't cry anymore. Tell Uncle Gu about what exercises you have practiced over the past three years?"