Longevity: Starting from Refining Gu

Three years ago, in the Water Country.

Amidst the misty rain, a robust man in black with a longsword at his waist walked into an inn, heading straight for the backyard.

In the backyard, it was filled with men wearing bamboo hats.

The man in black reached up to remove the bamboo hat from his head, instantly commanding the respect of the surrounding men wearing hats.

"Number Nine, you're finally here!"

"The latest news, Chen Qing had already acquired the True One Slash!"

"It seems Chen Qing won't spare us."

"We stole his power, how could he possibly let us go?"

"According to Tai Sui, Chen Qing would definitely prove his uniqueness, which means he needs to kill all of us."

"Number Nine, make a decision!"

"If you ask me, we might as well join the Evil Sect and kill Chen Qing!"

"Kill Chen Qing, are you dreaming? Not to mention how powerful we are, even merely the Mystic Gate Realm is invincible, and his true form has the King Gu we don't have; how can he be so easily slain?"

"Number Nine, you're the closest to the Void Gate. Is there no other way?"

Number Nine put down his longsword and sat amidst the rain, ignoring the falling droplets.

His life from birth had been a constant slaughter, making him somewhat numb.

"I once relied on the Big Dream Gu to go before the Void Gate. If I'm not mistaken, Chen Qing should have already gained control of the Void River and the Black Sun."

"Now, the Evil Sect is unwilling to let us go. Chen Qing acquired the True One Slash, neither will spare us."

"But they never asked if we wanted to come into this world!"

"All of this, it's Tai Sui's fault!"

"At this point, there's only one last way."

"We unite!"

"Only by uniting, merging into one, can we grasp more of the power of the Void Gates and use the Void Gate to suppress Tai Sui, and eliminate this scourge completely!"

"The void will encompass everything, within you and me!"

Number Nine spoke with fervent conviction, "First, we must at least master the most powerful force, a force strong enough to oppose Tai Sui Chen Qing!"

Quickly, someone questioned, "But after suppressing the Evil Sect, will Chen Qing let us go?"

"He has the backing of the Jiguang Sect, the Sword Travel Palace, the Miao God, and Haoran True Monarch. And us, what do we have?"

"If we don't take down Chen Qing, we can't negotiate with him at all!"

After thinking for a moment, Number Nine said, "Let's unite first, suppress the Evil Sect, then capture Chen Qing. Use Chen Qing as leverage to negotiate with the Great Sect, so they'll let us go, allowing us to live freely, to live normal lives!"

Suddenly, someone spoke up, "If that's the case, why don't we continue lying low, wait for the Evil Sect and Chen Qing to go to war, and then capture Chen Qing in one fell swoop!"

As everyone was engaged in tense discussion, a woman's scream suddenly rang out. Number Nine immediately drew his sword, "Who is it, who brought others here?"

Number Sixty-three stood up trembling, "It was me."

Number Nine said, "Sixty-three, I know when you were born, you didn't receive guidance, so you lived for over a year as if you were an ordinary person. But didn't you later learn the cause of everything?"

"Why did you still bring outsiders here? Do you realize what our fate would be if we were exposed?"

Number Sixty-three said, "I didn't want to, but Qian'er, Qian'er she..."

"She is carrying my child..."

His words left everyone in silence, Number Nine was stunned, "Say it again?"

Number Sixty-three said, "She is carrying my child, and it is also your child..."

As the sound of a baby's cry echoed from the room, everyone was frozen in place.

That was Number Sixty-three's child, and it was also their child. It was proof that they had come to this world.

Number Nine slowly stepped forward, pushing open the door. A woman was lying on a blood-soaked bed, lifeless, with a trickle of blood at the corner of her mouth.

After giving birth, this woman chose to end her life.

Number Nine approached the baby, reaching out to hold the baby girl. The baby seemed to be far more intelligent than ordinary infants, for she called out upon seeing him, "Daddy…"

Number Nine couldn't help but tremble all over. He carefully carried the girl outside the door, using his bamboo hat to shield her from all the rain, speaking in words of iron, "Before seeing her, I didn't know why I lived."

"To live for the sake of living? What a pitiful reason."

"From the very beginning, it was a mistake, our continuous slaughter, hunting for Gu, hunting for treasures and famed swords."

"For survival, our hands are stained with blood."

"We can all die."

"But…"

"We must at least let her live."

Number Sixty-three also mustered his courage, "For her, I can kill everyone in the world!"

Many men in black stood up, "We unite!"

"We unite!"

"I transform into the Void!"

"Where the Void is, there I am!"

Beneath the curtain of rain, that dark, profound void united into one…

…

The rain in the Water Country had been pouring relentlessly for three years.

The first time Chen Qing came here, he witnessed the endless rain, sometimes heavy, sometimes light.

Chen Qing reached out to catch a handful of rainwater, "But use the rain to determine everyone's location?"

"Unfortunately, this trick was useless against me."

Chen Qing transformed into fog and flew forward, soaring from one mountain peak to another, swiftly heading toward the royal city of the Water Country.