Chapter 1217

Gu Chen and Ye Qingshuang had a deep conversation, and what they learned was a story that was beyond his imagination.

The Man with a Bamboo Hat and Ye Qingshuang had been searching for him for a year. Apart from them, there was another person who had participated in the search.

He was no stranger to this person. It was the black dog that had not been heard from for years after leaving the Ancient Immortal Tower.

Back then, the black dog had said that he had some personal matters to attend to and would be back soon. Who would have thought that there would be no news of him after he left?

From Ye Qingshuang, Gu Chen half-understood and half-guessed the ins and outs of the whole matter.

Before he met the black dog, it was a powerful Celestial Prime level dog demon known as the Black Wind Venerable.

However, there was a conflict between it and Qiu Mengyi, and in a moment of carelessness, its physical body was taken by her. Its soul was sealed in an ordinary dog, and it lost most of its cultivation.

This was the reason why Gu Chen felt that the black dog's soul was extremely powerful, but its cultivation was low.

At the Ancient Immortal Tower, the black dog learned the Archean Soul Technique with Tang Ning's help, and thus removed the seal on its soul.

After that, it said that it had some personal matters to attend to, mainly to find Qiu Mengyi and get its real body back.

Apart from that, the cause of the conflict between it and Qiu Mengyi was a split soul of the Man with a Bamboo Hat, and that split soul was also its target.

Before the black dog left, it said that it would surprise Gu Chen when it returned. That surprise must have been the split soul of the Man with a Bamboo Hat. As the two were investigating the secret of the Man with a Bamboo Hat, Gu Chen had even refined the Ancient Demon Soul Jade.

Who would have thought that the black dog had spent so much time looking for Qiu Mengyi, and during that time, the situation in the galaxy had changed drastically. The Man with a Bamboo Hat had died in the Divine Realm.

After that, the story quickly developed in a bizarre direction. The split soul of the Man with a Bamboo Hat had awakened, and with his glib tongue, he had successfully convinced the three of them to bring him to find Gu Chen.

After all, the Black Dog's hometown had been destroyed by the Man with a Bamboo Hat. It was unimaginable for the Black Dog to work with him. Furthermore, the Black Dog and Qiu Mengyi had a grudge against each other, so it was even more unbelievable that the two of them were willing to work together.

People who were completely unrelated to each other had embarked on a journey of searching for someone. No matter how imaginative Gu Chen was, he had never expected such a thing to happen.

The four of them were destined to fail in their search for Gu Chen because Gu Chen was living in seclusion in the Pale Yellow Ancient Star at that time, and the ancient star had completely deviated from its original position because of man-made reasons. How could it be easy to find him in the vast starry sky?

During the conversation, Gu Chen noticed that the time when the Man with a Bamboo Hat began to look for him happened to be when he was having nightmares about him. Gu Chen's heart sank.

Was this a coincidence?

If not, it meant that the Man with a Bamboo Hat had a way to influence his mind across the vast starry sky, even appearing in his dreams.

How did he do it?

Gu Chen knew very well that the Man with a Bamboo Hat's Separated Soul could not have done such a thing. The only explanation was that he had some hidden dangers in his body.

This made him feel uneasy. The Man with a Bamboo Hat was still haunting him. He was probably not looking for him for the sake of saving the Ninth Realm, as he had said!

"What happened after you couldn't find me? How did you end up at Mount Meru? “

Gu Chen took a deep breath and continued to ask Ye Qingshuang.

"Master had promised the Man with a Bamboo Hat to look for you, but there were conditions. One of them was that the Man with a Bamboo Hat had to tell her the secret of condensing the Origin of Soul. “

"That is the goal that Master has been pursuing all her life. The Man with a Bamboo Hat had once reached that realm and said that there was another way to help Master break through, so Master was moved. “

Ye Qingshuang's words were a little evasive. Although what she said was true, she hid some details of the deal between them. She was not willing to let Gu Chen know.

Gu Chen did not notice her strangeness and just listened attentively.

"After failing to find you, Master asked the Man with a Bamboo Hat to fulfill his promise. The shortcut to condensing the Origin of Soul was this Mount Meru. “

"He said that Mount Meru has gathered the faith of countless living beings in the entire West Heaven Starfield. With the help of the abundant faith power, it is possible to condense the Origin of Soul. “

"He did not say the specific method. He only promised to tell you everything after reaching Mount Meru and personally help Master break through. Who would have thought …"

Ye Qingshuang shook her head and smiled bitterly.

"In the end, your Master was tricked by the Man with a Bamboo Hat, right? “

Gu Chen asked unsurprisingly. With the Man with a Bamboo Hat's craftiness and his understanding of people's hearts, how could Qiu Mengyi not be at a disadvantage?

Qiu Mengyi was too obsessed with breaking through and was willing to take any risks. This was seen through by the Man with a Bamboo Hat, so naturally, she was controlled by him.

This had nothing to do with intelligence or stupidity. It was caused by greed.

"When we sneaked into the Tempest Monastery, we underestimated the level of security here. In the end, we were discovered by the monks of the Tempest Monastery. They used the power of Mount Meru to take us down. “

"When Master and Abbot Ruochen were fighting, the Man with a Bamboo Hat took the opportunity to escape. Master has always been brooding over this. She thought that the Man with a Bamboo Hat deliberately let us be discovered because he did not intend to tell Master the method of breaking through from the start. Master even suspected that the method of breaking through didn't exist and that it was just an excuse to trick her into helping him. “

Gu Chen was deep in thought. With the Man with a Bamboo Hat's despicable character, Qiu Mengyi's guess might actually be true.

However, to escape from Qiu Mengyi, coming all the way to Mount Meru to set up such a trap was too much of a hassle. With the intelligence of the Man with a Bamboo Hat, he should have a simpler way.

Gu Chen squinted his eyes as he thought about it. He finally connected the dots!

The members of the Pure Spirit Kingdom gathered at Mount Meru. This was just a follow-up to the Man with a Bamboo Hat's operation a year ago.

He definitely did not enter Mount Meru to help Qiu Mengyi. He had other secrets that he could not tell!

However, he did not expect that the operation would unexpectedly fail, so he retreated. A year later, he made a comeback.

What was the Man with a Bamboo Hat trying to do in the Tempest Monastery?

Did he come back now because he already had the confidence to carry out his plan?

Gu Chen's heart was in turmoil. He asked for the black dog's whereabouts and found out that it had escaped from the Tempest Monastery with the Man with a Bamboo Hat.

"If I can find the black dog, I might be able to find out what the Man with a Bamboo Hat is trying to do. “

"Regardless of the Man with a Bamboo Hat's goal, the waters of Mount Meru are much deeper than I thought. Looks like it's time for him to come out …"

Gu Chen mumbled to himself as he prepared for a rainy day.

"Gu Chen, no matter what the Man with a Bamboo Hat is trying to do, I have a feeling that it has something to do with you. You must be careful. “

Ye Qingshuang finished her story. She did not know what Gu Chen was thinking. She bit her lips and said softly.

Gu Chen came back to his senses and nodded with a smile. "Thank you for telling me these things. I already have a judgment in my heart. Since everything is clear, I will ask the Tempest Monastery to return your freedom. You have been trapped here for a whole year. It must be tough. “