Transmigration: The Peerless Immortal Husband

As soon as Gu Yao heard, he realized that the disturbance was caused by his pill refining. He hadn’t expected that even a small leak of aura would cause such a commotion. Rubbing his face, he said, “I refined a few pills for the kitten. It seems I’ll have to strengthen the formation from now on, or we won’t be able to handle it.”

Once or twice would be fine, but if it happens repeatedly, it will raise suspicion. Gu Yao thought that it was the aura of the high-quality pills that attracted the spirit birds and beasts even more. He didn’t want to reveal that he had been refining high-quality pills just yet.

Chi Changye’s expression immediately became more serious. “Leave this to me. I believe those spirit birds and beasts outside will disperse soon. We don’t need to go out and do anything.”

Gu Yao quickly nodded. If they went out now, it would be like admitting that they had caused this abnormal situation. Let others speculate instead.

Gu Yao felt a bit guilty and didn’t dare to look outside.

At the entrance of the restricted area, it was quite lively. The students entering and exiting found that many spirit beasts had gathered and were reluctant to leave. This had made the spirit beast owners miserable. When trying to communicate with their spirit beasts, the animals all showed signs of wanting to eat. From the drooling expressions, it was easy to guess that something inside the restricted area had an extremely strong attraction for spirit beasts. But what exactly was it? They couldn’t run into each courtyard to search. Those who lived in the restricted area didn’t lack spirit stones.

Some of the students living in the restricted area also had spirit beasts, and that day, they were quite agitated. Some of their spirit beasts had run out of their courtyards and were lingering outside Gu Yao’s courtyard, but they didn’t dare to enter. It seemed that something about the aura in the area made them unwilling to offend it. This phenomenon prevented their owners from suspecting the people inside the courtyard.

They could move around the restricted area freely, but after walking around, they didn’t notice anything unusual.

Fortunately, not long after, the scent gradually dissipated, and the spirit beasts and birds began to settle down, obediently following their owners. The guards at the entrance of the restricted area let out a huge sigh of relief, dramatically wiping the sweat from their foreheads with their sleeves. They had been afraid that the students wouldn’t be able to control their spirit beasts and that the beasts would rush inside.

“Some people are saying that there’s some kind of heavenly material or treasure inside our restricted area, but it only affects spirit beasts. We cultivators can’t sense it.”

“Maybe it’s just some rich person who bought some delicious food for their spirit beast, and that’s what’s attracted the spirit beasts from outside.”

“It could also be a medicinal pill. Could it be that a pill master let out the scent of a pill they were refining, and that’s what caused such a big commotion?”

“Pill masters refine pills in pill rooms, right? And the pill rooms have formations to restrict any leakage. If it leaked out and caused such a disturbance with the spirit beasts, then this pill must be amazing. I’m still leaning toward it being some sort of heavenly material or treasure.”

Fortunately, this situation only occurred once. The restricted area was no longer surrounded by spirit beasts and birds. Gradually, everyone stopped thinking about the abnormal event. Only the students from the Spirit Beast and Spirit Bird Peaks still remembered it. While there were some who suspected Gu Yao, a few even approached him to test him, but Gu Yao easily brushed them off with vague responses.

After that, Gu Yao became more cautious when refining pills. He hadn’t expected that the sense of smell of spirit beasts and birds was far more sensitive than humans. What cultivators couldn’t detect, spirit beasts could easily sense.

From that day on, Tian Feirong and the chubby boy noticed that the kitten around Gu Yao had become much more well-behaved. Although it still occasionally bared its claws and puffed up in a display of temper, as soon as Gu Yao called it, it immediately calmed down, meowing softly with its little voice. The sight was enough to melt anyone’s heart. The two of them even felt a longing to raise a spirit beast. But then they thought it would be impractical and quickly dismissed the idea.

Just keeping a spirit beast as a pet seemed like a waste. They weren’t like Gu Yao, who could refine pills, or Chi Changye, who could make talismans. They didn’t lack spirit stones. A spirit beast kept as a pet wouldn’t be of much help to a cultivator. However, those spirit beasts with greater utility were hard to come by, so for now, they suppressed that thought.

The cultivation world was never short of fresh events. The Shi family massacre case sparked heated discussions among the students for a while, but as news spread about which young cultivator successfully formed their foundation and which cultivators formed Daoist partnerships, the Shi family case gradually faded into the background. In addition, it seemed as if Shi Yanyan had completely disappeared; her figure could no longer be seen in the academy. The students, ever chasing the latest news, slowly pushed her out of their minds, as if the Shi family’s massacre case had been completely forgotten.

“Shi Yanyan took on the task of guarding the Sword Pavilion. The pay isn’t much, so hardly anyone is willing to go. It’s quite peaceful over there, which suits her current situation. Maybe in a few years, people will have completely forgotten about Shi Yanyan and the Shi family,” Zhou Li told Gu Yao and Chi Changye about the subsequent developments regarding the Shi family’s ancestral land.

“However, I think she might be eyeing the Sword Pavilion. After all, even though the cultivators who enter the Sword Pavilion are usually considered fools or crazy, there’s always a chance that one of them could make it big. If that’s the case, she’d have her revenge.”

Zhou Li was projecting his own feelings. If he were to encounter such a catastrophe, witnessing his father sacrifice him and perish with the enemy, he would be devastated. Even if it meant risking his life, he would do everything possible to seek revenge.

Gu Yao shook his head. “Such an opportunity is too slim. Moreover, who exactly are the enemies?” He then asked, “By the way, have you found out who the mastermind behind the Shi family is?”

While the academy students had overlooked this matter in their gossip, Gu Yao believed that the higher-ups in the academy, including Jiang Yan and others, would certainly want to get to the bottom of it. Although he didn’t know much, he could sense that the enemy had cast a wide net, seemingly covering the entire Tianlin continent. It felt as though nothing could escape their eyes, like a great sword hanging over his head, waiting to fall at any moment.

Zhou Li furrowed his brow, then lowered his voice to tell Gu Yao and Chi Changye, “We found traces of the Shifang City Lord’s mansion. Don’t talk about this to anyone else; they probably won’t believe it if you do.”

Gu Yao also frowned. On the surface, it seemed that the Shi family’s treasures had drawn various forces into the conflict, with the City Lord’s mansion of Shifang City being no exception. After all, Elder He, who escaped from the secret realm, was a devotee of that mansion. Part of the Shi Chamber of Commerce had also fallen into the hands of the City Lord’s mansion. But the more this was the case, the less likely anyone would suspect the City Lord’s mansion to be the mastermind behind everything. After all, if the City Lord’s mansion wanted to suppress the Shi family, it would be very easy. Once the City Lord’s mansion issued a decree, all the other forces would rush to strike at the Shi family.

So why did the City Lord’s mansion go to such lengths?

Gu Yao replied, “Hmm, I won’t say anything, and besides, no one would believe what I say.” Compared to the City Lord’s mansion, Gu Yao was just a small, insignificant cultivator.

So, the matter of the Shi family was eventually left unresolved.

Pill Peak.

Wei Jinzhi looked displeased as he spoke to the person in front of him: “Is this the information you’ve gathered? Even without you specifically asking, I could go outside and ask anyone at random, and the information I get would be no different from what you’ve found. You bunch of useless fools, what good are you to me?”

Wei Jinzhi was the youngest direct disciple of the current Pill Peak’s Lin Peak Master. He had not joined through the Ascension Conference but had been found by Lin Peak Master during an expedition. Once brought into The Pill Peak, he had proven himself to be exceptionally talented and had excelled in alchemy, matching or even surpassing the achievements of earlier disciples, earning much praise.

However, after the new batch of students entered the academy, things began to change, especially after Li Shurong and Liu Lingge lost the challenge competition. Students from the Pill Peak began to compare the new disciple with Wei Jinzhi, occasionally debating who was better.

Wei Jinzhi had supporters, but there were also people who didn’t like him. They would elevate the new disciple, Gu Yao, to diminish Wei Jinzhi. The implication in their words was that even if Wei Jinzhi were to step up and challenge Gu Yao, the one who would lose would still be Wei Jinzhi.

Would Wei Jinzhi accept this? Of course not. But he had restrained himself and not made any moves so far, not only because his senior brother Ling Qi had warned him but also because he had bought pills from Gu Yao’s shop several times. Every pill made him want to analyze and study it thoroughly. He often kept an eye on the sales of pills in Gu Yao’s shop, and over time, Wei Jinzhi was forced to admit that if he were to challenge Gu Yao, he would likely lose, and his outcome wouldn’t be much better than Li Shurong and Liu Lingge’s.

Because he could not achieve Gu Yao’s rate of pill refinement, especially the success rate of top-grade pills. For him, the appearance of top-grade pills was extremely rare and beyond his control; only low-grade pills were a common occurrence. However, in Gu Chi’s shop, the pills were either top-grade or mid-grade, with very few low-grade pills. The more he focused on this shop, the more disheartened he became, the more frustrated he felt.

When the unusual situation occurred in Area A, he specifically had someone investigate. The reason was simple: Gu Yao was now living in Area A. He couldn’t help but wonder if the abnormal situation in Area A was related to Gu Yao, or perhaps something new that Gu Yao had caused? How could he tell others without them thinking he had lost his mind? Yet, he couldn’t stop thinking this way.

His subordinates were feeling helpless. Carefully, one of them said, “Brother Wei, we are incompetent. There is a black kitten, about the size of a fist, that appeared around Master Gu Yao. According to what we’ve learned, this kitten was caught by Chi Changye during their return from the Shi family’s ancestral land and was given to Gu Yao to raise as a pet. There doesn’t seem to be anything unusual about it. We’ve also heard that his two helpers have been inquiring about the food and medicinal pills favored by spirit beasts and spirit birds from the Spirit Beast Peak and Spirit Bird Peak, and they have even gathered some related spiritual materials for refining medicinal pills. But there are no such pills for sale in Gu Chi’s shop.”

Wei Jinzhi frowned. When the rumors spread, he had speculated that perhaps Gu Yao had refined some extremely high-quality pills, which caused the spirit birds and beasts to become agitated. However, no one seemed to believe his theory, thinking that he had elevated Gu Yao too highly and lost his objectivity.

“Alright, you can go now,” Wei Jinzhi waved his hand.

After his subordinates left, Wei Jinzhi turned and walked out of his cave residence, heading towards his senior brother’s place.