Chapter 187: Sha Xiao
In the vast darkness, Fang Yuan's soul was suffering.
This dark space had an immense corrosive effect on his soul.
Time in the dream realm could not be estimated.
He only felt like a long time had passed before a white light appeared in the vast darkness.
The white spot extended into a white line, before the line expanded up and down, light burst out as it filled Fang Yuan's vision.
Young Thieving Heaven gradually awakened.
The white light was the blazing sun.
Young Thieving Heaven quickly used his hand to shield his eyes.
"Why am I here?" He soon found himself lying on the desert, night had already passed, it was noon now.
Young Thieving Heaven's doubts did not last long because soon, he found some information in his mind.
This information was left behind by the clan's Gu Master.
The content was that Young Thieving Heaven had defied the clan rules and was exiled as punishment. But because he was young and ignorant, he only needed to stay in this desert for three days, as long as he returned to the clan after that, he would be able to join the clan again and live there.
"F*ck!" After understanding what had happened, young Thieving Heaven cursed as his saliva shot out.
"I had merely said a few words and you guys exiled me, this is abusing children, you simply disregard lives!"
"You bastards! I curse you…"
Young Thieving Heaven raised his middle finger but he did not know where to point.
He sat on the ground: "What do I do now? Even though I became a Gu Master, I have no Gu worms. I have no water or food, by night time, without any warm clothes or tents to shield me from the wind, I will freeze to death!"
"No, I must live."
"I will survive in this accursed world and find a way home!"
Young Thieving Heaven gritted his teeth, two flames of ambition were burning in his eyes.
At the same time, Fang Yuan felt his body relaxing, the restraints on him vanished suddenly.
When he moved his arms and legs, young Thieving Heaven also moved his arms and legs.
"I can finally control it now."
He chose the correct direction and started moving.
Soon, he encountered a pit. It was a quicksand pit, Fang Yuan was waiting as the sand devoured him.
Before the quicksand covered his head, sand started to spew upwards like a geyser, shooting Fang Yuan towards the sky.
After Fang Yuan landed, the quicksand pit had turned into a hole, it was blowing out cold air.
Fang Yuan quickly got close to the pit and saw that there were cool wind Gu flying out of the hole along with the breeze.
Next he used the immortal killer move unravel dream, at the next moment, he saw a cool wind Gu flew out.
Fang Yuan grabbed it and before he refined it, a second cool wind Gu flew down and was quite injured, it tried to move its wings but could not fly.
Fang Yuan captured it as well and after some effort, he refined both cool wind Gu.
When the cool air vanished, these wild cool wind Gu flew with it and left Fang Yuan's vision, but he already had seven cool wind Gu in his aperture.
Fang Yuan continued past the quicksand pit and moved forward, not long after, he saw a small oasis.
There was a well in the oasis, even though there were some wild beasts guarding it, and the leader of the beasts even had a mortal Gu.
Fang Yuan used the seven cool wind Gu to fight this group of beasts.
Eventually, using the terrain and his schemes, he killed the beast group, and also subdued the wild Gu worm on the leader's body. This was a poison path Gu worm resembling a scorpion.
Fang Yuan drank the beast blood and ate some meat to fill his stomach. Next, he collected the stomachs of some beasts and collected all of their blood, he also pulled apart some meat and used the beast intestines to tie them onto his body.
By now, the dream realm was already at night time, the desert temperature was getting low.
Fang Yuan held the beast skins and bones that he had and came to the dried well, creating a structure with the bones and placing the skin above them.
After his arrangements, Fang Yuan entered the empty hole and carefully explored the well.
He placed his feet on the sides of the well, preventing his body from falling down, he pulled on the beast skin and completely covered the hole on top.
Next, he slowly got down to the bottom of the well.
When he got to the bottom of the well just like his previous life he found a hole.
He quickly entered the hole by controlling young Thieving Heaven's body.
Following this hole, after fifty to sixty steps, Fang Yuan came to a small underground space that was the size of a room.
This place was quite simple, but there was a bowl made from soil, and there was a spring, it was tiny, but clear water was accumulated there.
There was also a dried corpse on the ground.
Fang Yuan slowly got closer to the dried corpse, when he was five or six steps away from it, he once again lost control of young Thieving Heaven's body.
The young Thieving Heaven muttered: "This person died in the well, was he trapped by the wild beasts and could not escape?"
Next, he came to the corpse, he lowered his head in respect before searching the corpse.
While searching it, Young Thieving Heaven found that this corpse was a Gu Master during his life, his rank was not low, he seemed to have a high status.
He had no Gu worms left, but within the clothes that he wore, there was a sheepskin map.
Young Thieving Heaven did not gain anything but the sheepskin map.
He stored the map carefully and searched the area again, but he had no discoveries.
Young Thieving Heaven drank a mouthful of water, he felt a cold refreshing flow as the taste of blood in his mouth from consuming beast blood faded by a lot.
Young Thieving Heaven's gulped, this mouthful of water drew out his inner desire, he lowered his body and buried his face in the spring.
Gulp, gulp, after drinking several mouthfuls, he raised his head as water splattered everywhere.
He sat on the ground with a thud, young Thieving Heaven did not speak, his hands were supporting the ground, his eyes were shut, after a while, he sighed deeply.
After resting for a while, he stretched out his hand, wiping the water from his face as he stood up, returning to the bottom of the well.
Young Thieving Heaven shuddered, the bottom of the well was much colder than the underground hole.
He looked up at the well, even though there were several beast skins as cover, the night winds were very strong, one beast skin had been blown away already, a gaping hole was created.
From the hole, young Thieving Heaven could see those stars shining high up in the night sky.
He sighed as he took some beast skin and wood, quickly creating a fireplace, next, he tried to start a fire by using friction on the wood, succeeding after several minutes.
Young Thieving Heaven first cooked some meat, before eating them when they were cooked.
After eating cooked food and filling his stomach, he felt very drowsy.
But young Thieving Heaven controlled his sleepiness and used the dim light to observe the sheepskin map that he had gotten.
"This sheepskin map must have existed for a very long time."
"Hmm? Isn't it pointing out my clan's oasis?"
Young Thieving Heaven was shocked.
The small oasis was the focus of this sheepskin map, there were even several Western Desert words on it.
The words were tiny and due to the effects of time, most of them were blurry already, only the first few words and some characters were still clear.
Young Thieving Heaven could barely decipher them, he said uncertainly: "Land of buried immortal… inauspicious… curse…"
"Strange!" After a long time of observation, he could not excavate more clues, he frowned tightly.
"I've been in this world for over a decade, I've heard about stories of immortals from the clan elders. But these are just legends, are there really immortals in this world?"
"This might not be impossible. Looking at Gu Masters, I can see the peculiarity and mystery behind this world, anything is possible."
"Land of buried immortal… don't tell me that the place where I live has an immortal buried there?"
"But why curse? And inauspicious?"
"This sheepskin map is really strange. This world has information path Gu worms to store maps and information. That corpse must have been a strong Gu Master back then, why did he use the sheepskin map instead of Gu worms?"
"This sheepskin map was sewn into the inner layer of his clothes, if his clothes were not torn, I would not have found it."
"He hid it so carefully, it must be very important, but this is too risky, it is far safer to store it inside an information path Gu worm."
Young Thieving Heaven muttered, his eyes flickering with deep thoughts.
"Forget about this now, this sheepskin map also points out the location of the well. If I follow it, I will be able to return to the clan."
His eyes felt very heavy, young Thieving Heaven's vision soon blurred as he fell into deep sleep.
Once he slept, Fang Yuan's vision went black.
In the darkness, Fang Yuan felt that the corrosion of the dream realm became several times stronger, his soul was rapidly expended.
When his vision cleared, Fang Yuan was shocked just like his previous life but this time it was not because he found young Thieving Heaven tied up at the bottom of the well.
But because he noticed that the elderly man infront of Young Thieving Heaven was a rank eight Gu Immortal possessing otherworldly dao marks.
He also noticed that the elderly man had a special connection to the young Thieving Heaven, but couldn't quite pinpoint it at the time.
The elderly Gu Immortal had a wrinkled face, his hair was fully white, he was very old, right now, his crooked hands were holding onto a sheepskin map.
He used his hands to caress this sheepskin map as he showed heated and greedy emotions in his eyes.
His expressions made young Thieving Heaven shudder, he might have met a lunatic.
"Who are you? Why did you tie me up?" Young Thieving Heaven asked.
"You should be glad that I, Sha Xiao, have not killed you yet." The old man spoke with a hoarse voice.
He carefully placed the sheepskin map into his pocket as he looked at young Thieving Heaven: "Lad, you are a member of this clan?"
Young Thieving Heaven did not answer.
The elderly Gu Immortal saw that young Thieving Heaven was staying silent, his expression became darker as he floated towards young Thieving Heaven like a phantom.
"Lad, don't think that I do not know what you are thinking if you stay silent. Heh, you have probably never heard of my name, I will teach you a lesson first."
The elderly Gu Immortal laughed sinisterly as he kicked with his leg.
His leg landed on young Thieving Heaven's chest as the intense pain almost made him fall unconscious.
Young Thieving Heaven was sent flying like a rock, he crashed onto the wall of the well and fell to the ground.
But the pain had just begun, young Thieving Heaven started to scream.
Because the elderly Gu Immortal's kick was not so simple, young Thieving Heaven felt his entire body going numb, at the same time, his muscles and organs felt like they were pricked by countless icy needles.
The intense pain made young Thieving Heaven suffer immensely, soon, he was covered in snot and tears as he curled up like a cooked prawn.
"Lad, do you know how powerful I am now?" The elderly Gu Immortal smiled sinisterly.
The louder young Thieving Heaven screamed, the brighter the elderly Gu Immortal's smile.
But soon, young Thieving Heaven realized this and gritted his teeth, not uttering a sound.
"Eh? Brat, you still want to resist?" The elderly Gu Immortal was furious and stomped young Thieving Heaven's chest.
Crack!
Young Thieving Heaven's ribs immediately fractured into pieces which then pierced into his heart and lungs, immediately causing him to be on the verge of death.
But he still did not utter a sound, he had almost crushed his teeth with his intense grinding, and his eyes were opened wide with anger, but he did not scream.
"Hehehe!" The elderly Gu Immortal started laughing from anger, and directly used Gu Immortal methods against young Thieving Heaven.
This time, it was not as simple as a sharp pain, young Thieving Heaven felt a kind of numbing pain with all kinds of sensation attacking him in turns.
"Ahh—!" He could endure it no longer, he let out a piercing scream and started struggling fiercely, he rolled on the floor while crazily scratching his skin.
The elderly Gu Immortal laughed heartily: "Suffered enough? Actually daring to defy the great Sha Xiao, hmph, even if you have strong pride, you will still have to kneel before me. Beg for mercy, as long as you call me grandpa Sha, grandpa will forgive you, grandson, ahahaha!"