Chapter 51: Harvest; Sudden Change (Part 1)

  As soon as Gu Xie rushed into the purple bamboo forest, he felt a dizzying sensation all around him. A white misty fog appeared before his eyes, and the ground beneath his feet was soft and spongy. His legs couldn't exert any strength at all. He had only taken a few steps forward when he suddenly felt himself falling, and his body rolled to the ground with a 'rattling' sound.

  Surrounded by a strange, pale gray glow, the misty white fog gradually receded, and Gu Xiechen found himself in a strange place.

  All around were large and small halos, just like the sun's halo on a summer stormy day. The big and small halos slowly rotated in the pale gray light, bringing up threads of glittering rain, making Gu Xianchen feel a little dazed. Looking around, above his head was a hazy sky, with endless blue clouds less than ten zhang high, thick cloud layers rolling over, making people feel like they had a lump of cotton stuck in their chest, as if even breathing wasn't comfortable.

  Underfoot was also a vast expanse of green clouds, the soft and fluffy cloud layer didn't feel any resistance at all. Gu Xiechen wanted to take a few steps on it, but his feet slipped and he fell back down to the ground.

  He easily stood up and shouted towards the sky: "Hey, is anyone there?"

  "Get out!"

  No one came out to greet them, but instead called out the enemy. From a hundred meters away, a ring of light appeared, and Monte Tedi suddenly rushed out. He flew towards Gu Xuan Dust with his feet off the ground, his spiritual impact tearing through the air, accompanied by dense explosions, his right hand straightening towards Gu Xuan Dust's heart, as if to dig out his heart. Such a fierce attack made Gu Xuan Dust jump in fright, but before he could dodge, a light screen moved in front of Monte Tedi, and with a loud "whoosh", Monte Tedi charged into the light screen and disappeared without a trace.

  Right next to Gu Xie Chen's side, a halo of light suddenly appeared with Monte Deity's shadow. Several giant dogs covered in flames were fiercely fighting Monte Deity. The massive paws, as large as a washbasin, slapped Monte Deity's body hundreds of times, making even the onlooking Gu Xie Chen feel sore all over. Monte Deity, who was yelling loudly, didn't know how he misstepped and charged out again from another halo of light.

  "Huh", Montetdi, who had just rushed out of the halo, still had black smoke and flames on his body that hadn't dissipated yet. He came too quickly and crashed head-on into another halo.

  This time, Monteddi arrived in a world filled with snow and ice. Dozens of snow sculptures with wingspans of over ten meters, their bodies wrapped in cold wind, entwined with him. Monteddi exerted his divine power to kill five snow sculptures, but the other dozen or so snow sculptures became enraged, simultaneously spitting out fist-sized, pure white crystal balls from their mouths that heavily smashed onto Monteddi's body.

  Koxinga even heard the sound of Monte's body being torn apart.

  With a few pats on his forehead with his right hand, Gu Xiechen sighed for Monted's miserable encounter. A halo of light suddenly fluctuated violently and Monted, covered in a thin layer of frost, rushed out with a chill. This time, Monted stood still, dazed, then looked at Gu Xiechen tens of meters away. With extreme caution, he took a few steps closer to Gu Xiechen, looking around before taking another step closer.

  Gu Xie raised a mouthful of true energy and was about to retreat backwards to avoid Monte, but Monte's feet suddenly scattered a patch of green clouds, revealing a wheel of light with a diameter of several meters. With a roar of unwillingness, Monte's feet were empty, and he fell into the wheel of light again.

  A halo of light outside the rice field suddenly fluctuated violently, and this time Gu Xie Chen saw Monte Tedi appear on a large mountain. On the top of the mountain, there was a magnificent temple with a gate over 100 meters high, guarded by 180 Buddhist legendary Diamond Warriors. These tens of meters tall Buddhist door guardians happened to see Monte Tedi stumbling down from the sky, and without even saying hello, they picked up their heavy weapons, including the Devil-Subduing Pestle, Arhat's Mace, and Golden Treasure Pagoda, and smashed them down on him.

  "Is this really the real world? Or is it just an illusion?"

  Gu Xie stared blankly at the light and shadow, where Monte was being beaten to a pulp, rolling around on the ground with four limbs splayed out. With an air of leisure, he pondered this question. If it's an illusion, why did Monte end up in such a state? If it's the real world, do these temples and Vajras truly exist? Wouldn't that small patch of light be an entire world?

  "How can this be?" Gu Xie dusted off the definition, one grain of sand, one world, one speck of dust, one Buddha land. Although Buddhist scriptures had such sayings, Gu Xie didn't believe he was truly lucky enough to see it.

  The mournful howls of Montetdi seemed to have come from the halo, and the extremely painful howls made Gu Xiechen's body feel cold all over. After carefully looking around, Gu Xiechen steeled himself and prepared to choose a direction to walk in and see what the situation was here. He couldn't be trapped here until he died, could he?

  Just as he was about to move, Monty, with half his bones crushed and covered in blood, let out a mournful howl as he fell from a halo of light several meters high in the air. Monty happened to fall less than three meters away from Gu Xuan's body, and with great difficulty, he lifted his head to look at Gu Xuan. Before he could say a word, a strange green symbol on his back flashed once, and another halo of light swallowed him up again as the patch of blue cloud beneath him dissipated.

  "A curse of misfortune!"

  Gu Xie's eyes widened, and he figured out why two people fell into this strange place at the same time, but only Monte was so unlucky. Bobbi's misfortune temple's strongest curse, which was activated by consuming his own soul source, was indeed not in vain! Just look at Monte's miserable appearance now, and you can see how much harm this curse has brought to him.

  Monty seemed to have fallen on his feet this time, for the place he had tumbled into was a palace of sumptuous beauty and lavish atmosphere. Hundreds of beautiful women in various stages of undress were playing musical instruments, painting, reciting poetry, or simply lounging about, creating an atmosphere of opulent elegance. As soon as they saw Monty tumbling from the sky, they rushed over to him with charming smiles and carefully lifted him onto a pink velvet couch.

  "This guy's luck isn't bad this time!" Gu Xiandust secretly praised, and as a result, he saw that behind the thin, semi-transparent palace dresses of these women, a snow-white fox tail suddenly stood up excitedly. Some women had only one tail behind their buttocks, some had two, and some had three. The heavily injured Monteddy was stripped of his clothes without any resistance, and then a beautiful woman with three fox tails behind her buttocks enthusiastically rode on Monteddy's body.

  The ancient evil dust watched the scene with relish, and poor Monty was ravaged by hundreds of women in turn. It's unknown what strange methods these women used, but Monty had intercourse hundreds of times yet remained erect. However, his originally nearly transparent body had become dull and lusterless, his jelly-like full body now resembling a dehydrated grape with wrinkled skin hanging down all over, and his eyes that once shone brightly like sharp lights were now dim and resembled two coal balls. The ancient evil dust could no longer sense any vitality from him.

  With a "pop", Montetdi fell out of the halo of light around Guxiaodun's body. The dying Montetdi struggled to lift his head, and with difficulty opened his lips to beg: "Kill me... please... kill me..."

  "I've always been willing to help others for my own pleasure." Gu Xiadun carefully swung out a few claw-like slashes, cutting off Monte's limbs' meridians. He smiled very satisfactorily. This guy really didn't have any resistance at all. This powerful and absurd Huan tribe expert was indeed being tormented by this strange place to the point of near death. Since that was the case, Gu Xiadun was more than happy to help him escape his suffering.

  Just as he was about to unleash a finger blast that would pierce Monteddi's skull, a halo of light suddenly appeared beside Monteddi, and an invisible force drew him into the halo.

  He gazed at the halo with a bitter and astringent expression, his eyes gathering a hint of Snowy Spirit Finger's energy. He muttered to himself, "It's not that I don't want to help, it's just that you're too unlucky."

  Monte Cristo was again subjected to a dozen or so rounds of brutal torture in the seven or eight halos, and finally, his body was battered into pieces. Luckily, Monte Cristo returned once more before Gu Xiandeng. This time, Gu Xiandeng didn't waste any words and shot a single arrow that pierced through Monte Cristo's heart. With hands clasped together, Gu Xiandeng muttered in prayer: "God will bless you, unlucky child."

  After the death of the Phantom Clan, their bodies will slowly disintegrate into strands of energy that return to nature. Monty's body was burning in front of Gu Xiechen, with streams of green light rising from the flames and slowly merging into the green sky. Watching Monty's body disappear in the flames, looking at the countless halos around him, he didn't know what to feel for a moment.

  The cursed Montet Dede has been freed, but how can I escape this damned place?

  "Could it be that I've been infected with Monty's bad luck? Otherwise, how did I end up in this godforsaken place?"

  Gu Xiechen let out a bitter laugh as he got up from his fall, gazing at the endless blue clouds and countless halos that seemed to be beyond count. He couldn't help but feel a wave of dizziness wash over him. Sitting cross-legged on the ground, he tried to focus his mind to connect with Xin Jia, who was left behind in the dense forest to keep an eye on Yingli and the others. But to his astonishment, he discovered that this strange place had severed his mental connection with Xin Jia.

  Xin Jia couldn't be reached, but one of his subordinates who was left in the sea of knowledge to cultivate was startled.