Just as Gu Shan had told him, he really was just a normal Beginner Low-Rank Wu Shi from a normal family. Usually, aside from training, he would finish up family missions, and hadn’t done any outstanding stuff. His history was also checked thoroughly, he was the child of a female servant within that family. But he wasn’t an illegitimate child, instead, was born from the female servant being married off to a Wu Zhe. But very soon after, the Wu Zhe sacrificed his life during a mission and left the pregnant female servant alone, then the female servant died from labor and gave her child to her younger cousin. That younger cousin of hers had originally liked the Wu Zhe, but the Wu Zhe had been interested in her Jiejie instead. So even though she took care of Gu Shan, she also hated Gu Shan, which was why she had abused him.
All of this connected together, and all the evidence was there, the possibility of it having been false, was almost zero.
If Gu Shan had had the power to make so many people help him make up those lies, then there was no way he would’ve been just a Beginner Low-Rank Wu Shi. Plus, if he had such great powers, he wouldn’t even have needed to come over to trick Gu Bai and restart from the beginning. Within that family, he would’ve received a lot more than what he would’ve received at Gu Bai’s.
Up to this point, Gu Bai finally relaxed.
In the future, he would be able to settle his heart down and treat Gu Shan even better, he hadn’t needed to worry about those things that didn’t exist.
…having thought up to there, he smiled bitterly inside.
Back then, he was just a shut-in who wrote at home all day long. Then he suddenly transmigrated into this “reasonable human-eating” world, he hadn’t even known if he should say that having created this world was him having dug his own grave, or should he have been sighing at his bad luck.
The things he hadn’t been willing to think about before, now he’d force himself to think about them. The things he hadn’t been willing to do before, now he had to do them in order to keep on living.
Even towards a person he didn’t really want to have his guard up against, he actually still needed people to check them thoroughly before he’d dare to relax…whatever, he would be nicer to that guy in the future, as pay back.
But such things weren’t shown on Gu Bai’s face, all his underlings saw, was him taking a longer than usual time to flip through and read the information.
But just because of that “longer time,” it made his royal dogs, lead by Qin Xu Bo Da Guan Jia as their head, decide in secret, they would treat that person named Gu Shan with even more respect.
Then, knocking sounds suddenly came from outside of the door.
A soft voice followed the sound, “Ge…is the city governor here?”
Gu Bai heard it and said, “Come in.”
While he spoke, he naturally passed the data on his table into Qin Xu Bo’s hand.
Gu Shan walked in and saw that scene, his eyes shone for a bit.
Gu Bai was a little bit nervous.
He still remembered the joyful look that Gu Shan had when he realized he hadn’t lied to him, so right then, he didn’t want to lie to him either.
But Gu Shan didn’t ask anything, just as if he hadn’t seen anything, he spoke with a smile, “I’m done picking, did I disturb the city governor working?”
Gu Bai let out a breath, “…No.”
Qin Xu Bo was also a bit pleased.
As the Da Guan Jia, he knew Gu Shan called their city governor “Gege,” but Gu Shan was well mannered and knew the need of using a public title in a public space.
So, Qin Xu Bo didn’t disturb the two, who hadn’t finished reminiscing after they had been reunited, and left with all the information.
Gu Bai’s hand pointed across him, “Sit.”
Gu Shan then sat down casually, and pushed the different types of martial manuals within his hands forward, “I picked out these, can Gege help and see if they suit me?”
Gu Bai, of course, didn’t have any objections, his original intention had also been for Gu Shan to go find some manuals that caught his eye, and then he’d help Gu Shan pick out some of them.
If he were to talk about the greatest harvest he’d had from living within the Tian Du Cheng for so long…then probably, aside from his martial skills great advancement, it was that he had read all the different types of manuals within the manual room… he had been forced to by the psycho protagonist’s knife that hung behind his back.
Gu Shan had good self-restraint, he hadn’t brought back a huge stack but instead, only picked out five books.
Within the five books, there were three hand-to-hand combat skills and two step skills. The first options would’ve upped his fighting power greatly, and the latter would’ve helped him escape for his life.
He couldn’t help but say, this brat was pretty clever, not being sucked away by all those other skills.
Gu Bai glanced over the five martial manuals, then asked, “Xiao Shan, what is your Wu Qi element?”
Someone like him, who had a Hun Yuan Wu Ti, he could absorb any type of Wu Qi. But it was best for him to just pick one, that way, it was more convenient to collect power. If he wanted to get a bit of each element…maybe even the protagonist’s could work, but he didn’t have the “golden leg that shines a bright gold”, so let’s not challenge it.
The most commonly seen elements, also the most widely known of Wu Qi were, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, thunder, light, dark, wind, ice, and there was also a bunch of other special elements.
For example, the protagonist had the natural ability to devour powers he was born with. But also, because he was able to suck in any type of element, he was able to use whichever type of Wu Qi, to make a cover for himself.
There were also some other special Wu Ti that had special powers, but the difference of those compared to the protagonist was, raw talent was raw talent. Their elements were fixed, just like there was a type of special Wu Ti called “Wind Travel Wu Ti”, its element was wind and at the same time, it had the raw talent of floating in the air. That meant, even if that person didn’t have any martial powers, they could still fly. After they gained some powers, then they’d be able to fly faster than anyone else.
For the settings above, any reader who normally read at Shi Dian, would’ve been familiar with them.
That’s because there was usually always some “mix and match” type of stuff in Shi Dian. In the mainland, there was gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. While the western side had the thunder, light, dark, wind, and ice elements more. So it was kind of like cultivation, but also kind of like magic, then there were also some raw talents that seemed to have been influenced by modern time.
But writing about such powers that could be easily combined, the readers would have also liked the appearances of countless, odd moves.
So while Gu Bai was writing the novel 《Demon Lord Wu Zun》he also just naturally…gave it such a setting.
After hearing Gu Bai’s question, Gu Shan smiled, “I’m a wind element.”
Gu Bai seemed to have something on his mind, “So wind element…”
That one’s good, if you couldn’t beat your opponent, then you could definitely run away super fast!
Since that was the case, Gu Bai quickly picked out《Windstorm Fist》from the three hand-to-hand combat manuals. That one did the most damage and had just one simple flow of movement, a good amount of power could be stored up in a short amount of time.
As for the《Wind Dragon Strength》and《Wind God Skill》, the first option was, he could learn them after mastering《Windstorm Fist》and the second option was, to just not learn them since they didn’t give much support.
Then there were two more step manuals, 《Tiger Walk Dragon Travel》and 《Leopard Shadow Walk》, the second option was still better than the first.
Without much hesitation, Gu Bai first pulled out two of the combat manuals and said, “Learn 《Windstorm Fist》first, then learn 《Wind Dragon Strength》.” He stopped then continued, “Learn 《Leopard Shadow Walk》and 《Windstorm Fist》at the same time, combine the two together.”
Gu Shan listened with great attention, and once Gu Bai finished speaking, he curved up the corner of his lips and slowly opened his mouth, “…Okay, I’ll listen to Gege.”
Once Gu Shan received the manuals, Gu Bai gave the two manuals that weren’t chosen to Qin Xu Bo, to let him return them to the manual room.
When he was ordering Qin Xu Bo, he hadn’t realized Gu Shan’s eyes had been staring right at him, the entire time.
The manuals were done being picked, and morning was the time for training.
In order to let Gu Shan to quickly gain standing ground within the City Governor’s Palace, Gu Bai wanted to train him diligently, and so he took him to the training field.
That was the city governor’s personal training field, it had a bunch of equipment readied there. But aside from the city governor, the trustworthy underlings of the city governor’s, and other people that they brought in, no one else was allowed to enter.
Gu Shan looked like a young lad who hadn’t seen too much of the world yet, but while he walked together with Gu Bai, there were only little bits of surprise that flashed over his eyes. On his face was still the same kind smile, it made Gu Bai’s other servants look at him with a bit of admiration.
Gu Bai paid no attention to those things, he had been standing in a high position for a very long time, it was also a position he’d gained from using his martial power to oppress the others. So, when compared to some people, who’d used dirty tactics to become a city governor, he was a lot purer. Of course, towards the small details of the people around him, he wouldn’t be able to realize.
The training field was very large, it was crafted out of a type of extremely hard rock. A special type of medicinal fluid also covered the surface, not allowing any Wu Zhe below the level of Wu Wang to get hurt in there. This was a super expensive built-in, and within tens of thousands of square miles, aside from the Tian Du Cheng, there weren’t many other families who could’ve done this.
Gu Bai was really satisfied.
Thinking about the problem of keeping this secret, after a few people came in, Gu Bai dismissed everyone else aside from Gu Shan.
Gu Shan observed the place and had some plans inside as well.
Gu Bai’s body shook once and he immediately came to Gu Shan’s right side.
Gu Shan was stunned, “Gege is so fast!”
Gu Bai’s eyes were very bright.
Even though he was always able to see those admirable looks from other people’s eyes, but hadn’t Xiao Gu Shan’s just given him way more joy?
He then said, “Does Xiao Shan wanna learn it?”
Gu Shan nodded seriously, “I wanna learn.”
Gu Bai was content then, “This is an easy skill, after you finish training a section, then I’ll teach you.”
Gu Shan smiled again, he always looked this kind and approachable, “Then I’ll be troubling Gege.”
Gu Bai also nodded, then he used his hand to point towards the front, “Punch towards that way.”
Gu Shan looked over and saw a huge rock that was about two meters tall and one meter wide. The surface of the huge rock was very smooth and shiny, almost enough to reflect one’s figure.
He immediately realized what it was, “A skill-showing stone?”
Gu Bai replied, “Yes.”
Gu Shan raised his brow.
Skill-showing stones were a very common thing and it was specifically used to test a trainee’s power and element, it could be said that at any place within a Wu Zhe, it should be there as well.
Usually one about a foot wide was already something else, as for such a big skill-showing stone, he really hadn’t seen one before at all.
Plus…
Skill-showing stones also had different levels, different level had different shininess to them. With that one that could reflect a person’s figure, it was definitely a high-class within the high-classed stones. With this, one could obviously see Tian Du Cheng was indeed rich, and this city governor was extremely generous when it came to using the money for many types of resources.
But when Gu Bai looked back over, Gu Shan quickly restored the kind smile on his face, “Then, I’ll try it.”
Gu Shan[1] looked at him silently and backed off one step.
Gu Shan lifted his feet and walked towards it, he thought about something internally for a short while, then stood in a horse stance, and punched towards it.
His position…made Gu Bai felt like it was extremely familiar to his eyes.