If possible, he didn’t want to go anywhere either TAT
But if he didn’t go and only stayed in Tian Du Cheng then he wouldn’t have a way to take another step forward and improve his martial skills. If he was just purely traveling outside, first of all, under the circumstances of not having a protagonist’s halo of protection, he may not find another chance that belonged to him.
So, this Qing Tian Academy, that everyone knew about and was a place that met his ideals, was the best suited.
It had been almost ten years since Gu Bai had arrived on the Ling Wu Mainland, before, it was just something written by his hand, now this world was a reality.
In order to have made the book more sensational, and the protagonist more special, back then, he’d made a lot of different settings and had also set the morals of this world extremely dark. Basically, what did human rights even mean? What did kindness even mean? What did freedom even mean? They were all suppressed by the words “Power Is Authority”.
Under the first part of his plan, Tian Du Cheng was already saved. But afterall, the Town of Blue Goats near Tian Du Cheng was the protagonist’s very first territory.
So, if the protagonist, out of nowhere, suddenly decided to do something to Tian Du Cheng, then what could Gu Bai do about it?
Gu Bai, as the city governor, no matter how afraid of the psycho he was, he still needed to think about the next step.
Of course, he hadn’t believed that he, himself could’ve beaten the luckiest child in this world. But no matter what, only if one had greater martial power, then they would have more authority. In the beginning years, still thinking about avoiding the psycho would’ve been fine, but the longer he lived in this world, the more he felt that his mindset from before had been way too simple.
Work hard, work hard, work hard, he needed to get rid of his skill of a cannon fodder first! Fist!
Don’t just think that it was so awesome that a High Rank Wu Jun could support an entire castle town. The difference of two castle towns weren’t that small either, with his martial power, when the protagonist was raging up a storm in the future, he really would be just a cannon fodder ╮(╯▽╰)╭
So, for Gu Bai, who was thinking like that, obviously, he had to take another step to fight for his own life.
So he had made that decision.
But Gu Bai couldn’t tell his Gu Xiao Shan about all those things in his heart either. After all, he was a kid and it was better for him to grow up under the adult’s protection.
But, he’d also agreed not to lie…
So, Gu Bai spoke with a serious face, “For power and survival.”
That was definitely not a lie!
Qi Guan Rui stared into Gu Bai’s eyes and after a while, he smiled, “I will also work hard to become stronger. One day, I’ll be able to protect Gege.”
Oh my, isn’t this child just too obedient?
Without even knowing how many times he had been touched by him, Gu Bai reached out his hand…and squeezed Qi Guan Rui’s face.
Qi Guan Rui turned his head over and blinked innocently, “Gege?”
Gu Bai removed his hand and nodded with a blank face, “I will anticipate.”
The two “brothers” continued their days peacefully, time passed by quickly, the third of next month arrived.
It was time to leave.
Within the City Governor’s Palace, there was a horse-drawn carriage, five meters long, three meters wide, and two meters tall.
The entire horse-drawn carriage was carved out of blue-green jade, but within the jade, a special material had been mixed in, giving it first-class protection.
There were sixteen wheels, also all made out of special materials, making them extremely hard and unable to be easily broken.
Many delicate trap triggers were installed on the inside of the four walls of the carriage, carrying countless weapons with great attacks.
It could be said that for anyone who came seeking trouble, they’d probably all die under those attacks.
This carriage was built by Gu Bai with countless human and material resources, for the purpose of future travel.
It just happened to come in handy.
And of course, with the city governor wanting to set off for his studies, how could there have been no show?
Aside from the horse-drawn carriage that looked extremely luxurious and extravagant at first sight, there were also servants.
For example, the four perfect little soft, warm blanket-like female servants, adding on the four carefully selected death warriors[1] with great martial arts and loyalty.
The female servants were to serve the city governor and solve any type of problem. The death warriors’ responsibilities were to protect, run errands, kill people, find information, such and such.
Basically, they were really useful.
Later, under the Da Guan Jia and many servants of the palace seeing them off, Gu Bai dragged Qi Guan Rui and walked onto the horse-drawn carriage…the last layer of it
That’s right, inside the horse-drawn carriage, were even more surprises.
There were three layers, the last one was a delicate and extremely comfortable carriage room, just like a small room. Inside were many different warm blankets and soft pillows, all were low-key extravagant. This was Gu Bai’s territory, aside from having to add on Qi Guan Rui who was his personal guard.
The second layer, which was also the center, was where the four female servants rested as they waited to serve the city governor at any given time, it was also a comfy little room.
Then the third layer on the outside was the resting area for the death warriors every time they switched shifts.
Yep, the death warriors also had to be the coachman and drive all night and day, two people were in a group, and would switch once tired.
So, after the city governor and his bestie’s figure had disappeared into the carriage, the four female servants also walked in, under a field of admiring looks.
As for the four death warriors…calmly, while carrying countless envious and jealous glares, also swiftly slipped onto the carriage.
Then, followed by a death warrior in jin clothing[2] whipping, “pa!”
In the next moment, the four red-horned Kirin horses with thick skin and flesh raised their hooks and with a swishing sound, charged out.
The Hao Yang City was on the central Eastern side, and Tian Du Cheng was on the Southwest, the distance between the two had to be calculated by X thousands of miles.
To calculate this easily, even if the red-horned Kirin horse could travel thousands of miles a day, to get there before the Qing Tian Academy started recruiting students for the following year…they would still have to use up a few months.
So, in order to arrive successfully, Gu Bai specially left over half a year ahead.
Inside the carriage, Gu Bai ripped open a cabinet and took out a tray.
Qi Guan Rui patted the ground and a little table rose up between the two.
Gu Bai put the tray on top of it and opened the lid.
In that instant, a strong, meaty aroma intruded into the two’s nostrils.
On the tray were twelve, fist-sized, cooked meat, releasing a fresh fragrance that would make anyone wanna jump on it immediately.
Every one of those meats were cooked using Gunao Beasts’ hearts, even though they weren’t big, held inside all of them were all the essences of the beast. It could fulfill a martial practitioner’s blood energy and allow them to be able to receive even more nutrients.
Simply put, this wasn’t something that one needed to eat too much to be full.
Gu Bai picked up the silver chopsticks and handed them over to Qi Guan Rui, “Try it.”
Qi Guan Rui didn’t hold back either and picked one out, then put it into his mouth.
As expected, with only two to three chews, that meat slipped into his throat and turned into a special warm flow, making his whole stomach warm and toasty.
It was an incomparable enjoyment.
This heart of the Gunao Beast, throughout the whole land of Tian Du Cheng, only the city governor could enjoy it as if it was normal food.
The family heads or town heads of normal martial towns would’ve found it extremely hard to capture a Gunao Beast.
Because an adult Gunao Beast basically had the power of a skilled High Rank Wu Shi. It was a second-tier beast, only a martial practitioner who was a High-Level High-Rank Wu Shi or above could hunt them down without getting hurt at all.
…But, in order to satisfy the city governor’s mouth’s and stomach’s desire, in the backside of Tian Du Cheng, the city governor’s loyal dogs raised a whole group of them.
Every time they were needed, there would be a hunting team with all kinds of hunting weapons who would hunt them, then serve them onto the city governor’s dining table.
Gu Bai wants to say: I’m rotten and I’m proud.
Citizens/death warriors/guards/female servants A, B, C, D, E, and such: “We’re loyal dogs and we’re proud.”
All was good, how blessed.
As they were traveling, the servants had prepared a big bag of fresh Gunao Beast hearts, and there were also three trays of readied ones. The fresh ones were put in the carriage section for backup and the latter was put in the cabin.
Of the tray of twelve, Gu Bai ate eight and gave the other four to Qi Guan Rui.
It wasn’t that Gu Bai was stingy, but since this thing was extremely nutritious, obviously, not just anyone could up their health from it.
As a High-Rank Wu Jun, the beast essence below his rank could only fill his stomach up, but his Xiao Shan was only a High-Level Low-Rank Wu Shi, eating these would be good for leveling up his rank. But with too many of the goodies, he wouldn’t be able to digest them all, so it was better to be careful.
Once Qi Guan Rui finished, he licked his lips.
To be honest, even though he’d taken control of the Town of Blue Goats, he still wasn’t able to live as luxuriously as Zi Ju Shu Bai. After all, how could a town be wealthier than a city?
Ever since he’d followed this city governor, all the treatments he’d received were way better than being a tyrant in that town. Plus, Zi Ju Shu Bai was also quite interesting…within a short period, he didn’t exactly want to leave yet.
But it was a good thing that he was only a Low-Rank Wu Jun, so four Gunao Beast Hearts were enough to fill his stomach, or else he would still have had to come up with a plan to seek more food, which would’ve been way too exposing.
After the two finished eating, they both quickly started to circulate their energy, taking the essence into their own meridians to nutrient blood energy.
In just a little while, both of their faces were in bright shades and also full of energy.
The horse-drawn carriage was extremely stable, the Red-Horned Kirin Horse was a type of rank two beast. It needed to go through a certain training to be tamed, so there were only a few in Tian Du Cheng too.
With the city governor going out to pursue his studies, all of them were taken.
Gu Bai lay down on the thick fur blanket, he only wore a snow-white robe and let his long hair hang down the front of his body while holding a book in his hand.
Qi Guan Rui sat on the side with crossed legs and trained by meditating with closed eyes.
After finishing, when he saw Gu Bai, he smiled, “Gege, if you’re tired…” He patted his own shoulder, “I can let Gege lay against me.”
Gu Bai looked over.
This guy was, for sure without a doubt, good looking, but, am I the boss or are you the boss? Two men being this intimate, something’s definitely not right here!
Qi Guan Rui could already see the extreme look of obscure expressions on his face and couldn’t help but smile even more kindly, “When we were little, Gege took care of me like this, I was thinking, once I’m old enough, I will definitely take care of Gege…”
…Pause.
Hun, are you done yet, could you not always start with, “when we were little, Gege blah blah blah” hun, it puts a lot of pressure on me hun, I’ll lay against you okay, hun?!
Does this kid feel too little security, whereas he had to prove his usefulness in this way?
Gu Bai shuddered and scooted a bit to the side, “Leg.”
Qi Guan Rui raised his brows and extended his leg.
Gu Bai then lay down on it.
He realized that he, himself, was getting worse and worse at handling Gu Xiao Shan.
He sighed internally, whatever, what else could he do when he felt sorry for the other?
Qi Guan Rui felt the weight on his leg, his fingers softly flitted past Gu Bai’s hairline and he smiled silently.