The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu-Chapter 444: The Shameless Long Xuan

Watching Shui Wuqing's fleeing figure, Long Xuan couldn't help but click his tongue.

This was the terrifying power of the Doom Gu. Indeed, anyone who harbored murderous intent toward the host of the Doom Gu was destined for disaster. The legends were true after all—he was completely convinced now.

Long Xuan did not immediately give chase. Even a starving camel was bigger than a horse. Although Shui Wuqing had suffered backlash from the Heavenly Water and his strength had significantly weakened, he was still not someone Long Xuan could take down easily.

He still vividly remembered how Yan Tiexin, unable to defeat his opponent, had self-destructed with the Sunset Divine Flame, dragging the entire city to their graves. If Shui Wuqing was truly cornered and chose to self-detonate his Heavenly Water, Long Xuan wasn’t confident he could survive the explosion.

Long Xuan took out a communication talisman from his storage ring, one that he had exchanged with Shui Lao. After quickly writing a message, he sent it out.

A sinister smile appeared on his face. Shui Wuqing had suffered a backlash from the Heavenly Water and was now at his weakest. Shui Lao, who had a life-and-death grudge against him, would never miss such a rare opportunity. The moment he learned of this, he would surely take action.

Let them fight to the death, and then he would sit back and reap the benefits.

At that moment, Shui Lao, who had just stepped out of the teleportation gate, noticed movement in his storage ring. He retrieved a communication talisman, quickly scanned the message, and soon, a smile crept onto his lips.

"So, a battle where both sides suffer, huh? That brat is truly something—he managed to force Shui Wuqing into suffering Heavenly Water backlash in such a short time. However, according to this letter, he was also severely wounded by Shui Wuqing and even dropped a cultivation level. I wonder what state he's in now."

Shui Lao's eyes flickered as he murmured, "The first half of this message is probably true, but the second half might not be reliable."

"His injuries shouldn’t be as severe as described, but they definitely won’t be light. There's no way he could have emerged unscathed from Shui Wuqing’s attacks."

Shui Lao narrowed his eyes. "No matter. Right now is the perfect time to eliminate Shui Wuqing. If not now, then when?"

"Shui Wuqing! Today will be your death day!"

Shui Lao clenched his fists in excitement. He closed his eyes briefly, and when he opened them again, he whispered, "Found you!" before soaring off in pursuit.

Though he couldn’t sense Long Xuan’s presence, as someone from Shui Wuqing’s clan, he naturally had a way to locate him.

However, what Shui Lao didn’t know was that the identity of the fisherman had already changed.

As he pursued Shui Wuqing, another shadow was quietly trailing him. However, the distance between them was so vast that Shui Lao remained completely unaware.

Elsewhere

"Are you sure you want to follow me? Everyone who has stayed by my side has died. If you don’t want to invite disaster, I suggest you stay far away from me."

Zhu Jiuge turned her head, frowning at the thick-skinned man walking beside her.

"Heh! You don’t understand. I am the Son of Fortune—I’ve always had great fortune. I don’t believe you can bring me misfortune. On the contrary, not only will you not bring me bad luck, but you might even bring me good luck instead."

Long Xuan flashed a mysterious smile.

He had some knowledge of the Doom Gu. Its ability did not work on strangers—it wouldn’t drain the luck of someone simply because they were standing close.

As long as she didn’t know his true background and they didn’t become friends, he could largely ignore the effects of the Doom Gu.

So, he wasn’t afraid of traveling alongside Zhu Jiuge for a short while.

There were two reasons why he shamelessly stuck with her.

His main body was tailing Shui Lao, waiting to be the fisherman.

But the moment he made a move against Shui Lao, it would trigger the Heavenly Water bomb inside him.

As for how to deal with this ticking time bomb, he already had a plan.

He intended to wait for Shui Lao and Shui Wuqing to severely wound each other. Then, his main body would swoop in to finish them off. Meanwhile, his clone carrying the Heavenly Water would stay by Zhu Jiuge’s side.

If Shui Lao tried to detonate the Heavenly Water, it would undoubtedly kill Zhu Jiuge. However, Zhu Jiuge was the Daughter of Destiny—under the influence of her destiny-defying fortune, there was no way she could die.

The only way for her to survive was for the Heavenly Water detonation to fail due to fate’s intervention.

In this way, he could ensure his own safety.

He was essentially using Zhu Jiuge’s unparalleled luck to save himself. This plan was absolutely perfect.

The second reason was that Zhu Jiuge’s luck was simply too absurd. She would find money on the road, stumble upon fortuitous encounters wherever she went.

If he just followed her, he was bound to come across treasures. In fact, if he sent a clone ahead of her, he might even snatch the opportunities she was meant to find before she did.

Long Xuan shamelessly thought to himself—but wasn't this a bit too shameless?

"Since you’re not afraid of death, suit yourself. Just don’t regret it later."

Zhu Jiuge turned her head back, ignoring him, and continued walking.

Long Xuan, grinning cheekily, quickly followed.

One Day Later.

Long Xuan’s eyes widened in excitement as he gazed at the vast medicine garden before him.

Indeed, as long as he followed Zhu Jiuge, fortune would follow. He was about to strike it rich!

Before him lay an extensive medicinal garden filled with spirit herbs of Grade Four and above. Some were even at Grade Seven or Eight.

In the outside world, Fourth-grade spirit herbs were already the highest one could find. Due to the sparse spiritual energy in the Gu Realm, anything beyond Fourth-grade simply did not grow.

Although he had no immediate use for these high-grade spirit herbs, they would be invaluable once he ascended. Even the Heaven-Devouring World Toad could use them. If these herbs proliferated within the Heaven-Devouring World Toad, its strength would increase significantly.

Suppressing his excitement, Long Xuan did not rush in recklessly.

It was obvious that this garden harbored unknown dangers. This was, after all, the second trial of the River God’s Secret Realm. The first trial had been so difficult—how could the second one be without peril?

If the garden had no threats, its herbs would have been picked clean by past treasure seekers long ago.

Because of these hidden dangers, Long Xuan abandoned his plan of sending a clone ahead of Zhu Jiuge.

Unlike him, Zhu Jiuge had no hesitation whatsoever. Without the slightest pause, she strode straight into the garden.

Long Xuan was stunned.

So reckless? Did this genius not know the meaning of danger? What a rookie mistake.

Just as he was about to warn her, he suddenly reconsidered—maybe it wasn’t recklessness. Maybe, under the influence of her absurd luck, she had never encountered danger in her entire life, which was why she never developed caution.

The thought made Long Xuan’s lips twitch.

As he hesitated, wondering whether he should follow, a blood-red ginseng emerged from the ground, blocking Zhu Jiuge’s path.

The ginseng had human-like limbs, facial features, and stood as tall as an adult. It even wore a straw hat and held a walking stick like an elderly human. It had clearly gained sentience.

Seeing this strange ginseng, Zhu Jiuge finally stopped, her face filled with curiosity.

Long Xuan, however, eyed the ginseng warily.

A sentient plant—just like that rabbit! This was only the second sentient spirit herb he had ever seen.

There was no doubt—this ginseng was no ordinary being. Most likely, the greatest danger in this medicinal garden came from it.