Chapter 135: Telling a Lie
At this time, more than three thousand years had passed since Gu Su's death. Hunyuan Monkey was still alive, but he had become an old monkey.
When it was young, it could run and jump, and was extremely happy all day long. Its favorite thing to do was to swing happily in the woods while looking for herbs in Gusu, and it would also hide in the leaves and play hide-and-seek with its owner.
By the time Gu Su grew old, the Hunyuan Monkey had become much calmer. It seemed to have gotten used to the boring life of a monk, and its daily routine was more like that of a human than a monkey.
Today, the Hunyuan Monkey is already very old and frail, and spends most of its time sleeping and sitting on the swing in a daze.
As far as the Gu family knows, it has about two hundred years left to live.
Gu Su cared about the Hunyuan Monkey until his death, and even his last words were to ask future generations to take care of it, so everyone in the Gu family respected it very much.
For it, the Gu family moved their house once. The new house was built near the mountain, so it could go to the mountain to play and rest at any time. If it wanted, it could also stay in a small house built specifically for it in the mountain.
Only Gu Su and it had ever entered that hut. After Gu Su's death, only Hunyuan Monkey could live there. Others could only go in to clean, and the people who served it could only rest in the adjacent hut.
Because the Gu family's poison techniques were well-known throughout the continent and feared by many people, no one dared to approach the Gu family's mansion. That area, including the forest behind it, was exclusively owned by the Gu family and was a forbidden area for others.
The Gu family intentionally protected the Hunyuan Monkey, and the Hunyuan Monkey's strength was already equivalent to that of a cultivator in the Return to Void Stage. It was not afraid of poisonous creatures and had a good understanding of human nature, so almost no one had the opportunity or ability to hurt it, let alone plot against it.
Therefore, the Gu family has always been very confident in it. They never expected that something bad would happen to the Hunyuan Monkey this year.
It went up the mountain once three months ago, and then suddenly fell into a deep sleep and never woke up. The monkey's condition took a turn for the worse and its breath was weak.
Even if the Gu family tried every possible way with medicine, they couldn't wake it up, and they could only keep it alive temporarily.
The Hunyuan Monkey is regarded as a sacred beast by the Gu family. It can be said that its status is exactly the same as that of their ancestor Gu Su. All previous heads of the Gu family had to bow when they saw it and only dared to sit below it.
It would be fine if the Hunyuan Monkey died of natural causes, but something happened in the last two hundred years. How could they explain this to their ancestors?
Moreover, a sorcerer once asserted that the Hunyuan Monkey was a lucky animal for the Gu family. As long as the lucky animal was around, the Gu family would remain prosperous.
If the Hunyuan Monkey is gone, the Gu family will only get worse day by day.
Therefore, no matter what they thought or what they thought, they couldn't let anything happen to the Hunyuan Monkey!
"We checked its body and found that someone had put a dream insect in its sea of consciousness." Gu Qingxiu's voice was trembling as she spoke, with grief and indignation, "The dream insect will gradually devour the spiritual energy in its sea of consciousness, and then eat its brain, and finally break out of its head..."
"Qingxiu." Gu Mingyu beside her couldn't bear to see her so sad, so he reached out and patted her on the back, "Let me tell you."
Gu Qingxiu nodded, tears falling at the same time. She lowered her head and sobbed silently.
"In the past few thousand years, the Holy Beast has only been close to two young people in my Gu family, and Qingxiu is one of them." Gu Mingyu explained to Liu Feng and the others, "When Qingxiu was a child, she often went to play with the Holy Beast, reading books with it, and she also received guidance from the Holy Beast in making poisons, so they have a deep relationship."
Mo Jiuwei ate while listening to the story. Even though she ate slowly, she was full after eating for a long time, so she stopped.
[It is not easy. Spirit animals often have difficulty integrating into human life. Even if they recognize their master, they will only accompany the master until his death, and then return to the mountains and forests.]
[This Hunyuan monkey has not only accompanied Gu Su since childhood, but also stayed in the Gu family for three thousand years for him, continuing to bless the descendants of the Gu family. He is very loyal and righteous.]
[However, the Gu family siblings lied. ]
Liu Feng's brows suddenly twitched, and Du Yue and the others' expressions also changed slightly.
Tell a lie?
Are they lying?
[What sorcerer, what auspicious beast, that's just a cover! In fact, the reason why the Gu family respects the Hunyuan Monkey so much, in addition to the three thousand years of friendship, the main reason is that the monkey's fresh blood can cure all kinds of poisons! ]
Everyone in the Xianlai Sect held their breath.
[Why is the Gu family so unique in drug production that no other family can match it, and why is it able to maintain its current status even after being targeted by other families? ]
[This is all because someone, oh no, a monkey is backing them up! ]
[Other poison masters are inevitably nervous when making new poisons, fearing that the poison is too strong and they will be poisoned to death, or that they cannot make the corresponding antidote... But the Gu family does not have to worry, because even if they are really poisoned and dying, they can ask the Hunyuan Monkey for help. ]
The Hunyuan Monkey was not born with the ability to resist all poisons. This was due to the time it accidentally ate poisonous grass and was almost poisoned to death. After that, its body mutated, and even its blood changed.
Gu Su discovered this by accident.
The Gu family dared to make poisons. They dared to touch any kind of extremely high-grade poison and even the most toxic materials. That was because they knew they would not die from poisoning.
The reason why the Gu family's level is so high that it is far ahead of others is because they dare to take risks!
Other families do not have this life-saving trump card, so they will of course be cautious and dare not even touch some poisonous insects and weeds that they are not sure of. Naturally, they cannot achieve the same results as the Gu family.
So now that Hunyuan Monkey is in trouble, the entire Gu family is in a panic. This is not just as simple as the death of the elders and relatives, but also concerns the safety of everyone's life and the honor and disgrace of the Gu family!
Hunyuan Monkey still has two hundred years to live, and there are many things that can be done in these two hundred years. The Gu family can use these two hundred years to fight for the wealth of the next two thousand years.
The people from the Xianlai Sect didn't look too happy, and when they looked at the Gu family siblings, there was already something slightly strange in their eyes -
The Gu family actually took the blood of the so-called sacred beast to detoxify? Doesn't that mean that the Hunyuan Monkey has been tortured in the Gu family, and maybe it is still a living blood bag, allowing people to take its blood?
That's too miserable! Did Gu Su know about this?
Or did Gu Su do the same thing?
Thinking of this, everyone felt sick as if they had swallowed a fly. The emotion they had felt when they heard the story just now because of the relationship between the master and the beast was about to disappear.
Meng Ling couldn't help but glare at the Gu siblings, and he almost wanted to grit his teeth.
But at this time, Mo Jiuwei continued to think——
[But fortunately, this lie is understandable. This kind of thing must not be known to outsiders, otherwise the Hunyuan Monkey who is still alive will be eaten alive by all the cultivators on the continent! ]