Published: March 7, 2025
Chapter 137: Gu Duxing Invites a Guest
Having made sufficient arrangements, Chu Yang relentlessly continued to challenge the martial artists within Iron Cloud City, throwing them into disarray and leaving them in a state of unrest...
If someone were to pay close attention, they would notice that the targets of the Night Challenger's challenges had increased in rank, generally targeting martial artists at the second and third tiers, even the fourth tier...
Previously, he would only challenge those at the first tier... It's truly puzzling how this Night Challenger manages to acquire such precise information...
Sometimes, just after challenging someone who had recently entered the martial artist third stage, the next challenger would inevitably be someone who had been at this stage for a year or two, and the one after that would be someone who had been stuck at the martial artist third stage for several years...
So accurate… Those in the know couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.
What they didn't know was that within Chu Yang's butian pavilion, he had meticulously detailed information about these people; if he couldn't get it right… that would indeed be something strange!
During this time, Chu Yang was also puzzled; Gu Duxing had mentioned he was going out to find someone, but he had vanished without a trace; sometimes, Chu Yang even doubted: Where on earth did this guy go? Did he ascend to the heavens for three days?
Why hasn't there been a single word from him?
Of course, Chu Yang had no idea that Gu Duxing operated under the principle of "better to have less than to have bad," and that the subordinates he was selecting were indeed all elite figures...
In front of Yang Mountain, sword energy soared to the sky.
Gu Duxing slowly drew the black dragon sword, its blade shimmered like a pool of autumn water, reflecting light. The sword's glow sparkled in the sunlight, casting an ardent glow on Gu Duxing’s face, which shone with a fervent brilliance akin to the sword itself.
Fervent yet calm! The sword was cold as ice, his expression was icy; yet within his eyes, a bloody fervor emanated.
His emotions were solely for his sword, not for his opponent!
"Let me ask you one more time, will you come with me?" Gu Duxing’s gaze was fixated on the sword; with his head lowered, he gently asked.
With his hair lightly swaying, this soft question was imbued with a sense of determination.
"I won't go with you, and you're actually going to kill me?" The green-clothed youth on the opposite side looked at Gu Duxing in disbelief: "Gu Duxing, this really isn’t like you! What surprises me even more is that you want to drag me to be someone else’s subordinate, and not part of your own power! Is this really you? Our friendship spanning several years in the Canglan War Zone, and you just disregard it like this?"
"Precisely because you are my friend, I am giving you this opportunity!" Gu Duxing replied coldly: "Ji Mo, we are friends, yet we have never truly connected; now I am offering you the chance to be a true friend, to be brothers! If you refuse, you are against me!"
"Refusing means being an enemy..." The green-clothed youth chuckled: "Gu Duxing, you and I are renowned in the Canglan War Zone, what good thing have you forgotten since then? And now, you actually want to turn against me for someone you’ve only known for a few days? The reason being that you want me to go be someone else’s subordinate?"
He shook his head: "I really don’t understand why, have you lost your mind?"
"Ji Mo, stop with the nonsense; you and I have always been equals, and we’ve fought several times. I couldn’t defeat you, but you couldn't defeat me either." Gu Duxing said: "I know you’ve always wanted to do something! Your Ji family, similarly, doesn’t have a place for you! With your elder brother around, you can’t shine; and now is an opportunity for you to step forward!"
"Submitting to someone else's rule... being someone else's subordinate... in the Canglan War Zone, stepping forward?" Ji Mo looked at Gu Duxing with amusement: "Gu Duxing, are you dreaming?"