Chapter 6490: Certain Defeat?

Chapter 6490: Certain Defeat?

Wen Xue looked at the lotus in her hand before looking at Chu Feng. Her guilt deepened. “Junior, there’s still time. Take the lotus out for me. I’ll help you find a gu.”

Chu Feng reached out and grabbed Wen Xue’s wrist. “You won’t make it in time. Besides, you don’t know how to control the gu.”

With that, he forcefully dragged Wen Xue back into the stone realm.

Since the dust had settled, Wen Xue decided to stop harping on it. “Junior Chu Feng, I’ll consider you to have repaid half the debt you owe to me.”

“Only half?” Chu Feng asked.

“Of course. I’ll admit that you are loyal, not hesitating to help me even if it means losing this remnant’s legacy. However, you owe me a debt of life. As much as I’m grateful to you, we need to distinguish between feelings and the objective truth, right?”

“Fine.” Chu Feng had to concede that Wen Xue was right.

“What do we do now? Do we leave? Or do you truly have another way out?” Wen Xue asked.

Failing to capture a gu in the forest remnant could result in massive repercussions going forth. Under normal circumstances, they should have given up at this point.

“There might still be a chance, but I’m not sure about it. Let me give it a try. But senior, you should stop holding back when I need your help,” Chu Feng said.

“What are you saying? It should go without saying that I’ll help you. I just wanted to preserve a hand just now as I haven’t gotten what I wanted yet. I’ll put my life on the line if you need it. The worst that can happen is the shattering of my consciousness anyway,” Wen Xue replied as she stowed the lotus into her Cosmos Sack.

Seeing Wen Xue’s careful movements, Chu Feng asked, “This lotus is far more valuable than it appears.”

“Not at all. It’s just useful to me,” Wen Xue replied.

Chu Feng simply smiled in response. He was confident in his observation. The lotus was an invaluable treasure, but this also showed how formidable the gu inside it was.

“Lead the way, junior.” Wen Xue was prepared for the final battle.

“Let’s go.”

Chu Feng led Wen Xue toward one of the caverns.

This was their final stop. The previous three caverns were merely building up to this moment. This was where the victor would be decided.

As soon as they passed through the spirit formation gate, they felt a breeze tickling their faces.

Taking a quick look around, they were in a vast grassland. Even the slightest wind stirred ripples on the grassland. The grassland was filled with not just grass but insect eggs as well, and these weren’t just any insect eggs.

The atmosphere felt heavy.

The sky was covered in gray clouds. The surroundings would have been completely black if not for cracks of light shining through the clouds. Nevertheless, it still felt stifling.

“Are those gus? Do we need to be cautious of them?” Wen Xue asked while directing wary glances at the eggs.

“They are gus, but they are low quality ones,” Chu Feng replied.

“How do they compare to the gu obtained by your loser grandfather?”

“The difference is like heaven and earth.”

“Haa...” Wen Xue sighed. “Let’s search the area. Since there are gus here, we might find higher quality ones that would be useful to you.”

“Don’t bother. I can sense it. While this realm is far larger than the forest realm, everything in here is identical, be it the grass or the gus. There won’t be any stronger gus here,” Chu Feng said as he planted the tree. “But we can compensate quality with quantity.

The tree grew to over ten thousand meters tall, and its branches extended outward to envelop the world. The tree released its own energy, as well as the energy it had obtained from the fish, and scattered it like a mist.

It was a beautiful sight.

The grass remained the same as ever, but the gus began devouring the energy.

“Junior, is the legacy related to gus?” Wen Xue asked.

“Indeed. The stronger the gu nurtured, the more likely one will obtain the legacy. It’s even possible that the legacy itself is the gu nurtured,” Chu Feng replied.

Wen Xue pursed her lips as guilt gripped her once more. She could now sense how strong the gus were after they began devouring energy from Chu Feng’s tree.

Chu Feng had been downplaying the severity of the situation. It was not just a world of a difference; it felt like they were completely different entities, like mud before gold. There was no comparing the two.

“Junior Chu Feng, is there anything I can help you with?” Wen Xue asked.

𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

“Not yet. I can do this myself,” Chu Feng replied.

As time passed, the eggs began to emanate faint lights.

By the sixth hour, the eggs were glowing brightly. They had evolved from normal eggs into something extraordinary.

“Woah. We might just stand a chance.”

Hope glimmered in Wen Xue’s eyes. These gus were still nowhere close to the level of Jie Tianran’s gu, but at least they weren’t mud anymore. They had reached the level of impure silver now.

If these gus evolved further, they might stand a chance with their numerical advantage.

Weng!

A brilliant light pillar suddenly gushed into the sky, illuminating the entire realm. From it, an unimaginably huge bug emerged. It was the gu inside the lotus, but it wasn’t the gu’s real body but an avatar.

It was a phenomenon!

“Junior, I’d like to retract my earlier statement. Your loser grandfather might be a loser, but he has nurtured quite the formidable gu. Can your gus fight against that?” Wen Xue asked with a tight frown.

She saw no hope for Chu Feng.