Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!-Chapter 1036 - 308: Good Grief!

Chapter 308 [What a Fellow!]

The morning sunlight shone in the valley, and the temperature began to rise slightly. The moisture and slight chill that had gathered overnight in the mountains began to dissipate slowly once the sunlight penetrated the forest.

Chen Yan stopped in a valley, chose a spot that could bask in the sun, and placed Gu Tongbing on the ground, before exhaling slowly.

After traveling all night, they had covered a considerable distance—at least a few hundred miles from that waterfall and the mountain’s belly of last night.

Having been carried and jostled by Chen Yan all the way, Gu Tongbing looked somewhat unwell; despite persevering while poisoned, once placed on the ground, he resolutely sat down, gasping for breath, and only then started to recover slightly.

"Here you go."

Hearing Chen Yan’s voice, Gu Tongbing looked up and saw Chen Yan’s hand reaching out, holding a water flask.

Gu Tongbing accepted it without hesitation, opened it, and took large gulps of water before tossing the flask back to Chen Yan: "Thanks."

"No need to thank me. Since I promised to save your life, I certainly wouldn’t let you die."

Chen Yan stored the water flask, looked around the valley, and after contemplating, he said, "I..."

"You plan to leave me here?" Gu Tongbing suddenly chuckled softly, his tone carrying a hint of understanding Chen Yan’s intentions.

Chen Yan raised an eyebrow: "I promised not to kill you, and I fulfilled that. I promised to save your life, so I took you away. So, is there any problem?"

Gu Tongbing smiled bitterly: "Have you any common sense? My poisoning is not yet cured, my cultivation is gone.

Right now, my physical condition is weaker than that of an ordinary elderly person among mortals. You plan to leave someone like me in this vast wilderness? Do you think, in my current state, I can walk out of these mountains alive?"

With that, Gu Tongbing sighed: "Let alone encountering any villains or strong adversaries, any random beast in the mountain could be enough to bury me here."

"I’ll leave you some talisman papers. If you encounter any beasts attacking, tear open the talisman papers, and you can drive them away," Chen Yan said indifferently: "I have my own things to do, I can’t escort you out of this large mountain, or accompany you across mountains and rivers back to the Gu Family?"

"You don’t need to escort me back to the Gu Family; just back to the City of No Return will do."

Chen Yan laughed, shaking his head: "Can’t do, I still have my own things to do, I don’t have time to escort you back to the City of No Return."

Gu Tongbing fell silent, merely staring at Chen Yan, then suddenly said: "You said you could give me some talisman papers, tear them open and activate them, so... they must be talisman papers storing spells, right?

So, it’s talisman papers using the Sealing Spirit Technique?"

Chen Yan didn’t speak, frowning as he looked at Gu Tongbing.

Gu Tongbing looked seriously at Chen Yan, a few curious glances in his eyes: "Who exactly are you?"

After a pause, he slowly said: "You had a stick from the Evil Spirit Tree, so you’ve been beyond Snow Cliff Pass. You have Beast Meat, so you’ve definitely come into contact with the Fierce Beast Race—you’ve likely hunted the Fierce Beast Race or the beasts, so you have dry Beast Meat.

You have a very bizarre Invisibility Technique; when hiding your tracks, even with my cultivation, I can’t see through your spell, unable to discern your presence—with your Third Realm Cultivation, this is very unbelievable.

And you have used the Transformation Technique! Your current appearance is not your real one.

Moreover, you are friends with that lad from the Yun Family of the Black Feathered Lark Race, traveling together.

You, a seemingly unassuming Third Realm Cultivator, have a lot of unusual things hidden on you."

Chen Yan coldly said: "What are you trying to say?"

Gu Tongbing lowered his head to ponder for a while, then suddenly raised his head, staring at Chen Yan with bright, piercing eyes: "Do you know Gu Jinjia?"

Chen Yan: "..."

"Initially, when I proposed trading with you to save my life, honestly, I didn’t have much confidence myself.

Because in that situation, putting myself in your shoes, if I were you, I wouldn’t agree to this deal. After all, I chased you all the way, we’re enemies, not friends.

Furthermore, at the time in the mountain’s belly, there was also the rare Heavenly and Earthly Treasures like the Glazed Purple Treasure Vine in front.

In anyone’s stead, they’d choose to silence me for self-preservation, then keep the Heavenly and Earthly Treasures for themselves.

Moreover, you could also loot my belongings for a hefty fortune.

In that circumstance, you actually spared my life; to be honest, even I was surprised at the time—I had mentally prepared for death.

So, at that time I thought, this guy, why would he spare my life.

Initially, I thought you recognized my identity, knew I was Gu Tongbing, and wanted to use me to cozy up to the Gu Family? But upon deeper consideration, that seemed off.

Until you took me out and produced a stick from the Evil Spirit Tree, I had some guesses in my mind."

Chen Yan was enlightened: "So, you deliberately asked if I had any Beast Meat?"

"Yes." Gu Jinjia nodded and then continued:

"Upon seeing the stick from the Evil Spirit Tree, I was only thirty percent certain in my heart. But when you actually produced Beast Meat, my speculation was seventy percent sure. When you acknowledged going beyond Snow Cliff Pass...

Then, the reason you spared my life became very clear.

You know Gu Jinjia, know my big brother, don’t you."