Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!-Chapter 1040 - 309: [Gu Tongbing... Comrade]_2

Gu Tongbing took another two bites of the beast meat, then suddenly his expression changed: "You’re not willing to take me back to the City of No Return, so you must be going to..."

Chen Yan said nothing, but Gu Tongbing, being very clever, laughed and said: "You’re going to the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony of the Ghost Race, aren’t you?"

As Chen Yan looked at him in surprise, Gu Tongbing said calmly: "It’s not difficult for me to guess. The date is nearing the day of the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony, and you’re here in the territory of the Ghost Race... Such a grand event, of course you want to witness it."

Chen Yan simply nodded, admitting: "That’s right. Since I’m here in the Southern Border, encountering such a grand event, of course I’m going to observe it."

Gu Tongbing, however, stared at Chen Yan: "Is it just to observe?"

He laughed and said: "You came from Snow Cliff Pass and are a member of the Brotherhood. Yet you’ve crossed several borders to get to the Southern Border? Coming to the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony, is it really just to observe?"

Chen Yan shook his head: "I’m just traveling the world, and happened to be here by chance."

"Alright, I won’t pry into your secrets. If you don’t want to say, I won’t ask further," Gu Tongbing immediately said: "However... if that’s the case, you promise me one thing."

"What?"

"Since you won’t take me back to the City of No Return, then take me with you to the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony."

Chen Yan: ???

Seeing Chen Yan’s confused and wary expression, Gu Tongbing slowly said: "I am alone and want to walk out of this mountain wilderness. Even if you give me a few talismans, it won’t guarantee my safety. Maybe I wouldn’t fear ordinary beasts, but what if I encounter some exotic beast? Or some tribe of the Ghost Race... Some tribes of the Ghost Race still hold on to primitive customs of mountain folk, and do not like outsiders entering their territory.

Now I’ve lost my mana and cultivation. To walk all the way back to the City of No Return, is extremely difficult!

Rather than risk it, I’d rather go with you to the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony."

Chen Yan suddenly realized!

The Heaven-Crashing Ceremony probably includes people from Gu Tongbing’s organization—such a grand event, it’s understandable if Gu Tongbing’s organization sent someone to participate.

Moreover... even if Gu Tongbing’s organization didn’t send anyone.

Gu Tongbing, after all, is the third son of the Gu Family. The Heaven-Crashing Ceremony surely has plenty of representatives from sects and families to witness.

Then, as long as Gu Tongbing reveals his identity, he could naturally receive shelter and aid from sects and families allied with the Gu Family.

It’s much safer than journeying alone across a thousand mountains and rivers, surrounded by tigers, leopards, jackals, and wolves, all the way back to the City of No Return.

"I won’t cause you trouble," Gu Tongbing said slowly: "The Heaven-Crashing Ceremony is held in the Black Wood Tribe, you can take me there, I won’t ask you to bring me into the ceremony, just let me off at the outskirts of the Black Wood Tribe’s territory."

Chen Yan thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

·

Over the next few days, the two of them traveled westward through the mountains.

The Southern Border’s terrain is mountainous. The Demon Race’s territory is known as the Ten Thousand Mountains, and even though the Ghost Race’s land doesn’t have ten thousand, it certainly has seventy or eighty thousand.

The mountain peaks stretch one after another, like a sea of trees and hills, seemingly endless.

Occasionally crossing a peak, standing atop and looking out, it feels like you can’t see the horizon.

The two traveled together, walking by day and resting by night, sharing food during breaks, chatting to pass the time, with Gu Tongbing persistently trying to recruit Chen Yan by continuing his "preaching."

At first, Chen Yan tolerated Gu Tongbing’s crude ideas without speaking, just smiling without response, but as he heard more, he could no longer hold back.

What a joke, if you want to talk about this theory, we are the true inheritors!

Having heard enough of Gu Tongbing’s flawed preaching, Chen Yan, being young, couldn’t help but occasionally say some words in rebuttal.

It’s like saying, "How dare you act skilled in my area of expertise? I can’t tolerate that!"

Unexpectedly, his occasional rebuttals, though brief, made Gu Tongbing’s eyes light up with brilliance!

Unintentionally, Gu Tongbing’s gaze at Chen Yan grew increasingly complex and admiring.

Eventually, Gu Tongbing even deliberately provoked Chen Yan to speak, intentionally discussing things he couldn’t understand and saying things he knew were incorrect to bait Chen Yan into responding.

"You need to understand, what do you mean by the lower masses? Is it divided by tribe, or by race and ethnicity? By wealth? By cultivation level? By mortals versus cultivators?

All wrong!!

The proletariat! Anyone without property, regardless of race or ethnicity, should belong to the same class! You understand class, right?"

"What is exploitation, and what is a shackle? It’s not about having money or not! It’s about who controls the resources! It’s about the party who holds cultivation resources and production resources exploiting the proletariat!"

"No, Gu Tongbing, you need to understand what the primary contradiction is, what is sharp, and which is the unresolved principal contradiction!

It’s that the laborers should enjoy the maximum fruit of their labor! If the fruit of labor is not enjoyed by the laborers, but by someone else, that is the greatest injustice, it’s the major contradiction!"

After a few days, with Chen Yan occasionally uttering these shocking remarks to Gu Tongbing, Gu Tongbing’s gaze at Chen Yan was no longer just admiring; it was glowing!

With admiration and reverence!

Even daily, when Chen Yan sat meditating or resting, Gu Tongbing secretly took out paper and pen, respectfully jotting down Chen Yan’s occasional utterances during conversations, carefully folding and keeping them close to his heart.

Even when sleeping, beneath, Gu Tongbing couldn’t help but gaze at the starlit sky with different feelings!

Muttering the contents spoken by Chen Yan over the days, Gu Tongbing even felt his heart tremble with excitement.

He couldn’t help but shiver!

·

Whoosh~~~

Boom!!!

In the night sky, a streak of fire cut through the sky overhead!

Like a torch thrown down by a god to the human world, burning with blazing flames and trailing a long tail, it plummeted downward, crashing into the distant woods!

Chen Yan and Gu Tongbing were originally resting under a big tree in the forest, but upon the commotion, Chen Yan flipped up, leaping onto a tree trunk, looking out...

Vaguely, something could be seen falling from the sky, crashing into the forest in the northwest, stirring chaos with flickers of fire visible...

"It’s an airship." Gu Tongbing said solemnly under the tree: "It’s a falling airship."

Chen Yan squinted, continuing to look in that direction, soon sensing the Primordial Qi fluctuations there suddenly becoming violent and chaotic!

There are cultivators dueling, manipulating the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi to clash in spell combat, generating turbulence!

Chen Yan descended from the tree, suddenly looking at Gu Tongbing: "Is it... your people..."

"It should be our people." Gu Tongbing took a deep breath: "Attacking the airship carrying representatives of sects and families!"

Chen Yan’s face was heavy, saying nothing.

Gu Tongbing immediately said: "We need to leave here quickly! In the interception operation, there are cultivators in the air attacking the airship, and there will be ground teams setting up nets to intercept, to prevent any escapees!

Since this is the interception airspace, then there must be ambushed ground squads!

Staying here, we might be caught by them!

If caught by them, the plan’s principle is to kill on sight and leave no survivors!"

Chen Yan’s mind shifted, suddenly saying: "Huh? Why would you be afraid of encountering them? Aren’t you with them?"

"...Yes, and no." Gu Tongbing spoke rapidly: "This situation is more complex. Let’s go! If you have questions, I’ll explain later."

Chen Yan, being decisive, immediately took two steps away, stirring up dirt from the ground to cover the traces they left while camping, then grabbed Gu Tongbing’s arm.

Gu Tongbing looked around, assessing the direction of the airship’s fall, then looked at the surrounding directions, pointing with his hand: "That way! I understand ambush tactics best; that direction should be the safest."

Chen Yan said no more, grabbing Gu Tongbing’s clothes, lifting him, and swiftly dashed away!