Prey

Gu Zhu was an old person who seemed particularly aged. His height was no taller than around six feet and he had a crooked body. Furthermore, his whole body was dried up like a corpse that had been exposed to the sun in a desert.

He was dressed in gray clothes that were clearly too baggy for his frame and were so utterly worn out that they only barely served their purpose. He was already 100,000+ years old, probably even older than that, greatly exceedingly the natural lifespan of Divine Master Realm Profound Cultivators.

Though his personal power was already on the top of the Realm of Gods, as he was one of few peak Level 10 Divine Master Realm cultivators across the entire Primal Chaos Dimension.

He was the Master of Qianye Ying'er, her attendant and most loyal subordinate, everything in one. Right now, he was waiting for her at the entrance to the God Realm of Absolute Beginning.

She always commonly got to that place alone without anyone else, but right now, he sensed that something had gone wrong because she had gone in for a long time and hadn't contacted him even once.

As he was waiting for her, he suddenly got a transmission informing him to enter the God Realm of Absolute Beginning, together with coordinates of the exact location where he needed to go.

Not wasting any time, he did so. He had already entered the God Realm of Absolute Beginning several times during his life, so he experienced the forbidden zone many times and was very knowledgeable about it.

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It took Gu Zhu several hours to arrive at the location that Qianye Ying'er sent him, avoiding all Divine Master Realm Primordial Beasts because picking up a fight with them wasn't the wisest thing to do.

One thing dangerous about the Primordial Beasts was that they would immediately sense when one of them started fighting, it would attract the other ones. So, unless someone can kill the Primordial Beast in a very short time, he would be then swarmed by hundreds of other Primordial Beasts.

When he arrived at the location, he saw an enormous Dimensional Ark that was parked on the empty planet within the God Realm of Absolute Beginning, with Qianye Ying'er standing underneath the Dimensional Ark.

"Uncle Gu."

Qianye Ying'er greeted the older man in a somewhat happy voice because Gu Zhu had been a long time the sole true family that she had. The old man adored Qianye Ying'er greatly; for him, she was like his granddaughter and the only family he had.

"Miss... it seems that lot has happened during the time you were in the God Realm of Absolute Beginning."

The old man said somewhat affectionately; afterward, he noticed that her strength had dropped significantly from peak Level 10 Divine Master Realm to Level 5 Divine Master Realm and experienced a rather severe drop in cultivation.

It also didn't escape his experienced eye that she had lost the Brahma God Divine Power that she previously had. Qianye Ying'er didn't waste any time and immediately started retelling what had happened since she arrived at the God Realm of Absolute Beginning.

"You have experienced a lot, young miss..."

Gu Zhu stated with sight because this was totally out of his expectations. The first thing that was shocking was that she managed to encounter an invader alien to the Primal Chaos Dimension and essentially joined the invaders against the Primal Chaos Dimension.

While the second thing wasn't that shocking because it was something that many people had suspected for a long time already.

That the Qianye Fantian killed his own wife wasn't that surprising truth to be told.

She also told him that right now, she was probably being searched for by the Braham Monarch God Realm and they would probably either kill her or do something worse, depending on the mood of her father.

Yet, at the same time, she also told him about her schemes, which brought a smile to her skeleton face that even after all of this, she was still standing strong and proud.

"Could our new benefactor be trusted?"

He asked, using the word "our", because where she went, he would follow. Now that it seemed the Brahma Monarch God Realm had become the enemy, they needed to find a new faction for protection.

"He can, certainly more than Qianye Fantian... at least he is pretty straightforward with what he wants and as long as we don't betray him, he will uphold his part."

During the time she spent with Ōtsutsuki Yakou, she got a very good grasp of his personality, and she knew that as long as she remained loyal, he would do the same thing.

"Then what do you want to do now?"

Gu Zhu asked as she proceeded to explain her plan to him. He would play the crucial role in attracting the attention of several Brahma Gods, Brahma Kings and Brahma Elders to the God Realm of Absolute Beginning.

Then they would capture them and kill them and the sacrifice to the God Tree would be ready.

She knew that compared to the Evolutionary Cultivation, the Profound Way was many times easier to cultivate and to reach the peak of the Saint Realm, she would need to assimilate the Brahma God Power of all Brahma Gods, Brahma Kings and Brahma Elders.

That would allow her to reach the peak of the Saint Realm, while only after eating Chakra Fruit with Brahma Monarch God Realm as sacrifice would allow her to reach Tier 4, but that was far in the future.

Yakou told her that the peak of the Saint Realm was far more powerful than even their True Gods in terms of combat prowess. Still, that was only in the far future, so she had enough time for that; right now, it was important to spinn the web.

"It shall be done, young miss."

In the end, nothing had changed for both of them, as they were still doing what they were doing before. Qianye Ying'er was still scheming and Gu Zhu fulfilling her orders, though just this time it was for another master.