Chapter 33 Ambition
In the early morning, outside Jiangzhou City, there was a heavy snowfall last night, and the official road was covered with a thick layer of snow.

A large carriage was heading due east, leaving two deep ruts in the snow.

A young girl in green carrying a long sword followed behind the carriage, her eyes red and swollen from crying. She looked back every few steps, her face full of reluctance.

When the carriage went more than ten miles away, it suddenly stopped, the curtain opened, and the man in the carriage said, "If you don't want to follow me, I won't force you. Go ahead."

The maid knelt down with a plop and begged, "Master, please don't chase me away. The lady asked me to follow you, and from now on, I belong to you."

Gu Mingchuan looked at the maid kneeling on the ground, and felt deeply moved. The brainwashing skills of these aristocratic families were really terrifying.

This maid is as pretty as Zhou Ruxuan.

In terms of talent, he surpasses all the young masters of the noble families in Minglong City.

She is fifteen years old and has just broken through to the Gangyuan realm.

She is Xue Ruoyu's sword servant.

The so-called sword servant is a little girl who is well-behaved, clever, and talented when the daughter of a noble family is born. She is taught martial arts and becomes the lady's personal maid.

When a woman gets married, a sword servant will also be brought as a dowry to her husband's family.

Often, these sword servants would become the military support for the young ladies from aristocratic families after they got married.

There are also some people with extraordinary talents who cultivate to the Shenzang realm or even the Faxiang realm and become the high-ranking members of the aristocratic families. The heads of the families have to be polite to them.

Of course, only those big families with deep roots dare to do this.

If a family like Minglong City really wants to train a sword servant, it will probably get into trouble in the end and be easily taken over by the sword servant.

Although Gu Mingchuan missed the opportunity to spend a good night with Miss Yu Zi yesterday, he got a sword servant in the Gangyuan realm, which was not a loss at all.

Although Xue Ruoyu likes to imagine things and always says ridiculous things, it has to be said that he is really generous.

A sword servant of this level can be given away at any time.

However, the prerequisite is that the sword servant named Xiaoxue is willing to follow him.

Gu Mingchuan said, "If you want to follow me, you must follow my rules. Let me tell you three things. First, when you are around me, don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. Can you do that?"

"can."

"Second, do whatever you are told to do, and don't act on your own."

"Yes."

"Third, if one day you don't want to stay with me anymore, just tell me and I won't stop you. But as long as you stay with me, you are mine and you must not be fickle. You cannot have any private contact with Xiaoyu. Can you do that?"

Xiaoxue knelt on the ground, biting her lips. This third condition made her very embarrassed.

Gu Mingchuan saw her hesitation and said, "A servant should not serve two masters. If you can't even do this, then leave."

After saying this, he lowered the curtain and let the driver continue on his way.

Xiaoxue saw the carriage really left, and she panicked and hurriedly chased after it, "Sir, I can do it."

The curtain of the carriage was opened again, and the man stared at her with deep eyes, "Okay, I want you to swear in the name of your young lady. If you violate these three rules, your young lady will never find a husband of her dreams in her life."

"what?"

"Don't want to?"

Gu Mingchuan pretended to lower the car curtain.

Xiaoxue gritted her teeth and swore, "If I violate your prohibition, I will make...make...you never find a husband of your dreams in your life."

Seeing that she had made a vow, Gu Mingchuan finally smiled and said, "Okay, from today on, you are my maid. When you are by my side, you will be called Qingxue."

Xiaoxue got on the carriage and felt lost when she heard his words, but she could only respond, "Yes."

……

"Sir, we have arrived at Jade Maiden Peak."

Soon, the carriage stopped and the driver said.

Gu Mingchuan got off the carriage and said to Qingxue, "I have something to do. You wait here for me. I will be back before tomorrow."

"Yes."

Qingxue didn't dare to ask more.

Gu Mingchuan still decided to go to the ninth floor of the Demon Suppression Prison. Since Pan Shaotang and Xiaoyu had both been there and nothing happened to them, it must be safe in there.

He moved very fast, and soon he arrived at the south side of Yunu Peak and found the cave that Pan Shaotang had mentioned.

After entering the cave, I dug through a pile of rubble at the end and found a tunnel that was just big enough for one person to enter.

He got in.

The tunnel went diagonally downwards for more than a thousand meters before an exit finally appeared. After crawling out, we found a larger tunnel below.

The tunnel winds downwards and has no bottom.

Gu Mingchuan walked down the tunnel for almost an hour. The tunnel stopped going down, so he walked for a while and then started going up.

Another hour of walking.

Finally, at the end, there was another pile of rubble blocking the exit.

With a little effort, he pushed the pile of rubble away and got out.

Outside was an empty, dark space without a single ray of light.

Gu Mingchuan had already reached the level of being able to see at night. He could see everything clearly even if there was no light at all.

In this empty space, there are four pillars standing, and under each pillar is a corpse. In the middle, there is a tower-like building about ten meters high.

"what?"

At this moment, a surprised voice sounded, followed by an old voice, "Ascetic monk?"

Gu Mingchuan was shocked. As expected of an old monster who had lived for hundreds of years, he could actually find out that he was an ascetic monk. He quickly saluted and said, "Junior greets you, senior."

"Is your surname Gu?"

"Senior has a keen eye."

"I didn't expect to meet a descendant of the Gu family, and an ascetic monk at that. Are you here to see me?"

"That's right. I'm a close friend of Pan Shaotang, and I admire his chivalrous spirit. I've come to ask you to help me join the chivalrous sect."

"I'm afraid you will be disappointed. You can't become a knight."

Gu Mingchuan asked, "Why?"

The old voice said, "Do you know that the martial arts of knights and ascetics are both derived from the Buddhist techniques thousands of years ago?"

"I've heard of it." "Before practicing the technique you practiced, you must swear an oath to protect your family for the rest of your life, until death. This is a great wish. In Buddhism, you only have one chance to make a great wish. Moreover, once it is made, it cannot be changed."

Gu Mingchuan was greatly disappointed. He didn't expect that there would be such a restriction.

This is different from being an ascetic. You can make one more vow when you level up.

He did not give up and said, "Even if my ambition is to protect the family, it doesn't matter, right?"

The old voice said, "You ascetics, the harder it is to give up something, the more feedback you will get when you keep the precepts. The same is true for knights. The greater the aspirations you make, the greater the number of people you benefit from, and the richer the feedback you will get."

"For the welfare of a family, this ambition is too narrow. Even if your Gu family conquers the world in the future, you will not be able to survive the sea of ​​suffering. You will eventually sink into this turbid world and will not be able to escape."

Gu Mingchuan understood.

This means that as long as the Gu family continues to grow and preferably conquer the world, his strength will continue to improve.

As for what the other party said about the sea of ​​suffering, the world of turbidity, and transcendence, they sounded like very advanced things and were not what he needed to consider now.

He immediately said, "Senior, please give me some advice."

The old voice sounded, "Have you thought it through?"

"Think it through."

"I can pass on the part of my inheritance from Buddhism to you, but you have to agree to one condition."

"Senior, please tell me."

"If one day you can cultivate to the Lunhai realm, you must come here again and rescue me."

"it is good."

When Gu Mingchuan said this, he felt as if something was missing.

He felt a chill in his heart. In this fantasy world, promises also have power.

The next moment, he saw glowing words flying out of the tower and floating towards him.

He did not dodge, allowing the words to merge into his body.

There was a boom.

A golden light flashed in his mind, forming a set of skills composed of strange words.

He had clearly never seen that kind of writing before, but he could understand it.

I do not know how long it has been.

When the last golden word merged into his body, a prompt appeared before his eyes, [Obtained the same source of skills, merging in——]

【The integration of "The Red Dust Way" was successful. 】

At this moment, Gu Mingchuan suddenly understood.

It turns out that "The Way to Save the World in the Red Dust" is divided into two parts, the first part is about saving oneself, and the second part is about saving others.

What he had learned before was only the first part.

Now, I have received the next part from this mysterious old man, and it is complete.

At the same time, his mind echoed the oath he made in the cave, "When the Gu family is in danger, I will live and die with the Gu family."

The voice became louder and louder, and finally, it flew out of the mind and into the panel.

【Name: Gu Mingchuan】

[Level: Level 9]

【Aspiration: Live and die with the Gu family】

[Rule 2: Do not play the chicken game, difficulty level ]

[Commandment 5: Don’t drink fat house happy water, difficulty level ]

[Commandment three: do not smoke Hongtashan cigarettes, difficulty level 5]

[Commandment 6: Do not watch Mikami-sensei’s videos, difficulty level ]

[Commandment 2: Don’t eat KFC, difficulty level ]

[Commandment Six: Don’t sit on that gaming chair, difficulty level 7]

[Commandment Seven: Do not play computer games, difficulty level 20]

[Commandment 20: Do not publish your work on Qidian Chinese website, difficulty coefficient ]

Precept Nine: Nothingness

[Discipline Points: 424101 (Note: Observe the precepts for one day and gain discipline points * difficulty coefficient)]

【Aspiration Point: 11600】

【功法：《红尘渡世法》第九层（154140/2500000），玄水真功第十层（566/300000+），金刚不灭神功第十三层（88/600000+），玄火真功未入门（0/10）】

【武技：五行拳法（大成（811/1000+），燎云刀法（出神入化），破晓刀法（大成（245/100000+），七星剑法（熟练（1244/5000+），烈阳刀法（未入门（0/100）】

……

Gu Mingchuan left, and on the way, he kept studying the panel.

On the panel, there is an additional column called "Aspirations" and an "Aspiration Point".

It seems that “Aspiration Points” can also be used directly to add points.

"How do you get these ambition points?"

Now, he has 11,600 points, and he doesn't know where he got them.

Anyway, it's a good thing.

Later, there was another way to earn points. These "ambition points" were obviously different from "discipline points".

He had a hunch that it was from the liver.

……

When Gu Mingchuan came out to the ground, it was already dark.

He returned to where the carriage was parked, saw that the carriage and Qingxue were still there, and walked over.

Qingxue saw him and quickly bowed, "Sir."

"Stay here tonight and leave tomorrow."

He thought that he was already one day behind Su Lingshuang, and he didn't know where she was now.

(End of this chapter)