Just as the old patriarch forced me to my death, I achieved the unity of Dao and fruition.

"It seems that my junior brother also needs a good beating."

Gu Changjin finished speaking.

The shock and anger on the old man's face gradually disappeared.

Since you've already been seen through, there's no need to keep pretending.

He raised his hand and tore open the side of his face.

With a ripping sound.

That aged, weary face, belonging to Daoist Xuanchen, was torn off like a thin layer of human skin.

Beneath the human skin, there was no flesh and blood, only a smooth, pale face, without eyebrows, nose, or mouth.

The area where the facial features were located was completely flat, except for a pitch-black vertical eye split open in the center of the forehead.

"It can see through the sacred skin of my race."

"You do have some skills."

The cold voice didn't come from his mouth, but echoed directly in the surroundings.

The faceless cultivator still felt uneasy, but more than anything, he was furious.

It is at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, only a step away from the Void Return stage. With the help of the clan's secret techniques, it can even exert some of the power of the Void Return stage for a short period of time.

With such strength, one would be considered a powerful figure even in the outer regions of Zhongzhou.

For a mere remote and isolated place to cultivate the cultivation world, the birth of a Nascent Soul cultivator is already a stroke of good fortune.

Even if Gu Changjin had hidden some of his cultivation, where could he possibly hide it?

Could it be a return to emptiness?

The more the faceless cultivator thought about it, the more reassured he became.

I'll strike first. As long as I take Gu Changjin's physical body and soul memories, the Crimson Jade Token will naturally be mine.

The next instant, its vertical eye on its forehead suddenly opened wide, and circles of gray-white ripples spread outwards.

At this moment, the world seemed to lose its color, and the space around Gu Changjin began to distort.

Its form, aura, and even the traces of its existence in this world were gradually stripped away by the gray-white ripples.

"Faceless Metamorphosis!"

A low shout rang out, and the faceless cultivator took a step forward. His right arm instantly transformed into a pale white bone spear, carrying the full power of a Nascent Soul cultivator, and pierced straight for Gu Changjin's brow.

Not only that, but the human skins it had collected inside its body were also burning simultaneously.

With dozens of different auras superimposed, the power of that bone spear forcefully surpassed the Nascent Soul level and touched the edge of the Void Returning stage.

He would not hold back against an enemy whose strength he could not fathom, but would strike with all his might.

Gu Changjin simply sighed.

"You won't listen when I try to reason with you."

"They insist on taking action."

He raised his right fist, but there was no towering, blood-red serpent rising behind him, nor any terrifying phenomenon that shook the mountains and rivers.

Just like an ordinary person, facing an oncoming attack, casually throws a punch.

The faceless cultivator sneered inwardly.

He dares to take it head-on with his bare body? That's just too pretentious.

Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would have their body and soul torn apart by this secret technique.

It seems that Gu Changjin is quite strong, but his brain is not very sharp.

The fist collided with the bone spear in the next instant.

There was no earth-shattering noise, only a very soft muffled sound.

boom.

The cold smile in the faceless cultivator's heart instantly froze.

It felt as if it had not stabbed flesh and blood, but rather a real world crashing into it.

That power did not leak out of his blood or qi, nor was it wasted in any way; all its power was firmly locked within Gu Changjin's fist.

They didn't explode until the moment of impact.

Click!

The pale bone spear shattered inch by inch, followed by the arm, shoulder, and chest.

Before it could even scream, its entire body exploded as if it had been struck head-on by a star.

The blood mist had barely spread when it was crushed into nothingness by the force of the punch.

Gu Changjin stood still, maintaining his punching stance.

stunned for a moment.

"Huh? That's it?"

Oh no! I just broke through to the Void Returning Body Cultivation stage.

He wasn't quite sure he had a good grasp of the power of his punch.

He originally only wanted to beat him half to death, leaving him to search his soul.

Who knew that one punch would kill him instantly.

But the next moment, Gu Changjin's eyebrows twitched slightly, and a smile reappeared on his lips.

"Trying to run away?"

His figure suddenly disappeared.

……

Ten thousand miles away, above a desolate desert, a thin crack suddenly appeared in the void.

A pale, white face squeezed out from inside; there was no body, only a face hanging in mid-air.

That dark, vertical eye was filled with barely suppressed fear.

"Returning to Emptiness Body Cultivation..."

"No, no, no, no!! That's definitely not an ordinary Void Returning Body Cultivator!"

With just one punch, its faceless true form, which it had painstakingly cultivated for thousands of years, along with dozens of treasured sacred skins, were all shattered.

If it hadn't hidden a wisp of its true spirit within Xuan Chen Dao Jun's human skin beforehand, it would have been completely dead just now.

It only has one idea right now.

escape!!

Flee back to the Holy Church immediately!!!

Report the news of the mysterious powerful figure appearing in the Western Wilderness.

But before it could disappear into the void...

A familiar voice sounded from behind.

"They run pretty fast."

The pale white face suddenly froze.

Gu Changjin had already stood behind it without anyone noticing.

He still had white hair and wore black clothes, with a gentle appearance.

It was as if the person who had just punched it to pieces wasn't him at all.

"impossible!"

A pale, white face screamed in terror.

"You are definitely not human!"

"How could a human possibly possess such a physical body?"

"This is just a remote, pioneering cultivation world; how could someone like you possibly have been born here?"

"Who exactly are you?"

Gu Changjin did not answer, but raised his hand and pressed it against the person's face.

"There are too many problems. I'll see for myself."

The moment the soul-searching power invaded, the jet-black vertical eye on the forehead of the human face suddenly cracked open.

A gray line never seen before lit up deep within its true spirit.

The faceless cultivators didn't even have time to be terrified.

boom!

His entire face exploded on the spot.

Soul, memory, cause and effect, all vanished into nothingness in an instant.

Gu Changjin's eyes darkened slightly.

At the same time, a faint sense of being watched fell upon him.

It was as if some being, separated by an endless distance, glanced at him through that gray line.

Within Gu Changjin's sea of ​​consciousness, the Blue Star Realm Seed trembled violently, and the rules of the Realm Seed instantly covered the thousands of feet of heaven and earth.

The gaze and marking that had fallen upon him vanished in the blink of an eye, as if forcibly severed by another world.

Without pausing, Gu Changjin took a step forward and returned directly to the Xuanming Guixu Cave Heaven.

The smile on his face only faded slowly after the cave was completely sealed off.

"This is troublesome."

"This water is deeper than I thought."

The Faceless Clan, the so-called Holy Cult, and the beings that were able to cast their gazes across endless space through the true spirits of their clansmen.

The method of identity replacement in the memories of the Silver-Eyed Ancient Ape likely originated from this so-called Holy Cult.

Moreover, the Holy Church is clearly not just a member of the Faceless Clan. The Demon Clan, the Faceless Clan, and even other strange races in the wilderness all seem to share the same shadow.

Gu Changjin disliked this feeling of being out of control.

Since the waters are deep, let's first make ourselves stronger.

He sat down cross-legged, and the accumulated Dao Yuan within his Dao Fruit surged forth.

A thousand strands.

Two thousand strands.

Three thousand strands.

The pure Dao essence continuously merges into the physical body, primordial spirit, and the Xuanming Guixu Grotto Heaven.

Gu Changjin's recently stabilized early-stage Void Returning aura rapidly increased.

A dozen or so breaths later.

The grotto-heaven alternates between reality and illusion, with the Black Water Heavenly River piercing through the void.

That aura finally crossed the boundary.

The middle stage of returning to virtual reality!

And it continues to grow.

Just then, a crimson light suddenly emanated from the storage bag.

The Crimson Jade Token flew out on its own, and the gate patterns on its surface lit up completely.

Gu Changjin's pupils contracted slightly.

"It started ahead of schedule?"

A strange fluctuation once again emanated from the Land of No Source.

Without hesitation, Gu Changjin vanished instantly, reappearing in front of Gu Qingxiao and Gu Xiaolou.

The two of them had just looked up.

"Ancestor?"

Gu Changjin rolled up his sleeve and directly pulled the two people into his sleeve.

The Crimson Jade Token burst forth with a blinding red light.

An illusory portal suddenly opened before him.

Gu Changjin stepped inside.

The figure vanished completely.

A moment later, the strange fluctuation that had been tracking them swept across the spot, but found nothing.

The crimson portal slowly closed, and Gu Changjin had entered the Crimson Abyss Secret Realm.