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

"I am Gu Changjin."

Gu Changjin's laughter still echoed among the corpses scattered on the ground.

Jiang Zhaoyue stood in a pool of blood, her face deathly pale.

She stared intently at the man in front of her.

Yes, that's right, he is Gu Changjin.

But she just felt something was wrong.

This shouldn't be the case.

How could that son-in-law, who had been controlled by the Jiang family for thirty years, and who would risk his life for a single kind word from her, have become like this?

How could the Jiang family have been slaughtered?

How could they have taken out the ancestor's golden core?

Jiang Zhaoyue's lips trembled.

Gu Changjin looked down at her, then suddenly tilted his head.

"You ask who I am?"

"Then I'd like to ask you something."

"Are you really Jiang Zhaoyue?"

These words were spoken.

Jiang Zhaoyue's pupils suddenly contracted, as if she had thought of something terrible.

The next instant, she arched her body violently, as if her soul had been ripped apart by something.

"ah--"

A scream escaped her throat.

She held her head in her hands, her body trembling violently.

The aura that originally belonged to Jiang Zhaoyue began to become chaotic.

A cold, ancient, and eerie aura slowly seeped out from her body.

The aura was faintly close to that of a Golden Core cultivator, yet not quite a true Golden Core cultivator.

It's like some kind of lingering soul that has been dormant for many years.

It's like a wisp of old memory hidden in flesh and blood.

Gu Changjin's eyes lit up.

"Goodness."

"There really is something."

Jiang Zhaoyue suddenly looked up.

Her eyes had turned pure white.

No pupils.

She lacked the emotions a young girl should have.

There was only a deep sense of weariness and the passage of time.

She glanced around.

The entire Jiang family was dead, and Jiang Xuanling's mangled body had its core extracted.

The Jade Platform of Blood Pact was destroyed, and all those who came to witness the ceremony from the six kingdoms perished.

Those white eyes narrowed slightly.

No anger, no nonsense.

She turned and ran away.

boom!

A burst of icy white spiritual light erupted from her body.

She seemed to burn away her life force, instantly transforming into a white rainbow, rushing out of the Jiang family's ritual platform, and fleeing swiftly to the north.

The speed was so fast it didn't seem like a foundation-building stage.

Gu Changjin did not give chase immediately.

He simply watched the white rainbow disappear into the distance, a slow smile creeping onto his lips.

"interesting."

"It seems that the harvest this time is even greater than the ancestor had imagined."

Chase?

Of course we should pursue it.

But there's no rush.

The resources are still there.

Gu Changjin flicked his sleeve, and the blood-flame sword energy swept across the entire area.

Jiang Xuanling's storage bag.

Jiang Zhaoyue's parents' storage bag.

The storage bags of the elders of the Jiang family, the members of the Gu family, and the foundation-building guests from the six kingdoms.

There were also congratulatory gifts, fragments of blood pact jade talismans, and fragments of the ancestral array core on the altar.

Take everything you can.

What cannot be taken should be burned with demonic fire first; we cannot let others benefit from it.

He didn't even spare Jiang Xuanling's corpse, searching it thoroughly.

Unfortunately, the complete method for replacing elixir was not found.

That old man is indeed cautious.

The true transmission of forbidden techniques is not found on one's person.

It doesn't matter.

Gu Changjin had just seen the Blood Pact Core-Seizing Operation.

As for the rest, as long as we can get hold of that thing inside Jiang Zhaoyue's body, we'll be able to piece it together sooner or later.

He carefully put away the last storage bag before slowly raising his head to look north.

"They run pretty fast."

"What a pity."

"No matter how fast you run, can you outrun the consciousness of a Nascent Soul cultivator?"

A wisp of divine soul energy emanated from between Gu Changjin's brows.

The next instant, a surge of blood-flame sword energy erupted beneath his feet, and he transformed into a streak of crimson light, giving chase.

……

The bloodshed at the Jiang family's grand ceremony for merging into the Jiang clan quickly spread throughout the cultivation world of the six kingdoms.

It's impossible to suppress it.

Because all the Foundation Establishment cultivators who were attending the ceremony died.

The moment the life tablet shattered, the various immortal clans and sects erupted in uproar.

The first to react was the Xiao Clan of Northern Yan, the number one immortal clan in the cultivation world of the six kingdoms.

The Xiao family has two Golden Core cultivators in charge.

One is in the middle stage of the Golden Core realm, and the other is in the early stage of the Golden Core realm.

This is why the Xiao family has been the overt leader of the six states for many years.

If the Jiang family really produces a second Golden Core cultivator, the Xiao family will be the most uncomfortable.

As a result, the Jiang family did not produce two Golden Elixir Pills.

Instead, a demon emerged.

Inside the main hall of the Xiao clan, the elders' faces grew increasingly grim upon hearing the news.

"Jiang Xuanling is dead?"

"His golden core was forcibly taken away by Gu Changjin?"

"The elder my Xiao clan sent to observe the ceremony also died at the hands of the Jiang family?"

From the main seat, an elderly man in a gray robe spoke coldly.

"Gu Changjin has fallen into demonic possession."

"This man slaughtered the entire Jiang family, killed cultivators from six kingdoms, and didn't even spare his own Gu clan members."

"Demon cultivators should be killed by everyone."

"Send an order to the six kingdoms to issue a demon-slaying decree."

The crowd below responded enthusiastically.

He spoke with righteous indignation and stern words.

But everyone knows the truth.

The demon slaying is real.

The interests involved are real.

The Jiang family is gone.

Who wouldn't want a piece of the spirit mines, markets, medicinal fields, and vassal kingdoms that were left behind?

And the things on Gu Changjin's body.

A newly promoted Golden Core cultivator, Jiang Xuanling whose resources have been depleted, plus all the resources in the Jiang family's treasury.

That's a piece of fatty meat.

More importantly, Gu Changjin doesn't follow the rules.

If he can slaughter the Jiang family, he can slaughter others tomorrow.

If we don't kill this madman before he gains a foothold, who can sleep soundly?

In an instant, the six kingdoms were in turmoil.

The immortals sent a message: sects were to assemble, and independent cultivators were to retreat.

Everyone knows that the cultivation world of the six kingdoms is about to change.

What they didn't know was that the demon they were shouting to kill was completely ignoring them at that moment.

Gu Changjin is chasing someone.

……

north.

Snow and wind raged.

This is the northernmost part of the six kingdoms, frozen year-round with thin spiritual energy, yet it also harbors many ice-attribute monsters and spiritual herbs.

Jiang Zhaoyue, transformed into a white rainbow, fled all the way to this place, and her speed finally slowed down.

Her face was extremely pale.

This body is too weak.

Jiang Zhaoyue's original foundation couldn't support her burning for so long.

If she hadn't used a secret technique to shorten her lifespan, Gu Changjin would have caught up with her long ago.

"Damn it!!"

"How could such a monster appear in later generations?"

She glanced back.

In the distance, a crimson sword light still hung slowly behind.

Unhappy.

It can never be lost.

Like a cat catching a mouse.

A cold glint flashed in Jiang Zhaoyue's eyes. She suddenly bit her tongue, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

A faint crack suddenly appeared between the icebergs ahead.

The crack was hidden in the wind and snow.

If she hadn't actively triggered it, even ordinary Golden Core cultivators might not have been able to detect it.

Without hesitation, she plunged in.

The figure vanished in an instant.

Shortly after, Gu Changjin stopped in front of the iceberg.

Looking at the empty, snowy landscape, he was not angry at all; instead, he smiled.

"Disappeared?"

"OK."

"This harvest is probably quite substantial."

He closed his eyes.

The divine sense at the Nascent Soul level swept inch by inch across the iceberg, the snowstorm, and the earth's spiritual energy.

Soon, he opened his eyes in front of an ice wall.

There was an extremely fine spatial fold there.

Not obvious.

But it couldn't be hidden from him.

Gu Changjin reached out and pressed down, and the Blood Flame Sword Qi pierced inward.

scoff.

The crack was torn open.

A dense, icy spiritual energy, completely unlike anything found in this world, surged forth from within.

Gu Changjin's eyes lit up.

"Fragments of a celestial cave?"

"Does this place also contain fragments of a hidden paradise?"

Without hesitation, he stepped inside.

The world before my eyes suddenly changed.

Outside lies the snowy northern frontier.

Inside, however, was a small, frozen world.

Icebergs float in the air, and cold rivers hang upside down.

The world was filled with ice-attribute spiritual energy.

In the distance, an ice palace lay in ruins, yet array patterns still flowed within it.

Jiang Zhaoyue stood in front of the ice palace.

No.

At this point, she can no longer be referred to as Jiang Zhaoyue.

Her body shape is changing.

The girl's youthful appearance faded, replaced by that of a middle-aged woman.

His brows and eyes were cold and sharp, his temperament was arrogant, and he wore an ice-blue robe with ice patterns flowing around his body.

He looks like a former ice-element cultivator who once possessed a high level of cultivation.

She stared at Gu Changjin, her voice low.

"Which path do you belong to, fellow cultivator?"

"This time, I admit defeat."

"You want the Jiang family? Here you go."

"If you want six kingdoms, I can give them to you."

"I just want to leave this world."

Gu Changjin looked at her and smiled.

"Accept defeat?"

"Are you misunderstanding something?"

The middle-aged woman's expression darkened slightly.

"Fellow Daoist, are we truly determined to fight to the death?"

"Although I haven't recovered, I'm not someone who can be easily manipulated."

Gu Changjin didn't bother to reply.

He raised his hand and swung his sword.

The crimson sword energy tore through the cold mist, striking straight at the Ice Palace.

The middle-aged woman was furious.

"madman!"

She formed a hand seal, and the remnants of the Ice Palace array instantly lit up.

Countless ice spears pierced towards Gu Changjin from all directions.

Gu Changjin neither dodged nor avoided.

The "Burning Life to Forge Elixir Method" within his body began to operate again.

Lifespan is burned, vital energy and blood are burned.

The Blood Flame Sword Qi surged several times over.

What does his loss have to do with me?

This life is meant to be exploited.

If one forbidden technique isn't enough, then add another.

The Bloodflame Claw tore the Ice Spear apart.

Crimson sword energy cleaved the icy river.

The middle-aged woman managed to hold out for a dozen breaths with the help of the remnants of the Ice Palace formation.

But it only lasted for a dozen or so breaths.

She has not regained her true strength at all.

This body of Jiang Zhaoyue also has too many limitations.

Gu Changjin's fighting style is not a battle of magic at all.

They're risking their lives to smash it.

boom!

A corner of the ice palace collapsed.

The middle-aged woman was struck by the sword energy, and half of her body was almost split open.

She was filled with shock and anger.

"Are you crazy? If this continues, your body will be ruined!"

Gu Changjin took a step forward, his face illuminated by crimson flames.

"So be it."

"It's not like it can't be used."

The middle-aged woman's pupils contracted.

The next sword strike had already landed.

puff.

A crimson sword aura pierced through her brow.

Just as the remnant soul tried to escape, Gu Changjin clenched his fingers and grabbed it in his palm.

Then, without hesitation, he activated the Soul Searching Secret Technique.

This secret technique is very harmful to the soul.

It severely damages the foundation.

But it still comes down to the same thing.

His losses are none of my business.

After a while.

Gu Changjin slowly opened his eyes.

In the ruins of the ice palace, the wind and snow swirled backwards.

His eyes, however, were frighteningly bright.

"interesting."

"We made a killing this time."