Fantasy: Starting with a bowl, you can exchange it for endless cultivation.

The silver in the copper bowl disappeared.

A prompt appeared:

Most of Liu Xun's gains over the years have been handed over to the Drowning Cult. He only kept a sum of silver, 74,500 taels, hidden on an island 300 li west of Qinghai City, guarded by an evil spirit he kept. That evil spirit is currently on that island.

Follow the prompts.

Gu Chen was delighted.

Sure enough, there were some, more than 70,000 taels.

If he gets it, he'll have the resources to break through to the late stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

Gu Chen was excited.

We chose to depart overnight.

Qinghai City is a city under the jurisdiction of another prefecture within Yuehai County, and is not located within Heiyan Prefecture.

Gu Chen flew at full speed through the air.

It took an hour to reach the island.

It hovered above that island reef.

From afar, Gu Chen sensed from the air that an evil aura was emanating from a cave on the island.

It was exactly the same evil aura he had sensed in Jiuwan City last night.

Last night, after the evil spirit completed its mission and was taken away by Yamamoto-oka Village, Liu Xun ordered it to return here overnight.

To avoid being discovered.

Gu Chen sneered, "Found you, you little devil!"

Ancient dust fell outside that cave.

The evil spirit that Liu Xun kept inside was very alert and immediately detected Gu Chen's presence.

It roared as it charged out of the cave.

Its pupils contracted slightly upon seeing that it was Gu Chen.

It was the owner who asked it to lure this human yesterday.

They are the enemy.

After recognizing Gu Chen's identity, he roared and charged towards Gu Chen.

Gu Chen unleashed his full power, imbuing the Fire Profound Blade with terrifying true essence, and slashed at the evil spirit.

Burning wood knife method.

The flaming blades illuminated the entire area outside the cave.

He is currently in the mid-stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm, and he is facing this kind of evil spirit in the fifth stage of the Innate Realm.

No powerful martial arts techniques are needed.

The wood-burning knife technique is sufficient.

The flaming blade light, imbued with terrifying true energy, struck the evil spirit.

He cleaved it through the air, sending it flying backward with a scream. Most of the black energy on its body dissipated. If he were to strike again, Gu Chen would obliterate its soul.

It turned around and tried to run away.

I never expected that Gu Chen would be such an abnormally strong opponent.

He's completely invincible.

Furthermore, Gu Chen's techniques and martial arts are naturally effective against evil spirits, and can cause him great harm.

This fight is unwinnable.

Although he was ordered by his master to guard the treasure here, if he didn't run away when faced with such a powerful enemy, not only would the treasure not be safe, but he himself might also be killed by Gu Chen, resulting in even greater losses.

But Gu Chen wouldn't give him a chance to escape.

They chased after them directly, pressing their advantage.

Another blade of true essence flame struck him!

They directly annihilated his soul.

It turned into a soul bead and fell.

Gu Chen stepped forward and picked it up.

Then we entered the cave.

They rummaged through the cave.

They found an iron box, opened it, and obtained a sum of silver, amounting to 74,500 taels.

This perfectly matches the accounts mentioned in the copper bowl.

Gu Chen smiled, put away the silver, and left.

They returned to Jiuwan City overnight.

He returned to his residence.

Gu Chen took out the soul bead he had just used to kill the evil spirit and put it into the copper bowl.

[A fifth-grade innate soul bead can be exchanged for fifty years of divine soul cultivation.]

Indeed, it was fifty years of spiritual cultivation.

It was the same level of spiritual cultivation he gained when he killed the evil spirit that Nie Ke had transformed into.

Gu Chen chose to exchange without hesitation.

In an instant, terrifying spiritual power surged into his body.

This greatly enhanced his spiritual strength.

His spiritual power surged.

Previously, his spiritual power could extend about forty meters from his body; now, it can extend more than eighty meters.

Within a radius of over eighty meters, even with his eyes closed, he could visualize everything within that area in his mind.

"Not bad." Gu Chen was very satisfied.

The power of the soul, also known as spiritual power, is something that can only be accessed and begun to be cultivated in the upper three realms.

He has it now.

It is unknown what level his current spiritual strength is among the top three ranks.

He couldn't bear to exchange for that soul-attacking technique because it required too much silver.

Otherwise, one can at least grasp the basics and try out the mysteries of soul attack techniques.

He spent over 17,000 taels of silver exchanging intelligence over the past few days.

Now he has received 74,500 taels.

This gave him nearly 100,000 taels of silver again.

He needed 80,000 taels of silver to exchange for that soul attack technique.

Gu Chen still refused to exchange.

It's more important to spend money to improve your cultivation level first.

He figured out that secret technique on his own, and he'll master it sooner or later. No matter how curious he is, he can't rush it.

Moreover, with his current enhanced spiritual strength, he can comprehend that secret technique even faster. In about six months at most, he should be able to master it.

Just wait patiently for another six months.

Tomorrow, he can spend money to buy the pills that will allow him to break through to the late stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

First, break through to the late stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

Then they'll go and cause trouble for Yamamoto-oka Village.

Now, let's use the copper bowl to exchange for information about Yamamoto Village.

Gu Chen took out silver and put it into the copper bowl, then transmitted the message to the bowl: "I want to exchange for information about the territory of Yamamoto-oka Village and its current hiding place."

The copper bowl indicated that five hundred taels of silver were required.

Gu Chen put five hundred taels of silver into it.

The silver has disappeared, and information about Yamamoto-oka Village has surfaced:

[Yamamoto Okamura is at the late stage of the sixth rank, the Breakthrough Realm, and is hiding on Haiqing Island, two hundred miles east of Jiuwan City. He is waiting there for other experts from the Yamamoto family of the island nation to arrive. Now that you have destroyed all of the Yamamoto family's trading posts within Yuehai County, they urgently need to establish new ones.]

"He actually has the strength of the late stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm, he's really a tough opponent." Gu Chen was somewhat surprised by Yamamoto Okamura's strength.

Fortunately, he will be able to break through to that level tomorrow.

At that time, relying on the two extraordinary phenomena born from the Four Beasts Celestial Phenomenon Technique, as well as the previously mastered Breaking Illusion Blade Intent, we will be able to achieve our goals.

We should be able to take him down.

If he could produce a little more silver, that would be enough resources for him to break through to the Perfect Breaking Aperture Realm.

They might all be coming together.

The next day.

Gu Chen refines pills during the day and finishes refining them in the evening.

They then left Jiuwan City directly, which took an hour.

They rushed to the city of Yuehai County.

At the Xuantian Pavilion, I spent 62,080 taels of silver, at a 3% discount.

He bought sixty-four Breakthrough Pills and then left Yuehai County.

Return to Jiuwan City.

Of course, he also changed his appearance along the way.

He kept his true identity a secret.

At this time, his public image was still that of a powerful figure with a cultivation level at the early stage of the seventh-grade True Essence Realm and combat strength reaching the middle stage of the True Essence Realm.

I don't know.

His true cultivation level has already undergone earth-shattering changes.

That night.

In his mansion.

Gu Chen placed sixty-four Breakthrough Pills into the copper bowl.

Sixty-four second-grade Breakthrough Pills for Travelers can be exchanged for 640 days of pure cultivation.

Gu Chen chose to exchange.

Instantly, a vast amount of cultivation power was poured into his body.

Gu Chen immediately activated the White Tiger Breaking Acupoints Technique, transforming it into White Tiger Killing True Essence to open up the acupoints in his body.

His acupoints in his limbs and torso have been opened and are now filled with true energy.

Next, we need to open up the acupoints around the dantian. To break through from the middle to the late stage of the Breaking Acupoints Realm, we need to open up a number of acupoints around the dantian.

Gu Chen mobilized his true energy and, following the guidance of the cultivation technique, determined the locations of these acupoints.

Then, a white tiger phenomenon appeared behind Gu Chen.

A phantom of a white tiger stood above his body, guiding sharp true energy to continuously impact the acupoints in his dantian.

These acupoints can store more vital energy than the acupoints in the limbs and torso.

After all the cultivation was infused, all the acupoints in his dantian were opened, and the acupoints were filled with true essence transformed from the cultivation.

Gu Chen's true essence reserves surged once again.

At the same time, as the physical body is repeatedly broken through the dantian acupoints, it is cleansed and strengthened once again.

All physical attributes, including eyesight, hearing, and reaction time, are improved.

Reaching the late stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

Now, it's time to go and take revenge on Yamamoto-oka Village tonight.

This guy conspired with Liu Xun to kill Huang Jinyu and frame him for it.

Liu Xun has been punished and given more than 70,000 taels of silver and a congenital soul bead as compensation.

Next, we'll arrive at Yamamoto-oka Village.

Gu Chen was filled with anticipation as he wondered what kind of compensation he would offer.

Gu Chen left Jiuwan City.

Based on the information obtained from the copper bowl, they headed directly towards the small island where Yamamoto-oka Village was hiding.

At this time.

Within the territory of the desolate state, in a hidden stronghold of the Drowning Cult.

The head of this drowning cult stronghold is reporting the situation to the envoy from headquarters.

"Liu Xun's identity has been exposed, and all the outposts he operated in Yuehai County that traded with the islanders have been wiped out." Wen Lin, the head of the Drowning Cult at this outpost, said to Fan Ding, the envoy from headquarters. "It is said that Gongsun Yuan personally set up the scheme, and his two junior brothers cooperated with him in the investigation. Gu Chen, the seventh disciple recently accepted by Shangguan Wuqing and the head of the Night Watch of Jiuwan City, has a strong ability to investigate. Most of the intelligence about Liu Xun's exposure came from him."

"According to our investigation, it only took one night for Liu Xun and the Yamamoto family of the island nation to set him up. I don't know how he found out, but he managed to clear out the intelligence on Liu Xun's base, which he had painstakingly built up over ten years, the very next day. It's very strange."

"If he uses this ability to investigate other strongholds within our sect, wouldn't that expose those strongholds as well?" Wen Lin looked at Fan Ding.

These few years.

Liu Xun and the Yamamoto family have always had business dealings.

But it has never been exposed.

Not to mention being found out.

Gu Chen came to Jiuwan City to serve as the head of the Night Watch.

In less than two months, they wiped him out completely.

Gu Chen displayed such terrifying investigative abilities.

He was really afraid that Gu Chen would follow Liu Xun and find out some clues about the Drowning Cult.

Following the trail, we also dismantled their drowning cult's strongholds.

After Liu Xun was arrested by the Night Watch.

All the locations of the drowning cult strongholds that he knew.

All have been replaced.

They were on guard against this move.

And they were able to survive for so long despite being hunted by the Night Watch.

This is also because they don't have a fixed base at all.

They have been able to continue by secretly changing locations and developing their followers.

Although Gu Chen was just a minor city night watchman, his strength was only at the seventh rank.

They didn't have to take it so seriously.

But Gu Chen gave them a very strange feeling.

It was as if they could pinpoint their hiding places with pinpoint accuracy.

It makes them feel very insecure.

"This seventh disciple of Shangguan Wuqing is indeed a bit troublesome!" Fan Ding frowned slightly after hearing Wen Lin's report.

"But Shangguan Wuqing has now broken through to the Earthly Venerable Realm and has become one of the decision-makers of the Night Watch. If we touch him, we're afraid it will provoke Shangguan Wuqing's crazy retaliation!" Fan Ding narrowed his eyes.

The price of a mad revenge from a Earthly Venerable Realm expert is something the Drowning Sect cannot afford.

Or rather, they had no need to provoke Shangguan Wuqing, this lion, because of Gu Chen.

Although the drowning cult is a cult.

Within the territory of the Divine Dynasty, everyone condemned them.

However, there are actually not many people who are truly willing to mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources to purge their high-ranking officials.

As long as they don't go too far in their daily lives.

The top echelons of the Divine Dynasty are capable of eliminating as many as possible.

If you can't find it, you can just forget about it for now.

Just strike as soon as it shows its face.

If they kill Gu Chen, they will completely enrage Shangguan Wuqing.

This will invite the furious revenge of this newly promoted Earthly Venerable.

Not worth the candle!