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

People from the four top-tier forces.

They quickly withdrew from the desolate state.

The investigation into this matter will no longer continue.

Gu Chen, on the other hand, was unaware of this.

The copper bowl had already helped him conceal the secrets of heaven.

He then had no worries whatsoever.

In the time that follows, I will focus on making money steadily and accumulating silver to buy elixirs to improve my cultivation.

A fifth-rank is quite strong.

Among second-rate forces, he is considered a top expert.

But in the face of first-rate forces and those top-tier forces.

It's still not enough.

They could easily kill him with just a single fourth-rank expert.

We still need to keep working hard.

In the desolate state, at the headquarters of the Night Watch.

Chen Lei was quite puzzled.

He had just received a report from his subordinates that all four top-tier forces had withdrawn from the desolate state and were no longer investigating the matter.

This puzzled him.

These four forces chose to give up.

Did they really think they wouldn't find anything more after further investigation, or did they encounter some kind of resistance?

So I simply chose to give up.

He needs to send someone to ask them.

In the past few days, he openly entrusted this matter to Gu Chen for investigation.

But secretly, he still kept the Night Watch's various departments constantly monitoring the matter.

If Gu Chen is unable to investigate this matter within a month, he can continue to investigate as well.

Another day has passed.

After Gu Chen finished refining pills for a day...

It was already evening.

He sent Wei Zhong back to his own courtyard to rest.

He was preparing to patrol the Night Watch area, grab a free dinner, and then return to his residence to nurture the Blood Transformation Sword and comprehend the secret technique of soul attack.

At this time.

A masked man dressed in black suddenly appeared and attacked Gu Chen.

This masked woman in black had a very mysterious figure, clearly a woman, and possessed considerable strength, with a cultivation level of the mid-stage of the fifth rank.

Upon seeing this, Gu Chen was startled.

He dodged the attack from the man in black.

He did not activate the three extraordinary phenomena he had cultivated, nor did he immediately unleash his fifth-grade cultivation.

The man in black grabbed his shoulder and held him down firmly.

"Don't speak. I'll take you out for a bit. I'll only ask you one thing, and I won't take your life," the man in black said. "If you dare to make a sound, I'll kill you on the spot."

This was Jiang Ruyan's idea.

She arrived in Jiuwan City yesterday.

She thought about it for a long time.

You cannot ask Gu Chen about the situation using your real identity.

Gu Chen probably doesn't know that the notorious womanizer they caught recently is actually a member of the Haoran Academy and her son.

After all, her son maintained his ability to shrink his bones and change his appearance until her husband took him away from the government office in Jiuwan City.

If he were to question Gu Chen using his true identity, his attack would be tantamount to his own failure.

This exposed her son's identity as the notorious womanizer.

If Gu Chen were to spread this news, it would be bad for her son and the Haoran Academy.

Therefore, she planned to kidnap Gu Chen directly as a masked person.

The solution is to force the person who reported Gu Chen's son's information to reveal their identity.

Gu Chen, with only the strength of the early stage of the seventh-grade True Yuan Realm, was unable to resist her.

If Gu Chen dares to be stubborn and refuse to confess, she has plenty of ways to make him confess willingly.

She took Gu Chen with her and, with a few leaps, left Gu Chen's residence and headed out of Jiuwan City.

In Jiuwan City.

The strongest were only those at the early stage of the True Essence Realm, namely Feng Yuan, the city lord of Jiuwan City, and Pi Kaikai, the commander of the city guards.

Their residence is not in the same area as Gu Chen's.

Jiang Ruyan moved with incredible speed. It was already evening, and in just a few breaths, she vanished in a blur, carrying Gu Chen away.

Nobody noticed.

Seeing that she didn't intend to attack him immediately, Gu Chen didn't rush to resist.

He watched as she led him out, wanting to ask her something.

Gu Chen also had some guesses about the identity of this unknown fifth-rank expert.

It might be Jiang Ruyan, the mother of Mei Jingfei from Haoran Academy, whom he obtained by exchanging information using a copper bowl. She's the one who's been looking to cause him trouble lately.

After leaving Jiuwan City with Gu Chen.

They arrived at a secluded grove outside the city, and Jiang Ruyan led him inside.

We arrived at the center of the grove.

This place is remote enough that no one will come here.

Jiang Ruyan released Gu Chen and said to him, "I brought you out here, and I only have one question for you. Answer me honestly, and I will let you go back. If you dare to tell me even half a lie, this forest will be your burial ground today."

"What is it?" Gu Chen asked, looking at her.

"Who provided you with information about the womanizer you caught at the Yu family's house in Jiuwan City half a month ago? Was he one of the disciples from Haoran Academy who were digging graves nearby?" she asked Gu Chen.

"Oh, so that's what it was about." Gu Chen understood.

It seems that Jiang Ruyan came all this way to cause him trouble because she suspected that another disciple from the Haoran Academy had reported to her about her son being captured by him half a month ago.

She wanted to find out who was behind the whistleblower.

Unfortunately, this was the information he obtained by exchanging it for the copper bowl, and no one reported it to him.

However, Gu Chen wasn't going to answer that way. Instead, he smiled and asked, "I got information about this womanizer from another source, but why should I tell you? What benefit would I get from telling you?"

He realized that she had come to cause him trouble.

Gu Chen was no longer going to pretend.

It's time for a showdown.

If he said that no one had reported Mei Jingfei's whereabouts to him, Jiang Ruyan probably wouldn't believe it.

They'll definitely try to force him to answer.

Why not just take down Jiang Ruyan directly?

A fifth-rank expert who kills her must be incredibly wealthy.

"Are you courting death?!" Jiang Ruyan was furious upon hearing this, releasing the pressure of a mid-stage fifth-grade Sea Transformation Realm expert, and the terrifying aura pressed down on Gu Chen.

"Can't you see the current situation? You have no right to negotiate with me. Tell me the information about the person who reported you, or I'll kill you," Jiang Ruyan said coldly.

pity.

Faced with her intimidating presence.

Gu Chen was not afraid at all.

He gave a cold smile.

The aura of a fifth-grade Transformation Sea Realm cultivator surged forth from his body.

In an instant, Jiang Ruyan's oppressive aura was completely neutralized.

"Fifth-grade Sea Transformation Realm? How is that possible?" Jiang Ruyan was shocked by the aura released by Gu Chen.

It was filled with disbelief.

Gu Chen was actually a fifth-grade expert at the Transformation Sea Realm.

Wasn't he only at the early stage of the seventh-grade True Essence Realm? How come he has now directly become the early stage of the fifth-grade Transformation Sea Realm?

He's only twenty years old.

How is that possible?

According to the information she gathered about Gu Chen before she arrived, he was Shangguan Wuqing's youngest personal disciple.

He had just participated in the Divine Examination six months ago, and his ranking was still on the Prodigy List.

I was 501st in line.

The Gu Chen before her seemed so unfamiliar, completely different from the information she had gathered.

Could it be that she arrested the wrong person?

"What, are you surprised, Madam Mei?" Seeing that she was shocked by his true cultivation level, Gu Chen looked at her and sneered.

"How do you know my identity? No, you've mistaken me for someone else. Who is Madam Mei?" Jiang Ruyan hurriedly denied.

At the same time, he was shocked again that Gu Chen was able to deduce her true identity.

Could it be that the Haoran Academy disciple who reported Gu Chen back then also reported his son's identity to Gu Chen?

When Gu Chen saw that he had come to interrogate him about this matter, he deduced his identity by following the clues.

This matter is troublesome today.

She didn't know Gu Chen's strength or why he was hiding it so well.

Gu Chen possesses the strength of the early stage of the fifth-grade Transformation Sea Realm.

She was only one realm lower than him, so her plan to force Gu Chen to reveal the whistleblower by using their realm difference might fail.

Given her level of cultivation, defeating Gu Chen wouldn't be difficult for her.

But killing or keeping Gu Chen alive is very difficult.

If she offends Gu Chen because of this, and Gu Chen exposes that her son is a womanizer, her son will be finished.

"Heh." Gu Chen sneered, "It doesn't matter if Madam denies it, but I must remind you, Madam, you don't want your son's affairs to be leaked by me, do you?"