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

"I admit, you are indeed very strong, and I am no match for you." Jiang Ruyan gritted her teeth, looking at Gu Chen with apprehension and even a hint of fear in her eyes.

To have such strength at the age of twenty.

She couldn't imagine how high Gu Chen would reach in the future.

Compared to his own son.

It's like comparing heaven and earth.

Her coming to cause trouble for Gu Chen today was a complete mistake.

"Let me go, and I promise I'll keep your secret and not reveal it when I get back," Jiang Ruyan pleaded with Gu Chen.

Gu Chen's strength far exceeded her expectations; it was not as simple as just being able to defeat her.

They truly have the power to kill her.

If she doesn't beg for mercy and continues to fight Gu Chen desperately, she will definitely be the one who dies in the end.

"You didn't have to die. We had no grudges against each other. You could have just stayed quietly in the Haoran Academy. You had to come looking for trouble. You brought this on yourself." Gu Chen said calmly, "Only the dead can keep secrets."

"Gu Chen, my husband is a top-tier expert. He already knows I've come to find you. If you kill me today, he will definitely not let you go!" Jiang Ruyan said hurriedly when she saw Gu Chen's intense killing intent towards her.

"If I die at your hands, my husband will surely go mad. At that time, he will come to kill you even at the risk of offending Shangguan Wuqing. At worst, he can just leave the Divine Dynasty after killing you. The world is vast, and your master will never be able to find him. You'd better think it through!"

Gu Chen shook his head upon hearing this: "I've injured you so badly today. When you go back, you and your husband won't let me off the hook either, and they might even reveal my secrets. So, you might as well just die!"

"No, Gu Chen, you can't do this!" Jiang Ruyan exclaimed in horror, "My husband will never let you get away with this!"

As she spoke, she suddenly cleaved Gu Chen's Fire Profound Blade in two with her palms. Then, despite her injuries, she turned around, unleashed her true essence, and fled into the distance.

puff!

From behind, Gu Chen burst forth with even greater speed, piercing through her back and exiting from her chest with a single strike.

The terrifying intent of the piercing blade and the violent alien true essence flowed into her body through the blade, causing frenzied destruction and damage.

Blood gushed from the corner of her mouth.

The body froze on the spot.

Gu Chen drew the Fire Profound Blade.

Her body went limp and she fell to the ground, dead.

Gu Chen searched her body and found more than 30,000 taels of silver and two Transformation Pills.

There isn't a single secret manual.

not bad.

That's enough for him to buy a batch of medicinal herbs to refine the Red Copper Pill.

Physical defense is still very important.

This kind of battle today.

If Jiang Ruyan cultivates the Crimson Copper Body to a minor level, she will be able to ignore his clone attacks.

The final victory is uncertain.

Having weaknesses will restrict you in many ways.

He took out a can of kerosene from his storage bag and poured it on her.

They set her body on fire.

These oils were specially prepared by Gu Chen in the storage bag after he obtained it.

It's for the convenience of disposing of bodies after murder in the future.

Watching Jiang Ruyan being engulfed by flames.

Gu Chen turned and left.

Although she was killed, the matter was not completely over.

Just as Jiang Ruyan just said.

Her husband already knew that she had come to see him.

If she were to kill herself, her husband would surely come looking for her and seek revenge.

He needs to figure out how to deal with the trouble that's about to unfold.

He returned to his residence.

Gu Chen took out a copper bowl and said to it, "I want to sever the cause and effect of killing Jiang Ruyan today and obscure the secret of this matter."

Gu Chen's plan first requires severing his ties with this matter and obscuring the truth.

This makes it impossible for anyone to trace him through divination or other methods.

Then just pretend you know nothing about it.

If Jiang Ruyan's husband comes looking for her, he can simply deny that Jiang Ruyan ever came to see him.

Even if her husband had suspicions, without evidence, he certainly wouldn't dare to act rashly against her.

After all, one's master is not just for show.

And now that Jiang Ruyan has been killed by her, no one knows it at all.

It's likely that it will take her husband a long time to discover that she is dead.

He also had enough time to develop during that period.

Even if he deduced that Jiang Ruyan might be dead, he still couldn't determine whether he had killed her.

After all, he only had the strength of a seventh-rank official, so he couldn't kill her.

The copper bowl hints that concealing the secret to killing Jiang Ruyan requires ten thousand taels of silver.

It's not much. Compared to the 100,000 taels needed to cover up the treasures of the four top powers last time, this time it's only one-tenth of that amount.

Gu Chen put the silver into it.

The silver disappeared instantly.

The copper bowl provides a clue:

[The cause and effect of your killing of Jiang Ruyan has been severed, and the secrets surrounding this matter have been obscured. No one can deduce any information about you.]

That's it.

Next.

He should just pretend he doesn't know anything.

He obtained 30,000 taels of silver and two Huahai Pills from Jiang Ruyan.

The total value is roughly equivalent to 35,000 taels of silver.

It cost 10,000 taels to conceal the secrets of heaven, but still made a profit of more than 25,000 taels.

It's worth it.

The question is whether Jiang Ruyan's husband will take action against her once he discovers she hasn't returned and comes looking for her.

Now we need to deal with the troubles that are about to begin.

He still needs to be careful.

The time that follows.

Gu Chen resumed his previous life of refining pills to earn money.

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

During these seven days, Cheng Mengling purchased the first batch of medicinal materials for refining Yi Jin Dan and Ji Zang Dan, as well as a new alchemy furnace.

From now on, he will begin directly refining three types of high-grade pills, and his daily income from pill refining will reach 1,800 taels.

and.

This time, Cheng Mengling not only brought him materials for refining two kinds of high-level pills.

They also collected a set of medicinal materials for him to refine the Red Copper Pill.

Gu Chen paid her 30,000 taels of silver.

He obtained another batch of medicinal herbs, which will increase the number of protective divine runes on his bronze body to twenty.

That night.

Gu Chen then worked overtime to refine the red copper pill.

One hour later.

The alchemy process is complete.

Ten golden-red copper pills, brimming with medicinal essence, appeared in Gu Chen's hand.

Gu Chen took out a copper bowl.

Without hesitation, he placed all ten red copper pills into the copper bowl.

Ten Crimson Copper Pills can be exchanged for ten protective divine runes.

The copper bowl provides a clue.

"Exchange." Gu Chen confirmed immediately.

In an instant, the ten red copper pills in the copper bowl disappeared, transforming into a strange power that entered his body and began to transform his physique.

Just like the first time, he didn't need to circulate his cultivation technique at all.

Because the copper bowl had already crafted protective runes for him according to the cultivation method, after the pills were consumed.

Just transfer the blame to him.

Gu Chen's aura rose steadily, and his physical strength increased continuously. After the Crimson Copper Pill was refined, although it was used to imprint protective divine patterns on his body, Gu Chen's physical body was also baptized and strengthened in the process.

The newly imprinted protective divine runes on his body have twice the effect of suppressing Gu Chen's physical body as before.

Beneath Gu Chen's skin, new golden protective divine runes were engraved and imprinted, shining with golden light together with the ten protective divine runes already engraved, their brilliance complementing each other, and his skin color turned into a bronze hue.

The new ten protective divine runes have been imprinted.

Gu Chen's transformation was complete, and his physical defenses were raised to a new level.

Even without activating the protective divine runes, it allows him to generate a golden protective shield around his body.

It can also ignore attacks from those in the early stages of the True Essence Realm.

With all twenty protective divine runes activated, twenty layers of protective shields appeared on his body, greatly enhancing his defensive capabilities.

Similar to the large-scale clone attack he used today to attack Jiang Ruyan.

He relied on the twenty layers of golden light shield generated by the protective divine runes to resist, which was much stronger than the thin layer of true essence shield that Jiang Ruyan simply formed on her body surface with true essence.

When the body of a copper-red person is imprinted with thirty protective divine runes, a qualitative change will occur.

The golden light shield formed by the ordinary thirty protective divine runes can ignore attacks from late-stage True Essence Realm cultivators.

It can combine the power of thirty protective divine runes to fuse thirty layers of golden light shields into a thick layer of protective true energy, which can even withstand attacks from the early stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

He is still ten steps away from having thirty protective divine runes. He just needs Cheng Mengling to collect another batch of medicinal materials for refining the Crimson Copper Pill.

The time that follows.

He can just focus on refining pills and making money.