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

The pursuit lasted two days without success.

Lin Zhen had no choice but to lead the Night Watch personnel back to Cangshan County.

The Night Watch of the Divine Dynasty is a high-level institution that follows an elite route.

To become a Night Watchman, one must at least reach the first level of the Innate Realm.

Cangshan County has fifteen towns under its jurisdiction, and the Cangshan County Night Watch Division, including the head of Lin Town, only has eleven people.

In addition, the operation to arrest Yang Wenhua resulted in two injuries, leaving the team short-handed.

It's impossible to keep the Night Watchmen stationed in Qingping Town for an extended period of time.

Six days have passed.

The skin-tempering pills that Gu Chen had previously asked Li Linfeng to order for him from Chiyang City have arrived.

Li Linfeng delivered Gu Chen directly to his residence.

That night.

Gu Chen couldn't wait to put all the skin-tempering pills into the copper bowl.

Preparing to break through to the Skin Tempering Realm.

Inside the bronze bowl, small golden characters appeared:

One hundred Skin Tempering Pills can be exchanged for two hundred days of pure cultivation.

One coin can be exchanged for two days, not bad.

Gu Chen chose to exchange without hesitation.

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

He immediately activated the Golden Thunder Skin Tempering Technique to transform his cultivation into innate golden thunder to temper his entire body's skin.

Golden lightning crackled across his body, making his hair stand on end and glow with golden light.

His skin was constantly being tempered, becoming hard and resilient, and his aura grew stronger.

After all his cultivation was infused, Gu Chen underwent a transformation, with his five senses being enhanced in all aspects.

His skin hardened like metal, with a trace of golden lightning power flowing through it.

Successfully entered the second stage of the Innate Realm, the early stage of the Skin Refining Realm!

Gu Chen examined himself, then picked up the precious sword beside him and made a cut on his skin, leaving no trace.

Ordinary swords and knives could no longer harm his skin.

Only exclusive yellow-grade treasure weapons used by experts at the Innate Realm can be used.

Gu Chen had one of these treasured weapons. It was the longsword that the hook-nosed man gave him after he fought the two bandits in the valley of Ninefold Ridge. It was a Yellow-grade treasured weapon.

It's just a low-grade, yellow-level treasure weapon.

Because he used a knife, and a sword was not his specialty, he kept it in his house and never used it.

Ordinary longswords can no longer keep up with his pace. With his current strength, he can easily dull the edge of an ordinary longsword.

The bearded man's top-tier mortal-grade treasured sword was barely enough for him.

If he doesn't encounter enemies at the Innate Realm, he can use that mortal-grade treasure sword. If he encounters enemies at the Innate Realm, using a yellow-grade treasure weapon will make him stronger in combat.

"Now that I've broken through to the second level of the Innate Realm, I should leave Qingping Town tomorrow," Gu Chen pondered.

Gu Chen concealed his aura, hiding his cultivation level to the highest level.

Get ready to rest.

Although he broke through in a room in the mansion, his realm is now getting higher and higher, and even without actively spreading it, people outside can easily feel his aura.

It's better to keep a low profile.

Gu Chen had just fallen asleep not long ago.

He then sensed two powerful auras appearing in his courtyard.

At the same time, there was an aura, a dark and evil aura belonging to malevolent spirits.

Gu Chen had sensed this aura before; it was the same aura that Deng Xian exuded when he transformed into an evil spirit to seek revenge.

However, the aura of the evil spirit that Deng Xian had transformed into was much weaker than the aura that was now appearing in his courtyard.

Gu Chen opened his eyes, picked up the low-grade yellow-level longsword weapon beside him, and walked out of the house.

Then he saw a man and an evil spirit standing in his courtyard, their eyes fixed on him.

The man appeared to be middle-aged, dressed in a blood-stained official robe, but his brows lacked any sense of righteousness; instead, they exuded a bloodthirsty, violent, and evil aura.

Looking at the middle-aged man in official robes, Gu Chen thought of someone.

Yang Wenhua, the town magistrate, escaped from Qingping Town six days ago after being pursued by the Cangshan County Night Watch.

He came back to seek revenge on me after all the guards from Cangshan County left Qingping Town!

"Are you Yang Wenhua?" Gu Chen looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and the evil spirit beside him.

"I'm curious, how did you know that I was secretly raising evil spirits to cultivate evil arts?" Yang Wenhua looked at Gu Chen: "Even my wife didn't know about this."

This is his deepest secret.

In the entire Qingping Town, apart from him and that group of cult members of the Black Heaven Cult, no one else knew about it.

But he inexplicably got into trouble, and the Night Watchmen came down to investigate him directly, eventually even rushing into the yamen to arrest him.

"When the Night Watchmen arrested me, they told me that it was the people from the Baoyao Pavilion in Cangshan County who reported me to them. In the past few months, the Baoyao Pavilion in Cangshan County has only sent you here." Yang Wenhua looked at Gu Chen with a puzzled expression.

"And during the past few months, I've had people watching your every move. You haven't taken the initiative to investigate Xu Dongqing's death. How did you know that it was the evil spirits I kept that killed Xu Dongqing? How did you know that I was colluding with the Black Heaven Cult?"

"I learned from Zhou Hong, the guard of Baoyao Pavilion in Cangshan County, that you went back to Baoyao Pavilion more than ten days ago. A few days later, the Night Watchmen came to arrest me. You must have informed on me then." Yang Wenhua's eyes flashed coldly.

"Did Zhou Hong tell you that I went back to Baoyao Pavilion in Cangshan County more than ten days ago?" Gu Chen did not answer his question, but asked in return.

"Yes," Yang Wenhua replied directly.

Then Yang Wenhua added, "Forget it, it's pointless to know how you found out my secret."

"Just go to hell. The thing I hate most in this life is snitching, especially since I haven't even offended you yet," Yang Wenhua said coldly.

He then signaled to the evil spirits he kept around him to take Gu Chen's life.

He took a great risk by coming back to kill Gu Chen.

But he's the kind of person who always seeks revenge.

Gu Chen dared to report him, causing him to fall from his high position as town magistrate to his current state, unable to return home and becoming a wanted criminal.

Gu Chen must die!

"You think you can kill me!" Gu Chen sneered. "I was able to learn your secrets silently before, and now I can kill you silently too."

"As the town magistrate, you're now on the run with all your possessions. You must have a lot of good stuff on you, right?" A strange light flashed in Gu Chen's eyes.

If we can kill Yang Wenhua, we're sure to get a lot of good stuff.

He gripped the long sword in his hand and used the gecko-like wall-climbing technique.

The speed is extremely fast.

They went straight for the evil spirit that Yang Wenhua had kept in captivity.

That evil spirit wasn't very strong; it was probably only at the early stage of the Flesh Refining Realm.

Gu Chen rushed in front of him, and the power of earth thunder, metal thunder, and blazing sun within his body surged out and attached to the longsword in his hand.

Then he unleashed a five-hit lightning strike, hacking wildly at the evil spirit.

The blazing sun power he generated from cultivating the Blazing Sun Skill, along with the earth and metal thunder power generated from the Five Thunder Innate Skill, are both nemesis of evil spirits.

When Gu Chen's attack landed on the evil spirit, it was like a red-hot iron sword striking a person, with tremendous destructive power.

Furthermore, under the overwhelming pressure of Gu Chen's realm, even with his lightning-fast five-hit combo, Gu Chen hadn't finished all five strikes; after only four strikes, the evil spirit was utterly destroyed.

A green soul bead fell to the ground.

Yang Wenhua, who was standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded when he saw this scene!

Nima!

What's going on here?!

The evil spirit he had raised for many years, which now possessed the strength of the first level of the Innate Realm, was instantly killed by Gu Chen in a single encounter.

Gu Chen was not a top-tier expert at all; he possessed a secret technique to conceal his aura.

His true realm is the second stage of the Innate Realm, the early stage of the Skin Tempering Realm.

Gu Chen had only just displayed his top-tier strength, and he thought he had it all figured out, but the result was unexpected.

After dealing with the evil spirit, Gu Chen approached him with a cold smile.

Yang Wenhua turned and fled.

He had been hiding in Qingping Town for more than a decade, using countless children to cultivate evil arts, and now he had only barely reached the level of the second stage of the half-step innate realm.

Moreover, his cultivation of evil arts has made his realm very superficial, and his true combat strength is at most at the peak of the first level of the Innate Realm.

They were no match for Gu Chen, a genuine second-stage Innate Realm cultivator.

If you don't escape, you'll die!

"Escape? Do you think you can escape?" Gu Chen sneered, chasing after Yang Wenhua straight out of the courtyard.

It's already past midnight.

There were hardly any people left on the main street of the town. The two were also experts of the innate level, and their speed was extremely fast. Before long, they chased out of the town.

We arrived at a dense forest outside the town.

Upon leaving Qingping Town, Gu Chen unleashed his full power with the "Gecko Wall-Walking Step," catching up with Yang Wenhua in just a few moments and slashing him across the back with his sword.

The terrifying power of earth and metal lightning intertwined, slashing a large gash in his back.

He was sent flying by the blow, crashing into a pine tree and spitting out a mouthful of blood, severely injured.

Gu Chen landed in front of him, his long sword pressed directly against his neck.

Despair filled Yang Wenhua's eyes. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said, "I've schemed for half my life, even cooperating with a cult, but I never expected to be defeated by a mere brat like you in the end."

He did not beg Gu Chen for mercy.

Now that things have come to this, he knows that even if he begs for mercy, Gu Chen will not let him go, so he might as well die with some dignity.

Of course, if he were in Gu Chen's shoes, he wouldn't let Gu Chen go even if Gu Chen begged for mercy.

"Those who commit many unrighteous acts will surely perish." Gu Chen swung his longsword, severing his throat with a single strike.

Yang Wenhua's body suddenly went limp and he collapsed.

then.

Gu Chen immediately began searching Yang Wenhua's body and soon found a large handful of silver notes, totaling more than 2,500 taels.

"As expected of the town magistrate of Qingping Town, his wealth is quite substantial." Gu Chen put away the silver and a smile appeared on his lips.

This much silver is almost as much as the amount of money he had previously seized from the group of cultists.

If he uses all of it to buy Skin Tempering Pills, it should be enough for him to break through to the mid-stage of the Skin Tempering Realm.