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

Want to play, huh?

You want to die, huh?

I'll grant your wish.

Now it has escalated to a life-or-death battle.

Let's see if you dare to accept.

If you dare to accept.

Gu Chen is determined to kill him today, to make an example of him.

Let those who come to challenge him see.

This is how it ends.

If you don't want to, then just pay the challenge fee honestly.

Everyone around fell silent upon hearing Gu Chen's words.

Good guy.

Gu Chen was completely enraged.

They were about to engage in a life-or-death battle with Yuan Geng.

This is a fight to the death.

This problem suddenly fell on Yuan Geng's shoulders.

They're now waiving the challenge fee and want to fight you to the death. Will you accept or not?

If you're not going to answer, then don't make a fuss.

If you accept.

The challenge begins today, and it's a fight to the death.

Only one of the two can survive.

It all comes down to who backs down first.

Upon hearing this, the disciples of Jin Yao Palace...

They all looked at their senior brother, Yuan Geng.

Unexpectedly, they pressured Gu Chen for quite some time.

The objective has been achieved.

But Gu Chen actually proposed a life-or-death battle, which could not end without a fight to the death.

This guy is insane.

It's just a ranking on a list of prodigies.

In the past, everyone's battles were always limited to a point.

Who the hell would go this far, turning it into a life-or-death battle?

There's absolutely no need for that.

Even if they don't fight to the death, a draw could result in both sides suffering heavy losses, affecting their own cultivation progress or damaging their foundation.

That would be a losing proposition.

Yuan Geng's face was grim; he hadn't expected Gu Chen to choose to do this.

Is he truly capable, or is he just bluffing to scare me?

The Inspectorate was able to rank him three places higher than himself.

If he truly possesses the combat strength of the mid-stage Breaking Aperture Realm, I agree to fight him to the death.

If things go wrong, you might end up suffering the consequences.

In a life-or-death battle, if he fights to the death to seriously injure me, then even if I win in the end, it will be a losing proposition.

Gu Chen has really gone mad, actually making such a request.

"Don't you dare!" Gu Chen sneered, "What are you hesitating about? What are you afraid of? If you don't have the guts, then don't bark like a dog."

"What were you yelling about just now? Who's all bark and no bite? Didn't you say my ranking was rigged? Now that I've challenged you to a life-or-death battle, why are you so scared?" Gu Chen looked at him. "If you're scared, then shout three times that you're a cowardly piece of trash, and then get lost. Don't embarrass yourself here."

"You!" Yuan Geng roared, "Gu Chen, do you really think I wouldn't dare fight you to the death?!"

"I just don't want my future prospects to be affected by a challenge from the Prodigy Ranking. If I kill you and you fight back fiercely, I won't gain anything. You've figured out that I don't dare to fight to the death, so you said this. In the end, you're all bark and no bite, and you came up with this way to force me to withdraw." Yuan Geng said coldly, "Truly a despicable act."

"If you're scared, shut up. Admit you're a coward, then get lost and don't waste my time," Gu Chen said dismissively.

Those around saw this.

He also looked at Yuan Geng with a faint, mocking smile.

This guy announced yesterday that he would challenge Gu Chen today.

When he arrived, he didn't dare to take the initiative, fearing that he would be accused of attacking a Night Watch officer. So he tried to verbally humiliate Gu Chen to force Gu Chen to attack him.

Avoiding the challenge fee.

Unexpectedly, Gu Chen not only did not take the initiative to attack him, but also escalated the challenge to a life-or-death battle.

Let's see if he dares.

Instead, he backed down.

Speaking of scheming, he's probably the most scheming.

He wanted to take on a challenge but didn't want to pay the challenge fee, so the other person refused the challenge fee and wanted to fight him to the death.

He didn't dare to do it again.

It's truly laughable.

He saw the mocking looks from the people around him.

Yuan Geng was furious.

He said directly, "Gu Chen, do you really think I wouldn't dare to fight you to the death? You asked for this."

"I accept!" Yuan Geng said coldly.

He then stepped out.

"Just accept it." Gu Chen sneered, and stepped out to the center of the square.

He addressed the people around him, saying, "Everyone here today is a witness. Yuan Geng personally promised to fight me to the death. If he dies today, those old-timers of Jin Yao Palace who can't stand losing will come after me. Please be my witnesses."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Geng's face turned ugly: "Gu Chen, that's enough. Today, it's you who will die, not me. What they should do is serve as a witness for me. You took the initiative to propose this life-or-death battle today. Don't be a sore loser after you die. Let your senior brothers and master come looking for trouble with me."

"Rest assured, both of you. We are here today as witnesses. Which of you dies is your own decision and has nothing to do with anyone else," responded one of the outsiders who were watching the spectacle.

This kind of fun.

They would love to see that.

In any case, whoever dies in the end won't affect them.

They were eager to see this exciting life-or-death battle.

They even prefer to see which of the two sides' backers, unable to afford to lose, goes after the other to cause trouble.

Cheng Mengling, Liang Xiaoyun, and the others became worried about Gu Chen.

A life-or-death battle.

Never die.

If you don't have the strength to completely overwhelm and defeat your opponent, they will fight back desperately.

Even if you kill the other person, you won't have a good time yourself.

Was Gu Chen somewhat provoked? Was this decision a bit too ambitious?

Yuan Geng seemed to have gotten carried away as well.

For the sake of this pride.

He accepted even the life-or-death battle.

Today's outcome is unlikely to end well.

If either of them dies in battle, the forces behind them will likely not let it go.

That was a bit hasty.

At this time.

Outside Gu Chen's mansion.

They arrived a long time ago.

Yan Xiu, Chen Lei's second disciple, who had been using his spiritual power to monitor the situation from outside the mansion, saw things develop to this point.

I almost burst out laughing.

Gu Chen is truly foolish.

Since they've proposed a life-or-death battle...

He'll be badly hurt even if he doesn't die today.

Defeating a mid-stage Breakthrough Realm cultivator is completely different from killing a mid-stage Breakthrough Realm cultivator.

One approach is to fight only to the point, where neither side goes all out.

One is a fight to the death, how can they be the same?

Did he really think that his copper body would allow him to withstand the frenzied attacks of a mid-stage Breakthrough Realm cultivator?

ridiculous.

He originally intended to come here to pressure Gu Chen with the reputation of the Night Watch, preventing him from accepting silver during the challenges.

Now it's fine, we don't need to do it anymore.

Gu Chen upgraded the challenge to a life-or-death battle.

Even if he doesn't die this time, he will be seriously injured.

More and more people will come to challenge him after that.

He'll be taken down sooner or later.

really.

When a person becomes arrogant to a certain extent, they will bring about their own demise.

In the small square inside the mansion.

Gu Chen and Yuan Geng are now...

A life-or-death battle has begun.

The people around them retreated to a great distance.

They retreated almost to the edge of the square.

Both of them possessed the combat strength of the Breaking Aperture Realm. If the distance between them was not sufficient, it would be easy to be injured by their aftershocks.

"You didn't have to die, but you insisted on courting death, so you can't blame anyone else." As Gu Chen spoke, his late-stage True Essence Realm cultivation shone through.

The aura of a late-stage True Essence Realm cultivator spread outwards from the plaza.

The people around.

Everyone was shocked by Gu Chen's level of cultivation.

It had only been a month since Gu Chen defeated Wen Lingtian and He Teng at the Yuehai County City Martial Arts Arena.

Gu Chen's cultivation level has broken through again.

He directly reached the late stage of the True Essence Realm.

In just one month, he broke through a small level.

That speed is truly unmatched.

Last time, he defeated He Teng, who was in the early stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm, when he was in the middle stage of the True Essence Realm.

Now that he's in the late True Essence Realm, wouldn't he have the strength to defeat someone in the mid-Breaking Aperture Realm?

All the disciples of Jin Yao Palace had a drastic change in expression.

Gu Chen has actually broken through again.

Based on his past achievements, he has broken through another small realm, so wouldn't he be able to defeat their senior brother who is in the mid-stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm?

This is a life-or-death battle; their senior brother is in danger!

Outside the mansion.

Yan Xiu's expression turned grim after sensing Gu Chen's late-stage True Essence Realm aura.

Gu Chen has actually broken through again.

And even he hadn't sensed it before.

That's incredibly cunning.

But it doesn't matter.

He has broken through and now possesses the strength to defeat Yuan Geng. In a life-or-death battle, if he kills Yuan Geng, the Golden Palace will certainly not let him off the hook.

If he doesn't dare to kill, his life-or-death battle is just empty talk, and it will still damage his reputation. Either way, it will have an impact on him.

He chose a life-or-death battle, which was a terrible move; his cleverness backfired.