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

He wouldn't fall for that when he met Gu Chen.

Yan Xiu retorted directly, "What do you mean it doesn't matter? It does matter because you're now sitting in the position of the Night Watchman of Jiuwan City."

"Your actions and behavior in public will remind people of my Night Watch!"

"It has always been a matter of course for those ranked higher on the Heavenly Pride Ranking to face challenges from those ranked lower. Don't try to find excuses for your money-making schemes."

"If you were worried that multiple people would challenge you in succession and affect your training time, you could have set a date to deal with all the challenges on the same day. But you didn't do that. Isn't that just to make money?"

He stared at Gu Chen: "Remember, I'm not here to discuss this with you, I'm here to inform you that from today onwards, you are no longer allowed to collect challenge fees."

"If you are afraid of being challenged by others one after another, you can escalate the challenge to a life-or-death battle. If it is escalated to a life-or-death battle, you must show the prestige of the chief of the city's night watch. In a life-or-death battle, you must kill the opponent. You cannot let them go afterward and only take the silver. Without the prestige of the chief of the city's night watch, people will think you are just a greedy and opportunistic person who only cares about money."

Gu Chen narrowed his eyes and looked at him.

That's a truly blatant and effective way to suppress them.

He wouldn't allow anything that was in his own best interest.

He allowed anything that was detrimental to him.

He doesn't allow himself to collect challenge fees, but he allows himself to engage in life-or-death battles with others.

In a life-or-death battle, it's not good for you whether the opponent dies or you die.

Yan Xiu and the others were overjoyed when he died.

With the other party dead, the forces behind them will inevitably target me, plunging me into an even deeper crisis.

If he wins, he doesn't want to kill his opponent; he just wants to collect the money and be done with it.

They still wouldn't allow it, truly blocking all the avenues that would be advantageous to them.

If Gu Chen agrees, it means he's treating him like a monster.

"I've said it before, I only represent myself, not the Night Watch. No one can tell me what I should or shouldn't do," Gu Chen said calmly. "Lord Yan, please leave."

Gu Chen immediately ordered him to leave.

I was too lazy to explain further to him.

This kind of person is just trying to get attention and is disgusting.

He won't follow their script; let's see what he can do.

If you dare to touch him, first ask his master if he will agree.

Ask the people in their faction if they agree.

He's not some reclusive hermit.

"Gu Chen, that's enough. You've already failed in your duties before. You've been in charge of the case of He Teng, an official of my Night Watch, being injured by an unknown expert, and you haven't made any progress for months. If you continue to act willfully and ignore my advice this time, you might as well resign from your position as the head of the Night Watch in Jiuwan City." Yan Xiu finished speaking and then snorted coldly.

He turned and left immediately.

They didn't give Gu Chen a chance to argue.

He has said what he needed to say, and he has achieved his purpose in coming here.

What happens next depends on Gu Chen's actions.

No matter what they did, they had warned Gu Chen first.

Their use of their status as Night Watch officials to morally blackmail Gu Chen is not entirely unreasonable.

Those in a position must consider the various implications.

Once you put on this official robe and enjoy the power and convenience it brings, you must maintain its dignity and image.

If one could do whatever one wants as if one were alone, enjoying the benefits without taking responsibility, there would be no such good thing.

As long as Gu Chen continues to do as he pleases and ignores his warnings.

Even if we can't forcibly remove him from his post this time, we can still do so in the future when he accumulates more mistakes.

Either way, they're in a favorable position.

As Gu Chen watched Yan Xiu leave, a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

Let those clowns cause trouble.

He wouldn't even deign to take such petty tricks seriously.

As long as his strength continues to improve and he continues to make contributions, such tricks will have no effect on him.

Someone will always be there to cover for him.

Yan Xiu left.

Outside the Gu Chen Mansion.

Yamamoto Jiro, a fifth-rank expert from the Yamamoto family who had been keeping an eye on the area and had come to Jiuwan City to assassinate Gu Chen, also left Gu Chen's residence.

What happened today is a pity.

If Gu Chen killed Yuan Geng.

He could have easily taken advantage of the Jin Yao Palace's targeting of Gu Chen to kill him.

At that time, no one will associate it with other forces; they will only target the Golden Palace.

I thought it was the Qian palace of Venus.

Unexpectedly, Gu Chen resolved the issue in this way in the end.

They can only look for the next opportunity.

Not urgent.

The time that follows.

More prodigies will come to challenge Gu Chen one after another.

They still have a chance.

On Gu Chen's side.

After Yan Xiu left, Gu Chen gave all the pills he had obtained from the disciples of Jin Yao Palace to Cheng Mengling: "Sell these pills and give me the money."

"Yes, Brother Gu." Cheng Mengling nodded and left with the Cheng family's experts and guards.

Today, Gu Chen's strength has once again shocked them.

Gu Chen's growth rate is as incredible as ever.

In just one month, he has grown to the point where he can suppress a mid-stage Breaking Aperture Realm expert.

It's only been about a year since Gu Chen agreed to become a retainer of the Cheng family.

That's how I've grown to where I am today.

The Cheng family's business scale also expanded more than tenfold due to Gu Chen's rapid increase in strength and continuous promotion in official rank.

She felt that the Cheng family's greatest fortune was that they were able to invite Gu Chen to serve as their retainer.

Once the gears of fate begin to turn, they allow the Cheng family's great roc to rise with the wind, soaring ninety thousand miles into the sky.

As Gu Chen continues to grow stronger, the Cheng family will become even stronger in the future.

In the future, the Cheng family will definitely have a place in the Divine Dynasty.

Her current cultivation level has reached the second stage of the Innate Realm.

After the Cheng family prospered, she never neglected her investments in herself, constantly using various rare pills and spiritual herbs on herself. In addition, she had previously exchanged the Innate Realm Third Stage Breakthrough Pill that Gu Chen had sold her for two Innate Realm First Stage and Innate Realm Second Stage Breakthrough Pills.

That's what allowed her to quickly advance to this level.

But she knew that the gap between her and Gu Chen was still very large.

She still has a long way to go to catch up with Gu Chen.

She didn't want Gu Chen to accept her as a subordinate; she only hoped to help him as much as possible and, when doing things for him, not let his opponents think that Gu Chen was surrounded by weak people.

Cheng Mengling led the Cheng family members away.

Gu Chen also let Liang Xiaoyun lead the Night Watch personnel away.

I wonder if it was influenced by Gu Chen's rapid increase in strength.

Liang Xiaoyun and Lin Fei have both recently made breakthroughs.

Liang Xiaoyun reached the perfection of the fifth realm of the Innate Realm, while Lin Fei reached the late stage of the fifth realm of the Innate Realm.

This can be considered a small boost to the strength of the Nine Bays City Night Watch.

If he were to be transferred from the Nine Bays City Night Watch in the future, he could apply to have the two of them transferred there as well.

There are also Duan Xingchen and Zhong Hao from Luo'an County.

Both of them were top-tier talents, allowing him to develop his own team ahead of time.

The two left with the men of the Nine Bays City Night Watch, and they would have to find someone to repair the wall.

There's no need to keep them here any longer.

Gu Chen instructed Wei Zhong to tend the fire so that he could continue refining the pills.

The alchemy business cannot be stopped; after all, it yields 1,800 taels of silver a day, and it cannot be left unearned.

After completing the refining of the elixir for the day.

That evening, at Gu Chen's mansion.

He took out that fourth-grade movement technique.

Think about it.

Gu Chen felt that he should first master this martial art.

He currently has enough silver to master a fourth-grade movement technique.

The mysteries it can bring must be numerous.

The strongest movement technique he currently possesses is only the seventh-grade Flying Serpent Step, which is already severely out of his league.

He had felt this before when he fought He Teng and today when he fought Yuan Geng.

These two could easily shake him off using their sixth-grade movement techniques.

It's unacceptable to make his attacks so ineffective.

He placed the fourth-grade martial art, the Spirit Dragon Body Technique, into the copper bowl.

Small golden characters appeared in the bronze bowl:

[Spend 5,000 taels of silver to exchange for introductory insights into the "Spirit Dragon Body Technique".]

Like another fourth-rank martial art, the initial first stage requires five thousand taels of silver.

Gu Chen put five thousand taels of silver into the copper bowl and chose to exchange it.

The silver disappeared.

Gu Chen gained some initial insights into this Spirit Dragon Body Technique.

[Spend 10,000 taels of silver to exchange for a minor level of understanding of the "Spirit Dragon Body Technique".]

The copper bowl serves as a reminder.

Gu Chen took out 10,000 taels of silver to continue exchanging.

An even greater realization entered Gu Chen's mind.

"Let's add it all at once until it's perfect," Gu Chen continued.

The copper bowl indicated that a high level of enlightenment would require 15,000 taels of silver.

Gu Chen continued to put silver in.

The silver disappeared, and his movement technique was perfected.

The copper bowl indicates that the "Perfect" level requires 30,000 taels of silver.

Gu Chen was taken aback.

It seems that his other fourth-grade martial art, from the third move to the fourth move, doesn't require this much.

It only costs 20,000 taels.

This movement technique actually doubled in price, costing him an extra ten thousand taels.