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

Shen Qinglan arrived at the center of the training ground.

He clasped his hands in a fist salute to Gu Chen.

He didn't say another word.

He immediately unleashed his cultivation aura, reaching the limit of the early stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm, just one step away from stepping into the middle stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

"It seems that Shen Qinglan is about to break through." A disciple from the Mad Blade Hall said.

"Is this the source of her confidence in challenging Gu Chen? She wants to use Gu Chen as a whetstone to break through to the mid-stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm in one fell swoop."

"Given the terrifying power of her Xuanbing Body, once she reaches the mid-stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm, even those in the late-stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm would likely be no match for her."

Around the training ground, many people from various factions gathered to watch and discussed the matter animatedly.

In the center of the training ground, Gu Chen's expression remained unchanged.

Even if we had broken through, it would be the same, let alone if we hadn't.

Gu Chen also unleashed his power.

He released his late-stage True Essence Realm cultivation, followed by the activation of the Azure Dragon and White Tiger phenomena, amplifying his realm aura to a level comparable to the early-stage Breaking Aperture Realm.

Then he drew his Fire Profound Blade and charged towards Shen Qinglan.

Shen Qinglan snorted coldly and activated her Xuanbing Body. Instantly, an extremely cold aura erupted from her body, and a chill spread outwards from the center of the martial arts arena.

Her aura also rose to the limit of the mid-stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

Centered on where Shen Qinglan stood, the temperature around the training ground continued to drop, covered by a thin layer of frost.

Seeing Gu Chen, wielding the Fire Profound Blade, charging towards him, he witnessed the two extraordinary phenomena unfold.

"Secret Technique, Frost Spikes!" Shen Qinglan formed a hand seal, and streams of true energy burst forth from her body.

Then it resonated with the ice-attribute spiritual energy in the world.

This is one of her innate talents of the Mystic Ice Body.

It can mobilize the ice-attribute spiritual energy between heaven and earth, transforming it into powerful secret techniques.

Sharp, icy spikes, as thick as an adult's waist and over a meter long, burst forth directly from beneath Gu Chen's feet.

They wanted to severely injure Gu Chen.

Upon seeing this, Gu Chen immediately used the Flying Serpent Step to leap into the air.

They escaped the attack of the icy spikes.

Seeing this, Shen Qinglan sneered and then launched a new attack.

"Secret Technique, Rain of Ice Needles!"

She made hand seals, and mysterious runes flashed as she used a new secret technique.

Her secret technique came from a senior who also possessed the Xuanbing Body. That senior was someone who eventually broke through to the Heavenly Venerable Realm, and was extremely terrifying.

These secret techniques were created by that senior specifically for those with the Xuanbing Body physique.

It does not belong to the category of martial arts and has no ranking.

Its power increases as the strength of the user of the Xuanbing Body improves. Eventually, it can even condense the intent of Xuanbing, mobilize the power of the rules, and form a domain, which is extremely powerful.

As she unleashed her secret technique, the icy spiritual energy surrounding the martial arts arena was rapidly mobilized, transforming into countless icy flying needles, like raindrops, which hurtled towards Gu Chen in the air.

There were icy spikes constantly bursting and piercing the ground, and countless flying needles shooting from the air. Gu Chen had no way to avoid them and could only endure them.

Gu Chen was equally unyielding. He activated his Crimson Copper Body, and forty protective divine runes appeared, shining brightly on his body. Forty protective light shields instantly appeared, protecting Gu Chen's entire body from all angles.

Then it merged into a thick layer of protective true energy that adhered to Gu Chen's body.

Shen Qinglan's secret technique, flying needles, is not weak, but unfortunately it is an area-of-effect attack, equivalent to an attack from a mid-stage Breaking Aperture Realm cultivator.

There was simply no way to break through Gu Chen's true qi defense.

As countless flying needles rained down on him, Gu Chen gripped the Fire Profound Blade with both hands and slashed down fiercely.

The Demon-Slaying Blade is unleashed.

Instantly, a blood-red sword intent wrapped around his blade, and a sword beam several meters long slashed down at Shen Qinglan like a celestial blade.

Seeing that his flying needles could not break through Gu Chen's defense, Gu Chen instead faced the challenge head-on and slashed at him with his sword.

Shen Qinglan was not surprised.

If Gu Chen's defenses could be broken through so easily by her, then there would be no need for her to go through all this trouble to challenge Gu Chen.

"Secret Technique, Ice Shield!"

She continued to use a new secret technique, and a huge ice shield was condensed by her, blooming with exquisite patterns. Although it was made of ice, it was as hard as steel.

Boom!

Gu Chen's blade struck the ice shield.

The ice shield was shattered into pieces.

But this strike was also blocked.

Shen Qinglan was so shocked that she was forced to retreat several meters away.

"Secret Technique, Heavenly Meteor Fall!" She then unleashed a new secret technique.

In an instant, more than a dozen huge ice balls fell from the sky and crashed into the area where Gu Chen was located.

Each one is two or three meters in diameter, and when it hits the ground, it can create a crater several meters long.

A dozen or so ice hockey pucks came crashing down at once, covering an area of ​​several meters in radius, leaving no way to avoid them.

If it were an ordinary early-stage Breaking Aperture Realm expert, they simply wouldn't be able to withstand it.

Boom boom boom boom boom...

The training ground was constantly shaking.

The scene was spectacular.

Gu Chen was hit by these huge ice balls, and smoke filled the air around him.

It is unknown whether they are dead or alive.

The onlookers were all stunned, thinking to themselves that she truly lived up to her reputation as the Ice Maiden, Shen Qinglan.

Thanks to her special physique, she can resonate with the icy spiritual energy in the world and mobilize this power.

Only then can such a terrible attack be unleashed.

The attack she unleashed consumed the ice-attribute spiritual energy of heaven and earth, not her true essence; her true essence merely served a guiding role.

That's what makes her constitution so terrifying.

Fight against people with this special physique.

Her true essence consumption is very small; she relies on the power of resonating with other elemental spiritual energies in the world to deal with you, and the attack power she unleashes is extremely strong.

You need to expend more true energy to use martial arts to deal with it.

In the end, you still lose.

It's equivalent to her having grasped the rudimentary form of the power of momentum beforehand, allowing her to resonate with the spiritual energy of this attribute in advance.

In the center of the training ground.

Shen Qinglan smiled. She had deliberately let Gu Chen knock her away to create distance between them so she could use this move.

This left Gu Chen with no way to avoid it.

In her opinion, this move should be enough to seriously injure Gu Chen.

This move was so powerful that even many people in the middle stages of the Breaking Aperture Realm couldn't withstand it, let alone those in the early stages. It took a lot of energy out of her.

Even though Gu Chen could use his copper body to offset some of the attacks, he was still in bad shape.

Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, Gu Chen's figure reappeared.

He stood calmly in the center of the training ground, which was riddled with craters from being hit by a giant ice hockey puck, seemingly unharmed.

This move is indeed powerful. If he really is only at the late stage of the True Essence Realm, and his Crimson Copper Body has only cultivated to the forty protective divine runes.

He was injured.

Unfortunately, he wasn't like that. With his current physical defense, even if these ice balls broke through forty protective divine runes and landed on him, they wouldn't be able to hurt him.

Shen Qinglan had no idea what kind of overpowered person she was facing.

From beginning to end, she never really had any hope of winning.

"The momentum is enough, but the power is a bit lacking," Gu Chen commented.

Ahead, Shen Qinglan was dumbfounded.

It's all fine.

Just how terrifying is Gu Chen's defensive power?

"Take this again!" she roared, refusing to believe that she couldn't break through Gu Chen's defenses.

She directly used all her true essence, frantically resonating with the icy spiritual energy around the martial arts arena, draining all the icy spiritual energy within a radius of several thousand meters.

Merging with her true essence, her Xuanbing Body was activated to its limit, wildly amplifying the destructive power of her move.

"Secret Technique, Heavenly Punishment Ice Sword!"

A giant sword, tens of meters long and formed entirely from icy spiritual energy and her true essence, slashed down from the sky with overwhelming power.

Upon seeing this giant sword, tens of meters long, appear.

Many people's pupils widened!

Is this an attack that can only be unleashed in the early stages of the Breaking Aperture Realm?

This sword strike will probably split the entire training ground in two.

Can Gu Chen withstand it?

I'm afraid I'll be cleaved to death by a single sword strike!

Gu Chen saw this.

His eyes were slightly narrowed.

The two extraordinary phenomena of the Azure Dragon and White Tiger have been fully activated.

The forty divine runes of the red copper body are fully activated for defense.

The phantom of a blue dragon coiled around his left arm, while the phantom of a white tiger roared beside his right hand.

The alien true essence surged out wildly, and two large hands formed from the alien true essence materialized out of thin air.

Gu Chen prepared to perform for everyone a feat of catching a blade barehanded.

They stopped dodging altogether.

He must use his strongest stance to crush Shen Qinglan's pride.

Everyone witnessed Gu Chen's actions.

I just felt like he had gone mad.

How dare he be so bold as to try to kill Shen Qinglan? Isn't he afraid of dying?

If things go wrong and one fails to assess their own capabilities, they could be finished.

When Wen Wushuang and Liu Chen saw that Gu Chen was so fearless and wanted to take Shen Qinglan's attack head-on, they were shocked.

I immediately became excited.

This move would be best used to kill Gu Chen instantly, then we'd see if he'd still be so arrogant.