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

First, leave the Jiuwan City area.

Find a place and use a copper bowl to erase the secrets of heaven.

Then they used the copper bowl to exchange for information.

Let's find out who's behind this island nation's attempt to kill him first.

Gu Chen felt.

This matter is not simple.

If done properly, you're sure to catch some valuable fish.

Gu Chen flew directly through the air.

They specifically choose to fly to places where few people go.

It made it impossible for anyone to find his whereabouts.

We arrived at a desolate, wild place.

Gu Chen found a cave inhabited by wild beasts.

It was the cave of a bear demon that wasn't even at the first level of the Innate Realm.

After slapping the bear demon to death.

Gu Chen took over the cave.

Then he took out a copper bowl and said to it, "I will sever the karmic ties of the fifth-rank expert from the Yamamoto family of that island nation that I killed today, and obscure the secret of this matter."

The Yamamoto family of the island nation is a family with a celestial being in charge, and some members are skilled in divination.

They probably wouldn't care if some sixth or seventh-rank experts died in the past.

However, if it were a master of the fifth rank or above who had died, they probably wouldn't let it go so easily.

It's best to clean up the mess first, so that the Yamamoto family can find something to use against us.

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

Not much, the same amount he needed when he killed Jiang Ruyan, a fifth-rank expert from the Haoran Academy.

It was only one-tenth of the 100,000 taels he needed the first time to conceal the treasures he had seized from the four top powers.

I wonder how the price of silver needed to shield the prodigy from the bronze bowl was determined. Is it higher if the more people involved, or if the stronger the forces behind the people involved, the higher the price?

He doesn't understand.

We can only study it slowly in the future.

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 Yamamoto Jiro has been severed, and the secrets surrounding this matter have been obscured from you. No one can deduce any information about you.]

Get it done.

He obtained 39,000 taels of silver and three Sea-Transforming Pills from Yamamoto Jiro.

The total value is roughly equivalent to 45,000 taels of silver.

It cost 10,000 taels to conceal the secrets of heaven, but still made a profit of more than 35,000 taels.

It's worth it.

The question is whether it will cost a lot of money to exchange for information about Yamamoto Jiro's reasons for trying to kill him and the person behind it all.

If there are many.

He was then unable to redeem it.

He currently has over 20,000 taels of silver left to use, after deducting the silver he needs to immediately spend on elixirs to break through to the late stage of the Transformation Sea Realm.

I thought about it for a while.

Gu Chen decided to first buy pills to break through to the late stage of the Transformation Sea Realm, and then exchange them for information about the person behind the scenes.

I've been hungry all day.

Gu Chen was in the mountain cave.

He skinned the bear demon he had killed, roasted and ate the bear paws and some bear meat.

After using the bone-shrinking disguise technique, he changed into a set of clothes for a rogue cultivator.

Next, head to the city of Yuehai County to visit the institution that sells elixirs.

Purchase Huahaidan.

He had just obtained three Sea Transformation Pills from Yamamoto Jiro.

Now you only need to buy 69 more.

"I want to buy 69 Grade 3 Transformation Pills for Pilgrims at once. What kind of discount can I get?"

After a moment's thought, the shopkeeper said, "For purchases of more than sixty pills of grade five or above, a 4% discount will be given."

As with the previous two times, you can get a 4% discount on pills of grade 5 or higher if you buy more than 50 at once.

"Okay." Gu Chen took out 132,480 taels of silver and handed it to him.

Sixty-nine Transformation Pills, after a 4% discount, amount to this much.

The shopkeeper accepted the money.

Upon entering the pavilion, they took out seven small porcelain bottles and handed them to Gu Chen. Gu Chen took them and checked that the quantity of the pills was accurate.

Leave directly.

Holding the pills, Gu Chen first left the city of Yuehai County and found a remote mountain range in the wilderness, preparing to break through his cultivation realm.

He placed seventy-two Huahai Dan into the copper bowl.

Sixty-nine were purchased today, and three were previously seized from Yamamoto Jiro.

Begin exchanging for cultivation breakthrough.

Seventy-two Rank 3 Transformation Pills for Travelers can be exchanged for 720 days of pure cultivation.

Seven hundred and twenty days is roughly equivalent to two years of pure cultivation.

The higher the level, the more difficult it becomes.

Even with his copper bowl (a metaphor for a powerful position), it's still so difficult for him to get promoted.

How difficult must it be for those who cultivate by slowly refining pills every day, or even those who cultivate by simply absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth without the aid of pills?

It's estimated that it might take several years, or even more than a decade, for them to break through to a higher level.

Gu Chen was filled with thoughts, and then chose to redeem.

Instantly, an incredibly powerful cultivation level was poured into his body.

Fortunately, he had a cheat code; otherwise, with his own talent, it would have taken him hundreds of years to reach his current level.

Gu Chen immediately activated his cultivation technique, the Vermilion Bird Transformation into the Sea, transforming it into the Vermilion Bird Nirvana Flame to open up the spiritual sea in his dantian.

The spiritual sea, which had previously been opened up to resemble a small lake, began to gradually expand.

A massive amount of cultivation power was transformed into the Vermilion Bird Nirvana Flame. The Vermilion Bird phenomenon appeared behind Gu Chen, helping to refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his body, transforming it into liquid true essence to help fill the ever-expanding dantian spiritual sea.

The Vermilion Bird phenomenon attracted the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which quickly entered his body through his acupoints, causing a continuous rumbling sound within him.

With each breakthrough, Gu Chen's dantian spiritual sea seemed to be undergoing a creation of heaven and earth, with the edges of the spiritual sea constantly being opened up and expanded.

Above the center of the spiritual sea.

Countless spiritual energies of heaven and earth were absorbed in, transforming into wisps of true essence mist. These mists were then refined by the Vermilion Bird Fire, turning into liquid true essence that fell down, causing the true essence in the spiritual sea to continuously increase.

period.

Gu Chen's physical body and soul were repeatedly tempered by the Vermilion Bird's Nirvana Fire. Each tempering was like a rebirth, eliminating all hidden dangers and ailments, and the strength of his physical body and soul continued to increase.

This breakthrough took him a few minutes longer than his breakthrough to the mid-stage of the Sea Transformation Realm.

Once all cultivation points have been transferred.

Gu Chen's cultivation level broke through to the late stage of the fifth-grade Transformation Sea Realm.

Within his dantian, his spiritual sea had expanded from a small lake to a massive lake as large as Dongting Lake.

The amount of true essence stored in Gu Chen's body surged.

When the physical body and soul were tempered by the Vermilion Bird's Nirvana Fire, their strength was greatly increased.

It greatly improved his eyesight, hearing, and reaction speed.

The same goes for his spiritual power; the range of his spiritual power projection increased by about forty meters.

He can now project his spiritual power more than 240 meters outwards.

We have now reached the late stage of the Transformation Sea Realm.

To reach the pinnacle of the Transformation Sea Realm, seventy-four Transformation Sea Pills are required.

After the discount, it was approximately 142,000 taels.

He now has over 123,000 taels of silver on him when he left Jiuwan City, plus over 39,000 taels he obtained from Yamamoto Jiro, for a total of over 162,000 taels.

To conceal the secret of killing Yamamoto Jiro, they spent 10,000 taels of silver to buy 69 Transformation Pills, which cost 132,400 taels of silver.

There are still about 20,000 taels left.

There is still a shortfall of about 122,000 taels.

Now that he can't refine pills, the Cheng family's businesses might be targeted.

His income will drop sharply in the coming period.

We need to get past this hurdle first.

Gu Chen took out a copper bowl and put the silver into it.

He communicated with the copper bowl, saying, "I would like to exchange information about the purpose of this fifth-rank expert from the Yamamoto family of Japan attacking me today, who is behind him, and whether the Japanese are cooperating with Chen Lei."

The copper bowl indicates that exchanging these items will require two thousand taels of silver.

Gu Chen put two thousand taels of silver into it.

The copper bowl immediately provided feedback:

[The fifth-rank expert from the Yamamoto family of Japan, Yamamoto Jiro, who came to kill you today, was sent by He Teng. Chen Lei has no cooperation with the Yamamoto family; it is his apprentice, He Teng, who does. One of the conditions He Teng proposed was that a powerful member of the Yamamoto family kill you. He and the Yamamoto family all believe that you have strong investigative abilities, and if they don't kill you, their smuggling operation in Yuehai County will be discovered sooner or later.]

"It wasn't Chen Lei, it was He Teng!" Gu Chen looked at the feedback from the copper bowl and was somewhat disappointed!

He Teng is just a small fish.

The gains from capturing them wouldn't be significant. It would be much better if his master Chen Lei or his senior brother Yan Xiu were involved.

Unfortunately, neither of them would be that foolish.

He Teng probably only went to cooperate with the Japanese because he was repeatedly embarrassed by himself and was forced into a corner.

Although Chen Lei and Yan Xiu were not involved, He Teng was. If he managed things well, and He Teng, as Chen Lei's disciple, was captured and his cooperation with the Japanese was exposed, it would be enough to give Chen Lei a hard time.