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

Gu Chen placed seventy-four Transformation Pills into the copper bowl.

Begin exchanging for cultivation breakthrough.

Seventy-four Rank 3 Transformation Pills for Travelers can be exchanged for 740 days of pure cultivation.

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

He immediately activated the Vermilion Bird Transformation into the Sea of ​​Fire technique, transforming it into the Vermilion Bird Nirvana Fire to open up the spiritual sea in his dantian.

The spiritual sea, which had previously been opened up to the size of a small lake, began to gradually grow larger.

A constant rumbling sound emanated from his body.

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 his ever-expanding dantian and spiritual sea.

The spiritual sea continues to expand.

Gu Chen's physical body and soul were repeatedly tempered by the Vermilion Bird's Nirvana Flame, and the strength of his physical body and soul continued to increase.

All cultivation points have been transferred.

He broke through to the fifth-grade Transformation Sea Realm, reaching its peak.

In Gu Chen's dantian, the spiritual sea, which was the size of a lake, was expanded to be as vast as an ocean.

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

All physical attributes were improved, and the range of divine soul projection increased by about fifty meters.

This allows him to project his spiritual power more than 500 meters outwards.

It is equivalent to half the soul strength of a third-grade grandmaster in the early stage.

Now, the realm of transformation has been perfected.

The goal is to break through from the fifth-grade Transformation Sea Realm to the early stage of the fourth-grade Core Formation Realm.

You need to purchase a Grade 4 Golden Essence Pill.

The quantity is seventy-six.

A Grade 4 Golden Essence Pill costs 5,000 taels of silver.

Seventy-six pieces would amount to 380,000 taels.

He now only has a little over 30,000 taels left.

There is still a shortfall of 350,000 taels.

I'll have to save it up slowly.

Fortunately, he made a contribution in Zhenshi County this time.

When the rewards come out, we'll see how many taels we can exchange for, and see if it's enough.

Even if that's not enough, he will immediately go to a prefecture to serve as the head of the Night Watch, and continue to support and strengthen the Cheng family.

The monthly allowance for him will increase, and it won't be long before he accumulates this amount of money.

Gu Chen stood up.

His entire figure shot into the sky.

Suddenly, the aura of a fifth-grade Sea Transformation Realm expert erupted from the mountains, causing the wild beasts below to tremble in fear.

They all lay prostrate on the ground, so scared that they peed and defecated.

Gu Chen was very satisfied.

By absorbing the aura, one can control their own realm back to the late stage of the True Essence Realm.

Then it transformed into a golden light and disappeared into the horizon, heading towards Jiuwan City.

It was already evening when they returned to the Cheng family's stronghold in Jiuwan City.

Gu Chen then went to sleep, tired from these past few days, and wanted to get a good night's rest.

Tomorrow we'll resume our usual alchemy routine.

The next morning.

Cheng Mengling heard that Gu Chen had returned last night.

So they came directly to him.

"Brother Gu, during this time, my Cheng family has collected another batch of medicinal materials for refining a special elixir for you." She brought Gu Chen a batch of medicinal materials for refining the Crimson Copper Pill.

"Alright, leave it to Wei Zhong." Counting the time, it has been more than half a month since the Cheng family last collected the medicinal materials for refining the Red Copper Pill.

Now it's time to collect a new set.

Get this.

That's the ninth one.

He was able to cultivate his copper body to the point where ninety protective divine runes were imprinted within his body.

A body of red copper, with thirty protective divine runes, sixty protective divine runes, and ninety protective divine runes.

It's all a hurdle.

Similar to a bottleneck, it represents the stages of entry, minor success, and major success.

Imprinting thirty protective divine runes within the body allows one to ignore attacks from the early stages of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

Sixty protective divine runes can ignore attacks from the early stages of the Sea Transformation Realm.

Ninety protective divine runes can ignore attacks from those at the Core Formation stage.

If one has 120 protective divine runes, one can ignore attacks from those at the peak of the Core Formation Realm or those at the half-step Grandmaster Realm.

of course.

This refers to physical attacks.

A half-step Grandmaster is someone who has already stepped halfway into the third rank, and whose soul can already leave the body. If someone cultivates a secret technique for attacking the soul, it can directly injure their soul.

The copper body cannot withstand attacks from the soul.

Only the third chapter of the Xuan Tie Chi Tong Vajra Body, representing the Vajra Body of the three realms of sages, has the means to resist attacks on the soul.

"Okay." Cheng Mengling nodded.

Gu Chen continued, "The procedures for my transfer to Li Huo Prefecture will be completed in about ten days, and then I will be able to take office. You should have the Cheng family make preparations and relocate to Li Huo Prefecture as a whole. The prefectural city has more room for development, and our future industries will shift their focus there."

"Brother Gu will be taking up his post soon? Okay, I'll go and make the arrangements right away," Cheng Mengling said excitedly.

Gu Chen went to take up his post at the Li Huo Mansion.

The Cheng family moved there and developed in the prefectural city; they're about to experience another boom.

"Hmm." Gu Chen nodded and gave Cheng Mengling 30,000 taels of silver for this acquisition of the Red Copper Pill.

This left him with only a few hundred taels of silver left.

After Cheng Mengling left.

Gu Chen returned to his previous state of alchemy.

On that day, five batches of pills were refined.

Two furnaces of the fifth-grade Innate Divine Elixir, two furnaces of the fourth-grade Innate Tendon-Changing Elixir, and one furnace of the Red Copper Elixir.

Two batches of sacrificial pills and two batches of tendon-strengthening pills earned him 2,160 taels of silver, bringing his total silver reserves to over 2,400 taels.

That evening.

With the help of a new batch of Crimson Copper Pills, Gu Chen increased the number of protective divine patterns on his Crimson Copper Body to ninety, enabling him to activate and condense a Crimson Copper Aura.

This caused a qualitative change in his defensive capabilities.

Even without activating his Crimson Copper Body, he could ignore attacks within the Perfect Breaking Aperture Realm simply by relying on the amplification power of his physical body from the ninety protective divine runes.

If one activates the Copper Body, one can condense a Copper Aura.

It can ignore attacks from early-stage fourth-grade Core Formation cultivators.

In addition, his current realm has broken through to the perfection of the Transformation Sea Realm. With the amplification of the three extraordinary phenomena, plus his fourth-grade martial art, the Four Beasts Attack Technique.

He can kill ordinary early-stage fourth-grade Core Formation Realm experts.

He could also defeat a weaker mid-stage fourth-grade Core Formation cultivator.

Once he breaks through to the fourth rank and condenses the fourth phenomenon, he will be able to challenge late-stage fourth-rank Core Formation Realm beings with the combined amplification of the four phenomena.

at this time.

In Zhongzhou, at the headquarters of the Night Watch.

Qin Ming sought out Shangguan Wuqing.

In Zhenshi County, the Blood Soul Sect caused trouble. Tie Yangtian invited Gu Chen to investigate and, together with Gongsun Yuan and others, wiped out the Blood Soul Sect.

It has already been reported.

This truly shocked the Night Watch headquarters.

They immediately convened a short meeting with the senior management of the Night Watch headquarters.

He praised Gu Chen, Tie Yangtian, Gongsun Yuan, Luo Tianxing, and others.

The Night Watch's internal high-level decision-making circle is divided into four major factions, with the two deputy directors, both at the half-step terrestrial immortal realm, forming their own factions.

The four officials at the peak of the Heavenly Venerable Realm were divided into two groups of two.

The competition among the four factions is usually quite fierce.

This time, Qin Ming and Shangguan Wuqing's faction, including Gu Chen and Gongsun Yuan, stole the show, much to their surprise.

Previously, apart from Chen Lei's faction keeping an eye on Gu Chen, the other two factions did not pay attention to him.

Because their power is not in the desolate state.

Now that Gu Chen has uncovered a series of major cases and made meritorious contributions, they have taken notice of him.

Qin Ming's faction has truly produced an outstanding young man.

The head of the Night Watch, a figure of divine status on land, directly praised Gu Chen.

They expressed great interest in him.

This made the other three factions very envious.

Their leader does not participate in the competition among the four factions.

He is the supreme being.

Reaching the level of a terrestrial immortal transcends the mortal realm, and the divine emperors of the divine dynasties are all on the same level as him.

There's no need to get involved in these things.

The head of the department directly entrusted Qin Ming with the task of determining the merits of Gu Chen and the others.

After all, they are from his faction.

Since Gu Chen and the others are all disciples of Shangguan Wuqing, let him determine their merits and rewards.

It can be seen as a sign of their high regard.

Qin Ming sought out Shangguan Wuqing.

Please provide the list of those who should be rewarded in this case.

These people are basically Shangguan Wuqing's former subordinates or disciples. Shangguan Wuqing should know what kind of reward they need.

"You know all these people well, so you should assign them credits and rewards," Qin Ming said with a smile. "Your little disciple, Gu Chen, really manages to surprise us every few days, haha."

"I never expected that the Blood Soul Sect would flee to Zhenshi County, where Lao Liu lives, to commit crimes there, and in the end, my disciples and their men wiped them out in one fell swoop." Shangguan Wuqing couldn't help but smile.

He was happy all night because of this.

Throughout tonight's high-level meeting, he couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth from smiling.

The disciples are truly amazing!

No, to be precise, it's my junior disciple Gu Chen who's really amazing.

He didn't expect that Gu Chen would discover that Chen Lei's disciple He Teng was colluding with Japan, allowing their faction to successfully bring down Chen Lei.

Gu Chen went to Zhenshi County immediately afterward and wiped out the Blood Soul Sect in one fell swoop.

This was something he hadn't expected.

He knew that if Gu Chen's tracking ability wasn't so strong...

It's impossible for Tie Yangtian, Luo Tianxing, and Gongsun Yuan alone to uncover information about the Blood Soul Cult and wipe them out in one fell swoop.

"By the way, for the rewards given to everyone this time, your little disciple Gu Chen should focus on choosing precious pills and sacred medicines that can help him improve his cultivation level." Qin Ming continued, "Regarding the matter of the disciples of the Zhenshi County Mining Gang colluding with the island nation to smuggle minerals, the Divine Dynasty and the Body Sect have been negotiating for so long, and a result has been reached."

"The Body Sect doesn't want to relinquish control of the Mining Gang, and the Divine Dynasty doesn't want the Body Sect to continue controlling the Mining Gang. However, this time, Mining Gang disciple Liu Xun colluded with the Japanese to smuggle minerals, and the Divine Dynasty caught him red-handed. The Mining Gang can't shirk responsibility."

"It has now been decided that on the Divine Dynasty's side, the Crown Prince and the Second Prince will each send out their strongest warriors to compete against the Body Sect in a three-way battle. Whoever wins will take control of the Mining Gang," Qin Ming said.

"How about sending out strong fighters from all sides to compete?" Shangguan Wuqing said thoughtfully upon hearing this.

"That's right." Qin Ming nodded: "On the Second Prince's side, he selected several people to participate in the battle. After learning about your junior disciple's ability to challenge opponents of higher levels, the Second Prince wanted to have him participate in the battle."